How Important Is Your Health?

How Important Is Your Health?

You are born with one body that must last you a lifetime. How long is a lifetime? That all depends on YOU! That's right, you are the one who decides how long you live. The only exception to this is if you were born with a specialized condition that can not be helped or controlled by you before or at birth. The rest of us who were born healthy must take responsibility for our own health.

A Child's Health Begins With A Healthy Mother 

A child learns to like or dislike certain foods by watching what his/her parents eat. Remember that, as a parent, you are setting your child's health up for either success (healthy), or failure (unhealthy), by the choices you make when teaching your child about eating. What a child learns early on in life will determine their eating choices and habits for their lifetime. So, when do you start making wise choices for your child's health? Before they are conceived! If the mother is unhealthy herself, she will not eat wisely, and will thus cheat her child of optimum health by making bad food choices. Get healthy yourself first! Then eat for your child's future when pregnant, and continue to make wise choices for yourself and your child by example after the birth of your baby and as they grow. A child learns by watching. Don't be fooled! They absorb everything that goes on around them.

Recent Research Creates A New Food Pyramid

Research conducted in the last few years has shown that our previous concept of what to eat, and in what quantities, was seriously flawed. As a result, they constructed an all new Food Pyramid that has more raw vegetables and fresh fruits as it's base components.

Dr. Joel Furhman's Food Pyramid

Dr. Joel Furhman is the author of six books (The most recent that made the New York Times Best Seller List are: The Second Edition of Eat to Live; Super Immunity; and The End of Diabetes),  and five journal articles. He has appeared on several radio and television shows. Fuhrman coined the word "nutritarian" to label people who adopt a micronutrient-rich diet style. He created the Health Equation: Health = Nutrients/Calories (abbreviated as H = N/C). This equation signals that future health can be predicted by the micronutrient per calorie density of the diet.

Joel Fuhrman is featured in the documentaries A Sacred Duty (2007), Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days (2009), Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead (2010) and Vegucated (2011). In 2011, Fuhrman launched 3 Steps to Incredible Health!, a sixty-minute PBS pledge program that addresses the crisis of obesity and chronic disease plaguing America. In 2012, Fuhrman launched his second PBS pledge program, entitled The Immunity Solution, which discusses the effect of dietary habits on the immune system and risk of cancer.

As you can see, Dr. Furhman is a nutritional specialist who has been treating patients all over the world with diseases and conditions other physicians had given up on. His cure rate is quite amazing. As a result, I will be adding articles, videos and comments by him every once in a while. He is a strong proponent of juicing. I will also cover many aspects of juicing in this blog in future, so be watching for it.