Eating Unhealthy Foods Can Cause Serious Illnesses

Each time you sit down to a meal you are making a life-death decision. Does that sound scary? I hope it does because whatever you are eating determines whether you will be healthy or unhealthy. So let me encourage you to be nutrition smart.

It has been proven over and over again that you are what you eat. Now granted you may eat some things periodically that are not good for you but it's not wise to continue to do so day after day. Consuming the wrong foods can create many medical concerns, such as contacting some major illnesses and diseases.

I've heard some of my friend's say. " I eat whatever I want, If I can't eat what I want I just as soon die." Well some of them have died and others have some serious illnesses or diseases because they felt this way. So I believe this is a very foolish thing to say. Why would anyone want to subject their body to foods constantly that causes them discomfort and health problems is beyond my reasoning.

I would believe living a healthy life is a much better way to live. It's really amazing how many natural things are available to help us be healthy and keep us healthy. Yet this information is not widely known by the general public. Most doctors don't tell you. No prescription drug company won't tell you either.

You very seldom ever hear it or read it in the press how to live healthy and how to stay healthy. I never became as conscious of my health or my wife's health until she was diagnosed with breast cancer over five years ago. Even though we believed we were eating healthy we didn't realize that some foods we were eating did not contribute much to our total health fitness.

That's when I met a naturopathic doctor and began to learn some valuable information about the functions of the immune system and many other health matters. I even started doing some research on my own too. Wow! Did I get a terrific education on what is necessary for living a healthy life. Since then I have kept up researching information on health matters even more intensively than before.

I learned that even food can cure illness many times. More than 9,000 scientific studies have proven beyond a doubt that food can be your best medicine.I know you have heard the famous saying, "an apple a day keeps the doctor away" I never knew how true this was until I started researching information on the Internet. I found various health reports and medical newsletters to support the theory that apples have been proven to be potent weapons against cancer, heart disease, asthma, and type 2 diabetes for many years. Strawberries and raspberries contain a compound called ellagic acid. They are some of the best cancer fighters Mother Nature ever created.

When eating these fruits, this compound enters the bloodstream to help vanquish cancer cells on contact. Also by eating a bowl of oatmeal for breakfast or eating pears you can regulate your cholesterol. These simple foods can help keep your LDL (bad) cholesterol below 130 and HDL (good) cholesterol above 65. It's also helpful to consume foods that contain soluble fiber (dissolves in liquids), such as beans, barley, oats, peas, apples, oranges and pears. Soluble fiber reduces the absorption of cholesterol from the intestines into the bloodstream.

All of this type food shows you that the nutritional value of food is truly important about how to improve your life to a much healthier level. There is virtually a cure or prevention for every disease or illness. So for anyone who has not learned the benefits of healthful eating let me encouraged you to start your own education on the subject today. You can find a lot of good information on the Internet.

There are medical newsletters you can subscribe to that are published by doctors who believe in natural medicine healing procedures for any kind of illness or disease. It's sad that most people are not getting honest answers about the proper way to get healthy and fit. It's also concerning to me that people are swallowing large amounts of worthless prescription drugs that are sometimes causing more serious ailments then before they ever started taking them in the first place.

So I guess the only thing to do is to keep preaching good health ideas to people I know and meet. I'll also continue writing articles on many current healthcare issues and submit them to directories. I now have a blog where I write weekly articles on health and fitness and I have published an ebook recently "How to Have a Healthy Life for Sure" which is available on my blog now.

Hopefully someday, with all the information that is available on the Internet, such as the medical newsletters written by several qualified doctors and even reports written by health professionals about healthy practices, maybe we will eventually make people realize they can truly learn how to cure illness naturally. Then if they do become more concerned about their health, maybe they will start to make some serious lifestyle changes that will help them live a healthier and more productive life.