How to Get Started in Improving Your Health
How to Get Started in Improving Your Health (Getting Started)
In the ancient Mesopotamian civilization, mythology surrounded total health and healing. The doctors were mere conduits for the gods to act out their mystical healing. The goddess, Gula, was the supreme healer, the “great physician of the black-headed ones” (Sumerians). Her whole family participated in the deliverance of health, mortality, and the ascent into the afterlife. Her son, Ninazu, was known for his association with the serpents, the dark world, and healing. It is from this mythology that we have the ancient serpent on the pole which is the symbol of modern medicine today.
Ancient History Encyclopedia. http://www.ancient.eu/article/687/
Every culture benefits from the knowledge of previous generations through stories, anecdotes, and often folklore. In my quest to explain how you will be able to build a healthy life, I have chosen to color my thoughts with ancient secrets that I have uncovered as I have studied various civilizations of the past. These sage points have made so much sense to me in my personal journey into ultra-health, and I will be sharing them with you over the pages that follow.
My advice to you is to take our blog articles seriously, follow my suggestions, and your health will improve. I really believe this! I have been able to reduce the action points you need to follow down to only 35. Now if you add one action point a day you will complete this transformation in just 35 days. If you are aggressive you can even do it faster. When you incorporate them into your life, you will find out what it is really like to live!
Bernard Beale is a health enthusiast based in San Antonio, Texas. Him and his wife Angela have written several books to help people take their health to the next level.
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Become a “Tip of the Spear!”
A well-aimed spear is worth three.
-Tad Williams
The “Tip of the Spear” is a phrase used by the military to define successful, leading edge, aggressive warfare. And people that pursue such a course become the “best of the best.” You can also apply this term to define individuals that “overcome” extreme circumstances by using extraordinary effort. The only way to beat your health problems is to conquer them as if you are fighting a
battle for your life. Oh, by the way, this is for your life! Pay close attention! People that suffer from chronic disease conditions like diabetes, obesity, coronary artery disease, high blood pressure, and other health conditions, for example, nearly always, follow the pattern of eating and drinking depicted below. I call them
“FOLLOWERS OF THE ‘TIP-UP SPEAR.’”
TIP-UP SPEAR (The Wrong Spear)
Let’s break this down. What exactly am I saying here with this diagram? If you are a follower of the Wrong Spear, you will more than likely have poor eating and drinking habits. I am going to discuss this with you meal by meal.
Breakfast: More than likely you usually skip breakfast or you eat a very small amount of food in the morning when you rise. Your thinking follows a logic that says, if you start out your day with no calories by skipping breakfast and starving till lunch time, you will lose weight.
Right? Wrong! The opposite happens; the body goes into fat storage protection mode. Your thinking is following the wrong logic. In the morning your body is most ready for nutrition. Morning is the ideal time to eat a hearty, healthy meal! Feed it!
Lunch:
After skipping breakfast you probably feel that now you can eat a little more, and you eat a good size lunch. Your hunger is very strong; you usually eat a bit aggressively because you are very hungry! By missing that first meal you have started the starving signals to fire, and it is just the beginning; you will be chasing hunger all day long.
Snacks:
You have been programmed to believe that frequent, small meals help to speed up your metabolism and cause your body to burn hyper-energy and therefore you will lose weight. Stop and think for a minute. Is this working for you? I bet it isn’t; but, no matter what, you keep doing it because it makes you think you are doing something about your weight. This is bad thinking and you are
going to have to change it quickly! The stomach needs a minimum of four hours of rest after a meal. Constant eating draws down valuable life forces that you need in order to maintain a robust immune system.
Dinner:
After a day of hard work, starving yourself at breakfast, and a hearty lunch, it is natural to feel the need for a reward meal. Dinner becomes that reward, the largest meal of your day. Dumping large calories into the stomach promotes storage at the worst possible time in the evening! As you end your day your activities greatly reduce, you end up slumping on the couch in front of the TV falling asleep. Where are all those calories going? How about to your gut? (And soon, you won’t be able to see your feet, when
you look down… you will see nothing but tummy.)
Liquids:
All day long you are probably drinking soda, and lots of coffee. Or, perhaps you are one of those
who guzzles those poisonous, high-energy drinks… those empty calorie drinks that dump grand amounts of sugar, high fructose corn syrup, and a boat-load of caffeine into your body. This is most unhealthy! You have got to do
something about this fast!
Liquids are your primary source of hydration. It is crazy to live on coffee, soda, and high-energy drinks! The sugar is bad and caffeine is a diuretic. It is taxing your kidneys and beating down your body! You are aging fast
and it will catch up with you. BAD, BAD… BAD!
PAY ATTENTION! These are terrible habits
that you must break and BREAK NOW!
Notice the difference. Using my system, outlined in this book, start by establishing your goals and fill in
the rest from there. Turn your “Spear Tip” down and you will become the “Tip of the Spear!”
How to Set Goals for Health
How to Set Goals for Health
By Bernard Beale
The body will go where the mind sends it.
–Unknown
I want you to begin your journey with this simple exercise. Let’s get your health goals clearly identified. You may be tempted to skip this section, but don’t! You will see, this is absolutely vital!
In the ancient of most writings, the Bible, Moses the prophet gave the children of Israel an impressive representation of how not to forget the commandments, judgments, and statutes. They can be reduced to these six actions:
-Teach
-Observe
-Keep
-Hear
-Place in your heart
-Repeat constantly
I will reveal to you how to accomplish a transformation of your life following these and many other simple principles. Your task will be to observe them carefully, place them in your heart, and repeat them constantly. Repetition makes for good learning.
You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
Deuteronomy 6:9
Start your journey by circling your 35-day goal below. (Print this page if you need to.) If you don’t see your goal in the items “a” through “f” below, on a separate piece of paper write your own personal goal(s). Be very specific and make them realistic and achievable.
a. I want to lose ____ pounds
b. I want to improve my diabetes
c. I want to have less pain
d. I want to have less depression
e. I want to reduce my cholesterol
f. I want to have a lower blood pressure
g. I want to beat this addiction
We have talked about how to set goals for health.
Now take these goals and tape them on the mirror in your bathroom, hang them all over the place, including on the doorpost so you will see them when you come and go and on the mirror so you will see them when you get up in the morning to wash your face and brush your teeth. Remind yourself constantly!
I will be continually stressing to you to keep your goals always in sight. This is the first Action in establishing ultra-health. Know where you want to go and fix your sight there and don’t stop till you get there.
Bernard Beale is a health enthusiast based in San Antonio, Texas. Him and his wife Angela have written several books to help people take their health to the next level.
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How to Get Healthy the Natural Way
How to get healthy the natural way
By: Karen Barrientos
Have you ever stopped to think about the sun? The closest star to our planet, the SUN in recent years has been portrayed as the culprit to skin cancer. If this is true why is all life on Earth dependent upon the SUN? Maybe we forgot just how important the SUN is for our bodies? Let us take a closer look at the SUN our dear old friend. Sunlight exposure on the skin creates natural Vitamin D in our bodies. Because of the scarcity of Vitamin D in the food that we eat, it seems that our other dear friend NATURE intended for the human body to generate most of the Vitamin D from sunlight exposure. There is a wide spread of Vitamin D deficiency causing many problems among us. Are you taking Vitamin D? Did you know all you have to do is get 15 to 30 minutes of daily sunshine! A cloudy day will still provide you with the benefits of the sun as the sunlight rays still come through – keep your sunglasses off …the rays into the eyes are beneficial just remember not to stare directly into the sun!
The sun has been blamed for being the culprit or the causative agent in skin cancers. Promoters of this theory have said that cancer is on the rise because we are spending more time in the sun sunbathing. Skin cancer is a relatively recent epidemic. In the 1930s 1 in 500 people would develop skin cancer, today the number is closer to 1 in 5! Is it really the sun that is the culprit or could there be something else involved? Things that make you go “hmm??”. I personally do not believe the promoters of this particular theory. In fact, for centuries people have spent entire days in the sun, in ancient times, athletes trained in the sun because it had such a marked improvement in muscle strength and endurance levels. My ancestors worked in the fields planting, harvesting and turning the soil for the next crops to repeat the planting and harvesting cycle. I never heard of any of my direct ancestors getting skin cancer and most of them lived long healthy lives…well into their 80’s and late 90’s!
Sunlight exposure and exercise have the same effects on the body so when combined, it is even more beneficial. Sunlight is actually therapeutic to our bodies because the benefits go above and beyond the prescribed medicine a medical professional may give you.
Think about it this way…for $Free.99 you may…
- Elevate your mood
- Lower your blood pressure
- Lower your reanapacitysting heart rate
- Lower your blood cholesterol
- Lower you blood sugar level
- Increase your energy, endurance and muscle strength
- Boost your immunity
- Increase your oxygen carrying ccrease your adrenalin in tissues anapacity of the blood
- INL tolerance to stress
- Increase your sex hormones
- Increase your resistance to skin infections
- Increase your natural ability to kill bacteria and limit the spread of infectious disease
Extensive research was conducted by Dr. Zane Kime, a physician in the 70’s and 80’s on sunlight and its benefits. He wrote a book entitled, “Sunlight”, a vital book on the relationship of sunlight to human health; following the example of legends such as Florence Nightengale and Dr. John Harvey Kellogg. He began recommending sunlight therapy to his patients who received notable and sometimes remarkable results. Dr. Kime stated, “Undeniably the sun plays a role in skin cancer and aging but is it the ultimate culprit?”. He became increasingly convinced, as he studied the available researched data, that the highly refined western diet played the leading role, both in the aging process and in the development of skin cancer, and that sunlight seemed only to accelerate the problem. Kime went on to explain that one of the particular problems in the diet is our obsession with fat! As society has gotten away from eating natural foods as grown and has been indulging in processed foods, the intake of all fats has increased.
In fact, about the time processed fats came into our diets, was about the time skin cancer started to become a very recognized problem. Dr. Kime explained that saturated animal fats were being implicated as a causative factor in cholesterol and heart disease, so the food industry came up with a solution…
- Saturated vegetable oils = MARGARINE
- Partially hydrogenated vegetable oils = TRANS FATS
- Highly processed polyunsaturated vegetable oils
The food industry has pushed these products onto us as healthy alternatives to butter and animal fats. Kime stated, “Because of the problems of free radical formation, inhibition of oxygen utilization by the cell, increased cancer production, and depression of the immune system, polyunsaturated and trans fats are heavily implicated in the epidemic of skin cancer”.
Throw in your Life Saver NOW!!!
- Avoid the use of animal fats (beef fat, chicken fat and LARD!)
- Avoid the use of trans fats (partially hydrogenated vegetable oil)
- Use vegetable oils sparingly (olive, coconut, sunflower, corn, safflower, etc.)
Dr. Kime’s conclusions were way back in the 1980’s…WHY DID THIS NOT MAKE MEDIA HEADLINES??!! How did we let this news pass us by??!!
Dr. Doug DiOrio, who was a medical director of integrative medicine for the OhioHealth Bing Cancer Center said that there was definitely a link between skin cancer and nutrition stating, “Processed flours, sugars and trans fats cause inflammation, that sets the body up for a carcinogenic effect and makes the skin more susceptible to damage”. His colleague at the time, Jennifer Burton, a registered dietician with OhioHealth who worked with patients at both the Bing Cancer Center and the McConnell Heart Health Center stated, “Foods can be either very proactive or very harmful – fruits and veggies are on the good team. Eat lots of them – the more colorful, the better”.
Fat is another agent of skin cancer. Good fats like avocado, flaxseed and nuts can help ward off disease. But animal-based fats have a direct link to disease. “Studies have looked at fat in the diet and cancer, specifically skin cancer,” Burton said. “People with diets higher in saturated fats like those from cheese, milk, cream and steak have a higher incidence of cancer recurrence”. Although dietary guidelines typically recommend a fat intake of no higher than 30% of the daily calories, Burton says, “Keeping the fat to 20% or less of the caloric intake has been shown to lessen recurrence in cancer patients”.
Now…Let’s Review!!!
Get this conversation going for YOUR health and YOUR loved ones too!!!
- There is a link between diet and skin cancer.
- The most protective foods are: fruits and vegetables (ORGANIC if possible) they are high in antioxidants, carotenoids, Vitamin C and phytochemicals.
- Look for deep colors of green, red, yellow and orange.
- Consume more dark leafy green vegetables.
- Orange fruits and vegetables such as squash, carrots and melon.
- Berries and other fruits.
- Garlic and soy are proactive foods.
- Avoid foods that are high in fat – especially animal and trans fats.
- Keep your total fat intake under 20% of calorie intake.
- Eliminate animal fat such as beef and chicken fat; especially LARD.
- Be very conservative of all processed oils, shortening, margarine and use only those without trans fats.
We have to improve our foods and get our daily sunlight to start seeing our own health improvements…I dare you to try it out for yourselves! Are you up for this challenge? Are you ready to start making a change that will add years to your life?!
