EVERYTHING about our HeALTH starts in the GARDEN!

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

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!

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!

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???

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!!!!

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!!!

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. That is part of being HUMAN!   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!

I am a avid juicer and never miss a daily DARK GREEN juice like barley grass( a super food) or home blend of kale, spinach, swiss chard with some berries or banana with some coconut water. Boom down the hatch and truly MzEatright has NEVER gotten "THE FLU" and never gotten the SHOT!  Once every few years I can partake in a cough or cold but usually I can pin point what I had been up to that got me to a vulnerable state.  If I am HEALTHY those germs just hit me and fall plunk to the ground!

 

OK back to the flu shot: it may only protect us from the 1-3 (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 in other vaccines), mercury in thermisol, etc and others you wouldn't let even your kitty drink!  The biggest farce about it is even though we are exposed to 100's of germs and virus type flu's; they sat around at the lab and guessed what the top 2-3 strains might be and that is only what the flu shot covers!   Its like playing roulette at the casino! What does happen is as I watch all the healthcare staff eagerly line up for their annual dose of formaldehyde and mercury, they weaken their own immune system so they soon get sick with all the other 97 strains of flu they touch!  They just don't get it!  How it happens while they are addicted to sugar, donuts, high fructose corn syrup and eat fake foods with artificial colors and flavor and get this:  THEY don't eat their 5-9 veggies and fruits every day either!  There is definatley a common denominator with those who fall ill.  But if they do the right thing they will recover soon enough!

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.  That is funny, if you are already sickly you better not get it!  WHY?  Because the toxins will make you SICKER!  I wouldn't sip on a formaldehyde bottle or spill some in my green drink would I?

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!
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5933a1.htm
Arguments 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?

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????

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?

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!!!

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.

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Breast Cancer Awareness?

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??? Perhaps from years of too much estrogen supplements via birth control or prempro etc etc!!!!

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.....

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!

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!

Go somewhere pretty and REJUVINATE!