Health and Fitness

Does anyone else think that physical and spiritual health go hand in hand?
I've been learning so much about natural healing and eating healthier for about 2 years now and still learning!
I used to work in a restaurant and eat and drink stuff that I wouldn't even call "food" now. I started learning that God designed us and gave us all the tools necessary to heal naturally and stay super healthy! I started working out a few months after my baby was born and continued eating healthier and healthier! I'm in the best shape of my life and I can't remember the last time I was sick.
I feel as though as I'm learning all of this cool and amazing stuff about my physical body, God's revealing to me the different areas in which my spiritual body needs healing and healthier input as well. And also, that I always need to keep learning. In both areas! Heh, it's like just when I think I'm doing great and I start to settle in, God reveals something new that I need to implement into my life. It can get frustrating...but I'm GROWING! How amazing!
He is so awesome! And so creative! He definitely HAS equipped us for every good work!

Yeah, I do have started to beleiving that eating healthy helps us staying fit both physically and spiritually. The first year I was married to my husband I was eating so unhealthy, and I noticed I got faster exhausted, even when I just walked for few minuts outside. I hated that feeling, as well as the feeling of gaining weight, since it makes me feel heavier and then that 'causes also physical as well as emotionally exhaustions. Now, since I started with my diet, I am feeling so much better with how I am physically and emotionally, and I feel as I have much more energy when eating healthier as well as not eating too much of the food too. Sure, it can be a bit hard at times. But I am doing better and better with it, as well as snacking on an bowl of salad if needed. It is also great seeing own results in going down in weight, I still need loosing some few more pounds before I am at my normal body weight, but I haven't gained more weight since I have been serious with doing my diet system. Sure, sometimes I have stayed stuck on one weight, where I didn't go up nor down, but it is better staying stuck there than going a lot more up again.

Anyways, it is not only about loosing weight from my side, staying and feeling fit is what counts a lot more to me.

Yes, I strongly believe that physical and spiritual health go hand in hand. Not only outward physical health but how healthy one is on the inside too through proper nutrition. I can't say that I've been practicing what I believe though :/

Yeah, I don't necessarily do it to lose weight, although that has been an awesome bonus! Working out and eating right have totally changed my attitude and emotional stability. I keep pushing harder and getting rewarded for it, just like my spiritual walk. God is cleaning out my insides and replacing it with all of His goodness. XD

Yeah... I think God teaches us all a bit different about those things.

I haven't been doing much fitness, though I have always loved doing more sports activities outside; Biking, running(I always most of the time had to run as fast as I could to reaching the bus, lol), going on loong walks, climbing, etc.... I still prefer this kinda sports more than doing fitness inside of a building. It is only when I first married, that I stayed most of the time inside and ate a lot more unhealthy, that I started getting some more and more weight. Earlier I had no problem with this, but then I was also a lot more active.

And now I am just trying to building myself more up to becoming and feeling more fit and healthy again, as well as there is need to loosing some weight for me too.

On this subject the SDA and it's Loma Linda University rule.
(No, I am not SDA, Yes, I am ovo-lacto-vegetarian)

The Seventh-day Adventist Position Statement on Vegetarian Diets

Adapted from the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists Nutrition Council

What is the vegetarian lifestyle?

For more than 130 years Seventh-day Adventists (SDAs) have practiced a vegetarian
dietary lifestyle because of their belief in the holistic nature of humankind. Whatever is
done in eating or drinking should honor and glorify God and preserve the health of the
body, mind and spirit.

The vegetarian diet recommended by Seventh-day Adventists includes the generous use
of whole grain breads, cereals and pastas, a liberal use of fresh vegetables and fruits, a
moderate use of legumes, nuts, seeds. It can also include low fat dairy products such as
milk, yogurt and cheeses and eggs. It is best to avoid high saturated fat and cholesterol
foods such as: beef, lamb, pork, chicken, fish and seafood. Coffee, tea and alcoholic
beverages provide few nutrients and may interfere with the absorption of essential
nutrients.


Has there been any research?

Since 1954 more than 250 articles have been published in scientific journals on the
Seventh-day Adventist lifestyle and health. In the 1960s, Loma Linda University, in
cooperation with the National Cancer Institute, began to study the health of SDAs. Later,
in the 1970s and 1980s, data on the Seventh-day Adventist lifestyle was collected and
analyzed under contract with the National Institutes of Health.

SDAs in general, have 50% less risk of heart disease, certain types of cancers, strokes,
and diabetes. More specifically, recent data suggests that vegetarian men under 40 can
expect to live more than eight years longer and women more than seven years longer
then the general population. SDA vegetarian men live more than three years longer than
SDA men who eat meat.

Researchers believe this added length of life and quality of health is due in particular to
the consumption of whole grains, fruits and vegetables as well as the avoidance of meat,
alcohol, coffee and tobacco.

Current evidence demonstrates that the more closely a person follows the lacto-ovo-
vegetarian diet the lower the risks of major diseases.

Link -->> Position Statement on Vegetarian Diet

The American Heart Association’s article on vegetarian diets

Link -->> (http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4777)


or the Mayo Clinic’s article on Vegetarianism: A Healthy Alternative or an Alternative to Healthy
Link -->> (http://nutrition-software-review.toptenreviews.com/
vegetarianism-a-healthy-alternative-or-an-alternative-to-healthy.html )

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