Barefoot running

Never have I wanted to run so much in my life.  Learning more about barefoot running and the benefits of something as simple as Vibram Fivefinger shoes http://www.vibramfivefingers.com/index.htm, out for my walk last night my daughter and I were running around back and forth chasing each other, and with the known pains that come from barefoot running, I have no other pains.  I figured my knees would be screaming at me by now and they are not, my hip is a little sore, but hey arthritis is rather unforgiving.
I highly doubt I am gonna be signing up for any distance running in the future, but it's sure nice to know I can run across the road if I had to.  Staying active and eating healthy foods has become nothing short of an obsession for me.  Physically my body is returning to a healthier shape, mentally I am focused, happy and motivated. I can only imagine the benefits over time, if our regular diets affect our lives that drastically, why I ask do we continue to let corporations whose only concern is the bottom-line profit margin and not producing a quality healthy food, control our food supply.  Normally I wouldn't consider pushing what I consider New age practices, but thankfully its old age practices, gardening, farmers markets, and the like offer healthier alternatives for veggies and such than we are used to getting at these SUPER markets.  Granted I am still stuck having to get most of my food from Smith's, walmart and wherever else food is sold in town, but I know now that the closer the food is to how its found in nature usually means it is better for you. I am still looking for the French fry tree, and the nuggets on a chicken...
Our lives are dictated by corporations and personally, I am done with allowing these multi-million dollar companies to systematically destroy the quality of my life, and killing me in the process.  With diabetes, obesity, heart disease, and a plethora of other maladies killing Americans I have to agree our "Food Pyramid"  is not the healthy way to eat and live.  our hunter/gatherer ancestors spent hundreds of thousands of years adapting and developing our inherited genetics for this type of eating in particular, why not accept that processed foods are not healthy and begin eating better. we'll feel better, live longer and be healthier. too easy.
I am heading out of town, time to bring my visit with my daughter to a close.