These days we have so many folk needing medical care that the hospitals can find it difficult to cope, especially when there is a winter crisis such as a massive flu outbreak or worse, another corona virus. Being in the best form of fitness by looking out for ourselves is by far the most positive way forward. Keeping to a truly healthy diet is one way. It is so easy to race towards that inviting bakery counter at the local supermarket – they are so often at the front of the store just near where the trolleys and hand baskets are collected from. There is one such store very near every housing development in this area for sure. It is horrifying to be in the store at school turfing out time. The number of parents who wander in with a gaggle of kiddies, straight to the bakery counter is quite worrying. It is only beaten by the number of seniors who race out of the starting blocks in the disabled bays of the car park from about 8am on Monday morning. it is not a good idea to be between the car park and the bakery counter at that time.
It would be heartening to see the same excitement at the fruit and veg aisles, but that only happens when the store in mind offers a pretty decent 25% discounted offer. One of my favourite stores in my local town is the old fashioned greengrocer’s shop down the end of the high street. It is wonderful – so many locally grown and supplied products that the big supermarket never carry at all. They obviously cannot. The aroma when entering that store is wonderful – a heady mix of potatoes and carrots mixed with apples, oh and the onions. When it’s beetroot season, then they have freshly boiled ones for sale. That reminds me of a family connection who ran a busy green grocery store – they were in a very cosmopolitan part of the town and were often asked for things that today would seem very normal and quite ok. Having access to such wonderful produce is quite the reason why some folk are more well than others and why they maintain a much better body index, which in time leads to healthier heart and lungs. So many things are absolutely geared to our diet and lifestyle.