1. Avoid TV Watching
Susan Aldridge, Ph.D, with Harvard University, finds that for each two hours of daily TV watching, risk of obesity and Type 2 Diabetes increases 23% and 14%, respectively.
By comparison, simply standing and walking for two hours daily reduces obesity and diabetes risk 9% and 12%, respectively. Brisk exercise for two hours daily reduces obesity and diabetes risk 24% and 34%, respectively.
The author watches no TV, and he is an avid exerciser.
However, American men and women average 29 and 34 hours of TV, respectively, each week—the equivalent of one whole day each week is totally wasted watching TV.
The United Negro College Fund advertised that “a mind is a terrible thing to waste.” We agree. So, let’s not behave as if a “mind is a terrible thing.”
Use it or lose it. Never stop reading. Never stop learning. Turn the TV off.
2. Avoid Being Unchurched
A University of Texas study shows that regular churchgoers live, on average, seven years longer. Being unchurched can be hazardous in more ways than one. Belong to and attend regularly the house of worship that’s right for you. Settle your spirituality now. Don’t wait until you are near death.
3. Avoid The 10 Worse Junk Foods
In descending order, they are, fruit drinks (mostly sugar and water); white bread; doughnuts; decaffeinated coffee (caffeine is usually removed by a chemical cousin to paint solvent); soda; diet soda (usually sweetened by a headache, seizure, memory loss-causing toxin called aspartame); sugary cold breakfast cereal; deep dish pizza; ice cream; french fries (62% of people “supersize” their fries and waistlines at McDonalds) and potato chips.
Sugar, not cocaine, clearly is “the drug of choice” in America, as we ingest an average of 140 to 160 pounds of sugar per person per year. How sweet it is.
4. Avoid Not Taking A Good Multi Daily
The Levin Group in Falls Church, VA, a health policy study group, found that if every senior took a good multi-vitamin daily, we could save $1.6 billion in medical expenses over five years by reducing heart attacks, hospital stays, use of nursing homes, home health care, pneumonia and other infections.But why wait until you get older?
5. Avoid Internal Inflammations Leading To Disease
Check the Fibrinogen and C-Reactive Protein levels in your blood. Steven Sinatra, M.D. says-—as do many others-—that abnormal cholesterol levels may not be the only heart disease culprit. Many heart attack patients have normal cholesterol levels. Dr. Sinatra believes that internal inflammations may lead to heart disease.
C-Reactive Protein is a marker for inflammation. High levels of Fibrinogen are a marker for inappropriate internal blood clotting. Papain and bromelain reduce internal swelling.
There are things to reduce Fibrinogen levels---other than prescription drugs.
Sinatra names these controllable causes of internal inflammations--not enough Omega 3 oils; too many carbohydrates and unhealthy hydrogenated oils; toxins; vaccinations; obesity (fat cells secrete C-Reactive Protein); certain medications (including synthetic Hormone Replacement Therapy and birth control pills); viruses and infections (including herpes and gum disease, is now being linked to heart disease).
6. Don’t Drink Unfiltered Water In Mexico Or In The USA, Either!
There are about 6,500 municipal water systems on the USA. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says that only 20% of these systems meet the minimum requirements of the Safe Drinking Water Act.
Water is sanitized with chlorine or chloramine (blend of chlorine and ammonia). Apparently, Pinellas County Florida water system thinks chloramine is good for humans, but it is lethal to goldfish. They produced a goldfish protection brochure sharing this wisdom with us.
Though there are 35,000 pesticides, municipal water systems must only deal with six of them by law. Pesticides can cause birth defects, nerve damage, sterility and cancer.
Author Gary Null, Ph.D., says that our water also contains parasites and toxic minerals, including aluminium, mercury and cadmium. To this list, the author adds hormones, antibiotics, and prescription drug residues.
Think only the water is bad? Well, the EPA reports that 6 trillion pounds of chemicals are released into the environment each year, which work their way into our air, food and water.
Are these problems, as DuPont used to say decades ago, “better things for better living through chemistry?”
In some cases, treated water contains chloroform (which alters cholesterol metabolism and can increase the risk of liver cancer) and MX, an acidic derivative of chlorine (which increases the risk of bladder and rectal cancer).
7. Avoid Sedentary Living-—You Must Exercise
Did you know that the United States ranks 24th in health and longevity among 191 nations? Japan ranks number 1. It’s people are thinner than Americans, and they eat lots of fish, a source of omega oils.
And consider the Amish in Ontario. A study finds that only 4% of them are obese. They eat meats, gravies and sugary desserts and tons of calories, but they are old-fashioned, hardworking farmers.
Although the USA is 24th in health and longevity, we spend more per person, $3,274, than any other country each year on “sickness industry” health care.
America’s unhealthy condition is the result of an epidemic of obesity, poor diet, failure to exercise, toxicity of our home and work environments, and the overuse of prescription drugs and unneeded surgeries.
The National Center for Disease Control finds that 65.9% of obese people are trying to lose weight, but only 9.1% of them do regular, intensive exercise.
Among people of normal weight, though, 20.7% are trying to lose weight (why?) and 16.8% do regular and intensive exercise. What’s wrong with this picture?
The author exercises five days per week-—one hour three times per week on aerobic equipment (ellipticals and treadmills). He weight trains for one hour two days per week and does lots of stretching.
8. Avoid Diets—Diets Are A Four Letter Word
Diets do not work long term. You must change permanently your diet and start or increase your exercise. Diet is a four letter word which enriches the hucksters who create them. Whatever you lose dieting, you will gain it back—plus more.
