Exercise

Walking is the ideal exercise.

What Exercise Can Do To You?

• Exercise helps us Feel Good! Life becomes more fun, and the high that comes from exercise won't let you down later. Moreover, the hormones producing the exercise high are proving to be health promoting as well.
• Exercise strengthens the heart.
• Exercise lowers blood pressure and resting heart rate, protecting the heart and blood vessels.
• Exercise lowers LDL cholesterol levels in the blood and often raises HDL cholesterol, again decreasing heart and vascular risk. ( LDL is the bad part of cholesterol; while HDL is the good part.
• Exercise strengthens bones by helping retain calcium and other minerals.
• Exercise lifts depression.
• Exercise relieves anxiety and stress.
• Exercise increases overall energy and efficiency in all areas of our lives.
• Exercise helps maintain desirable weight levels. It builds muscle and burns fat.
• Exercise improves circulation, and that makes for clearer minda, better sleep, and faster healing of damaged body area.

Health Note:

Women who log at least four hours of exercise a week cut their risk of breast cancer by more than a third. Active people are about half as liable to get colon cancer as are inactive people.

Source: Health Power p.187

A newer concept for fitness recommends:

1. Aerobic exercise for thirty minutes three times weekly.
2. Alternate with 30 minutes of strength and flexibility training three times a week.

Source: Health Power p.189

Health Note

Women

Health Tips

" Meat can be hazardous to your health. Start eliminating it from your diet by making your own delicious lunches." Health Power p.185

"The risk for cancer of the prostate, breast, and colon is three to four times higher for people who consume meat, eggs, and dairy products on a daily basis when compared to those who eat them sparingly or not at all. In addition, vegetarian women have stronger bomes and fewer fractures, and they lose less bone as they age." Health Power p.183

Nutrition

" Then God said, 'I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with the seed in it. They will be yours.'" Gen. 1:29

In NEW START, the letter N stands for Nutrition. Our body needs a good nutrition to obtain good health. So, what are the foods which consider in "good nutrition"?

• Breads and Cereals - These foods have a high complex carbohydrate content and provide the body with energy. Sources: whole-grain bread, hot cereals, pasta and brown rice.
• Fruits and vegetables - This group is a primary source of phytochemicals and anti-oxidants, vitamins and minirals. Sources: For vitamin A, select dark-green, orange, or yellow vegetables. For vitamin C, select citrus fruits, strawberries, tomatoes and potatoes.
• Legumes - Beans rate high in soluble fiber, protein, and energy, as well as phytochemicals and anti-oxidants. Because they contian a plant hormone called phytoestrogens, soy beans are hard to beat among the beans.

The National Cancer Institute Recommends 9 a day to tap the healing power of fruits and vegetables, you have to help yourself to enough servings. Most americans don't. Do you?

According to Dr. Kopp, " The average risk of heart disease for a man eating meat, eggs and dairy products is 45 percent. The risk for a man who leaves off meatt is 15 percent. However, the coronary risk of vegetarian who leaves off meat, eggs, and dairy products drops to only 4 percent."

An editorial in the journal of the American Medical Association commented on these advantages. It said, " a total vegetarian diet can prevent up to 90 percent of our strokes and 97 percent of our heart attacks."

Dr Dean Ornish publish studies proving, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that a very-low-fat vegetarian diet could reverse heart disease in patients scheduled for coronary-bypass surgery.

Discipline

"One of the first lessons a child needs to learn is the lesson of obedience. Before he is old enough to reason, he may be taught to obey." Ed.p287