Food doesn’t discriminate. It doesn’t care what color your skin is, who you love, how many zeros are in your bank account, or if your moral compass is slightly… wobbly. Food, real food—the nutrient-dense kind—doesn’t pick favorites. It’s for everyone.
Yet here we are, not eating food but lab-concocted chemicals disguised as meals. And we wonder why our health is spiraling. It’s easy to get distracted by everything happening around us and overlook the bigger picture of what’s actually affecting our health every day. Meanwhile, communities that stay closely tied to the land, like farmers and the Amish, have never really lost sight of it. They’ve continued to value real food and traditional ways of living that support the body instead of working against it.
Let’s face it: the government has a habit of sticking its nose where it doesn’t belong, and when it comes to our health, we’ve let them meddle way too much. They’re poisoning us with what’s allowed on our shelves and in our schools, while heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, and even Type 3 diabetes (yes, that’s real) are running rampant.
Every day, I work with people as a beauty professional, and let me tell you—skin is the window to what’s happening inside our bodies. What goes on the outside is a direct reflection of what’s happening in our gut. Even little old hairdresser me has connected the dots: our biggest health problems are stemming from the garbage we’re calling “food.”
So stop. Take a breath. Think. Do you want to die an early, miserable, chronically ill death just because convenience tastes good for five minutes? Harsh, maybe. But sometimes the truth is uncomfortable.
It’s time to stick it to the man. If we get healthy, we get out of the system. We get to live our lives with energy and joy—and we show the powers that be how we deserve to be treated. Like that old song goes, “We’re not gonna take it! No, we’re not gonna take it!”
Getting healthy is the ultimate act of rebellion. Healthy is the new punk rock- so let’s rage against the processed machine, one kale chip at a time.
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