The Vegan Lifestyle

Maintain your weight and be healthy. This can be done through balanced diet, physical exercise, and positive mental attitude.

To have an ideal body weight, we need a will and determination to do it. First and foremost, we need to practice temperance in all things. It means, we need to control our appetite and habits. It means practicing a healthy lifestyle in all aspects of life.

Our health is affected by what we eat. It is very important that we eat a balanced diet on a regular basis. A balanced diet must include the essential nutrients from carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins and minerals. A deficiency of any of these nutrients can cause an imbalance in the body and may bring ailments and diseases. Hence the need to eat a balanced diet daily.

Proper nutrition is important in the maintenance of an ideal body weight. Fruits, grains, nuts and vegetables supply  the body all the nutrients for the best health and most ideal body weight. Fatty foods that are high in calories  should be avoided. Herbalife Formula 1 shakes and bars from  HerbalifeGewichtskontrolle Deutschland provide low calorie meals.

Maintain your weight and be healthy through proper nutrition. Have a balanced diet that is low in fat and calories.

We live in a Seventh-Day Adventist community. Most of our neighbors are Seventh-day Adventists, and they are very good neighbors to be with. We learned from them not only the spiritual things about God but the healthy lifestyle as well.

Way back in 1996, we bought a lot in this community. It was a little bit cheaper then. We constructed our house on September, and by January 1997, we started to live here until now.

My wife and I like the place very much. Our home is abundantly supplied with cool fresh air throughout the day. It faces the east, where tall trees from a nearby academy  supply the fresh air every day even during summer.

Besides the good location, the place is very conducive for the study of our children. The academy is near to our home – we are just a few meters away behind its concrete fences. My daughter and her classmates just take a walk when going to school, and there is no need to take a ride.

We like our neighbors too. They are Seventh-Day Adventists who faithfully keep the seventh-day sabbath. We like their worship time everyday. We could hear beautiful melodious songs from our neighbors as they worship every morning.  It is very nice listening  to praise songs and hymns – it lifts up our soul to God! In the evening, they have their worship too. We could hear the whole family sing songs of praise to the Lord, and  see them kneel together in prayer.

Our neighbors are kind and helpful too. Whenever we have problem, whether spiritual or financial, they are ever ready to help us. They would serenade us at dawn whenever one member of our family celebrates his or her birthday. What a  joy and happiness to be serenaded on our natal day!

Every Friday afternoon, at 2 p.m., our Seventh-Day Adventist neighbors stop from all their secular works.  It is their Day of Preparation for the holy sabbath. As soon as the sun sets on Friday, they stop from all their works to keep the sabbath holy. During Friday nights, at 7:30 up to 8:30 in the evening, they go to church to worship and pray. The following day, Saturday, they go to church again to worship the Lord throughout the day until the  end of the sabbath hours when the sun has fully set. They are sabbath keepers, and they are called Seventh-Day Adventists because they keep the seventh-day sabbath, which is Saturday, and are waiting for the Second Advent or coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.

These are the beautiful traits of our neighbors that have win us over to Seventh-Day Adventism. Their way of worship, and their healthy lifestyle are  the best presence evangelism that effectively  converted us. So, in August 1999, after completing the required Bible studies, we were baptized – the whole family: me, my wife, and the children, including my mother-in-law. And by God’s amazing grace, we have remained faithful Seventh-Day Adventists up to this day.

Have you heard about Seventh Day Adventists’ healthy lifestyle? Have you read about the results of studies done in Norway, Sweden, California, and other parts of the world on the healthy lifestyle of Seventh Day Adventists?

You might have heard or read about these  studies, and you are interested to know the healthy lifestyle of  Seventh Day Adventists.

In a study done on 34,192 Seventh Day Adventists in California from 1976 up to 1986,  it was found out that Seventh Day Adventists have longer lifespan compared to non-Adventists. This could be attributable to their healthy lifestyle.

Seventh Day Adventists, like most Christians believe that the body is the holy temple of God. As such, they refrain from all intoxicating drinks, coffee, tobacco, sea foods, and other unclean food such as pork that may defile it.

Some Seventh Day Adventists follow a strict health diet. More are vegetarians, and abstain from eating flesh meats of animals including fish. Some are total vegetarians, but others are lacto-ovo vegetarians, consuming some eggs and milk sometimes.

The healthy lifestyle of Seventh Day Adventists is not in diet alone. Their healthy lifestyle includes the balanced relationship of the 4 aspects of life: physical, mental, social, and spiritual. They believe that to be truly healthy a man must be healthy physically, mentally, socially,  and spiritually.

Seventh Day Adventists practice vegetarianism. They have regular physical exercise under the sun every morning, and practice sanitary hygiene. They visit the sick and help the needy in the community, and encourage and tell them of God’s amazing love for all.

Seventh Day Adventists have their daily devotional worship every morning and every night by singing praises to the LORD and studying the Holy Bible. They go to church to worship every Wednesday night, Friday night, and during the whole day of Saturday. The secret of their health is in their resting from their secular labors and keeping the seventh day sabbath holy on Saturday.

Healthy Lifestyle – Is Anyone Strictly Following It?

Have you been health-conscious lately, and you tried very hard to be a vegetarian? Indeed, it is quite hard to change your diet, and start eating vegetables when you are used to eating flesh meats. It takes a will and discipline to successfully do it.

But good health is not all about food. It is more about the functional relation of the 4 aspects of life: physical, mental, social, and spiritual. Nutrition touches only the physical aspect though it affects the others as a whole. In other words, to be truly healthy, we need to be healthy not only physically but mentally, socially, and spiritually.

This is what we call healthy lifestyle. This lifestyle avoids not only harmful foods and substances that can damage our body, but it also shuns bad habits or attitudes that can endanger our mind, our good relationship with our fellowmen, and our spirituality.

We may be a total vegetarian, but we stay very late at night – we weaken our immune system and make ourselves very susceptible to a host of diseases. We may have more hours of sleep (this is not good either – we are practicing to die!), but we drive our car recklessly – we are endangering our lives and bound to die very soon!

A healthy lifestyle is holistic. It is a balanced functional relationship of the 4 aspects of life. They must go together and function together as one. If one is weakened, the whole is also weakened and affected.

We all agree that if we do not eat balanced diet, our mental capacity is stunted. Or if we have not eaten our lunch, we become irritable, and may quarrel with our neighbors, thus making us socially unhealthy. But you might not agree with me, if I say that if we have no time with God or no time to read the Holy Bible (that is, we are unspiritual), we are also unhealthy.

A healthy lifestyle is a life that is healthy physically, mentally, socially and spiritually. It is a life of vegetarianism, of good hygiene, of temperance in all things, of sober and ennobling thoughts, of benevolent deeds, and a life fully surrendered to the will of God.