For in NJ....... (WAS: Raw Milk/Colds - )

[Guest guest]

Hi , I hope you will read and reconsider an excerpt of what you posted

earlier. Your operative words were these: " if you grow up on junk food

[does] your body somehow get used to it even if it is causing degenerative

disease? i felt good on junk food...despite what it was doing to me.

apparently i tolerated junk food better than real, healthy foods, because i

grew up on a lot of junk food. "

Okay now think about it. I know you want to be healthy and feel good like

all of us or you wouldn't be here. And I think you really know what the

answer to your question is. Forgive me for taking the uninvited role of

therapist but I went through this rebellious stage myself..

Here's my pitch: It's hard to make choices when there is so much emotion and

history attached to what we eat. It's easier to take a potent pill or drink

a super-food elixir. (Or you can do as I did for years and that is to take

drugs so you don't care.) But at some point, in order to thrive, you have to

slow down for a minute and decide to choose YOU over the food (or in my case

drugs.) Then everything else follows. It's still hard but at least you're on

the right side of the battle. When you read what you wrote again can you see

that you're sticking up for the food rather than yourself? :-)

Anyway, I think the information at Native Nutrition on specific foods is

very good but it's not the most important thing on this site. The real

message has to do with living well, being the best you can be and most folks

here feel that eating a wide variety of whole unprocessed foods will get us

there -- help us to thrive.

What I hear you say is that you hate to cook. But what I'm hearing on

another level is that maybe you hate food because of what it's done to you

and want nothing to do with it? So again, here's where you have to make a

choice, come to terms because if you decide to choose your healthy self you

won't want to eat processed foods and so, well, unless you can hook up with

a generous cook, you have to learn to prepare food for yourself. Right? I

mean what other way is there really?

So I'm thinking that maybe after you decide to love the healthy self you

know you can be and after you thoroughly accept the fact that a variety of

unprocessed whole foods is what it will take to make you that excellent

person then you just follow to the next step which I think would be learning

to cook. Maybe taking some time off to try some recipes with a friend or on

your own. Maybe try to get your mind clear and give it another shot?

Reinvent yourself. There's nothing magic about food preparation -- it's just

following some steps -- and, as I said, what choice do you have? You can ask

questions here. If I lived near by I'd come over and help ya!

~Robin