This week’s BQOTW comes with a video.  Technically, a documentary.

For some time now I’ve been toying with the notion that if I wanted my yoga practice to skyrocket and expand, it might behoove me to lose “the gut”.  Some of this belly I’m referring to is composed of a fibroid cyst which initially was the size of a grapefruit.  A few years later it became the shape of two plums, and two years ago it metamorphisized (hey, it’s a word now…) to the size of a melon.  Any more snarky citrus references from my doctor and I was going to hit him over his bald pate with a fruit basket goddammit!

Along with my need to further my practice, my new 9to5 gig has been a helluva an eye opener on the comings and goings of modern unhealthy office life.  Fill the place with counselors who eat/bake their feelings as well as the holidays looming above us like an ominous mushroom cloud,  and you might as well be sitting on a barrel of unstable TNT while holding a lit match.

“Simply Raw” is a profound glimpse in what the future of our relationship with food should look like.  Ironically, it’s a reclaiming of the way man/woman used to eat and a subsequent return to a natural healthy balance. Healing ourselves from within is not a best kept secret, and it’s nothing new. We’ve just conveniently forgotten, and  illnesses such as diabetes are our greatest reminders.  We should thank them for the “head’s up” and send them on their merry way by keeping it simple and keeping it raw.

Look, if you’ve got a better idea, take me to task and show me a the alternative. But in the meantime shut up and eat your veggies kid!