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Total Health Awareness
Posted by Sadiqua Hamdan on December 24, 2009
I believe it’s important to help people understand and appreciate the importance of applying all parts of health to our life and to attack the root causes of what ails us, not just the symptoms. Total health is about understanding how each initiative we take affects the whole body. Our bodies have the natural ability to heal and move towards health and balance given the right tools and conditions.
Why Do We Choose to Self-Medicate?
We choose to self-medicate and use products full of synthetic, processed ingredients to treat our issues — from recurring yeast and bladder infections, colds, acne, allergies and fatigue. You name it, and there’s a product on the shelf of a grocery store or pharmacy that can take care of it.
Why? Because we want instant relief. But who wouldn’t? Yet, we misunderstand and treat our symptoms instead of the disease. For example, every symptom of a cold or flu is a symptom of detoxification. What are the major symptoms? High fevers (the body’s way of burning waste and bacteria); the pores of the skin open for profuse sweating; diarrhea, chills (to generate internal heat), vomiting, and coughing up mucus – all cleansing actions.[1]
This is a way that the body can violently and quickly get rid of the unprocessed metabolic waste. Instead, we start taking all kinds of antihistamine cold pills, antibiotics and drugs to try to stop the body’s correct response because we misunderstand what’s going on. Advertising strives to convince us that symptoms are universally bad, and this is how they sell “relief.”[2] We are given a false sense of feeling healthy again.
If we simply take steps now to help strengthen our immune system, naturally, then our bodies will become sick less often!
[1] Jenson, B., Anderson, M. (1990) Empty Harvest: Understanding the link between our food, out immunity, and our planet. New York, NY: Avery.
[2] Ibid.
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