What is a cause of healing? If you think about it, a state of health is really cause and effect. If you want the effect of being healthy, you need to find the causes. This philosophy is in direct opposition to the more conventional philosophy that says disease is a matter of bad luck. While conventional medicine likes you to think that disease is a matter of chance, the reality is that disease is almost entirely under your control. If you wish to be healthy here are certain things you can do that product health reliably and consistently. And if you wish to be diseased, there are other things you can do to produce disease, reliably and consistently. And those disease-promoting things are followed by most average Americans today, which explains why disease rates are so high in this country.
Over the last year, I've spent at least a thousand hours researching these causes of health, which brings my total research time spent on nutrition and health to around 5,000 hours. And in that time, I've also written at least 1,500 additional articles on health, reviewed a couple thousand news reports and researched items on healing foods, the relationships between foods and health and the true causes of disease. And out of all of that research, the most astounding thing I've learned is not about one particular herb, or the healing effects of some nutritional supplement, but rather that the best and most powerful healing strategies – I call them health habits – are available to you free of charge.
Free and easy health solutions
Think about this for a moment: What if you lived in a society where the most powerful and advanced medicines were available to you free of charge? What if you didn't need a prescription to get it, you didn't have to pay to use it and its effects were automatic and 100 percent correlated with enhanced states of human health? What if you could do that? That would be a pretty nice society to live in, wouldn't it? Imagine if people could avail themselves of disease prevention habits and treatment strategies that cost absolutely nothing, that are easy to obtain and automatically work on all human beings, regardless of genetic makeup or background.
The realization that may surprise you is that you live in such a society today. These things are available right now. The trick is, almost no one knows about them. These strategies and solutions are right in front of us, but they are not promoted because they make money for no one. I have gathered up the nine most powerful strategies that fit this category. They are either free of charge or relatively low-cost, and all nine of them are easy to follow. In fact, out of a survey of 763 people, all nine of these were rated as being easy to follow and easy to stick with, which is a key component here. Sometimes you may learn about powerful health strategies , but you may not be able to stick with them.
For example, we may know that jogging three hours a day is pretty good for your heart, if you can work up to it and tolerate it, but who's really going to jog three hours a day? Nobody I know is going to do that, including myself, and I do spend hours a day in physical training. We've got to get realistic about things that work to prevent disease and treat illness, and "realistic" means relying on habits that people can stick with. Thus, this survey has revealed the habits that people find doable.
These are things that take five minutes instead of three hours, and more often than not, they require little or no exertion. In fact, the most vigorous exercises strategy in this entire list is walking. That's something that virtually everyone can do. And if you can't walk because you have bone-wasting disease or muscle aches and pains, there are some other habits in this book that can often treat those conditions, and even reverse things like osteomalacia, and get you back on your feet walking again.