Tips and Tricks for a Healthy Heart!
Start Investing in Your Health Bank
Perhaps supreme super health seems too good to be true. Yet this ideal state of affairs is attainable by anyone willing to apply the principles of our Heart Fitness Program. It is our sincere conviction that the tragic prevalence of heart diseases, as well as many other diseases, is entirely unnecessary and is strictly within one’s own control to prevent. Let health become a serious pursuit with you. The time and effort you spend will be an investment in your Health Bank. This wise investment will bring you and your loved ones great returns in happiness and security. Always remember, Your Health is Your True Wealth! This teaching – if followed faithfully and conscientiously – cannot fail to result in your acquiring and maintaining a more youthful, fit heart. Again, let us emphasize that the Heart Fitness Program does not offer a cure for heart disease, nor can it do anything until it is applied! But remember – the body can do miracles in healing itself if given a chance, as has been proven in thousands of cases.
The “Big Three” of Health and Longevity
Suppose you were told that you had to lug an unwieldy load of 20 to 50 pounds around with you wherever you went – walking, sitting, eating, sleeping – all day and all night. How would you feel about it? You would protest indignantly, wouldn’t you? Yet that is exactly what you are doing when you are overweight! You are carrying around a load of unhealthy, flabby blubber. You are overtaxing all the functions of your body – especially your heart and circulatory system. Excess fat is dangerous! It exhausts the heart. Insurance statistics show that fat people are the shortest lived. Every pound of excess fat on your body shortens your life.
Rule #1: Achieving and maintaining Normal Weight for a Healthy Heart.
Normal weight must be attained and maintained by a healthy diet, exercise and fasting. Forget drugs, they are dangerous! Don’t injure your system by over-feeding it and eating unhealthy foods.
Rule #2: Daily Exercise for a Healthy Heart.
Vigorous daily exercise helps you to keep your weight normal; it will also stimulate a healthier flowing blood circulation throughout your body. It helps tone your muscles and vital organs, and aids all body functions, giving you the glow of Super Health!
Rule #3: The most important is Proper Diet.
A healthy heart and body depends upon a clean, healthy bloodstream, and this depends upon the food you eat! We will discuss all of these points in detail later. When listing Proper Diet as point #3, we are saving the best for last. Your diet is the most important factor in controlling your ideal weight, nourishing your blood, and protecting your heart from deadly-clogging cholesterol. Proper diet will strengthen you and make your heart a powerful fountain of life and a fountain of eternal youth.
Beware of Excess Body Fat
A normal amount of fatty tissue is an indication of health. But when fatty accumulations begin to bulge out here and there and destroy your youthful outlines – beware! These are danger signals warning you that it is time to take action to slim down your excess weight.
Excess weight invites heart attacks: It puts an undue strain on your heart and indicates you have been eating saturated fats that line your arteries with artery-clogging cholesterol. Excess fat is fatal to health, youth and makes you more prone to body injury, accident, disease, and premature death!
The old myth that full cheeks and a plump body are indications of health still persists even in our so-called enlightened age. Disease gains a foothold more readily and is more difficult to dislodge when a person is overweight. Fat people have sluggish systems, less energy and endurance. Excess body fat indicates similar excess accumulations around the heart, kidneys, and other vital organs, impairing their function.
The USA leads the world in heart disease, strokes, cancer, and diabetes!
Don’t injure your system by over-feeding it.
Over-eating will kill you long before your time!
– Paul C. Bragg
Please Don’t Be Overburdened With Fat
To be called fat or obese is an insult which reflects upon intelligence. What could be more unintelligent than allowing your body to be burdened with unhealthy and truly dangerous blubber? It’s simply unwise and unhealthy to overstuff your body and burden your heart!
Fat people may be sluggish, tired, or slow. Their vital resistance is sometimes low. If speed is necessary, some puff like a steam engine. Their heart and lungs are inefficient and have difficulty handling physical stress. Many fat people move with difficulty. Surplus weight lessens physical activity and often mental activity, too.
When an athlete is training for a contest, they eliminate all extra fat from their body. They know that fat lessens endurance and decreases physical energies. This also holds true in the military – maintaining normal weight is a must. A fat man often cannot fight well. Inefficiency and fat go hand-in-hand. They sleep and eat together – but they don’t exercise together!
Your Waistline is Your Lifeline, Youth line, Dateline and Health line
When you are fat you are flirting with old age! You are allowing the old age cells to gather in your body. When that happens you are playing with disease and should be prepared to pay the penalty.
Youthful body outlines must be maintained. This requires proper care of the priceless human machine. The rewards are well worth the effort! If you find fatty tissue accumulating, increase your exercise and reduce the quantity of food you eat and fast one day a week. Don’t be satisfied thinking that a naturally fatty surplus comes with advancing years! Beware if you make this mistake, for old age will arrive sooner coupled with serious illness and premature death.
The American diet is overloaded with too much food and the harmful fats that raise blood cholesterol levels and can cause fatal heart disease!
Studies prove: the bigger the waistline, the shorter the lifespan!
Keep Trim and Fit and Your Self-Esteem!
Always fight excess fat as you would your deadliest enemy! It often comes upon you like a thief in the night, silently and without warning. Sometimes you realize the danger only when serious difficulties are already staring you in the face. Then the fight is tougher, but fight you must! Your life may well depend upon your strength and faith!
An unshapely, obese body can destroy your health and self-esteem. You need to be proud of your body, not ashamed of your priceless, human temple. Self-esteem is as necessary to the spirit as healthful food is to the body. If you want to be efficient, eternally youthful, enthusiastic, full of the fire and fervor of life, keep trim and fit and protect your self-esteem! Build your body as an artist paints a picture or a sculptor molds a statue. Make your body an expression of the best there is within you! Let it reflect your very soul – your true self. Soon excess fat will find no lodging in your flesh!
What is “Normal Weight?”
There are numerous charts, tables, and statistics on the subject of normal weight for particular ages, heights, etc. These are based on averages. However, there is no such thing as an average person. You may use such statistics as a general guide, but they should not be applied arbitrarily to determine your exact healthiest weight.
If you give your body the proper diet and ample exercise, you will naturally attain and maintain your best personal weight! To weigh a certain number of pounds does not necessarily indicate your proper measurement of waist, hips, etc. If you are firm and healthy – without excess fat – it doesn’t matter whether you weigh more or less than the chart average for your years and height. The important thing is to find your own best weight as the result of proper care of your body. If your body is healthy, trim and fit, then your weight is normal for you. Excess flabby fat is never normal!
He, who cannot find time for exercise, will have to find time for illness.
– Derby
It’s a lean, fit horse for the long, successful race of life!
– Paul C. Bragg
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Flexibility helps you feel young. Joints and ligaments lose their elasticity if they aren’t stretched, then they grow shorter and tighter. Tension also settles into unstretched muscles, further sapping energy, making one feel older, less energetic, and less inclined to get up and move around. The good news is that you can improve your flexibility at any age. The body is remarkably resilient, as long as you pay attention to your own comfort levels and be consistent. Some rejuvenating stretches can be found in yoga, ballet, and basic sports stretches for all areas of the body. Remember to warm up before stretching to get the blood flowing. Jog in place and swing arms vigorously. Don’t bounce when you stretch or hold your breath – gentle relaxed deep breathing is best. Be patient – don’t push your body. While everyone can become more flexible, not everyone can be as limber as a dancer or gymnast. Challenge yourself, but don’t push further than you can realistically go. You’ll be amazed at the results. Be consistent – it’s the key to progress. – UC Berkeley Wellness Letter See web: www.berkeleywellness.com
Vitamin E is an antioxidant that helps prevent cardiovascular problems and enhances immune response. It is a primary defender against damaging free radicals. Stores of vitamin E decline with age, so it’s important to add ample “E” rich foods to your diet such as: wheat germ, whole grains, raw nuts and seeds, beans, legumes, brown rice, cornmeal, oatmeal, sweet potatoes, green leafy vegetables and cold pressed vegetable oils.
Your birthday is the beginning of your own personal fresh new year. Your first birthday was a beginning, and each new birthday is a chance to begin again, to start over, to take a new grip on life.
– Paul C. Bragg
The use of antioxidant supplements and a diet high in antioxidant foods has been shown to reduce cancer and heart disease and increase life expectancy.
– U.S. News/Health Watch
Eating plenty of organic produce – fruits and vegetables – slows down ageing. The ageing that goes on under the skin, and chronic age-associated diseases, including heart disease, cancer and degenerative brain diseases can be slowed down, and even reversed in some cases with a change in diet. Adding lots of fruits, vegetables and garlic, taking vitamin and mineral supplements and avoiding saturated fats, can increase energy and add years to your life. Exercise is also important in delaying ageing. – Nanci Hellmich, USA Today
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– Patricia Bragg
