If it was not for my health I would not bother We have trillions of cells inside our body and each one is a living organ.
Being a living organ, each of these cells needs to be fed and get fluids.
So what do you do? You eat and drink! But here is the problem - not all food and fluids you put in your body are necessarily good for your cells.
Most of what we eat in the western world contains many artificial preservatives, food coloring and other harmful substances that are basically poisoning our body.
I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease 15 years ago and was prescribed with pharmaceutical medicine to take for life.
I had to take 3 grams of Rafasal every single day for life.
After Crohn's was triggered in my body I had to stop eating dairy products, red meat, deep fried food, (I love chips) and many other types of foods that are yum but also kill the body slowly over the years.
In 2001 when I arrived in New Zealand I decided to stop those pills and try and watch more closely what I am eating.
My body is now 10 years free of any pharmaceutical drugs and full of goodness that I put inside it, thus keeps me healthy.
Here are 7 ways to treat your chronic disease, just like I did

1. Avoid Deep fried food.
   Deep fried food especially if it has been fried in oil that is highly reactive to heat, will put in your body free radicals, and I will tell you next what free radicals are and why they are so bad for you.
   
2. Avoid Processed Food.
   Processed food is basically food that has been broken down, treated with bleach or some other chemical so that it has a longer shelf life, and then put back together.
   Processed food is nutrition depleted thus usually do not satisfy your hunger.
   If you ever went to McDonalds and ate a mega burger or whatever they call it these days you probably noticed you were hungry again about half an hour later.
   
3. Drink a lot of fruit and vegetable juice.
   Fruit and vegetables (including all types of nuts) are rich in anti oxidants.
   In this modern world we inevitably breathe in free radicals.
   Smoke, whether it comes from your car exhaust, your bbq, your fire place, the air we breathe (that is polluted by default), and even from your cells contain free radicals.
   (Cells are burning themselves 24/7 in order to replace themselves).
   A free radical is a single atom that is looking for its paired electron.
   Once inside the body it will enter a healthy living cell that has a paired atom and electron and will snatch its electron.
   Now that cell is damaged and can develop a chronic disease such as cancer.
   
4. Exercise a lot.
   I talk a lot in here about all types of exercises you can do without joining a gym and without buying expensive cardio equipment.
   Truth About Abs is a program provided by Mike Geary which I extensively review in here.
   When exercise, one must know the difference between good and bad cardio and which exercises actually causing the body to burn calorie and fat and which have the potential to actually damage the body.
   
5. Drink a lot of water.
   It is recommended that once you are up first thing in the morning you should drink at least 700 ml of water.
   Water flashes the body thus rid toxins that may otherwise remain inside it for another day or two.
   Drinking that much water first thing in the morning will make you extract which is the first thing the body should do naturally in order to empty its toxins.
   If you cannot drink that much all at once try doing it in portions.
   
6. Eat organic.
   It has been talked about a lot that organic food is not necessarily better than non-organic one.
   Understand this: organic food means food that has not been interfered by chemicals.
   Most plants, animals and anything else we eat contain all sorts of pesticides, herbicides, antibiotics and so on.
   When you eat that type of food you put in your body all those types of poisons.
   So what would you prefer?
7. Combine all the above.
   Try and look after your body as much as possible because it is yours to keep and maintain.
   If you get sick and go to the doctor to take a pill, you have missed the whole point.
   

In closing: I live in Auckland New Zealand where it is winter at the moment, (July 2010) and we had some really cold nights lately which caused me to be sick.
I had a really bad sore throat, that bad that I could barely speak.
Instead of going to see my family doctor I chose to buy raw honey - the one that has not been heated and raw ginger - the one that you grate yourself and I drunk gallons of hot water with raw honey and grated ginger, and I made sure not to filter it, within 4 days I was fine! No pills, and no drugs, just what the body wants and deserves.
Look after your body and eat healthy and exercise a lot.