To Your Health: Take A Holistic Approach To Managing Obesity
Guest columm by Dr. ChenziRa D. Kahina Â
This week’s edition of “To Your Health” provided a holistic combination of healthy notes and practical information on obesity, natural nutrition, holistic living and creating balance of mind, body & spirit. Each human being has the responsibility and divine right to engage in meaningful thoughts and actions that promote and maintain healthy living and well-balanced actions that impact on our minds, bodies, souls, spirits, consciousness, community and environment.
Several basic steps to minimizing disease and health imbalances like obesity, diabetes, hypertension, high blood pressure, cancer and other related issues with our wellness include:Â
a) Recognizing the increase of obese persons in the US mainland, US territories and throughout the Caribbean in direct correlation to the increase of fast/junk foods being eaten by the general populace in these respective areas;
b) Exploring our abilities to increase awareness and willingness to listen and hear the signals of our bodies to know when and how to engage with our professional, certified and mutually trustworthy healthcare practitioners who work with us not just for us in our quest for healthy living;
c) Sharing a concise description of “naturopathy” as focusing on the power of nature and our natural environments to heal; identification and provision of care to address the cause of the disease; providing natural treatments and supports for the WHOLE person; focusing on prevention as the best cure; recognizing the naturopathic physician’s consistent teacher/learner partnership with whomever care is provided and shared with; and optimal health and wellness as an ultimate goal.
The importance of eating and drinking in moderation minimizes the common gluttony that leads directly to obesity and a host of other dietary-induced diseases that are plaguing our communities. To stimulate engagement with our listening audience, a prime quotation on obesity as “a most dangerous disease” was read from Dr. Aterhov’s Raw-Eating: A New World Free From Diseases, Vices and Poisons published in Tehran in 1967:
“As long as the human organism is still able to resist an unnatural diet and to carry on its struggle against it, various complaints make their appearance, such as loss of appetite, indigestion, gastritis, and other stomach disorders, colitis, and so on. All these are the outward expressions of the struggle of the organism to use every means at its disposal to neutralize the harmful effects of an unnatural diet and to expel from the body the poisonous substances produced by it.
Subdued by the pressure of unnatural diets, the body is forced to accommodate itself and to admit into the organism accumulations of various harmful substances produced by such diets. Deposits are then formed of fats, uric acid and its derivatives, cholesterin, common salt, excess liquids…tumours, inactive and parasitic cells, etc. Sometimes these cells attain several hundred times the size of normal cells, but they lack the capacity of doing any useful work. All these monstrosities accumulate in the body to create in a man the illusion of health and strength, while in reality he suffers from gradual emaciation.”
A youth infomercial on “NUWOMAN Rising with LIVE UP” a women and girls preventative and holistic health initiative that is rooted in St. Croix with global initiatives growing geometrically by Princess AnuMaat of Per Ankh Institute was featured mid-stream to provide a voice of our children’s concerns on being health, well and informed!
(Editor’s Note: The information in this article represents the opinion of the author and is not intended to be construed as an endorsement or promotion by Crucians In Focus of any of the information herein.)
