BLOGGING + HEALTHY CELL MASCOT
2025-12-23
HOW HEALTHY CELL BECAME THE SYMBOL OF GOTOHEALTH
HEALTHY CELL = HEAL THY SELF = GO TO HEALTH
One day I was at a nutrition conference at the SeaTac Red Lion around 1978. As I was taking notes I realized that "Healthy Cell" was composed of Heal Thy Cell and Sam created a mascot for our Heal -thy -self newletters. Note: Sam and I never missed a bi-monthly newsletter for our business from December 1976 until he passed in December 2017. That was 41 years times 6 issues each year, which equals 246 issues on nutrition and self-help to a good life without medication. I'm still on no medications at almost 87.
Secondly, I was remembering HORTON HEARS A WHO by Dr. Seuss and how the elephant found a whole civilization on flower petal it was observing. Similarly, our body cells are a replica of the world around us that build, govern, police our existence in Seattle or wherever one lives. Therefore, I - myself governs my existence and humans, all must learn to HEAL-THY-SELF with healthier food choices!
Sam had talked me, with my nursing degrees, into starting a Nutrition and Counseling home business using Shaklee products as the way to fiscally help with our family finances. I still maintain the business today.
Subsequently, around 1980, I created a presentation in which various vitamins, minerals, carbs, fats and proteins have their jobs, similar to real life careers. In subsequent blogs I will write about how the nutrients are identified and are the workers and building materials for all the cells that renew themselves; some daily like the lining of our stomach and some take 7 years to replace, like our bones.
In our Japanese heritage values, most mastery of arts and culture are thought to take 10 years to become a master. Malcolm Gladwell writes in OUTLIERS about skill mastery taking 10,000 repetitions for skill building. If one practices the piano, that would be 20 hours a week for 50 weeks and 10 years.
Periodically, Healthy Cell will feature some of the parallels of nutrients such as Vitamin A which act like the security and police force in our body. Interesting to find and learn about all these similarities to how humans govern society.