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Stephen Lau's Articles in Health and Fitness Show All|Display Category|Title|Newest|Oldest Your Anti-Aging Immune System Your immune system is anti-aging. Its B-cells and T-cells protect you from disease and degeneration. To protect your immune system, you need to eat right, smother stress, and exercise regularly. To maintain your immunity, you need detoxification for a balanced acid-alkaline level. How to Think Young and Stay Young Thinking young is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Your brain does not age easily; in fact, it has unlimited and untapped potential. Learn to fully utilize your brain through synaptic plasticity. Give your brain the appropriate workout to maximize its cognitive functions through brain exercises, a diet rich in antioxidants, and hormone replacement therapies it needs be. Free Radicals and Your Longevity Free radicals are byproducts of everyday reactions that produce energy for your body. The energy is produced by reactions between many substances and oxygen in your body. What gives life may also take away life. Free radicals can damage your body cells, the immune system, and your DNA, causing cancers, heart diseases, cataracts, and brain damage. Antioxidants are free radical scavengers. Mercury Contamination of Fish Mercury contamination of fish is a health issue. Mercury toxicity is the cause of many health problems and disorders, especially among children and pregnant women. Mercury can never be eliminated from the environment. Most of our exposure to mercury comes from our diet, especially from fish. Bigger fish have more mercury contamination than smaller ones. Food Toxics and Health Hazards Food toxics may be a health concern. Food toxicology due to pesticides, growth-enhancing dietary hormones in beef, and food additives may cause cancer, birth defects, and allergies, among others, especially in children. A wary consumer should read food labels, and go organic whenever and wherever possible. Is Steroid Therapy Right For You? Steroid therapy is the use of steroid medications to treat certain types of disease and disorder, including myasthenia gravis. The major adverse side effects are bone loss, high blood pressure, and weight gain, among others, which impair an already weakened immune system. The author relates his own experience of steroid therapy, and how and why he decides to abandon steroid medications. Why are you addicted to chocolate? Eating chocolate is addictive because it is an addicting drug due to its various chemicals which have a marijuana-like effect on the brain. Chocolate may not be as healthy as the industry has suggested because it is packed with calories, fats, and sugar. It is important that you become aware of how it affects your mood so that chocolate seduction will not develop into an eating disorder down the road. Bulimia Be Gone! Start Eating Right Again! Bulimia is an eating disorder due to distorted perception of one's physical size and shape, resulting from abnormal eating behavior and unhealthy food relationship over time. It is a complex mental illness that requires confrontation or intervention on the part of loved ones or family members to effectuate recovery through appropriate eating disorder programs. Food Addiction and Your Longevity Food addiction is binge eating, compulsive eating, food fixation, and eating disorder. It is an unhealthy relationship with food, resulting in abnormal behavior that interferes with health, happiness, relationship, and longevity. Food addiction is a disease of the mind. Food addicts strive to control their eating to compensate for the lack of control they feel in other areas of their lives. Buddhism and Healthy Longevity Buddhism plays a pivotal role in healthy longevity. The Buddhist concept of no "ego-self" or "emptiness" takes away stress, which is one of the major causes of disease and illness. In addition, Buddhism focuses on the expression of compassion and loving kindness as the true meaning of life. This altruistic attitude inspires oneself, in the face of health adversity, to set an example to help others to relieve their own suffering. Physical Relaxation and Your Longevity Health Physical relaxation plays a pivotal role in your longevity health because it takes away your tension, which not only saps your energy but also causes many diseases and disorders, such as heart disease, high blood pressure, and mental depression. Learning physical relaxation is a skill that does not come naturally. Practice physical relaxation daily will benefit not only your body but also your mind. Make it your daily regimen. Zen and Your Sex Everyday life, including sex, is the path to Zen wisdom, which is a pure spiritual philosophy transcending the boundaries of time and space. Just focus on the “experience” of life, including your “experience” of sex. Make sex "spontaneous," neither a goal nor a performance. Make sex connect you to the most basic core of your being. Brain Health and Your Longevity Brain health has everything to do with heart health, and hence your longevity health. What is good for the heart is good for the brain. Giving good numbers to your heart maintain your brain health. In addition, sharpen your mind with activities to maintain the communication of brain cells to keep your brain healthy. Weight Control And Your Longevity (2) Weight control is almost impossible if your body is toxic. To effectively and permanently reduce your weight, you must first detoxify your body through fasting, foods, herbs, hydrotherapy, skin brushing, and foot patches, and then eat less.	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