@minismallholding, I hear you on this. I've got a lot of relatives that hold that same reasoning to do as they please without thought of the consequences to them or anyone/thing else. They'll get a warning about diabetes, change their habits until they feel better, then go back to the old patterns and end up on insulin when the whole thing was preventable. I am struggling to no end with this right now with my parents, and it has been a heartbreaking week.

> By choosing to live healthy, what we do get is a higher quality of life for as long as we're here in these bodies.

@kennyskitchen, I agree. This is precisely what I try to teach by example in our lives. Our whole lifestyle is built on the premise of food as medicine. We grow a lot of our food so that we can control how it is grown while also minimizing our overall footprint and dependence on systems that I don't trust and terrifying corporations. We don't know what the future holds but I'd rather embrace this life healthily and thoughtfully than play at this crazy game of not knowing what I am putting into my body.