Day 9

Felt great in the morning and had a fantastic day at work. It's amazing how much good loving yourself can do. I felt very energetic all day. My thinking has been very clear and little things like remembering phone numbers and names have become much easier to do.

Had a great cleanse. Released more stones but I also had some very big releases. Angie helped a lot by massaging my abdomen and that always seems to help in my releases. She put on a video called Food Matters. PROFOUND!

I remember when I used to scoff at the "health nuts" and the "vegetable freaks" but now I realize that I was just ignorant and too proud to admit that I just didn't know enough about proper nutrition to respect them. Not to mention the fact that it's easier to criticize others when you don't feel real good about yourself.

Food Matters talked about how big a role food plays in actually helping the body to heal from diseases such as Cancer and Depression. Most importantly I learned that food is more than just nourishment for one's body. It actually plays a large part in determining our future. Don't believe me? Look at it this way.

Take two 35 year old males. If their lives were totally identical in profession, success, stress, etc. and the only thing different was their diet, how do you think their lives would be different in 20 years? If one of them ate mostly organic fruits and vegetables, drank a gallon of water a day and mixed in some healthy meats such as fish or turkey and the other one ate fatty foods, had pork as their main meat and drank a 12 oz. bottle of Pepsi a day, which one would have a greater chance of having health problems when they're 55?

Most of you will say, "duh, the guy who eats the healthy stuff." Mentally and even emotionally, we know the value of food. The trouble is that if we acknowledge it, we'd have to take responsibility for our own well being and that's just too uncomfortable for most of us to do...including me.

Here's another thing that I learned which makes complete sense now that I've been educated. Did you know that the goal of a drug company is NOT to find a cure but to earn a profit? I've heard that before but I really thought that this notion was waaaaay out there. Truth of the matter is that the perfect drug to us, the consumer, would be one that would cure cancer, depression and other chronic diseases. The perfect drug to a drug company is one that we have to refill each and every month to keep us "healthy". A cure to cancer would be absolutely detrimental to huge drug companies because the financial loss would be tremendous.

People around the world are being treated for diseases with nutrition. Sounds crazy but humans have been doing it long before statins or prozac came along.

Food Matters was an eye opening experience for me. There's so much more there than I could write about but if you haven't seen it, take 77 minutes out of your life to see how nutrition has been working for us for hundreds of years.

And all this from cleaning out a little crap!