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Common Sense Health Part #1: Little bit of history about my journey to health and energy . . .
It’s been 31 years ago now that I made the decision to completely change my diet, habits and thinking. You see, when it came to health and food, until the age of 28, I was just like most people . . .
Born into a European family (my parents and I came from Prague, Czech republic), their idea of a healthy diet was a few pickled cucumbers and cabbage on a plate filled with roast pork, dumplings and blood sausages.
All I remember from my
childhood, was countless visits
to hospitals and doctors. I had appendicitis, bronchitis, was always coughing and had stomach pains. I remember one year I missed 3 whole months of school because of one type of illness or another illness back in my home country.
Our doctor even recommended that my parents take me to a warmer climate, because of my breathing difficulties, bronchitis and asthma like symptoms and my on-going sinus problems. I remember getting lots of injections dues to some testicular problems, vaccinations and appendix and sinus operations. I learnt to HATE needles, as most kids instinctively do.
I even remember, being placed NAKED on a pedestal while a doctor used me as a case study to a bunch of medical students. L
Basically, my family and I were like everyone else around us. Eating lots of meat for ‘protein’ with potatoes, sausages, salami and cheese thrown in for good measure. We believed that drinking milk would give us strong bones, and I took headache tablets for my migraines, cough syrup for my constant cough, Sudafed tablets for my blocked and painful sinuses and antibiotics and all types of other pills every-time I was sick with one thing or another.
With my late mother who passed away from cancer and my late father from heart problems and brain haemorrhage due to blood thinning tablets he was taking for his heart problems
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