11TH JULY, 2022.

117TH ARTICLE IN ALL.

Health is wealth

Being alive and fully living (as opposed to managing to go through each day) does not happen by chance or daily positive confessions of 'sickness is not my portion in Jesus name!' -while continuing in health damaging practices. It takes diligent efforts on our part.

To have bodies that will enable us live healthy and fulfilled lives, certain pillars of health must be in place. These include:

1. Go raw!

Going raw, here, mean eating more raw foods and less cooked foods. Why go raw? Scientists have firmly established that food is severely damaged and degraded by the cooking process. To be fair, anytime you process a food, including the freezing and drying process, there are similar loss. This shows us why raw fruits and vegetables are superior to any sort of processed version of them.

Nutrients can also be washed off foods by the fluids introduced during the cooking process. Boiling a potato for instance, will cause most of it's B and C vitamins to be carried off in the water. Some people argue that these vitamins can be recovered if you drink the water, but how useable the vitamins are to the body after they have boiled in water for several minutes is debatable.

2. Juice up your nutrition!

Juicing is an easy way to provide yourself with a high quality nutrition. By juicing, you provide your body with the nutrients from freshsqueezed vegetables and fruits. There are three main reasons why juicing is so beneficial. Firstly, the juice hardly requires much digestion. Secondly, when you juice, you use more fruits and vegetables than you could actually eat. Thirdly, juicing helps in liver detoxification (purging of poisonous substances from the body).

Please note that juicing here refers to free home-made juices and not the so-called misleading"100%real fruit" on the supermarket shelves. Do not add any sweeteners to your juice and try to take them within 20-30minutes after juicing them before they start losing their nutrients.

3. Water your life!

Water makes up 70-75% of the body of the average human being. And it is the most essential even, next to air, to our survival. A person can survive for up to four weeks without food but no longer than 3 days without water because it performs many different functions in the body. It forms the bulk of blood and tissue fluid and is therefore essential for transporting nutrients, hormones and waste products around the body.

Everyday we lose water through breathing, perspiration, urine and bowel movements. For your body to function properly, therefore, we must replenish its water supply by drinking adequate quantity of water and consuming food that contains water. The American institute of medicine advices that men consume about 13cups of water a day and women consume about 9cups of water a day.

You may however need to modify your total fluid intake depending on how active you are, the climate you live in, your health status and if you are pregnant or breastfeeding.

Let's end it here for today. We'll continue tomorrow by God's grace. Till then, I wish you a healthy living. Thanks to my readers and @Therandomrewarder. for visiting once in three days. At least, it's better than nothing.