Keepin’ it short and sweet this week …
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” — Lao Tzu (c/o Experience Life Magazine)
Wow, so much wisdom being broadcast this week. I told you this week’s News Roundup would be a doozy. Ready?
“Man … sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present … he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.” Dalai Lama
“Sometimes late night food cravings simply mean you need to go to sleep earlier.” – Marc David
“The facts are that fast food and junk foods cause a thousand times as many premature deaths compared to cocaine; and it’s condoned.” – Dr. Joel Fuhrman
Yep, it did me too.
The growing season is over at Cramer Organics. What an experience, one that I’m so grateful to have had the opportunity to participate in. I learned so much.
Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE should get out on a farm and see where your food comes from. Have you ever been on a farm? Do you know the work that goes into growing food and raising livestock? Don’t take it for granted, people. Farmers work their a**es off to feed us and they deserve our utmost respect and admiration, which they often don’t get. Okay, don’t get me started …
Here ‘tis, the good food word for this week. Actually, not all of it is related to food. Cuz, you know, being healthy is not all about what we put in our mouths.
“Our sense of self and our body image affects our health for a lifetime. If you are allowing the mainstream media to adversely manipulate your self-worth, you’re in for a rocky ride! Prepare to become media literate.” – Dr. Christiane Northrup
“Don’t just go to the doctor and make sure you’re ‘normal.’ ‘Normal’ is not optimal.” – Dr. Christiane Northrup
“Public policy for a low-fat diet is still on the books to this day, even though it was developed without a shred of scientific evidence.” – Dr. Mark Hyman
I wish I had a dollar for every time one of my clients said, “My doctor tested my TSH and he/she said that my thyroid is fine, but after reading your symptoms list, I’m thinking that I still have a thyroid problem.” Really, your doctor said that your thyroid is fine? Then why are you so exhausted and moody? Why is your hair falling out and your estrogen high? Why are you putting on weight? Why are you having a hard time losing weight despite your best efforts?
It’s almost over. This last week was the next to last week of the 2011 harvest season. I’m still amazed at all that is flourishing on the farm, and although we’re enveloped by the jewel tones of fall and the sweet and earthy aroma of fallen leaves, it’s still been warm enough to wear shorts. I may not be so lucky next week.
Where oh where did the week go? Some work, some writin’, some farmin’, and poof, it’s Friday. Here are some juicy tidbits from this week, collected just for you.
“By letting it go, it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try the world is beyond the winning.” - Lao Tzu
“Uncertainty comes with territory of being a human. Can you hang with it?” - Marc David
BPA — found in baby bottles and sippy cups, microwave ovenware, stain-resistant food storage containers, eating utensils, hard-plastic drinking bottles, five-gallon water jugs, and plastic wraps, to name just a few — easily leaches into food and liquids, and hundreds of studies have linked it to harmful endocrine-disrupting effects, causing reproductive, developmental, behavioral, and neurological harm.
