Top ‘local’ tips for keeping healthy:
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[li] Cut down fructose and sugar in our diet (for healthy bowels and to get weight down)[/li]
[li] Include vinegar apple cider vinegar and lemon juice to help digestion[/li]
[li] Pay careful attention to hydration.[/li]
[li] Know your water. Could it have parasites in it? Purify in some way first if in doubt.[/li]
[li] Don’t sit for longer than 20 minutes without getting up and moving around a bit.[/li]
[li] Use good food hygiene practices when preparing food and don’t leave it out of the fridge[/li]
[li] Wash hands – most germs transmitted by hands either hand-to-hand or on handles and places we touch[/li]
[li] Clean fingernails with a nail file several times a day[/li]
[li] If you’re sick with an infection don’t share it around. Keep it at home until you are well.[/li]
[li] Learn about the sterilising & preserving: iodine bi carb soda salt silver colloid sugar…[/li]
[li] Get enough sleep and rest. Keep the stress levels and hyperactivity down. Learn the art of taking it easy and living gracefully. Meditate.[/li]
[li] Listen to your body. Keep your exercise exertion to a middle range and don’t push through pain – it is warning that you are going in the wrong direction[/li]
[li] Value your sense of balance. Eliminate tripping hazards. Avoid falls.[/li]
[li] Be ruthless about mould in our homes. Not good stuff for health.[/li]
[li] Don’t smoke[/li]
[li] Learn how to breathe so you aren’t hyperventilating[/li]
[li] Keep the bugs from your airways – gargle morning and night with bi-carb soda[/li]
[li] Change your toothbrush regularly and don’t reinfect yourself from it[/li]
[li] Get a free blood pressure check at your local pharmacy[/li]
[li] Learn how to reset your vagus nerve[/li]
[li] Discover magnesium and vitamin B6 (balanced with other B vitamins) for your heart[/li]
[li] Don’t forget the garlic and cayenne pepper and turmeric (home grown) and ginger[/li]
[li] Find a way to get selenium into your diet.[/li]
[li] Keep the ratio of Omega 6 to Omega 3 fatty acids in your diet to the right ratio. Mainly this will mean watching that Omega 6 fatty acids like canola oil are kept right down. Omega 3 isn’t needed in quantity but does need to be in the right ratio to Omega 6.[/li]
[li] Don’t eat rancid or highly processed or trans fats[/li]
[li] In cultures where you don’t squat use a footstool or strong box to raise your feet while going to the toilet[/li]
[li] Learn about iodine. Your body needs it. What are your iodine levels like? Breasts need lots of it.[/li]
[li] Learn about salt. We live in a hot climate. Your body cannot exist without enough salt.[/li]
[li] Pay attention to safety first. At home at work at school on the roads on the sporting fields in the workshop our little children our elderly[/li]
[li] Don’t mess with snakes and spiders.[/li]
[li] Involve ourselves in our local community. Build connections. Volunteer. Belong. It will do more for your wellbeing than just about any other action.[/li]
[li] Practice attitudes of gratitude and forgiveness[/li]
[li] Take charge and control of your life. Learn how to empower yourself. Move away from disempowering people and situations.[/li]
[li] Find and marry the very best life partner you can to approach life together as a strong mutually beneficial & protective & loving team[/li]
[li] Keep active and interested. Join local groups for social activities. Play sport or a hobby. Join a walking group.[/li]
[li] Avoid debt.[/li]
[li] Don’t drink fizzy drinks – they leach calcium from your bones[/li]
[li] Keep the decibels down if your want to keep your hearing. Choose between rock concerts & loud headphone music – and deafness & hearing aids.[/li]
[li] Eyes – take care of them. They are precious & when they’re gone they’re gone.[/li]
[li] Avoid asbestos and asbestos dust totally[/li]
[li] Avoid inhaling toxic fumes. Learn to recognise toxic substances well in advance.[/li]
[li] Get some sunlight on our skin for Vitamin D but not a lot (10 minutes will do). Cover up well much of the time outdoors. Keep in the shade. Also protect your eyes. Wear hats.[/li]
[li] Don’t wear underwired bras.[/li]
[li] Try having some lemon juice each day.[/li]
[li] Don’t overdo eating foods high in growth hormones (eggs in particular) – they increase our breasts and ovaries cancer risk[/li]
[li] Keep alcohol consumption very low. Don’t drink and drive.[/li]
[li] Don’t eat burnt charcoaly food[/li]
[li] Eat your carrots sweet potatoes silver beet… The carotenoids (vitamin A precursers) are needed for health[/li]
[li] Look after your feet. Check them daily for cuts. Attend to wounds.[/li]
[li] Avoid caffeine later in the day. Prepare to be ready to go to sleep soundly.[/li]
[li] Do those post-natal exercises religiously.[/li]
[li] Get pelvic floor strength working well. [/li]
[li] Progressive resistance training with weights to give strength is one of the best exercises for bone strength in old age[/li]
[li] Beware soy[/li]
[li] Garbage in garbage out. Don’t feed your brain garbage. Choose what you listen to and watch.[/li]
[li] Keep off marijuana[/li]
[li] Get enough folate pre-pregnancy[/li]
[li] Learn about your body’s hormonal cycles. Learn to choose if you become pregnant or not. Beware of IUDs and tubal ligation as forms of contraception.[/li]
[li] Know the side-effects of medications. Pill popping can come at great cost. While some might be necessary you might do much better through other approaches and avoid some dangerous side-effects.[/li]
[li] Take care of your joints[/li]
[li] Learn a discipline like yoga Feldenkrais pilates tai chi that helps movement balance & cares for muscles and joints & reduces pain[/li]
[li] Cut out sugar the carbohydrates and fruit juices which easily turn into sugar (especially high glycaemic index) all the excess omega-6 fatty acids & highly processed fats (margarine) soy artificial sweeteners.[/li]
[li] Fence the swimming pool and teach the kids to swim. And never stop watching them near water. Including young children in baths.[/li]
[li] Don’t back over the toddler.[/li]
[li] Don’t leave the kids in the car[/li]
[li] Don’t put your baby to sleep on its tummy or in your bed with you.[/li]
[li] Guard your identity and reputation[/li]
[li] Clean your teeth. Teach your children to clean their teeth. Use dental floss and toothpicks.[/li]
[li]Be part of working to improve social determinants of health identified by Sir Michael Marmot:[/li]
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[li]Give every child the best start in life. Read to your children daily. [/li]
[li]Ensure the population are educated and literate [/li]
[li]Ensure that employment conditions are safe and healthy for workers [/li]
[li]Ensure that everyone has enough income for healthy living [/li]
[li]Support sustainable communities [/li]
[li]Focus on prevention. [/li][/ul]
[li]Value law and order. Support our police. Be part of maintaining a secure safe community[/li]
[li]Support anti-bullying programs. Observe respectful courteous behaviour to others. Report bullying.[/li]
[li]Ask for help when you need it. Learn to recognise your limits. Set boundaries. Stop before you burn out. Identify where you can turn for trust and help. Be prepared to hand over when it is too hard.[/li]
[li]Choose your career and your bosses very carefully like a spouse. [/li]
[li]Do up your seat belts.[/li]
[li]Don’t drive when tired.[/li]
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