A Wake-Up Call

Hi Fit Friends,

I wanted to share an excerpt from a newsletter that I receive. It comes from Christina Pirello, a television chef and cookbook author. She was diagnosed with terminal cancer when she was 26. She started eating healthy, whole foods, like beans, nuts, fruits, and vegetables and within 14 months she was cancer free. Many years later, she is teaching others to eat healthy.

Check out what she has to say and see if it makes sense to you:

A Wake-Up Call!

I have been doing what I do for a long time now, more than twenty years. I have seen many things change for the better and other things, well as Jon Stewart says, not so much.’

The cause and effect relationship of diet and health is without question in these modern times. Or is it? Is it too simplistic to believe that the food choices we make can be the answer to many of our health questions and concerns? Have we been so brainwashed by marketing and pharmaceutical companies that we can no longer embrace the simple fact that our food creates or destroys our health?

Everyone seems to accept that eating a healthy diet can help to maintain our physical health, right? But I have discovered that not so many people can accept the idea that food choices can cure many of our illnesses, even the severe, degenerative ones, like cancer and heart disease. This, of course, is not news to the tens of thousands of people who have cured themselves of everything from leukemia to prostate cancer to breast cancer and heart disease cured, not held at bay or in remission, but cured. The stories exist and they are true.

You may be wondering why I am choosing this lovely summer issue to rant about this. Summer is a time for rest and respite, for playing at the beach and in the park, for gardening and picnics. It is all that and more and I encourage you to enjoy every warm minute of it. But things are sharply into focus for me and I feel a strong pull to give it voice.

We live in a swamp of marketing that blinds us to simple truths. And we go along with the lies because they give us permission to continue to engage in our childish behaviors. We act as though there is no consequence to our many indulgences and yet, those consequences are all around us, in frightening statistics, bloated bodies and lack of strength. We have turned our crises into cheap reality shows with harsh trainers and tears of anguish as people struggle to regain their health. People ask: if fruits and vegetables are the answer, why aren't doctors telling patients to eat carrots? Well, I would have to ask the same question. Why aren't we being told that a healthy diet can positively affect our health? Could it be that the McDonald's in the hospital lobby is more profitable than a fruit stand would be? Could it be that the manufacturers of all the drugs that are used to treat the diseases that plague us would suffer losses if everyone ate a healthy diet and stopped becoming ill in numbers that profit only them?

And why aren't people who have cured themselves with food choices appearing on every talk show in America? Why are they not the subject of books and interviews and articles? We could say a lot of things in response, but there is only one reason. How could any talk show survive guests discussing how they were healed by eliminating the very foods that make up the lion share of the advertising dollars that support the shows?

You can imagine the meetings after a guest speaks about eliminating dairy products to improve health and the commercial break being for indulging in ice cream and how sweet and sexy it will make your life. The impact would be enormous; advertising dollars would dry up in seconds. And no one, not one talk show, newspaper or magazine could survive that. And so it continues as it is, with most people accepting things as they are and a small, but mighty group knowing that there is a better way living out their dreams in robust health and speaking out in places where they can be heard.

It's time for us to wake up and smell the toast burning. We have to stop allowing ourselves to be brainwashed. We have to take control of our lives and our health and most of all, we have to listen to the small choir of alternative voices who say that there is a better way to live, maintain health and to heal. It's time to be more than pill-popping,overweight, sick society and be all we can be. It's now or never.

Peace,
Christina

Makes sense to me.

Eat Intentionally,

Cindy