Stories: The Grocery Store

      Rarely do I enter grocery stores, since I shop mostly at Health Food stores and local farmers markets, but once found myself waiting in line at one of the larger chains. The woman in front of me was unloading her cart, sugar covered cereal, chips, sodas, packaged pastries, processed frozen and boxed dinners. No vegetables, no fruits, no protein that didn't come from a box. "So," I commented, " bet you have kids."  "How could you tell? " she laughed. " Bet they're always sick." I continued. Her jaw dropped. " How did you know?" 

      We are what we eat, literally. If we eat crap we are going to feel like crap. Eating a diet of processed foods that contain chemical preservatives, pesticides, hydrogenated oils, corn syrup/sugar, antibiotics, hormones, GMO's, and synthetic vitamins, people are starving to death as they get fatter, depressed, fatigued, and sick.
      Our bodies and brains need real food to function, to heal, to stay healthy and feel great. Fast food, junk food and 'convenience' foods rob us of our energy and our health. The food we eat today determines how we feel tomorrow. The food we eat in the next few years helps determine how many years we have, and if we spend those years healthy or with chronic illness and disease. Heres to Healthy Choices!

                                                    Health & Happiness, 

                                                             Nancy Burton, L.Ac.