For those of us who need and want to regain health, be assured there's tough a job ahead, a challenge to our acquired tastes and habits.

If it was easy and if it could be purchased in a bottle, you and I would buy it, right?

Our lifestyle choices have led each one of us to where we are today. Look in the mirror, look at the scale, look at the measuring tape. That's the truly honest assessment of exactly where we are.

My generation, the 'baby boomers', have all been educated with the system-sanctioned food guides picturing three squares a day with breads and cereals, milk and cheese, meat and fish, and vegetables.

This is despite the fact that most of the people that live on this planet anywhere but North America don't follow these dietary guides. Perhaps haven't even heard of them. Just think of all those millions of people out there apparently living, perhaps even thriving, without the "proper" three squares as taught in all our schools!

Of course a young body in vibrant health loves to move, but we've been schooled into sitting still quietly for at least 6 hours a day. Now in maturity, we're told we should get our middle-aged, perhaps out of shape, perhaps overweight bodies moving. "Get off the couch, you look like a potato."

We did.