Choosing Health

It seems that many people today are happy, just by being alive.

They seem to have forgotten that it is normal to be healthy.

Choosing health and avoiding sickness are NOT the same thing.

Maybe it is common to have pain, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, or even cancer. It may be common to be stressed or overweight.

It maybe common, but normal it is NOT !!!

We can put our level of choosing health into three categories.

Level one - SICKNESS & IMBALANCE:

A lot of people in our modern society find themselves here. We see this in the health care systems in most western industrialized countries, which are bulging at the seams. Many of the killers of today are referred to as ‘lifestyle related’ – that is, they are affected by our eating, drinking and exercise habits.

Level two – MAINTENANCE:

Once people decide that they want to be healthier, they start buying more fresh fruit and vegetables from the grocery store, and they exercise a little more. They may try vitamins or medicinal herbs. Yes, they may get some benefits, but they can easily fall back into sickness, because they are working on maintaining their present level. They never actually start rebuilding their body, by choosing health. They're just maintaining it better than before.

At the maintaining level, lots of fruit and vegetables are required to improve the diet. However, due to poor soil quality, and how the products are grown and picked, grocery produce rarely provides all our necessary nutrition. Also, we don’t eat enough variety, or quantity of these. Nor do we eat them in the right combinations. It’s just not enough!!!

Level Three – REGENERATION:

By actually choosing health, we create an environment in which the body can rebuild itself and to function at optimum capacity. This optimum capacity is already programmed into our genes. By providing the balance and raw materials our body needs, it begins to renew or regenerate. It becomes better!!! This can take us beyond both sickness and maintenance.

To create this regenerative environment, we must give our bodies the highest quality food possible, and in just the right amounts and combinations.

GIVEN THE OPTIONS, WHICH LEVEL WOULD YOU CHOOSE?

To provide just the right nutrition in the right combinations you really have to know herbs, and you really have to understand the body.

The body is incredibly complicated, and no food or herb is perfect in itself - they must be balanced with other foods or herbs to make them work properly.

The Chinese have studied foods for thousand of years, and they have developed a system of principles by which you can tell which herbs go together to make them work in synergy.

That way the herbs work together for better result than one herb on its own.

These principles come from a health system that was creating healthy people and healthy societies, thousands of years before western societies began to study ‘ modern’ nutrition.

Something to think about…

‘The difference between knowledge and wisdom is, you can have knowledge, but if you don’t use it, you don’t have wisdom’

On these pages I have given you a little information about the different stages of choosing health. What you choose to do with this information is really up to you...

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