We are taught that to stay healthy means to eat less and exercise more. Yet one of the leading advertisements for a specific health condition states "... when diet and exercise are not enough..."
There is some truth to eating less and exercising more. The marketplace is full of dieting programs, food providers and best selling books. Most have a great deal of success. But we are still faced with a population that is increasingly overweight.
How many friends and family do all of us know that struggle with their weight? Why does a specific program or diet regiment work for one person but not another?
The solution seems to have as many variables as there are people. And maybe that is part of the answer. We are all the same in some respects but really different in other ways.
There is a growing body of evidence that suggests that the air we breathe, the water we drink and the food we eat may be a factor to our poor health and consequent weight problems. Generally we think of these things as being healthful and good for us. Nothing can be further from the truth.
Have you ever wondered why so many people seem to be ill? Illness and chronic disease seem to come from "out of the blue" and affect almost everyone. Is it hereditary? Are some people just prone to get sick? Is it "bad luck"? And what about being over weight?
From medical and dental services to packaging and storage containers to a host of products and services, the modern world we live in may be contributing to our declining health. Heavy metals and toxins are "leeching" into our environment and silently killing us.
Some believe that in the smallest of quantities these substances may be deemed safe. Although a lifetime of exposure to them can have a debilitating effect on each of us.
From the air to the water to the food, we consume these contaminates that are dealt with differently in our bodies. Some is discarded as waste. Still some may be "transferred" to the body's molecular and cellular structure.
Still others are "sequestered". This is the principle what the body cannot waste or transfers it stores in the fatty portions of our bodies. The growing waste circumferences, excess buttock and thigh mass may not be solely from a lack of exercise. It may be from the increasing "body burden" to substances we can not see or taste.
The resulting symptoms, which themselves may vary from simple cold or flu symptoms, to more complicated and degenerating symptoms, may mask the underlying cause. Though medical science may see the effect as one thing, the actual cause may not be so easy to discover.
Instead of treating the cause we are looking at the effect. As a result the symptom may be lessened in some degree while the condition goes on unabated.
Consequentially we take a medication or embark on a treatment to address one symptom that causes another. In dealing with that symptom we take another medication that causes yet another. Eventually the condition we started to treat is masked by other conditions that are the results of the medication we were prescribed. And so it goes on, unchecked and unresolved.
Worse still is to believe that diet and exercise will reduce the weight and the symptoms. Once the condition is allowed to persist it will take a bit more that eating right and moving around more.
The real solution lies not in a series of medications, or diet and exercise alone but in supplements and super-foods that increase our immune system and gives our body back the ability to fight off illness and disease. Treating the symptoms and not the underlying and sometimes hidden causes does not promote good health.
How do we deal with the underlying cause? Is there some product available that will take care of all of this?
The answer is no. There is no magic pill. There is no single product that taken properly will relieve us of these symptoms.
The real answer lies in developing a diet and exercise program that fits into our lifestyle, as well as a detoxification program that deals with the heavy metals and toxins that are silently killing us. But that is not all. We must stimulate and regenerate the body's ability to stay healthy, especially as we age.
We all must look at the following:
1. Control our diet! Eat more fresh fruits and vegetables. Limit the intake of products that contain a lot of refined sugars (snack bars, sodas, deserts). Do more to consume a well rounded meal that includes carbohydrates, protein, fat and fiber rather than a "fast" one.
2. Exercise. Even a four or five mile brisk walk, done regularly, can have a positive impact on your weight and level of energy. A gym membership is not required. A discipline that can be committed to is!
3. Detoxify your body. Diet alone will not reduce contaminates that may have taken years to collect in our body's. Use a specific, targeted product that collects the heavy metals and toxins, and discards them as waste.
4. Bolster your immune system. The immune system is the first defense in fighting illness and preventing disease. A product rich in beta glucan can have remarkable results.
5. Replenish the vitamins and minerals your system needs to stay healthy. The heavy metals and toxins we have been exposed to may have drained our bodies of the healthy things that promote good health. Products that are water soluble or in liquid form are best.
6. Take care of your skin. It is the largest, exposed system of your body. Don't use products that contain petroleum distillates. Don't over expose in the sun.
7. Get plenty of rest. Sleep sometimes is overlooked when considering our overall health. Though the amount of sleep will vary from person to person, getting the right amount is very important.
8. Finally, use common sense. Moderation is a key lifestyle choice that is wholly up to each of us. Too much of anything will, in time, make us sick and lead to poor health.
Nothing in the above suggest an "instant" fix. What took time to develop will take time to resolve. A good, solid discipline will have the intended results.
In summary, we have stated that the answers to good health do not rest in diet and exercise alone. To be healthy also means dealing with contaminates that are in the air we breathe, the water we drink and the food we eat. That some of the symptoms we experience may not be "bad luck" or even hereditary but come from the modern world we live in. The solution is to be proactive and take control of our own health by controlling the things we can.
Getting "older" does not mean living with failing health. Make good choices and the results will be living a healthier and happy life.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Michael_S._Turner
There is some truth to eating less and exercising more. The marketplace is full of dieting programs, food providers and best selling books. Most have a great deal of success. But we are still faced with a population that is increasingly overweight.
How many friends and family do all of us know that struggle with their weight? Why does a specific program or diet regiment work for one person but not another?
The solution seems to have as many variables as there are people. And maybe that is part of the answer. We are all the same in some respects but really different in other ways.
There is a growing body of evidence that suggests that the air we breathe, the water we drink and the food we eat may be a factor to our poor health and consequent weight problems. Generally we think of these things as being healthful and good for us. Nothing can be further from the truth.
Have you ever wondered why so many people seem to be ill? Illness and chronic disease seem to come from "out of the blue" and affect almost everyone. Is it hereditary? Are some people just prone to get sick? Is it "bad luck"? And what about being over weight?
From medical and dental services to packaging and storage containers to a host of products and services, the modern world we live in may be contributing to our declining health. Heavy metals and toxins are "leeching" into our environment and silently killing us.
Some believe that in the smallest of quantities these substances may be deemed safe. Although a lifetime of exposure to them can have a debilitating effect on each of us.
From the air to the water to the food, we consume these contaminates that are dealt with differently in our bodies. Some is discarded as waste. Still some may be "transferred" to the body's molecular and cellular structure.
Still others are "sequestered". This is the principle what the body cannot waste or transfers it stores in the fatty portions of our bodies. The growing waste circumferences, excess buttock and thigh mass may not be solely from a lack of exercise. It may be from the increasing "body burden" to substances we can not see or taste.
The resulting symptoms, which themselves may vary from simple cold or flu symptoms, to more complicated and degenerating symptoms, may mask the underlying cause. Though medical science may see the effect as one thing, the actual cause may not be so easy to discover.
Instead of treating the cause we are looking at the effect. As a result the symptom may be lessened in some degree while the condition goes on unabated.
Consequentially we take a medication or embark on a treatment to address one symptom that causes another. In dealing with that symptom we take another medication that causes yet another. Eventually the condition we started to treat is masked by other conditions that are the results of the medication we were prescribed. And so it goes on, unchecked and unresolved.
Worse still is to believe that diet and exercise will reduce the weight and the symptoms. Once the condition is allowed to persist it will take a bit more that eating right and moving around more.
The real solution lies not in a series of medications, or diet and exercise alone but in supplements and super-foods that increase our immune system and gives our body back the ability to fight off illness and disease. Treating the symptoms and not the underlying and sometimes hidden causes does not promote good health.
How do we deal with the underlying cause? Is there some product available that will take care of all of this?
The answer is no. There is no magic pill. There is no single product that taken properly will relieve us of these symptoms.
The real answer lies in developing a diet and exercise program that fits into our lifestyle, as well as a detoxification program that deals with the heavy metals and toxins that are silently killing us. But that is not all. We must stimulate and regenerate the body's ability to stay healthy, especially as we age.
We all must look at the following:
1. Control our diet! Eat more fresh fruits and vegetables. Limit the intake of products that contain a lot of refined sugars (snack bars, sodas, deserts). Do more to consume a well rounded meal that includes carbohydrates, protein, fat and fiber rather than a "fast" one.
2. Exercise. Even a four or five mile brisk walk, done regularly, can have a positive impact on your weight and level of energy. A gym membership is not required. A discipline that can be committed to is!
3. Detoxify your body. Diet alone will not reduce contaminates that may have taken years to collect in our body's. Use a specific, targeted product that collects the heavy metals and toxins, and discards them as waste.
4. Bolster your immune system. The immune system is the first defense in fighting illness and preventing disease. A product rich in beta glucan can have remarkable results.
5. Replenish the vitamins and minerals your system needs to stay healthy. The heavy metals and toxins we have been exposed to may have drained our bodies of the healthy things that promote good health. Products that are water soluble or in liquid form are best.
6. Take care of your skin. It is the largest, exposed system of your body. Don't use products that contain petroleum distillates. Don't over expose in the sun.
7. Get plenty of rest. Sleep sometimes is overlooked when considering our overall health. Though the amount of sleep will vary from person to person, getting the right amount is very important.
8. Finally, use common sense. Moderation is a key lifestyle choice that is wholly up to each of us. Too much of anything will, in time, make us sick and lead to poor health.
Nothing in the above suggest an "instant" fix. What took time to develop will take time to resolve. A good, solid discipline will have the intended results.
In summary, we have stated that the answers to good health do not rest in diet and exercise alone. To be healthy also means dealing with contaminates that are in the air we breathe, the water we drink and the food we eat. That some of the symptoms we experience may not be "bad luck" or even hereditary but come from the modern world we live in. The solution is to be proactive and take control of our own health by controlling the things we can.
Getting "older" does not mean living with failing health. Make good choices and the results will be living a healthier and happy life.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Michael_S._Turner