CHOY's CUT

It's crazy.

As I was waiting for my wife at Walter Mart in Munoz, I noted my surroundings--especially the people around me. Four out of five were either busily texting or playing a game on their smartphones while a bank armored vehicle was unloading big amounts of cash.

And then four out of five people were smoking.

These two are easy and cheap ways that can kill your health.

I make it a point to be extra alert all the time, especially when something potentially dangerous is lurking around--like a bank armored vehicle unloading cash. If a holdup suddenly ensues, that will be a surefire thing that can kill your health--either a stray bullet hits you where it counts or someone mistakes you for an enemy and fires at you.

Worse, you're taken as hostage.

But most people just take these things for granted. While potential danger is there, they pay no attention and keep busy with their smartphones instead--texting, playing games or listening to music with their headphones. Once dang…

We've often been told--eating too many eggs is bad for our health. But I love eggs! In fact, I so LOVE eggs that I sometimes eat 3 a day--almost everyday! Almost. My late dad ate some 6 to 8 eggs almost everyday. Well, he had perfectly normal blood cholesterol till the day he died. I do, too. My BP is always normal, by God's grace.

On the contrary, my mom was too careful about her egg intake--and she sometimes had her blood cholesterol levels too high! Then she wondered how dad did it.

"Anything overdone can sometimes result to something bad," is what they say. And I agree. I scold myself when I eat too many eggs and discipline myself to put a limit.

But, are several eggs a day really bad?

I stumbled on a health article one day that was good news to my ears. It said eating more than one egg a day is actually good for you.

Wrong information gave us the idea that cholesterol is evil. So we try to avoid any sign of it, even worried at the mere sight of its shadow. Anyt…

When you're past 40 or 50, have your prostate checked regularly. It's at this age bracket when the ailment starts to develop for some men. But there are ways to prevent it from happening as you have your prostate gland checked.

Mind you, these are cheap ways to keep yourself safe from prostate cancer--cheap health and fitness with middle income budget.

1. First is pray for good health. I'm always serious about putting God on top of my health and fitness program. I pray for good health everyday--for me and my family. I think of God as both my Doctor and Medicine--in fact, my health Supplement, body, soul and spirit. Without God, there is no health of any kind. So, get close with God.

2. Avoid alcoholic drinks. Beverages like liquor and beer can help trigger prostate inflammation that can lead to prostate cancer. My dad's doctors always limited his daily beer intake because they stressed how alcohol can badly affect the prostate.

3. Avoid too much meat. Meat is often co…

I'm usually allergic to a lot of synthetic medicines and sometimes I doubt the effect of some herbal supplements--not because medicinal herbs are ineffective but because lots of supplements are. So I always look for genuinely effective natural health supplements.

And lagundi supplement is one of them.

I often dread getting sick with cold and cough because no cold and cough medicines are effective on me. Sometimes, I end up with a fever and then the flu. That's what I really hate. I get so uncomfortable when sick with the flu.

And what I really hate about flu is not being able to do anything but lie down in bed.

And then I found lagundi capsules.

One day, my wife and I were buying medicines for her dad and scouting around for some cold and cough remedies for me. Then I saw a lagundi syrup and capsule advertisement and thought, yeah why not? Who knows, it might work for me. No harm in trying because it's all natural--or is it?

So I asked the pharmacist if it was pure lagund…

I had a friend once named Conrad. His body was nothing but well-defined and bulky muscles he often bragged by taking off his shirt when he did heavy construction jobs. He was every inch a he-man.

In fact, every movement he did while mixing huge amounts of concrete manually made him look like the Greek mythology hero, Atlas, who carried the world on his shoulders, displaying awesome muscles in the process.

My friends admired him.

But he had one problem--he made it a habit to beat stress by drinking--doing it each night with his co-workers and sleeping so late.

One day, he began complaining about dizziness, headaches, pain on the nape, and weakness. After several days, he decided to see a doctor. The diagnosis shocked him--he had serious hypertension and if he had missed consulting a doctor even just one day, he would have died if he spent another day drinking till the wee hours of the night.

His blood pressure was intolerably high and a blood vessel was in danger of rupturing any mome…

Real good health always comes with fitness. But that's not all. Real good health is more than just developing your muscles. Do you know that lots of muscled men and sexy ladies are lonely and stressed?

They're not stressed just because of a hectic daily schedule. They're stressed because of loneliness. And the remedy to loneliness is not having a sex partner or even marriage. If you marry for happiness, you may be in for a big disappointment--not all marriages end up happy. And sex is just a momentary satisfaction--and can even sometimes lead to boredom. I've talked to folks who have experienced that.

In fact, I've read accounts of real stories how fit people who frequented gyms almost died of heart problems--as a result of stress and loneliness. Can you believe that? One reason is the need to be accepted or recognized. They badly need recognition and the assurance that people like them a lot, so they always try to prove their worth--to no avail. They still cannot…

These are natural enzymes in the body that burn calories and help you lose weight. One is called cardiac natriuretic peptides. Researchers discovered how they turned white fat cells that stored energy into "energy-burning brown fat," according to the site WebMD. Well, so far, they saw this in mice.

But some researchers believe that what's possible with mice can often be possible with humans.

Brown fats are like furnaces in the body, burning calories instead of just storing them to add on to your weight. If the heart enzymes could turn human white fat cells into brown fat, then this could lead into a great breakthrough in weight loss, says Sheila Collins, PhD and researcher at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute in Orlando, Fla.

Moreover, the heart enzyme fat-burning action could work together with the fat storage and regulation of the adrenaline system to further weight loss. And what cold stimulate brown fat to burn more calories?

By exposure to cold. As simple a…

Slow metabolism is one reason why your body probably refuses to lose weight. No matter what your diet or workout is, you may have to know how to beat slow metabolism to produce substantial results.

But wait!

Did you know there's something more powerful than metabolism?

It's called the will--intellectual will to be precise. A lot of things in life really depends on what the mind wills. I've read books and articles about how some doctors gave placebo pills to their patients just to help them develop a mental will to get well. I've also read stuffs about how some patients who got worse even if they had a good chance of recovering and were taking the best medicines, just because they'd lost the will to live.

In fact, some who are healthy feel terribly sick because that's what their intellectual will makes them feel.

Often, it's all in the mind. And weight loss is often like that.

What good would healthy diets and workouts do you if deep inside you believe you&…

Don't oversleep. Limit sleep from 6 to 8 hours. Moreover, don't over nap in the afternoon. Both oversleeping and over napping can upset your body clock and ruin health.

First, the site WebMD says oversleeping may increase the chances of diabetes and heart diseases and hinted on these being the result of depression and being broke.

If you're broke and have no access to health care, you'd feel bad (depressed). That can lead to insomnia. With bad health like that, you're apt to sleep more. Or, feeling depressed and unable to remedy the situation, you' just sleep it off.

I'm reminded of a passage in Proverbs:
Do not love sleep or you will grow poor; stay awake and you will have food to spare. [20.13] Second, oversleeping can upset your body clock. Instead of having an early breakfast, eating lunch at noon time, and having an early dinner, too much sleep may make you skip meals or eat them too late. I've seen folks eat breakfast at 10 or 11 am, eat lunch at…

When the weather changes, viruses are on the go. They're active in the air. And once you "catch" them accidentally, you start feeling sick. I don't know how one "catches" them exactly, but that's how they put it. You catch flu.

Well, then just play a game of football. If you happen to catch the virus, kick it away as far as possible, even beyond the home goal. No, even beyond the stadium. Kick it out of your life! How do you do this? I found a way of doing so without having to take antibiotics.

But before you try this at home, consult your doctor first. Okay?

In my case, I've grown tired of taking antibiotics when I have flu and severe colds and cough. Taking antibiotics kills both good and bad bacteria in your stomach. Some doctors make you take it to get rid of the bacteria in your lungs or throat that trigger the severe cold and cough.

The flu virus simply takes care of itself. Viral diseases are self-limiting. They stay active in your body only…

Hypertension is said to be number one killer in the country. Just the other day, I went to a government hospital to visit a friend, and one ward was jam-packed with hypertensive patients.

One guy even told me that the patient next to them had just expired that morning due to high blood pressure--and he had looked okay the night before. If only he had taken NattoShield to get rid of hypertension.

Hypertension happens quickly, often without warning. It is caused by stress, unhealthy diet, zero exercise, and lack of water, which all add to oxidative damage to the blood vessels.

Harmful deposits clog the blood vessels until no sufficient blood supply is supplied to the organs--especially the heart or brain. That makes the heart work harder. Stroke or heart attack happens.

The remedy here is to make the blood thinner using a safe and natural anticoagulant. In Japan, Natto or soy is a popular and safe blood thinner which people often have in their diet. Nattokinase, on the other hand, is m…