Day 17

As I go day after day now, eating so many fruits and vegetables....especial eating the creamed kale and assortment of greens for salads and smoothies, I cant help thinking how ironic it is. I never really thought about it before. You know it used to be that if you didnt live near a farm that produced a certain fruit or vegetable, well the odds you'd ever eat it were slim. And certainly you didnt get a variety of any kind in the winter. We are so lucky and blessed to live in a time when our supermarkets receive shipments of every kind and variety of produce all year long. And the irony is that at the same time, the disease causing, but convenient, processed and refined foods are what we mainly consume. All of our diet related diseases,  heart disease, diabetes, cancer, alzheimers, strokes, arthritis and so on,  could be largley prevented by a diet rich in the produce that only people of our time have the privelage to have available year round and right in our neighborhood store.
I feel such peace and happiness with this decision. I don't feel worried when my kids are around a sick child, I know im giving their little bodies the minerals and nutrients they need for a superior immune system. Of course they aren't completely  virus proof....but they sure seem to be holding up well against the onslaught of viruses around this winter and there have been so many. I need these moments to keep me feeling empowered to keep going. This one today especially feels motivational. To remember how blessed and lucky I am to live when all of this produce variety is at my fingertips and I actually HAVE the option to eat  a nutritionally superior diet. I don't want that blessing to be wasted on me or my children. I hope they can pass this lifestyle on to their children as well. I will do my best to continue to study and pass on the education to accompany it so they have that to keep motivated too.;)