Lifestyle as Treatment

Western society suffers from major lifestyle-related diseases, such as heart disease, diabetes, cancer, obesity, arthritis, autoimmune disorders, and many more.  And research indicates that about 90% of these lifestyle-related diseases could be prevented by following an optimal lifestyle.  But lifestyle is not just about prevention. Our own experience over the last many years is that lifestyle change is a powerful means of slowing, stopping, and reversing any number of medical conditions.

Heart and blood vessel disease, such as angina and hypertension; and metabolic disorders such as diabetes and hypoglycaemia; and many other ailments are beginning to be recognized as due to the diet we consume. The diet in technologically advanced countries has a total fat content of 40 to 50 percent of calories consumed. It is also very high in refined carbohydrates. An especially damaging food combination is refined fats and refined sugars. Investigators have found that in poorer countries where the people eat 20 percent of total calories in fat, where the diet consists mainly of unrefined carbohydrates as whole grains, fruits and vegetables, these diseases are almost never found. The more the fat and refined carbohydrates eaten, the more degenerative disease is found.

A set point for any feature of human biochemistry, anatomy or physiology is that point which the body recognizes as being “normal.” It has to do with such things as the water level of the blood, the haemoglobin level, cholesterol level, sodium level, potassium level, and all other blood chemistry levels. And the most familiar set point is the body temperature. For many of us, most of these “set points” creep upward with age. Is this rise a necessary and inevitable factor of aging, or is it a problem of education at the cellular level, making the body misinterpret excessive levels as being normal? It seems so far as weight is concerned, it is in fact a form of learning taking place at the cellular level which recognizes a new steady state as being normal. This means that if we, through lifestyle choices or bodily malfunction, have a sustained elevation or depression of an element, a nutrient, or other “set point,” our body will concede to the usurper and will evermore seek to maintain this new “normal.”

All this can be changed or reversed or prevented by simple changes in LIFESTYLE! We are here to help you achieve this at the OLIVE BIBLE HEALTH MINISTRIES.

Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; Psalms 103:2-3