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How would you like to feel
BETTER as you get older instead of worse!?
It is possible! You can
protect yourself from the sickness and disease that cripple or claim
the lives of so many people. Good health should be second nature to
us. But for many people this is not the norm.
Over the years, we all have come to
believe certain ideas about health and nutrition. You may have come
to believe that your body really doesn’t know what it’s doing.
Most of us are conditioned to believe that we are at the mercy of
luck and heredity to determine how healthy we are now and how
sick we can expect to be in the future.
You may think that you have little
control over your own health – that you are destined to get the same
diseases as your relatives. In reality, you and only you are
responsible for your own health.
Heredity plays an important role in
how disease is manifested, but heredity doesn’t say you have to get
sick! Now, if you live in such a way that where your body has no
choice but to get sick, heredity will decide which form your
particular disease will take. But you do not have to get
sick! You can live in such a way to remain healthy until your dying
day.
It may be surprising to you to learn
that your body really does know what it’s doing! In addition, YOU
have can have a major impact in your own health and well-being.
With the uncertainty of
health care, skyrocketing health care costs, it’s even more
important to learn how to take our health into our own hands.
Our bodies are amazing!
The Word tells us (Psalm 139:13-15)
that we are fearfully and wonderfully made! An intelligence
far greater than us has been in charge of developing us ever since
before any of us were ever born. It is in charge of making sure
everything ends up where it should. The nose ends up where it
should, our eyes are on our head and not our arms – we are not put
together randomly.
And in addition to that, we are not
cookie cutter images of one another. Every one of us has a unique
combination of color – hair, eyes, skin; we have different sizes and
shapes. We were knit together in our mother’s womb (Psalm
139:13,15)
There is an inner intelligence inside
of us that coordinates and synchronizes all of the functions of our
complex bodies. Through our life, cuts heal, broken bones knit, and
hair and fingernails grow. The body’s internal intelligence
orchestrates these and thousands of other repair and replenishment
activities without you giving them one single thought. The same
perfect intelligence that was there when we were conceived guides
the body’s functions throughout life. It keeps functioning moment
by moment to keep us alive.
Just as our physical design was not
haphazard, or accidental, neither are our responses haphazard. Our
bodies ACCOMMODATE everything we expose it to!
Just think of the all of the hazards
it has to deal with, sometimes on a daily basis: Physical trauma,
drastic temperature changes, healthy food, junk food, no food, too
much food.
When you’re cold, the blood-flow to the skin is restricted in order to preserve body
heat, and involuntary physical activity is initiated to generate
heat – you shiver.
When you’re too warm, your body revs up its climate control system; it sends more blood to
the skin area for cooling and pumps moisture through the skin for
evaporation – you perspire.
When you need more fuel
to generate energy, messages are sent to your brain that you
interpret as “hunger.”
When you eat something
the body can’t use, it gets rid of it.
Think of it – anything that goes in
to your body must be dealt with in some way. Your body must use it,
store it, or lose it. Nothing can get ignored!
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