Discernment and Your Health

November 3, 2010 admin 2 comments

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Hi,

What does discernment have to do with your health? How about everything.

So what exactly is descernment. It is keenness of insight and judgement. This means once you are given a piece of information you have the ability to have an insight about it and make a judgement.

The only thing I would add is a correct judgement. This is of course very subjective in some cases. And it is based upon past experiences that you have in your life.

A child hasn’t had a lot of experience in making decisions about things so they can’t discern the right or wrong of something.

But, as you get older this should be something that governs your life if you want to live life to the fullest.

So what does this have to do with your health?

Let’s use an example. You see an advertisement for a new way to lose weight. You can lose 20 pounds faster than you can imagine.

You buy the product and find out that all you have to do is blink your eyes 100 more times per day.

I would hope that you would discern that the statement is BS. You can even think of discernment as your BS meter.

Unfortunately, most people can not discern most of the marketing about weight loss, burning fat, exercise toys and programs and so on and so on. To the tune of billions of dollars a year.

Just look at the acai berry scam. This is a good one because a good lie or scam has an element of truth in it.

There is nothing wrong with the acai berry. It does have antioxidants – just like every other berry in the world.

The problem is that the marketing world has taken the acai berry and made it the latest miracle berry that can do everything.

It has been promised to burn fat – no scientific evidence.

It has been promised to help you digest better – no scientific evidence.

It has been promised to give you energy – no scientific evidence.

It has been promised… oh, well you get the idea.

All these marketing promises can make it hard to discern what is true and what is not.

And almost every new health and nutrition product has tons and tons of miracle promises.

It is up to you to register it somewhere on your BS meter.

Now you might think that the government is supposed to do that for you. I could go on and on about personal responsibility and not giving that up to the government, but I’ll just leave you to think about that.

Just know that no government can police every single product and every single advertisement in the country.

So it comes back to you.

You have probably eaten berries before. Did any of them cause you to drop 20 pounds of fat overnight?

It is up to you to discern that the statement about burning fat is not true. Or at the least do some more research to find out for yourself if the statements in the marketing ads are true or not.

We’ll pick this up in the next post.

Thanks,

Mike Val