Believe it or not, April Fools Day is a very old holiday.

The quote above, written in 1796, confirms that this holiday, observance, or perhaps tradition, stems from ancient times.

In fact, the history of April Fools Day is quite interesting.

Should you want to, you can read all about the origin and history of April Fools Day here: Origin of April Fool's Day, Huffington Post.

For our purposes in this weeks Wholly Macro article, we of course want to tie April Fools Day into current day health and behavior!

To this end, Wholly Macro has identified a few fun categories delineating the different kinds of April fools that abound.

And the categories are:

In actuality, we would have to say that the three categories of foolishness listed above have some serious overlap issues! For haven't we all possessed a combination of all of the above categories of foolishness at various different times in our lives?

Still, no matter whom you try to fool, and no matter what type of fa�ade you present to the outer world, in the end, it always come back to the same thing: You are really only fooling yourself.

And please take it from us: Fooling yourself is a very lonely place to be.

In our line of business here at Wholly Macro, we deal with a lot of cheating issues. Food cheating. Lifestyle cheating. Behavioral cheating. 

We see those who fool others by purporting to eat healthy, exercise, and otherwise take proper care of themselves, but their outward appearance and behavior screams otherwise! 

Are they really fooling others, or just themselves? Or both?

Oriental visual diagnosis comes in very handy in these instances, because you can clearly see "issues" even as the person in question denies them.

Which overlaps nicely into the second category, those that fools themselves. This is also known as denial!

We all like to use denial, don't we? We may have a very selective memory when it comes to accurately remembering if that late night chocolate binge really happened, and to what extent it happened, or if we really spent said amount of time exercising this past week.

But at least those of us who try to do right by ourselves and our bodies are on the right track, even if we sometimes lapse into putting on pretenses to others (or ourselves). And we are miles above and beyond those who are not even aware, or simply just deny the fact that there is an entire world "out there" that is full of better ways to eat and live. A world that promotes health and well- being, not sickness and disease. 

That very unawareness and / or self - denial, to us, is the epitome of the third category: Just plain foolishness!

There are also those who skirt around the simplicity of it all by following short term fad diets or exercise programs, and other foolish extremism / avoidance behavior, when all that they really need to do is adopt a practical, sensible, balanced, back to basics approach to living a happy and healthy natural lifestyle.

Is it foolishness or is it laziness that prevents people from waking up, opening their eyes, and seeing and accepting the truth?

The truth, that every single thing that you put on, in, and around your body matters.

You can try to fool others, and you can even try to fool yourself, but you just cannot fool your body.

Your body feels.

It reacts.

Symptoms occur.

Issues arise.

Your wise body knows.

It always knows.

It's innate, intuitive, universally connected wisdom shines through, above and beyond all of the foolishness.

Treat yourself with respect. Treat those around you with respect. Treat the planet and all living beings with respect. Because it all circles back to each and every one of us in the end.

The wise soul, not the April fool, will give themselves a big pat on the back, and commend themselves for utilizing Wholly Macro's various healthy services, services which have been carefully designed to outsmart whatever kind of April fool you are! 

May health, happiness, and prosperity be your unavoidable natural state and your ongoing daily experience.

Gayle and Jaime / Wholly Macro