Mistake 1

Not Drinking Enough Water

The Fundamental principle to good health

Too many people fail to reach their recommended daily quota of water consumption. Water makes up 70-75% of the planet earth and the atmosphere. The human body is predominately water. The blood cells, muscle, brain tissue, kidney, liver etc, that make up the human body, all require a constant, steady, balanced amount of water to function adequately and keep the body in homeostasis (balance). Water is composed of hydrogen and OXYGEN (a vital ingredient for life), which is why humans cannot live too long without water; it houses the breath of life. Not drinking enough water in any one day will have adverse effects on your health. Dehydration hinders the job of the cells and organs and prevents the body from excreting waste properly. Some of the long term problems that can be derived from dehydration are Constipation, Circulatory Disorder, Memory Loss, Kidney damage and loss of energy. Calculating your personal required daily water consumption Your weight (in pounds) divide by two (2). The result is the amount of fluid ounces you should drink daily to avoid dehydration. Your Weight (lbs) 2

Your Daily Intake Of Water (fl. oz)

Ten tips to help you increase your daily water consumption

1. Start as soon as you get out of bed in the morning; drink at least 2 glasses of water. 2. Include one-two young coconut/s water into your schedule best drunk in the morning. 3. Reward yourself e.g. Treat yourself to a juice - only after drinking 1 litre of water, (or 4 glasses) not before. 4. Use your phone or a gadget to set alarm reminders, 1 glass of water every hour. 5. Ask a water drinking friend/associate to remind you when they drink water. 6. Always try to carry a bottle of water, especially before long trips. 7. Use a water carrier to keep on your person. 8. Drinking fresh lemon juice or cayenne pepper mixed with water will help to cleanse the body and aid the circulatory system. 9. Increase your water based foods, fruits, water melon etc. 10. Use a simple but effective water filter jug. Just one or more of the tips given above, will go a long way to saving your organs from dehydration and consequently organ dis-ease. It is also important to drink your water in stages. Stagger your intake as opposed to gulping plenty down at once. Doing this will avoid placing excess pressure on the bladder and prevent you from having to rush to the toilet so often. As with everything in life, moderation is required, because one can damage the body by over eating and/or drinking. Use the calculation method noted on the previous page to calculate the amount of water your body requires to prevent dehydration. Note that if you are exposed to the sun or hot temperatures you will require more water as your body will constantly perspire fluids. Eventually you will become more in tune with your body and be receptive to its language telling you when and how much water to drink.

Mistake 2

Eating A Heavy Breakfast

Ackee & Fried Dumpling

Breakfast or breaking your fast is the first meal of the day and for most people this is consumed well before noon (12pm), in order to make sure this meal as well as others are productive and not taxing on the body it is essential to understand how the body works, the human body goes through three (3) cycles: This is the period to eat your heaviest meal of the day, (ideally between 12 and 3pm). You may eat foods that build, such as Vegetables, Grains, Beans, Provisions, Animal flesh etc.

12pm (noon) - 7pm

This is the period where the body uses any available nutrients it can get from the foods consumed in the day to rebuild areas of the body such as the hormones, immunity, stimulate glands etc.

7pm 4am

After the body has been building, it now eliminates waste. This period is the time that most of us break our fast (first meal), so as a natural rule, it is best to eat in accordance with what the body is currently trying to do. By eating a heavy breakfast of foods such as Provisions, Grains, Fried food such as eggs, and animal flesh before 12pm (noon), we are actually going against the current elimination cycle of the body. This causes stress for the body and interferes with the elimination process, which in the long term causes many ailments/conditions ranging from Constipation to Cancer. Your morning meal should consist of light foods such as fruits that help to cleanse the body. Other light foods in moderation such as oats, nuts, seeds, salads etc can also be consumed.

4am 12pm

Tips to help you avoid a heavy breakfast

1. Drink your two glasses of water when you wake up. 2. Try to keep citrus and sweet fruits in the house consume throughout the morning. 3. Replace heavy foods with Oats or Cornmeal Porridge first, and then move onto fruits. 4. Prepare fruit porridge, sweet fruits, wheat germ or bran (whole), flax, pumpkin, sunflower seeds should be added. Use a processor, do not add water. Consume the mixture as soon at its taken out of the processor. It will be a lovely, thick consistency. 5. Carry fruits and a handful of nuts with you to work etc. 6. Know that your heavy meal time will soon be ready. Patience, reward yourself. 7. Leaving at least four (4) hours between meals is always best for digestion and elimination. In many cases, its not the feeling of hunger that causes us to eat a heavy meal in the morning. Its due to habit, and the digestive system has become used to the heavy weight in the mornings. When this weight is not felt in the digestive tract, we mistake this for hunger. However, once light and easily digestible nutritious meals are consumed in the morning, the body gets used to these meals, and that feeling of hunger for something heavy in time will disappear. When it comes to eating, its always best to think light and nutritious as opposed to heavy and full. Eating a heavy breakfast interferes with the elimination process, and therefore contributes to constipation, a very dangerous condition.

Mistake 3

Eating Too Late

As mentioned above, the human body has been programmed with a very intelligent plan. And to go against the plan of the designer (GOD) usually means the design will not perform efficiently and will eventually malfunction. The period for digestion is between 12pm (noon) and 7pm. During this time, the body is at its peak of energy and can break down food adequately, as well as carrying out other daily functions.

Tips to help you avoid eating late

1. Plan your daily meals as much as possible, think ahead. 2. Eat your heaviest meal earlier (after 12pm) in the day, rather than later. 3. Drink plenty water in between meals. 4. Become accustomed to drinking green juices, theyre alkaline, cleansing, act as an antioxidant in the body and much more. Mix water with chlorophyll powder or juice green leafy vegetables such as celery, spinach, kale, cucumber or broccoli. Add a little ginger or an apple for taste. 5. Ensure you eat your last meal at least 4 hours before rest/sleep. 6. If you have to eat late, fruits and salads are best. Eating late (after 7pm) also interferes with the bodys natural cycle and therefore has consequences, such as slow digestion, constipation, organ stress & halitosis (bad breath); constipation accommodates intestinal parasites and/or worms, which further deteriorates the body.

Mistake 4
This is something that many of us have become so accustomed to doing. The thing to note here is that the Sun Cooks The Food In The Growth Process. The sun is the greatest of fires created by GOD to nurture and ripen all life forces on the planet Earth. When a food is ripe, this means its healthy and ready for human consumption, not before (under ripe) or after (over ripe).

Overcooking Vegetables

In order to get the best benefit from a food, we need to consume the food when nature says it is ready (ripe). Science teaches us that when we place a flame or heat to a substance it alters its molecular structure and reduces moisture. When we reduce moisture, we reduce the breath of life - OXYGEN!

Tips to help you not to overcook your vegetables

1. Be careful not to cook or over boil your vegetables, steam or par boil them to retain vital nutrients. 2. Make vegetables the last thing you cook when preparing food. Aim to keep the vegetables crunchy and with natural flavour = Nutrients. 3. Use a strainer to steam vegetables lightly over some hot water. 4. When preparing soup, drop the vegetables in for the last 2-3 minutes.

Remember: Vegetables are a crucial source of nutrition, to gain the highest nutritious content consume them in their most natural state, (raw) or lightly steamed. DO NOT OVER COOK YOUR VEGETABLES.

Vegetables house the life force; the healing force which is the breath of life in the form of moisture and house many minerals. They also act as a buffer to gently place those minerals into the human body without any stressful impact upon the body. Vegetables hang around in the body providing nice and slow energy for us, and at the same time assisting metabolism by helping other foods such as grains and animal flesh to move on through the digestive tract. When we cook vegetables, we destroy the minerals; the living and healing force. Drinking the water that the vegetables are cooked in does not solve the problem because the minerals are dispersed. The solution is to eat them live (raw) or steam them lightly. Anything outside of this causes a deficit.

Mistake 5
Most oils on the market today are extracted by way of a heated process. This process makes the oil much more harmful to the body. Heated oil distorts the red blood cells and clogs the circulatory system. Oil is usually isolated and concentrated from corn or seeds. As an isolated substance, it now falls into the category of refined foods and will rob the body in order to make itself whole (the body only knows natural wholesome food for digestion) resulting in a nutritional debt. How many of us place OIL in a metal pan/pot and heat it up? Heat changes the structure of the substance. Would we drink the oil straight from the pan/pot? Probably not. Would we take a scoop of oil out of a hot car engine and swallow it? NO, Im sure we wouldnt. But we have been so accustomed to eating oil that has been heated in our kitchens and placing food including fruits (plantain/ ackee) in the pot to soak up the oil. The food receives a crispy coat of hardened oil which we then place into our bodies,

Consuming Heated Cooking Oil

and then we wonder how we harden our arteries (atherosclerosis), distort our blood cells (sickle cells), clog our circulatory system, (thrombosis) slow down our blood (poor circulation), which in turn leads to heart attacks, strokes, Alzheimers and many more lethal diseases. Frying food (such as chicken or dumpling) places a crispy coat around the food. It now becomes a foreign substance to the body, so it takes extra time for the body to struggle and break down the crispy oily coat around the food. During this time, the food decomposes and creates excess waste in the system. This type of diet contributes to many of the life-threatening maladies we all too often hear about, such as heart attacks, strokes, diabetes and arthritis.

Tips to help you refrain from eating heated oil

1. Steam (fish), roast or grill your animal flesh. 2. Use water and natural flavourings for moisture; such as garlic, onion, lemon juice, cayenne pepper, herbs etc. Be creative. 3. Minimise visits to fast food shops, or takeaway restaurants. These establishments tend to use vast amounts of hydrogenated (heated) oil.

The commercial OIL sold in the stores has already been heated during its extraction process, and some refiners add sugar to the oil for the purposes of making their oil addictive, (after all everybody wants you to buy again). The safest oils are oils that have been extracted by way of a process called cold pressed. This process extracts the oil from its source without heating - usually manually, hence this is not a highly profitable method and most supermarkets are stocked with the cheap heat-extracted oils, for they are much more profitable.

Steam Fish

Cold press oils are the safest; however they are still not without problems, for they fall back under the category of refinement (processed) again. When we process a food and then eat it, the food will process you (the natural body) to make itself whole again. This creates a nutritional debt in the body. In order to obtain the necessary nutrients from oils, one should consume them in the way the creator made them, which is in the protective form of seeds and nuts. When you blend seeds such as flax, sunflower, pumpkin and sesame seeds with fruits, you can see and taste the natural oil from the seeds in the meal mixed with all of the natural minerals it was created with. You see it in a tribal form, which is the protective form the creator meant for us to consume oils. They are essential in the diet, so eat them whole or blend them with your fruits or vegetables for a great benefit.

Mistake 6

Eating Junk (Under Nutrition) Food and Exercise

A very common belief is that if we eat junk food we can go to the gym and burn it off, this is a big fallacy, in fact when the body is affected by junk/ waste/manure, exercising causes it to circulate around the system at a faster rate speeding up the deteriation of the body and its organs. There is no right way to do wrong things, the body requires adequate fuel to perform its duties and exercise is also one of those duties, the body was made to move and we should therefore move it and exercise the internal organs, stimulating the movement of the life force oxygen around the body. Eating an under nutrition diet actually hinders the exercise process and enhances the deficiency in the body.

Tips to avoid further stress on the body

1. The body was made to consume nutrition; under nutrition food is Junk food. 2. Incorporate more raw (fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds) foods into your diet. 3. Do not over eat; get to know your bodys limit. 4. Eat when relaxed and chew your food properly. 5. Consume plenty beneficial liquids, avoid or minimise processed drinks. 6. Allow meals to digest properly, four (4) hours is an ideal time span between meals including snacks. 7. Do not drink and eat at the same time, the fluid interferes with digestive enzymes. 8. After a fast, (including sleep) toxins are left in the body, use cleanser foods (fruits) in the morning to break your fast (breakfast) and cleanse the body. Like any other mechanism that has to work or be very active, your body needs adequate fuel or nutrition. Junk food is under nutrition food, and therefore it will cause the body to be under excessive strain in its daily activity much less in a strenuous exercise regime. When the body is given sugars in the form of refined bleached white rice, bleached white flour and refined sugar, these substances rob the body of vital nutrients creating a nutritional debt. A work out in the gym will not pay the debt. In fact, the work out will place more strain on the already weakened body and speed up the damaging effect. Therefore, the common mistake is that to partake in exercise regularly creates a fit and healthy person. The correct way of becoming both healthy and fit is to eat nutritious food (remain healthy) and exercise (remain fit). The two are connected however very much isolated activities. Both nutrition and exercise are required for optimum health and strong immunity.

Mistake 7
Most of us see Junk food as a substance that we purchase on the high street from these fast food outlets, and its no secret that these substances are oily, fattening, sugary and simply under nutritious.

Consuming Home Made Junk Food

What many people dont know is that when we go to the stores and purchase white rice, white flour, table and sea salt, white pasta, cooking oil, manufactured saltbased seasonings, cheese, MSG, etc and go home and combine these substances in a process we call cooking, we make non-food substances such as fried and boiled dumpling, fried chicken or fish, macaroni cheese, bleached white rice, with all the poisonous additives we are directly and categorically creating our own Home Made Junk Food When we go to a store and buy a ready-made slice of white bread, with so called cheese, tomatoes and sugar called a pizza; because we place it in our own oven at home it is sometimes perceived not to be junk food.

Tips to help you buy and consume whole foods

1. Get in the habit of reading the list of ingredients on labels 2. Buy whole foods; brown rice, whole-wheat flour and pasta, etc. 3. Use natural herbs such as dill, oregano, garlic, cayenne pepper, onion to season food as opposed to salt based packet seasonings. 4. Refined sugars in any colour will rob the body, try unrefined Stevia leaf. 5. You can mix brown rice with white rice (50/50) as a cross over strategy. 6. Become familiar with health stores. Even when not purchasing, browse. 7. Read about true healthy food. Even a page a week will help. Use the internet where possible. 8. Attend health festivals and seminars, listen to radio health programmes. 9. Gradually implement the tips in this Ebook to increase energy. The so called cooking practices mentioned above have been taught to the people of African Descent (the black race) during the displacement process known as the transatlantic slave trade. The process of frying food alters it from a food to a non-food substance that the body fails to recognise and therefore ends up clogging the circulatory system. When cooking your food, try to avoid frying at all costs. It is best to bake, steam, roast, or grill any food you want to cook. White rice, flour, pasta and refined sugars overwork the pancreas causing diabetes. They rob the body of the nutrients, contributing to nerve damage, arteriosclerosis, (hardening of arteries), liver damage, weak immunity, organ starvation, (high blood pressure), low energy, constipation and cancer. It is essential that we eat whole-foods, not partial (refined) foods. Brown rice and whole-wheat flour is best. Brown sugar is usually white sugar with a colouring, hence equally dangerous. Honey is also a moisture absorber and will therefore absorb moisture from the vessels. Stevia leaf is a safer sweetener. Also, as a golden rule, increase your consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables.

You were made with nutrients and ONLY nutrients will maintain and repair You
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