FIBER

A diet REGULARLY low in fiber is linked to increased incidence of colon cancer, heart disease, diverticular disease, hemorrhoids, constipation, gallstones, diabetes, obesity and appendicitis.

The western diet has come to consist of sugar, fat, and white flour in various forms, ultra-refined bread, cereals, doughnuts, cakes, pies, cookies, instant potatoes, and white rice.

It is only "modern enlightened civilization" which has recently given us our current highly processed grease filled, sugar laden high calorie diet.

Now look at man's original diet: Gen. 1;29,30

"And God said, Behold, I have given you every HERB bearing SEED, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, which is the FRUIT of a tree yielding SEED: to you it shall be for meat.

No mention of doughnuts and cookies, pies and cakes or high sugar laden calories, hot dogs, hamburgers, fries..... you get my point.

Actually, the green HERB was originally given to the animals as their meat.

It wasn't until after the fall of man that the "HERB of the field" (Gen. 3:18) was added to man's diet.

Grains, fruits, nuts, and vegetables constitute the diet chosen for us by our Creator.

Now don't think this is a religious piece. I'm just taking a look at what we're consuming and the affect it is having on our bodies. Of course the pollution of the air and water and ground is not helping matters any either. But our original diet gave us plenty of FIBER.

Fiber is the roughage needed by the intestines to move their contents ( the boo-boo ) through the digestive tract. Fiber acts like a sponge in the stomach. It prevents and relieves constipation. It keeps the stool ( the boo-boo ) moist, soft, and bulky. If you go to the bathroom and can read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation before your stool ( the boo-b00 ) passes, you're connnn-sti-pated.

I'm not recommending any particular diet. Eat this, don't eat that, but think about what you eat because it is going to have an affect on your HEALTH, and that's what this is all about.

MRS. C.

Mrs. C. , MY wife, my Lover, my woman, my friend, my buddy-pal, my sidekick,
OH! Poncho, OH! Sisco! I drank whiskey and Poncho drank the wine!

THE KIDS

Left to right. Chisara pronounced Chi-sa-da, ( Chi-Chi ), my oldest 24yrs old, Civil Engineer, graduated from the University of Detroit Mercy, now married to Fenton Oscar Brown Jr., Chemical Engineer, also an Alumni of the University of Detroit Mercy.

Next! My baby-girl, Aisha ( Buddah, because she was a fat baby ) 17yrs old, freshman at Wayne State University, Bio-Medical Research major, minor in Dance.

Next! Jessica ( J.J.) 21yrs old, Mother of Imani Nia, my GRAND-daughter , Oakland University, Nursing

H-2-O

WATER is the most essential component in your diet. We can live up to 40 days without food, but you will die within seven days without water. Your body is between 65-75% water. We are what we drink! So as you eliminate water from your body you must replenish your body with water.

Water is the key to all bodily functions. Your circulation system, it helps in assimilation, digestion of food, elimination of waste, and body temperature.

WATER! WATER! WATER!

The body needs WATER!

Pop, beer, alcohol, juice, coffee, kool aid, punch, all contain water in them, but your body needs to consume plain old W-A-T-E-R!!!!!!

H-2-O!!!

WATER is the key to ALL bodily functions.

The adage, "you are what you eat" is true, and equally true is the fact that "you are what you drink".

So DRINK-UP!!!

WATER! THE ELIXIR OF LIFE!!

PREVENTON

There is nothing more important than your health.

We'll put the finest clothes on the outside of our bodies, but we'll put anything on the inside our bodies. We'll put premium gas in our automobiles and junk food in our stomach. We'll learn about everything under the sun, except, what will help us stay healthy.

I guess, since we have health insurance and doctors and hospitals, if we get sick we'll just whip out the old insurance card, slap it down on the admitting desk and take a number.

Well the old adage, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" is still true.

If you had Bill Gates money, but someone had to pick you up and put you in bed, someone had to sponge bathe you, change your depends, clean you up afterwards, spoon feed you, when they took you to your limo, they had to carry you and put you in it, you would probably be willing to give up your riches for good health.

When we have our health, we tend to take it for granted. We all should take a little time to find out what makes us tick, and how to keep ticking.

I want to start sharing some information on by blog about health and hopefully start a dialog with others so as a people we can make better choices about what we eat.

We lost one of our City Council members here in Detroit as a result of complications due to gastric bypass surgery. She died too young. I don't believe in stapling, tying, clamping or wiring you stomach, jaws or anything else in order to lose weight.

Healthy choices in our food, exercise, fasting, supporting one another will go a long way in saving lives.

I will be getting back with you!!!

ENZYMES

Don't cut yo belly, staple yo tummy, tie off yo organs, deal with unknown side effects.

There's nothing more important than your HEALTH!

Why go through all those changes just to lose weight, and have someone tell you that you can't eat this or you can't eat that or it will make you sick.

Do you have to have someone cut yo belly, staple yo tummy, tie off yo organs and tell you not to eat something to lose weight????

Take a close look. Most people have flabby arms, flabby belly's, flabby legs, and sunken faces after they've been cut, tied, stapled, and sucked to death!!!

STOP! STOP! STOP! The MADNESS!!!

Let's make better choices about what we eat.

If you keep wink-ing at twink-ee and his cuz-ins cup cake and candy, keep shout'n HOT DOG!!!and "do FRIES come with that SHAKE" , you're going to find yo-self in trouble with a capital T.

Think about it. Everything you put in yo mouth, has an effect on yo body for better or worse.

Now lets get down to basics.

Yo body needs nutrients!!! Nutrients come from ENZYMES and ENZYMES come from the foods you put in yo mouth.

LIVE FOOD! = LIVE ENZYMES!

Carrots, beets, potatoes, celery, asparagus, lettuce, spinach, string beans, lima beans,broccoli, corn, apples, oranges, plums, grapes berries like straw and blue and ras, grapes, grape-fruit, tangerines, lemons, bananas, pineapple, papaya, kiwi, cucumber, tomatoes, okra, eggplant, melons like water, cantaloupe, all type of nuts, almond, walnut, peanut, cashew, pecan, filbert, coco-nut.

Dairy foods: fat-free or low-fat milk, yo-gurt, cheese.

Whole-grain breads and cereals

You get the picture!!!

Food goes in yo mouth - ENZYMES brake down the food into nutrients yo body can use - the nutrients are used by yo body to keep you ALIVE and HEALTHY without ------ cutting yo belly, stapling yo tummy, tying yo organs, or sucking the LIFE out of you.