Anyone have any thoughts on how to be healthy and happy? What do y’all think about diet and exercise? Is there such a thing as bad exercising or exercise that makes you less healthy? Are doctors right about eating a good diet or are there other factors that are not being accounted for?
Diet matters: As you operate your body, you use energy and you wear down structures inside you (bones, muscle, skin, etc.). You need to eat to provide yourself with the energy to operate and the basic parts with which your body will repair itself.
Further, certain foods are harmful for you. There are certain compounds that your body cannot break down, and these put strain on the organs that must shunt them along.
Exercise: Exercise is stressful, as use of your body damages your body. It is important to minimize the stress and damage you incur while maximizing the positive effects of exercise. And there are many positive effects: You will be physically healthier, because your heart and lungs will be stronger, you will be able to do more physically, and you will not hurt yourself as easily (because your bones and muscles will toughen up in response to the stress). You will be emotionally/psychologically healthier: increased bloodflow will increase oxygen to your brain, and the small damage incurred will release seratonin in your brain, improving mood. You will also learn better, as oxygen and nutrients will be carried faster and more efficiently to your brain.
While our knowledge is not complete, we are fairly secure in certain aspects of our understanding of how our bodies function, and what they need to survive.
Diet is not the same for everyone. There are various metabolic types, and doctors are incorrect to prescribe one “good” diet to everyone.
How you eat basically determines what your mood is. Too much sugar gives you mood swings and makes you sluggish, big meals make you sluggish (and also makes it harder to breathe), etc…mostly because your body is absorbing whatever you eat. Anything you put into your body will either contribute to your health or rob you of it. Eating too much or of too many processed foods will either make you malnourished, will clog you and prevent you from nourishment, or your body will have to devote all of its energy to digestion. Why do you think people get sick so much? It’s because all of the mucous and stuff from what they eat attracts bacteria and clogs them up. Pasteur retracted his “germ theory” on his deathbed, saying instead that the terrain (i.e. your body) is everything…you might say that flies do not come if there is no garbage.
Start by eating a lot more raw food. Cooking destroys proteins, turns the blood sludgy/acidic, leaves an ash behind in your system, etc. Cut out all refined/processed foods, as they provide ZERO nutrition for your body and even rob your body of nutrition because they clog you up (obese people are actually the most malnourished because they have all that stuff clogging up their colon/systems). Eat foods whole, these vitamins/minerals are superior to pills. Follow healthy habits (i.e. don’t mix proteins/starches, balance cleansing and building foods, eat raw vegetables with anything cooked, eat lightly in the morning, etc.).
How you stand and how you breathe are also equally important as well. Breathe deeply with your stomach and through your nose, not shallowly through your mouth. Sit up straight with your neck back and spine stretched and shoulders back/down. Stretch, walk around a lot, rather than sit around all day.
As for exercise, if you do not move your lymph system, well, it produces the same effects. Exercise gives you more energy, speeds up your metabolism, etc. I think that exercise is necessary in today’s sedentary society, but extremity is not. Do walking/jogging, chase cars, do body weight exercises, etc.
There is a lot more I could say on this, if you would like. If you are interested in more, you might pick up Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Price, Live Food Factor by Schenk, or Can We Live to 150 Years? by Tombak. [/i]
one thing I knoticed is it is a huge balincing game.
Carbohydrates are required for action, the more you do the more you need.
protines are used to build cell tissue so when you are building muscle or recovering from an injury or illness you need protine.
vitamines and minerals are used to make the bodys functions easier clasic example being vitamine C being heplful for the immune system, reason being it makes those functions require less energy.
You can only have so much of any vitamine in your system though, when you have too much your body gets rid of it as waste. when you don’t have enough sertin bodily functions become more diffacult, some even to the point of being impossible, so it’s best to have the reccomended amount at least to keep things simple.
Most chemical agents have no useful function in your body, and a number are actually harmful, an example being caffine prevents your body from using calcium allong with it acting as a stimulant, so generally it’s wise to avoid chemical addatives.
Generally cooking destroys vitamines so most vegetables are best eaten raw. I dont think protine is destroyed by heat, but again it kills any vitamines making it no more than protine and minnerals, you would be supprised at the vitamine content in raw/rare meat.
certin meats should not generally be eaten raw because they often contain parasitic organisms that are killed by cooking, these are such things as salminella and some more abstract forms of tapeworms, Generally prok and poulyer should be cooked for this reason, Beef and Fish however are not generally prone th these sorts of parasites so they can be eaten raw with little or no worry.
a good deal of micro-organisms in foods, even at the point of rotting are harmless, sometimes they are even helpful, but it is generally concidered a bad Idea to eat rotting foods unless you know for sure there arent any harmful organisms in them, just to be safe.
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