Are You Poisoned?

I walked past the doctor’s clinic last week on the 4th day of Chinese New Year and saw its waiting room filled with people.

I wonder if you noticed such a phenomenon, the doctor’s business is always the best after major holidays like Christmas, New Year, and Chinese New Year.

This is interesting because aren’t people supposed to be well rested and relaxed during such holidays??

The problem with such holidays is that they always involve gatherings and lots of feasting with friends and relatives.

There is nothing wrong with gatherings and feasting except that we tend to overeat and thus overload our systems.

Other than this, we also poison ourselves.

Poison?

Nope, I don’t mean the obvious smoking or drugs.

I am talking about foodstuff that leaves acids in your body and reduces your body’s ability to function at an optimal rate.

Acids burn and whichever parts of your body is the weakest will fall apart first. If it is your stomach, you will get stomach trouble like gastric flu. If it is your throat, you will get sore throat. If it is your lungs or nose, you will get a flu.

Research has also shown that when cells are put in acidic environments and deprived of oxygen, they mutate and become cancerous. Acidic environments will also cause your immune system to be weakened.

One of the key poisons that we take in without thinking daily is sugar.

If you remember, eating too much sweets causes tooth decay. It is the acid that the sugar produces in your mouth that burns through your teeth.

Just imagine what several glasses of Coke everyday will do to your system. And how much more such sweet and acidic food you consume during gatherings and feasts?

Other acidic foods includes sugar, meat, corn, coffee, beer, plums, prunes, eggs, fish, liver, wine, yogurt, tobacco, softdrinks, vinegar, most fermented foods and aged cheeses. Just Google “acidic foods”and you will find a whole list of them.

What we eat everyday are mostly acidic. What you can do is to balance that off with alkaline foods.

Most green vegetables are alkaline and surprise, surprise, lemons, limes, oranges, and strawberries are actually alkaline.

Here’s what you can easily do to help balance your system: Squeeze some lemon into a glass of water and drink that throughout the day.

Here’s more. What is more poisonous is the acid you manufacture yourself.

Negative emotions, like stress, resentment, anger, depression, sadness causes your system to become acidic as well!

In fact, very acidic.

I’m not saying that you have to avoid all negative emotions. These emotions are built-in as a feedback and signaling mechanism for us so that we can function better.

The trick is to remember that when such emotions occur, they are a signal to you that something is not going according to what you want and so, it is time to do things differently.

Do not remain in such negative emotions for too long. Getting “addicted” to these poisonous emotions is the surest way to burn yourself out quickly.

Remember that health is wealth. And your life can only be meaningful if you have the health, energy and strength to do what you want to do.