Health is the most precious gift we can have, yet we so often take it for granted. You can look around today and see so many people suffering. It truly breaks my heart and that is why I am on a mission to educate as many people as possible on how to change their health from sickness to wellness. No one likes change, but usually it is not until we have a health crisis or what I like to say “A Wake Up Call”, that one starts to think about making changes to their current lifestyle. Once they make that choice, it can become overwhelming where to start and that is where I come in to guide you. There are many paths to wellness, you just need to find the one that is right for you.
For all of the years that I have been studying natural health (20 + years) and out of all the lifestyles I have followed – too many to explain here – the one thing that I can say truly made a difference in my life is the change to eating fresh fruits, vegetables, whole foods and juicing. This too was a challenge because when most people think of doing this, the first thing that comes to mind is salad and steamed vegetables. I too was in that rut and would “fall off the wagon” for a while and then go back. It was not until I started researching recipes and other lifestyles that I came across Hallelujah Acres. I went to Rev. Malkmus’ seminar “You Don’t Have to be Sick” (which I highly recommend) and then decided to volunteer at the Hallelujah Acres Lifestyle Center in Plant City, Florida to learn how to make fresh whole living foods that actually taste good. I have to say my first venture was a little scary. The menu called for a raw collard green salad and I was not fond of collard greens in general whether raw or cooked. I was thinking to myself, okay Dessa you are going to need to be polite and just decline that dish. But what happened was everyone else was eating it and saying how good it was, so how could I not try it. To my surprise, it was absolutely delicious! I went back for seconds and made sure at the end of my day volunteering, I had that recipe in my hands. I can also say that since then all the recipes that I have made have been wonderful. That experience also gave me the tools to equip my kitchen with the proper appliances so that making these nutritionally dense foods that heal and nourish our bodies is easy.
We have since made the raw collard green salad in my health & wellness classes and everyone has raved how good it is. So there, you can eat raw foods that taste good. The haces.com site is full of recipes that are delicious and full of health building nutrition. The one thing I love about hacres.com site is they give you all these recipes for free along with other great information to improve your health. There are many sites out there that offer you a wealth of great information, the challenge is to educate yourself.
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So with all my new knowledge, I decided to start making these healthy dishes, continue juicing and, more recently, back to sprouting again. I believe all of these things provide the body with the nutrients to feed the body at a cellular level and start to repair the damage that we have done to our precious bodies (before we knew better and when we knew we shouldn’t have, but did anyway). Most people are working at a real deficient depending upon the lifestyle they live(d) so it will take time and commitment, but if you stick with it – Your body has the ability to heal itself. No drug is going to give you the building blocks to create new healthy cells and tissues. It all comes from the food we eat. The healthier the food, the healthier the new cells and tissues. So challenge yourself to start making healthy lifestyle changes now before you get your “Wake up Call”. Small steps can lead to huge benefits when it comes to your health. Take the challenge! Yours in Health, Dessa!
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