Healthy Eating Tips
Your Fountain of Youth
Your Life is in Your Hands
You have a choice. Do you want to follow some healthy eating tips or take a chance on prescription drugs. You’ve seen the parade of casualties: Health Ledger, Anna Nicole Smith, River Phoenix, John Belushi, a growing list. All of these notables suffered the extreme dangers of prescription drugs. In fact, the drugs and/or the combination of drugs killed them.
Beyond the dangers of possible addiction, there can be serious side effects associated with prescription drugs, especially when you’re on more than one medication. Statistics show that most seniors are on 5 or more drugs. Researchers have no idea how 3 drugs interact, let alone 5. They warn you of ‘possible’ side effects: dizziness, nausea, liver damage, heart attacks, strokes, infections that can lead to death. These are not made up side effects. Go to drugs.com or drkoop.com and check out any drug – alphabetically.
Man Made or God Made?
Medication may save your life. But healthy eating habits can heal your body as well. The food you’ve been eating has, in part, created the condition you have. Obesity can create diabetes and other metabolic diseases. A high fat diet will clog your arteries and probably lead to heart disease and/or strokes. Nature has provided you with health giving food that contain non-toxic, medicinal properties.
Usually, when you visit your doctor and he/she discovers you have high cholesterol or hypertension or pre-osteoporosis or arthritis, the first suggestion is medication. Changing your lifestyle to eating healthy is usually an afterthought. Should you take the medication and your condition doesn’t improve, your doctor will suggest you increase the dosage.
Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine said, “Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food.” That’s what these pages are all about. We at the Natural Healing Way want to show you how healthy eating can heal and how food affecst every area of your life. We’ll show you the benefits of living healthy and how to use food as natural healing remedies for arthritis joint pain, mood swings, respiratory ailments, obesity, fibromyalgia, even some natural healing remedies that have shown great promise as anti-cancer remedies.
We want to give you specific foods, a healthy living pathway to alleviate several conditions you may have. There are lots of things to eat and others to avoid for all around health as well. Healthy eating is not a six week program to follow-it’s a lifestyle change, one where you exchange old, negative habits for new, healthy one.
Here’s the first healthy eating habit to get into. This one can save your life, make your children healthier, happier and more manageable and maybe even keep your loved ones out of the emergency room. Ready?
Read the Labels
Pick up a bottle of I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter spray and the first words you read are ‘non-fat’. Here’s the confusing part. Government regulations say that as long as one serving contains less than ½ gram of fat, you can call it non-fat. What does that mean to you? It means that if one spray of I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter contains ½ grams of fat, then ten sprays contain 5 grams of fat. And if you pour half a cup on your popcorn, thinking you’re getting no fat, guess again. As you read the label remember...
. The numbers are 'per serving'. How many servings are in the product?
. In addition to fat check trans fat, sodium and sugar
. Most importantly, check the 'other ingredients'.
In the next pages we’ll tell you the most toxic chemicals food companies add to their products. Get started on more healthy eating today and feel better tomorrow.
Aspartame and High Fructose Corn Syrup, a not so Sweet Duo
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