Healing happens we address our lives and
make changes that our good for health. Often these improvements in our own
health also benefit the lives of our family, friends and employers. The
Healthy and Active Metabolism Program has an unofficial motto which, is "How
we feel and look is a result of our diet and lifestyle.”
A Healing Crisis Is An Opportunity For Change
This means that if we find ourselves in a
healing crisis and we want to look and feel better then something needs to
change. Changing our lifestyle habits
and diet and also lowering our caloric intake is the simplest, quickest and
most straightforward route back to health unless your condition has become very
acute.
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| An explanation of holism. |
Unfortunately, Western medicine often leads
patients and doctors to believe that ill health can be managed and that there
is not need to get to the underlying root cause of our symptoms. This results on living on medications and
when that happens, we become reactive individuals who are at the mercy of
chemicals and dependencies, rather than proactive ones that know how to take
charge of oourslves.
We can only cure ourselves by making big
lifestyle changes. These changes typically have to do with what we choose to
eat, how we think, what we choose to be stressed out about, our quality of
sleep, how often we exercise and move our body, and our attitudes toward our
self and our life.
Change Happens When You Accept The Necessity For It
Change will not happen unless you embrace
the idea. We are only complete when our body, mind, and heart are healed,
conscious, connected, and whole again.
Making healthy changes is not necessarily
just about you. Being aware of holism is
also about the awarenes that everything that you do, especially the positive
things that you do benefits yourself and the community at large.
Being healthy is not just a personal
necessity, it is also an ethical and moral responsibility. What you do with your
health impacts others. Taking care of
your health is one of the most socially responsible things you can doin this
day and age.
First of all there are 48 million people in
the United States Census Bureau without health insurance [1]
despite the introduction of Obama Care in that country. Here in Canada, there
are many naturopathic services, blood tests and special medications, treatments
and procedures that are not covered by provincial health plans such as OHIP. [2]
Self-Care is a Gift to Society
It is responsible to
treat the fundamental causes of why we get sick and treat the whole body by
addressing the lifestyle factors that cause these chronic diseases. These approaches are both medically effective
and cost effective, thereby improving your life quality while at the same
reducing the burden of health care costs on society in general.
Heart disease,
diabetes, prostate cancer, breast cancer, and obesity account for 75 percent of
health care costs today, and yet these are largely preventable and even
reversible through the changes in diet and lifestyle addressed in this book.
How effective are
lifestyle changes when it comes to your health?
The medical journal The Lancet
published a study led by Dr. Dean Ornish that followed 30,000 men and women in
six continents and found that simple dietary lifestyle changes could prevent
over 90 percent of cases heart disease.[3]
Thus, the disease that accounts for more premature deaths and is more expensive
than any other affliction is almost completely preventable, just by making
changes to diet and lfiestyle.
Also notable is that
the very same lifestyle changes that can prevent or even reverse heart disease
can also help prevent or even reverse many other chronic diseases as well.
The key is food. You are what you put in your mouth and you
are only as good as what you eat.
For more information
about the Healthy & Active Program please visit our website at www.healthy-active.com. You may also call us in Toronto at
(41) 440-2217 and ask for Adrienne Wright Bulow or Dr. Michael Rahman or email
us at adrienne@healthy-active.com.
[1] United States Census Bureau, 2012.
[2] Health Canada, Canada Health Act
Frequently Asked Questions, Ottawa, Canada: Canada Health Act Division, August
19, 2011. Retrieved electronically February 14th 2014.
[3] Can lifestyle
changes reverse coronary heart disease? Ornish, D. et al.
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