Article Index
- Genetically Modified Food – Global Watch
- Amazing Facts
- The Case For Eco-Friendly Cloth Nappies
- Kilojoule Bomb In Your Beverages
- The Very Real Dangers Of Refined Foods
- What Whole Grains Will Do For You
- Turbo-Charge Your Life With Fresh Air
- How To Quit Alcohol
- How To Quit Smoking
- Is Your Cell Phone Undermining Your Life
- Sunlight Could Save Your Life
- Beating The Virus Hands Down
- How To Overcome The Common Cold – For Life
- Sunlight Improves Sleep
- Understanding & Treating Allergies
- Scientists Call for Worldwide Warning:Be Wary of Eating Fish
- Aids and the Immune System
- The True Causes And Cures Of Disease
- The Great Chemical Trade Off
- Fowl Treatment
- Hexachlorophene Beware
- Cool Stools
- Talcum Powder In Question
- Aluminium? Beware!
- The Candy Shop Syndrome
- Red Clover The Cancer Fighter
- Sugar As A Cause Of Diabetes & Cancer
- Why You Need Soya Beans To Stop Aging
- Why Oranges Are Good For You
- The Nature’s Choice Super-Food Phenomenon
- Could Your Symptoms be Related to a Deficiency an Overdose or an Excess?
- Colon Cleanse (Psyllium Husk Fiber)
- Walnuts A Real Spoil From Nature’s Pantry
When we look at the world in which we live, we can no longer accept that there are single chemicals, foods or pollutants, each causing single diseases. Rather, we have to take the more comprehensive point of view, realizing that we live in a sea of contaminants – probably more than 100,000 all told – and that our bodies are filled with viruses and bacteria, parasites, yeast and fungi.
Some of these are positive, but many are destructive, and whether we ultimately manifest disease or wellness will depend in large part upon the attention we pay to the status of our health vis-a-vis these various microbes and pollutants.
`So we have to make a choice.
`If we choose to become indifferent, deciding that we are helpless to do anything about our health, and that we are simply going to do be hopeful that we don’t get sick, we have, in essence, chosen to play Russian roulette.
`If, on the other hand, we choose to make a constructive effort to see what we can do to minimize our exposure to those toxins over which we have control – e.g., by drinking bottled or distilled water instead of tap water; by eliminating sugars, animal proteins, most dairy products and processed and pesticide-laden foods from our diets and replacing them with organic and more natural and wholesome foods; and by using healthier and more ecologically correct building materials instead of asbestos- and formaldehyde-contaminated ones – then we’ve chosen to be far healthier than those who assume that what goes into their body doesn’t matter.
`There is no longer any puzzlement about what causes disease. We know what causes disease. We know, to a large extent, what prevents disease.
`And so we know, if we want to prevent disease, or at least to elevate ourselves from the Russian-roulette mode of daily existence, what we can do for ourselves.
`We can do a nutritional assessment to determine the levels of heavy metals in our systems and see whether these could be interfering with our enzyme systems and causing everything from mood swings to liver dysfunction.
`We can take those vitamins, minerals and herbs that will stimulate a healthy immune response by cleansing and detoxifying the body’s tissues of pollutants.
`And, of course, we can change our diets, lessening or eliminating [our intake of flesh foods and] dairy products, reducing our fat intake to 15 or 20 percent of total calories, eliminating sugars, caffeine, cola beverages, fried foods and excess calories, and putting an emphasis on fresh, organically grown produce.
`We can increase our fiber intake to at least 30 grams/day and eat at least six servings of fresh fruits and vegetables daily, including lots of juices.
`Finally, we can combine all these positive steps with regular aerobic and anaerobic exercise to strengthen the muscles and the cardiovascular system, and we can learn appropriate ways to deal with stress.
`The bottom-line question is this: Isn’t it time, in our fight against disease, that we stopped looking for single-cause excuses to blame, or silver bullets for cure? Neither have worked for us.
`What works, rather, is a comprehensive examination of life and our role in it, coupled with a seeking of the place that we can choose to begin our own healing process.
`What’s involved is awareness, education, reading, questioning and – most important – active participation.
`In fact, all of the doctors and others who have guided people who were at death’s door – turning them in the other direction and helping them regain life through education, discipline and focused action – have emphasized that active participation by the patients was what made the incredible turnarounds possible.
`Participation is the key.
`It’s what environmentalists and nutritionists have been stressing for decades.
`And it’s only now that average Americans are catching up and realizing that it is in their interests to do the same.’ (Gary Null, Ph.D., The ’90s Healthy Body Book, pg. 231-233)
