Modern Health Risks

We live in a "user friendly" world. Technology has given us so many ways to simplify our day to day life, making daily chores that much easier. We have appliances for just about any job imaginable, we barely have to move to get anything done anymore. Our modern way of life carries with it modern health risks though.

Our world is "user friendly" but it's also un-natural. Milk that stays fresh for weeks, bread that never seems to go stale, seasonal fruit and vegetables available all year round, everything we eat or drink full of preservatives, our food produce contaminated by pesticides, meat full of hormones. We pump our bodies full of junk, gain weight, then go on the latest calorie restriction diet and expect to get back to being healthy. More modern health risks.

It always strikes me as ironic, but for a generation of people living in a fast world, none of us seems to be moving very fast or very much. As our daily eating habits get gradually more and more unhealthy, being overweight is now the rule, not the exception. The numbers are staggering with reports showing over 60% of adults being overweight and close to 30% being obese. The most modern of health risks.

Being overweight is the cause of serious health problems - the modern health risks we talk about:

• increased risk of developing Type 2 Diabetes
• increased risk of Heart Disease
• increased risk of suffering a Stroke
• high Blood Pressure
• Liver disease and Cirrhosis
• Infertility
• complications arising during Pregnancy
• increased risk of developing Osteoarthritis
• increased risk of developing Cancer - mainly in the oesophagus (gullet) and pancreas
• increased risk of suffering from Sleep Apnea

We pump our bodies full of foods that have been artificially grown, fertilised, processed, preserved, packaged, then we expect to live healthy lives. We stop at our nearest burger joint for a burger and fries, take in a meal with virtually no nutrients, high in saturated fats and highly refined carbohydrates, brimming with sugar and sodium. We eat our admittedly tasty meal and ingest close to 50 grams of fat and something like 2000 calories. The recommended daily intake for most adults is 65 grams of fat and 2000 calories. That one fast meal has filled our calorie count for the day and almost filled our fat intake.

The human body is a highly complex machine. It's designed to process all our daily intake of calories, burn up what we need in our daily activity, keep the goodness we need and get rid of the waste we don't need. But like all machines, it has limits. Some of the things we eat today are just too complex for our bodies to deal with. The result, we end up storing more and more of our calorie intake in the form of fat, which means we get bigger and bigger.

Processing foods on an industrial scale, means we have to add more and more preservatives to these foods. Preservatives which eventually find their way into our bodies, carrying with them parasites such as Tapeworms, Hookworms, Pinworms to name just a few. These parasites live in our intestines and can actually be the cause of obesity as they virtually force us to consume more of the foods they crave... fat.

Cleansing our body of these parasites, changing our eating habits to a more healthy plan... These are steps we can and should take and once we start our trip together, I'm sure the results will come. I've been blessed in my life with the ability to put good advice into effect. Learn from my many years of experience and let me help you on your journey to a healthier, more vibrant, beautiful body.