How to eat, live and stay healthy
To stay healthy, the human body must meet certain basic requirements dictated to it by its biological make-up.
Oxygen is necessary to produce energy from food, to allow for the proper functioning of our body organs and to maintain good coordination of our systems, as well as to ensure the production and maintenance of body structures. Good oxygenation requires proper breathing, adequate vascularization of our organs and optimum functioning of the heart. Good oxygenation gives a glow to the skin.
Physical exercise not only supplies the much needed oxygen but it also strengthens our breathing and heart muscles. It opens up existing blood vessels, at the same time creating new ones. After good exercising, the heart beats more slowly, empties more effectively and the blood pressure drops. Breathing is deeper, less labored and emptying is more effective. Muscles acquire better nutrition and an appealing tone. Physical exercise burns body fat and keeps the mind alert.
For oxygen to be useful, the body needs food; not just any kind of food but the right food. It needs foods that do not create an acid environment in which diseases thrive or that create diseases in their own right.
Acid environment promotes establishment of micro-organisms and cancer. These produce chronic inflammations and proliferative lesions. Generalized infection and inflammation as physical stressors result in corticosteroids and adrenaline (stress hormones) secretion. Corticosteroids raise blood sugar and salt levels. The consequences of these are high blood sugar and pressure. Damage to arteries by some systemic infections will cause leakage of sugar from blood and its conversion into mucus by the micro-organisms for their use and this leads to persistence of some infections like syphilis in the body.Too much body weight due to fat accumulation produces an acid environment. Nucleic acids found in red meat are metabolized to uric acid, which also creates an acid medium. Meat found in fish and chicken is preferable. An acid medium prevents many of our body enzymes from performing their duties; the human body being conditioned to function best within the alkaline pH range. Drinking of alcohol and poor breathing lead to accumulation of acids in our cells and are detrimental to health. Fresh vegetables produce a conducive alkaline pH in the body that helps prevent infections and cancer.
Too much sugar or milk promotes excess mucus production, which is used by micro-organisms and cancer cells to grow. Use soy in place of milk. Eating too much refined sugar leads to rapid weight gain since this increases insulin release that leads to rapid conversion of carbohydrates to fats in the body. Another consequence of too much insulin secretion is exhaustion of supplies and tolerance which lead to diabetes mellitus. High fiber carbohydrate is less rapidly digested and allows for slow assimilation and less accumulation as fat in the body. Fats clog arteries leading to atherosclerosis and its deleterious consequences, mainly hypertension, stroke and heart attack.
Fresh vegetables, raw food, and beans provide desirable enzymes that are readily absorbed into the body. Vegetables and fruits provide anti-oxidants (vitamins A, C,and E) that remove toxic free-radicals from the body and carry needed oxygen to tissues in a form that enzymes need for cellular repair and function. Anti-oxidants/riboflavin in this capacity and metallic ions like magnesium, zinc, selenium boost the body's immunity and help fight infection. Vitamin E is known for its effects in supporting programmed cell death(apoptosis) which is a process whereby old cells are dissolved to give way to new viable ones. It is useful in cancer. Vitamin D prevents calcium-induced cellar proliferation and is useful in proliferative diseases like tuberculosis and cancer.
Macro-nutrients should be consumed in this order of preference: proteins followed by fibrous carbohydrates and then fats. The good fat is found in fish and plant oils. Plants contain polyunsaturates and phytosterols which are good; animals contain saturated fats and cholesterol, usually bad. Avoid especially trans fats found in some brands of 'butter' and in deep fries. They are low density, float and clog arteries.
Avoid anger and hate in your heart. These do not only lead to diseases, they prevent food digestion and assimilation.
Make sure you consult your doctor early enough when you notice anything abnormal in you so that s/he should advise you on what to do or get you treated. Better still, get regular medical checkups with your doctor.
Dr. Oliver Verbe Birnso
Oxygen is necessary to produce energy from food, to allow for the proper functioning of our body organs and to maintain good coordination of our systems, as well as to ensure the production and maintenance of body structures. Good oxygenation requires proper breathing, adequate vascularization of our organs and optimum functioning of the heart. Good oxygenation gives a glow to the skin.
Physical exercise not only supplies the much needed oxygen but it also strengthens our breathing and heart muscles. It opens up existing blood vessels, at the same time creating new ones. After good exercising, the heart beats more slowly, empties more effectively and the blood pressure drops. Breathing is deeper, less labored and emptying is more effective. Muscles acquire better nutrition and an appealing tone. Physical exercise burns body fat and keeps the mind alert.
For oxygen to be useful, the body needs food; not just any kind of food but the right food. It needs foods that do not create an acid environment in which diseases thrive or that create diseases in their own right.
Acid environment promotes establishment of micro-organisms and cancer. These produce chronic inflammations and proliferative lesions. Generalized infection and inflammation as physical stressors result in corticosteroids and adrenaline (stress hormones) secretion. Corticosteroids raise blood sugar and salt levels. The consequences of these are high blood sugar and pressure. Damage to arteries by some systemic infections will cause leakage of sugar from blood and its conversion into mucus by the micro-organisms for their use and this leads to persistence of some infections like syphilis in the body.Too much body weight due to fat accumulation produces an acid environment. Nucleic acids found in red meat are metabolized to uric acid, which also creates an acid medium. Meat found in fish and chicken is preferable. An acid medium prevents many of our body enzymes from performing their duties; the human body being conditioned to function best within the alkaline pH range. Drinking of alcohol and poor breathing lead to accumulation of acids in our cells and are detrimental to health. Fresh vegetables produce a conducive alkaline pH in the body that helps prevent infections and cancer.
Too much sugar or milk promotes excess mucus production, which is used by micro-organisms and cancer cells to grow. Use soy in place of milk. Eating too much refined sugar leads to rapid weight gain since this increases insulin release that leads to rapid conversion of carbohydrates to fats in the body. Another consequence of too much insulin secretion is exhaustion of supplies and tolerance which lead to diabetes mellitus. High fiber carbohydrate is less rapidly digested and allows for slow assimilation and less accumulation as fat in the body. Fats clog arteries leading to atherosclerosis and its deleterious consequences, mainly hypertension, stroke and heart attack.
Fresh vegetables, raw food, and beans provide desirable enzymes that are readily absorbed into the body. Vegetables and fruits provide anti-oxidants (vitamins A, C,and E) that remove toxic free-radicals from the body and carry needed oxygen to tissues in a form that enzymes need for cellular repair and function. Anti-oxidants/riboflavin in this capacity and metallic ions like magnesium, zinc, selenium boost the body's immunity and help fight infection. Vitamin E is known for its effects in supporting programmed cell death(apoptosis) which is a process whereby old cells are dissolved to give way to new viable ones. It is useful in cancer. Vitamin D prevents calcium-induced cellar proliferation and is useful in proliferative diseases like tuberculosis and cancer.
Macro-nutrients should be consumed in this order of preference: proteins followed by fibrous carbohydrates and then fats. The good fat is found in fish and plant oils. Plants contain polyunsaturates and phytosterols which are good; animals contain saturated fats and cholesterol, usually bad. Avoid especially trans fats found in some brands of 'butter' and in deep fries. They are low density, float and clog arteries.
Avoid anger and hate in your heart. These do not only lead to diseases, they prevent food digestion and assimilation.
Make sure you consult your doctor early enough when you notice anything abnormal in you so that s/he should advise you on what to do or get you treated. Better still, get regular medical checkups with your doctor.
Dr. Oliver Verbe Birnso
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