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Who is Protecting Your Health for? ProtectingYour Health is for people like you who want no nonsense answers to questions about your health and lifestyle decisions. You want to know what your options are from honest, unbiased sources. And you want the facts so thatyoucan make informed decisions about your health – and the health of your family. What is Protecting Your Health? Protecting Your Health.com is the site to visit when you’re looking for products and services to support your health and your healthy lifestyle. Not just the usual products and services – alternatives you may not find elsewhere. Protecting Your Health is also supported by the weekly, national integrative health show, Protecting Your Health onwww.webtalkradio.com.  Check back regularly to read cutting edge news and see the new products and services joining the line up! When can Protecting Your Health help? When you don’t really want someone else’s opinion – when you want to find the facts to help you make your own decision, Protecting Your Health can help. Whether you’re looking for guidance on your diet and food choices, learning about the dangers of genetically modified foods, or simply want an effective, bioavailable nutritional supplement, green options for your home or garden, or the latest reports about advances in the treatment of illnesses, Protecting Your Health constantly searches to find honest information and the best products and services for you. Why is Protecting Your Health different? Protecting Your Health reviews and edits the medical, dental, scientific, toxicological and environmental information out there for the truth.  We then provide you with insights about the positive connections between your body, mind, and environment – and how negative influences on any of these can hurt you. No sugar-coating here – just the facts you want. How can you use Protecting Your Health? 1. Check out the latest products and services to help you stay healthy and improve your quality of life 2. Learn of the latest decisions by the Food and Drug Administration, Environmental Protection Agency, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and US Department of Agriculture and how they affect you in your everyday life 3. Find prescription quality, bioavailable nutritional supplements – at reasonable cost 4. Find guidance on nutrition, natural and organic foods, and which foods to eat and which foods to avoid 5. Learn about breaking news and cutting edge research on diagnosis and treatment of health problems – eg, cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, heart disease, obesity, children’s health… 6. Discover how pets enhance our lives, reduce our stress – and how you can protect and improve your pet’s life 7. Find out which products to avoid – toxic chemicals, plastics, bug sprays, fertilizers, genetically modified foods, cosmetic products, … 8. Hear from innovative healthcare practitioners and environmental advocates who offer actions and plans that help protect you – and your family’s – health 9. Learn who is harming our environment and damaging our health – and the health of our children and grandchildren How can we use the precautionary principle to protect our health? The precautionary principle comprises the following: Act now, even before definitive scientific proof of harm, to reduce and eliminate practices that are suspected to harm human health or the environment; Seek out alternatives to activities that pose a threat to human health or the environment; Shift the burden of proof so that those who make and profit from products and activities must prove that they are safe; Employ an open, informed and democratic process that involves affected communities in decisions being made about their health and their environment. You can use the precautionary principle in your home by switching to non-toxic cleaning products and safer body care products and by shopping organic. You can also reinforce the need for the precautionary principle in letters to the federal Ministers of Health and/or Public Health Agency of Canada. (Both can be addressed c/o the House of Commons, Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6. No stamp required.) Your letters should express the need for more stringent safety standards in cleaning and body care products, cosmetics, carpets and upholstery — products that contain potentially dangerous and untested chemicals. The intent is to shift the focus to “How can we prevent harm?” from the present risk-management strategy of “What level of harm is acceptable?” Bear in mind that the alarm was sounded about the dangers of smoking to health long before there was actual proof that it caused lung cancer and exacerbated the risks of many other diseases. Similarly, BCAM wishes to alert the public to the dangers of the thousands of environmental contaminants that threaten our health and the health of those around us.  How to Maintain Your Health 1 Know how our health can be harmed. There are mainly three factors that harm us, micro organisms[microbes], malnutrition and injuries. The microbes use our body for satisfying their needs. This eventually harms our body as it starts to run out of vital cells and nutrients, we fall sick. There are times when we might even receive a life long effect or damage. Our body has it's defence mechanism against diseases that consists of special cells that are assigned only in the destruction and disposal of such microbes. They require different nutrients. The second factor is malnutrition. Our body requires different substances for it's complete functioning. Apart from building cells, it also produces substances like gold. Scientists do not know how or why the body produces such substances. But it appears that they are vital. In order to produce these, the body needs the required nutrients that can be supplied only through a proper meal. The third factor is physical injuries which can only be avoided, not always prevented. 2 What you need. The basics that everybody says: "proper food and exercise." But this article is meant to give the details. 3 Get the food you need. It's absolutely correct that you are what you eat, which means that if you want to stay healthy then you must eat healthy. Eating healthy means eating proper food. Meals must be properly cooked and must supply the nutrients your body needs. Accordingly, the food must always be properly cooked in every form and salads should be thoroughly clean in order to avoid entry of harmful bacterias and fungus. The second thing is the nutritional value. Your food must contain calories but only to the amount you can burn. Your meals must also contain: green vegetables, nuts, onions, grains and yogurt. These must be had every day. The green vegetables enrich the blood and help the hemoglobin. They have large amounts of minerals and protect against diseases. The nuts are nothing but concentrated fats and minerals, making them the ideal breakfast munchies. Onions are not so tasty but they help in purification of the system. They protect against asthma and stomach cancer. The grains and yogurt help in the digestion as they provide fibers and enzymes for the body. The fruits are the second thing to keep in mind. Fruits are best had in the very season that they ripen in. - eg: oranges ripen in winters and provide vitamin C which prevents the damage to the skin that is caused by the cold and dry weather 4Drink water. Water, water everywhere. Yes, water. and that though plenty of it. A recent scientific research has also stated that healthy people must drink at least 8 glasses[250ml] of water. This simple procedure purifies your immune system from all impurities and therefore helps fight pimples. It purifies by removing the toxins that trigger stress and other harmful emotions. 5 Exercise. After all that eating, you need to went it out. All this energy can get accumulated if not used properly and dieting cannot control it. The only way is to exercise if you don't have a job that can drain your energy. This is important and the only solution to obesity. Apart from the gym, try doing exercises that strengthen the muscles. These can be learned from any body builder or wrestler. If you are unable to do any exercise, then certainly do start to walk. Don't jog or walk fast, simply walk at your comfort level. This will also help you mentally. 6 Get some sun. When they say that sunlight is important for all life forms, they mean that every life form requires sunlight even if they do not perform photosynthesis. Our body requires vitamin D which it will produce on it's own when the skin comes in contact with sunlight. The best time for sitting in the Sun is during the start and end of winter. 7 Reduce stress. This point does need a highlight. Some people who are prone to stress or have a tension filled life must stop. If you are one of them, then stop this schedule right now. All efforts will go waste[even this article] if you take stress. Stress can be curbed by the one hour walk suggested above. But the first step will be to take a leave for at least 2 days. Then you should start walking and during this break, forget work. Nice excuse but very important because stress can cause a lot of harm. A lot. If you really are stress prone, do consult a doctor. 8 No risk. When it comes to health, never take a risk. The value of health is most understood when you lose it. So don't risk it.