JF, new age is not Christian (just for those of you who are not aware).
I for example, shop at health food stores to avoid all the toxins and
addictive fattening additives that are placed in all of the foods in the
grocery store.   It is a healthy alternative.    Pharmacy drugs are also
nothing but toxic substances produced to cover symptoms and feed the fat
cats that manufacture them.   All you have to do to know that is listen
to any add on TV for any new drug and see the absolute absurdity of the
comments after the add that say "may cause vomiting, nausia, fainting
spells, seizures, and death".  They TELL people straight out how bad it
is but sheeple are so brain-washed into thinking that the AMA and the
FDA are there for our GOOD that they fail to see the obvious anymore.
It is ONLY about the money.   It is ALWAYS about money, not our health
or well being.
Now the NEW AGE folks like to associate themselves with anything that is
"different" so they are not ALL necessasrily going to alternative meds.
and health foods etc.. BECAUSE it is good for you, but because they want
to associate themselves with things that are not the norm in order to
set themselves aside as being individualistic.   "Hey look at me momy, I
can think on my own"!!!   And NOTICE me, I am different----type thing.
Most of the people I see that visit the health food stores are dressed
wierd with strange long hair-do's and stand out like sore thumbs.   The
physicians and professional people "sneak" there early on Sunday
mornings in hopes of not being seen (shame), so they don't have to
explain anything to their patients.
DON'T GET ME STARTED ON THAT SUBJECT I JUST GET ENRAGED.   The American
people are being flat-assed lied to at every turn when it comes to food
and medicine (other things as well) and it is the elite few with all the
MONEY that control the tiny little minds of the poor and the general
public through advertising and of course the way we were "brought up" to
beleive that only doctors can help us and to trust them always with our
lives.  How tradgic.    I am not saying here that Drs. have bad
intentions, but they themselves are UNEDUCATED when it comes to real
health---simple things like how NOT to get sick.   It is ALL about the
MONEY.   Now they are putting seroids in all of the eye ointments---what
an outrage and noone even KNOWS or reads the lables.    Today I went to
my CHRISTIAN Dr. and asked for some simple neomycin eye ointment and he
could NOT find any available except through veternarians.     People are
being poisoned and this country is physically ill because of it.   Lie
upon lie upon lie.   Even the food lables lie now and are allowed to do
so because of pay offs by lobbyists.   Money money money.    They can
now put anything they want in a can of food and call it SPICES. 

I give you ALL THIS ADVICE.   STOP buying food at the grocery store and
buy it health food stores or farmers markets or from farmers directly.
Also know that oganic food is often 100 times more nutritious than store
bought where they take out all the food value and replace it with TONS
of chemicals to get you addicted, make it taste better by adding
excitotoxins, and things to make you FAT.  Fat free is NOT fat free, it
is a LIE.   Diet soda is MORE fattening and toxic than regular soda
(which all sucks the iron out of your blood).
   THEN read the lables.    If the lable says even ONE of the following
do NOT buy it:

spices
MSG (monosodium glutamate)
sodium aluminum sulfate
high fructose corn syrup (addictive like cocaine and fattening)
sugar (same thing, suger taken from cane--has similar response in body
as cocaine and hightly addictive)
aspartame (poisonous)
partial hydrogenized oils of any kind  (clogged arteries)

Even the best prepared foods for long term storage such as from the
Provident Pantry,  Mountain House foods, your government foods,  all
have additives that are toxic in order to make it taste better and for
long term (30 years) preservation.  I just researched this a couple of
days ago.  
I am going to make my own stored food.

Hope this helps some of you, and trust me when I say, it is even WORSE
than what I have told you here.   Much worse.    Steph