Lifestyle change is all about getting rid of habits, social and nutritional ways of life that affects our bodies negatively. By adopting constructive health measures, we are able replenish, recoup, repair, and regenerate that which our bodies need.
In healing, family and friends, prayer, medicine, exercise and nutrition encapsulates the totality of what it takes to have a happy and healthy life. An unhealthy environment could include toxic people in your life, a disconnect with God, the taking of illicit drugs instead of medicine, eating ALL and ANYTHING you can and being involved in wrong relationships. The good news is ALL of that are reversible. You can choose better friends although you cannot choose or change your family, you can keep a healthy distance. You can re-establish your relationship with God, drop the drugs [although that is easier said than done] and take your physician prescribed medicine, start eating right and exercise. The human body is an amazing supercomputer that is .designed to summon the physiology of self preservation and bodily repair and make itself whole; when given the right circumstances.
The onset of cancer, diabetes, heart disease etc. is preventable, correctable, and with a dash of self discipline, faith and will power it is reversible.. Dr. T Campbell Collin, author or The China Study speaks of turning on and off cancer cells through diet and nutrition. Free radicals are transient although damaging invaders of our bodies at a cellular level. Transient means that free radicals that invade our bodies and cause disease can be controlled and at times eradicated
The ROAD MAP to health starts, here right now.
The new Food Guide Pyramid, Vegetarian Food Guide and the Vegan Food Guide offers these pictures for nutrition. Let us take a look.
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•Fats, Oils & Sweets: USE SPARINGLY
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•Milk, Yoghurt & Cheese Groups: 2-3 SERVINGS
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•Meat, Poultry, Fish, Dry Beans, Eggs & Nut Groups: 2-3 SERVINGS
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•Vegetable Group: 2-3 SERVINGS
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•Fruit Group: 2-4 SERVINGS
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•Bread, Cereal, Rice & Pasta Group: 6-11 SERVINGS