Health, Diet and Weight Loss – 9 Factors For Permanent Good Health and Well-being.

Health, Diet and Weight Loss – 9 Factors For Permanent Good Health and Well-being.

by Diane Hoffmann

What is good health? Good health is a state of well being where optimum function in our body and good feeling is achieved. It is a place in our lives where we can achieve maximum productivity and functioning from our bodies and mind and where we feel most resistant to fatigue and disease.

To reach this state is not easy, I’m sorry to say. That’s why over 75% of Americans are not healthy in one way or another. It requires a lifelong program of health and wellness management brought on by the discipline of making the right choices of diet and exercise – one day at a time. And it seems, according to my own experience that the older you get the more you need to curb the intake of foods.

However, with a good state of mind and understanding of the importance of a good disciplinary program it can be easier to achieve. How do we get to good health and stay there? Here are 9 important factors that will lead up to permanent good health:

1.Self-driven discipline.
2.A positive attitude.
3.Desire, effort and patience.
4.Good nutrition choices.
5.Exercise.
6.Changing poor habits into healthy ones.
7.Knowledge of our body.
8.Education on the subject.
9.Continuous working on all the above.

What is sickness and disease?

If good health is a state of well being where optimum function in our body and good feeling is achieved, then what is sickness? It is the opposite where the body does not function well, bringing about an ill-feeling of fatigue, disease, aches and pains. If you are sick, your body is not living in harmony with normal principles. Ailments and pains are not normal. Health is normal.

Sometimes disease symptoms can be remedial steps to the body’s restoration, such as vomiting, diarrhea, fever, coughing, sneezing, etc.. Often sickness can be an intense bodily purification process. The body always strives to purify itself of harm.

To help the body rid itself of toxins, we need to eat properly, providing our body foods in natural state, raw or steamed. Meats & eggs should be well done and unprocessed, unrefined and without additives. With the help of a health professional, we can undertake a herbal program for cleansing.

To stay healthy, we need to get enough vigorous exercise, breath pure air, drink lots of pure water, balance our days in 1/3 sleep, 1/3 work, 1/3 leisure, and keep our body clean internally and externally.To help prevent sickness, we must be aware of what our bodies tell us at all times (how we look and feel), watch for our bodies’ signs and signals such as, symptoms, feelings, sensations. These are often overlooked until it is too late. For example one highly common and overlooked unhealthy sign is constipation. Simple. Common. Yet most of us don’t take immediate corrective action. It is an indication of poor food habits. Not enough water, not enough fibre, etc. That’s when the #6 factor above comes in: Changing poor habits into healthy ones.

Many ailments and serious diseases are caused by this chronic problem alone. But we keep on living with it, taking harmful laxatives, until a critical medical situation such as colitis or crohn’s disease, etc., sends us to the doctor or the hospital. This is one of the first signs of bad eating habits. All that’s required is an immediate change in diet. Foods do make the difference.

Diseases can also be the result of external causes involved in daily living such as, polluted air, non-nutritional foods, devitalized foods, bad eating habits, unhealthy foods and drinks, lack of exercise, uncontrolled emotions, toxics and poisons in the body.

Borderline health and vague feelings are when we may not feel sick but we could feel better, more energetic and enthusiastic. Again these are usually linked to nutrient deficiencies. Some of the possible symptoms are digestive disturbances, leg cramps, canker sores, eye discomforts in bright lights, scaly skin, chronic pains, headaches, etc.

Continuous knowledge and education in each of these issues and staying the course on the 9 factors listed above will go a long way to take us to permanent health and well-being./dmh

If you have any questions, please write them in the comments below and I will respond with an article on the subject.

To your health,

Diane


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Diane M. Hoffmann is a certified nutritional consultant and an entrepreneur of offline and online businesses. Diane offers this web site on health and stress management for business people who need to keep healthy and strong in order to run their businesses.

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