Medicine Foods Intro
Many people know this to one degree or another, but they don’t always act on the knowledge or use it to its fullest extent. Food is medicine. Or, more correctly: The right food can be powerful medicine for the body. Anything we put into our body has an effect of one kind or another. Junk foods, processed foods, high sugar or chemical content foods… these all tend to have an adverse effect on the health and wellness of our body. Good foods though, such as natural, raw fruits and vegetables, were given to us by Mother Nature. Some of these are much more than excellent sources of vitamins and nutrition though. Some in fact, can also help us fight a wide variety of illnesses, and some may even prevent or cure diseases such as cancer too.
A lot of research has gone into foods and our health in recent …
How your body reacts to your environment
Listening to your body takes a bit of practice and learning. In the beginning you may mistakenly interpret what your body is trying to tell you, and you may miss many things too. One of the areas your body sends you signals about though, is a little harder to interpret than others. Once you’ve gotten more adept at listening to and responding to your body however, knowing when it’s sending you messages about your environment will start becomming easier.
Now, your environment can mean many things. Some of the things your body tells you about what’s around you will be easy to figure out. If for instance, you work or live near a factory which uses chemicals that are harmful to you, there’s a really good chance your body will try to tell you to get away from those chemicals by making you feel sick …
How your body reacts to exercise and activities
We hear the same message everywhere we look these days: Exercise more. Be more active. Get physical. Lose weight. Get in shape. So some people will sometimes decide to give it a try. The problem though, is that they approach the entire routine wrong.
Too often everyone wants instant solutions to problems today. So when someone needs to get in shape, they take on an exercise program with a vengeance. Maybe they try to run five miles their first day, or maybe they go to a gym and attempt to lift heavy weights for several hours. They either conciously or unconciously are trying to get health and fitness results as fast as possible.
The actual results they get though, are a lot of pain and soreness. If they tried to run five miles their first day, they probably collapsed before finishing just one. And they …
How your body reacts to stress
Almost everyone has stress in their lives today. Most of us have a family to take care of, a home to care for, bills to pay, job responsibilities, a boss to answer to, people who look up to you for whatever reason, and much more to deal with on a day to day basis. And it all combines to create excessive amounts of stress which can be harmful to our body.
These daily responsibilities and constant activities are compounded by not getting enough sleep, and not taking time off to relax and rejuvenate. And when you put those neccessities aside, our body’s suffer in a variety of ways.
In most cases, the body’s first message to you that you’re over stressed is to give you headaches. Too often however, no one listens to the body’s warnings with those headaches… they simply take a pill to make the …
How your body reacts to food
Do you ever find yourself sitting down to a wonderful meal, relishing every single bite, going back for seconds or thirds, and then regretting it all just thirty minutes or so later? We’re not talking about regrets do to falling off your diet plan, and we’re not talking about regrets because you had too much sugar or fat. This time instead, we’re going to talk about having regrets because of how you feel afterwards.
All of us have one type of food or another that makes us feel horrible not long after we’ve eaten it. Maybe your stomach feels rumbly, gassy, and upset after you’ve eaten. Or maybe you get a severe case of diarhhea. Maybe you simply feel nauseous, or you feel extremely bloated and uncomfortable. Some people might even feel woozy or dizzy too, when they eat certain things.
If there is a food you …
