The Balance Point Blog

The 3 Most Important Considerations When Choosing Your Foods

Make no mistake about it, food is the most powerful medicine you’ll ever take. Why? No matter what other medicine you take (prescriptions, herbs, vitamins, etc.), your food has a greater impact. A plate full of food wins over a handful of pills every time because there’s so much more of it.

Effective Healing

…the human body is extremely complex and each individual uniquely different. This fact means that a ‘one size fits all’ approach to health is destined to fail. At the very least such a standardized approach will miss things and won’t be effective for a significant portion of the population.

What’s In A Name?

If someone handed you a plate full of rotten, stinking eggs, and told you they were health food, you’d laugh in their face. We all trust the evidence of our senses when it comes to something this obvious. But sometimes the choice isn’t as obvious as smelly old eggs.

“It’s Magic”

Over the past 39 years of seeing patients I mostly see very positive results. But about twice a year I work with someone who gets no results at all. I’ve come up the 2 most common reasons for these disappointing results.

Can Exercise Alone Make You Healthy?

When it came to exercising, one student who stands out in my mind. Jim was as dedicated a student as I’ve ever seen. He meditated 2 hours a day from 4:00 to 6:00 am. He also practiced qigong and kung fu several hours a day each. All of this was in addition to his full time job as a professor at USC and spending time with his wife and kids.

But even with this amount of exercise, there was one factor missing… one that had disastrous consequences.