Eat Away Your Inflammation, Arthritis and Bursitis Pain
Do You Know, "You Actually Physically Reflect What You Eat"!
We have moved, as a culture and society here, in the Western world, so far away from eating healthy over past decades, but it doesn't have to be this way. It is a matter of awareness. It is a matter of choice. It is a matter of behaviors that work: towards good health; that work towards poor health; or behaviors that don't really do much specifically towards any direction, but without health focus, generally lead to more unhealthy outcomes by default. Why? Because disease, specifically chronic disease, creeps up like an invisible enemy. If you don't notice the slow underlying negative impacts of poor eating, you most likely will feel the impact when you are older, less active, burning fewer calories as result of a slower metabolism, experience thyroid changes, experience cholesterol changes, experience blood pressure changes, etc. People often associate these changes to old age, but really it is about an eroding health condition, many people in studies (blue zone studies) have lived long into their 90's and even into their hundreds in very good health and they did this by living a simple life and eating whole foods, minimally processed mainly consisting of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, healthy fats and minimal amounts of clean healthy protein. If you are not eating in "camp healthy", the negative patterns chosen may, and most likely will, slowly eat away at your health baseline and your overall wellness in response will most likely start to decline and perhaps "yes", you now start to even age faster.
Add to this mix, medicines that start to become part of your daily regimen to try and reclaim some control over your symptoms and health whereby circumstances often become more complicated. Little by little, you lose the edge of heath because with regard to chronic illness, repair and obtaining better health status generally requires a combination of medical assistance, dramatic positive healthy eating implementation strategies and modification to current lifestyle. Medicine alone for chronic illness does not repair, it manages symptoms, and this is quite different! For the general population, medicine used for chronic illness without dramatic positive change to poor eating patterns and lifestyle, generally lead to more and more medicine being needed in time to control symptoms and try to alleviate to the extent possible, the damage done or that may soon occur. For example, an individual with Type 2 diabetes, can in many if not most cases in the early stages of diabetes or prediabetes, turn their disease around through the use of food as medicine and through implementing positive lifestyle behaviors. There have been many who even successfully did this in later stages of diabetes through dramatic changes in eating and lifestyle, along with medicine. Some have been able to reduce their intake of insulin or even eliminate it; now that is empowering! An improvement in blood sugar levels is also an opportunity of prevention for many other chronic diseases, illnesses and even early death.
With regard to arthritis and bursitis symptoms and root causes, if you take medicine to alleviate the inflammation but do not change unhealthy eating pattern or unhealthy behaviors, you will not fix the actual problem, you are only band aiding the problem. The band aid can't keep up with the changes as the body moves along in decline and more medical intervention often becomes necessary, including steroidal shots and surgery, etc. Inflammation is the damage occurring within the body that evokes chronic disease. Stop the inflammation, and health will reclaim what it can; and this is dependent on the severity of damage done but health will still improve in most cases. Internal repair has been profound in many cases, so why not try? I am living proof of this through fabulous restoration of my health reducing arthritis and bursitis where I no longer have any need for medicine. I have no need of painkillers to help my hip, leg or foot. I no longer have severe sciatica and I no longer have a limp that came and went with surging pain. There is no need for a prescription, shots or any surgery, I live pain free and without aspirin or Tylenol. I was a serious candidate for all three medical interventions (and I am thankful there were these options, but they are not for me, at least not at this point in my life). A dramatic change by me through food as my medicine and regular lifestyle changes, brought about my change in health status. I became well, fully well. I require no medications at all to sustain my health. My focus is my food and lifestyle. I changed my work to holistic health and holistic herbalism to help others reclaim their health as well.
Chronic diseases that stem from so-called hereditary causes (about 15%) and then poor food choices and lifestyle (about 85%). There are always a few exceptions to these rules and not everybody comes from the same health box but add to the mix social and cultural food and lifestyle behavior impacts and there is a living dynamic of positive or negative energy happening. Is it good energy or bad? That is up to you to decide, or perhaps your doctor will advise you following a health screening but, just ask yourself these questions: Does your current eating behavior leave you at a good and healthy weight? Do you feel good after you eat or full, bloated and in discomfort? Do you have signs of inflammation via chronic disease? Do you have digestive issues? Does your current eating behavior lead to good or better controlled cholesterol numbers? Does your current eating pattern negatively or positively impact your blood sugar? Are you aware of what you should eat to reduce inflammation? Are you aware of food as medicine? Well, here it is on a plate (so to speak). Healthy eating is whole food eating, minimally processed that offers a food plan that works towards your health and pleases your palate, is taken in appropriate serving sizes for your physical need that is nutrient rich and inclusive of all essential minerals, vitamins, proteins, carbohydrates, etc. And, if you are eating animal products, you should source it from only organic clean and natural sources, properly prepared and eaten only in minimal amounts.
How does your body reflect the food you eat? If you need help in creating a healthier version of yourself, please contact me using the contact links within the website to set an appointment on my calendar to learn more. You can find information about our services under the services page. Under the About Page is more information. Please feel free to follow Faith Works Wellness' Face Book pages, see below. Please see the blog "Traditional Medicine and Holistic Herbalism" found on this website for more information on this topic; and also, a little of my health history. We address holistic health which means we work in mind, body and spirit to bring about the most beneficial holistic change. See resources below that interest you:
May you live in good health and peace,
Candy Flanagan
Chronic pain: Medication decisions - Mayo Clinic
Lifestyle and Disease Prevention: Your DNA Is Not Your Destiny (nutritionfacts.org)
Reversing Disease with Food | Psychology Today
Why People in "Blue Zones" Live Longer Than the Rest of the World (healthline.com)
Foods that fight inflammation - Harvard Health
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