Happy New Year and the top of the day to you

In my last message I attached a letter I said I would give you $100.00 Gift Certificate if you read it and sent me your critique on it. My list serve had a slight technical problem and it never got to you. I received over 400 messages from folks who wanted it. Well I'm attaching it again as my list serve told me they repaired the problem. Let me know if it comes through!

To jump start your year and to help you with any New Year's Resolutions, I thought I would encourage you to put on a 3” x 5” index card the #1 Commandment of Being Healthy = “THOU SHALT NOT POISON THYSELF!”

I would first of all like to say that I don't treat disease. Disease is the body's resistance against a cause or series of causes. My greatest lesson when it comes to being healthy is actually in 3 parts:

1) We never catch disease; we earn it as it stems from crud in the blood from being drunk with junk! I know that sounds like the antithesis of our educational system. But it has saved my life more than once.

2) We are all healthy automatically by design and sick only by default. Everything the body does is for the sake of survival or self-preservation. If you cut yourself, whether we like it or not, innately the wound starts to heal. Sometimes it takes longer to heal depending on the amount of poison we have in our body that the body has to deal with on a normal basis.

I would encourage you to go to my website and read all the free 1-page articles. Click on free stuff and go to the article section and read about the 9 things that will keep you healthy all the time. Then click on either “The Complete Wellness System” and/or “The Perfect Diet Program” along with multitude of TESTIMONIALS for your mental perusal!

3) We only get well by what comes out of us, never by what goes into us. This one is a real biggie. In so many words, beat it, don't treat it or you'll cheat it! The only way I could help you or your loved one is to lay out the foundation for being healthy with a strong emphasis on sensible eating & fitness.

Does it ever seem peculiar to you that dog and cat food commercials stress the nutritional qualities of the foods, mentioning that optional nutrition gives your pet the best chance of growing well and living healthfully? Why, do you ask, are children's foods marketed for their colors, shapes, exciting qualities and deliciousness, but not the nutrient quality? Adult foods are promoted for their speed of delivery, their zest, zing and sizzle, but rarely for their health building qualities. Why are these food commercials invariably followed by commercials for antacids? Did you ever wonder about this? Something to think about. (Thanks to Dr. Douglas Graham for that thought!)

Our bodies are not garbage dumps with hairy lids. We are marvels of design and are never made to be sick at any age, no matter what anyone else says. Old age doesn't cause sickness. If that was the case, then everyone who was old would be sick and we know that just isn't the case. (This is the reason for my creating “The Perfect Diet Program”)

Throughout the coming year, I will endeavor to keep you motivated long enough for you to return to health once again if you have any health challenge. I only wish I had known this kind of information when I was so sick that life was always a problem to be solved rather than a joy to be lived.

In all my years in this life changing business of health, I have never found one shred of evidence in all the motivational books, The Bible, or any of the other self-help books to support the notion that we are in this world to be either sick, fat, miserable or broke. We are all here to have abundance in life and not created to be sick. I know that this information was a revelation to me and in turn I trust it will be for you!

We can't poison ourselves from the time we get up till we go to bed at night without having some kind of problem. And the longer we try to appease the condition and continue the same habits that got us sick in the first place, well we will ultimately find ourselves in a worse condition.

This is like any other Law of Nature much like the Laws of Gravity. We can't jump out of a 10-story building and expect to go Northeast. In summation, do healthy things and you are rewarded handsomely with glowing health. You're special and deserve it! I believe that with all my heart and soul. And sometimes somebody else has to believe in us until the belief in ourselves kicks in. I could talk to you for hours about your unique qualities and attributes!

Happy New Year to you.

Wayne “The Mango Man” Pickering

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