Caribbean Food Emporium encourages Healthy Living.   Life is for living, and of course, it is  not only  about good food and drink.

Principles of Healthy Living

1. Good nutrition, which includes water and air as well as food

2. Exercise

3. Regular detoxification 

4. Relaxation

5. Prayer

6. Love

7. Altruism 

8. Forgivenesss

9. Positive Mental Attitude (PMA)

Exercise

This improves the life of any person no matter what the age.   Sustained exercise is required in addition to our daily movements to work, around the home or elsewhere.   Exercise can be made fun.    

Detoxification

Detoxification gets rid of the toxins in the body which are eventually harmful.   Toxins come from some by-products of the foods we digest, also from pollutants in the air we breathe.  Methods of detoxification include:  

Relaxation

If you are always on the go,  never a moment to rest - if you can help it - then you need to slow down.   Best to do it voluntarily before you become ill and have no choice.   If you can't stand waiting, get impatient quickly or frustrated with yourself for not getting enough done (excluding laziness) then you probably have your muscles in permanently alarm mode - while awake.    If you have a massage and get to realise how tense you are, you'll be amazed.   Take time out to do nothing sometimes.   Remember also, a holiday is not always the answer to the problem of requiring rest and relaxation.

Prayer

A spiritual exercise such as prayer has a better track record than medication for  relieving stress-related illnesses.   Benefits include, lowering your blood pressure, improving your circulation, helping your memory and depression.    Ten minutes a day could work wonders, even if you have a busy schedule. For those with no belief, meditation is the substitute. A quiet time of SSS - Silence, Solitude and

Love

People who have love in their lives tend to get ill less.   A good relationship, whether it be between partners, or between mother and daughter, father and son, or siblings is invaluable.   You just cannot put a price on it.

Altruism

This involves being helpful others for the sake of it, not for any reward.   There used to be a popular term -  doing your good deed for the day.   A smile,  a friendly face, kindness  politeness are always welcome except by the most miserable.  A good attitude cost you nothing but can make someone's day.

Forgiveness

Holding grudges and hatred hurts yourself, as well as the person you are hating.   It damages you emotionally and physically in the long run.  It's best to  discuss it, move past it.  understand and forgive.    Even if you can't discuss it.   Get over it.   We all offend at some time.   No one is faultless.

Positive Mental Attitude

Speaks for itself. More optimism. Less cynicism. Reduce negative thinking. Believe things will work out. If you don't try, you will never know if you would have succeeded. The fun is also the trying, striving, aspiring. Look for inspiration. When you receive it,and you know what you must do, DO IT.