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Want to live a long and healthy life? Studies show that we are living longer with one little backward blip last year because of our collective obesity issues, but there are loads of people beating the “control your weight drum, so I will move past it. I was at a conference over the weekend called The Long and Healthy Life and it was put on by the Holistic Health Research Foundation who are driven to bring the medical and complimentary communities together so we can start to put things right with all that we now know about our bodies. There were doctors and scientists and long necked geese, humpy back nutritionists and one shaman (zie) just to make it rhyme with the song. We heard renowned speakers on stress, vitamin deficiency, toxic chemicals and meditation. Quite a spread, I know but the message was all on point…long life, does not mean healthy life and that there is a lot we can do to prevent the onset of diseases that can make the second half of our lives really, really stink. Here is what you need to know if you are pregnant…much of the health of that infant is set because the genes that will express themselves for her entire life were assembled in your grandmother. Got that? The egg that became your daughter was made while your mother was in utero, forming her ovaries. So, depending upon the environment available to your grandmother while she was preggers (war? ration? factory worker? poverty? mental depression?) much can be predicted about her health. Do not freak out! The good news is that we have a massive impact on the outcome of these genes and whether they are turned on and off. The long term implications of this are, of course, that you are making your grandchild right now, not just your child. It’s like that other children’s song, “there’s a bump on a long, in a hole, in the bottom of the sea”. It is quite simple and the stuff you are supposed to be doing you already know, but, like my experience this weekend, it is worth a reminder. There is no way I can recount all the info that I learned so I will distill to a ridiculous degree down to a list of five. Implement them today, they are not hard. Look them up for proof for yourself later, when you have the time, maybe when you are sitting watching your healthy, happy grandson play on the beach at your condo in Florida when you are 86 and he is 6. In this picture, both of you have healthy eyes, can move all four limbs with strength and purpose and can think of the best solutions to the important questions like, “what shall we have for lunch?” 1. Find a way to deal with your stress…sing, chant, pray, laugh. 2. Do not let anything “eat away at you”, express even negative emotions 3. Remove all white (processed) foods and control your blood sugar 4. Get more vitamin D-15 minutes of unprotected sunshine each day from April to October and 1000 iu as a supplement each day otherwise. 5. Remove all scented hair, skin, nail, makeup products from your life-they may make you happy on the outside but you would barf if you knew what they are doing on the inside. I wish you, a long and happy life. After all, when I am 86, I am going to need playmates, not patients. Xoxo Healthy Girl. |
