Healthy Lifestyle 1: You are What You Eat

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Why We Gain Weight

Why do we gain weight, and why is our society fat in general? One of the main reasons is that the body is filling up with toxins that are not being properly eliminated. Poor nutrition, including excessive amounts of sugar and sodium from processed foods, lack of education, a fast lifestyle, cigarette smoking, drugs(including some prescription drugs) & alcohol, chemical compounds, and just plain laziness contribute to this problem, as well as the fact that our food itself is not what it once was. We fill our vegetables and fruits with pesticides, we combine foods improperly, and we eat “on the go”. Our meat is fed on the vegetables that are filled with these toxins and our air and water are polluted with all kinds of horrible substances. What do you think are the main causes of cancer, heart disease and stroke(the number one killers)? In a word… TOXINS.

When we gain weight, we become sluggish, slow, have skin problems, lose range of motion, lose energy, and breathe less freely. Giving the body less cleansing oxygen and water, we literally starve ourselves from the inside out.

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What the Body Needs

The human body is made up of mostly water, so what do you think we need to cleanse the body? No, we don’t want to drink a lot of water, this will only bloat the system. Drink for thirst only. Water-rich foods are the best medicine for cleansing the body.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to breathe more freely, move about more easily, and see incredible results in the mirror, without having to give up much of anything but a bunch of old fat, and poisons that you don’t want or need anyway?

The body needs water-rich foods, vitamins, minerals and oxygen to become, and remain healthy. Without these life-giving nutrients the body must store something else, so it stores the fat, starch(carbohydrates) which later turn into sugars, and salt which retains water instead of using it properly, that we provide it in our fast-food junky lifestyles. This process causes these unwanted wastes to be trapped within the body. Opposing that, if there are enough nutrients properly absorbed in the body, the body will instead eliminate most of the “garbage” and keep the “good stuff”. Remember the phrase, ” You ARE what you EAT?”

What Can We Do?

What can we do about it? Well, for one thing we can take a step back and look at what we are putting into our bodies and our world. Decreasing the amount of toxins that we put into our world and our bodies is the first step. Eat water rich foods, especially fruits which are great for energy and mental clarity. Get plenty of exercise, even a small amount if you are pressed for time is healthwise. Recycle those cans and bottles. Stop smoking cigarettes. Lose the aerosol cans. Look for reasonable and safe ways to eliminate our waste. Empower ourselves to eliminate the garbage in our world and our bodies and decide on proper nutrition and exercise. Major manufacturers can look to exceed the EPA’s standard expectations for keeping pollution out of our world.

We MUST remember that we only receive from our bodies and our world that which we put into them. Let’s make a difference, one body, one person at a time.

Look for part 2, coming soon.

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