Welcome to Rebecca's Healthy Bytes!

Every day we make choices that impact our health. Many of the choices we make are so much a part of our lives and our habits that we don’t even realize that we’ve made a choice. The vast majority of Americans suffer from one chronic illness or another – obesity, heart disease, diabetes, autoimmune disorders, learning disorders, ear infections, asthma, allergies and the list goes on. These conditions are so common that sometimes they are viewed as just a minor inconvenience, once we learn how to manage them so that they make the least impact on our lifestyle that is.

Unfortunately, when we look no further than the management of these conditions we are not doing ourselves any favors. “Management” often entails the use of pharmaceuticals that carry their own long-term effects, so often one chronic condition will lead to another and it becomes a vicious cycle that is very hard, if not impossible, to break. Hippocrates said: “Disease does not occur unexpectedly. It is the result of constant violation of Nature’s laws. Spreading and accumulation of such violations transpire suddenly in the form of a disease – but it only seems that sudden.” In other words, the accumulation of toxic insults results in disease. Perhaps if we made choices that are in accordance with “Nature’s law”, we might begin to see a decrease in the incidence of chronic diseases. Perhaps it is possible to reverse or partially reverse some of these conditions through our daily lifestyle choices. This blog will explore some of those daily lifestyle choices and serve as a guide to those who would like to make changes to improve their quality of life. Let's make our lives and our planet healthier - one choice at at time!