YouTube – Go vegetarian / vegan. Save YOUR life, as well as the life of animals and of the planet
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Loading ...Speech by Lubomir Stoyanov on the health research that shows the advantages to a vegetarian or vegan diet.
“… Vegetarian and vegan diets are becoming more mainstream, and the number of vegetarians and vegans in the United States and in Europe is expected to increase over the next decade. There is also a growth in medical interest in veg nutrition; the number of articles in the scientific literature related to the veg topic has increased more than 7 times over the last 40 years.
In addition to looking forward to the lifelong enjoyment of the nutritious and natural vegan diet, the people also know that their choice will not only save the lives of animals, but also their own.
The American Dietetic Association, which is the world’s largest organization of food and nutrition professionals, stated that a healthy veg diet, appropriate for all ages, can ensure lower blood cholesterol levels, reduced blood pressure, lower rates of hypertension, and more.
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via YouTube – Go vegetarian / vegan. Save YOUR life, as well as the life of animals and of the planet.
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David Wolfe’s latest video on Candita
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Candida is a yeast-like substance which naturally lives in our bodies.
This yeast can expand, take over our digestive tract, and DESTROY our health if not kept in check.
Millions of people all over the world are experiencing the negative effects of Candida running rampant in their bodies without even knowing they have it!
Check out David Wolfe’s latest video where you’ll discover exactly what Candida is, its nature and how it takes over your digestive tract. Most important you’ll learn how to cleanse your digestive system and remove it completely.
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ECO CHIC TV: OrganicLives
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ECO CHIC TV: Going Green Without Giving Up Your Jet~Set Lifestyle with guest host Kyle Johnstone interviewing Dylan Armour. Shot on location at OrganicLives in Vancouver.
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Discussion: Healers & Therapists News on LinkedIn
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The noble prize was issued twice back in 1933 to Dr. Otto Warburg for his finding that cancer cannot survive in an alkaline body. Google him, and healing cancer with alkalinity. Dark green leafy vegetables are alkaline, and so are cucumbers, celery, figs. Lemons and limes are highly alkaline despite being acidic outside of the body… they metabolize alkaline. My mother has healed from the pancreatic cancer that the doctors gave her one year to live… were going on 6 years now and she is healthier than ever.
1) abstain from foods and lifestyles that are acidic and / or toxic in any way
2) detox the body
3) focus on foods that are alkalizing and full of antioxidants. (eaten “live”, “raw” or uncooked)
Cancer ultimately is anaerobic asymmetrical cellular mutation. When cells are deprived of oxygen (due to acidity, and free radicals) they try to continue their “symmetrical” cellular division, but mess it up, and end up dividing “asymmetrical” – which is a mutation, which is cancer.
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Healing by way of natural laws, and why it’s all about your Homeostasis
(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...How Holistic Health can be yours by paying attention to your Homeostatic Balance.
Homeostasis is the scientific term for the tendency of an organism to maintain physiological and psychological stability – to regulate it’s internal balance (Milieu), it’s metabolic equilibrium. The fine balance between all the various fluids, nutrients, hormones, enzymes, waste toxins etc. in your (or any biological) system. I would include also your mental and spiritual balance as well. All of which is actively maintained by several complex biological mechanisms, as well as your overall lifestyle. You are what you eat (and expose your self to).
From Greek: homos, “equal”; and histemi, “to stand” lit. “to stand equally”; is the property of a system, or living organism, to self regulate it’s internal environment.
Health = Balance or Ease
Disease = Out of Balance or Lacking Ease
This means your body has evolved to maintain consistent awareness of it’s internal environment (‘milieu’), every second of your life, making adjustments to maintain the internal balance. When you have balance, you have ease, and health.
Balance of all the many:
-fluids -nutrients
-hormones -blood gas
-enzymes -waste levels
-temperature -hydration
-pH (Per Hydrogen) Acid/Alkaline -blood pressure
-sugar levels -blood gas
-toxins -symbiotic & pathogenic microbial levels
All the many events constantly going on inside of you to maintain balance while all are these fluids are pumping and many catalysts interacting within. You know your body is mostly fluid, so you can think of your body as an semi-enclosed ecosystem like an aquarium, terrarium, or garden.
Holistic health, is the approach of treating your body as a whole interconnected being who’s system is always actively maintaining this balance or (ideally) internal harmony, – always considering the entire body as a complete system rather than myopically focusing (specializing) on one particular symptom, body region or technique/drug.
“leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food” Hippocrates (father of modern medicine)
Pharmaceutical (Allopathic) medicine is almost entirely focused on the symptom; treating the pain or disease, with an allopath, or chemical (drug).
[* I should point out here that techniques like surgery predate (and are separate from) allopathy (drugging with foreign chemicals) by at least a thousand years, and one could even say, if properly applied, could be viewed as a natural healing art that would complement the holistic range of natural homeostasis assisting techniques]
The focus with holistic health is to concentrate on achieving and maintaining internal balance and improving overall health; physical, mental, spiritual & social factors in the person’s present and past environments.
‘Dis-ease’ simply means one’s homeostatic harmony is out of balance or ‘ease’. The medical term for this is “Toxemia”; the condition of being toxic. The toxins are the ‘dis’ in disease.
DEFINITION of Toxemia and crises of Toxemia: In the process of tissue building, metabolism, there is cell building; anabolism, and cell destruction; catabolism. The broken down tissue is toxic and in health, when nerve energy is normal, it is eliminated from the blood as fast as evolved. When nerve energy is dissipated from any cause, physical or mental excitement or bad habits, the body becomes enervated, when enervated, elimination is checked, causing a retention of toxin in the blood or Toxemia. This accumulation of toxin when once established will continue until nerve energy is restored by removing the causes. So-called disease is nature’s effort at eliminating the toxin from the blood. All so-called diseases are crises of Toxemia.
Health literally means being at ease. Physiological ease. A healthy garden is one where everything is in harmony – lush bio-dynamic organic - permaculture -mutually beneficial inter-planted ”companion” plants, which help defend each other from harm by their very intermixing (by fending of pests, or providing shade, wind shelter, ground cover, holding more / less water etc.).
We think of our bodies as being human, but actually there is more microbial mass in your body, than there are human cells. In fact there are many (10 – 100) times more microbial cells in your body, than there are human cells!
NEW: TEDTalks Speaker Bonnie Bassler receives standing ovations to “new” scientific discoveries about microbial interactions between each other and ourselves.TEDTalks Video: Bonnie Bassler on how Bacteria Communicate
We live in a symbiotic soup of organisms which make up our internal ecosystem. Most of the microbes are beneficial and actually NECESSARY, to our life. Yet allopathic medicine has been focused on trying poison microbes (by using anti-biotics), rather than support the healthy microbial and homeostatic balance. (which is like hunting bunnies with depleted uranium weapons; you might kill a few bunnies, but you also destroyed the forest and entire ecosystem).
We can support the symbiotic helpful (the plethora of varieties which make up the majority) of the microbes in our bodies, while inherently providing more competition for the un-symbiotic microbes. That is in essence what “Preventative Health” is all about. This was known back when Hippocrates, the father modern medicine AND holistic / homeopathic medicine was walking around about 2400 years ago in ancient Greece.
The most important question to ask, when you are deciding whether a health treatment is going to help you is; Does this help bring my body into ease? – does it help me create a harmonic homeostasis? That is where you are aiming – homeostatic harmony. Even if someone is trying to tell you your condition is ‘terminal’. If you want health, aim for health.
Now if a person is already ill and feeling ‘out-of-ease’, and their homeostatic balance is out of alignment, what would happen to that alignment if you then introduced a toxic chemical (pharmaceutical drug) into the persons homeostatic balance? Would it bring your natural balance into ease? Not at all – a new foreign chemical introduced into an already unbalanced system only causes an even further dis-alignment, which the body then must try and deal with. Symptoms may disappear (suppressed because the body has other things now to deal with), but if it doesn’t help bring the person’s homeostasis back into natural balance or ‘ease’, then it didn’t treat the dis-ease cause, it just dealt with the symptom - leaving you with have what they call ’side-effects’ to deal with!
Healing by way of natural laws, in contrast, is healing by way of nourishing the body, helping it become at ease and helping you naturally ‘clean house’ and detox… to essentially just to get out of it’s way and assist our internal homeostatic ‘doctor’, that has evolved over the eons along side all the other natural elements, foods, microbes & species, in it’s continual endeavor to achieve a harmony & thrive with vitally potent health!
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Natural Weight Normalization
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Most “weight loss” strategies don’t work due to the same reason. Almost all of them are based on the idea of calorie restriction. Yet are usually just modifications of the standard American diet (SAD).
The reality, which might seem counter intuitive at first is that weight gain is actually about malnutrition & cellular STARVATION. When we eat nutrient sparse (filler) foods – foods loaded with empty calories – we end up with deep cravings & our bodies yearn for the nutrients they need. To Make up for the lack of nutrients in our food, our bodies attempt to acquire MORE of it & overeating. If you eat “filler foods” which bulk up your digestive track and make you feel full, without giving you much other than more gluey junk to clean up, then you will gain weight AND your appetite will increase.
Almost the entire modern standard American diet (SAD) is made up of foods like this; foods high in gluten (or glue) (in pretty much all baked grain /wheat based products, pasta, breads, pastries, cereals), as well as foods containing the sticky gluey proteins found in dairy (especially pasteurized or cooked), and foods containing oxidized (sticky rancid free radical ridden) fats.
The nutrients we need are found in foods which are treated like garnish or decoration to our diet, like mineral dense, vitamin, enzymes, micro-nutrients and trace mineral rich foods like fresh organic fruits and vegetables; green vegetables, roots, fruits, sprouts, nuts, seeds, sea vegetables, berries & flowers (broccoli, cauliflower etc.).
Calorie restriction, (without boosting nourishment) results in relapse, your body will crave nutrients. The best way to acquire a healthy weight is to eat nutrient dense physically appropriate (most evolutionarily familiar) foods. Foods which even if you over ate, you couldn’t possibly gain weight because they do not have the “plugging” ingredients like sticky oxidized fats (especially animal fats), gluey gluten, and casein glues in dairy products. When you eat nutrient dense foods, your body will start to flush all the junk out, while using the nutrients for all kinds of healing and detoxification processes, while quenching your hunger more thoroughly.
In the end you can’t cheat your body. People have appetites for a reason, and that is to show us our body needs nutrients. If you eat nutrient dense foods; foods which are high in fibre, live enzymes, minerals, vitamins, then you quench the actual hunger instinct for nutrients, while providing the building blocks necessary for bringing your body back to a natural, ideal body weight for life!
Also keep in mind, foods which are grown organically are not only healing to the planet, but contain any where from twice to hundreds of times more mineral and nutrients as the industrial crop variety. Think about THAT when your looking at the price. And consider how much it actually is going to quench your hunger for nutrients. Heirloom crops or wild foraged are even better!
Green Leafy Vegetation (aim as high as you can to 50% of your diet):
What were looking for here is the chlorophyll & mineral dense, fibre bulking foods.
- Kale
- Chard
- Parsley
- Spinach
- Collards
- Broccoli
- Even better; Sea Greens of all sorts (other-where known as sea weeds)
- Sprouts of all sorts of seeds, nuts and (some) legumes; sunflower, broccoli, almond, brazil nut etc. (soaked and made enzymatic-ally active / fully sprouted)
Fruits (Sweet, Non-Sweet & Sour) (30 – 40% of your diet):
- Berries; gogi berries, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, wild edible berries local to your region etc. (fresh or low temp {below 150 Deg F} dried) dates, grapes/rasins, figs, etc.
- The many varieties of Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Pumpkin, Zucchini, Squash…
- Lemon, Lime, kumquat, cranberries, grapefruits, etc.
Oils (fruit, nut & seed):
- Hemp nut
- flax
- Avocado
- Olive
- Coconut
- pumpkin seed
- brazil nuts etc.
I have plenty of recipe ideas over on my free living-foods recipes blog here and my recipe emailer. If I can be of assistance to you for meal planning, cheffing, coaching, nutritional guidance, or anything else, please don’t hesitate to contact me here
Also please help kick off the conversation by adding your feedback below!
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Holistic Health Tip; Suffer Less Mucus, Reduce Gluten & Cleanse
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...Right now so many of the people around me are suffering the sniffles so I thought it would be a good time to share some healthy ways to overcome the stuffed, up, sniffly, drippy, mucus blues;
Many of the foods we eat cause our bodies to become ladened with with gunk. Many people are aware of the mucus forming effects of dairy products. Two other important clogging substances are;
- Gluten (which is from the word glue; Etymolgy) and
- Sticky oxidized oils and fats. Like the difference between sticky (room temperature) bacon grease, and uncooked olive or coconut oils.
Gluten literally clogs our lymphatic system, hindering it’s ability to function as the bodies drainage system. And oils (even olive and other vegetable oils) get stickier the more they are oxidized.
If you are feeling like “your coming down with something”, feeling stuffy, or experiencing the full clout of the mucus water works, you can feel better, quicker, by aiming to minimize foods which contain gluten and oxidized oils.
Gluten can be found mostly in white coloured foods, and is what white bread is made of. Pizza, Pasta, Pastries… Whole wheat flour/bread, has more fibre, and therefore less gluten, however it is still full of gluten. Other foods are; white rice (less in others, but not without), peanuts, corn and most other grains. Oxidized oils are in all foods which have oils or fats which have been cooked, are rancid, or exposed for any length of time to light, air, or radiation.
Cleansing foods which will help you feeling your best pronto, are;
- -fresh lemon, and lemon juice (think fresh lemon aide, or hot lemon tea – some of the best remedies)
- -Ginger; ginger is a great cleanser and also supports the immune system.
- -Fresh greens, Chard, Collards, Spinach, Kale, Romaine, Celery etc.
- -Fresh fruit; pear, apples, melons, peaches, grapes, oranges, grapefruit, raspberries, black berries, blue berries, etc.
- -Garlic (and onion) has sulphur which helps you detoxify, and they both help support your immune system. Light soups and veggie broths made with garlic and onion will help your body cleanse quickly and healthily.
When your body is trying to get all that mucus up and out, step aside out of it’s way, assist it by eating light and consume only cleansing foods and liquids, and you will promptly get back to feeling your best. Empower your immune system and spare the chemical drugs.
So, drink lot’s of fluids, get lot’s of sleep, avoid all “gluey stuff”; dairy, gluten, cooked oils & fats, refined sugars, meats (cooked oils), eggs (cooked oils), and spend a few days eating light fresh cleansing foods and allow your body to efficiently rid it’s self of mucus, and you’ll be feeling better in no time!
PS. You can also cleanse like this well before you get sick, and avoid feeling that way altogether.
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Sunlight: Is It Good Or Bad For You?
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(Compiled by Mike Adams, based on an interview with Dr. Michael Holick, author, The UV Advantage)
Vitamin D prevents osteoporosis, depression, prostate cancer, breast cancer and even effects diabetes and obesity. Vitamin D is perhaps the single most underrated nutrient in the world of nutrition. That’s probably because it’s free: your body makes it when sunlight touches your skin. Drug companies can’t sell you sunlight, so there’s no promotion of its health bene?ts. Truth is, most people don’t know the real story on vitamin D and health. So here’s an overview taken from an interview between Mike Adams and Dr. Michael Holick.
1. Vitamin D is produced by your skin in response to exposure to ultraviolet radiation from natural sunlight.
2. The healing rays of natural sunlight (that generate vitamin D in your skin) cannot penetrate glass. So you don’t generate vitamin D when sitting in your car or home.
Read the rest of the article here: http://www.foodmatters.tv/sunlight.html
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Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days is an independent documentary film that chronicles six Americans with ‘incurable’ diabetes switching their diet and getting off insulin.
The film follows each participant’s remarkable journey and captures the medical, physical, and emotional transformations brought on by this radical diet and lifestyle change. We witness moments of struggle, support, and hope as what is revealed, with startling clarity, is that diet can reverse disease and change lives.
Additional wisdom is provided by Morgan Spurlock, Woody Harrelson, Anthony Robbins, Rev. Michael Beckwith, and Doctors Fred Bisci, Joel Furman, and Gabriel Cousens.
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Dr. Dean Ornish: Healing and other natural wonders
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Dean Ornish talks about simple, low-tech and low-cost ways to take advantage of the body’s natural desire to heal itself.
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