Since most Americans are overweight yet malnourished, it’s important to think of food as medicine. Herbs and supplements will come to play an even more important roll in health and wellness as the population becomes sicker from the food chain being contaminated. If that sounds alarmist to you then you need to read this and this. We’ll rely on herbs more for detoxification and healing from the damage done to our bodies by the environment.
If the additives, preservatives, chemicals, and other toxins weren’t enough, many people hardly ever eat fresh fruits and vegetables, healthy fiber, or healthy fats and proteins. All of this combines to create major health problems for people of all ages. Look at the number of reality shows about weight loss–it’s an epidemic.
As part of the full body approach to health, changing what goes in your mouth is second most important step after changing the way you think. In fact, one of the reasons that herbal supplements work so well for so many people is because taking an herbal supplement gives them nutrition they aren’t getting from their diet.
Using food to help heal your body is not difficult, but it can be mentally and emotionally challenging to change habits so persistence, determination, and self control are necessary.
Begin by cutting out as much simple sugar as you can from your daily eating. Sugar is quite possibly the number one cause of most major health problems today. White flour is another item that needs to be cut from your diet. Try replacing it with stevia. Instead of white flour, start using whole grains. Neither table sugar nor white flour has any nutritional value for your body. They’re starches that we eat too much of.
There are healthy proteins and healthy fats in meat, but consider buying organic since there’s no telling what feed lot animals have been fed. Add fresh vegetables and fruits to your meals. Fresh and raw are best, and organic is essential to help stop the build up of excess chemicals and toxins inside your body. Eating cooked fruits and vegetables is fine too, but the raw ones are the most nutritional for you.

In August 2008, comedien Bernie Mac aka the King of Comedy died at the young age of 50. Mac had worked in the industry for years but his career had begun to reach new heights with blockbusters like Bad Santa and Oceans Eleven. Mac struggled with the autoimmune disease sarcoidosis and died from complications of that and pneumonia. His death is somewhat controversial since it’s believed his doctors treated him with immune system suppressing drugs. Whatever the cause of Mac’s death, there are lessons to be learned about our own health.
Most herbal knowledge is in the public domain and accessible to everyone. There is no great fortune to be made with herbal remedies, unless exclusive patent to an herb is possible. Big pharmacy research companies make their money on the
Plantain (Plantago major, L., aka. Plantago Major, Ripple Grass, Wagbread and White Man’s Foot) is one of the world’s most common herbs. It offers many healthy benefits. Known as the “Mother of Herbs,”
Though hormonal imbalances can often be corrected with proper vitamins and nutrition, there are other herbal remedies and supplements which are used specifically for their natural hormonal properties.




