07/29/2025
"In order to teach our children to choose health, we must model wellness and take charge of our own health. Wellness is not just having an absence of symptoms. It's asking yourself how you can attain outstanding health. It's making exercise and stress reduction and daily part of your lifestyle, choosing healthy foods and modeling this behavior for your children.
In the book, Loving Your Disease, it says "Predispositions to disease are often not passed on in a physical sense but rather through the messages parents give their offspring and the living habits and diets they pass down."
Talk to your children about how strong their bodies are the extraordinary things they can do. Show them how their bodies can miraculously heal a cut, how their heart works, and how they can get strong through exercise and health food, how their immune system fights off germs, and how getting enough sleep makes them feel better throughout the day. All these things can be taught in fun and imaginative ways."
- Jane Sheppard
