Water…….ahhhhh wonderful water…..

For years I have been told that I drink too many diet cokes. We all need to drink more water. Whatever! Until your body finally says "hey, I'm thirsty you have to make a change". I would always tell people that surely my body was getting all the water it needed out of the 10+ diet cokes I was drinking a day. It is scary that this has been my attitude for 20+ years. I don't even want to think how long it will take me to get all that aspartame out of my system.

Your body needs water, period. It is likely the most important detoxifier. It helps clean us through our skin and kidneys, and it improves our sweating with exercise. 8 to 10 glasses a day (depending on our size and activity level) of clean, filtered water are suggested. The amount of water in the human body, averaging 70%, varies considerably and even from one part of the body to another. A lean man may hold 70% of his weight in body water, while a woman – because of her larger proportion of water-poor fatty tissues-may be only 52% water. Just to give you an idea of the bodies make up the brain is 75% water, the kidneys 82.7%, the muscles are 75.6% water and the blood is 83% water. And I wanted those important functions of my body to get what they could out of the diet coke I was putting in.

We have all heard this but it is worth repeating again. You should drink 1/2 your body weight of water in ounces, daily. Example 180 lb = 90 oz. of water daily. Divide that into 8 or 10 oz. glasses and that's how many glasses you will need to drink, daily.   Water is such a healer for our body. God didn't make diet coke or Gatorade, He made WATER…..

Cure # 1: Water prevents and cures heartburn.

Heartburn is a signal of water shortage in the upper part of the gastrointestinal tract. It is a major thirst signal of the human body. The use of antacids or tablet medications in the treatment of this pain does not correct dehydration, and the body continues to suffer as a result of its water shortage.

Tragedy: Not recognizing heartburn as a sign of dehydration and treating it with antacids and pill medications will, in time, produce inflammation of the stomach and duodenum, hiatal hernia, ulceration, and eventually cancers in the gastrointestinal tract, including the liver and pancreas.

Cure # 2: Water prevents and cures arthritis.

Rheumatoid joint pain - arthritis - is a signal of water shortage in the painful joint. It can affect the young as well as the old. The use of pain-killers does not cure the problem, but exposes the person to further damage from pain medications. Intake of water and small amounts of salt will cure this problem.

Cure # 3: Water prevents and cures back pain.

Low back pain and ankylosing arthritis of the spine are signs of water shortage in the spinal column and discs - the water cushions that support the weight of the body. These conditions should be treated with increased water intake - not a commercial treatment, but a very effective one.

Tragedy: Not recognizing arthritis and low back pain as signs of dehydration in the joint cavities and treating them with pain-killers, manipulation, acupuncture, and eventually surgery will, in time, produce osteoarthritis when the cartilage cells in the joints have eventually all died. It will produce deformity of the spine. It will produce crippling deformities of the limbs. Pain medications have their own life-threatening complications.

Cure # 4: Water prevents and cures angina.

Heart pain - angina - is a sign of water shortage in the heart/lung axis. It should be treated with increased water intake until the patient is free of pain and independent of medications. Medical supervision is prudent. However, increased water intake is angina's cure.

Cure # 5: Water prevents and cures migraines.

Migraine headache is a sign of water need by the brain and the eyes. It will totally clear up if dehydration is prevented from establishing in the body. The type of dehydration that causes migraine might eventually cause inflammation of the back of the eye and possibly loss of eye sight.

Cure #6: Water prevents and cures colitis.

Colitis pain is a signal of water shortage in the large gut. It is associated with constipation because the large intestine constricts to squeeze the last drop of water from the excrements - thus the lack of water lubrication.

Tragedy: Not recognizing colitis pain as a sign of dehydration will cause persistent constipation. Later in life, it will cause fecal impacting: it can cause diverticulitis, hemorrhoids and polyps, and appreciably increases the possibility of developing cancer of the colon and rectum.

Cure # 7: Water and salt prevent and cure asthma.

Asthma, which also affects 14 million children and kills several thousand of them every year, is a complication of dehydration in the body. It is caused by the drought management programs of the body. In asthma free passage of air is obstructed so that water does not leave the body in the form of vapor - the winter steam. Increased water intake will prevent asthma attacks. Asthmatics need also to take more salt to break the mucus plugs in the lungs that obstruct the free flow of air in and out of the air sacs.

Tragedy: Not recognizing asthma as the indicator of dehydration in the body of a growing child not only will sentence many thousands of children to die every year, but will permit irreversible genetic damage to establish in the remaining 14 million asthmatic children.

Cure # 8: Water prevents and cures high blood pressure.

Hypertension is a state of adaptation of the body to a generalized drought, when there is not enough water to fill all the blood vessels that diffuse water into vital cells. As part of the mechanism of reverse osmosis, when water from the blood serum is filtered and injected into important cells through minute holes in their membranes, extra pressure is needed for the "injection process." Just as we inject I.V. "water" in hospitals, so the body injects water into tens of trillions of cells all at the same time. Water and some salt intake will bring blood pressure back to normal!

Tragedy: Not recognizing hypertension as one of the major indicators of dehydration in the human body, and treating it with diuretics that further dehydrate the body will, in time, cause blockage by cholesterol of the heart arteries and the arteries that go to the brain. It will cause heart attacks and small or massive strokes that paralyze. It will eventually cause kidney disease. It will cause brain damage and neurological disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease.

Cure # 9: Water prevents and cures early adult-onset diabetes.

Adult-onset diabetes is another adaptive state to severe dehydration of the human body. To have adequate water in circulation and for the brain's priority water needs, the release of insulin is inhibited to prevent insulin from pushing water into all body cells. In diabetes, only some cells get survival rations of water. Water and some salt will reverse adult-onset diabetes in its early stages.

Tragedy: Not recognizing adult-onset diabetes as a complication of dehydration will, in time, cause massive damage to the blood vessels all over the body. It will cause eventual loss of the toes, feet and legs from gangrene. It will cause eye damage, even blindness.

Cure # 10: Water lowers blood cholesterol.

High cholesterol levels are an indicator of early drought management by the body. Cholesterol is a clay-like material that is poured in the gaps of some cell membranes to safeguard them against losing their vital water content to the osmotically more powerful blood circulating in their vicinity. Cholesterol, apart from being used to manufacture nerve cell membranes and hormones, is also used as a "shield" against water taxation of other vital cells that would normally exchange water through their cell membranes.

Cure # 11: Water cures depression, loss of libido, chronic fatigue syndrome, lupus, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy.

These conditions are caused by prolonged chronic dehydration. They will clear up once the body becomes well and regularly hydrated. In these conditions, exercising one's muscles should be part of the treatment program.

Remember that chlorine is not a substance you want to be part of your diet. You want to drink clean filtered water.

 
 

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Food Frustration

I am so sick of my food frustration. Life is just so busy this days. You know the routine you get up between 5:30 and 6 a.m. You rush to get ready, get your children ready and fed so you can run out the door, drop your kids off at school and get to work on time. Then we run around all day meeting everyone else's needs so we can pick our kids up, get them fed and off to practice of some kind. Right now it is football for us. Which is the worse time demand of all the sports my son plays. Whew! I get tired just thinking about it.

How did we get in this life at light year speed? The busier we get the worse we eat, the less we exercise, the less we pray, the less time we really have with the people that we love. I feel like that crazy blonde, Susan Powder - "Stop the Insanity".

For years like twenty or better I have been living on full steam ahead and now I am paying the price. I am overweight, my adrenals are shot, my system runs sluggish and all those things that I used to work don't anymore!

I always knew I should take better care of myself. I switched from regular coke to diet coke. No calories you know! They kept flashing all those commercials about how happy and thin I would be. Is anyone experiencing that lie? And let's not even talk about what that aspartame has done for my nervous system, sugar cravings, etc..... But I'm not bitter!

I quit smoking in the late 80's. Considering the price of cigarettes I'm glad I did that. Then I started trying vitamins. For some reason when you quit smoking you get focused on being healthier. I started running too but that didn't last long. I would read about all kind of vitamin benefits and go buy them. I never do anything small. I would go buy 10 different vitamins that had to be taken 3 times a day. Well the first week would go okay. Toward the end of the first week I would start skipping doses, you know "I am busy". Then the skipping doses get more frequent, then it's a whole week, then I give up. I've done this for years. I don't even want to think how many thousands of dollars I have wasted with this routine, never finishing a complete bottle. I came close a time or two. But failure was always looming. Then the next part is you keep the vitamins in the cabinet because "someday" you are going to start taking them again. I can't count how many times I have moved these "someday" vitamins from one house to another.

Then there are the times I decided to eat healthy. You know all the antibiotics in food, herbicides, pesticides, etc. So I would throw out all the "bad" food in the cabinet and go to the "healthy" grocery store and stock up. I would buy all this organic, fresh produce and free range meat. Of course it would spoil in the refrigerator while I was busy and grabbing fast "they call it food" junk. So let's not count how many thousands got wasted on that plan either. All that "good" food requires time to prepare. I've been a little shy of time for a long time.

All these experiences leave me more and more discouraged about eating right, feeling great, being thin, being happy. All those things go together in my mind for some reason.

Now there is all this media about our tainted food supply. It is becoming more imperative to eat a better quality of food. Industry wanting more money has literally taken the life out of our food. We'll talk more about that at another post.

Look around we are fat and sick as a nation. I have spent the past few months watching how fat people are. It used to be a few people but now it's everywhere. Now I am amazed when I see someone that looks fit. The other part is this "fat" issue is getting to the younger population all the time.

I WANT MORE! I want a life where I am not running around like a crazy person, where I can eat a healthy diet, where I can wiegh what body should weigh, where I can feel great most days.

Stay tuned for more on this personal challenge.