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For my memories fast forward to the
late 70’s and early 80’s when I was about ten. I grew up
in Alabama and New York City at the same time. During my
younger school years, I went to Catholic school in
Alabama and every summer I stayed in New York. I moved
to New York permanently when I became a freshman in high
school in an all girl Catholic College Prep High School
in the Bronx.
As a child I grew up in Wetumpka, Alabama. I had first
hand insight of my grandmother’s natural remedies and
solutions for every illness and discomfort. She always
had a slew of vegetables, fruits and pecans on hand all
the time. My grandmother was an educator and in her
retirement years, a homemaker. I often slip back in time
with memories of my childhood growing up on our land in
Wetumpka, Alabama. My grandmother knew every wild fruit,
vegetable and herb and it’s usage for whenever someone
got sick. Every illness was treated with one of her
remedies. I remember the dark rich black soil in which
her garden was planted. I have to admit, when I was
young I didn't truly appreciate it, I used to mumble
under my voice when she commanded me to go out and pick
some vegetables for dinner that evening. (My thought
process, I did not want to ruin my shoes.) LOL!
I remember we had a delicious pear tree and 2 big
humongous pecan trees in our front yard. I remember
walking down the dirt road and picking blueberries,
plums and chewing on sour grass. We played kick ball all
day and pretend church. LOL! We had a horse and 2 pigs
(2 pigs I hated to feed those pigs they smelled awful).
We also had a well from which the water tasted like it
was sent straight from God himself. Right before the
winter, my grandmother would collect jars for pickling
and canning preserves for the winter.
This is why I truly feel I must inform and share ,” The
Healthy Club”. I believe that if we can go back 50 years
to the way things used to be, to that friendly
neighborhood environment when someone knocked at your
back door and you heard them say, ”Coming in”, and they
entered with fresh vegetables, green peas or pecans
picked right from their home garden. Going back 50 years
we took care of the land without chemicals and
pesticides, prepared healthy meals with fruits and
vegetables, and we didn't eat foods that were processed
and packaged from non healthy grocery store shelves.
Many people would be alive today if only they had the
knowledge that, thousands of substances found in
processed food can lead to immune dysfunction, which
will allow for illnesses to kick start. If we each
examine our lifestyle, we will find lots of processed
foods with NO nutritional value and sugar-burdened
products that are the mainstay of most American diets.
My daily food intake consisted of a fatty breakfast
w/lots of bread, fast food for lunch, diet soda as my beverage, no
water, eating out almost every night for dinner and desserts with
every meal.
10 years ago, I had no energy for anything; I had to go constantly
to the doctor, because as soon as I got behind the wheel of a car, I
would automatically fall asleep.
I was constantly taking naps throughout the day because I had no
energy for anything.
Not knowing the whole time, whenever I fell asleep, it was always
after a high sugar high carb meal.
I was 5'11 and weighing 190lbs, thinking because I was tall/thin
that was my weight was no problem.
10 years ago, I honestly thought the way my physical body looked and
felt, my emotional well being, my outlook on life itself and my low
finances at the time was the final outlook of my life story .
I never thought that 10 years ago I had the power to change all of
those things, by just only fixing 2 of them, my diet and lifestyle.
10 years ago, I never took the time to really look in the mirror for
more than 10 minutes, because I never took time for myself. I didn't
even think that there was ever a chance I could improve my physical
health.
10 years ago, I also felt the job I was at, at the time, would be my
job until I retired. I never for once thought about my Passion, no
one ever asked me what is your passion? What is your special unique
talent that no one else has on this earth but
you?
Not knowing that your passion and your special unique talent is the
key to the answer, what is my purpose here on earth?
With all of that, I never knew, the foods I was eating, were the
contributing factors to the unhappiness and dissatisfaction with my
physical wellness in my life at the time. This unhappiness and
dissatisfaction with my physical wellness was also clouding my
spiritual wellness.
For the past few years, I've made major physical life changes. To
start, ten years ago I decided to start eating healthy, I totally cut sugar
and white flour out of my life, this was my new lifestyle change. I
decided to start watching the sugar and carbs intake of my daily
foods, I started noticing that there was sugar in every single thing
I ate. I was not
eating healthy at all. I educated myself on how to find sugar in
every single thing I ate. I soon discovered how they trick you with
sugar in every single food item. It's called, "Fructose corn syrup
and Hydrogenated Soybean Oil". This was the culprit that was giving
millions of people diabetes, high blood pressure and a host of many
chronic illnesses today. The tricks (chemical ingredients) in food
were also named sucrose, fructose, enriched bleached flour, natural
flavors, artificial flavors, niacin, palm oil and gluten.
Once I stop eating every single food item that had
these ingredients, my body and my facial structure totally
transformed. I immediately started loosing weight and my body was transforming physically that first week. In 6
months I lost a total of 50 lbs., I was back to my high school
weight of 150 lbs. People literally thought I had plastic
surgery, I turned back my life's clock 20 years. My hair grew
faster, my nails never looked so healthy and and my skin just
transformed.
Before and After photos. During my total lifestyle change I switched to organic fruits and vegetables,
meditation, walking only for exercise and stevia sugar for my
coffee. I also changed my household cleaning and personal body care
products to organic, yes organic. For the first time in my
life, my clothes were fitting me perfectly and I looked different
physically and felt different emotionally. People would say, you
look different and I would just reply, "I have changed my
lifestyle". My secret weapon, completely cutting out sugar and white
flour. Feeling young and vibrant at 38 and looking forward to a
illness free life.
My Healthy Club is an online club of people who want
to practice living a
wellness lifestyle, to have good long term physical health, to
prevent, cope with and provide medical alternative solutions to
chronic illnesses and diseases that plague our bodies.
The Healthy Club is composed of women and men ages 18-85 who
practice a wellness lifestyle by completely cutting out all sugar
and eating low carbs .
If you or a family member suffers from one or more of the following
chronic illnesses and it runs in your family, this club is for you.
JOIN TODAY!
1. Heart Disease
2. Diabetes
3. Cancer
4. High Cholesterol
5. Menopause
6. Depression
7. Allergies
8. Asthma
9. ADD
10. ADHD
11. Hypertension
12. Chronic Fatigue
13. Osteoporosis
14. Macular Degeneration
15. Weight Management
16. Alzheimer
17. Prostate Problems
18. Fibromylsia
19. Excessive Stress
. Multiple Sclerosis
Our club focuses on coping mechanisms, preventative solutions and
sometimes reversing many of the chronic illnesses with the proper
nutrients, rather than just treating the symptoms with conventional
medications.
We truly believe the human body has the potential to heal itself if
given the proper nutrients. We truly believe each person needs 4
types of wellness to live a healthy, happy and balanced lifestyle
into your 90s. You need physical wellness, environmental wellness,
financial wellness and personal wellness.
What the Healthy Club strives to help you
achieve.
Why I started the Healthy Club?
Because the revolution in everyone's healthcare happens one person
at a time. To make a fundamental a change in your life to take
control of your health to prevent, cope with or reverse chronic illnesses
requires both confidence knowledge and courage. The Healthy Club is
helping thousands of people do just that.
The Healthy Club was started from this simple thought: Many people
might be alive today if only they knew and was shown to use certain
natural nutritional products and live a wellness lifestyle, which
includes using all natural laundry detergent to all natural
household cleaning products.
This club is not condemning conventional medicine, like prescription
drugs. If my finger is accidentally cut off for some reason, I want
to go and have conventional medicine administered to me immediately.
Many studies have shown that there are a number of cases where
taking conventional medicine, a lot of people would not have lived.
If I am suffering from arthritis illness, I do not want medicine to
ease the pain, I want a nutritional supplement that will reverse my
arthritis and help re-store the natural oil and re-build the
cartilage back into my bones.
We hope one day that conventional medicine will retain its place in
the field of surgery and other traumatic conditions where it cannot
be replaced. But, our hope is really to have natural nutritional
products be referred to people to help them with their chronic
illnesses, to heal them, not to make them feel good temporarily.
Natural nutritional products are not only safer than prescription
drugs but also a lot cheaper.
Renee Johnson, a Self taught
Nutrition Activist
The Healthy Club
renee@thehealthyclub.com |
