The Vegan Lifestyle

Practice healthy lifestyle and live longer. You cannot fail to be healthy with it.

Healthy lifestyle involves all good habits in life. It covers the physical, mental, social, and spiritual aspect of life. Healthy lifestyle means living with optimum health. It means living with vigor, joy and zest for life. It is eating nutritious food,  doing regular physical exercise, practicing good habits, having positive mental attitude, and trust in God.

Practice healthy lifestyle and live longer. Eat balanced diet of nutritious food from natural sources. Take Herbalife products and be sure that all you take are from herbs and natural. Avoid processed foods that are loaded with MSG, aspartame, caffeine, alcohol, hydrogenated fats, synthetic enhancers, flavorings, colors, preservatives, and other additives that are detrimental to health.

Have a regular physical exercise outdoor with abundance of fresh air and sunshine. It is good for burning up excess fat in the body. It is good for the proper elimination of toxic waste in the body. It is good for blood circulation to nourish all organs of the body for optimum health.

Maintain personal hygiene. Take a bath daily and feel fresh. It cleans the body and the mind as well. Clean your home and its surroundings, and let sunshine and fresh air come in. They have effective cleansing effects to rid the home of allergens, germs, bacteria, viruses, and other pathogens that may bring diseases.

Practice healthy lifestyle and live longer. Never use illegal drugs ever, and avoid alcohol and other intoxicating drinks. Quit smoking and stop poisoning your system with hundreds of toxic chemicals and carcinogens. Avoid stress and do not abuse your body. Have a restful sleep for the rejuvenation of your body.

Socialize with your neighbors and other people in the community. Join charity activities and give generously to the poor. It is best for physical, mental, social, and spiritual health. It invigorates the blood, it brings joy to the heart, it brings peace to the mind.

Practice healthy lifestyle and live longer. Take Herbalife products and be in good health. Live your life fully with the best of health to serve God and your fellowmen.

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.

Atherosclerosis is an “autoimmune”  disease that can be prevented or minimized. It is a vascular disease caused as a result of the natural reaction of the body’s  defense mechanism to repair and protect an inflammation in the arterial wall.

The formation of atherosclerosis starts at childhood. It is a misconception that only the middle aged and the adults are susceptible to atherosclerosis. Autopsies of young children and even of  infants had shown clogged arteries.

Atherosclerosis is asymptotic most of the time. Ninety percent of the time, its symptoms are not visible, until the very onslaught of strokes or heart attacks.

How does atherosclerosis develop in the arteries?

Atherosclerosis develops from the oxidation of low-density lipoprotein molecules (LDL)  by free radicals, particularly oxygen free radicals.This oxidized LDL  damages the arterial inner wall, and a series of reactions are activated by the body’s defense mechanism to repair this damage.   Initially, this damage or lesion is visible as the thickening of the inner wall (intima) of the artery with the presence of fatty streaks or plaques.

The body’s immune system sends specialized white blood cells, macrophages and T-lympocytes to absorb the oxidized-LDL and to repair the damage to the artery wall caused by oxidized LDL. But these white blood cells are not able to process these oxidized-LDL, and this  gradually  grow and then ruptures, depositing a greater amount of oxidized cholesterol in the artery wall. This triggers the immune system to send more white blood cells, and the cycle continues.The artery becomes inflamed, and the cholesterol plaques cause the muscle cells to enlarge and form a hard cover over the damaged area. This hard cover  causes a narrowing of the artery which reduces the blood flow and increases blood pressure. Clogged arteries can lead to angina pectoris, mycardial infarction, strokes, heart attacks, and other cardiovascular diseases.

What must be done to prevent or minimize atherosclerosis?

The best way to prevent or minimize atherosclerosis is to avoid all fatty foods. All junk foods are cooked or processed with fats, and most of these fats come from hydrogenated cooking oils that are converted into trans fatty acid when heated. Trans fatty acids are very harmful to the body,  and it causes cancer.

A vegetarian diet can help a lot. Fruits, grains, nuts, and vegetables have vitamins and minerals that reduces low-density lipoprotein (LDL), a bad cholesterol, and increases the high-density lipoprotein (HDL), a good cholesterol. Good examples of these are garlic, onions, avocados, cayenne, gingko biloba, gotu kola, and soy beans. They not only provide the essential nutrients for a healthy body, but they are also known to dissolve excess cholesterols in the body.

A regular physical exercise is also very important in preventing atherosclerosis. Brisk walking can lower bad cholesterol level in the body, and raises the good cholesterol too. Sports, such as tennis, basketball, and swimming are also good forms of exercises.

And the best prevention of all is to have a positive mental attitude  in life.  Studies showed that trauma and stress are the primary precursors of atherosclerosis. So live life happily and trust in God.

Most of us do not realize the importance of positive mental attitude. We have been living almost all of our lives in poverty and afflictions, and we contentedly accept it as if it is our lot in this world.

Many people are in hospitals laying helpless in their sickbeds afflicted and suffering of imagined diseases which they have created by themselves. Many cancer patients should have easily recuperated had they known the power of positive mental attitude. Terminal cancer is reversible and curable even by natural medicine, much more by positive mental attitude!

Most of us are hypochondriacs! We have abnormal fears of almost everything. We imagine a lot of diseases in our mind without end. We seem to have been born with a phobia of bacteria, and we continually think that everything around us are carriers of diseases and we are continually in fear of it.

It is true that bacteria, microbes, virus and other pathogens are all around us. Some of them are air borne such as swine flu virus, and they multiply very rapidly not only in millions, but probably in trillions, quintillions, or even centillions. We are abnormally afraid of bacteria and the diseases they cause, and this is this fear in us that makes us very readily susceptible to all these diseases.

All the time we forget that we are the masterpiece of God’s creation and our body is not that frail to readily succumb to the assaults of all these pathogens around us. We are totally blind to the fact, and we always forget that in spite of all these dreadful diseases around us, we are still alive, and still wake up every morning alive and kicking.

As most research have proven, most diseases are 90 % caused by the mind, and only 10 % are caused by heredity, diet, and environment. It would help us a lot if we continually guard our mind from brooding on negative thoughts, such as failures, inferiority, diseases, death and so on.

To avoid all these dreadful diseases around us such as swine flu, AIDS, and all forms of cancer, we need to listen and obey the Word of God. In Philippians chapter 4 verse 8, God instructed us what to do to avoid not only the above dreadful diseases but also to spare ourselves from all the sufferings and afflictions that plagued this sinful world today. It says, ” … whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever thing are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.”