Article Archive for March 2010
What’s next? You could say. Whoever heard of such a thing? No doubt it’ll be called “The Love Diet”. Some will immediately wonder just what would be on the menu. Interesting and inspiring as that …
As we get older, our bodies get stiffer, and we gradually lose the natural flexibility we once possessed as children. Why does this happen? Flexibility comes not just from stretching, but from possessing adequate current flow in your body.
While babies are born very flexible, if you were to feed a child a diet of free-radical inducing foods – such as fried foods – that child would lose flexibility very quickly. This is because free radicals rob electrons from the body, which then leads to abnormal tissue oxidation. This in turn causes the collagenous and elastic connective tissues located around your muscles to ‘stick’ to each other (called cross-linking), which is a leading cause of stiffness.
In the emergency medical profession, doctors work according to an order of operations. The first priority is to stabilize the patient’s condition, and only then do they undertake more elaborate measures, operating if necessary. This is because without a stable base, without addressing issues like stopping hemorrhaging or providing oxygen or blood transfusions, the operation is more likely to fail. By creating a solid foundation, doctors increase their chances of success and saving lives.
In today’s fast-paced world, everyone is exposed to stress on a daily basis. Whether it’s in the form of our morning commute, pressures at work, the demands of raising a family, sleep deprivation, or even just the overwhelming number of messages and choices that bombard us, stress is here to stay. Unfortunately, we weren’t built to respond to chronic stress.
