WOMEN AND THEIR WELLBEING

Well, now that I am 38 yrs (young) old I am just now acknowledging that the years are really just going to continue to ADD up (hehe, still have to have some humor in all of this growing older stuff). I have begun to take a more serious approach towards "learning" about the biological side of life, the aging process, and inquiring more about health matters within my family tree (mom, grandma, great grandma). When I chose to acknowledge that I was getting closer to the "middle age" group (which still sounds odd to me) I decided I wanted to live with this philosophy:

• "Grow old GRACEFULLY"..........

This meant that I needed to say goodbye to anything that was considered opposite of "PRESERVING LIFE". If I was going to continue to age I wanted to do it with joy, not get older with pain and suffering. So, with that, the idea of giving up some habits that did not contribute to "growing old gracefully" was easier to accept. Of course this all meant that my lifestyle was going to have to change and luckily I was already aware of a few things that were taking a tole on my mind and body. For instance,

• pulling all- nighters with alcohol and party smokes was the first thing that I knew I couldn't do anymore like when I was, oh, between 18-30. Talk about a major delay in recovery, I got to the point where it took me 3 whole days to get back to 100%, I guess my body shutting down was a sign of "HELLO THIS DOESN'T WORK WITH ME ANYMORE" and "YOU NEED TO STOP POISONING ME"!!!

• Another one was mindless and careless eating, I was never a big soda fan, thank goodness, but even the occasional fast food and convenient store diets had to cease immediately. After learning what is really in those types of foods (not even food, try products) and what happens when it is put inside of our bodies made me seriously wonder how it is even LEGAL to sell crap like that. And we wonder why Heart disease is the number ONE KILLER in america, FAST FOOD people.

Now, the real factor that helped me make these adjustments was becoming aware of this FACT:

WOMENS TOP 5 HEALTH CONCERNS:

1. HEART DISEASE
2. BREAST CANCER
3. OSTEOPEROSIS
4. DEPRESSION
5. AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE

So I looked at these top 5 concerns and discovered each one was extremely important to me. My heart, my breasts, my bones, my mind, and my immune system. Looking back over the past 20 years I have been blessed to have experienced great health in these 5 areas. Never hospitalized, never tested positive for any disease, cancer, mental illness, decreased bone density or immune defienciency. Did I mention BLESSED? Now I am aware that some of these health matters can be passed down through generations and is not in everyones control, I am sincerely sympathetic to those who have had an experience with one of these conditions and I continue to pray for our scientists to discover a cure for these ailments.

So, what I try to do is ENCOURAGE people to take a more PREVENTATIVE HEALTH approach towards their ALL AROUND WELLNESS. It might not be the first thing on your mind, but it really should be. Making small changes in our daily routines really do make the biggest differences in the way we think (use our brains), feel (emotionally) and function (body mechanics). Start by making a list of which habits you might have that are not contributing to your wellbeing and replace them with ones that do.

Remember, our body functions at its best when we care for it properly. Excercise, eating well, drinking enough water, getting enough rest/sleep, and vitamin/mineral supplements. Our brain needs carbohydrates (energy to think well), our body needs protein and fats (growth, development and energy), our body needs water (transport nutrients, export toxins, and hydration), and our body needs vitamin/mineral supplements (due to the types of diets like fast food or shelf life preserved foods these lack in vit/mineral, also the injections of antibiotics and hormones in fish, meat and poultry and the soils are being depleted of minerals by the mass production of vegetables). Also, if you are someone who participates in physical activities or strenuous excercise, smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol, stressful occupation, or a health condition then you deffinitely need to take an excellent form of vitamin/mineral supplement.

If you have the desire to live long and live well then please stick with me on this journey of "GROWING OLD GRACEFULLY"

HEALTHYLIVING4HAPPYLIFE to ALL.
SUNNY MILLER
www.passion4lifevitamins/sunnymiller