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7 Secrets to Perfect Health – Good Nutrition

By on August 30, 2011 in Healthy Living

Good Nutrition

We are always being told to eat healthier foods, but not many of us appreciate the enormous role of food in building and growing health of body and mind. Food is your body’s fuel, providing your body and brain with the nutrients and energy they need to build health, resist disease, function well, and keep you looking and feeling young. If the quality or quantity of your food is poor, your body will simply cannot have enough fuel to provide the energy you need, or the fuel will be of poor quality.

Nor will your immune system work properly if your foods lack the fibre, nutrients and enzymes needed to support and build health. A strong immune system is your best ally in the quest for lifelong health and resistance to disease. To build and maintain good immunity, you must take in all the nutrients your body needs to fuels its many metabolic activities, to help detoxify and to heal your body, to draw on when under additional stress, to nourish your nervous system and brain, and to maintain a healthy biochemistry.

Good nutrition also helps maintain the right pH needed for metabolic processes such as digestion, circulation of blood, and release of body chemicals. To maintain the correct balance of biochemicals – enzymes, hormones, neurotransmitters etc. – your body requires a more alkaline internal environment. Too much acidity weakens the immune system, promoting infection and inflammation, and upsetting many metabolic processes that are essential to good health.

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7 Secrets to Perfect Health – Inner Cleansing

By on August 29, 2011 in Healthy Living

Inner cleansing

I consider the major cause of disease in our times to be toxic overload, where the body is struggling under a burden of accumulated toxins, and can no longer safely get rid of them with normal detoxification processes.

We are continually bombarded with toxins in our air, water and soil, our food, and even our homes. When we are healthy, not overly stressed, eat wholesome, fresh foods, and limit our exposure to environmental toxins, our bodies can probably detoxify themselves naturally. Inner cleansing and elimination processes are continuously at work, clearing our bodies of waste and harmful substances that we have eaten, breathed in, or absorbed through our skin.

On the other hand, a body that can no longer effectively clear toxins due to illness, poor immunity, or toxic overload is being slowly poisoned. That body is like a city under siege! It switches from the normal healing mode to a state of emergency. Normal healing and repair processes are brought to a stop, and everyone (all your cells and organs) is preoccupied with defence. Over time, if your body is not cleared of toxins and allowed to recover, your immune system becomes exhausted, and you are prey to a host of health problems. Now, your body needs your help to detoxify.

So what is the solution? Just by choosing natural products and eating more unprocessed foods, we reduce our toxic load. Aim for balance: more clean whole foods; pure water; enough exercise; deep breathing; and less exposure to harmful substances or chemicals. Remember that otherwise healthy athletes who swim in chlorinated pools often develop an allergy to chlorine, and many bakers develop allergies to chemicals in flour, or to wheat, due to constant exposure.

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7 Secrets to Perfect Health – Correct Breathing

By on August 25, 2011 in Healthy Living

The 7 Secrets of Health

Great sages, physicians, and masters of all cultures and all times have identified a few simple keys to health: proper breathing; nutrition; inner cleansing; moderate exercise; enough rest; a positive, now-focused outlook, and living in harmony with nature. In my practice as a naturopath and energy healer, I am continually drawn back to these basic elements of health, yet I still find that very few people truly understand how vital they are.

As we achieve wellness and balance in any of the seven key areas, the benefits also spread into the other areas, making our task of achieving total wellness that much easier. When each area of our life and health is brought into wellness, we are raised from just feeling ‘well enough’ to a level of unprecedented health and wellbeing. But even making small improvements in these seven areas of health will deliver benefits, helping us feel stronger and healthier in body, mind and spirit.

Correct Breathing

When we do not breathe correctly, we seriously affect our physiological and mental health. We deprive our cells of necessary oxygen, and of the life-force (or prana) that is carried within it. Shallow breathing contributes to the release of histamine, a chemical that causes allergic reactions, promotes inflammation, and contributes to asthma. Lactic acid builds up in the brain, affecting our moods and mental acuity; lymphatic fluids are not pumped through the body, which means that cellular waste cannot be properly eliminated.

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Go Green for Your Health

By on August 20, 2011 in Environment Health Solutions

Go green is not just about saving the planet – though that’s certainly reason enough. It’s also about protecting and improving your health and the health of your family.

Now that sounds like a big claim, but it’s true. Toxic overload is the single greatest factor in most health problems including allergies, autoimmune and systemic diseases, and symptoms that doctors just can’t explain…even psychological problems!

Anyone Can Be Affected By Toxins

You don’t have to live near a toxic waste site or near factories to be seriously affected by toxins. They are everywhere: in our cities and towns, on our farms, and pollutants have even been found in the waters of Antarctica.

Modern life exposes us to an unprecedented number of industrial chemicals and toxic substances. It has been estimated that around 36 billion kilograms of toxins are releases across the world each year, 18 million of them released in just the last decade.

The modern household can also be full of toxins and toxic fumes from varnishes, carpeting, compressed board cupboards, vinyl flooring, plastics, cleaners…even your tap water. If you read the labels on your packaged foods, you will find that almost all of them also contain toxins, often disguised as ‘colouring’ or ‘flavouring’ agents, and even your fresh food may have been sprayed, radiated, and chemically treated before it reached you. In fact, the quality of air in your home can be even more toxic than the air outside your home, as toxic fumes accumulate and become even more virulent in enclosed spaces.

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