A Few Thoughts on Health

Hey, y'all! I got back from England a couple days ago, so look out for a post on that! I'm not going to make an excuse for not posting the last few weeks, because I could have. I was in Minnesota for 10 days (where there's wifi) and then England for 10 days (where there's wifi), but I focused on enjoying myself and getting away from technology. So, while I can't say that I accomplished my goal of posting once a week on this blog, I'm going to jump back into posting once a week.

I've been reading a lot about nutrition and fitness, as I think I've said here before. It's incredible. The big thing that's really caught my attention is the Paleo lifestyle, which is basically going back to eating and exercising the way our ancestors (cavemen) did. It's superdeeduper interesting.

I'm very interested in preventive measures, rather than treatment after you get a disease or problem. I've been hearing things about sugar being poison and all these chemicals in conventional food being awful. One quote that absolutely applies to this is,

"The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison.”

I agree with this immensely! The things you put into your body are really, really important to your health (obviously), yet so many people, definitely including myself, just eat garbage. I'm going to focus on eating real, whole foods and avoiding excess sugar wherever possible. Something that's really important to me is living for a long time and actually living. I plan on being healthy and active for my whole life, so I need to start now. That's my focus.