CHRONIC DISEASE
Many people do not understand what Chronic disease represents. A young boy in my neighborhood once told me that his father is late. when i told him that his father must have died of CHRONIC DISEASE, he said NO that his father died of STROKE. IGNORANCE is so high and this is why chronic disease is claiming so many lives.
Chronic disease is a Lifestyle disease that is unannounced, that silently appeared suddenly due to prolong damage done to the CELLS, TISSUES and ORGANS of the body due to gross abuse from DIET, lack of Physical ACTIVITY, REST and other substance abuse. Many metabolic damage occur but end result is organ failure, with resultant symptoms and signs that make the victim (patient) to see a medical doctor. Medical practice place emphasis on treating these symptoms and signs NEGLECTING the on-going Metabolic and Organ damage processes.
The result is living on drug for life on what is termed control of illness with drugs. INTEGRATIVE LIFESTYLE Management relies on the MARVELOUS SELF HEALING CAPACITY of the body. Tissues and Organs repair and heal themselves when new Cells are built to replace dying ones. Cells die and are replaced daily. Cells of Alimentary canal are replaced every 4 days . The longest tissue replacing cells take about 7 years replace itself.
A human being is completely new once every 7 years if the RAW materials for building new cells are available. These raw materials come from the food we eat. Bad food provides Bad raw materials and good food provides good raw materials. Nature has made it that we eat from WHOLE FOOD. Whole food is that food which is not processed, Cooked, planted with inorganic fertilizer or pesticides. Whole food contains the the RAW materials: VITAMINS, MINERALS, ESSENTIAL AMINO ACID, LIPIDS & STEROL, FIBER. By processing and cooking food has lost all these. Therefore, NO WHOLE DIET = NO HEALTHY TISSUES OR ORGANS and hence No healthy human beings. No wonder Chronic diseases; Diabetes Type 2, Heart disease, Stroke, Cancer, Chronic respiratory disease, Arthritis, Osteoporosis, Erectile dysfunction, Age related vision impairment etc are on the increase and claiming lives. APART FROM FRUITS AND SOME VEGETABLES, THERE IS NO OTHER WHOLE FOOD SOURCE FOR LIPIDS, ESSENTIAL AMINO ACID VITAMINS AND MINERALS. In solving this problem NEOLIFE INTERNATIONAL in 1958 developed WHOLE FOOD SUPPLEMENT to fight Chronic diseases
Healthy food Pyramid