Our Health and Wellness is in OUR Hands

Our Choices Dictate Our Level of Health and Wellness

Health and wellness. The degree with which these things are present in our bodies is in direct relation to what we put into the body. The other things that affect our health and wellness are our moods, emotions, thoughts, and spoken words.

If you eat lousy food, you will, sooner or later, experience lousy health. If you hold onto lousy moods, then you will feel lousy, emotionally and mentally. If you speak lousy, cruel words, then that energy will return to you in one form or another.

There is, in much of the developed world, a problem with obesity. A New Zealand writer and comedian put it well when he wrote about his own problem with being overweight as a child: he was overweight because he ate too much. Simple. It had nothing to do with the government, or schools, or anyone else, he just ate too much, and he admitted that.

As parents we have to take responsibility for the foods we make available to our children. If they come home from school hungry, what is there for them to eat? Have you taught them to come home and have an apple, or a banana? Or do they launch into bread, chips, cakes and biscuits? Do they drink water, or coca-cola? The habits we set in motion when they are children stay in place their whole lives, unless they are strong enough to embrace a new habit.

Healthy eating really is a habit. It is one that I embrace and teach to my children.