The Health Blog

If you are not in a happy mood when you wake up, think of something joyful. Open your windows, breathe deeply for about five minutes and the lingering tiredness will soon leave you. This exercise will put a different, happier face on things, even though you got out of bed on the wrong side. Moreover, if you do something for the body at the same time, you are well on the way to acquiring a positive mood. According to your nature, this may be washing yourself down with hot or warm water or taking a shower. Additionally, it would be useful to do some exercises, resulting in a pleasant feeling of warmth and a good start to the day. You will enjoy breakfast more than usual if you clean your teeth properly beforehand and gargle to cleanse and refresh your throat thoroughly.

Take pleasure in your food and make sure that it is both tasty and natural. Do not be a slave to time with one eye always on the clock. Eat peacefully and slowly, chewing your food well. In this way you will extract all the nourishment possible and your internal organs will benefit from the work your teeth and salivary glands have done for them. Those who enjoy and value what nature’s garden so generously gives us should remember to be grateful and not take the well-laden table for granted. There are so many things in which we can rejoice that there is really no time left for discontent.

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I learned about the danger of television to our health some years ago when staying with friends in the United States, where I noticed that their children sat in front of the screen for hours at a time. The parents usually had great difficulty in persuading them to come to the table to eat or to go to bed. The consequences of this unnatural enthrallment were not in the least welcome; in fact, they were disturbing and difficult to combat and overcome. The children were in an overwrought state, with a poor appetite; their scholastic achievements had dropped; they were absent-minded, lacked concentration and were much more subject to infectious diseases. Indeed, even at such a young age their health had already been undermined.

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The beekeeper, a simple, unin-fluential man, has decided not to sue for compensation; he could not risk losing the case and facing bankruptcy as a result.

Today, totally untouched places in nature are few and far between, and their number continues to, decrease, so that we wonder where it will all end. I remember talking to a zoologist I met in Guayaquil, Equador, as he was preparing to travel to the Galapagos Islands to study the iguanas, large lizards, living there. He poured out a tale of woe about the devastation being inflicted and how, soon, he would hardly know where to go anymore to study certain animals in their natural habitat. Wanton destruction and killing and the advance of civilisation were changing the environment so drastically that these animals were being robbed of their habitat and chance of survival. Something or someone has to pay when short-sighted, one-sided measures are taken and the biological balance of nature is disturbed.

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However, the hardening process has a detrimental influence on the quality of the product since metallic compounds can remain in the fats, even if only in homoeopathic dilution. Furthermore, the unsaturated fatty acids are transformed in the process into high-melting stearic acids, which do not have the same health value. If you want to remain healthy, avoid the hardened fats, even though they may be easy to use and store.

Why, then, do the unsaturated fatty acids have the above-mentioned advantages, whereas the hardened fats have lost them? The answer is quite a simple one. They are not saturated and therefore able to become saturated. That is, the unsaturated fatty acids are still able to combine with other elements. Figuratively speaking, they are still single, unmarried, and therefore ready and willing to enter a relationship. They will combine with the minerals, proteins and oxygen in the body and in this way encourage normal cell metabolism and oxidation. If these functions are interfered with over a period of years, even decades, the cells degenerate and disease will inevitably manifest itself. Cell growth may become abnormal and malignant, cancerous. The phospholipoids may degenerate and this can lead to thrombosis. Where there is a lack of polyunsaturated fatty acids and in their place an excess of saturated ones, the cholesterol in the blood will combine with the fats and deposit itself on the walls of the blood vessels, giving rise to hardening of the arteries (arteriosclerosis), high blood pressure and the danger of apoplexy or a stroke.

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Celery juice is distinctly alkaline and eliminative. It is therefore recommended for all disturbances caused by the accumulation of wastes and toxins, for example rheumatic and arthritic ailments. Celery juice regulates the water balance and puts new life into elderly people.

Tomato juice is recommended as a protection against premature aging, as well as the symptoms of overtiredness and unpleasant body odour. It is refreshing and cleanses the body.

Unlike the other juices, which are good for health but also delicious taken before meals to stimulate the appetite, potato juice is strictly remedial, and is particularly indicated for the treatment of stomach ulcers.

Vegetable juices enhanced by lacto-fermentation have a stimulating and balancing effect on our vital intestinal flora.

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