The body is really no different from a car. Like any machine, if you want it to last and give you years of trouble-free service for the maximum duration, it requires regular and routine maintenance.
If you want to get the most miles out of your car then you have to follow a routine and preventative maintenance programme, like regular change of oil and oil filter every 5,000 miles, change of air filter every 10,000 miles, a tuning and service every 25,000 miles and so on. Any mechanic will tell you that if you want your car to last for a long time and remain in good condition you must take care of it.
Likewise, it is the law of Nature that if you do not follow a routine maintenance programme using the proper fuels and fluids, if you do not follow a routine preventative maintenance programme … the machine that is your body will break down.
Your body, like your car, uses fuel to run and as it runs it creates waste products, like the exhaust of your car. In order to ensure your body machine runs at its optimum level, it is important to use the best fuels and periodically cleanse the internal parts. This is very important even if you happen to live in the best of environments. Sadly, for the greater part, most of us live far from the best of environments. The problem is, despite the fact that most of us in this day in age live to about 70 to 75 years of age, medical scientists agree that if properly nourished and maintained, the human body should last for about 125 years! They argue that the only reason that it doesn’t is because of our lifestyles. We lose approximately 50 years from our potential lifespan because of the air we breathe, the fluids we drink, the foods that we eat … and the lives that we live. We are killing ourselves 50 years too early! And though we may not be able to change the air we breathe or the lifestyles we live, we can change the way we live, just by changing the way we eat and drink, allowing ourselves the time to give our body machine the maintenance and service it needs … and living healthily to our full potential.
© Merlee Harris 2009
