Family and Health

The New Year is approaching, and I wanted to talk for a minute about family and health.

First off, I know that you, like the rest of us, are constantly bombarded with information from the health community about the latest developments in nutrition, physical health education, pharmaceutical advancements etc.

At some point, you get so much information, from so many varied sources, that it's hard to know what to believe when it comes to your family and health.

One minute milk "does a body good", the next minute it's full of anti-biotics and hormones and is bad for you.

And the fact is that you can usually look at who "sponsored" a specific ad and get a pretty clear idea about the agenda behind the ad.

A great example of this is the new High Fructose Corn Syrup commercials.

Here's one right here:





Now look. I'm not going to sit here and tell you that high fructose corn syrup is evil. I'm not even going to tell you it's bad for you. I AM going to tell that there is a lot of evidence out there that suggests that it is bad for you in the massive quantities that most of our family's ingest it. (Just do a google search for high fructose corn syrup and you can judge for yourself.)

Whether it's "good" for you, or "bad" for you is not the point.

The point is that it's time for us to start taking responsibility for our own family and health. It's time for us to start questioning ALL information sources (including this one) and start looking for ways to be our own best health advisor.

Over the years there has been a movement, mostly here in the U.S. towards specialization when it comes to health; and we have allowed the opinions of "experts" to take the place of self-education and common sense.

We'll be introducing some ways to change all of that in the next few weeks. So stay tuned.

And please, leave a comment here and let us know what your thoughts are. About corn syrup, commercials, family and health, or anything else you want to talk about.