Hi! This is Vernon Washington
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 .
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.
PART 2:
My interest in health developed from childhood. My parents were always aware of good wholesome food with proper preparation and as much fresh fruit and vegetables as possible. When I was about 8 years old, my father brought home a bushel basket of oranges for the five in our family to eat. Well, as a young and healthy child my appetite was not easily quenched and I soon broke out with a rash all over both arms, which the school nurse did not like and sent me home with some presumed diagnosis. When the doctor found that I had been eating a lot of oranges, he smiled and said: “go light on the oranges” and you’ll be OK. Well, I had a short vacation from school and was soon back to normal. At 9 years old, I got a terrible pain in my stomach after every meal, and would have to lie down from the pain. My Uncle whom we all considered to be the real “health nut” in the family, told his brother (my father), that what I needed was some “goldenseal” tea. So, I had a few doses of goldenseal tea, (probably not more that 15-20 times) after meals, and my stomach aches were totally gone.
After my arrival in Israel Israel
Especially, after my sister’s death, I was becoming more aware of ways to achieve better health in order to avoid such disease.
In about the year 2000, I was invited to an in-house demonstration of Nikken Products. During that meeting, I was asked to wear a flat magnetic device called a “back flex” during the meeting “which may help relieve my lower back pain” which I had been troubled with most of my life. (From what I understood from doctors, the problem was that two vertebrae were fused together with no disc between them, maybe from birth, but there was enough movement to cause irritation and sometimes severe pain). Well, after wearing that device for about one hour during the meeting, I had completely forgotten that I had any pain, because it was gone. From then, I was so excited that I wanted to tell everyone about such wonderful products. Well, not everyone was as excited as I was, or had the same response that I had. But, in the following few years, I spent a lot of time studying about different types of modalities which may trigger healing in the human body. I have enjoyed that part of the journey even yet today. My desire to help people was the driving force behind my getting into the appliance repair business. When I left the house of a working appliance, and a happy customer, it gave me a real thrill. The idea that I could help relieve someone else’s pain and suffering must be a lot of what Doctor’s also feel. It sure seemed to surpass fixing someone’s refrigerator.
After a few years of heavy involvement with the Nikken products, I came across some nutritional information that at first I was uneasy about, but soon fell in love with. My father and mother were 82 years old at that time, having just returned from the US., they were done traveling, and my father said later that he knew that he and mom would not be around for long and may need some outside help very soon. Well, since my office and computer are in his house (next door to mine), he also heard from a friend of mine in Australia about some very unique glyconutrient products and said that if they were even ½ what they claimed to be, that he had to try them.
The products were not available in Israel , but he was able to purchase them through his American address since they originated in the US
