A BALANCING ACT

A BALANCING ACT

Your body is always seeking a balance and a perfect body would be one that is in perfect balance. You may think of that perfect balance as being a null point with no deficiencies or excesses but that would require an environment and a diet like the one in the proverbial “Garden of Eden”.

We however, live in an actual world where there are water filters that attempt to return water to its unpolluted state. Artificial fertilizers that only attempt to make the land as fertile as it once was. Air filters to purify the air, soaps, disinfectants and detergents to try and keep your immediate environment tidy and germ free but what do you do about your food when it has been sprayed with pesticides that penetrate the skin and are found in the fruit itself?

Cooking does nothing to destroy those chemical substances but in addition to doing nothing to get rid of the chemical problem, the chemical, it does destroy the natural, enzymes that would normally assist in digesting the fruits and vegetables?

Can you imagine what your stomach goes through trying to digest what is considered food, but instead is loaded with pesticides and preservatives that are present to keep it from breaking down but are consumed It’s like mission impossible headed for self-destruct.

What does your stomach do with that mass of denatured food? Ever had indigestion or heartburn? That’s your stomach saying.“Houston, we have a problem.” Your stomach does the best it can but there are limits to what your digestive system can handle. It was built to thrive on a healthy diet of natural, healthy food.

Eventually, what food content the body recognizes, along with that inert food and foreign chemical matter, is going to find its way to your liver where your liver is also given another impossible task of filtering useless and unrecognizable substances out of the blood.

These substances are toxic minerals and chemicals however, and your liver is really made to handle only organic waste can be excreted through the bowels and kidneys. Even in the small quantities in processed foods that are said to be harmless the accumulative affect can be great

These chemicals which are not acceptable or useful to any part of your body, are disregarded and must be stored somewhere. You may or may not consider this accumulation as harmful heavy metals but since they cannot all be expelled, they can have a devastating effect over a consistent period of time.

I have personally known folks who have reached a threshold of intolerance where even one piece of fruit. or a vegetable sprayed with a pesticide, (no matter how well it was washed) would put them in the hospital for 3 days in a compromised condition.

The two most likely places that toxins will be stored are in fat and in the liver itself. There is condition called steotosis where fat invades the liver. This condition leads to inflammation in the liver. Makes you wonder if the fat isn’t accumulating there to furnish a place for the liver to store the toxins?

Your body is very wise indeed and is able to improvise even with an unhealthy diet when that is all it has to work with. I welcome your comments and questions. We are all in this together to create a happy and healthy diet. Thanks for visiting and do come back again. Hope to see you tomorrow.

Ever Been On A Diet?

EVER BEEN ON A DIET?

Unless you have put on more than just a few pounds, you may have answered no to that question but in the strict sense of the word, you have always been on a diet. A diet is what you eat every day. The word has become so associated with weight loss, losing body fat or dieting for health that we automatically think of diet in that sense. It is pretty much on everyone’s mind.

The center for disease control and prevention statistics shows that nearly one third of US adults (33.85%)  are obese) Approximately 17% (or 12.5 million) of children and adolescents aged 2---19 years are obese. Questions about diet and losing weight are among some of the most frequent questions asked online

This leads us to believe that there are many more that may not have reached the stage of obesity but are somewhere on the way.

There are two prominent factors involved in the problem of getting rid of excess weight. The first is in knowing specifically, how and why those extra pounds got there.

The second is in knowing how to remove what your body has already stored without the process compromising your health and taking over your life.

A real magic bullet or pill, as a solution, has not yet been found nor is it likely that it ever will be. Many plans and treatments are aimed at the symptoms rather than the cause and in the process, create an imbalance in the body that can also cause a few pounds to be dropped but never really solve the problem.

If you have ever had food poisoning, you know how fast that can drop your weight but I am sure you will also agree that it is not a good, healthy way to lose weight.

Being overweight is a lot like being lost in that the best way to get back to the starting point would be to retrace your steps over the same path and undo the things that brought you here in the first place. It is possible to make that return trip and undo some of those mistakes. As long as you know what caused the extra pounds. That, along with some changes in eating habits and life-style makes it possible to do just that and perhaps even experience some notable improvements in your health and the way you feel as a bonus..

Without taking care of the two factors mentioned it is likely that all the exercise, calorie counting or starvation diets in the world will do but very little to help solve the problem. Until the first two problems are solved, it’s like trying to make two opposing forces work for you. If you have tried any of those methods, you must know how aggravating and time consuming they can be. Losing weight is a matter of getting everything to work together in the right direction.

Fat is one of the easiest places for the body to store toxins so over the next few days I will be bringing more information on the solution to the subject of healthy weight loss. Thanks you for visiting. I hope you liked the message and will stop by again tomorrow.