| You could have learnt at your grandmother's knee | | | | Common sense dictated that it was during sleep that |
| that a healthy body is one that gathers food, digests | | | | our body-having nothing else to e expend its energy |
| what it requires and throws out the waste. It is a | | | | upon- used the time to rejuvenate and rebuild itself. |
| simple philosophy drawn from common sense. If you | | | | The living cycle explained why a good night's sleep is |
| look around you, you will see that Nature has | | | | far more refreshing than an afternoon nap. That is |
| organised our planet to perfection. We have days | | | | because the smart cells operate best in absorbing |
| and nights for all earthly creatures to work and sleep, | | | | and using food at night. |
| animals who prey on other animals, animals that eat | | | | And it was the living cycle that finally explained how |
| plants, the four seasons. Our entire world functions in | | | | the smart cells set aside a certain time for ridding the |
| cycles, Since we are Nature's children, our bodies too | | | | body of wastes.(Which is we have a furry tongue in |
| ought to be working in similar rhythms. For years, | | | | the morning and also need to empty our stomachs |
| scientists and psychologists researched and analysed | | | | soon after waking |
| - trying to figure out if we functioned in a set | | | | After a late night of partying and feasting, have you |
| pattern. After all, women have menstrual cycles. So, | | | | woken up with a dull feeling? That is because you've |
| was it possible that the human body operated in | | | | eaten at a time when the body wants - to busy |
| some' kind of health rhythm blueprinted by Nature? | | | | itself in absorbing and using the food. Instead, you've |
| And sure enough, they stumbled on to a great | | | | sent it off its normal track and forced it to 'eat' and |
| discovery. | | | | digest - throwing its natural living cycle out of gear. |
| Our smart cells had a biological clock which they | | | | Since its eliminating time has been postponed, you |
| followed with precision! They had optimum | | | | may find yourself constipated! |
| time-spans for the bodys three functions - taking in | | | | It figures from the timings of the natural living cycle |
| and digesting food; absorbing and using the fuel; | | | | that breakfast is not necessary to start the day. It is |
| ridding our body off its wastes. What stunned these | | | | a time when the smart cells are busy vacuuming and |
| researchers was that the tireless smart cells could | | | | cleaning up your insides. However, if you do feel |
| manage all three functions at the same time, but | | | | hungry due to an old habit, eating fresh fruits or |
| cannily also concentrated on one function more | | | | drinking fresh fruit juice would satisfy your hunger. |
| intensely during a certain period. And the marvellous | | | | Since the body can digest them easily, you don't tie |
| smart cells living cycle ,slowly came to light just as a | | | | up its energy in digestion. |
| photograph emerges from a negative, in this way: | | | | According to health experts, the digestion of food |
| Noon to 8 p,m. : eating and digesting | | | | demands more energy than running or cycling! Which |
| 8 p.m. to 4 a.m. : absorbing and using | | | | is why, after a heavy meal, you feel sleepy. Your |
| 4 a.m. to noon: eliminating wastes. | | | | smart cells engage them - selves in the digesting |
| It was one more feather in the health expert's cap. | | | | process, using all their energy, leaving you with very |
| Until then they could tell us what we should eat - | | | | little for doing anything except sleep. They also |
| Now they knew when we should eat to optimise our | | | | require loads of energy to clean up your system. |
| body's efficiency. | | | | Obviously, you don't want your day's energy to be |
| Common sense showed the way - that we could eat | | | | diverted purely for digesting food and eliminating |
| only when awake. But the living-cycle theory | | | | wastes, important through they are for your health. |
| explained why if we stayed off food, our hunger | | | | Hence, constantly feed your smart cells with |
| would rise and then diminish even if we didn't eat. | | | | high-energy, fatless and sugar- free food like |
| That is because the body system would switch to | | | | vegetables, fruits and sprouts to enable you to have |
| the next function. | | | | tons of energy left over for your work and leisure. |