Healthy Chemistry for Optimal Health - Learn About Chemicals That Will Harm or Aid You
Why the fear of chemicals?
It’s obvious that chemicals have a lot to do with why we can do the things we do as living beings. Lately, however, the mere mention of the word chemical evokes negative feelings among people. We hear of chemical warfare and we see people staggering around gasping for breath. The health conscious when he or she hears of vegetables produced through the application of chemical-based or synthetic fertilizers shudders at the thought of eating such foods.
Scientists can do a lot with chemicals. They can combine different chemicals to come up with fearful weapons like the chemical weapons that we often hear about, and they can combine different chemicals to come up with health or life giving solutions.
Benefits to Health Industry
The health industry will not be what it is today if it does not know how chemicals work in the body. They would not know how to make use of the PH measurement that determines the acidity or the alkalinity of the body and they wouldn’t know how to come up with programs that would address health problems. Worse, they wouldn’t know what solutions to recommend for preventing problems.
Chemistry of Chemicals
A chemical has impact on another chemical. The impact or reaction falls within the realms of chemistry and this knowledge is very important to the health industry. How should acidity that causes a lot of health problems for people be countered? Well, a health expert will declare caffeine, aerated drinks, spicy chutneys, pickles and vinegar off-limits and will recommend tea, milk, banana, cucumber and melon. He couldn’t have known what to avoid and or recommend what the sufferer should take if he did know his chemicals and chemistry.
The key, then, to maintaining good health and coming up with cures is knowledge on what chemicals do for and to the body and what will happen if two chemicals of different properties are combined.
The field of chemistry has made great advances over the years and the health industry is one of the main beneficiaries of these advances. This is the reason why the industry has stayed stagnant and every so often, we see different health schemes and products based on new knowledge hitting the market. The best products that have come out from the industry, however, are those that are based on simply balancing the amounts of chemicals in the body so that the natural and proper biological processes are promoted and preserved.
Does this mean that all health products out there are effective? Well, people are given choices. One has to look at specifications – nutrition fact for health products or chemical content for non-food solutions. The choice should also consider the condition of the body as the chemicals absorb through the products can result to negative body reactions.