The Seven Pillars of Health

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The Seven Pillars Of Health

1. Eat living (raw) foods as much and as often as you can.

You are a living body, so feed that body living food. Aim for a minimum 50% of your total dietary intake. Eat lots of fresh vegetables, raw or slightly cooked, and fresh fruit. Plants are filled with the nutrients, compounds and substances that promote life, something canned and frozen foods tend to lack. These essential materials allow the immune system to strengthen itself and work more effectively and more efficiently. Eat organic fruits and vegetables whenever possible to avoid pesticides, herbicides, insecticides and chemical fertilizers. Many of these residual chemicals are toxic or can't be digested, broken down or flushed out of your body. Pesticides and many chemicals bio-accumulate in the cells or bones in your body and eventually may trigger cancers or other toxic chemical disease reactions. Eat more salads. Salads are living foods. Every time there is a great discovery of a compound that helps cancer or other human maladies, it comes from the plant kingdom. You'll never find an amazing discovery that has been isolated in a pork chop. Eat light foods in the morning, preferably fruit or vegetables or juices. Go light at lunch. Lay off the heavy sweets in mid-afternoon. Don't eat heavy foods just before you go to sleep. Digestion requires more energy than any other function of the body, which is why you feel tired after eating, and why you rush to the coffee machine to perk you up. Eat a light breakfast. Leave about three hours without eating before you go to sleep. The body needs to rest, not work on digesting food that saps energy for healing.

2. Eat fruit correctly - alone - or before anything else.

Fruit is to be eaten alone. Alone, fruit turns into energy faster than any other food because it is the only food that does not require digestive energy. It should be eaten before anything else, not with or after a meal. When eaten alone fruit tends to be alkaline when it enters you stomach. However, when fruit is combined with wheat, meat, dairy or vegetables it turns to acid in your stomach. As a result, it doesn't get digested and instead ferments producing alcohol, which in turn promotes a build up of toxins over time, and is one of the primary causes of diseases. .

3. Reduce animal products in your diet.

Scientific evidence abounds showing that animal products, especially meats and poultry raised in feedlots with antibiotics and artificial hormones, are associated with more and more diseases. The human lymph system is not designed to break these artificial materials down so they can be washed away. They tend to remain and build up in our bodies, creating stockpiles of toxic chemicals that eventually can overwhelm the body's immune system. Dairy products are a real health hazard to many people. They contain no useful fibre or complex carbohydrates and are laden with saturated fat and cholesterol. Milk is often contaminated from pesticides, hormones, and antibiotics. Dairy products are known to be a major cause of allergies, constipation, obesity, heart disease, cancer, and other diseases. Many doctors including the late Dr. Benjamin Spock, America's leading authority on child care, have spoken out against feeding cow's milk to children. Doctors have shown it causes anaemia, allergies, and insulin-dependent diabetes. More and more studies are showing that dairy products may actually cause osteoporosis, not help prevent it, since their high-protein content leaches calcium from the body. Dairy products create an immense amount of mucus in your body and your lymph system has to work overtime to rid the body of this unnatural product.

4. Drink lots of pure water every day.

The living body is about 70% water and through natural daily movement and evaporation your body loses 2 litres of water a day. You need to replenish water because your body does not manufacture it on its own. Drink about eight, 250 ml glasses a day to replace the 2 litres of water your body loses. The medical benefits of water are many - there are more medical miracles associated with water than any other substance known to mankind. It is the single most important food you can ingest and is known to help treat and even cure heartburn, backache, headache, upset stomach, diabetes, heart disease and even cancer. If you have any of these diseases, you may just be suffering from dehydration, along with 75 percent of the rest of the population.

5. Exercise & Sunshine daily. Exercise more and more every day till you change your lifestyle.

You can improve how you look, how you feel, and how much you enjoy every day. You'll get more energy from increasing how much you exercise even if you just start with a twenty minute walk every day. Physical activity is essential to get you heart pumping blood moving through your system to bring oxygen to your brain and flush toxins from your body. Movement and activity cleanses the lymph system. Find something fun and do it regularly. Get energized and spice up your life. Get sunshine on your body daily (early morning/late afternoon) with no sunscreen. Sunshine produces the highest quality Vitamin D in the world which has been proven as an effective preventative against many cancers.

6. Take fewer prescription drugs.

Medications are only necessary when you are sick. The rest of the time medications can compromise your physical and mental fitness. Drugs and medications may also interact with each other and produce negative side effects. The body can't break down many drugs easily. Like pesticides and hormones they build up in the muscle, bones, skin and cells of your body and interfere with normal body function. Study what you are taking and search out natural alternatives, and make the switch WITH YOUR DOCTOR'S GUIDANCE. Find a Natural Health practitioner to help you.

7. Think positive thoughts. Find the rainbow in everything.

You attitude is the most important factor that will influence what happens to you in your life. Develop and keep a positive attitude about everything. Be grateful for everything, for everyone and for every moment of your life. Wake up and start each day by repeating positive thoughts out loud fifty times! Watch what happens then! Ask who can I bestow love upon rather than who loves me or worse, who is out to get me today. Ask what I can do to make someone happy rather than why should I be happy today, or worse, who's going to yell at me and make my day miserable. Look for and focus on the good things around you. Choose to spend your time thinking about the good things you find. Take a "media break." Television and newspapers give an unbalanced, negative view of world events with a cute human interest story thrown in to make you feel better! See your life as a glass half full, rather than one half empty. Your attitude will make the difference in your life.


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首批750貧童獲配對儲蓄
(星島)4月27日 星期一 06:30
(綜合報道)
(星島日報 報道)為培養貧窮兒童儲蓄理財習慣脫貧，政府推出的兒童發展基金先導計畫，七百五十名參加兒童本月開始首期供款，現有四個商界團體承諾配對捐款三百六十萬元，連同政府獎勵，首階段計畫已配對五百八十五萬元。有社福機構指，可替有特別問題如財困家庭調低每月二百元儲蓄目標，已安排四種不同供款金額。
　　政府斥資三億元推動的兒童發展基金先導計畫，鼓勵每名兒童每月儲蓄二百元，商界以一比一等額供款，已有四個商界團體承諾配對捐款，全港七區首批七百五十名介乎十至十六歲兒童受惠，主要來自綜援 、低收入家庭及領全額學生資助的，本月起正式進行儲蓄，為期兩年。
　　四個捐款的商界團體，分別為百仁基金、國際獅子會中國港澳三○三區、教會關懷貧窮網絡及英國 保誠保險集團，與六個社福機構合作及為兒童招募師友。
　　勞工及福利局 發言人指，參加的十四至十六歲兒童佔七成，十至十三歲者佔三成，四個商界團體已承諾配對三百六十萬元，政府會在兒童完成計畫後，為每人提供三千元特別獎勵，即政府出資二百二十五萬元，首階段計畫已為貧困兒童配對五百八十五萬元供款。發言人又指，如遇經濟困難，兒童家庭可與有關機構商議，協定一個較低儲蓄目標。
　　其中，英國保誠與香港青年協會 合作推伴我翱翔項目，青協督導主任鄧良順指出，在新界西已選出一百二十名低收入家庭兒童參加配對，由本月一日起儲蓄，青協已開設一中央銀行戶口予他們存入儲蓄，保誠兩年合共捐出五十七萬元。
　　鄧良順指，本月未有家庭「斷供」，隨失業及減薪嚴重，家庭經濟壓力增，如有兒童家庭每月儲蓄二百元有困難，經會面了解，可酌情安排每月儲蓄低於二百元，即五十元、一百元及一百五十元，如家庭「斷供」一、兩期，事後需盡快補回，兩年後每名兒童獲共一萬二千六百元。
　　獲百仁基金配對捐款的聖公會福利協會，已在東涌 區選出一百名兒童參加，一半人來自綜援家庭。協會指出，至今有一個家庭因成員有變而有供款困難，但未有家庭「斷供」。該會設有緊急基金，並可安排彈性供款。

http://www.cdf.gov.hk/tc_chi/whatsnew/wn_20090221_twgh.html

http://www.lwb.gov.hk/chi/speech/15082008.htm

http://www.hkcd.com.hk/content/2008-08/16/content_2139031.htm