Newsletter September 2008
It seems that Spring has Sprung
Beautiful flowers coming out everywhere
Beautiful days, and longer sunlight hours
Makes one feel like getting out and just enjoying it all
It's great to feel well and energetic to be able to participate
How does one gain and maintain their maximum wellness and energy?
In thinking about this, we have included some information this month, to help you make the necessary choices .
So read, enjoy, and don't hesitate to contact us for further information.
And we leave you with this thought of the month:
"He is rich or poor according to what he is, not what he has." Anon
Health & Food
- Who Is Responsible For Your Health? - Your answer to this question can increase or decrease the quality and length of your life, so consider ......(For a more detailed report, click on any of the blue underlinked links below) Whilst this article is written from the perspective of the USA, we don't make any apologies because of growing research telling us that Australia is walking in the same footsteps.
- What is Real Food? - Some information to guide us in our Walk to Better Health, followed by....
- Signatures: A fresh look at fruits and vegetables for our health
SO, Who Is Responsible for your Health?
By Brian W. Vaszily **
Your answer to this question can increase or decrease the quality and length of your life, so consider carefully: Who is responsible for your health?
(you can click on this link for the whole article - or click on the chapters below as required)
Your instinctive response may be that you are, with the help of a few experts. But put even a little thought behind it and you realize it's a loaded question. Because it depends on what is meant by "responsible."
> Does that mean who is to blame or praise for your current state of health?
> Does that mean who should be watching out for your health?
> And for that matter, what is meant by "health" itself?
By answering that last inquiry first, you understand why the question of who is responsible for your health is so important. Because being healthy, in its ultimate sense, means having the ability to focus on all the other things that matter in life without being dragged down by, worrying about, or having life stopped too soon due to, an ill state. In more direct terms, if you are battling the flu or cancer, if you are struggling to lose or gain weight, that requires energy that therefore cannot be devoted to all the other worthwhile pursuits this life affords.
Perpetual and perfect health is, of course, unattainable.
> We are human.
> Genetics happen,
> accidents happen,
> grief for loss happens,
> and eventually for every one of us, death happens.
But just because we don't have complete control doesn't mean we have no say in the matter.
Health involves a whole person, and a whole person is the body, mind and spirit, and we have an immense say in what we do to nurture our bodies, minds and spirits. We can, and do have, a tremendous effect our health. Yes, "We're all going to die anyway," as the excuse for doing something that is probably really stupid goes, but barring acts of God and madmen, we can have a profound influence on whether we die anyway at the age of 32, 52, 72 or 102 - AND Most Importantly - what state of health and vitality sare we experiencing through these stages of life?
Which brings us right back to the beginning. Because who exactly is "we"? Who -- besides God or whatever you term the power beyond our power -- is responsible for your health?
A Matter of Trust - Everyone is responsible for your health. - But only you are. - Let me explain. (2)
Which brings us halfway to an answer - While it is crucial to focus on the positives, and that is your job, the positives should never be an excuse to ignore what needs fixing. Not growing complacent is your job, too. ...(3)
Do Your Homework - It's comforting to know that most people in this world mean no harm to others, and in general they may even wish us well. On the other hand .............(4)
How often, for example, do you think about the agriculture industry? How much do you know about it?
Food is the primary method of healthcare,
and agriculture is still,
as it has been for 10,000 years,
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So what do you know about those administering your healthcare in the form of food?
Put another way, why do you eat what you do?
Perhaps you'll answer it's because you make the choice to do so.
Okay then, what has influenced your choosing, and for that matter, who has decided what your choices will be?
Consider Corn (5)
Others may be responsible for your health in the sense that they contribute to its success or demise, (6)
Moving In The Right Direction
Whether you are trying to optimize your weight, fight illness, increase your mental and physical energy or simply live longer and healthier, it is essential to understand and consider all sides of the healthcare story -- not just what the mega-institutions like the pharmaceutical companies or food manufacturers tell you is right and good.
What Is Real Food?
by Dr. Joel Robbins ***
INTRODUCTION:
If we take an honest look at nature, we will observe that three things are present:
1) Nature follows definite laws which are not subject to opinion or variance; and
2) Every aspect of life is reflected by nature.
3) Nature is governed by the law of CAUSE and EFFECT.
If we have violated a natural law, we have created a Cause, for which we will suffer an Effect.
Our ignorance of the laws of Nature does not change these laws.
There are two reasons for disease, or lack of health
1) Ignorance
2) Laziness
In the field of health, there are a few good rules to follow to achieve health.
1) Follow the laws of Nature
2) Let Truth be your authority, not authority your truth.
One of the Laws of Nature is that the innate intelligence of the body strives to keep the body alive, regardless of the cost. The "cost" is what we call "disease". Disease is the effort of the body to keep us alive.
WHAT IS REAL FOOD?
The body will keep us alive and healthy provided that we feed it "Real Food".
Real food is a food which is compatible with the body; that in no way takes from the body, but lends itself to the building up of health and maintaining life. It contains nothing that is harmful, toxic or non-usable by the body.
Real Food is defined for us by Nature as follows:
1) Something edible grown by Nature - of the Plant Kingdom
2) Food which can be eaten without processing in any way.
3) Food which comes to us from Nature as "complete packages", that is, they contain naturally everything in them necessary for the body to process and assimilate that food.
WHY DO WE EAT FOOD?
The only qualities of food which the body requires in a complete package are the following:
Glucose, Protein, Fatty Acids, Minerals, Enzymes, & Water
If all of these components are in the food, the food is complete. If any of these are missing, the food is not "Real Food".
Real Food is provided by Nature in this form as raw fruits and vegetables. Raw fruits and vegetables contain all of the parts mentioned above. If food has been processed, cooked or altered in any way so as to change or eliminate any of the above ingredients, it is no longer "Real Food" as far as the Human Body is concerned.
PLANTS ARE THE SOURCE OF REAL FOOD FOR ALL LIFE FORMS
The plant kingdom utilizes sunshine, carbon dioxide, oxygen, water and organic minerals in the process of photosynthesis to feed itself and grow.
The result is a living plant (food for animal consumption) containing -
> glucose
> protein
> fatty acids
> organic minerals
> organic enzymes (vitamins)
> water (pure)
Inorganic Mineral from the Earth + Photosynthesis = Organic Minerals from Plants which provide Protein and Enzymes for animals and humans.
The animal kingdom does not possess the ability to perform photosynthesis, therefore must rely on the plant kingdom to prepare its food.
Any form of processing nature's foods (such as pasteurization, cooking, adding preservatives, etc.) breaks the bonds between the food components and their attached enzymes as well as destroys the enzyme. The result is inorganic or denatured food components and thus inorganic food.
The enzyme must be alive and attached to the mineral or food component in order for the body to utilize it. The enzyme acts as a "passport" to get the mineral into the cell of the body and aids in the cell's utilization of that mineral. Raw foods are living and thus produce life in the body; because they have intact enzymes they are organic. Enzymes are catalysts - substances which help the body work more efficiently in utilizing food for life maintaining purposes.
An example of an inorganic substance is table salt. It is simply sodium and chloride. No enzymes, thus it is dead and the body cannot use it. Our bodies cannot attach an enzyme to inorganic substances, except at great cost. It is only the plant kingdom, through the process of photosynthesis, that can attach enzymes to inorganics and make them living or organic.
The more we process a food, the less nutrient value it retains. This is because living foods are organic foods. Processed foods, to various degrees, are inorganic or "dead" foods.
The following is the hierarchy of food preparation:
1. starting at the top with no preparation leaving the food with its full nutrient content,
2. ending at the bottom with the most processing, rendering the food dead and useless to the body - little or no nutrient value retained:
- Raw & Whole Juiced Fruits & Vegetables , and consumed immediately. Once the skin of fruits or vegetables is broken, oxygen combines with the enzymes and kills them (this process is called oxidation)
- Dydrated or Dried loses 2 - 5% of nutrient value dried without chemicals or additives. Commercial brands of dried fruit contain sulphur-dioxide; exception = raisins)
- Frozen : freshly picked & frozen immediately loses 5 – 30% of nutrient value
- Steamed loses 15 – 60% of nutrient value. Steamed means the green bean is still a bit crispy (if it is limp, it is cooked).
- Cooked: baked, broiled, boiled, grilled, steamed too long. Home canned the green bean is limp & loses 40 -100% of nutrient value, depending on how long it is cooked.
- Cooked Leftovers Microwaved: Loses 90 - 99% of nutrient value.
- Commercially Canned Foods
- Fried Foods
- Foods with Additives - these not only lose 100% of their nutrient value, but have toxins added
DISEASE AND ITS CAUSE
Disease or "dis-ease" is defined as a lack of health. Disease results when any cell is not functioning 100% of its designed duty whether due to trauma, toxicity, lack of communication or a combination thereof. Disease is due to stress.
Whether due to ignorance or laziness, exposing the body to stress will produce a diseased state of the body. Stress is the only means of tearing down health resulting in disease, our bodies paying the price for violating the laws of nature (our wrong doings). We do not "catch" a disease or illness, we earn it. We must "work" for disease.
Disease is nothing more than the body responding to the wrong we have done to it. It is the body's attempt at keeping us alive in response to the wrongs we have inflicted on our bodies.
Pathological changes are the cell's response to stress. These changes or compensations allow the body to survive - maintain homeostasis - as long as the stress continues. These tissue changes which result in disease, are the outward manifestation of internal compensation to stress. Until the cause is removed, the condition will remain in one form or another.
SYMPTOMS
Medically speaking a symptom is defined as a sign or indication of a disease or illness.
It is thought that if the symptom is treated and eradicated, then the disease or illness has been cured.
Symptoms are viewed somewhat differently from a natural healing perspective in that:
- Symptoms are indicators that there is an abnormal condition within the body which is producing a state of "dis-ease".
- A symptom or a group of symptoms are given a specific name depending on the type and location of the symptom(s). Medically this name is known as a "disease" or "illness". From a natural healing standpoint, a named disease or illness is interchangeable with the word "symptom".
- A symptom (disease/illness) is the body's effort to eliminate toxins from the body; to return the body to a state of health when stimulated; to undo any damage that has been done to the body.
- A symptom is the body's effort to stay alive while coping with anything detrimental that has been done or is being done to the body.
- Diseases/illnesses/symptoms are the body's attempt to restore health and maintain life.
Food Consumption in the U.S.A. (Australia follows suit).
Between 1900 and 1980
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Fresh fruit and vegetable consumption decreased from 40% to less than 5%
Butter consumption decreased 75%
Lard consumption decreased 66%
Unprocessed potato and sweet potato consumption decreased 40%
Processed potatoes comprise 33% of all white potatoes consumed
The majority of these are in the form of french fries
The fast food industry sells 75% of all french fries eaten
Whole grain consumption decreased 50%
Beef consumption increased 75%
Dairy product consumption (other than butter) increased 25%
Cheese consumption increased 400%
Fat and oil consumption increased 150%
Margarine consumption increased 800%
Corn syrup consumption increased 400%
Sugar consumption increased 50% (the average person consumes 150 pounds of REFINED WHITE SUGAR per year)
Processed fruit and vegetable consumption (other than citrus fruit)
Between 1910 and 1980
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Poultry consumption increased 350%
Fresh apple consumption decreased 70%
Fresh fruit consumption decreased 33%
Between 1930 and 1980
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Processed citrus fruit consumption increased 2500%
Fresh citrus fruit consumption decreased 50%
Between 1940 and 1980
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Egg consumption decreased 25%
Food colouring consumption increased 90%
Between 1960 and 1980
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Soft drink consumption increased 300%
Each person consumes 38 gallons of soft drinks annually (one fifth of our sugar intake is in soft drinks)
*Statistics compiled by the United States Department of Agriculture
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*** Published by Health Freedom Resources, Inc.
Dr. Joel Robbins did his undergraduate work at San Jacinto College in Houston, TX, majoring in pre-med. In 1978 he graduated from Cleveland Chiropractic College in Kansas City, MO. with a degree in Chiropractic, (DC). He did a residency in Clinical Nutrition and received his Doctor of Naturopathy (ND) degree from Anglo-American Institute of Drugless Therapy. Dr. Robbins received his Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree from the British West Indies College of Medicine. Dr. Robbins has been operating his Health and Wellness practice in Tulsa,OK since 1978. His goal is to find truth concering health and disease and then pass this knowledge on to sincere health seekers, so they too can have the gift of health.
A fresh look at our fruit and vegetables, and reasons why they are so good for us
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A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye.
The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye ..... and YES,
science now shows carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and for the function of the eyes. |
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A Tomato has four chambers and is red.
The heart has four chambers and is red.
All of the research shows tomatoes are loaded with lycopine and are indeed pure heart and blood food.
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Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart.
Each grape looks like a blood cell,
and all of the research today shows grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food
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A Walnut looks like a little brain - a Left and Right Hemisphere, Upper Cerebrums and Lower Cerebellums. Even the wrinkles of folds on the nut are just like the Neo-Cortex.
We know that walnuts help develop more than three (3) dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function. |
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Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes,
they look exactly like the human kidneys.
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Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and more of this family, look just like bones.
These foods specifically target bone strength.
Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium.
If you don't have enough sodium in your diet, the body pulls it from the bones, thus making them weak.
These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body.
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Avocadoes, Eggplant and Pears target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female - they look just like these organs.
Today's research shows that when a woman eats one avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight, andprevents cervical cancers.
And how profound is this?
It takes exactly nine(9) months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000 photolytic chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods (modern science has only studies and named about 141 of them).
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Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow.
Figs increase the mobility and numbers of male sperm to overcome male sterility.
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Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actually balance the glycemic index of diabetics. |
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Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries. |
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Oranges, Grapefruits, and other Citrus fruits look just like the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.
Oranges also have a smooth yet porous resemblance to the human skin.
The inside, or meat of a citrus fruit has many health benefits, but the signature of nature is found in the skin.
Research studies have shown that citrus peel (particularly d-limonene) is highly effective in combating the development of SCC (squamous cell carcinoma), the most prevalent from of skin cancer.
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Onions look like the body's cells. Today's research shows onions help clear waste materials materials from all of the body cells.
They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes.
A working companion, Garlic, also helps eliminate waste materials and dangerous free radicals from the body. |
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