Your body was designed very specifically. Your car was designed very specifically. How do you take care of your car? Most everyone is very careful in changing the oil, changing the air filters, changing the spark plugs, keeping the air in the tires, putting quality gasoline in the tank etc. We know for a fact that the better yo care for your car, the longer it will last. you can put a mix of gas and water in the tank to save money and ignores changing the oil and the air filters, but what will happen? Eventually the car breaks down, sooner than expected. if only you would consider better preventative maintenance.
When it comes to health, it is hard to sell prevention. If you ignore the way your body was designed, it will fail. It may start failing slowly as you begin to complain about constipation, joint pain and general fatigue, or it may just completely break down all at once. You may accept this as “life” or “aging.” Regardless of any test, procedure, massage, acupuncture, supplements or other healing modalities available, the most important thing to your health is learning how to eat how you were designed.
Here is a very brief lesson about the human body. Your body has 75 trillions cells. your body reproduce 150 billion brand cells very single day. These cells do not come out of thin air. They are constructed based on the availability and quality of nutrients available in your body. Aging is very simple the loss of more cells than your body is able to reproduce optimally. Almost everyone is lacking in vital nutrients needed to replicate healthy cells on a daily basis.
It’s a no brainier that soda, fast food, cookies, cakes, candy, processed packaged foods, cigarettes, alcohol, pharmaceutical drugs, hormone and antibiotic loaded meat, homogenized and pasteurized dairy products and the over 70,000 chemicals in our food supply are not building blocks to efficiently produce 150 billions new cells each day. So how fast are you aging?
Have you ever heard the phrase, “You are what you eat?” Are you consciously aware of the foods you put in your mouth each and every day? Do ask yourself,”Are the foods I’m eating close to God’s original design, therefore providing life?” Or, ” Are they heavily processed and poisoned by big business, therefore void of life?” Yes, you will never be prefect and nobody expects you to be.But make quality foods choices the rule and not the exception. Take the garbage out of your daily life, and only indulge on very special occasions. Eventually you will find yourself only choosing life, with rare exception. When you provide quality foods to your body based on its design, you feel amazing, energetic and full of life! Who doesn’t want that?
So how are you designed? The human body is designed to eat raw fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds. I am not a vegetarian myself, and I am not promoting vegetarianism. However, Americans eat too much meat! It is a fact that disease went through the roof with heart disease, diabetes and cancer after the industrial revolution when we switched from primarily a plant-based diet to a meat-based diet. Watch a movie call Eating that provides convincing evidence to this fact. We are not loins. Lions have razor sharp canine teeth, very short intestinal tracts and produce large amounts of hydrochloric acid. They are carnivores, designed to eat lots of meat. Humans are not.
If you learn nothings else from reading this article, please consider reducing your meat intake. For your health and for the sake of your family members, this might be the most important step you take towards better health. If you worried about not getting enough protein, forget it. That is a lie perpetuated by the beef industry and you are brainwashed. The largest animals on the planet with the biggest muscles and the strongest bones are all vegetarians. Here are some quick guidelines for you:
1. Choose quality meat, only from humanely raised 100 percent grass fed beef, free range, cage free chickens and eggs, fresh fish (wild or farmed is a whole other article) and wild game such as bison, elk, deer, duck etc. Go to the farmers market and talk to people!
2. with each meal eat no more than a portion of meat that would fit in the palm of your hand, about 4oz.
3. Eat meat no more than one meal per day maximum, and ideally shoot for meat only twice weekly.
4. Do not combine meat with starches )like breads, french fries, beans etc.) Instead only eat your meat with vegetables. The meal should be 80 percent veggies and 20 percent meat. If you do this you will avoid digestive problems like gas, bloating, acid reflux and heartburn.
Processed foods is a 20Th century invention. Along with massive meat consumption, processed food was not a part of human history anywhere on the globe since the beginning. couple that with the invention of over 70,000 different chemicals and you have a recipe for death. And that is exactly what is happening to Americans. The first symptom of a heart attack means death for 50 percent of its unfortunate recipients.
I am not promoting extremes. I am not advocating you to eat a certain way, become a vegetarian, a vegan or a raw foodist. I am asking you to use commons sense. Think about how humans have eaten for thousands of years. Think about how your body is designed to eat. Think about what has happened to our culture and our environment over the last, very brief 100 years. Awareness and consciousness starts with you. Your consciousness led you to read this article right now, so I encourage you to act on it! With all my blessing and to your vibrant health!
Vaughn Lawrence is a Naturopath, Herbalists and Nutritional Consultant. Vaughn takes on the challenge of educating people that health is a lifestyle and not a quick fix, band-aid or a magic pill.
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