Applied Kinesiology, or AK, is a diagnostic system using muscle testing to supplement other examination procedures founded and developed by Dr. George Goodheart, Jr., D.C. The origin of contemporary applied kinesiology is traced to 1964 when George G. Goodheart, Jr., D.C., first observed that in a condition of functional health, distortion of posture is often associated with muscles that cannot be demonstrated to be a strong as they should be. He observed that he could frequently feel tender lumps at the ends of the tested muscle. Massage of these areas of apparent muscle dysfunction improved both postural balance and changed the results of muscle testing, namely by restoring strength.

Next in importance to the way your prioritize your life is the fuel you present to your body to generate the energy you need to go forward. There was once a time when people were more closely connected to the land and the opportunity to have an unhealthy diet was difficult to locate. You either grew your own or you went to what we would now call organic groceries or farmers' markets. Now that industrialization, capitalism, urbanization, and specialization have been thoroughly integrated, fewer people are connected the farm and more are connected to the pharmacy.

Rather than tell you what a healthy diet looks like (because this is different for each person), let me lay down some principles which will guide you to a healthy diet. Redirecting your life nutritionally means staying away from processed foods. It means finding a source of real food, food which has been grown the way food was once grown, without pesticides, artificial fertilizers, which has not been sprayed with weed killers and which has been grown from rich soil which has been cared for properly.

That spells out o-r-g-a-n-i-c g-r-o-c-e-r-y. Find one and resolve to spend the money required for real food. Maybe you have to drive 50 miles to get there. Drive it. You may have to spend 50% more for real food. Spend it. Your money is better spent on health now than illness later. You may also find that if you eat organically grown food that you eat less, spend less, and effortlessly lose those pounds you have been trying to lose.