On a mission

I'm on a mission to help you achieve optimal health. You can now find me not just here, but on my podcast, "Optimal Health with the Accidental Health Nerd Pam Murphy, M.S.H.N."

anchor.fm/pam-murphy

Starting the podcast was an exciting step to take. I hope you are taking steps to achieve optimal health. The more healthy habits you create the better you will feel both physically and mentally.

Here's 10 steps you could take:

1. Daily walk
2. Have a salad every day
3. Drink adequate water daily
4. Be grateful
5. Schedule fun
6. Keep a food journal
7. Strength-training exercise 3x a week (if ok'd by your physician)
8. Eat a healthy breakfast
9. Cut out soda
10.Cut out sugar

No, you can't do it all at once. Pick a couple steps. Make them a habit. It won't be long till you start feeling better! Then choose a couple more changes to make.

One thing for sure is if you change nothing, nothing will change. Are you overweight? Constantly tired physically  and mentally? Have high blood pressure? Dealing with a chronic illness?

Then you must make changes in your life. There's  not a medication on earth which can counter bad health habits.

You Can Reverse Diabetes

This is the best article I've ever read regarding reversing diabetes. I implore you to read it. You CAN change your life!

https://latterdaysaintmag.com/a-way-to-prevent-and-reverse-type-2-diabetes/

Work with you doctor and nutritionist or dietitian and move on to optimal health!

Think, Ask, Choose

If you are like me food has been a reward ever since you were a child. Be good and we will go get a chocolate malt. Be good and we will get milkman to leave some chocolate milk. (Ok... showing my age.) Ditto cheetos, chips, soda and ice cream.

A fun time for my family was to go get a bag of White Castles and fries and sit at the airport and eat while we watched planes take off or land.

Yes dad developed coronary artery disease and had a heart attack. But we didn't connect it to diet. We weren't any different than a lot of other Americans. If we were happy we ate. If we were sad we ate. If we were bored we ate.

My mom was a real estate salesperson. My dad and I loved tv dinners! Mom did too. Her family was fed and her work uninterrupted. Looking back today we realize tv dinners were crap.

We weren't any different than other people of the time. And over time we've seen the nation become overweight and suffering with lifestyle disorders.

Cardiac problems and diabetes run in families because bad lifestyle habits run in families. It's not bad genes which are the culprit. It's what is on your fork which is the culprit. Good nutrition can turn off or keep bad genes from turning on.

Nutrition is powerful!

So what's our problem with food?

We don't look at food as fuel for our body.

It's a reward. It's entertainment. It's a replacement for dealing with the stresses in our lives.

But we don't think of it as FUEL to help our body to run optimally well. We don't think about the building blocks of our immune system. But good nutrition is that.

And if you want to lose weight, live a healthier lifestyle or reverse health issues your first action is to think of food as fuel and nothing else.

When you are considering what to eat, ask yourself whether it will support your wellness or your future illness.

Think..... Ask.... Choose.

Being mindful of the healthful or unhealthful properties of what you eat is the first step to a healthier lifestyle. Each healthy choice will lead to more healthy choices. Choosing mindfully what to eat you will gradually find yourself with more energy, self-esteem, improved sleep and a happier outlook on life.

Just take the first step.....