ONE PRINCIPLE FOR HEALTHY LIVING

Eat more and lose weight. Live till 150 years with better immunity. Beat stress with only one principle in life

By, Kashish Aggarwal This book is the most important piece of creation that I have done in my entire life; it took around 2-3 years to get completed. I personally want to thank my wife and staff who helped me a lot in completing this book. I would also like to thank internet from where I copied many sketches, information and greatquotes.com from where I copied all of my quotes. Introduction I am an ordinary guy born in India on 26/03/1979; I am writing this book for sharing my experiences with you. There is no profit involved my main business is manufacturing of bags. Neither am I a doctor nor a science student but I assure you that each and every word in this book is based on either my own life experience or scientific data taken from reliable sources. Theres nothing more important than starting afresh new day. That wasnt always the case. I used to drag myself out of bed and limp through the first part of the morning wondering why I had got up. (I hope the people who were with me did not think like me). But now, when I go to sleep, I am curious about next morning, what will it bring for me. What changed my life? A remarkable new diet that made me lean and energetic and gave me stamina and a positive mental attitude. It literally changed my life. Now I start my day with yoga, pranayam, weight training and soon after it, I consume fresh fruits and juices. This high fiber diet is good for my digestive system . After my breakfast the last shadows of sleepiness vanish (and I am ready for work) More over this diet gives me sustained energy throughout the morning without the crash and burn you may find with coffee. I become alive again, brimming with mental energy and physical vigor. In lunch I have given up wheat bread with low quality oils accompanied with pulses and white rice for steamed vegetables, salads or fruits without salt. There are a number of new foods and diets I have learned to love for health. What brought about the change? I can only credit my wife. It all goes back to a simple question she asked me. You saw your mother developed autoimmune disease, your father died of depression, at such a young age doctors are giving you pills for arthritis, high blood pressure , uric acid , joint aches , indigestion , bronchitis and thyroid. Like most persons, I answered by reflex Theres nothing I can do. But my wife threw down the gauntlet. She said, You are a special person with a strong will power; you have to figure it out and then treat it without any medical help. I took her challenge and read more than 100 health books to treat any disease naturally, how to live happily and till 150 years. I was fascinated to find time and again that the clues led to proper nutrition; slowly I altered my diet and lifestyle. The result was amazing I was feeling much more energetic; soon I left all my medicines and got all my test results normal that too without any medical help.

I live in India and have hired a personal yoga teacher from Guru Ramdevs institute. According to their principles of yoga and Chinese medicine (confirmed by recent scientific research), our body is a big energy system with cells and organs closely interconnected by energy flowing along twelve energy conduits. Each of us has a few kinds of energy, undergoing constant change and transformation from one type into another. Energy forms a biological layer around our body an aura which determines our physical and psychological condition. A complete cycle of energy exchange in our body lasts seven years. There are 22 such cycles in our life, which means that from the point of view of accumulated energy, we should live about 150 years. Skeptics may say 150 years is an exaggeration. Nevertheless, we have an opportunity to live a long life and what is even more important, to stay healthy and that to with a smart and slim body. Our body ages and becomes ill when the balance between its healthy cells and its ill cells is shifted in favor of the latter. To stop aging is to change this unfavorable balance. Science proves that we inherit 15% of our heath from parents, 15% is influenced by doctors but remaining 70% depends only on our diet and lifestyle.

There is no wealth but life John Ruskin.

What would you say is the one thing that is more precious to you than anything else? Isnt it life? Glorious, magnificent and abundant life. How special and dear life is. All the money, all the diamonds, gold, riches on earth can yield, all of it combined is but dust compared to a single moment of life. The Hubble telescope is, by anyones standards, an astounding conquest of science in action. It floats out in space taking pictures of stars, planets, galaxies that are billions and billions of miles away from us so far away that we cannot even fathom the distances this remarkable piece of equipment manages to put before our eyes with crystal clarity. What is that which differentiates our planet Earth from the billions and billions of heavenly bodies that stretch out into the boundless expanse in every direction? Life If the Hubble should happen to discover a single blade of grass a billion trillion miles away it would be heralded and the greatest most monumental discovery of all times. And yet we are here on this tiny little orb floating out in the great void, and that little orb is teeming and bursting with life at every turn. This veritable planet contains more life than all the rest of universe combined. How uniquely special and fortunate we all are to be here. What an indescribable gift life truly is. Yes, life is in a category all its own as it reigns supreme over all else.

God enters by a private door into every individual Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have full faith in God, in my opinion he is wholly loving and purely good, I am convinced that God did not drop us on this planet, to suffer from obesity, disease and unhappiness. God is more kind, loving and compassionate than any one could imagine. I am writing this book since I was able to find the happiness, health and smartness, fulfillment which once eluded me. If I could find it so you can.

Chapter .1
I could be dead by now. I was driving down to my office, enjoying a beautiful sunny day, suddenly I felt a severe pain in my body especially my legs. I could barely focus, the pain was excruciating. I immediately pulled up to the side of road; I had some red rashes all over my legs. My life virtually flashed before my eyes and I thought, oh my God whats happening to me, some time ago I was diagnosed with hypothyroid, bronchitis, arthritis and high blood pressure, and now these rashes, I am just 25 years old As quickly as the severe pain came, it vanished but some light sensation of pain was still in my legs. I called up my wife and she took an immediate appointment with my doctor. Over the next week I was examined by two more doctors though the reports were ________ and nobody came to a final conclusion. Despite the fact that I did not test positive for tuberculoses they advised me to take medicine for it! That day I was very depressed and resigned to the fact that my life was very short. The main reason was that my mom had also been prescribed medicine for tuberculosis two years back which ruined her immune system. Just few weeks before her death, she was diagnosed with Wageners disease (autoimmune disease) not Tuberculoses. Deep in my mind I knew that in India doctors are in a fashion of prescribing TB medicine if they fail to conclude anything. My health was deteriorating steadily from some time. Every month or two I was diagnosed with some new disease, I was in regular touch with doctors who they could not fathom why I was suffering from innumerable problems despite my young age, why my bones were weak accompanied with other problems. My medical file was full of various tests (nearly all tests had been performed on me, my bones were brittle similar to a 65 year old regardless of the facts that I was having active lifestlye with puntuality in Gym and other sports! Every time when I visited a new doctor he prescribed me new dosage and told me nothing was wrong with my diet or lifestyle. My aches were increasing and digestion weakening. I always felt bloated. They prescribed new medicines for better digestion with no advice for diet. As far as weak bones were concerned they told me to increase consumption of milk (though I was consuming 750 ml of milk with cottage cheese and whey per day).

Some days after that incident I attended a naturopathic seminar and came to know that nature has a cure for everything, animals in the wild, such as chimpanzees, do not fall sick!! They do not get diabetes, cancer, heartburn, arthritis, etc. Animals in wild also do not take drugs, or go to any health club for workouts, and yet without medical visits, surgeries, drugs or exercise they are healthy and live three to five times longer than humans. The point is that we do not have to get sick, being sick is not normal and no doctor or medicine can treat an abnormal body (it just suppresses the symptoms of the diseases, the cause of the symptom is never addressed) only normal bodies can be healed. You must be wondering if there is any place for surgery or drugs? Yes, they are neccesary in emergency situations like car accidents where a person cannot recover naturally and can be saved by surgery and medical help.

That day was the last day for my medical visits, I decided to treat my disease naturally without any medical help living at the mercy of doctors was of no use. I knew that nobody could do anything for me before satisfying his needs. I hence decided to gain information myself. For this I started reading health books and magazines, searched internet etc. In some months I gathered quite some information (however even now it my endeavor to look for each and every bit of information that I can get). I was shocked to learn that I was sick due to following reasons, Toxins, The major cause of my condition was that my body was full of toxins; toxic overload was mainly due to alcohol, non vegetarian food, health or muscle building supplements, diet sodas, smoking and DRUGS! I can write a whole book about the fraud done by these doctors and pharmaceutical companies, but I am not in the power or position to do that. I will just say dont go to any allopathic doctor or he will make you a patient for life time, or an addict towards various diseases just as they did in my case. I went to them in college for my treatment of acne and six years of prescribed dosage of antibiotics for acne ruined my immunity and natural defenses which in turn caused an array numbers of other diseases which till now reflect on my health.

Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing" - Voltaire

I hope that after consuming following medicines I was lucky to leave them, but I cannot wish you the same luck! medicines for High blood pressure medicines for Arthritis

medicines for Thyroid medicines for Indigestion medicines for Bronchitis medicines for Aches

1. N Not to mention I have taken these medicines for years before quitting. Discontinuing medicine for thyroid was not easy and I am still consuming its alternative supplement with reduced dosage as years of consuming has made me addicted to it.

"He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines."Benjamin Franklin

To explain my theory further, I would like to ask you a question. Suppose you are walking on a side of road and due to some negligence you encounter an accident, your leg is now fractured. Even after years you cannot walk as you did and once in a while there is severe pain in that leg. What would you do, would you amputate that leg and put an artificial leg instead, that could perform better, or would you try to heal it with all the possible treatments available? In my case of thyroid, high blood pressure, bronchitis and arthritis I did not have any organ that was not functioning properly it just needed some detoxification by change of diet and lifestyle through which it could heal itself and perform the best. But still doctors decided to amputate (giving drugs is like amputating that organ) that organ, not to mention the cause due to which it got toxic was still there! This is the major reason that nowadays a number of people are not limited to one disease; drugs are designed for profits and want you to stay sick and not limited to one disease, in a nutshell every drug works as a slow poison take it without limit and see. On the other hand take any natural raw food (food itself proved medicine for me) without limit, overeat that food, you will just have no side effects? Our bodies absorb toxins from water, food and air; I will cover the ways to reduce toxins by adopting just one principal for healthy living.

"Often when a person can't get past stress, she will turn to overeating, drinking or smoking, which can become a greater problem than the stress itself. "Marilu Henner Benjamin Franklin

Overeating,
Overeating can have serious effects on your body. In addition to the most obvious consequence, i.e. gaining weight, overeating can lead to medical problems and diseases that are difficult or even impossible to reverse. This was the second reason for my condition, overeating of acidic foods. After college I had joined a gym to lose weight but my coach insisted that I should eat protein rich foods, this way I would lose weight and gain muscle, slowly I forgot to lose weight and only concentrated on gaining muscle. For that reason I was overeating, the stuff was mainly man made (whey protein, creatine, weight gainers, glutamine etc.) Due to overeating my body was not able to detoxify or heal itself. I will cover that later..!! There is one thing I want to tell you if its manmade dont eat it and if you overeat them then ask somebody to reserve your grave, because it will have all the ingredients to damage your health, the common poisons used in every box, can, container, wrapper, tetra pack are not limited to Preservatives, artificial colors, dyes, taste enhancers, trans fats, emulsifiers, msg, artificial sugars, synthetic vitamins etc. All manmade products are very acidic in nature and we need to keep our body alkaline in order to stay healthy.

Keep in mind that even juices, milk, casein for children which claim that they are not using the above ingredients are made acidic in the process of pasteurization or homogenization.

Nutritional deficiencies, I now keep 2-5 days of water fasts without any problem and am still not nutritionally deficit; previously I was always hungry and couldnt even tolerate 2 hours of hunger and was still nutritionally deficit!

We need a new definition of malnutrition. Malnutrition means under- and over-nutrition. Malnutrition means emaciated and obese. - Catherine Bertini

The main cause of our obesity, diseases, pains, stress, etc. the reason behind this is that the diet of humans is dead or acidic instead of living or alkaline! If you know something about acidic or alkaline foods, youll be aware that everything which is raw is alkaline and anything cooked or processed is acidic for our bodies. For example oranges and lemons are highly acidic in nature but when we eat them they produce an alkaline effect in our bodies and non vegetarian food is alkaline in nature but when we eat them they create acidic effect in our bodies! In a nutshell nutritional deficiencies occur when we stop eating living foods. Mental and emotional stress, This was another reason that I believe that led to the degeneration of my health, mostly I was in a state of stress. doctor do not say that it could be directly responsible for our diseases but I have seen many people close to me who due to severe depression are in much worse health conditions and no one survived more than 5-15 years with this disease. .

Our exposure, The world is surrounded by magnetic fields, some generated by the earth's magnetism, others generated by solar storms and changes in weather. Magnetic fields are also created by electrical devices (e.g. motors, televisions, office equipment, computers, microwave ovens, electrical wiring in homes, power lines). Even the human body produces a subtle magnetic field generated by chemical reactions within cells and ionic currents of the nervous system. An electromagnetic field (EMF) is composed of both an electric and a magnetic field. The electric field is due to the presence of charged particles (such as electrons) and the magnetic field is due to the movement of the charged particles (such as an electron current). Recently, scientists have discover that external magnetic fields affect the body's functioning in both positive and negative ways. The observation of this led to the establishment of magnetic field therapy. All magnets have two poles, one positive and one negative. Negative magnetic fields have a beneficial effect on living organisms, whereas positive magnetic fields have a stressful effect. A positive magnetic pole, with prolonged exposure, interferes with metabolic functioning, produces acidity, reduces cellular oxygen supply, and encourages replication of latent

microorganisms. Positive magnetic fields can increase pain due to their interference with normal metabolic functions. Robert Becker, M.D., (Orthopedic surgeon) found that weak electric currents promote the healing of broken bones. He brought national attention to the fact that electromagnetic interference from power lines and home appliances can pose serious hazard to human health. The time people spend in buildings and cars; talk on mobile phones reduces their exposure to natural geomagnetic fields of the earth, and may interfere with their health. He calls the condition that they subsequently must suffer from, magnetic field deficiency syndrome, which, he says, can cause headaches, dizziness, muscle stiffness, chest pain, insomnia, constipation, general fatigue and other major diseases. My energy levels tremendously increased when I altered my lifestyle to increase exposure to geomagnetic field I have discussed ways to reduce exposure while talking on mobile phones or cooking food at home in my chapter toxic relief, Other ways to increase exposure to geomagnetic field can be achieved by walking barefoot in gardens, getting adequate sunshine, spending time close to nature , getting up early , exercising etc. till date I always try to wake up early, walk in garden and do a good exercise session. I strongly believe that I would have been dead by now, or else taking excessive medication would simply have made me physically body very weak with no immunity or life force. Its now nearly seven years and I can proudly say that I have not visited any doctor, I dont feel weak and my fevers get cure within 36 hours without any medication and I am not taking any prescriptive drug. You may be suffering from some known illness or disease or you claim to be healthy, you probably still experience the occasional headaches, aches and pains, fatigue, indigestion, cold, flu, heartburns, etc. so called healthy people believe that these occasional medical conditions are normal. They are not, a healthy person has little, if any, body odor, no bad breath, no foot odor, their urine and stool does not smell, they sleep soundly; they have no skin rashes or dandruff. They are not depressed or stressed, they rarely if ever, get colds or flus, heartburn, aches and pains. Truly healthy people are full of energy and vitality, and never have to take any drugs because they dont need them. So in reality every one of you who is reading this book is unhealthy to some degree, I assure you that if you continue to do what you have always done in the past, you physical health will slowly begin to deteriorate and your energy levels will continually slowdown however I personally guarantee that each and every content in this book is based on my personal experience and will certainly improve your health and wellbeing, my main motto is to share my experience and the data which I have researched in these many years. This is not about money or ego, I dont want to prove anything, and the data contained in this book cannot be challenged by any doctor of this world. Good luck.

Chapter 2
Follow one principle only One and only principle that will lead to everything is staying close to nature by following our evolutionary habits. But you must be thinking how it is possible to gain our health or lose our weight by it? My answer is yes. We can achieve everything by following it. EVOLUTION is a process by which any living organism adapts itself according to nature so that it can lead a better life and increase its population. All species on earth have gone through this evolution. Thats why, a camel that lives in desert can survive there with no problem and a penguin can survive in extreme cold climate with no problems. Even the body structure or digestive systems are adapted according to their needs , i.e. cows have heads down so that they can chew grass without any inconvenience , giraffes have long necks so that they can chew leaves on trees, lions have killer teeth and nails so that it can kill and eat easily . According to scientific data through human evolution, our bodies became accustomed to a specific diet and lifestyle. Unfortunately our bodies cannot turn on a dime and acclimatize overnight to a new diet and lifestyle especially one which is loaded with high animal fat, refined carbohydrates and dead food. The dramatic changes in our diet and lifestyle after the industrial revolution arent even a tick of our evolutionary clocks. Whats the diet we humans are meant to eat? Is it chicken with bread and potatoes with gravy, fried chips, junk food? Not if you look back into the dawn of mankind.

Recently a skull of oldest human was found (Ardipithecus ramidus

which is 3.2 million years old and named lucy) according to it archaeologist estimated humans are 4.5 million years old. Self
quote Oldest civilizations such as Harrapan or Mohenjodaro existed

near 3000 B.C. Even the birth of Lord Ram was on 10 January 5114 B.C, no civilizations existed before 10,000 years. Self quote

For 99% of the last 45, 00,000 years, we were fruit and vegetable eaters. Donald Coffee, PhD who is a professor at the famed department of urology at John Hopkins, argues that mankind did not evolve fully equipped to be diary or meat eaters. Our digestive systems have not evolved to handle a diet rich in fats. Humans came from an arm of evolution that did not eat a lot of meat. Until 4.5 million years we were mainly gatherers - we ate fruits, nuts and seeds. Homosapiens first appeared 1 to 1.5 lakh years ago, but only 10,000 years ago we started processing, storing and trading food. Thats when we started consuming massive amounts of carbohydrates that we eat today like corn, wheat, rice, barley, potatoes; root plants, etc. Fruit consumption dropped since it was harder to store. And as we increasingly ate a diet rich in meat, which we cooked and even burned, we stopped eating as many fruits and vegetables as we did in the past. Dairy got big only around 3000 years back and its then that we started to increase its consumption. Before that we would get milk from goat or sheep, but it was only when we bred these animals that we developed the dairy industry.

fifty years of trying to pervert cancer, we have learned that we should go back to eating the foods we ate while we were evolving - Doctor coffey
It is not surprising that American National Society and The National Cancer Institute make the same suggestions. They tell us to return to the diet we ate while we were evolving, more fruits, more vegetables, more fiber, less red meat, less animal fat, less dairy, less barbecuing, and more aerobic exercise. There are few more things that were there in evolution I recommend them to you for gaining optimum health and slim, attractive body. There are five hotspot in the world that live the longest, have no health problems even in their old ages. Their diet and lifestyle is also

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close to nature, they eat locally grown organic fruits and vegetables, and consumption of meat is minimal. Their village is away from western influence and the result is simple 100 or more years of disease free life.

Theres nothing under the sun, but there are lots of old things we dont know Ambrose Bierce
In my 30 years of my life there were many instances when I became aware of my health, tried to lose weight in order to look smart and I couldnt do it. But why? Because of cashectomy , not a single person on this planet can achieve good health without staying close to nature by following the diet and lifestyle that we evolved from. No gym or nutritionist can help you achieve good health with modern diets (powders, bars, misc. cooked diets high in protein or low in carbs, meal replacement, etc.). I made the same mistake when I first hit the gym and want you to stay away from it. You can lose weight by their diet or lifestyle but I promise you wont achieve your goal of losing weight accompanied with staying disease free, adding maybe 30 or 40 years in your life, gaining permanent healthy looks (with brighter glowing skin, lustrous hair, looking younger in your current age etc.) and always feeling good with a much better immune system. I will come to the key factors of staying close to nature in my next chapters but let me tell something about this cashectomy. Do you know anything about cashectomy? Oh, you dont? Well if you dont listen, cashectomy is performed every day of your life with the precision of brain surgery. Most people are not even aware that it is being performed on them. It is because it is a very common part of our society; it is going on every time everywhere. It is simply viewed as a natural process of commerce.
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. Stephen Leacock.

Cashectomy , is the process of convincing you to buy a product that will help you to achieve better health or wellbeing but instead you receive something that hurts you , makes you sick or kills you. Believe it or not I am a classic example of it, by taking heavy protein powders, fat burners, creatine, health supplements; I eventually got away from health; I started looking muscular but developed weak bones ( similar to a 60 year old , at my age of 25). And not to mention I was spending more than Rs.7000/- per month or 150 US $ on it. It is being estimated that billions of rupees is tossed every single day by professional cashectomists and they are still trying to grab another penny from your Wallet. Those who are desperate to gain better health or lose weight will be preyed upon with one of their three Ds, Diet, Device or Drug. Diets, In my past 30 years experience I have tried many diets and I would like to say diets dont work. I know many people who spent lots of bucks on famous doctors diets (My wife also tried it but couldnt succeed in it) her is an example of one of these diets. 1st week: only wheat or oat bran breads with vegetables, along with one fruit a day . 2nd week: high protein diet only soya , pulses, etc. 3rd week: only vegetables.

This diet further restrictions intake of calories had to be regulated . The person who adheres to these diets lose weight but I know it is not good for them in the long run because they will achieve only short term results, after five to ten years they might be slim but may not be energetic and definitely they will look much older as compared to the person who eats and follows the principles mentioned in this book. In our evolution we were not consuming various diets on various weeks. Plus we were never on a high protein diet. I have been on it for long and know its consequences. Now I never count calories, I eat according to senses of my body and not as per other peoples advice. If I am hungry I eat maybe 750 grams of live food 6-7 times and do not count any calories and still lose weight. I would again say diets dont work because they are temporary measures that give temporary results. Do you want to be temporarily rich or temporarily in love or temporarily healthy or temporarily slim? Is it fun to put your lost weight back or again struggle for better health as current diet or lifestyle is only focusing on short term results neglecting your lifetime goal of 100 -150 years of healthy living? Do you like measuring portions, counting calories, being deprived of and taking the joy out of the eating experience? I am sure u dont. Devices, As far as devices are concerned I have used treadmill and weights. But in my ten years of workouts at the gym. I have seen a number of fat people using various other devices that they tied near their stomach or rested their foot on it when it was moving , but not even one person (in maybe hundreds or thousands I saw in those ten years) got results. I would say it is just a waste of time and money.

Comic device I SAW A FAT PERSON IN A GYM APPYING FAT LOSS CREAM ON HIS BIG BELLY AND THINKING WITH A LOST EXPRESSION WHAT A MESS, I HAVE BEEN APPLYING THIS CREAM FOR THE PAST ONE YEAR NOW AND HAVE ALREADY SPENT MORE THAN 20,000 BUCKS ON THEM BUT THEY HAVE NOT BEEN OF ANY USE, MY BELLY IS STILL THE SAME The only device that gives you results is your body, if you purchase a treadmill, you will lose fat only if you walk on it, and if you purchase weights you have to lift them. Device that says you can rest while plugging them on or creaming it on is just like asking your servant to eat food when you are hungry to gain energy. If you get results by such products they will surely be temporary.
More die of the remedy than of malady French saying.

We put drugs of which we know little, into our bodies of which we know less, to cure disease of which we know nothing. Voltaire.

Drugs, I am a classic example of its cruelty; I have taken drugs for pimples for many years , for bronchitis every month , other endless drugs that I cant even remember. But I only got worse each time I consumed them. I also took a fat burner that my coach once prescribed for more energy, he told me that Id feel more energetic during my workouts and would lose weight quickly. After consuming it I was felt the same and after a month I suffered from fever, my body was left with no energy. Now I know whyIt was a fat burner with a warning sign that I had ignored. Warnings, Not intended for use by persons under 18 or those with a medical condition. Do not use if pregnant or nursing. Consult a medical doctor before use if you have been treated for or have a family history of any medical condition including (but not limited to) cardiovascular complications, psychological disorders, diabetes, or liver or kidney disease or if you are using any prescription or over-the-counter drug. Do not use if you are using a monoamine oxidaze inhibitor (MAOI), selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI), or any other product containing ingredients with a known stimulant effect. One serving (3 capsules) of this product contains about as much caffeine as 2 cups of coffee. Do not combine with other sources of caffeine (e.g., tea, coffee or cola beverages). Consult a medical doctor before starting any diet or exercise program. Discontinue use and call a medical doctor immediately if you experience irregular heartbeat, chest pain dizziness, headache, nausea, or other similar symptoms. Do not exceed recommended daily intake. Improper use of this product will not improve results and is not advised. Use only as directed. Keep out of reach of children.

. Before going any further I would like to share my conversation with my friends on yahoo chat which is as follows, Kashish Aggarwal : I m writing a book "Eat more, lose weight, stay fit, live till 150 years, have better immunity with only one principle in life" Friend A, I m writing a book "WHAT THE HELL WILL U DO BY LIVING 150 YEARS" LOL

Kashish Aggarwal: What a pity, humans who think themselves to be the supreme creation of god want to die before there biological age . Man fears that in old age he will have a low quality of life. But sir, if you were as healthy as a 40 year old guy in your nineties will you still take up death for life ? Friend A: Unfortunately the life span of the humans has changed ,so when someone talks about living 150years it seems hilarious ,especially if u meet any 80 year old . Kashish Aggarwal: Humans have changed their life span, not god. Friend A: Thats exactly what I mean buddy ...be it any lifestyle ...life after 80 is hell. I do not know any one, who looks happy at that age , seems u got upset with my comment. Kashish Aggarwal : I think you need to update, scientists have found more than 5 hot spots in the world where people live longest(Okinawa in Japan is one of them). They are very healthy and happy in their old age and may have less cholesterol than your young friends. Go search Google for their Happiness. Kashish Aggarwal: Please note that their longevity is due to intake of right diet and lifestyle and not their perfect genes...!!!!!! Any further questions! Friend A: Your diet and lifestyle are directly dependent on the kind of job or business you are in . I think some of us are lucky ,as we are our own bosses. Its good to achieve longetivity but I feel it is best to live till the age of 65 - 70. There should be a purpose or aim in life which prompts you to go on and on. Friend A: I think you should start planning to spend some time in those hot spots ;-)!

This conversation made me change my thoughts towards my family and friends. Today no one wants to believe that unhealthy diet and lifestyle are responsible for their misery. Consider the law of gravity. No matter who you are, no matter if you are rich or poor, big or small, educated or uneducated, male or female, and no matter where you live be it the law of gravity applies to all of us equally. Even if you dont believe in gravity, dont care for it and refuse to acknowledge it, if you dont respect it, the repercussions of violating it are same. If a man falls, or even leaps, from a fifty story building, he will be splattered on the ground, whether he is aware of the law of gravity or not. Someone might say, Well, no wonder hes all smashed up. He broke the law of gravity. In actual fact, he didnt break the law of gravity; he illustrated it !!!!

I consider the 70s to be the youth of old age. So all you women out there who are afraid of getting older, just keep your orgasms in place, eat a lot of vegetables, take exercise, and you'll be fine.-Betty Dodson, American, Educator Quotes
As my friend said he didnt know anyone happy or healthy in their eighties, (however people today are dying at a much younger age due to diseases like cancer, diabetes , heart attack , etc.) I saw my mom dying of autoimmune disease at the age of 43, she wanted to end her misery and preferred death to life. My friend As father also had a bypass surgery at the age of 45, I would say that, equally as unyielding as the law gravity, govern the human digestive tract and the process of eating food(the laws of the human digestive system are as inevitable as the laws of gravity). Not being aware of them will not save you from results of violating them. The result is simple, unhappy and diseased people all around the city at their old age, however age here is no factor an unhealthy diseased person at any age will be unhappy. But I have actual scientific data that people who have a better lifestyle and eat according to principles of nature, lead a very healthy and disease free life. They are very happy in their old age and die a peaceful death without any suffering. There are many places in the world where people of an entire village or town eat a healthy diet and have an active lifestyle throughout their lives. The result is simple the whole village or town is very healthy and diseases are unknown to them. They have maximum numbers of centurions in the world. In old age their bad cholesterol levels may be lower than most young adults in our cities. The bones of 80 year olds could be stronger than 26 years olds. Some of these places are Okinawa in Japan, Hunza village in Kashmir Pakistan , Bama in China , Greek island of Symi . Do you think that the whole village or town could be lucky to have more centurions, as compared to more populated cities of the world where people cannot even manage to reach the age of 70?
Common sense is very uncommon Horace Greeley.(inappropriate ) Further I would like to say that diet and lifestyle are not directly proportional to the kind of job or business you are in, I would strongly say that diet and lifestyle are directly proportional to our

will power and knowledge, but its really hard to replace your old unhealthy diet and lifestyle with a newer healthy diet and lifestyle. All your efforts our dashed on the rocks of

disappointment; after failure piles on top of failure. I can see where my contention that the solution to the entire mess is as simple and straightforward as falling off a log might be met with some skepticism. When you think of the strongest animals on earth, which do you perceive to be the strongest of all? Most people rightly name the elephant and apart from some whales, the elephant is also the largest. These impressive beasts can stand over ten feet tall and weigh more than 12,000 pounds. The largest known elephant measured over thirteen feet tall and was over 12,000 pounds! Elephants can perform phenomenal feats of strength, carrying cargos of 600 pounds with ease or moving logs that weigh up to two tons! When lions were proclaimed the king of the jungle, there must have been a weight and size restriction to enter the running, for elephants are truly the masters of the animal kingdom in terms of size and sheer power. An enraged elephant can strike fear into the heart of any animal in its path. In one of my vocational tours I saw them being tamed and trained. During my conversation with the trainer I learnt that the process of taming begins at a young age when they are shackled to huge trees with heavy iron chains. No matter how hard the young elephant tries to break away, it cant. Finally it gives up trying. As soon as it reaches the full length of its chain, it simply stops right there and makes no other attempt to go further. As the time goes by, both the size of the tree and the strength of the chains are decreased till the elephant cannot escape from even a flimsy little rope tied to a small branch. Having grown up with the inability to wander further that the length of its restraints, the moment the elephant feels resistance upon its leg; it stops, thinking it can go no further. Even though it could easily pull away from the flimsy rope that has it tethered to a peg in the ground, it has been convinced that it does not have the power to do so, and so it remains captive even though it could easily go anywhere it wanted ,whenever it pleased. Whatever, pray tell, could all this have to do with the subject at hand? Good question. I cant help but compare the plight of an elephant, which, although possessing extraordinary power and strength, is effectively subdued, to the plight of those seeking to adopt a healthier diet and lifestyle, so that they can live a disease free and happy life till 100 or beyond. The elephant belief system is that it cant move beyond the length of its tether. My friend As belief system is that the answer to newer healthier lifestyle and diet is proportional to kind of job or business you are in
Never underestimate your power to change yourself H. Jackson Brown Jr.

In 30 years of my life I have seen a number of people with different kinds of jobs living in different cities, but never ever could correlate that job they had could influence their diet or lifestyle. A vegetarian was always a vegetarian, people in the same kind of jobs had different habits (some smoked or drank while others on the same level never had these habits), some people from their childhood kept a fast once a week and no matter what happens they still continue to do it, some people regardless of anything wake up early, I personally know many people who blame their busy stressed office schedule for lack of exercise but they always find time for television and other endless activities they find entertaining. a vast majority of the population takes a diet that they inherit from their parents and continue to take it for a lifetime. This diet is definitely not affected by the kind of job they are in, there can be a number of examples and the list will not end. I myself have changed my diet and lifestyle in these ten years and believe that switching to a newer and healthier diet and lifestyle entirely depends upon your knowledge and will power. It was my knowledge that inspired

me to do so and my willpower that removed all the obstacles for continuing these healthy measures for life. Finally I would like to discuss the last topic of our conversation There should be a purpose and aim in our life which prompts us to go on and on I strongly believe in it.
An unhealthy body cannot have a healthy mind. A Famous saying

Its our mind that differentiates us from rest of the species on the earth, without its knowledge well be no different from other animals that dont have any aim or purpose in life. Different people have different aims in life for which they think they are here on this planet, theyll do anything to fulfill their aims in life. One persons aim is to expand his business to great heights and another persons aim is to keep his family happy, my cousin Ankurs aim in life is to convert his signature into autograph. Few years back my aim was to earn maximum amount of money for my family and then spend it by purchasing endless consumer goods regardless of their utility. I am working to alter it for attaining peace and hapiness in present and leaving all worries of past and future.
Diet we eat and lifestyle we perform on daily basis are nothing but

some habits we are accustomed to do and habits are surely not our aims or purposes of lives. Self quote
Eat to live dont live to eat. A famous saying

Have you ever seen a person whose aim or purpose in life is to eat unlimited amounts of tasty meals throughout his life? Or have you ever seen a person whose aim or purpose in life is to drink and party hard till the end of his life? I know one person whose aim in life is to eat tasty meals throughout his life and hell do anything for it, he is mentally retarded! Think of any aim in your life and I guarantee that the diet or lifestyle mentioned in this book will help you achieve it. whether you are a sports person and want to win the next bodybuilding title, or a cricketer who wants to make a century in his next match, this book will help you.it will also help you if you want to become popular by winning the next beauty contest. However if your aim is spiritual and you dont want to hurt anybody and live a peaceful live my diet and lifestyle will help you. In following chapters you will come to know that your diet can solve issues like global warming. All I have to say is that if your body is in perfect health without any stress, you can achieve what you want to with much less efforts. In my book you will know everything that will lead you to perfect health along with ways through which you can reduce your stress. The plain fact is that regardless of how sensible and promising this book or any other book on the subject is, it will only appeal to some and not to others. Thats just how things are. Permit me to help you clarify which category you are in. If you are hoping to find within these pages a temporary, quick fix dietary regimen that is adhered to for a while until you drop the desired weight, only to return to the same old habits that made you overweight in the first place, I can tell you right now this book is definitely not for you because it will focus on lifetime disease free healthy living in which weight loss is like a bonus to healthy body.

You cant cross the sea merely by standing at the water. Dont let yourself indulge in vain wishes. Sir Rabindranath Tagore.

There are lots of books with various principles or diets some say six steps to optimum health some say three. I say only one staying close to nature by following our evolutionary habits, but how, lets get going.

Chapter 3 Natures doctor on call

Our ancestors never had access to doctors or medicines as we have now. Still they were healthy and disease free, the answer is simple. The diet and lifestyle they led detoxified them throughout their lifespan. Today it is even more important since we are now exposed to a number of new genetically modified foods loaded with poisons like pesticides. Even the air is full of toxic chemicals with a number of new chemicals introduced every single day. In this chapter I will tell you the secrets to detoxify your body that will help you to stay disease free without doctors. Before that I would like to share something.

In matters of dealing with health I was lazy and expected others to help me. I believed that taking care of my health was the responsibility of physicians. Resultantly, they eventually addicted me to consume medicines with their regular consultancy. Medicines only treat you for the symptoms and not the root cause. My endeavor is to find the root cause of our diseased bodies.

Nobody does anything for you without satisfying their own needs before yours. You ought not to thoughtlessly leave your most valuable things- your life and health- in somebody elses care.
Old eastern saying

I used to wait for miraculous healing to come from somebody else when I was ill. But soon when I took my wifes challenge and decided to cure all my diseases without any medical help, I started to recover and now I dont visit doctors at all. Nature has equipped us with a defense mechanism to protect our health, so please note that its your body which recovers itself. This book will emphasize on natural doctors that are close to us, ready to help us, as long as we are willing and able to use their help. In order to avail their treatment we need to follow a diet and lifestyle that our ancestors used to follow. Water, Sleep Rest, Air, Physical exercise, Mind, Food, Digestion and Detoxification (heat and cold therapy, fasting, sunlight). This book shows how to employ the help of some healers. The information concerning the remaining ones is in the other books that follow. There are no superior and subordinate healers. All of them are good, and we get best results when we comprehensively get help from them all. Before coming to them I would like to share something about pain. The super intelligent body, which is, always striving for its self-preservation and the highest level of well-being, does not sit idly by and allow things to unfold without a fight. When the level of toxins in the body reaches the saturation point and health is about to be compromised, the survival mechanism kicks in and uses the most reliable and infallible tool in the arsenal to get your attention and make you aware of the impending danger. Guess what that tool is? It is something that you, me and virtually all people have experienced at one time or another in our lives. Give up! Pain

Pain was not given thee merely to be Miserable under; learn from it Turn it to account.-Thomas Carlyle

When danger looms, the body does not call out your name and say. Hey you better watch out, your body is full of toxins, your diet and lifestyle is weakening your immune system, and if it is not detoxified pretty soon, you are going to pay. It would be swell if the body did that, but it is does not. Instead, it gets your attention the most surface way it can. Let me ask, does pain get your attention? Pain is a major health problem according to me, I only used to visit a doctor when I had pain. Nine out of ten adults say they experience some kind of pain on a regular basis. What a surprise. It is sad and unfortunate that most people do not realize what a truly important role pain plays in the grand scheme of things.
Pain is the part of bodys magic. It is the way the body transmits a sign. The brain says that something is wrong.-Norman cousins

Nothing in the universe happens in a haphazard way. Not a leaf falls from a tree without purpose. One of the most well established facts of the life is that we live in a cause andeffect universe. Thinks do not just happen, they happen in an orderly fashion for a definite reason. So it is with pain. It may be difficult to view it as such, but pain is a friendly messenger alerting us to a situation that will become progressively worse if not addressed. If we had been properly educated to understand this, and instructed on how to conduct ourselves in a manner that allows the body to catch up and clean up, the pain would go away because its purpose would have been served. But in the most classic response of attacking the messenger because we do not like the message, pain is viewed as the enemy, an attack on our well-being. That demands a counter attack. Instead of learning how to get out of the way and allow our body to do what is does best, we go to war against pain, and what do you think is the weapon of choice? Drugs!

I am not suggesting that if you have a splitting headache you should not take something for it. I am talking about the issue of pain and our response to it on a much larger scale. What if there was a way of living and eating that could prevent the headache from occurring in the first place? Thats what I am talking about here. Drugs are a Band aid. They are for use after theres problem. You do not put a Band-aid on before you cut yourself, do you? Properly caring for your body by following the principles mentioned in this book will prevent problems before they happen. Drugs have one purpose and one purpose only. They are use to mask and deaden symptoms. There is not a single drug amongst the thousands and thousands in existence that fixes or heals anything. Thats not what they are for. They are designed to trick you into thinking the cause of pain is gone when its not. Removing the pain does not remove the problem. In only hides it from you. The tragedy is that over time, taking a drug for every ache and pain ultimately allows the problem to become catastrophic. Because the drugs only hide the pain, the original problem, is our weak immune system due to bad habits and lifestyle. It generally is overburdened with toxins due to our diet and lifestyle. Plus, the drugs themselves are, one and all, toxic and add to the level of toxins in the body, further burdening the already burdened body. As the problem worsens, the body gallantly pays the price to exhibit that it needs help by doing the only thing it can do, sound the alarm with more intense pain. This, of course, is met with more and stronger drugs- just the way the pharmaceutical industry likes it. When the body is clean and operating well, the cycle of pain and drugs is broken, and pain free well being becomes the dominant factor in your life- just the way God likes it.
Most diseases are the result of Medication which has been prescribed to Relieve and take away a beneficent and Warning symptom on the part of nature.-Elbert Hubbard

It is not my intention to imply that people simply discontinue taking the medications their physicians have prescribed. Such discontinuation is a process that should be conducted

in a slow, deliberate way and under the watchful eye of the prescribing physician. My intention is to encourage people to realize that, instead of always opting for drugs at the slightest provocation, they can avail themselves of other options, which are frequently less dangerous and more effective. The classic example of this type of automatic medicating is giving antibiotics to children running a fever. Perfectly reasonable people become panic-stricken if, their child develops a fever. Its off to the doctor for some antibiotics before the body burns itself up or causes brain damage. The suggestion that the intelligent human body would raise its own temperature until it causes brain damage is one of the most patently absurd contentions I have ever heard How something as inherently beneficial and corrective as a fever, which the body initiates to protect itself, has been horribly misunderstood is a perplexing question for the ages. A fever mobilizes the bodys defenses. When there is an emergency, such as an over accumulation of toxins in the body, metabolism is accelerated by increasing the amount of heat available, thus enhancing the healing process. This process is controlled by the hypothalamus, which is sort of a human thermostat. Metabolism consists of the absorption of nutrients and the elimination of wastes, toxins. The heat is necessary to accelerate the elimination of toxins, which have accumulated beyond the bodys ability to tolerate them and beyond the bodys ability to eliminate without some extraordinary modification (i.e., fever). Heat acts as a catalyst that causes the toxins to liquefy and pass into the bloodstream where they are transported to the organs of elimination thereby out of the body. Temperature regulation is one of the most basic mechanisms of the human body. It is initiated by the body, controlled by the body, and intelligently and carefully utilized by the body as one of its primary defense techniques. It is really so difficult to accept that such a fundamental mechanism as temperature regulation, something the body is involved in every second of your life, would be sued as a tool. I have read many books, and majority of them said that not a single person, young or old, can die from a fever, unless the patient was drugged with antibiotics, the only people who die are in their last stages and cannot be treated with or without medicines. A fever is used to facilitate the elimination of toxins. In some instances the burden of a toxic drug, with its own inherent side effects adding to the already existing burden of excess toxins in the body, will injure or kill a fever patient. In other words, its the drugs that killed and the fever that was blamed. Do you know the literal meaning of the word antibiotic? Against life!. Do not fear a fever. It is one of the most common and obvious means by which the intelligent body protects itself. Today when I suffer from fever I take no drugs, eat very, very lightly (ideally, fresh fruit and juices exclusively), drink water, stay still, use cool (not cold) compresses on my forehead, chest and back of the neck, and allow my body to do what it is trying to do without interference. The fever will then accomplish its intended task and subside. This is an instance when drugs can only hurt. You must be wondering, and rightly so, if a healthy body with good immune system (developed through diet and lifestyle) is so important to health, why is it not more widely understood. The answer is money. Theres no money in it. A healthy body prevents illness

before it happens. The entire health care industry which generates trillions a year entirely depends on treating people after theyre sick. There are no products to sell that flush the lymph system to keep the body healthy with a good immune system. The incredible living body automatically takes care of itself. If you cut a finger, you do not have to do anything for it to heal. The body immediately marshals its forces and knows exactly and precisely what to do and how to do it. In an extraordinary display of proficiency and sophistication unrivaled by any machine or manmade apparatus, the body unleashes its power. First it coagulates the blood. Then it forms a hard casing over the wound to protect it, while underneath, the cells and tissues are reattached. The hard casing falls off. And the wound is healed. What a master piece! So it is with your illness or disease. The body will automatically, and without prompting, break down and flush toxins from your system if it is given the opportunity do so, and providing the body with more living food creates the opportunity. So you do not have to do anything more than what you are already doing to lose weight, and as a bonus, your health will improve as well. Hows that for a good deal? Now lets again come back to natures doctor for our bodies, which will act as our natures ultimate doctors i.e. Water, Sleep,Rest, Air, Physical exercise, Mind, Food, Digestion and Detoxification (heat and cold therapy, fasting, sunlight).

Chapter 4
The healing water
Staying close to nature without talking of water is not possible as we are 70% of water. Throughout our evolutionary history we consumed live water that came from rivers, lakes or rainfall. Today as these sources are poisoned by us, so we consume dead filtered water, which is the main cause of our illness self quote

Although I have not tested all 130 kinds of water, but I assure you that the information in my chapter is not mentioned in any book of this world. I have been searching various data and my personal experience for many years and here I come up with this final summary. But some would say that its not that water makes you fat or healthy? And my answer will be yes it can make us healthy as far as fat is concerned without optimum health its impossible to lose unhealthy fat. Water helps to lose fat, it is known that body secretes aldosterone hormone that causes water retention. I have read a number of books; some emphasized a lot on water others a little less. On 20th of November 2009 I was coming from Dubai to India, while flying over the deserts I was looking at the lifeless desert below. An instant thought came to my mind, life on this planet exists without air in sea without food in plants, they make their own food by photosynthesis but life cannot exist without water; the lifeless desert has all the sunlight and air but no water due to which it is lifeless. Some 70% of the earth is water, without water earth will be a lifeless rock; this water gives this planet its color. Without water no seed would germinate, no animal would survive, without water our bodies would be a few pounds of dust. Do you know that 1. Your body is about70% of water. 2. Your muscles are about 75% of water. 3. Your brain cells are about 85% of water 4. Your blood is approx. 82% of water. 5. Your bones are 25 % of water. Water is the single most important nutrient for our bodies. It is involved in every function of our bodies. We can live seven to ten weeks without food but no more than 6-7 days without water.
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth, when it is clearly ocean. Arthur C. Clarke

I know many people who drink very little water; much of my staff drinks no water during office hours between 10.30 to 18.30 and I suppose they doesnt consume any during travel from home to office and vice versa. Like my staff I know many people dont know the importance of water, some even dont like its taste and drink aerated drinks or tea instead. In

my childhood my mother used to emphasize on milk, sometimes on juice but never on water. Many of my friends and relatives start their mornings with tea, by midmorning they have a soda for another boost, iced tea or coffee for lunch and so on. Little do they know that caffeine and sugar are actually stealing water from their bodies, doing them more harm than good. Every day each of us loses two quarts of water, depending on certain variables it can be twice that amount. You lose water every time you exhale and sweat. Depriving your body of water it needs, intentionally or unintentionally, negatively affects every activity and function of the living body. Water we need is different for different people, but since we lose two quarts (32 ounce = 1 quart) we should consume 64 ounces (1 ounce = 28 grams) or 8 glasses of eight ounces of pure water daily. Dont wait until you are thirsty to drink water. If you wait until you are thirsty, you have waited too long. No one would believe that I carry handy 2 liters water bottle with me while traveling. Whenever I go out for business meetings I drink 1-2 glasses of water before it. However we should not drink water during the meals as it interferes with digestion, diluting digestive juices. So I drink at least twenty minutes before meals or one hour after meals. In my childhood I was starved of clean water, I was unknowingly neglecting the basic and most important principle of staying close to nature. I often had skin problems, digestion problems, infections, frequent and regular pains in my legs and other ailments. My mom used to take me to various doctors but their medicines didnt address the problems but only turned off the symptoms. This was similar to a red warning light blinking on my cars dashboard, informing me to check the engine. But I and my mom decided to remove the fuse to turn off the warning light instead of taking it for service. The day I started to consume more water my digestion problems were reduced, leg pains lessened and urinary infections (which occurred minimum twice a year for full 20 years) vanished.
Recently after my thirtieth birthday when all my major medical problems almost disappeared I still used to have joint and leg pains once or twice a month. Although I consumed more than 2 liters of purified water daily with a diet of only fruits or vegetables I was confused why pains were there? One day I observed that they occurred when throughout my day I had less fruits and drank more of water (which is acidic). You must be wondering water is water but I would say no, God has given us healing water, Ill come to that later. A recognized physician, F. Batmanghelidj, M.D, in his book titled Water for, for healing, for life points out some of the benefits of keeping your body properly hydrated. Water is the main lubricant in the spaces between the joints and helps prevent arthritis and joint pains.

Water increases efficiency of the immune system. Water prevents clogging of arteries and veins in the heart and brain. Water is directly connected to brain function, it improves our attention span. It prevents memory loss as we age i.e. Alzheimer disease, multiple sclerosis, Parkinsons disease etc. Water affects our appearance, making our skin smoother and gives it a sparking lustre.reduces the sreduces effects of aging.

When your body lacks the water it needs, it goes into a sort of rationing mode. Think of a sprinkler system whose pressure is low to reach the grass of your lawn. Some parts stay green, but some

begin to turn brown and die. When you live in drought condition, your body smartly manages the water you give it, keeping vital organs watered with nutrients. These vital organs are five main organs of your body which are:

1. brain 2. heart 3. lungs 4. liver 5. kidney The body keeps these organs well hydrated with water; lest you suffer serious consequences. But as a result, non vital organs may suffer. In the bodys ranking system, body parts like skin, gastrointestinal tract, joints are less important so symptoms of dehydration show up there first. Few years back I received an email forwarded by Johns Hopkins - Cancer News from Johns Hopkins. It was especially on the use of plastic bottles in the fridge and microwave. Dioxin a chemical causes cancer, especially breast cancer. Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies. Don't freeze or microwave your plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the plastic. Plastic used in water bottles today leaves its toxins every time we use it, so its advisable not to reuse it. Today the water we consume is full of contamination, few years back when I was a kid there were very few filters. I used to drink tap water without getting ill but the water today is full of toxins, pollutants which are discarded as waste by nearly every industry gets in our water sources. Agricultural pollution (pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers) is increasing day by day. Today antibiotics, painkillers, hormones have been found in drinking water. Now a days lakes and rivers are so polluted that they are poisonous and full of toxins, drinking tap water is not safe now. So for this purpose we use water filters but they too have their own pros and cons. Carbon filters: This was the first filter that my mother brought, these are entry level filters; Cheap, reliable and common. There are two types of carbon filters one uses granulated carbon and other uses solid carbon block. The solid carbon block costs more and is more effective for filtering out microorganisms. However its slower than granulated carbon. In todays era I wont recommend these filters unless the water is coming direct to your place from a water fall. A water distiller: Distillation is a process that leaves water free of minerals. Distilled water is water that has been brought to a boiling temperature. The steam is captured and is cooled, which condenses it back into a liquid form. When the water turns to steam, anything heavier than water (like minerals, or unwanted organic matter) is left behind. Since it has no minerals left so it is not beneficial for our bodies, this water is absorbent water, meaning it absorbs carbon dioxide, which makes your body acidic. A distiller will get you half way your goal. This water is very clean but not good for health. Thus, distilled water only contains water. Distilled water is good to use in appliances such as coffee makers since it contains no minerals it does not leave behind lime scale.

Reverse osmosis filter: This water filter became popular in India around 2003. They filter water through an extremely fine membrane. Its a slow process; unlike water distiller it removes everything from water all harmful toxins, heavy metals, pesticides, chlorine, harmful virus, bacteria and minerals too. It is commonly used by water bottlers, they add minerals at the end of the process. Like a water distiller, an RO filter makes water acidic. The water it produces is similar to distilled water. It is 95% mineral free, acidic and therefore pulls minerals from our body. Since it is acidic it keeps our tissues acidic. Nevertheless both the filters give the purest water; we should use adequate minerals with it. If possible make it alkaline, however if you cant then just try to consume a little coconut water on a daily basis and have lots of fruits and vegetables to keep your tissues alkaline. There are nearly 130 kinds of water but my knowledge is limited to only 4-5 types of different waters. However I know of some healing waters which are surely more alkaline.
Throughout my childhood I heard that the holy river Gangas water can cure all your sins, today I can confirm it because it is healing hexagonal structured living Water

Structured water: Structured water is the most beneficial to our health. We can get it from fruits and vegetables, their juices, and from melted ice. Scientists became interested in the fact that the Yakuts of Siberia in northern Russia live, on an average for one hundred years. They do not have running water or well water; they eat very little of fruits and vegetables, their diet is poor in general but they never get sick. The answer to the mystery turned out to be very simple. The Yakuts for centuries acquired their drinking water by cutting ice and letting it melt in sunshine. We know that aging begins with wrinkles. Wrinkles appear when our body cells start to dry up. One of the main causes of aging is our bodys inability to assimilate and process the water we consume. The process of bone growth finishes when we become adults. The excess, unneeded amount of calcium salts that we get from our food and water accumulate in our blood vessels and joints. This leads to irregular blood circulation, stones in our liver and kidneys, and gradually a decline in the health of our entire body. To slow down the aging process, we should learn to prepare water from melted ice and afterwards make it hexagonal or living.

These notes on water I copied from internet written by Dr. Chung, they were great source of information for me and I hope the same for you. Dr. Chung was educated in Korea, completing his M.D. in 1963 from the University of Korea. He came to the United States for further medical training in 1966. He is Board certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology since 1973. By that time, he had fallen in love with America, and he and his wife became citizens of the United States. He wants to contribute to the betterment of his beloved adopted country by teaching people to cleanse away the cause of disease to prevent and cure illness and to keep them functionally fit their whole lives.

Hexagonal water
Hexagonal Water is a specific arrangement of individual water molecules where 6 H2O units consistently link to form a ring-like structure. This unique arrangement is the basis of a more complex crystalline network that is formed when numerous hexagonal units join together. All water contains a certain percentage of hexagonal units some sources more than others. The percentage of hexagonal units appears to depend on a number of factors, including the energetic influences that water is exposed to. For example, chlorine, fluoride and many pollutants typically found in municipal water sources reduce the number of hexagonal units. Tap water typically has a very low percentage of hexagonal structures. On the other hand, there are a number of places throughout the world where the water has a high concentration of hexagonal structures. Many of these places are known as healing springs. (Many people have heard of Lourdes, France - a prime example) Others are known for producing inhabitants that live long and disease-free lives.

Living Water
Everyone has to constantly refill his or her body with water. Humans have lived 81 days without food but will die in 5 days without water. If a person loses 5% of his total water, he will start to hallucinate, become disoriented, and experience twitching muscles. If he loses 15% of his total water, his life is endangered. I know how annoying the advice to drink water may seem. Many of my younger patients, those in their teens and early twenties, become annoyed when I tell them to "drink lots of water." Why? Because throughout their entire lives, they have heard nothing good about water. Newspapers and magazines have been constantly telling them that their water is contaminated and dirty. This negative publicity also causes their teachers and parents to worry about the quality of drinking water. Simultaneously with this bad publicity about water, these people have been bombarded with glorious propaganda concerning soft drinks, coffee, tea, and beer. Ads imply that if you drink their product, you will be healthy and beautiful like the people in the photograph. Commercials make it seem like drinking the right beer will make you popular and happy. They almost always show a group of people having fun while drinking their brand of beer. The reality of a neighborhood bar is often quite different. Bars are full of lonely people. Laughter is few and far between. Even smiles are rare. If they stop to think about it, most people realize that soft drinks are harmful. But apart from realizing that sugar and caffeine are not good, they do not really understand why soft drinks are so bad for their health. The main difference between water and soda pop is that good drinking water has oxygen in it and soda has dissolved carbon dioxide gas under pressure, which forms the bubbles when you open the can or bottle.

A person breathes in oxygen and exhales carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide, like urine and feces, is one of the waste products of the human body. Drinking carbonated beverages adds large quantities of the very chemical the body is trying to get rid of. If you take carbon dioxide into your system, your body tissue will absorb it. There just isn't room for both the carbon dioxide and the amount of oxygen each cell needs. The carbon dioxide pushes some of the oxygen out of the cell. The result is that the cell which is exposed to carbon dioxide goes through temporary hypoxia-lack of oxygen-which induces faulty metabolism. This eventually results in diseased organs. Drinking soda keeps people from drinking water when they are thirsty. Soft drinks are harmful to your health because they do not cleanse your body's cells. Instead, chemicals in soda pop are accumulated within the cells as harmful waste products. Comic water sab bakwas. e pyas bhakSprite bihujay an animated comic character that is fat, drinking Here I want sprite making funny expressions.

Living Water and Dead Water Most Oriental health books recommend that you drink 'living water' but never explain exactly what they mean. If you visit Seoul, Korea, you will see thousands of people awake in the early morning, 5,00 to 6,00 A.M., climbing nearby mountains for 30 to 60 minutes before going about their daily work. They go to the mountains to drink fountain water for better health. Most of them start this practice when they become sick. After doing this daily, many find that their illness begins to disappear and they become healthier. Because they feel good, they continue this morning routine. To me this makes a lot of sense-walking daily for 30 to 60 minutes, breathing fresh mountain air, and then drinking clean, uncontaminated, oxygenated fountain water. This is a good practice for anyone searching for better health. Koreans call this uncontaminated fountain water 'living water,' its traditional name. The following are the definitions of living water and dead water, Living water is water which is compatible with life Freshwater fish can live in it. It is the fresh rain water that sprinkles your garden. It is water which may contain some minerals but which certainly contains oxygen. Dead water is water which is not compatible with life. Distilled water, RO water and carbonated water are dead waters because fish die in them, even though those waters have no impurities. Plants, also, cannot live on dead water. What causes the contradictory natures of essentially the same water is the amount of oxygen in the water. Water which contains the proper amount of oxygen is not harmful to fish and plants. Water which contains too little oxygen will kill those same fish and plants. When you put fish in water which has been boiled and cooled, the fish will die because boiling has removed the oxygen from the water

How to Oxygenate Water

If you don't have a bubbling fountain, you can easily cause oxygen to dissolve in water by stirring it in a blender. Or fill a container about half full of water, put on a tight lid, and shake the container. This will properly saturate the water with oxygen to the right concentration. One of the basic principles of homeopathy is that small quantities of medicines should be consumed; that is, medicines should be diluted and shaken. Homeopathic physicians observed, over the years, that this diluted and shaken medicine works better and they say this 'vitalizes' the drugs. I believe that the importance of shaking is to add beneficial oxygen to the mixture, as well as stirring up the contents. I truly believe that before you drink water, you should shake it. If you do as I have described, your digestion as well as your general health will improve and you will be more resistant to diseases. You must not expect immediate results, but over the years it will benefit you. Many of the chemical processes which take place in the stomach and small intestine run more efficiently if there is enough oxygen present. Therefore, drinking living water also helps digestion.
When we drink a lot of sweet beverages such as coffee, tea, pop etc. we are treating our body as it were a furnace where we can put anything and it will burn. We burn the years of our life when we do not respect the basic principles by which our body functions. If we do not appreciate the quality of fluids we drink, we shorten our life. Mikhail Tombak PH.D

I hope from now youll do something to convert dead filtered water to live water, but if you cant then drink lots of juices and coconut water throughout your day to make your body alkaline.

How my wife prepares structured water from melted ice and further makes it hexagonal. She prepares structured water from RO filtered water. She pours some water into the pot, covers the pot and puts it in a freezer for 3-6 hours, and then she takes it out and breaks the frozen surface. The water under the ice has same structure as the water we have in our bodys cells. Further to make it hexagonal she takes that melted water and rotates it in vitalizer plus to make it more living and full of oxygen (one can do this in a blender too). It also converts acidic water into alkaline water, to make it more alkaline I pour some drops of concentrated mineral water taken from the great salt lake which you can buy under the name of CMD (search internet if you want it in India). If possible I drink this water early in the morning on an empty stomach for maximum benefits. I have read that it is most beneficial for elders as it not only flushes unhealthy deposits from their body but also old and dead cells, and this way it prevents them from cancers.

Juices can work miracles Juice is nothing but water with vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and calories, like melted ice water juices are also structured. Vegetable and fruit juices flush old and dead cells out of your body, help in dissolving salty build ups, dissolve stones in our liver and kidneys, and play a role in preventing cancers. In my childhood I did not like its taste much as compared to other drinks. I used to drink it very occasionally, another reason to consume it less was a fear that it can cause stomachache or food poisoning. But today I consume it on a daily basis without getting above symptoms. The reason behind it is that we should swish juice around our mouth letting our saliva mix into it. Now whenever I drink it, I keep this in mind and do not hurry to gulp whole juice in one sip. We should drink juices in small sips 20 minutes before a meal and hold each sip in the mouth for few seconds. Enzymes present in saliva digest carbohydrates contained in juices. If we drink fast (as I did in my childhood), the juices go directly into our stomach and undergo fermentation. Another thing that I avoid is drinking pasteurized juices, in any circumstances when I consume it I consider to be as bad as aerated drinks.

Pasteurization subjects food to heat so high that nothing living could possibly survive. So instead of the juice being living, vital, alkaline, health promoting, it is made to be dead, acidic and harmful. As per my nutritional instructors advice in gym I started to increase intake of juices, I was really impressed by an ad on T.V. with a promoting orange juice from sun kissed oranges with no added sugars, preservatives or artificial colors it assured that it had more nutrients than regular dull orange juice. I was really impressed by the ad and used to bring a carton of it, I used to grab a tetra pack and drink it thinking it would give me all its nutrients. Here I was a victim of the most successful and long running cashectomies. You remember what cashectomy is, right? It is being convinced to buy something advertised as good for you and ending up with something actually bad for you. Bipasha Basu`s Real active ad Page 1, Bishasa Basu standing In front of a fresh juice parlor and saying the following words to the owner of the juice parlor and general public in front of the stall, Drink Real active juice, it`s low in calories and much better than normal third grade freshly squeezed juices as it is made from sun kissed oranges grown in organic soil. Page 2, Kasha genius who is present in the crowd thinks, What a cashecotomy
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known Charles Augustin Montaigne

The orange juice I used to drink was pasteurized. It was dead, acidic and harmful. The million or maybe billion Rupees juice industry is based on convincing you, the consumer, with every possible enticement to buy and drink their juice. You are told that it is natural with no added sugar, colors or preservatives; has extra vitamins and how it is natures gift to your well being; even the label says so. And every word in it would be true, if it were not destroyed by heat! I would like to share my weak bone density secret here, as you read in my first chapter that when I was 25 years old, I had very weak bones. This orange juice could be one of the reasons. One of the main functions of calcium is to neutralize acid. If our body is acidic calcium is leached out of bones and teeth to neutralize our body. Orange juice, fresh and unpasteurized, is alkaline and helps to neutralize acid in our body. The orange juice I used to drink was pasteurized, so it had no neutralizing effect and calcium saving properties, rather it added more acid into my body. Drinking juice is fine but one can consume too much through juices. Eating raw fruits and vegetables is better option since its also contains fiber along with juices. If however you are not in a habit of eating them, then go for its juices instead of other soft drinks.

Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance

George Bernard Shaw

Acid Test

If you would like to know how much acidic you body is, buy PH strips at the drugstore. Collect your first morning urine and dip Ph paper into it. It will indicate your urines Ph level with a change of color. The change of color can be matched to a numerical reading. A card is included in the PH paper that correlates a color to a PH number. It is similar to checking the PH level of swimming pool. My Ph level test reading was 7, which means my body was alkaline. But generally most people get its reading below 5 which means their bodies are very acidic. The normal range should be between7 to 7.5. However the lab in which I got the results showed normal range from 5 to 7, to achieve it just eat more fruits, vegetables and drink more coconut water, juices or add little lemon juice to your filtered water to make it alkaline.

Chapter 5
The curing sleep
Throughout our evolution sleep was the most important part of our lives, we slept very peacefully. We were compromised of sleep only when our lives were in danger or we were suffering from an illness. Today sleep is the most neglected part of our lives, peaceful sleep is now very uncommon and we sleep whenever we are free from our business or leisure activities. This is one of the main causes of our ill health today. Self quote

Sleep This word came to my attention after six months of hitting the gym, I was punctual for my workout sessions when I first started my exercise regime. However I could not get enough of sleep. After nearly six months I noticed that my training partners were gaining muscular bodies and I was left behind. Since I was new, with no basic knowledge I thought that my bad genes was the main culprit, after some more months I was really tired and could not devote my full energy to the workouts. People who had been working out for a month were lifting more weights and getting better results than me. I was in touch with my coach and was always discussing the reason of my failure, after prescribing a number of new diets and workout schedules he also seemed disappointed and thought that maybe it was my genes that hindered me.

I never used to sleep much. I think we all go through a bit of a time like that where we rage about. If we don't, I don't think you've ever really lived. -Diane Cilento. Australian, Actress
In order to achieve desired results I purchased the Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding by Arnold. After reading it I couldnt believe that actually it was sleep that built muscles and not my workouts! During my workouts the huge and tight muscles I witnessed were nothing but some pumped blood in veins, which would vanish after some time of my workouts. This book clearly said that we should sleep for at least 8-9 hours for building better muscles. After reading it I was surprised to know that we lose muscles in our workouts and when we sleep our body repairs itself, does everything to get the most from its days schedule, so in our sleep it prepares itself to easily handle the load of lifting weight for next time which it registered shortly. Due to this reason till date whenever I have a strenuous workout I feel soreness in my muscles the next morning, not during my workouts! Once I broke my arm while wrestling, during that day the pain was annoying but I ignored it. At night the pain became unbearable because every time I tried to sleep, I eventually rolled over on that shoulder joint and woke up. That went on for months, and I became an unwilling insomniac until my arm healed. I felt like a walking zombie! My body was full of headaches and pains which would not go even with pain killers. In my past life I had many illnesses but some of my major alignments (cervical, headaches, muscles and joint aches & depression) that I always suffered and no doctor could cure, it was this sleep that cured me. But just like healing water there is curative sleep; you just need to know how to incorporate it in your life. I can guarantee that as almost all or 50% of your health problems in life can vanish, as it vanished from my life. Before telling you about my curative sleep I would like to tell you something about it, that I feel you should know.

In my teenage I always thought that we were granted a very short lifespan by God, my main aim was to live my life at the fullest by sleeping less. Now I know that it is us who have shortened our lifespan by sleeping less and not God. Self quote How well a person sleeps is a predictor of how long a person will live. Self quote

Lack of sleep is very disastrous for you, a good nights sleep is free, and a bad nights sleep is costly, because it takes a toll on your health. More than half of the Indian adults suffer from insomnia at least a few times a week. As a result over 50% of the Indian population will experience drowsiness during day time. We live in a world where day and night no longer matter. Thanks to modern technology, we can work and play around the clock. This is not the way our bodies or minds evolved. God gave us promise of deep restrictive?
Psalm 127,2 says He grants sleep to those he loves. To those who are tired, He says, come to me, all you who are weary and burdened and will give you rest.

Sleep and rest are so important because of what they do for your health. i. Sleeps regulates release of important hormones, when you sleep, growth hormone is secreted. This causes children to grow and it regulates muscle mass and helps control fat in adults (as it did during my training). When you dont sleep enough the hormone function is disrupted. Perhaps lack of sleep is partially to blame for the fact that two third of worlds population is overweight or obese. Leptin, another hormone is secreted during sleep and directly influences appetite and weight control. It tells the body when it is full; a person who doesnt have enough of this regulating hormone often has runaway appetite. Sleep slows the aging process, in my past ten years of acquiring knowledge for sleep I have witnessed that each and every document for sleep states that it slows our aging process. The term beauty rest is literally true. It definitely slows our aging and some say that it is one of the most important secrets for averting wrinkles. Sleep boosts the immune system, people who sleep nine hours instead of 6 or 7 hours have greater than normal natural killer cell activity. Natural killer cells destroy virus, bacteria, and cancer cells. Sleep improves brain function; one study shows that short term sleep deprivation may decrease brain activity related to alertness. Sleep reduces cortisol, this is called stress hormone by many people, in these ten years I have been reading about this hormone in every article. You will know about it in every muscle book because it stops development of muscles even after good workouts or diets. Some bodybuilders take supplements that block it. Excessive stress raises cortisol levels, which disrupts neurotransmitter balance in the brain, causing you to be more irritable and prone to depression, anxiety and insomnia. High cortisol levels are associated with many diseases, but cure is close to the pillow. Sufficient sleep helps to reduce cortisol levels. This hormone even blocks the normal response of the testicles to testosterone and decreases its hormone production. This can be the major cause of low sex drive in males.

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Good sleep is one of the best health principles available to us, and yet relatively few people try to get a good nights sleep. Today a majority of us are chronically sleep deprived, one in six claims that insomnia is a major problem for them.
By not sleeping we degrade and even ruin our health. Self quote

How much sleep do we really need? Many people in everyday life brag that they only need four to five hours of sleep a night. Its usually the same people who chug energy drinks, coffees, and pop energy pills for breakfast. Anyone who thinks as I did in my past that he is getting the most out of life by sleeping less is just kidding himself, he might not be aware of getting its negative results as I noticed in my gym. The results that he could be ignoring can be much lower level of mental and physical capacity, sustained artificially and temporarily by the adrenal glands and his caffeinated drinks by choice.
Evidence suggests that inadequate rest and sleep may shorten life span by eight to ten years, which means you can beat the clock now but the clock will beat you later. Dr. Don Colbert. MD

Most adults need eight to nine hours of sleep a night without any interruption, infants need more about fourteen hours a day. Five year olds may need twelve hours a day. Any less and you will feel drowsy at some point during the day, anymore and you fill feel unnaturally sluggish. Middle aged and elderly people tend to spend less time in deeper sleep than younger people. They generally secrete lesser amounts of certain chemicals that regulate the sleep cycle. Both melatonin and growth hormone production decreases with age. For older people sleep becomes shallow, fragmented, and variable in duration. The elderly wake up more frequently than younger adults.

There is a sleep cycle

Most people experience 5-6 sleep cycles, each cycle lasts sixty to ninety minutes and has two parts. The first part is broken into four stages, with stages three and four being the most restful part of sleep. The second part of cycle is rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, which is when dreaming occurs. Usually during first ninety minutes cycle only a few minutes are spent in REM. But with each successive cycle less time is spent in first part of cycle and more in the second, so that before awakening in the morning, REM sleep takes a majority part. Even though 25 percent of your dreams occur in non REM sleep you are most likely to have a vivid memory of your dream if you are awakened during REM stage. Sleep and dreams play a huge part in your mental health. REM sleep is responsible for memory consolidation. During sleep our brain takes different memories and examines how well they fit or dont fit together. Dreams serve to bring mysterious images from the unconscious mind to awaken the consciousness where we can have them out in front of us, examine them, dissect them, and glean meaning from them. These images often reflect issues we need to address in order to become whole.

Are you getting enough sleep? Trying to get eight hours on bed does not mean that you need not watch for peaceful sleep without any interruption. Here are some questions and if your answer is yes to majority then you need a more peaceful sleep. 1. Do you need an alarm clock to wake up in the morning? 2. Do you get drowsy when struck between traffic signals or waiting for someone in a comfortable chair? 3. Are you irritable and agitated? (ask your spouse) 4. Are you a light sleeper and wake up easily at every noise? 5. Do you run out of steam in the middle of the day? 6. Are you unable to get persistent worries out of your mind?

There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.- Woody Allen
How I got my peaceful sleep back In my college days I used to sleep very late or you can say that I slept early in the mornings. After my college, for many years, peaceful sleep was uncommon for me; I had to bear its consequences which I will discuss in my next paragraphs. Only a few years back I gained my peaceful and restful sleep, trust me there is nothing more enjoyable than a good nights sleep, things that I altered in my lifestyle to gain a good night sleep are, A peaceful mind, you cant sleep if your mind is not peaceful; in my life there were many days when I was stressed. I now have a more relaxed and peaceful mind that I achieved due to a healthy lifestyle, regular exercise, yoga, meditation and religious books. If you are also suffering from insomnia or don`t have a peaceful sleep please read my next chapters on stress and exercise.

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.Dale Carnegie. American, Writer

Caffeine: caffeine increases the stress hormone cortisol and adrenaline, it can remain in the body for as much as twenty hours and today no one is untouched by it. Other than coffee it is present in many energy drinks, medications, soft drinks etc.

Caffeine containing beverages 250 ml of brewed coffee 250 ml of instant coffee 16 ounce of coffee at coffee caf day 12 ounce of coca cola 12 ounce of other mountain dew 12 ounce of black tea 12 ounce of green tea 6 capsules of fat burner 1 ounce= 28 ml 135 mg 95 mg 550 mg 35 mg 55 mg 50 mg 30 mg 600 mg

Few years back I was prescribed fat burner capsules by my gym coach, 3 capsules each in the morning and evening. Those days my sleep was doomed and I felt uneasy, I came to know that caffeine can give you sleepless nights. If you have trouble sleeping try to avoid caffeinated drinks. Cigarettes and alcohol: I have taken these harmful products for many years and know that they really interfered with my sleep. On the weekends I was in a habit of consuming alcohol thinking that it would help me fall asleep but in fact, it really disrupted my sleep.

I usually had a lighter sleep and awakened feeling much less refreshed with a light headache. As far as cigarettes are concerned I know that I was sleeping much better after a month of leaving it. Medications: On the days when I suffered from any illness be it bronchitis, chest infection, joint aches; I did not have a restful sleep. The reason could be medication. Whenever I am ill nowadays I do not consume medicines. The symptoms of illness are the same but I get a very peaceful and restful sleep. Trust me just relax, eat light, dont take any medicines and youll heal or sleep much better. I detail in my next Food insomnia: Whenever I want to built good quality muscles I consume high protein and high carbohydrates (starches) in the mornings and before going to bed. The result is awesome I develop huge attractive muscles with much less restful sleep in which I wake up to eat in the middle of night! Eating heavy or highly processed foods at night stimulates excessive insulin release from the pancreas. Sounds confusing, the result is sugar high of energy, but later usually in the middle of the night your blood sugar hits a low which triggers adrenal glands to produce more hormones and the result is simple I wake up again. Please note that if you eat too many sugary items you will experience the same thing dreams. Exercise: I generally exercise early in the morning and get a very restful, peaceful sleep at night. But there are days when this exercise interferes in my sleep! These days are when I am busy in my office schedule and have to leave early without any workout. But since I am a fitness freak I cant miss 3-4 days of workouts in a week, so I am forced to work out on coming home at night. On the nights when I exercise within 3 hours of going to sleep I cant get a restful sleep. Unhealthy body: This could be the primary cause of insomnia for a majority of people and they might not have an idea that they need to cure their bodies rather than gulp down those sleeping pills. I myself had an unhealthy body in which I was having bronchitis, arthritis, infections, thyroid and body aches. I was sometimes forced by the doctors to take sleeping pills to regain my health, but trust me taking pills is no solution, I have now a healthy body and can sleep much better without any medicine. I have already shared two secrets of good health and will share some more in next chapters that will help you regain your healthy body as I did.
90 to 95 percent of your 60 to 100 trillion cells are replaced each year and much of it occurs during sleep that comes early in the night. Health

Sleep timings: This is one of my main principles for staying close to nature; God has designed us to fall asleep when it is dark and to wake up when the sun rises .throughout our evolution we were sleeping at nights, that is why our vision at night cannot match the vision of nocturnal animals . Sleeping before midnight is better than after midnight. If you value your lifespan or looks get to bed no later than 22.30 as I do and try to wake up before 7.

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.- Aristotle, BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

 Maintain a healthy diet and lifestyle: A healthy diet that consists of living food followed by a healthy lifestyle can give you a sleep that you may not even know. My curative sleep Before going any further I would like to share some of my experiences of ill health that was cured by sleep. Few years back I had frequent headaches which sometimes shifted to my shoulders or neck, this pain was so consistent and unbearable that I could not concentrate on any activity. I used to rush home from my office early, to control this pain I constantly took pain killers, but each time I had my medicine I felt much worse after some hours. During that period I was in regular touch with my doctors to find the cause of this pain, but instead of discussing anything about the cause they simply did what they do best, prescribed an extra load of medicines every time I visited them. The medicines they prescribed were not limited to painkillers or muscle relaxers, after a while they prescribed me with having uric acid control pills, BP control pills & energy pills; for my headaches which were becoming more and more severe. I dont know what was their motto to fight pain that my body was sensing or to fight its cause, however they were never interested in asking about my daily schedule through which they could identify the problem. After some months I decided to gain awareness myself and ordered a number of books on headache that were linked with pain in the neck or shoulders. After reading it I was amazed that it was my sleeping posture that was not healing my body (or maybe my spine) after my heavy gym workouts or stressed office work. After some days without any medicines I started recovering from my aches and have kept them away till date. We sleep one third of our lifetime, when we sleep our muscles relax and body stretches, all movements are different from the movements when we are awake. Movements in our sleep require less energy, sleep is the best time for our spines rehabilitation. The mattress we sleep on should be as firm as possible without disturbing our sleep. We should sleep in a straight position, on our backs; with our arms stretched alongside our body and our legs relaxed (its shavasna in yoga). In such a position our weight is distributed evenly, our muscles are very relaxed and all dislocations of the vertebrae we might have encountered during the day are slightly corrected. If you cant sleep in this posture, try

another posture in which your spine is straight and you sleep sideways by keeping a roll towel under your head.

Diagram needed here The heart works under little strain in this position, easily pumping the blood, and the circulation is good. Better blood circulation means easier work for our liver as it removes toxins from our body. A well functioning liver means better metabolism. That way we can lose six to ten pounds of weight and get rid of many health problems after just two months of sleeping on a firm mattress. In the first few days of sleeping on a firm mattress, we will feel muscle and spine pain. When the misalignment of vertebrae is corrected (10 15 days) the pain will disappear. We should not sleep on a soft mattress. Our liver is the chemical laboratory of our body. Thousands of chemical reactions, collectively known as metabolism, depend on the proper functioning of this laboratory which is the liver. Science shows spacing of vertebrae, starting from the third up to twentieth, allows efficient functioning of the liver. Soft mattresses make those vertebrae bowed and significantly worsen the liver function. The firmness of our mattress has a huge influence on our spines condition and directly or indirectly on our general health. Diagram needed here The above picture shows how a firm mattress can influence the condition of our spine. It is worthwhile to give some thought to the place where we spend a large part of our life. Our bed should serve our health well, not cause us strain and damage. Why is a firm pillow good for health? The pillow we sleep on should be firm, small and low. People who can sleep without a pillow should put a rolled towel under their necks. A firm pillow helps maintain the nasal septum (partition) in good condition. Our nasal septum is responsible for the physiological balance in the functioning of all our body organs. Easy breathing through both sides of nose is very important for proper functioning of our body. Besides that, air is warmed up cleaned and disinfected when it passes through the nose. When we sleep on soft, large and high pillows our spine is so bent that the breathing through the nose becomes difficult and we start breathing through our mouth. This is dangerous for our health because all kinds of germs can pass through our air passages. I had cold, throat diseases and bronchial problems which I simply cured by sleeping on a firm mattress, a firm pillow and by changing my sleeping angle. Let me emphasize that our spine is the most important part of our body, I dont know even a single person who did not register headache, cervical or lower back ache in their lifetime. During my physiotherapy classes I have seen many people who had lower back pain and ended up with a spine operation and this operation didnt bring any improvement in their

condition. Their damaged disk was removed in the procedure. However this may cause the necessity of another operation and removal of another disk resulting in a stiff spine segment. Such an operation removes the immediate cause of stress on our nerve structures but does not treat the original cause of our disk damage. After their operation I have always seen people consuming pain killers to get rid of their problems which they could have easily cured by correct sleeping posture. Comic sleep mattress Animation of a sleep mattress showing correct postures

Chapter 6 Air

Today, the air we breathe is polluted; we cannot avoid it unless we shift to an area with lush green surroundings void of any industries and traffic. The effects of poor air quality on human health are far reaching, but principally it affects the body's respiratory system and the cardiovascular system. Individual reactions to air pollutants depend on the type of pollutant a person is exposed to, the degree of exposure, the individual's health status and genetics. People who exercise outdoors, for example, on hot, smoggy days increase their exposure to pollutants in the air.

Effects of air pollutants may range from subtle biochemical and physiological changes to difficulty in breathing, wheezing, coughing, aggravation of existing respiratory, cardiac conditions and even premature death. We cannot change the quality of air today but can decrease its effects by regular breathing exercises (pranayam) in gardens.

. Exercise, for a healthy life .

Chapter 7

During our evolution our ancestors did physical work since there was no machine or agriculture (10,000 years back ) they searched for food in order to consume it. Any activity for living needed some kind of physical work. The human body in these 4.5 million years has adapted accordingly, today the underprivileged perform physical work but the rich can live without doing any physical activity. In addition to this a high calorie diet makes them lazy and fat, slowly the body loses its physical strength and we are unable to do any strenuous work due to which we become fatter with weak muscles and bones that can hardly lift its own weight. This is one of the major causes of our ill health today, so we should start physical exercise. Further exercise is the key to de-stressing If you want a stress free life start your physical activity now.
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.-William Temple, Author Nationalities, Author Quotes

In my childhood I was very active in sports and was in the school swimming team. Other than swimming I played cricket, badminton, and other outdoor sports with my friends. That time there was very less access to indoor games like psp, xbox, etc. During my summer holidays all my friends played different outdoor gamer that were really very strenuous, now a days I hardly see any kid in my neighborhood who is active in those outdoor games. Today majority of childrens are obese and I often see them loading new games in psp whenever they are out on vacations.
The number of kids affected by obesity has tripled since 1980, and this can be traced in large part to lack of exercise and a healthy diet.-Virginia Foxx , American, Politician Quotes

After my 10th standard I was forced to devote maximum time to my studies for a better career, in college hence hardly had any time for physical activity. I was always tired and couldnt even walk more than 3-5 km in one single day. Starting business was a turning point of my life; not because I started earning but because I had reintroduced exercise in my life.. However there were some mistakes I made, I took incorrect diet for an attractive physique, that I would like you to avoid, I will tell you about that in my next chapters. Exercise gave meaning to my dull life, without it I would have been an entirely different person without any principles in life. I can imagine my personality today if my dear friend Rajat had not called me for the first gym session with him. I would like to share it with you, With exercise Without exercise

Correct sleeping timings, early to bed and Could have been the same as it was in college, getting up before 7.00 am sleeping time after 2.00 am without any particular waking up time

Punctual routine that starts with exercise.

Could be no routine at all as it was in college.

Principle in life applied now eat to live not Definitely it would be eat anything and live live to eat life king-size It would surely be full of bad habits (smoking, No bad habits drinking etc.) to live king-size. Trying to find inner peace and meaning of life. I would definitely have no clue about this inner Due to this exercise I now have a routine in peace that changed my life forever. which I meditate and pray to God

Exercise can't counteract the damage being done to your body while you continue to smoke. What exercise can do is help you kick the habit.-Kenneth H. Cooper

I am now a completely different person in all aspects (thoughts, diet and lifestyle) in which exercise is the most important or the only cause of it. I read in Arnolds encyclopedia that he went to the gym just to improve his strength in soccer game and now he is what he is due to this exercise routine. I dont exercise for weight loss or better fitness; it is rather a part of my life. Two hours spend in my exercise routine are the most enjoyable moments of my day, it is really a stress buster. I cannot miss it as I cannot miss routine activities of my life like taking bath, or brushing my teeth or eating my food. There are many people who say that they dont have time to exercise but I always see them doing all, yes all other activities they find necessary or entertaining for them, I never hear from them that they were too busy to rush to office without taking their bath or were too busy to find any time for eating. But you would say hey I would die without eating and I would say that you die early because you are always eating spare some time from your eating and devote that time for exercise, I assure you that you will be in better health, no kidding.

I saw few die of hunger, of eating, a hundred thousand

Benjamin Franklin

Our body is made up of muscles and skeleton, there are muscles in various organs or parts of the body like lungs, heart, arms, legs; over the period of time when you dont use them they lose their strength. If you want an example just dont get out of bed for one month and see that your legs will find it hard or impossible to lift its own body weight. The same thing happens with lungs, we are always breathing normally without using our full capacity to breathe so over a period of time we lose our strength to inhale deeply, which we come to know when we have bronchitis or an asthma attack. Our bones too become brittle since we dont use them much, thats why we are always asked by doctors to start physical exercise for stronger bones. If you want a lifetime of better health with a slim and attractive body incorporate exercise that could be any physical activity such as walking, outdoor games, gym, yoga, weight training, aerobics, etc. at least 3-4 days a week for a minimum of 45 minutes per day as part of your life, am I asking much?

Those who think they have not time for exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness. Edward Stanley.
I want to tell you another invaluable benefit of exercise that most people know nothing about, benefit to our lymph system. The lymphatic system is a major microbe crime fighter and cellular garbage collector in the body. It removes toxins and cellular waste and it keeps the peace by rounding up bacteria, viruses and other bad guys bringing them to lymph nodes where they are killed by white blood cells. Lymphatic fluid is so important that your body contains about three times more lymph than blood. The lymphatic, fluid moves round via very small vessels, which usually run alongside small veins and arteries. But the lymphatic system has a challenge. It is circulated by muscle contractions, not by your heartbeat. When you do not move, the lymphatic system becomes sluggish. But exercise can triple the rate of lymphatic flow, That means that the lymphatic system is your in house police force and cellular garbage collector- does a much better job protecting your body from attack and removing cellular trash. The Cardiovascular system has at its center the heart, which is responsible for pumping the six quarts of blood through over 90,000 miles of blood vessels, Unlike the cardiovascular system, the lymph system has no such pump, even though it has to move three times more lymph than blood, Instead, it relies on physical activity exercise, Movement, activity physical exertion, thats what the lymph system depends upon to move lymph fluid through all the nodes, nodules, glands and vessels. And that is the number one reason why exercise must be an integral part of your life if you wish to be successful at losing weight.
I really believe the only way to stay healthy is to eat properly, get your rest and exercise. If you don't exercise and do the other two, I still don't think it's going to help you that much.-Mike Ditka, American, Coach Quotes

Now I hope that you will try to devote more than 45 minutes to your exercise routine, if you are trying hard to choose the correct exercise for yourself just read the following options for exercise and chose yourself. However, I would recommend a combination of aerobics and anaerobic exercises for maximum benefits. Aerobic exercises The word aerobic literally means "with oxygen" or "in the presence of oxygen." Aerobic activity trains the heart, lungs and cardiovascular system to process and deliver oxygen more quickly and efficiently to every part of the body. As the heart muscles become stronger and more efficient, a larger amount of blood can be pumped with each heartbeat. As a result, a fit individual can work longer, more vigorously and achieve a quicker recovery at the end of the aerobic session. Think of aerobic activity as being long in duration yet low in intensity. Aerobic activities include, walking, biking, jogging, swimming, aerobic classes, cross-country skiing etc. I assume yoga and pranayam to be aerobic exercises as they mainly focus on breathing, however, they have far more benefits than all the aerobic and anaerobic exercises combined. Anaerobic exercises Anaerobic exercise will not burn off fat as the body needs oxygen to be able to do this, however it will help to build stronger muscles. It also speeds up your metabolic rate so that

you continue to burn fat after exercise. When you work an aerobically, you will tire faster and are more likely to experience sore muscles after the exercise is over Anaerobic activity is short in duration and high in intensity. Anaerobic activities include, racquetball, downhill skiing, weight lifting, sprinting, softball, soccer and football,. Calisthenics is a type of anaerobic exercise usually performed without weights that helps increase body strength and flexibility. Calisthenics is a type of isotonic exercise that uses the body weight as the resistance force. Calisthenics helped me a lot when I was away on tours without access of gyms, I used to do it after yoga or walk. Common examples of callisthenic exercises include sit-ups, pull- ups, push-ups and squats.

In my thirty years lifespan I know these exercises very well i.e.

swimming brisk walking with deep breathing weight lifting yoga

Currently I am doing a mixture of the above exercises to avail benefits of both aerobic and anaerobic exercises. I had previously written in depth about all the exercises I knew, but later I deleted them and thought of only explaining two topics that I assume are most important for our immunity and health.

Brisk walking with deep breathing After my graduation when I joined a gym, I used to devote five to ten minutes to cycling, jogging or brisk walking to warm up. But as the early part of the workout is always trying I could not do very strenuous movements in the first ten minutes of warm up, the result was simple either a low intensity gym session or an injured muscle. After many months I came to

a conclusion that I needed 30 minutes brisk walking to get my body fully warmed up, slowly and gradually over the period of time I found more fun and better enthusiasm in brisk walking at garden before gym, I enjoyed it so much that in my holidays I was walking as much as an hour and 30 minutes before going to the gym. The main energy point for this was walking with deep breaths in the garden; I felt that I was coming close to nature and started enjoying the chirping of birds, various movements done by squirrels, mongooses and other animals in the garden. This walk was so energizing that I was able to devote 100% in my all day routine, currently I am doing yoga, pranayam followed by brisk walk and weight training, but I enjoy brisk walk the best. There are distinctive types of workouts that one can perform in order to keep fit, but one exercise that is suitable for all age groups is brisk walking,
When I'm in London I do have the convenience of being close to St James Park which is also good for me because it gives me an excuse to get out and get some much needed exercise! -David Blunkett ,British, Politician Quotes

Benefits of brisk walking Research shows that slow, rhythmic movement exercise, Such as walking, resets your bodys weight set point and creates a thin, lean body. A one hour walk everyday will change your body dramatically in as little as one month. In our evolution our bodies were not evolved to do strenuous weight training or cardio sessions but were designed to walk, the benefits of walking in garden with deep breathing are unlimited, just try it.

Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. Exercise is nothing short of a miracle.-Cher ,American, Musician Quotes (stress ways to
remove)

Keep it Steady A steady routine is the most important factor in getting the most out of your exercise program. Walking for at least 30 minutes a day, 4 or more days a week is recommended. Use these tips to keep you on track,

During your walks, you should be able to maintain a conversation. If you're breathing too lightly, increase your pace. If you can't catch your breath, slow it down. but I believe in order to get maximum benefits from this walk deep breath while walking in a garden. Just try to inhale maximum amount of air in your lungs, stretch it to its limit, and hold for a second then exhale slowly. This process is really very easy and will give benefits of bhastrika pranayam as explained in my CD. Try to walk barefoot on grass if you want to attain the earths geomagnetic fields energy. If you cant spare time for a morning walk, walk around the local area after lunch or dedicate 15 minutes to walking up and down the stairs. Climbing is an excellent way to strengthen your heart. At night, trade a half hour of TV for a brisk stroll around the block. Take a friend with you for company or get the whole family involved.

Yoga
During my amateur years of workouts I used to dedicate 5-10 minutes of my time for stretching before lifting weights. I didnt know the reason for the stiffness of my body I was unable to do basic stretching movements. The reason other than obesity is that we are not using our joints, muscles and ligaments to their full capacity (I bet majority could be using as less as 20%). I got good results from my weight training and walk but did not get any results from stretching, the main reason was that our coach never concentrated on stretching and neglected it. I tried to increase my flexibility and read many books on Yoga and stretching but all exercises were so tough that I couldnt even perform its initial movements. Some years back I hired a personal yoga instructor and since then I am doing 1 hour of yoga (in a mixture with other exercises) before my walk or gym sessions. Currently my body is 10 times more flexible than it was earlier. You will find that no other exercise routine will improve your immune system as yoga does. I just started yoga for improved flexibility but now the flexibility that I got is only 5-10% of its total achievement. Pranayam and meditation are far more advantageous than other exercises for better immunity and concentration.
Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.-Deepak Chopra ,East-Indian- American M.D., New Age Author, Lecturer(yoga)

Our lives start and end with the same thing, breath. Life starts with our first breath and ends with our last. Hence, we are intimately connected to this life and world through breath. Breathing is also such a mechanism that we have partial control though it is an involuntary function. While we have no control over many other involuntary systems and organs like the heart or liver or pancreas, we do have the ability to regulate breathing. However, we cannot hold our breath indefinitely. The practice of yoga makes use of the partial control that we have over breathing. Patanjalis Ashtanga Yoga lists the eightfold path to salvation and enlightenment, one of which is pranayama or the practice of regulated breathing. In pranayama, one has to sit in a comfortable pose, with the spine erect and breathe in and out, in a specific way. There are many types of pranayama, where the breath is taken in through one nostril, held for a period of time, and then released, either through the same nostril or through the other. In many forms of breathing, the breath is also taken in or released through the mouth. Most people report an instant feeling of well-being after doing these breathing exercises. The scientific explanation is that deep breathing results in a higher concentration of oxygen in the blood, which is then supplied to the tissues in generous quantities. But yogic exercises do much more than increasing oxygen levels. Yoga is a process which is not just physical; it is also metaphysical. Yogic pranayamas draw in vital energy or prana, and circulate it throughout the body. This vital energy or prana is what keeps the human body functioning. At death, the vital energy leaves the body, and life comes to an end. If breathing was only a matter of inhaling oxygen and exhaling carbon dioxide, then even a dead body could be brought to life by supplying oxygen to it. But as we know, this is not possible, and no amount of pumping in oxygen into a dead body will restore life to it. Prana or breath is then much

beyond the chemical composition of the air that we breathe in. It is the energy of the universe; it sustains all life. Energy cannot be manufactured or analyzed in a laboratory; it is a gift of existence. While we use energy unconsciously, yoga teaches us to use it consciously, and to direct it towards various body centers and organs. This increases efficiency of physical structures, and helps in mind and sense control. Ancient scriptures mention that every individual is born with a fixed number of breaths. Life ends when we finish our prescribed number of breaths. Yogic breathing exercise slows down our breathing rate, both immediately and throughout the day; this is believed to increase the practitioners lifespan.
Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God.-Diana Robinson

This could perhaps be one reason why existence or Nature has endowed us with the capacity to have some control over what would otherwise be an automatic function of the body. We have the opportunity to evolve and to improve ourselves in many areas of life, and this could well be one such area. Life is indeed breathtakingly beautiful, but it might be more than just one breath followed by another. More important perhaps than the actual breath are the gaps and pauses that we take between breaths. Meditation is the key ingredient of yoga and we should try to incorporate it with our yoga sessions or the time when we are concentrating on our deep breaths.

Workout routines for different body types

In the gym my coach used to prescribe different diets for different persons according to their weight but advised the same workout to everyone. At that time I learnt that I was a Meso endomorph and trained accordingly to get results. One of the most important part of a fitness program is knowing and understanding your body type and finding what works for you. Everyone is an individual with a unique makeup. To this, every program designed has to be tailored towards the specific individual. Knowing what your bodys natural tendencies are, a diet and exercise program can be designed to go with the natural flow not against it. One method of categorizing body types recognizes three different physical types and is called Soma types. Soma types recognizes the mesomorph, the ectomorph and the endomorph. From these three categories it then sub-divides into approximately 45 different forms of body types consisting of a combination of all three body types. No one is totally one body type. The ways and places a person gains and stores body fat plays a large role in determining the body types. Knowing your body type will aid in the development of an effective training program as each body type responds differently to exercise and exercise type.

Mesomorph
The mesomorph has a large chest, long torso, solid muscle mass and is very strong. Mesomorphs find it easy to build muscle mass and respond well to training of all types. Short recovery times are sufficient for mesomorphs because of the bodys positive response to training. Mesomorphs usually dont require long workout sessions. Cardio workouts should be short with high intensity to increase the lactate threshold, the fat burning; low intensity long duration cardio sessions are not needed. A balanced diet with sufficient amounts of protein and carbohydrates to fuel the high metabolism. Mesomorphs are the happy medium, muscular but lean. My advice for exercise routine 3-4 times a week (means one day one, one day off) )( Meditation and Pranayama can be done on daily basis) DAY 1, 15 minutes meditation followed by 30 minutes yoga (asanas) followed by 40 minutes of walking. DAY 2 , 15 minutes meditation followed by 30 minutes yoga (pranayama) followed by 40 minutes of walking.

Endomorph
The endomorph has short musculature, a round face, short neck, wide hips and heavy fat storage. Endomorphs will not have trouble building muscle mass but will have trouble losing fat. Endomorphs should include cardio workouts into their training programs and maintain a low calorie diet and should avoid fats. High set, high repetition exercise with short rest periods work best as this aids in the burning of calories and fat reduction. Endomorphs tend to have a higher percentage of fast twitch (sprint) muscle fibers. They can add muscle mass quicker, but can gain fat very easily as well. My advice for exercise routine 4-6 times a week (any one or two days off in one week according to your needs)( Meditation and Pranayama can be done on daily basis) DAY 1, 15 minutes meditation followed by 30-40 minutes yoga (asanas) followed by 30 minutes of brisk walking followed by 30 minutes weight training. DAY 2, 15 minutes meditation followed by 30-40 minutes yoga (pranayama) followed by 30 minutes of brisk walking followed by 30 minutes weight training.

Ectomorph
The ectomorph has a short upper body, long arms and legs, long narrow feet and hands and very little fat storage. Narrow shoulders and narrow chest with long thin muscles. The typical ectomorph wants to gain lean muscle mass, develop strength and endurance. Muscle mass develops slowly and moderately heavy to heavy resistance training works best for ectomorphs. An increase in the daily caloric consumption will aid in the development of building lean muscle mass. Increase protein and carbohydrates. Workout sessions are usually longer with cardio workouts kept to a minimum usually consisting of short duration, high intensity. Ectomorphs tend to have a higher percentage of slow twitch (endurance) muscle fibers. Ectomorphs have a harder time adding muscle mass, but seem to eat anything without gaining fat. My advice for exercise routine 2-3 times a week (means one day off one day on, two days off and one day on)( Meditation and Pranayama can be done on daily basis) DAY 1, 15 minutes meditation followed by 20 to 30 minutes yoga (asanas) followed by 5 to 20 minutes of walking light weight training. DAY 2 , 15 minutes meditation followed by 20 to 30 minutes yoga (pranayama) followed by 15 to 40 minutes of walking. Just remember to perform these exercises on an empty stomach or at least 3-4 hours after a meal, if you feel hungry just before your exercise timing just have some fresh fruit juice. Before ending this chapter I would like to tell you that I was able to gain success in my exercise routine with no week off in spite of hectic office schedule,

1. Sundays on, My gym is closed on Sundays but I always work out on Sundays because I can exercise more without worrying about rushing to office, plus it gives me liberty in office schedule without skipping my workouts at least 3-4 times a week. For this reason I had purchased some free weights to exercise at home. 2. Morning workouts, In these 10-12 years I have tried different timings for many months, and I can proudly say that I am regular due to my morning workouts. I can concentrate 100% on my workouts. It has other benefits if you want to lose weight or get better results. First reason is yoga or weight training should be done on an empty stomach or at least 3-4 hours after meals, Secondly we burn more fat in mornings as compared to evenings.

3. Minimum 2-3 days of routine, I generally do 4-5 workouts sessions per week but when I am away on tours or have family emergencies, I certainly give a minimum of 1 hour, two or three days a week to keep my muscles and mind habitual of doing exercises. Trust me when you hit gym after 2-4 weeks of abstinence your mind and mues re so tired that you lose motivation plus you at once register sore muscles. This is one of the main reasons why people who cant have regular workouts. 4. Workout as a part of life without any greed of weight loss, I have already told that I now do exercise for my personal well being and it is a part of my routine activities like bathing, brushing etc. I have seen hundreds of people in my gym who became my training partners for weeks, months or in exceptions years. But no one was regular for full 10 -12 years, the reason was obvious, they quit it when they lost weight or thought they were in better fitness. So try to focus on a lifetime of wellbeing without thinking of any results.

Chapter 8
Stress is a friend not foe (Mind)
Here I would like to say that no matter what diet you take, adopt healthy principles in life but still everything will be useless if you are stressed. I have seen my father who was in stress for a long time and ended up choosing death for life, committing suicide at the age of 44 in spite of the fact that he had an good rental income. But I still cannot figure out why he did that? My father was in perfect health and my mom was always there to support him. I just know that he had some losses in business and was not as rich as he was before. The time he committed suicide was a turning point in my life, He adored me.. From my early childhood he always loved me more than anyone else, anything I demanded was fulfilled without any question. I was myself in stress for long period after his death, I would like to explain it in a form of play whose title is Lord Krishnas Geeta updesh to Kashish it clearly states that stress is our friend without it we wouldnt be alive!

My play Lord Krishnas Geeta updesh to Kashish is as follows

Kashish: Dear lord Krishna I want to talk to you. Will you answer me? (Some silence) Kashish: Dear lord Krishna I want to talk to you. Will you answer me?

L K: Yes, what you want from me? Kashish: I want to ask you about Unhappiness. Lk: What is unhappiness according to you? K: When a person is not feeling well or is upset or depressed, hes unhappy.

Lk: You told when a person dont animals get unhappy? K: Yes they also get unhappy. Lk: You want its explanation in scientific language or my spiritual language? K: I want it in a mixture of both. Lk: Ok fine. Then according to science what is the cause of life on this planet.? K: I dont know much but I think its DNA which caused life on this planet. Lk: Can you tell the word through which DNA caused such a complex life form of plants and animals on this planet? K: I think its EVOLUTION. Lk: According to you from how much time is there life on this planet? K: I am not sure but positively millions of years back? Lk: So according to you this Evolution is also there from such a long time. K: Yes Lk: EVOLUTION is a process by which any living organism adapts itself according to nature so that it can lead a better life and increase its population. All species on earth have gone through this evolution. Thats why you can see, a camel that lives in a desert can survive there with no problem and penguins can survive in extreme cold climate with no problems. They are physically adapted according to their needs. Lk: Ok now tell me, do you have faith in me. K: Yes of course. Lk: Then answer my question, I designed all the living organisms on this planet so that they can lead a better life, why would I give them unhappiness? K: But they are unhappy, we are unhappy, not always but it is a part of our lives. LK: The term you are calling unhappiness I would like to call it STRESS not UNHAPPINESS. K: Stress???????...... I dont get you? Lk: Dont go into details just name it another word-stress? Now tell me what kind of stress or unhappiness do all the species register on this planet. K: I am not sure but it could be MENTAL STRESS OR PHYSICAL STRESS Lk: Now, answer me again, do you think, I designed all the living organisms on this planet so that they can lead a better life, why would I give them stress? I gave them this stress because without it they would not survive you would not survive. K???? !!!!!! You are telling me this stress is the cause of our existence here?

LK: Yes, but first well talk about all animals living in forests. Well start with Mental stress . Metal stress of Animals LK Can you explain the term Mental stress?

K, According to me when a animal is physically fit and not hungry, but still feels restless hes in mental stress. Lk, Tell me some examples of this Mental stress in animals. K, When a cow sees its calf attacked by a lion she becomes stressed, when a deer sees a fire in the jungle he becomes stressed, when a monkey is eating fruit and is attacked by another monkey who wants the same fruit he becomes stressed etc. Lk, What is the first thing they observed under this entire situation other than restlessness? K, Elevated heart beat accompanied with muscle tension and raised blood pressure. Lk, What was their response to it? K, They ran trying to save their young ones and their lives or tried protecting their food. Lk, How did they manage to do that? K, By fighting or running. Lk, Could they succeed by doing this? K, Many a times. Lk, How many times do you think they encounter such kind of situations ? K, I think they encounter such situations once in a while. Lk, So according to you they face these problems sometimes maybe once a week or month or even years, not every day? K, Yes, not every day. Lk, Tell me do they feel this restlessness after the situation is over? K, No I dont think so. Lk, Why ? K, Because once I was also attacked by a dog, I managed to escape. I had all the stress at that time only it was not carried forward when the situation was over. Lk, What is the duration of these situations. K: Because once I was attacked by a dog, I managed to escape. My stress lasted only till the situation lasted. Lk, How can you be so sure?

K, I watch discovery channel regularly, I cant remember any clip in which they were protecting themselves or their food for long time. Either they were killed or saved but the situation was there for some time only. Lk, Do you know that the stress they feel in their body is nothing but some hormones or nerve signals released by the brain? K, I dont know it. Lk, The brain communicates to body via these hormones or signals; you feel sleepy, hungry, stressed due to these hormones only. All the modern age medicines control these hormones or signals for treatment. Do you understand now why mental stress is important for life? K, Its still hard to understand. LK, In any situations told by you, if mental stress was not there those animals would have been killed or left hungry. Do you agree? K, Yes LK, The first response in those situations was an elevated heart beat, it was there because brain released stress hormone into their body. Due to this hormone they felt more aware, their heart beat increased to pump more blood into their body so that they could have more energy to fight or run. Any question for this hormone. K, Does this hormone have any negative effects on our body? Lk, Ill talk about it later for now please write the final conclusion of this mental stress of animals. LK, They encounter such situations which cause mental stress once in a while. As soon as this situation is over they come out of this stress at once. This stress hormone due to which they experienced restlessness was important for them. It helped them to handle that situation better.

that situation better. K, I totally agree with you.

Mental stress in humans Lk, Do you think humans have same kind of stress or unhappiness as animals do? K, Yes I think so. Lk, When were you unhappy or stressed? K, When my company couldnt make profits.

Lk, were you really stressed or was it just a usual thing that happens normally. K, Yes, I was really stressed. Lk, what did you do in that period? K, I reduced my expenses to save money. Lk, For how much time did that situation last? K, Around 2 months. Lk, You agree that in case of other humans, they could have more serious issues which could last for years? K, Yes, why not. Lk, Have you seen any animal stressed for such a long time? K, No. Lk, Do you agree stress in humans can be far more complex than animals. K, Yes it can. Lk, Previously you asked me whether those stress hormones have any negative effects or not, they have a number of side effects in humans as their stress is more complex than animals. In animals those hormones were released in fight or flight situation as discussed earlier. The situation was there for only some minutes as told by you. Now in humans these hormones are released in situations related to business loss or tragedy. In such situations they dont fight or run so the purpose of that hormone (cortisol) released is wasted and worsens the situation since it elevates the heartbeat in which humans find it hard to concentrate which is vital solve that problem.

Your body is an amazing creation, capable of performing great wonders, but you can destroy that miraculous machine's potential with an overdose of stress.-Harry J. Johnson
American Medical Doctor

Since this situation is there for weeks, months or maybe years they are in a constant state of response mode. This continuous release of hormones shuts their immune system. K, Can excessive stress in the long run make us obese and does it have any further health consequence? Lk, Yes, excessive stress can make you obese and unhealthy. In response to long term stress, the hormone cortisol rises which can cause the blood pressure to, rise, can cause the release of fats and sugar in the bloodstream, and may cause weight gain, elevated triglycerides, high cholesterol, and blood sugar. Cortisol will save your life, if you are a POW or experiencing famine, because it slows your metabolic rate and helps to preserve your fat stores. But most of us are not POWs or experiencing famine, and so the high cortisol levels usually lead to weight gain.

Toxic emotions such as fear, stress, anxiety and worry take a toll on the digestive system. The autonomic nervous system controls all unconscious activity in the body, including control of the digestive system. When its stressed, the nervous system diverts energy away from the digestive organs and routes it to the musculo-skeletal system to mobilize us for action which I already described as fight or flight response. During this stress reaction, the intestine and kidneys slow down so that the body can run away or fight the enemy. The problem is that your fast paced lifestyle perceives threat on a regular basis, so your digestive system suffers continually. It also lowers the output of saliva flow, digestive enzymes and HCL; so this is the main reason you dont feel hungry when stressed. Stressed-out people also tend to develop dark circles under their eyes and frown lines on their foreheads, around the eyes, and around the mouth. Some even get bulging eyes a tight jaw and flared nostrils, Plastic surgeons are cashing in on the stress epidemic, performing face lifts and offering Botox injections and more. Cortisol affects and control loop regulates the sex hormones, Elevated cortisol is associated with a drop in DHEA and testosterone, which can lead to a decreased sex drive and erectile dysfunction. In women, elevated cortisol is associated with lower levels of progesterone and testosterone. During periods of chronic stress, progesterone in actually converted to cortisol in the body, which can lead to menstrual problems and PMS, as well as significant menopausal symptoms such as hot flashes and night sweats, Levels of estrogen become imbalanced in the presence of high cortisol. Chronic stress has also commonly been associated with depression. Elevated cortisol levels cause as imbalance of neurotransmitters in the brain. In one scientific study, as many as seven out of every ten patients with depression had enlarged adrenal glands , some with glands that were 1.7 times the size of normal gland in a person who is not depressed . In other words, the adrenal glands had enlarged in response to the demand for more cortisol. The cortisol, in turn, causes an imbalance of these important neurotransmitters.
Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.Richard Saunders

There is no stress but distress (chinta) in humans and in this distress I believe humans are UNHAPPY. But I will still say I didnt give it. It has been created (rachna) by humans only.

Mental distress of humans living in modern cities Lk, How many kind of mental distress you think humans have. Tell them and write them well discuss it one by one. K, yes picked up pen for writing on board and saying it at the same time

Business or job distress

Political distress Economic Distress

Social distress National distress

Family distress Lk, Write down some more Distress is due to the word mine (mera) Physical or health distress Lk, Lets discuss Business or job stress and economic distress. In order to understand it we need to discuss about your evolution. You told me that there is life on earth from billions of years, how much time you think humans or their ancestors are there in existence? K, Our ancestors came into existence 4.5 million (45 lakh) years back. But they were not same as modern humans; evolution changed them over this period. We are Homosapiens I guess and we came into existence nearly 1.5 hundred thousand years ago. Lk, However I would like to correct you, your ancestors are the same and every mammal on earth shares them, all the mammals are part of the same family which were left and were able to survive when dinosaurs became extinct 60 million years back. Do you know that after every 10,000 generations of new diet, lifestyle or environment new species are regenerated? Like all other mammals you share everything (eyes, ears, blood, skin, hairs etc) with some changes through which you can lead a better life in the region or environment you are living. (So dont be a fool thinking that you are in any way better in handling any kind of stress). In your previous chapter you have already told that no civilization existed before 12000 years or 10000 B.C It means that humans were living together but not building any villages, towns and not using money for exchange of goods and services. Their main business was hunting and gathering. This business was always there for them, since money was not involved so they didnt have any economic distress. At that time there was no market depression or corrupt king or politician, they had one leader of that small tribe and he was never corrupt. They faced seasonal droughts in which they used to overcome it by working as a group. So this explains that there was no Political and national distress either. Ill explain you its solution later but now next move to Family distress , there are many types of family problems- between a husband and wife , parents and children, brothers and sisters,etc. which problem would you like to address? K, Husband and wife. Lk, For explaining it first we have to recall why this institution of marriage started for this we again have to go back 10,000 years because before this era no marriages happened. The start of human civilization was full of changes, slowly and gradually the powerful ruler or conqueror used to keep maximum number of women for themselves, as the times passed women became a status symbol, I myself had 16,000 wives. Even some centuries ago Mughal

rulers used to have thousands; Akbar had more than 300 wives. The actual number of women in the harem was approx. 5000.

Due to this, common men was deprived of women so the society owners (priests) started the institution of marriage, it was then highly propagandized that to capture or fall in love with someone elses wife was a big crime and the whole society would revolt even if the ruler did that. To make it more secure from the powerful man child marriages were propagated. Now, in the current era that situation does not exist but still the institution of marriage is there. The new marriage is failing because the new marriage is simply a reaction to the old marriage. It is not out of understanding, but only out of reaction, revolt -- `love marriage.' You don't know what love is. You simply see some beautiful face, you see some beautiful body and you think, "My God, I am in love!" This love is not going to last, because after two days, seeing the same face for twenty-four hours a day, you will get bored. The same body... you have explored the whole topography; now there is nothing to explore. Exploring the same geography again and again, you feel like an idiot. What is the point? This love affair, this love marriage is failing, it has already failed. The reason is that you don't know how to wait so that love can happen. Your marriage is a subtle politics of domination. Your fatherhood, motherhood, is a subtle politics. Marriage has made love disappear completely, marriage has made love disappear from the earth. Because for other considerations marriage is arranged money, finance, family, prestige, astrology all absurd. They have nothing to do with the heart of the two persons who are going to be married. So marriage is almost always a failure; only in rare accidents is it not so but they are accidents, exceptions. They cannot be counted. Marriage is always on the rocks, because it is for the wrong reasons. Only love can become the foundation of a

real marriage, there is no other way. Because there is no other way to find that your wave length is exactly the same as the others that you vibrate in the same way as the other. There is no other way to find it out. One should marry only when one is wise enough. Marriage is not for young people. For young people is to fool around. Marriage is for those who have experienced life in many ways, who have seen all the colors, the whole spectrum of it, and are now ready to settle. I am not against marriage -- I am for love. If love becomes your marriage, good; but don't hope that marriage can bring love. That is not possible. Love can become a marriage. You have to work very consciously to transform your love into a marriage. Ordinarily, people destroy their love. They do EVERYTHING to destroy it and then they suffer. And they go on saying, "What went wrong?" They destroy -- they do everything to destroy it. There is a tremendous desire and longing for love, but love needs great awareness. Only then can it reach its highest climax -- and that highest climax IS marriage. It has nothing to do with law. It is a merging of two hearts into totality. It is the functioning of two persons in synchronicity -- that is marriage. But people try love and because they are unconscious...their longing is good, but their love is full of jealousy, full of possessiveness, full of anger, full of nastiness. Soon they destroy it. Hence for centuries they have depended on marriage. Better to start by marriage so that the law can protect you from destroying it. The society, the government, the court, the policeman, the priest, they will all force you to live in the institution of marriage, and you will be just a slave. If marriage is an institution, you are going to be a slave in it. Only slaves want to live in institutions. Marriage is a totally different phenomenon, it is the climax of love. Then it is good. I am not against marriage -- I am for the REAL marriage. I am against the false, the pseudo, that exists. But it is an arrangement. It gives you a certain security, safety, occupation. It keeps you engaged. Otherwise, it gives you no enrichment, it gives you no nourishment. I have never said that love is destroyed by marriage. How can marriage destroy love? Yes, it is destroyed in marriage, but it is destroyed by you, not by marriage. It is destroyed by the partners. How can marriage destroy love? It is you who destroy it, because you dont know what love is. You simply pretend to know, you simply hope that you know, you dream that you know, but you dont know what love is. Love has to be learned; it is the greatest art there is. India missed with arranged marriage; the West is missing with free love. India missed love because parents were too calculating and cunning. They would not allow falling in love, that is dangerous, nobody knows where it will lead. They were too clever, and through cleverness India missed all possibility of love. In the West they are too rebellious, too young; not clever -- too young, too childish. They have made sex a free thing, available everywhere, no need to go so deep to discover love, enjoy sex and be finished. Through sex, the West is missing, through marriage, the East has missed. But if you are alert you need not be Eastern, you need not be Western. Love is neither Eastern nor Western. Go on discovering love within you. And if you love, sooner or later the person will happen to you, because a loving heart, sooner or later, comes to a loving heart -- it always happens. You will find the right person. But if you are jealous you will not find, if you are simply for sex you will not find, if you live only for security you will not find true love.

Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair is a totally different thing. A marriage is a commitment to that which you are. That person is literally your other half. And you and the other are one. A love affair isnt that. That is a relationship of pleasure, and when it gets to be unpleasurable , its off. But a marriage is a life commitment, and a life commitment means the prime concern of your life. If marriage is not the prime concern, you are not married."- Joseph Campbell

Be a little aware before you are trapped! Marriage is a trap, you will be trapped by the woman and the woman will be trapped by you. It is a mutual trap. And then legally you are allowed to torture each other forever. Love, and love as deeply as possible. And if love itself becomes the marriage, that is another thing, altogether different. If love itself becomes such an intimacy that it is unbreakable, that is another thing, that is not a legal sanction. Legal sanctions are needed only because you are afraid. You know that your love is not enough; you need the legal support for it. You know perfectly well that you can escape or the woman can escape, hence you need the policeman to keep you together. But this is ugly, to need a policeman to keep you together. That's what marriage is! Marriage exists as an institution of exploitation, it is not togetherness. That is why no happiness comes out of it as a flowering. It cannot. Out of the roots of exploitation how can ecstasy be born? I have never heard about any perfect marriage. They say perfect marriages are made in heaven. Nobody comes back from there so maybe it is true, but what kind of marriage will those perfect marriages be? There will be no tension, there will be no individuality in the man or in the woman. They will never collide, they will never fight. They will be too sweet to each other. And too much sweetness brings diabetes! Marriage is an institution that teaches a man regularity, frugality, temperance, forbearance and many other splendid virtues he would not need had he stayed single. As I see it, out of a hundred marriages ninety-nine marriages are just licensed prostitution. They are not marriages. A marriage is only a real marriage when it grows out of love. Legal, illegal, does not matter. The real thing that matters is love. If love exists between two persons, it is blessed. If love does not exist between two persons, then all your laws put together cannot bridge them. Then they exist separate, then they exist apart, then they exist in conflict, then they exist always at war. And they create all kinds of trouble for each other. They are nasty to each other, nagging each other, possessive of each other, violent, oppressive, dominating, dictatorial. In a better world, with a better humanity, things will be different. In a better world, the child born out of love will not be called a bastard. Love affairs have been failing, and parents feel very happy. People come to me and they say, "Look, in the West love affairs have been failing. Then why are you against marriage?". Love affairs are failing because first the marriage was arranged by the astrologer, then it was arranged by the parents, and now it is being arranged by biology, by instinct. You suddenly feel that you like a woman, but you don't know how long this is going to last and you are not even aware why you like her. You are not even alert to what it is in you that likes her. Maybe it is just her hairstyle. Now, are you going to get married to a hairstyle? You can get married, but tomorrow morning when you see her hair disheveled you will be at a loss, "Is this the same woman I fell in love with?" How long can you be interested in the hairstyle? Soon you

will get fed up. The same hairstyle again and again -- the whole day, twenty-four hours a day...! People are falling in love because a certain man has a certain type of nose. People are falling in love with fragments! Nobody is bothered about the totality of the person -- and it is a vast thing. The nose does not count for much -- after two days you won't look at it at all. Or the color, or the shape, or the proportion of the body -- all these things are very minor. The real thing is the total functioning of the person, and that can be experienced only when you live together. K, If marriage disappears, can divorce disappear automatically? Lk, This is a by-product of marriage. Nobody takes note of the simple fact, why for centuries have there been prostitutes? Who created them? Who is responsible for these poor women? It is the institution of marriage. You are bored with your wife; just for a change you go to a woman who is not going to be a bondage -- because one is enough, two will be too much. It is just a temporary, few hours' meeting. You can keep yourself lovely for a few hours, loving for a few hours.
Think of every woman you've ever slept with. Every time you had sex, somebody knows exactly what you did. Where your hands were, things you tried. And probably more than one person."- Kim Lewis

She can keep herself lovely and loving for a few hours. And moreover, she has been paid for it. Around the world millions of women are reduced to selling their bodies. Who has done it? Your political leaders, your religious leaders. I consider these people criminals. And not ordinary criminals, because for centuries the whole humanity has been suffering because of these few idiots. But you have to start with yourself, there is no other way. If you love somebody, then freedom should be the connecting link between you. And if you see your woman tomorrow hugging somebody else, there is no need to be jealous. She is being enriched, she is tasting a little newness -- just the way you go sometimes to a Chinese restaurant! It is good. You will come back to your own food, but the Chinese restaurant has helped you; you may relish your own food more. But after a few days, again -that's how the mind is -- you are moving towards an Italian restaurant... spaghetti. I cannot even tolerate somebody eating spaghetti in front of me! But that is my problem. Life is so simple and so beautiful, just one thing is missing, freedom. If your wife is being with some other people, soon she will come back to you enriched, with new insight. And she will find something in you she had never found before. And meanwhile, you need not just sit down in your chair and beat your head. You also gain experience, so that by the time your woman is back you are also new. You have also been to the Chinese restaurant. Life should be a joy, a rejoicing. And then only can there be friendship between men and women; otherwise, they are going to remain intimate enemies.

K, Please tell me something about parents and children relationship. I am happy with my only daughter but still everybody forces me to have another male child, should I do that? Will I be happy if I did that? Lk, You want that child for pure love, or does it involve expectation in it too? K, Love without expectation is not possible, is it? Here in India everyone wants male child for better future. Lk, When you were young in your teens or a married adult you often had quarrel with your parents, but when you were an infant they loved you without any complain and not to mention you were creating more mess that time, do you know why? K, No, please explain. LK, The only reason is expectation, an infant child is loved the most because no one expects anything from him in return, he can mess up anything or break everything but is still loved, on the other hand the same child when grows up is often scolded for small petty mistakes. The only reason is expectation. Everything we do, we do with expectations. If I love someone, an expectation enters without my even knowing it. I begin to expect love in return. I have not yet loved, I have not grown into love yet, but the expectation has come and now it will destroy the whole thing. Love creates more frustration than anything else in the world because, with love, you are in a utopia of expectation. You have not even begun the journey yet and already you have begun to think of the return home. The more you expect in love, the more difficult it will be for love to flow back to you. If you expect love from someone the other will feel it as bondage; it will be a duty for him, something which he has to do. And when love is a duty it cannot fulfill anyone because love as a duty is dead.

Love can only be play, not a duty. Love is freedom and duty is bondage, a heavy burden that one has to carry. And when you have to carry something, the beauty of it is lost. The freshness, the poetry, everything is lost, and the other will immediately feel that it is only something dead which has been given. Love with expectation and you kill love. It is abortive your love will be a dead child. Then there will be frustration. Love as play not as bargain, not because there is something you want to get out of it. Rather, love the other as an end in itself. Thank God that you have loved and forget about whether it is returned or not. Dont limit your love excepting something in return, love has no limit, you can love every child in your neighborhood or even a dog and have the same feeling of love and bliss!

LK, Now lets discuss Distress due to the word mine or ego in me can you think of any example in which any animal got stressed in order maintain his ego. Can you tell anything about it? K, No. LK, The first thing to be understood is what ego is. A child is born without any knowledge, any consciousness of his own self. In humans ego comes because of premature delivery of a baby, the reason is that females are weak and cannot hold the baby for more than 9 months in my opinion it should be 21 months, it is estimated that all other mammals when are born can support themselves for basic survival only after some days or months. Since humans children

are weak and need a lot of love and attention in order to survive, so this love and affection creates the ego within and everybody after birth feels that they are someone special. When a child is born the first thing he becomes aware of is not he; the first thing he becomes aware of is the other. It is natural, because the eyes open outwards, the hands touch others, the ears listen to others, the tongue tastes food and the nose smells the outside. All these senses open outwards. That is what birth means. Birth means coming into this world, the world of the outside. So when a child is born, he is born into this world. He opens his eyes, sees others.. He becomes aware of the mother first. Then, by and by, he becomes aware of his own body. That too is the other, that too belongs to the world. He is hungry and he feels the body; his need is satisfied, he forgets the body. This is how a child grows. First he becomes aware of you, thou, other, and then by and by, in contrast to you, thou, he becomes aware of himself. This awareness is a reflected awareness. He is not aware of who he is. He is simply aware of the mother and what she thinks about him. If she smiles, if she appreciates the child, if she says, "You are beautiful," if she hugs and kisses him, the child feels good about himself. Now an ego is born. Through appreciation, love, care, he feels he is good, he feels he is valuable, he feels he has some significance.

A center is born. But this center is a reflected center. It is not his real being. He does not know who he is; he simply knows what others think about him. And this is the ego, the reflection, what others think. If nobody thinks that he is of any use, nobody appreciates him, nobody smiles, then too an ego is born, an ill ego; sad, rejected, like a wound; feeling inferior, worthless. This too is the ego. This too is a reflection. First the mother - and mother means the world in the beginning. Then others will join the mother, and the world goes on growing. And the more the world grows, the more complex the ego becomes, because many others' opinions are reflected. The ego is an accumulated phenomenon, a by-product of living with others. If a child lives totally alone, he will never come to grow an ego. But that is not going to help. He will remain like an animal. That doesn't mean that he will come to know the real self, no. The real can be known only through the false, so the ego is a must. One has to pass through it. It is a discipline. The real can be known only through the illusion. You cannot know the truth directly. First you have to know that which is not true. First you have to encounter the untrue. Through that encounter you become capable of knowing the truth. If you know the false as the false, truth will dawn upon you. Ego is a need; it is a social need, it is a social by-product. The society means all that is around you - not you, but all that is around you. All, minus you, is the society. And everybody reflects. You will go to school and the teacher will reflect who you are. You will be in friendship with other children and they will reflect who you are. By and by, everybody

is adding to your ego, and everybody is trying to modify it in such a way that you don't become a problem to the society. They are not concerned with you. They are concerned with the society. Society is concerned with itself, and that's how it should be. They are not concerned that you should become a self-realizer. They are concerned that you should become an efficient part in the mechanism of the society. You should fit into the pattern. So they are trying to give you an ego that fits with the society. They teach you morality. Morality means giving you an ego which will fit with the society. If you are immoral, you will always be a misfit somewhere or other. That's why we put criminals in the prisons - not that they have done something wrong, not that by putting them in the prisons we are going to improve them, no. They simply don't fit. They are troublemakers. They have certain types of egos of which the society doesn't approve. If the society approves, everything is good. One man kills somebody - he is a murderer. And the same man in wartime kills thousands - he becomes a great hero. The society is not bothered by a murder, but the murder should be committed for the society - then it is okay. The society doesn't bother about morality. Morality means only that you should fit into the society. If the society is at war, then the morality changes. If the society is at peace, then there is a different morality. Morality is a social politics. It is diplomacy. And each child has to be brought up in such a way that he fits into the society, that's all. Because society is interested in efficient members. Society is not interested that you should attain to self-knowledge. The society creates an ego because the ego can be controlled and manipulated. The self can never be controlled or manipulated. Nobody has ever heard of the society controlling a self - not possible. And the child needs a center; the child is completely unaware of his own center. The society gives him a center and the child is by and by convinced that this is his center, the ego that society gives. A child comes back to his home - if he has come first in his class, the whole family is happy. You hug and kiss him, and you take the child on your shoulders and dance and you say, "What a beautiful child! You are a pride to us." You are giving him an ego, a subtle ego. And if the child comes home dejected, unsuccessful, a failure - he couldn't pass, or he has just been on the back bench - then nobody appreciates him and the child feels rejected. He will try harder next time, because the center feels shaken. Ego is always shaken, always in search of food, that somebody should appreciate it. That's why you continuously ask for attention. You get the idea of who you are from others.

It is not a direct experience. It is from others that you get the idea of who you are. They shape your center. This center is false, because you carry your real center. That is nobody's business. Nobody shapes it. You come with it. You are born with it. You have two centers. One center you come with, which is given by existence itself. That is the self. And the other center, which is created by the society, is the ego. It is a false thing and it is a very great trick. Through the ego the society is controlling you. You have to behave in a certain way, because only then does the society appreciate you. You have to walk in a certain way; you have to laugh in a certain way; you have to follow certain manners, a morality, a code. Only then will the society appreciate you, and if it doesn't, you ego will be shaken. And when the ego is shaken, you don't know where you are, who you are. The others have given you the idea. That idea is the ego. Try to understand it as deeply as possible, because this has to be thrown. And unless you throw it you will never be able to attain to the self. Because you are addicted to the center, you cannot move, and you cannot look at the self. And remember, there is going to be an interim period, an interval, when the ego will be shattered, when you will not know who you are, when you will not know where you are going, when all boundaries will melt. You will simply be confused, in chaos. Because of this chaos, you are afraid to lose the ego. But it has to be so. One has to pass through the chaos before one attains the real center. And if you are daring, the period will be small. If you are afraid, and you again fall back to the ego, and you again start arranging it, then it can be very, very long; many lives can be wasted. One small child was visiting his grandparents. He was just four years old. In the middle of the night when the grandmother was putting him to sleep, he suddenly started crying and weeping and said, "I want to go home. I am afraid of darkness." But the grandmother said, "I know well that at home also you sleep in the dark; I have never seen a light on. So why are you afraid here?" The boy said, "Yes, that's right - but that is MY darkness." This darkness is completely unknown. Even with darkness you feel, "This is MINE." Outside - an unknown darkness. With the ego you feel, "This is MY darkness." It may be troublesome, maybe it creates many miseries, but still it is mine. Something to hold to, something to cling to, something underneath the feet; you are not in a vacuum, not in an emptiness. You may be miserable, but at least you ARE. Even being miserable gives you a

feeling of 'I am'. Moving from it, fear takes over; you start feeling afraid of the unknown darkness and chaos - because society has managed to clear a small part of your being. It is just like going to a forest. You make a little clearing, you clear a little ground; you make a fencing, you make a small hut; you make a small garden, a lawn, and you are okay. Beyond your fence - the forest, the wild. Here everything is okay; you have planned everything. This is how it has happened. Society has made a little clearing in your consciousness. It has cleaned just a little part completely, fenced it. Everything is okay there. That's what all your universities are doing. The whole culture and conditioning is just to clear a part so that you can feel at home there. And then you become afraid. Beyond the fence there is danger. Beyond the fence you are, as within the fence you are - and your conscious mind is just one part, one-tenth of your whole being. Nine-tenths is waiting in the darkness. And in that ninetenths, somewhere your real center is hidden. One has to be daring, courageous. One has to take a step into the unknown. For a while all boundaries will be lost. For a while you will feel dizzy. For a while, you will feel afraid and shaken, as if an earthquake has occurred. But if you are courageous and you don't go backwards, if you don't fall back to the ego and you go on and on there is a hidden center within you that you have been carrying for many lives. That is your soul, the self. Once you come near it, everything changes, everything settles again. But now this settling is not done by the society. Now everything becomes a cosmos, not a chaos; a new order arises. A man who attains the self is never in any clash. Others may come and clash with him, but he is never in clash with anybody. It happened that one Zen master was passing through a street. A man came running and hit him hard. The master fell down. Then he got up and started to walk in the same direction in which he was going before, not even looking back. A disciple was with the master. He was simply shocked. He said, "Who is this man? What is this? If one lives in such a way, then anybody can come and kill you. And you have not even looked at that person, who he is, and why he did it." The master said, "That is his problem, not mine." You can clash with an enlightened man, but that is your problem, not his. And if you are hurt in that clash, that too is your own problem. He cannot hurt you. And it is like knocking against a wall - you will be hurt, but the wall has not hurt you.

The ego is always looking for some trouble. Why? Because if nobody pays attention to you, the ego feels hungry. It lives on attention. K, Lord but today I cannot let go my attention, if I am not successful nobody will pay attention to me, Ill feel neglected as if I have no name? LK, You came without a name, you did not bring a name with you, the name was given to you. Then by constant repetition you start becoming identified with it. You know your name is Rama or Rahim or Krishna. It goes so deep that if all you three thousand sannyasins fall asleep here and somebody comes and calls, "Rama, where are you?" nobody will hear except Rama. Rama will say, "Who has come to disturb my sleep?" Even in sleep he knows his name; it has reached to the unconscious, it has seeped through and through. But it is a fiction. But when I say it is a fiction I don't mean it is unnecessary. It is necessary fiction, it is useful; otherwise how are you going to address people? If you want to write a letter to somebody, to whom are you going to write? A SMALL CHILD ONCE wrote a letter to God. His mother was ill and his father had died and they had no money, so he asked God for fifty rupees. When the letter reached the post office they were at a loss -- what to do with it? Where to send it? It was simply addressed to God. So they opened it. They felt very sorry for the little boy and they decided to collect some money and send it to him. They collected some money - he had asked for fifty rupees but they could collect only forty. The next letter came, again addressed to God, and the boy had written, "Dear Sir, please next time when you send the money, send it directly to me, don't send it through the post office. They have taken their commission -- ten rupees!" It will be difficult if nobody has a name. Although nobody has a name in reality, still, it is a beautiful fiction, helpful. Names are needed for others to call you, 'I' is needed for you to call yourself, but it is just a fiction. If you go deep into yourself you will find the name has disappeared, the idea of 'I' has disappeared; there is left only a pure am-ness, is-ness, existence, being. And that being is not separate, it is not yours and mine; that being is the being of all. Rocks, rivers, mountains, trees, all are included. It is all-inclusive, it excludes nothing. The whole past, the whole future, this immense universe, everything is included in it. The deeper you go into yourself, the more and more you will find that persons don't exist, that individuals don't exist. Then what exists is a pure universalness. On the circumference we have names, egos, identities. When we jump from the circumference towards the center, all those identities disappear.

THE EGO IS just a useful fiction. Use it, but don't be deceived by it. You also ask, "Are we always functioning through the ego or are there moments when we are free of it?"

Because it is a fiction, there are moments when you are free of it. Because it is a fiction, it can remain there only if you go on maintaining it. A fiction needs great maintenance. Truth needs no maintenance, that is the beauty of truth. But a fiction? You have constantly to paint it, to give it a prop here and there, and it is constantly collapsing. By the time you have managed to prop up one side, the other side starts collapsing. And that's what people go on doing their whole life, trying to make the fiction seem as if it is the truth. If you have more money, then you can have a bigger ego, a little more solid than the ego of the poor man. The poor man's ego is thin; he can't afford a thicker ego. Become the prime minister or president of a country, and your ego is puffed up to extremes. Then you don't walk on the earth. Your whole life, the search for money, power, prestige, this and that, is nothing but a search for new props, a search for new supports, to somehow keep the fiction going. And all the time you know death is coming. Whatsoever you make, death is going to destroy it. But still one goes on hoping against hope -- maybe everybody else dies, but not you. K, Everything you are saying is correct but we cannot live in the forest again, where we dont have any ego or committed relationships, where we are only bothered about food for survival, is there any cure for it? LK, There is no way in which you can remove your distress by 100% if you lead this life. K, Please let us know the ways by which we can remove it to a small extent.

Removing distress or depression to some extent Lk, For this you need to take these measures. 1. Change your lifestyle permanently.

2. Do some measures when you face it (distress) Change your lifestyle There is a saying (kahawat) Sukh me simran sabh kare dukh me kare na koi jo sukh me simran kare to dukh kahe ko hoye The changes you need to incorporate are , Meditation affects the body in exactly the opposite ways that stress does, restoring the body to a calm state, helping the body to repair itself, and preventing new damage due to the physical effects of stress.

The benefits of meditation are manifold because it can reverse your stress response, thereby shielding you from the effects of chronic stress. When practicing meditation, your heart rate and breathing slow down, your blood pressure normalizes, you use oxygen more efficiently, and you sweat less. Your adrenal glands produce less cortisol, your mind ages at a slower rate, and your immune function improves. Your mind also clears and your creativity increases. People who meditate regularly find it easier to give up life-damaging habits like smoking, drinking and drugs.

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Meditation involves sitting in a relaxed position and clearing your mind. You may focus on a sound, like "ooomm," or on your own breathing, or on nothing at all. Its necessary to have at least 5 to 20 distraction-free minutes to spend. (Longer meditation sessions bring greater benefits, but sometimes starting slowly can help you maintain the practice long-term.) Its helpful to have silence and privacy, but more practiced meditators can practice meditation anywhere. Many practitioners of meditation attach a spiritual component to it, but it can also be a secular exercise. After this I would like you to search for a paper thats in your pocket.

Diagram needed here Lk, After meditation, if you can devote more time please read any other scripture you have faith in. After these two activities please pray to me whatever you want to pray.
Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these I reckon will give you a good lift. -Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

Regular exercise reduces the amount of stress hormones in the body, resulting in a slower heart rate, relaxed blood vessels, and lower blood pressure. Increased relaxation after exercise shows on your face with reduced muscle tension.

Endorphins are hormones in the brain associated with a happy, positive feeling. Exercise decreases stress hormones' like cortisol, and increase endorphins, your body's feel-good chemicals, giving your mood a natural boost. This may help to ease symptoms of depression, physically active people are less likely to be depressed.

Exercise also boosts the neurotransmitter serotonin in the brain. Neurotransmitters are chemicals that send specific messages from one brain cell to another. Though only a small percentage of all serotonin is located in the brain, this neurotransmitter is thought to play a key role in keeping your mood calm

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Exercise in mornings, exercise at least four days in a week in spilt of two sessions. For example one on Monday and Friday other on Wednesday and Sunday.

Session 1, 45 minutes of walk followed by 45 minutes of yoga. Session 2, 45 minutes of deep breathing (4-5 types of different types) pranayam followed by 45 minutes of meditation. Pranayam isxatmixturere of both deep breathing and meditation so you have 1.30 hours of total meditation. (If possible do both sessions in garden) This way you will be closer to nature and will find happiness without spending money. Change of lifestyle This is very hard for you and needs real dedication, for this you first have to assume that happiness is a state of mind; you just have to reprogram it. But the mind is in that habit you and your society gave you for years that has now been adapted as lifestyle is hard to change, so give it time and always try to achieve it. For this you have to find peace from within not outside, you have to tell yourself that thr new car you brought is not giving you happiness but its the feeling that you are its owner is doing this. Similarly you can gain happiness by showing others that you are superior (by increasing your status by spending more money on yourself) or helping others (this help can be of any kind you may need not spend money for it). Your main focus should be on removing ego from your life. Leave all bad habits and maintain good eating habits. Change your thinking You may have noticed that when you are depressed your style of thinking is pessimistic. You may have thoughts such as I shouldnt be feeling this or I am a weak person. Change your pessimistic thinking and try to get out of there. Talk to someone you trust, communication is very important when you are depressed. Try to challenge thefollowing beliefs from your mind All or nothing thinking: This involves looking at things as either black or white, good or bad; leaving no room for middle ground. You might believe either I succeed at everything I attempt or else I am total failure. There is always room in the middle and in no circumstance does everything happen to be the worst. Predicting the future, This I have already stated in my Bhagvat gita, If you cant predict your life on this planet what else can you predict. Stop worrying about the future and try to do the best in your present this way your future will always be better. karm kar phal ki chinta mat kar Mind reading: Again without evidence you believe that you know what other people think about you. If you have done something wrong intentionally just try to improve it and dont think what others will think of it. Labelling: When you have done something wrong or made a mistake you label yourself a failure stupid , weak etc. you are just a human being and failures are part of your life just try to learn from your mistakes.

Personalization: When something wrong happens, you may see it as totally your fault. Even if you may have little if anything to do with the situation, you blame yourself and overlook how others might be involved. Although you are having a partnership company but you always blame yourself and feel low for the loses You must always think that nothing here is done by you alone. There are e number of other factors that are involved in such a situation, you must always think that you tried to do your best in your past and due to fate it got worse.

Besides these points you must incorporate two other major points in your life.

Enjoying the present moment by mindfulness: In my Geeta updesh I have clearly stated I have clearly stated
My friend Jesus has also told that therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the? is its own trouble.

Mindfulness means letting go of any thought that is unrelated to the present moment Most people do not live in the present moment. They wishing for a different moment- either past or future, they go through the motions required to function in the present moment, but they are thinking things like Ill be happy when.. I have a bigger house

Ill increase my business My kids outshine in future I get a bigger car I pay off all my debts debts Mindfulness works differently. It trains your mind to let go any thought that is unrelated to present moment and to find something to enjoy in the present-continually. When you walk or drive pay attentions to beautiful scenery, the chirping of birds, feel the warmth of the sunshine or the chill in the air. Focus on how your body feels as you go through the routine motions of the day like driving, walking to your destination. Sometime in the day refuse to think about your goals, projects or tasks that are not important for the present moment. Practice meditation as I described earlier for at least 15 minutes a day. If you stop at a red light while driving to work, dont get frustrated rather think it a welcome opportunity to be thankful to everybody you respect. A majority of people in the world would love to have your job, car, business or lifestyle. Quit complaining about what you dont have and start practicing gratitude for what you have. You can practice it by enjoying the music, the sights around you,. You should be thankful to me for having a healthy body which can see, hear, touch, speak; there are many people who are not blessed with these things and know that no money can give pleasure of these senses which you have.

As you practice mindfulness your muscles relax, your body unwinds and your stress is relieved. To have complete mental and physical health, mindfulness must become the way of life, a continual pattern for practicing relaxation during the day. Make mindfulness a habit by practicing it daily. Meditation in the morning will help you to achieve it more quickly. Rehashing, One of the causes of stress plaguing millions of people is their unforgiving attitude.. People rehash the wrong that was done to them, or that they misperceive was done to them, and their body immediately has a stress response. Your brain actually does not distinguish between short term and long term memories when it produces a biochemical stress response. It thinks the offense, which may have occurred decades ago, is happening right now. When you fail to forgive, you lock yourself into long term stress similar to pulling a scab off a sore so that it never heals.

Most overstressed individuals are rehashes They constantly contemplate, relive and meditate on painful experiences of their past. An upsetting event may have occurred fifteen years ago, but a rehasher can recall that experience as if it happened yesterday- and their body is literally stewing in its own stress juices every time they relive it. Throughout my Geeta you will find that forgiveness is the key ingredient of happiness, so apply it in your life.

Removal of ego (ahem) from your life, I have already told about this in detail previously so try to incorporate it in your life.

Measures to take when distressed Identify the causes of distress

The cause that cannot be cured by any effort you make. The cause that can be cured by efforts you make. The cause that cannot be cured by any effort you make Some examples of these are death of someone you love, loss of money in shares due to bankruptcy of company etc. In such situations above quotes will help you overcome it peacefully , but remember as our body needs time to adjust itself to any habit ,you wont get good results if you do not practice regularly you cannot perform 10 reps of 100 kg in bench press in gym on the first day but other person who is doing it for years can perform it easily. In this situation dont think what you have lost in your life but think what else it has to offer. Be optimistic and then maybe you can even solve the things which were impossible to solve. On this planet the only thing which is with you is your breath (saanse) that you are taking (or the time till you are alive) everything else will abandon you. If youll waste your current time thinking of past (that cannot be changed) or future you cannot even tell your then you are nothing but a fool.

The cause that can be cured by efforts you make In this first identify the reasons of the problem you are facing is it one or more than one. After summarizing it makes a schedule of it, think of its best solution very peacefully ask for others advice. When you find the way how to solve it devote 100% then. If reasons are more than one try to organize it and solve it one by one, no one in this world can solve or do multiple things at one time. In solving any problem dont rush (its that stress hormone that is asking you to do it), try to solve it peacefully with a cool mind not stressed mind. Here also above quotes will help you overcome it peacefully, so practice it regularly. After solving that problem if the result is not as per your expectations dont get upset or stressed, thinking that it was the best you did that time and your fate is the reason for its result. Here I want photo of lord Krishna talking to me. K, Please tell me the ways by which I can reduce normal daily routine stress like stuck in traffic, or business loss or fight with wife? Lk, you just need to learn ABCDE. K, ABCDE????????????? Lk, I will explain this through the ABC model, the reasons why a person gets attitude which leads him to certain reactions and ends up stressed. In it A is known as the activating event, meaning any potentially stressful situation. B stands for beliefs, a persons thoughts and attitudes about Aand C stands for the consequences, meaning a persons feelings and actions. The theory behind ABC model of emotional upset is simple. Feelings are caused more by your thoughts about events than events themselves. According to the ABC model, if you are stuck in a traffic jam, your thoughts about the event will be the cause of stress and not the traffic jam. Recall your car accident in 2005 at Mukarba chowk when you were alone A event:You are stuck in traffic B beliefs:, This traffic must move right now. It is just awful; I cant stand it any longer. Why the tempo in front of me is not moving C consequences: Anger, shouting at traffic and blaring car horns. Honking again and again to the tempo in front of your car. As soon as there was some movement your fast acceleration resulted in an accident with a tempo in front. You ended up fighting with him asking for compensation which caused forced the police to interfere in the scene in which you were the only loser (you gave Rs.1000 as a bribe to and a damaged car police with damaged car which got repaired by spending Rs.5000) Diagram Another driver in next car who is calm might be thinking.

This is nuisance but not the end of world, there is not a lot I can do so I shall have to grin and bear it. I might as well sit back and make the most of things. I would call the above set of beliefs to be irrational because it gave a consequence that was full of anger, depression, negative thoughts, stress etc. K, What makes the thinking irrational? Lk, The characteristics of irrational beliefs are:he characteristics of irrational beliefs are, t They are unrealisticThey are unrealistic They are rigid They blow events way out of proportion They cause unhealthy feelings that cause distress When a person is holding an irrational belief demanding that events and circumstances be different from the way they actually are by using the words such as must and should. i.e I must do well, you should treat me well, life must go on the way I want.
It is not the words in themselves, but the attitude behind the words that cause the problem.

People can also exaggerate events by using such words as awful and terrible. E.g. its awful, its terrible, I cant stand it. Whenever the person thinks in this unhelpful way they will experience emotional pain such as anger, anxiety, guilt, depression etc. this will lead to distress. In your situation you had a rigid belief that the traffic must move on secondly you were exaggerating the event by describing it is awful. I know that its hard to face long traffic jams but why couldnt you stand it? In reality you can stand anything. K, How can we change such irrational thoughts? Lk, Irrational thinking leads to unhealthy feelings and actions. In order to change those feelings and actions we need to challenge our thinking by adding D to your ABC model. D stands for disputing and means that we vigorously question the validity of our irrational beliefs. You can do this by asking a number of questions, What is the evidence for my must or should?

Why is this terrible? Why must the traffic move now? Why is it awful? Why cant I stand it? I would like to illustrate it in a form of an example when you got stressed when you were out of business. A Event Kashish is out of business.

B Beliefs I should not have lost my business. I just invested millions for expanding my new offset unit and soon after it I am out of business, I will lose all my fresh investments soon since the overhead expenses are high. If this goes on I will incur huge loses, this could result in company shut down after some months. I cant stand it, I am totally incompetent, my competitors are still earning when I am out of business. I will never be able to establish new business with same earnings if am forced to shut this company. C Consequences Feeling depressed and unable to find its solution by devoting extra efforts to get new business from new customers. Lk, Did you find any solutions. K, Yes. Lk, It was me who inspired you to challenge those irrational beliefs and find its solution. Please tell me how you did it, please tell it in form of example adding model D K, D Disputing D, Why should I not have lost my business? Although I would have strongly preferred not to have lost my business, but its the part of national economic growth. Theres nothing much I can do except ggoingo to new customers who still have orders left.

D, I just invested millions for expanding my new offset unit and soon after it I am out of business but why I will lose all my fresh investments soon? Well in reality I will only lose its installation expenses with some depreciation, I will work hard for getting new business but I fail to do so, I will only lose 10 to 20% of my new investments which is the worst case. I can even manage to sell this unit in profit.

D, If this goes on why will I incur huge loses, this will not result in a shut down after some months? I have established this company on my own on very small scale 10 years back, these phases were always there in past. The only difference is that now my company is big with over 300 employees and giving them salaries for some months without work will deplete all

my business capital. I will reduce my man power by giving them leave and will call them when I again get business. D, Why cant I stand it, I am not totally incompetent? I have done well in the past and with the blessings of my family I have expanded this unit from a turnover of 1 million to 320 millions. When I was in business I ignored new orders from small business groups and now when I am out of business I want their full support, which is impossible. But I will still try to get new business from them. D, Why will I never be able to establish new earnings if am forced to shut this company? This was my first job as managing director of this company; I was a partner and was getting a salary as a managing director. All the profits of this company were reinvested in it; I was only taking my salary home. It is possible that I cant be a managing director, but it is 100% sure that I will find a new job with a handsome salary.

Lk, tThese rational beliefs in your mind were incorporated by me, as you are one of my billions of children here I didnt want to see you upset. K, But your other children are upset and suffering from stress. Lk, I dont want to see anyone in stress, I always show them the path to peace by following rational beliefs, but they are so much into this maya ( money and fame) that they ignore my message and stay in stress. For coming out of stress they need to challenge irrational beliefs. The rational thought that helped you the most to overcome it was that you were earning well in your previous company but not spending all its profits rather reinvesting them. This thought of staying happy with less spending of money gave you strength and thats why I helped you in business with more earnings than past in same company. K, So you help those who are not affected by money or family up downs? Lk, it depends but I certainly help those who are think of peace other than maya by giving them rational beliefs. After changing your thoughts you were sad but not depressed. To feel sadness after staying out of business was healthy for you. This inspired you to work hard and again bounced back in the business; it would have been unrealistic to feel over the moon under those given circumstances. Depression on the other hand was unhealthy and was hindering you with irrational thoughts in which you couldnt have managed to overcome the situation by working hard. After D (disputing) I would like you to add E and F to the situation E , E stands for effective new thinking F, stands for new feelings and actions. Lord Krishna, I would like your wife to illustrate one more example for me, in which your wifes friend and her mother in-law were in argument and were depressed after that. That time they were unable to solve the problem but now I know that when you will explain my

new ABCDEF to your wifes friend they will come up with a very well illustrated role model sampler in which every mother in law and daughter in-law can come up with a solution. Jyoti, Explaining the solution to her friend by adding DEF to the situation. A event, In a family get together my mother in law shared some of our very personal family matters with outsiders. B irrational beliefs, My must my mother in law be thoughtful; discussing personal family matters with outsiders is just like making fun of our family on front of others. She is an irresponsible and awful person. I cant stand this attitude of hers. C consequences Anger that led to argument and fight which became a major cause of depression later on. D Disputing (My wifes advice to her friend, through which she changed her thoughts) D, Why my mother in law must be thoughtful; discussing personal family matters with outsiders is not the end of our privacy? There is no law in this country that she cannot discuss her feelings with somebody else, she did this because she wanted to get relief from her anxiety and not to disclose my privacy to others. However I would have strongly preferred if she had been more thoughtful in discussing family matters with others. D, What evidence exists that she is an irresponsible and awful person? She is not an irresponsible and awful person; she is strongly admired in this family and has a good reputation. Its just that our thoughts differ and there is a generation gap between us. D, Why cant I stand this attitude of hers? Actually I have stood it for past many years, its a nuisance but hardly life threatening. I have to live with her as a part of this family; I must try to know her better, if I cant then I should not let our relations sour E, E stands for effective new thinking I would prefer that my mother in law addressed get together without sharing personal family matters to outsiders. From past many years these incidents are repeating, its hard to change her, I can stand it. Maybe she feels relaxed after sharing her thoughts with others, but she is definitely not doing this to hurt me. F, Stands for new feelings and actions Feeling mildly annoyed but not angry.

Lk, Have you watched 3 idiots? K, Yes I just watched 3 idiots today, very nice movie. Lk, which part you liked the best? K, The part in which Amir khan says that you should fool or help your heart by letting it relax and not giving it stress of daily routine. In order to do so he always said All is well by relaxing his hand on the chest where heart belongs, whenever he encountered stress. Does this help our heart to have any positive effect? Lk, Reframing your thoughts can have an effect on your body, beginning with your heart. The heart unlike all the major organs has an extensive communication system with the brain and exerts a unique and far reaching influence on your emotions and body. The heart is much more than a pump, it also functions as a hormonal gland, a sensory organ and an informationencoding and processing centre. The heart also contains approximately forty thousand neurons or nerve cells. With every beat the heart transmits complex patterns of neurological, hormonal, pressure, and electromagnetic information to the brain and throughout the body that plays a major part in determining your emotions or how you feel. Your heart beat is not monotonously regular, but it varies from moment to moment. Heart rate variability is the measure of the beat to beat changes in the heart rate as the heart speeds up and slows down in different patterns. These changes are especially influenced by a persons emotions and attitudes. When you experience stress and negative emotions such as anger and frustration. Fear and anxiety, your heart rate variability patterns become erratic and disordered, and it sends chaotic signals to the brain. This causes your systems to get out of sync. The result is excessive stress with toxic emotions, energy drain and added wear and tear on your mind and body. In contrast, sustained positive emotions, such as appreciation, love, joy and compassion, are associated with highly ordered patterns on the heart rate variability tracing and a significant reduction of stress. In other words toxins such as anger, resentment fear anxiety, grief and depression create excessive stress, whereas positive emotions such as gratitude, joy, love and peace actually relieve stress. This can now be measured by an instrument called heart rate variability The heart has a magnetic field that is approximately five thousand times stronger than the brain and an electrical field thats forty to sixty times stronger than the brain. To have better coordination with heart and mind, K, Yes Aamir Khan told that when he was a kid, he always heard voice of night guard saying all is well, due to these words everybody had a peaceful nights sleep. One day there was some noise in the area, assuming that everything was in order as yelled by the guard, people went there, soon they found a thief and were astonished to learn that the night guard was blind. In this incident they were able to catch that thief since they were confident that nothing was wrong as stated by the guard. If they were in panic maybe they wouldnt have got the courage to catch the thief. Lk, So whats the, moral of the story? K, That we should not stress our heart in any situation if we want to solve any problem with better results. So we should relax it by saying All is well whenever we encounter stress or anger. But Oh lord saying All is well is no solution I am often irritated and cant let go ofmy anger? LK, Suppression of anger is the first stage of depression; you should not suppress your anger.

K, But how can I express my anger towards a person whos my boss or client, I cannot slap him or hit him, this way Ill lose my job or business. I think its better to suppress anger or stress? Lk, Have you watched the movie Metro in which Irfan Khan asks Konkona Sen to shout and let go of her anger and stress? K, Yes I have seen that movie. LK, this method is called catharsis and is the best solution for this problem. For medical science, it is a continuous struggle tackling the various psychosomatic disorders that afflict us because of our social structure. The tensions and anxieties that have made a permanent place in our lives have led to many physiological disturbances. However, while treating our physical ailments we ignore the deeper wounds and the methods to heal them. Dynamic Meditation, based on scientific principles, helps us gain a deeper insight into this aspect. Human beings have been subjected to stress, accumulated unknowingly over the years, leading to what are known as twentieth century diseases, which include cardiac ailments, skin diseases, neuroses and ulcers. The first step is breathing chaotically deep and fast, with an emphasis on breathing out. This is done for ten minutes. Early in the morning, the bodys metabolic rate is low, following many hours of sleep. The fast, chaotic breathing suddenly wakes you up and increases the metabolic rate. A lot of catecholamines are released, which stimulate your entire nervous system, as well as various hormonal glands in the body. All lethargy is pushed out. Fast, chaotic breathing releases carbon dioxide from the body, filling our lungs with more oxygen and stimulating the body. This is the best way to wake up and get ready [for the day]. The second stage is of total let go catharsis. With the help of body movements we are encouraged to express what I call our inner madness. You can also imagine as if you are slapping or hitting the person who is the cause of your misery or anger. These repressed emotions can be expressed by dancing, crying, shouting, laughing; hitting your foot or arm. The first step of chaotic breathing stimulates us to a great extent, stirring our pent-up emotions. We fail to express our feelings in our daily life because of our social structure and conditioning. These tend to accumulate in us and come out in the form of irrational behavior. Have you ever considered what it means when someone says that he is irritable today? Our suppressed emotions tend to keep our nerve cells in a high state of activity, thus reducing their threshold of getting stimulated. A little bit of adverse, external and circumstantial stimulus and we react immediately. This second stage allows us to throw out all these unexpressed emotions lying within us. Over the days we realize that we have accumulated so much that we wonder whether we are a garbage bin! Though it does take a while to let ones hair down completely, it becomes easier as the days pass by. By the end of this ten-minute session, one feels much lighter and free. In certain cases there might be a feeling of nausea because of the stimulation of our nervous system, but that is okay. The third stage is really an exhausting one and it is meant to be so. Now that the mind has had its chance at exercise, it is time for activating the body. Jumping up and down, arms raised heavenwards, shouting Hoo! each time we land will increase the stamina, if nothing else! Once we are rid of our nervous tensions we need to stimulate the dynamic energy within us. The physical exhaustion of this stage creates a sort of emptiness within us, which is only a preparation for the next stage the actual stage of meditativeness.

The fourth stage is of silence. At the end of the third stage we suddenly freeze. Keeping whatever position we are in, watching what is happening within and on the outside. It is during these moments that one realizes what I mean by no-mind. A state where no thought runs through the mind. K, Thank you lord, after trying this technique I can let go all my anger and frustration and afterwards I feel a loving gesture for the person whom I felt hatred few moments back. Lk, lets move to physical stress in humans. Physical or health distress Lk, Physical distress in humans is at the most worse stage now; you are suffering from more diseases than ever before. These diseases are so major (i.e. cancer, tumors) that they cannot be cured. Your modern medicine has cured some major diseases like (tubercolosis , diabetes , heart blockage , high blood pressure, asthma etc) but here also the patient leads a poor quality life in which he may end up in suffering taking those pills for rest of his life. In animals the suffering was there for some weeks but your humans end up living months or years suffering from pain. These modern age medicines only concentrate on elimination of the disease not its cause. For example an asthmatic or arthritis patient is given a dosage for relief in symptoms but not asked to change his lifestyle or diet due to which hes having those diseases. This physical distress of humans is mainly due to two reasons, Weak genes Bad habits or lifestyle.

Weak genes
Lk, The life on this planet is due to evolution and survival of the fittest it is the mantra. In all the species only those survive who can adjust themselves according to nature. Thats why all the childrens of any species do not live many of them die. In humans also this principle applies, but now with your medicines you save your children. This means that their genes are not perfect as per nature. When they grow up and pass their genes to their young ones they also carry those imperfect genes. Before independence the birthrate was very high in India but population was not increasing because death rate was also high. Now the birth rate is far less but the population is still rising due to control in death rate with the help of medicine. You can cure anything but not genes. K, Maybe today humans are not as happy as they should be but they are the most intelligent specie on earth, do you admit? Lk, If humans were the most intelligent they would have been eating right, only humans eat for taste or pleasure, they know what they consume (high calorie junk food or alcohol) will cause misery in later years but they ignore it. If humans were the most intelligent they would not pollute and destroy mother earth for their present economic growth knowing that the future of their species will be in great danger.

If humans were the most intelligent they would not invent weapons of mass destruction to wipe out their existence from the earth. You all know that weapons invented 80 years back are easily available to any person who spends money. Previously nuclear weapons were limited to some countries now a majority of nations have nuclear power, shortly its technology will become accessible to terrorists, and you can imagine your future then. If humans were the most intelligent they would live as one big happy family as other social animals do, this way everybody could have been happy. But he sees his own interests, thats why a majority of people on this planet suffer from hunger, disease, unhappiness and some have unlimited resources, but they are still not happy .

Everybody's going through a lot of stress these days, no matter how well off you are and how many advantages you have, it's a stressful time in everybody's lives.-Chris Frantz ,
American, Musician Quotes

There are millions of species on this planet, I made them, and you are also one of my creations. Due to you all other species are in great danger. Your industrialization and increasing population has wiped out many of the species from this planet and will wipe out many others in future. You will also die when all major species will be in danger. Life on this planet is for more than 4 billion years, all the major species that came into existence are extinct now only (.01 % of species adapted itself from extinction and 99.99% became extinct) new species regenerated. Life goes on, what your modern era is doing; you will become extinct more quickly. Your intelligence will wipe your specie with others more quickly. Intelligence what an intelligence

Chapter 9
Habits? Just change them and give a new meaning to life.
Following our evolutionary lifestyle for better health is not possible without changing our habits. The secret of better health is to adopt a lifestyle which existed some centuries ago, for that we have to change all our bad habits.

Not a single person on this planet can achieve better health as well as peace of mind without eliminating bad habits from their lives. Eating living food without eliminating these bad habits is not possible. But what are bad habits and do we really need to change them? Some people might ask ,I enjoy my life to the fullest, dont have any health problems and have complete peace of mind so why to change them? Some may even argue that they dont have any bad habits, lead an active lifestyle and consume a healthy diet but trust me the facts youll read in this chapter can completely change your thoughts about habits you consider being healthy. Maybe you are healthy now but if you want to remain healthy and peaceful till the end of your life accompanied with an attractive slim body you have to eliminate bad habits. We are mammals and like other mammals throughout this planet can transform or evolve according to the changes that occur in nature. I had read somewhere that first life form that came into existence had an environment which was oxygen free, that time oxygen could have killed them! In these 4 billion years of life we are still evolving and following the basic survival tool of our existence The survival of the fittest Its Meaning The idea that species adapt and change by natural selection with the best suited mutations becoming dominant. Origin This expression is often attributed to Charles Darwin and, although it appears in the fifth edition of his Origin of Species, 1869, it is there attributed to Herbert Spencer, "The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the survival of the fittest is more accurate..." Spencer had published the principles of biology in 1864. In that he referred to 'survival of the fittest' twice, "This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest." "This survival of the fittest... is that which Mr. Darwin has called 'natural selection, or the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life'." By 'fittest', of course, Spencer and Darwin didn't have in mind the commonly used meaning of the word now, i.e. the most highly trained and physically energetic. The 'fittest' referred to here are those animals which are the most suited to their environment, i.e. those which are best fitted to survive.

Today no matter what we do to our lifes, consume drugs, eat unhealthy, drink alcohol instead of water but still I can bet we wont become extinct from this planet as we have surpassed the extremes of this nature in these billions of years. But I would say that in this kind of diet or lifestyle only those persons would survive who have the best genetic code to cope up with that kind of change, rest everybody would become extinct. We can change anything but not our genetic code, thats why a person who smokes, drinks or leads an unhealthy lifestyle lives to be 70 and sometimes a person who eats well leads a healthy lifestyle dies at 50. But if the person who lived 70 years had maintained a healthy lifestyle could have lived 100 years with a much better quality of life. Theres one more thing to tell you, if the changes are very slow as it occurred in these millions of years, maximum numbers of species will mutate easily with very less extinctions, but these changes occur in hundreds of thousands of years, not in a tick of a century. In our history if we look back 3000 years we have changed little (thats why some people can tolerate lactose or milk) but if we look back to 300 years we have changed more rapidly, but if we look only 80 years back its unimaginable? This sudden introduction of various new diets, drinks or lifestyle has incorporated the basic tool of survival The survival of the fittest. But you would ask, hey our population is increasing? Here I would say eliminate all the modern era medicine and then see. The new types of disease and cancers which are now very common are its result, and not to mention that there is a difference in living well with a better quality of life and living unwell waiting for death. Todays medicines can keep us alive but at the cost of low quality unenjoyable live. And this is not the worst part, in these millions of years we mutated or became extinct, this means only those offsprings were passed who were the best. When the parents who have weak genes and have made them worse by new modern diet and lifestyle pass their genes to their young ones, they also suffer the same things and die in misery. I am a classic example of it and had the same low quality life as a maximum number of people who live in this modern era. But I do not have weak genes. because I didnt die, rather I had a low quality live with this modern era diet and lifestyle, I have normal genes that can enjoy life and live more than 100 years if I follow the basic principle of evolution and try to follow the diet or lifestyle that my ancestors were accustomed to. Believe me if you can change your habits that didnt exist only a couple of centuries ago, I can promise a much better quality of life to you. Today a number of different eating or drinking habits are categorized as bad or good, even the persons personality or character is judged by them. But dear friends what can a person do who was given that kind of food when he was young? At that time he couldnt even differentiate between good or bad even if he knew them, and the diet or lifestyle which was offered to him by his parents, friends or colleagues was definitely unknown to him for their later effects. These habits are now addictions for him and its really hard to leave them, but I can help,just trust me its very easy In my previous chapter I told you that anybody can change his diet, lifestyle which are now their habits, you just need to have will power and knowledge.

First we form habits, and then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you. Rob Gilbert

Habits
Most of life is habitual. You do the same things you did yesterday, the day before and every day for the last month. Its estimated that out of every 11,000 signals we receive from our senses, our brain only consciously processes 40.

Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts. Mortimer J. Adler, 1902-, American Educator, Philosophe

Habits, good or bad, make you who you are. The key is controlling them. If you know how to change your habits, then even a small effort can make a huge difference. Ive been using these techniques for years to re-engineer many aspects of my life. That includes overhauling my diet, exercising regularly, cutting out television, and bulking my email and work routines. Little changes that, when put on autopilot, can result in an improved quality of life. I had many bad eating habits that I changed some time ago; it really helped me to regain my health .This topic needs to be categorized it in two parts. 1. Bad habits that all assume to be bad. 2 Bad habits that all assume to be good?

Bad habits that all assume to be bad Smoking

Smoking is related to practically every terrible thing that can happen to you. Loni Anderson, American, Actress Quotes

Tobacco is the main ingredient of cigarette; everybody knows that smoking is harmful. Our ancestors got its access some time back only i.e. .04% time in our evolutionary history and our consumption increased .nearly 100 years back which is even less than .002%. People generally know that cigarette smoking is injurious to health. Even those who smoke know that. Still, the urge for a smoke is too strong for a smoker and he never bothers to find out why cigarette smoking is injurious to health. Massive destruction of human life through the use of cigarettes had compelled the scientists to find the truth behind the killer smoke. Before you get down to the fact of, why cigarette smoking is injurious to health, you must understand what a cigarette is What are cigarettes are made of. What harmful ingredients are packed in a cigarette pipe. And finally, how those harmful ingredients affect your health? A cigarette is primarily made of tobacco, a substance which may not be very harmful on its own. Dry tobacco is filled in the cigarette foil that contains a filter at the bottom. A second ingredient called nicotine is ground with tobacco which along with tobacco becomes a deadly combination. Cigarettes contain arsenic, formaldehyde, lead, hydrogen cyanide, nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide, ammonia and 43 known carcinogens. Cigarettes are the single-most traded item on the planet, with approximately 1 trillion being sold from country to country each year. At a global take of more than $400 billion, its one of the worlds largest industries.
Once you are hooked, smoking is harder to quit then heroin. Loni Anderson

; I was a chain smoker and had at least 10-40 cigarettes per day. On certain days I had as many as 30-60 cigarettes per day. I still regret the day when I started smoking. My view on smoking has changed dramatically over the last years. The habit that I once considered to be cool, sexy, not very harmful for my health, is now the most grina layk patr for me, I now cannot even tolerate the person who is smoking next to me. Today, I consider smoking to be a nasty addictive habit that can kill you and those around you. Its ill effects that I personally noticed during the period I was smoking and after the period when I left it are. The human body knows that smoking is injurious to health; therefore, it tries to counter it at the start. That is why coughing, sore throat, nausea and other negative feelings are aroused in the body when a person tries to smoke the first time. As you know smoking is injurious to health, the best way to safeguard yourself is the protection.
Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine. George Dennison Prentice

There are endless health hazards caused by smoking but I would like to share stress here, Stress is common part of our lives today; no one is completely devoid of it. I am also like all others, but as my other friends who smoke; I also tried to escape from it by taking endless cigarettes when I was in severe depression. But the way I counter depression today is far more reliable, I can assure you that if you are a smoker then you are 10 times more likely to encounter it if you were a non smoker. It only leaves you unsatisfied and more prone to depression.
A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want? Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author

Another important factor that I would like to discuss is impotence in men. Smoking impairs erections and can become a reason for erectile dysfunction. It affects semen and also reduces sperm count and impairs sperm motility. But these are reversed after stopping smoking. Here I am attaching my reports .. My reports.
Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking. Loni Anderson

Breathing and smoking: the cells in a smokers body suffer from constant oxygen deficiency and become oxygen starved; the presence of hypoxic cells (created by smoking) in our body creates an open gate for many diseases. Two years of smoking ten cigarettes a day deposits 2 kg of toxic tar in a smokers body. After 10 years of smoking, the amount of tar grows to 4 kg. Those who smoke for over 20 years have over 6 kg of poisonous filth in their body. It is distributed in many places. Blood circulation disorders, digestive system problems, swollen veins in females, leg pains in males, and many other health problems are the consequences of taking pleasure in a few moments of smoking.

Getting out of this bad habit. Leaving cigarettes is not an easy job, the body when prone to this addiction finds it hard to quit it easily. In many cases like me there are adverse side effects linked to health soon after leaving it. In my gym I was always trying to gain weight (oh sorry muscle), but despite all the measures taken I was unable to gain the desired weight. After a few months of leaving cigarettes I gained 10 kg of weight with the same diet and lifestyle. I was rather happy that my biceps, chest and all the muscles in my body were fuller than before. The next thing that happened with me that I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism, My final advice If you are a smoker I advise you to leave it ASAP and certainly want you to not encounter its side effects that I had. For this Ill say that, 1. Try to reduce its dose slowly, in one or more months and then leave it completely (I was unable to leave it when I thought that I can have it occasionally. Take medical help if you cant quit it easily.
To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did, I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times. Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

2. Detoxify your body by eating more living food and live water. Fasting can also be done once in a while. This way you will find it easy to quit smoking and wont have its adverse effects that I had. 3. Try to introduce exercises like pranayam and yoga followed by meditation in your life. I can assure you that smoking has nothing to do with happiness rather it can make you more unhappy and addicted. Its just a bad habit that will compel you to think that it satisfies you or gives pleasure as it did to me; I am now a happier and satisfied person after quitting it for more than 7 years.

Drinking
In alcohol only red wine is not harmful if taken in moderation, all other forms are harmful and can be life threatening if consumed without moderation. The entire current media furore about binge drinking and alcohol abuse, you might imagine that the making and consumption of alcohol is a relatively recent trend large Alcohol in the USA

In 19th century America, spirits were produced and drunk in almost unbelievable quantities. By the 1820s, a surplus of corn had led to a massive growth in the production of whisky. It is thought that during this time, the equivalent of a pint of whisky for every man, woman and child were being drunk every day across America. This led to the beginning of the prohibition movement, which sought to ban all forms of alcohol across the United States. Prohibition reached its climax with the National Prohibition Act in 1919, which led to the banning of the sale and manufacture of alcohol across the United States between 1920 and 1933. Owing to the massively lucrative trade in black market alcohol during that period, the Prohibition is widely regarded as having done more to boost organized crime than any other act in the history of the United States. As far as drinking is concerned I was an occasional drinker, I really enjoyed it if It was in moderate quantities but whenever I used to drink and smoke I generally had a sore throat or fever. At this point of time in my life I have completely abandoned it., Some of its information that I would like to share is as follows, Alcohol, or ethyl alcohol (ethanol), refers to the intoxicating ingredient found in wine, beer and hard liquor. Alcohol arises naturally from carbohydrates when certain micro-organisms metabolize them in the absence of oxygen, called fermentation. Beer, wine and other liquor contain different amounts of alcohol. The amount of alcohol in distilled liquor is known as Proof refers to the amount of alcohol in the liquor; for example, 100 proof liquor contains 50% alcohol, 40 proof liquor contains 20% alcohol, and so on. Traditional wine has approximately 8-14% alcohol, while regular beer has 4-6% alcohol. Alcohol is metabolized extremely quickly by the body. Unlike food, which requires time for digestion, alcohol needs no digestion and is quickly absorbed. Alcohol gets VIP treatment in the body absorbing and metabolizing before most other nutrients. About 20 percent is absorbed directly across the walls of an empty stomach and can reach the brain within one minute. Once alcohol reaches the stomach, it begins to break down with the alcohol dehydrogenase enzyme. This process reduces the amount of alcohol entering the blood by approximately 20%. (Women produce less of this enzyme, which may help to partially explain why women become more intoxicated on less alcohol than men.). In addition, about 10% of the alcohol is expelled in the breath and urine. Alcohol is rapidly absorbed in the upper portion of the small intestine. The alcohol-laden blood then travels to the liver via the veins and capillaries of the digestive tract, which affects nearly every liver cell. The liver cells are the only cells in our body that can produce enough of the enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase to oxidize alcohol at an appreciable rate. Though alcohol affects every organ of the body, its most dramatic impact is upon the liver. The liver cells normally prefer fatty acids as fuel, and package excess fatty acids as triglycerides, which they then route to other tissues of the body. However, when alcohol is present, the liver cells are forced to first metabolize the alcohol, letting the fatty acids accumulate, sometimes in huge amounts. Alcohol metabolism permanently changes liver cell structure, which impairs the livers ability to metabolize fats. This explains why heavy drinkers tend to develop fatty livers. Fatty Liver and Liver Disease

With moderate drinking, the liver can process alcohol fairly safely. However, heavy drinking overtaxes the liver resulting in serious consequences. A liver clogged with fat causes liver cells to become less efficient at performing their necessary tasks, resulting in impairment of a persons nutritional health. Fatty liver is the first stage of liver deterioration in heavy drinkers, and interferes with the distribution of oxygen and nutrients to the livers cells. If the condition persists long enough, the liver cells will die, forming fibrous scar tissue (the second stage of liver deterioration, or fibrosis). Some liver cells can regenerate with good nutrition and abstinence, however in the last stage of deterioration, or cirrhosis, the damage to the liver cells is the least reversible. Alcohol and Malnutrition For moderate drinkers, alcohol does not suppress food intake, and may actually increase appetite. Chronic alcohol consumption appears to have the opposite effect. Alcohol causes euphoria, which depresses appetite, so that heavy drinkers tend to eat poorly and become malnourished. Alcohol is very rich in energy, packing 7 calories per gram. But like pure sugar or fat, the calories are void of nutrients. The more calories an individual consumes in alcohol, the less likely it is that they will eat enough food to obtain adequate nutrients. To make matters worse, chronic alcohol abuse not only displaces calories from needed nutrients, but also interferes with the body?s metabolism of nutrients, leading to damage of the liver, digestive system, and nearly every bodily organ.
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life. Bertrand Russell

Health Effects of Alcohol Consumption Arthritis Increases risk of gouty arthritis

I was had severe arthritis (joint aches) when I used to take alcohol quite frequently, soon after I left it my symptoms vanished very quickly and I was able to treat my arthritis without medicines. Self quote

Cancer
Increases the risk of cancer in the liver, pancreas, rectum, breast, mouth, pharynx, larynx and esophagus Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Causes physical and behavioral abnormalities in the fetus

Heart Disease
Raises blood pressure, blood lipids and the risk of stroke and heart disease in heavy drinkers. Heart disease is generally lower in light to moderate drinkers.

Hyperglycemia Raises blood glucose Hypoglycemia Lowers blood glucose, especially for people with diabetes Kidney Disease Enlarges the kidneys, alters hormone functions, and increases the risk of kidney failure Liver Disease Causes fatty liver, alcoholic hepatitis and cirrhosis Malnutrition Increases the risk of protein-energy malnutrition,; low intakes of protein, calcium, iron, vitamin A, vitamin C, thiamine, vitamin B6 and riboflavin, and impaired absorption of calcium, phosphorus, vitamin D and zinc.

Nervous Disorders
Causes neuropathy and dementia; impairs balance and memory Obesity Increases energy intake, can be a primary cause of obesity
No matter how hard I tried but I was never able to reduce my fat and swellings from my body when I was a frequent drinker. Self quote

Psychological disturbances Causes depression, anxiety and insomnia To Drink or Not to Drink? If I was to advice I would say to abandon it as I did but if you still want to drink it then consume red wine in moderation, other hard drinks should be avoided and if used should be limited to once or twice a month that to in small quantities, sip each drink slowly, and always consume alcohol with food. Spaces drinks out to no more than one drink per hour, and consume plenty of water in between drinks. Never drink during pregnancy and never drive when intoxicated.
The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones. Somerset Maugham

The Plague of Processed Foods

Without leaving this bad habit you cannot adopt healthy lifestyle of eating living food that Ill explain in my next chapters, processed are nothing but dead foods as they have been processed beyond recognition, the life sucked out of them and man-made chemicals added to extend their shelf life. I like to call them tasty dead foods since they are made appealing by

adding a number of new ingredients which now make them poisoned even one step further to dead foods Your first rule of thumb is this- limit your intake of processed food (white bread, instant white rice, crackers, chips and so forth). It enriches the food companys bottom line but usually constipates your body. If processing food made it healthier. I would be its biggest advocate, but it is without exception higher in depleted flours, sugar, salt, food activities, and usually toxic fats. The creation process of those products strips away valuable vitamins, minerals, fiber, enzymes, phytonutrients and antioxidants. You see, they remove the fiber and wheat grain, which are rich in nutrients, and sell them to health food stores. Most processed foods have a high glycemic index and raise your blood sugar, causing weight gain and setting the stage for most degenerative diseases. Most contain little to no nutrition and actually put a drain on your digestive enzymes. With dead, processed food you get the worst and lose the best. And yet food companies hire the brightest minds and chemists to make their foods as addictive as possible, so you cant eat just a little bit. They know how to create the eye appeal, tastes, textures, feels, and smells people find irresistible. Your five senses get so attached to these foods that foods become your comforter and friend. Food companies also hire very bright marketeers to package and promote their products in a way that appeals to you and your children- like putting toys in cereal boxes and cartoon characters on the outside of the boxes.

Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the community.-Rod Blagojevich, American,
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But it is time for you to boot dead foods out of your life and specially from childrens, since they are more prone to get addicted to these diets. Here are the main ones you need to kick out or reduce dramatically.

Refined sugar
Is this habit of eating sugar bad? No. our bodies, and brains in particular, need it to function. But we dont need as much as most people eat, and especially not in man-made form. Sugar in its natural state is always combined with fiber, which prevents a blood sugar spike and excessive insulin release. All fruits have fructose or fruit sugar and an abundance of fiber. However, man has separated the fruit from the fiber and created addictive foods and refined sugar. Refined sugar is the most toxic food available today, I dont know even a single person who doesnt consume it; the worst part is that the people believe it is not a bad habit and should be avoided only if they are suffering from diabetes. I myself try to avoid it but end up taking it 2-5 times a week in drinks, sweets, chocolates, , cereals, shakes, etc. I am very strict on my diet but still cannot avoid it completely since nearly all the products today contain it under different names such as granulated (table) sugar, powdered sugar, brown sugar, corn syrup, dextrose, raw sugar, turbinado sugar, and malt. Even much commercial fructose is really pure refined sugar.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. -St. Augustine

Sugar is highly addictive. Many people find it nearly impossible to stop eating it. In fact, eating lots of sugar may deplete the zinc in your body, which can dull your sense of taste.

Manufactures know that when you taste perception is altered, you need more sugar to give you the same taste satisfaction. It becomes a vicious cycle. The average well to do person in India consumes an astounding 2-3 pounds of sugar each week, which is not surprising considering that highly refined sugars in the forms of sucrose (table sugar), dextrose (corn sugar), and high-fructose corn syrup are being processed into so many foods such as bread, breakfast cereal, mayonnaise, peanut butter, ketchup, spaghetti sauce, and a plethora of microwave meals. I will not comment on its evolution as you can see that in just last 20 years, we have increased sugar consumption from 26 pounds to 135 lbs. of sugar per person per year in developed nations or well off peoples in developing nations to! Prior to the turn of this century (1887-1890), the average consumption was only 5 lbs. per person per year! Cardiovascular disease and cancer was virtually unknown in the early 1900's. Blood sugar disorders can cause fatigue and are closely tied to trace mineral status in the body. The average can of soda pop contains eight to nine teaspoons of sugar. If a person drinks a can of pop, the blood is hit with a hefty dose of sugar that is eight to nine times more than that of normal. In response, the body must mobilize large amounts of adrenalin and insulin to clear the sugar from the bloodstream. Repeated day after day, this scenario can lead to significant health problems as well as blood sugar disorders. Many people believe that sugar is only bad for you when ingested in enormous amounts, when actually "normal" amounts are damaging to the body. Here is a partial list of physical conditions caused or exacerbated by sugar in the diet. Overweight

Heart disease
--raised blood triglycerides --sticky blood platelets duodenal ulcers --increased stomach acidity hypoglycemia diabetes hyperactivity kidney enlargement liver enlargement increase in uric acid in blood cancer hindered breakdown of dietary protein

cavities --calcium leached from teeth weakened immune system PMS yeast overgrowth dependency Refined sugar consumption is often at the root of these lesser physical symptoms, intense sleepiness not caused by lack of sleep muscle fatigue lethargy pallor coated tongue and persistent thirstiness bad breath heartburn/sour stomach excessive and/or foul-smelling intestinal gas flu-like symptoms --upset stomach --body ache

But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are consuming is not good nutritionally or ecologically. -Marvin Harris
Only one third of a person's sugar consumption is purchased as packaged sugar. The rest is consumed in manufactured foods. Almost everything on store shelves has sugar in it, even salt and cigarettes. Some foods are even required to have sugar in them by the FDA. For instance, catsup cannot be called catsup if it does not contain sugar. When I eliminated sugar from my diet, all foods started to taste better. My taste buds become more sensitive to the natural sweetness of foods, you wont believe vegetables like bottle gourd and carrots appeared sweet to me. Soon, my sugar cravings stopped and my control over good eating became easier . My Body started feeling better, calmer, and sleep improved.

Honey is a simple sugar

There are 4 classes of simple sugars which are regarded by most nutritionists as "harmful" to optimal health when prolonged consumption amounts to above 15% of the carbohydrate calories ingested- sucrose, fructose, honey, and malts. Some of you may be surprised to find honey here. Although honey is a natural sweetener, it is considered a refined sugar because 96% of dry matter are simple sugars, fructose, glucose and sucrose. It is little wonder that the honey bear is the only animal found in nature with a problem with tooth-decay (honey decays teeth faster than table sugar). Honey has the highest calorie content of all sugars with 65 calories/tablespoon, compared to the 48 calories/tablespoon found in table sugar. The increased calories are bound to cause increased blood serum fatty acids, as well as weight gain, on top of the risk of more cavities. Pesticides used on farm crops and residential flowers have been found in commercial honey. Honey can be fatal to an infant whose immature digestive tracts are unable to deal effectively with Botulinum Spore growth. What nutrients or enzymes raw honey does contain are destroyed by manufacturers who heat it in order to give it a clear appearance to enhance sales. If you are going to consume honey, make sure it is raw, unheated honey. Good to use in special cures, but not as an everyday food. It is not much better than white or brown sugar. Honey is a bit controversial, some books say that it is harmful; some say it is natural product full of vitamins and mineral and has many beneficial effects. So I wont stop you from consuming it, just make sure that it should be organic, unheated and raw. Whenever I feel a cravingg for something soothing I consume honey mixed with lemon juice in water. Aspartame exposed Aspartame is made of three components, aspartic acid, phenylalanine, and methanol .It is also known as wood alcohol, and it is 10 percent of what is released from aspartame when this substance is broken down in the human digestive tract. When a beverage containing aspartame is exposed to heat, it releases methanol. In the body, methanol is converted to formaldehyde-yes, embalming fluid-and formic acid. Methanol and formaldehyde in high amount cause blindness, eye damage, or neurological damage. When broken down in the digestive tract, 40 percent of what is produced from aspartame is aspartic acid. This is known in scientific and medical circles as an excitatory amino acid or excitotoxin. An excitotoxin is a substance that overstimulates or excites nerve cell and may cause permanent damage to the nervous system. Aspartic acid has been linked to brain abnormalities, including brain tumors in research animals. Aspartic acid eventually converts to glutamic acid, or MSG. Side effect of aspartame include visual problems, headaches, confusion, depression, dizziness, convulsions, nausea, diarrhea, migraines, abdominal pains, fatigue, tightness of chest, and shortness of breath. Only after a year of consuming supplements prescribed by my gym coach I had tightness in the chest and shortness of breath which was always treated with antibiotics in consultancy with doctors.
The day when I joined the gym I was looking for sugar free protein powders that could build razor sharp muscles, nitrotech from muscle tech was my favorite because it contained aspartame instead of sugar. But now after years of using it I can say that it builds muscles and ruins immune systems. The day I left it my symptoms of ill health reduced. Self quote

According to a press release distributed by Newswire Today on January 17, 2006, a bill to ban the neurotoxic artificial sweetener aspartame was introduced in the New Mexico legislature by New Mexico state senator Jerry Ortiz y pino. It is the first legislative ban in the United States on aspartame. According to the press release, a report posted on the National Institute of Health web site in November 2005 stated, The Ramazzini Foundation of Oncologys study proves aspartame To cause 6 kinds of cancer. The press release went on to stateThe FDA has refused to rescind its approval, thus, so aspartame is found in coffee sweetener, diet beverages, low fat yogurt, sugarless gum- a total of 6,000 products consumed by 70% of Americans and 40% of our children
When I was in college I mostly drank diet Pepsi to satisfy my taste buds without getting fat, I was not fat but was getting pale. Self quote

Aspartame, known to the public as NutraSweet, Equal, and Spoonful, has been the subject of controversy since it first became an ingredient in food products in 1981. In 1985, Americans used 800 million pounds of Aspartame, with an average intake of 5.8 pounds per person. They consumed more than 20 billion cans of aspartame-sweetened soft drinks in 1985 alone
I dont know why some things are not recommended for children who can digest all the fruits, veggies, nuts that an adult can consume. Are those things like cigarettes, alcohols, aspartame very harmful for health? Aspartame ist toxic for childrens thats why diet drinks state not recommended for children Self quote

I have read a number of articles which say that this aspartame can lead to the protective enzymes in a baby's brain since it is immature, it is unable to effectively detoxify the excitotoxins that enter its brain. This would mean that in the case of a pregnant woman eating meals high in excitotoxin taste enhancers, the baby could be exposed to these high glutamate levels for many hours. It is not unreasonable to assume that mothers will eat several meals and snacks containing various forms of excitotoxins such as MSG, hydrolyzed vegetable protein, and aspartame. This could produce a high concentration of glutamate exposure in the baby's brain several times a day. Also significant is the fact that the immature brain is four times more sensitive to the damaging effects of excitotoxins than the adult brain. Thus, following a dose of MSG, the baby's blood level of glutamate may remain high for many hours. Since no experimental work can be done on pregnant women or children, we must look to animal research studies for some clues. "In a study with mice and rats Toth and Lajtha found that, when giving aspartame and glutamate either as single amino acids or as liquid diets over a prolonged time (several hours to days), they could significantly elevate brain levels of these supposedly excluded excitotoxins. Brain tissue levels of aspartic acid rose as high as 61% and glutamate levels rose 35% in brain tissue over prolonged feeding... Humans are exposed to high concentrations of excitatory food additives throughout the day by consuming a variety of processed foods and diet drinks."2

Plasticity of the brain is important in the learning process. Even when the baby is in the womb, the brain of the infant is being stimulated by sounds, touch, and even light, causing changes in the brain's structure in important ways. Babies move and play with their toes, suck their thumbs, and react to noises and music after only six weeks in the womb. All of this stimulation causes the pathways in the brain to change and develop which is definitely very harmful. The recommendation is that industries should switch to natural sweeteners like stevia or xylitol which I recommend as we... Be careful with xylitol, though, because it may cause excessive gas. Splenda not so splendid Splendid brand sweetener is a substance called sucralose, which is made by turning sugar into a chlorocarbob. A few of the side effects of sucralose in animal studies include shrunken thymus glands, enlarged liver and kidneys, atrophy of the lymph follicles in the spleen and thymus, reduced growth rate, decrease in red blood cell count, hyperplasia of the pelvis, aborted pregnancy, decreased fetal body weights and placental weights and diarrhea. Some people have reported the conditions listed on page 84 after consuming Splenda. No long term studies of sucralose in humans have been completed, but according to a laboratory in Oxford, England, sucralose may form trace amounts of mutagenic agent, which may act as a carcinogen. Remember, I always recommend natural products in place of artificial sweeteners. A patient who used Splenda began experiencing blurry vision and frequent urination at night. He was also diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. He stopped using Splenda and almost immediately the side effects stopped and his blood sugar normalized. His vision returned to normal and the night time runs to the bathroom stopped.

The Not-so-Splendid White Flour Side of Splenda People who use Splenda (Sucralose) may experience White bread is a poor choice for food. It is also very constipating. When water is added to white bread. It forms a sticky paste that constipates

The following side affects

your body. Some people say its so sticky they can almost hang wallpaper with it.

Bloating Abdominal plan Gas Nausea Blurry vision Diarrhea Headaches, especially Migraines Heart palpitation (Fluttering, irregular Heartbeats) Breathlessness

It delivers little nutrition (even with all those added vitamins and minerals the advertise on the package) and converts to sugar rapidly. Its another example of how a wonderful God-given food gets mugged on the way to the grocery shelf. All bread starts out as whole grain, but to make white bread, the manufacturer removes the outer shell of the grain with all its healthy fiber and B vitamins. Then the nutrition packed wheat germ the denuded white flour heads to the main-steam

Frequency to urinate market to be made into white bread, buns, pastries, At night. crackers, pasta, and so on. crackers, pasta, and so on.

Depression or over whelming anxiety Spaced-out or drugged Sensation Joint pain Dizziness

White bread is created from one part of the grain bead-the starchy endosperm that is ground into fine powder. Since the bran and germ are removed, approximately 80 percent of the wheats nutrients are gone.

The milling process involves such high temperatures that the remaining grain is damaged by oxidation and has a grayish appearance. Could you imagine buying gray-colored bread?

But because consumers dont want to buy gray bread, the manufacturer bleaches it white, if there were any vitamins and minerals left, most are destroyed in the bleaching process. Then low-grade vitamins and minerals are added. Along with man-made cyber-fats, sugars, food additives, and may be a sprinkling of grains on the top, and the food is marketed to moms as healthy sandwich bread. Any flour not called whole wheat or whole oat is white flour, even if it looks brown. White bread converts to sugar almost as fast as candy bars. When my diabetic patients switch from eating white bread to whole-grain bread, their cholesterol and blood sugar levels almost always go down. I have a saying for those who habitually consume white bread. The whiter the bread, the sooner youre dead.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. - Aristotle

Stevia a good substitute for zero calorie sweeteners.
I have read many health books, and can say that stevia is that sweetner which has no calories and side effects. Self quote

Stevia is the only natural sweetener available in the market. Stevia is a native sweetener plant of sunflower family. It has been used for sweetening for centuries in Paraguay and has been in use since last 400 years across the world. It is the only sweetener which does not have any side effect. It reduces the calories from your food which makes it a suitable replacement of sugar for calorie conscious as well diabetic people. It is also being found by people that the regular use of stevia helps in reactivating the insulin secreting cells in pancreas. The raw stevia leaves are around 35 - 40 times sweeter than sugar, stevia extract are sweet upto 300 times of ordinary sugar. The stevia is safest low calorie sweetner without any side effect. Stevia and steavia powder extract are marketed in many countries across the globe. Salt the forgotten killer.

Sodium is a component of salt. 2.5 grams of salt provides 1 gram of sodium. Although salt is the major source of sodium in our food, sodium is also a component of other ingredients, such as sodium bicarbonate used in baking and monosodium glutamate used as a flavor enhancer. Too much sodium in the diet can lead to health problems. It is one of the risk factors that contribute towards high blood pressure (hypertension), which substantially increases the risk of developing heart disease or stroke. Today most people I know are eating more salt than is good for their health, RDA recommends average intake to 6 grams (which is equivalent to 2.5 g of sodium) per day. We need only sodium in our diets which is widely available in raw vegetables, fruits, green leafy plants etc. while consuming sodium chloride we lose the effectiveness of sodium and it is not beneficial for our bodies. Population targets have also been set for children and from their childhoods we alter their taste buds and make them heavy salt consumers. It's known that eating a lot of salt puts people at greater risk of high blood pressure. Now there's confirmation of a corollary, High salt intake also translates to significantly greater risk of cardiovascular disease and stroke. I dont consume more than 4-6 grams of salt per day; I have limited it to only 1 meal a day out of my 5 meals. People around me are consuming as much as 30 -40 grams of salt per day, you cant escape it unless you eat raw since no one can tolerate cooked, processed and refined foods without salt or sugar.

MSG
A common ingredient in processed foods- as well as one of the most dangerous and best disguised- is MSG (monosodium glutamate). MSG is the sodium salt of an amino acid, glutamic acid, and looks similar to sugar or salt. MSG doesnt alter the actual taste of food the way salt and other seasonings do instead it enhances taste by increasing the sensitivity of your taste buds, In other words, it tricks your brain into thinking the food tastes good by stimulating your taste buds. Many food manufacturers add MSG to stimulate your appetite. Adverse reaction caused by MSG They want you to become addicted to Here is sampling of some of the Reactions that MSG-sensitive people May experience with an hour of Ingesting 3 grams of free glutamic Acid on an empty stomach. their products for life Glutamate, or glutamic acid, comes in a bound form and a free from. Both are found in natural protein-rich foods, such as most meats, most dairy products, seaweed, mushrooms, tomatoes, fermented soy Stomach cramps Nausea\vomiting Diarrhea Migraine headaches Heart palpitations Rapid heartbeat Extreme rise or drop in blood pressure Shortness of breath Pain or tightness in the chest products, yeast extracts, hydrolyzed proteins, nuts and legumes. Only the free form can enhance the foods flavor. Free glutamic acid is metabolized to MSG in the body. Most of our MSG intake is found in the processed foods we consume, such as soups, gravies, salad dressing, bouillon

Facial swelling Numbness\burning in and around the Mouth

products, soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce, dry milk powder, processed meats, frozen entrees, ice cream, and the list goes on. Not

Frequent urination only is it hidden in most of the store-bought Depression processed foods, but it is also in many of the Anxiety\pain attack processed foods in restaurants, such as fried Light-headache\loss of balance\dizziness chicken products, sausage, scrambled Joint pain\stiffness Flu-like achiness Blurry vision egg mix, and grilled chicken fillet. As I said earlier MSG is one of the most well-disgusted food activities on the Market. Food manufacturers are getting More creative with their labeling of MSG Now it comes under the guise of names like

Chinese restaurant syndrome Is usually diagnosed when, after Eating Chinese food people Experience the symptoms Above that have been marked With an asterisk (*). MSG Has been implicated (but Not proven) to be cause of This condition.

hydrolyzed vegetable (or plant) protein, autolyzed yeast, yeast extract soy proteins isolate, natural flavors, artificial flavors, and autolyzed plant protein, to name a few. So why the big fuss over MSG? weve known about some of the symptoms when consumed in large quantities, but There are new conditions associated with MSG- obesity and excitotoxicity

Research confirms that MSG consumed by lab animals causes brain lesions of the hypothalamus. Neuroscientists generally agree that glumatic acid 9present in MSG) in neurotoxic and kills neurons by exciting them to death. The very young are most susceptible. MSG may damage the hypothalamus, which controls appetite. A damaged hypothalamus can lead to a runway appetite. MSG also causes the pancreas to produce more insulin. The blood sugar often drops due to excessive insulin and typically makes you hungry. Thats why many people are hungry an hour so after eating food containing msg. The FDA now requires that the ingredient monosodium glutamate be listed on food labels However; labels can be deceiving MSG is also found in at least thirty-nine other sources

HIDDEN SOURCES OF MSG

These ingredients ALWAYS contain MSG Glutamate Textured protein Yeast extract

Glutamic acid

Hydrolyzed protein

Yeast food

Monosodium glutamate

Calcium caseinate

Autolyzed yeast

Monopotassium glutamate

Sodium Caseinate

Gelatin

The days when I was building up my body for a good physique, I always wanted to consume more glutamine, due to which I purchased protein powders which had maximum amount of glutamic acid, the result was simple more muscles with more food cravings, migraines, joint aches, chest infections. Self quote
Today not a single whey protein powder is free from glutamic acid ( MSG) and still they are sold as health promoting supplements? Self quote

These ingredients OFTEN contain MSG or ereate MSG during Processing

Artificial flavors and flavorings Seasonings Natural flavors and flavorings

Soy sauce

Soy protein isolate

Soy protein

Bouillon

Stock

Broth

Malt extract

Malt flavoring

Barley malt

Whey protein

Carrageenan

Maltodextrin

Pectin

Enzymes

Protease

Corn starch

Citric acid

Powdered milk

Protein-fortified

Enzyme-modified

Ultra pasteurized

Fast Food
The typical well off person now consumes three hamburgers and four orders of fries per week. In 1970 Americans spent approximately $6 billion on fast food, and in 2000, we spent more than $110 billion. We spend more money on fast food than we do on personal computer, computer software, new cars, and higher education combined. Trans fats- which I will describe later in this section- are found in especially high amounts in fast food. In February 2006, a report showed that McDonalds French fries are one-third higher in trans fat than once believed. One large order of McDonalds French fries contains a whopping eight grams of trans fats. Acryl amides are toxic chemicals formed by the combustion of oil and hydrocarbons. They are highly carcinogenic-particularly associated with colon cancer- and should be avoided. Acryl amides cause cellular DNA to mutate. French fries are among the worst offenders when it comes to food containing acryl amides. So, the next time youre tempted to go to the drive-through, keep on driving.

Fats

Fats add delicious taste and mouth feel to foods, but often at a dangerous price. There are fats that kill (trans or hydrogenated fats and partially hydrogenated fats, fats that kill in excess but heal in moderation (saturated and polyunsaturated fats) and fats that heal omega-3 fats and monounsaturated fats). Well look at good fat in my next chapters. Its a Fact The more solid the hydrogenated Fat, the more dangerous it is to your Body The fats you should avoid are trans fatty acids, often called trans fats such as hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated fats. You need to limit your consumption of saturated and polyunsaturated fats. Saturated fat is found mostly in animal fats. It is solid at room temperature and significantly raises the LDL or bad cholesterol. Polyunsaturated fats are found in product such as mayonnaise, salad dressings, heat processed safflower oil, sunflower oil and corn oil. Trans fats (hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated fats) In short, Trans fats are poisons, just like arsenic or cyanide. They interfere with the metabolic processes of life by taking the place of a natural substance that performs a critical function. And that is the definition of a poison. Your body has no defense against them, because they never even existed in our two billion years of evolution -so we've never had the need or the opportunity to evolve a defense against them. But the worst part is that in the last stages of oil processing (or "refining"), the oil is literally steam distilled to remove its odor. So it doesn't smell. But hydrogenated oil is much worse than rancid butter. So if it did smell, it would smell worse than the most rancid butter you've ever seen. (And that goes for all refined oils, not just the hydrogenated ones. It's just that hydrogenated oils are everywhere in our modern diets.) So the next time you see "partially hydrogenated oil" on a label, think "rancid butter". In 1902 the process of hydrogenation was patented by a German scientist. During hydrogenation the cheapest oils- soy, corn, cottonseed and canola- are mixed with a metal catalyst, usually nickel. The oil is then subjected to hydrogen gas in a highpressure, high-temperature reactor to force hydrogen through it until it is saturated. Emulsifiers are then added, and the oil is deodorized at high temperatures and steam cleaned. Margarine is an example of a product containing hydrogenated oils. Like the white flour I mentioned earlier, margarine must be bleached to hide its gray color and then dyed and flavored to resemble butter. Adding hydrogen atoms to liquid fats and oils makes these oils stay in solid form at room temperature. This means that they are much less likely to become rancid, and their shelf life is greatly prolonged. This process however alters the chemical structure of the fat to an unnatural trans fatty acid which becomes an enemy of the heart by raising LDL (bad) cholesterol levels and lowering HDL (good) cholesterol levels. Trans fats have been found to be

more harmful to your arteries than saturated fat, and they are implicated in heart disease and cancer. Trans fats, also called hydrogenated fats, are present in margarine, shortening, and most commercial peanut butters. Margarine in stick from stick form usually has more than 20 percent Trans fatty acids, whereas most tub margarine or soft margarine only contains only 15 percent. These bad fats are found in almost every item in the middle of a grocery store-where all the shelf-stable pastries, rolls, breakfast cereals, breakfast bars, crackers, and processed or packaged foods reside. Bad fats are found in the bakery section in the doughnuts, pastries, cookies, cakes, pies, and other items that entice you as you walk around the grocery store. Try to avoid the middle aisles and bakeries of the grocery store so that you wont be tempted. Most salad dressings contains hydrogenated fats. However, there are healthier choices, such as Newmans Own salad dressing. On January 1, 2006, all packaged foods sold in the United States began to list Trans fat content on their Nutrition Facts labels. But observes point out a problem with new label. Under FDA regulations, If the serving contains less than 0.5 grams [of trans fat], the content, when declared, shall be expressed as zero. That means you could eat several cookies, each with 0.4 grams of fats, and end up eating several grams of trans fats, and end up eating several grams of trans fats even through the label would say you have eaten none. A fourteen-year study found that just a 2 percent increase in trans fats makes you end up eating several grams of trans fats elevating a persons risk of heart disease by 36 percent. This is such a deadly fat that we need to avoid it entirely. The best way to avoid this is to look for the words partially hydrogenated or shortening on the label. If either of these words is on the label, dont eat the product. Just as we should avoid restaurants that allow smoking, we should also avoid restaurants that continue to cook their food in these deadly fats. Do you still remember the word cashecotomy? Here I would like to tell an interesting story, some time back when I was in Dubai on a business tour, my brother Sumit got a can of Best brand full of various nuts, outer tin was of very fine quality and had various information regarding the benefits of nuts (almonds, peanuts and cashews), the information was 100% correct, the facts written outside were so detailed for the specific origin of those nuts that anybody could believe that they were organic and were far better from any other nut grown anywhere else throughout the world. Slowly I opened the can and was amazed to see such a good quality of nuts; each and every piece seemed to be handpicked and was of same size and shape. I grabbed a handful of them and started consuming them, only after 20 minutes I was suffering from sore throat, I couldnt figure out its reason because these symptoms had vanished from my life from the day I was on living foods and nuts. Coming back to the hotel I read the can in detail and was astonished to learn that it contained partially hydrogenated oil, it was on the extreme corner and was written in very small letters which were invisible to eyes. Hydrogenated oil is far more shelf stable, and will not go rancid as quickly as untreated oil. It also has a higher melting point, and is often used in frying and pastries for this reason. Due to this reason they are now widely used in number of food products like chips, chocolates, pastries etc. and its main consumers are children, t I can bet most of the people dont even know its meaning, and feed their childrens on all the food which they might think to be healthy unknowing that it could be life threatening if consumed without limits.

Saturated fats
Saturated fats have a chemical makeup in which the carbon atoms are saturated with hydrogen atoms. Saturated fats are typically solid at room temperature. Saturated fats rarely can be found in fruits and vegetables, they are primarily found in animal products. Foods high in saturated fats include most selections found at a fast food restaurant (such as hamburgers, fried chicken strips, puris, smosas and so on) and dairy products such as whole-milk products (desi ghee or clarified butter), as well as commercial fried foods and processed foods such as cookies, cakes, doughnuts, pies, and pastries. Saturated fats are also found un cured meat such as bacon, sausage, harm, hot dogs, cold cuts, bologna, salami, and pepperoni. Red meats, duck, and goose meat are also usually quite high in saturated fats. Men, limit your intake of red meat. Men who consume high amounts of red meat increase their chances of prostate cancer by two to three times over men who do not. In addition, many baked goods and fried foods can contain high levels of saturated fats. Some plant foods, such as palm oil, palm kernel oil and coconut oil, also contain primarily saturated fats, but do not contain cholesterol. Eating foods that contain saturated fats raises the level of cholesterol in your blood. High levels of blood cholesterol increase your risk of heart disease and stroke. Be aware, too, that many foods high in saturated fats are also high in cholesterol which raises your blood cholesterol even higher. In my childhood my mom always prepared food in clarified butter, according to her it was the healthiest oil available in the market. I have a read number of articles about saturated fats, among those I found coconut oil to be the healthiest, however other oils such as clarified butter may not be as bad. but only if they are 100% pure and today its impossible,

Polyunsaturated fats (omega-6-fats0)

Polyunsaturated fats oxidize much faster than monounsaturated fats. That is why these fats become rancid so quickly. Polyunsaturated fats are liquid at room temperature and remain in liquid from even when refrigerated or frozen. Polyunsaturated fats are divided into two families, the omega 3 fats and the omega-6 fats. Ill discuss omega3 fats tomorrow. When polyunsaturated oils such as corn oil, safflower oil, sunflower oil, sesame oil, commercial salad dressing, and others are used in cooking, and especially deep-frying oxidation occurs even faster. Oxidation also occurs in your arteries as free radicals attack the polyunsaturated fats, which are carried in LDL cholesterol. Oxidized cholesterol is much more likely to form plaque in an artery or on arterial walls. As fat are broken down through oxidation, they form substances that promote blood clotting and cause inflammation- all of which make blood flow more difficult. Polyunsaturated fats are not the worst fats, but they arent the best, either. They come from healthy sources, but they tend to be over processed by the time they reach the

consumer. Eating too much polyunsaturated fat increases inflammation, which is associated with heart disease, arthritis, cancer, and Alzheimers disease. Polyunsaturated fats are essential for life and must be consumed daily in small amounts. I believe the best way is to consume small portion of pecans, almonds, brazil nuts, pine nuts, pistachios, and walnuts. If you must use vegetable oil choose small amounts of cold-pressed polyunsaturated fats (corn oil, flaxseed oil, hemp oil, pumpkinseed oil, safflower oil, sesame oil soybean oil, and sunflower oil), which you can find at most health food stores (Remember- the apostle Paul says in I Corinthians 6,12. Everything is permissible for me- but not everything is beneficial (NIV) Moderation is the key). But it is best to avoid heat-processed oils and replace your salad dressing with extra-virgin olive oil, balsamic vinegar, and garlic oil, pressed with a garlic press.

Bad habits considered to be good.

Milk, not a super food as everybody thinks. From my childhood I was allergic to milk, before the age five whenever I used to drink (buffalos) it I vomited. But despite of it I was given it again after some time. As I grew up no matter what happened whether I was sick or healthy, active or tired, I was always forced to drink it two times a day no less than 350 ml per shot on awakening and before sleeping. Every now and then I had stomach ache, muscle aches, and I want to share a little personal item with you. When I was a little boy, my bedtime was 10.00 P.M. Generally, kids do not want to go to bed when they are told to, so all manner of ruses are concocted to stay up a bit later with me, as far back as I can remember, when I heard, Okay, Kashish, milk time which meant to be bedtime, I had this ritual that I went through, Isaid, Can I skip this glass of milk I dont like its odor or taste? Of course, thinking it was a healthy thing for me, my mom always forced me to have it, frequently with sugar (under the brand names milo, bournvita etc) added in it, I was able to squeeze out another ten to fifteen minutes before going to bed. Every night, I would go to sleep with a belly full of acid that took its toll. So very many nights, I would wake up in discomfort, sit down with my pillow on my lap and try to sleep that way. I would awaken in the morning and guess what was the first thing I did? I had a big glass of milk again with white bread, cornflakes etc. Another dose of acid. For years, every night the last thing I had was a glass of acid, and every morning the first thing I had was a glass of acid. How sad that it never dawned on anyone that my aches, infections were the result of my dietary habits. Of course in those days, people who attributed health problems to diet were classified as kooks. Medical doctor considered the study of nutrition to be a waste of time. My mom used to think it as a super food forgetting that healthy milk comes from healthy cows grazing on fields with nutrient rich soil. That requires the avoidance of continual growth hormone stimulation of these cows. That requires proper sanitary processing techniques without relying on antibiotics from preventing it to become contaminated. Further it should not be packed and sealed in a plastic bag frozen to avoid its rotting. I have already told that any plastic when frozen or micro waved leaves its toxins in the food product especially liquid. Further it should not be pasteurized to make it dead and acidic.

Pasteurization

Pasteurized milk is milk which has been heat-treated to kill pathogens which cause disease. Not all pathogens are removed during the pasteurization process, so pasteurized milk is not 100% sterile, but many people consider it to be safer to drink than raw milk which has not been pasteurized at all. The bulk of the milk sold in commercial grocery stores is pasteurized, and much of it is also homogenized to prevent the cream from separating. In high temperature pasteurization, the milk is brought to a temperature of 161 degrees Fahrenheit (71.7 degrees Celsius) and held there for 15 second before being rapidly cooled and packaged. Double pasteurization splits the process up into two segments, and is not recognized as a legal pasteurization method by some governments. Extended shelf life (ESL) milk is pasteurized at a slightly lower temperature and passed through a special filter to remove microbes. Ultra high temperature (UHT) pasteurization involves bringing the milk to 250 degrees Fahrenheit (138 degrees Celsius) for less than a second, while batch pasteurization is performed at a very low temperature, with the milk being held to temperature for 30 minutes before being cooled. These methods of pasteurization have significant destructive effects on the nutritive value of milk. However today we are one step further and have introduced a new method to further increase shelf life of milk. Homogenization Cows milk may not be as bad as thought only if it was organic and pure. However, when it is tampered with by way of homogenization, it becomes a type of slow poison for the circulatory system. Homogenization was introduced into this country in 1932. It is a process that breaks down the fat into very small blobules to keep the fat from separating. The primary purpose is to extend the shelf life of the product. The process of making homogenized milk, which gained the most popularity in the 1950s, has resulted in longer lasting milk, and the ability to ship milk greater distances. .

Milk fat contains a substance called Xanthine Oxidase (XO). This XO is usually not a problem in our system, but homogenization causes some of this XO to pass through the wall of the intestine into the circulatory system. There it creates havoc by attacking specific targets in the artery walls as well as heart tissue, causing lesions. The body responds to this attack by attempting to heal the damaged areas. Fatty tissue and cholesterol are laid over the body band aids that build up over the damaged areas and eventually cause obstruction.

History of milk If we look back at the history of milk well find that in Europe and North Africa it was consumed in the year 8000-6000 B.C, Egyptians started its consumption near 3000 BC. By 2000 BC, the domesticated cow had appeared in Northern India, coinciding with the arrival of the Aryan nomads. This is the major reason that some peoples can digest lactose or milk (only if it is as pure as it was some centuries ago where cattle was fed on organic diet free from any antibiotics available today and is not pasteurized or homogenized with modern techniques used today) .If you look to scientific data today mainly 80% of peoples cannot digest it. If you still want to consume milk products I recommend sugar free curd since the bacteria in it consumes lactose.
A majority of people cannot digest milk the reason could be simple; their ancestors could be eating a diet in which milk was not there. - Self quote

Lactose intolerance is an inability to digest and absorb lactose (the sugar in milk) that results in gastrointestinal symptoms when milk or products containing milk are consumed. We need an enzyme called lactase to digest milk sugar or lactose. The most common cause of lactose deficiency is a decrease in the amount of lactase that occurs after childhood and persists into adulthood, referred to as adult-type hypolactasia. This decrease is genetically programmed, and the prevalence of this type of lactose deficiency among different ethnic groups is highly variable. Thus, among Asian populations it is almost 100%, among American Indians it is 80%, and among blacks it is 70%; however, among American Caucasians the prevalence of lactase deficiency is only 20%. My final summary on milk The snow job put over on the public continues, Well, here we are. If the people of the world were to somehow become aware of the true and actual effect that dairy products have had on health, they would be lined up to sue the same way they are lined up to sue the tobacco industry. We know a lot about nutrition and theres far more to learn. I dont claim to have an answer to every question or to understand every nuance of what is or is not good for the body, but I

am equally certain of the harmfulness of dairy products as I am of living food value. There is not a malady of the human body, serious or minor, that dairy products dont contribute to, cause or worsen. I will here use mine and your common sense, instinct and sense of logic. The multibilliondollar dairy industry is in business to make money, and no tactic honest or underhanded is off limits. I do not begrudge the making of money. I want to make money also, everyone has to pay rent? But Id like to come to come by my money through performing some kind of beneficial service or providing a healthful product, not the way of the cashectomy. There can be no more effective selling tool for an industry than convincing people that they will suffer and become ill without using their product. And that is exactly what the dairy industry has done---quite ingeniously. I might add. After all every health expert, no matter what discipline a [practiced, acknowledges that a diet high I fiber and low in fat, cholesterol is best. Dairy products are extremely high in fat and cholesterol, and are devoid of fiberthe absolute, polar opposite of what is being recommended by one and all. So how do you get people to feel they cant live without this product that actually has nothing to offer, unless you like having a stuffed up nose? That was the task. Calcium! If people could be frightened into thinking that their bones would become brittle like dried-out kindling unless they consumed dairy products for the calcium, the dairy industry would be home free. Has their ploy worked?. Whats the first thing that pops into your mind when you hear the word Calcium? Women in particular have been preyed upon by the scheme by holding the threat of osteoporosis over their beads like a guillotine. Here I would like to come in between and like to share my actual life experiences with you, if you read my previous chapters you must be knowing that I was having weak bones at my age 25. That time I was very punctual in my gym, abandoned cigarettes and alcohol and was having more than 700 ml of full cream milk in a day. But since I had broken my arms two times while arm wrestling I got my bone density test done, and for your knowledge my test reports were terrible, my bones were very weak compared to the density of 60 years old lady, the doctors were also amazed and prescribed me with some medicines. In the coming months I visited many other doctors but no one couldnt give me any satisfactory answer or solution rather some also asked me to increase consumption of milk and other calcium supplements regardless I was having more than 1500 milligrams of calcium through my diet, milk products, whey milk protein powders and supplements. That time I felt miserable and decided to overcome it myself. After reading many health books and books especially for bones I was astonished to learn that it could be milk and cottage cheese that could have caused this because digesting cows milk is difficult for our digestion. Our digestive system when cannot digest food properly is overtaxed and is forced to pull calcium out from our bones to digest our food and to maintain a proper ph balance, same way if it is not in homeostatic (having any illness or disease) mode it does the same thing. The calcium available in milk is already denatured while pasteurization and is of no use, same way calcium supplements or products forfeited with calcium are of no use (since they are in rock form and our bodies cannot digest rock! Rather it accumulates in joints or the soft tissue of our bodies. Believe me or not but at present after consuming no milk at all and having less than 250 milligrams of calcium per day through living foods, my bones are stronger than ever before. I am now able to lift more weight in gym and my joint aches have completely vanished. I am attaching my reports for your knowledge.

Bone density reports before and after. Heres the question I would like for you to ponder. Is it possible Mother Nature, the Grand Creator God, the intelligence of the universe that created us and everything else in existence, would somehow forget to make something as crucial to life as calcium available to us, thereby forcing us to become the one and only species of mammal the length and breadth of the planet to never be weaned? Shall we never be weaned? Cmon now, how could be fall for such a preposterous suggestion? In the grand scheme of things, every mammal on Earthwhether it is dog, a cat , a whale, a cow, a rhinoceros, a giraffe, or a human being , large or small ferocious or docile- shall have as its first food a highly nutritious milk that flows from its mother breast. Each species has its own milk that is unique to that species and no other. It is designed specifically to be the first and only food to apply the newborn with the best possible food during infancy and every mammal, whether elephant or mouse, stops drinking milk once it is weaned, never to have milk again not its own mothers milk nor the milk of another species. Do you actually think that this supremely intelligent plan, designed and implemented by the Grand Creator, applies to every species of mammal in existence except us? There is not another instance in nature where an animal, once weaned, will continue to suckle or start to suckle later in life. It does not ever happen.
My illness is due to my doctors insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies. W.c Fields

Not only have we humans figured out a way to disregard and defy the awesome design of life itself, but look at the animal we turn to in order to do so. Even if we were somehow able to continue drinking the milk of our own species, it would still be wrong, milk is for infants, nor grownups. But we dont go to an animal that is even remotely close to us in size like a chimpanzee. In fact most people might recoil or be offended at the very idea of drinking chimpanzee milk. Yet we have somehow been psychologically manipulated into accepting as reasonable the drinking of cows milk. How about milk form a dog or a horse, or a hyena or a sheep? Would you drink those? Why not? The only reason people are accustomed to cows milk is because they were trained to drink it from childhood. It could just as easily have been hog milk that we were made to accept as normal, in which case we would very likely be offended by the idea of drinking cows milk.

Cows milk, being uniquely constituted for its young, is the food for a ninetypound calf at birth which will ultimately reach the weight of somewhere between 1,000 and 2,000 pounds in only two years. Human milk, being uniquely constituted and suited for its young, is the food for a five-to ten pound infant who will ultimately reach the weight of some where between 100 and 200 pounds in eighteen years. In other words cows milk is specifically designed for an animal that will grow very large, very fast. Do you think thats something people who are trying to lose weight want?. To get real big, real fast, like a cow. Plus, is milk (or products made from milk like cheese, yogurt, ice cream etc.) consumed in its natural state. No, its pasteurized, which means that its heated to a temperature so high that nothing living could survive. Everything good youre hoping to get from it is either destroyed or deranged.

The protein component in milk is a thick, coarse substance called casein. It is broken down in the body by the enzyme rennin or lactose. Because Natures intent is for us to be weaned from milk and not have it again, by age three or four rennin or lactose is nonexistent in the human digestive tract in all but a very small number of people. The idea that the dairy industry would have us believe that we should consume dairy products to get calcium is absolutely preposterous. The calcium in cow milk is, first of all, much coarser that the calcium in humans milk, and second, the calcium in cows milk is bound to the casein, which prevents it from being absorbed by the human body. There is 300 percent more casein in cow mil that there is human milk, and it is used to make one of the strongest wood glues in existence. Seconds like just the thing to eat for successful weight loss, doesnt it? Glue! The big issue in all of this is, of course, calcium and osteoporosis. The human skeleton is a thing of beauty. We are born with 350 or so bones, which fuse into the approximately 206 bones in an adult skeleton. Through the loss of calcium, bones can become so porous that they can break with very little provocation. High protein, high acid diets cause calcium to be leached from the bones. There is irrefutable evidence to prove this, more than you could read in a lifetime. Proponents of diets high in meat

and dairy products will try to deny it, but its like trying to deny the sun is hot. It is an indefensible position. Meat and dairy contribute more to osteoporosis than any other factor. The masai of Africa, Inuits and Greenlander eat enormously high-protein diets, almost to the exclusion of all else. They develop osteoporosis at a very early age and are bent, disabled and decrepit in their twenties and thirties?. On the other hand, the Abkhazians of Russia, the Vilcabambans of Ecuador and the Hunzas eat a diet that minimizes protein food, and they stand erect with little or no osteoporosis well into their eighties and nineties, The dairy industry would have believed that dairy products would put an end to the problem of osteoporosis. This is ironic in light of the fact that dairy products cause osteoporosis. I can understand the dairy industrys trying to do whatever it can to sell more products. What I find objectionable, in fact criminal, are the so-called experts, the medical doctors, dieticians and nutritionists who should know better, but have failed to educate themselves, who are out there telling an unsuspecting public to consume dairy products for calcium. It would be like telling an alcoholic to sober up on a bottle whisky. Consider this, The four countries of the world whose population consume the greatest amount of dairy products are the United States, Great Britain, Sweden and Finland.? The four countries of the world whose population has the highest incidence of osteoporosis are the united States, Great Britain, Sweden and Finland. The countries whose population consumes the least of amount of dairy products are the African and Asian Countries. The countries whose population suffers the least incidence of osteoporosis are the African and Asian countries? Exactly what else do you need to know that will convince you? Just in case you are not convinced (and I can hardly believe that anyone isnt). Heres the chinchen I told you about the China Health Project, the study considered to be so impeccably conducted and well respected. There are approximately 290 millions people in the United States. There are a billion more people in China, making at the largest population on Earth by far. The Chinese people dont like dairy products. They find them foul-smelling and tasting and they dont partake. Osteoporosis is so rare in China and there is not even a word for it in the Chinese language. Another noted scientist at the National Institute of Health points out that. The Chinese consume no cows milk or dairy products, yet they have among the lowest rates of osteoporosis in the world. And all the hired celebrities with milk mustaches are not going to change that.
The truth is more important than the facts.- Frank Lloyd Wright, US architect (1869 - 1959).

Heres the question I would like for you to ask yourself. If it is true that the cows milk contains so much high quality calcium, where does it come from? Cows dont drink milk. They dont take supplements. Where are they getting all the calcium? From the exact same place they are getting all the amino acids they need to build their perfect protein. And you know where that is, dont you/ All together now, one, two, three from plants!. Just like the Chinese people who have no osteoporosis. Everything that grows out of the ground has calcium in it. Everything. What you

should bear in mind is that your calcium intake is only one-half of the stories. The other half is the loss of calcium that is used to neutralize the acid of cooked diet, especially highly acidic animal products, meat and dairy , When you commit to increasing the amount of living food, you are eating a diet that raises the level of calcium intake while lowering the level of foods that cause calcium loss. I have already told that my bones are much stronger with this kind of diet, Ill explain you this in my next chapters.

Non vegetarian food is the worst food.

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. Leo Tolstoy. Russian, Novelist According to one finding, in India alone around 330 million of birds and animals are killed every year and 5 million tons of flesh trade is carried on. This is enough to show that innumerable birds and animals are killed every year throughout the world. The question that arises is that, is it not possible for the human being to live healthy without eating nonvegetarian food? Is there no other food item left in this world, from which the human being can obtain all the required nutritious items? The fact is that the human being can get the less expensive, nutritious, disease curing and healthy food from vegetarian food without killing any living creature. This can be proved from the following facts, that vegetarian food contains sufficient amount of nutrition and more than non-vegetarian food. Besides the WHO report says that the human being contracts around 159 types of diseases by the consumption of non-vegetarian food. In comparison to non-vegetarian food the vegetarian food is totally harmless, beneficial and keeps us healthy. Killing the innocent birds and animals amounts to sin and crime. The poor speechless creatures are subjected to torture during the process of killing. In the past, vegetarianism was given prominence in our country. Vegetarians were considered as well behaved and intellectuals. Vegetarians even commanded respect. However, the situation now has totally changed, when I was in college I had started relishing the nonvegetarian food items. Due to misconception of considering the vegetarians as weaklings and cowards, this was because all my friends who were centre of attraction were non-vegetarians and considered to be strong and brave. I think this situation is relevant only to India. In western countries it's the reverse. Non-vegetarians are turning vegetarian. What is the reason? If you still ask from health point of view, which is better vegetarian food or nonvegetarian food, I will be surprised? In my past I have been on this diet for several years, in my school and college I got addicted to it and had massively increased its consumption. Only after some months I felt constipated and bloated, later when I was diagnosed by joint aches, I came to knew that it was due to non veg. diet, our digestive tract is not meant to eat meat. If you look back in human evolution we were mainly fruit and plant eaters, only a few thousand years ago in our evolution of 4.5 million years we started consumption of meat. Our digestive tract is still the same.
I have seen a number of people living only on raw diet of fruits and vegetables, but in entire human population couldnt see even a single example where a person only consumed raw meat for his entire life. Self quote

The answer to the above quote is simple no one can live healthy entirely on meat without any vegetarian support since we mainly ate vegetarian diet during our evolutionary process. In Abakhasiyansa state of Russia the average life span of a person is 100 years. These people are totally vegetarians. The Hunjas community of Kashmir is also vegetarians; therefore they are disease free and live long. In contrast, the Eskimos who eat only meat are prone to several diseases and they become inactive and dull at the age of 35 itself. During the Mahabharata people used to live up to 100 years and were at least 7 to 8 feet high. This was the result of eating vegetarian food. Usually the intestines of non-vegetarian animals are not very long. They are usually about thrice the length of that animal. The short length is suitable for early excretion of the fleshy substances, which turn putrid quickly. The vegetarian animals have considerably long intestines. The long digestive track enables slow assimilation of vegetables, fruits, and tubers. The human intestines are long, similar to the vegetarian animals; approximately 12 time his height! In flesh eating animals considerable quantities of Hydro Chloric acid(HCL) is produced, which is, required for the digestion of meat. In human beings, HCL produced is hardly one tenth of the quantity produced in meat eating animals. Salivary glands of meat eating animals are not fully developed and their saliva is highly acidic. But non-meat eating animals have fully developed salivary glands producing saliva, which is mostly alkaline in nature. Humans also produce saliva, in which the alkaline percentage is high. Saliva also contains an enzyme called Ptyalin required for the digestion of pulses and cereals. Meat eating animals have short sharp teeth to tear the flesh and in addition, they have fangs on both sides. They do not have molar teeth. Their paws have claws. In contrast, the nonmeat eating animals have flat teeth, suitable for chewing and their feet do not have claws. We all know that our teeth and feet are similar to non-meat eating animals. The meat eating animals drink water by licking it with their tongues unlike non-meat eating animals, which do not use their tongue for this purpose. Now with all the above descriptions don't we understand that the human body is made more suitable to eat vegetable like leaves, fruits and tubers rather than eating meat? In my example I had joint aches or more uric acid problem, I was given its medicine to control it, according to doctors they were now life time companion to me. I had visited numbers of doctors but no one asked anything about my diet and simply told that its genetic. I hope they failed to explain me that when non-vegetarian food is consumed, the body produces lots of uric acid to digest the excessive proteins present in them. The kidneys have to put immense efforts to excrete these nitrogen components. For some reason if the Kidneys do not function properly, the uric acid content becomes higher leading to joint aches. This disease is common in non-vegetarians rather than in vegetarians. Excessive uric acid gets into the joints making us susceptible to arthritis and uric acid can also lead to stones in the kidneys. My summary on non vegetarian foods protein

I started non vegan mainly to fulfil my protein requirement for building better muscles . Heres something to ponder, How did we humans survive it before we started eating meat? If eating protein is so crucial to health, as some proponents claim, how did we make it for the thousand, hundreds of thousands, or millions of years or however long it was that we roamed the Earth before we discovered far and started charbroiling our four legged friends? Somehow we managed to survive on fruits, berries, nuts, seeds, tubers, grasses and vegetables well enough to continue the species. How?

You have to kill to survive. People have been doing it forever. I eat meat, and I eat fish. If I were on a deserted island I would need that to survive. Benicio Del Toro, American, Actor Quotes

Here I would like to tell Mr. Benicio that he must be preplanned while going to that deserted island because he has to take knives and guns to kill them and utensils to cut and cook them. When you think of a true carnivore on the land or in the air or sea, what do you think of? A lion, an eagle, a shark? What particular features do these animals all possess that we humans do not? Built-in tools for capture, killing and devouring, right? Speed, strength, claws, teeth and talons. There are tools true animal eaters are born with. We do not have them. If you were somehow abandoned or marooned somewhere with nothing but your own hide, no guns or knives, no cook stove or fire, nothing but your own wits , what would seek out to eat? Would you try chasing down an antelope or wild boar? Even if you somehow caught up with it, what would you do then? Even if you managed to overcome one with a rock or something, what then? Are you going to tear it open somehow and dig in? Eating the flesh and blood raw the way any other self-respecting carnivore would? Maybe you would do this with something smaller like a rabbit or a squirrel. The only thing is, they are far more adept at getting away from you then you are at catching them.

Do you salivate with anticipation at the thought of scaring down the entrails of a deal animal? True meat-eaters do. In fact, if you did not have the convenience of going to the grocery store for a nearly packaged cut of beef, would you look forward to slaughtering a steer and obtaining what you want for yourself? Would you slog through the guts and gave look forward to doing the same next day and the day after that? If you think I am being disgusting that helps make my point. It is not in your nature to do these things. If you were hungry to point of starving, and you were chasing some animal with the hopes of catching it an somehow ultimately getting it into your stomach, and the animal, with you hot on its tail, ran through an apple orchard, what would you do. Continue to chase the animal or stuff yourself with apples? Your hands are not designed for tearing into the bellies of animals. They are, however, perfectly designed for picking the fruit from trees. Even if Mr. Benicio still argues that hell take those knives, guns and utensils with him, I will still say that he could survive much better by eating plants and leaves that those animals have which he would kill, he just need to try different plants or leaves and try to figure out their taste, bitter or sweet and eat the vegetation which is a little sweet! If he says that its a deserted island and there is no vegetation then he needs to rethink. whether he can find any herbivorous animal because I doubt if he can digest carnivorous animals .

It occurred to me that I just didn't see how I could go ahead and continue to eat meat. It just seemed so... cannibalistic to me. And so, I'm a vegetarian, and I have been ever since. Alice Paul.American, Activist Quotes

While we were on the subject of animals, what animal do you think of as the strongest of all? What animals have been used for centuries because of their strength and endurance?. The ones that can lift heavy loads or plough fields for hours on end without tiring. Elephants oxen, water buffaloes,, camels, horses, mules. All of these, indeed the most powerful animals on Earth, eat only plant foods, strict carnivores sleep over twenty hours a day. Thats why you wont ever see a tiger pulling a plow. An African water buffalo can weight nearly a ton. They ripple with muscles, are incredibly strong and strike fear into anyone or anything in their path when on a fullout charge. A bull elephant can weight more than ten tons, carry astounding loads and pull trees out of the ground. They live on grass and leaves. Silverback gorillas, are three times the size of a man but thirty times as strong. Their muscle development is astounding. They eat bamboo leaves and fruit. Think you arm wrestle a gorilla and win. In the days when I was looking to built extra muscles I wanted to consume protein thats why I started massive consumption of meat forgetting that how do all these animals develop and imposing muscular strength without ever eating protein? Ever wondered about that? We love eating cows for protein for us. Ever see a cow eating steak? What does a cow eat to produce all that protein?. Grass and grains. So what is the answer? Obviously all animals including human beings need proteins to .live. There is no doubt about that. . Protein is build from amino acid.. Amino acids build protein and are resplendent in the plant kingdom. Thats why an elephant or a gorilla has no protein deficiencies. They obtain all the amino acids they need from the plant kingdom When you eat a piece of chicken, that exactly what it is. Chicken protein. By putting it into your body it does not magically turn into human protein. No more so than if you ate an animals liver would it go into your body and become part of your liver. An amino acids chain can have from 50 to 100000 amino acids. They must be broken down, reassembled and build into human protein. You can get amino acids from meat, but we do not eat meat raw. And the heating of amino acids destroys many of them and causes others to coagulate so the amino acids availability is extremely poor. Amino acids are delicate and affected by heat the same way other nutrients and enzymes. When a lion eats a zebra, the amino acids from the zebra are broken down and reassembled into lions protein. Fortunately for the lion, it is too stupid to figure out how to cook the zebra before eating it, so the amino acids remain intact. Ever notice that carnivorous animals dont ever eat other carnivorous animals except under the most extreme circumstances?. Why do you think meat eating animals eat plant-eating animals? Plant can manufacture amino acids from air, soil and water, animals cant. They either have to eat the plant directly for their amino acids or obtain them indirectly by eating an animal that has eaten the plant. Meateating animals instinctively eat animals that have eaten plants. And no matter which they eat, the plant or the animals both are raw no cooking.

Often the less there is to justify. A traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it- Twain, Mark
Over the years people have been thoroughly conditioned to automatically think of some kind of meat when the subject of protein comes up. The conditioning has been relentless and successful. Its almost comical to even suggest that someone would think of a fruit or vegetables salad for protein over a steak or a hamburger. But I will tell you what, the amino acids in a salad are a lot more available and easily utilizable than the amino acids in meat that have been deranged by heat. It may take you a while to overcome the conditioning, but if you are looking for high-quality protein, which is the same as saying high quality amino acids, the finest and best source comes from living food, not. Heres an interesting tidbit on the subject of amino acids and their proteinbuilding capabilities. In 1914. studies were conducted to see it rats fared better on the amino acids front from animals or from plants. Since a rats metabolism and requirements for protein are diametrically different from those of human beings, rats fared better on the protein from animals. So the results of the studies proclaimed that protein from animals is superior to protein from plantsfor humans! Thats what the animal-products industry ran with , even though it was subsequently shown that those studies, which were not conducted on humans, were therefore inapplicable to human. The myth was ignited, and it still burns today. Heres yet one last tidbit on the subject. I told you there are some studies that are so impeccably conducted and reliable that they are acknowledged as useful by nearly everyone. Such a study in the China Health Project , an extensive study done with the help of researchers at Cornell University , Oxford University and the Chinese governments. This extraordinary, long term study has been hailed as one of the most rigorous and conclusive studies in the history of health research. Books have been written on the mountain idea collected from this one study, and I want to tell you two of the findings. The first has to do with what are referred to as the diseases of affluence heart disease, cancer, diabetes osteoporosis and obesity. In the United States that diseases of affluence are rampant. In China they are either practically nonexistent or notably uncommon. The China health Project pointed out that one of the most significant reasons for the difference is the fact that the Chinese people obtain 7 percent of their protein from animal products while American obtain 70 percent of their protein from animal products. Ten times as much! Second as regards obesity, which is rare in China, the Chinese people eat 20 percent more calories, that Americans, but Americans are 25 percent fatter. The animal-products industry makes its living selling its products the same was any other industry with a product makes its living. They want you to but what theyre selling. They spend hundreds of millions of dollars to convince you to eat what theyre selling for your protein needs. Its business. I dont know if reading a few paragraphs is going to overcome decades of propaganda is going to overcome decades of propaganda and conditioning-maybe it will , may be it wont. In either event, every once in a while eat a couple of bananas for your protein (amino acids). You know, like the Gorillas in the Mist.

However I will not say to become a vegetarian as I was from my childhood as the taste developed in childhood are very easy to maintain livelong. Further in my research I have read that eating meat once a weak is not harmful. If you are looking for a healthy option I will recommend fish that should be free from any contamination, as our lakes and oceans are poisoned by mercury and other harmful chemicals, but there are certainly meats that are best to rarely eat.

Livers and kidney are filtering organs that filter toxins. Many toxins reside in these organs. Why would want to eat them?

Non-vegetarian food does not give strength and instead makes us weak it produces nitrogen's, which functions like poison for the nerves. - Dr. Khar T Loder Braston
Cold cuts and packaged meats like bologna, salami, hot dogs, bacon, sausage, and processed ham are usually high in saturated fats, which are associated with heart disease and are always high in salt. They also contain lots of nitrites and nitrates-fancy names for ugly substances that may form cancer-causing chemicals called nitrosamines or n-nitroso compounds. These compounds are associated with cancer of the bladder, esophagus, stomach, brain and oral cavity. Because of the caner-causing nitrosamines, its especially important not to let the children eat hot dogs and other processed meats, one study found that children who eat more than twelve hot dog per months have nine times the normal risk of developing childhood leukemia. Another study found that children who eat hot dogs one or more time per week have a higher risk of developing brain cancer and that children whose mother are hot dogs during pregnancy are associated with an excess risk of childhood brain tumors. If hot dogs are a favorite in your household, please switch to brands that say nitrite free, or nitratefree on the label. Also, there is nitrite-free bacon, brain sausage, and luncheon meats. Nitrosamines are formed during digestion when food protein reacts with nitrite salts in the stomach. They can also be formed by frying or smoking. A general rule of thumb is that the more processed and preservative-rich the meat is, the greater the risk if nitrosamines. To lessen this risk, I recommend that you bake your own ham and turkey and slice it yourself instead of picking up cold cuts at the deli.

Bacon, sausage, and hot dogs are also high in saturated fats and chemicals, These meats are generally loaded with saturated fat. In addition, processed meats such a hot dogs, sausage, and cold cuts are created using a process called the advanced meat recovery system (or AMRS). It is process used to recover as much meat as possible from the bone and tissue of the carcass. It squeezes the meat through leaving the bone and tissue on the other side. Because of a feared connection to mad cow disease, consumer advocate groups are lobbying the government to toughen regulations on AMRS. The goal is to ban meat processors from allowing any spinal cord tissue from cows than thirty months old to enter their processing machines. Although scientist have not yet established a direct link between spinal cord tissue in processed meat and disease in humans. I feel it would be in your best interest to limit your intake of these meats.
Being a doctor, as well as a model, I know that eating veg is the first and most important ingredient in keeping fit. If you eat chicken or other meat, youre consuming toxins, fat and cholesterol. Veg food is powered with all the vitamins and protein you need to be at your best. Aditi Govitrikar

In my chapter no 2 I had told that the diet I will prescribe in this book can give a purpose or aim to your live I was not kidding. As told in that chapter you can fight global warming by eating at your dinner table is correct just read it to believe. Global Warming Culprits Cars or Cattle?

Once a week, if all of us skipped one meal of chicken and substituted it with veggies, what difference might it make to global warming? Tons do you know we would all be able to save so much carbon dioxide! Just like taking half a million autos off the roads! And what difference might such a switch to a veggie meal make to us almost nothing. 1 meal, once / week, just one. How difficult is that? I didnt even know that my non-vegetarian diet was aggravating global warming by adding 1.5 tons of carbon dioxide! And I used to frown at poor smokers because they were polluting the environment. Look at me, I became a vegetarian and saved 1. 5 tons of CO2! Studies have shown that if well off people worldwide consume just one less hamburger every week, they will already start making a difference to global warming. I recently read a report from the UN FAO (United Nation Food and Agriculture Organization) in which they stated that more greenhouse gases were emitted by cattle than by cars. Cattle, reared for meat, dont just have a slightly larger carbon footprint, they produce a whopping 18% more CO2 than cars (FYI, all of us humans produce only 3% of this gas combined) Further, land is degraded because forests need to be felled in order to make space for such cattle farms and provide fodder for them. The trees help produce oxygen and combat global warming. As it turns out, a vegetarian diet is not only healthier for you and me, but it is also more energy efficient. In independent studies, 5 types of diets were compared and the veggie one was the least harmful for global warming. So the question that is in everyones mind is can I really make that much of a difference to global warming just by changing my diet? Check out this out Your carbon footprint will be much smaller. Just the same way in which you produce lesser global warming when you drive a sedan and not an SUV (Sports Utility Vehicle) The most dangerous greenhouse gas is methane (more than carbon dioxide). The #1 producer of methane all over the world are animals, specifically those reared for producing red meat. So when you eat meat, you encourage people to rear these cattle. The net result on global warming? Cattle produce 18% more greenhouse gases than cars, including methane that is more dangerous than carbon dioxide. According to the UNs Food and Agriculture Organization, he said, the international meat industry generates more greenhouses gases than all transportation methods of the world combined. Research says that animal agriculture produces more than 100 million tones of methane a year and about 85 per cent of this methane is produced in the digestive processes of livestock, and the collective effect on the environment of the hundreds of millions of livestock worldwide releasing methane is enormous.

If you dont stop eating meat, you will help double meat production and consumption in just another 40 odd years. Which means you are specifically contributing towards global warming with every bite of meat you take? And the final word is, isnt it much easier for you and me to just stop eating meat than to get cars off the roads, mobilize governments, form committees, penalize corporates, keep global warming watchdogs, organize international eco-summits and so on? So from today, for the environment, to stop global warming, just stop eating meat! This way may be you can give purpose or aim to your life .
Animals suffer from pain and fear just as much as we do. How would we like to spend our last hours locked in a truck, packed into a cage with hundreds of other terrified animal and then cruelly pushed into a blood soaked death chamber. Anyone who eats meat supports the way animals are treated. Self quote

Grains, good or bad? Photo of wheat, rice and other grains in seed form The original question, I have one question to ask. ; Why are soy and grains not good? What makes them bad? In other diets such as those which are gluten free, some grains are allowed.. And does leaving all grains out not put you at a risk of not getting enough carbs and will it not lower your energy level?

The answer, A good question.. It's good to point out that grains and soy aren't edible in nature without processing and so it's safe to assume we haven't eaten them for millions of years. Only since the advent of agriculture did we start to rely on grains for our food supply. That was a huge mistake. There are several reasons why grains and soy are bad, Further, many grains contain a lot of allergens which upset your immune system and cause the development of allergies. I have already discussed, Humans have never in their evolution of millions of years eaten grains and

now, since only 4,000-10,000 years ago, we have started relying on this food. Our genes aren't adapted to these foods. Grains are, in fact, incompatible with humans .

Controversy Ive mentioned it before, but in depth the fundamental problem with grains is that they are a distinctly Neolithic (New Stone Age) food that the human animal has yet to adapt to consuming. In fact, cereal grains figured prominently in the commencement of the New Stone Age; grains were right there on the forefront of the agricultural revolution. Hell, they were the agricultural revolution einkorn wheat, emmer, millet, and spelt formed the backbone of Neolithic farming. They could be stored for months at a time, they were easy enough to grow in massive enough quantities to support a burgeoning population, and they promoted the construction of permanent settlements. Oh, and they were easily hoarded, meaning they were probably an early form of currency (and, by extension, a potential source of income inequality). And Heres the kicker, they were harsh, tough things that probably didnt even taste very good. It also took a lot of work just to make them edible, thanks to their toxic anti-nutrients. Toxic anti-nutrients? Living things generally do not want to be consumed by other living things. Being digested, for the most part, tends to interrupt survival, procreation, propagation of the species you know, standard stuff that fauna and flora consider pretty important. To avoid said consumption, living things employ various self defense mechanisms. Rabbits, for example, with their massive ears, considerable fast-twitch muscle fibers, and nasty claws, can usually hear a predator coming, outrun (out-hop?) nearly anything, and (in a pinch) slash a tender belly to shreds. Blue whales are too big to fit into your mouth, while porcupines are walking reverse pincushions. The point is, animals have active defense mechanisms. They run, fight, jump, climb, fly, sting, bite, and even appeal to our emotions (if youve ever seen a puppy beg for a treat with sad eyes, you know that isnt just accidental cuteness) in order to survive. All the while, predators are constantly evolving and generating adaptations. Plants, though, are passive organisms without the ability to move, think, and react (for the most part). They must employ different tactics to ensure propagation, and they generally have to rely on outside forces to spread their seed. And so various methods are devised to dissuade consumption long enough for the seed to get to where its going. Nuts have those tough shells, and grains have the toxic anti-nutrients, lectins, gluten, and phytates. (Of course there are some obvious exceptions. Fruits are tasty, nutritious, and delicious so that animals will eat them whole and poop out the seeds, preferably into some fertile soil. The seed stays intact throughout the digestive process; it is indigestible by design. No seed wants to be digested, because this would defeat the purpose. They want to be swallowed, or borne by the wind, or carried by a bee to the next flower, but they do not want to be digested.) Some animals are clearly adapted to grain consumption. Birds, rodents, and some insects can deal with the anti-nutrients. Humans, however, cannot. Perhaps if grains represented a significant portion of our ancestral dietary history, things might be a bit different. Some of us can digest dairy, and weve got the amylase enzyme present in our saliva to break down

starches if need be, but we simply do not have the wiring necessary to mitigate the harmful effects of lectins, gluten, and phytate. Lectins are bad. They bind to insulin receptors, attack the stomach lining of insects, bind to human intestinal lining, and they seemingly cause leptin resistance. And leptin resistance predicts a worsening of the features of the metabolic syndrome independently of obesity. Fun stuff, huh? Gluten might be even worse. Gluten, found in wheat, rye, and barley, is a composite of the proteins giladin and glutenin. Around 1% of the population are celiacs, people who are completely and utterly intolerant of any gluten. The answer is unequivocally, undeniably no. We do not need grains to survive, let alone thrive. In fact, they are naturally selected to ward off pests, whether they be insects or hominids. However some grains are good since our ancestral line has accepted them chapters.. But there are certainly some grains to avoid or to be taken in moderation.

Soy Products, a Significant Health Risk Here I am not promoting this topic since I have become a hypothyroid because of its massive consumption. Soy contains goitrogens - substances that depress thyroid function. This is a major concern of mine as I see many of my friends and relatives struggling with this problem.. I have read a number of books in which many claimed that it has a negative impact on health. Please do not consume its oil since children are more prone to its health hazards. If you still want to consume it Ill recommend Fermented Soy and its products since, Trypsin and haemagglutinin which are growth inhibitors are deactivated during the process of fermentation. Soy is in countless products - including infant formula and "health" foods - Protein bars . . . in fact, if you will stop and read the labels, you will be shocked to see how many things include "Soy" in their list of ingredients. Soy contains 'Phytic Acid' which impairs Mineral absorption. Soy also contains 'Phyto Estrogens' which can accumulate in your system - (Men - Women and Children). An overabundance of this can lead to other health problems and have negative side-effects. Soy beans aren't edible raw and they are full of ant nutrients and substances that act like hormones in the human body. Eating soy can cause women to have menstruations that last 2 days longer than normal and are way more painful. Besides this soy and corn are both genetically modified. I know many of you wont believe me, so please type soy health in Google and search yourself in its risks section. From ancient times the Chinese never ate unfermented soybeans as they did other legumes such as lentils, because the soybean contains large quantities of natural toxins or "antinutrients." These antinutrients are not completely deactivated during ordinary cooking. They can produce serious gastric distress, reduced protein digestion and chronic deficiencies in amino acid uptake. In test animals, diets high in these antinutrients called trypsin inhibitors cause enlargement and pathological conditions of the pancreas, including cancer.

I have totally eliminated soy from my diet but if you want, try Fermented Soy - is fine and has far less health hazards. Fermented Soy includes, Tempeh Miso Natto Fermented Tofu

Corn for dinner instead of beef Instead of Beef, It's What's for Dinner, I thought my title cant be better. Today, our diet is not balanced. It's heavily weighted with grain, grain-based food products (foods and drinks laced with high fructose corn syrup and other grain-type additives), and grain-fed livestock products. Back in the mid-1980s scientists started discovering that grain, grain-based foods, and grain-fed livestock products are the root cause of most if not all of today's major chronic diseases . Cancer, depression, obesity, allergies, autoimmune diseases such as lupus and arthritis, diabetes, asthma, the list seems endless. (For additional articles documenting the reasons why grains are damaging to animal body function go to OMEGA-3 ESSAYS.)

 Amazingly, the worst grain is corn! Not only does it have the worst fatty acid profile of nearly all grains (which skews the fat balance in the membranes of all animal body cells negatively impacting cell function), but it is also a fungal host to 22 different fungi including Aspergillus. Some of these fungi put out body debilitating mycotoxins that can literally kill animals and people. This is why the US Government tests corn for aflatoxin, one of the most deadly and highly carcinogenic toxins on the planet. Many condemned corn supplies end up in animal feeds (not only for livestock in feedlots but family pets too.) Not to mention that corn and soy are the two products which are mostly genetically modified.