Thursday 28th August 2008 - Week Six Day Four - Global Health Challenge

Let's see if we can get more knowledge on how your Body works.
Your body is a very intelligent machine. When learning how best to understand this I found value that this knowledge will make us ALL better at taking care of our Human ECO System.

How can this improve our health ?
Good question. This knowledge has limited value unless we put it into practice. Part of the problem we have identified was confusion and lack of knowledge so we are already better off once we start to apply this knowledge.

The reference to the “ECO” part of my title is that I wanted to point out that “ecology is the study of living things and how they interact with their environment”. We are now hearing and seeing a lot of media about how the interaction of human's with the EARTH is damaging it’s ecology. This seems “illogical”. Why damage the place we can live ?

When you say that out loud it almost brings a visceral response of “yeah why would we do that ?” from nearly everyone that I spoke to. We all know of the frantic efforts and worldwide alarm that has been raised about what WE are causing with Global Warming and Carbon Emissions and it occurred to me that the body is much like the EARTH.

The body is a complex human eco-system that exists by us both absorbing certain chemicals and nutrients from foods we eat and then using those chemicals and nutrients provided for the production of life serving energy, hormones, building blocks of repair, waste removal, movement and brain function.

To provide us with energy, we ingest nutritional fuel (food and / or liquids). This Energy in the body is used to assist us to move, breathe, live and ultimately survive. Imagine your blood stream is a river and when you eat foods that are unhealthy it is like taking a bag of rubbish and throwing into the river. Think of it as "pollution". How many times a day do you pollute your human eco-system and what damage is being done?

That "pollution" that YOU have introduced will now have a direct impact on the eco-system environment in which it travels. Your "polluted river" (bloodstream) now travels around your whole body and goes to places that it then further pollutes. You have no idea where that rubbish will end up or of the problems it will cause. In the body when this pollution gets out of control we get diseases that present with conditions like Obesity, Diabetes, Hypertension, Coronary Heart Disease and none of those are good.

Another example to think about is that in producing or using energy we give off heat, such as when you are active or moving around a lot, which is then taken to the surface so we can cool down. Much like the EARTH, we seem to be doing ourselves no favours by constantly existing in a dehydrated state causing our bodies damage that presents initially as symptoms, which when ignored for long enough results in disease.

Next time you take a look at your skin and it looks dry it is telling you that it needs more water, think of a dry creek bed and how the similar it is. Inside your body every single day there are interactions with nutrients, chemicals, hormones, bio-organisms. If not maintained in balance you create an unhealthy environment for example; increased acid production, reduced elimination, weight and fat gain, faster ageing (both inside and out), atherosclerotic plaques etc to name only a few.

Are YOU doing everything you can for your Human ECO System or is it slowly being destroyed with Global Warming and Pollution .... Tomorrow I list some examples of the harm we do to ourselves, which sounds a lot like the damage that we are doing to the EARTH !

Goal of this twenty one (21) days or three (3) weeks is designed to consolidate the first 5 weeks including the Human ECO Cleanse and to now establish patterns for your new LIFE.

- Assess your eating habits and see what you have re-introduced. Did you re-introduce caffeine or red meat and have you found you can now do without as much of these
- Check your workout intensity and now see if you are planning these in to your routine- Reward yourself with only 21 days to go.
NOTE - this is isn't the end but rather the beginning of YOUR new Human ECO friendly LIFE.

TONY 's DIARY - (Week Six - Day Four)
Protein Re-introduced - Increased Good Fats

Breakfast:
Energy Shake - 400ml Water + 40g Protein Powder + Combination Greens Powder + Organic Coconut Oil. Take a Daily Multi vitamin + Joint Power + 2 x Omega 3 Capsules

Mid Morning Snack:
2 x Pieces of Soy Linseed Toast + Avocado + Tomato

Lunch:
Turkey Mince with assorted Vegetables (Carrot/Beans/Broccolli/Potato) cooked in a Stew with 2 pieces of Soy Linseed Toast

Mid Afternoon snack:2 slices Soy Linseed Bread with Avocado + Tomato + 20g Protein Powder with water + Organic Coconut Oil

Dinner:
100g Lamb + Mixed Salad + 1/2 Cup of Brown Rice

2 Hours before Bed:
400ml water + Fibre Shake + Combination Greens + Organic Coconut Oil

Overall - Water consumption = Habit is now committed to action. No Training session today as I was writing all day.

Daily mantra:
I am totally committed to supporting my Human ECO System with my actions.