HEALTH TIPS
Taking care of God's temple - Your body.
SOME VERY BASIC GUIDELINES:
Note: Many things claim to be "all natural" and are not.
So make sure to do your homework.
"The human body consists of billions of microscopic living cells, composed
of perfectly, balanced quantities of water and organic substances. If you have
eaten the standard North American Diet for years, without serious harm to your
health, it is due to your body's outstanding resistance. Yet genetic weaknesses
may be hidden by youth. The cumulative effect of toxins will increase the risk of
becoming a host to disease or premature death. Unfortunately, resistance to
disease diminishes as the abuse continues. Disease is like heating a pot of water.
When the water becomes too hot, it quickly boils over. The biochemistry of the
body will absorb toxins only to a point. There is a boiling point—illness!"
"We live like no other generation before us. A giant
experiment of toxic ingestion.
In this game, the stakes are high, it can cost your life. We may consider our way
of eating as normal, but the modern diet is about as normal as a test tube of
chemicals. The body’s chemistry is recreated by ingesting countless food additives
and
environmental contaminants."
- Excerpt from article: Preservatives and Additives
PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR BODY
- Foods that don't agree with you can cause a variety of symptoms.
Anything from nervousness, irritability, spacy-ness, anxiety,
indigestion, bloating, gas, nausea, etc.
- What goes on in your gut has a direct impact on your mental health.
Your entire body is one unit. If one part is affected, all parts are
affected to some degree.
AVOIDING CHEMICALS
- As a general rule. Avoid anything with chemicals, as much as possible.
Chemicals accumulate in your body and cause all sorts of damage.
Chemicals in food, perfumes, dyes, cosmetics, drinks, etc.
Preservatives and Additives - A must read primer!
YOUR SKIN
- Your skin is an organ. It has pores and it absorbs whatever you put on it.
Whatever is in the ingredients, is going into you. Be careful.
COSMETICS
- Your body absorbs whatever you put on it, chemicals and all.
- Try to use only natural stuff, stuff that wouldn't harm you if you ate it.
- Sunscreen- Use only a natural sunscreen. Commercial sunscreens contain tons of chemicals.
- Aubrey has a great line of good shampoos and cosmetics.
DEODORANT
- Use plain old Baking Soda. It works great.
If you don't like that, find an all natural
deodorant.
- Don't use anti-persperants. They clog your pores and cause problems.
COLOGNE and PERFUME
- Find some essential oils you like.
All commercial colognes and perfumes are loaded with synthetic chemicals,
which get absorbed into your body.
TOOTHPASTE and dental
- Use only an all natural toothpaste, without fluoride.
- You won't find a natural toothpaste in your local commercial grocery store.
Try a natural food store. See "Links" at the bottom of this article to find a store near you.
- Brush and floss daily. Save yourself time, money, and pain. It only takes a few minutes.
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SOAP
- Avoid soap with chemicals and perfumes.
- Do not use anti-bacterial soap. It kills the good bacteria
on your hands, which help to protect you.
SHAMPOO
- Use only all natural. Aubrey has a great line of good shampoos and cosmetics.
LAUNDRY
- Avoid perfumes.
- Don't use dryer sheets. These are full of synthetic chemicals that get into your clothes
and into you through your skin.
FOOD - Eating tips.
- Always, always, pray over your food and give thanks to GOD. If it weren't for Him,
you wouldn't be eating.
- You are what you eat.
- Read food labels.
Avoid food labels with long lists of chemical ingredients.
- Avoid refined, highly processed foods.
- Avoid fast food.
- Do not drink soda.
- Avoid sugar and *refined carbohydrates.
- Eat plenty of raw fruits and vegetables.
- Do not over eat.
- Relax and eat slowly. Letting the food mix with your saliva helps to break the food down
and helps you to absorb vital nutrients. It also improves digestion. Your body will thank you.
- Do not use Microwaves. They destroy nutrients in your food.
- Avoid eating too many canned foods.
- When you start eating better and begin to incorporate more raw vegetables into your diet,
the change may not agree with your body too well. This is because your body is chemically
used to your old ways of eating. Though after some time of eating better, you will change
your body chemistry and those raw foods will agree with you more. Always start off slow in
making big changes to your diet.
Note: The more you cook a food, the more you destroy it's valuable nutrients - enzymes, vitamins, minerals, etc.
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*Refined carbohydrates.
These spike your blood sugar. Cereals, muffins, cakes,
chips, granola bars, cookies, etc.
VITAMINS
I personally do not take vitamins. Here's why. There is nothing natural about them, nothing at all.
Isolating and cultivating specific vitamins and minerals into specified amounts according
to "man's" infinite wisdom, is not smart. God designed us to get our nutrients FROM FOOD,
not vitamins. Even if a vitamin claims it is "from a food", it is still a MANUFACTURED FOOD.
If you eat a vitamin, you are consuming an unbalancing amount of manufactured chemicals
you were never designed to put into your body. There is an idea out there, that people aren't
getting enough nutrients from food these days. Yes I agree. It's time to SLOW DOWN. It's
time to eat right. And then you will get the nutrients you need. If you pop a pill, you will hurt
yourself down the road. Your body was not designed for eating vitamin pills. They may make
you feel good and give you energy, but that doesn't mean they are good for you!
There is much, much more to food then just vitamins, minerals, enzymes, etc... that man
has yet to discover. And I don't think he will ever figure it all out. God designed us to eat
food, not pop pills. So that's my opinion, take it or leave it.
SUGAR
Avoid sugar. White sugar, brown sugar, NutraSweet, etc.
- It pulls calcium out of your body - bones and teeth.
- It lowers your immune System.
- It causes Diabetes.
- It contributes to cavities.
- DO NOT DRINK SODAS.
- Fruit and honey are ok. Try to buy raw, unheated honey.
It has all it's enzymes, vitamins, and minerals intact.
Also, eat fruit/honey with something that burns slower, like raw nuts,
or some type of natural nut butter. It will keep your blood sugar more stable.
- If your diabetic, use Stevia. It's an herb you can use as a sweetener that
won't raise your blood sugar at all.
SALT
- Do not use commercial salt.
Go to a health food store and buy quality sea salt.
MEAT
- Buy organic free range meat whenever possible.
Commercial meat has high concentrations of pesticides, hormones, antibiotics,
and other chemicals and undesirables.
- Do not overcook and burn meat.
- Avoid processed meats, they contain sodium nitrate, a potential cancer
causing substance.
DAIRY
- Buy raw and organic if possible.
Otherwise, keep it limited.
- Commercial milk is a destroyed food. Through hydrogenation and pasteurization,
vitamins, minerals, and enzymes are destroyed.
- Do not eat margarine. Or any other butter substitute. Unsalted, organic butter
is best.
WHOLE GRAINS
- Try to cook up whole grains and incorporate them into your diet. Try to buy organic.
Whole grains like: Brown rice, wheat, barley, quinoa, oats, kamut, wheat berries, etc.
They take a lot longer for your body to burn which helps keep your blood sugar stable.
They are also highly nutritious. Don't eat much white rice. It has little nutrition and burns
quickly raising your blood sugar.
FRUITS
- Buy organic and eat raw/slightly steamed whenever possible.
- Try to eat fruit with nuts or with something that burns slower.
Eating fruit by itself as a snack will spike your blood sugar.
- Dried fruit: If you eat a lot of dried fruit, drink lots of water.
Dried fruit rehydrates in your body pulling out water
and will give you indigestion/gas.
VEGETABLES
- Try to buy organic.
- God designed certain foods to be available during certain seasons for certain reasons.
So eat what is in season. Your body was designed to do that. Here's an example: Ever wonder why tomatoes
come out in the summertime? Here's one reason: To help protect your skin from the sun.
People spend more time in the sun during summertime, so God planned the tomato! Ha!
Do you get it now? Eat what's in season, even if you don't know how it can help you, because it will! :)
- Eat raw mostly if you can. Cook potatoes, rutabagas. Lightly steam broccoli.
- Do not overcook vegetables.
The more you cook them, the more you destroy the good nutrients.
NUTS
- Eat raw whenever possible.
Try to buy organic.
- Avoid roasted nuts. They contain rancid oils.
- Avoid raw peanuts.
- Raw nuts contain good fats. Do not be afraid of them.
OILS and FATS
- Take fish oils regularly.
- Bad oils are cottonseed oil, any partially hydrogenated oil, vegetable oil.
- Good oils are olive oil, sunflower oil, sesame seed oil, coconut oil, safflower oil.
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WATER
- Drink plenty of water!
- Avoid chlorinated water. It kills the friendly bacterial in your gut.
PROBIOTICS - Friendly bacteria for your gut.
- I personally don't take probiotics. I prefer to get my friendly bacteria from yogurt,
raw cheeses, and other naturally fermented products. I don't believe taking a supplement
is natural. We were designed to get our friendly bacteria from whole foods.
AIR FRESHENERS and other artificially scented stuff
- Do not use these at all!
They smell good, sure, but what your smelling is synthetic.
Your body is not able to process synthetic chemicals very well.
They accumulate in your body and cause problems.
- If the restroom smells, light a match or an unscented candle.
What smells up the restroom is methane gas.
Methane gas is highly flammable, so lighting a match
and waving it around for a minute works well.
EXERCISE
- Obviously very important.
At least 30 minutes a day of something.