“As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.”

-- Adelle Davis

A friend said recently, “I have had to give top priority to caring for myself.” This comes from a woman who is the mother of 5 children between the ages of 11 and 5, the two youngest being twins. Not surprisingly, she was utterly exhausted. What was surprising was that she was wise enough to put caring for her own health at the top of her ‘to-do’ list.

In my experience, women so rarely place their own needs first, even when they have been stretched to the limit and beyond. For so many of us, the housework and community ‘commitments’ need to be addressed, no matter what. But consider the cost!

“The majority of the diseases which the human family have been and still are suffering under, they have created by ignorance of their own organic health, and work perseveringly to tear themselves to pieces, and when broken down and debilitated in body and mind, send for the doctor and drug themselves to death.”