Eat for your LIFE!! aka: HEALTH RECOVERY

What is your favorite beverage? Soda's ? Oh NO! That's BAD!

2012-02-15T17:15:00.000-08:00

Via: Term Life Insurance

Instead of soda's drink WATER!!!! Or Green Tea and 1/3 juice recipes or health tonic's:
The healthfood store and dropper bottles of green tea and fruit flavored drops into a cold glass of water for instant ice tea ZERO calories that taste great! one $15 bottle makes about 60 servings of tea. THAT is what I make in my daily water bottle to go instead of buying those other stupid drinks that only harm that cost $1-2 each!

If you have an interest in being an herbalist and creating your own fresh tea blend of herbs then visit this site:
Beneficial tea recipes for HEALTH!!!

There is NOTHING healthful about diet soda's or regular. Regular can has average of 10 tsp of sugar and diet has aspartame products that do ONLY harm. So as I have given up my favorite fix of Dr Pepper then diet Dr Pepper so when I pick my poison it is now once every 2-3 months! Giving up soda's is do able and the best switch off first is ice tea. Then pick healthy tea's and much more WATER and you'll be fine and SAVING yourSELF from ALOT of trouble up n coming! The phosphoric acid is behind alot of childhood fractures and ladies and gentlemen an epidemic of early osteoporosis. It's sucking the calcium out of your BONES! WOW!

Is Diabetes( 97% type 2) reversable or PREVENTABLE????

2012-02-08T09:39:00.000-08:00

YES! It is no surprise we have known this all along but the urgency to keep metabolic chronic disease a mystery the last few decades can keep us paying into a healthcare system that may bankrupt itself soon unless we begin to learn the truth behind these national epidemics that are indeed PREVENTABLE!

The notion of OBAMACARE is overated and you will find not acceptable when YOU have personally worked your way into a preventable disease by continued poor choices.
Save yourSELF and don't get DEADsies!
The BIG business of the PREVENTABLE Diabetes condition!

SUGAR and shooting yourself in the FOOT!

Southern Cooking plus physical inactivity = obesity induced DIABETES!

2012-01-18T17:53:00.000-08:00

Our adorable fun loving Paula Deen is just another southern living example of what happens after many years of the lifestyle and eating habits! Back OFF America! She represents a southern culture and is merely the fruit of her own ways. That is how disease works! Anytime we welcome daily doses of white flour, white sugar and FAT products into our mouths then, in time, we too will develop Type 2 Diabetes! No mystery involved! If not that one then one of the other self made degenerative diseases of our day! Everyone has a choice to choose HEALTH at every meal which reaps healthy benefits for a body or NOT! The problem is the majority of us CHOOSE NOT the healthy choice whether via the grocery store or the drive-thru or the local diner. And WE will reap the consequences of our own actions! So think again before you throw her under the bus for teaching us to cook like that! Smokers keep smoking no matter the warning on the label. It is no different. Eating is and has always been a choice! We need more celebrities to stand up and warn what happens if you smoke, drink or love sugar too much! It'll kill ya and its NOT funny!
The southern states are notorious for morbid obesity, inactivity and adult onset of diabetes! So how have YOU been eating? What is your BMI? He who lives in a glass house should not throw rocks! We love you Paula but in moderation, the recipes you love will hit my plate 1-2 times per year!

Save yourSELF and don't get DEAD!

Health Benefits of fresh air and sunshine?

2012-01-14T18:09:00.000-08:00

YES!!!

Anytime we can get out and take in deep breaths of nature, fresh air and sunshine we are getting benefits like a shot for our immune system! Walking around outside will refresh and rejuvenate our body in a way similar to taking a happy pill! Taking in the visual colors and fine details of God's creation is meant for a healing affect for our spirit, mind AND body. It is calming to our blood pressure, a stress relief and can even out our blood sugar. All the similarities to a 20 minute exercise work out. Have you ever noticed how animals know they need to lay in the sun and take in the solar energy? They just know they need to drink water too! They seem to know that these things are associated with the essence of LIFE! We can learn alot from watching our pets. Did you know that you cannot absorb Vitamin D with sunscreen on?

SAVE yourSELF and don't get DEAD! Healthcare may NOT be what saves us!

2011-12-10T08:47:00.000-08:00

Save YOURSELF and don't get DEAD! Say your prayers! Ask for guidance and direction to change the course you are headed. We are going to need it! This story more than any other will give us the heads up that things will not turn out as planned in future healthcare while we run our selves "pell-mell" down the path of self destruct. For decades we will work our health into a state of crisis from our own poor food choices , vices and lack of exercise. Then when its time for someone else to be there to mend the brokeness...well..they just may not be there after all, acting in our best interest! I'm not saying,,,, I'm just saying! BeWARE!
A Neurosurgeon just giving a glimspe of what future OBAMA care looks like

Creating a salad...

2011-11-12T09:14:00.000-08:00

Salads can be filling! Think of 12 things to add to your salad to make it colorful fresh and raw with a protein(garbanzo beans, chopped turkey, or egg etc) and then healthy dressing with balsamic or lemon with healthy oil etc. Vision a cobb salad and choose a variety that is healthiest for your goals.

This is helpful when grazing at the salad bar!

Only thing is don't be afraid of hard boiled eggs, they are a perfect whole food protein. If you stick to your 3-5 oz per day lean animal protein limit you will be in good shape. This is NOT why your cholesterol goes up!

Obesity Consequences are Bankrupting the Workplace! Costing 153 billion $$$ annually! OMG!

2011-11-04T18:32:00.000-07:00

Are you enjoying life and exploring God's wonderful world in good health? Are you operating up to your potential? Or are you a liability to America's workforce and healthcare? Only about 14 percent of full-time U.S. workers are of “normal” weight and have no chronic illnesses.

That means only the healthy and fit are reliable to show up to work and carry the burden of keeping the business in operation while the rest of the folks are ... well... sick with you name it. Chronic self made sickness and disease because they don't follow the rules to stay healthy.

unhealthy-obese-workers-cost-billions 10-19-2011

The rules of health are what?

eating 5-9 fresh vegetables and fruit per day=high fiber
eat a dark green leafy vegetable daily for cancer prevention=high fiber
plenty of whole grain breads,brown rice,beans and whole wheat pasta=high fiber
drink water instead of ALL the other harmful junk we 've been drinking
3-5 oz max of animal products daily(prefer chicken, fish over beef or dairy)
go outside and walk in fresh air and sunshine at least 20-30 minutes daily
enjoy life, love, family and friends

NO MATTER WHAT STOP THESE THINGS TO LIVE:

Stop Smoking!
Stop white sugar, white flour and white rice products!
Stop nutri sweet sweetners...use Stevia instead!
Stop exceeding 2-3 alcohol drinks per week!
Stop using margarine! That clogs arteries worse than BUTTER!
Stop avoiding your chance to get up and move off your BUTT! Park farther away! Use stairs!
Stop sticking your head in the sand wondering why me? Why not if your BMI is >30!!
Stop living at the drive-thru for your familys food!
Stop consuming foods with artificial flavors or food coloring

Pretty simple start really. Take responsibility for your own obesity and related health problems before they really cripple you and suck up your family's energy to care for you because you were careless and ignorant.

STOPPING those harmful habits is hard and a weaning is a process. Try cutting in HALF what you have been doing, then cut that in half again and pretty soon you won't crave it much!

So are you obese? Do you got high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, gallstones, asthma or arthritis YET? Save yourself now and DON'T get dead! So you can go to work and pay your way instead of expecting Obama and the government to be there to take care of you because, BIG SHOCKER, they won't be there for you when you need it. That's the way this world is headed! Sorry!

Pain, Sorrow and Sadness ......

2011-10-16T17:09:00.000-07:00

Just when you feel like you are at the end of your road, and it looks like a dead end.... Don't be surprised how this time you will come to a whole new view of life that you never knew was possible. A way of hope and a future you never imagined! That's how we discover new roads and options for life and living is at times like these:

What? Why? HOW does someone shoot to kill their child's MOM and 8 innocent people? How do we make sense of life's darkest tragedy's? How does healing and restoration begin? What do these things that happened recently in Seal Beach teach us?

#1 We live in a poisoned and toxic world.
#2 Don't be caught DEAD without Jesus!
#3 There is this temporary life and then FOREVER comes after we each, like it or NOT, sooner later, will leave this world.

If you were to die today, are you READY to meet the Almighty in the condition you are in? Yes or NO?
God does promise to take all things and work them for good for those who are in Christ Jesus. That includes all the things, that seem unforgiveable, that we ourselves have done.

We pray that these Seal Beach friends and families involved and who are affected will receive everything that they need. Help,grace, strength and mercy that can only come from our Higher Power. Amen

For more on this sad story:

http://www.presstelegram.com/ci_19124255?source=rv

Got Juice? Say YES to Health and Healing!

2011-10-02T14:36:00.000-07:00

Fresh, raw juice power packed with live enzymes, antioxidants and LIFE will nurture any body in any condition with energy and furnish what the body needs to HEAL ITSELF! Do IT!

Try juicing the produce you may not normally eat or like with a fruit to sweeten up the blend!!

Here's to your HEALTH and rejuvination!

It's OCTOBER! Let's SAVE the girlz!

2011-09-28T19:56:00.001-07:00

Yeah, if you want to save your own breasts then ask yourself this:

Do I eat my 5-9 fresh veggies and fruit per day?
Do I drink water?

Do I eat a dark green leafy vegetable daily to prevent cancer?

Do I Smoke?

Do I drink more than 2-3 alcohol drinks per day? More than 3 per week?

Do I take prescribed synthetic hormone pills? Why? How many years?

Do I have a BMI over 30?

Do I love dairy products?

Do I love sugar?

The facts are in, 80% of all cancers are PREVENTABLE. 1/3 are from smoking. 30-40% are from what goes in our mouth from our own grocery basket or drive thru restaurant. Drinking 3 or more alcohol drinks per day is equivalent to smoking 1 pack of cigarettes per day for increased cancer risk. There is an increased risk connection with synthetic hormone use. Whether it is from the pharmacy or via dairy products from cows and beef pumped full of steroids. White Sugar simply weakens our immune system so it cannot fight off free radicals that cause cancer. THE Obesity issue is a YES for much more than just cancer! These things are lifestyle related and have little to do with heredity factors.

To save your breasts you should say YES to the first 3 questions only!

THAT is playing it SAFE!

Emeril Green Episode: Eat Your Way to Five a Day - Planet Green - On TV

2011-09-22T20:20:00.000-07:00

Emeril Green Episode: Eat Your Way to Five a Day - Planet Green - On TV

Flu Shot???? Nope not me! Not EVER!

2011-09-17T08:52:00.000-07:00

We have alot to do with whether or not we will be overcome with colds and flu this year. Think about the past habits....

As we step out of summer filled with lots of fresh air walks and days in the sun and eating garden fresh produce in season, we switch almost overnight to closing all the windows , staying inside with the heater on and cooking lots of pots of something for dinner and baking lots of sugarry goodies to keep us fat and happy! All these changes weaken our immune system and we become vulnerable when exposed to others with symptoms in closed quarters! It's a very simple recipe that we can change and prevent unwanted illness. Keep our immune system up and strong with NUTRIENTS and we won't be bothered by all the "germs" we come in contact with through out the new season. We can continue eating fresh foods in winter season and drink lots of water and herb teas instead of soda's or fancy coffee's that have 500 calories, or cakes and pies or daily donuts. We can make salads with those hot cooked meals and keep the fiber coming all year round. Continue to walk about as weather permits etc etc and odds are: we will be fine even without the FLU SHOT!!

Know the ingredients before YOU jump in line for VACCINES!!!!!

Think again after knowing WHAT is in the injection that is TOXIC to humans!
America is pumping their babies and adults full of formaldehyde which is in almost every immunization along with corrosive metals, mercury and lawn fertilizers, pickling agents; all which are deadly if ingested.
But the propaganda about all these toxins forced on us from society is "don't worry!" No thanks , I will keep my immunity up the organic way!

2011-09-17T08:50:00.000-07:00

Emeril Green Episode: Greens and Grains - Planet Green - On TV

Any IDEA what the animal products you consume have been eating?

2011-09-06T19:44:00.000-07:00

There are alot of animals that are not grazing on the green grasses God intended but are being pumped with steroids and foods that add weight for sale rather than nutrient rich foods for health. The rule of thumb if you are consuming animal products? Only eat animals that feed on the green grasses. If NOT KNOWN for sure, skip the animal and eat your own dark green leafy vegetables first hand! That is playing it safe AND smart!

Next time stop at that road side stand to get the freshest and ripe to pick produce so you can make every bite count for maximum nutrients! Do it!

Save yourself and DON'T GET DEAD!

What are your FOOD choices doing for you? Are you ....fatsies?

2011-08-15T20:24:00.001-07:00

CHOOSE LIFE!!

Did you know that God's foods that are garden fresh and raw are power packed with nutrients, live enzymes, antioxidants and phytochemicals to keep our bodies in tip top shape and able to FIGHT OFF germs, toxins and virus' and the free radicals that TRY to make us sick???? Did you know our body REQUIRES a daily dark green vegetable just to prevent cancer?

Those fresh vegetables that should take up 2/3 of our plate rush nutrients, vitamins and minerals and amino acids to our tissues and organs to nourish, heal, renew, repair damage and strengthen us for the task of the day. They will rejuvinate our strength and stamina just like.... ol 'spinach' ....did for ol POPEYE!!

Did you know that garden fresh and organic fruit is full of vitamins and minerals and antioxidants to provide "quick energy" and can serve as a cleanser of toxins in the body! They nourish and supply us with energy! A perfect desert too. Our first choice for the sweet tooth that can help not harm!

Whole grains and brown rice and whole beans are a must to sweep away any unwholesome food indulgence! They in return provide us with strength and energy, their vitamins , minerals, and amino acids keep us nourished and our blood sugar and digestive tract time at a normal level. Normal transit time for a meal eaten should be 12-18 hours for our body to use and extract all it needs until elimination! Not like the up and down roller coaster ride the inferior food types in the standard american diet. Standard transit time for lousy eaters is 48-72 hours! Because there is no fiber in that diet, it takes too long and gets hung up with a belly sticking out that is really full of (@$**%##%^) and allows toxins to store in our fat to permeate our well being into sluggishness, fatigue and lack of energy if not constipation and hemorrhoids!! This kind of eating causes stress on our liver, pancreas and gallbladder. If we don't straighten up we will be diabetic, or have gallstones or even a fatty liver or a cancer from all the junk food abuse and lack of nutrients in return!

Did you know that if you MUST consume an animal product that it should be one that eats these fresh raw God's Foods too? It is better for us to eat these FIRST hand than to get another animals "hand me down" nutrients. So with that in mind, our body must work much harder to break down the meat into use able nutrients, so even the BIGGEST boys around town need not more than a 3 0z serving per day to benefit from this type of protein and will meet the RDA. Protein is for building and repair. How much building and repair do you need in a day? If you have an injury then maybe you can exceed the RDA! Think about the cow. Huge as it is, it gets all the amino acids(protein) it needs from eating the dark green grasses ALL day! (Unless the animal is caged and pumped with steroid poisoned foods ie. even WORSE!) Few people are as big as the cow. So lets pay attention folks! Choose carefully what kind of meat you consume! Safe from steroid and hormones?

Eat RIGHT to feel great and LIVE healthy with a body that is able to fight off and defeat any virus, germ or toxin that tries to contact and hurt us!!

Save yourself! Don't get dead because you didn't KNOW and spent too many years killing yourself with the junk food VOID of any nutrients that leads to a breakdown of sickness and disease! Eat right and reverse your risk of death by a self induced disease!

Childhood obesity.....Is eating right possible or a choice?

2011-07-20T21:08:00.000-07:00

Are you eating like you are going to the fair everyday?

Childhood obesity is a direct result of being born into a culture of junk food, drive-thru's and video games. Problem is the parents are deep into the convenience of fast food and the first thing they start feeding their baby is french fries and chicken nuggets, macaroni and cheese and hot dogs. WHY ? Because it is easy and takes little effort on the parent who is content with the adult version of junk food for themselves. In moments after learning to drink from a cup they get fake juices, koolaid and sugar drinks and find it funny that they can even have soda's too.

Sorry, though Mrs Obama means well, you cannot fit A SQUARE PEG IN A ROUND HOLE. Even with all the fruits and veggies that are in any given grocery store the parents will fill their baskets with JUNK food anyway. It is a preference. They don't sell organic produce at a mini mart because it doesn't SELL! So if the government wants to change the eating habits of those who are dependent on the government then they should limit food stamps to whole foods only. Things that are nutrient rich for aiding in maintaining a healthy body. Not for use on anything containing white flour , white sugar or white rice products or food coloring additives would be a good start! There is the start of health reform and reducing the national healthcare budget spent on self induced metabolic disease.

Out with the "OLD" Food Pyramid FINALLY we are encouraged to EAT RIGHT!

2011-06-02T15:08:00.000-07:00

AICR using the FOOD PLATE for a decade but Michelle OBAMA just put it in the NEWS!
The FOOD PLATE for AICR Cancer Prevention

EAT4LIFE2LIVE says it simply the best:
Choose a diet rich in a variety of plant based foods!

Eat plenty of fresh vegetables and fruit in season. Get a dark green leafy vegetable daily! Choose whole grains daily!

Juice your own fresh, raw vegetables with fruit!

Drink pure spring water- 6-8 glasses daily! (try NO plastic bottles!)

Choose whole grains and legumes!

Choose fish or chicken more often

Choose raw honey, agave nectar or raw sugar to sweeten if needed(easy does it tho! Even try the herb STEVIA to sweeten -no calories!)
Limit fats to olive, safflower, canola oils or organic coconut oil or butter to 2-4 TBS daily.
Limit (or stop) any white flour, white sugar or white rice products.
Limit salt to less than 1 tsp daily. I use Veg-Sal
Limit (or stop) chemicals, NUTRISWEET, food colorings or preservatives.
Limit (or stop) alcohol use to occasional only.
Limit (or stop!)red meat and dairy to only 3-6 oz daily max..if desired. (We prefer almond milk for cereal to back out of dairy products.)
Absolutely STOP any tobacco use!

A good word about dark greens!
Foods that FIGHT cancer! AICR

This IS how I live anyway.....This information can actually SAVE YOUR LIFE!
Say this..."I wanna LIVE!!"

Michelle Obama's NEW FOOD PLATE

How is your Health Literacy?

2011-05-15T08:11:00.000-07:00

In this busy life we lead there is much we do like a robot yet have no idea of the detrimental consequences our habits might have. As I walk around this park and witness the wildlife living their carefree lives, there is one thing that has snuck into their existance that was not intended and that is them eating people's junk food that is thrown out by the handfuls! This in turn produces an addiction and a sickness in the wildlife after awhile that can't be undone! In our fun for the moment, we will introduce a habit that will produce a metabolic preventable disease. Any living thing needs "nutrients" to survive and be healthy NOT JUNK!

So it is with us, the everyday choice we stuff in our mouths WILL do us a fatal consequence if we do not wise up. Health literacy may take on a different term but today ask yourself these questions:

Did you know that being FAT or morbidly OBESE is the biggest, reason behind needing a surgery for cancer, heart disease, gallstones, or bad knee's, or toe or foot amputations( due to diabetes)? Diabetes is the biggest single consequence for being obese. Most people with new onset diabetes, which was diet induced, become non-compliant diabetic's. That just means they refuse to change their bad habits and sweet tooth which leads to their demise! Diabetic's wore out their own pancreas with their cute little sweet tooth! Also, body FAT will upset the body's hormones that will push speed dial for cancer growth. This is in addition to getting clogged arteries from all the junk and in turn HIGH Blood pressure results from overstressed heart pushing the blood around all the extra miles of veins and arteries to be pumped at the same rate for a healthy body weight! Try carrying around 25 pound bag of dog food all day and you know how tired YOU get doing that right?

Did you know that having 3 alcohol drinks per day places you at the same cancer risk as smoking a pack of cigarettes per day? And everyone knows that 1/3 of all cancers are due to somebody's smoking habit right?

Did you know that 80% of all cancer's are preventable?
Did you know that 35% of all cancer's are due to what we put in our mouth which in turn may just qualify us for the OBESITY list?
Did you know that only 5-9% of most cancers have a heredity factor? The rest of it is our own doing? That means we are not the victim of a mysterious cause. It means the majority of cases we were the perpetrator of our own destruction!

In summary, about all chronic metabolic disease is entirely preventable. That means we do not have to get there and be placed on drugs to manage it. If we don't GET the diagnosis we don't have to take the drugs. We don't have to die before our time and leave our family helpless and broken hearted! We don't have to be part of the reason healthcare prices are ridiculous and unaffordable to most.

Looking at the big picture, this is a good reason to SAVE YOURSELF and don't get dead. America today is 64% obese, we don't eat anything that is healthy because it is OUR CULTURE, we don't exercise and well soon, we will become the biggest medical liability with no money left to cover the PRICE for the consequences of our self induced problem of OBESITY or smoking or boozing in excess!!

In the business of the medical profession, they can't always tell us these things because to insult us with the facts we just might take our business elsewhere now wouldn't we? Actually, those employed in the medical community are just as sick and fat as we are and clueless on "HOW it happened." But rather they are just waiting and ready to have an action plan for WHEN it does produce the diagnosis! They weren't trained about health and nutrients and prevention,(with all that higher education they never studied that part!) they were trained to treat sickness and disease with drugs or surgery and correct trauma results! However with the state of our health in America, the profit margin in medicine is narrowing at a rapid speed.

Prevention is not always profitable for a business. Sometimes it is, just depends on which end of the trillion dollar industry you are on and whether you got a diagnosis yet.

Say this, "I WANNA LIVE!" THAT'S why I gotta lose weight! I gotta go and ....lose 10 lbs! See ya!

Eat for your LIFE! Save yourself and don't get DEADsies!!

2011-04-14T22:41:00.000-07:00

The Government nor their upcoming Healthcare plans will save you but your food choices TODAY can alter your odds of a healthcare DEMISE!

Eat Right to feel GREAT! The best single thing we can do in a day is eat something vine ripe out of the garden! Oh MY the rich nutrients locked inside of every bite!

It is amazing the power of garden fresh foods and

how they immediately get to work as God intended. That is: nourishing, replenishing, rebuilding, renewing and protecting a body for the task of the day! We just don't get that from anything a DRIVE-THRU has to offer. Sorry folks. That defeats the purpose of eating just to stuff our face and then needing a nap afterward just to try and digest the pile of concrete we just dropped down the hatch. Remember, NO nutrients in return for all the energy it takes to digest the junk food!!!

Garden fresh foods will give LIFE, health and healing! Always!

Got Hope? Come and visit us for a minute!

2011-03-27T19:49:00.001-07:00

12-steps qualification QUIZ!

How is your teeth, gums, and your eyes?

2011-03-07T20:17:00.000-08:00

How are your teeth? Healthy or full of cavities or loose and falling out? Are your gums healthy and pink or bleeding and flame red? One place you can check daily to see how toxic you may just be today is just checking out the whites of your eyes! What color are they? If they are not white and healthy it's a SIGN to see about all those toxic foods you have been eating or drinking or smoking!! Or stick your tongue out BIG! Is it healthy or full of yucky coated slime? Is it cracked? That may be a sign of gastro/bowel trouble! FYI: Obesity and excess body fat is a storehouse for toxins. Is your hair falling out and brittle? Your fingernails strong and healthy? Is your skin smooth and blemish free? These are many signs that there may need to be a change and nutrients might be scarce in your diet and lifestyle. These are early warning signs that bigger symptoms and conditions and disease is on the rise if you don't change your ways soon. Test yourself! Examine your own fruit! Save yourself and don't GET DEAD!

I Love my LIFE!

2011-01-06T22:11:00.000-08:00

The best things are free! Take a walk somewhere pretty with someone you love and take in all the good energy of Gods creation and realize there is so much more to this life than our little bit we can see. Breathe the fresh air deep down inside and let out the yuck! Let the sunshine warm your skin and give you some needed vitamin D, God's way! And lets eat things that will bring life, health and healing to ALL our flesh! Never miss a chance to do something nice for someone. Be a blessing when you can. Amen! Happy New Year!

Gratitude for Family, Friends, Health and Faith in the King of Kings sent from Heaven is our focus for the Season!

2010-12-21T16:57:00.000-08:00

What are these ol Holiday's really all about anyway? Keep it simple: Remember to be grateful for the little things with no pricetag: Love, Life, Family, Forgiveness, Sobriety, a comfy bed, a full belly and mostly, Peace in my soul.....Selah, and ALWAYS: take your Higher Power with ya!
Merry Christmas and a HAPPY New Year to YOU!

Don't get the FLU! Don't get sick!

2010-11-05T19:27:00.000-07:00

We have alot to do with whether or not we will be overcome with colds and flu this year. Think about the past habits....

Stop at your local Road Side Produce stand!

2010-09-25T23:19:00.000-07:00

I love these fresh picked produce stands especially those with the honor system and tin can to deposit your money! What fun and "Oh My!" there is really nothing better! If you don't see these where you are then how about the local produce market with fresh picked in season from local growers? It's the best method for healthy eating today!

Health Reform starts in the GARDEN!

2010-09-14T19:52:00.001-07:00

All of this HOOP la about health care coverage is overrated. Socialized medicine is on the loom and will drastically reduce the quality of care when you are presenting with a serious need! Prevention is the cure for soaring health care prices! Prevention is NOT NEEDING their services because you do NOT have the diagnosis of hypertension, coronary heart disease, diabetes, cancer, gallstones and all the many other problems that arise from our self induced bad health habits! Problem is NOBODY has ever instructed us how NOT to need their services!

You would not go out and buy a car and stand out in the street and shoot holes in it and the gas tank and then expect the government to fix it and pay for it because it doesn't work anymore, would you? That is exactly where we are at in history where our health is concerned. Somebody has been making ALOT of money on our bad habits and never sat us down and looked us in the eye and told us how and why this has happened to us!

While insurance companies have the monopoly on health care pricing, drug companies make the most donations to medical schools. This has a significant influence on what is taught. Sure early detection is important if we fit into the category of 64% of Americans who are obese and not exercising or we have been avid smokers and drinkers of alcohol. Y'all really are going to need those expensive services unless you begin NOW to SAVE your own life and NOT GET DEAD! It all begins by what you put in your grocery basket. Does it nurture life into your body or is it slowly killing you?

I recommend the government giving tax credits for normal BMI's as an incentive to get AMERICA healthy like nobody else can. We are in charge of what we are doing to our body's! NO one to blame but us. Bad habits X 20-30 years = trouble!

We have to take responsibility for our 80% part. Then using state of the art health care services for the unforseen 20% that's NOT our FAULT! And accidents and catastrophes etc! How about this; reasonable coverage for the healthy: health care plans covering hospitalization and for the first 3 office visits per year only and then have the deductable begin!. (covers for routine health screenings etc etc! ) The rest of the visits paid out of pocket! That will change up how health care works you watch! The best answer today is to SAVE YOURSELF because the coverage coming....well, you are not going to like it! However, you will not care if you reduce your risk and will not need it! Let's not be like sheep going to the slaughter folks! Thanks for letting me babble! All I know is socialized medicine will not be a coverage we would like IF we are in trouble! Best to save ourselves NOW!

Standup2Cancer? Then Eat4life2live and Save yourself!

2010-09-10T21:02:00.000-07:00

Save yourself and DON'T GET DEAD! For over 20 years we at Eat4life2live.com have been on a crusade to stand up to CANCER and the other self made degenerative disease of our era like diabetes, coronary artery disease etc!

Wouldn't it be silly if we heard the notorious bank robber who gets thrown in prison say, "Gee, this is awful, how can I get out of prison? This is a terrible place and nobody should have to go to prison. How much money can I donate to the cause, Let's help people get out of prison? Then maybe someone can get me Outta here" LOL! Go ahead, you'd say, "that's what you get for breaking the law and robbing banks, DUMBASS!"

Though my TV was monopolized to tune in to Standup2Cancer there was not a word of the fact that 80% of all cancers are PREVENTABLE! That's right "don't need to happen" if it is up to us! With all that money they raise how much does it really cost to tell the truth to the people so they can save themselves and NOT GET CANCER in a simple commercial? All politicians know that if we see it enough on TV, then the folks tend to believe that something is true! Let's spend that money showing the truth that went with all those famous people that got "deadsies" who have passed on from cancer. If they could come back they would say, Yeah I was a dumbASS, I was a smoker for 30-40 years. Or Hey, what an idiot I was a smoker and a BOOZER! Sure that's why I got cancer! But YOU don't have to! Or how about look at me, my OBESITY, ol FAT ME got me dead! I should have lost weight... Why didn't anyone tell me I was killing myself and would die this horrible death because I loved sugar, and hated to eat my vegetables! Oh, so it was all the dairy and beef that got me dead too? All the steroid and growth hormones those animals ate got me DEAD? How come they allowed that possible anyway? OR , I hated to eat vegetables and I was faithful to take those hormones for years for the perks that oops GOT me dead with CANCER???? Yes, those memorial tribute pictures should have sub titles if they could just tell us WHY they got cancer! They all know WHY now if they got to stand before God in Heaven!

There is a recipe to get cancer and nobody will probably tell you that it's 80% chance going to be your own fault. Sadly, the profession that is dedicated to trying to fix us after we have shot ourselves in the foot over and over for years will never have the time or energy to say more than: "hey, better loose weight or quit smoking or quit drinking cuz, it's not good for you." Yeah, I bet all the cancer victims heard that once or twice but they chose their own demise by sticking their head in the sand about the facts. BUT we don't have to!!

35% of all cancer is related to lousy diet and lacking in:

* Fiber = foods grown from the earth!

* the required 5-9 "power-packed" garden fresh veggies and fruit per day to give your own body the nutrients it needs to fight off daily exposure to free radical cells that cause cancer.

* Whole grains instead of white sugar and white flour products.

* Eat more beans and fish or chicken than other fast foods and animal products you have been doing.

* Drink 6-8 glasses of water daily with fresh squeezed lemon in it rather than those super-sized soda's and high fructose corn syrup drinks or frequent alcohol drinks.

30% of all cancers are from smoking. Say no more....

Drinking 3 or more alcohol drinks per day is equivalent to smoking a pack a day of cigarettes for cancer risk. Taking drugs daily, street drugs or prescribed ones have side effects that weaken an immune system . Ladies, years of estrogen drugs are bringing us back at the doctors office with "uh oh" horrible repercussions after many years! THEY ARE DANGEROUS!

5-10% may have family history factor. That doesn't mean we have to inherit or mimmick the family bad habits- that got them cancer!

*Momma's about heredity, be careful what you do while pregnant!
Are you eating what it takes to create a healthy baby or do you smoke? Drink alcohol or do drugs? Drinking soda's?? Those are the worst for making a baby! Do you eat garden fresh foods or fast foods, yellow foods that have no nutrients for health? Yellow foods: mac n cheeze from a box, fried chicken tenders, french fries, fast food cheeseburgers, pizza and the like....

5-18% may be environmental related from occupational, toxin exposure or affected tap water.

National Cancer Institute and American Institute of Cancer Research are my favorite sources for HELP, guidelines for prevention and resources that will be better than any telethon asking for your money. Or you can keep coming back here for a kick in the butt for free to SAVE YOURSELF and DON't GET DEAD! So ask yourself what you are doing daily that causes cancer FOR SURE? With numbers like these we MUST take responsibility for our own HEALTH! What am I doing or not doing? How do I feed my kids?

USA Socialized medicine is on the loom and under that system it cannot afford ($$$) to help everyone that gets cancer because to fix us AFTER we get it is a much harder, costly task with slimmer chances of survival. So are you gonna stick your head in the sand and keep doing the CAUSE of cancer or will you be part of the solution before it IS the problem? It's up to you. NOT the scientists to find a get out of jail free card when you broke the laws (of health) deliberatley or ignorantly! Though if we are lucky enough to get a reprieve from successful therapy, does the dog return to the vomit and once again indulge in the things that got him there? I think NOT! Just like young, handsome President Obama is a chain smoker yet he is verbally pushing for the cure of cancer and socialized medicine instead of Hey! STOP doing what you know is going to cost the taxpayers and health care system millions of dollars it cannot afford for everyone who is killing themselves on purpose! Geez! It's not that big of a mystery!

Thanks for stopping in! PS: I hate cancer too and am grieved by the pain and agony of my loved ones who suffered through chemo and traditional treatment and died needlessly. I don't love them any less, if they were smokers, or obese, I am inspired by what they would say NOW, if they could come back with a voice for prevention. Thus, Eat4life2live.com was born.

Are you eating like you are going to the fair everyday?

If you really want to stand up to cancer take a look in your own grocery basket first! Look at what you have been putting in your own MOUTH everyday! Mix that with little exercise and wa-la is it cancer for me?

The MIRACLES of RAW foods! Any questions???

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This is the way it's done folks. There is no better way for a real "panacea" for our modern culture of malnutrition and the obesity epidemic. This combined with exercise will solve the HEALTHCARE crisis at hand and save billions of $$$$ on pending "preventable" disease costs. SAVE YOURSELF now and DON'T get DEAD! Say this, "I wanna LIVE!!" Visit:

http://www.lovingraw.com/

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2010-07-11T21:10:00.000-07:00

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Spend Time OUTSIDE! Fresh air and sunshine is Good!

2010-06-02T19:45:00.000-07:00

Find somewhere outdoors that you can enjoy God's world and receive rejuvination. Pack a picnic lunch and go on an adventure with someone you love. Physical activity and exercise will be a key force in you renewing your health. We receive recovery from fresh air and sunshine and nature as well as good food! Think of that! Maybe outside for you will be in your own backyard gardening. Or maybe a jog around your local golf course. Walking around the block or bike riding in the neighborhood is as easy as it gets!

So good of you to stop in WELCOME!

2010-05-19T20:59:00.001-07:00

Stop and see the Pretty Flowers!!

Keep coming back!!

Prepare yourself to be bombarded with my spin on health and healing. I can say whatever I want because it's my site. But I challenge you to a discussion after you indulge me here.

If you think it's all FOLLY this notion of prevention or changing your current status or you embrace the facts you find here....I will love hearing your thoughts and hopefully engage in dialogue. If you get mad or inspired......do tell....I'm up for affirming or arguing! Don't leave without POSTING a comment! Thank you! Share this site with others you love!

What are your FOOD choices doing for YOU??

2010-05-06T20:14:00.000-07:00

CHOOSE LIFE!!

Eat RIGHT to feel great and LIVE healthy with a body that is able to fight off and defeat any virus, germ or toxin that tries to contact and hurt us!!

Save yourself! Don't get dead because you didn't KNOW and spent too many years killing yourself with the junk food VOID of any nutrients that leads to a breakdown of sickness and disease! Eat right and reverse your risk of death by a self induced disease!

Help your body heal itself with NUTRIENTS!

2010-04-22T22:01:00.000-07:00

Choose a diet rich in a variety of plant based foods!

Eat plenty of fresh vegetables and fruit in season. Get a dark green leafy vegetable daily!

Juice your own fresh, raw vegetables with fruit!

Drink pure spring water- 6-8 glasses daily! (try NO plastic bottles!)

Choose whole grains and legumes!

Choose fish or chicken more often

Choose raw honey, agave nectar or raw sugar to sweeten if needed(easy does it tho! Even try the herb STEVIA to sweeten -no calories!)

Limit fats to olive, safflower, canola oils or organic coconut oil or butter to 2-4 TBS daily.
Limit (or stop) any white flour, white sugar or white rice products.
Limit salt to less than 1 tsp daily. I use Veg-Sal
Limit (or stop) chemicals, NUTRISWEET, food colorings or preservatives.
Limit (or stop) alcohol use to occasional only.
Limit (or stop!)red meat and dairy to only 3-6 oz daily max..if desired. (We prefer almond milk for cereal to back out of dairy products.)
Absolutely STOP any tobacco use!

A good word about dark greens!

http://www.aicr.org/site/PageServer?pagename=dc_foods_greens

This IS how I live anyway.....This information can actually SAVE YOUR LIFE!

Say this..."I wanna LIVE!!"

Wonderful RECIPES for your health!

http://www.integrativenutrition.com/recipes.asp

http://www.aicr.org/site/PageServer?pagename=dc_rc_home

http://www.aicr.org/site/PageServer?pagename=pub_nap_index_22

We love Rachel Ray's 30 minute meals!

Keeping it simple with our premium ingredients for recipes is the key! Also portion control! Don't over eat and stuff beyond what your body requires!

http://www.rachaelraymag.com/30_minute_meals/

FYI: did you know that post barriatric surgery patients live on the amount of food or drink to fill a "shot glass" full per meal and to eat more than that they'll vomit? Why not save yourself and find out how little that big body needs to stay alive and do it now! Focus on quality not quantity and there will be NO starvation involved.

Way to go Jaime Oliver and the food revolution! To get on board:

http://www.jamieoliver.com/

Save Yourself! Eat for your life to LIVE!!

2010-04-16T23:26:00.000-07:00

Funny, how the last 30 years America had the blessing from FDA approvals along with the healthcare establishment endorsements to consume trans fats, margarine, sugar, soda's, high fructose corn syrup and overloading us on estrogen perscriptions that collectively have run our health into a crisis point that America is unable to pay for today. OOps, epidemic proportions of cancer, obesity, diabetes and Coronary Artery disease that frankly, could have been avoided if the people who KNEW better would have said something LONG before now! But of course there was alot of money to be made in all of this death and dying and disease. So now, we're to just be sure and not miss that annual mammogram or pap smear or colon cancer screening to see if we have IT... YET! Yes, finally, they are serious about us eating our vegetables and getting up to find some exercise by golly or we'll be "deadzies" because soon, they won't be able to afford what it costs to save us!

Drink Water? 6-8 glasses a day everyone!

2010-03-01T22:46:00.000-08:00

I love cold water with fresh lemon wedge. Or fresh brewed green tea or pomegranate WHITE tea slightly sweetened 1 tsp honey per quart and cold in the refrigerator. Even 2/3 tea and 1/3 lemonade or cranberry juice. Like Arnold Palmer style. I either keep it chilled and use a little stevia or honey to sweeten. Delicious really and nothing but good for me instead of ALL bad for me like a soda which I may have on a special occasion only! No food color dyes and no fake anything.

Government Healthcare Reform is about to plunge Americans under the bus!!!

2009-12-19T09:41:00.000-08:00

With all the sneaky behind the scenes corruption that is currently in play to sideswipe the American taxpayer for the sake of providing some healthcare coverage to the less than 15% of the US population, this new healthcare plan is going to trainwreck taxpayers!

If it comes about as the chosen few in government hope for it will be a train wreck to the entire US population in even HIGHER taxes, HIGHER healthcare premiums, Higher spending on the same for small business owners that could collapse their small business and in return the "patient" that will receive inferior compromised care due to the cost burdens to deliver needed healthcare in a crisis situation. Hospitals and HOSPICE will be cut income because their medicare revenue to provide the services WILL BE CUT by government! Hospitals will have major LAYOFFs so increasing unemployment. All the taxpayers across America will be paying to pay for the added perks to a few entitled states who will get "special" treatment and federal funds that other states will not get. So, on and on the bad news goes about this new healthcare system being pushed by the White House this week in the middle of the night while we are all thinking of wrapping gifts for our loved ones. A healthcare plan that will cripple America in every horrid way......

Again our answer is: SAVE YOURSELF and DON'T GET DEAD!

The costly items that we cannot afford in our pending healthcare crisis are for the MOST part PREVENTABLE! That is the business at hand and they never quite get that point across to patients that they don't NEED to be ill! It is never too late to begin to be part of the solution instead of exacerbating the problem!

HealthCare Reform will always begin in the garden! Drink WATER instead of soda's and coffee's all day. Stop Smoking, be worried about consistent alcohol use and OBESITY is America's version of modern day malnutrition! Obesity is the culprit to most of the main costly health troubles today killing us off slowly and sadly. Ex: Diabetes, Cancer, Coronary Artery Disease, High Blood Pressure, Gallstones, etc, etc and all the complications thereof! Please explore our site further, scroll down, down, how just changing your eating habits to live and for health can reduce YOUR risk today because YOU may not have healthcare coverage soon because the whole new proposed plan screwed it up for everyone! God help you if you are going to need it! You are NOT going to like the "new product" !!

Got PEACE?

2009-12-15T19:39:00.001-08:00

I find it calming to know there is a power greater than myself and my little world that can keep the stars, the sun and the moon in place without my help! The same power that causes the sun to rise and set everyday without delay. I can safely turn over to God the things I am powerless over and cannot control. Things I am unable to fix or repair today I'll place in His hands and I'll be grateful for the things I can do to make a difference. Honestly, I wish I had more answers than I do but, it is what it is...I am not in charge! It is He that can see the grand picture of things while my view right now is a bit limited! Tonight, I will trust, rest and sleep on the wonder of these things. That's all I know....Selah! As a believer I can just: Cry out to Jesus!

Ladies, Got Whacko Hormones?

2009-11-13T21:45:00.000-08:00

Many of us at age 40 or approaching menopause or are through menopause naturally or by default as done by force via: HYSTERECTOMY. WE owe it to ourselves to self-educate on the benefits of daily use of PROGESTERONE CREAM! This is vital to our well being and youthfulness! We can self protect ourselves against osteoporosis, cancer, heart attack, or just alleviate the PMS or menopausal symptoms and many other things; just a little dab will do it! If you have been a user of estrogen drugs for ANY reason you owe it to yourself to investigate this idea of progesterone cream for the replacement for your health because your "old ovaries" are no longer producing!!!! The prescribed drugs are not safe or natural and have a serious potential of side effects! S C A R Y !!!

Check it out! Progesterone Cream is the number one place to start! WITH THESE CREAMS YOU JUST RUB IN A LITTLE EVERYDAY ALTERNATING THE SPOTS YOU APPLY IT DAILY. What a difference it makes reducing the intensity of hotflashes and the number you have per day.

Check out what WEBMD says about the benefits of natural custom-made hormone cream compounds!

http://www.webmd.com/menopause/news/20081112/hormone-creams-ease-menopause-symptoms

Ladies take the test and then take the time to watch a 1 hour seminar, a full explanation of what is happening during the menopause process and that there is HOPE!. There is something SAFE we can do to heal ourselves from whacko hormone side effects of menopause!

http://www.bodylogicmd.com/bioidentical-hormone-therapy

Also you may shop online and take the tests provided to get your hormone skin cream blend based on the symptoms your are having and where you are in the process. Do research this site to start your "over the counter hormone supplement cream" derived from Wild Yam sources as a bioidentical hormone replacement.

http://hormoneprofile.com/

After all your research and hope for a better and restored YOU, get the testing done and have a phone consultation with a DOCTOR who can prescribe your custom blend cream based on your results, that is mailed to you from a certified compound pharmacy.

http://www.docshima.com/docshima.htm

Ladies! Let's SAVE our OWN Breasts!

2009-10-16T18:50:00.000-07:00

Prevention IS THE CURE for Breast Cancer! The headlines should read what studies are concluding! Breast Cancer is not from bad luck, bad genes but rather from our bad habits, lifestyle and typical modern fast food, high fat diet! Perhaps also from compromised TAP water but when are we going to listen?? Can we also question too many years using a estrogen supplement for birth control or menopause?? WHAT about the headlines about too much synthetic estrogen and its known cancer risk!!!

You figure it out. 30% is linked to our smoking habit. Now 30% is linked to our alcohol consumption and you got it 30-40%% is linked to the standard american high fat, high sugar, high salt diet! If we do all 3 we have increased our own odds of getting breast cancer by 90-100%! GEE DOC, WHY DID THIS HAPPEN TO ME? HAS YOUR DOCTOR ALREADY GIVEN YOU THESE PREVENTION FACTS? So how about we turn it all around and reduce our risk by 90-100 % and NOT get Breast cancer! Lets keep the 'girls' happy! And Pretty! Save yourself NOW!
Most recently in the news is that smoking 1 pack of cigarettes a day is equally raising our risk of breast cancer to 30% as also consuming 3 or more alcohol drinks per day raises our risk of 30%. Who then is doing both?? Throwing in bad nutritional habits? How many candy/donut eaters do you hear at the office brag about not eating their vegetables? (IN FACT, who is eating the required 5-9 per day to PREVENT cancer or heart disease or diabetes?) Do you eat a daily DARK GREEN leafy vegetable for cancer PREVENTION?

The National Cancer Institute has warned us that 80% of ALL cancers are PREVENTABLE!!!!! How come we can't hear that from our own healthcare professional when it's us one on one???? What we get instead from that office and the media is the aura of mystery that keeps billions of dollars flowing annually on the careers devoted to the details surrounding the "care" of the problem!

My favorite charity working toward getting the truth out is the American Institute of Cancer Research. We in this society will probably never see a "cure" from a magic pill. The cure is prevention and reversing the risk that our family history may embark.

http://www.aicr.org/site/PageServer?pagename=reduce_weight_home

Above all: DO NOT SMOKE!!!!!

So, for those of us who refuse to change our harmful deeds that will, in time, do us in......and they will sooner than we will like....Let's do keep going back for that annual or bi-annual MAMMOGRAM so we can at least have "early detection" that can possibly save our lives in lieu, of saving our BREASTS! Let's save ourselves especially if a family history factor adds in the mix which only raises our risk factor by 5-9%! The rest we do on our own!

Also consider this ladies: how much estrogen medication have you been given over the years? This pushes us to the top of the risk factor! Estrogen dominance is an out of balance problem at the root of many illnesses in women's health issues!
The beauty of todays medicine and excellent healthcare is the process of breast reconstruction and what a plastic surgeon can do for you after the needed masectomy! They can actually make your breasts even BETTER than the old sagging ones with immediate implants placed in some cases the day of the masectomy and then nipple reconstruction and then nipple tatooing!. After the scars fade WOW you can LOOK great again! So there is HOPE after diagnosis too with early detection.
We have come a long way baby!

Articles of interest:

http://www.ecco-org.eu/News/News/In-the-news/page.aspx/72?xf_itemId=137&xf_catId=8

http://www.aicr.org/site/News2?abbr=pub_&page=NewsArticle&id=8995

http://www.aicr.org/site/News2?abbr=res_&page=NewsArticle&id=8749

Save yourself and Don't get DEADsies!

2009-09-27T13:18:00.000-07:00

Government Healthcare plans will not save you but your food choices TODAY can alter your odds of a healthcare DEMISE!

Eat Right to feel GREAT! The best single thing we can do in a day is eat something vine ripe out of the garden! Oh MY the rich nutrients locked inside of every bite!

It is amazing the power of garden fresh foods and

Garden fresh foods will give LIFE, health and healing! Always!

Pick your food wisely!

2009-09-13T21:16:00.001-07:00

GOD'S Foods minister LIFE, healing and recovery and will renew strength daily to our bodies instead of delivering fatigue or illness! Anything we do "bad" over a period of time will cause a breakdown inside and an open door to degenerative man-made disease!

Need healing? So are you getting your needed 5-9 vegetables/fruit per day? What about 5-9 whole grain foods per day? Are you drinking 8-10 glasses of water per day? So what have you been doing instead that is doing you NO good?

Consider the impact obesity has on your healthplan premiums and costs to fellow Americans! See the $$$$$ go out the window:

Healthcare is the nations biggest moneymaker for some and expense for others. Depends on which end of the speculum your interest lies. 1/5 to 1/6 of our nations spending is on healthcare! Being overweight and having unhealthy habits is very expensive! Costly to us but lining the pockets of others as we must spend to get ourselves OUT of the trouble we never saw coming! So SAVE YOURSELF and DON'T get DEAD!

Given the chance the body will heal itself!

http://doctoryourself.com/nature.html

EVERYTHING about our HeALTH starts in the GARDEN!

2009-07-23T07:23:00.001-07:00

Meet my Gram this 4th of July!! She is amazing at 104!

2009-07-10T19:05:00.001-07:00

Let's give honor where honor is due! Let us learn from somebody who has been a healthy success at living and feeling good for over 100 years. Most people that have this longevity can pat themselves on the back at some wise health choices they have made in a lifetime. This is my Gram actually to be 104 next month. She has awakened everyday to take her prayer and meditation time and improving her conscience contact with God. She (unlike most of her 11 other siblings) chose to eat fresh fruits and vegetables in season and has taken a daily walk nearly everyday of her life! She never took up smoking or drinking alcohol. Most of her siblings who did didn't make it past 70 or 80! She still to this day will walk upstairs to her bedroom tho she confesses she is feeling her age! She is adorable and she is my example for living a serene and fruitful life. I love you Gram! I have to speak up to her ear or she doesn't catch the whole sentence! Way to go! You are awesome!

Get out and GET MOVING!

2009-05-06T20:05:00.000-07:00

Calories in and Calories out! If we take in a daily 3500-4000 calories and only burn up 1200 per day then guess what? FAT! AND we are headed for our own personal health bankruptcy and medical condition or crisis! It's just like balancing the check book. Money in and money out to pay the bills. But we can't spend money we don't have! Or we will end up in jail ultimately! You do the math on your own daily lifestyle and eating habits! If we dine daily at our fast food joints and drive thru coffee places and drink soda's all day then we have gotten NO nutrients in return. In return we join with 64% of Americans overweight or obese with placing ourselves high on the WAITLIST for a pending PREVENTABLE disease such as diabetes, cancer, heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, gallstones, sleep apnea, constipation etc etc! Our body FAT is a storehouse of toxins! So when was the last time your doctor put it to you like that?? Hats off to those who do because they are telling you the truth. YOU are the one making YOU get sick enough they can diagnose YOU with something that is PREVENTABLE that you'll then have to take medicine for!!! Add up your risk factor or guarantee of a pending health crisis: OBESITY + SMOKING + ALCOHOL use daily puts you at the top of the list for unplanned trouble! Expect it because it will happen soon. We can't keep doing the same thing and expect a "different" result!

Health care has rarely used the "O" word with patients. Kind of like the pink elephant in the living room whom everyone pretends is not there! Your doctor would not want to offend you by pointing out you are OBESE and your health condition is caused from OBESITY, poor eating habits and lack of exercise! Heavens no! Then we'd storm off taking our business and $$$ elsewhere! And chances are the doctors and nurses are clueless themselves about their own obesity and health conditions that are pending for themselves and that their own poor eating choices and lack of physical activity are responsible for those preventable diagnosis' as well! They join with the rest of the 8 out of 9 Americans who do NOT drink enough water or get their 5-9 vegetable and fruit servings per day nor get enough exercise! So there we have it!

2008 things are changing! For the first time health care providers are having to be forthright with us about the cause and prevention of obesity, DIABETES, CANCER AND HEART DISEASE ETC! The government has threatened to withhold medicare paychecks if health care does not get their patients healthy!! Diabetes alone is a preventable epidemic that has increased 6 fold since 1957 and is costing the United States and taxpayers $132,000,000,000 per year in medical fees, lost wages, and time off work etc. WHY is this happening? Daily JUNK FOOD, drive thru's, soda's and donuts and NOT getting enough nutrients or exercise or water! If we aren't then we are teaching our kids to eat and live the same way resulting in the epidemic CHILDHOOD obesity and health problems causing them their mortality issues as well!

If your ailments are not reeling in abnormal lab tests yet then keep it up and keep going back because soon you'll have something to give it a dismal diagnosis. That is if you choose not to change your "normal" ways! ONLY you can do for you what needs to be done. You have to SAVE yourself and DON'T GET DEAD!

Lose weight! What is your BMI? Get into a healthy range.

What is my BMI? http://shapeup.org/bodylab/frmst.html

Increase your physical activity to 30 minutes of something cardio per day or 3 X per week!

Ditch soda's and fancy coffee's and drink good water or herb TEA's.

Eat your 5-9 fresh veggies and fruit per day.

Eat only whole grain breads, pasta's or brown rice instead of white, white white types!

Keep your animal products to a minimum! Less than 1/3 of your meal! Or 3 oz per day!

No more white sugar, white flour or white rice anything!

Do NOT eat more calories than you will burn! Most of these things above are "eat all you want." You will not go hungry! Choose fresh veggies with pretty colors and premium ingredients and find yourself dropping 10 pounds and then another until you are in the healthy range out of pending disease danger!

Shape up and Lose 10!

http://shapeup.org/shape/sud10index.php

Above all, don't feel bad! You are in good company with 64% of other Americans in denial! Just get out and do something GOOD and save yourself and your children!! Baby steps are good steps to start with. The more you do the better you will feel which will be your future motivation to do even more!! Good luck!

Watch Dr. Hans Diehl and learn about OBESITY>how to cut calories today!

http://www.chipusa.org/about_hans.html

Hats OFF to the best words from an HMO!

2009-04-07T21:51:00.000-07:00

Check out this great video that potentially captures the essence of disease in its early moments of creation! That's right, disease is created and birthed into existance by our daily lazy habits as candid as this young mans confession!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7O693mzp6M&feature=related

Also hats off to a radio ad I hear from a local HMO that is broadcasting the dangers of America's 160 pound per year sugar habit! That averages to 41 tsp of sugar per day per person! Why is that? Because it is in everything we consume on a daily basis and the ad further warns it being the front running culprit behind 26 million diagnosed diabetics and the 56 million sugar addicted with "prediabetes" and the new cancer diagnosis' and heart disease etc etc etc!

Anymore truths like that being broadcast and we may hear just enough to begin to heal ourselves and "gee," NOT get the expected diagnosis of our supersizing, fast food sugar addicted culture! Save yourself NOW and Don't get DEAD! Staying healthy SURE CAN SAVE OURSELVES alot OF MONEY IN OVERPRICED HEALTH CARE PREMIUMS!

Can you afford your Healthcare Premiums???

2009-02-15T17:21:00.000-08:00

So, let's think this whole thing through. Why do so many Americans go without health care insurance? 250 million have it but only 50 million folks don't. Is it because the the government hasn't reached socialized medicine just yet so everyone can have it? Those poor poor folks who make too much money working for a living but don't get it through their jobs because the premiums are so high NOBODY can afford to pay it! Self Employed or Small Business Employers can't afford to pay it and the HMO's and PPO's have it so far OUT of reach that NOBODY can pay for it on their own if they wanted to! Now, if you don't work silly and suck off the government to take care of all the things you should be doing for yourself and you are irresponsible and make poor choices (or if you have the magic "last name" ethnicity) or whatever discrimination that IS allowed in acquiring coverage ?#!!$%&@??.... why is that kind of behavior rewarded with unlimited resources including health care coverage! Or should we really call it disease management instead of "health care"?

Who is in charge of HOW IT WORKS anyway? Politicians or Insurance companies or Drug companies? It seems like the most powerful industry/ political force is not concerned about your health but more about making MONEY and a lot of it. Are we at a national spending of 3 trillion dollars yet> about 1/6 of national spending???? But I predict that it will soon bankrupt itself if they don't begin to start curving itself into patient education and "health" promotion. I believe somebody higher up is starting to see the hand writing on the wall. The next step is rewarding healthy people lower premiums than the unhealthy! Tobacco companies are taxed to care for those dying with lung cancer aren't they??,!

http://www.nchc.org/facts/cost.shtml

If 64% of Americans are considered overweight or obese and currently costing America 98 billion dollars per year in costs related to obesity like coming up with the predicted stroke, heart attack, DIABETES (big surprise?) and cancer and high blood pressure, gallbladder disease etc etc that now requires a lot of money to take care of patients with these troubles, who exactly started the whole thing? Those with bad genes???? NO!! Think again what we have been putting in the grocery basket and swinging by the drive thru the last 10-20 years and now doing to our children! Exercise to offset what damage we have been doing to ourselves? NOPE 64% don't exercise either! 64% of Americans are shooting themselves in the foot daily and want the other 36% to pay the BILL for their troubles! In reality it is the 10-25% of the worst shape folks costing the HMO 80% of expenditures. This is not fair to the 36% that ARE on a quest to be healthy, not smoke or abuse alcohol or drugs and who are not overweight or obese. These folks should only have to pay 10% of what the rest of them should be paying. The careless and negligent should be made to pay in advance for their pending health doom! That's how to make healthcare affordable. (I know that will never happen!)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13958810/

Well, with these figures in mind, medicine had failed to talk about the PINK ELEPHANT in the living room with patients a little too long and it may be too late to reverse the pendulum of rising COSTS because of people who ATE or SMOKED their way into costly disease under the name of FREEDOM! All the while keeping the business of MEDICINE thriving.

So, if you are a healthy person investing in your own well being by making wise choices, eating habits that sport a BMI of 25 or lower and consume a high fiber diet.... You don't smoke and don't consume alcohol (not more than 2-3 drinks per week) and you are physically fit, tell me why are you refused health care insurance when you try to get it on your own?? Why is it that if you actually were seen by a physician once or twice within the last 5 years for a sore shoulder or knee pain (which you were given MOTRIN for) are you refused coverage? OR Why are you charged twice the premium of someone who is undergoing cancer treatment or is a diabetic?

What about this sorry event: your spouse of over 20 years who's "job" carries the insurance, DIES, and the insurance company writes you a month later to tell you that YOU are no longer insured! Sorry! SO the nightmare begins on top of the grief of losing your loved one. Nobody wants to insure you because you may have used your health care plan in the last few years for this or that! This is real sad folks. This is why people don't have coverage. They make it too hard to get or keep! Unless the little people can afford $500+ per month!

SO.... insurance companies only let you in if you are healthy and will pay the same ridiculous premium or "deal" that the obese patient with 3-4 diagnosed serious health conditions gets to pay too? Insurance companies get the BIG business corporate employers to pay the same price for everybody regardless of their "health"? That is bingo! You are only "lucky to have it" if you work for a big corporation that just pays it for you. This monopolizes the act of aquiring healthcare insurance! God knows if you loose your JOB AND you were a frequent flyer over at the local medical office it is safe to say you will NEVER get coverage on your own because you used it so you will either be denied OR will have to pay so much its NOT worth it!

Recently, there is scuttle of charging people according to their BMI! I said that is the fairest and most motivating factor in getting people to take responsibility for their own health and pending health crisis! Shake up America! People need to pull their head OUT of the sand about OBESITY including the health care workers themselves! Check out this story!

http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,414861,00.html

I know the obese people think this is horrid but really they have been uninformed for so many years by the medical community that it is shocking to them to think "fat" has anything to do with anything! Fat is killing our loved ones with cancer and striking our families at younger and younger ages! Truth is we LOVE you and don't want you to GET DEAD!

So for now, the poor hard working folks that just want a little coverage, I say, get some kind of hospitalization in case you get in an accident and stay healthy! SAVE your money and RE-Invest it in your own longevity and quality of life and get support at http://www.eat4life2live.com/ to learn to SAVE yourself and reduce your RISK now while you still can!! That is prevention! Don't GET the disease in the first place! Because? YOU DON"T HAVE TO! Eat right to feel great!

If you ever get a cold or flu, "heal thyself " with nutrients and your body recovers all by itself with 80% of the things anyway or you can pay cash at the popular

http://minuteclinic.com/en/USA/

across the country! A $60 office visit once or twice per year WITH A FEW LABS THROWN IN is much cheaper than $300 plus premium per month per person when you are too healthy to even need it!

Thanks for letting me share. This whole topic gets me riled up when prices are so out of reach for the healthy people! It's not fair!

Now you pick for yourself: You want to be thick or thin for life? For your health, choose thin!

Woo Hoo! Go RED Ladies and SAVE your OWN HEART!!!!

2009-01-18T17:26:00.000-08:00

We hold our heart health in our own hands!
As February is the focus for ladies to increase awareness for the prevention of HEART DISEASE let us take a look at the real causes and prevention of heart disease. Even if there may be a hereditary factor in your risk for heart disease it just means we have to adhere to the things that may just save our lives! Men and Women!
Lets state the obvious first!STOP SMOKING to decrease the probability of a heart crisis!
Get up and get MOVING and start getting some good exercise. If we are not clearing the SLUDGE out of our veins/arteries with 30 minutes per day workout of SOMETHING or at minimum 3 days per week we are just helping things clog up for a pending health demise! Exercise is a great STRESS reliever as well. It can defuse the toxic effects of stress in our lives.
IF we are overweight or obese or anyone not eating 5-9 vegetables and fruit per day or eating the needed whole grains 6-9 serving per day then expect trouble sooner than you think! We need only 3 oz of animal product protein per day. So what have YOU been eating instead? Find out your BMI and get to work to get it down to 25!
These 3 things alone and getting into a healthy weight will reduce our OWN risk of heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, cancer and or diabetes! Its a recipe that could be the "panacea" of our time! Eat right to feel great!
That is what http://eat4life2live.com/ is here for: to nag nag nag!

ALSO LADIES BEWARE! Whacko hormones??? Anyone who has a history of estrogen use over time become estrogen dominant which puts us at increased risk of a heart episode, osteoporosis and cancer among other things. Any woman over 40 "or" with a hysterectomy should research immediately why they could PROTECT themselves with the simple daily use of progesterone cream to balance out what our ovaries no longer produce. MANY of the side effects of menopause can find relief after a few months of this regimine. PROGESTERONE CREAM IS SOLD AT ANY HEALTH FOOD STORE! Try this order online! http://www.womhoo.com/index.asp

For more info: Obtain a copy of Dr. Lee's book, WHAT YOUR DOCTOR MAY NOT BE TELLING YOU ABOUT MENOPAUSE!

ALSO: find out today the breakdown of what your cholesterol reading is. This is your biggest warning and heads up! The focus is on your LDL being in a healthy range under 100 to be safe. Your HDL to be well over 50! Now, the main cholesterol number is NOT enough information. We need the whole breakdown. Also, make sure your "sugar" habit/addiction is not clogging your arteries too with high triglycerides! (keep it much less than 150!) Steer clear of diabetes! You can reverse your tendency/risk with a healthy diet and increasing physical activity and avoiding alcohol! Save yourself NOW!
The BIG push for DIET and Lifestyle changes from the AHA:

http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=851

Flu shot anyone??? NOT ME!!!

2008-11-29T08:28:00.001-08:00

I know it seems to be un-American to refuse the annual flu shot especially being a member of the health care community but let me share why..... I think it's a lot of marketing HYPE to make people think they are really getting something! There may be 300 or so different cold and flu virus' going around out there this year that in my body's weakest moment may pick up one. My body has a built-in weapon system to fight off invading germs and free radicals on a daily basis. I am "exposed" daily to a host of virus's but USUALLY my body is given what it needs to fight off the little bastards!

OK back to the flu shot: it may only protect us from the 1 (one) bad FLU found on another continent (most likely) and the odds of me getting exposed to that strain on my bad day from eating too much junk at the office potluck is frankly, quite slim. ALSO the ingredients of the flu shot is enough to scare me into next week! Things like formaldehyde, Aluminum Sulfate metals, mercury in thirmesol, etc and others you wouldn't let even your kitty drink!

So there you have it, in addition to this interesting article that says, "oops" it may not help folks over 70 and/or those with a compromised immune system from cancer therapies etc...many are often advised against it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/02/health/02flu.html?_r=1

I'll pass! I never have had it and never will. But that's just my spin on the matter! I have never won in playing roulette, the big lucky spin is just like that in catching that one BAD flu! Most likely I will indeed catch the common cold like everyone else who got the flu shot too!

Agruments on pro's and con's of the other inoculations or NOT!

Vaccines good? YES or NO?

How is your teeth? The whites of your eyes?

2008-10-20T17:41:00.000-07:00

Sometimes the quickest assesment of health is the whites of our eyes or the healthy smile and gums! Your eyes red and blood shot all the time? Guess what = TOXINS in your diet and lifestyle. What about your teeth and gums? Red swollen yucky gums and bad breath and blood when your brush your teeth? Yucky plaque on the teeth? Too much sugar number one and lousy diet and lack of nutrients number two! You have time to turn it around. Change things now and eat some fresh raw vegetables and fruit and cut out fast food high fat and sugar diet and you will HEAL yourself!

Momma's, WHAT are you feeding your babies????

2008-07-27T17:57:00.000-07:00

Today researchers are linking the future health of our children to what we ate during pregnancy AND how we fed our children the 1st part of their lives before puberty! That puts quite a responsibility on us as parents to feed our children what they need for their body's to be in supreme health and heal itself as needed on a daily basis! How can this be done if we don't feed ourselves what it takes to maintain good health?

God made our body's to heal itself, combat toxins and win! Most of this is on auto pilot so we take our immune system for granted! If we were to survey America's families we would be horrified to realize that our kids are NOT eating their vegetables! They spend hours watching TV or playing video games. Too many kids do NOT get physical activity from sports or playing outside, riding bikes etc. (Maybe it's not safe in your neighborhood) and too many kids have no limit on the number of "soda's" they drink per day. Maybe moms are feeding their kids from the drive-thru chicken nuggets or burgers and french fries are their only vegetable! Drinks are soda's or koo-laid or sugar juices with food coloring. Is your child addicted to sugar yet? Who's fault is that? Do they get cookies and donuts or ice cream and no dark green leafy vegetables or fresh ripened fruit in season? NO wonder our kids are joining the 64% of Americans being overweight or OBESE! No wonder our kids have elevated cholesterol, triglycerides, LDL and low HDL counts! No wonder our kids sugars are becoming "pre-diabetic" ranges like adults who have taught their own children to eat as poor as they do! No wonder even our kids liver enzymes are becoming elevated from mass sugar intake when they don't even drink alcohol yet! No wonder their mouths are full of cavities from too much sugar!

......DANGER.........
The standard american diet is:
34-42 tsp of sugar daily.
40% + FAT daily.
and 3 X the RDA of salt intake.
That is where disease is born folks. This creates an environment for disease to evolve and grow.
Over time, after years of doing something unhealthy we create a disease that matches our bad habits. Our body after awhile breaks down and we have a metabolic illness that can get a diagnosis. Talk about killing OURSELVES! This is really quite simple how it works...getting sick!

Here are some things to think about as we consume inferior foods that DO NOT nourish but in time cause HARM to our health. Digesting these with no nutrients in return:

.............DANGER............ = poison and toxins and results in overworking your liver (your big detoxifying machine!)

White sugar, white flour, white rice and HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP: This consumption will in short order wear out your pancreas which leads to the diabetes epidemic (pre-diabetes) obesity, clogs your arteries with high triglycerides and weakens you immune system considerably so you may not be able to fight off the cold and flu or free radicals that cause CANCER! Too much sugar pollutes your liver and shows up in elevated ALT enzymes and then, fatty liver disease and then Liver Cancer? You pick what your sweet tooth will do FOR you! It's up to US to sabatoge an immune system that God designed to work on auto pilot!

Artificial Food colors, dyes are toxic and do NO GOOD for your body! ie: Fake fruit punch and Koolaids etc.

Over consumption of hormone/steroid poisoned MEAT and Dairy leads to our high FAT intake, lack of fiber overworks the heart, digestive system and is a strong CANCER link. Fried foods are also linked to cancer, clogged arteries and gallstones! Obesity leads our FAT to over produce estrogen which creates the proper climate for CANCER to have it's way in the body!

Junk food, processed food and frozen dinners are all over salted, too high in fat and constipating and void of the nutrients needed to maintain HEALTH! These foods are stored away as toxins in our FAT body! Another avenue to obesity and CLOGGING the arteries = HEART ATTACK!

Smoking or tobacco use is responsible for 1/3 of ALL cancers! Our kids suffer from asthma, bronchitis, pnuemonia and other lung problems. Smoker's can look forward to chronic bronchitis, emphysema (COPD) or just sudden death by heart attack if not cancer itself. Milder issues include impotence!

Alcohol use on a daily basis will strip the body of nutrients and weaken the immune system resulting in many forms of cancer, diabetes, liver disease or heart disease over a period of time. Not to mention the severity of drunkenness and what happens getting in a car to drive!
Now our popular starluck coffees and the caffeine abuse overworking our heart and putting us at risk for a cardiac crisis in addition to the 400-600 calories in a big cup full of sugar!
As we add up our special and personal "combination" of daily vices here we will also see the handwriting on the wall at the pending health doom we will have if we don't stop poisoning our liver and pancreas and HEART! You see, we have the power to stay healthy or recover our health after years of a toxic lifestyle. We can change our course and the course of our kids.

Choose life! Choose fresh air, sunshine. Choose water to drink as our body is 70% plus water! We NEED water daily just to flush out our daily toxin consumption! Soda's and coffee and alcohol are very dehydrating! Doing us only harm!
So are you drinking water? Are your kids getting enough water???? (8 glasses per day?)
Our body's REQUIRE the nutrients in 5-9 vegetables and fruits per day to stay healthy! We need a dark green leafy vegetable per day for cancer prevention!
6-9 servings of whole grain or legumes per day!
Do your kids get these things to eat at your house?
Live food from a garden?
Save yourself! Don't get dead or sick!
Change your course today and live! Reverse the curse!
May your children live disease free!
Reduce your risk today!!
Get the facts!
http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/publications/factsheets/Prevention/obesity.htm
or
http://www.cdc.gov/HealthyLiving/

WHAT are we feeding our children?????? If they are already "overweight" (BMI over 30)this is what WE are doing to them under our watch as we feed them out of a paper bag from the drive thru!
What Health Complications are Associated With Childhood (Pediatric) Obesity? As with obesity in adults, childhood (pediatric) obesity increases the risk of developing a number of health conditions and diseases, including those listed below:
Insulin resistance
Type 2 diabetes
Hypertension
High LDL cholesterol and triglyceride levels; low HDL cholesterol
Early onset of puberty
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)
Cholecystitis
Orthopedic problems
Fatty liver disease
Symptoms of depression
Eating disorders
Sleep apnea
Stroke
Cardiovascular disease
AND increased risk of cancer !

This is serious!

What if we can't beat the "cancer" that overcomes us?

2008-07-20T20:09:00.000-07:00

Read the very words of Tony Snow as he first learns of his own colon cancer diagnosis:

I sat by my best friend's bedside a few years ago as a wasting cancer took him away. He kept at his table a worn Bible and a 1928 edition of the Book of Common Prayer. A shattering grief disabled his family, many of his old friends, and at least one priest. Here was a humble and very good guy, someone who apologized when he winced with pain because he thought it made his guest uncomfortable. He retained his equanimity and good humor literally until his last conscious moment. "I'm going to try to beat [this cancer]," he told me several months before he died. "But if I don't, I'll see you on the other side."
His gift was to remind everyone around him that even though God doesn't promise us tomorrow, he does promise us eternity—filled with life and love we cannot comprehend—and that one can in the throes of sickness point the rest of us toward timeless truths that will help us weather future storms.
Through such trials, God bids us to choose: Do we believe, or do we not?

To read this spiritually moving full commentary visit:

http://joelrosenberg.blogspot.com/2008/07/remembering-tony-snow-column-he-wrote.html

The main thing is whether we live here on this earth a bit longer or we join the host of generations that have gone on before us, are we ready to meet the Creator of the universe? What will He think of the ways we brought honor to His name while we had our life here? If we don't "believe" in the eternal life, what if we are wrong? Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life and no man comes to the Father but by me." What if He is right?

Exercise clears the SLUDGE clogging up our arteries!

2008-07-08T22:59:00.000-07:00

It does wonders for your morale, heart, blood pressure, it lowers blood sugar and will reduce your pant size! Pick something and just DO IT!

Sunshine may just be our disease FIGHTER!

2008-06-18T21:48:00.000-07:00

Shocking but true! For 20 years researchers have been concluding the benefits of sunshine is synonymous with the effects of an exercise workout! 20 minutes of sunshine on our skin per day is similar to 20 minutes of exercising. Sunshine boosts our immune system, lowers blood pressure, blood sugar and exposure to skin (that does not use sunscreen) allows vitamin D absorption! Vit D is necessary for healthy bones and our heart health! The effects of sunshine can aid in lowering cholesterol and possibly be a protection FROM cancer! Who is behind all the hoopla of slathering up with chemical sunscreen that clogs the pores every outdoor moment? The manufactures who get their foot in the door everywhere!

Sunshine and fresh air and physical activity IS the best medicine for health! Load up on antioxidant foods for life, drink pure water and consider a little remedy for sunburn protection we use prior to a full day outside: Vitamin B6 50 mg 1-2 times per day 2-3 days prior to exposure and on days of being in the sun for a big day! tip:(The more toxic we are the more we burn!)

Also try oils that suck the nutrients through our skin that have been used for centuries! Cold pressed olive oil (darkest green/used by Cleopatra!) or grapeseed oil as a base with added fragrant 100% essential oils are a fabulous beauty product. Our favorite is adding orange oil, lemon, lavender and geranium into our recipe for beautiful skin. Olive oil can be a mild natural antioxidant sunscreen perhaps due to the vitamin E. This oil is absorbed into the skin and does not leave oily residue. A wonderful after sun exposure treatment for mere pennies.

Read this interesting article from the LA times!

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-vitamin10-2008jun10,0,2249102.story

Simple steps to SAVE your own HEART!

2008-02-25T19:23:00.000-08:00

There are things you can do to prevent a bad heart episode! Stop smoking, increase exercise, lose weight if you are obese and choose from the healthy "fats" list ie: olive oil and avacado's for your RDA and make sure you eat plenty of fresh veggies and fruit to meet your fiber RDA etc etc etc!

Find out today the breakdown of what your cholesterol reading is. This can be your biggest warning and heads up! The focus is on your LDL being in a healthy range under 100 to be safe. Your HDL to be well over 50! Now, the main cholesterol number is NOT enough information. We need the whole breakdown. Also, make sure your "sugar" habit/addiction is not clogging your arteries too with high triglycerides! (keep it much less than 150!) Steer clear of diabetes! You can reverse your tendency/risk with a healthy diet and increasing physical activity and avoiding alcohol! Save yourself NOW!

The BIG push for DIET and Lifestyle changes from the AHA:
http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=851

Increase your idea of PHYSICAL ACTIVITY!

2008-01-24T15:21:00.001-08:00

Pick something and DO IT 3 times per week for 40-60 minutes each time you you will see a change in your metabolism and mix that with drinking plenty of water and fresh vegetables and fruit, whole grains and minimal portions of a lean meat(chicken or fish) and POOF you will see a new you in no time!

OUR Body Size "FAT" a strong link to getting CANCER!!!

2007-11-29T22:58:00.000-08:00

The latest evidence links our FAT body size (lousy junk food diet) and lack of exercise and lack of fresh fruits and vegetables and fiber in whole grains the biggest link along side smoking and regular alcohol consumption as the causes of our cancer and many other preventable diseases like heart disease , diabetes and hypertension. So which one of these conditions are you working on getting from your bad habits? This information is nothing new but rarely published or discussed by our medical professionals for the last 50 years. WHY is that so? How come we've heard it more on TV than from our own physician who should be concerned with how a medical crisis is prevented? Don't you ever wonder WHY sweet Aunt Mable or Uncle Joe died such a cruel death from cancer? They were such "good" folks or they were so "young!"

There are answers and we must walk through a new door of understanding to have hearing ears and eyes that see what we have been blinded from seeing..... Our new journey can SAVE OUR LIVES!!!!

“Cancer is preventable. There are changes you can make in your daily life that will reduce your chances of developing cancer,” James said.
He pointed out that, taken together, the recommendations outline a clear and consistent way of living that fosters a longer healthy life.
“Let’s get more vegetables, fruits and other low-energy-density foods every day, which will leave less room for meat. Let’s get off our backsides however and whenever we can.”
Accomplish these changes to diet and activity level and you are on your way to getting and staying as lean as possible, which is our first recommendation, he said.
“This is a pattern for living with the potential to save millions of lives. If these recommendations were adopted around the world, scientists estimate it could prevent about one-third of global cancer cases,” James said.
Recommendations for Cancer Prevention
1. Be as lean as possible within the normal range of body weight.

2. Be physically active as part of everyday life.

3. Limit consumption of energy-dense foods. Avoid sugary drinks.

4. Eat mostly foods of plant origin.

5. Limit intake of red meat and avoid processed meat.

6. Limit alcoholic drinks.

7. Limit consumption of salt. Avoid moldy cereals (grains) or pulses (legumes).

8. Aim to meet nutritional needs through diet alone.
Special Population Recommendations
9. Mothers to breastfeed; children to be breastfed.

10. Cancer survivors to follow the recommendations for cancer prevention.
And always remember – do not smoke or chew tobacco.

http://www.aicr.org/site/PageServer?pagename=dc_home_guides

Breast Cancer Awareness?

2007-10-23T20:22:00.000-07:00

The National Cancer Institute has warned us that 80% of ALL cancers are PREVENTABLE!!!!! How come we can't hear that from our own healthcare professional when it's us one on one???? What we get instead from that office and the media is the aura of mystery that keeps billions of dollars flowing annually on the careers devoted to the details surrounding the "care" of the problem!My favorite charity working toward getting the truth out is the American Institute of Cancer Research. We in this society will probably never see a "cure" from a magic pill. The cure is prevention and reversing the risk that our family history may embark.

http://www.aicr.org/site/PageServer?pagename=res_report_summary_cancer#preventable

For powerful nutrients and live enzymes.....

2007-08-28T20:48:00.000-07:00

Choose organic fresh fruits and vegetables right out of the garden that are ripe and "in season" to maximize nutrients, antioxidants and phyto-chemicals that your body can assimilate immediately. These foods will zoom life into your viens, organs and tissues! These foods give your body what it needs to heal itself and combat sickness and reject free radical invading germs and virus'!! This is disease prevention at its finest! This is our pathway to health and healing!

America's indulgence in supersizing soda's linked to UH OH! TROUBLE!

2007-07-25T18:35:00.000-07:00

No big surprise here, it is not rocket science that after 10-20 years of a bad habit we find ourselves collectively at risk for a heart attack and or a new diabetes diagnosis or poisoning our liver! That's right, our daily soda's are clogging our arteries, elevating our triglyceride and liver levels or pushing our pancreas to over-work itself and we find our selves in pre-diabetes or DIABETES or OBESE in no time!! You'll do better to switch to water and save yourself now! Or for a special drink mix 1/2 juice with 1/2 sparkling water with a lime squeeze! Or try 1/3 juice or lemonade to 2/3 ice tea which is called an "Arnold Palmer" at the bar! (herbal teas are best) Hey, try this....hydrate yourself with something your body NEEDS on those hot summer days at the beach!

READ:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/07/23/BAG78R5FLG18.DTL&tsp=1

Fructose corn syrup is the DEVIL!

2007-05-12T21:36:00.000-07:00

Go somewhere pretty and REJUVINATE!

2007-05-03T20:52:00.000-07:00

Healthcare takes big bite out of U.S. Economy!

2007-04-22T22:01:00.000-07:00

Who says healthcare isn't BIG BUSINESS? Currently 16 cents per every dollar is paid to healthcare in America! In 2006 that would round out to $2.1 TRILLION dollars!! This figure is expected to nearly double in the next 10 years estimators say. So go figure, our self-induced, lifestyle related metabolic conditions such as diabetes, cancer, heart disease, high blood pressure and other obesity related conditions that are largely PREVENTABLE, really pay the establishment hefty sums to manage our illness. Hmm.... where is the motivation for prevention? Meaning preventing the disease completely before it begins? Never having to take the treatment in the first place should be our goal. So, we must place our health demise at bay on our own. Health, nutrition and physical activity is within our own control. Lets keep the bucks in our own pocket! (Hey, why not reward our low risk factors and normal BMI to minimal healthcare premiums? Nahhh.... where's the profit in that?) Trust this: they have realized they will profit handsomely at your good health too! That is because they make their money on the 80% who are healthy to pay for the 20% with the chronic disease that is 75% of the costs of healthcare!! Also in the great USA pharmacueticals are making 450 billion $$$ a year on our chronic illness! You figure out who's keeping who in the dark and why!

Stop SUGAR, tobacco and alcohol addictions! Mostly prevention begins in our own grocery basket or plainly what goes in our mouth!! Read on...save yourself now!

Prepare yourself to be encouraged by your healthcare professional to now put your "health success ball" into YOUR court! That's right, and rightfully so, it has always been our "fault" mostly by what we've been putting in our mouths for too many years of bad habits that in time go awry! So, now, because of the obesity epidemic in America (64% are overweight or obese and 64% do NOT get sufficient exercise) which results in all the fancy diagnosis' that are preventable. The government based institutions are mandating the healthcare providers make an emphasis on the patient taking a more proactive role in disease prevention and or control. Guess what else? After all these years that medical science has not believed that diet had any part of your becoming "slot in YOUR diagnosis" they have changed their tune and without admitting error they are motivated by "perks and bonuses" to tell you the truth so that you can SAVE YOURSELF!!! Just 5 -10 years ago this idea was ridiculous. They operated on the assumption that whatever you had been doing was fine and to continue to eat a "normal" diet. What's normal? Fast food, soda's, donuts, hamburger's, french fries and hot dogs for most kids today!! What? We need 5-9 veggies and fruits per day? Impossible is what you would have thought! Now, we must be educated that it is going to be all trouble if we DON'T!

Help Your Body HEAL ITSELF! Boost your Immune System with NUTRIENTS!

2007-03-28T22:00:00.000-07:00

Always choose the fresh vegetables and fruits available in season to boost your immune system with a ZAP of health and ENERGY! Drink fresh fruit and vegetable juices from your own juicer for a real healing experience! Wow you can feel it just like spinach and ol POPEYE the sailor man! Do it! TRY it today!

Seek the Truth and you shall Find....

2007-03-01T13:22:00.000-08:00

Do you notice that with every new path we seek it comes with a desire to change or improve
something in our lives?

I often feel like God is real in my life because He may at times, unveil the answer at the moment I ponder the question!

That is how this HEALTH RECOVERY will work for you...the moment you realize your need to improve something the answer will unfold before you!

It is by no surprise you stumble upon us here, it is by divine appointment to save your life starting at this moment!

Consider a New Path that leads to LIFE!!!!

2007-02-25T15:30:00.000-08:00

Our new path...
Interesting, ALL the diets that we get from our doctor say the same thing really. That's why this site has simplified things for you! It's the 'all in one' road ahead! All the other materials you receive that fine tune things to your illness will affirm what you find right here! What is curious is what they print and who do they receive donations from? Ex: The world COW Association, National "eat a steak a-day" Council ??? etc etc!

This BLOG has not been bought off by any "group" and shares what is healthy based on the research collectively from those with PhD's in "Nutritional Science," Naturopath Dr's and/or our nations leading health institutes!

Just in case you don't believe me because who is MzEatright anyway???!? Only God knows for sure!!
I dare you to check out these sites:

Addressing the emotional side and root of compulsive overeating is the Lose it for LIFE program you may find worth the cost for a week or weekend intensive getaway!
http://www.newlife.com/Events/lifl.asp

My favorite former US SURGEON GENERAL C. Everett Koop
http://shapeup.org/

American Institute of Cancer Research
http://www.aicr.org/site/PageServer?pagename=dc_home

Shape up and lose 10 pound!
http://shapeup.org/shape/sud10index.php

EAT 5-9 per DAY!
http://5aday.gov/why/index.html

US Surgeon General
http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/topics/obesity/calltoaction/fact_advice.htm

Aim for a Healthy Weight; US Dept of Health and Human Services
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/obesity/lose_wt/index.htm

CHIP program (Coronary Health Improvement Project) Loma Linda, CA
http://www.chipusa.org/about_hans.html

Increase EXERCISE to clear out the sludge!

2006-11-07T19:47:00.000-08:00

Pick something active and DO IT! At least 20 minutes 3-4 X per week!

Of Course, EVEN if it's "snowing" outside we can always "Sweat to the Oldies" with Richard Simmons in front of the TV!

www.richardsimmons.com

No exuses for not working out somehow! Increasing activity cleans out our clogged up arteries! What fun you can have!

Even Richard Simmons is as passionate about your health recovery workout as you can be!

Burning the candle at both ends?? Stressed out?

2006-07-05T20:16:00.000-07:00

***** John Muir wrote:

Everyone needs a place of beauty as well as bread to eat, places to play and to pray in; where nature may heal and cheer, and give strength to the body and the soul alike.

We all can live crazy schedules and lose sight of the most important things life has to offer.....friends and family and close., loving relationships.

Are you SICK and TIRED of feeling sick and tired??

2006-07-02T12:17:00.000-07:00

Are you annoyed and frustrated with your health condition? These are my favorite books to fine tune what we can do or NOT do to help or aggravate our current health problem.
There is HOPE and there is something WE can do!!
FAITH without works is DEAD.
Take some new action approaching your condition.
We can't keep doing the same thing and expect a different result!
EAT WELL and stay out of the emergency room!
We live in a poisoned, toxic world as it is and some things we are powerless over. Taking care of ourselves is the BEST thing we can do!
Find out if you've been doing it WRONG!!

Have you ever asked WHY is this happening to me or my loved one? I did ask in earnest over 20 years ago.

Today you are viewing the result of that question I prayed

years ago.

Hold on tight and don't let go!

Hippocrates said, "LET FOOD BE THY MEDICINE!"

We should be doing this first, long BEFORE we need the doctor!

Try this link and register for more info. Ask the Doctor...Naturopathic Doctors online:

http://www.natmedonline.com/go/NatMedOnline/AskTheDoctor.aspx?

This is How to CHEAT on your Diet!

2006-07-01T01:50:00.000-07:00

IF YOU WANNA CHEAT ON YOUR DIET CHEAT LIKE THIS!!!!

http://cheat2healthiness.blogspot.com/

Tips on juicing your own organic vegetables and fruits!
http://www.bragg.com/2007/02/juice-fasting-is-simply-delicious-and.html

Stop doing what "harms" and start doing what "heals!" Throw increased physical activity in the mix and watchout! Changes that heal! I pray you can start today!

WHY are we in SELF destruct mode anyway???

2006-06-29T14:26:00.000-07:00

Hopefully it's only out of sheer ignorance. This site will change all that for you now. At some point we will become accountable for what we know.

Perhaps we have trigger buttons that get pushed that cause us to compulsively do what we know isn't good for us. These triggers can be from something from childhood, a memory or hurt that makes us feel a certain way so that we must self medicate to comfort ourselves. Sounds deep, like mumbo jumbo but perhaps it's something to consider ...why we do what we do? Or why do we eat what we eat? So why do we eat, drink, or smoke our way into a crippling illness?!?
Consider the idea of H.A.L.T. behind wrongful eating choices etc:
HUNGARY? ANGRY? LONELY? TIRED?
http://www.newlife.com/Articles/article.asp?libid=172
Depression Tips:
Get help. Have a new plan and recognize the tendency to be depressed. Watch for the red flags and take action whether genetics or past loss or abuse; get therapy to work through it. Take meds, say YES to drugs on this one if indicated to get you balanced out or over the hump and into counseling !
Get sunshine, rest and fresh air. Go outside! Exercise!
Get connected in a support group. Call a friend!
Go to church. Seek God. Pray. Read Scripture! Psalm 16.
Give back in service somehow. Don't isolate, call a friend!
Get healthy! Watch the triggers and lousy sugar diet triggers.
Get new music. Go to the movies!
Read a new book. Call a friend!
No friends? Be a friend to someone! Ecclesiastics 4:9-12
Go on vacation. Get a massage!
Do something for yourself. A hobby!
Feed the homeless!
God Bless you! Oh yeah.....Call a friend!

Educate yourself on emotional health issues from the best resources we know of:

www.cloudtownsend.com

See their online answers on video!! Wow! What a great Help!!

Consider the ROAD to Hana........

2006-06-29T13:57:00.000-07:00

Some have called it the ROAD TO HELL because of its 5 hour narrow winding road...can't rush this trip but you can stop all along the way for a little rest for a new view. The arrival is worth the effort.
Most important it takes time!

So also is our road to Health Recovery. Many angles work the desired end of health and happiness while we remain on this planet. It takes work most definitely...our healing crisis can get worse before it gets better sometimes. Just hang on, hold on tight and watch miracles unfold within! This will be exciting to see what God has for those who persevere!

Friends for the ADDICTED!

2006-06-28T20:03:00.000-07:00

Having a bit of a problem controlling a compulsion that is interfering with with your relationships?
And your life? Is your life lacking peace and serenity because of an overwhelming drive to feed your insatiable appetite? Is your vision a little blurred about your future and purpose in life?

What kind of addictions can hurl us into a health demise? To name a few: smoking, alcohol, chemical dependency, (even some your Dr. O'Dear gives you!!) sexual addiction, gambling, food, sugar, shopping, perfectionism, workaholicism and/or just loving someone with these issues can cause US to be obsessed with THEIR addiction which involves overwhelming stress, enabling and codependency on our end.

Please visit these sites and pray about seeking support and coming clean about these issues.
Miracles happen in a 12-step group. Find one that suits your issue. Just get plugged in and come back to restoring LIFE, HEALTH and HEALING to all your flesh!

Check Point:

http://12stepz4you.blogspot.com/

My favorite spot for 24 hr encouragement! (by a favorite singer and friend Bryan Duncan) Go to Radio Rehab/shows! Click there now and listen while you view this site!

www.radiorehab.com

Celebrate Recovery...a NATIONWIDE 12-step melting pot for any compulsive hurt, habit or hang ups. Find one close to you and go!!! You'll be in awe how you can find help, ACCEPTANCE AND SUPPORT!

www.celebraterecovery.com/index.shtml

My cyber shrinks Dr. Cloud and Dr. Townsend, the smartest guys I know of, authors of the wisest books in print today!
See: Solution Classes available on CD buy online.... Fabulous resource for getting our emotions back on track!!

www.cloudtownsend.com

And even more common are AA, NA or ALANON you can find anywhere!!

A special corner for SMOKERS!

http://nosmokingnow.blogspot.com/

Say this....I WANNA LIVE!! There's hope for me!
This is brought to you by
a HEALTH RECOVERY website! Save yourself!!! Take the first step.
The neatest people I know on the planet have years of sobriety from a 12-Step program!

The Epidemic of Obesity costs America Billions $$$!

2006-06-28T19:26:00.000-07:00

Did you know that the War on Terror only mildy surpasses the cost to Americans as Obesity direct/indirect related medical costs? Since 9/11/2001 Congress has authorized approx $500 Billion dollars to protect our world from terrorists. Since 2001 the problems related to costs of being OBESE is about $75 billion per year. That is about $450 billion dollars since 2001.

However, in addition, the costs to Americans for our smoking addiction is $10 billion per year making it combined with obesity costs to taxpayers MORE than the War on Terror for unecessary health costs! Now you don't see any protesters marching around about what that tax deficit is doing to America! 64% of America is overweight or obese. Eating junk food and smoking cigarettes because we WANT TO is costly to those who DON'T! NOT fair! Did you know that though the smoker may pay $4 per pack of cigarettes, in reality by the time the health complications rise to cover health problems it's $41 per pack being the real cost? Guess who pays the difference? Everyone that pays taxes and health care premiums! Non smokers too! Ugggh NOT FAIR! Our health care premiums go up to pay for those killing themselves on purpose. We do not get a break on our premiums for keeping fit! That's not right!

Costs of Obesity and Physical Inactivity::

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?itool=abstractplus&db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstractplus&list_uids=10593542

MSNBC Costs of War on Terror:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15984616/

Costs of Cigarettes on Society:

http://medicolegal.tripod.com/cost.htm

Words of Wisdom in Hindsight....

2006-06-27T17:19:00.000-07:00

This is a tribute
to my Dad and my brother Chris.

Their lives were cut short,
God's angels came for them because of cancer.

Dad left us this card with his wise words
of ethics he had lived by. Chris lived just
like that too.

Love you, Miss you guys...

EAT Right to FEEL Great!!

2006-06-27T14:05:00.000-07:00

Have you ever seen the movie "SUPERSIZE Me" that was done a few years ago? Go rent it at your local Video Store and educate yourself at the immediate toll the fast food diet can have on your health! Alot of people live on the drive through a few times per day. Starbucks in the am for a 600 calorie jolt of caffeine and sugar! Lunch time and then dinner a fast or frozen dinner. GET the movie. See how quickly your body will produce borderline to abnormal liver test results, sugar levels and cholesterol all being abnormal. Sound self-induced yet? It is!

HOW to HEAL YOURSELF!!

2006-06-27T13:05:00.000-07:00

God created our body to HEAL ITSELF! It is already set in motion so why not HELP it out instead of HURTING the process??????

Our immune system if in good shape from getting the nutrients it needs to keep us alive and healthy will be on auto pilot if we ACT right and EAT good! Choosing God's foods he prepared for us to live on! (Double click on attachment to enlarge)

This is the list of things we need to daily eat or consume in order to be healthy or to begin a restoration healing process.
This is the answer to feeling better right here. It can only do you good! No one can say what eating healthy will do for you. You can notice just about anything based on your past eating habits! All changes evolve in time. Healing is cyclical. Old cells dying off and new ones all zapped with a new energy. Watch and see. Do this because....You wanna LIVE first and foremost then all the other "perks" will be added unto YOU!!

Notice the LIMIT in the protein section...it's acceptable to eat only 3-6 oz of an animal product per day if you must. NOT PER MEAL!!

National Cancer Institute recommends 6-10 fresh vegetable or fruit per day! A dark green leafy vegetable per day! This is to prevent cancer! This list will keep you busy eating and surprisingly a comfortable 1200-2000 calorie diet if you are compulsive enough to count! I don't have to, I don't eat junk enough to have to count them. Actually, these are considered free foods like most of them you can eat all you want!

Fresh raw veggies and JUICES are very powerful. I cheat getting my vegetables. I will drink a dark green glass of BARLEY juice daily since 1986. That changed the way I understood the power of nutrients! WOW I am grateful to have found that link to my health! I also do a daily FIBER supplement full of herbs just in case I did partake of something void of health like a piece of birthday cake or some treat to keep things moving at a normal rate instead of getting clogged up from the JUNk!

I live by the 80%-20% rule. Because I live in this world I will join others at a meal (I wouldn't necessarily fix) to maintain closeness with the people I love. If I was a freak about this nobody would like me or invite me over! See what I mean? 80% good maybe 20% bad per week is my alotment. On most days even 90%-10% is possible!

Critical for living is the fiber found in plant foods. It helps our transit time for digestion be a normal 18 hrs instead for 72 hours over in the Standard American Diet list.

Do check out the Bible verses if you have a Bible! This diet has been around since the flood. That's when MEAT eating came into the picture. As long as they were grass eating or vegetarian animals they were considered clean. Meat was just introduced to help us until we could plant after the flood dried up! Before that there was the Genesis diet...everything that grew as a plant was all we needed to live over a hundred years. Think of the huge COW or cattle...they just eat grass!! Look how big and strong THEY are! Pray about your main dependence on meat/dairy and your reservations about this.
******************Like salt?? Try VegSal or Amino Acids to flavor cooking. Like sugar?? Try Agave nectar or raw honey to sweeten!! Organic apple cider vinegar with the stuff floating is the ticket for real health!!
These are healthy alternatives for every KITCHEN!!!!

To cheat on your diet stop in here! Learn to cheat "WELL" if you are going to cheat!! We are all for it! 8>))

www.cheat2healthiness.blogspot.com

Howz your TEETH? Healthy? Or NOT!

2006-06-27T12:23:00.000-07:00

Important question to ask yourself! Those teeth were meant to last a lifetime if we take care of them. Sugar addiction and phenominal sugar consumption is responsible for 92% of cavities! That sugar sure keeps the $$$$$ rolling in for our dear Dr. Dentist!

DON'T get DEAD!

2006-06-27T12:02:00.000-07:00

Think about this.....you are in good company because everyone is eating and living from this list of harmful substances. (About 90% of Americans according to a 1991 FAMILY PRACTICE NEWS article )It's the Standard American Diet. It's causing obesity to become an epidemic. It's all about what goes in our grocery basket. Sugar, FAT, SALT, food dyes and chemicals, Caffeine and too much MEAT or Dairy = steroids!! Its all that crap forming a sludge clogging our arteries! (double click attachment to enlarge)

We need WATER to hose it all away. Just like when you drop an ice cream cone on a hot driveway in the summer. What happens?? It gets all sticky and stuck in no time. Then it takes a high pressure hose to wash it away! Same thing inside our body with all this junk. It does only harm. No possible good! We need a fiber supplement to keep it moving along inside!

Not too mention deliberatley SMOKING or abusing alcohol or chemical dependancy. These things severely deplete our immune system from working normally to kill off invading germs, viruses and free radicals that cause things like cancer etc! We need protection from the things we cannot help from the environment! It's like when you call the fire department when your house is burning. Do you want them to arrive drunk, falling out of the truck fumbling around with the hose while your house burns to the ground? This is how our immune system responds when it is depleted of nutrients to do its job and an invading virus or toxin comes to attack!

It is "normal"in our culture to eat like this
and you can't break out of it without insight and knowledge of what it's doing to us. We should never pray over this kind of food. How presumptuous to think God's gonna bless it! It is more appropriate to say like I do when sitting down to consume something unhealthy....

Dear God... Thank you for these friends and this fun today..please don't let this food kill us...have mercy, forgive us, we know not what we do!!
Amen

This is how we gave up white sugar!! Try these!! Raw Honey, Agave Nectar or raw sugar. Stevia sweetner instead of nutrasweet products for 0 calories!

Explore the advice from Dr. Patrica Bragg, N.D. PhD a world health crusader!
http://www.bragg.com/bragglifestyle/lifestyle.html

"My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge!"

2006-06-27T11:53:00.000-07:00

That's a Bible verse! What is going on here? do we really have something to do with our destruction? Sometimes it's not God's timing for us to arrive up yonder? Was it a self imposed disease that did us in? Because we were poor stewards over our own health? An accident is more out of our control but years of abuse to our body is something we CAN control! Think about it.....

Do I really want to hear Him say "What are YOU doing here?" WHAT?!?! There was more for me to do? Shoot!

Hmmmm....maybe we should be sorry for our foolishness
and start over while we still have the chance! However, God is merciful and will still let us in heaven if all is well with our soul ...as it should be!

My SECRET garden!

2006-06-27T11:41:00.000-07:00

Part of having a peaceful resting place is loving where you live. We can make lemonade out of lemons by our own choices to transform and create out of a burnt up barren existance.
This is what I've done with an old dead yard!
It was fried to a crisp when I got here!
It's beautiful now and takes an effort just like our health and restoring health to a broken body.

All things are possible!
God says He sets before us blessing and cursing, life and death.
"Choose LIFE" He says that you AND your children may LIVE!
Say it now......"I wanna LIVE and I want my children to LIVE!!!!!"

It's true concerning health. What we eat can directly affect the next generation. Our children's health is as good as we feed ourselves during their development in, then out of the womb. Will they quickly adapt themselves to our lousy health habits, likes and dislikes of food? You BET! So think about it. They eat what we eat good or bad.

WHY DO I WANNA LIVE anyway?

2006-06-27T11:32:00.000-07:00

Life is at best when we are rich in loving relationships! To have safe and healthy friendships with family and friends is life at it's fullest. Why would we want to shoot our selves in the foot and be ripped away from the good things we are cultivating here on earth?
I don't want to botch up a good thing and eat stupid so I get sick and miss out on the good stuff!

Let's have FUN and enjoy life!!! Yeah!

Lets go to the BEACH!!!!

2006-06-27T11:12:00.000-07:00

I Love the beach!!
It is a place I realize God is BIGGER than whatever I'm going through. I have a sense that
in time, everything is going to be all right!
It is where I run for a respite, refreshing
and can feel HOPE that life goes on

no matter what happens...
that was not according to my plans!
I find serenity here.
It is part of my spiritual
therapy!

Selah....

2006-06-27T10:56:00.000-07:00

A wise philosopher once said that above all we should:
Fear God, obey His commands and ENJOY LIFE!!

Stuff happens in this life so it is best to seize the moment! "Carpadiem!"
And don't be caught DEAD without God!

Hi DOGS!!!!!

2006-06-27T10:47:00.000-07:00

LOVE my dogs! They are so cute!

Plz meet a hero in my life......

2006-06-27T10:34:00.000-07:00

Hi Gram!!!

Gram is here today at 101 years old
because of a healthy lifestyle!
She is hope for us to eat right and feel great!
She never was a smoker or alcohol user
and always eats fresh vegetables in season.
She is an example of keeping fit, walking
and getting fresh air and sunshine.
She learned long ago to pray and trust
in God for those things she is powerless
to control and to turn over her cares
and worries to a faithful loving God.
She is 1 of 12 children and none lived
this kind of longevity. She is kind
and generous and holds no grudge or
unforgiveness toward anyone!.

Thanks Gram! I wanna be just like YOU!
xoxoxo

Prayer for Serenity

2006-06-27T00:04:00.000-07:00

God
Grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change,
and the courage to change the things I can
and the wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time,
enjoying one moment at a time;
accepting hardship as a pathway to peace;
taking as Jesus did, this sinful world as it is;
not as I would have it;
trusting that you will make all things right
if I surrender to your will;
so that I may be reasonable happy in this life
and supremely happy with you forever in the next.
amen
reinhold niebuhr

Can we do a balancing Balancing act???

2006-06-26T22:38:00.000-07:00

There are many things that play into achieving superior health and emotional happiness. But it's not that complicated!!

It's a balancing ACT!!

2006-06-26T22:36:00.000-07:00

Actually, there are no simple, single agent cures, magic pills that can fix all our ills while we continue to keep doing the same harmful thing while expecting a different result! Sorry, it requires a balance in all things. Not a moderation of vices but a collective effort of many things that will play into our health recovery process. Even if we are terminal we can make a difference and make changes that can give us more good days, feeling better at the least with the time we have left. Nevertheless, there is always HOPE! Say it again....I wanna live!!

FYI: I have seen more "miracles" via nutritional interventions than by just medical or spiritual means alone!

Health and healing has many facets. I am grateful for medical science in acute trauma, infectious and emergency crisis care intervention. Mental health treatments with medication is profound!

Many things play into managing our metabolic condition. I believe that exercise, being outdoors in fresh air and sunshine, getting good rest and having FUN and going on vacation is as vital as eating well! Taking time out to relax and meditate. Having My Higher Power to turn over all those things I am powerless to change or control, reduces my stress level. Having faith and hope that God is seeing the bigger picture than my narrow limited view from my perch in life is essential to my peace. I believe in the power of prayer! Knowing God hears my prayers and cares for me is awesome. Having people praying for me when I am unable or lacking strength is life changing. Me giving back in service what God has given is what He has us go through things for. To be of help to someone else someday in the same situation. He can take all things and work them for good for those who believe...

Knowing I have supportive relationships and wonderful friendships to help me on my physical and emotional journey when life is hard is a God send. We need an accountablity buddy for support in our quest for health recovery and my buddy is Shelly. She is one of a kind. Thank you Shel!! Love you! 8:)

Where do the Facts live on this site????

2006-06-26T22:24:00.000-07:00

IT's GETTING "CHILLY" about now!!!

2006-06-26T22:15:00.000-07:00

OK lets face the COLD HARD FACTS! What are the facts? Where are the facts kept? Well let me share with you where I found some good data I don't hear shared with anyone in my profession! I've even hooked you up to some great web links so you can run for it on your own. Later.

First let me share my resources for the following information. Studies compiled neatly from the US Surgeon General reports,(he ought to carry some weight!) various medical journals, the National Cancer Institute, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
US Dept of Health and Human Services.......on and on etc. (see attached)

Drum roll please.....dah dah dah da dah daaaahhh!
The facts say that:
70-80% of America's disease and deaths are preventable and premature!
70% of our health problems comes from our personal lifestyle!
1/3 of all cancers are from smoking!
35% of cancers are from poor diet!
80% of cancer are preventable!
Less than 10% of dieases have a hereditary factor! What?!?!?
Only 10% of disease is from environmental toxic exposure.
Less than 10% of our health is impacted by medical care treatment! WHAT?!!#%%#@@**==++
Diabetes is up 700 % since World War II.
Diabetes has doubled in the last 10 years at 18 million and only a few from hereditary links! Now 20 million have the all new "pre-diabetes" dx. It means, keep it up and you'll be a full on diabetic SOON!
64% of Amercia is overweight or obese and does not get proper exercise!
Our childrens bones are breaking more weakened by soda consumption.

Our popular diseases such as heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer, gout, arthritis, obesity, constipation, diverticulitis, heartburn, impotence, depression and gallbladder disease are a result of poor eating habits, too much junk food void of vital nutrients, lack of exercise, smoking, or caffiene use or sugar addiction, consistant alcohol use and stress overload with a poor support system in place. NOTICE: these are things we put in our mouth all by ourselves!!!!! "That's what I'm talkin about!!" Pick out where you slot in and pray for courage to change.

Why would we even drink water when we can have a coffee mocha latte or a soda??
This is how we live! It's going to do us or our children in! We think "it's my life" but what about the same lifestyle and bad habits we teach our children!! Have you seen a young child die of cancer?? This will change you forever. There is hope!

We can change our course at any time we can pull out and change the road we've been on!! Tag your vices and pray for guidance and wisdom and insight!! Even a terminal illness can have hope with the changes that will be suggested here. Maybe it will only change the way we feel with what time we have left. More good days than bad. That's the least that can happenwith the information that is pending here! The baby stuff I call it are the early warning signs that there are toxins or deficiencies like: skin problems, rashes, chronic cold and flu, moody, depressed, headaches, PMS, leg cramps, indigestion, hemrhoids, fatigue and NO ENERGY.....anything sound familiar??

If I was a physician and I had a chance to make an impact on a life in sincerety I would shake you and say, "What are you doing to yourself?? Stop this lifestyle NOW or you will be very sick and DIE soon! Do you want to abandon your children leaving them orphans? Do you care that your passing will break hearts because it didn't need to happen?" Pregnant mothers do you know your baby is only as good as what you eat during it's formation? Junk food for you can make a sickly baby with health problems all its life! Have mercy. I wouldn't care if the truth hurt. It's info for saving lives!!

AAhh reality: the reason we don't hear these things is because it's a "business" we never want to offend the "customer" so they take their medical premiums somewhere else!!
OOOhh! I see now! That's how it is!

Yes, that IS how it is......... thanks for letting me share.....are you getting riled up yet??

say this: I wanna LIVE!!

2006-06-26T21:44:00.000-07:00

.....I wanna LIVE!!!!!

I hope as you have stumbled across this page, however you got here, that it will unveil a new journey into the truth about health recovery. May you discover something that will change your life forever! May you find the beauty found in life worth living and healthy living!! However, if you cannot embrace any of my rantings may you be provoked into investigating the truth for yourself and perhaps we'll meet around the backside in agreement someday!! My goal on this site is to just make a difference in someones life for good.
Save yourself NOW, I say!! But by the grace of God you find the knowledge HOW!! Here!

Hi, I am a grateful believer in Jesus Christ and I'm on a mission to spread the truth about sickness and disease and premature death and possibly reversing our own diagnosis. Health Recovery I'll call it. Eat4life2live. Don't get DEAD! Eat to live! "Do not put the Lord your God to a foolish test" comes to mind. "Faith without works is dead" is another one. We have something to do with our own preventable demise as you've now seen. It's not just bad luck or heredity or that darn devil!! The devil can only deceive us into doing ourselves in by IGNORANCE!It is my quest in this blog to yank our heads out of the sand and take a good look at our personal recipe we have been cookin up for sickness and disease. We've been baking our own custom cake for degenerative disease. That's how it works. It evolves from years of our bad habits in high gear. This page is not for the weak and whiny bunch who are perpetual blamers. Here's a tip for the underlying theme in this site....odds are:
"ain't no one to blame but me!" (say that again with a southern accent!)

Some built their house upon the sand, when the rains and the storms came and the waters rose, the house was washed away. Build your house on the rock, a firm foundation so when the wind an the rains come the house will stand!
Read on.

I have worked in the health care field 28 years in direct patient care, assisting your health care providers. The information you have found at eat4life2live I did not learn in my medical career and has not been something I hear many physicians emphasize with their patients because chances are, they have other "fish to fry" in our visit! There are some physicians who ARE nutrition wise but you just have to find one! Your healthcare provider certainly has access to it and it is available as patient education somewhere in their system. Your doctor generally has other demands and probably won't have time to drill this in with you. I love my fellow medical friends and have enjoyed being a part of their area of expertiese but as a student of nutritional studies for over 20 years, I had to go somewhere else for the data that is essential for REAL patient education here. Patient education is finally beginning to evolve but, not nearly fast enough or for the right reasons. Let's face it, the medical profession is BIG business! A physician I respect once told me that he was taught in medical school that 10% of patients will die no matter what care is provided. 80% will recover on their own (with or without intervention) and only 10% of all medical cases are improved by the physicians intervention and treatment! I have no problem believing this to be largely for emergency trauma care or crisis medical intervention.

Every medical treatment book I have looked in on their bookshelves says "etiology unknown" as to the cause of each indicated disease. Why is that? Have you ever asked your doctor, " How did I get this?" Think about this, if an aura of mystery is maintained regarding the cause of sickness and disease (like bad genes or bad luck), it keeps us vulnerable and coming back to the only care our health industry knows how to provide ie: drugs or surgery! Do you think you'd ever hear your doctor say "Gee Ms. Smith looks like you've got type 2 Diabetes and there is an 80% chance it's self induced by your obesity, physical inactivity or eating habits and really you've worked your way into this for sometime!" No way! They'd never offend you with the truth they want your business!
Brazen candor is what we need! That's what you have found right here in this BLOG!

The truth and answer is so simple that if we yielded to a healthy lifestyle with increased physical activity we just may not need those drugs or surgery! Our lousy diagnosis keeps the $$ flowing in the healthcare system. Some is paid by Medicare for our seniors. Big bucks for each diagnosis! However in the HMO world, NOW, they too are jumping on the band wagon for healthier living because as you pay that monthly premium when you are quite healthy, it translates pure profit for organization! Sad, but eating healthy is now the push for the wrong reasons in some cases. Now, there is financial incentive for them to push you into healthier choices! It lines the pockets of the establishment however, it is a win-win, you get healthier too out of the deal! Until we are rewarded by lower premiums for our healthy state it really bugs me that we all should pay the same premiums to cover the cost of those who refuse to save themselves by lifestyle changes. The young and healthy have the same premium as the one riddled with complications. They should charge us according to our BMI! Even the providers themselves would be motivated to believe in the power of nutrition! BMI pricing would give us an idea for fairness and a motivation to get healthy! I don't want to pay for someone elses foolishness or stubborness!

Over the years, I have heard doctors tell their patients: "diet has nothing to do with it" or as patients inquire the M.D.'s opinion about a vitamin or alternative health remedy they say "oh, there are no proven studies that this is effective but it certainly won't hurt you" as if you are waisting your time with such nonsense! Where did they learn these comebacks? Yep, in medical school! Who mandates what's taught in medical school anyway? Why it's the grants from drug and insurance companies! That's who's paying professors salaries! So until this changes...Go figure....God bless them, most MD's can't help it they just don't know about somethings regarding health/disease and diet. Most don't practice it for themselves either. FRANKLY, truth is: they have never gotten PAID to counsel you about diet and exercise. There has been NO coding to give them financial incentive to discuss this topic with you before now. You will get more diet health education out of the movie "Supersize" than alot of M.D.'s are privy to. That movie enlightened my favorite doc's practice! He gained so much insight from seeing the movie, he recommended his patients to see it too! He was enlightened by the correlation junk food/sugar had on everyone's sugar and liver enzymes becoming elevated!

Just for fun over the last 20 years I have asked almost every doctor I have worked with if they were taught anything about nutrition in med school. The results are in! Most say no, nothing. Some said a 2 hour lecture. Only one has said a semester on nutrition, covering calories and the 5 basic food groups. So that's what they don't know about folks! Nutrition or nutritional therapy. Most have this idea that if they didn't learn it in medical school that it has little value or validity. That's a generalization I have observed first hand. So, don't put all your eggs in one basket! Educate yourself! The medical community is beginning to realize now, that they have missed the boat on how diseases evolve thus prevention being the true cure at a phenominally low cost. Millions of research dollars need not be waisted to prove this so. Find a physician who is nutrition saavy. They are popping up more and more.

Use your health care provider to get your screening labwork to check sugar, cholesterol and liver. EKG and blood pressure testing and all recommended cancer screening tests also. Check your BMI and that alone will give you a warning of pending danger and risk. This can give you something to work with.

http://www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/bmicalc.htm

Find out where you stand so far and get to work now before something DOES come along. Prevention is NOT GETTING the disease at all! A new diagnosis from early detection just gives you time to get treatment before it kills you! Whatever the diagnosis might be. And if you are not feeling well and they say all tests are negative then thank them, listen to your body and get to work to heal yourself by these lifestyle changes today! The goal today is to prevent or reverse the disease! If you don't change your ways you can keep going back to the doc periodically until something DOES manifest so that they can have you take drugs or can refer you to a specialist for surgery! What else can they do for you? Disease will kick in soon, living on the Standard American Diet with little or no exercise!

Ok, I have rambled and must let you come up for air to digest this jaded approach to taking responsibility for your health and LIFE! Hope this can be fun!

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