Growing Up Fast
I was born a city kid. Living in a metropolis, I was exposed to the countless airborne pollutants that encapsulate large cities throughout the world. My overall diet was comprised of what I call convenience foods, such as cereal. At age of 10, I became dreadfully ill and my fun filled, young life turned to chronic suffering.
Within one year, my strength, speed and agility all vanished. My skin turned a pasty white and became incredibly dry. My weight declined and bottomed out at 69 lbs. I experienced chronic inflammation throughout my body. My spirituality, kindness and outlook on life turned to hopelessness and confusion. At the age of ten, I didn’t understand what was happening to me!
The Medical Profession
In hopes to end my pain, my mother desperately sought the advice of the medical profession. The doctors I saw convinced me that, my body was being invaded by an outside entity and that I was destined to live an incurable life of suffering. The doctors gave rise to the “enemy,” calling it by name, and before long, stamped me with the label of incurable disease. When I received the terrible news, I started to cry in the doctor’s office, but even at the tender age of eleven I was a soldier. I was on board with doctors’ recommendations (general’s orders) and ready for war. The war lasted for years.
After poisonous treatments, medications, and therapies throughout my adolescence; the medical profession left me for dead nearly stripping me of any hope for a healthy future.
Natural Health Care
Weighing a little over 110 pounds, I was appallingly thin and literally couldn’t gain weight to save my life. After personally experiencing the Medical Profession in their full glory, my body began to degenerate at and accelerated rate. Desperately, I explored alternative therapies. Most alternative health providers gave me high hopes of a full recovery, and told me stories of successes with their other patients, but none of their recommendations seemed to work for me long term.
The Paradigm of Modern Health Care
At that point I was so sick; I forced myself to look behind the curtain of modern health care. Painfully, I saw the countless magic bullet remedies that are sold to the people as modern science. I emotionally accepted that magic bullets were a means to an end and stopped looking for them. This freed up plenty of time to reflect.
Looking in the Mirror
Moving toward self-care, I gave up on the reactive lifestyle that modern caters to. Reading books, attending lectures, experience and as very good fortune would have it, meeting some health literate people brought me to the understandings that eating is a means for survival and that health itself is a lifestyle.
Reflecting on this paradigm I had to face the truth. Up until that point, I had never eaten for survival, not even once. I used food as a means for gratification, and rarely, if ever considered its purpose.
At that point I had suffered plenty and felt somewhat of a spark in my life,...my soul starting to bubble! I unconditionally believed in food and for the first time in my life, felt direction and a sense of true purpose.
A Bi-Product of Passion
Living out of a vehicle, my travels for health and raw dairy products took me around the country to countless farms. Some of the foods I required to heal were non-existent. Since I didn’t have the financial means to purchase land and animals, I decided to lobby actual farmers to create the food for my healing. I ended up settling back in Chicago and reconnected with my favorite farms in Wisconsin. I frequently took trips to Wisconsin to replenish my unprocessed dairy supply. Before long, health minded folk were requesting that I bring back raw dairy products for them as well... and so Belle's Lunchbox was born!
I wish you the motivation, the strength, the courage, the determination, the will, the passion and the purpose to choose health, everyday, for the rest of your life!
Eat for Survival
Max Kane, Founder