“What we want to believe and put in our hearts determines our spiritual destiny. What we choose to do in life and put in our minds (education)  determines our mental destiny and income. What we put in our mouths determines our health and it’s all our choice.” 

“TV-focused kids make bad choices with a detour in life from what they might have been, but, it’s all choice, and we can change it for the coming year.”

TV paints drugs (alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, Rx) as part of life when they are more about death. Prescription drugs are often thought necessary because of what people choose to put in their mouths.

When something is good for the body, like exercise, it’s good many ways. Exercise helps the attitudes, appetite, circulation, digestion, elimination, nerves and sleep.

But when something is bad for the body, it is bad in many ways. Alcohol and caffeine are bad for nerves and heart. Caffeine is not allowed in the Coronary Care Unit as it lowers the threshold for ventricular fibrillation, a fatal arrhythmia and triggers pvc’s–extra heart beats. Alcohol makes the blood sticky, raises blood pressure and can cause heart failure.

Alcohol and caffeine are both bad for the stomach, irritating it and turning acid on so that one needs antacids and acid-blockers– drug companies love these substances.

Cancer of the stomach and liver are more common in alcoholics. Pancreatic cancer is more common in coffee-drinkers. New England Journal of Medicine, March 12, 1981.

Alcohol and caffeine are both risks for birth defects–Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and cleft palate, hare lip respectively (pictures of kids with deformed upper lip needing surgery.

Coffee is a factor in broken bones due to osteoporosis that it causes. Alcohol is a factor in broken bones from accidents with more than 10,000 US deaths and the cost of alcohol-related accidents is more than $44 billion.

Dr. Pavlov called coffee, “Bad Habit Glue” because tends to glue our bad habits together. When rats were given a choice of water or alcohol to drink, they preferred water unless on a junk food diet. Adding coffee and spice made alcohol consumption soar, but when returned to a better diet, their thirst for alcohol dropped off. Quitting smoking is much more difficult if one drinks coffee which calls for a smoke.

These substances are not our friends. The good feeling they give is relief of the bad feeling they cause, but we can break the addiction and enjoy life, health and better destiny without them. This includes tobacco. With one quarter to one third of US populations smoking, most smokers would be glad to have the monkey off their back. Serious help for smokers is found at /v3/health/2018/2886392.html

Equally dangerous or more so is http://LeadingCauseOfDeathPrescriptionDrugs.com and none of the above would seem necessary if people were wiser about the choices of what they put in their mouth, mind or heart. The good news is that bad destinies can change because we can change our mind with better choices.

For those who quit caffeine, headache is common in withdrawal, but it can be eased by a hot foot bath that draws blood from head congestion to the feet. If it’s a migraine, a double sink with hot water for arm and hands for 3 minutes following by cold water for 30 seconds, 3 cycles will tone the blood vessels to ease a pounding headache.

Aspirin, Tylenol or Motrin can be used if additional help is needed. Do not use Anacin, Excedrin, Fiorinal, Cafergot or other meds with caffeine as they will continue the addiction. Think about NEW START–Nutrition, Exercise, Water, Sunlight, Temperance, Air, Rest and Trust in God. They are helpful remedies to be used in a balanced way.

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