Archive for April, 2011

Good digestion is the key to lasting health. Yet, this is one of the most backed-up, overloaded, and sluggish systems. You can tell from the sales of antacids, bulk laxatives, and colon problems.  We depend on the digestive system to operate correctly. You should feel great not bloated, nauseous, gassy, and sluggish from the last meal you had.

Digestion the Golden Rule

The golden rule to ensure good digestion is to not overeat. Digestion depends on the liver, gall bladder, pancreases, intestine and colon. Illness and disease starts when this system is not operating well. The digestive tract goes from the mouth to the anus. The organs that make up the digestive tract consist of the mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine (colon) rectum and anus.

The liver and the pancreas produce digestive juices that reach the intestine. The gallbladder stores the liver’s digestive juices for when they are needed. The nervous and circulatory system also are major players in the digestive process.

Since all nutrition is dependent on the process of digestion it is an often overlooked as a cause of disease. A well operating digestion system maintains regular elimination, removes wastes that causes disease, and assimilates nutrients. It is a really complex process of breaking down food to usable fuel. When you eat food it is not in a form the body can use to supply nutrients to the cells. Digestion is the process that breaks down food into their smallest parts so the body can make use of it to build and nourish cells and provide energy.

The digested nutrients are absorbed through the intestinal walls and transported throughout the body. What this nutrition does is stimulates the immune system and boosts its function. Saturating your body with powerful nutritional complexes that protect, regenerate and strengthen the body is an important function.

 Several factors are in play

One problem is the food supply, which consists of processed foods and inferior quality groceries. What we in America consume is weirder and weirder concoctions that pose as food. These so called foods are the cause of many of the digestive problems. The amount of refined carbohydrates in our diet is a radical departure from our natural foods. We are vulnerable to the damages these cause in our intestines.

It is not that different from other modern ailments. It comes from the magnitude and measure of the way we have veered from our natural way of eating. Our food supply has developed into an industry that trades health for economic development.

By adopting a new and unnatural way of eating we are building barriers to good digestive health. Innovative companies producing technologically advanced foods are 360 degrees away from promoting a good strong digestive system.

By remembering that the whole body depends on good digestion it is time to get a physical make over, by flooding your body with high quality foods.

Exercising your way to health is not what most people thing of as a life changing action. What exercise does is make life better from all the benefits it provides. From boosting energy levels to getting a better night’s sleep it can change your life. The bottoms line it that it doesn’t take extreme feats to jump-start your everyday performance and stamina.

Exercise is doing something healthy to increase your well being. No matter what your strength level is you can prevent health problems just by everyday activity. The idea that exercise is simple is true to a large extent. Exercise is mandatory and your body needs it for maintaining your sugar level, circulation, and digestive power.

Exercising Benefits

Exercise cleanses your body of toxins while providing energy and boosting your immune system.  To feel good you have to exercise every day. An exercise program is effective in seeing that you stay moving. However, it isn’t the mainstay of most human activity. Walking, running, jogging, swimming, tennis, golfing, dancing, and housework all are easy ways to provide activities that strengthens and tones the heart, restores memory and sharpens concentration. When you move you increase oxygen and blood flow to all organs.  

From lowering blood pressure to helping with the lymphatic system exercise is a dynamic way to improve ones health. Exercise helps with both insomnia and stress which makes this a seductive way to enhance ones health. What happens if your idea of exercise is pushing your self away from the dinner table?  Everyone has to move in order to meet the body’s need for good circulation and oxygen. So the things that congest and constipate are related to the lack of exercise.

Everyday Activity Fits the Bill

What is needed is frequent not harder exercise. What promotes and increases health is everyday activity. The way to feel good isn’t to exercise to exhaustion, but to perform activity that keeps you moving. Healthy individuals have the strength to perform everyday activity with ease. The idea is to increase the duration of natural activities. Degeneration takes hold when there is a lack of activity. To keep up muscle mass means to use them on a daily basis.

Activity strengthens the body increasing its resistance to fatigue, and improving ones capacity for physical work. Literally exercise gives strength and is directly linked to everything from sexual performance to emotional health.

It is most important as you age to diminish aches and pains. Exercise keeps symptoms at bay. The best part about activity is that it boosts the immune system and is cheaper than any other additions to a health regiment.

Watch people become more powerful by a dose of daily activity.  It is awesome the way the human body is designed for activity. So get right to work and walk, jump, dance, clean house, play golf or just take a swim in the pool. Every metabolic process is going to depend on it. We are bombarded by all kinds of energy robbing convenient appliances. Our job is to forget the convenient and easy way and start moving.

If genes aren’t the cause of common diseases, than there has to be a environmental connection. Ever since sequencing the human genome, genetic researchers have found little evidence of genetic causes to most of the common diseases. Inherited genes are not the cause of the sky rocketed growth of conditions such as heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, autism, ADHD and dementia. Nor is it the cause of depression, obesity, and metabolic  syndrome.

Genes Limited Role

The case for a substantial role of genes in susceptibility to the major human diseases has been refuted by a groundbreaking new analysis published by the public interest science organization, The Bio science Resource Project. Of the approximately 1,000 genes identified that confer susceptibility to disease only a tiny amount are of even limited importance..

The coast is clearing and the gene inquisitions may as well stop. The medical community is on the wrong path. This isn’t a game of multiple choice with the perpetual question being which gene is responsible for expanding waistlines. Ambiguity is what the medical establishment is good at. Instead of understanding the interdependence humans have with the environment, they make everything complicated.

Genes Vs. Environment

The results of the materials and new methods of farming may be the final piece in the equation. The testing before products leave the lab may not measure the effect or determine the long term impact on the citizens and the environment. Without being able to account for the impact our new way of life has on the population, genes may be the last place to look to eliminate disease states.