Blah! Blah! Blah! Is that how you wish you could respond, when you hear people start talking about toxins?
Me, too!
The problem is, I've learned too much in the last 1 ½ years to allow myself to ignore it. It's a slow, agonizing death, to plead ignorance.
Do I want my kidderz to end up like typical Americans: sluggish and unmotivated, at best; fighting chronic disease, most likely; or worst-case, suffering and dying from cancer? No way!
I've found I can do something to try to help them avoid living like that, and so I'm on a mission to do so.
Recently, I overheard someone say, when approached by an Isagenix distributor talking about toxins, that they believe if we eat right, we can avoid toxicity, and so a detox is not a necessity. Oh, dear! If they only knew.
That is what triggered me to write this post. I want to offer some information, and put some resources in front of you, so you can make an educated decision for yourself.
Yes, eating right is one great way to keep the level of toxicity lower in the body. However, most of us have already put toxins in our body since a young age, and we're still being bombarded every day with more! Because of that, our bodies get overwhelmed with toxins, and they do their best, but still end up with challenges.
"With the increase of toxins within the environment and foods we eat, it is not surprising that the majority of people are at a level of toxicity that is past the point that the body's own natural detoxification system can cope with." - ecomall
As I listed out in Mick's up on Toxicity, there is a multitude of challenges you could be facing, due to toxicity. Inflammation plays a big part. Plus, our bodies are meant to be in a neutral state, but we tend toward acidic. Toxins, food choices, etc., increase the acidity, and so nutrition can help with swinging the pendulum more toward alkaline. However, that is not the topic I'm focusing on at this point.
Not only is it the obvious stuff that causes toxicity in our bodies, but it's the sneaky stuff, too: candy and sugar, artificial sweeteners, fillings, chemicals, vaccinations, antibiotics and other medicines, grains, processed foods, deoderants, soaps and detergents, cosmetics. The list goes on and on, but don't get overwhelmed. Just start somewhere!
Do you want to go days, weeks, months without a headache? Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired? Do swollen, achy joints drag you down? Are you living in a fog? Does the thought of living with Alzheimer's scare you? Are you wondering if... when... you will hear the doctor say the word, "cancer!?"
You don't have to sit around and let these things happen to you. You are not a victim, or at least you don't have to live like one. Take some precautions, and make some first steps to changing your lifestyle for the better. I won't lie. It's not easy... but it can be simple.
Why do I believe you can't just rely on eating the right foods to keep you from being toxic? "Your fat cells can accumulate numerous types of toxins." - Tom Venuto
"Body fat functions as a storage mechanism not only for things you need -- such as essential vitamins -- but also things you can do without: environmental toxins, for example. A significant loss of body fat sometimes evacuates some of these stored toxins into the blood or tissues. While it's not possible to avoid environmental pollutants, the benefits of body fat loss far outweigh the potential risk of releasing toxins from the fat cells." - Emma Roberts (Livestrong)
"The highly intelligent immune system will not allow the removal of excess fat and water if the level of toxins that is stored in the fat and water may put your life in jeopardy by their release into the bloodstream." - Healing Naturally by Bee
What this is telling us is that the toxins are stored in our body, unless we do something to get rid of them.
So, what is a person to do? One thing, the person I mentioned above was correct in saying, to watch your food intake, BUT I must also add... detox your body. Because I know I'm surrounded by toxins, and because I know I splurge now and then (eating sugary foods), I prefer to detox on a daily basis. I mention some resources in in Mick's Sum-up for the Week. (Hint: The picture in today's post has something to do with an ingredient used in most detox protocol.)
I encourage you to look into it. My hope is that you're not still thinking, "Blah! Blah! Blah!"
On a side note, but not at all less important, I must go on to say...
Even though we work hard to live healthy lives, we do eventually die. (It's worth doing our best to live at our best, so we can pass on the message of the Gospel and build up the kingdom of God.) So, we must put effort into planning for our eternity, too. We might suffer here on earth, but we don't have to suffer for eternity. Make the right choices now.
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!
In his great mercy he has given us new birth
into a living hope
through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade.
This inheritance is kept in heaven for you,
who through faith are shielded by God’s power
until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.
In all this you greatly rejoice,
though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials.
These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith
—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—
may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.
Though you have not seen him, you love him;
and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him
and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy,
for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
~
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