Raw Food Diet

The raw food diet is a food plan that can have great benefits. After a few months of following our recommended whole foods diet, one can then transition into a high level raw or 100% raw food diet, as desired. This diet is composed of raw and live foods only, and includes a wide selection of raw fruits, vegetables, soaked and sprouted nuts and seeds and sea vegetables, in a wide variety of creative combinations. If choosing a raw food plan, we highly recommend daily consumption of fresh green juices, made from an array of green vegetables, such as celery, romaine lettuce, spinach, carrot, kale, parsley, with an ever rotating seasonal selection of other organic veggies. Daily salad meals, dehydrated flax crackers, seed and nut pates, blended soups, smoothies and marinated vegetable salads, often mixed with soaked sea vegetables are the base for the raw diet. Since little to no cooked food is consumed, a raw diet has the advantage of instant elimination of many common allergens. No cooked wheat, wheat byproducts or grains (generally) are consumed, and very little, if any, dairy products. Raw foodists may include small quantities of dairy, typically as cultured raw goat or sheep’s milk yogurt or kefir, usually homemade (these products can occasionally be found online or from local sources).

Raw food generates rapid results because of its ability to thoroughly detoxify and liberate your body’s previously untapped energy. Dr. Gabriel Cousins, at the Tree of Life Center in Patagonia Arizona, endorses the raw food plan as the ultimate healing diet, and offers delicious 100% raw food meals at both the café and all of the healing retreats he offers.

We recommend the raw food diet for long term cleansing and detoxification. Eating primarily raw food for three to twelve months can be an incredible experience to help increase energy, detoxify your body, support you in letting go of long time food addictions, and throughout your diet you will naturally be a major sponsor for organic produce. Most of us eat a variety of addictive foods, from sugar to pasta. The addictive nature of these foods is often overlooked, even in the healthiest of food plans. When eating raw, these items are automatically eliminated, hence freeing up energy the body can use to heal.

What is important to note when choosing a raw food diet is the issue of trade-offs. You might miss cooked foods, though you will not miss your disease, and more times than not the raw food diet is an incredible tool that can be used to help shift serious health challenges into greater health and well being.

Toxic Tap Water

In tap water there are a lot of dangers like chlorine and pesticides and believe it or the fluoride in tap water is bad for you. The toxins start to slowly shut down your bodily functions one at a time until your dead! For more info go to www.fluoridealert.org and http://www.watercure.com/

HOW TO CLEANSE THE COLON

Body Odor

From www.naturalcures.com Body odor refers to unpleasant smells emitted from the body.  Eccrine glands are located almost everywhere on the body and produce body-cooling sweat that’s mainly water.  The apocrine glands, primarily located in the armpits and in the groin, are responsible for producing waste removing sweat and it is here where the problem of body odor stems from.  Bacteria feed on the waste products and produce the foul smell.  That is why when you first sweat after a workout, you don’t notice the intense smell but after some time has passed and the bacteria has got to work, then the smell is very obvious and off putting.

The degree of the odor a person produces depends on two factors, how much sweat their glands secrete and the amount of bacteria on the skin.  People with intense underarm odors have three times as much underarm bacteria as other people.

There are two ways of dealing with body odor, externally or internally.  External methods rely on masking the odor or keeping it at bay.  Internal methods focus on dietary and lifestyle changes to reduce the bacteria in the body.

Natural Cures for Body Odor

Ayurvedic Medicine

Ayurveda believes that body odour is the result of ama (toxins in the body).  When ama accumulates in the system, it is released through the skin, creating unpleasant-smelling perspiration.

As always the fastest most effective way to receive tailored advice to your own situation, you should visit a local licensed practitioner. Find your closest Ayurvedic practitioners here

Here are some remedies your practitioner may recommend:

Following a natural, whole foods diet, drink plenty of warm water throughout the day and avoid cold drinks.

Exercise daily – walking, swimming and yoga are all recommended.

Consume herbs such as alfalfa, parsley and rosemary that have antibacterial properties and therefore tackle body odour by reducing bacteria.

Take tiphala – an Ayurvedic treatment made up of three fruits to cleanse and strengthen the digestive system and thereby reduce ama.

Traditional Chinese Medicine

In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), excessive underarm sweating is a sign of heat accumulation and is related to the liver and heart meridians. The heat accumulation may result from poor diet, stress, lack of sleep, or malfunctioning organs. When this heat affects the liver or heart meridians, it is transmitted to the armpits, which in turn sweat profusely. TCM addresses the problem by clearing the heat from the appropriate meridian and organ so that internal harmony can be resumed.

To receive bespoke advice based upon your own situation you should visit a local licensed practitioner. Find your closest Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioners here

You may wish to discuss the following with your practitioner:

General – kombucha – a fermented Chinese tea, high in probiotics and “system purifiers.” Eliminates toxins and body odor.

For liver deficiency and heat accumulation –anemarrhena rhizome, amur corktree bark, oyster shell (calcined) and ephedra root.

For heat accumulated in heart meridian – ginseng , dwarf lily-turf tuber and schisandra

For damp-heat irritation – astragalus root, white peony root, cassia twig and vinegar.

For yin deficiency leading to internal heat –rehmannia root & dwarf lily-turf tuber

Aromatherapy

Certain essential oils are well known for anti-bacterial properties as well as their lovely fragrance.  Effective oils for body odor are: bergamot, lavender, lemongrass (very strong so ensure it is well diluted in a carrier oil), peppermint, tea-tree.  Never put the oils directly on the skin under the armpits, as the area is very sensitive.  Always blend with carrier oil (such as coconut oil) before direct contact with skin.  They can also be added to bath water and included in a homemade deodorant.

Homeopathic Medicine

Owing to the principles behind homeopathy it is essential you see a licensed practitioner to receive your own personalized prescription.  Find your closest Homeopath here

Hepar sulph and Sulfur may be suggested, as both are popular homeopathic remedies for treating unpleasant body odor.

Herbs

Drink a cup of sage tea daily.

Peppermint – the ingestion of peppermint freshen breath, eases digestion, helping to metabolize foods and other toxins, which improves overall body odor.

Use fresh rosemary in your cooking – it is a good source of zinc which plays a role in reducing body odor.

Include parsley in your diet – it is rich in odor neutralizing chlorophyll and contains other antibacterial elements.

Add oregano leaf to meals – is a high anti-oxidant food which fights odor causing bacteria.

Other

Exercise:

It is important that you exercise regularly to boost circulation and encourage the elimination of toxins.  A fantastic form of exercise is rebounding (jumping on a mini-trampoline) it doesn’t create excessive sweating but it does work your body on the inside as well as the outside.  It is a fantastic way to detox the body and a great way to relieve stress.

Juice Therapy:

Drink fresh-squeezed, organic vegetable juices once or twice a day.  Find recipes here: www.juicemaster.com/recipes.

Lifestyle:

Wash your entire body twice daily with a natural antibacterial soap such as a tea-tree oil soap (or make your own.  Pay special attention to problem areas and dry yourself thoroughly (bacteria thrives more in a moist environment).

Recipe for tea-tree oil soap:

• 2 cups of glycerin soap base (source natural variety with no added nasties)
• 2 tablespoons of tea tree oil

Combine melted base and herbal oil. Stir until blended, then pour into molds and cool.

Shaving the armpits regularly has been found to help body odor control in the underarms.

Get rid of old sweat stained clothes that still hold a sweaty aroma.  Always ensure that your clothes are cleaned regularly and avoid wearing the same close fitted clothes between washes.

Flower remedies

The Bach Flower Remedy Crabapple aids in cleansing and detoxification.  It is the most popular flower remedy in treating skin conditions.  It can be taken orally, with 3 drops added to water 3 times a day.

Defy your doctor and be healed

Defy Your Doctor and Be Healed is what other natural cures books were supposed to have been, but weren't. It does not merely list what works and what does not. It explains the hows and whys in a very straightforward manner. Your doctor is not your healer. He is your dealer. That is why diabetes drugs cause full-onset diabetes, cholesterol medications cause sudden-onset heart attacks, and why radiation from cancer screenings causes cancer. The system is designed to be self perpetuating, and to prevent us from ever being free. There is no money to be made from healthy patients, nor is there profit in having dead patients. The money is made somewhere in the middle, in patients who are alive, but barely.

We have condensed seven years of research concerning all of the things that doctors never tell us, and we teach how to break free of the medical treadmill. Natural alternatives are explained in every chapter, to demonstrate the healing power of God's natural medicines. By discovering how corrupt the system is, our readers will never see things the same way again.

The medical establishment is one of few industries that remains well respected, because it has cunningly been able to manipulate the public and the media -- much more than any other industry. As one of the hundreds of examples given in the book, cancer patients with no treatment at all statistically live four times longer and have a better quality of life, making virtually any alternative therapy more effective. The mortality census shows that properly prescribed medications cause more deaths in the United States every year than any war in its history, and this omits the medical mistakes and the deaths by surgery.

Most of the alternative media promotes frauds, such as "spiritual energy healing", radiation, "urine therapy", or they promote harmful non-food items as "superfoods". We research legitimate alternative therapies, which were standard therapies prior to the early part of the twentieth century, before the medical schools were hijacked by the American Medical Association and the Rockefeller Foundation. One of the reasons why alternative medicine is routinely mocked is because most of what has been presented as alternative medicine is not medicine at all. Instead, it consists of new-age occultism. Much of it dates back to the forbidden religious practices of the ancient Egyptians. Our dedication to the truth and to using the tools that we have been given is one of the reasons why we refer to our healing methodologies as "God's medicine". We are giving credit where it is due, and conveying that the human body was not designed to be broken. 

Tyson Recalls Tons of Chicken Strips for Possible Metal Contamination

Tyson Recalls Tons of Chicken Strips for Possible Metal Contamination 

Tyson Foods is recalling some 69,000 pounds of frozen, ready-to-eat chicken strips that may have been contaminated with metal, the top U.S. meat processor said on Friday, marking its second recall this year.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) said https://bit.ly/2UPFfIC late Thursday it had received two consumer complaints of extraneous material in Tyson's chicken strips and that there were no reports of illnesses.
Tyson is recalling all its fully cooked buffalo-style chicken strip fritters, crispy chicken strips and chicken breast strip fritters, which have a use-before date of Nov. 30, 2019.
The move follows Tyson's recall in January of 18 tons of "White Meat Panko" chicken nuggets for possible rubber contamination.
The nuggets recalled earlier and the chicken strips being recalled this week were made at two separate facilities in Arkansas and Missouri, according to Tyson and the FSIS.
"We continue to investigate this matter but currently believe it's an isolated incident," Tyson spokesman Gary Mickelson said.
The move also follows a slew of recalls by big chicken producers including Smithfield Foods, Perdue Foods and Pilgrim's Pride Corp.
The USDA has been looking for ways to limit the number of such recalls, and is advising food companies to start internal investigations when they receive customer complaints and prioritize faster response time for recalls.
Consumer advocates say increasing automation in meat processing plants is causing more machine parts to break off and contaminate food.

America’s Most Medicated States

Open the medicine cabinet in anyone’s home, and chances are good you find at least a couple — and perhaps many — plastic prescription drug bottles.

Spending on prescription drugs in the U.S. multiplied nearly six times from $40.3 billion in 1990 to $234.1 billion in 2008, according to the nonprofit Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. From 1999 to 2009 the number of prescriptions dispensed rose 39% (from 2.8 billion to 3.9 billion) compared to a U.S. population growth of only 9% over the same period.

Who takes the most medication? In 2009 West Virginia had the highest prescription drug use of all states, according to data gathered from retail pharmacies and compiled by health care information company SDI.

The state filled 18.4 prescriptions per capita, compared with a national per-capita average of 11.6 prescriptions. The Mountain State also had the highest rate of prescription drug utilization the previous year, as Forbes reported last August.

In West Virginia many patients have “comorbid” conditions that require a cocktail of drugs to treat, says Peggy King, pharmacy director for West Virginia’s Bureau for Medical Services.

Of the adult population in West Virginia, 12.3% have diabetes, more than 68% are obese or overweight, 27% are smokers, nearly 30% report poor mental health and nearly 20% report having a disability, according to the most recent statistics released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In addition the CDC reports that 229,400 per 100,000 deaths in West Virginia were the result of heart disease, well above the national average of 190,000.

The state’s Medicaid program, which in 2009 had 393,187 beneficiaries, does not limit the number of prescriptions most patients can receive through the program, King said.

“A chronic disease state needs medication, you want to make sure your patients are properly treated and have all the drugs they need,” King says, reiterating that the state has a large number of patients with diabetes, asthma and lipid disorders as well as a number of patients with disabilities or a mental health conditions.

Nationwide the growth in prescription drug use may be attributed to the development of a wide range of treatments for various medical conditions, an increased ease of obtaining a prescription from a doctor and the general rise in obesity, diabetes and heart disease among adults.

As a result some experts say many patients may be taking more pills than they should.

“Many people equate taking medication with getting better,” says Paul Doering, professor in the department of pharmacotherapy and translational research at the University of Florida College of Pharmacy. “My mantra when it comes to prescriptions is ‘less is more’ for a lot of reasons — not only financial, but also because those drugs can hurt you sometimes.”

In the second-most medicated state, Tennessee, there were 16.9 retail prescriptions filled per capita. More than 65% of adults in the state can be classified as obese or overweight, and 10% of all adults have diabetes. Alabama, Kentucky and Arkansas round out the top five. All the states on our list have prescription drug use rates well above the national average, and they all have large impoverished areas and higher incidences of certain dangerous medical conditions than other regions.

While the majority of patients seek prescription drugs for medical purposes, there is a growing concern of the increase in the misuse of prescription medications, says Dr. Westley Clark, director of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment under the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).

Pain relievers used for nonmedical purposes are now the second most common type of illicit drug use, after marijuana.

The number of substance abuse treatment admissions for individuals 12 and older more than quadrupled from 2.2% in 1998 to 9.8% in 2008, SAMHSA reported earlier this month. The majority of individuals who use prescription pain relievers for nonmedical purposes obtained the drug from a friend or family member for free.

“Access increase gives rise to ease of abuse,” Clark says. “People are sharing these drugs without reflection, and that could endanger a lot of people. We often hear people talk about prescriptions sitting in the medicine cabinet and it will slowly disappear. It’s important for people to know that these drugs have abuse potential as well.”

Many states have started prescription drug monitoring programs, and Clark says patients should properly dispose of leftover prescription pills.

Hydrocodone/APAP with more than 120 million retail prescriptions last year, according to SDI. Other top-prescribed drugs in 2009 included Lisinopril, which is used to treat high blood pressure; Simvastatin, which is used to lower cholesterol; Levothyroxine, used for thyroid problems; and Amoxicillin and Azithromycin, used to treat bacterial infections.

Experts say consumers would do well to remember that many medical conditions can be mitigated without prescription pills–or better yet, prevented altogether. “Lifestyle changes of course could help our population because of the obesity rates and the poor diet and lack of exercise in our population,” says Peggy King. “It could certainly help anyone.”