Our Healing Body

Blogging is always an interesting experience. 

As much as I enjoy writing about fun, interesting, or inspiring parts of my life, when I look out at the world, I cannot help but not be satisfied with certain parts of it. Everyone feels this way about some part of their life or society around them. That is not to say I am unhappy, I am generally a very positive person. I just feel there are parts of myself and society that need improvement. 

Out of the many causes I care about, one cause that strikes a particular accord is health.

I have a great desire to be healthy, teach others around me to be healthy, and always be increasing my education on health as a broad topic.

After my studies in medicine and nutrition, a belief I firmly stand behind is that your body knows how to be perfectly healthy on its own. Given the optimal amounts of food, exercise, and sleep, your mind and body naturally become healthy. Being overweight or ill or even unhappy is not the natural state of our bodies. The question becomes: So what is this optimal amount of food, exercise, and sleep? This thought has hardly left my mind for many years.

With obesity and type II diabetes and many other illnesses on the rise, I have realized that there are fundamental flaws in the healthcare and nutrition systems of our country at many different levels. Therefore, one day, hopefully within one year, I want to write a series of posts (maybe even its own blog) which will be named Our Healing Body. It will be information about different aspects of health and living. 

What foods will keep us healthy and happy and even taste good? 

Are grocery stores and restaurants really promoting health or just trying to raise their bottom dollar? 

What factors contribute to the level of obesity and related illnesses in this country? 

How can we as individuals and as a society take health into our own hands?

The most important part about these posts in I want this to be collaborative.

I invite people to chime in different habits and routines and have a collective of recipes, nutrition facts, and health care knowledge. Be rest assured, I will still be keeping up with my light-hearted blog posts but slowly working on this overall health theme as well. No matter where you are in the world, I hope everyone has a great rest of the week and is safe, healthy, and happy. To improvement!

What improvements are you making in your life?