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3 Herbs to Help with Sugar Cravings!

2011-04-21T10:35:00.000-07:00

Many people jokingly call themselves sugar addicts. While we say this primarily in jest, there is some serious and proven truth to the notion that sweet foods are addictive. In fact, one recent study suggested that high-calorie foods
rival cocaine and tobacco in their addictiveness.

It can be hard to kick any addiction, but medicinal herbs can help to curb the strong sugar-cravings that some addicts experience. In general, the following herbs are considered to be safe and associated with few or no side effects. However, it is always wise to consult a health care provider before using any medicinal herb.

Gymnema

Gymnema has been used in India for thousands of years as a treatment for diabetes and obesity. Compounds in this versatile herb in gymnema temporarily fill the mouth with a sweet flavor, then temporarily eliminate the tastebuds' response to sweetness. If you chew gymnema before eating, sweets will be decidedly less satisfying; soda will taste like carbonated water. The effect persists for roughly two hours. Gymnema has the added benefit of reducing spikes in blood-glucose levels.

Stevia

Stevia, also known as sweetleaf, contains no calories but imparts a taste that is hundreds of times sweeter than sugar. Stevia increases insulin production and lowers blood-glucose levels, unlike most sweeteners which impart an opposite effect. Use stevia in place of sugar or artificial sweeteners in your recipes and beverages.

Ginseng

American and Asian ginseng both help to reduce blood-glucose levels while curbing sugar cravings. Ginseng supplements enable the body to adapt to stress with fewer fluctuations in appetite, mood or sleep patterns. Because of this, it is an ideal herbal treatment for people who overeat because of emotional stress. Herbs with similar effects include ashwagandha, rhodiola and eleuthero.

To Your Health............Diane Frances CNC

The Candida Cleansing DIet--pH is Everything here!

2011-04-20T17:25:00.000-07:00

The Recommended Candida Diet or Yeast Infection Diet
The candida diet, or what is known as the yeast infection diet, is pretty straight forward in that you want to eliminate the foods that yeast thrives on which are primarily sugars. In effect you are going to starve it to death. This will help your yeast infection supplements kill it faster and restore your digestive system and your immune system to how it was originally designed to function. The health implications of this are far ranging since you will be able to absorb the nutrients in your foods, greatly enhancing your over all health after the yeast infection has been eradicated.

Keep in mind when evaluating any candida diet or yeast infection diet, that in the 1970's the CDC decided that yeast and fungi were not that big of a health problem, so a candida diet has never been developed. This diet is simply made up of known foods that will starve the fungus and has been used by hundreds of people with great success. I must warn you that the first few days you may have flu like symptoms as the candida parasite begins to die. Fungi are living things and of course do not like to die. They may emit toxins into your body, making your symptoms get worse instead of better at first for the first few days.

Make sure you eat plenty of fresh vegetables preferably raw or steamed on this yeast infection diet. This is very important on the candida diet because vegetables absorb fungal poisons (mycotoxins) and carry them out of the body.

A Word of Warning. This Candida Diet May Cause You to Lose Weight

This diet has also been updated. Please see the bottom of the page for more information.

Of course losing weight is easy if the truth where to be told, all you have to do is cut down on the simple processed grains, eliminate refined foods, sugar, trans fats and get some exercise, it is that simple. They are really just junk foods and the human body was never designed to eat them. Vegetables are much better for you and are a complex carbohydrate, not a simple carb that quickly turns to sugar in the body. As far as simple carbs go fruit is far superior to any grain. If you can't lose weight but want too, you suffer from inflammation and that has to be reduced at the same time.

I get emails all the time from people that are worried they are losing to much weight on the candida diet. They have nothing to worry about because your body will stabilize at its ideal weight. Our ideal weight suggestions have also changed to the upside because so many of us are to heavy. The best way to figure out your ideal weight is by % of body fat. The ideal is 12 to 15% for men and 18 to 20% for women. If you are over that, you are not too skinny. Please realize that if you do not exercise, you will lose 1/2 lb of muscle per year and this gradual ongoing loss of muscle will make you look too skinny.

A common question that is asked is do I have to stay on this candida diet forever? No, you don't. But chances are that you will in some form or another because after the yeast infection is gone you are going to feel so good that you will not want to go back. At least that is how I feel about it. Your diet should be 30% protein, 30 to 35% carbs from produce, 30% good fats and 5% from nuts and seeds. The fats found in those foods should be mostly polyunsaturated or omega 3 fats.

Do not starve yourself! If you are hungry eat! But eat the right foods and it will help maintain your weight.

When your yeast infection has been eradicated by the candida diet and the natural treatments listed on the treatment page, you can then start reintroducing foods back into your diet. But I would keep a record of how they make you feel, then you must decide if they are worth it or not. Keep in mind what I have said about foods in the Cause report, Sugar report, and the Candida diet.

If you have kidney disease, you should consult a physician before you go on the candida diet. The kidneys can have a problem with the protein load of this yeast infection diet. If you are pregnant or breast-feeding you may not be suitable for this candida diet either because of reduced simple carbohydrates, please consult a doctor before proceeding.

The Candida Diet No No's

Here is a list of foods to avoid while you are trying to treat yourself for yeast infection. These are known foods which usually contain fungi in one form or another and when digested break down into simple sugars, which yeast, feeds on. There are also over 400 known fungi that can affect the health of the human body, so it is best to not introduce any of these other fungi into your body when fighting candida or yeast, give yourself the best chance you can.

•Stevia and Stevia Plus ok as a sugar substitute. However, Xylitol is even better because it is a proven antifungal and inhibits candida yeast. It has also been proven to reduce tooth decay in children and adults by reducing bad bacteria. It is very heat stable and makes a great cooking and baking substitute for real sugar. It tastes good too.

•The yeast infection diet calls for NO fruit juices because of the sugar they contain.

•NO Breaded Meats...All others ok .

•NO Egg substitutes...Eggs themselves are ok...organic is best since they contain the correct omega fatty acids ratio...with fertile if you can find them being the ideal.

•NO Margarine and butter substitutes.

•On the yeast infection diet, low-fat yogurt (especially made from goats or organic), cream cheese, sour cream made from real cream, unsweetened whipping cream, and butter are all ok. With yogurt, get the lowest sugar content as possible.

•NO Potatoes and legumes on the yeast infection diet for the first two weeks. After two weeks sweet potatoes may be eaten in moderation if they do not cause a problem for you.

•Fresh vegetables and freshly made vegetable juice ok.

•NO Coffee or tea (regular or decaf), NO Diet or regular sodas, Organic coffee or tea and herbal teas are ok in moderation.

•Bottled and reverse osmosis filtered water; distilled water is the best for removing toxins but should only be half of the water you drink, herb teas, freshly squeezed lemonade or lime-ade ok.

•On the yeast infection diet NO Grains are allowed...this includes pasta, rice, corn, wheat, millet, quinoa, amaranth, buckwheat, oats, and barley.

•Absolutely NO Yeasts allowed...this includes bread, pastries and alcohol, hydrolyzed yeasts...Read your labels.

•NO Pickles, salad dressings, green olives or soy sauce...

Salad dressings made of olive oil, Braggs apple cider vinegar, water, and lemon juice are ok.

•Unpasteurized apple cider vinegar and black olives not aged in vinegar are ok.

•NO Partially hydrogenated oils including corn and peanuts.

•Coconut oil , olive, grape seed, and flax seed oils in a cold pressed formula when available are ok.

•NO Peanuts on the yeast infection diet and all peanut products and pistachio nuts. I would avoid cashews too.

Raw nuts including pecans, almonds, walnuts and pumpkin seeds are ok.

•NO VINEGARS These include ketchup, mustard, BBQ sauce, soy sauce, worcestershire sauce, pickles, pickled peppers, hot sauce, salad dressings, green olives, horseradish, dips, mayonnaise.

•It is best to avoid tuna, swordfish, shark, and shellfish because of high mercury content.

You are probably thinking, wow, what am I going to eat on this candida diet?? I thought the same thing until I really checked it out. So here is a list of Good foods although not complete.

The Candida Diet and Good Vegetables

Good candida yeast diet vegetables are alfalfa sprouts, asparagus, bell peppers, brussel sprouts, all the cabbages are good for the candida diet including broccoli. Carrots are a very controversial food on the candida diet, I have seen one yeast infection diet say yes and the next say no. Now they are a simple sugar when digested, but they are also an antifungal and keep the yeast infection from spreading. I just had to go on what the Mycologists said on this one, which is to eat them, raw. If you cook carrots it raises the glycemic index to double that of a raw carrot.

Other good candida yeast diet vegetables are okra, summer squash, turnip, yellow squash, spaghetti squash, zucchini, celery, spinach, asparagus, cauliflower, string beans, lettuce, arugula, beet greens, bok choy, cabbage, chard, cucumber, endive, mesclun, purslane, radichio, radish, vegetable sprouts, watercress, bell pepper, broccoli, brussel sprouts, collard greens, dandelion greens, egg plant, garlic, kale, leek, mustard greens, onion, scallion, shallot, tomato and turnip greens.

The Candida Diet and Good Fruits

I am going to go out on a limb here and I'm sure I will get called some very nasty things for allowing these. But all these fruits are low carb, under 15 grams a serving, and I feel would be ok every now and then while on the candida diet. You have to stay healthy and some fruit does have its place. However, if any of these fruits cause a problem for you, stop eating them.

Plum, peach, nectarine, apricot, kiwi, lemon, lime, orange, tangerine and persimmons. Now grapefruits and green apples are higher carb fruits but the acid does help kill yeast, so occasionally it would be of benefit to eat them.

The Candida Diet and Meats

Good meats for the candida yeast diet are beef, liver, sausage, buffalo, goat, lamb, pork, poultry and all other fowl both wild and domestic.

Good candida yeast diet seafood’s are shrimp, octopus, snail, squid, anchovy, cod, halibut, flounder, Mahi-Mahi, red snapper, and wild salmon. Fresh water fish include catfish, caviar, crappie, pickerel, sturgeon, perch, white fish, bass, and all trout species are good on the candida diet.

I recommend grass fed or organic meats with no antibiotic exposure from grains or injections, seafood, wild fish-not farm raised, wild meats, goat, lamb, and organic free range poultry .

Bologna, frankfurters, sausage, and salami can be eaten occasionally, read the labels looking for the addition of starches and sugars. Pork is not recommended because it is usually irradiated, but occasionally it won't kill you! Even I eat bacon and eggs on the weekends.

Most herbs are also ok, and be sure to use natural salt. I also should let you know that most fish these days are contaminated with mercury. Substitute with goat, lamb, poultry, or sardines since they are high in omega fatty acids if able on this diet, or eat mercury free wild fish.

Natural peppermint teas will also be very soothing on your digestive system while on the candida yeast diet since it helps manage yeast die off, as well as nausea, abdominal fullness, or pain. Try to drink four 8-ounce glasses of distilled water a day, and 4 glasses of bottled or spring water to keep the body flushed of toxins.

As you can see there is actually quite a lot you can eat. There is no reason to go hungry since you can eat all you want of these foods and not only kill the yeast infection, but the excess weight, if you have any, will flat disappear. I lost 25 pounds in two months, didn't even try, and never went hungry.

Candida Diet Breakfast Ideas

Good candida yeast diet foods for breakfast are eggs cooked any style with bacon on occasion, ham, steak, or chicken (Not breaded). Grapefruit and vegetable juices are good, especially fresh carrot juice with a clove of garlic. A person could get tired of eating eggs I must admit on the yeast diet so just treat breakfast as any other meal. Have chicken salad, raw nuts or yogurt, just use a little imagination. A few times a week you could have a bowel of all bran cereal with almond milk if it does not cause a problem for you.

Candida Diet Lunch Ideas

For lunch have chicken salad or chicken, fish, beef patties with a vegetable basted in butter. Don't worry about fats on the anti-yeast diet since you need them for energy production for the body. That is how the body was originally designed to get its energy from. The body was never designed to use sugar from processed grains for fuel and this is what makes most people fat as well as feed candida and yeast.

Candida Diet Dinner Ideas
Just about anything goes on the candida diet for dinner as long as it is an allowed food. Steak, fish, poultry, wild game, and pork are all ok as the main dish. Raw or lightly steamed vegetables are the best, not over done, but still crisp so you don't kill all the available enzymes in these foods. Herbal teas or water are ok to drink.

After two weeks you can add yams, legumes meaning beans and peas. Oats can be added along with brown rice, basmati rice, oatmeal, quinoa, amaranth, millet, buckwheat, barley, flour tortillas, and sour dough bread in moderation on the candida diet.

Candida Diet Foods to Raise PH in The Body

There are two kinds of alkaline and acid forming foods. One of course is the acids or alkaline substances the foods themselves contain. The other is the acid or alkaline forming ability of a food after it is digested. Take for instance a lemon which is very acidic, but once digested it has an alkalizing effect in the body. The absolute best foods for the alkaline diet and to raise body ph are not surprisingly green.

I have tried to edit this list to give you more acceptable diet options while treating yourself for candida. However, if you eat something from this list and it causes a problem, stop eating it!

High Alkaline Foods for The Candida Diet
Sea salt, mineral water, baking soda, seaweed, onion, pumpkin seeds, taro root, lotus root, sea vegetables, limes, lemons, raspberry, and pineapple, kale, brocolli,

Moderately Alkaline Foods for The Candida Diet
Green apples, spices, alfalfa sprouts, avocados, currants, chestnuts, pepper, garlic, kohlrabi, asparagus, kale, grapefruit, parsley, endive, arugula, mustard green, ginger root, peas, broccoli, lettuce, raw carrots, strawberries, squash, loganberry, olive dewberry, and Braggs apple cider vinegar.

Low Alkaline Foods for The Candida Diet
Most herbs, almonds, green tea, mu tea, jerusalem artichokes, brussel sprouts, fresh coconut, quail eggs, cucumbers, eggplant, primrose oil, sesame seed, leeks, cod liver oil, almonds, okra, sprouts, bell pepper, cauliflower, olives, onions, cabbage, rutabaga, radishes, ginseng, eggplant, collard green, egg yolks, raw goats milk and whey, olive oil, whole sesame seeds, blackberry, and sprouted grains.

Very Low Alkaline Foods for The Candida Diet (
Oats, duck eggs, ginger tea, ghee, quinoa, wild rice, coconut oil, flax oil, olive oil, chive, celery, most other seeds, turnip greens, cilantro, lettuce, and blue berries.

Neutral Foods Foods for The Candida Diet
Butter, most expeller pressed oils, and plain yogurt.

Very Low Acid Foods for The Candida Diet
Pumpkin seed oil, grape seed oil, cream, butter, goat/sheep cheese, spinach, string beans, wax beans, zucchini, chutney, rhubarb, coconut, organs, venison, fish, wild duck and pine nuts.

Low Acid Foods for The Candida Diet
Almond oil, lima beans, chard, tomatoes, black tea, wild game meat, lamb, mutton, boar, elk, goose, turkey, and mollusks.

Moderately Acid Foods for The Candida Diet
Nutmeg, pork, veal, bear, mussels, squid, chicken, green peas, snow peas, garbanzo beans, cranberry, pomegranate, pistachio seeds, chestnut oil, lard, pecans, and palm kernel oil.

Highly Acid Foods for The Candida Diet
Beef, pheasant, cottonseed oil, hazelnuts, walnuts, brazil nuts, cocoa.

Always, always Try to eat from the alkaline side 70% of the time if possible.

Other Acid Forming Compounds Remember---Stay away from Acid Forming Foods! CANDIDA THRIVES ON ACIDIC pH FOODS. :-(

Most ALL prescription medicines and over the counter drugs are highly acidic as well. Recreational drugs and alcohol are also acid forming. Chemicals and toxins that we use and are exposed to every day at home which number upwards of 250 also cause acidity, overloading the immune system and the liver. Disease and the growth of microforms result, which can create even more acidity. Eventually, life threatening diseases can develop and can result in death.

Digestive Cleansing MATTERS!

2011-04-20T17:15:00.000-07:00

Presented to you by Diane Frances CNC at Simply Younger-InsideOUT.
Where Self Care IS Health Care and Knowledge is Power!

Recycling, green bags, park and river clean-up’s are great ways to help the environment and connect with Mother Earth. Agree? But, if your internal environment is polluted you may not be feeling the kind of serene spiritual connection you so desire, or remember years ago.

Toxic matter stored in the body bogs down energy and fogs the mind, making it difficult to really “feel” the beauty in a perfect spring day. An overburdened liver impedes emotional chi from flowing freely in the body and can manifest as quick temper, negativity and a sense of hopelessness. If the colon is impacted with decaying fecal matter, toxins are leaching out into the blood stream leading to allergies, irregular bowels, unexplained pain and lethargy, muddled thinking as well as the inability to lose weight. Cleansing is an ideal way to improve your energy at its source and connect to your spiritual center.

We all have heard the saying “Cleanliness is next to Godliness,” and while that saying can be associated with cleaning your kitchen, it also relates to cleaning your personal “house,” the body you live in. Jesus, Buddha, Gandhi, and other spiritual examples of the past, used fasting as a way to cleanse the body. Two thousand years ago, Jesus found it important to fast to cleanse his body and spirit and at that time fertilizers, pesticides and genetically modified foods were not a factor in his world. We are involuntarily exposed to pollutants and toxins daily just by way of living. So, it makes sense that during these times of spiritual re-awakening and reconnecting to natural cycles of life, that fasting and cleansing would be an important part of achieving that spiritual growth. If you’re not receiving the spiritual gratification and positive energy you are striving for, the problem could be internal pollution.

Depending upon your particular symptoms, bowel, Candida and liver cleanses can be of great, great benefit. Removing toxins from an overburdened body can improve skin conditions, bloat, gas and relieve headaches, as well as establish a healthier immune system. DID YOU KNOW? More than 85% of your Immune System is in your gut? Yes you heard me right.

Since approximately 70 percent of the immune system resides in the gut, cleansing can improve a person’s immunity, and we know that when we are feeling strong and healthy it is much easier to have a positive outlook on life and sail through the day with good, sustained energy.

Other forms of cleansing toxins from the body include ionic foot baths, which promote the release of toxins through the pores in the feet and balance “Chi.” Skin brushing and lymphatic massage keep lymph matter flowing freely throughout the body, and improve the skins ability to release toxins. Using a Neti pot to wash nasal passageways helps to reduce allergies and keep sinuses free of excess mucous. Ear candling removes built up wax and pollutants from the ear.

Buddha said “To keep the body in good health is a duty…otherwise we shall not be able to keep the mind sound and clear.” With a clear mind, we are better able to connect with ourselves and to the beauty of Mother Earth that surrounds us. Cleansing helps with all of that.

References AND Recommended Digestive Cleansing Products are from AdvancedNaturals.com
NOT ALL PRODUCTS ARE CREATED EQUAL...Advanced Naturals Digestive Care is Simply the Best...and the ONLY Digestive Products I will refer to my client/patients.

1. Watson, Brenda, C.N.C. The Detox Strategy. Free Press; 1 edition. March, 2008

2. Rose, Natalie. The Raw Food Detox Diet. Harper Paperbacks. December, 2006

3. www.brainyquote.com

Your Body pH Effects Everything!!!

2010-07-27T18:48:00.000-07:00

Balancing the pH is a major step toward well-being and greater health.

The pH scale is from 0 - 14
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 healthy 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

Human blood pH should be slightly alkaline ( 7.35 - 7.45 ). Below or above this range means symptoms and disease. A pH of 7.0 is neutral. A pH below 7.0 is acidic. A pH above 7.0 is alkaline.
An acidic pH can occur from, an acid forming diet, emotional stress, toxic overload, and/or immune reactions or any process that deprives the cells of oxygen and other nutrients. The body will try to compensate for acidic pH by using alkaline minerals. If the diet does not contain enough minerals to compensate, a build up of acids in the cells will occur.
An acidic balance will: decrease the body's ability to absorb minerals and other nutrients, decrease the energy production in the cells, decrease it's ability to repair damaged cells, decrease it's ability to detoxify heavy metals, make tumor cells thrive, and make it more susceptible to fatigue and illness. A blood pH of 6.9, which is only slightly acidic, can induce coma and death.
The reason acidosis is more common in our society is mostly due to the typical American diet, which is far too high in acid producing animal products like meat, eggs and dairy, and far too low in alkaline producing foods like fresh vegetables. Additionally, we eat acid producing processed foods like white flour and sugar and drink acid producing beverages like coffee and soft drinks. We use too many drugs, which are acid forming; and we use artificial chemical sweetners like NutraSweet, Spoonful, Sweet 'N Low and Equal. One of the best things we can do to correct an overly acid body is to clean up the diet and lifestyle.
To maintain health, the diet should consist of 60% alkaline forming foods and 40% acid forming foods. To restore health, the diet should consist of 80% alkaline forming foods and 20% acid forming foods.
Generally, alkaline forming foods include: most fruits, green vegetables, peas, beans, lentils, spices, herbs and seasonings, and seeds and nuts.
Generally, acid forming foods include: meat, fish, poultry, eggs, grains, and legumes.
Shifting Your pH Toward Alkaline...
These charts below are a general guide to alkalizing and acidifying foods for those trying to shift their body pH toward Better Health!
The pH scale is from 0 to 14, with numbers below 7 acidic ( low on oxygen ) and numbers above 7 are alkaline. An acidic body is a sickness magnet!!!!!. What you eat and drink will impact where your body's pH level falls.
Balance is Key To Every Aspect of Your Health...InsideOUT !!!
This charts below are a Great Shopping guide to alkalizing and acidifying foods to buy and EAT.

A list of Acid / Alkaline Forming Foods

Alkaline Forming Foods
We must consume MORE than 50% of these foods below in their RAW NATURAL STATE to heal us and promote optimum health.

EATING RAW FOODS IN THEIR NATURAL STATE IS VITAL IN HEALING CHRONIC DIGESTIVE ISSUES AND PROMOTING BRAIN HEALTH!

VEGETABLES
Garlic
Asparagus
Fermented Veggies
Watercress
Beets
Broccoli
Brussel sprouts
Cabbage
Carrot
Cauliflower
Celery
Chard
Chlorella
Collard Greens
Cucumber
Eggplant
Kale
Kohlrabi
Lettuce
Mushrooms
Mustard Greens
Dulce
Dandelions
Edible Flowers
Onions
Parsnips (high glycemic)
Peas
Peppers
Pumpkin
Rutabaga
Sea Veggies
Spirulina
Sprouts
Squashes
Alfalfa
Barley Grass
Wheat Grass
Wild Greens
Nightshade Veggies
FRUITS
Apple
Apricot
Avocado
Banana (high glycemic)
Cantaloupe
Cherries
Currants
Dates/Figs
Grapes
Grapefruit
Lime
Honeydew Melon
Nectarine
Orange
Lemon
Peach
Pear
Pineapple
All Berries
Tangerine
Tomato
Tropical Fruits
Watermelon

PROTEIN
Eggs (poached)
Whey Protein Powder
Cottage Cheese
Chicken Breast
Yogurt
Almonds
Chestnuts
Tofu (fermented)
Flax Seeds
Pumpkin Seeds
Tempeh (fermented)
Squash Seeds
Sunflower Seeds
Millet
Sprouted Seeds
Nuts
OTHER
Apple Cider Vinegar
Bee Pollen
Lecithin Granules
Probiotic Cultures
Green Juices
Veggies Juices
Fresh Fruit Juice
Organic Milk
(unpasteurized)
Mineral Water
Alkaline Antioxidant Water
Green Tea
Herbal Tea
Dandelion Tea
Ginseng Tea
Banchi Tea
Kombucha

SWEETENERS
Stevia
Ki Sweet

SPICES/SEASONINGS
Cinnamon
Curry
Ginger
Mustard
Chili Pepper
Sea Salt
Miso
Tamari
All Herbs

ORIENTAL VEGETABLES
Maitake
Daikon
Dandelion Root
Shitake
Kombu
Reishi
Nori
Umeboshi
Wakame
Sea Veggies

Acid Forming Foods

FATS & OILS
Avocado Oil
Canola Oil
Corn Oil
Hemp Seed Oil
Flax Oil
Lard
Olive Oil
Safflower Oil
Sesame Oil
Sunflower Oil

FRUITS
Cranberries

GRAINS
Rice Cakes
Wheat Cakes
Amaranth
Barley
Buckwheat
Corn
Oats (rolled)
Quinoa
Rice (all)
Rye
Spelt
Kamut
Wheat
Hemp Seed Flour

DAIRY
Cheese, Cow
Cheese, Goat
Cheese, Processed
Cheese, Sheep
Milk
Butter
NUTS & BUTTERS
Cashews
Brazil Nuts
Peanuts
Peanut Butter
Pecans
Tahini
Walnuts

ANIMAL PROTEIN
Beef
Carp
Clams
Fish
Lamb
Lobster
Mussels
Oyster
Pork
Rabbit
Salmon
Shrimp
Scallops
Tuna
Turkey
Venison

PASTA (WHITE)
Noodles
Macaroni
Spaghetti

OTHER
Distilled Vinegar
Wheat Germ
Potatoes
DRUGS & CHEMICALS
Aspartame
Chemicals
Drugs, Medicinal
Drugs, Psychedelic
Pesticides
Herbicides

ALCOHOL
Beer
Spirits
Hard Liquor
Wine

BEANS & LEGUMES
Black Beans
Chick Peas
Green Peas
Kidney Beans
Lentils
Lima Beans
Pinto Beans
Red Beans
Soy Beans
Soy Milk
White Beans
Rice Milk
Almond Milk

More Ranked Foods: Alkaline (pH) to Acidic (pH)

Alkaline: Meditation, Prayer, Peace, Kindness & Love
Acid: Overwork, Anger, Fear, Jealousy & Stress

Extremely Alkaline Forming Foods - pH 8.5 to 9.0
Extremely Acid Forming Foods - pH 5.0 to 5.5

9.0 Lemons 1, Watermelon 2
8.5 Agar Agar 3, Cantaloupe, Cayenne (Capsicum) 4,
Dried dates & figs, Kelp, Karengo, Kudzu root, Limes,
Mango, Melons, Papaya, Parsley 5, Seedless grapes
(sweet), Watercress, Seaweeds
Asparagus 6, Endive, Kiwifruit, Fruit juices 7, Grapes
(sweet), Passion fruit, Pears (sweet), Pineapple,
Raisins, Umeboshi plum, Vegetable juices 8
5.0 Artificial sweeteners
5.5 Beef, Carbonated soft drinks & fizzy drinks 38,
Cigarettes (tailor made), Drugs, Flour (white, wheat)
39, Goat, Lamb, Pastries & cakes from white flour,
Pork, Sugar (white) 40
Beer 34, Brown sugar 35, Chicken, Deer, Chocolate,
Coffee 36, Custard with white sugar, Jams, Jellies,
Liquor 37, Pasta (white), Rabbit, Semolina, Table
salt refined and iodized, Tea black, Turkey, Wheat
bread, White rice, White vinegar (processed).

Moderate Alkaline - pH 7.5 to 8.0
Moderate Acid - pH 6.0 to 6.5

8.0 Apples (sweet), Apricots, Alfalfa sprouts 9,
Arrowroot, Flour 10, Avocados, Bananas (ripe),
Berries, Carrots, Celery, Currants, Dates & figs
(fresh), Garlic 11, Gooseberry, Grapes (less sweet),
Grapefruit, Guavas, Herbs (leafy green), Lettuce
(leafy green), Nectarine, Peaches (sweet), Pears
(less sweet), Peas (fresh sweet), Persimmon,
Pumpkin (sweet), Sea salt (vegetable) 12, Spinach
7.5 Apples (sour), Bamboo shoots, Beans (fresh green),
Beets, Bell Pepper, Broccoli, Cabbage;Cauli, Carob
13, Daikon, Ginger (fresh), Grapes (sour), Kale,
Kohlrabi, Lettuce (pale green), Oranges, Parsnip,
Peaches (less sweet), Peas (less sweet), Potatoes
& skin, Pumpkin (less sweet), Raspberry, Sapote,
Strawberry, Squash 14, Sweet corn (fresh), Tamari
15, Turnip, Vinegar (apple cider) 16
6.0 Cigarette tobacco (roll your own), Cream of Wheat
(unrefined), Fish, Fruit juices with sugar, Maple
syrup (processed), Molasses (sulphured), Pickles
(commercial), Breads (refined) of corn, oats, rice &
rye, Cereals (refined) eg weetbix, corn flakes,
Shellfish, Wheat germ, Whole Wheat foods 32,
Wine 33, Yogurt (sweetened)
6.5 Bananas (green), Buckwheat, Cheeses (sharp),
Corn & rice breads, Egg whole (cooked hard),
Ketchup, Mayonnaise, Oats, Pasta (whole grain),
Pastry (wholegrain & honey), Peanuts, Potatoes
(with no skins), Popcorn (with salt & butter), Rice
(basmati), Rice (brown), Soy sauce (commercial),
Tapioca, Wheat bread (sprouted organic)

Slightly Alkaline to Neutral pH 7.0
Slightly Acid to Neutral pH 7.0

7.0 Almonds 17, Artichokes (Jerusalem), Barley-Malt
(sweetener-Bronner), Brown Rice Syrup, Brussel
Sprouts, Cherries, Coconut (fresh), Cucumbers, Egg
plant, Honey (raw), Leeks, Miso, Mushrooms, Okra,
Olives ripe 18, Onions, Pickles 19, (home made),
Radish, Sea salt 20, Spices 21, Taro, Tomatoes
(sweet), Vinegar (sweet brown rice), Water Chestnut
Amaranth, Artichoke (globe), Chestnuts (dry
roasted), Egg yolks (soft cooked), Essene bread 22,
Goat's milk and whey (raw) 23, Horseradish,
Mayonnaise (home made), Millet, Olive oil, Quinoa,
Rhubarb, Sesame seeds (whole) 24, Soy beans
(dry), Soy cheese, Soy milk, Sprouted grains 25,
Tempeh, Tofu, Tomatoes (less sweet), Yeast
(nutritional flakes)
7.0 Barley malt syrup, Barley, Bran, Cashews, Cereals
(unrefined with honey-fruit-maple syrup), Cornmeal,
Cranberries 30, Fructose, Honey (pasteurized),
Lentils, Macadamias, Maple syrup (unprocessed),
Milk (homogenized) and most processed dairy
products, Molasses (unsulphered organic) 31,
Nutmeg, Mustard, Pistachios, Popcorn & butter
(plain), Rice or wheat crackers (unrefined), Rye
(grain), Rye bread (organic sprouted), Seeds
(pumpkin & sunflower), Walnuts
Blueberries, Brazil nuts, Butter (salted), Cheeses
(mild & crumbly) 28, Crackers (unrefined rye),
Dried beans (mung, adzuki, pinto, kidney,
garbanzo) 29, Dry coconut, Egg whites, Goats
milk (homogenized), Olives (pickled), Pecans,
Plums 30, Prunes 30, Spelt

Neutral pH 7.0 ‹ Healthy Body Saliva pH Range is between 6.4 to 6.8 (on your pH test strips)

Butter (fresh unsalted), Cream (fresh and raw), Margarine 26, Milk (raw cow's) 27, Oils (except olive),
Whey (cow's), Yogurt (plain)

NOTE: Match with the numbers above.

1. Excellent for EMERGENCY SUPPORT for colds, coughs, sore throats, heartburn, and gastro upsets.
2. Good for a yearly fast. For several days eat whole melon, chew pips well and eat also. Super alkalizing food.
3. Substitute for gelatin, more nourishing.
4. Stimulating, non-irritating body healer. Good for endocrine system.
5. Purifies kidneys.
6. Powerful acid reducer detoxing to produce acid urine temporarily, causing alkalinity for the long term.
7. Natural sugars give alkalinity. Added sugar causes juice to become acid forming.
8. Depends on vege's content and sweetness.
9. Enzyme rich, superior digestibility.
10. High calcium content. Cornflour substitute.
11. Elevates acid food 5.0 in alkaline direction.
12. Vegetable content raises alkalinity.
13. Substitute for coca; mineral rich.
14. Winter squash rates 7.5. Butternut and sweeter squash rates 8.0.
15. Genuine fermented for 11Ž2 years otherwise 6.0.
16. Raw unpasteurized is a digestive aid to increase HCL in the stomach. 1 tablespoon, + honey & water before meals.
17. Soak 12 hours, peel skin to eat.
18. Sundried, tree ripened, otherwise 6.0.
19. Using sea salt and apple cider vinegar.
20. Contains sea minerals. Dried at low temperatures.
21. Range from 7.0 to 8.0.
22. Sprouted grains are more alkaline. Grains chewed well become more alkaline.
23. High sodium to aid digestion.
24. High levels of utilizable calcium. Grind before eating.
25. Alkalinity and digestibility higher.
26. Heating causes fats to harden and become indigestible.
27. High mucus production.
28. Mucus forming and hard to digest.
29. When sprouted dry beans rate 7.0.
30. Contain acid-forming benzoic and quinic acids.
31. Full of iron.
32. Unrefined wheat is more alkaline.
33. High quality red wine, no more than 4 oz. daily to build blood.
34. Good quality, well brewed - up to 5.5. Fast brewed beers drop to 5.0.
35. Most are white sugars with golden syrup added.
36. Organic, fresh ground-up to 5.5.
37. Cheaper brands drop to 5.0, as does over-indulgence.
38. Leaches minerals.
39. Bleached - has no goodness.
40. Poison! Avoid it.
41. Potential cancer agent. Over-indulgence may cause partial blindness.

Why We MUST Take Supplementation Daily!

2010-07-22T15:53:00.000-07:00

Supplementation 101
by L. Lee Coyne, Ph.D.
Responsible supplementation is no longer an option if your objective is optimal health. Our Health Protection Branch (HPB) publishes, on a regular basis, a table of Recommended Nutrient Intake values to help guide us to appropriate levels for fat and protein intake along with many of the known or recognized vitamins and minerals. (Notice - there is no RNI for carbohydrates) Many health advisors try to tell their clients that they only need a “well balanced” diet to meet these recommendations.

However if you do some careful arithmetic you will find the task very difficult. Then if you read Dr. Shari Leiberman’s book “The Real Vitamin and Mineral Book” in which she uses a term “Optimal Daily Intake” (ODI), you will find the task even more difficult. The ODI is based on the latest research and reflects what our industrialized world has done to the air, water and food; in terms of quality and pollutants. This column will be in defense of the dogmatic opening statement “supplementation is no longer an option”.

Nutritional supplementation is one of the fastest growing industries in North America. Estimates of size range from $7 to $10 billion annually, compared to just $3 billion in 1990. Like all rapidly growing industries, the market place can become a consumer’s night mare with a myriad of choices, a range of quality and some over zealous misleading marketing claims.

Although the HPB attempts to provide some standards and controls, there are still many unregulated areas. These include many herbal products which are relatively unregulated and don’t even require DIN (drug identification number) registration like all vitamin and mineral supplements. The HPB also has difficulty in maintaining recognition of supplementation for therapeutic reasons. Then there are numerous products that do not require registration, are harmless but useless and some that have proven to be both harmful and useless. So the market place is still a “consumer beware” environment.

WHY SUPPLEMENT?
In the early 1900’s, all produce (100%) was organic. Rutgers University has published several papers comparing the nutrient density of organic produce and commercially grown produce. Organic always wins.
According to a US Department of Agriculture paper the average Calories intake in the early 1900’s was 3800 Calories but today the average intake is only 1800 Calories. Less than half - and most is not organic. So we tend to eat less than half the nutrients each and every day.
Risk of “free radical” damage is much higher today as the industrial world contaminates our food, water and air. We also produce free radicals during physical and psychological stress. Free radicals are biochemical units that, in excess, will destroy healthy cells unless we protect ourselves with adequate nutrition.
With average fat intake falling to 32% of Calories (compared to 48% in 1900), it becomes more difficult to get the essential fatty acids (EFA’s) from our diet. EFA’s are responsible for encouraging fat metabolism and the creation of some “super hormones” that lead to the production of anti-inflammatory hormones. Processed food tends to alter or eliminate the EFA’s.
Wide use of antibiotics has lead to the destruction of “friendly bacteria” in the intestine. Friendly bacteria, like acidophilus and bifidus play a big role in digestion and in maintaining the health of the colon.
A low Calorie intake is associated with a reduced fiber intake. The American Cancer Society recommends a daily fiber intake of 30 grams but average North American eats only 12 – 15 grams per day. Such a low intake increases the risk of colon cancer and other toxic side effects.
Most people do not consume enough complete, high quality protein, particularly at breakfast and lunch. (There is a tendency to eat more protein than can be absorbed during the evening meal). Therefore I have become a big fan of Soy Protein Isolate supplementation at breakfast, lunch, during snacks and just before exercise. A modern solution to a modern problem.
WHAT TO USE:
In my nutritional coaching practice, I divide supplementation into the following categories:

Nutritional Supplements – basic nutrients found in the RNI tables.
Herbal Supplements - which are really nature’s medicine, designed to prevent and/or solve certain health problems. Few are designed for long term consumption.
Fiber Supplements – fibre is indigestible but necessary for detoxification and regularity. It is not really a nutrient.
Protein Supplements – self-explanatory.
Friendly Bacteria – some now refer to these tiny organisms as “pro-biotics”.
Considering the Why Supplement list and the above categories, the following is a responsible supplement program that would benefit the heath of all people. This is basic, minimal and designed primarily for prevention of ailments and maintenance of good health.

High Quality Multiple Vitamin/Mineral. Should include all 8 recognized B vitamins including biotin. Balanced in proportion to the RNI. This multi should also contain high levels of Calcium and Magnesium.
Anti-Oxidants – Vitamin in the form of mixed carotenoids like alpha, beta and gamma carotene; Vitamin C, at least 1,000 mg in a sustained release format; Vitamin E in the mixed tocopherol format supported with selenium and grape seed extract.
Fiber Supplement containing a mixture of soluble and insoluble fibres.
Protein Supplement – preferably a Soy Protein isolate - not only to obtain extra protein but to also take advantage of the phytonutrients known as isoflavones.
Friendly bacteria – acidophilus and bifidus .
OTHER CONSIDERATIONS
Responsible nutrition consultants such as Diane Frances CNC-co-founder of Simply Younger.... may recommend other supplements for therapeutic reasons. The key word is “responsible”. Their recommendations will include the use of products from reputable companies. The best products are from companies that conduct true, publishable clinical research. They would be proud of such research and be prepared to share it with you upon request.

Antioxidant Vitamins Block Acute Toxic Effects!

2010-06-07T17:42:00.000-07:00

Antioxidant Vitamins Block
Homocysteine's Acute Toxic Effects

Thanks to the December 2000 Nutrition Science News for the use of this article!

Diane Frances C.N.C.

About one-fourth of all American adults have excessively high blood levels of homocysteine. This amino acid is formed from methionine, which is taken into the body via animal-derived foods. High levels of homocysteine translate into a significant increase in hardening of the arteries known as arteriosclerosis. In that way, homocysteine is similar to cholesterol because prolonged, elevated levels of it gradually damage the inner linings of blood vessels, causing atherosclerotic plaque and narrowing of the arteries. However, for a catastrophic end result of this process to occur — a heart attack or a stroke — it typically takes more than just narrow arteries: It requires the blood within the artery to congeal into a clot, suddenly causing an obstruction.

What generally triggers clot formation are things like smoking a cigarette, acute emotional stress, physical overexertion, a virus or even just getting out of the bed too quickly in the morning. Each of these factors, in their own way, can act within minutes to recast arterial blood into a hyper-coagulable state. Then, for the next minutes, hours or days the blood remains prone to clotting. Recently, researchers discovered that high homocysteine levels also function as such a trigger, producing a double whammy in that it creates the problem, then induces the final outcome. However, certain nutritional supplements seem to be effective at overcoming this danger.

After the body experiences a trigger, the critical period of high vulnerability to clotting is extremely influential. The body immediately works to return the blood's stickiness to normal. Therefore, if one can get through this high-risk period, within hours or days, blood viscosity can revert to normal. Progression to a heart attack or stroke usually is not inevitable; in fact, it can be avoided for years or even decades.

This month I examine a study that demonstrates how high homocysteine levels can cause dangerous, "sticky" blood and how a timely dose of vitamins C and E can almost completely prevent such effects.

Researchers at the Department of Geriatrics, Second University in Naples, Italy, examined homocysteine's effects on 10 healthy young men and 10 healthy young women. The subjects were each given three loads in random order at one-week intervals of 100 mg/kg oral methionine in fruit juice, the same methionine dose immediately after taking 1,000 mg ascorbic acid (vitamin C) and 800 IU vitamin E, and a methionine-free fruit juice placebo. Since the body normally converts methionine into homocysteine and vice versa, loading up on methionine was expected to cause homocysteine levels to rise. In this case, the methionine-only group experienced a homocysteine increase nearly three-fold — from an average of 10.5 umol/L at baseline to 27.1 umol/L — all within four hours.

At the same time, there was a marked increase in the blood levels of several biochemicals that increase blood's tendency to clot. This showed that using a loading dose of homocysteine precursor (i.e., methionine) caused a major increase in blood stickiness. For a high-risk person who has been walking around with moderate or severe arteriosclerosis, this increase in homocysteine could be enough to trigger a heart attack.

The good news is that when researchers added the 1,000 mg of vitamin C and 800 IU of vitamin E along with the methionine load, homocysteine's pro-blood-clot effects were almost completely prevented. That is, the blood clotting parameters remained normal despite a drastic increase in blood homocysteine levels.

It appears that the combination of vitamins C and E may be an antidote to homocysteine, and one that works more quickly than traditional treatments such as vitamins B6, B12 and folic acid. These vitamins can lower homocysteine levels over the course of a few weeks. In contrast, vitamins C and E can act within hours. While they don't actually reduce homocysteine, these vitamins appear to protect the blood from clotting.

This study has a few important practical implications for people at risk for heart disease or stroke, although additional studies must be done to further support these findings.

First, increasing homocysteine by overloading on protein foods or methionine-containing high-protein supplements can be dangerous.

Second, adding the antioxidant vitamins C and E as well as homocysteine-lowering B6, B12 and folate should help keep blood thin. By thinning the blood, it appears as though vitamins C and E might reduce the threat of other acute proclotting triggers such as smoking, exertion, a high-fat meal or emotional distress. However, while these two nutrients may protect against high homocysteine levels for a few hours, the duration of their protective effect is unknown. Considering vitamin E is stored in fat, a single dose should be available in the body for days, depending on how fast the vitamin is metabolized. However, vitamin C dissolves in water and is excreted in the urine. Thus, for those at risk, I'd urge a 1 to 2 g twice daily vitamin C dose.

Richard N. Podell, M.D., M.P.H., is director of the Podell Medical Center in New Providence, N.J.

Reference

1. Nappo F. Impairment of endothelial functions by acute hyperhomocysteinemia and reversal by antioxidant vitamins. JAMA 1999;281:2113-8.

7 Reasons why our body needs vitamins and antioxidants!

2010-06-07T17:28:00.000-07:00

7 Reasons Why You Must Take Supplements
Find out why you need supplements, no matter what your health condition is.

Enlarge Image1. Food irradiation: is a food processing technique to extend the shelf life of food by destruction of harmful microorganisms and delay of ripening. The food is exposed to ionizing energy and radiation. However, this process also eliminates the essential nutrients especially water soluble vitamins and antioxidants. Food irradiation is widely used in products like chicken, meats, and vegetables. This technique is approved and used in more than 40 countries world wide.

2. Environmental Pollution: Everyday millions kilograms of chemicals are dumped into our environment. These wastes go to the air, water and food that we eat. For example, if you eat fish, you are quite likely to consume excessive mercury at the same time. Studies show that environmental pollution is the main cause for degenerative diseases. Thus, you need quality and potent health supplements to detoxify your body against the pollution and boost immune system.

2. Genetically modified (GM) foods: are crop plans created for human or animal consumption with advanced technology. GM foods are created to improve crop protection and improve the nutritional value. Although all GM foods you see from the market passed risk assessment, there is no long term study indicate that they are safe to human. In fact, GM foods can cause allergic reaction in some people. In addition, rat studies have shown that consumption of GM foods increased intestinal infections and reduce immunity.

3. Soil depletion: Aggressive farming, acid rains, use or artificial fertilizers and synthetic pesticides have caused soil depletion. These activities deplete the essential nutrients in the soil. As a result, nutritional values of fruits and vegetables are greatly reduced. In fact, the vegetables you eat today taste bland due to lack minerals in the soil. According to a recent study sponsored by United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), about 17% of land in the world has been damaged. However, soil remains is either slowly losing nutrients, or no longer contain the essential nutrients.

4. Lifestyle: Depending on your lifestyle and behavior, you may need nutritional supplements. For example, smoking destroys certain vitamins. Both first hand and second hand smokers need to take extra antioxidants to protect the body against free radicals. Excessive alcohol consumption impairs the body's ability to absorb many nutrients and inhibits the production of digestive enzymes. In the above mentioned situations, taking supplements is MUST to stay healthy. Other examples that require extra supplementation include: athletes, pregnant ladies, people who work in radioactive environment and those who work in physically demanding occupation.

5. Stress: is not an unusual terms to many of us. Stress can deplete your energy, lead to acceleration of aging process and degenerative diseases. The symptoms of stress include fatigue, depression, panic, anxiety, loss of appetite, and insomnia. Fortunately, there are supplements that can work to effectively reduce the detrimental effects of stress, and also relief the symptoms of stress.

6. Pesticides in foods: Pesticides are widely used in agricultural activities to control and destroy pests. Pesticides are poisonous and reside in our foods. According to a study by Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the health benefits of fruits and vegetables are reduced by use of pesticides. When you eat foods that contain pesticides, they may cause health problems to immune system, nervous and hormonal system. Unfortunately, there is no way you can detect pesticides in foods.

7. Food Processing: Most of the foods from supermarkets are processed. Processed foods are not fresh and contain fewer nutrients compare to fresh foods. For example, grain peels which contain natural fiber are removed in the processing stage. Processed foods also contain no live enzymes. Enzymes are necessary for digestion and metabolic function. Lack of enzymes can cause degenerative diseases. In addition, processed foods contain refined sugar, extra salt, unhealthy fat, and chemical additives. These substances may bring negative impacts to your body

TRUE HEALTH BEGINS FIRST IN THE GUT!

2010-04-06T10:59:00.000-07:00

THE PHRASE “LESS FAT, MORE FIBRE” HAS BECOME A MANTRA OF HEALTHY LIVING BUT WHY IS IT SO IMPORTANT TO WATCH WHAT WE EAT? AND HOW MANY OF US REALLY PAY HEED TO THE NEED TO LOOK AFTER OUR DIGESTION?

It may be hard to swallow, but chances are most people only worry about such things when digestive problems start to affect their wellbeing. Symptoms like heartburn, constipation, wind, mouth ulcers and even bad breath are all classic signs of a system that’s not working as it should be – and often things that can be remedied by making simple changes to how, what and when we eat.

The digestive system – otherwise known as the gut or gastrointestinal tract – is designed to process the foods and fluids we eat and drink on a daily basis. It’s essentially one long, muscular tube, measuring around 7 to 8 metres from start to finish. The process of eating right through to removal of unwanted waste usually takes between a day to a day and a half; if you’re constipated, that food waste could be sitting around in your bowel for five days or more, allowing more and more toxins to build up until the blockage is finally passed.

The body ultimately relies on efficient elimination of all unwanted matter AND waste – largely via the digestive system – to keep it in good health. When there’s nothing holding it back, the body is perfectly capable of disposing of its waste.If this waste builds up...and constipation occurs...this is like a form of Self-Poisoning! Yes...this OLD fecal matter is full of dangerous toxins and will transport themselves to EVERY cell and organ within the body.

A sluggish-slow running- digestive system WILL contribute to a build-up of waste that ought to be removed. This waste WILL effect your overall health...without a doubt!

While its’ true that eating fresh fruit and vegetables, seeds, nuts and SOME wholegrain -Gluten-Free crackers may be good digestion...SO much More is needed to Keep Your Digestive System working proberly and eliminating dangerous Toxins.
Taking a Daily Fiber Powder IS...yes IS a Must Have. We need to intake 36 grams of Fiber a day! No one gets this which is WHY our digestive system is so full of dangerous toxins.
Fiber stimulates the digestive tract to help it work properly, as well as helping to prevent constipation. And remember--Constipation IS a Form of Self-Poisoning!
Fiber Powder daily also slows down the absorption of carbs, which in turn helps to slow down the delivery of Sugar rushing into the blood stream.
Remember=all processed carbs immediately turn to SUGAR within the body...right?
Fiber Powder daily is a Miracle to the digestive system...as is taking a high concentrated Aloe Vera Juice---in another one of my blog topics.
The Miracle Formula for a Healthy Digestive System IS as follows=
H=high fiber powder daily
O=Omega III's daily This is the OIL lubrication for our colon...So Important!
P=Multi-strain Probiotics --This helps put back the good bacteria we SO Need
E=Digestive Enzymes--Take with every meal--this breaks down ALL food particles

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER AND NOT ALL PRODUCTS OR PROTOCOLS ARE CREATED EQUAL.

Please Contact me IF you would like a FREE One-Time Consultation as to Your Best Product Protocol for YOUR Healthy Digestive System!

Dangers of Dehydration!!

2010-02-18T17:09:00.000-08:00

DANGERS OF DEHYDRATION!

The human body is composed of 75 percent water and 25 percent solid matter. Now THAT is a very powerful statement!

To provide nourishment, eliminate waste and regulate all the functions in the body, we need water! Healthy, plain, clear filtered water!

Most modern societies, however, no longer stress the importance of drinking water as the most important "nutrient" among all nutrients. Entire population groups are substituting water with tea, coffee, alcohol and other manufactured beverages.

Many people don't realize that the natural thirst signal of the body is a sign that it requires pure, plain drinking water. Instead, they opt for other beverages in the belief that this would satisfy the body's water requirements. This is a false belief.

It is true that beverages such as tea, coffee, wine, beer, soft drinks and juices contain water but they also contain caffeine, alcohol, sugar, artificial sweeteners or other chemicals that act as strong dehydrators. The more you drink these beverages, the more dehydrated you become because the effects they create in the body are exactly opposite to the ones that are produced by water. Caffeine containing beverages, for example, trigger stress responses that have strong diuretic effects (causing increased urination, at first). Beverages with added sugar drastically raise blood sugar levels, which uses up large quantities of cellular water, too. Regular consumption of such beverages results in chronic dehydration, which is a common factor in every toxicity crisis.

There is no practical or rational reason to treat an illness (toxicity crisis) with synthetic drugs or even with natural alternative treatments or methods unless the body's need for hydration has been met first. Drugs and other forms ofalternative cleansing and medical intervention can be dangerous for the human physiology largely because of their dehydrating effects. Most patients today are suffering from "thirst disease," a progressive state of dehydration in certain areas of the body. Unable to remove toxins from these parts due to insufficient water supply, the body is faced with the consequences of their destructive effects. The lack of recognition of the most basic aspects of water metabolism in our body can be held responsible for seeing a disease when it really is the body's urgent cry for water.

Recognizing Dehydration

Those who have lived for many years without proper water intake are the most likely to succumb to the build-up of toxins in the body. Chronic disease is always accompanied by dehydration and, in many cases, caused by dehydration. The longer a person lives on a low water ration and/or on a high ration of stimulating beverages or foods, the more severe and long lasting is the toxicity crisis. Heart disease, obesity, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, stomach ulcers, hypertension, cancer, MS, Alzheimer's, and many other chronic forms of disease are precipitated by years of "body drought." Infectious agents such as bacteria and viruses cannot thrive in a well-hydrated body. Drinking enough water is therefore one of the most important preventives for any disease.

People who do not drink enough water or unduly deplete their body's water reserves through overstimulation for a period of time gradually lower the ratio of the volume of water that exists inside the cells to the ratio of volume of water that is found outside the cells. Under dehydrated conditions, the cells may lose up to 28% or more of their water volume. This certainly undermines all cellular activities, whether they occur in skin cells, stomach cells, liver cells, kidney cells or heart cells.

Whenever there is cellular dehydration, metabolic waste products are retained, causing symptoms that resemble disease but in truth are nothing but signs of disturbed water metabolism. Since more and more water begins to accumulate outside the cells, the dehydration may not be apparent to the afflicted person; he may in fact notice that he retains water, leading to swelling of his legs, feet, arms and face. Also his kidneys may begin to hold on to water, markedly reducing urinary secretion and causing retention of harmful waste material. Even the enzymes and proteins living in the dehydrated cells become so inefficient that they are no longer able to recognize the dehydrated state of the body; they fail to set off the "thirst alarm."

Demetria, a 53-year-old Greek woman consulted me to find relief for a painful condition of gallbladder disease. Her skin was dark gray, indicating a high concentration of toxins in her liver and throughout her body. Seeing how dehydrated (and swollen) her body was, I offered her a glass of water. She said: "I never drink water, it makes me sick!" I told her that her natural thirst signals no longer worked because of cellular dehydration and that without drinking water her body could not return to balance. Any water she would drink would instantly be used to remove some of the toxins lurking in her stomach, giving rise to nausea. In her case, any other therapy than drinking water would have been a waste of time and money.

A dehydrated person may also suffer from lack of energy. Due to the shortage of water inside the cell the normal osmotic flow of water through the cell membrane becomes disrupted or severely disturbed. Like in a stream, the movement of water into the cells generates "hydroelectric" energy, which is subsequently stored in form of ATP molecules (the main source of cellular energy). Normally, the water we drink keeps the cell volume balanced and the salt we eat maintains the balanced volume of water that is held outside the cells and in circulation; this generates the right osmotic pressure necessary for cellular nourishment and energy production. During dehydration, this basic process is undermined.

The Pain Connection

Another major indicator of dehydration in the body is pain. In response to increasing water shortage, the brain activates and stores the important neurotransmitter histamine, which directs certain subordinate water regulators to redistribute the amount of water that is in circulation. This system helps move water to areas where it is needed for basic metabolic activity and survival (from drought). When histamine and its subordinate regulators for water intake and distribution come across pain-sensing nerves in the body, they cause strong and continual pain. These pain signals, as they manifest, for example, in rheumatoid arthritis, angina, dyspepsia, low back problems, neuralgia, migraine, and hangover headaches, etc., are necessary to alert the person to attend to the problem of general or local dehydration.

Taking analgesics or other pain relieving medications such as antihistamines or antacids can cause irreversible damage in the body. They not only fail to address the real problem (which may be dehydration) but they also cut the connection between the neurotransmitter histamine and its subordinate regulators such as vasopressin, Renin-Angiotensin (RA), prostaglandin (PG), and kinins. Although the action of the pain killing drugs can relieve local pain for a while, they nevertheless stop the body from knowing the priority areas for water distribution, adding confusion to all its functions. Antihistamines -- also known as allergy drugs - effectively prevent the body's histamines from ensuring balanced water distribution.

In addition to jeopardizing the water regulating mechanisms, after reaching a certain pain threshold, painkillers become ineffective because the brain takes over as a direct center for monitoring pain perpetuation (unless of course the body is hydrated again). If the body produces pain out of its own accord (not caused through an injury), this should first be interpreted as a cry for water. The use of painkillers, which suppress this cardinal signal of chronic and local dehydration in the body and which "short circuit" its emergency routes, sabotages waste elimination and sows the seeds of chronic illness.

There is enough documentation to show that these drugs can have fatal side effects. They can cause gastrointestinal bleeding, killing thousands each year. Yet the body's natural pain signals are perfectly normal responses to an abnormal situation, which may be simple dehydration. In the case that a pain is simply unbearable, the use of painkillers, however, may be unavoidable. At the same time, the pain-afflicted person should drink plenty of fresh water and discontinue all energy-depleting factors, as these tend to have a strongly dehydrating effect.

"Body Drought" - the Strongest Form of Stress

Our brain, working round the clock, requires more water than any other part of the body. Under normal conditions, it contains about twenty percent of all the blood that circulates through the body. It is estimated that brain cells consist of 85 percent water. Their energy requirements are not only met by metabolizing glucose (simple sugar), but also by generating "hydroelectric" energy from the water drive through cell osmosis. The brain depends greatly on this self-generated source of energy to maintain its complex processes and efficiency.

Water deficiency in the brain tissue cut downs its energy supply and thereby depresses many of its vital functions - hence the word depression. With a low level of brain energy, we are unable to meet our personal and social challenges and subsequently succumb to fear, anxiety, anger and other emotional problems. We may feel drained, lethargic, stressed and depressed. The chronic fatigue syndrome, which is commonly known as M.E., is mainly a symptom of progressive brain dehydration and subsequent retention of metabolic toxins in the brain. The syndrome may disappear on its own when the afflicted person stops stimulating the brain with caffeine, tobacco, drugs, animal products, etc., and begins a consequent program of re-hydrating the body.

The Stress Response

When dehydrated, the body has to put up the fight of a lifetime -- similar to the one experienced in a "fight or flight" situation. The body meets a crisis situation by mobilizing several powerful hormones, including adrenalin, endorphins, cortisone, prolactin, vasopressin, and Renin-Angiotensin (RA).

Endorphins, for example, help us to withstand pain and stress and allow the body to continue most of its functions. Cortisone orders the mobilisation of stored energies and essential raw materials to supply the body with energy and basic nutrients during the crisis. In other words, this hormone allows the body to literally feed off itself. This in itself is a very stressful and damaging situation for the body and is expressed by such emotions as, "I can't cope anymore" or, "I feel this is eating at me." Many patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis, MS or other degenerative diseases take cortisone drugs, which often give them a boost of energy and morale for a relatively short period of time.

The "success" of the drug, however, only lasts as long as there are still reserves left in the body that can be mobilized for energy and nutrient distribution. Once the body has used up its emergency reserves the organism can barely function anymore and the symptoms of disease become worse than ever.

Constriction of blood vessels

When the cells in the body are under-supplied with water, the brain's pituitary gland produces the neurotransmitter vasopressin, a hormone that has the property of constricting blood vessels in areas where there is cellular dehydration. During dehydration, the quantity of water in the bloodstream is reduced. Vasopressin, as its name suggests, squeezes the vascular system, i.e., the capillaries and arteries, to reduce their fluid volume. This maneuver is necessary to continue having enough pressure to allow for a steady filtration of water into the cells. This gives vasopressin a hypertensive property. High blood pressure is a common experience among people who are dehydrated (for more information on hypertension and heart disease, see chapter 8). A similar situation occurs in the liver's bile ducts, which begin to constrict in response to restricted availability of water.

Gallstone formation is a direct result of dehydration.

A person who drinks alcohol suppresses the secretion of vasopressin and thereby increases cellular dehydration (if alcohol consumption is excessive, cellular dehydration may reach dangerously high levels). To survive the body "drought," the body has to secrete ever more stress hormones, among them the addictive endorphins. With regular consumption of alcohol, meaning every day for several years, dehydration increases even further and endorphin production becomes an addictive habit. This may lead to alcoholism, a disease that has devastating consequences on a person's personal and social life.

Water Retention and Kidney Damage

The Renin-Angiotensin (RA) system is activated when there is a water shortage in the body. This system is used to direct the body to hold on to water wherever possible. It instructs the kidneys to inhibit urination and tightens the capillaries and the vascular system, particularly in areas that are not as vital as the brain and the heart muscles. At the same time, it stimulates an increase in the absorption of sodium (salt), which helps the body to retain water. Unless the body returns to its normal level of hydration, the RA system remains activated. But this also means that the pressure of the blood against the walls of the blood vessels remains abnormally high, causing the damage that is known as cardiovascular disease.

Hypertension and the retention of urine in the kidneys lead to kidney damage. Conventional treatments for this condition consist mostly of diuretic (urine forming) drugs and restricted salt consumption. Both may have severe drawbacks. Diuretic drugs, which are used to normalize the blood pressure, as well as reduced salt intake strongly undermine the body's emergency efforts to save the little water it has left for cell functions. The resulting stress response causes a further increase in dehydration and the vicious cycle is complete. There are so many kidney replacements made today that result from chronic dehydration, caused by something as simple as not drinking enough water or overstimulation of the nervous system.

The Caffeine and Alcohol Drama

The caffeine contained in such beverages as tea, coffee, cacao or colas not only stimulates the central nervous system and immune system but also acts as a strong diuretic. For every cup of coffee or tea you drink you relinquish approximately three cups of water, which the body cannot afford to give up without suffering damage. The caffeine containing cola beverages work in a similar way. Caffeine, being a nerve toxin, stimulates the body's stress hormones and triggers a strong immune response that may give a person the (false) impression that his level of energy and vitality has suddenly increased. To remove the nerve toxin caffeine, the body has to come up with extra water, which it takes from its cells. Hence there is an occurrence of cellular dehydration.

Caffeine, which is a major component in most soft drinks, removes water from the body faster than the body can absorb it again, thereby generating constant thirst. People, who frequently take soft drinks, can never really quench their thirst because their bodies continually and increasingly run out of cellular water. There are college students who drink as many as 10-14 cans of cola a day. Eventually, they confuse their bodies' never-ending thirst signal with hunger and they begin to overeat, causing swelling and excessive weight gain. Apart from its diuretic action and its addictive effects on the brain, regular caffeine intake overstimulates the heart muscles, causing exhaustion and heart disease.

Alcohol has a similar diuretic effect as caffeine containing beverages. For every glass of beer, for example, the body is forced to sacrifice about three glasses of water. A hangover results when due to alcohol abuse the brain suffers severe dehydration. If this occurs repeatedly, a large number of brain cells become damaged and die. Many important brain functions slow down or become depressed. Recovery is possible to a certain extent if alcohol consumption is discontinued.

Kidney Stones

The main functions of the kidneys are to keep the blood pure and healthy and maintain proper fluid balance in the body. To accomplish this difficult feat, the kidneys constantly monitor normal blood volume and filter from the blood the right quantity of urine to keep it balanced. There are many influences that can disrupt this mechanism and cause congestion in the kidneys. They include overstimulation, dehydration, fatigue, overeating, gallstones, blood pressure disturbance, medical or narcotic drugs, vitamins, digestive disorders, etc. When the kidneys are incapable of sufficiently separating the urine from the blood, part of the urine continues to circulate throughout the body, depositing urinary waste products in the blood vessels, joints, tissues, and organs. Skin diseases, strong body odor, sweating of palms and feet, water retention, intestinal swelling, high blood pressure, etc. are all signs of toxic blood caused by crystals and stones in the kidneys.

Stones in the kidneys begin as tiny crystals and can eventually become as large as an egg. The tiny crystals are too small to be detected by X-rays and since they do not cause pain, they are rarely noticed yet they are big enough to block the flow of liquid through the tiny kidney tubules. Crystals or stones are formed in the kidneys when urinary constituents, which normally in solution, are precipitated. Precipitation occurs when these particles occur in excessive amounts or when urine becomes too concentrated. The crystal particles or stones are usually full of sharp angles, which may cut and wear away the inner surface of the urinary canal (ureter) during their passage from the kidneys to the bladder. This causes severe pain in the loins or lower back. There may even be blood in the urine, pain running down the legs, numbness in the thighs and a difficulty in passing urine.

Most crystals or stones originate in the kidneys, although some may also be formed in the bladder. If a large stone enters a ureter, urine flow becomes obstructed. This can lead to serious complications, such as kidney infection or kidney failure.

Why The Need For A Kidney Cleanse?

The kidneys make a tremendous effort in trying to keep the body clear of toxic substances such as lead, cadmium, mercury and other impassable pollutants. They also maintain fluid and electrolyte balance and regulate the pressure from the heart that forces the blood through their filtering system. Kidney stones greatly impair this ability, which consequently increases the amounts of heavy metals and raises the body's general level of toxicity. This can lead to infection, high blood pressure, heart disease, brain disorders, cancer and many other diseases.

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Healthiest Morning Smoothie on the Planet!

2010-02-07T21:51:00.000-08:00

updated 2009-

Green Smoothie Recipes & Info on Green Smoothies
So Easy!

Green Smoothies are simple and they are the Purest Form of Nutrients and healing power for you! Especially in the morning – Take any fresh greens you like and blend them with fruit. However...Kale and celery are a must have in your Morning Smoothie.

My current favorite is spinach with a green pear, kale, celery and spinach and some argrula. Spinach builds strong bones! And a clean colon, but Popeye already knew that.
Remember the Variety Rule – don’t eat today what you ate yesterday. Blend different fruits and greens each day. Vita-Mix is the best blender. Of course there are many on the market now that work just as well. Do Your research to find one that fits your budget. :-)

Dr. Gabriel Cousens writes in Conscious Eating: "The more biophotons we take in through our foods, the better our health."
Biophotons are NOT in dead greens from the store. They're light energy emitted by the active DNA in LIVING plants.

Making a Green Smoothie

Green Smoothies are so easy to make, so quick, and taste divine – unless you do something truly stupid, as I did the other day, and mix arugula (rocket), spinach and parsley in one smoothie (talk about bitter). But then I just added in the skins of an apple, and pear and some blueberries and WOW...my body and brain Loved it!

My Reader Paizley writes:

"I would not call that stupid...just not suited for your tastes. I blended up a bunch of green endive this morning with spinach and lemon. It was wonderful. Green endive is more bitter than arugula."
"I suggest to all my readers to have fun with God's Living Foods and experiment ... add other ingredients to change the flavor. There are no rules or regulations to making your own green smoothie!" Except---DO NOT add sugar substitute--ONLY use Stevia for sweetening...and it must contain Organic Greens! OK...so there are a few restrictions. :-)

Green Smoothies are the most nutritious meal on earth. A good Smoothie is 40% fresh fruit mixed with 60% green leafy vegetables. Children love the taste of Green Smoothies. A tad...I said a "tad" more Sweet fruit takes away the bitter taste of greens. If your Smoothie tastes too bitter, add some Stevia sweetner. DO NOT USE ARTIFICIAL SWEETNERS AT ALL! Only Stevia...liquid or powdered.

Energy in Green Smoothies

The late Dr Ann Wigmore invented Green Smoothies in 1988 when traveling in Europe. She called them Energy Soup, and added bean sprouts, seaweed and avocado too.
Dr Ann spoke of an instant surge in energy and brain focus with her first Green Smoothie. Wow, more energy and clarity when she was already buzzing from 25 years of raw foods – the higher you go, the higher you go! (whoever wrote “the harder you fall” was on cooked food).

Green Smoothies are easy to digest. A blender is the perfect set of teeth.

It's a dream come true for your digestive enzymes. Nutrients are absorbed quickly and easily. Your digestive system WILL feel the difference!

The fibrous greens of a Smoothie are blended into a mush. Blending by-passes all digestive problems like sore teeth, peptic ulcer, colitis, and a sick pancreas.

Green Smoothies are a complete food. With their fiber, the fruit sugars are absorbed more slowly. You don't get that blood sugar spike rush you get from juicing or packaged nutritional sugary high carb diet drinks.

Green Smoothies Heal Addiction

How do you lose weight? By losing the DESIRE for junk food. When you pass a photocopy shop, are you desperate to go in? No! So what forces you into a bakery or hamburger joint? CRAVING. You've GOT to have it.
Drinking green high alkaline smoothies help heal sugar cravings when dealing with alcoholic addictions...as many clients have told me ",I was addicted to sugar for years after being alcohol free – until I began to blend Green Smoothies every day for a year, starting in 1993....I had become a sugar addict.!"

In the first month many clients said they begin to see light at the end of the tunnel. One client said to me " I stood in my bathroom, I knew for the first time in my life I was going to get out of my sugar craving hell."

Green Smoothie is so nutrient dense – has so much nutrition per bite of calorie – it gives your cells the food they are crying for and probably have been for years! Green Smoothies are the first step to end addictions in so many ways.

When your cells get what they need, which is high alkaline food...and your brain, and emotions, that desire for junk falls away one step at a time – like leaves falling from a tree in autumn. The first to go was Mrs Fields cookies. I could not stand their heavy sugar. Today my body-mind thrives on fresh fruit sugar in Green Smoothie.

Have you heard of Angela Stokes? Angela lost 160 lbs on raw foods, she dropped from 300 lbs to 140 lbs. Green Smoothies were a big part of her weight loss.

Smoothies HELP you Lose Weight QUICKLY! Your life is so precious.

Quick Weight Loss with Green Smoothies

Victoria Boutenko reports in her book Green Smoothie Revolution that Clent Manich dropped from 410 pounds (186 kg) to 170 pounds (77 kg) in one year 2008 – by eating Green Smoothies daily. Clent writes:
"I went full-bore into drinking Green Smoothie every day. I also cut out animal products, fat, and dairy, and the weight started flying right off. The rapid weight loss encouraged me to stay on the diet."
"At the beginning of each day I would blend one gallon of green smoothie and drink some every two to three hours. Sometimes after drinking a green smoothie I ate a few veggies."

"I found that green smoothies helped me to eliminate food cravings better than anything I had ever tried before. ... Most other diets I've tried made me hungry and weak. ... Smoothies also healed by digestive issues. Wow...what a change!On the green smoothie experiment, I didn't have to count calories."

"I have lost 240 pounds and have attained my dream weight of 170 pounds. ... To my surprise I don't have any hanging skin. My skin has tightened without any need for surgery, which I attribute entirely to the green smoothies."

Minerals in Green Smoothie

Can you count with your children how many wild animals live on greens alone? Buck, zebra, elephants, hippo, giraffes, apes – the list is endless!
Greens nourish every cell in your body-brain. I blend a quart of Green Smoothie daily.

We humans are losing our connection with Green. Truly we need to GoGreen in our diet. A chlorophyll molecule (the green in leaves) differs from a human blood molecule by only one atom. The late Dr Jensen proved in The Healing Power of Chlorophyll that if you're anemic or tired, Green Smoothies will quickly raise your red blood cell count.

The core atom in chlorophyll is magnesium (in human blood it's iron). Cravings are often a sign of magnesium deficiency. Green Smoothies are the best food to end your addiction to cakes, cookies and chocolate. When your body gets the nutrients it needs, cravings go.

Green Smoothies are rich in alkaline minerals like calcium. The high-calcium greens are the fibrous ones such as dandelion, kale and collard. Wherever there's a hard shell – as in teeth, bone, or tough-to-chew greens – you will find calcium.

Green Smoothies are a perfect food for children of all ages, including babies when introducing new food after mother's milk. Be careful and slowly increase the amount of smoothies to avoid food allergies.

Protein in Green Smoothies

How does an elephant get her protein? She weighs 3,000 pounds! How does a gorilla get hers? She can bench-press 4,000 lbs! From eating green leaves.
Did you know, this is the best-kept secret in the capitalized world? That the richest source of protein for humans is green leaves? Leaf protein is easy to digest, easily assimilated into the tissues, and has none of the harmful side effects of flesh protein.

Green Smoothies contain all essential amino acids. If you're moving toward a heart-friendly, earth-friendly vegan diet (non-dairy vegetarian) then it's a good idea to eat Green Smoothie daily to meet all your nutrient needs.

Believe it or not, Green Smoothies are a good source of Omega-3 unsaturated fat. Green leaves are the plant’s food factory where it manufactures the fats it needs for every one of its cells. Blend a LOT of greens into a Smoothie, rather than kill the fish in the sea. Fish oil is NOT a good source of Omega-3. Green leaves and flax seeds are far better.

The United Nations reports:

"The livestock sector generates more greenhouse gas emissions than transport." [that's farmed animals, birds + fish]
"Livestock are a major source of land and water degradation ... The major polluting agents are animal wastes, antibiotics and hormones, chemicals from tanneries, fertilizers and the pesticides used to spray feed crops." (UN Food & Agricultural Organization report, Nov. 2006)

Amazing! Why change our car, when the UN is telling us to change our diet? Go vegan with Green Smoothies! Do you love your children? Then protect their earth. It's the only home they have!

Calories in Green Smoothie

Only problem with Green Smoothie and other vegetable blends – they're nearly calorie-free!
If you weigh 140 lbs, you need 1,400 calories a day to sustain your basal metabolic rate at rest (BMR) – that’s the calories you must eat before you make a single move. Resting BMR is equal to 10 times your ideal body weight.

A cup of spinach is 7 calories. One slice of vegetarian pizza is 670 calories. That’s 96 cups of green leaves! Do you understand WHY you could be buying pizza after a Green Smoothie? Simply because you’ve not eaten 96 cups of greens today!

If you’re addicted to your local bakery, try eating a lot more calories in the form of fruit and lightly cooked starchy vegetables such as butternut, squash and sweet potato.

Eat as much fruit as you like half an hour before your Green Smoothie, or add more to your Smoothie. Fruit reduces hunger pangs because it's rich in carbohydrates.

You may crave sweet after your Green Smoothie. Learn how to cook partial Raw and crock pot Energy Soup. ).

Green Smoothie Healing

Because Green Smoothies are blended, it’s easy to swallow them too quickly. This can result in a runny tummy. Greens are the best food to clean and heal your colon.
If you experience a colon reaction, EAT SLOWER. Chew your Smoothie. If needed, refrigerate it and eat over an hour or two, instead of all at once. Get those GREENS into you!

The incredible density of nutrients in a Green Smoothie will feed every cell in your body-mind. We don’t get enough nutrition from eating the greens whole. I experienced this when on vacation recently. My gums were bleeding within three days, with no green blends, even though I was eating a salad of fresh garden greens daily.

Do you have blood sugar problems such as diabetes or hypoglycemia? Then you may want to use less fruit at the start. Raw vegan medical doctor Dr. Gabriel Cousens, author of There Is A Cure for Diabetes, advises to avoid sweet fruits altogether in the first three months of changing your diet.

Go for savory! The best I've tasted are the Raw Savory Veggie Stews by Roger Haeske. He uses your full quota of greens but no fruit at all. Plus it's crunchy!

Leafy Greens in Smoothies

Be sure to blend DIFFERENT greens every day into a Smoothie. Greens have alkaloids that are good in small quantities but slightly toxic if you eat the same green day-after-day. Greens are a lot like homeopathic remedies.
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In her book Green Smoothie Revolution, Victoria quotes research:

"The phytochemicals are antioxidants, and they are all bitter ... The same chemicals in plants that make for a bitter taste may also prevent cancer and heart disease."
That may be true. Yet a glass of SWEET freshly squeezed oranges has billions of antioxidants! Dr. Theodore Baroody confirms in his book Alkalize or Die:
“The sweeter the food tastes, the higher its alkalinity.”
Alkaline is what we need! Read why under Ionizing Water and Best Water to Drink. Acid is bitter and sour – you know this from vinegar.
Today I find myself in the tender lettuce camp. When I set out on the Green Smoothie path in the fall of 1993, I blended every leafy green possible. My favorite was kale, raw beetroot and garlic with apple + avocado, blended to crunchy in my food processor. But in Reaching for Raw over the years, I now prefer baby greens from my Sprouter, and all fresh lettuces. I no longer enjoy bitter greens in a Smoothie.

Think about it. The very bitter greens you're not likely to eat, or you'd eat only a little, if eaten alone. These bitter greens are high in alkaloids (natural pesticides) which are toxic to our species.

However, a family in Europe writes this in the summer 2009 issue of Pear magazine:

"We discovered the importance of greens and especially the wild edibles. This was the new step we were looking for! We juice kilos of wild greens every morning and mix them with a sesame and banana smoothie. So we have a sweet tasting green power drink our kids like, and this helped us to discover higher levels of health and vibration. The mix made from the dense, mineral rich greens and the essential fatty acids in the sprouted sesame are doing miracles!"
Bottom line is, don't let anyone tell YOU what to do! Try it all. Follow your intuition. Let yourself evolve into Joy. Do what feels right for you today.
Some greens are high in oxalic acid which binds with calcium to form calcium oxalate, an insoluble salt. Add these to a Green Smoothie for variety, but do NOT make an entire Smoothie out of them. They are lambsquarters, beet leaves, purslane, spinach, Swiss chard, parsley, amaranth leaves and sorrel. Leave rhubarb leaves alone, they can poison you when eaten in large quantities.

Sweet baby-leaf spinach is fine to eat in quantity. It tastes like the acid has been bred out of it.

LOW in oxalic acid and good to eat in Green Smoothies (if you don't mind bitter) are: dandelion greens and kale (yES....more calcium than dairy), DO NOT DO ANY DAIRY!!!!!!

Blend lettuce, celery, watercress, escarole, mustard greens, turnip greens, carrot tops, broccoli, asparagus, cabbage, and most other greens.

Alfalfa greens are rich in minerals and trace elements – their roots grow more than 100 feet deep. Alfalfa has all essential amino acids and all known vitamins. It’s especially good for our kidney-bladder, writes Paul Pitchford in Healing With Whole Foods. Also well-known for building strong bones.

Sulforaphane in Green Smoothie Recipes

Add a sulfur green often to your Green Smoothies – all the cruciferous vegetables are sulfur-rich. That’s any plant of the Mustard family – broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, Chinese celery, collard, horseradish, kale, kohlrabi, mustard, radish, rutabaga, turnip, and watercress.
Cruciferous green SPROUTS are the highest known source of the phytochemical, sulforaphane, which stimulates the production of cancer-killing enzymes. The sprouts contain 20-50 times more sulforaphane than the mature vegetables – in fact some mature broccoli has no sulforaphane at all.

More recently, researchers have found that sulforaphane protects arteries from the clogging that triggers heart attack or stroke. Sulforaphane switches on a protective protein (Nrf2) in those areas of the arteries vulnerable to clogging – the bends and branches where blood flow is slower.

Sulforaphane protects against damage to blood vessels caused by diabetes. And Nrf2 protects our lungs from toxin-related damage. Not for smokers though! Nicotine kills the activity of sulforaphane.

Sadly, sulforaphane is the phytochemical that makes broccoli bitter. I feel nauseous if I blend mature broccoli into my Green Smoothie. Once I threw up the entire smoothie! That's one puke in 16 years from 1993.

To protect yourself and your family from heart disease and cancer, eat Green Smoothies made with organic baby greens like broccoli, sprouted at home.

Fruits for Green Smoothies

For fruit in your Green Smoothie, enjoy Mostly Bluberries...apples, pears, bananas, oranges, papaya..lots of washed skins of apples!. Strawberries and raspberries taste good in Green Smoothie when combined with ripe banana...and greens!!!! .

Watermelon is perfect, so sweet and quick to blend with greens into a Smoothie. Watermelon is actually a gourd (like squashes) so it's more vegetable than fruit.

It's fine to mix fruit and greens in one Smoothie. I know some books like Fit For Life say don't mix fruit (and especially not melon) with anything but when it's blended, that rule does not apply. Leafy greens are not really a vegetable. They have no starch. They combine well with everything, nuts too. They help to digest nuts.

Only with fat, fruit is not a good mixer. Fat is a sticky molecule that clumps together in your blood and blocks the insulin receptors on your cells. As a result, insulin can't shuttle the fruit sugar into your cells. The sugar stays too long in your blood, leading to blood sugar problems and candida.

I enjoy avocado in my Green Smoothie when I want more fat. Many people add a tablespoon of ground flax to their Smoothie. I will occasionally but it seems so unnatural to me. The flax craze was created by the flax oil industry. People don't eat flax in rural Africa!

The best water for a Green Smoothie is Filtered Water!!!!!!!!!!! You can also get some Alkaline drops at at health food store to make it more alkaline.

. Also quickly rinse your greens if they’re store-bought, to kill pathogenic microbes.

Preferably don’t rinse any greens you pick yourself, they have healthy microbes, like the ones making Vitamin B12. Fresh-picked greens from the soil are a good source of B12. Cows get their B12 (present in their raw milk) from eating green grass...NOT drinking processed milk!!! Get it??.

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Green Smoothie Recipes

Some people add water to their Green Smoothie, but I leave the water out because I seldom drink with meals. Water dilutes our digestive juices. Freshly-squeezed orange juice makes a tasty base.
I tend to use less fruit, about 30% fruit and 70% greens, because I eat so much fruit the rest of the day.

Greens are the perfect food for building strong bones and teeth – nearly every animal on earth has discovered that, except the big cats and polar bears!

Here's my basic Green Smoothie Recipe:

2-3 sweet fruits, e.g. bluberries...apple or pear – blend first to form a tasty base,
1 vegetable fruit or a celery stalk – add next for extra minerals, e.g. summer squash or zucchini,
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Here's a variety of Green Smoothie recipes chiefly from Frederic Patenaude – Get his book...includes 7-day green detox cleanse and Green For Life book by Victoria Boutenko.

Always blend the fruit first –

2-3 cups any greens of your choice, 2 cups papaya, 2 oranges, 3 dates

1 handful lettuce leaves, 1 handful mint, 4 bananas, 1/2 cup water

Winter Smoothie - 1 cup organic frozen berries (any kind), 2 cups fresh spinach, 1/4 inch fresh ginger, water

Spring Smoothie - fresh orange juice, ripe bananas, frozen mangoes, and several large leaves of kale
(extra frozen mango gives lovely thick consistency you eat with a bowl + spoon)

1/2 bunch romaine lettuce, 1 cup strawberries, 2 bananas, water

4-5 kale leaves, 4 apples, 1/2 lemon juiced, water

2 big handfuls mixed baby greens, 2 pears, 2 mangoes, 1 cup fresh or frozen blueberries

Choc-mint – 2 cups spinach, 10-12 mint leaves, 3 bananas, 2 Tbs. carob powder, 1 cup water

1 handful of spinach, 2 stalks of celery, 2 bananas, 2 pears, 1 apple, 1 cup water

1 small handful of spinach, 2 cups arugula, 2-3 mangoes, 1 cup water

1/2 head romaine lettuce, 1 small pineapple, 1 large mango, 1-inch fresh ginger

1 handful wild greens (e.g. dandelion), 1 small handful mint leaves, 3 cups honeydew melon

3-4 stalks celery, 2 ripe persimmons, 1 banana

1 handful chard leaves, 5-6 kale leaves, 3 large bananas, 1 cup water

1 handful parsley, 3 cups of peeled papaya

Do you see that anything goes? Buy bunches of greens, a variety of fresh fruits, a GoGreen Sprouter, and CHANGE YOUR LIFE.

The First Step to Health is One Green Smoothie a Day. How much time and money we save on dental and medical bills – when we get the kitchen equipment we need to enjoy Mother Nature's food.

OK now...Get started! Your entire body will Love You for it!

Because I care...I share! Diane Frances CNC

WHY TAKE NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS?

2010-01-28T14:38:00.000-08:00

WHY TAKE NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS
Presented to you bt Diane Frances CNC and by Lawrence Wilson, MD

© Revised, July 2009, The Center For Development

Many people ask why one needs to take vitamins or minerals in dosages exceeding the recommended daily allowances?
Among the reasons are depleted soil, low-nutrient crops, food processing and the use of pesticides and herbicides on our crops. Others include stress, special circumstances like pregnancy, and that we use nutrients for therapy, not just to avoid deficiency diseases. Let us discuss the topic of nutritional supplements in detail.

FALLACIES OF THE RDAs AND MDRs

Government bureaucrats meet periodically to decide the levels of the recommended daily allowances (RDA) or minimum daily allowances (MDRs) of common nutrients. The main criterion is the amount needed to prevent deficiency diseases. Vitamin C deficiency causes scurvy, vitamin A deficiency causes night blindness, and B1 deficiency causes pellagra.

While this approach is okay as far as it goes, these recommendations have little to with optimum health. One of every two Americans will contract cancer and 50% of the population by age 40 have a chronic illness. In theory, most of these people meet or exceed the RDAs for nutrients.

The theory of the RDAs ignores more subtle aspects of nutrition such as the effect of vitamin C or zinc on tumor inhibition. This is much harder to measure, so it is ignored. The government requires that companies print the percentage of the RDA on each supplement bottle. This can cause alarm until one understands why the RDAs are inappropriate and often irrelevent.

BIOCHEMICAL INDIVIDUALITY

For optimum health, one needs different concepts of nutrition. One of these is biochemical individuality. The term was coined by Dr. Roger Williams to describe his research finding that nutritional needs vary tremendously from person to person.

From this perspective, averages and standards mean very little. I use hair mineral analysis to assess each person's oxidation rate, stage of stress, trace element levels, toxic metal levels, digestive adequacy, state of the immune system and other factors that can be identified on the test.

I also take into account each person's age, sex, weight and health conditions including pregnancy and acute or chronic illnesses. All these affect one's nutritional requirements.

ORTHOMOLECULAR NUTRITION

Orthomolecular nutrition is related to biochemical individuality. The term was coined by the late Dr. Linus Pauling. It means to give the amount needed of a nutrient, not some average or standard amount.

My recommendations differ from those of many other nutritionist, physicians and orthomolecular physicians in that we use foods and nutrients not just to correct symptoms, but to balance body chemistry. For example, a person in an alarm stage requires more calcium, copper, magnesium, choline and inositol. However, excessive vitamin B-complex or C may be harmful for that person.

A person in the exhaustion stage of stress requires more B-complex and C and less copper. By properly combining nutrients and taking into account mineral levels, ratios and patterns, our programs are more precise and correction deeper and more permanent.

OTHER REASONS FOR HIGH NUTRIENT DOSAGES

I also recommend higher dosages of certain nutrients for other reasons. These include:

1) Most people today are born depleted and toxic. Even if one eats the best food, and one’s health were perfect, most of us are born today with nutritional deficiencies, thanks to deficiencies in our parents. Both nutrient deficiencies, and toxic metals that require extra nutrients for their removal, are passed from mother to child through the placenta.

2) Today's soil is depleted. Many soils are low in zinc, manganese, chromium, molybdenum, calcium and magnesium. This means that although one eats an excellent diet of organic foods, one will not obtain all the nutrients one needs.

3) High-yield crops are deficient in certain nutrients. Ten times the amount of wheat is grown on the same land as was grown 100 years ago. Today's wheat contains about 6% protein whereas 100 years ago it contained 12-14%. Trace mineral levels are similarly much lower due to high-yield farming methods.

4) Modern fertilizers do not supply enough trace elements. One hundred years ago, manures were used extensively for fertilizer. Today, superphosphate fertilizers have largely replaced manures. These contain mainly nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus and are deficient in the trace elements contained in manures.

Superphosphates often act more as growth stimulants. This has contributed greatly to depletion of the soil and crop minerals. This includes organically grown food, although it is much better..

5) Pesticides and herbicides kill soil microorganisms and affect the nutrition of the crops. Soil microorganisms are needed to make minerals and other nutrients available to plants. The result is lower nutrient content. Also, our bodies require extra nutrients to process pesticide residues that remain inside the foods.

Many pesticides are deadly chemicals that severely tax the human system. Some contain lead, arsenic and other toxic metals that slowly accumulate in the body unless and until one follows a health program designed to remove them.

Our laws currently allow sewage and factory sludge to be sold as fertilizer that contains significant quantities of toxic metals. These add greatly to our toxic metal burden and require extra nutrients to help remove them from the body.

6) Long-distance transportation of many foods diminishes their nutrition. Many foods are grown thousands of miles from population centers. They may spend a week on trucks or trains to reach you.

As soon as a food is harvested, the levels of certain nutrients begins to diminish. This is another factor that reduces our nutrient intake and increases the need for supplements.

7) Food processing often drastically reduces nutrient content. Refining of wheat to make white flour removes 80% of its magnesium, 70-80% of its zinc, 87% of its chromium, 88% of its manganese and 50% of its cobalt.

Refining sugar cane to make white sugar removes 99% of its magnesium and 93% of its chromium. Polishing rice removes 75% of its zinc and chromium. Canned food may be quite old. Frozen foods are nutritionally better but not as good as excellent fresh vegetables, meats, dairy and other products.

8) Food additives can further deplete nutrients. Thousands of artificial flavors, colors, dough conditioners, stabilizers and preservatives are added to many foods. While some are harmless and may increase the value of food, many are toxic and can deplete the body of nutrients. For example, EDTA added to some frozen vegetables to preserve the color of the vegetable does so by removing vital minerals from the vegetable so it does not “tarnish”.

9) Weakened digestion and resulting poor absorption of nutrients. A result of eating refined, low-quality food with hundreds of food additives is that most people's digestion is impaired. This further impairs nutrient absorption and increases nutritional needs. This is why in nutritional balancing programs, everyone is given a digestive aid and liver detoxification supplement.

10) Stressful lifestyles deplete many nutrients including calcium, magnesium and zinc. Zinc begins to be eliminated from the body within minutes of a stress. This is why many people have white spots on their fingernails, for example.

Stress causes excessive sympathetic nervous system activity, which reduces digestive strength. This, in turn, reduces nutrient absorption and utilization even further. Thus, anyone under stress will need even more nutrients than those that live a very peaceful and quite existence.

11) Nutritional Supplements For Healing Illnesses. The use of food extracts, isolates and even synthesized vitamin and mineral supplements for healing is extremely well-documented, even if it is denied by some “health authorities”. Literally millions of pages of research document the benefits of supplementary nutrient therapy for a wide range of illnesses.

Much more is written on this website about these methods. Here I just want to introduce the concept of using isolated nutrients, plant extracts and other supplements for healing.

12) Supplements For Mental And Emotional Healing. Many mental, emotional problems and neurological conditions such as depression, anxiety, epilepsy and many others also respond very well to nutrient supplementation programs.

This is another area of nutrition that is sadly overlooked by the psychological professions as well as by modern psychiatry. Their dependence on drugs is for one reason only. They do not understand the connection between nutrients in the brain and behavior. If they did, they would jump on nutritional balancing science, as it is so powerful, safe and, in many cases, quite simple as well.

If they at least acknowledged the toxicity to the nervous system of common metals like copper, cadmium, mercury and others, we would all be far better off. The drugs are a very poor substitute for fixing brain chemistry, which, as stated above, is often not so difficult if one is trained in this area.

In this context, I will add that I offer training to any practitioner who wishes to learn this. Also we offer a Diploma program for anyone who wishes to become a practitioner in nutritional balancing science.

13) Special life situations. Many life situations also require extra nutrition, including:

· Babies, children, the elderly and athletes.

· Anyone who is ill, particularly those with a chronic illness.

· Pregnant women, and even more so, lactating mothers.

· Anyone who is taking certain medical drugs such as blood pressure pills, anti-depressants or birth control pills, for example.

· Anyone who eats refined foods or chemical additives.

· Those who eat in a hurry, eat in their cars or have other eating habits that impair the absorption of nutrients.

· Anyone using over-the-counter drugs that affect the stomach such as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (Aleve, Motrin, Tylenol, Excedrin, etc).

Add up the numbers in these groups and you have most of the population! Yet few health professionals are taught that almost everyone has special nutritional needs that require extra nutrients beyond that which is available from only the highest quality food, eaten in a slow, peaceful manner.

14) Supplements For Mental or Spiritual Development. An important part of nutritional balancing science is that Dr. Eck found that certain nutrients given at the right time in the right quantities will activate the higher centers in the brain. This has to do with helping people to fulfill their true potential as a human being. Most often this does not occur because the nervous system is depleted and toxic.

For example, zinc and selenium in the proper bioavailable forms are among the most important nutrients that usually need to be supplemented. This is due to widespread deficiencies of these nutrients in the soils and foods of the planet.

In addition, the omega 3 fatty acids and kelp or another iodine supplement are critical for development. This can never happen in the same way using toxic drugs or with just the older methods such as relaxation or meditation.

This is a desperate need for planet earth at this time, for which reason I use the words spiritual development. We will only stop wars, starvation and many other problems when most people are functioning at high levels to solve important problems on earth or just being creative.

OTHER SUPPLEMENT TOPICS - HERBS

Commonly used food supplements include over one thousand herbs. Many come from ancient Chinese, Native American or other healing traditions. Herb texts describe many ways to use herbs for healing and nourishment of the body. Dr. Paul Eck, founder of nutritional balancing science, did not use too many herbs for a number of reasons:

1. Inability to balance the body precisely. Because herbs contain many nutrients and other substances, it is not as easy as it is with isolated nutrients to use herbs to precisely balance mineral ratios on a hair analysis. Since this is the basis for today’s nutritional balancing science, the herbs are of less use.

2. They are often a little toxic. For example, aluminum-containing herbs include peppermint, spearmint and wintergreen. They are helpful to settle an upset stomach, but are also somewhat toxic for this reason. A cup of peppermint tea on a regular basis is therefore not ideal though using it once in a while is fine.

All Chinese or Ayurvedic (East Indian) herbs seem to be somewhat toxic. Occasional use is okay, but regular use is not good at all.

3. Quality can vary tremendously. This problem is getting worse as more people want to use herbs, and there are fewer places to grow them that are free of chemicals and other soil contaminants.

4. Since quality varies, dosing of herbs can be difficult. This means that one does not always know how much to take. If the herb is very potent, much less is needed. This can lead to overdoses.

5. Combinations of herbs can be even more toxic or may not mix well in other ways. This is the same problem as mixing medical drugs, to a degree. Herbal combinations can oppose each other or impact one another in harmful ways, although herbs tend to be safer than medical drugs.

6. Cost. Good quality herbs are often costly. Nutritional balancing attempts to keep costs down wherever possible so more people can benefit. This is another reason herbs are not used much in nutritional balancing.

HOMEOPATHIC REMEDIES

Homeopathy is a 150-year-old approach to healing that is extremely interesting. It is a type of energetic medicine using thousands of very diluted and “potentized” remedies that begin as common minerals, herbs, and every other substance imaginable. They are prepared in special ways so that eventually just the energy of the substance remains, with little if any of the original compound or substance. When prescribed correctly, which is very difficult, they may have excellent effects on the body and mind. Homeopathic remedies are generally much safer than pharmaceutical drugs. However, they are not easy to use at all. Other problems with them is they do not balance the oxidation rate or mineral ratios, specifically. Therefore, Dr. Eck did not use them and we do not, either. Exceptions in which they can be helpful are:

1. Symptomatic use. For example, one can go to the health food store and find homeopathic remedies for a cold or flu, to assist sleep, improve digestion, reduce pain and so on.

2. In the future, research may reveal other ways to incorporate them into nutritional balancing protocols in limited ways, such as ‘constitutional remedies’ for various mineral patterns. This is not done today, however.

OTHER SPECIALTY PRODUCTS

Today, thousands of other products are sold as food supplements. Some are excellent and may be added to nutritional balancing programs, at times. For more about some of these products, read the article entitled Specialty Products.

Many products at health food and drug stores, however, should be avoided, however, as most contain toxic substances. A second reason to avoid taking too many supplements is they appear to confuse the body and most are very yin in Chinese medical terminology. This is harmful today, even if the supplement itself is beneficial. I know this is confusing, but it is an important as aspect of supplementation. For more on this topic, read the article Yin and Yang Healing.

Supplements to avoid. The following supplements are generally okay for a month or two. However, avoid all prolonged use:

· Fulvic and humic acid products. These will give symptomatic results, but they contain toxic metals in spades.

· All chelation products. These are often extracts of cilantro, chlorella, bugleweed, yellow dock, and may contain EDTA, DMPS, DMSA and other chelators.

· Clay products such as bentonite, zeolite, montomorillonite, azomite and others that popular today as chelators or cleansing products.

· All herbs, as discussed above. A list of safer herbs is given below. Unfortunately, I find very few herbal products that I can recommend besides simple nourishing herbs such as chamomile tea, hibiscus tea and others.

· Most protein powders, cleansing drinks and powders, intestinal cleansers and related products. These tend to be very yin, nutritionally incomplete and should only be used, if at all, for very short periods of time for these reasons. Whole foods are generally much better. For example, one can live on rice for a week if one wishes to do an intestinal cleanse. However, with most nutritional balancing programs, such cleanses and detoxification regimens are totally unnecessary and usually slow down our progress. Exceptions are rare.

· Herbal fruit drinks. A little of these, such as acai, wolfberry and camu camu, and perhaps a few others are good for a short time. However, most are loaded with fruit juices and other sweeteners, so they are very yin, once again. They can also bad and ferment. They will give symptomatic results, but eventually they make the body extremely yin, which is not helpful in the slightest. Most of the others are once again very yin, which is not too helpful though they are nutritious.

· Many food-based nutritional supplements. While some are needed in nutritional balancing science, most are not. They are excellent for symptomatic purposes, but less effective, often, when the goal is to balance the body chemistry precisely. Dosages are often low, odd ingredients cause problems, and the supplements are more costly. For more on this topic, read Food-Based Supplements.

· Avoid all random and symptomatic supplementation. This is very tempting, but in fact, often slows down progress on nutritional balancing programs. Many supplements are not necessary or helpful in almost all instances. Too many confuse the body, are very yin, and easily negate the benefits of the ones that are needed. Symptomatic nutrition is a completely different approach to healing than nutritional balancing, and one that does not go nearly as deep and is not as thorough as nutritional balancing as it does not enhance vitality in the same way.

· All “natural” and “bio-identical” hormones. Unfortunately, these are becoming more and more widely used. They are all drugs, from our perspective, since hormones are supposed to be made inside the body, second by second, in very precise amounts depending on the body’s needs.
Taking hormones from the outside always upsets the body’s natural feedback mechanisms and, in our experience, always slows or even stops progress on nutritional balancing science. Hormone therapy is part of allopathic medicine, which is a totally different approach to health than nutritional balancing science. Please beware and do not use hormone replacement therapy if at all possible. We find we do not need it in 99% of the cases.

· Also beware of alkaline water machines – all brands. One is basically drinking filtered tap water, which is not great. Then the water is passed over platinum and titanium plates. This will impart a little of these extremely toxic metals to the water, as well.
To alkalinize the body, eat plenty of cooked vegetables. Even worse may be alkaline water from water stores. They begin with reverse osmosis water, which is not healthful. Then they add coral calcium, which often contains some toxic metals. The combination drives the toxic metals deep into the body cells, causing severe problems after a year of so.

· Avoid all water from water machines that use reverse osmosis.

HERBS GENERALLY SAFE FOR OCCASIONAL USE

These include acacia gum, agar, alfalfa, aloe vera, angelica root, anise, ash tree, astragalus, balm of gilead, baptisia or wild indigo, barberry, bayberry, bay leaves, bee pollen, bet root, birch, bittersweet, blackberry, black radish and all radishes, black walnut, bladderwrack, blessed thistle, bloodroot, blue and black cohosh, blue vervain, boneset, borage, buchu, burdock root, calamus root, calendula, camphor, capsicum, caraway, cardamom, cassia oil, cayenne, cedar berries, celery root, chia seeds, cinnamon, cloves, comfrey, don quoi, eluthero, dulse, dill, elder flowers, coriander or cilantro to eat but not extracts, corn silk, cranberry, cumin, daikon, dandelion leaves and roots, dill, dong quai, dulse, echinacea, elder flowers, eleuthero, eucalyptus, eyebright, fennel, fenugreek, flax, fu-sho oil, garlic, geranium, ginger, gingko biloba, goldenrod, green magma, gum Arabic, hawthorn berries, hops, horehound, horseradish, horsetail and huckleberry leaf.

Others are hydrangea, hyssop, Irish moss, jojoba oil, juniper berries, kelp, lady’s slipper, lavender, lemon balm, lemon grass, lily of the valley, linseed oil, maple, marigold, marshmallow root, milk thistle, motherwort, mullein, mustard, myrrh, nettles, nutmeg, oat straw, Oregon grape root, pansy, parsley, passion flower, peach, pennyroyal, peppermint, periwinkle, plaintain, pleurisy root, poke, poplar, prickly pear cactus, psyllium, pygium, pyrus communis, radishes (black, white, red, Russian, Spanish and other), raspberry, red clover, red sage, rhubarb, rose, rosehips, rosemary, safflower, sassafras, saw palmetto, senna, shave grass, shepherd’s purse, skunk cabbage, slippery elm, sorrel, spearmint, squaw vine, St. John’s wort, strawberry leaves, suma, sumach berries, sweet basil, tansy, thuja, thyme, tiger balm, turkey rhubarb, turmeric, unicorn root, uva ursi, valerian, violet leaves, watercress, watermelon seeds, wheat grass juice, white oak bark, white willow, wild cherry bark, wild lettuce, wild yam, wintergreen, witch hazel, wood betony, wood sage, wormwood, yarrow, yellow vervain, and yucca.

SUPPLEMENT LEGISLATION

Food supplements in the United States are protected from excessive regulation by the FDA by the Dietary Health and Supplement Education Act of 1994. Though it has been amended, this law essentially classifies supplements differently than drugs as “foods for special use”. Drug companies and their cronies make every effort to regulate supplements out of existence, as supplements often directly compete with drug profits.

Recently, laws were passed in both houses of Congress, led mainly by Ted Kennedy, Dick Durbin, Hillary Clinton and Henry Waxman. The bill requires supplement companies to comply with the same adverse reporting requirements as drug companies. The cost of implementing this bill could drive many smaller supplement companies out of business. And that is the unspoken goal.

The Codex Alimentarius is a second push by international drug companies and some others to reduce our health status further. This way there will be far more demand for patent remedies, which are drugs.

The Codex would also regulate the supplement industry and perhaps eliminate it altogether unless one has a doctor’s prescription. It could reduce the allowable over-the-counter dosages of all vitamins and minerals to levels so low the products won’t be worth producing.

Food supplements often provide 10 to 100 times the Recommended Daily Allowance of a nutrient. They must do so to offset the poor absorption and extra needs of thousands of people.

The Codex rules are already law in parts of Europe and scheduled to begin to take effect in the United States of America in 2009. If we value our freedom to choose and our health, these and similar efforts must be stopped.

References

Many books and websites provide documentation for this article. Listed below are just a few of them:

1. Anderson, M. and Jensen, B., Empty Harvest: Understanding the Link Between Our Food, Our Immunity and Our Planet, Avery Penguin Putnam, 1993.

2. Atkins, R., Dr. Atkins Health Revolution, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA, 1988.

3. Fitzgerald, R., The Hundred Year Lie, Dutton, Penguin Group, New York, 2006.

4. Hall, R.H., Food For Naught, The Decline in Nutrition, Vintage Books, New York, 1974.

5. Hoffer, A. and Walker, M., Orthomolecular Nutrition, Keats Publishing, 1978.

6. Illich, I., Medical Nemesis, Bantam Books, New York, 1976.

7. Jensen, B. and Andereson, M., Empty Harvest, Avery, Pnguin Putnam, New York, 1990.

8. Pfeiffer, C.C., Mental and Elemental Nutrients, Keats, Publishing, New Canaan, CT, 1975.

9. Santillo, H., Natural Healing With Herbs, Hohm Press, Prescott, AZ, 1989.

10. Schmidt, M., Smith, L., and Sehnert, K., Beyond Antibiotics, North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, CA,1993.

11. Wilson, L., Nutritional Balancing And Hair Mineral Analysis, The Center For Development, 2005, 2010.

Osteoporosis MYTHS: Calcium and Protein

2010-01-28T11:33:00.000-08:00

Dr. Mercola and hundreds of other Alternative physicians, Nutritionist like myself and more... have already busted the myth that you need to use a bisphosphonate drug to keep your bones healthy. But there are two other myths that need dispelling:

Osteoporosis is caused by calcium deficiency: Bone is composed of at least a dozen minerals, and if you focus exclusively on calcium supplementation you are likely going to worsen your bone density and actually increase your risk of osteoporosis.

Overconsumption of calcium creates other mineral deficiencies and imbalances, which then increase your risk of heart disease, kidney stones, gallstones, osteoarthritis, hypothyroidism, obesity, opportunistic infections and type 2 diabetes.

A high-protein diet leads to osteoporosis: The myth that eating a high protein diet will cause calcium loss through the urine is simply false. Consuming plenty of high quality protein, like free-range eggs and grass-fed meats, ensures that you’ll have the amino acids your body needs to form a strong bone matrix.

My Prescription for Bone Health

These simple guidelines will help you maintain or increase your bone strength safely and naturally, without the use of drugs:

Increase your consumption of vegetables based on your body's unique nutritional type. If you find it difficult to eat the recommended amount of vegetables you need daily, you can also try vegetable juicing. Make sure your veggies are fresh, organic, locally grown vegetables that are not genetically modified.

Consume a healthy balance between omega-6 and omega-3 fats, and reduce or eliminate the amount of processed vegetable oils such as corn, canola, safflower, and soy.

Eat according to your nutritional type. This will ensure that you’re getting enough nutrients for your bones, as well as helping to correct your omega-6 to omega-3 ratio.

Avoid gluten, a grain protein that has been shown to decrease bone density. Gluten is found in wheat, barley, rye, oats and spelt.

Avoid soda and sugar, which increase bone damage by depleting your bones of calcium.

Avoid steroids, especially if you have asthma or any other autoimmune disease. Steroids increase your risk for osteoporosis.

Consider supplementing with vitamin K2 if you are not getting enough from food alone. Vitamin K2 serves as the biological "glue" that helps plug the calcium into your bone matrix. The dose is about 185 mcg per day.

Get enough vitamin D, ideally from proper amounts of sun exposure. Vitamin D builds your bone density by helping your body absorb calcium.

Exercise. Studies show that exercise is just as important to your bone health as eating a calcium-rich diet. Strength building exercises like weight training are especially helpful here.

Consider natural progesterone[v], which can increase your bone strength. It does this by serving as a growth promoter for the osteoblasts (the cells that build bone). For more on progesterone, please review Complications Regarding Progesterone Cream

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[i] Jarvinen T.L.N., Slevanen H., Khan K.M., Heinonen A., and Kannus P. “Shifting the focus in fracture prevention from osteoporosis to falls” BMJ (January 19, 2008) 336:124-126

[ii] Edelson E. “Bone strengthening drugs may be overprescribed” (January 18, 2008) The Washington Post

[iii] Murphy K. “Splits form over how to address bone loss” (September 7, 2009) New York Times

[iv] Henry J.H., BSc(Hons), Pasco J.A., Sanders M.S., Nicholson G.C., and Kotowicz M.A. “Fracture risk (FRISK) score: Geelong osteoporosis study” (October 2006) Radiology 241:190-196

What You Risk With Fosamax

2010-01-28T11:30:00.000-08:00

What You Risk With Fosamax
Presented to you by Diane Frances CNC-and Dr. Mercola

Merck tried to hide the fact that Fosamax is causing jawbone death, a disease now known to oral surgeons as Bisphosphate-Related Osteonecrosis of the Jaw (BRONJ) or “Fossy Jaw,” a nasty side effect of Fosamax and related drugs that is difficult to treat.

Essentially, the condition causes your jawbone to rot and decay—quite ironic considering the drugs are primarily taken by people looking to strengthen their bones.

In addition to BRONJ, bisphosphate drugs have also been associated with:

Serious eye inflammation and possible blindness

Liver damage

Atrial fibrillation

Increased risk of ulcers

Esophageal cancer

Renal failure

Skin reactions

Hypocalcemia (blood calcium levels are too low)

With a resume like this, it’s not surprising that Merck may have intentionally tried to keep the side effects of Fosamax under wraps—what drug representative would want to share this information with potential clients?

Merck did the same thing with their tragically dangerous painkiller, Vioxx.

Fosamax: Works on Bone Cells AND Soap Scum

Bisphosphonate drugs like Fosamax, Actonel and Boniva, are problematic because they stay in the bone indefinitely and disrupt the normal bone regeneration process.

Healthy bones maintain their strength from a continual process of bone breakdown and bone rebuilding. Osteoclasts are the cells that break down your bone, and osteoblasts are the cells that rebuild it.

Fosamax and similar drugs poison your osteoclasts, permanently killing them—the normal bone repair process is halted. So, your bones will indeed get denser. However, denser bones are NOT stronger bones, which is the part they don’t tell you. In fact, eventually your bones become weaker and more prone to fracture.

Why?

Because bone is a dynamic structure that requires the removal of unhealthy bone and REPLACEMENT with new bone to stay strong. Fosamax does NOT build any new bone. It only kills the cells that break bone down, so your bone is not benefitting from its natural regenerative process.

But don’t throw out that Fosamax just yet!

It’s in the same chemical class (phosphonate) as the cleaners you use to remove soap scum from your bathtub. So, maybe you can make use of it in your bathroom after all.

What You Risk With Fosamax

Merck tried to hide the fact that Fosamax is causing jawbone death, a disease now known to oral surgeons as Bisphosphate-Related Osteonecrosis of the Jaw (BRONJ) or “Fossy Jaw,” a nasty side effect of Fosamax and related drugs that is difficult to treat.

Essentially, the condition causes your jawbone to rot and decay—quite ironic considering the drugs are primarily taken by people looking to strengthen their bones.

In addition to BRONJ, bisphosphate drugs have also been associated with:

Serious eye inflammation and possible blindness

Liver damage

Atrial fibrillation

Increased risk of ulcers

Esophageal cancer

Renal failure

Skin reactions

Hypocalcemia (blood calcium levels are too low)

With a resume like this, it’s not surprising that Merck may have intentionally tried to keep the side effects of Fosamax under wraps—what drug representative would want to share this information with potential clients?

Merck did the same thing with their tragically dangerous painkiller, Vioxx.

Fosamax: Works on Bone Cells AND Soap Scum

Bisphosphonate drugs like Fosamax, Actonel and Boniva, are problematic because they stay in the bone indefinitely and disrupt the normal bone regeneration process.

Healthy bones maintain their strength from a continual process of bone breakdown and bone rebuilding. Osteoclasts are the cells that break down your bone, and osteoblasts are the cells that rebuild it.

Fosamax and similar drugs poison your osteoclasts, permanently killing them—the normal bone repair process is halted. So, your bones will indeed get denser. However, denser bones are NOT stronger bones, which is the part they don’t tell you. In fact, eventually your bones become weaker and more prone to fracture.

Why?

Because bone is a dynamic structure that requires the removal of unhealthy bone and REPLACEMENT with new bone to stay strong. Fosamax does NOT build any new bone. It only kills the cells that break bone down, so your bone is not benefitting from its natural regenerative process.

But don’t throw out that Fosamax just yet!

It’s in the same chemical class (phosphonate) as the cleaners you use to remove soap scum from your bathtub. So, maybe you can make use of it in your bathroom after all.

Don't Take Another Drug Until You Read How You're Being Conned...

2010-01-28T11:26:00.000-08:00

Warning! Don't Take Another Drug Until You Read How You're Being Conned...
Presented to you by Diane Frances CNC and resources by Dr. Mercola
January 28 2010 15,599 views

Osteoporosis is a disease that causes bones to become thinner, more porous and break more easily. Osteopenia is different from osteoporosis -- it is a slight thinning of bones that occurs naturally as women get older and typically doesn't result in disabling bone breaks.
Osteopenia is a condition that only recently started to be thought of as a problem that required treatment. Until the early 1990’s, only a handful of people had even heard of the word. But osteopenia has transformed from a rarely heard word into a problem that millions of women swallow pills to treat.

The term “osteopenia” was never originally meant to be considered as a disease -- it was a research category used mostly because some thought it might be useful for public health researchers who like clear categories for their studies.

But in 1995, a man named Jeremy Allen was approached by the drug company Merck. The pharmaceutical giant had just released a new osteoporosis drug called Fosamax. Since osteoporosis is a serious problem that affects millions of women, the potential market for Fosamax was enormous. But the drug wasn’t selling well.

Allen persuaded Merck to establish a nonprofit called the Bone Measurement Institute. On its board were six of the most respected osteoporosis researchers in the country.

But the institute itself had a rather slim staff: Allen was the only employee.

In 1997 the institute and several other interested organizations successfully lobbied to pass the Bone Mass Measurement Act, a piece of legislation that changed Medicare reimbursement rules to cover bone scans. More and more women got bone density tests (at Merck’s urging), and the very existence of the word "osteopenia" on a medical report had a profound effect.

Millions of women were worried by the diagnosis. And when clinicians saw the word 'osteopenia' on a report, they assumed it was a disease. Merck did not disabuse them of the notion.

There are no long-term studies that look at what happens to women with osteopenia who start Fosamax in their 50’s and continue treatment long-term in the hopes of preventing old-age fractures. And none are planned

Aloe Vera is a Miracle for Digestive Healing

2009-06-18T16:26:00.000-07:00

Aloe Vera and Your Digestive Health IS a must have!
Presented to you by Diane Frances CNC-
with research, documents and testimonials by Dr. Bland

Self Care IS Health Care and Nutritional Awareness IS the Key to Your Health

TRUE HEALTH BEGINS IN YOUR DIGESTIVE SYSTEM...Aloe Vera is must have!

Aloe Vera enjoys a centuries old reputation as a remedy for many digestion and gastrointestinal disorders. Through the years many people have reported that taking Aloe Vera has provided relief from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), acid reflux, ulcers, Crohn’s disease, and other disorders related to problems in the gastrointestinal system. In recent years, science and research has begun to validate what users have known for a long time: Aloe Vera’s healing properties can offer great relief.

Contrary to what the drug companies lead you to believe, there are all-natural remedies that are readily available. Aloe is on the top of that list. It has been proven to treat so many ailments that it is referred to as a miracle plant.

There have been thousands of scientific studies performed on Aloe's healing abilities and still the public has never heard of most of them. The media will never tell you about these scientific findings because the "big money" drug companies will stop them.The drug industry does not popularize aloe because drug companies can't patent an aloe plant (they wish they could!). Aloe has such an amazing chemical composition, proven scientifically, like no other plant.

"In clinical studies of whole-leaf Aloe Vera’s internal and external uses during the past six months, I have personally witnessed mitigation's or complete resolutions of the following:
Abrasions
Colds
Herpes simplex & zoster Staph infections
Acne Colic
Menstrual cramps & irregularity
Ulcerations
Allergies Denture (gum) sores
Nausea
Burns
Epstein-Barr virus
Chronic fatigue
Hypertension
Constipation
Infections Sunburns
Ulcerative colitis
Arthritis Dermatitis
Parasites (especially protozoan infections)
Vaginitis
Radiation dermatitis
Chemotherapy digestive damage
Medication abuse
Viral infections
Diabetes Peptic & duodenal ulcers
Edema
Psoriasis and soooooooooo much more. A Miracle Plant? YES it is just that!

However...NOT ALL PRODUCTS ARE CREATED EQUAL
The Processing of this plant IS Crucial in getting the most of it's healing benefits.

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Years of using other Aloe products and years of research shows
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...I know you must be thinking that no one plant or product could affect - in some positive way - all of the above. If so, it would be a miracle.
Webster defines a miracle as “an extraordinary event manifesting outstanding or unusual event, thing, or accomplishment; and a divinely natural occurrence that must be learned humanly.”
By this definition, it is no wonder why thousands of Aloe Vera users worldwide have commonly referred to it as a “miracle plant and a miracle healer!"
Is Aloe vera really a miracle plant? Many facts and continued research are available, so you may decide for yourself.
Organized medicine and pharmacology have not embraced Aloe, because it cannot be patented and its usage threatens literally hundreds of prescription and non-prescription drugs.
"Ultimate Aloe" Vera is hypoallergenic and has no known side effects even in large doses."Hedendal, Bruce Eric (DC, PhD). (N.D.). Whole-leaf Aloe Vera, almost a panacea: An overview of one of the most accepted, yet misunderstood, medicinal plans in history. Simply Natural Products.

"The healing benefits of Aloe vera have been recorded throughout the world forthousands of years. The American medical and pharmaceutical communities most likely have not accepted it because it can’t be patented nor a prescription written for it."Alfred Garbutt, D.C.
Perhaps the most remarkable studies concern the effect of aloe fractions on the status of patients with HIV which causes AIDS. The polysaccharide fraction of aloe was shown to exhibit antiviral activity and enhance immune cell function. Danhof, Ivan E. (PhD, MD).

Take a look below at all of the "Ultimate Aloe" vera scientific research.
If you or someone you know is having ANY and I do mean ANY gastrointestinal or digestion problems, then you need to give Aloe Vera a chance to help Heal You... naturally.
It’s not just a folk remedy anymore or something just for the skin!
Aloe Vera is a Powerful Healing Agent!
Aids in the Gastrointestinal Tract, Digestion and Elimination of dangerous toxins

In an article among thousands, “Effect of Orally Consumed Aloe Vera Juice on Gastrointestinal Function in Normal Human Beings”,
Dr. Jeffrey Bland concluded from the results of a trial
That Aloe vera helps in the following ways:
(1) improves digestion without causing diarrhea,
2) acts as a buffering agent and pH balance-which is vital in the healing of ulcers
(3) reduces fungus yeast content-
(4) promotes a more favorable balance of gastrointestinal symbiotic bacteria
(5) relieves bloating and gas
(6) improves and strengthens immune functions
(7) improves bowel regularity
(8) increases in energy levels and an improved sense of well-being.

Dr. Bland is just one among thousands of physicians who goes on to stay that
“it can be confirmed that Aloe Vera juice supplementation in normal individuals is well tolerated and did not produce any covert or overt adverse effects on gastrointestinal physiology. Oral supplementation resulted in improved bowel motility, increased stool specific gravity, and reduced indication of protein putrefaction in the colon. Clinical improvements in intestinal function while supplementing with Aloe vera included reduced bloating after meals and reduced flatulence, indicating improved colonic bacterial function.”

Helps with Ulcers...Big Time!
Many studies conducted in Russia involved giving Aloe vera to ulcer patients. The participants’ ulcers were completely healed after using Aloe vera.

Years of referring ALOE VERA juice continues to prove amazing digestive healing powers to so many of my clients....and myself! Many researchers compared their findings to the results of commonly used anti-ulcer drugs and determined that a natural Aloe treatment was just as effective "if not more" than the drugs, but with the added advantage of no toxic side effects. (2)

These results confirm the findings of an earlier study of 12 individuals with peptic ulcers (7 males and 5 females, ages ranging from 24 to 83). They were treated solely with Aloe vera.
Every patient fully recovered from the ulcers within one year of beginning treatment. Moreover, one year after the last treatment no one in the group had suffered a recurrence. (3)

Many of my Simply Younger clients and Researchers believe and continue to find substantial evidence that Aloe may indeed heal the lining of the intestines and stomach in the same way that aloe used as a topical ointment heals wounds and burns. If so, it’s easy to see why many people report that taking Aloe vera cured their ulcers.
Aloe vera also seems to inhibit the production of excess stomach acid and slow down the emptying of the stomach. Since ulcer pain is more common when the stomach is empty, it’s not surprising so many ulcer patients report finding relief after using Aloe vera.

General Digestive Health
Dr. Ivan Danhof, Ph.D., M.D., a gastroenterologist and a leading authority on Aloe vera, believes Aloe vera can be beneficial to the entire gastrointestinal system. He maintains due to its magnesium lactate content, Aloe vera is able to lower activity in the stomach and is effective in reversing both occasional and chronic symptoms in the upper gastrointestinal tract. The acid pH balance has also proven remarkable benefits and healing in Acid reflux disease.
He also feels Aloe vera is helpful because of its anti-inflammatory properties, and uses Aloe vera in the treatment of inflammatory bowel diseases, including Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis and Acid reflux disease.

Dr. Peter Atherton a research Fellow at Oxford University is another who believes Aloe Vera can be an effective treatment of stomach ulcers and IBS and Acid Reflux.

In an article in the United Kingdom publication, the Daily Mail, Dr. Atherton said,
“Last year a patient asked me if I had heard of Aloe vera as a healing agent. I ordered all current research on it and I was astonished to find 39 out of 40 research papers were positive. Immediately I initiated trials on some of my long term chronically ill patients, suffering not only from IBS (irritable bowel syndrome) but also psoriasis, eczema and arthritis, who had received no benefit from orthodox treatments.”

As a result, Dr. Atherton found that Aloe Vera seems to work well at healing damaged “epithelial tissue.” Skin represents the body’s largest area of epithelial tissue, but this tissue also lines the gastrointestinal tract. Consequently, it is not surprising to find that Aloe vera helps individuals suffering from stomach ulcers or a problem of the bowel lining(4).
In the Daily Mail article, it was also reported that a man who suffered debilitating pain from IBS for more than 10 years finally finding relief after starting a daily regimen of drinking Aloe vera juice. He said the relief was marvelous and for the first time in 10 years he could eat whatever he wanted! Many of my clients who have suffered or suffering with the effects of chemotherapy find Aloe Vera to me a Miracle to their suffering digestive tract. ALOE WORKS!
Success in Treating Colitis
Lastly, a recent double blind, placebo controlled study was conducted of people with mild to moderate ulcerative colitis. The results were published in the journal Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics. In just, four weeks 47% of the participant taking Aloe vera twice a day experienced a complete remission of the condition or an improvement in symptoms. What’s more, no side effects were reported.

NOT ALL PRODUCTS ARE CREATED EQUAL! How Aloe Vera IS Processed IS the key to getting the most healing benefits.
I recommend this company as I found it is the Purest available anywhere! We have tested this product and it is 150% More Concentrated than Any Other I have found.

You need a product that is Very HIGH in Muccopolysaccharides - the active ingredients that work to heal and soothe and irritated or damaged gut lining.

Many aloe vera products contain very little of the herb and may be made, instead, from aloe extract or watered down aloe. Aloe gel, for instance, (which is very effective for soothing sunburned skin) is mostly water. For the digestive tract, I recommend

Once opened, store it in the fridge. Your digestive tract with also benefit from a reputable probiotic supplement.

Probiotics (next posting) are replacement bacteria that re-build levels of the good bacteria in the gut but many products. These will have been wiped out by the drugs you have been taking.Look for a product that is high in the mucopolysaccharides - the active ingredients that work to heal and soothe and irritated or damaged gut lining. Many aloe vera products contain very little of the herb and may be made, instead, from aloe extract or watered down aloe. Aloe gel, for instance, (which is very effective for soothing sunburned skin) is mostly water. For the digestive tract, I recommend the Forever Young brand available from Nature’s Choice on 0208-944 5584. A 1000ml bottle, which should last three months, costs £14.95. Once opened, store it in the fridge. Your digestive tract with also benefit from a reputable probiotic supplement. Probiotics are replacement bacteria that re-build levels of the good bacteria in the gut but many products. These will have been wiped out by the drugs you have been taking.

Bland, Jeffrey, “Effect of orally consumed Aloe Vera juice on gastrointestinal function in normal humans”. Preventative Medicine March/April, 1985
Sotnikovg EP: Therapeutic use of Aloe in experimental stomach ulcers (Lechebnoe primenie Aloe prieksperimental). ’Nych Igzvakh Zhelukka Vrach Deb 6:71-74, June 1984 (Russia).
Blitz JJ; Smith JW; Gerard JR: Aloe vera gel in peptic ulcer therapy: preliminary report. Journal of the American Osteopathic Association 62:731-735, 1963.
Atherton, Peter. The Essential Aloe Vera: Buckingham, UK 1997.
Langmead, L, et al.: Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlloed trial of oral aloe vera gel for active ulcerative colitis. Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics 19:739, April 2004.

The 100 Most Unhealthy Foods To Eat!

2009-06-10T11:51:00.000-07:00

The 100 Most Unhealthy Foods in the American Diet

Looking for some healthier foods to eat than your usual fare?
It may be wise to first figure out what NOT to eat....

*******Coming Soon-Next Post---"What To Eat for Better Health, Healing and Energy"

For now...Here is What NOT to EAT!
Unfortunately, many of the best-tasting foods in America are terrible for us. Whether they are high in calories, fat, sugar, sodium or some other nasty additive...
Here is a list of America’s 100 most unhealthy foods .

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER...

Some of the foods on this list are obviously unhealthy,
though you may be surprised by a few. (It is the stealthy ones that can really get us at times.) Also included are beverages, as well as the worst dishes from popular American chain restaurants, to round out the list. Since it would be difficult to rank the foods according to health risk, we have categorized and alphabetized each item.

Common Household Foods
Sadly, some of our favorite household foods top the “should not eat” list. Here are some American favorites that should be approached with cautious moderation.
Baked Beans - Many people keep a stock of canned beans in the pantry. Those that are soaking in sugary syrup, like baked beans, are high in refined sugars and contribute to many health problems.
Campbell’s Condensed Soups and Bottled Sauces - Have you seen how much salt and sodium is in your classic Campbell’s condensed soup? Or your bottled sauces you use to spice things up? Do yourself a favor and try the low-sodium version instead...or
COMING SOON--Learn to Blend Natural Seasonings and Fresh Veggies in a Magic Bullet for Oh So Quick and Healthy Tasty Sauces!

Chicken Pot Pie - No! No! Processed, store-bought pot pies are terribly unhealthy. Pepperidge Farm makes roasted chicken pot pie 1,020 calories and 64 grams of fat and high in sodium. Remember= **Sodium is just another word for MORE SALT!!!!
Hot Dogs - Not only are these a leading cause of choking in children and adults, they contain highly processed meat “byproducts,” whatever that may be. Stay away from foods with such mysterious ingredients. High again in Sodium-Salt...and God knows what else! :-)
Luncheon Meats - Commercial cold cuts are highly processed and packed with unhealthy additive, sodium and nitrates and preservatives. Nasty stuff!
******Better to cook a turkey breasts, or roast beef OR Uncured Ham Yourself and slice it up thin for a much Healthier Protein Intake.
Key Word Here-Uncured Ham.
Uncured Hams are 50% lower in sodium. Big difference! Plus they taste SO Much Better!**********

Ramen Noodles - College students everywhere are scraping by with this inexpensive dish. However, it offers nothing in the way of nutrients, Nothing.... and it is loaded with sodium.
Saltines - These crackers taste good with your soup, but provide only excessive carbohydrates and sodium. Nasty!
White Bread - I recommend ALL my clients to Stay away from ANYTHING WHITE!!! That's Right....No White! Your blood sugars, your digestive system, your brain, your energy levels and your overall health WILL thank you for this vital elimination!
Foods made of mostly white flour are just empty calories and carbohydrate HIGH...which only turns to sugar in the body...resulting in High blood sugar levels .These high starchy white foods are also responsible for Poor Digestive Healt.... As well as High Blood Pressure!.
All starches SHOULD be moderate within your diet. IF you MUST have breads...then find the highest-grain one possible. The more the seeds...the more the fiber.
However= IF you (like myself) are Gluten Intolerant---then Look ONLY for "Gluten Free" products.

White Pasta - The white flour strikes again. Although tasty, this refined product offers too many carbohydrates and too many calories and turns to sugar within the body...once again spiking your blood sugar levels. Notice that "after lunch crash" tired feeling?
Well you ate too many white carbs. :-)
********BETTER TO GET BROWN RICE PASTA---has much more fiber and is lower in carborhydrates...as well as it is gluten free.

White Potatoes - These are the type of potatoes that are commonly used for junk food like French Fries. They contain solanine, which can have a toxic effect on people. Among other things, solanine can contribute to calcium depletion and arthritic pain. Plus this is another high carb food which again...will rise blood sugar levels.
IF you Must have a potatoe...Buy Red Potatoes...more fiber!

Drinks -
Sugared High Carborhydrate Drinks Are Nothing more than Ingesting a Liquid Candy Bar---
Sugared Drinks are responsible for unhealthy blood sugar levels and....and now a leading cause of onset Child and Teen Diabetes!
This instant Sugar Jolt is Dangerous to our Health.... More on this later.

Everything you consume can have positive or negative health consequences, including drinks. While many people are conscious about the food they eat, they forget about the liquid calories in their diet.
Below are some of the unhealthiest Drinks in America!!
Baskin Robbin’s Large Heath Bar Shake - According to Yahoo! Health, this is the unhealthiest drink in all of America. It contains a whopping 2,310 calories, 266 grams of sugar and 108 grams of fat!
Cocktails - What do you get when you combine high levels of refined sugar and unhealthy amounts of hard liquor? You get a cocktail, which was invented by the British Navy so sailors would get drunk a little slower. Like anything, moderation is key, but you would be better off with a glass of red wine than with a cocktail.
Coffee - Need a pick-me-up in the morning? Studies show that a fruit and veggie blended smoothie and a glass of water WILL indeed promote energy...and naturally!
However= One Cup Of Morning Coffee--Only One---followed by a 6 oz glass of water Can Indeed Be a Bowel Stimulate! This is good...Made with SOY and NOT Dairy!
Diet Soda - Don’t assume diet soda is better for you than the regular kind. Sugar substitutes are known to have long-term, unpleasant side effects. Plus, caffeine of any kind is bad for your health.
Eggnog - This creamy drink is a favorite around the holidays. Even without the liquor, it is quite fatty and unhealthy.
Fruit Juice - Most commercial fruit juices are loaded with sugar. In fact, some fruit juices offer more sugar in one serving than a candy bar. Think about that the next time you go for some Hawaiian Punch.
Fruit Smoothie - Just like fruit juice, most smoothies are delicious, yet contain more sugar and high fructose syrup than actual fruit. Be selective when looking for a healthy fruit-based drink. KEEP IT NATURAL! No added sugars! Use ONLY fresh fruits and You Must Have Green Veggies in Your smoothie OR it is still too high in fruit frutose. Your Smoothie Needs to have a Green Color to it...or your blood sugars WILL indeed be effected. Not Good!

*******The Healthiet Morning Energy Jolt Smoothie Recipe is= strawberries, blueberries, apple skins and pears-Not too much now...as you MUST add Green to this....
such kale, spinach, celery,brocolli and red peppers. ADD a dash of Natural Stevia Sweetner. As Green as it may look---This WIll Taste Great! And with all the fiber in this....You Will Have So Much Healthy Energy.
Blended in the Magic Bullet.

OK now..Back to the Bad Stuff again
Irish Coffee - This combines three unhealthy ingredients: coffee, cream and hard liquor.
Liquor - While studies have shown that moderate consumption of beer or wine can offer heart benefts...there is really no reason to drink hard liquor. It is bad for your kidneys, your liver and even a small amount will
Red Bull and all those Energy Boosting Drinks!---So unhealthy!
This drink gives you wings… and extremely high amounts of sugar, caffeine and carbohydrates. This intense energy drink has actually been linked to a few deaths.
*******Listen up, America: France actually banned Red Bull--as it is a very unhealth and dangerous potent tonic ...Now others countries are doing the same. Why aren't we? Sad huh?

Soda - Soda is bad for you on many levels. It usually offers tons of sugar and caffeine, not to mention it isn’t so great on your teeth. It does, however, work well to remove rust from metals. Think about that, won’t you?
Starbucks’ Java Chip Frappuccino - Frankly, you should avoid any beverage at Starbucks that isn’t green tea or water. However, the Java Chip Frappuccino really stands out for its whopping 650 calories. You could eat a greasy cheeseburger from a fast food restaurant and consume less calories!
Whole Milk - Whole milk is not only high in fat, and sugars...but certain brands contain harmful hormones. Snacks

Let’s face it — most of us don’t want to munch on celery stalks when we feel a small rumble in our tummy. However, the following snacks could make that tummy a lot bigger, so don’t overindulge. (Note: Organic Almond Butter on that little celery stick is so tasty and so healthy!
Chocolate - It isn’t just the calories that make chocolate a big no-no. It is also a source of caffeine and some people are quite sensitive to the effects.
Coffee Cake - This sugary baked good definitely tastes great, but it is full of refined sugars, artificial additives and fat.
Cookies - Technically, there are healthy snacks and recipes (Coming Soon!) out there. However, the typical cookies are full of refined flour, refined sugars and more calories than you should ever, ever consume in one nibble.
Corn Chips - Don’t let the word “corn” fool you. This snack does not count as a vegetable serving and are just as bad for you as any other fried, salted snack.
Doughnuts - Artificial flavors, refined sugar and trans fats abound in these devilishly delicious snacks.
French Fries - French fries are not only fatty, they contain acrylamide, which is a known carcinogen.
Ice Cream - Ice cream can be fatty with the whole milk and sugar alone. However, it becomes even worse when you start adding things like chocolate pieces or cookie dough.
If You Must=Opt for Organic low-fat frozen yogurt.... if ...if you must indulge.
Lunchables - This Oscar Mayer product is convenient for lunch or a quick snack, but contains highly processed meats, non-enriched bread and a lots of sodium.
Potato Chips - Most of us realize how bad these are for us, yet they are hard to resist. Potato chips are high in trans fats, calories, salt and the carcinogen acrylamide.

“Health Foods”??? Not really...You are MisInformed!
Some foods are marketed as being healthy and many of us assume they are great additions to our diet.
However, the following items are truly NOT healthy for you and they contain too high amounts of sugar and carborhydrate---Once again resulting in high blood sugar levels...Not good!

Bagel and Cream Cheese - This is a favorite breakfast food for many people. It seems healthier than a big, traditional breakfast. However, the average bagel covered in cream cheese offers 40 grams of fat and tons of carbohydrates.
Bran Muffin - Those looking for a healthy start in the morning often reach for a bran muffin. However, refined flour and sugars are not a healthy source of energy first thing in the morning.
Dried Fruit - Fresh fruit is far healthier than dried fruit, as it takes more dried fruit (and calories) to feel full. Also, many dried fruit products are covered with sugar.
Fruit Cocktail - Fruit is an integral part of a healthy diet. However, you should be buying fresh fruit and not fruit that is soaking in thick, sugary syrups. Not only is the added sugar unhealthy, fruit can lose a lot of nutrients when it is processed and canned. Eating dried fruit has Just As Much Sugar As A Candy Bar...that's right!
Granola Bars - While the word “granola” is often used to describe health advocates, granola bars are often loaded with fatty oils and sugar.
Low-Fat Salad Dressing - While some salad dressings offer a reduced amount of fat, the taste is often salvaged by adding sugar.
Margarine - At one time, margarine was hailed as the healthy alternative to pure butter. However, margarine is loaded with trans fats and is linked to a higher risk of heart disease.
Microwave Diet Meals - Dead Food! There are many brands, such as Weight Watchers and Lean Cuisine, that claim to offer “healthy” microwave meals. However low in fat they may be, however, they are very processed and salty and high in sodium....No nutritional value at all!
Also, the portions are so small that you are likely to eat again very soon.
Pasta Salad - Pasta is loaded with refined flour, which offers you a quick spike in blood sugar and isn’t so great for your waist line. That, along with high-calorie dressing, makes pasta salad a “health food” you should avoid.
Pretzels - While it is true that pretzels are better for you than potato chips, they only offer empty calories. There are no nutritional benefits to pretzels and some are filled with sugar, which only makes you hungrier.
Protein Bars - Why these food items line the shelves of health food stores is a mystery. They offer a convenient source of protein, yes, but they are also packed with calories and fat and sugar! Eating one of these is once again...just as unhealthy as eating a candy bar.
READ YOUR LABELS! High sugar...high carborhydrate---raising blood sugar levels again!

Tuna Fish Sandwich - This isn’t quite the healthy lunch you thought it was, particularly if you order one in a restaurant. Not only is the mayo high in fat, eating large quantities of tuna exposes you to mercury contamination.
Turkey Burger - Turkey burgers are not necessarily low-fat alternatives to regular hamburgers. In fact, they can be just as loaded with fat and grease. When purchasing patties in the grocery store, compare the turkey burgers to beef burgers and you might be surprised.
Yogurt Cups - Yogurt can be quite healthy if prepared properly and Organic and with less sugar! However, most yogurt cups found in grocery stores, such as the ones with fruit in the bottom, are loaded with sugary corn syrup.
Condiments
It isn’t just the main portions of your meals that affect your health. The condiments you use to improve taste can really add up the calories, fat grams and other unhealthy properties. Below are some usual suspects to avoid.
Butter - Most of us know that butter is bad for us, yet the tempting product haunts us every time we eat a baked potato or piece of bread. If you must succumb to butter, try whipped butter instead. It is lighter and you will use less.
Honey Mustard - While mustard does not offer many unhealthy properties, honey mustard is loaded with sugar and other additives.
ATTENTION= READING LABELS Is CRUCIAL in truly knowing how much sugar and high carbs are in your products. Because IF you have 20 grams of carborhydrate and 10 or more grams of sugar---You Are Indeed Eating a lot of Sugar! We Call This The Hidden Sugars!
Back Labels Do Not Lie...but the front advertising label does! Be Informed!

Jellies/Jams/Preserves - Most brands are big on taste and on refined sugars, unfortunately. Organic, low sugar is the best alternative to mainstream, processed jellies/jams/preserves.
Ketchup - Sure the bottle boasts about the inclusion of lycopene, but you can also get that from fresh tomatoes. Kethcup is a highly processed food that is packed with sugar.
Mayonnaise - This is one of the easiest ways to turn a healthy sandwich into something very fattening. Substitute mayonnaise with something lighter whenever you can. Mustard is a great alternative in many cases.
Sugar - One could write a book about the unhealthy side effects of a diet high in sugar. Oh---there ARE Many, many, many, many Books on the Health Dangers of continual Sugar Intake!

Sugar is hidden in almost EVERY processed food..... so the last thing you should do is keep extra sugar on the table. READ LABELS...IT WILL SHOCK YOU how much sugar is in things.
Processed Salt - Excess sodium is no good for you, so take a stand and banish salt from your table. There are healthy alternatives to spicing up bland food. Use Sea Salt...this is natural and NOT processed. Used sparingly...but it is OK to use!
Soy Sauce - Aside from the fact that soy has its negative aspects, there is a terribly high amount of salt in this popular sauce.
Tartar Sauce - Tartar sauce is actually mayonnaise combined with onions, pickled cucumbers and other ingredients. This is why it is even more fattening than mayonnaise, which is saying a lot.
Allergens
Some foods are unhealthy to us because we are sensitive to them or have a true allergy. A full-blown allergy can in fact be deadly, so it is important that you know how the following foods react with your body.
Dairy Products - Those with lactose intolerance cannot digest dairy products without adversely reacting. A dairy-free diet is encumbering but can be managed by learning how to read labels properly.
Fish - Some children and adults are allergic to certain types of fish. When one allergy becomes apparent, it is recommended that people consult an allergist to find out if they can eat other kinds of fish. Do A Diet Elimination...Fish is Good for you...so long as you DO NOT have a sensitivity to it.
Gluten - Gluten is a protein found in wheat, barley and rye products. Some people only experience a mild sensitivity to gluten....however...Gluten for MOST people still causes inflammation. Those with Celiac Disease suffer from an autoimmune disorder that results in intestinal damage and other health problems when gluten is consumed.
MSG - Monosodium glutamate, also known as MSG, is a food additive that many people are sensitive to. Symptoms of MSG sensitivity include a headache, nausea, lethargy and more.
Peanuts - Although a severe peanut allergy is rare, it can cause anaphylactic shock almost immediately upon consumption.
Shellfish - Shellfish, such as shrimp, crab and lobster, can cause deadly allergic reactions in some people. This is a rare but serious allergy.
Soy - Soy is regarded as healthy by many, as it can provide protein in a meat-free diet. However, some people have a soy protein allergy. Also, soy has been linked to hormonal shifts in men and women, as well as a higher risk of breast cancer.
Wheat - Most People DO Indeed Have a Reaction to Wheat.
Wheat allergies, commonly confused with the autoimmune disorder Celiac Disease, manifests when anything containing wheat flour is consumed. TRY an elimination and Go Off Wheat.
80% of people who do...Feel sooooooooooo much better!

Applebee’s
Applebee’s touts itself as a friendly neighborhood eatery. However, there is nothing friendly about the calories and fat in the following menu items.
Grilled Steak Caesar Salad - Perhaps you see the words “grilled” and “salad” in this meal’s name and you think it must be somewhat healthy. Think again. This is far from a healthy garden salad - it contains 1,951 milligrams of sodium, 1,190 calories and 75.4 grams of fat!
Riblets With Beans, Coleslaw and Fries - This is a commonly ordered meal at Applebee’s, yet many customers might be shocked to hear the actual nutritional stats. With this hearty meal, you are consuming 2,228 milligrams of sodium, 2,027 calories and 130 grams of fat.
Southwest Philly Roll-Up With Salsa - This one is deceptively healthy looking when compared to a big cheeseburger. However, it contains 2,338 milligrams of sodium, 1,605 calories and 121 grams of fat.
Burger King
To be fair, most of us are aware of how fattening Burger King is when we enter the drive-thru. However, the following figures may keep you from caving to temptation again.
Double Whopper - Ah, this flame-broiled burger tastes even better with two patties. However, it only increases the unhealthiness. Try 920 calories and 57 fat grams on for size!
Double Whopper With Cheese - What happens when you put cheese on the worst sandwich at Burger King? You are now looking at 1,020 calories and 65 grams of fat.
King Size French Fries - Most people always round out a meal at Burger King with fries. With the largest size, you will also be adding 540 calories and 25 grams of fat to the meal.
Chili’s Grill & Bar
Chili’s is similar to Applebee’s in its fare. Sadly, it also offers some of the worst meals and side orders. Below are the worst offenders.
Awesome Blossom - Some consider this to be the worst menu item at any American restaurant. Mind you, this is only considered an “appetizer” and yet it contains 6,360 milligrams of sodium, 2,710 calories and 203 grams of fat!
Boneless Buffalo Chicken Salad - Oh dear, another deceptively unhealthy “salad.” This one offers 4,040 milligrams of sodium, 910 calories and 58 grams of fat.
Chicken Crispers - If this list has taught us anything, it’s that the word “chicken” is not synonymous with “lean.” Take this lovely fried dish for example. It has 1,870 calories and 129 grams of fat in it!
Chocolate Chip Paradise Pie - You aren’t going to leave without dessert are you? This one will satisfy your sweet tooth and fill you with 78 more grams of fat.
Kentucky Fried Chicken
You will be hard-pressed to find anything low-fat and healthy on the KFC menu. Even the corn is soaked in butter, after all! While fried chicken is an obvious choice for this list, below are the biggest offenders.
Chicken and Biscuit Bowl - Which genius decided to mix the worst fried foods with white flour breads in one bowl? Well, it is yummy, but it offers 44 grams of fat in one tiny serving.
KFC Original Recipe Chicken - Before you purchase a whole bucket, keep in mind that one thigh piece of the KFC original recipe chicken has 25 grams of fat.
Popcorn Chicken - Who doesn’t love these little things? While tasty and convenient, the Family Size is packed with 1,210 calories and 66 grams of fat.
Poutine - This French Canadian side order isn’t available at all KFC locations. That’s probably a good thing because it has 54 grams of fat in it.
McDonald’s
While McDonald’s is clearly not regarded as a healthy source for food, some of these facts and figures will make you realize just how unhealthy it can be.
Chicken Selects Premium Breast Strips - This is touted as one of the more high-end items on the menu, yet it is one of the worst chicken dishes available in fast food. These chicken strips offer 830 calories and 55 grams of fat. Hey, you might as well have a hamburger instead!
Chicken McNuggets (20 Piece) - Not many people try to conquer a 20-piece but if you do, you will have consumed 1,030 calories and 65 grams of fat.
Crispy Chicken Club Meal - Who would have thought that some of the worst offenders at McDonald’s would be chicken items? This one is stuffed with 1,250 calories and 48 grams of fat.
Deluxe Breakfast With Syrup and Margarine - The worst way to start out your day is with 1,330 calories and 64 grams of fat.
Premium Grilled Chicken Meal - Yes, you read that correctly. This grilled chicken meal has 1,130 calories and 41 grams of fat.
On the Border
If you are a fan of Tex-Mex, then you may be familiar with this popular restaurant. The salsa may be the only healthy thing on the menu, unfortunately.
Beef and Chicken Quesadillas - This combo platter has an amazing 1,130 calories and 93 grams of fat.
Border Sampler - You sample a little too much with this meal, as you end up consuming 1,940 calories and 120 grams of fat.
Corona Extra Dinner - “Extra” is the operative word here, as there is an excessive amount of calories and fat. Try 2,040 and 126 grams, respectively.
Dos XX Fish Tacos - Fish tacos sure sound healthier than beef or even chicken, right? Amazingly, this might be one of the worst Mexican dishes around, offering 2,100 calories and 130 grams of fat.
Grande Taco Salad With Taco Beef - Again, this doesn’t sound like it could be the worst thing on the menu. Still, it is loaded with 1,450 calories and 102 grams of fat.
Stacked Border Nachos - Well, at least these warn you by looking unhealthy. These nachos pull no punches with 2,740 calories and 166 grams of fat.
Outback Steakhouse
Don’t be fooled by this theme restaurant. Most Australians will tell you they don’t eat “bloomin’ onions” back home. Still, this place is a guilty pleasure for many Americans.
Aussie Cheese Fries - This one is infamous and can be found on many “worst foods” lists. This side dish contains 2,900 calories and 182 grams of fat!
Bloomin’ Onion - Chili’s commits the same crime with this fried delight. However, the Bloomin’ Onion clocks in at 2,310 calories and 134 grams of fat.
Chocolate Thunder From Down Under - If you have already tried the cheese fries, why not do yourself in with this dessert? It will only add another 78 grams of fat to the meal, after all. Melbourne Porterhouse - This monster steak has 1,230 calories and 99 grams of fat to offer a hungry patron.
Quiznos
These toasted subs sure are delicious. However, they are dangerous to your health. Think of Quiznos as Subway’s evil twin.
Classic Italian Sub - Would you believe a sub sandwich could pack 85 grams of fat in? Yep, this one certainly does.
Tuna Melt - This sandwich may sound harmless enough, but has 118 grams of fat in it. Yikes!
Romano’s Macaroni Grill
This restaurant offers delicious and unique Italian meals. However, its meals contain some of the highest amounts of salt and fat in America.
Chicken Fettuccine Alfredo - You will be hard-pressed to find a fettuccine alfredo dish that isn’t packed with fat and calories. However, Macoroni Grill is in a league of its own here with 1370 calories and 97 grams of fat.
Chicken Portobello - This is one of the saltiest dishes you can order in a restaurant, boasting 7,300 milligrams of sodium. If that doesn’t deter you, perhaps the 1,020 calories and 66 grams of fat will.
Double Macaroni ‘n’ Cheese - Shockingly, this is actually a kids’ meal and yet it offers 3,450 milligrams of sodium, 1,210 calories and 62 grams of fat!
Spaghetti & Meatballs (With Meat Sauce) - This is a classic Italian dish and probably sounds a little healthier than some of the creamier items on the menu. However, this Macaroni Grill favorite offers 5290 milligrams of sodium, 2430 calories and 128 grams of fat.

OK Now...Get Ready for The Healthiest Foods to Purchase and Always Have Around.

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER!
One Step At A Time...and One Change At A Time Can Indeed Promote Better Health.....InsideOUT...and keep you away from harmful medication side effects.
NUTRITION MATTERS!

Stay Tuned for More Good Eats!

Medication Interactions Can Be Fatal--I survived!

2009-06-04T12:32:00.000-07:00

How Medications almost destroyed my health and my life...
and Why it Became My Greatest Empowerment

DID YOU KNOW?
"More than 200,000 people a year die in American hospitals from adverse reactions to medications. Making drug reactions one of the leading causes of death in this country"
--Journal of American Medical Association study, as quoted in the New York Times
What IS Steven Johnson Syndrome Disease SJS
Stevens-Johnson Syndrome is a potentially deadly skin disease that usually results from a drug reaction. Another form of the disease is called Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis, and again this usually results from a drug-related reaction. Drugs that have been linked to Stevens-Johnson Syndrome include NSAIDS (non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs), Allopurinol, Phenytoin, Carbamazepine, barbiturates, anticonvulsants, amoxicillin, and sulfa antibiotics. In some cases, the condition is caused by a bacterial infection, and in many cases there is no known cause for the onset of Stevens-Johnson Syndrome or Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis.Stevens-Johnson Syndrome is a potentially deadly skin disease that usually results from a drug reaction. Another form of the disease is called Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis, and again this usually results from a drug-related reaction. Drugs that have been linked to Stevens-Johnson Syndrome include NSAIDS (non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs), Allopurinol, Phenytoin, Carbamazepine, barbiturates, anticonvulsants, and sulfa antibiotics. In some cases, the condition is caused by a bacterial infection.
If you or anyone you love is taking More than ONE MEDICATION
Get this book!
It Could Save A Life!
"WORST PILLS BEST PILLS" -
A Consumers Guide to Avoiding Drug-Induced Death or Illness.

This is My Story...an almost fatal drug interaction.
I hope and pray it will NEVER be your story!

Over 18 years ago I was prescribed more than 6 medications over a period of a year.
Of course it began with one medication at a time...attempting to treat one unhealthy symptom at a time by more than 3 physicians.

My primary MD prescribed the first antibiotic , amoxicillin to treat a sinus infection. Now mind you...no culture was taken...so this may indeed have been a Virus. and NO antibiotic has any benefit to a virus.
So after just 3 days of this nasty antibiotic, the side effect was causing severe digestive cramping and diarrhea and I was NOT getting any better at all. My physician then switched me over to yet another antibiotic called Ceclor. Here already is a NO NO in the world of medication prescribing. Do you see How Interactions begin? Now my body has to TRY to deal with 2 different types of a medications...both with their own separate side effects, a new combination of synthetic ingredients NEVER BEFORE tested together. So now...I am, as thousands of others out there...I am a Guinea Pig being Tested to See what happens! Because Believe me---No one Knows or has a Proven Outcome when 2 medications are combined. Now imagine 3 or 4, or 6 or 13 medications in the body at the same time. Oh my Gosh!!! There is NO testing grounds for this! NONE...NONE...NONE! It is ALL a Guessing Game!
Medication are in a tested One drug at a time!
NOT in combinations to Whatever Drug is next! This should be illegal!
Now Imagine... all the thousands of Untested, Unproven Drug Combinations being administered to Treat or Ease unhealthy symptoms. Physicians are Guessing at these combinations...Guessing with NO Proven Studies or Knowledge as to the Outcome or the many side effects which then Produce more unhealthy symptoms!
PEOPLE REMAIN UNHEALTHY AND CHRONICALLYY SICK because of their medication side effects. THIS IS INSANE...AND SHOULD BE ILLEGAL!

Are You On More than One Medication?

As stated by the Pharma Genetics Industry, document after document-
If YOU are on ONE Medication---we KNOW almost everything about it's side effect
If YOU are on TWO Medications--- we MAY know a lot
If YOU are on MORE than TWO medications--YOU ARE BEYOND MEDICAL SCIENCE!!
Now Did You Hear That? Are you getting this yet?
You Are Beyond Medical Science IF you are on More Than ONE Drug!

Doctors DO NOT Study the Interaction of Drug Combinations...Even Pharmacist ARE NOT TOTALLY SURE!
No one knows Your Drug Combination Outcome OR The Side Effects to come...Until, yes Until your unhealthy side effects present themselves. Oops...Time again to "play around at this drug combination and dosage game.

BE PROACTIVE YOURSELF...BE INFORMED ABOUT EVERY MEDICATION YOU ARE TAKING....AND GET THIS BOOK!
"WORST PILLS, BEST PILLS" a consumers guide to avoiding Drug-Induced Death or Illness.
I Believe Everyone Should Own This Book OR Give it to someone you care about! WHY? Becasue We all Know Someone on More than One Medication...right?
It could Save Your Life or Someone You Love!

NOWLEDGE IS POWER!
And Link Everyone You Know to My Blog!

NEVER...NEVER GO COLD TURKEY OFF ANY MEDICATION!
This shocks the body and serious symptoms can occur.
CONTACT your Pharmacist and they should be able to assist you with lowering your dosages daily or weekly.
Your Drugs Reactions Could Be the Cause for Your Chronic Illness and Unhealthy Symptoms.

OK BACK TO MY STORY...
So now, due to my nasty stomach cramping from the first antibiotic...my doctor switched me over to another antibiotic called Ceclor. Now knowing that it takes at least 2 weeks to have the first drug filtered out of the kidneys to avoid a drug interaction....I now have 2 meds beginning an interaction. Yes I am now a Guinea Pig for this New Untested Drug Combination. Let's see what happens. Because believe me--No One Knows...No One Knew the Outcome.

Now just a few days later...I developed a very small and very irritating, ever so itchy rash in the crease of my one arm. I was soon given another medication to treat the itchiness from the rash called Atarax (This itchy rash symptom should have been the first clue to the beginning of a dangerous drug interaction...but no physician knew the signs...not one)
I felt I needed a second opinion as I did not feel right with the first diagnosis and the way I was feeling about my medication protocol. Yet still...the next physician told me to continue to take the antibiotic and to increase my anti-itch drug because my rash was driving me crazy and it was NOT subsiding. He also told me to continue to take the antibiotic the prior doctor prescribed me for my sinus infection.

A week later I was feeling so much anxiety, nervousness and insomnia. My head felt so weird and dizzy. Like a nervous, throbbing tingling all across my forehead and top of my head. I also had throbbing eye pressure. Obviously I was concerned. I returned to the doctor, described how I was feeling and was once AGAIN administered an anti-anxiety drug called Ativan...which soon I was told to increase the dosage as I could NOT sleep. Soon, still with severe insomnia...I was later prescribed Ambien. (which is very addictive!)
WOW... Knowing Now what I know about Self-Care and the Dangers of Drug Interactions..this is sooooooooo scary! My body was indeed becoming a Ticking Toxic Explosive Time Bomb! It was just a matter of time, before I would be fighting for my life and for hours...No one knew what was happening to me. No one in St. Frances Hospital had EVER seen Steven Johnson Disease before...no one!
How could this Be Health Care? How Could This Even Be Legal?

Now mind you...this was over 17 years ago. A time when I thought eating a Snickers bar with protein peanuts for lunch was healthy. I mean the commercial said it was a "quick pick-me-up intake of protein for those busy days." And as a single mom...I was busy. I had a small but thriving Anti-aging business as a Medical Esthetician...while also raising my beautiful 5 year old daughter. Needless to say...like so many of us...I had no clue of what a good diet was or any concept of what good self care might be... I had no clue how vital nutrition and healthy eating was to the quality of my health. Of course my daughter too was now suffering from my poor food choices. And sad but true...IF we EVER had an uncomfortable symptom....we just headed to the doc's office for an evaluation and usually ended up on another medication to "fix it." Boy, retracing all this now...I cannot believe how ignorant and naive I was back then.

So yes...back then I never even drank water...did not like the taste. We sure drank lots of orange juice, milk and diet soda though. Yuk, Yuk, Yuk!:-(
(Which now I know, all fruit juices are no different than eating a liquid candy bar...they are just a liquid jolt of sugar- dangeroulsy raising blood sugars levles causing symptoms like headaches, fatigue, dizziness and more. And then drinking all this milk daily? Yuk!

Go Read My Posting on Why Is Dairy Making and Keeping You Sick? No wonder I always had headaches and so many digestive symptoms.... my poor daughter too. And our water was giving her a stomach ache. And I thought she just wanted juice instead fo drinking water.
Come to find out=drinking tap water was overly chlorinated and very unhealthy for the digestive and dindeed taste nasty! Unfiltered water is full of dangerous and so much toxic bacteria.
Another Post coming on "Why is Filtered Water So Vital to Good Health and Why is Dehyration Dangerous?" Note= Start drinking 4= 6 oz glasses of filtered water throughout you day... See how you feel. It may amaze you :-)

Another Blog coming on "What ARE Healthy, and Unhealthy Food Types"
Back to my Story
So yes...years ago my daughter and I also ate lots of dairy, assuming this was good protein and calcium for our bones...right? Plus I would go hours without eating anything at all. Well maybe a snickers bar or a cookie or a glass of milk. And knowing what I know now...how in hell could my brain NOT feel dizzy or fatigued with severe headaches and sinus pressure and always dealing with constipation. Milk and cheese creates mucous and congestion. My little girl was now developing the same unhealthy symptoms. Sad huh?

I was so ignorant to any substantial knowledge of good self care, supplementation or healthy foods. And I sure had no idea about "Food Sensitivities or How Sugar and a High Carbohydrate Diet causes major blood sugar highs and lows---creating major Brain Behavior Disorders and symptoms like: dizziness, headaches, mood swings, severe fatigue and depression, gas, bloating, constipation"
Another Blog Coming on "What Going Hours Without Eating Causes Severe Brain Dysfunction and Depression?"

I also had NO fears of taking medications. None. After all, my doctor, a highly trained Health Care Professional had to have all the answers to heal me and teach to live a healthier life...right? I mean he must know what and why and how to prevent me from getting sicker right? He must know have medical evidence that all the drugs I was on would make me better right? WRONG!

In the world of Alternative Medicine and Nutritional counseling...
continually being prescribed medication after medication is called The Medication Train Wreck Effect. I was already there! And thousands of you are living it now, aren't you?
Many of you could already be a walking time bomb of a toxic reaction to a drug.

BE INFORMED! There IS a Healthier Way!

OK BACK TO MY STORY...
So over a period of a year...I was living still with unhealthy symptoms, and now taking 6 medications daily! And I still felt worse than ever! What the heck was going on here?
6 medications and still no signs of good health? This was Crazy! Or was I crazy to believe THIS was my answer to Health.
Supposedly all these toxic meds I was on was now prescribed to treat developing issues like digestive colitis, depression, insomnia and headaches. Actually to find out...all the side effects from all these toxic meds I was on WERE THE UNDERLYING CAUSE of all my continual chronic health issues. I kept getting sicker. This was Madness!

Little did I know at the time, due to my poor diet and busy, busy lifestyle...
I was actually very malnourished dealing with many nutritional deficiencies...severly hypoglycemic with major blood sugar issues.

My body was trying to tell me I was So Nutritionally Out Of Balance...So Malnourished.
If only I had learned somehow, someway, from someone... HOW to decipher all these unhealthy symptoms. All my body wanted me to do was Nourish it with what it thrives on...which is healthy nutrients. Who knew back then...who knew?

Remember...The body is a machine...and Health IS the mechanical process...who knew?

I mean after all...why should I doubt my doctor's diagnosis or remedy?
Isn't it called Health Care?

So now... just 8 months later, taking this Health Care Physician prescribed medication protocol daily...side effect after side effect...still feeling sooooooooo sick, so weak and now so worried.

I ended up in the ER at St. Frances Hospital, in Federal Way. After checking my vital signs and the spreding of this itchy rash...once again I was given yet another medication for pain. I was immediately hospitalized. I had not eaten for days and was completely dehydrated and very, very ill with a rash slowly spreading all over my body. No one knew what was happening to me.

Within 2 hours, nurses and doctors coming in and out with puzzled faces... watched in amazement as my entire body, inside and out was being bombarded with burning toxic blister type sores...they were now beginining to erupt everywhere! They were spreading at a very rapid rate! They were bursting out inside my mouth, down my throat and erupting out the palms of my hands and feet. They were painful, throbbing and they itched and burned like hell! I could not stop itching them! My skin was weeping and bleeding all over from the scratching. Immediately they strapped me down to a hospital bed to prevent me from itching the blisters for fear of infection. It was like the worse case of poison ivy you could imagine. It felt like sharp, hot stabbing, itchy bugs were crawling all over me...inside out. It was terrible! I had to be heavily sedated with pain and steroids. I was so frightened and now so very medicated.

There were moments, being so sedated...twirling in and out of consciousness... I felt like I was literally dreaming...feeling like I was stuck in a terrible nightmare. But I was not..I was living it.... it was real, and it was hell!

IV's were administered everywhere. Everyone was plugging me into this machine, that machine. My internal organs were beginning to develop infections. The deadly toxins from all the medication build up was attacking every cell in my body. I was running a fever of over 104 degrees that lasted for days! I was literally burning up from the inside out!

I so remember feeling and seeing so much fear, panic and concern on the many faces of the doctors and nurses who had NEVER seen this before. This IV, that IV. No one knew what was happening to me! No one knew.

17 years ago Steven Johnson Syndrome Disease had not been validated or researched much. Now it is! Search the Internet now...attorney after attorney has a website to take legal action against this disease and the interaction of drugs due to patient drug abuse.

At one time...I heard a nurse say..."maybe this is aids, her body is shutting down" Yes...that is what I heard! Can you imagine how I felt? I had no idea what was happening to me! I was so scared! I sincerely felt like my body was shutting down and that I was dying. And now I know...my body WAS shutting down from the high level of toxicity and I could have died. No one knew how to control this avalanche. No one knew the outcome.

That is exactly what Steven Johnson Syndrome Disease is. It is an uncontrollable toxic reaction build up and outbreak of medications and it burns organs from the inside out...I survived...many did not!

Finally a new physician entered my room took a scraping culture from one of the toxic sores on my leg. Now Remember--these sores covered over 90% of my body by now. They were everywhere!

Finally, hours later, heavily sedated, strapped down, IV tubing everywhere. A female physician returned to my room and had confirmed I was having a severe drug interaction.

I was diagnosed with a life threatening drug reaction disease called Steven Johnson Syndrome (google this disease--it is shocking!)

I will never forget what this doctor said once they knew the diagnosis.
She leaned over to me...her face and tone very much displayed levels of great concern, regret even fear. She said to me "Diane, you are having a severe drug reaction called Steven Johnson Syndrome. This is very rare which is why it has taken us so long to diagnose. We CANNOT STOP this avalanche of toxic blisters from your body. However we believe we can SLOW IT DOWN and try to control it so it does not damage your internal organs. Steroids and pain medications have been placed into your IV's. Can you try to remember your past medication history? What medications have you been taking and when?" (Why the hell wasn't a physician concerned about my drug history way back when. When they were so eager to keep prescribing me more meds! This was Crazy!!! Come to find out...the continual drugs they kept prescribing me was the cause for the severity of this toxic avalanche)

So, this doctor continued to say "We are so sorry you are in this state Diane. We are trying to control this outbreak and will try to make you as comfortable as possible until this subsides. We are sorry for the arm restraints but your uncontrollable scratching could lead to infections. We need to prevent you from itching these blisters. Can we contact your family?"
That was almost word for word. I will NEVER forget it! I was so scared. My body and all the sores looked so terrible.

I was still getting sicker by the minute...and they all knew it.
Many of my internal organs were now becoming infected. I was developing kidney infections, urinary and severe bladder infections, gum and mouth infections, swelling and inflammation was in every joint. The burning inside me was unbearable. I was in so much pain!
My face swelled to where it hurt from the stretching of my skin. My eyes were burning like fire. Soon the congestion in my lungs led to pneumonia. It was obvious...no one knew how to stop this...no surgery, no drug...it was a growing and thriving, fast paced disease. I feared I was going to die!

How could this be happening at the care of physicians who took an oath "to do no harm?" I mean they prescribed these meds to bring me back to better health right?

Hospitalized now for almost 2 weeks, day after day, IV after IV, physicians struggling to get control of this toxic burning avalanche. I was in a living hell and they knew it! I'm sure they HAD good intentions...however...they Lacked Knowledge in the dangers of drug interactions and they lacked Knowledge in the Power of Nutrition...and I was now paying a very high price for their ignorance!
Self Care IS Health Care...NOT more and more toxic medications.

Finally after 11 days in the hospital, the meds beginning to be reduced, the blisters had stopped erupting and I had a sense, for the first time...that this thing...this disease was subsiding. Still not knowing what, or if any internal damage was done, I still told the doctor I was leaving the hospital the next day. Against their medical recommendation...2 days later, I willingly checked myself out of the hospital. I do not even remember how or who took me home. All I know is I knew...it was time for me to go.

I just knew, deep inside , with such a strong spiritual calling...I needed to return home to do my own research and discovery of self care. Despite the struggle with the physicians to still remain hospitalized...and still very weak and sick...I signed all the necessary paperwork for my dismissal and I left.

Without any doubt...I knew My Responsibility, somehow, someway was to figure out Why and How this happened to me and How to Prevent this from EVER happening again.
Not just for myself...but also for the safety of my young daughter who had already endured too many years of being over medicated with antibiotics and steroid sprays for chronic sinus infections. I needed to figure this out so I could slowly learn how to wean Michele off all "her drugs" and begin new ways of living and healing ourselves, without the dangers of medications again.
SOMETHING WAS WRONG HERE...AND SOMETHING HAD TO CHANGE!

Now remember...at the time this was all happening to me...I had a small 5 year old daughter to raise. I was divorced, self employed as a Medical Esthetician with an in-home studio. Her father was immediately contacted and Michele was now in his care until we could figure all this out. And I might add, and even until this day...Michele's father has always been a loving, dependable and strong support system for her and for me. Thank God he was there to take care of her then. He temporarily lived back at the house to prevent any additional worry and stress on Michele. It was worrisome enough that her mom was not at home and in the hospital. I still was more worried about Michele's health and being on all the meds "she" was on and what to do next.

Eventually Michele came to the hospital to see me. I vaguely remember...however I do remember trying to hide all the open blister sores still all over my body, trying to cover them with those dang scratchy bed sheets. Even the sheets touching the sores was painful...however I did not want Michele to see them. They were disgusting to see. Being so medicated...I barely remember her visit. I do remember her father holding her in his arms and the disturbing look on her face. She was so young, so not sure of what was happening to me. I could not hold her...as the sores were all over my arms. I cried when she left, as even now as I write this...my eyes are tearing up. How sad for both of us. But what a Gift all this suffering ended up to be in our lives.

Also, the ONLY place these toxic blisters did not spread or break out was on my face. Yes...my face was spared. Swollen, infected and puffy eyes...but no facial scarring or blisters. Thank God!

Most cases of Steven Johnson Syndrome blisters Do spread to the eyes and face. Causing internal scarring and even blindness. Now I know I was the lucky one in so many ways...so many ways. . Google this disease--It may save your life or someone you love.

So now back at home...still so weak and with so many unanswered questions and concerns. My daughter spending most of her days after school with her father until I could regain my strength...

Here is where I would begin to enter a world of diligent research about the Dangers of Medications verses the Life changing benefits of Nutritional Awareness, Healthy Diets and Alternative Medicine. WHAT A DIFFERENCE!! What a life-saver!

This world of knowledge would soon Change my life and redirect my career in guiding others with Hope and a safer and healthier way to live.

My Greatest Gift, not just to myself...but as a mother...for the first time I had such a sense of ease, a sense of relief, a sense of empowerment. I KNEW without a doubt HOW to develop better health for my young daughter. A child who'd already experienced too many years of chronic infections and overuse of antibiotics and toxic meds at the hands of Western Medicine. No More! I would NEVER place her at risk with dangerous medication intake again.

Within 3 months, Michele and I both began to experience first hand, the amazing benefits of using diet and nutritional supplementation as remedies for treating sickness, unhealthy symptoms and strengthening our weakened immune systems.

Day after day, week after week I was amazed at the incredible healthy changes that were occurring within our body's. My entire life and Michele's up until then had suffered with so many chronic health issues and drug side effects. Now we were both becoming symptom free, medication free and on our way to better health.

I was astonished, after so many years of suffering...and all those trips to the doctors... Years with Not One Doctor EVER speaking to us about Nutrition, Diet or anything other than medications. They had no idea How to Help Us Develop Better Health.
I mean isn't it called Health Care?
What is Health Care anyway?

Seems it should be called Medication Care...Not Health Care.

Taking several Medications with dangerous side effects is Poor Health....Not Health Care.
One drug generally ALWAYS leads to another....agree? Been there?
Something is Wrong here? Don't You Agree?

I wish Physicians were better informed as to Keeping us Healthy, or teaching us better self care...than just treating our symptoms with toxic and dangerous medications.

Who'd of thought...My deepest fears and painful Suffering would indeed become my Greatest Gift to myself, my daughter, my friends and to the many clients and people who pass my way and suffering and Open to The Power of Alternative Medicine and Supplementation?

Now 15 years later, in my late 50's...and my daughter at 25...
We both continue daily to live a medication free, very healthy lifestyle. Daily...and I do mean daily (which is the key).... we continue to practice firsthand the amazing benefits of diet and nutrition in maintaining our health and away from the need of ANY harmful medications.
Yes...we are both healthy, happy, slim and symptom free.

However, life may still throw our way at times a bit of flu bug, a cold virus...but very rarely.

When this does occur...WE DO NOT resort to ANY antibiotics or medications. Instead we double up on our OPC-3 antioxidant supplement, we increase our Probiotic intake, increase our Omega III's...drink more water and hot tea to quickly rid this toxic bacteria from within the body and soon we are back up and feeling great!

Did you know?

Give The Power to Your Body...Naturally...and it Will Heal You.
Toxins and bacteria will undoubtedly enter the body...Our job with these toxins is to rid them out of the body as quickly as possible in order to prevent secondary infections. The quicker these toxins are eliminated from our cells...the quicker our unhealthy symptoms disappear.

Stay Tuned so YOU too can Learn and Practice Better Self Care---

Be Patient...with yourself.

NUTRITION HEALS...Let food be your medicine.

ARE YOU READY FOR CHANGE...READY TO FEEL BETTER?
WELCOME TO NUTRITIONAL KNOWLEDGE...It is Life-Changing!

One Step at a time...with willingness to make diet changes and a few supplementations...
You Can Learn to Live and Feel Healthier.

Without Change...There IS No Change. :-)

So Stay tuned and keep checking in and out of My Healthy Blog.

Til when,
Many warm and healthy blessings come your way....

Because I have been there...I care.

Diane Frances CNC

Why Are Dairy Products Keeping You Sick?

2009-06-03T19:00:00.000-07:00

DID YOU KNOW?

ALL Dairy products create an excessive amount of mucous and inflammation within the ear, nose, throat, joints, lungs and digestive system. Causing an increase and overgrowth of bacteria to multiply. Here is where infections begin.

If everyone removed cheese and milk from their diet--their overall health would be better.
Protect your health from the side effects of dairy by supplementing with Isotonix Calcium

Yes...dairy was the MAJOR cause of all my daughters congestion and continual sinus infections. If only I had known! How sad she had to suffer for so long. Take all those harmful medications that literally were destroying her immune system and all her good digestive bacteria.

We removed dairy from our diets over 15 years ago. What a difference in our health! It was like a miracle to us. Years of feeling congested, chronic coughing, infections all those digestive disorders.

More than 10 years my daughter struggled with continual sinus issues back and forth to the doctors and more and more meds. Now at 25 years young, my daughter has yet entered a physicians office for an antibiotic due to sinus or allergy issues.
Dairy just does not exist in our diets...nor do antibiotics.
NUTRITION AND DIET MATTER!

ANYONE WHO HAS CHRONIC CONGESTION, SINUS, EAR, DIGESTIVE OR ALLERGY ISSUES WOULD BENEFIT GREATLY BY REMOVING DAIRY FROM THEIR DIET~
The health benefits will soon become obvious...usually in just a few days.

SO WHY NO DAIRY?...let me explain? Try to create a "visual" here as I describe this.

The mucous binding agent, sticky, very hard to break down that is in ALL dairy products is called "casein, or caseinate" Read your labels, as it is in many sauces and dairy products!Casein is a thickening agent used to bind things together in ALL dairy products.It is a phlegm-like (pronounced "flem") liquid texture. It gives cheese that thick gummy texture. :-) Milk, all cheeses, cottage cheese and yes even yogurt...are made with this phlegm-like ingredient that can indeed cause excess mucous build up leading to inflammation within the ear, nose and throat canals. Not to mention it shuts down the digestive system leading to toxic build up. Which then leads to infections. ALL DISEASE AND SYMPTOMS, can be traced to an excessive build up of toxic waste and bacteria in the body and cells. Toxins are poisons.

Another great benefit of taking OPC-3---This powerful antioxidant taken daily slowly removes toxins from the cell walls.

WHICH IS THE KEY TO HEALTH---What goes in...Must come out.
Stored up toxins are responsible for almost EVERY DISEASE KNOWN TO MAN.

DID YOU KNOW? Casein is like drinking Elmer's Glue.

You can actually make your own Elmer's Glue with milk and vinegar? Add 2 to 1 milk and vinegar in a glass, microwave it for about 2 minutes. Then just leave it on the counter over night. By morning will have created the same glue like consistency as Elmer's Glue.

Now why would you want this substance in your body? Are you getting this visual yet?

Casein is a nasty mucous binding agent that actually binds bacteria and toxins, and allergens to your cells walls preventing these toxins to quickly pass out of the body.

Once our cells are saturated with this sticky substance...internally we are creating a similar environment as a laboratory petri dish. This testing dish is what physicians and labs use to grow bacteria. Hmmmmmm...sounds quite familiar to me.
This lab covered dish is placed in a dark, warm, undisturbed area (just like our warm cells inside our body)...placing it here to grow more bacteria in order to then (hopefully) identify the type bacteria to determine the right antibiotic to destroy it.

However...and as many of you know...physicians rarely now take a culture test BEFORE...the key word here is BEFORE they know what the bacteria is. They prescribe you the antibiotic THEY THINK will kill this particular harmful bacteria. And In most cases it does not...WHY? Because it is a VIRUS!! Antibiotics DO NOT affect a Virus. Do you see how our immune systems and the vital, good bacteria within our digestive gets destroyed? THIS IS CRAZY!
Antibiotics are the number one cause for severe chronic digestive disorders...like colitis, ulcers, diarrhea, IBS (irritable bowel syndrome) Of course our diet sure plays a role here too.

DAIRY PRODUCTS HAVE NO GOOD BENEFIT TO OUR HEALTH...at all.
It is best to take an Isotonix Calcium supplement. The disadvantages of dairy in your diet to get calcium is NOT worth the damage is does internally.
Take an Isotonix Liquid Calcium and drink your way to better health!

Casein inflames the throat, sinus canals and slows down the digestive system....big time!
It also dehydrates the cells. All this can lead to constipation...which then leads to toxic waste build up...causing inflammation all over the body. All this toxic build up is actually a form of self poisoning, which over years CAN and DOES lead to disease.

Get on OPC-3!
CONSTIPATION and INFLAMMATION IS AFFILIATED TO ALMOST EVERY DISEASE KNOWN TO MAN.
Our toxic digestive system TRIED to warn us...right?

HERE'S A TEST-It Works! Your body will LOVE you for it!

Eliminate ALL dairy from your diet for one week...none! Replace your poor dairy addiction with more filtered water intake, as well as drink hot teas in the evening or whenever you can. Hot liquids will loosen the mucous build up. (Add some slices of an orange, or pink grapefruit or lime to your water...taste so refreshing!)

I guarantee you...IF you have ANY kind of digestive issues or chronic sinus infections, coughing or allergy issues....Your symptoms WILL decrease...even dramatically.

My daughter and I have been off dairy products for over 12 years now. What a difference!
Yet, once in a great while, in moderation...we may indulge in a tad of dairy here and there. And always, within a day or two...the mucous congestion returns. Reminding us of how we use to feel all the time...stuffed up and congested for days.

*It takes at least a week to completely rid the mucous build up from Casein.
Can you see and possibly imagine this visual inside your body?

Nutrition OR Dangerous Drugs- A CHOICE!

2009-05-31T12:17:00.000-07:00

Nutritional Awareness or Dangerous Medications?
A Choice...BE INFORMED!

DID YOU KNOW? "More than 200,000 people a year die in American hospitals from adverse reactions to medications. Making drug reactions one of the leading causes of death in this country" --Journal of American Medical Association study, as quoted in the New York Times

As a Certified Nutritional Counselor CNC, over 20 years of extensive research in food sensitivities, diet, digestive care and the power of specific supplementation...I continue to consult and witness amazing health changes with nutrition-based therapies, and treatments reaching people all over the United States and abroad from my website and blog now....all in hopes to educate them toward the prevention of disease and the knowledge and dangers of drug interactions....

Within my journey I myself experienced first hand...not just read it, not just studied it or researched it...I lived the amazing health benefits of Nutriton...verses the dangerous side effects of medications...that almost destroyed me!

Yes...I have found overwhelming evidence, first hand -By choosing to drink filtered water daily, eating specific food types often, while eliminating some, taking liquid antioxidants (OPC-3), Probiotics, Omega III's and a liquid multiple vitamin=YOU CAN, without a doubt... Prevent and even Reverse far more aspects of poor mental and physical health, eliminate symptoms AND disease, than ANY doctor, hospital or medication known to man.

It is important to identify the stressors in your eating habits, enviroment and understanding their effect on your health, your hormonal balance, energy, sleep, weight, immunity and overall mental and physical well being.

Nutritional Knowledge IS the key to achieving peace and harmony in your life, while improving your overall health.

DID YOU KNOW? Your Good Health First begins in your digestive system? As does your first unhealthy symptoms. Proper internal digestive cleansing can alleviate the need for harmful medications, diseases and unhealthy warning signals like:

Total Health begins in your gut =Digestive Health Doesn't Just Happen!

So if your GI tract is not in optimal health, then your overall health will be compromised creating symptoms such as: (Please Note=the symptoms highlighted in RED below were a major part of my daily Chronic Poor Health...UNTIL I began eating, cleansing living a healthier lifestyle.
Nutrition Works!

Chronic gas, bloating
Weight gain...especially in the stomach area
Ulcers
Acid reflux
Constipation
Crohne's disease
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
Arthritis and all muscle and joint pain
Chronic fatigue
Chronic headaches
Depression
Anxiety
Skin disorders-eczema, psoriasis, acne and many more!

There IS Proven Nutritonal Evidence that ALL the above symptoms CAN INDEED be healed by Nutritional Therapy. Harmful Medications is NOT the way back to Good Health!

One Medication Always Leads To Another...Drug side effects destroy our health!

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Nutritional Awareness and a Good Powerful Antioxidant Can Indeed Enhance the Quality of Your Life.

The Greatest Gift we can teach and give ourselves and our children is =
The Gift of Eating Healthy and the Power of Daily Supplementation.
It is a Gift That Last A Lifetime

And It is Never too late to start...Never! KNOWLEDGE IS POWER!

The difference is Life-Changing and Life Saving!

If anyone is taking more than one medication...You Need To Get This Book or Go Directly to Wost Pills Best Pills website link! It could Save Your life or someone you love!

"WORST PILLS, BEST PILLS"...a Consumers Guide to Avoiding Drug-Induced Death or Illness

DID YOU KNOW?

Western Medicine and Physicians Do not study Prevention or Nutrition.
5,200 hours to become a licensed physician and only 6 hours nutritional research is required. 6 hours! Yet...they take an oath "To do no harm."

The ONLY education a doctor gets about a New medication before administering it...is from a pamphlet or a minimal discussion with a Drug rep.

Many of my clients through the years were drug reps. Their story's were shocking but true. Many left the profession due to the fear of what "they knew" was happening or going to happen in promoting such dangerous drugs.

If Knowledge Really is Power...than where are the physicians getting their education from the thousands of medication reactions out there?
They never leave their office for on-going education. They are too busy.
Doctors Depend on Drug reps, brochures and spec sheets for their education on medication YOU are so willing to take. How can this be legal?
Pharmacists have to attend more than 5 years of school JUST studying medications.
Doesn't this seem reversed?

So why do these medical worlds NOT collide together as a Team, to prevent such disaster and death with drug interactions?

ATTENTION:
If You Sincerely Believe that Your Doctor Knows About the Dangers of Drug Interactions... then tell me WHY= "MORE THAN 200,000 PEOPLE A YEAR DIE IN HOSPITALS DUE TO DRUG INTERACTIONS. MAKING DRUG DEATHS THE NUMBER ONE CAUSE OF DEATH IN THIS COUNTRY"
--Journal of American Medical Association study, as quoted in the New York Times

Why DO WE place our life and our health and self-care in the hands of synthetic drugs?
WHY? Because we DO NOT know any better. Who teaches us about food and supplementation...NOT THE DOCTORS!

I did not know any better 17 years ago when a fatal drug combination almost took my life and was destroying my young daughters health and immune system. I Did Not Know.

I did not know back then
How to Eat
What to eat
How to shop for good food
How to Prepare or Cook Simple Healthy, Tasty Snacks and Meals
What Liquid Supplementations to take daily
(Soon a Great Recipe Posting---Keep checking back)

I did know that EVERY Nutritional Defencience has a Warning Signal.

Now You too can Learn that There is a Better and Healthier Way To Live...

I, myself, my daughter and so many of my clients and thousands of others are CHOOSING NUTRITIONAL THERAPY instead of the dangers of medications.
YOUR CHOICE...and YOUR LIFE.

BE INFORMED, BE CONCERNED AND LEARN BETTER SELF CARE!

Now I am not saying there is NEVER a time or place for a medication.
However... What I am saying and What my studies and research continually prove and reveal....
Most Medications should ONLY be prescribed for a short period of time.
Not as an on going treatment to Better Health.
Better Self Care and Life Style Changes should and NEED to be discussed and educated
BEFORE continual medications are prescribed.
Our Health is Our Job to Nourish and Protect....NOT a medication.

We need to Learn how to get back on track with our Self-Care and Healthier Choices in Our Eating Habits.

Medications MAY...they May be relieving one symptom...but I guarantee you...at the same time the toxicity of all medications are also beginning to destroy other healthy cells and organs within the body....leading to other chronic health issues....especially poor digestive health.

Together, with hope no fear and No More Medications...My Life emerged into the world of Alternative Medicine and the Power of Nutrition and Supplementation.
WOW...what a difference! I felt so blessed, so ignited to share all this with so many suffering people....so many on soooooooooo many toxic medications...over and over again!

GIVE THE POWER TO THE BODY, and it will heal you!

The Body Is A Machine...Health IS The Mechanical Process.'

Self Care is Health Care-----InsideOUT.

I can NEVER imagine going back to my old eating habits...
nor will I ever, , stop taking OPC-3, Omega III's, Multi-vitamin or Probiotics...
nor my morning veggie and fruit fiber drink smoothie.

What is this Bullet Machine--Morning Smoothie Drink ?
(Coming soon in a another Posting)

This Morning Smoothie is One of The Healthiest, Easiest Blend of Fruits and Veggies You Could EVER Give Your Body and Brain.
Mixing these particular High Alkaline fruits and veggies daily WILL Immediately Begin To Change How You Feel! And it will increase your energy Big Time!

COMING SOON ON MY HEALTHY RECIPE POSTING---STAY TUNED!
You're gonna love it!

Yes...I may have learned the hard way that Self Care IS Health... after recovering from a life-threatenting drug reactions disease.
However I sincerely believe...Everything In Life Happens For A Reason.
And in Our Most Deepest Moments of Suffering, Can Lead Us to One Of The Greatest Gift of all....The Awareness to Nutritional Healing.

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER...even if we endured deep suffering to get the lesson...
at least We Are Here Now...and it is Now Your Choice!

"When you learn you teach, and when you get you give"
So Learn it, live it and pass it on. :-)

I cannot imagine doing anything more worthwhile than to be able to contribute to the quality of someones mental or physical well being. For without Good Health---everything we do is impacted by fear, negativity and pain.

I have overwhelming evidence and research and proven studies that reveal...
Almost every unhealthy symptom we are living with is due to our poor diet, our nutritional deficiencies, food sensitivities and the build up of toxic waste in our cells and within our digestive system.

Our unhealthy symptoms are Vital warning signals to us. These symptoms are there for a Good Reason! Our body and brain are TRYING to convey to us how malnourished and toxic we are.
Yet who ever taught us how to decipher these uncomfortable symptoms?
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER...learn to listen to your body!

Western medicine ONLY treats our symptoms...NOT the cause.
One medications generally always leads to another medications due to their harmful side effects.
In Alternative Medicine We call this a Medication Train Wreck Effect.
This is Crazy Making! This should be illegal! Yet it is our Western Medicine methods of giving us good health. This is so wrong and so out of control!

Why doesn't your doctor EVER ask you=
Drink any water? Eat any fruit and vegetables?
Take any vitamins or minerals? Never!
Medications is NOT the answer to Better Health....Nutrition is.

ATTENTION: There is ALWAYS...let me repeat... ALWAYS a poor nutritionally depleted diet and unhealthy lifestyle associated with every unhealthy symptom you are living with.

When your body and brain are malnourished and full of toxins....believe me...
It will let you know! So...how are you feeling?

We need to STOP-LOOK and LISTEN to what our symptoms are trying to tell us...to warn us. Our body has but ONE WAY to communicate to us when we are OUT OF BALANCE, malnourished, dehydrated, full of toxins and nutritionally depleated.

It is these unhealthy symptoms that could save our lives and help us to Promote better health for ourselves. But only when we learn how to decipher them...
FIRST--look at your poor diet and lifestyle.

TRUE HEALTH BEGINS IN THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM...always!

Your diet can Heal You....as much as it can destroy you.
LET FOOD BE YOUR MEDICINE in healing your deteriorating health...
Not more harmful medications!

"So Yes...a near death drug reaction disease called Steven Johnson Syndrome ...turned out to be my greatest blessing. That unfortunate experience continues to ignite my healthy eating habits, and my nutritional research and drives My Passion to Make a Difference when and where I can."

You will BEGIN to be aware of your Poor food choices and excessive Sugar intake and how your diet IS making you sick!

You will learn that your Sugar and high processed carbohydrate food raises your blood sugars and causes insulin resistance and makes you sooooooooo fatigued and malnourished and brain dead.
This is where the Dangers Begin in your digestive system and bring you closer to Diabetes.

You will learn how a Sugar and a high-carb diet is a killer to every cell and organ in your body and your brain! And it you DO NOT make healthier choices and continue to eat this way...
Diabetes is right around the corner. This is a FACT...not my opinion.

You will Learn how your Sugar and a high-carb diet IS a major cause of your mood swings and depression and what we call Sleepy Brain Fog.

Know what I mean? Been there? Oh I'm sure many of you are...more often than not. :-)

Diabetes is a Disease of a High, Sugared, carbohydrate diet.
Your Diet..NOT your age...produced your Diabetes...and your diet can cure it!

CHANGE YOU DIET AND CHANGE YOUR LIFE!

Begin educating yourself on the amazing benefits of taking OPC-3---
Click on the videos below for more detailed info about this powerful antioxidant.
STOP...LOOK...LISTEN

EVERYONE WHO HAS BLOOD----SHOULD BE TAKING OPC-3...at every age!

OPC-3 - is like a blood cleaner. That is what antioxidants do. They stop the radical damage of toxins to the cells.
One cap daily mixed in water (taste great too!) begins removing dangerous toxins from your cells. This supplement is more powerful to your body than any other supplement protocol.
Toxic build-up in the body is always affiliated to disease.
oxins Cause Disease and Inflammation. Antioxidants Cleanse toxins from the body.
OPC-3 is a GREAT place to start!

SOON TO COME---
My Favorite, Quick and Simple, Tasty and Oh So Healthy recipes...
snacks, delicious morning smoothies and more. You're going to Love eating and feeling healthy!
And it IS simple. It all begins at the Grocery Store. I will share with you the Must Haves to always keep in your refrigerator, freezer and pantry for quick, healthy meals Anytime!
Your Health First Begins In Your Grocery Store.

And remember: Your brain is attached to your body. Therefore... if your body is nutritionally malnourished...so is your brain! Creating symptoms like depression, dizziness, mood swings, poor cognitive thinking, fatigue and more....are you getting it yet?
Your brain is fueled, or lack of, what you put in your body and unfortunately, We cannot separate our Brain from our Body...they are team. The malnourished Body will always effect how the Brain functions. Get it yet?
So going hours without eating nutritional fuel---your brain cannot function properly. Here is where Brain mood swings come in. YOUR BRAIN IS MALNOURISHED PEOPLE! It needs fuel to function. Feed it, Fuel it and do it often. Not just one or two times a day.
The Brain needs Healthy Nutrition throughout your day. Eat and graze with small healthy snacks throughout your day. Going hours without nutritional fuel IS the cause of brain behavior disorders...like dizziness, depressions, brain fog, fatigue and more!

Are you done suffering yet? There is Hope!
One step at a time...YOU can live a much healthier life than you thought possible.

Myself, my daughter and all my many clients and friends are walking testimonials.

NUTRITIONAL AWARENESS IS THE KEY TO BETTER HEALTH
CHANGE YOUR DIET, Learn the power of daily supplementing AND YOU WILL CHANGE YOU LIFE...at any age!

So Stay Tuned and get ready to Feel Better!

Til when-

Many healthy thoughts, blessing and knowledge come your way,

I care, because I have been there...

Diane Frances CNC

Why Everyone Needs OPC-3

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