The DR's Corner 3: 6 Ways to Maintain a Healthy Lifestyle
Do YOU feel Healthy? Can you improve your general well-being?
In Episode 3 of The DR’s Corner, Dr. Aranda and Sherri Belmar discuss 6 Simple Ways You can Quickly Improve Your Health.
Because COVID Prevention & Treatment relies on your physical condition, stay out of high-risk categories like diabetes, obesity and high blood pressure. How can we do that?
Review our 6 fundamental areas of Focus, so you can get quick benefits to your health, boost your immunity, and be more likely to survive any insult.
Fundamentals for a Strong Immune System
6 Ways to Maintain a Healthy Lifestyle
Purpose
Maintain Healthy Weight
Maintain Close Social Relationships
Get Outside - Fresh Air & Sun
Eat Anti-inflammatory Diet / Whole Foods
Get Regular Exercise
1. PURPOSE: Do you know your purpose?
We surveyed the audience on where their needs are, whether it is relationships, weight, or job security. We recognize these vitally important community issues.
Have you read Victor Frankle’s book, Man’s Search for Meaning? Sherri discusses how it os a must-read on his experience in four Holocaust camps, which led to his soul-searching conclusion that suffering is for a purpose.
2. MAINTAIN A HEALTHY WEIGHT: Does stepping on a scale feel like a failure? Use it as a starting place. For example, recount that “failure feeling" before eating the wrong food, and use it to switch gears.
Do it because you ifeel good about yourself! Take charge!
Optimally, just stop buying a quart of ice cream and instead, visit an ice cream shop to buy just one scoop. You'll be glad you did!
One forkful at a time, one bite at a time, leave some food on your plate, watch some of that soda go right down the drain. How much money will you can save by not buying ice cream in the first place?
Spend most of your grocery shopping time in the produce section, and avoid the freezer aisles and boxed, processed foods. At checkout, note how many clear plastic bags of vegetables you have vs boxes, and note others around you - dare to be different, strike up conversations with like-minded people, and get in the groove!
Each bite not eaten, each sip not taken, means less poundage!
Don't you love that feeling? Dare to feel that feeling all day long, because you also know how it feels to have regret and guilt about eating too much… don’t go there!
3. MAINTAIN CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS: We know that general problems lead to personal relationship problems. How can we change the general problems? Learn how to let that problem fly over your head at work or school - don’t absorb it.
In the morning and throughout the day, establish your peace with prayer, yoga with a spoken commitment,
“This is MY wonderful day today! NOTHING and NO ONE is going to take it away from me! I am going to take everything that happens as God’s perfect timing!”
For example, if you were tardy for work, maybe you would have otherwise been in a car accident. Hmmm. No one will know you got lost or forgot your important papers unless you mention it, so speak life.
Watch your words.
Smile!
With an attitude of gratitude, you look at the positive and expand it, expound on it, create light from darkness. Take that negative energy and turn it into positive energy. For example I shared that in the time I was disabled and bedridden for twelve years, I wrote six books. Now, that helped my brain come back, and turned me into a writer with seven books coming out this year!
Spend time with family and loved ones, smiling around them. Choose to be around those who speak positive into their lives and YOUR life, counsel with clergy or elders, join a book club, and get encouragement and spiritual power from the Bible.
Help someone every day, even if it is just with an unexpected phone call, a smile, opening the door, or pressing that elevator button for someone else.
4. GET OUTSIDE - FRESH AND & SUN
Promote your health with the benefits of sunlight and fresh air! Walking and being outdoors increases not only lung oxygen, but optimizes its delivery to every major organ, including the heart itself. It clears the mind, gives us more energy, and boosts our mood.
… and it burns calories, so it also helps us ltrim our waistline, increase core strength, lose weight, and gain strength!
At what weight do you feel really good? What pant or dress size? Wouldn’t you love to donate all your “large” clothes and stop looking at them? Do you have “smaller” clothes in the back of your closet? Get them out and look at them with the same longing that will motivate you to buy a bunch of vegetables and leave those cookies behind.
Feel awesome about your weight! Accomplish weight loss by knowing these benefits:
Daily Walk. Get outside to increase vitamin D. With at least 30 minutes in the sun at the same time every day, vitamin D levels can be more optimal.
Phytocides. Walking in a tree forest increases the absorption of phytocides, chemicals that plants and trees emit for their own protection. Phytocides actually decrease blood pressure and the stress hormone cortisol.
Depression. Did you know that when sunshine reaches the eye’s retina, it increases serotonin production? This is how the anti-depressant class of drug, SSRIs, or Selective Serotonin Receptor Inhibitors, work: by boosting mental focus and calm feelings … by increasing serotonin… so sunshine is like Prozac®!
Longevity. Getting in the sun thus helps you live longer by increasing vitamin D. And if you are vitamin D deficient with lung disease, the best and cheapest way to optimize vitamin D is to … get more sunshine! Interestingly, a study in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine showed that once once vitamin D deficiency is corrected, some lung disease can be halted.
Antibacterial. In 1903, scientist Niels Finsen discovered that autoimmune diseases like Lupus could be alleviated with light therapy or light rays. For this, he won the Nobel Prize.
5. EAT ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DIET / WHOLE FOODS
Avoid carbohydrates and processed foods, and if you are overweight or have hypertension, eat little to no whole grains. Of course, avoid sugars and vegetable oils (except olive oil). Eat fatty fish like sardines or salmon, especially Sockeye over farm-raised salmon. Consume colored vegetables as your source of carbs, and eat fermented foods (unless they trigger your mast cells and cause diarrhea or abdominal bloating, which could be a symptom of Mast Cell Activation Syndrome).
Have you tried Whole 30 Diet, an anti-inflammatory and anti-allergy diet for just 30 committed days? Did you like it? After Day 30, add back one new food at a time, starting with three bean salad or sauerkraut. If you get diarrhea or bloating, it could be you have a histamine allergy.
For optimal success on the Whole 30 Diet, join their FaceBook group. It provides encouragement, education, and accountability. Before starting the Whole 30 Diet, first eat down the food in your cabinets, because on this Diet, you may eat whatever Whole 30 foods you want, as long as it is on their "list"!
One of their rules is to commit to this diet, so you don't eat even a piece of wedding cake (on your wedding) during your 30 days!
You may eat as much as you want, so do not worry about being hungry on this diet!
To go on a liver detox, consider Metagenics® Clear Change® 10-Day Detox kit; some kits are specialized to chelate metals, others are good for those with high sugars.
Doesn't that sound very sweet?
6. GET REGULAR EXERCISE
Exercising 20 minutes a day is no longer recommended to lose weight. Today, anything you do counts! So move around whenever you can! Stand or walk outside, garden to grow fresh veges, or park your car farther and farther away in parking lots.
While you’re at it, optimize relationships and ask a friend join you, or walk the dog. Don't have a dog? Ask your friends and family, and even ask your doctor!
Get one! Really think about it.
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