We are there, not we will get there someday, or how much longer before I get there.

What is there? There is overcoming the disease, overcoming the relationship struggle, overcoming the financial disaster, overcoming the three year long unemployment or just overcoming the need to get somewhere, anywhere other than where you are right now.

As the truth of the saying goes, “This is as good as it gets.”

This brings up many questions:

1. How can this be as good as it gets when I am suffering and dying with cancer?

2. This cannot be as good as it gets when I have been out of work for three years, I have spent all my savings and am about to go on welfare?

3. My husband has left me and my four children for another woman. I have no money and no one to turn to. If this is as good as it gets, then my life is as good as over. How can this be?

To answer these questions, I will use some questions.

1. Where does suffering come from?

2. Where does cause and effect come from?

3. Where does good come from?

Suffering can be defined as a state of the mind, thinking that you want to or you need to be anywhere else other than where you are. The story of Job covers this topic in detail. After Job lost his wealth, lost his family and lost his health, he questioned his very existence saying “why was I even born?” Then, God shows up and asks Job “where were you when I created the heavens and the earth?” The story ends with Job humbly saying to God “I spoke of things I did not understand”. Basically, Job said “You are God and I spoke out of line to every question of why you allow certain things to occur”. Everything has a purpose in God’s plan for our lives and in the end Job received even more wealth, his family and his health.

Where does cause and effect come from? It comes from the physical realm. It comes from the mind. In this physical world, if I do this, I get that. This is how you have grown up and been trained. If I dedicate myself to success and put all my energy toward that, I will reap what I sow–success. Some of the richest people have continued to press forward despite great odds, great losses, great hardships, but in the end received what they knew was theirs for the taking–success.

In the spiritual realm, there is NO cause and effect. You no longer work to achieve anything or to get anywhere because you are already there. In the spiritual realm, time no longer exists. So everything is NOW. Even God’s name is NOW. His name is “I Am” not I was or I will be but I Am. What this all means to you is that when you rest in Him, you rest in what is, not what was or what will be.

In Heaven you will not be trying to achieve anything or be trying to be someone or get somewhere. You will already be all that you were created to be and you will live in that state of being.

Now, if you could imagine for a moment the Kingdom of Heaven coming to earth, the Kingdom of Heaven is actually within you. While you are on earth, you can access the truth of the statement “This is as good as it gets.”

To understand “This is as good as it gets” you must understand what good means. Good means God and God means good. There is no one good in their old human nature. Good only comes when we are one with God and then His goodness becomes our good.

So to say this is as good as it gets really means to say: This is as God as it gets. Another way the phrase it is God is fully in this moment. The question is–are you fully in the same present moment as He is, or are you living in the same moment He lives in?

God lives only in the infinite, eternal “I Am” present moment. He does not live in the past or the future. When even you find yourself trying to live in the past or the future you have stepped out of His presence and that is called suffering.

When you do not accept “What IS” then you suffer.

When you do not see Him behind everything that comes into your life, then you suffer.

Everything He allows into your life has a purpose, and the purpose is to transform you into His likeness and image. To bring you to live and walk more in the spiritual realm and less in the world-filled, ego-filled, flesh-filled, lie-filled old mind realm.

When the doctor says you have three months to live with this cancer, you must not live in the future–the three months but in the moment–where God the I AM lives.

Would you rather live 75 years in bondage to fear, death and the old mind or just one day fully in His Presence living life to the full, free from all fear, all bondage, and all the lies of the old mind?

What you will find is once you start living fully in the moments, they become so beautiful, so God, that you are no longer looking at time, no longer looking at the cancer, the relationship loss, the financial crisis but instead living life to the full as He intended you to. This is eternal life, this is heaven coming to earth, this is His Kingdom come.

Learn more about this powerful truth from the How to Know You are Healed Series.

According to the 2005 Sleep in America poll by the National Sleep Foundation, only half the country sleeping well almost every night. The other half is split between those getting “a good night’s sleep” a few nights each week and those resting well a few nights a month or less.

“This is very much in line with what I’m seeing in my practice. People in the U.S. don’t make sleep a priority,” said Dr. Stasia J. Wieber, director of the Comprehensive Center for Sleep Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. “It really is a very important aspect of one’s health care and public health. It affects your personal health and also can put others in jeopardy.”

The poll of 1,500 adults was released as part of the sleep foundation’s Eighth Annual National Sleep Awareness Week campaign.

Sleep problems are on the rise but too often ignored, the poll found. Although half of those surveyed reported a sleep problem such as waking up during the night and 24 percent said the problems affected their daily activities, 75 percent of the respondents didn’t characterize their symptoms as a sleep problem.

On average, Americans sleep 6.9 hours a night, just below the recommended seven to nine hours. But more people today say they are sleeping less than six hours on weeknights (16 percent vs. 12 percent in 1998) and on weekends (10 percent vs. 8 percent in 1998).

More than one half (54 percent) of respondents said they had at least one symptom of insomnia a few nights a week or more. The most commonly cited symptoms were waking up feeling unrefreshed (38 percent) or waking during the night (32 percent).

Half of the survey respondents said they felt tired or “not up to par” during the day and 17 percent said they felt this way just about every day.

The repercussions of not having a good night’s sleep are numerous and can be serious, even life threatening. Sixty percent of adults licensed to drive said they had driven while drowsy over the past year, the highest rate since the poll was first conducted in 1999. Four percent said they had had an accident or near accident due to drowsiness while behind the wheel. If extrapolated to the rest of the population, this would mean that about 115 million people felt tired behind the wheel while more than 7 million drivers had an accident or near accident due to sleepiness, the researchers said.

Almost one-third of working adults said they had missed work or made mistakes at work because of problems sleeping in the past three months.

The poll also found that poor health was often associated with poor sleep. Adults with at least one common medical condition, such as high blood pressure or arthritis, are less likely to sleep well and are about twice as likely to feel drowsy during the day.

In line with other studies, this poll found that nearly two-thirds of Americans (64 percent) are overweight or obese — and that this condition contributes to sleep problems. Compared to adults of normal weight, people who are obese are more likely to sleep less than six hours each weeknight (18 percent vs. 11 percent) and often feel sleepy during the day (37 percent vs. 26 percent).

Overweight and obese individuals were also nearly six times as likely to suffer from sleep apnea than normal-weight individuals. According to the report, more than a quarter (26 percent) of respondents were at risk for sleep apnea, a condition marked by disruptions in breathing while a person is asleep. The condition is associated with high blood pressure and stroke.

“People need to make sleep a priority,” Wieber said. - 2005 Sleep in America Poll, National Sleep Foundation, Washington, D.C.; Stasia J. Wieber, M.D., director, Comprehensive Center for Sleep Medicine, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York City

Dr. Keith & Laurie Nemec Comments on Sleep

Sleep is one of the most important basic steps taken that keep one healthy and whole. You can go three minutes without oxygen, then you will die. You can only go two days without sleep, then you will pass out. You can go only five days without water and you can go thirty plus days without food. So in the big scheme of life and health, sleeping is close to the top.How much sleep should you get? Ideally for health and healing a person is in bed by 8:30 p.m. and wakes up at 6 a.m. This is 9.5 hours of sleep which has tremendous affects on balancing the body. 9.5 hours of sleep with at least 3.5 hours before midnight causes:

1. The hormonal system to balance

2. The immune system to balance

3. The blood sugar to begin to balance

Basically, to not get this needed sleep makes you fat, diabetic, cancer prone, anxious and depressed.

Life is so much more than working 40 hours a week to get a paycheck. In this life we were created by God to work. God created Adam to work; and this is a good thing, a God thing when it is done from the heart and not the mind.

To really be satisfied and fulfilled in life is to do, or work at what God created you to do. People ask, “How do I know what God created me to do?” To answer this you must go on an inward journey, a journey of the heart.

First, you must answer the question “What is my purpose in life?”

The answer is divided into the following categories:

• To know God
• To see Him in everything and everyone
• To be free
• To live life to the full in every moment
• To not try to change the moment, the “what is”.
• To obey the heart and not the old mind
• To die (to the old nature) before you die
• To transform into God’s image in body, mind and spirit
• To be the light of the world in body, mind and spirit

To know what God created you to do and what work He has called you to do. You must also ask yourself these questions.

1. Would I do what I am doing if I had only 5 years to live and I had to work those 5 years?

2. Do I look forward to each day of work as a new adventure seeking to see what God is going to show me today or do I dread each day just trying to make it to the end of the day, end of the week, living for the weekend and holidays and vacations.

The next big question is:

Are you working from your head or from your heart? Are you working from what the world system has put in your mind or from what God has put in your heart?

The two of these do not agree with each other. You are either working to do something, achieve something or be somebody in the world or you are working doing God’s will, and becoming transformed more into His image moment by moment.

A few other things to remember in your work:

1. The grass is never greener on the other side. So many people think that another job would be better, my boss would appreciate me more or my co-workers would treat me better, or the work would be easier. God has a plan and purpose for everything and that job is one of the vessels that will grow and mature you into His image. The way you know it is time to move on to another job is when your free not to take another job, then God will open the door, instead of you opening the door.

2. “I want to get a job that can glorify God and help people instead of working in this day to day boring routine where I am changing nobody’s life.” The greatest way you can bring glory to God is to live fully in the moment that He allowed into your life for the specific reason to help you grow in the journey. When you have learned to see Him in everyone and everything, when you can persevere in the most difficult, mundane and monotonous situations, when you can stand strong in Him when the whole world around you is coming against you, these are the things that victory and freedom are made of, this is when cleaning toilets will become such a divine moment that you will never want it to end. “Whether I eat or drink (or clean toilets) I do it all to the glory of God.”

So in this life you live, live it to the full no matter what job you are in, see it as an opportunity to become more like Him who created you. Do not live for the promise land because if you do, you will dread the wilderness. Instead by living fully in each moment in the wilderness you will experience the miracles of God in each moment—the manna from heaven in every moment, and what awesome moments they will be.

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Dr. Trevor J. Orchard, at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, and colleagues followed 3234 people who had not yet developed outright diabetes but who had high blood glucose levels.

The subjects were enrolled in the Diabetes Prevention Program, and were randomly assigned to take the anti-diabetes drug metformin, or an inactive placebo pill, or to undertake an intensive lifestyle intervention — designed to achieve and maintain a 7 percent weight loss and 150 minutes of exercise per week.

Metabolic syndrome — which is a combination of obesity, high cholesterol, high blood pressure and high blood sugar levels — was diagnosed in 53 percent of the participants overall when they were enrolled in the study.

After an average 3-year follow-up, the rate of metabolic syndrome decreased from 51 percent to 43 percent in the lifestyle group. However, it increased from 55 percent to 61 percent in the placebo group, and from 54 percent to 55 percent in the metformin group.

These findings highlight the value of lifestyle interventions in the prevention and treatment of metabolic syndrome, Orchard’s group notes.

- Annals of Internal Medicine.

 Dr. Keith & Laurie Nemec comments on “Diet, Exercise Better than Medication in Preventing Diabetes and Heart Disease

As has been shown once again, God’s natural way to health exceeds man’s unnatural way to health with drug therapies. Drugs are chemicals and chemicals make the body overwork and become toxic which opens the door to all disease. Foods are not chemicals and toxins and they open the door to higher levels of health. Of course, exercise always has been a part of the formula for good health. Drugs must be kept in the domain where they belong—in emergency medical care such as life threatening situations and also when organs have been damaged and they no longer function correctly. Although there are times when even this might not be necessary if one learned how to heal themselves and how to keep themselves in total health of body, mind and spirit.As has been shown once again, God’s natural way to health exceeds man’s unnatural way to health with drug therapies. Drugs are chemicals and chemicals make the body overwork and become toxic which opens the door to all disease. Foods are not chemicals and toxins and they open the door to higher levels of health. Of course, exercise always has been a part of the formula for good health. Drugs must be kept in the domain where they belong—in emergency medical care such as life threatening situations and also when organs have been damaged and they no longer function correctly. Although there are times when even this might not be necessary if one learned how to heal themselves and how to keep themselves in total health of body, mind and spirit.As this study confirmed, the rate of metabolic syndrome decreased from 51 to 43 percent in the diet and lifestyle group where it increased in both the medication and placebo group.

As has been shown once again, God’s natural way to health exceeds man’s unnatural way to health with drug therapies. Drugs are chemicals and chemicals make the body overwork and become toxic which opens the door to all disease. Foods are not chemicals and toxins and they open the door to higher levels of health. Of course, exercise always has been a part of the formula for good health. Drugs must be kept in the domain where they belong—in emergency medical care such as life threatening situations and also when organs have been damaged and they no longer function correctly. Although there are times when even this might not be necessary if one learned how to heal themselves and how to keep themselves in total health of body, mind and spirit.As this study confirmed, the rate of metabolic syndrome decreased from 51 to 43 percent in the diet and lifestyle group where it increased in both the medication and placebo group.

“We are taking way too many drugs for dubious or exaggerated ailments,’’ says Dr. Marcia Angell, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine and author of “The Truth About the Drug Companies.’’ “What the drug companies are doing now is promoting drugs for long-term use to essentially healthy people. Why? Because it’s the biggest market.’’ The nation also overindulges far too often with its medication use, the critics say, and violates the classic proscription of the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates: “First, do no harm.’’ Drug safety researcher Dr. James Kaye, of Boston University, remembers a medical school teacher telling the class: “All drugs are poisonous!’’ Hospital patients suffer seven hard-to-foresee adverse drug reactions and another three outright drug mistakes for every 100 admissions, estimates Dr. David Bates, a researcher at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital. That translates into 3.6 million drug misadventures a year. Drug makers, doctors and patients have all been quick to medicate some conditions once accepted simply as part of the human condition. Around the country, prescription drug sales have pushed relentlessly upward by an annual average of 11 percent over the past five years. The aging population is partly at fault, with its attendant ailments like cancer, heart attacks, stroke and Alzheimer’s disease. Other conditions have mysteriously proliferated, including asthma, diabetes and obesity. Exercise and better diet ward off heart disease and diabetes just as effectively as drugs do, studies show. However, says Fred Eckel, who teaches pharmacy practice at the University of North Carolina, “There tends to be a reliance on drugs as the first option.’’

-AOL News

Dr. Keith & Laurie Nemec Comments on “Americans are Overmedicated

This is just further confirmation of how far we have fallen from Hippocrates’s, the father of medicine, words. “Let your food be your medicine.” And Thomas Edison’s wise words, “The doctor of the future will use no medicine but instead will interest his patients in the care of the human frame in diet and the cause and prevention of disease.”This is just further confirmation of how far we have fallen from Hippocrates’s, the father of medicine, words. “Let your food be your medicine.” And Thomas Edison’s wise words, “The doctor of the future will use no medicine but instead will interest his patients in the care of the human frame in diet and the cause and prevention of disease.”So aptly put was the doctor’s statement “all drugs are poisonous.”This is just further confirmation of how far we have fallen from Hippocrates’s, the father of medicine, words. “Let your food be your medicine.” And Thomas Edison’s wise words, “The doctor of the future will use no medicine but instead will interest his patients in the care of the human frame in diet and the cause and prevention of disease.”So aptly put was the doctor’s statement “all drugs are poisonous.”If you keep medications in their proper place which is emergency medical necessity then they will help not hinder one’s total health but if you use them as a band aid to get rid of all your symptoms and conditions that you were designed to heal with proper diet, exercise, lifestyle, diaphragm breathing, water intake, sleep, fasting/detoxing and pray/meditation/stillness (these are all part of the Seven Basic Steps to Total Health) then they will greatly hinder one’s total health.

This is just further confirmation of how far we have fallen from Hippocrates’s, the father of medicine, words. “Let your food be your medicine.” And Thomas Edison’s wise words, “The doctor of the future will use no medicine but instead will interest his patients in the care of the human frame in diet and the cause and prevention of disease.”So aptly put was the doctor’s statement “all drugs are poisonous.”If you keep medications in their proper place which is emergency medical necessity then they will help not hinder one’s total health but if you use them as a band aid to get rid of all your symptoms and conditions that you were designed to heal with proper diet, exercise, lifestyle, diaphragm breathing, water intake, sleep, fasting/detoxing and pray/meditation/stillness (these are all part of the then they will greatly hinder one’s total health. Remember the Seven Basic Steps to Total Health each and every day.

Dr. Keith & Laurie Nemec Comments “Happy People= Healthy People”

What is important in this study is when people are happy, they have higher levels of health.  The question though is this:  “What does happy mean and what does joy mean?”

Does happy mean I am healthy, I have a lot of money, I have a great paying job, I am an important person in my workplace, I have a healthy family, I am doing very well in school or job place.

If this is happy, then yes when everything is going your way you will secrete less adrenaline (the hormone that regulates stress response) you will have a stronger immune system and life will be good.  This is why the study showed that they were happiest (and healthiest) when they were not at work.  (See above about work.)

The question is this:  “Would you rather be happy or filled with joy?”  Before you answer this, let me tell you the difference between the two.  Happy is a state of mind and being so it has the opposite of sad always being connected to it.  This means when the world goes my way such as I get a promotion, my family is healthy, I have investments for a financially secure future, I am happy.  But when I get fired from my job, my wife or husband is diagnosed with cancer and my investments meet with unexpected disaster and are all gone I am sad.  You cannot take happy without taking sad also.  What is joy?  It is a spiritual state of being.  It is a part of God’s nature within you and being such it has NO OPPOSITE.  There is no opposite to God and no opposite to His nature which He places inside of us.  So, joy is seeing His presence in everything.  Joy is the excitement of living every moment to the full in Him.

Joy is what the Apostle Paul had when he had been beat, was in great pain and was imprisoned in Philippi.  It was the joy in his heart that caused him to sing songs of praise to God.  It was not dependent upon the environment, the situation, or the people.  It was the unchangeable nature of God that was flowing in him and through him.

So, once again, would you pick happy and healthy or joyful and in total health?

There are two important points to make here.

First, people who take active steps to become more spiritual increase their overall health.

Second, there is a big difference between being spiritual and being religious.

This and other studies lump spirituality and religiosity together when they are in actuality not even close to the same.

Religiosity is doing things to feel closer to God. This can be by doing things such as going to church and being involved with church groups. Although this has some positive affects on health, it is not what true health or what total health is about. These have a positive influence on health just like the power of positive thinking would have positive affects on health.

A much higher level of the promotion of total health in body, mind and spirit is true spirituality. This is being one with God and no longer working for Him but being one with Him. To know true spirituality, one must know true covenant. Covenant simplest definition is LOVE. God so loved us He sent His Son to die for us so that we might live, just like you would die for your child. The other half of covenant is our part, our purpose on this planet which is to do what He has put into our hearts (not our minds) no matter what family, friends, people or the world system tell us. We must do it with all that we have, never quitting, stopping or giving up no matter what the cost even to the giving of your life. Covenant means spirituality and to be spiritual means to be in love with God and see Him in everything and everyone. It also means to be loved by God and to know that He loves you and is always leading and directing your footsteps and those whose footsteps cross your path in this journey of life.

When you are becoming spiritual, you are being transformed more and more into His image and likeness.

This comes not by going to church but by living each moment of your life to the full and seeing Him in it all.

-Presentation, American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting, Anaheim, Calif.

Dr. Keith & Laurie Nemec Comments on “What You Do Affects The Future Of Your Unborn Children”

This fascinating study shows how what you do as a parent affects the future of your unborn child on the positive side.  Your journey into total health of body, mind and spirit is first and foremost a personal journey of transformation into God’s image, and along the way as you are transformed, the frequency you resonate with will be the light that shines to all those around you (including your children) to entrain them to a higher level.  This applies spiritually, mentally and with this study can also be seen physically by reducing the risk of breast cancer by up to 40%. In practice we have also seen what parents do affects the future of their children at any age. Not only are you called by God to be a good steward of your children and to train them up in the ways of God but also to be the example that they would naturally want to model. When you look at your children what you are looking at is a reflection of yourself. If you like what you see then you have been doing a great job of not only raising and training but also modeling what you desire them to be.

Do not forget the most important part of parenting is to be the example (and this knows no age limit).

The role model, the one your children look up to and want to be like should be YOU! This is a big task but when you sit at the feet of God and let His Spirit teach you, guide you and empower you then all things become possible. Your children’s success in life are dependant upon how you raise them (in love or in law) and how you demonstrate those principles in your own life. This training and being the example to your children never stops no matter how old you or your children become. Let us share a story. One of our patients had a broken relationship with her daughter ten years ago and the two had not spoken since. Our patient went through our four month health program to transform herself in body, mind and spirit. While she was on the health program she attended a family picnic that she did not know her daughter was going to attend but expectedly showed up. The first words spoken out of her daughters mouth to her in ten years were these: “Mom I don’t know what you are doing for yourself but keep doing it”.  Their relationship was restored and healed not by the mother wanting the daughter to change but by the mother changing herself first. Parents it is never to late to change yourself and in doing so you will change your children as our patient so beautifully experienced.

The question comes up in the journey of life, “How do I know I am going in the right direction?”

The answer is found the same way Columbus found it:

1.    He knew there was a way that no one had ever found. 2.    He risked everything to follow what was in his heart. 3.    The signposts of following the heart are almost always great opposition of the system; of the mind, of the people. 4.    The discovery is made when it appears that all has been lost.

What has God put in your heart today?

What price are you willing to pay to obey it?

Can you see the opposition of the old mind, the world and people getting stronger the further you follow the heart?

When you fall, do you keep your eyes fixed on what God has put in your heart rather than the condemning, judging, critical thoughts of the old mind, the world system and people?

To make the greatest discovery the world has ever known is to follow your heat because when you do you discover what it means to die to your old self, your mind, your old nature. To follow your heart is to go to a place where your mind cannot enter; it is the place of the Spirit. Most all great discoveries in life came when everything was risked and at times it seemed like everything was lost. This is the place where only the heart can go. This is the place of victory and freedom in the journey of life; always remember that the victories you attain in this life you keep for all eternity.

The most important part of life is the journey, not the destination. It is the wilderness, not the Promised Land.

If you seek after miracles you usually will not find them. But when you follow your heart instead of your head in the journey of life, you come to realize that the miracle is the journey itself. In the journey you are transformed into God’s image and in the journey you acquire the victories that last for eternity.

If healing is your primary focus, realize that one day everyone who knows Him will be healed whether on earth or in heaven.

If money is your primary focus–realize that it is like dust in the wind because it is here today, gone tomorrow and you cannot take it with you.

If your primary focus is power and control, realize into this world we came helpless and so will we exit this world. Your only power is that which God gives you to follow what He put in your heart to breathe one more breath and walk one more step. Power to control others is no real power at all. True power is to follow your heart and touch a sick and dying world. Who do you think had more true power, Hitler or Mother Teresa?

If following what God has placed in your heart is your primary focus, then you are blessed because what you attain in that journey will NEVER be lost.

So let us all celebrate the greatest discovery, next to a covenant relationship with the Living God, a life that is led by the heart instead of the head.

Many studies show that people who eat healthily, exercise and do not smoke are far less likely to develop heart disease, cancer, diabetes and other chronic diseases.

Yet Americans find it almost impossible to take these steps, Dr. Mathew Reeves of Michigan State University and colleagues found.

Reeves and colleagues surveyed 153,000 adults as part of the U.S. government’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.

76 percent of those surveyed said they did not smoke.
23 percent included at least five fruits and vegetables in their daily diets
22 percent exercised at least 30 minutes per day five or more times a week
40 percent maintained a healthy weight defined as a body mass index (BMI) of 25 or less.

And only 3 percent met all four goals, Reeves found. He checked other studies to be sure he was right, and then did an informal poll of people he knew.

“They all kind of roll their eyes and go, ‘Nobody does that’,” Reeves said. “This is the problem — the social or cultural norm is not to do that, and it seems like an acceptable situation.
People are busy, live in environments more conducive to driving everywhere than walking or biking, and may lack information about the dangers of unhealthy habits, Reeves suggested.
But likely the biggest reason is that it is the “norm” to live unhealthy lives. “If most people around you are overweight, and don’t exercise and eat mostly fast food, then it’s very hard to see the need to change the way you are living,” Reeves noted.
Reeves said that research shows being healthy can add years to your life, decrease medical expenses, cut your risk of heart disease, and generally improve your quality of life.
“It really does matter that so many people are not taking the most basic steps to leading a healthy lifestyle,” he said. “We should be aware of what we are giving up.”
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has tried to warn of the consequences of poor eating and a lack of exercise.
“I think people feel overwhelmed that they have all these healthy choices that they must take, to where they are almost at the point of saying ‘I can’t do it,”‘ said CDC spokesman Tom Skinner.

-Archives of Internal Medicine

Dr. Keith & Laurie Nemec comments on Less Than 3% of the United States Living a Healthy Life

This very interesting study done at Michigan State University found that four factors make up healthy living.

1. Not smoking
2. Eating at least 5 fruits and vegetables.
3. Exercising 30 minutes per day at least 5 days per week.
4. Maintaining a weight of Body Mass Index 25 or less.

The study found only 3% of the United States population meeting all four criterions.

We have a few objections to the study and they are:

1. The study was done as a survey which means the people write down what they think they are doing rather than what is actually occurring. People tend to see themselves as they would like to be rather than how they actually are.
2. The guidelines used for vegetable and fruit consumption was five fruits and vegetables when the true recommendation is four servings of fruit, six servings of vegetable and only 9% of the American population eat this recommended quantity.
3. Only 35% of the United States is not found overweight or obese. Of this group there are more children not overweight than adults so the adult numbers of maintaining a BMI of 25 or less is at most 25% of the United States.
4. Instead of these four factors of health, there are “Seven Basic Steps to Total Health.” Which less than 0.1% of the United States population are fulfilling these 7 Basic Steps to Total Health.
1. Air
2. Water
3. Food
4. Sleep/sun
5. Exercise
6. Fasting/detoxing
7. Prayer/stillness

1. Air-you must deep diaphragm breathing to oxygenate your body.
2. Water-you must drink 32 ounces of distilled water per 50/lbs per body weight per day.
3. Food-you consume a diet of living/raw plant food which has the highest energy, bioelectricity, enzymes and bioavailable nutrient content to either maintain or restore your health.
4. Sleep-you must sleep 9.5 hours with 3.5 of them before midnight.
5. Exercise-you must exercise 30 minutes every day.
6. Fasting/Detoxification-you must fast from the normal Standard American Diet (SAD).
7. Prayer-you must take the time throughout your day to regularly still your mind so you can hear the voice of God spoken into your heart.

So as you can see, it is not 3% but less than 0.1% that are actually living a healthy lifestyle, a total health lifestyle.

Also very important in the observations in this study is that general observation is that people say ‘Nobody does that’, and I can’t do that.” This is a pure and simple untruth. They could do it if they had cancer and were told they have 3 months to live, they could do it if they were diagnosed with heart disease and said they had less than 3 years to live if they didn’t change their lifestyle and diet. They could do it if it were it were a matter of life and death, so if they could do it under any circumstances they could do it under all circumstances. The problem is it calls for change, it calls for work, it calls for sacrifice and a world that is ruled by the flesh-filled old mind never wants to do any of these, so instead it chooses to do what is easy and comfortable not what is more difficult but far more beneficial in the long run. It is up to you. Are you going to obey what the flesh-filled, ego-filled, world-filled mind or are you going to obey the truth-filled heart? The choice is yours but choose wisely because your choice will not only affect you but your family and the generations to come.