HEALTH- by the Numbers
FACT: To become healthy or regain your health and physical performance, we need to “first” neutralize as many negative causing items as possible. Without these areas or items being neutralized or eliminated, they will continue their negative effects on or against the positive things we are trying to implement.
Most people are not of the mindset to even grasp, that attitudes and or thoughts, as well as foods, either do “something for you or something to you!” Most, I’m sure, would prefer our food and intake to be doing something for us! There can be also other problematic effects from things such as lotions, exposures to chemicals, electrical fields, and other things within our environment that may need to be considered and may need to be eliminated or neutralized. In most cases, eliminating or neutralizing negative influences is much more than the equivalent of increasing the positives.. It is actually allowing the positive to happen unhampered!
1 – Breathe. Everyone needs to have some sort of circulatory stimulation at least every other day. Circulatory stimulation could be a minimum of 10 to 12 minutes of cardiovascular work such as stepping up and down on a 5” step, on a Monday, Wednesday, Friday, This should be done consistently and be slightly challenging! An individual may need to start this work slowly and increment their progression. This circulatory stimulus is important in that it moves oxygen and nutrientsthroughout the body for restoration.
2 – Drink. Everyone should drink at least 4 quarts of purified water per day. Not distilled, just purified. (Average size adults, anyone above 5’ in height + wt 98 lbs + larger individuals should or may need more.) This amount is the minimum for health. Drinking 4 quarts of water may sound like a lot, however, it adds up to only 4 to 5 oz. every half hour of our waking hours. Water is essential to assist with exchange of intra-cellular and extra cellular fluids. (Cell respiration).
3 – Vinegar. Unpasteurized apple cider vinegar has a live enzyme content called “mother.” It is excellent for helping digestion and assimilation for essential nutrients like important minerals in foods and supplements. This vinegar should be kept at room temperature and in the dark. Taking only 2-3 teaspoons of this vinegar in 3 to 4 oz. of water first thing in the morning can bring about many positive effects.
4 – Minerals. *Minerals make up 5% of the human body while vitamins make up less than ½ of 1%. Most everyone suffers from mineral deficiencies more than vitamins. Minerals also cause every cellular transference of nutrients within the body. A quality mineral complex should contain all essential minerals and a base of trace minerals. Usually these quality sources originate from ancient sea beds.
5 – Vitamins. *Vitamins are essential to the working of all bodily processes within the body. A person minerals as the building blocks in a building while vitamins are the mortar between the blocks. Due to genetically modified seeds, lack of essential and trace elements in our soils, chemical fertilizers that are incomplete, chemical insect sprays and much more, our foods are void of many important vitamins. Therefor it is highly advisable supplementation of added vitamins is considered as an “insurance policy” for our optimal health. Vitamins should be of a quality source. The potency is not as important as is the assimilation of the nutrients.
6 – Protein. Complete protein is what our bodies are made of – not incomplete. Our hair, skin, muscles, organs, and blood are complete proteins. For our bodies to maintain and be repaired adequately to the full potential of health we need adequate amounts of complete proteins. Self evidently having a little too much protein in our diet would do us much less negative effects than too many carbohydrates. With adequate amounts of complete protein we maintain more lean muscle. Complete protein can be used to supply energy whereas carbohydrates, as in incomplete proteins, will give us calories which may not help us to maintain our lean tissues but may add fat.
7 – Fats. Fats are concentrated sources of energy. There are essential fats that help us absorb fat soluble vitamins such as A, D, E, and K. The essential fats help with brain and nerve function. Unsaturated fats also assist in breaking down saturated fats within the body. If more fats were substituted for carbohydrates there would be less diabetes. An individual should be aware to keep fat consumption under control to avoid excessive fat gain especially when consumed with carbohydrates. Fats such as olive and safflower oils are essentials for health. Taking 1 tbsp. at lunch and dinner without heating is a good way to start to supply your essential fats.
8 – Carbohydrates. Carbohydrates both simple and complex are energy sources for the body. Diabetes today is rampant because of the “overuse” of different high carbohydrate foods being made to “taste even better” by adding sweeteners of high concentrations of sugars or carbs! This overuse of concentrated carbohydrates cannot be realized by just visualizing the portion size. If the actual caloric content per portion or serving size were more understood and controlled, much of the obesity seen would be curtailed, as well as a lot of the diabetes. Vegetables are the best selection for health when someone wants carbohydrates. Vegetable, (meaning low glycemic index types,) carbohydrates should be the preferred source if you were to consider not wanting to gain fat and yet gain some energy from carbohydrates. Vegetables will often burn more calories as they’re processed through the body than the elimination they provide. This means they actually work “for you” to help burn off calories!
9 – Priorities for food utilization
THE BODY’S PRIORITIES FOR FOOD UTILIZATION
1 – Energy
2 – Repair
3 – Storage
The timing of when meals are eaten is of great importance as to how food is utilized. If an individual fails to balance his blood sugar levels and food types, his protein supplies may be used for energy instead of repair. The timing of our meals helps our bodies determine the utilization of food by blood sugar levels. If our blood sugar level is too low for too long we will go into “starvation mode.” “Starvation mode” will cause our bodies to store our food producing fat. If we eat too much too quickly or eat meals too close together we are apt to go into “storage mode” from too high a blood sugar level causing excess energy to be stored as fat. These conservations of foods are triggered by the survival mechanism in our bodies.
The optimum is balancing the amount of food intake and eating times for best results. In other words, we are seeking energy foods to be used for energy replacement and repair foods for repair. Take the time to plan your meals and meal times. Blood sugar level balancing is one of the most misunderstood and under considered factors in weight loss (fat loss) programs.
Foods should be considered by quality, quantity, the frequency, and the combinations. These four considerations are what makes a “more complete” or balanced program. Another important factor is the changing of foods so the body does not acclimate to foods and what they supply the body! These factors regarding eating are the keys to why our systems have not been equaled in health improvement and physical performance.
10 – Special considerations. Depending on the state or condition of health, (sickness,) or level of physical performance, the one most important or critical factor now becomes the “special needs or requirements” of an individual regarding their unique circumstances. This is a small sampling of the critical strategy and sequencing needed for optimizing results to be had by anyone who is willing to do things the way the body dictates.
11 – Exercise. Exercise, (effective type,) is the deciding factor of what “level of performance” you want to be. Such as sick to well, or from strong to stronger, fast to faster, etc! Exercise is a stimulus or stressor to move or “trigger” your “response mechanisms” into gear, to adapt to or for a higher level.
However, exercise can be performed to just “maintain” a certain level of performance. Exercise is misunderstood by almost everyone, even coaches, in that people think it causes health, when it is a triggering action for the body to promote stronger tissues and or more organ function to respond to its stress! Again, the materials or chemicals, (nutrients,) are what are used to make these changes or rebuilding of our structure.
12- Evaluation. Evaluation of “what is or is not” actually happening with our body should be of major concern. Many individuals are so called “eating well,” exercising, and supposedly being “health minded.” I have found, and actual testing has “proven” time and again, that most people are quite delusional at best.
The human body has essential nutritional requirements that if not supplied in adequate amounts and often enough is the obvious main cause of sickness and lowered physical performance. Individuals need to be of the mindset that taking our own so called “inventory of stress’s and excuses” is of major importance. We need to have a check list of things we need to do and the essential foods and or nutrients we require to properly maintain and sustain our health! This may be no more than simply weighing daily, taking our resting heart rate, checking ourselves on our water consumption, taking a minimum of supplements several times a day, etc. Waiting for sickness to hit is not being responsible to ourselves or our so called “loved ones!” There are a number of differing ways to evaluate our maintenance of health. It is up to ourselves to figure out our slack areas of self maintenance and be vigilant to keep track.
*Note: Minerals and vitamins are a study all in themselves. During the 40-plus years I have studied and worked in the human performance field, I have had the privilege to experiment and in a big way test “what works!” For that reason I will make available “what products,” what companies, and why certain specific items are or should be your first preference. The actions or results of certain products can and will vary, much more than most would believe. So, I have and will always reserve the right “to change” my suggestions for the betterment of “clients results!”
Bert Seelman 520 327 2929 www.resultsareproof.com