Dr. Don Colbert’s Keys to Improving Your Health

On This Is Your Day! Dr. Don Colbert shared how you can build a healthier body and experience vibrant health in just 50 days.

For over 20 years, Dr. Colbert has practiced medicine in Central Florida. He has been board certified in Family Practice since August 1987 and is also board certified in Anti-Aging Medicine. His specialty is individualizing a complete course of spirit, mind, and body treatment for each person to allow fulfillment of God’s calling.

One of the most important things he does is point out key areas of health and nutrition that affect every one of us. He also challenges and motivates people to pay attention to seven specific areas that are critical to good health: water, sleep and rest, living food, exercise, detoxification, supplements, and coping with stress.

Keys to Health
Everything Dr. Colbert shares about reversing heart disease, diabetes, and cancer strikes me as important things everyone needs to hear.

Who among us has not been affected, either personally or through family members, by one of these three? Diseases fill our world—from heart problems to diabetes, cancer, and an ever-increasing dictionary of new medical challenges—yet we see in Genesis that humans were brought into a perfect world, perfectly designed by the Creator for maximum health.

Dr. Colbert has said, “Healing and divine health are God’s perfect will for mankind. God created Adam as a healthy being—a perfect act of creation. We find no record of sickness until Adam chose to disobey God. Sickness and disease entered the human race because of Adam’s sin. God’s plan was that Adam would enjoy divine health.” What happened?

The Bible offers the way to live under God’s pattern for health and abundant blessings. As we have seen in Exodus 15, God even promised that His people would suffer “none of these diseases” if they would only follow His guidelines. What happened is what continues to take place. We follow man’s ideas instead of the Creator’s.

Let’s look briefly at the three areas Dr. Colbert discussed.

Strengthen Your Heart
More money is spent treating heart disease than any other illness. We know that heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, claiming hundreds of thousands of lives each year.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and American Heart Association statistics, heart disease and strokes—leading components of cardiovascular disease—are the first and third leading causes of death in the United States. Also, according to the same reports:

• Heart disease and strokes accounted for nearly 40 percent of all deaths.
• About 70 million Americans (almost one-fourth of the population) have some form of cardiovascular disease, which is responsible for more than 6 million hospitalizations each year.
• About 90 percent of middle-aged Americans will develop high blood pressure in their lifetime, and nearly 70 percent of those who have it now do not have it under control.

The prevention and control of the major risk factors for heart disease and stroke are critical to achieving a heart-healthy and stroke-free lifestyle. Individuals can reduce their chance of developing heart disease by exercising regularly, maintaining healthy eating habits and weight, avoiding tobacco use, and monitoring cholesterol and blood pressure levels.

What can you do to have a healthier heart? Dr. Colbert says, “People in undeveloped nations who cannot afford to eat steak, butter, and fatty foods experience very little heart disease. Their so-called poverty diets consist of healthy fruits, grains, and vegetables.”

Prevention of heart disease should begin during your childhood and continue through your life, but you can begin your healthy heart program today. Reducing your LDL cholesterol by 50 points, for example, can reduce the risk of a heart attack or stroke by as much as 50 percent, so the sooner you get started, the better!

One of the best ways is to substantially reduce saturated fat intake (which includes cutting back on red meats, high-fat dairy products, sweets, and high-carbohydrate foods), taking advantage of monounsaturated fats that help reduce LDL cholesterol (including olive oil, canola oil, avocados, nuts, seeds), and dramatically increasing fruits, vegetables, and herbs—great sources of vitamins and minerals which are essential to your health.

Prevent Diabetes
According to the American Diabetes Association, we are in the midst of an epidemic with 20.8 million children and adults in the United States, or 7 percent of the population, with diabetes. While an estimated 14.6 million have been diagnosed with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes, unfortunately, 6.2 million people (or nearly one-third) are unaware that they have the disease.

In addition, there are 54 million Americans who have prediabetes, a condition that occurs when a person's blood glucose levels are higher than normal but not high enough for a diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes.

Most people with diabetes have increased health problems, including arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), blindness, kidney failure, neuropathy (nerve damage and loss of feeling, especially in feet and hands), and amputation. High blood pressure and cholesterol, combined with diabetes, mean that more than 65 percent of people with diabetes die from heart disease or stroke.

However, according to Dr. Colbert, by managing diabetes, high blood pressure, and cholesterol, people with diabetes can reduce risks. Reversing the trends that lead to diabetes should include not only increased activity and exercise, but also a healthier diet filled with fiber, antioxidants, minerals, and vitamins.

Reduce the Risk of Cancer
Long considered a “prosperity” disease, cancer is a term for diseases in which abnormal cells divide without control and often invade other tissues, spreading to other parts of the body through the blood and lymph systems. There are more than 100 different types of cancer.

In the United States and other developed countries, cancer is presently responsible for about 25 percent of all deaths. In fact, cancer has surpassed heart disease as the leading cause of death for people younger than 85 since 1999.

The general consensus shows that modern diets greatly increase the risk of developing cancer. By contrast, according to Dr. Colbert, study after study of people around the world with higher intakes of plant-based foods show a marked decrease in cancer. It always seems to come back to a healthier diet and more exercise, doesn’t it?

Turn Back the Clock
Your health and vitality depend upon so many different components such as nutrition, stress, biochemistry, genes, and fitness. Doing certain things not only can keep you from aging rapidly, but they can actually help you turn back the clock.

In other words, your life and health depend upon factors largely under your own control. While this is by no means an exhaustive list, here are several practical ways you can live healthier, no matter how young or old you are today:

• Be aware of your genetic weaknesses and strengths. You can’t choose your genes, of course, but you can be alert to tendencies that run in your family and seek to overcome those traits. Get tested more often for areas with a higher risk.
• Change your future! Just because someone in your family died from a heart attack when they were 55 or 65 or 105 doesn’t mean that you have to fall into a chasm of self-fulfilling prophecy. Seek medical guidance on how to overcome genetic traits, then change what you can.
• Realize that time is on your side. The life-expectance numbers are rising by the year. Modern medicine continues to unravel many secrets of illness and genetic challenges. Preventive medicine is exploding with new solutions to age-old questions. Seek out information, and learn what works for you.
• Resolve to get fitter and healthier than ever before. Regardless of where you are right now—good, bad or in-between—you can get better. Study after study of people from all age groups, even those in their 90s, show that those who follow a program of health and fitness tend to live longer and with a better quality of life.

Seek God’s guidance in your life, no matter how many birthday candles you get to blow out each year. Without the Lord in your life, you are running in circles with no end in sight. With Him, you have meaning and direction.

Remember, as Dr. Colbert points out time after time, you are responsible for you. Free choice is a tremendous gift from God, but it is also a life-or-death challenge. It is up to you to make changes in your lifestyle and environment that contribute to better health, regardless of your age.

Personal Health Improvement Kit
I’ve given a quick overview from the This Is Your Day! broadcasts with Dr. Don and Mary Colbert. And as I do on the programs, I am offering a special group of his products available to help you improve your health.

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God wants to bless you supernaturally, for it is “not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts” (Zechariah 4:6).

Preaching the glorious Gospel,
teaching the unchanging Word,
and expecting the mighty and miraculous,

Benny Hinn

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