Holistic Nutrition
(The Basics of Healthy Living)

What is Health?

What is health to you?  To some it means not being sick, some say it's being able to do what they want to do.  Some equate health with energy, and some say health is long life.  To me, health is not just the absence of diseases, but it should also mean a life full of energy or vitality.

But where does energy or vitality comes from within us?  We learned in school about cells and mitochondria within our cells which are the power source that give us that energy.  Our body is made up of about 100 trillion cells which need to be treated with care in order for us to always have that energy supply.  We should treat our body as 100 trillion cells and not just as flesh, blood and bones.

Here is how a mitochondrion from our cell looks like.  There are many of these within one single cell.  This is the power source of our energy.

By knowing this, we now have a choice how we want to grow old.  We can choose whether to grow to 70 but feel and look like 50;  or we can choose to grow to 50 but feel and look like 70 (assuming you're not there yet).

Having said that, I want to tell you that there is no such thing as ageing.  There is only the degeneration of our cells¾either our cells are damaged or they die prematurely because of our ignorance and careless eating.

What we put into our body cause our cells to die.  It could be from the air that we breathe, the water that we drink, and the food that we eat that are choking and killing our cells.  Even prolonged emotional stress can cause havoc in our body. 

Our reckless lifestyle causes our cells to die due to toxins, acidic environment and oxidation.  If only we know how to feed our cells correctly, we can prolong the lifespan of our cells to keep our body looking and feeling young.  How do we do that, you ask?  Read on ...

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Cells Degeneration

Below is a little graph to show you the stage you are at with your cells degeneration. Most diseases start from a simple inflammation or a discharge that you would ignore (see Stage 1 in chart below). 

Then you start feeling fatigue, constipated, have a headache, or lower backache or even simple skin blemishes.  These are all signs of the beginning of your poor health (see Stage 2 in chart below).  If at this stage, you start to realize and take action and start eating and living healthy, there might yet be hope that your problem may be reversed.

When the doctor tells you that you have high-blood pressure or cholesterol, or you have asthma or worse, tumors, you would know that you are at Stage 3 where you chronically encounter very poor and weak health.

Don't wait till you reach Stage 3 or 4 before you start doing anything.  It might then be too late.  Help is now available.  The answer is by feeding your cells with nutrition.  More on this below ...

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How Our Cells Die

When we take too much acid-forming (harmful) foods, it creates an acidic environment in our body that causes cells to die.  When the cells die, our body becomes even more acidic and it creates a perfect environment for bacteria to breed and diseased cells to spread.

Then we fall sick and we see the doctor who prescribes more acid-forming drugs.  The drugs will create other side effects because our body is already acidic.  It becomes a cycle and it goes on and on until our body starts to break down and degenerative diseases set in.

We need to break the cycle by cutting out on the harmful foods as much as possible and feeding our cells with the proper nutrients.  Our 100 trillion cells basically need only four very important factors to stay healthy and happy.  If we take the trouble to adhere to these four factors, we can be sure that our happy cells will keep us energetic and generally healthy.

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