We are all living a little looser and fuller these days. The future is uncertain, so let's really live. If you take this attitude into your diet and health, and feast on junk foods and junk thoughts, you could be setting yourself up to be a victim.

Whatever your take on the war of 2001 may be, there is one very real threat -- germ warfare. We may never have our homes and cities burned out, but collectively war touches all of us. Now, it can even touch us physically. So getting practical about this threat and taking precautions against it seems to be a very logical thing to do.

As with all epidemics, there is a couple of dynamics that are natural happenings. First, before man interfered with nature, epidemics were the way She reduced the population. The frail and weak were eliminated. Since we have so many of those, I don't think nature will help stop it. We are very overpopulated on this planet. The medical attitude that gives us two options to health problems - drug or surgery can keep us weak and sickly.

Second, "The strong will survive." (no matter how good your medical insurance is). There is also the "will to survive" which makes us strong even when we are physically weak, or run out of antibiotics.

Third, "There is nothing to fear but fear itself." The worst usually never happens. Even in the most awful epidemics, the weak and sick will die first and the strong and healthy will make it -- bottom line -- natural law. The way to beat the threat of any mass epidemic and germ warfare is to get healthy - in body, mind and spirit.

You can prepare for war like a warrior does, with discipline, training and precaution -- storing up provisions for the siege and fortifying your kingdom. You can build health and strength into your body and the bodies of your children and loved ones. So let's get practical.

The way to get strong and healthy is to abstain from alcohol and drugs or cut it way down. That includes all prescription drugs, which always stress the body, creating toxicity and mini-disease conditions the body then has to use it's healing power to eliminate. Drugs should be the last resort, not the first. Think of your body like a house. If you acid wash it every day, what happens? The acid eats away the house and can cause all sorts of problems.

If you build your house out of cheap, inferior materials, you have a shack that blows down with the first wind. Diet is your greatest tool in building a strong house that can withstand any storm. We need to build our bodies with whole foods, not polluted by chemicals and preservatives. We particularly need to avoid white flour, sugar and fat -- especially fried fat. It is the heating and frying of fat and oils which makes them clog up our arteries, which are our lifelines. When we eat seven to nine servings of fruits and vegetables a day, we give our immune systems the nutrients they need to stay strong and effective. Live foods strengthen your organs and life force. Strong organs make a strong body-home.

Our natural health industry is producing many tools to build health. Not only do we have high-powered herbal and homeopathic remedies for any disease, we now have concentrated food supplements that can fortify and deliver nutrients to the body more efficiently that single foods. The health and anti-aging we can create with diet, bodywork and supplements can be amazing.

Next on the list is exercise -- I mean aerobic exercise -- getting oxygen into the body and moving lymph and blood. Oxygen kills bacteria and pathogens. It feeds the cells and bathes them in life force. Cancer can't live in an oxygen-rich environment, neither can most infections. Exercise is also important for strengthening the body. The warriors of old were always the last to go during an epidemic and had the capacity to survive serious wounds without the aid of antibiotics. Why? Because their immune systems were kept strong with the constant physical training they did their whole life long.

Exercise also detoxifies the body by either burning toxins out or moving them out. Lymph is the garbage dump of the body. The only way lymph moves through the body is physical activity. Toxicity settles in the body fat and stays there unless you move it around and out. Ever notice an overweight person who seems light and others who seem very dense and solid? Toxicity makes fat heavier. Where toxic conditions exist, there is room for disease- parasite and germ infestations settle in. How can you build a house in a swamp?

On earth, we live in toxic environments. Collective toxicity, like air pollution, affects all of us. Cleaning the body is a very important thing to do. We clean our houses more efficiently than we clean our bodies. Would you let parasites live in your refrigerator? Parasites are probably the thing that stresses the immune system the most. It pays to do a parasite cleanse every year. There are hundreds of ways, means and methods to cleanse the body. Drinking a couple of quarts of purified water everyday is probably the most powerful thing you can do for your health.

From massage - to allergy clearing - to colonics, there are more than 100 kinds of different body works, including hyperbaric oxygen therapy, that you can utilize to create more health and strength in the body. Bodywork aligns and tunes up the whole body, not only making it work more efficiently, but also reducing the stress that creates ill health. Clearing allergies and sensitivities takes much stress off the immune system, making it more likely you will overcome any germ or disease. Contrary to the popular false belief - you don't have to just live with allergies, they are curable. There are many holistic ways and bodyworks that eliminate allergies completely.

Last, but not least, is the power of the mind and heart. We are all connected psychically. Even now fear is creating more influenza than normal. There are strange illnesses here and there that the media immediately suspect to be gem warfare, but turn out to be nothing special. The mass fear seems to invite epidemics and make strange disease occurrences. With more than half of the people in the United States on some kind of drug or drug treatment, you have drug reactions with flu-like symptoms. Or people with the flu who take drugs that distort the flu and change its symptoms. So don't buy into the mass disease stuff and hold your faith in God because the cosmic joke is - the ones who want to survive will. The will to live is an amazing thing that can overcome anything.

Love is what makes people want to live. Love makes the immune system so strong that it can overcome anything. Love and happiness create vibrational frequencies in the body that can make it immune to disease. If disease is present when a person falls in love, the love makes their chances of survival go way, way up.

Positive thinking also creates positive tones in the body that allow it to do superhuman things. If a person tells you they have never been sick a day in their lives, they are probably telling you they are positive thinkers. Science is discovering more and more that attitude affects the physical universe and that thought may well be the creation of everything. Attitude has an attractive power to it. Attitude pulls in experiences like its vibrational tone. Bad attitudes literally attract to them like experiences. In other words, what we fear or talk up usually comes upon us.

So, don't give germ war any more attention than it needs and get your body ready to survive. That way, if germ war does not come, your quality of life will still be at its highest and best because disease probably won't come either -- you will be so healthy. Wouldn't it be just like God to make it so the happiest and most loving inherit the Earth?