Diary 254: Earning our health

Many people are health concious now.

They want to lead a healthy and happy life.

It involves healthy living.

It cannot be achived by taking too much tasty and nice acidic food.

It cannot be achieved by taking vitamin and mineral supplements alone.

It cannot be purchased in bottles of soft and hard drinks.

It cannot be achieved by leaving health matters to the doctors.

Healthy living has to be earned.

One the best ways to achieve good health is by taking healthy food and drink.

Save your enery and your money by taking healthy food from today.

Diary 253: The value of vitamin and mineral supplements

First of all, vitamin and mineral supplements are man-made.

Making of these supplement goes through the process of extracting and fractionating elements.

Once removed and isolated, the vitamin loses its value.

Grains of wheat taken from the tombs that are thousands or hundreds of years old would prout when placed on the ground.

This important ingredient is absence in synthesized wheat: life force.

The same ingredient is also missing in synthesized minerals and vitamins.

Dr Robert McCarter and Dr Elizabeth (1984) found that vitamin supplement becomes toxic in the body. It means the body has to work hard to remove the toxic waste.

Source of information: Diamond, H. & Diamond, M. (1985). Fit for Life. New York: Warner Books.

Diary 252: Taking vitamin and mineral supplements

We find vitamin and mineral supplements in many homes.

There are for various members of the family, children to the elders.

Do we really need them?

People seldom tell you this: Every mineral and vitamin required by our body can be found in abundance in fruits and vegetables.

Our body only needs a small amount of mineral and vitamin every day. Daily consumption of a little fresh fruits and vegetables would meet the body’s requirements.

Some advertisements claim that their vitamin and mineral supplement products are 100% natural.

Being 100% natural means it was created by nature.

Have you ever seen a mineral or vitamin pill tree?

Diary 251: Drinking a little wine

It is believed that drinking a little wine helps digestion of food.

During social functions, some people drink a little wine.

In fact, wine slows down the digestion of food, just as our motors slow down under the influence of alcohol.

All alcohol places a heavy burden on the kidneys and liver.

Drinking too much alcohol is certainly bad to our health.

Give up drinking wine before it causes you medical problems.

Diary 250: Eating chocolates

Many children and adults like to each chocolates.

Chocolates are now presented as gifts during festive seasons, especially during Christmas.

Taking chocolate once in a while may be Ok.

However,it is good to know a couple of ingredients in chocolates are not positive contributors to good health.

Theobromine (caffeine-related substance): gives power to certain carcinogens in human cells that damage DNA.

Refined white sugar: all the fibre, vitamins, minerals are removed. It makes people fat because it supplies only empty, low quality calories and excessive carbohydrates that are converted to fat. When we eat foods high in sugars, the body must have additional food to get the nutrients it needs. This causes us to overeat. This tends to add weight. More over, refined sugar in food, drink and candy ferments in the bidy system, causing the formation of acetic acid, carbonate acid and alcohol.
Children taking chocolates are likely to quarrel after some times.

What can we do?

The eating habit that helps to eliminate the craving for sweets more than anything else is the consumption of fruits.

Diary 249: Drinking coffee and tea

When we are at the restaurants or on flights, the waiters and waitresses normally ask if we like to have coffee or tea after meal.

Most people would not hink of their morning coffee or afternoon tea as a drug.

The true is these drinks contain doses of drug caffeine, which is addictive, causing withdrawal symptoms when discontinued and inducing both psychological and physical dependence.

Caffeine is a stimulant of the central nervous system.

It has been linked to a host of maladies such as increased heart rate, increased blood pressure, diabetes, kidney failure, gastric ulcers, cancer of the pancreas, ringing in the ears,restlessness, disturbed sleep, trembling of the muscles and gastrointestinal irritation.

It takes one cup of tea or coffee 24 hours to pass through the kidneys and urinary tract.

More than one cup of tea or coffee within 24 hours would place extreme burden to these body organs.

Take care of these body organs. Reduce or better even avoid taking tea and coffee.

Diary 248: Emotional health

Emotional health is just as important to your well-being as the physical aspects.

Anger, disappointment, frustration, bitterness, bad feelings and vengeance are all negative emotions that affect our psychological well being.

The above could even trigger anxiety attacks, depression and substance abuse (such as alcohol or drugs).

Physically, these negative emotions can also lead to hypertension, body aches and chronic pain.

The best solution for all these negative emotions is to forgive.

When we forgive the people who hurt us in our life for whatever problems, we will find ourselves much happier and healthier.

The benefits of forgiveness: reduces stress, good for the heart and body organs, reduces pain, improve relationship and makes us happier.