Taking Charge Of Your Health

Most health problems can be avoided. Many of the problems we deal with every day didn't have to be there at all, if we were willing to take a good hard look at ourselves and decide to be healthy.

The first question is, do you think your body wants to be healthy or do you think you have to medicate it into being "healthy?" An easy example is if you get a cut on your skin. You know that the bandage doesn't heal the cut, your body does. It just knows that it needs to heal that area and it gets to work. If you are a healthy person, the cut will likely heal much faster than if you are unhealthy.

I see this in my practice every day. I'm a chiropractor and we work with aligning the spine to improve the patient's health. In order for the spine to stay in its proper position, the muscles will need to work with us. The health of the muscles will determine how fast the patient gets results.

Too many people are in pain, come in and get treatment, just to find that the results take much longer than they thought they would. Then I see patients in moderately good health that bounce back much faster than expected. The patient that consistently makes more healthy choices will get better faster than the patient that doesn't. Period.

So how do you avoid most health problems and stay healthy? There's not a lot of mystery to it, believe me. I've tried, probably just like you, to find any other new possible way to get healthy other than what has been tried and true.

1. Eat right - What does this mean? Fruits and vegetables, you know, all the stuff you don't want to eat. If you look at your health as just the results of what you've been doing so far, this will help in your motivation. Eliminating one bad food at a time and replacing it with something healthy will go a long way. Maybe no more sodas, instead you'll be drinking water. Replacing green tea for coffee, or reducing your sugar intake.

Continue to make these better choices and eventually you'll see a big difference in how you feel. Many conditions are the result of long term diet issues. If you eat poorly, you don't give your body any materials to maintain your health.

2. Exercise - Don't start your new exercise program by opening up your front door and running 10 miles. Find some ways to build momentum in your exercise program. Take a walk, go play catch with your child (or even your dog), or get a bike and start doing laps around your block. Find a way to get started and go from there.

Exercise will improve the tone of your muscles, make you stronger, and most importantly, will help you deal with stress. Stress is a huge factor in your health.

It all sounds to easy, right? It's not easy. Staying consistent with these elements of your goal to get healthy will yield plenty of benefits, just figure out your best way of sticking with it. I've found that adding in (or taking out) one thing at a time will make all the difference. You won't lose fifty pounds in six weeks, but whatever you do lose will stay gone. Over the long-term, that's what will make all the difference in your health. Take charge of your health!

Dr. Philip Cordova is a chiropractor in Houston, Texas. More information about this Houston Chiropractor can be found on his website at http://www.MyHoustonChiropractor.com

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Heal Your Body With a Raw Food Diet

Easier Digestion Raw food presents lesser problems to your digestive system. The absence of oil and other harmful cooking ingredients allows your digestive system to quickly and smoothly digest food and eliminate waste from your system without making you experience any acidic reaction. Digesting raw food also does not lead to bile or any other residual effects. If you start with a raw diet, however, be sure not to immediately mix it with cooked food as the instant combination will not react well inside your stomach.

Easier digestion is also caused by the increased content of enzymes in raw food. With more enzymes at work within your body, you get to have lesser toxins which will consequently lead to lower health risks and weight gain.Better Immune System Bacteria as well as other microorganisms found within raw food benefit your health by strengthening your body immune system. Since prevention is always the best cure, strengthening your body defense system will make you tougher against all sorts of disease.

Stabilizing Body Mass Index If you are worried about your weight, taking a raw food diet could help you achieve your weight loss goals. When you want to lose weight, you need to look at the bigger picture of things and know your body mass index. If you already have the right Stabilizing Body Mass, a raw food diet will help you keep your body mass Index stable. Lower Heart Disease Your heart will greatly benefit from a raw food diet since it eliminates most of the ingredients and food types that lead to higher heart risk. With a raw food diet, you can look forward to leading a happier and healthier life.

Speedier Healing Not all of us are like Superman and able to heal bullet wounds in an instant. We are not like other magical creatures either that can regenerate lost limbs. As we are all ordinary humans only, we can simply rely on natural sources to keep our body heal faster and one way of doing that is by increasing intake of omega fatty acids.Omega fatty acids are one of the most important components of a raw food diet. They can be found in certain types of fish and leafy green vegetables. Omega 3 promotes cell growth and you can just imagine what would happen to your body without a healthy supply of Omega 3.

Healthier Skin Skin is the most commonly afflicted part of your body by cancer. With a healthy raw food diet, however, you will be able to give your skin added protection protection that mere skin care products can not really give you with.In spite of the numerous healthy benefits one can derive from raw food diet, it is not a dietary regime that is considered flawless. There are medical experts expressing concern regarding its safety and effectiveness. For one, people must make sure that the raw foods they eat are not greatly exposed to pesticides.

But if you can make sure that all produce you consume are organic then you are in the right track.

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Use Your Spirit to Restore Your Health

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that Stress accounts for around 75% of all doctor visits. This involves an extremely wide span of physical complaints including, but not limited to: headache; back pain; heart problems; upset stomach; stomach ulcer; sleep problems; tiredness; inability to overcome disease; accidents.

Emotional Stress is a major contributing factor to the six leading causes of death in the United States: cancer, coronary artery disease, accidental injuries, respiratory disorders, cirrhosis of the liver and suicide.

Most life-threatening diseases show up within 2 years of a stressful life event such as the death of a family member, an accident, a move or a divorce.

Since stress is such a huge contributor to health issues, you really need a consistent way to reduce stress in your life, and the effects of stress on your body, mind and spirit. There are many ways to reduce the effects of stress, you may already know some of them, like exercise and meditation. Both of these will help you deal with the stress of the day, the things that happen at work, the bills, the kids, etc.

But when your health really takes a hit, it affects more than just your body. It affects your thinking, your emotions and your spirit. Especially when you are looking for something to compliment your medical routine, or you feel like you have tried everything and have not gotten the results you wanted, you need a new acumen to add tools to your toolbox.

Reviving your spirit and getting in touch with that part of you that is directly connected to your higher power can be vitally effective in restoring your health. By correcting your thinking and emotions, you are setting in motion corrections in your physical energy as well. Miracles have happened through prayer and spirituality – and by opening up to the healing available to you through spirit, who knows what you may experience. I can assure you – it will be profound and extraordinary, and good.

Find a quiet place where you can close your eyes and not be disturbed for a few minutes. Close your eyes and focus on your breathing, allowing your mind to still and relaxing into a meditative state. Any visions, thoughts or emotions that pass through your mind, just acknowledge them, then let them go. All that matters right now is you, your breathing, your relaxation.

Imagine that deep inside of you, in your center, is a crystal. This crystal represents your emotional, physical and spiritual health. Feel yourself shrink down, down, down, getting smaller and smaller until you can fit right inside that crystal, and see the walls of the crystal around you, as though it were hollow inside and you were standing in the center. Let the walls of the crystal shelter you and protect you as you gaze at them with a new perspective.

As you see that crystal from the inside, you can see any flaws, any cracks that need repair, any angles that need correction. You can see any colors that need repainted, clarity that needs refreshed and cloudiness that begs to be wiped clean.

Here standing inside your crystal, you can see the effects of time on your spirit, emotions, thoughts, beliefs and body. From this place, become aware of the emotional issues that are making you unhealthy and keeping you from being as healthy as you want to be. You can expose the root cause for every blemish in your crystal…your life energy, your spirit.

Allow those emotions, those unresolved experiences, expressions, communications and acts to come to the surface where you can work with them. As you do, imagine that your connection to spirit, to your higher power absorbs you, it grows all around you as you stand in awe at the sheer vastness and greatness of it. Standing in the essence of that power, you feel that it is clean and pure, and you are one with that power. You are one with your creator. You are one with it’s energy. You know that this higher power holds no fear, no resentment, no anger, no worry. You know that this higher power forgives you and all others. This higher power knows only love – complete and unconditional love. That is all. As you are one with this higher power, connected to it spiritually and energetically, you feel that power, the strength, the forgiveness, the love.

Feel it healing the blemishes in your crystal. Feel it healing the old experiences, emotions, traumas, sicknesses. There is no reason for you to hold on to those things. Let them go now, and give your higher power permission to heal you. As it does, imagine the cloudiness fades, the cracks are sealed, and the crystal becomes clear and flawless.

Feel that unconditional love and imagine it continuing in your life. Let yourself just bask in those feelings. When you are ready, take a few deep breaths and open your eyes.

This can be a very powerful exercise both by yourself or with a group. It allows you to communicate directly with a healing source and really connect with it’s healing power. Use this process often, and you will find your stress decreasing, you will notice a boost in your emotional balance and may even notice an instant improvement in your physical health.

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Who Cares About Your Health?

Who cares about your health? Really. Do you think that the owners of the pharmaceutical companies care at all about whether or not your body gets better or do you think that their main concern is seeing how they can, unfortunately, profit from the sickness or disease or discomfort you may be experiencing? Let’s find out.

This is something that I am reporting about. There have been several studies into the human body and there have been made many discoveries. Among those discoveries is a revealing truth that everybody knows, but not everyone is aware of. Let me give you an example of what I am talking about.

When you were a child, just learning how to ride a bike, if you were like most of us, you fell a few times. What happened after you fell from the bike and got back up? Did you have to tell your body to send out the endorphins to calm your body and numb some of the pain so it didn’t hurt to bad?

Did you have to go to hospital for a little scratch so the doctor could bandage it up and give you some sort of medicine for your body to heal? Of course not, unless it was a major, traumatic fall. What happened is your body naturally released those endorphins and began healing itself delivering the needed materials.

What I am saying here is that research shows and science acknowledges that Nothing can heal the body. The body must heal itself. This is something that every scientist knows and it is proven. However, although some of the medicine we take may help a little to aid the body in healing, most medicine simply does not do much of anything.

Like I said, most people subconsciously know that but are not consciously aware of it. So what happens is that our bodies are having a harder and harder time healing because we do not take in what our bodies need to have a healthy recovery and be able to snap back into action.

What I am talking about here is the fact the in the 1920’s it was discovered that our soil, the soil in the Unites States of America is 80% mineral and vitamin deficient! What does that mean to you and me? That means we can eat four times as much today and not get a fourth of the nutrients we would have before the 1920’s.

So what can you do about it? Well, scientists have stated that every living person should consume of a multivitamin supplement as well as a mineral supplement. There are many on the market, but research has shown that the most effective ones are liquid multi vitamin/mineral supplements.

Although there is more to write, I will leave it at that until the next issue of 'Who Cares About Your Health?’ Until next time, have a Happy, Healthy Day!

To Healthy Living,

Henry Vargas

Henry Vargas is a student of nutrition and is highly concerned with the health status of this country. Henry feels it is important that people become aware of what is really going on in their bodies. Taking care of your body is important because, as Henry says "You only have one body so you better take care of it so it will take care of you". Henry is a young man with great ambition and is on a mission to help others rectify the damage done to their bodies.

Henry is an entrepreneur with several business' and is a Certified Prosperity Coach with Money Tree Seminars and has studied under the mentorship of Myron Golden. He is a successful life consultant, transformatinal speaker, and successful internet marketer with several websites running. Henry has come to be known as Latin America's Marketing King because he is of Colombian descent.

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