Healthy choices, feel better now! We are what we eat. I always say that we must stamp out wallowing; gone with the old ways and start changing your life. Why look for a new pill or surgical intervention when we hold the power to feeling better in our own hands. There is a beautiful allegory which speaks to this point; a learned sage asks his students, " I have in my hand a bird, is it alive or dead?" A stellar student realizing that if he answered the bird is alive, the life of the bird could so easily be crushed in the man's hand, alternatively, if he responded that the bird is dead, the man could so easily open his hand and the bird would fly away free. Almost at the point of conceding, it dawned on him. Boldly he made a statement. "Whatever you want the bird to be that's what it will be." This is the allegory of life. We can choose our own path. The difference between success and failure is a very narrow line. The simple choices that we make in our lives each day—what we eat, how we respond to stress, if we smoke, how much we exercise and the quality of our relationships—can make such a powerful difference in our health, our well-being, and our lives.