......."CAMOTE AND OTHER CHEAPS GOOD FOR HEALTH".......

......Camote and Other Cheaps Good for Health.........


      Root crops like sweet potato or camote are simply tops because they contain oligo sugar which not only provide an extra dose of energy but also help ward off diabetes and cancer.  The indigenous foods are good in anti-viral, anti-fungal, anti-bacterial, anti-oxidant, anti-cancer, and anti-heart diseases medicines.  Like nuts from pili, kasoy, peanuts, root crops, like camote, camoting kahoy, ube and gabi. Native fruits like pineapple, dalandan, papaya, bayabas, and guyabano.  Garden vegetables like malunggay, patola, sitao, bataw, patani (just remember the bahay kubo).  As will as deep sea fish like tuna, which has the beneficial omega 3 and has no toxins because the water of Mindanao are not polluted 
       A daily diet rich in raw or pickled vegetables, fruits eaten fresh or taken a fresh juice, whole wheat bread, corn, gabi or ube.  Also our coconut oil is the best in the world, even better than olive oil.  It is anti-bacterial and anti-viral, which is acknowledged by international leaders.  The Philippine cacao (tablea) is fast gaining world recognition because it helps lower blood pressure.
       Brown rice and brown sugar, complex carbohydrates which are good for the heart.
 Avoid as much as possible, animal meat, especially processed meat, animal milk and milk products like butter, shell fishes (squid, tahong, talaba, tulya, alimango, alimasag, shrimps, prawns, labsters).
      It is good to drink everyday, mineral water, warm or room temperature liquids, dark chocolate, (pinoy tablea), green tea, soya milk, coffee, wine or beer, whiskey, gen, rhum, vodka, which is now much the liver can take.
      Supplement your health diet with exercise of at least 30 minutes to one hour three times a week.  Walking a minimum of 10,000 steps is the most convenient physical activity, but the best exercise are dancing, swimming, biking and hiking.
      Get six to eight hours of undisturbed sleep every night, preferably between 11 pm and 5 am or 10pm and 6 am.
      Once in a while enjoy moments of quite time, silence, meditation and prayer.
 Clean living and living in a clean environment can lengthen one's life.  Why, you can even live to be hundred.
      To lead a healthy life, we must make friends with kindred spirits, have unconditional loving relationships, which require the capacity to forgive and to ask forgiveness to love and be loved.
     Yes, eat right, pray hard, love with all your heart......