Facts 4 Health

Smoking
12 million adults in the UK smoke cigarettes and every year an alarming 114,000 smokers die as a result of their habit. If you have a 20 a day habit you’ll be burning a £150 hole in your pocket each month. In a year that’s over eighteen hundred pounds up in smoke!

Alcohol
We consume 25 billion alcoholic drinks a year in Britain – enough to fill 6,000 Olympic size swimming pools! British men do a good line in beer bellies and it’s easy to see why; just one pint could contain the same number of calories as a sugary donut. A pint a night could tot up to a thousand calories a week, or every year up to a stone in weight! Bad for your figure, your heart and your liver.

Caffeine
In a lifetime the average British tea and coffee fanatic will drink around 63,000 cups! A latte made with full fat milk could be the same number of calories as an average sized chocolate bar.

Chocolate and sweet snacks
In the UK we devour over half a million tonnes of chocolate every year. If you chomped a standard size bar every day of the year on top of your normal daily food intake, you could gain anything up to two stone! So chocoholics be warned - it would take about 45 minutes on a bike to burn off a single bar!

Pub snacks: crisps, pork scratchings
When it comes to the crunch, crisps are simply not good for you. They’re a source of transfatty acids, or bad fats, which when eaten in excess can lead to weight gain, clogging of the arteries, high blood pressure, and type 2 diabetes. Pork scratchings are another unsaintly snack, made of fatty pigskin, salt, additives and preservatives.

Processed meat
Processed meat is often derived from bone, fat, gristle and all sorts of other nasties. On top of that hair-raising mixture, your processed meat may be padded out with anything up to 30% water, plus gelatine, salt, sugar, starch, preservatives and additives. Then finally it’s put through a mincer, shaped into a meat product and eaten by you!

• Take Arkworld’s Micro 2 Pack (Ark 1 and Ark 2) every day.

• For Optimum results take Ark 1 on an empty stomach and Ark 2 with food.

• Try taking Ark 1 1/2 hr before exercise and just before you sleep.

• Take ¾ scoop of Ark 1 twice per day mixed with filtered or bottled water and 2 x Ark 2 tablets per day.

• Drink 2 litres of filtered or bottled water every day, to flush toxins out from your body.

• Eat at least 5 portions of organic fruit and veg every day.

• Eat Organic where possible. “Organic food doesn't contain food additives, pesticides and antibiotics which can cause health problems such as heart disease, osteoporosis, migraines and hyper activity. Amongst the additives banned by the Soil Association are hydrogenated fat, aspartame (artificial sweetener) and monosodium glutamate.”
  Ref: www.whyorganic.org

• Avoid ALL artificial sweeteners, these include Aspartame,saccharin, Cyclamate, sucralose, alit me, Acesulfame-K. Please check your labels especially on drinks and packaged foods. There have been many studies that show a link between sweeteners and cancer, epilepsy, hyperactivity, headaches and many other health problems.
  Is it worth the risk?
  Department of Health and Human Services, "Report on All Adverse Reactions in the Adverse Reactions Monitoring System", 25 and 28 February 1994. “Remington Dennis, MD and Barbara Higa, RD., The Bitter Truth About Artificial Sweeteners.”

• Exchange white food for brown. Eat more Whole foods including whole grains. Try wholemeal pasta, wholemeal bread, cut down on potatoes; try sweet potatoes, millet, brown rice and oats. You will feel fuller and your energy levels will be more balanced.

• Don’t be fooled by low fat “healthy eating” pre packaged foods they are usually full of hidden sweeteners and preservatives. Eat as much food in its natural state.

• FAT IS NOT BAD! There are good fats essential for your survival that can also aid in weight loss, good fats found in oily fish; nuts, avocados and good oils (olive oils and nut oils). Try snacking on fruit and nuts instead of fast food.

• Don’t skip breakfast, start the day with hot water and lemon, this will clear the body from mucus giving you a mini cleanse. Try porridge with oats or millet and a homemade smoothie.

• Cut out Caffeine. Try exchanging coffee and tea for herbal or fruit teas, there are so many delicious different types to try.

• Buy some cold pressed flax seed oil and take daily. Flax seed is a great source of omega 3 which can help reduce heart disease and strokes.

• EXERCISE at least 3 times a week. Do something you enjoy & it will be so much more fun.

• Start cooking and taking your health seriously, a good cook book is Gillian McKeith’s ‘You are what you eat cookbook’ Prepare your food in advance if your busy and change your snacking habits, always have fruit or nuts to snack on.
  EAT MORE, BUT OF THE RIGHT FOODS.

“The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, let food be your medicine” - Hippocrates

‘HE WHO HAS HEALTH HAS HOPE
AND HE WHO HAS HOPE HAS EVERYTHING’