Janet Maccaro - Natural Health Remedies: Your A-Z Blueprint for Vibrant Health

O UR LIFE EXPECTANCY can now be extended by ten to forty extra years! A breakthroughhas occurred between traditional medicine and alternative health care. Once at oppositeends of the spectrum, these two schools of medical treatment have come together,working in an unprecedented way to heal the total personbody, mind, and spirit!

You can add up the statistics on average life spans and speculate about factors inthe aging process and the biological limits of life, but what does that tell youabout your life?

Each of us is given a predetermined number of days on this earth. Each one of thesedays is a gift. How are you treating this precious gift? Are you disrespecting itby not caring for your body or nurturing your soul? Or are you living consciously,realizing that you have a responsibility to be the very best expression of the lifethat God gave you?

At the end of our days, each of us wants to have run the good race and to have foughtthe good fight. We want to have made a difference while on our earthly journey. Wewant to leave a footprint as proof that we were alive and mattered to those weloveda heartprint, so to speak.

This is where stewardship comes in. What will you do with your appointed days? Ifyou look back on your life now and see that you havent lived it the best, you canbegin right now to experience a richer life filled with better health, more stableemotions, and a deeper spiritual walk. You can learn to not only live longer butalso better at any age and any stage.

I have experienced both ends of the healing spectrum personally, which birthed mypassion for helping people overcome physical illness, emotional pain, and spiritualdepletion. This expanded and updated book will serve your family for years to come,arming you with the latest information to prevent illness, heal and strengthen thebody, and feed the soul. It is my prayer that this book will replace fear with fact,hopelessness with healing, and despair with renewal!

It is the premise of natural medicine that the body has a God-given, built-in abilityto heal itself and that the role of the physician is to aid or enhance this processwith natural therapies, such as dietary changes, herbs, vitamins, and minerals. Naturalmedicine is noninvasive. It supports the body by feeding, balancing, and cleansingall the channels of elimination.

Proponents of natural medicine view the person as a whole beingbody, mind, and spirit.Your emotional and mental state, in addition to your physical health, must be addressedand understood when seeking to understand factors that cause a particular healthchallenge.

Natural medicine does not simply seek to suppress symptoms with drugs and so forth,but it attempts to discover and eliminate the root cause of disease. It examinesthe body, observing its five main systems: the digestive, respiratory, endocrine,circulatory, and immune systems. And it looks at the four major elimination channels:the bowels, skin, lungs, and kidneys. Natural medicine does so in order to determinetreatment.

Natural medicine educates patients by involving them in their health care. They becomeactive participants in their personal well-being. They learn to be more accountablefor their dietary lifestyles. And they understand that, because illness can be theresult of spiritual or emotional unrest, a strong prayer life is a very wise medicineto include in the healing process.

Finally, natural medicine teaches not only the treatment of disease but also itsprevention by instilling dietary and lifestyle habits that promote health. Why waitfor disease to strike before you begin to focus on your health? It is hard to playcatch up when it comes to your health. While it is true that God wonderfully designedour bodies healing systems with remarkable recuperative ability, prevention is farand away the best way to go.

We step back in awe as we learn what natural medicine teaches us about the wonderof our bodies and how they are equipped to fight disease. We marvel at our Mastersworkmanship when we stop, look, and listen to what the body is saying through diseasesymptoms in order to inform us when we are doing something wrong.

It is still a sad fact that many medical schools do not teach disease preventionas a part of health care. This book will educate you in a way that will give youmore control over your health problems. Armed with that knowledge, you will becomean important part of the decision-making process regarding your health.

Every health-building recommendation in this book has been thoroughly researchedand used clinically by thousands of nutritionists and physicians. Some of them Idiscovered and used personally in my quest for wellness that spanned over threedecades. I invite you to use them all to add years to your life and life to youryears!

I can remember the late George Burns summing it up brilliantly, If I knew that Iwas going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself. In the followingsections I am going to educate you on how to do just that. By becoming proactivewith your health by incorporating what you learn into your daily life, you will nothave to follow down the same path your parents and grandparents traveled. Knowledgehas increased concerning the prevention of most degenerative diseases. This explosionof knowledge is ours for the taking. We are a generation that is blessed with thetools and modalities to not only extend life, but also to enhance the quality ofour years.

Experts agree that one of the best ways to safeguard your health is to eat only thehealthiest foods you can find. Plenty of fresh fruits, vegetables, and whole grainsalong with low-fat dairy are the general recommendation. This is because of all ofthe phytochemicalsor vitamins, minerals, and fiberthat are naturally occurringand health protective.

But knowing that we all are under more stress these days from work, family, and thepressures of life in general, most experts now agree that a multivitamin/mineralsupplement makes perfect sense. A good vitamin supplement can close nutritional gapsleft by poor dietary habits. Evidence suggests that vitamins may increase our healthspan, which means active years that are free from chronic illness.

The outdated theory of mainstream medicine that holds that you can get all of thevitamins and minerals you need from your diet is slowly dying out. More and morephysicians realize that, while it may have been true that our grandparents receivedall the nutrition they required from their foods, this is simply not the case inour generation. Mineral-depleted soils and chemical agribusiness farming and marketingmethods almost guarantee that you will not get anywhere near the ideal nutritionalvalue that you need for health from the foods you buy at the supermarket.

You may have heard this statement: Taking vitamins results only in expensive urine.It is true that all substances are eventually excreted, but what vitamins do on theirway through your bloodstream is health building and life enhancing. Keeping yourbody blanketed with the full spectrum of vitamins and minerals is like an insurancepolicy, which will help to guard you against physical decline and degenerative disease.