Eating is just one facet of lifestyle.  While it is very important, principally because we do so much of it, eating only good, nourishing, alkaline ash-producing foods will not assure you of outstanding health, happiness, and success.  Your life includes choices in the rest of the Six Essentials (what you eat and drink, how you exercise and rest, what and how you breathe, and what you think).  No matter how well you eat, if you abuse your body by not giving it opportunities for adequate rest and exercise, or if you subject your lungs to constant pollution, you reduce the positive effect of the good food.  Perhaps most important, you can’t eat enough good food to neutralize the disastrous health effects of constant “acid thinking.”   Guilt, fear, worry, anxiety, hate, jealousy, hopelessness, and low self-esteem are just a few examples of “acid thinking.”  These negative emotions can escalate into negative attitudes. 

Negative attitudes can become the filter through which all thoughts and observations pass.  Negativity becomes a habit.  Negative thoughts and attitudes excite strong physiological responses of defense.  So, if you find fault with yourself and others all day, every day, you keep your body in a constant state of defense.  And you wonder why you are nervous, uptight, tired, and plagued by ‘indigestion,” high blood pressure, meandering aches and pains, or the blahs!

So, does that mean that if your family life, job, or the general world situation keeps you uptight and stressed, there’s no point in trying to upgrade your diet?

Not at all!  Why inflict dietary stress along with mental stress on your one and only body that needs to last you a lifetime?  Stress is a fact of life.  Your body is designed to handle stress.  However, if you improve your diet but you don’t notice an improvement in your health, your thoughts and attitudes are probably the cause of your problem. 

Fortunately, you are in charge of your health.  You have the freedom of choice regarding what you eat, drink, and think.  You also have freedom of choice in how you exercise, rest, and breathe.  You can choose to smoke or not smoke.  You can choose to live in an area with excessive pollution.  You don’t need to depend on others to make these choices for you, so you don’t have to live with the consequences of the decisions of others.

With freedom comes personal responsibility.  If you aren’t feeling as well as you would like, if you don’t have as much energy as you would like, it’s up to you to do something about it.  The types of food you are eating may be the major problem.  Diet is relatively easy to change.  It’s a good place to start.

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