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May 29, 2008

DISEASE AND HEALTH ARE OPPOSITES

CAUSES OF DISEASE

Toxicity and Thoughts are the bottom line of all diseases. Germs do not cause disease. Germs are there all the time in all of us. If you body is healthy it will not be diseased. Your job is to create an environment within your body where disease cannot exists.

Aging and disease are affected by lifestyle. Your external visible lifestyle is controlled by choices you make. When you body is out of balance or health you have symptoms that are signs to you to make adjustments.

What are a few of the signs?

* Fatigue
* Anger
* Impatience
* Headache
* Dandruff
* Stiff neck
* Ringing ears
* Athletes foot
* Yeast infection
* Snoring
* Intestinal bloating
* Intestinal gas
* Allergies
* Skin eruptions
* Muscle cramps
* Menstrual cramps
* Racing heart
* High blood pressure
* High blood sugar
* Low blood sugar
* Insomnia
* Lethargy
* Over weight
* Under weight
* Itchy skin
* Oily skin

Everything that goes into you body must be dealt with in some way. Your body must use it, store it or loose it. Even your thought are dealt with in this same way, use it, store it or loose it.

CAUSES OF HEALTH

ACID/ALKALINE BALANCE We Live or Die at A Cellular Level

The body is alkaline by design and acid by function. Your cell s must live in an alkaline environment but they produce acid by function. Acid must be neutralized or eliminated. Acid produced by the body is natural and can be eliminated by the lungs. Acid from food is a different story. When the body is overloaded with acid from foods it is toxic.

ACID/ ALKALINE PRODUCTION OF FOODS

Coffee products Very Acid

Sugar products/deserts Very Acid

Meats, Poultry, Fish Very Acid

Dairy Products, Eggs Acid

Grains Acid

Beans cooked Acid

Vegetables and fruit Alkaline

Sprouted grains or beans Alkaline

A high acid diet will limit you calcium absorption and weaken your bones and health.

A minimum of 50% of the food eaten should be Alkaline including your beverages!

Your taste is determined by habit it will change, you will enjoy fruits and vegetables eat them. Learn to cook creative in the beginning to help, even use sauces and dips that may be less than perfect as a transition food.

If you are not seriously ill yet you can change your diet gradually. Having a supportive partner of friends is helpful. You can plan and encourage each other.

A constant diet of foods that stress the body leads to disease. Negative thoughts and emotions lead to disease. Your natural healing ability cannot function while your body is geared to meet an emergency.

Changing your habits in an orderly fashion is important to the long term success of you lifestyle shift.

Change your thought and you actions, ask questions and seek out the truth, Truth will set you free. Many people perish from lack of knowledge or truth.

In addition to being alkaline Vegetables and fruits have anti-oxidants that stop the destruction of free radicals which damage key cellular structures and destroy health. Free radicals are a natural by product of food digestion that is why it is important the foods contain anti-oxidants.

Excess free radicals are caused by:

· Smoking

· Sunbathing

· Frying food

· Infections

· Excessive exercise

· Stress

· Radiation

· Environmental pollution

· Process chemicalized foods.

Excess free radicals cause:

* Leathery skin
* Joint pain
* Cancer
* Fluid retention
* Stroke
* Emotional stress
Just to name a few.

FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES ARE THE SOURCE OF ANTI-OXIDANTS TO FIGHT THIS PROBLEM

Remember events and ingredients that affect the mind affect the body and the events and ingredients that affect the body affect the mind. The Spirit is affected by the body and mind and the body and mind are affected by the Spirit. There is nothing to big for God and we must do our part in the world.

ENZYMES are another important part of fresh foods. You need enzymes to digest food and fresh foods come with their own enzymes. The saliva is full of enzymes that is why it is so important to slow down and chew your food. Soaking whole grains over night before you cook them helps develop the natural enzymes that are dormant if the grains have been stored in a cool dry place. Proper storage is necessary to keep them form molding. Enzymes are necessary for the digestive process.

Eat as many raw fruits and vegetables as available.

April 21, 2008

Weight Loss and Stress

Stress hormones can cause female and male hormone problems, weight gain, and chronic illness. How can this be true? Cortisol, epinephrine, and other stress hormones can drain you bodies health, vitality and even contribute to infertility unless you learn how to control these stress hormones.

What you eat and how you handle stress can drive you body into blood sugar instability, weight gain, sleep disturbance and exhaustion that lead to weight gain and chronic illness.

Adrenal glands are stress handling glands that produce a variety of hormones that help you handle all types of stress-mental, emotional or physical. The adrenals function to keep your body in a dynamic balance during whatever external or internal changes or challenges you face.

They control fluid balance, blood sugar balance, inflammatory and anti-inflammatory responses, and immune system response. You can see why the control indirectly your looks and weight.

The adrenals produce steroid hormones which are the hormones that determine overall strength, and stamina. They are the backup to the sex hormones, and so are vital for everything from fertility to pregnancy to menopause and include anti-aging hormones. Adrenal glands produce their variety of hormones and release them directly into the blood stream, where they are carried to virtually all the cells of the body. Adrenal health is the key to health and anti-aging.

A healthy diet will help balance blood sugar and hormone levels, help with adrenal fatigue, prevent energy and mood ups and downs, and promote proper weight.

What is a proper healthy diet? You have heard about the Mediterranean diet and it is probably the best place to start and then modify to your preferences.

Eat every two hours, always add protein to your meals and snacks, eat real whole, fresh food, salt your food with sea salt and drink plenty of water.

When you eat every two hours you relieve the stress handling hormones of the task of keeping your blood sugar levels normal between meals that gives them a break. Epinephrine and cortisol are responsible for this,they also cause weight gain so you do not want an excess in you blood stream. Eating frequently, but only the right foods keeps you blood sugar levels normal without the addition of stress hormones.

Avoid dead, junk foods. These foods cannot rebuild a healthy body. They are missing nutrients and rob the remaining nutrient stores from your body. Avoid trans fats they interfere with the functions of the cell membranes. Minimize fruit and fruit juices, drink pure water as your primary beverage or decaffeinated green and herbal teas. Low salt diets contribute to adrenal fatigue, so use sea salt on your food it looks and taste like regular salt but contains trace minerals that have been refined out of regular salt.

What to eat? Seven or more servings of vegetables and fruits should be you daily goal. Vegetables and fruits should be fresh not frozen or canned. Eat a natural source of protein, organic meats, vegetable protein including peas, beans, lentils, and nuts. Eat organic grains in their whole form and as sprouts in bread. The majority of your diet should be proteins, fats and vegetables next complex carbohydrates such as whole grain breads, and grains. Fruit should be the smallest and the last category. There is no room in a healthy stress free diet for margarine, vegetable shortening, commercially prepared foods.

Relax and consider yourself blessed to know what you know about health and apply what you know to live a long stress free life.

February 25, 2008

Knowledge gives Life Long Health

Cancer is ranked as the No. 1 health concern of Americans today, according to The American Institute of Cancer Research (AICR) survey. Americans also believe cancer is impossible to prevent and blame the disease on factors they cannot control.
I find this fatalistic mindset upsetting. I know many who have lived an intentional life of wellness and have experienced health and long life. There is also ample research that links cancer risk to things we can control , such as diet, physical activity and weight gain.

The World Cancer Research Fund and (AICR) issued an encouraging report titled: Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Prevention of Cancer: A Global Perspective. A few of their findings:

1. Excess body fat increases the risk of many forms of cancer including pancreas, colon, kidney, endometrium, and postmemopausal breast cancer. The report urges us to limit our intake of processed foods especially those high in sugar and fat and low in fiber. We are urged to consume five or more servings of vegetables and fruits daily and involve ourselves in physical activity at least 30 minutes daily.

2. Red meat increases the risk of colorectal cancer: Researchers recommend limiting consumption to 18 onces (cooked) per week. I say is better to reduce red meat consumption to less than 18 onces per. month and continue reducing the amount until you are rarely consuming red meat. Researchers say beyond the 18 ounces every 1.7 ounces or red meat you consume daily increases your cancer risk by 15 percent. Process meats such as ham, bacon, sausage, and lunch meat are highly discouraged and for every 1.7 ounces of processed meat consumed per day you increase your risk of colorectal cancer by 21 percent. This is not on the front page of your local newspaper because of the money behind the meat. We must take this seriously if we expect to stay healthy and improve the health of our country. Pass this on to your neighbors send this web site around to others you care about.

3. Alcohol is linked to many cancers as well in both men and women. Because small amounts of alcohol can protect against heart disease, the panel decided to recommend limiting rather than avoiding consumption. I find there are plenty of other beneficial fruits and vegetables that we do not have to include the risk of regular alcohol consumption in order to protect our hearts.

These are a few of the many things I have written you about in the past. Start today improving your dietary choices and experience a life of long health and options. We are not guarenteed much in life but this report and many other have shown you can made lifestyle choices that will reduce your risk.

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