Learn Your Body's Rules
The Body Can Heal Itself
Regardless of whether you are in the glow of health, feeling health slipping away or experiencing the affects of neglecting your body, the best news you wlll ever hear is: "It's not over 'til it's over!"
- The Body is adaptable.
- The Body is resilient.
- The Body is forgiving.
The body sustains itself by using nutrition for three things:
- energy, to perform all of the different functions involved in living;
- replace or repair tissue that has worn out or been damaged in the process of living;
- and protect itself from infection, infestations or profound oxidative damage.
The process is straight forward:
- You select and eat food.
- The food is liquefied and treated with stomach acid and gastric juices resulting in chyme.
- The chyme is digested by an army of intestinal microbes.
- Nutrition, produced by the microbes, passes through the intestinal wall into the blood stream and delivered throughout the body to be used in the production of energy and cellular repair or replacement.
- Wastes and cellular debris are passed back into the blood stream and delivered back to the intestines where it is combined with indigestible food and eliminated from your body. NOTE: Your body should store two meals: one being processed for nutritional value, another being prepared for elimination. When you introduce more food into the system, wastes should be eliminated to help avoid contamination from external ingested toxins and organisms, debris and wastes.
Your body is composed of:
- water . . . . . . . . . 55%
- protein . . . . . . . . 20%
- fat . . . . . . . . . . . .15%
- minerals. . . . . . . . .5%
- carbohydrates . . . 2%
- vitamins . . . . . . . < 1%
To help you understand the scope of the tasks performed by your body, scientists suggest that:
- your body is composed of 750 trillion cells,
- it replaces every cell every seven years
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by building 300 billion new cells every night!
Simply stated, your body depends on a reliable, diverse source of these building blocks to stay healthy. If they are not readily available, in sufficient amounts and in the proper ratios to accommodate your body’s needs, your body begins to decline.
In a perfect world, you would provide your body everything it needs to flourish by drinking eight to ten — 8 ounce glasses of water and eating five to seven raw, fresh, ripe vegetables and two fruits everyday. You would augment your diet with two to four ounces of muscle meat two to three times each week. Scientists and nutritionists all agree that the most healthy people eat like this! And, there is a direct relationship between quality of your health and the quality of your diet.
Sadly, we don’t live in a perfect world. Some people are unaware of the consequences of choosing to rely on a diet of processed and preserved foods. Others actually believe fast food is nutritious. Other people know better, but because of time and convenience, choose to ignore the consequences of neglecting the diet.
What are the options?
- First, stop what you are doing!
Do not expect that there is some chemical compound, magical herb or secret formula that will fix the conscequences of choices you are making.
- Next, do the best you can.
As a practical matter, the demands of work and family are a reality. Choose a program that fits your personal situation.
- Drink water instead of sodas, coffee or teas.
If you feel hungry, drink a glass of water first! The sensations of hunger and thirst are often confused — most people are simply dehydrated!
- Reduce the white foods in your diet.
(ie: dairy products, white wheat flour products (white bread and pasta), processed sugar products (candy, soda, corn syrup), white rice and fewer root starches like white potatoes)
- Eat fresh foods whenever possible.
Preservatives stop food from spoiling, but they affect digestion. A good rule of thumb is “If the food you eat won’t spoil in two or three days, you will have trouble digesting the foods that have been preserved, packaged and processed.”
- Choose a supplement program and stick to it!
The simple fact is: supplements compensate for deficiencies in your diet. When your dietary choices create a deficiency, you should consider filling the gap with dietary supplements to provide your body the nutritional resources it needs to carry out the various functions that keep you healthy, vital and youthful.
We believe Bene•Vita™ is a good place to start.
First of all, it is not a juice. With less than 1 gram of sugar per serving, Bene•Vita™ is a great tasting liquid whole food puree, packed full of anti-oxidants, all of the other nutrients in 15 different whole food fruit and berry concentrates, in a base of our specially handled whole leaf, cold press Aloe Vera.
If you eat mostly cooked foods, add Bene•Zymes™. Containing a cross section of plant enzmyes, Bene•Zymes™ provides the food enzymes that cooking destroys. It helps support speedy digestion and provides the raw materials for the creation of the enzymes that operate your body.
If your diet consists of mostly prepared and packaged meals, add Bene•Flora™. Containing a probiotic intestinal inoculant, Bene•Flora™ supports nutrition uptake by helping maintain that army of microbes that are affected by preservatives and other food additives.
One final thought: The natural state of your body is healthy.
It makes more sense to invest in maintaining your health than to pay to repair what is broken. When you experience a decline in this natural state, it is important to remember that the healthiest people provide their bodies with the nutritional resources to maintain it. You, like thousands of others, may benefit from choosing to fill a nutritional deficiency with a dietary supplement to help right your ship.
For more information: A View of Health
Conference Calls: Too Much, Too Little, Just Right and A Delicate Balance.
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