You see somewhere along the way we began to define being healthy as what we didn t have. We go for checkups 40 lbs overweight, unable to touch our knees, fatigued and stressed, and we re told that we re healthy if the tests don't show any problems. But we know this isn t health. The first thing we need to do is to increase our standards of what health is. We need to demand more than just not having a diagnosable illness. When all the different chemicals and additives for our foods are tested for safety, all the focus is on making sure that they aren't harmful. But what if we flip that and judge them by asking if they're helping us. We've gotten so used to focusing on how to deal with the symptoms that we've forgotten to notice the causes. Our life spans are increasing but the very foundations of true health have been ignored. We have learned to feel better about ourselves by lowering the bar by which we measure our health, but that is about to chan...