Eat to Live Comes to Your Kitchen
Eat to Live – Don’t Live to Eat Don’t Overeat!
It’s Harmful to Your Health to Overeat!
Second after second, minute after minute, hour after hour, day after day our faithful, loyal heart is working to keep us alive. In both our waking hours and during our sleep, our heart takes only a sixth of a second to rest between beats. The hardest work the heart has to do is right after an individual has eaten. The bigger the meal, the more work it has to do in pumping vast quantities of blood into the digestive tract.
Overeating puts more strain on the heart than any other one thing! Many people load up on a ten-course dinner and soon afterward suffer a heart attack! Overeating is a dangerous, deadly habit that can lead to serious consequences. You should make it a habit to always get up from the table feeling that you could eat a little more.
Studies done by the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention, found that one out of five Americans are obese and the rate is climbing yearly – it’s an epidemic! Obesity is defined as anyone over 30% of their ideal body weight. This leads to high triglyceride levels which can cause diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Remember, exercise is a major key factor in lowering weight and helping keep the heart healthy and fit. Fact: only 20% of Americans exercise one hour weekly, yet they spend over 15 hours with TV and the web weekly.
Recent studies show people with large waistlines have shorter life spans.
Sad Facts: Many people go throughout life committing partial suicide – destroying their health, heart, youth, beauty, talents, energies and creative qualities. Indeed, to learn how to be good to oneself is often more difficult than to learn how to be good to others.
Deep breathing is our connection to life, through the body and heart, leading us to a wholeness of being and giving us spirit for living life to its fullest. – S. Hainer
Current obesity studies show increases in all age groups. The biggest gain is in the 18 to 29 years old group at 12.1%, up from 7.1% back in 1991. American children (1 in 3) are more overweight than ever! The number of overweight children ages 6 to 17, has zoomed up since the 1960’s. Overweight children are at high risks for adult on-set heart disease and diabetes. Teach your children healthy eating habits by being a healthy, trim, fit example for them.
It’s Proven – Light Eaters Live Longer
Research and interviews with people who remained vigorous at ages over 100 years revealed that they ate sparingly and never over-ate. Their diets were well balanced with simple, natural foods. Scientific tests made on controlled animal feeding have also conclusively proven that light eaters live longer and in better health.
Always give thanks first, then eat slowly and chew your food thoroughly. Never eat in a hurry! Food bolted down causes trouble and overworks the stomach and heart. Fast eating produces gas pressure on the heart and frequently heart attacks. If you don’t have time to eat correctly, skip that meal! Fasting and skipping a meal is a good habit to develop.
Most eating habits form early in life. To live long, feel youthful and have a powerful heart you must be able to avoid and rid yourself of bad eating habits, plus condition yourself to new healthy eating habits.
A link has been found between leptin, a protein product of the obesity gene and the risk for coronary heart disease. The study was conducted by the Imperial College School of Medicine in England. The obesity gene was cloned in 1994. Its product, leptin, acts as a signal to help the body decide when it has eaten enough food to feel full. The amount of leptin in the blood has been directly linked to body fat. This study is the first to associate leptin elevations in the blood with high blood pressure. Researchers measured leptin levels in 74 men. They found that the higher the level of leptin, the more likely the risk for heart disease. Measuring leptin may become a way of determining the risk of heart disease.
Food and Product Summary
Today, many of our foods are highly processed or refined, robbing them of essential nutrients, vitamins, minerals and enzymes. Many also contain harmful, toxic and dangerous chemicals. The research findings and experience of top nutritionists, physicians and dentists have led to the discovery that devitalized foods are a major cause of poor health, illness, cancer and premature death. The enormous increase in the last 70 years of degenerative diseases such as heart disease, arthritis and dental decay substantiate this belief. Scientific research has shown that most of these afflictions can be prevented and that others, once established, can be arrested or even reversed through nutritional methods.
Enjoy Super Health with Natural Foods
1. RAW FOODS: Fresh, organically grown raw fruits and vegetables are always best. Enjoy nutritious variety of juices, garden salads, sprouts and raw nuts and seeds.
2. VEGETABLE and ANIMAL PROTEINS:
a. Legumes, lentils, brown rice, soybeans, tofu, beans.
b. Nuts and seeds, raw and unsalted.
c. Animal protein (if you must) – hormone-free meats, liver, kidney, brain, heart, poultry, seafood. Please eat these proteins sparingly or it’s best to enjoy the healthier vegetarian diet. You can bake, roast, wok or broil these proteins. Eat meat no more than 1 to 2 times a week.
d. Dairy products – eggs (fertile, fresh), unprocessed hard cheese, goat’s cheese and certified raw milk. We choose not to use dairy products. Try the healthier soy, nut (almond, etc.) and Rice Dream non-dairy products.
Toxic chemical fertilizers whenever possible; ask your market to stock organic produce. Steam, bake, sauté or wok veggies for as short a time as possible to retain the best nutritional content and flavor. Also enjoy fresh juices.
3. FRUITS and VEGETABLES: Organically grown is always best – grown without the use of poisonous sprays and
4. 100% WHOLE GRAIN CEREALS, BREADS and FLOURS: They contain important B-complex vitamins, vitamin E, minerals and the important unsaturated fatty acids.
5. COLD or EXPELLER-PRESSED VEGETABLE OILS: Virgin Olive Oil, soy, sunflower, flax and sesame oils are excellent sources of healthy, essential, unsaturated fatty acids; but it’s wise not to overdo oils.
THE MIRACLES OF APPLE CIDER VINEGAR
FOR A STRONGER, LONGER, HEALTHIER LIFE
The old adage is true: “An apple a day helps keep the doctor away.”
• Helps maintain a youthful, vibrant body
• Helps fight germs and bacteria naturally
• Helps retard the onset of old age in humans, pets and farm animals
• Helps regulate calcium metabolism
• Helps keep blood the right consistency
• Helps regulate women’s menstruation
• Helps normalize the urine, thus relieving the frequent urge to urinate
• Helps digestion and assimilation
• Helps relieve sore throats, laryngitis and throat tickles and cleans out toxins
• Helps sinus, asthma and flu sufferers to breathe easier and more normally
• Helps maintain healthy skin, soothes sunburn • Helps prevent itching scalp, dry hair and baldness, and banishes dandruff
• Helps fight arthritis and removes crystals and toxins from joints, tissues and organs
• Helps control and normalize weight
Our sincere blessings to you, dear friends, who make our lives so worthwhile and fulfilled by reading our teachings on natural living as our Creator laid down for us to follow. He wants us to follow the simple path of natural living. Our prayers reach out to you and your loved ones for the best in health and happiness. We must follow the laws He has laid down for us, so we can reap this precious health physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually!
