Included here are practical ways of enhancing our health.

Health is a combination of not only diet, but of how we treat our bodies and how we think and feel. When we persistantly pursue practices that are detrimental to health (referred to as 'maintaining causes' by practitioners)we will get sick.

For example, consider the following:

With regards to lack of physical activity -

• Physical inactivity has many unhealthy implications even at our body's cellular level. Inactivity decreases the ability to transfer oxygen from your blood stream to your cells, and also decreases the number of power activating mitochondria.
  
• Men and women who are physically active have a 30 to 40 percent lower risk of colon cancer compared to individuals who are inactive.
  
• Lack of exercise reduces muscles' ability to use insulin.
  
• Lack of consistent physical activity, over time, decreases the function of the heart muscle and affects the blood vessels.

  There is more! For the rest . . . . . see the leaflet!

With regard to the way we think and feel -

• In recent years evidence has accumulated that psychology can indeed affect biology. Studies have found, for example, that people who suffer from depression are at higher risk for heart disease and other illnesses.
  
• Other research has shown that wounds take longer to heal in women who care for patients with Alzheimer's disease than in other women who are not similarly stressed.
  
• And people under stress have been found to be more susceptible to colds and flu, and to have more severe symptoms after they fall ill.

I hope you will indeed, find these leaflets useful.

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