Part III - 12 Secrets to Health and Longevity - Keys to Good Nutrition and to Eating Healthy

Here is Part III of the 12 secrets to health and longevity. In case you missed Part I, I'll repeat the introductory question and comments.

Question: What do I have to do to live a long and healthy life?

Here's my short answer...

Listen, know, and understand that there are keys of knowledge that will help you unlock the secrets to a long and healthy life.

These keys to good nutrition and to healthy eating will open a whole new world of health, life, and vitality to you. I believe you were created by God and destined to live a life of health and prosperity.

To learn the first 8 secrets to health and longevity, you'll have to go back and look at the previous two blog postings dated October 26, 2007. There you will find the first 8 keys to unlocking the door to living a long and healthy life.

Here, now, are the final four secrets to health and longevity...

9. TAKE SOME HIGH QUALITY ORGANIC WHOLE FOOD SUPPLEMENTS

Find some high quality live whole food nutritional supplements that you can add to your diet in order to fill in your nutritional gaps and in order to protect your health and combat the effects of toxins in our environment. I strongly recommend an amazing product called, "The Feast," made by URI International. It has over 70 live whole food greens, vegetables, fruits, and berries in a dry InstaFresh juice powder form. I also recommend the following whole food nutritional supplements that are all very healthy and nutrient dense: barley grass juice, alfalfa leaf juice, wheat grass juice, kelp, Klamath Lake algae, chlorella, spirulina, oat grass juice, carrot juice, noni-juice, mangosteen, wolfberry-goji, acai berry, blackberry, blueberry, pomegranate, bilberry, elderberry, cranberry, flax seed, oat bran, brown rice fiber complex, almond seed, sunflower seed, chia seed, sesame seed, etc. By the way, all of these nutrients are ingredients in "The Feast." You many also be interested in "The Feast - Supercharged," which has some additional energizing berries, seeds, and leaves. It has the same blend of superior ingredients as The Feast, but with six additional energizing ingredients including green tea extract and green coffee bean extract, etc.

I would also strongly recommend these super-powerful live whole food nutritional supplements that I take every day: living probiotics, living Homeostatic Soil Organisms (HSO), all-natural plant based active enzymes, Himalayan crystal salt (full spectrum salt with over 72 trace minerals), GTF chromium, extra virgin organic coconut oil, extra virgin olive oil, organic all-natural unheated and unfiltered local honey, and Bragg's organic apple cider vinegar. Each one of these whole food nutritional supplements are powerful life-giving foods that God created to help your body live long and healthy. Add them to your daily diet so that you can receive the incredible health benefits they offer.

If you would like more information on "The Feast" or on any of these other highly recommended nutritional supplements, feel free to contact me at the email address in the left column of this blog. You can also go directly to my website to get more information on these incredibly healthy whole food nutritional supplements offered by URI International. Click on the link at the top of the left column. Or just click here: URI Nutritional Supplements and The FEAST

10. DETOXIFY YOUR BODY AND ITS ENVIRONMENT

Periodically cleanse your body from toxins with these seven types of important cleanses: colon cleanse, liver/goll bladder cleanse, kidney/bladder cleanse, parasite cleanse, heavy metal cleanse, candida cleanse, and a whole-body cleanse. Give yourself a daily dry brush massage after showering. Take a dry sauna or infared sauna to sweat out built-up toxins. Use an air purification system to keep your home air quality healthy. Wash sheets and towels in organic all-natural soap. Get all mercury amalgam fillings and all metal removed from your teeth. Avoid and eliminate antiperspirants, deodorants, sunblocks, toxic cleaning supplies, air fresheners, non-stick cookware, all use of microwave ovens, fluoride toothpastes, fluorescent lighting, dry cleaning, hot tubs, and steam saunas.

11. PRACTICE GIVING AND RECEIVING LOVE; LEARN TO BE FORGIVING AND ACCEPTING; AND BE THANKFUL

Learning to practice and do these things is critical to your health and longevity. Each of these things will have a healthy and positive effect on your health, and they will be health and life to other people. Keeping a positive and thankful attitude will greatly benefit your health. You were created to love and to be loved, so it's critically important for you to learn how to give love and to receive love. One of my spiritual leaders put it this way: "When you get to heaven, God is going to ask you this question - 'Did you learn to love?' What will your answer be?" One big part of loving is learning to forgive others when they hurt you, as well as forgiving yourself when you do something wrong or stupid. Holding on to unforgiveness only leads to poisoning yourself with bitterness. Unforgiveness makes you a prisoner and destroys your life. Refusing to forgive someone is like drinking deadly poison yourself while thinking it's going to hurt the person who offended you. I have read studies that show that unforgiveness and bitterness are actually toxic to the body and can lead to all kinds of major physical health problems, including the big "C-".

Another aspect of loving is learning to accept other people for who they are and as they are. Sure, nobody's perfect, not even you, so it's important to learn to accept yourself and others with all of their shortcomings. We each have our own strengths and weaknesses, and it is wise to learn to accept that about ourselves and others. Finally, it's also important to have a positive and thankful attitude in this life. Look for the good in other people, and give out plenty of sincere compliments. As you've heard since childhood, "Count your many blessings, name them one by one." God loves a cheerful giver who blesses other people and who lives with a grateful heart. Your attitude in this life is critical to your physical health. If you want to live a long and healthy life, you've got to let go of negative attitudes, complaining, and a critical spirit, and you've got to embrace a life of love, forgiveness, acceptance, positive attitudes, and a thankful heart.

12. DEVELOP A CLOSE FRIENDSHIP WITH GOD

King Solomon wrote: "My son, do not forget my teaching, but keep my commands in your heart, for they will prolong your life many years and bring you prosperity." (Proverbs 3:1-2) This is encouraging us to follow God's ultimate health plan for our lives by holding on to His teaching and keeping His commands. Of course, this begins with a personal relationship with God, through which we grow in a close friendship with Him based on love for Him and our obedience to His commands. When you learn to offer your body as a living sacrifice by following God's ultimate health plan, you'll enjoy a long life, peaceful, abundant, and prosperous life, and you'll be honoring your family and God.

We Must Complement Good Nutrition and Eating Healthy with Organic Whole Food Supplements

What is the SECRET to enjoying the health and vitality experienced by our forefathers? The answer is simple and indisputable: Live Whole Food Nutrition! For centuries our ancestors received good nutrition from whole food sources such as grains, seeds, legumes, beans, nuts, vegetables, greens, sprouts, fruits and berries. These were all grown in chemical-free and pesticide-free soil that was rich in probiotics, minerals, fulvic acid, and enzymes.

In today's world, our bodies still need the complete and natural balance of pure nutrients and energy provided by live whole foods. The demands of our modern fast-paced stressful world have led to the processing of food to the point of non-nutrition. Authentic food value has been sacrificed for convenience. Due to the life-destroying practices of the food-producing and food-processing industries, our modern-day foods are nutritionally inferior to the food our grandparents ate 2 or 3 generations ago. The grains, vegetables, meat, and dairy products they ate had a higher vitamin, mineral, and protein content, and they were free from DDT, hormones, preservatives, insecticides, and other chemicals and drugs. The natural live whole food that our ancestors ate has been replaced with chemically modified products that can cause illness and many physical health problems.

In this day and age, we are not only eating food, but our food is eating us. Some people try to counteract the impact of poor nutrition with "processed nutritional supplements" in the form of man-made isolated synthetic vitamins (lifeless chemicals) and inorganic minerals that their bodies cannot use and that are only slightly more beneficial than the processed foods that created the problem.

The solution to this national nutritional crisis we are facing is simply getting back to basics. We need to get back to a complete balance of live whole foods, just the way that nature intended for healthy lifestyles. Supplementing our diet with live whole food nutritional products will provide that balance we need. The KEY to this balance is feeding your body the live whole food nutrition that it knows and that it needs.

The prime purpose of taking daily nutritional whole food supplements is to fill in the nutritional gaps produced by poor eating habits and by nutritionally-inferior foods. Let's face it: Americans are not known for eating healthy. We are known for our fast food restaurants, our junk food, our super sweet and overly fat foods. Food supplements will replace in your diet the good nutrition that is missing in food grown on depleted soils, lost in storage and transportation, and removed by food processing.

Another important reason to add to your diet live whole food nutritional supplements is that they provide your only available protection against the harmful effects of today's toxic environment. Many of the nutrients in organic whole food supplements have protective properties against the damaging effects of poisonous additives, residues, and poisons that are lurking in our air, water, food, clothing, cosmetics, household cleaners, etc.

In conclusion, there are two main reasons to take whole food supplements. The first reason is because today's food is not as nutritious as it was 100 years ago as a result of farming methods that have leached the soil of necessary minerals and nutrients. The second reason is that today's food, water, air, and living environments are loaded with toxins that need to be combated with supplements in order to protect our health. If you are interested in finding out more about an amazing live whole food nutritional supplement called "The Feast," go to the top left corner of my blog and click on the link that says "Try the Feast - the single most nutritional experience of your life." This is an incredibly healthy live whole food product that delivers a full, synergistic spectrum of: 30 antioxidant rich fruits and berries, 30 powerful greens and vegetables, 11 nutrient dense seeds, nuts, and sprouts; 83+ active enzymes and fulvic minerals, and 22 strains of resilient living probiotics. For me and my family, in addition to eating healthy every day, the Feast is our one source of complete nutrition. I encourage you to check it out for yourself.

Daily Quote: "You are responsible for your family's health and well-being! Take charge - be their caring, guiding Health Captain." - Patricia Bragg