De-junk your body

“The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.” This saying crystallizes the entire formula of living healthy and staying fit. It’s not coined recently but has been a part and parcel of health wisdom that has been piped down through the generations surpassing limits of time and age. But as always happens we don`t like to pick-up from proven olden insight and just manage to listen with a shrug of shoulder. In other words we are digging our own graves unknowingly. The taste-buds are tempted to crave for delectable and spicy food. It’s like you are enjoying that food before gulping it down. You don`t know what is happening inside with such unhealthy consumption. If asked the answer would be you aren`t seeing what’s going within the body. Should we thanking our stars for that? Better we mend our ways as soon as possible.

It reminds me of a lady colleague of mine in office. As I sit next to her cubicle am a witness of her doings which are sometimes sensible and most of the times unbearable. This woman has a fascination for juices. Twice in a week I find her staying on juices only. If she gets bored she has milk and fruits and calls it her detoxification- diet. Now my idea of a detox diet is literally disenchanted by her understanding and I was flabbergasted at her neo-learning. Very often she suffers from stomachache, chest pain, vomiting and weakness. She binges coke, caffeine, wafers, chocolates, French fries, ice-cream, extra cheese and tomato pizza and soda and thinks that her special “detox-diet” (framed by her) and popping an antacid will repair the damage. It’s saddening to see that her body becomes a canister of undigested food for many days at a stretch. If she is off work for two-three days we understand that the situation has worsened and she is at the mercy of medication.

So my team decided that some sense has to be injected to this person. Instead of telling her the do`s and don`ts we prepared a colorful flow-chart focusing on acid reflux remedies. Instead of writing names we had drawn pictures of apple, ginger, beetroot, banana, brown-rice, almonds and goat- cheese. It ended with emphasis on drinking water and lifestyle moderation. As a matter of fact this was an eye-opener not to her but to all present there. It all made us contemplate that we too are heading for health disaster and its time to cut out that trash from the body.