Paradigm Shift

"Think of a Paradigm Shift as a change from one way of thinking to another. It's a revolution, a transformation, a sort of metamorphosis. It just does not happen, but rather it is driven by agents of change". (Reference: Kuhn, Thomas, S., "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions")
We all can be "agents of change" simply by taking control of our own lives, making better more informed choices when it comes to our health, our planet and our government for example. But let's just take our health for now and leave the rest for another day another blog.
The paradigm that I am writing about today involves a movement toward a more nutritional approach of taking care of our health. Getting back to a "natural" way of life. Think of this....What Life was like in the days preceding the "bigger,better,faster" era. Technology in part has led us into a world of instant gratification and convenience. It is precisely this very thing that has become so detrimental to our physical health. We have as a nation become an extremely lazy population (but technically savvy) and this has hurt us significantly in many ways not just our health. However, it is not to late to make a change or in other words have a paradigm shift.

Have you noticed the multitude of drug companies advertisements of prescription meds bombarding us everyday on television? I don't recall even five years ago seeing as many Ads as their are today. I think drug companies make up new diseases in order to feed their addictive "greed" habit. Don't get me wrong, I do feel that drug companies have contributed immensely to the eradication of life threatening diseases. No more small pox for instance. We don't hear about people dying of polio or tuberculosis. Thanks for penicillin and the drugs that kill bacteria and the "epi-pen" all hail aspirin. Those are not the drugs I am talking about. I am talking about the drugs that people would not need in the first place if they bothered to take care of their own health and stopped eating double cheeseburgers and McFries and then stressing over it. I'm talking about Lipitor or Zetia. I'm talking about Paxil or whatever the drug of choice is for depression. And isn't there a drug for...what is it? "Social Dysfunction"...you know the one where you're in a crowd of people and suddenly you can't move or speak. There's a drug for that. Drug companies have hugh lobbies which work with the FDA and then help push drugs to treat new illnesses. RLS...ADHD....we are now given a diagnosis by reciting letters from the alphabet. And the CRAZY part is the side effects from these drugs are worse than the supposed need for it. What have we come to as a nation? Drug companies are making hugh profits (even after they pay out enormous legal bills defending drugs that go awry)so what does that tell you? We have gotten away from simple eating. You know eating when we are hungry, eating fruits and vegetables and foods that come naturally instead from a box. We don't walk anywhere anymore, we drive even if it's six feet (OK that's really exaggerating)but you know what I mean. We are getting away from the natural order of things or an "organic" way of life and we are a nation who's getting sicker while drug companies are flourishing . Ask yourself ....why is that? We are in desperate need of a paradigm shift in this country and we collectively need to begin that process TODAY!
till the next time...C Ya -L