Did you know that more than 200 million people all over the world have mental disorders, most of which suffer from depression? As people get more and more easily dissatisfied and more difficult to please, the need to care for people’s mental health through a mental health community becomes increasingly more important.

Mental or psychological health is an important aspect of an individual’s total well-being, as it affects and is affected by the physical and social dimensions of a person’s life. It has something to do with a person’s ability to contribute to something meaningful to one’s community and live a productive and fruitful life, and at the same time be able to cope with normal stresses of everyday life.

As people are exposed to different kinds of stress, and since accidents and traumas choose no specific individual, all kinds of people are vulnerable to mental illnesses and disorders, which can be caused by traumatic experiences, injuries or even old age. But no matter what kind of mental illness a person happens to have, there are always ways to help a person recover and go back to living his or her normal life.

Aside from going through psychological treatments under the care of psychiatrists or getting medication in the form of psychoactive drugs, joining a mental health community is also a good way of helping people achieve a mentally healthy life.

Such a community provides a better option for patients as it offers a more positive and caring environment compared to a mental hospital. In this community, the lives of people with mental disorders could be improved in a better way since they are exposed to their actual communities and in some way, family therapy expands to a bigger context. Not only will the caretakers be the ones informed about the situation, but the neighborhood and the whole community as well. There is hope of lessening or eliminating the stigma against mental illness and preventive intervention measures are made viable too.

In line with this, a mental health social network is an online community where people with mental illness could register and communicate to others with a similar condition as theirs in a safe environment. The participants of such a social network can make themselves anonymous so that there will be no threat of feeling embarrassed or taken advantage of about their situation. There is an exchange of information, experiences, knowledge and opinions about the participants’ lives and this network becomes a venue for them not only to express themselves but also establish new relationships that could give them a sense of belongingness.

Not only those with mental disorders could join a mental health social network; in fact some members include doctors, psychiatrists, psychologists and other health care professionals who offer their help and reach out to patients. Loving relatives, caregivers and volunteers may also be present in these networks and ensure that the participants get all the help they could get.

True enough, a positive and caring environment would help anyone live a happier and more fulfilling life. Mental problems and disorders can be treated, and they are best treated when people realize that they are not alone and there are real people who care.

Our daily diet in these modern times is killing us. Humans are meant to ingest 90 essential nutrients on a daily basis to maintain a healthy body. These nutrients are not called essential nutrients for no reason. These essential nutrients are made up of the following:

** 60 minerals

** 16 Vitamins

** 12 Amino acids

**   2 Fatty acids

Notice how minerals make up most of the essential nutrients. This is because without minerals vitamins are rendered mostly useless. Minerals are like the spark plug for your car, with out them your car wont operate. Minerals initiate, regulate and control every organ and function in our bodies. Minerals are the catalysts that support protein digestion, enzyme function, cellular electrolyte impulses, metabolism, and the billion’s of chemical reactions that occur throughout the body, every minute of everyday.

For example lets talk about calcium, just one mineral out of the 60 we need. Calcium makes up around 2% of a human’s body weight. That’s a lot when you think of how small these minerals are. There are 147 diseases linked to a calcium deficiency. Most people do not get there daily calcium intake resulting in the huge Osteoporosis problem we are seeing today world wide. This was mainly seen in older generations but now it is being seen in the younger generations as termed – Juvenile osteoporosis and Juvenile arthritis. Now this is only one mineral out of the 60 we need.

With today’s current farming techniques a large amount of the nutrition we are supposed to get from our food is not in the produce anymore. Our modern style of chemical farming with fertilizers such as NPK increase a crops yield however these chemical fertilizers kill off most of the beneficial bacteria in the soil that helps plants maintain a healthy root system so they can absorb the minerals which are supposedly in the soil.

Understand this…Minerals do not occur around the Earths soils in a blanket form. Minerals are found to be abundant in some areas and in other areas there are next to no minerals found in the soils. Minerals are found to be like veins throughout the Earths soils, not just widely spread around the Earth abundantly.

You may say but I only buy organic produce. That’s a good start, but organic generally means chemical free which is great but if the crop is planted in soils that are low in minerals then the plants can only take up those small amount of minerals. Unless minerals are put back into the soil then each year the soil will become more depleted and the plants will only have a minimal amount minerals in them, which is not good for the human body.

After a few years of farming, mineral depletion of those farmed soils is quite extensive. The farmed lands need to be rested for a few years as was done over one hundred years ago to let the mineral levels in the soil build back up again. This however is not financially viable in today’s current climate of expensive land costs and the need to sell produce to pay for the rent of the land and associated living and labour costs.

This is where chemical farming comes in to play. With chemical farming the farmer can pull high crop yields out of his lands year after year, however as you have read above this leaves the produce with fewer minerals in them for human consumption. This is not the farmer’s problem as his job is to grow crops and get the produce to market to satisfy the consumption needs of our society. Farmers are paid small amounts for there produce in comparison to what the consumer purchases them for. They can’t be expected to foot the bill to bring the land back up to a healthy level. This is how farming was taught to them and as they get squeezed on pricing they will continue to look for better chemical fertilizers to get them bigger crop yields out of the same sized land.

Now due to these mineral deficient lands the result of this is that even if people are eating a healthy diet of fruits and vegetables etc, they are not getting the required intake of the essential nutrients to maintain a healthy body. This can be seen in our society as today’s children are suffering from diseases that 60 – 70 years ago were only found in adults aged 50+. As time goes by this will get worse as the nutrient levels in our mothers will be lower resulting in very sick babies that’s if they survive the birth.

One of society’s main problems is Obesity and it is at an all time high – Why? Here is something to think about…..When we get hunger pains it is not because our stomach says I need some cake or some chocolate. We get hunger pains because our body needs certain nutrients to function. The human body gets 99% of it’s nutrients through the mouth. So when we get hunger pains we eat.

Why are people eating so much these days? If you eat a meal and it contains about 10 – 30% of the 60 minerals the body needs what do you think the body does? It sends more hunger pain signals out as it needs the minerals, resulting in the intake of more food. We have to get these minerals and the body goes to extraordinary lengths to get them. This is what we do to satisfy our hunger pains.

This does not stop the problem until you supplement your body with the minerals it needs. Our society these days terms being hungry all the time as “the munchies”. In animals this is called pika and cribbing. If a farmers sees his cattle chewing on a barb wire fence or eating other things instead of the grass they usually eat, the farmer will supplement the animal’s diet with minerals as this is what the animal is trying to get and that’s why it is eating other things and not the grass. It’s because the grass is not containing all the nutrients that the animal needs. An old farmer told me once that if you want to raise good cattle you have to grow nutritious grass.

This is exactly the same as in humans. Watch when you supplement your diet with a quality source of Pure Plant Minerals, after about 4 – 6 weeks you’ll notice that you are not as hungry. After about 3 – 6 months you’ll see that your body is healing it self with the minerals and those old aches and pains are going away. We need to supplement with quality nutrients on a daily basis to allow our bodies to heal and maintain themselves. There is a huge difference in the quality of supplements on the market today.

Dr. Linus Pauling who is the only person to receive 2 unshared Nobel Prizes said “One could trace every sickness, every disease and every ailment to a mineral deficiency”.

Please go through the information provided at www.healthsecrets.com.au so you can get a better understanding on how to bring your body up to good health. Prevention is better than cure.

Please read the Introduction Page located in the Health Information section, and then click on the page titled Mineral Secrets so you can learn the difference between these different types of minerals on the market. After that page do yourself a favour and invest some time in yourself so your body can benefit from the wealth of knowledge by reading through each title so you can get a better understanding of how important supplementation with quality nutrients is to your health.

Great Health,

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