Energy - The fuel of Excellence

Part-I (Key 1 and 2) - This post is a part of a series on Healthy living program

Physiology is the avenue to excellence. One way to affect physiology is to change the way you use your muscular system - you can change you posture, your faical expressions, and your breathing. The topics we are going to discuss are on a healthy level of biochemical functioning. Here we'll look at the under pinnings of physiology- What you eat and drink and how you breathe. We call Energy the fuel of excellence.

You have been learning all your life to run your own brain, and now here is your chance to learn how to run your body.

1. The first key to living health is - The power of breath
The foundation of health is a healthy bloodstream, the system that transports oxygen and nutrients to all the cells of your body. If you have a healthy circulation system, you are goig to live a long, healthy life. That environment is the bloodstream. What is the control button for that system? Breathing. It's the way you fully oxygenate the body and thus stimulate the electrical process of each and every cell.
Breathing not only controls the oxygenation of the cells, it also controls the flow of lymph fluid, which contains white blood cells to protect the body.
What is the lymph system? Some people think of it as the body's sewage system. Every cell in your body is surrounded by lymph. You have four times as much lymph fluid in your body as you do blood. The cells in our body absorb oxygen and nutrients necessary for their health and then excrete toxins, some of which go back to capilliaries. But dead cells, blood protiens and other toxic material must be removed by the lymph system. And the lymph system is activated by deep breathing. The body's cells depend on the lymph system as the only way to drain off the large toxic materials and excess fluid, which restrict the amount of oxygen.

If the lymph system in our body is shut down completely for 24 hours, we would be dead as a result of trapped blood proteins and excess fluid around the cells. So, if you want to have a healthy bloodstream with effective lymph and immune system, you need to breathe deeply and produce movements that will stimulate them.

2. The second key is the priciple of eating water rich food
Seventy percent of the planet is covered with water and Eighty percent of our body is made up of water. What do you think a large percentage of your diet should contain? You need to make certain that 70 percent of your diet is made up of foods that are rich in water. That means fresh fruits or vegetables, or their juices freshly squeezed.
Some people recommend drinking from eight to twelve glasses of water a day to "flush out the system". But this is not totally true. It depends on the water that you drink. Chances are that the water constains chlorine, fluoride, minerals, and other toxic substances. Drinking distilled water is usually the best idea. The amount of water you drink should be dictated by thirst.
Instead of trying to flush your system by flooding it with water, all you have to do is eat foods that are naturally rich in water - water-content foods.
Fruits, vegetables and sprouts - will provide you with an abundance of water, the lifegiving, cleansing substance.

3. The third key to living health is ... (Part-II)
4. The fourth key is ... (Part-II)
5. The fifth key to the living health program is ... (Part-III)
6. The sixth key to healthy living is ... (Part-III)

The subsequent post (part-II) will unleash the keys 3 & 4 and then in the last part-III, you will find the keys 5 and 6 to a healthy living life.
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