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Healthy is the new Beautiful! …And 50 is the new 40, and 40 is the new 30. So let’s see now… According to this thinking, I should not only be 43 years old, but now, thanks to being more aware of the health of my body, both inside and out... I’m also now qualifying as ‘Beautiful!’ I don’t know who thought this up… But I like it.
So let’s put this is perspective.
According to my birth certificate, I recently rounded the corner on 53. For me, it meant little. For many others, this could be traumatic and may even become a “life-evaluating” event. But it’s not our fault that we go into a panic when we see our years on a timeline. “Wow that’s scary… I’m at the half-way mark!”… “Where did the time go? “How can I get it back?” “Does this dress make my butt look big?”
Joking aside, for the longest time, we assumed that beyond the age of 40, the “hill-of-life” somehow changed and took on a downward slant. But part of this way of thinking is due to a sort of “mass hysteria” we reach during this inevitable process. It’s as if we all drank the same “Kool-Aid!” We were conditioned growing up that turning 40 was somehow “old.” We’re supposed to look old, dress old and most importantly feel old, both inside and out. Now I DO want to know who thought this up ...Because it couldn’t be further from the truth.
In 2002, I was one of these people. I was 47. I thought I was healthy even though there was an extremely poor “child like” diet set aside for me daily. All my choice. If it wasn’t fried and served with ketchup, I’d eat ice cream. But my body quit on me, and like pulling the plug on an engine, the lights darkened and I crashed into my bed and stayed there. I remained there, except for the doctor visits, tests, numerous prescriptions and even injections for debilitating pain. It was bed until the middle of 2005. “Fibro” what? Fibromyalgia… it sounded like a type of cancer to me. How can my entire system shut down? How long will this go on? Make it stop! I’m too young to feel old!
This is when I tried anything and everything. I was even in drug study groups, taking Phase ll drugs that had not yet been approved by the FDA for public use. How desperate is that? Among 7 medications was Vioxx, and they recalled that recently because it “cured” you all right… It caused deaths.
Now, it became apparent that I would stay like this forever. That is when I started doing my own research. It didn’t take long to figure out that doctors don’t get paid if you’re well. They are not trained in finding the cause. It’s a process of elimination, and many doctors just mask symptoms with more and more prescriptions — even after many tests. They too will throw their hands up in frustration.
I wish I had known about diet and acid-alkaline balance back in 2002. I think I have the world’s largest collection of pajamas. I found something that helped me return to my life. Good nutrition and the best nutritional supplements, one such as Freelife’s Himalayan Goji Juice that I had come across… and just by chance, did wonders for me. It took half a lifetime for my body to say “Okay, enough of this, you have more toxins than we can ever handle anymore…” “You are on your own.” That’s what woke me up. It took 8 weeks… but it took, and it stayed.
I am now considered “Beautiful!”
Baby Boomers… and you know who you are, listen up. Some of us got this memo already, but there’s still many of you who were absent that day. Aging is a not only a state of mind, but also a state of body. We are lucky to be the generation we are, because we now know things our parents didn’t know. When our parents die, we will inherit some of the wealth they saved by “only living till they died.” What is meant by this is, our parents didn’t spend money on nutrition or supplements. They didn’t get facials, have nip-n-tucks at lunch or go to gyms. Whatever hair was still on their body… they didn’t run out and have intentionally removed.
We are the generation that gets it, or could get it, or should have it, and we definitely deserve it. Now isn’t that the thinking that got us here in the first place? Hmmm...
We are well educated and more health conscience than ever before. We define the quality of life in our later years as having enough money, time, health and meaning. We also need a lot of emotional support. Aging successfully is best achieved with a circle of people with your same mindset. The vast majority of Boomers feel that their lack of health and energy is part of the aging process, so they plod along and they do what our parents did…. nothing. We have this choice now.
But there are 78 million Baby Boomers, and many from this “sleeping giant” generation, woke up one day and had an “ah ha!” moment. It was a long overdue epiphany. They realized they had absolute control of which leg to use on the winning slide across home base.
Okay, so we were looking for all the short cuts… in food and fun and frolic. That will never change. It’s not too late to take that long, overdue, sometimes “wider than we’d like” look at ourselves and make the necessary changes.
It’s not ready, set, wait a sec! It’s get on your mark, get set, GO! …
Because Healthy is the new Beautiful!
To learn more about the benefits of Himalayan Goji Juice visit us at: RoJo.Freelife.com or call 727-669-9732 for an information packet.
Johnny & Rosemary Nadeau are owners of Johnny’s Italian Restaurant, 2907 S.R. 590 Clearwater for 27 years and promote a healthier eating lifestyle beginning with a ZERO Trans fat-free cooking restaurant.
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