I've got a long way to go with exercise and some other elements of health, but I'm pretty close to knowing what my permanent diet should be.
I'm in the process of combining my journal entries and the information I've studied into a file that I can share with others if they want to know what I did during this process. Here are some interesting facts and thought provoking quotes about health:
“I am grateful to understand
that my physical body is an eternal, non-evil component of my eternal soul, and
that I have, therefore, a duty to honor and respect and care for it, and to
refrain from knowingly imposing upon it any treatment or substances deleterious
to it. While I could not choose nor govern the condition of the body into which
I came, I have the responsibility to give it the best care I can, and if I do
not I am acting in derogation of a great gift of God.”
--Marion D. Hanks, “For Man Is Spirit,” Era, vol. 61 (December
1958), p. 959.
- Every part of your body will be different in a year… We get new joints, hearts, lungs, muscles, kidneys, spleens, and livers every year.
- Every second, your body manufactures 2 1/2 million new red blood cells . Within a month, all your red blood cells are replaced with new ones…
- Your bone cells replace themselves in a rapid exchange, resulting in a brand-new skeleton about every two years. --Barbara Seuling
- The entire lining of your stomach and both intestines is replaced every three days. (L. M. Boyd)
"Anyone who reads a newspaper or magazine is constantly reminded that proper diet, appropriate exercise, and plenty of rest increase our daily capacities as well as our life span. But all too many of us put off even these minimal efforts, thinking our family, our neighbors, and our other many responsibilities come first.
Yet in doing so, we put at risk the thing these people need most from us: our healthiest, happiest, heartiest self. When they ask for bread, let us not be so weary and unhealthy that we give them a stone. The issue…is accepting that we are worth the time and effort it takes to achieve the full measure of our creation, and believing that it is not selfish, wrong, or evil. It is, in fact, essential to our spiritual development.
We know that exercise gives almost instant relief from tension. We know that if we give up caffeine and sugar, stop smoking, and give up being workaholics we can relieve stress. … Some people think that someone else will take the responsibility- their parents, their friends, their spouse, maybe even Mother Nature. But if you don't take care of yourself, no one else will…"
--Jeffrey R. Holland and Patricia T. Holland, On Earth As It Is in Heaven, p.66
Dr. Leonard Himler of the University of Michigan School of Public Health, a noted psychiatrist: "I have never in thirty-five years of practice treated a man or woman who has had a recreational hobby that involved regular large muscle exercise. And what’s more, I never will, because physical exercise provides the escape for pent-up emotional pressures. No classes in our universities compare in importance to the classes that teach people how to enjoy and partake of these necessary recreational activities."
“Our bodies are truly the result of what we
eat and the exercise we receive. If we are not wise, these little things can
soon catch up with us to become major health problems that will limit our
success and contribution. President Brigham Young once said, “Let us seek to
extend the present life to the uttermost, by observing every law of health, and
by properly balancing labor, study, rest, and recreation” --Joseph B. Wirthlin, Finding Peace In
Our Lives
