Master Your Health by Listening to Your Body

Health Tips

By Archie Armada

With our modern lifestyle and the foods that are available to us, our whole family can be victims and even our kids are at risk.

The obvious issues we are facing could be anything ranging from lack of energy, some few pounds of extra weight, to full blown obesity, diabetes, or some other life-threatening problems.

Majority of our population right now are either overweight or obese, and the number is climbing. It’s no longer a surprise seeing number of people developing diabetes, cardiovascular issues, cancer, and other types of deteriorated health.

At Natural Health Philippines, we promote natural principles that leads to a healthy lifestyle to enable our body to heal itself. We believe that each one of us know instinctively how to eat, rest, exercise, combat stress and provide for our intelectual and spiritual needs, but yet many of us lose touch with this ability because of our modern lifestyle.

What we need is to re-establish our life force through a natural way of living, so that our vitality will help us to heal ourselves. Symptoms of disorder are proof of the life force at work. Our state of health reflects the interplay of three (3) main factors: mechanical structure (body weight, the state of muscles and bones); biochemistry (metabolic processes such as digestion and breathing); and psychological state. When these factors are balanced , we are physically, mentally and emotionally well. When equilibrium is disrupted, for example by injury or exessive stress, our self-healing powers come into play, triggering symptoms that remind us that something is amiss.

For instance, you are basically quite healthy, but eat very few fruit and vegetables, drink less water, put off going to the lavatory because you are too busy, get bombarded all day with pop music, and relax with the TV or newspaper or computer at home instead of taking exercise. You are likely to suffer from constipation and bloating (indicating that you need fiber for healthy bowel habits), headache (your body’s protest at noise stress), weight gain (piling on fat against lean times in the future), and colds and sore throats (due to a lack of antioxidant nutrients).

We need a holistic perception of humans as whole beings with physical, emotional and spiritual needs, rather than as someone with a sore throat needing antibiotics.

Natural Health Philippines play a preventive health role by promoting sound nutrition, exercise, relaxation and spiritual awareness as fundamental to well-being, and base prescriptive treatment for disorders on adaptations of healthy living to suit each individual’s needs. Let our bodies’ search for and adopt a natural way of living. Let’s rekindle this awareness and release the power of a vital or life force.