Through years of research, the following is the health regimen we go by. Follow the regimen and you would likely see a good turn-around in your health condition in as little as three to six months.
1/ Exercise
The keyword here is moderation. By that, we mean between thirty to forty-five minutes of exercise and five times a week.
If you are already happy with your physique and just want to maintain, a good 30-minute exercise would suffice. However, you should reasonably expect a good sweat and raised heart-beats through that course of doing so. If you want to shed some fat, go for 45 minutes to an hour instead.
Exercise is essential as it helps tuning the muscles and elasticity. It improves blood circulation, and in particular the lymphatic system for getting rid of toxins from our body.
2/ Healthy Diet
A healthy diet should include plenty of fruits and vegetables, all the rainbow colors, and less meat, particularly red meat.
Too much red meat affects the ph balance inside the body, making it more acidic. The change to acidity is one of the general causes leading to chronic degenerative diseases such as heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis, and diabetes.
Be concerned about processed food, particularly the ones that contain a lot of trans-fats.
It is a good idea to spread out your food intake in smaller quantities but more frequently through the course of the day. Drinking water is very important. We would recommend at least 8 cups or about 2 litres a day.
3/ Stress Management
Stress is one of the root causes to many of the chronic degenerative diseases today. It always helps to have a positive outlook, and a pleasant disposition.
Maintaining a balance between work and pleasure is important. Everybody has their own ways of stress management, whether it is by way of meditation, deep breathing, listening to music, reading, or simply having a long bubble bath. Even exercise can help too.
Last but not the least, good quality sleep is important. It gives the body the time to rest, re-generate, and re-energize.
Stress management can go further to mean creating your own stress-free environment – one that is free of toxins and other forms of pollutions.
4/ High-Quality Nutritional Supplement
Nutritional supplement now plays an undeniable part in our regimen for health. Practically, this is the only solution in the face of continual depletion of nutrition value in our food choices. This depletion has hampered the normal functioning of body cells, setting off a chain of deterioration inside the body typical of chronic degenerative diseases.
In advocating cellular health, we are not just telling people to take supplements but high-quality supplements. We have to understand that not all supplements are the same. Most of the products in the marketplace unfortunately are far below effective standards / benchmarks.
It is only the really high-quality ones that would give you the home run.
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free redicals in action
As we all know, oxygen is essential for our life. However, there is a dark-side of oxygen that most of us might not know. It is the oxidative stress or the free radicals damages that happen as a by-product of metabolism.
When oxygen is utilized inside our body, occasionally a charged oxygen molecule (called free radical) is created. This molecule has at least one unpaired electron in its outer orbit. It carries an electrical charge rendering it very reactive and unstable. It goes about and pulls electron(s) out of the nearest stable molecules it comes across. This activity sets a destructive chain reaction inside our body because when the latter molecules lose their electrons, they would become new free radicals.
Dr Ray Strand gives a vivid description about these “bad guys”, the free radicals. He relates them to tiny little sparks coming off from the fireplace. When each of these sparks lands on the carpet, a little burn-mark would be created. Over time, with more and more burn-marks, the carpet would be so damaged beyond repair. This is exactly what is happening inside our body. Chronic degenerative diseases are very much a build up of tiny little damages (cellular damages) over a long, long period of time. For instance, cancer takes easily fifteen, twenty, or even thirty years to surface.
It is estimated that each cell of the body could be bombarded 10,000 hits by free radicals everyday. As a result, every protein or lipid, every structure in the cell, and every substance produced by the cell are all susceptible to damages.
The good news is that we are not left defenseless. We have antioxidants playing an important role to neutralize the free radicals by forgoing their own electrons. They are just like the glass door we place in front of the fireplace. The sparks will still fly but our carpet is protected. The carpet in this case is our body.
Living a healthy life is a matter of balance between the two opposing forces: your enemy – the free radicals; and your allies – the antioxidants and their supporting nutrients.
The name of the game is to stay ahead of the free radicals. You must have sufficient antioxidants to readily neutralize these bad guys as and when they arise. Otherwise, you would expose yourself to free radical damage (oxidative stress) which if left to accumulate over time, would develop into serious chronic degenerative diseases.
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degeneration
Have you heard of Free Radicals? These are highly reactive and unstable molecules which look like sparks of fire under the microscope.
Just image, if we have sparks of fire bombarding our cells which we are primarily made up of, would we be very healthy? Just like the shirt, if we have sparks of fire on the shirt, very soon the shirt would be burnt. And so it is, with these free radicals continually bombarding our cells, our cell walls, our cell proteins, and our cell nucleus which contains our DNA, would be damaged. And, it’s where degeneration begins.
This process of Free Radicals damaging our cells is called oxidative stress, in quite the same way that makes metal rust, and cut apple turning brown.
What’s becoming worrying is that we have more and more of these Free Radicals because of the toxic environment men have created. From the damage to the ozone layer resulting in more harmful ultra-violet rays and radiation, to industrial waste, to agricultural contamination like pesticide and hormones for livestock, to pollution in the environment (the water we drink, the food we eat, and the air we breath), to chemical additives and preservatives, down to the increasingly stressful life we have, free radicals are increasing in big quantities, damaging our cells!
With these free radicals damaging our cells, and the damaging cells continually dividing, you end up with more and more damaged cells. Whichever part of your body gets more Free Radical damage – that is where you would get more degeneration.
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Comparative Guide to Nutritional Supplements
BOOK REVIEW by: Amy W
Author: Lyle MacWilliam, BSc, MSc, FP
I like this book “ Comparative Guide to Nutritional Supplements” — a compendium of over 1500 products in USA & Canada. It provided profoundly important information on why we need nutrition supplement, what is oxidative stress, the relating risk on imbalanced formulation of products, and how to choose the best nutrition supplement from thousands in the market.
In the past, if I buy supplements, I would usually rely on the recommendation of the pharmacists or the advertisement in the TV, thinking that the most popular ones would be best ones. After reading this book, it changed my perspective on the need of nutritional supplement. Now, I take the benchmark as a guideline to choose.
I believe this is the world’s most authoritative book on the subject as it involved the scientific research of the writer Lyle MacWilliam and 12 other renowned nutritionists / scientists.
As the book is in effect a comparison of products in the market, it can easily be the subject of litigation if the information is biased or misleading. It is nice to see that it stands the test of time. The fact that it is already the 4th edition since the first edition released in 2003 adds credibility.
I particularly like the 3rd edition as all the products in comparison are showing their scores out of a 100 as full mark, in addition to a ranking by the number of stars.
After reading this book, I realize that not all the nutritional supplements are the same. There are big differences between those rank 5 stars and the inferior ones in terms of potency, uniformity, bioavailability, disintegration and safety ( free from contamination) .
I would highly recommend this book as it would help people make wiser choices on health products.
P.S. the author Lyle MacWilliam
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Do you know what is the problem with the fellow in this picture? It is called Bell’s Palsy.
What happens is that the nerves on one side of the face fail to function. This causes a paralysis of the facial muscles, resulting a twist on the face and most noticeably on the mouth. The eye lid of the affected side is not responding properly either, more so when you want to close your eyes.
This was what I experienced close to seven years ago. Pretty scary stuff even when I am thinking about it now.
I remember I first had a slight infection inside my right ear. Two days later, when I woke up and look into the mirror, I suddenly noticed something wrong with my mouth. It was tilted more to one side. I sensed that something serious might have happened, so I hurried for the GP and then the specialist. The first diagnosis was that it might be a mild stroke and I just had to be patient to wait for it to be back to normal again. They said that there was no medication for it.
Not satisfied with the diagnosis, I went for a second opinion. It was a lady doctor this time. She was concerned that the virus might travel through the path from the ear to the centre of the brain so much so that she sent me to the hospital right away.
There in the hospital I was put under observation for 2 nights and three days. No medication whatsoever, except of course the antiseptic cream for my ear. I was sent home to take rest on the understanding that there wouldn’t be a danger to the brain. As to the Bell’s Palsy, they couldn’t established what had caused it. I might get back to normal or I might not. But one thing for sure, there was no medication to treat.
This was my wake up call on health. Never before did I feel that the body can be so fragile and vulnerable. It does not have to be something really drastic. Just a matter of a few nerves breaking down, you life would turn upside down. That was exactly what I felt.
Perhaps it is human nature that we are generally not too good in planning ahead and following through. We tend to tackle issues as they show up, in a reactive way rather than proactively. However, when it comes to health, it could be a big gamble. When things go wrong, it could be a point of no return!
p.s. Start your research and act on your health today. As the motto of L’OREAL is saying: “Because You’re Worth It.”
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the human cell
The human body, on average, is made up of between seventy trillions to one hundred trillions (70,000,000,000,000+) of cells. They belong to something over 200 different cell types, each performing quite different tasks inside our body. In terms of size, each one of these cells is no bigger than the dot following this sentence. Do these facts amaze you? They did to me.
The picture shown here is a cross-sectional view of a human cell. As we can see, there are so many different component parts inside. It is very much like a small universe in itself.
As we know, life starts with a cell. This cell divides, and divides. And, nine months later, a baby is born. This process of metabolism continues, with new cells formed and old ones being replaced. And, the body regenerates itself.
Through this process of regeneration, something really interesting happen. Do you know the entire surface of the small intestine is replaced every five days? The skeleton is renewed every two years? And, we completely change our skin approximately every 27 days?
Quite frankly, I was totally blown away when I first came across the idea of our skeleton renewing itself every two years. As we come to know, every part of our body is a living being. The bone and the teeth are no exception.
Human cell is a fascinating subject. I hope this brief information might arouse at least a bit of your interest to look further in this direction.
As we understand, talking health without getting to know how our cell works can be dangerous. We can easily miss the boat. Indeed, the more we learn about our body, we see the importance of “holistic” and “synergy”. These of course we can cover another time.
PS. A quiz – the picture shown here is taken from a book by a very well-respected author. If you know the book we are referring to, please write back because we have reserved a gift for the first correct answer that reaches us. Have fun.
PPS we apology for the long absence since the last posting. That was because of some bugs in the system. Now the matter is behind us and we look forward to more regular postings in the future. Our thanks to you all for your support and patience, and particularly to the ones rendering their comments. We hope we all grow in this search for truth and health.
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BOOK REVIEW by Amy W:
Book: What Your Doctor Doesn’t Know About Nutritional Medicine May Be Killing You
Author: Ray D. Strand, M.D.
Dr. Ray Strand tells us how he was converted from being an anti nutritional supplement doctor to becoming an advocate of nutritional supplement because of his wife’s declining health and suffering severely from Fibromyalgia. It was very said, as a doctor, that he couldn’t cure his wife with what he learnt with traditional medicine. Through the recommendation of a friend in taking some very high quality nutritional supplements, his wife’s disease had been reversed and she is able to enjoy a quality life since.
There are quite a number of stories and case studies of his patients suffering from different diseases and get cured through nutritional supplements when traditional medication didn’t work.
This is the book I like most amongst many others written by Dr. Strand about health. The information in this book is enlightening and profound. I get a lot out of this book. If you are open-minded, you will get a lot of tips on how to improve your health.
More Information on Dr Ray Strand
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People are dying prematurely because of chronic degenerative diseases like heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, osteoporosis, arthritis, alzheimer’s dementia, and obesity. Just the top four killers alone have accounted for approximately 75% of the World’s mortality each year, not to mention the other diseases. Cancer risk has increased to more than three-folds in the last 50 years: to the current ratio of 1 out of every 2-3 people. Going by this rate, that could mean virtually no escape for everyone by the year 2020. What a frightening thought? … …
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