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Click to see how Body Balance got started Health Primer Series 3 The Holistic Approach to Health Holistic: "relating to or concerned with wholes or with complete systems rather than with the analysis of, treatment of, or dissection of parts." When considering the nutrition of the body, one must take into consideration all of the body's systems that participate in the consumption and assimilation of nutrients. In other words, just popping pills and hoping for the best is a naive approach to good health. Even the right nutrients can be of little use to a digestive system that is in poor working order. One must prepare and empower the body to make the most use of nutrients, so that the goal of fostering high health will be achieved. It helps to have a basic understanding of how the body works, and to use that information to develop a strategy for meeting the body's needs. FIRST, CLEANSE YOUR BODY Highly refined foods, including sugar and white flour, make us susceptible to intestinal problems such as colitis, constipation, diverticulitis, hemorrhoids, irritable bowel and Crohn's disease. Significantly, these disorders are rare in parts of the world where traditional foods provide much more fiber than the modern, Western diet. Studies show that more people seek relief from intestinal complaints than all other ailments combined! Proper nutritional support of this vital body system is a major key to health. Toxins in your colon continuously challenge your body's immune system, using precious energy which makes you feel sluggish, while promoting sickness and disease. Without proper cleansing, healthy nutrients cannot be absorbed efficiently into the body, and dangerous toxins can continue to undermine your best efforts to improve your health. SECOND, NOURISH AND REBUILD YOUR BODY Simply put, give your body what it needs. In Food Group Folly, we learned that our bodies require 90 nutrients each and every day. In The Vitamins Myth, we discovered that those nutrients should be delivered to the body in the most absorbable form possible. Nourishing the body requires special attention to deficiency and hereditary problems. Identifying weaknesses of the system, or basic health problems, should enable us to respond with above average doses of certain nutrients, not only to meet the bodies basic needs, but to aid in the rebuilding process. It is important when nourishing the body that as much attention as possible be given to supplementing with whole food products. There is no need to turn our bodies into vitamin factories, and too much of some nutrients in the wrong form (i.e. metallic minerals) can actually be dangerous. Whole food supplements that are naturally high in nutritive value are the best choice, as it is virtually impossible to ingest an overdose of the nutrients contained in such products. THIRD, PROTECT YOUR BODY Antibiotics have people living longer today than ever before. Unfortunately, as modern science creates antibiotics, the germs themselves respond with resistance strategies to ward off our medicines, and become even more dangerous. Medical solutions can often have a suppressive effect on our bodies natural defense mechanisms. In other words, instead of medicines supporting our immune system, they often act to suppress and replace it. When the body's immune system is weak, sickness and disease are not easily rejected. Given what it needs, the body becomes efficient at dealing with sickness, infection and disease in an almost miraculous way. Added to the proper nourishment mentioned above, certain natural products, not medicines, can super charge the immune system and help the body reach its greatest genetic potential for health and longevity. FOURTH, BEAUTIFY YOUR BODY Research announced in September 1999 at the British Association's Festival of Science in Sheffield, UK, indicated that drastic dieting can impair memory and slow reaction times, adding to already known adverse affects such as depression and low self-esteem. The fact is, most dieting that people engage in has more negative effects on personal health and longevity than positive. Starvation and deprivation dieting can worsen osteoporosis and contribute to the development of debilitating diseases, such as diabetes. A holistic approach to weight loss and beautification means protecting and encouraging the body's natural process of fat elimination and nutrient assimilation. Life Force has developed the highest quality products with a holistic approach to physical health and longevity. Click any of the links on the side to preview products that cleanse, nourish / rebuild, protect or beautify. |
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