Did You Know...

Heart & Blood

• The Heart will beat, even if removed from the body, as long as it has food. Only the heart muscle can do this.
• Your heart beats over 100,000 times in a day.
• Your heart pumps 1,440 gallons of blood each day.
• Your blood travels over 170,000 miles in a day.
• There are 62,000 miles of blood vessels in your body - a distance twice around the world! In each eye alone are about 80 miles of blood vessels if stretched out from end to end.
• Your blood contains 25-30 trillion red blood cells. Their combined surface would cover about 200 square feet.

Brain & Nerves

• You are born with all the brain cells you will ever have.
• The brain is composed of about 15 billion (15,000,000,000) powerful brain cells that are about 90% water.
• Humans use only a fraction (less than 1/10th) of their brain capacity.
• Each half of the brain controls the opposite side of the body.
• Your nervous system sends messages as fast as 185 miles per hour.
• Your brain & nerves cannot function without (neuro) Melanin.

Skin

• Over 600,000 skin cells would fit into an area the size of a postage stamp. The entire surface of the skin has about 7 million pores (perspiratory tubes), each about a 1/4 inch long. Laid out end to end, they'd extend 28 miles.
• The skin breathes like lungs, absorbing oxygen and exhaling carbonic acid gas and watery vapor.
• The skin excretes organic matter, toxins, and saline matter in solution, like the kidneys. The average amount of fluid waste discharged through the skin every 24 hours is about 2 pounds.
• In one square inch of skin are 625 sweat glands, 90 oil glands, 19 million cells, 19 feet of blood vessels, 19,000 sensory cells, 65 hairs... and millions of microscopic animals.

Organs

• Your organs are duplicated in each cell of your body.
• Your liver is a chemical factory and detoxifier which filters toxins at a rate of a quart of blood per minute. It regenerates its own tissue, even if 80% of its cells are damaged.
• As much as 500 gallons of blood pass through the kidneys each day to be filtered of waste. Your kidneys filter the body's entire volume of blood 60 times each day.
• Your ears enable you to keep your balance, plus hear.

Bones & Muscles

• Bones are blood factories, besides being a flesh-hanger. Bone marrow can produce 5 billion red blood cells a day.
• The human skeleton has 206 bones; over 50 in the hands.
• The skull appears to be one bone but really 29 separate bones fused together.
• 650 muscles cover the body. Over 200 are used when you walk. Smiling uses only 17 muscles but a frown uses 43.

Cells & Growth

• From the time of conception to adulthood, your body grows from one cell to one quadrillion cells (1,000,000,000,000,000).
• Blood is renewed at the rate of millions of cells per second.
• The stomach lining completely regenerates in a week, a healthy liver regenerates in 6 weeks, and the skin surface in a month.
• No cell in your body is over 2 years old! (except for your irreplaceable brain cells, and even with these - the atoms are continually being replaced).
• Every year over 96% of your body is completed replaced, even the structure of the DNA of your genes, reconstructed from the food you eat (or rather, the nutrients you assimilate).
• Each cell is a storehouse for some 5000 enzymes needed to implement chemical reactions.
• Each of your cells is responsible for supervising 1000 to 10,000 different chemical reactions.
• In the human body, some 6 trillion reactions occur every second and each of them is correlated with every other reaction.

Your body is a self-cleaning, self-healing, irreplaceable mechanism which deserves Nature's best! All you have to do is feed it properly, give it sunshine, exercise, avoid poisoning it, and stay out of its way. What is your body worth? ...Priceless!! So we must take care of our priceless body and it will take care of us!

"A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison" ~ Francis Bacon Sr.

Hemp

Hemp seed is a "complete protein" containing all the essential amino and fatty acids. The globulin edestin, found in hemp protein, closely resembles the globulin found in human blood plasma, and is easily digested and utilized by the human body. In fact, it is so compatible with humans' digestive tract that a 1955 Czechoslovakian study found Hemp seed to be the only food that can successfully treat the consumptive disease tuberculosis, in which the nutritive processes are impaired and the body wastes away.

Hemp is of special importance for People of Colour, for it effectively helps those suffering from Sickle Cell Anemia. Hemp herb, seeds, and oil (especially) greatly oxygenates the blood and decreases blood pressure. Hemp has been used to treat female disorders: morning sickness (though no one will endorse the smoking of marijuana, or any other substance, by pregnant women), uterine dysfunctions, menorrhagia (excessive uterine bleeding), and menstrual cramps. Hemp has also been used to treat countless dis-eases, including asthma, respiratory diseases, whooping cough, muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, glaucoma, neuralgia, migraines, depression, insomnia, malaria, inflammation, digestive disorders, alcoholism and even drug addiction... which brings us to another amazing property: Hemp is not addictive nor habit forming! Smoking marijuana does not lead to addiction, nor to heroin and cocaine addiction, according to studies. Cannabis is nontoxic. No deaths from an overdose have ever been verified.

Hemp has anciently been used for spiritual purposes in cultures around the world. The waterpipe was developed in North Africa. Known as dagga, hemp is a sacrament and medicine to many African peoples including the Twa-humanity's ancestors. In ancient times, Ethiopia was known as the "Land of Incense" and is still renown for its potent hashish.

In addition to feeding, healing and "enlightening" Humanity, Hemp can save Earth and solve many of our ecology problems, including deforestation. Hemp is incredibly versatile. It makes the best, most durable, safe "plastic", glue, wood, fiber, paper, nontoxic varnishes and paints and even bio-fuel. Continuously, it purifies the air (no pun intended), removing detrimental positive ions.

Side Note: The natural chemical in hemp that makes you "high" has great medicinal value. Called THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), it activates when hemp is heated (cooked). For those who smoke hemp, it is safest to smoke it using a waterpipe. When the fumes are drawn through the water, the "bad stuff" (burnt substances) is left behind in the water while the THC escapes.

Reference - Drugs Masquerading As Foods, Suzar

The Power Of Choice

By achieving a strong mind-body connection, you will feel empowered to make better choices and lead a healthier life. Lasting changes and the reaching of goals result from: belief in oneself, belief in the ability to change and actually committing to actions that both change behavioural patterns and lead to real changes in one's very being.

Everything that we have ever been exposed to conditions us in some way. We condition ourselves into patterns of actions based upon all relationships that we have been exposed to over a lifetime (and not just with others but with the environment around us). This conditioning determines much of how we act and we can end up reacting to situations instead of responding in ways that will lead us closer to the life that we want to be living.

This repetition of acting trains us to act more and more in that fashion. We create neural networks and pathways associated with that thought/emotional process and it becomes our natural set point. This has enormous ramifications for what we see as 'personality'.

Where patterns that become strengthened are negative ones, it leads us into poor health and lowered life satisfaction. Addictions are the most obvious examples of this. But we can change the way we act, just as we can change how we move and how strong we are.

We have the choice and unlimited power to change our lives. In fact, our choices really are bounded only by imagination. By recognizing why we act in the way we do now, we are able to see, moment by moment when we are reacting to situations in a way that is pushing us further away from our goals rather than responding in a way that will lead us closer to them.

Knowledge is power and by knowing the basis for our actions, by seeing the action taking place and knowing where we want to be going, we can change course and create a different path through the way we act instead of simply reacting.

Life is a choice. We have in our possession right now, the ability to begin living the life of our dreams. We just have to choose it!

*Referenced by Cliff Harvey ND(c), Dip.FIT, HbT