How to Tell If You Are Getting Healthier

One of the first questions you should ask is how often do you get sick?

A good immunity system counters inflammation and fights sickness. Following pretty simple guidelines, I have not been sick in at least ten years.

How is your weight compared to your high school weight?

Most people were there leanest in high school because they were active and their energy was off the charts with very high metabolism. As we get older and eat the same food our lower metabolism causes us to pack on those extra pounds. It would seem right that we have to eat differently, not less.

Are you exercising daily?

When you are a child you are in constant motion. This continuous exercise allows the tearing down of muscle tissue and rebuilding into stronger muscles. The human body is formed from hundreds of species that pre date us by millions of years. We started as algae and progressed to sea born animals, then amphibians, then dinosaurs, and finally ape like creatures.

The body still thinks it is living in nature. Modern man has only lived in civilizations where he can shop at a market for a few years in evolutionary time.

How much sugar do you eat?

Most refined foods that come in cans, packages, and restaurant menus have lots of sugar. A 1,000 calorie fast food meal of a hamburger, fries, and soda have more sugar than a large hunk of elk. Your body uses sugar to estimate how much food you ate. A 1,000 calorie fast food meal translate to a 10,000 calorie intake which signals a call for enormous amounts of insulin, gastric acid, and several other dangerous chemicals.

When man foraged and hunted, food didn’t have refined sugar. He would eat fruit, vegetables, nuts, and meat. When man exercised daily and ate natural food, the body did not have to store much fat. It used the fats as fuel to do more hunting and foraging. We no longer train the body to use fat as fuel unless we do anaerobic exercise.

Exercising everyday and eating natural food makes the body healthier. Everything else creates decay, sickness, disease, disability, chronic ailments, and early death.