What’s a Health Food Store All About?

The world is starting to think “green” more and more, but this is not just about saving our planet, it’s about saving our other heavenly body — our soul. When you think about it your entire world is affected when you don’t feel good. When you feel vitality and are full of energy the world is your oyster!

Wouldn’t it stand to reason that the best way to control your well being would be through maintaining your optimal health? Just like when you go on a long trip in your car you go to the mechanic and make sure everything possible is in top shape, change the oil, check/replace the breaks, tires, spark plugs and so on. You are assured that car will make it to your 2,000 mile destination and this is the most optimal way to do that. Make sure your “vehicle” is in top shape to make the journey - the journey of life.

It baffles me that many people don’t think of their body as a vehicle through life and that they are making a million mile or more journey in it. Your body is your most valuable resource, for without it, nothing else can happen. Your very journey through life is dependent on your ability to think clearly, to get up every day and go out into the world, or even sit at your computer and type. Each and every day you wake up and your body should be prepared for the journey ahead, prepared not just for the mapped out journey of your day’s agenda but for the things that you won’t find out about until you start interacting with your day.

Just like your car has a specialty store to get oil from, to find tires, to do a full tune up and to do a bumper to bumper diagnostic to assure you are not stranded 500 miles from home in a cell phone “dead zone”, there are places you can go to assure your health is in optimal shape. You go to your doctor to get a “check-up” you go to the clothing store to find clothing that makes you feel good which improves your mental state and the reactions people have of you as they see you.

You go to the health food store to get the vital foods free of preservatives like MSG and others that damage your body’s systems, to get vitamins that you may need because your diet is deficient, and to get food that is not tainted with pesticides and poisons.

Health food stores are not just where you get the most amazing organic foods and all the health supplies you need to cook a tasty but healthy meal at home, foods that to grocery stores seem exotic because they are not processed or grown and manufactured in savage ways such as pesticides in the very fertilizer used to grow it.

The health food stores are also amazing resources to find out information about the body and its nutritional needs. Most specialty health food stores preserve that home town feel and friendly knowledgeable staff of people who seem to know everything about how foods affect us. They seem to know how to cure many ailments that are simply bad diet related such as a backed up colon, or skin or hair damaged by the sun or our diet.

In a health food store you will learn that the Acai Berry contains the world most antioxidants that fight free radicals (and what the heck free radicals are!), that white tea in pure leaf form can kill plaque in your mouth to help preserve your teeth and that it does amazing things for your overall health. You will learn that preservatives back up your system causing toxins to evaporate in your colon and reabsorb into your blood stream and cause a plethora of health problems.

If you are asking what a health food store is all about, I can sum it up in one sentence: A health food store is about food, minerals, and information that will help you maintain your youth, vitality, and health. Health food stores are the soul and body’s “repair shop”.

A health food store is an amazing place you should learn to frequent in your younger years, but will probably no doubt visit one in your older years after the damage is done from bad eating habits and food that’s slowly killing you. Remember an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!

Health food stores are the alpha and the omega of healthy eating and healing through mother nature’s powerful herbs, and foods, not tainted by modern methods of growing, distribution, or pest control. In the health world the health food store is the pearly gates to heaven here on earth. It encompasses the most vitamin rich foods, the highest potency health foods in the world, and everything you could want to know about how foods fuel the body, the mind, and the spirit.

Hi! My name is Hwang Keum-Ok, and I know you understand how important it is to your health to find a good health foods store. Did you know there is a new online nationwide listing of health food stores? You can find it at: http://www.Health-Food-Stores-Directory.com You simply pick your state, the town or city where you live, and you’ll be given a short listing of health food stores near you. That website again is: Health Food Stores Directory. It’s a site well worth visiting!

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