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Aaron Watson: Promoting Health In The Black
Community
Aaron Watson is a brother who literally
rolls in the dough, or rolls dough.
The 32 year old certified nutritionist, and founder of TWIO Bread company,
says the name represents The Wait is Over, to suggest that we ought to be
tired of waiting to get back to our nutritional rights. He says he is an
advocate for health, not necessarily to gain profit or get any type of
accolades, just to see an overall change in Black people and get back to
living the life we use to live.
Watson says he got interest in learning more about health issues through his
family. “When you see health problems in your family that are basically the
same, but everyone has different life styles, you try to find out what do
they do that is similar. In my family the case was they ate about the same,
so I decided to investigate foods and what they do and how they affect the
body, not just short range, but long range and how they can shorten your
life.”
According to Watson, a major health issue most Black folk face is the
ideology that we think we can fix one piece of our body. He says that no
organ is set up to go bad before any other organ. “We are not suppose to
lose the use of our kidneys before our lungs, our heart before our liver, so
I think the ideology that we can get a quick fix and just lose weight, and
that translates to health, is a big misconception and I think it’s used by
people who are trying to make money in the industry and hide it behind
trying to help their people”. Watson says it is important to put what you do
in order, saying, we are trained that breakfast is the most important meal
of the day. He agrees but indicates that breakfast, or breaking a fast,
whenever you do it, which may not be in the morning, remains the most
important meal of day and says we must learn to digest food in order. He
uses the suggestion that if a fruit digest in 15 minutes and meat and
potatoes digest in 2 hours, there is no need to eat the meat and potatoes
first and allow the fruit to sit on top of that for two hours and digest
over 30 times. “There are simple changes we can make eating the same foods
that we eat now, things that Black folks can do daily to get on the right
track. When we break our fast after a long night sleep, we need to eat fruit
in the morning. The body is like a car and it has to warm up to get going.
Beginning the day with fruit and ending the night with fruit, helps with
waste elimination, which is the start of many diseases. A good eating
regiment is important because food needs to past through the body within 24
hours, after which food becomes toxin”.As a business- man, Watson says he
found a way to recreate what is good for us and developed his bread company
initially through word of mouth. He had been baking bread for himself for
years, and during a gathering of friends, he served it. People began to ask
him to bake bread for them, and in turn they would take it work, where
others would request it. For a while Watson worked full time during the day
and in the evenings he would bake bread. Eventually, the request became so
constant, that he opened up his own company and ran it full time. As a
nutritionist, Watson provides overall nutrition services, including
providing a psychological evaluation first, and stresses that people must
understand that to be healthy, often requires a life change, and not a quick
fix. He also considers ones way of life and puts together a meal plan
accordingly. Watson says he promotes and endorses health, and warns others
against allowing a doctor, nutritionist of any medical person, after 15
minutes of examination, to be able to tell you more about your own body than
you know.
Watson says he is looking forward to using his bread company as a
fundraising source for organizations. He is planning to open an office in
the Lancaster-Kiest Shopping Mall in suite 320 at The Act of Change, Inc.,
so people in the community will be able to come and see him. His
consultations will be free because he feels everyone needs to know what
direction they want to go in.
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