Naturalistic Simplicity

Naturalistic Simplicity simply put is being nature and being simple.  It all started with me being concerned about my health at the age of 27.  I was out of shape, pushing 200 lbs and just felt burnt out too often too fast.  I decided I would lose some weight.  In that process, I changed my eating habits and lost 30 lbs.  Great?  Not really.  I did not exercise on a consistent basis so all the weight loss included fat and muscle.  I felt lighter on my feet but my energy level was sub-par.

I researched further ideas about energy levels.  Basically the keypoints I found out was I didn't eat enough good foods to maintain water in cells, I was not breathing in clean air, and my muscles and bones were not strong enough because I did not used them enough.  My friend recommended I watch food inc on netflix.  Instantly, I changed my views on the foods I was eating.  I did not want to eat as much beef that was not organicly raised through grass feeding because beef is not suppose to be fed corn or injected with hormones to make them grow really fast.  I did not want to eat filthy chicken in a cage with thousands of other chickens being forcefed corn to grow 3x as fast.  I learned what were the best fruits and vegetables to get the minerals and vitamins necessary to sustain water in cells for it to be efficiency.  I learned about walking barefoot and how that affects others parts of your body.  I bought an air purifier so I can breathe in my dirty room.

After a year of thoughts Simple and Natural is the way to go.  The problem with the world now days is everyone is geared towards getting more and doing more.  In the capitalist society our focuses shows in the celebrities and sports stars.  We spend so much time looking at fame and fortune we forgot about the world.  We spend our time spending money on football games, sports gear, movie tickets, makeup that we did not care where it came from.  Carbon emissions is killing us.  Materialism is killing us.  Lets all get the next Iphone right.  Whats the point?  The more we get the more we want.  Where does it end?  Simple is good.  Natural is good.  To me that's what matters to my health and that's what matters to the earth's health. 

Don't get me wrong.  I'm working towards this goal.   I'm not a vegan and I love to eat meat.  But the meat I do eat I try to be more conscious about.  Today, I ate a local grass fed beef burger at Umeke Market, a burrito at Down to Earth, then two burgers from Jack in the Box.   I do go out and spend more then the minimum in food purchases.  I do spend money to buy tennis accessories and pool equipment.  I am still materialistic but I try to purchase things I can use to promote what I love to do as well as better my health for the world and I.