Health Is wealth if these steps are taken to boost our body immunity: Let’s start by taking our first healthy steps now!
Health & Relationships
STEP 1: You need to exercise, commit to a healthy lifestyle, rest and feed your cells, not poison them. The poisons seem to be everywhere and being so accustomed to seeing them everywhere we’ve been brainwashed into thinking they are food; white rice, white bread, meat, sugar, salt, junk foods, carbonated drinks, alcohol, fertilizer laden fruits and vegetables. Our first health step then involves a continuous, gradual and consistent shift to healthier options and choices by setting periodic goals: this month I would start drinking water first thing in the morning and last thing at night, that month I will start taking brown unpolished (ofada) rice and good quality wheat bread only, that month I’d jog on the spot or do jumping jacks for five minutes daily and the list is endless! Don’t feel too guilty if you don’t attain your goals, just keep working at them
HEALTH & environment
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| Fruits and Vegetables for a Healthy Vegetarian Lifestyle: This is the best food regime against nutritional diseases. |
STEP 2: Your body has to be fed with living cells because your cells are alive and to
sustain them has to be something that is also alive. My cells also renew themselves
periodically and the quality of the new cells is a function of what I put in. If the cells
are sickly or weak they would be easily tossed about by every damn disease. The value
of eating a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables cannot be overemphasized
STEP 3: Focus on prevention early in life. We only talk of servicing a machine its engines have not knocked down completely. The only meaningful action is the one you do when the body can still appreciate it. The most worthwhile health investment you can take is the one you take now when no degenerative disease (cancer, diabetes, stroke, hypertension )has surfaced. All the herbs, nutrients, surgeries, massage, ionic detoxification, surgeries would only buy a few more years, months or even days …. except …except… a miracle occurs.
How do I bring up my child as a friend and not as a superior or inferior being? I want my child to be healthy and not full of complexes that he can’t relate well among his peers and fully exhibit his potentials. I need to ask myself what am I communicating to this child through my words, action and all the various ways that I relate to him.
Are my words coloured with spite, unbelief, disregard and a lot of impatience? Am I quick to spank or raise my voice? If I do this, am I not seeing my child as an inferior being?
Rather do I embrace dialogue and try to understand my child while gently leading him in the way he ought to go. Of course I can be firm while communicating my standards while also seeking to understand my child.
Healthy relationships are food to the soul. The soul is the seat of the will, emotion and intellect. We need to work on having healthy relationships with colleagues, friends and family (both nuclear and extended). When our relationships are not healthy or we do not enjoy good friendships , we become weak psychologically and focus on our anger an d pain at the expense of our goals and the future. We have to consciously decide not to be hurt again, to forgive those who have hurt us and even in the midst of provocation to remain calm in speech and manners so we do not inflict emotional damage to those we have cause to relate with.
ENVIRONMENT
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight international development goals that were officially established following the Millennium Summit of the United Nations in 2000, following the adoption of the United Nations Millennium Declaration.
All 193 United Nations member states and at least 23 international organizations have agreed to achieve these goals by the year 2015.
The goals are:
1. Eradicating extreme poverty and hunger,
2. Achieving universal primary education,
3. Promoting gender equality and empowering women,
4. Reducing child mortality rates,
5. Improving maternal health,
6. Combating HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases,
7. Ensuring environmental sustainability, and
8. Developing a global partnership for development.
“The environment is the foundation upon which every development will rest. Whatever it cannot sustain, we definitely can’t enjoy”
“Although individual decisions may seem small in the face of global threats and trends, when billions of people join forces in common purpose, we can make a tremendous difference.”
(UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon)
World Environment Day ('WED') is celebrated every year since 1976 on 5th June to raise global awareness of the need to take positive environmental action. It is an initiative from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). YOU too can take proactive steps for the wellbeing of the environment.
YEAR WED THEME
1974 Only one Earth
1975 Human Settlements
1976 Water: Vital Resource for Life
1977 Ozone Layer Environmental Concern; Lands Loss and Soil Degradation
1978 Development Without Destruction
1979 Only One Future for Our Children – Development Without Destruction
1980 A New Challenge for the New Decade: Development Without Destruction
1981 Ground Water; Toxic Chemicals in Human Food Chains
1982 Ten Years After Stockholm (Renewal of Environmental Concerns)
1983 Managing and Disposing Hazardous Waste: Acid Rain and Energy
1984 Desertification
1985 Youth: Population and the Environment
1986 A Tree for Peace
1987 Environment and Shelter: More Than A Roof (Nairobi, Kenya)
1988 When People Put the Environment First, Development Will Last (Bangkok, Thailand)
1989 Global Warming; Global Warning (Brussels, Belgium)
1990 Children and the Environment (Mexico city, Mexico)
1991 Climate Change. Need for Global Partnership (Stockholm, Sweden)
1992 Only One Earth, Care and Share (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
1993 Poverty and the Environment – Breaking the Vicious Circle (Beijing China)
1994 One Earth One Family (London, United Kingdom)
1995 We the Peoples: United for the Global Environment (Pretoria, South Africa)
1996 Our Earth, Our Habitat, Our Home (Istanbul, Turkey)
1997 For Life on Earth (Seoul, Republic of Korea)
1998 For Life on Earth – Save Our Seas (Moscow, Russian Federation)
1999 Our Earth – Our Future – Just Save It! (Tokyo, Japan)
2000 The Environment Millennium – Time to Act (Adelaide, Australia)
2001 Connect with the World Wide Web of Life(Torino, Italy and Havana, Cuba)
2002 Give Earth a Chance (Shenzhen, People's Republic of China)
2003 Water – Two Billion People are Dying for It! (Beirut, Lebanon)
2004 Wanted! Seas and Oceans – Dead or Alive? (Barcelona, Spain)
2005 Green Cities – Plan for the Planet! (San Francisco, United States)
2006 Deserts and Desertification – Don't Desert Drylands! (Algiers, Algeria)
2007 Melting Ice – a Hot Topic? (Tromsø, Norway)
2008 Kick The Habit – Towards A Low Carbon Economy (Wellington, New Zealand)
2009 Your Planet Needs You – UNite to Combat Climate Change (Mexico City, Mexico)
2010 Many Species. One Planet. One Future (Kigali, Rwanda)
2011 Forests: Nature at your Service (New Delhi, India)
2012 Green Economy: Does it include you? (Brazil)
2013 Think.Eat.Save. Reduce Your Foodprint (Mongolia)