I Believe
and I Do
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By Ariston P
Awitan Jr. M.D.
In order to
do something for your life’s benefit, you first must believe
in what you are going to do.
Belief is the driving force of a human being. Let me discuss this
on the human side, not involving
the spiritual belief. Let me just take one aspect of what
one does for his life with regards to his health.
1. First, you have to believe that it
is your responsibility to be healthy.
You are the one who choose where you live, what kind of
life you are going to lead. We live in an environment
where there are a lot to toxins
circulating in the air. We are exposed to a lot of chemicals present in the air
or those that we bring to our homes, the
pesticides that are use to grow
our food resources, the pesticides that we use to
prevent insects to invade our homes,
the cleaning chemicals that we use for
cleaning our houses, and even those chemicals
that we apply to our bodies to
clean and beautify ourselves. Those chemicals
carry toxins that are harmful to our health.
2.
Second,
we
have to believe that we are
responsible for what we eat to maintain our health, and not to overload ourselves with too much fat, too much sugar and too
much acidic food. We learned
that we have to maintain our bodies in an alkaline state for better
health. If we don’t believe this basic
knowledge, we should not be
surprised that we are gaining the unnecessary weight and get
sick.
3.
Third,
we have to believe that to maintain good functioning of our organ systems, we should not only maintain a balanced nutrition,
but also take at least the daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. We have to believe that it
is impossible and impractical to take the amount of fruits and vegetables to meet these daily requirements.
Therefore we have to take nutritional supplements in the form of powder,
capsules or tablets to meet these requirements.
4.
We
have to believe that anti-oxidants which are contained in nutritional
supplements are necessary for neutralizing the free
radicals in our bodies to prevent
degenerative diseases and delay
the inevitable aging process that our bodies undergo through the years. We don’t
even have to understand the details of
how these anti-oxidants neutralize the free radicals before we take them, just
as we do not need to understand the
details how the car engine works
before driving our cars.
5. We have to believe that physical fitness is important for our health. You see people walking,
jogging, running around your neighborhood early in the morning or late in the afternoon because they believe in physical fitness for health maintenance.
The above things I do
because I believe them. And I am a good
testimony for these beliefs. I have passed through my 80th birthday, Praise the Lord,
still kicking around, still walking
every morning with my arnis-kali stick-fighting sticks, one on each hand, and passing my most recent medical check-up by our
family physician with flying colors.
Ariston P Awitan, Jr. M.D.
832-571-6885
Skype: doctony1932
Email: aristonmdmm@gmail.com
