Election Time!

This might be the most important election of your life.....and I'm not even talking about politics.  

What if every cell in your body had the opportunity to vote on what you would eat at every meal instead of just a small percentage of cells in your body(brain) making the decision what to eat, how much to eat and how frequent to eat?   Where's the democracy in that?

Have you ever thought about this?   If not, now you will.  Do you think your liver wants you to eat drive thru food?   What about your skin starving for water from within?  Do you think your skin/pancreas/kidney/intestinal cells want you to drink that soda or energy drink?   What about your blood vessels, your brain, your kidneys, your eyes, your bones, your nervous system, your stomach lining, your pancreas, your bicep and YOUR HEART?  What do they all want you to eat?  Do you know how much each and every cell in your body would celebrate if you ate better at every meal?  Just think of your arteries not having to deal with the stress of damage occurring at the lining of the blood vessel wall, how happy your liver would be to not have to detoxify everything that comes into your body and what if your skin received all the nutrients from your diet that allowed it to protect you from the world, could heal as efficiently as possible and stayed hydrated without the constant use of body lotion?  What if your heart didn't have to pump so hard to get blood through your cholesterol filled arteries in order to get oxygen and other nutrients to all the organs of your body?  What if your pancreas didn't have to work to exhaustion trying to break down all the sugars in that pasta, pastry, soda and candy bar you had today?

Let's not stop at just food.   Do you think your eyes appreciate you sleeping in contacts that are not getting cleaned everyday. What about you wearing those 14 day contacts for 1-2 months?  Do your eyes really deserve that abuse?  Do your lungs deserve the constant barrage of toxins that you take in with every inhalation of smoke from that cigarette or from someone near you smoking?  Do your skin and eyes appreciate all the harmful ultraviolet radiation from the sun and tanning beds that you expose them to?   Does your liver look forward to yet another unnecessary alcoholic drink that it has to deal with?  Do your kidneys celebrate when they have to filter all the extra toxins in your body because you are not drinking enough water, are consuming too much salt and other unhealthy foods?  Do your intestines get excited when you consume a high fat, high calorie, low fiber and low nutrition meal and now it has to try and figure out how it's going to digest all of this?  

What if you started eating so healthy that your medical doctor decided you didn't need all those medications that you are currently taking.  What if you were able to reduce your blood sugar, blood pressure, cholesterol, stress hormones, etc. by eating healthier?  

If you are the one ordering, shopping or cooking for your family then you are voting for more than just one person.  Realize how much of an impact you are having on your children's health by feeding them the food you currently are.  Take a moment before you make a food decision and really think about what the majority of your body and your child's body is really craving.   Let there be a democracy in your body.   Would we let 1% of the our population elect the president.   Um, no.  We see what happens in other countries that take this approach, then why are you doing to your body what other countries do with their government?   

If you continue voting for your food the way you have been, are you maximizing the potential for living a long healthy life or are you doomed for disease, discomfort and early death because you couldn't ever say no to the typical American diet.  Are you willing for some change?  Are you?  Let your body vote for what it really wants and I promise you that you that you will have a great next four years(and many, many more).

I voted today......did you?