Start the Year With Prevention in Mind

It has been a sad couple of weeks.

First, a friend’s father passed away last week after being in a coma for the last few months caused by a stroke. The doctors could not find the clot and was not able to help him. Sadly, there wasn’t much hope that he would recover, but that didn’t stop the friend from continuing to try everything she can to clear the clot and wake him from the coma. My condolence goes out to her and her family. One good thing that came out of this tragedy was that she has taken prevention to heart. She changed her eating habits and lifestyle, and she tries to share this knowledge with others to help them become aware of the need for a healthy lifestyle to prevent health problem.

Yesterday, another friend’s husband had a heart attack and was rushed to the hospital. The surgeon estimated the surgery would take six hours, however went over by three hours because they found five clots and had to do five bypasses. It is amazing that a person with five clotted arteries managed to function normally for so long. It is truly lucky her husband knew he was having a heart attack and quickly asked her to rush him to the emergency room. The doctors acted quickly and was able to help him. Hopefully the fast action prevented any long term damage to his body. I wish him a speedy recovery, and hope he and his family will have a happy and healthy life ahead.

The food we eat have a huge impact on our body’s health. Many diseases are self inflicted and can be prevented if each of us learn how to care for our body and take responsibility. I just want to stress how important it is to learn to take care of your body to prevent life threatening disease in your future. Surgery is expensive, dangerous, and painful. You do not want to be the person laying on the operating table. I have met people with different types of illness and the methods used to save their lives are not pretty. The patients really do suffer from great pain while the doctors tries to save their lives. I would not want to experience it, and I would not want you to experience that type of pain and suffering. This is one life experience that you do not want to have.

If you do not know how to take care of your body, please learn. If you do not care about your body right now, please start caring because you can only abuse your body for so long before it eat away at your quality of life and make you suffer for it. You never expect something bad would happen to you, but if you do not learn to care for the body, it inevitably will happen to you — it is just a matter of when.

Change is not easy. It takes a lot of effort and work to take care of the body because there are so many unhealthy food and lifestyle choices around us. It is so easy to get swept into those fast, sweet, salty, and delicious mainstream foods. It is so easy to sit and watch TV all day. With some effort, you can start making the right healthy choices, and it will get easier as you continue. If you have problem motivating yourself, then enlist a friend, find a trainer, find a book or video, or do whatever it takes to find the motivate to change. Invest the time and a little money if necessary to give yourself the best chance of a healthy life.

Here are some good resources to help you get started:
• Chapter 14: Healthy Body Healthy Eyes – learn the simple things you can do to maintain good health.
• Fit for Life – was written by Harvey and Marilyn Diamond explaining in a simple manner how food affect our health, how it causes disease and make us fat. It emphasizes food combination to improve digestion and detox the body. It also warns about proteins and dairy. There is also a meal program to show you what to eat during each meal. It is a good book to get you started.
• Nutrition and Physical Degeneration was written by a dentist named Dr. Weston Price, who traveled to remote villages all over the world documenting how locally grown whole natural foods eaten by the villagers kept them extremely healthy. There is a foundation set up to continue sharing his work. The Weston Price Foundation provides many good articles about food and nutrition. They emphasis on whole natural foods which provides plenty of nutrition for the body to maintain good health.
• The Diet Solution – Isabel De Los Rios is a nutritionist and exercise specialist. She shares the principles for weight loss and disease prevention including health food that causes weight gain, truth about fats, food that is best for your body, truth about dairy, recipes, and meal plans. There are lots of articles and videos about burning and losing fat, motivation, foods, workouts, health concerns, and supplements to get you started.
• Truth about abs – Mike Geary is a nutrition specialist and personal trainer specializing in body fat reduction and strength and power training. He address the main problem why people have problem getting rid of their stomach fat. If a nice abs will motivated you to make a change then use it to improve your health. It is important to nourish the motivation that will help you change. Scattered on the pages are lots of good articles about food, nutrition, and exercises.
• Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle – Tom Venuto is a body builder, personal trainer, nutrition consultant, and motivation coach. He shares knowledge of food that burns fat, recipes, training program to burn fat and build muscles, and motivation and goals setting techniques. A bit hidden in smaller fonts at the bottom of the page are dozens of articles about food, nutrition, and fat burning exercises worth reading.

There are thousands of books and videos out there that can help you get started. A lot of them are useless so you have to spend time looking for one that will help you understand your body and understand what you need to do to improve your health. It must also motivate you to take action today to maintain good health. Please do take action, it can save you a lot of suffering and help you maintain a good quality of life.