Did you know that you are spending 75% more on medical expenses than on nutrition? Source http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/aer821/aer821.pdf Kaiser Family Foundation.Employer Health Benefits Survey 2008. http://ehbs.kff.org/pdf/7790.pdf You should be spending more on nutrition. Mal-nutrition is what causes most chronic illnesses today. Diseases and bacteria are killing more adults and children each year than natural disasters. (Source Globalissues.org). I don’t know about you but this is alarming to me. What Hippocrates said over 2000 years ago “Let thy food be thy medicine” should be what we still live by today. When did we start thinking we were smarter than nature in feeding our body anything we wanted without any consequence? Medicine should only be there for extreme emergency. We have gotten so comfortable with fixing everything with a pill that we don’t even know how to do the most basic thing: eat. Example, if you consume alcohol or eat a lot of very heavy, sugary, or spicy food and have heartburn, stop, at least for a period of time. To alleviate the heartburn all you have to do is drink apple cider vinegar. And if you drink it daily, not only will it alleviate it, but the heartburn problem will disappear (if there aren’t any other underlying causes). I used to have a very bad case of acid reflux and would take a prilosec on a daily basis. But, I would continue eating and drinking foods that would flare up the acid reflux. I wanted a quick fix without having to make any changes in my eating habits. Does this sound familiar? My body was telling me that I was hurting it and I was trying to “shut it up” with a pill. Not smart at all. My point is simple learn true natural health and see/feel your body heal and tone itself with a little help from you with the right diet and exercise. This way your medical bills could decrease and even disappear. I have not been sick for over 2 years. I have not had to run to the doctor, except for an annual checkup, for over 2 years. I don’t have any medical bills. I don’t need my health insurance. My health insurance is my eating habits and my exercise routine. My health insurance is also what I refuse to do and eat. Always find a natural remedy for your ailment. Think of using medicine ONLY if you feel you have exhausted every possible natural alternative, which only tells you your body has undergone some serious damage. I try to use all-natural home remedies first for all non simple ailments, then homeopathic medicine for the more serious stuff. My family and I eat organic foods and we do a lot of physical activity like soccer, weight training, yoga etc. So in my household, thank God, we barely get sick and if we do is a minor fever or head cold, which the kids get, and I treat it with apple cider vinegar, honey and homeopathic medicine. When my children (ages 4, 7, 9) have a cough, sore throat, cold, sinus discomfort, I mix 1 tablespoon of raw apple cider vinegar 1/2 teaspoon of honey in a glass. I mix it until honey liquifies then have them gargle for 30 seconds and swallow each mouthful. This will soothe the throat while killing the overgrown bacteria causing the cough/cold/inflammation. I usually give it to them maybe two or three times throughout the day until the discomfort is gone but most of the time, 1 or 1 1/2 days is enough. It works all the time for my kids. If they have a fever and/or flu-like symptoms I get them homeopathic medicine to help their bodies fight off the infection. I never, ever try to get rid of the fever. Unless it’s too high of a temperature, of course. A not-to-high fever is just your body’s way of telling you it’s fighting off invading bacteria. My children have no serious illnesses nor do they have any disabilities so I’m comfortable treating common ailments at home. If they had more serious problems then a different approach would be taken not short of finding the root cause of the problem, as opposed to getting rid of the symptoms with a pill.
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