13 Essential Tips for Sustained Health & Vitality
This article features insights from Dr Peter Mansfield, a GP with over forty years of experience in health and nutrition. Here are his top tips for sustained well-being.
1. Eat food as close to its natural condition as possible
That means whole, fresh, raw when appropriate, organic or bio-dynamic in quality. Avoidance of refined, starchy food is a major step towards lasting health.
2. Drink water as pure as possible
Purified water is excellent. Hard water minerals are not necessarily the best source for your body. Consider adding a pinch of vitamin C powder to pure water.
3. Breathe air as fresh as possible
And breathe really deeply at least once a day. Learn to use your diaphragm for breathing. Fresh air is turbulent, especially downwind of the sea or mountains – visit both often.
4. Be physically active
In a way you enjoy, for at least 30 minutes three times weekly.
5. Be mentally active daily, doing new things
In a word, create. In particular, think laterally and outside the box. Don’t be afraid to be different.
6. Live to some purpose
Yours, not anybody else’s.
7. Avoid Sugar
And eat as little carbohydrate (starchy) food as possible. It’s mainly fuel, and very few of us toil hard enough for long enough to need surplus energy.
8. Nutritional supplements should resemble food as closely as possible
your body recognises, welcomes and depends upon the unrefined flesh of other creatures or plants. Supplements derived from food sources are often better absorbed.
9. Consume as much antioxidant food as possible
Vividly coloured foods are capable of trapping free radicals. You can hardly eat too much of the foods capable of stopping them. Most of them occur in vividly-coloured vegetables and fruit.
10. Assume you lack minerals because your food does
In particular, most people need more zinc and magnesium.
11. Avoid fluoride
It can interfere with body mechanisms. If you live in an area provided with fluoridated water, consider filtering it.
12. Support your immune system naturally
Tune up your immune system with all the nourishment it needs.
13. Propolis
Propolis from beehives is a powerful natural antiseptic. Use it to support your immune system during travel or cold seasons.
Dr Peter Mansfield
Since 1979 Dr Peter Mansfield’s main mission has been to devise a way in which people could foster their health proactively. He advocates for good nutrition, including growing your own organic vegetables and reducing toxic load.
The Better Health Beat Team