Making healthy choices

There is a lot of health information out there. Is anyone confused? If you are, it’s not hard to see why, especially because a lot of the information is conflicting. But when we think of the fundamentals of good health, it always comes back to the same things and they are really quite common sense options:

 

Reduce stress – this is crucial in our current world. Stress is not just “I’ve got too many deadlines and money is worrying me”. Stress to your body is over-working-out. That’s right, you can burn your body out if you don’t give it the right amount of rest. Your mobile phone is also a stressor as it omits frequencies that cause your body to need to protect itself. Minimising time on the moby is a healthy life choice.

 

Go organic – it can be a little pricey to swap straight to fully organic, but the benefits are there and there’s no good reason why you can’t slowly ease into it. If someone put a cup down in front of you with the amount of chemicals you consume off your food, would you drink it? Likely not, so why eat it?

Meat is important too when going organic. Animals store stress and toxins in their fat cells and so that is what you will be eating… antibiotics, growth hormones, distress. Find a local organic butcher and take it easy on yourself as you incorporate the clean food onto your plate.

 

Avoid processed food – there is not enough space on this page to talk about how bad processed food is for your body. So let’s put it in a nutshell… if it’s in a packet, bag or tin always read the label. If you don’t know what the ingredients are, or if the ingredients are numbers, pop it right back on the shelf. There is nothing that is going to fuel or nourish your bod in there.

 

Drink water – clean, filtered and lots of it. We are 97% water, so why wouldn’t we need water to maintain great health?

 

Sleep – what do you think you’ll miss by hitting the sack a little earlier? Quality television? I think not. Your body has two repair cycles that occur during sleep -  physically between 10pm and 2am and psychologically between 2am and 6am. So if you’re not asleep, that repair just doesn’t happen.