Eight Important factors

A Healthy body is freedom, a Sick body is a prison - Francis Bacon

To achieve health, there are several factors that we must consider and put into action.
Which are:

1. Nutrition:
 - the benefits of good diet and nutrition will be enhanced when it is complemented with other healthy habits: Clean air, water, sunshine, exercise and a healthy state of mind. By putting all of them into action, living in this earth will almost be felt as living in the heaven.

Food and diet merely will not benefit us in its simple from, we must also consider how, when and our action when we eat.

2. Air:
-we may be able to survive for a few weeks without food; a few days without water, but we will never survive more than three to four minutes without air. Oxygen is needed to 'burn' our food in the cells to produce energy for life.

we must be able to breathe freely, in a clean air of course. The correct breathing posture must be maintained (upright chest) to ease breathing. And remember, when you breathe in a room with a smoker, you also smoke. It is a wise decision to begin our day by taking a deep breath in an open area. Make it a habit to always get the opportunity to go outside to take a breath 
in clean air. Our brain will only function optimally in the state of enough oxygen.

3. Water
- water is a universal dilute. 60% of us is made from water. our kidneys need water to filter our blood and to excrete unwanted materials and toxins from our body, so does our digestive system.

Our skin needs water to keep it supple and tight, our bones need it to maintain its elasticity and hardness. We need water both for our inwards and our outwards. Try to drink at least 6 glasses of milk every day. 2 before breakfast - to clean the mucus that has been accumulated throughout the night while we were sleeping. 2 before lunch and 2 before dinner. Prioritize plain water more than any other drinks.

-water taken from outside proves a great benefits, if not why people go to saunas and hot water springs? in ancient times, hydroteraphy proves to be a  great aid for curing or diminish the effect of sickness. At times, choose to take a bath with epsom salt and try to relax before sleeping.

4. Sunshine

-sunshine! how nice you are..have you ever thought why sun is always associated with smiley face? its because sunshine has the ability to do so. Solar ray is very important to maintain life and health. Sunshine will help our skin to synthesize Vitamin D. The Ultraviolet rays will kill the bacterias on our body. It also acts as a tonic to stimulate our body processes. Can you think why the winter gloomy and depress? its because during that period, there is less sunshine to enjoy with.

-Nevertheless, recently it has been found that excessive exposure to sunshine can lead to many skin conditions - due to the thinning of the ozone layer in our atmosphere. So moderation is the key!

5. Exercise

- Our body is designed to move! immobility will results in muscle wastage and  organ inefficiency.
Try to exercise at least 4 times per week - 40 minutes each session. It will lower the risks of contracting cardiovascular diseases, heart attack, and circulation problems. The best exercise so far is -guess what? - Brisk walking.

6. Rest

A body without rest can be compared to a car that is driven without stop. The end result: Wreckage. The most likely period for someone to get heart attack is between 9 to 12 p.m. on a busy and stressful day -with lost of coffee and tobacco consumption. Why? A body is like a machine-it needs rest.

We must make it a practice to make sure our body gets enough rest. While we are sleeping, our neurons  will by themselves clean all the metabolic toxic accumulated throughout the day. Cells need enough time to recover - minimum 7 hours for adults.

Apart from daily rests, our body also needs periodical rests, weekly and yearly. We must have at least one day per week to rest. The French Revolution do the talking: they tried to make a 10-day working week but it is unsuccessful - why? more and more people getting sick at the end of the 'week'and production dropped drastically. Rest is always a good habit.

7. Stay away from toxins
-Toxins here are caffeine, alcoholic drinks, tobacco and drugs. If having a healthy and energetic mind is our aim, then we must stay away from all this toxins. Artificial stimulants (caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, cocaine etc) will put our body into stress and then will destroy our world and the world itself.

-According to WHO, Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of diseaseor infirmity. The usage of drugs initially will cause the consumer to fell healthy, but in the long term the dependence to the substance is greatly enhanced to the point that the consumer will unable to maintain daily life without a heavier 
dose of the particular substance.

8. Good mental condition
- Make it a habit to accept all things calmly: not overly worried about ourselves, not keeping revenge among others and ourselves, smile with confidence when you face problems in life.

It is shown that well-balanced mental habit is a prerequisite towards good health. Do you know that cancer can affect more to those who
are easily angered and stressed? It is not an easy task to achieve a well-balanced state of mental in this rude and harsh world but it is, on the other hand, not unattainable.

- most people seek freedom and refuge in reading the Holy Scriptures, Bibles and enhanced with
prayers and meditation. Confidence and Faith contributes a lot to a good mental state - not only mentally though but physically as well. This occurs because people who believes for a good future  and the confidence and faith in that there is Someone who cares, understand and loves him or her.

- a good mental state and a calm and serene soul will surely enhance our body to function with greater effiency and optimally.

Water and You

Why we need water?

We need water because it is a cleansing fluid. It cleanses our body, dilutes toxin and replenishes our body's water supply. Every process that occur in our body will produce a product. Some of them such as urea is toxic and must be excreted. water helps our body
to exrete toxins through urine and perspiration.

It also cools our body because water has a high specific heat capacity. It regulates our body temperature to make our body temperature at constant and optimal level.

Decrease of water in our body will result in dehydration and deoptimization of body system.
Particularly for the excretory and circulatory system.



Daily Water Requirements

The rule of thumb that you should drink eight 8-oz. glasses of water each day (a total of 64 ounces of water), actually describes the minimum amount of water that you should drink. Throughout the course of the day, your body loses water through sweating, exhaling, and elimination.

Hydration is the replacement of this lost water. Without adequate hydration, your body cannot perform many of its vital functions. Many factors, including your body size, activity level, and alcohol and caffeine consumption, determine exactly how much water you need to drink each day, which may be much more than the recommended minimum.

Exercise

Exercising can seriously deplete your body's hydration level, even in colder weather, through perspiration and respiration. You should drink at least two 8-oz. glasses of water two hours before, then another two glasses about twenty minutes
before you exercise.

During your workout, drink water every fifteen to twenty minutes. When you've finished your exercise, drink another 8-oz. glass of water within thirty minutes. This may be a difficult habit to establish, but persevere and you're sure to feel the benefits.

Alcohol and Caffeine Consumption

Beverages that contain alcohol or caffeine can actually decrease the amount of fluid in your body because they act as diuretics. Therefore, for every eight ounces of alcoholic or caffeinated beverages that you drink each day, you should also drink an
additional eight ounces of water.

Other Factors

Additional factors that may each increase your minimum daily water requirement by 8-16 ounces:

Being pregnant or nursing.
Temperatures over 80 degrees.
Very dry air/low humidity.
High altitudes (over 5000 feet).

Proper Hydration

Mild dehydration can lead to fatigue, muscle cramps, headaches, and constipation, while severe dehydration can eventually lead to death. You cannot rely on your level of thirst to determine whether or not you're properly hydrated. Oftentimes a lack of
proper hydration is mistaken for hunger pangs.

However, checking hydration levels is simple. As the body becomes more dehydrated, it produces darker yellow urine that may also have a strong odor. If your urine is pale yellow or clear, that indicates
adequate hydration.