Tips to Avoid Toxins 1

We cannot avoid coming into contact with toxins in our lifestyle today. And while there are many we can do nothing about, there are certain areas of your life where exposure to toxins can be minimized.

• Avoid any kind of processed food, as they contain chemicals.
• Use natural cleaning products in your home. Microfibre cleaning cloths are ideal, as they only need water to clean, no chemical based cleaning agents needed.
• Avoid using artificial air fresheners, fabric softeners or synthetic fragrances as they can pollute the air you are breathing.

Health Problems Increasing

Governments of both poor and rich countries must do more to help their fast-growing older populations stay healthy by tackling chronic diseases and ensuring their social well-being, the World Health Organisation says.

"If we look at the prevalence of chronic illnesses, like arthritis, they are equally common in developing countries as in developed countries," said Dr Somnath Chatterji, team leader of WHO's Multi-country Studies Unit.

But poor countries with growing life expectancies have additional problems, including health systems that are too underfunded to handle their increasingly older populations.
Some countries "will grow older before they grow richer," Chatterji told a five-day conference today of the UN commission on population and development.

That could bring an increase in health problems common in older people - such heart disease and stroke - to countries already coping with high rates of infectious illnesses, he said.
Countries such as France, Japan and Germany - which have some of world's oldest populations - have had more time and economic resources to improve social and health services, he said.
But people are also living longer in developing countries like China, Peru, and Sierra Leone. Their life expectancies have grown at a faster rate than those of richer countries, he said.
"Something that took France over a century," Chatterji said, "has happened in a matter of two decades in other countries."

China has one of the fastest growing older populations in the world. Its over-65 population is growing at nearly three per cent a year, compared to a rate of less than one per cent for the overall population, said Jiang Fan, China's Vice Minister of National Population and Family Planning.

The trend "constitutes another grave challenge and exerts unprecedented pressure on social security," he said. "Social security system of the elderly has not been established in most of China's rural areas, and most of the elderly mainly depend on their families."

Chatterji urged governments to develop comprehensive strategies "so that as (people) age, they continue to remain in states of better health," he said.
The strategy should include helping older people cope with daily activities - such as driving - discouraging smoking and managing chronic illnesses, he said.

Source : Sydney Morning Herald

My Comment : Why are our health problems increasing, when billions of dollars are being spent on health? It makes sense that while our world is becoming more toxic every day, our bodies are at the same time taking in more and more toxins every day. A detox diet is one way these increasing health problems, particularly chronic illnesses, can be overcome.

Ways Our Bodies Naturally Eliminate Toxins

While a juice detox or juice fast is a wonderful thing to give to your body, it isn’t enough on its own to REALLY get healthy. There are far more toxins around us now in our everyday lives, than our bodies were ever designed to process. Because of all the toxins we ingest everyday, it is necessary to continually detox, to eliminate these poisons. Otherwise we store them inside, or our body’s natural detox process will eliminate them through the channels that your body uses.

Some Ways Our Bodies Naturally Eliminate Toxins :
Skin - Acne, rashes, psoriasis, boils, eczema and other skin ailments.
Lungs - Respiratory diseases, excess mucous, coughing, bronchitis and pneumonia, sinus
Nausea and Vomiting or Diahorrea

And while most people will see these ailments as something to be stopped (with medicines) or tolerated, the truth is that our bodies are just doing their self-healing jobs. Better to put up with them than to suppress them because if the body isn’t allowed to eliminate them, the toxins will cause a lot more harm, which can lead to serious illnesses.

But rather than put up with ailments, we can induce a detox to cleanse our systems. Then stay on a detox diet which will continue the detox process and remove toxins on a daily basis. This is the way to optimum health.

Read more at http://www.juice-detox.com/uncommon_cure.html

Cooking Destroys Valuable Nutrients

Valuable and sensitive micronutrients are damaged when foods are heated or cooked. Cooking and processing food destroys these micronutrients by altering their shape and chemical composition. Avoid all processed foods and eat only organic vegetables and fruits unless not otherwise possible. Most of us do not, or cannot abide by this sort of diet, however, juicing fresh and vegetables is a way that you can get all the nutrients without damaging them.