By Michael McCright It all starts with PREVENTION! All too often, we as individuals come to believe that illness, disease, sickness and injury just happen to us and that some outside source forces itself upon us. Its at that time that we decide that we must do something special to fight for our health. Sometimes it appears that whatever has happened will continue to plague us forever and perhaps it may. It all depends on how far down the disease continuum we have allowed ourselves to progress. Whoever said that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure was absolutely correct and that age old axiom if Id known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself also applies. The state that our bodies are in will determine whether we will be able to be over that cold in 4 hours, 4 days or 4 weeks. It will determine how fast a broken bone will mend. A broken bone will normally mend itself in a couple of months, with most of the pain and discomfort gone within the first month. The state that our bodies are in will determine the length of recovery time after a surgery or hospital stay. Difficulties in the healing process develop when the body does not have the elements that it needs to complete the task at hand. Another way of saying it is that a person has allowed the body to fall into a state of lack. Lacking an essential vitamin, mineral, amino acid, oxygen molecule, etc. will make the body rob from Peter to pay Paul. It will take something from another part of the body that it considers less important (at the moment) and use it to fulfill critical needs. A good example is when the blood becomes too acidic and needs some calcium to neutralize the acid and get back to an alkaline state. If we have plenty of calcium available in the body, great! However, if we dont, then the body will take it from the bones (the bones make a great storage place for calcium). This is known as osteoporosis and it makes sense that it could be a factor in osteoarthritis. How and why did it happen? The answer is simple, we did not keep the body in a balanced state by providing it with the building blocks it needed for continued health. Another sad fact that becomes apparent is that we probably werent even aware that the event happened. Lets say I was going to make an outstanding chocolate cake and the recipe required the following ingredients: 2 cups white sugar 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda1 teaspoon salt2 eggs1 cup milk1/2 cup vegetable oil2 teaspoons vanilla extract1 cup boiling water But lets say I only had 1 cup of brown sugar, cup of chocolate chips and teaspoon of vanilla, plus all of the other ingredients. How good is my chocolate cake going to be? It might look OK, but chances are the person eating it is going to be surprised at the taste. You cant bake a cake or run the body without providing everything thats needed. By the same token, it is wise not to add ingredients for either the cake or the body that are not required. I dont think if I added two ounces of Oregano that it would help the cake taste any better. I still wonder why people feel a need to put tar, carcinogens, and nicotine (a poison) into the body thinking that in some way it helps them. The body is the most amazing chemical factory ever devised. The body produces energy, distributes the fuel required for functioning, neutralizes toxins and removes them from the body so that further contamination cannot take place. The sad part is that most people take all of this for granted. They seem to care less about the foods they eat, the liquids they drink and the junk they use to feed the body. They are clueless about how difficult it is for the heart to do its job every day. If your resting heart rate is 80 beats per minute, take that times 60 minutes in a hour, and that times 24 hours in a day and you have your heart beating 115,200 times every day! Through activity and exercise you can strengthen the heart and its resting rate will drop. Lets say you lower your resting heart rate to 72 beats per minute. Using the above calculations, your heart would only have to beat 103,680 times per day saving you 11,520 beats. I dont know how to calculate the energy savings of those 11 thousand beats but your body could definitely use that energy somewhere else — perhaps in the immune system to fight off that cold we talked about. Another system of the body that gets slammed quite regularly is the pancreas, which is the organ responsible for producing insulin. Insulin keeps the blood sugar levels in the blood stream within certain limits. A can of Coke has 39 grams of sugar in it and a can of Pepsi has 41 grams of sugar in it. If we understand that 4 grams equals one teaspoon, or that each soda has around 10 teaspoons of sugar, then we can understand the headline: One Soda a Day Increases Diabetes Risk 85 Percent. Most people are unaware that diabetes is the fifth deadliest disease in the US. We create that situation for ourselves and by ourselves. If a wart were to grow out of our big toe one quarter of an inch for every teaspoon of sugar we consumed, we would probably stop after drinking about one half a can. But because we experience no outward side effects we continue to do what we have always done. We talked about activity and exercise being able to help the heart, but that is not the only benefit. As we stress the cells of the body by working them, they become more efficient at producing energy. They move oxygen and nutrients into the cells with more ease and rid the cells of toxic waste. Of course, as our cellular efficiency becomes greater, our ability to ward off disease and sickness becomes greater. We sleep better at night, and have more serenity and less stress in our lives during the day. My hope is that while reading this article, some little ah-ha popped out — that something made sense on a gut (action level) and not just on a mental (agreement) level. The true key to living a long full disease-free life is prevention. I pray that you will do those things that will allow you to move into a healthy state of being. Remember, if you want to be healthy, do what other healthy people do. Michael McCright is a Holistic Health Practitioner, educator, coach, and motivational speaker. His website: http://www.bodymindconnection.com covers a variety of health concerns. Michael is co-producer of an informative and educational DVD: TMJ Relief. For information and holistic solutions regarding TMJ disorder, go to: http://www.tmjrelief.us 2005 Michael McCright Reprints allowed as long as copy is complete with last paragraph and copyright information. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Michael_McCright http://EzineArticles.com/?Holistic-Health-and-Healing:-A-Common-Sense-Approach—Healing-Happens-Naturally&id=362565
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