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Health Observations Blog

Hi!  This is Vernon, I am 64 years on this green earth, that G_d has blessed us with. I have a brother Arlie in Washington state whom I love very much, and we had a sister Lynette, who died in 1981 from breast cancer. It’s in her memory and love that I would like to speak with you about a journey towards better health, a worthwhile journey.

We have probably all heard the saying that “an apple a day will keep the doctor away”. Have you ever tried it? My brother eats probably two or three apples a day since moving to the northwest, and says that he hasn’t been sick at all since moving up there about 8 years ago. (Maybe he’s just been too busy with his lovely wife and family). When I was living in Florida, some 35 years ago, I met a man who was the head of maintenance in a large Hotel on the beach of Ft. Lauderdale. He told me that he had not lost a days work from sickness in 26 years. Wow!!  I asked him to what did he owe his good health? He said, “Oh I don’t know really, but I do eat a lot of apples”__ “Here have one” as he picked up one of many off his desk to hand me. My mother must have also believed this, as she used to peel and slice me an apple every morning for years and hand it to me in a small plastic bag as I headed out to work each day.

            Some may say, “why keep the doctor away”? “he gives me my medication for high blood pressure, my diabetes meds, and monitors my heart arrhythmia”. And as I have heard some say, “other than that, I am perfectly healthy”. If that is what you want, then fine, that is what you can have. Man kind has been blessed above the animal kingdom, we have the option to choose what is right for each of us on this journey called life.

            I would like to find a balance between seeing a doctor when I have a broken arm to set, and living my life more in tune with nature and avoiding medications which are toxic by necessity, or they would never pass the FDA approval board. (I understand, that every medication which passed the approval of the FDA, was first put through an LD50 test (among many others, of course) which means that the drug was first used on mice and the toxicity rating was set only after the dosage was increased until 50 mice died). Please correct me if I am wrong.

            You are never too young to start taking care of your health. You might ask, “Is that all I have to do is eat an apple every day? Unfortunately not, or we could all be healthy, as long as there were no apple viruses which would wipe out the crop. But, an apple a day might be a good place to start. I know, we would all rather eat a large milk chocolate bar every day, (I prefer mine with hazel nuts). Maybe you don’t like chocolate,

But, I think that you know what I mean.  Even, if you are not taking any medications, and on the last doctors’ visit, all of your results were within the borders of “normal”, I have rarely seen anyone who did not need to improve their education about better health.

            So, how can we achieve better health while living in a world where chocolate bars, potato chips, soft drinks, and other non essential foods abound on every shelf in life? That is why I am writing this blog. I have found at least some of the answers for myself, and I would like to share some of my observations with you, if by chance these may also help you. I hope that I am not too late in applying myself to “pen” these things to you.