Every now and then, we overeat. As a result we have that bloated, uncomfortable feeling of being too full. What to do?

The most natural way to work with the results of too much food is to walk. Walk for several blocks, or a couple of km if you live in the country. Walk outdoors if at all possible. Walk in your local mall if that is what makes a walk happen. But do walk.

You will find very soon all the symptoms shifting as your body does what it needs to do, digest the large meal, but does so in much more ease. The muscle action and motion of your walk increases the blood flow and oxygen to parts of your body most in need. That blood flow and oxygen mean the whole process of digestion will occur more easily.

Many people believe a vegetarian diet to be the best. When we think about it, it's true that cows and lamb, the most common sources of red meat, take up much needed farm land. It is also true our habits in raising these stock animals, including antibiotics in their daily diet, force feeding them in some cases and in the case of veal leaving new born calves in small confined cages so they are unable to walk or develop muscle, are unhealthy and in some cases cruel to the animal.

These are some of the ideas behind becoming a vegetarian. But what about those people who desire and in fact need red meat in their diet?

Everyday we read more and more about food, its power in our lives, our need to focus on food as a source of nutrition, health, vitality and pleasure. Yet the sources of our food are fast being gobbled up by the agri-business sector: we have more money and fancier packaging with less and less nutritional value.

The old system of growing food you ate on your own piece of land worked in some ways to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. This had to do with ownership: the peasants who worked the land were compelled to give more and more of their hard-won harvest back to the aristocracy.

We have the same system now: we enter the supermarket, search for good products and have no idea whether buying produce from Argentina or Mexico is a good idea for us, for the Argentinians or for the future of our food production. One thing we can know is our purchases in large grocery stores do support agri-business. This means large profits for those at the top of the heap (the former aristocracy), a living wage for those who work directly for these agri-business, from the workers who wield the huge machines in the fields to the people who make those machines, and no checks and balances on whether the motivation of the corporate heads is in line with what the people who eventually buy their product want.

How do you know which of the many food and health items in the store are good for you? A simple test helps you determine this important information.

We are extremely fortunate to live in the culture of abundance we share.

From health food to pets’ needs, from lawn furniture to golf equipment everything our minds can imagine is available to us daily. The theme of abundance, even excess continues through into health foods, health aids, and healthy practices. The obvious positive side of our extremely rich experience of life comes with a practical problem: how do you decide what is right for you?