Rigamaroll

Health care is pretty much defined as the way in which we do things.
It's become complicated, messy and highly systematic, and a byproduct of the system is in some ways poorer overall health.
By overall health, I'm talking about the health of us all.
Of course there's still great care out there and many phenomenal minds and caregivers. We're fortunate for that. But it still mainly remains how I defined it above.

Take bread for example. Simple, right? It is eaten around the world and in some places is the only or primary food - even with nothing on it :)
Well, something as simple as bread and what makes up a piece of bread has become a metaphor for our health.
Our ears get polluted with this talk of "whole-grains" and how to choose what kind of bread to eat.
Bread was never crappy, but then it became crappy primarily because of economics and moves to please everybody. Look at how many loaves of bread there are in a market sometime.
In some ways, that's not right.
And it some ways, that simple visual has made humans crazy.

A whole grain means the bread is made with the grain close to as it was harvested. This is pretty much a good thing. It comes from the earth and gets to your mouth without much processing. A half or a grain or even no grain (white bread!!) means that it's not whole. And since it's not whole, it is not going to make those who choose to consume it very whole. We all want to be whole to a degree right? And if you are wondering, there is a definite physiological difference in eating a whole grain vs. a fraction of a grain. It might take eating just breads for a week to determine, but that is far better than not eating at all.
This wasn't meant to be this long. Maybe disregard the first paragraphs.
I guess one moral is we are what we eat. Or maybe it's more that we even become what we eat?

Choose wisely.