Health, Wealth and Freedom - One Person at a Time

Subject: Water or Coke?

2009-12-08T17:50:00.002-05:00

WATER

#1. 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated.(Likely applies to half the world population)

#2. In 37% of Americans, the thirst mechanism is so weak that it is mistaken for hunger.

#3. Even MILD dehydration will slow down one's metabolism as much as 3%.

#4. One glass of water will shut down midnight hunger pangs for almost 100% of the dieters studied in a University of Washington study.

#5. Lack of water, the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue.

#6. Preliminary research indicates that 8-10 glasses of water a day could significantly ease back and joint pain for up to 80% of sufferers.

#7. A mere 2% drop in body water can trigger fuzzy short-term memory, trouble with basic math, and difficulty focusing on the computer screen or on a printed page.

#8. Drinking 5 glasses of water daily decreases the risk of colon cancer by 45%, plus it can slash the risk of breast cancer by 79%, and one is 50% less likely to develop bladder cancer.

Are you drinking the amount of water you should drink every day?

COKE

#1. In many states the highway patrol carries two gallons of Coke in the trunk to remove blood from the highway after a car accident.

#2. You can put a T-bone steak in a bowl of Coke and it will be gone in two days.

#3. To clean a toilet: Pour a can of Coca-Cola into the toilet bowl and let the 'real thing' sit for one hour,then flush clean. The citric acid in Coke removes Stains from vitreous china.

#4. To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers: rub the bumper with a rumpled-up piece of Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil dipped in Coca-Cola.

#5. To clean corrosion from car battery terminals: Pour a can of Coca-Cola over the terminals to bubble away the corrosion.

#6. To loosen a rusted bolt: Apply a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to the rusted bolt for several minutes.

#7. To remove grease from clothes: Empty a can of Coke into the load of greasy clothes, add detergent, and run through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola will help loosen grease stains. It will also clean road haze from your windshield.

FOR YOUR INFORMATION:

#1 The active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid. It will dissolve a nail in about four days. Phosphoric Acid also leaches calcium from bones and is a major Contributor to the rising increase of osteoporosis.

#2. To carry Coca-Cola syrup! (the concentrate) commercial trucks must use a hazardous material place card reserved for highly corrosive materials.

#3. The distributors of Coke have been using it to clean engines of the trucks for about 20 years!

Now the question is, would you like a glass of water?

Or Coke?

U.S. toy study finds toxic substances

2009-12-08T13:24:00.000-05:00

Courtesy of CBC News

Seven hundred products geared toward children have tested positive for high levels of toxic substances, including lead, cadmium, arsenic and mercury, a new U.S. study released on Wednesday shows.

Researchers for the Ecology Center, a health-advocacy group based in Ann Arbor, Mich., tested the products and released their findings in a yearly report issued in time for the holiday shopping season.

The products tested include toys, clothing and jewelry that could be purchased for children as gifts. The group said the toxic substances they contain can cause developmental problems in children and are linked to cancer.

Many of them are inexpensive items made in China for sale in North America.

Some of the products listed as being of "high" concern are:

- High School Musical argyle belt: tested to have high levels of lead, cadmium and arsenic.
- Disney Princess Sandals: found to have high levels of bromine.
- Marvel Hot Rodz cars: high levels of lead.
- Cupcake clip watch: high levels of cadmium.

And while the study says the amount of lead found in toys has waned over past years, there's a lot of room to do better in other items.

"Since 2007, there's been an incredible focus on toxic chemicals in toys, resulting in an improvement in the level of lead used in toys," said Ecology Center lead researcher Jeff Gearhardt.

But looking at other children's items, "we find still high levels of lead and other chemicals showing up," he said.

The Canadian Toy Association said Wednesday the study's list of products with high levels of toxins contains only a small number of toys, and problem items are mostly children's apparel like plastic ponchos, jewelry and bicycle accessories.

The association said major retailers like Wal-Mart have removed toys proven to be high in toxic substances and recommends people avoid "dollar stores" when shopping for children's items.

Still, Gearhardt said he thinks a "major overhaul" of chemical policies is needed to phase out the dangerous substances.
Nearly half of tested toys contain PVC

The study said of key concern is the use of the plastic called polyvinyl chloride, or PVC, in some items.

It said 42 per cent of toys tested for the 2009 report contained PVC, a statistic that has remained constant over the last three years.

The centre said PVC is the "worst plastic" from an environmental health perspective and can contain additives hazardous to human health as well.
Janelle Witzel of Toronto-based group Environmental Defence said many soft vinyl toys contain harmful phthalates, a family of chemicals used to make PVC.

"Some plastics are better or worse than others," Witzel said. "That's why we often advise parents to contact manufacturers to see exactly what their products are made of."

The federal government said in June it would introduce new regulations to prevent the use of certain chemicals in soft vinyl toys and child-care-related articles, and also reduce lead limits in all consumer products.

Why Detox

2009-10-08T09:15:00.000-04:00

Our bodies naturally detoxify everyday as part of a normal body process. Detoxification is one of the body’s most basic automatic functions of eliminating and neutralizing toxins through the colon, liver, kidneys, lungs, lymph and skin. Unfortunately in this day and age, with the pollution found in the air, water and food we eat, our bodies have a hard time keeping up. Our chemicalized diet with too much animal protein, too much saturated and trans fats, too much caffeine and alcohol radically changes our internal ecosystem.

Body systems and organs that were once capable of cleaning out unwanted substances are now completely over-loaded to the point where toxic material remains inside our tissues. Our bodies try to protect us from dangerous substances by setting it aside, surrounding it with mucous and fat so that it will not cause an imbalance or trigger an immune response (some people carry up to 15 extra pounds of mucous that harbors this waste).

Detoxification through special cleansing diets and colonics is the best way to assist your body’s natural self-cleaning system. It is especially important for immune-compromised diseases like cancer, arthritis, diabetes and chronic fatigue. However, even if your diet is good, a cleanse can revitalize your system and rid your body of harmful bacteria, viruses and parasites.

Source: www.foodmatters.tv

The Sweetest Poison

2009-09-30T15:32:00.001-04:00

When it comes to identifying the most common poison that we willingly use against ourselves, an amazing feat resulting in millions of deaths worldwide every year, there really is no contest. The perpetrator is as unlikely a candidate as any you might wish to name, and its unmasking is probably all the more horrifying because this substance has burrowed its way into our civilisation like a parasite, draped in the false colours of comfort and familiarity. It’s whiter than heroin, sweeter than your fiancée, more soluble than the National Debt, and more pernicious than nicotine because, like a true demon, this little beauty comes in a million disguises and always dresses like a friend.
Dr William Coda Martin was the first publicly to label sucrose a poison. Martin’s definition came about after he determined the classical definition of a poison was “…any substance applied to the body, which causes or may cause disease.€. Refined sugar, or sucrose, is manufactured from cane and beet extract, which has had its proteins, vitamins and minerals removed to leave a white, crystalline substance devoid of any nutritional content, only offering empty calories.

Sugars contained in natural, whole foods are easily metabolised by the body. Nature has ensured that fructose, for instance, obtained when we consume fruits, has the necessary vitamins and minerals accompanying it to allow this type of simple monosaccharide sugar to be converted efficiently into glucose (blood sugar) and fully metabolised by our bodies for energy. Vitamins and minerals, which accompany fructose, are essential for these complete assimilation and conversion processes to occur. Sucrose on the other hand, cannot metabolise completely in our bodies, resulting in the formation of toxic metabolites such as pyruvic acid and abnormal, unstable sugars containing five carbon atoms.

These toxic by-products interfere with the respiration of cells, preventing the latter from acquiring sufficient oxygen to function correctly. These poisonous metabolites, in their free-radical or oxidation format, are constantly seeking to stabilise themselves by robbing our healthy cells of their available oxygen. This in turn degrades the cell and the cell dies.

Extract from a report by Phillip Day as featured in Food Matters

Many Americans Overweight, Unhealthy and Just Don’t Realize It

2009-09-30T15:03:00.004-04:00

Health care reform has dominated headlines in the U.S lately, but experts are suggesting that what may also need improvement is the understanding that individual Americans have about their own health.

Despite statistics showing that more than half of Americans are overweight, most are either in denial or aren’t willing to accepta state of”poor” health, according to a survey provided by Mintel, a leading market research company.

Mintel found that seven out of 10 Americans say they are in “excellent” or “good” health and only a quarter believe they are overweight or obese. Yet, most respondents admitted to a sedentary lifestyle combined with poor eating habits.

These unhealthy choices over time are also what has ultimately led to a Sept. 14 report in Circulation—using data from U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys—showing that more than 90 percent of adults are considered at high risk of cardiovascular disease.

With these numbers looming, how can Americans have such false perceptions? Some health researchers offer that it’s because effective health education is lacking.

Just two years ago, for example, Mayo Clinic published a systemic review of studies providing direct evidence that when physicians, nutritionists and dietitians counseled patients about cardiovascular disease risk factors, their patients were more likely to improve their health by just diet and exercise.

The patients were educated on how to reduce cardiovascular disease risk factors collectively termed metabolic syndrome. By definition, metabolic syndrome includes increased waist circumference, elevated fasting glucose, elevated triglycerides, reduced HDL cholesterol (the “good” kind), and elevated blood pressure.

A physician may explain to a patient, for example, that ifhe or she as three of the five symptoms listed in the previous paragraph, thenhe or shehas the syndrome andis at a much higher risk of cardiovascular disease. The simple task of educating patients in this way can strongly motivate them to set high-priority goals that will substantially improve their health.

Patients canalso be advised to make lifestyle changes directed at reducing cardiovascular disease risk factors. Most metabolic syndrome factors can be reduced simply through adopting an appropriate exercise and weight-control program.

Unfortunately, the data obtained from both Mintel’s survey and Circulation suggest few patients actually receive this kind of education from medical professionals. The reasons why this is soare speculative.

However, as Mintel analysts suggest, curbing horrific health trends faced in the U.S. today will not lie in the hands of doctors, but in the hands of individual Americans who decide to change their own behaviors for the long-term.

Swine Flu – What You've Not Been Told

2009-09-30T14:45:00.000-04:00

By Mike Adams

If you read the stories on H1N1 influenza written by the mainstream media, you might incorrectly think there's only one anti-viral drug in the world. It's name is Tamiflu and it's in short supply.

That's astonishing to hear because the world is full of anti-viral medicine found in tens of thousands of different plants. Culinary herbs like thyme, sage and rosemary are anti-viral. Berries and sprouts are anti-viral. Garlic, ginger and onions are anti-viral. You can't walk through a grocery store without walking past a hundred or more anti-viral medicines made by Mother Nature.

And yet how many does the mainstream media mention? Zero.

The totality of influenza preparedness is defined by the mainstream media as the number of doses of Tamiflu a nation has stockpiled. To live in a world that's saturated with natural anti-viral medicine and then not even acknowledge it in the media is beyond bizarre. It's Twilight Zone-like. It's like we've been teleported to an alternate universe where anti-viral plants have disappeared... or at least everyone is pretending they have.

Where do you think Tamiflu comes from, by the way?
It's extracted from the Traditional Chinese Medicine herb called Star Anise. It's one of hundreds of different anti-viral herbs found in Chinese Medicine, not to even mention anti-viral herbs from South America, North America, Australia, Africa and other regions.

I find it downright comedic that Big Pharma and the world's health authorities extract their "champion" anti-viral drug Tamiflu from a Chinese Medicine herb, and then they go out of their way to announce to people that herbs and natural remedies are useless against influenza. If that's the case then why are they using herbs to make their own medicine?

How many stories have you read that bother to tell you Tamiflu is made from the star anise herb that's been used for over 5,000 years in Traditional Chinese Medicine? Virtually none. The powers that be don't want anybody to know they could actually grow their own medicine in a garden or a windowsill. If you can grow cilantro, you can grow medicine. If everybody figured that out, Big Pharma wouldn't be reaping the enormous profits it's making right now from Tamiflu sales, and the governments of the world wouldn't be able to scare and control people by promising to distribute Tamiflu (but only if you behave).

H1N1 influenza is not a hoax. But the way it's being reported by health authorities and the mainstream media certainly is. The scam in all this is what they leave out of the stories -- the fact that human beings live among a huge natural medicine chest of anti-viral drugs found in every city park, every forest, every swamp and every open field.

You cannot walk across any patch of natural land in America and NOT find anti-viral medicine. It's everywhere! It's in the weeds growing in the cracks in the sidewalks; it's in weeds on the side of the stream; and it's growing in the small patch of dirt left remaining in the median between highway lanes. In the deserts of the American Southwest, you can't even drive to work without passing mile after mile of abundant anti-viral medicine grown by Mother Nature and just waiting for humans to wake up and be smart enough to recognize it.

Source: www.naturalnews.com

Root Canal Cover Up Exposed

2009-09-02T13:06:00.002-04:00

An interview with Dr George Meinig, D.D.S.

Dr. Meinig brings a most curious perspective to an expose of the latent dangers of root canal therapy. As one of the original founders of the American Association of Endodontists (root canal specialists) he's filled his share of root canals. And when he wasn't filling canals himself, he was teaching the technique to dentists across the country at weekend seminars and clinics.

About two years ago, having recently retired, he decided to read all 1174 pages of the detailed research of Dr. Weston Price, (D.D.S). Dr. Meinig was startled and shocked. Here was valid documentation of systemic illnesses resulting from latent infections lingering in filled roots.

He has since written a book, "Root Canal Cover-Up EXPOSED - Many Illnesses Result", and is devoting himself to radio, TV, and personal appearances before groups in an attempt to blow the whistle and alert the public of the dangers of root canal therapy.

What the problem is with root canal therapy?

First, let me note that my book is based on Dr. Weston Price's twenty-five years of careful, impeccable research. He led a 60-man team of researchers whose findings - suppressed until now rank right up there with the greatest medical discoveries of all time. This is not the usual medical story of a prolonged search for the difficult-to-find causative agent of some devastating disease. Rather, it's the story of how a "cast of millions" (of bacteria) become entrenched inside the structure of teeth and end up causing the largest number of diseases ever traced to a single source.

What diseases? Can you give us some examples?

A high percentage of chronic degenerative diseases can originate from root filled teeth. The most frequent were heart and circulatory diseases and he found 16 different causative agents for these. The next most common diseases were those of the joints, arthritis and rheumatism. In third place - but almost tied for second - were diseases of the brain and nervous system. After that, any disease you can name might (and in some cases has) come from root filled teeth.

What is the "focal infection" theory?

This states that germs from a central focal infection - such as teeth, teeth roots, inflamed gum tissues, or maybe tonsils - metastasize to hearts, eyes, lungs, kidneys, or other organs, glands and tissues, establishing new areas of the same infection. Hardly theory any more, this has been proven and demonstrated many times over. It's 100% accepted today. But it was revolutionary thinking during World War I days, and the early 1920's!

Today, both patients and physicians have been "brain washed" to think that infections are less serious because we now have antibiotics. Well, yes and no. In the case of root-filled teeth, the no longer-living tooth lacks a blood supply to its interior. So circulating antibiotics don't faze the bacteria living there because they can't get at them.

Is everyone who has ever had a root canal filled made ill by it?

No. We believe now that every root canal filling does leak and bacteria do invade the structure. But the variable factor is the strength of the person's immune system. Some healthy people are able to control the germs that escape from their teeth into other areas of the body. We think this happens because their immune system lymphocytes (white blood cells) and other disease fighters aren't constantly compromised by other ailments. In other words, they are able to prevent those new colonies from taking hold in other tissues throughout the body. But over time, most people with root filled teeth do seem to develop some kinds of systemic symptoms they didn't have before.

It's really difficult to grasp that bacteria are embedded deep in the structure of seemingly-hard, solid looking teeth.

I know. Physicians and dentists have that same problem, too. You really have to visualize the tooth structure - all of those microscopic tubules running through the dentin. In a healthy tooth, those tubules transport a fluid that carries nourishment to the inside. For perspective, if the tubules of a front single-root tooth, were stretched out on the ground they'd stretch for three miles!

A root filled tooth no longer has any fluid circulating through it, but the maze of tubules remains. The anaerobic bacteria that live there seem remarkably safe from antibiotics. The bacteria can migrate out into surrounding tissue where they can "hitch hike" to other locations in the body via the bloodstream. The new location can be any organ or gland or tissue, and the new colony will be the next focus of infection in a body plagued by recurrent or chronic infections.

All of the "building up" done to try to enhance the patient's ability to fight infections - to strengthen their immune system - is only a holding action. Many patients won't be well until the source of infection - the root canal tooth - is removed.

I don't doubt what you're saying, but can you tell us more about how Dr. Price could be sure that arthritis or other systemic conditions and illnesses really originated in the teeth - or in a single tooth?

Yes. Many investigations start with the researcher just being curious about something - and then being scientifically careful enough to discover an answer, and then prove it's so, many times over. Dr. Price's first case is very well documented. He removed an infected tooth from a woman who suffered from severe arthritis. As soon as he finished with the patient, he implanted the tooth beneath the skin of a healthy rabbit. Within 48 hours the rabbit was crippled with arthritis!

Further, once the tooth was removed the patient's arthritis improved dramatically. This clearly suggested that the presence of the infected tooth was a causative agent for both that patient's and the rabbit's - arthritis.

In the years that followed, he repeated this procedure many hundreds of times. He later implanted only a portion of the tooth to see if that produced the same results. It did. He then dried the tooth, ground it into powder and injected a tiny bit into several rabbits. Same results, this time producing the same symptoms in multiple animals.

Dr. Price eventually grew cultures of the bacteria and injected them into the animals. Then he went a step further. He put the solution containing the bacteria through a filter small enough to catch the bacteria. So when he injected the resulting liquid it was free of any infecting bacteria. Did the test animals develop the illness? Yes. The only explanation was that the liquid had to contain toxins from the bacteria, and the toxins were also capable of causing disease.

Dr. Price became curious about which was the more potent infective agent, the bacteria or the toxin. He repeated that last experiment, injecting half the animals with the toxin-containing liquid and half of them with the bacteria from the filter. Both groups became ill, but the group injected with the toxins got sicker and died sooner than the bacteria injected animals.

That's amazing. Did the rabbits always develop the same disease the patient had?

Mostly, yes. If the patient had heart disease the rabbit got heart disease. If the patient had kidney disease the rabbit got kidney disease, and so on. Only occasionally did a rabbit develop a different disease - and then the pathology would be quite similar, in a different location.

If extraction proves necessary for anyone reading this, do you want to summarize what's special about the extraction technique?

Just pulling the tooth is not enough when removal proves necessary. Dr. Price found bacteria in the tissues and bone just adjacent to the tooth's root. So we now recommend slow-speed drilling with a burr, to remove one millimeter of the entire bony socket. The purpose is to remove the periodontal ligament (which is always infected with toxins produced by streptococcus bacteria living in the dentin tubules) and the first millimeter of bone that lines the socket (which is usually infected).

There's a whole protocol involved, including irrigating with sterile saline to assure removal of the contaminated bone chips, and treating the socket to stimulate and encourage infection-free healing.

Perhaps we should back up and talk about oral health - to PREVENT needing an extraction. Caries or inflamed gums seem much more common than root canals. Do they pose any threat?

Yes, they absolutely do. But let me point out that we can't talk about oral health apart from total health. The problem is that patients and dentists alike haven't come around to seeing that dental caries reflect systemic - meaning "whole body" - illness. Dentists have learned to restore teeth so expertly that both they and their patients have come to regard tooth decay as a trivial matter. It isn't.

Small cavities too often become big cavities. Big cavities too often lead to further destruction and the eventual need for root canal treatment.

Can you give us some advice about prevention?

The only scientific way to prevent tooth decay is through diet and nutrition. Dr. Ralph Steinman did some outstanding, landmark research at Loma Linda University. He injected a glucose solution into mice - into their bodies, so the glucose didn't even touch their teeth. Then he observed the teeth for any changes. What he found was truly astonishing. The glucose reversed the normal flow of fluid in the dentin tubules, resulting in all of the test animals developing severe tooth decay! Dr. Steinman demonstrated dramatically what I said a minute ago: Dental caries reflect systemic illness.

What a fascinating concept. Can you tell us more about the protective nutrition you mentioned?

Yes. Dr. Price traveled all over the world doing his research on primitive peoples who still lived in their native ways. He found fourteen cultural pockets scattered all over the globe where the natives had no access to "civilization" - and ate no refined foods.

Dr. Price studied their diets carefully. He found they varied greatly, but the one thing they had in common was that they ate whole, unrefined foods. With absolutely no access to tooth brushes, floss, fluoridated water or tooth paste, the primitive peoples studied were almost 100% free of tooth decay. Further - and not unrelated - they were also almost 100% free of all the degenerative diseases we suffer - problems with the heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, joints, skin (allergies), and the whole gamut of illnesses that plague Mankind. No one food proved to be magic as a preventive food. I believe we can thrive best by eating a wide variety of whole foods.

Amazing. So by "diet and nutrition" for oral (and total) health you meant eating a pretty basic diet of whole foods?

Exactly. And no sugar or white flour. These are (and always have been) the first culprits. Tragically, when the primitives were introduced to sugar and white flour their superior level of health deteriorated rapidly. This has been demonstrated time and again. During the last sixty or more years we have added in increasing amounts, highly refined and fabricated cereals and boxed mixes of all kinds, soft drinks, refined vegetable oils and a whole host of other foodless "foods". It is also during those same years that we as a nation have installed more and more root canal fillings - and degenerative diseases have become rampant. I believe - and Dr. Price certainly proved to my satisfaction - that these simultaneous factors are NOT coincidences.

Source: http://curezone.com/dental/root_canal.asp

My One-Day Cleanse - part 6

2009-08-26T09:13:00.002-04:00

Well, it's now the next day, but since I missed making my final entry for my one-day cleanse last evening, I thought I'd do it this morning.

After "dinner," my husband and I headed out of town to puppy school, where the dog trainer and our puppy kept me very busy! Despite not having eaten food all day, I was full of energy. I did find that my brain was a little slow, and so I found it challenging to keep up with the trainer's commands.

However, once home, I poured my final four ounces of Cleanse, over ice. I usually do not dilute my final helping of Cleanse in the day, because I don't want to be up all night emptying my bladder.

Just before bed, I had another B.M., which felt like the emptying of my entire colon. Not a lot, but just very satisfying. It's very encouraging to me to see the light brown colouring ... meaning that all of the sludge has been cleansed from my body. Knowing I don't have that stuff in my body, poisoning me, feels great!

I felt great heading off to bed. The chills were gone, and the low grade headache was long gone. I slept great! I woke up once in the night to go to the bathroom, but I was so out of it, once back in bed, I just nodded right off. Gotta love that!

This morning, because I am feeling so great, I've decided to continue with my cleansing. I'll decide as the day goes on whether I want to do another full day cleanse, or just a part day. I'm almost out of Cleanse, so we'll see how far it goes. (I've been taking two ounces of Cleanse each day leading up to the one-day cleanse.)

My One-Day Cleanse - part 5

2009-08-25T15:48:00.003-04:00

It's almost the dinner hour.

I'm sipping on my warm chamomille tea with just a smidgen of Want More Energy. Mmmmmm.... It's warming up my cold hands.

No more B.M.s yet today ... just the one this morning. But lots of bathroom breaks to empty my bladder.

Headache's gone.

Just whipped up a beautiful organic vegetable soup with lots of garam masala, turmeric, coriander and cumin. Added a dollop of almond butter, and will add hemp, chia, pumpkin and flax seed later. Once it's all cooked, I'll purée it a bit just to thicken it up. Mmmmmmm..... Too bad I can't eat it today. Something to look forward to tomorrow!!!

A one-day cleanse is always so much more difficult than day two of a two-day cleanse. Go figure.

Feeling strong and raring to go!

My One-Day Cleanse - part 4

2009-08-25T15:08:00.003-04:00

It is now mid-afternoon, and I have just finished my second 20 ounces of diluted Cleanse for Life juice. A little while ago, I felt my glucose levels going whacky, so opted to have a half-teaspoon of IsaLean Shake in 10 ounces of water. Lots of water!!!!

I am feeling less chilled, although I do believe I will go and make myself a nice hot cup of herbal tea to sip on while I work.

Feeling great!!!

The JA (John Anderson) Way to Cleanse

2009-08-25T11:10:00.000-04:00

WHAT IS THE JA WAY TO CLEANSE? SNACKS?
Wednesday, July 15, 2009 at 4:29pm (John's Facebook page)
QUESTION;
Got a person who is a bit confused on what John Anderson uses for snacks. Any suggestions? In the past, we’ve simply said, “If you must cheat, choose healthy low-calorie foods like nuts, small salads and vegetables.”

ANSWER;
Here's the Deal,

Cleansing is done for several reasons, to rid your body of toxins and also to loose weight.
Both require proper cleansing instructions and doing it correct, this will insure success.

Over the years, everyone think they are experts and have changed the original cleansing. This has lowered the the success rate, average weight loss, and slowed the system.

Eating foods on cleanse days is some fabricated crutch to appease cheaters and sugar addicts. Someone started the almond thing and has caused a rash of foods including eggs, salad, nuts, yogurt, chewing gum, vegetables, fruits, to be added as an "OK" thing to do.

The IsaSnacks are part of an important calculation, balanced nutrients formulated for a reason. The need to stabilize blood sugar was a factor when I originally designed the 9 day system. Adding a snack 6 times a day stimulates the colon slightly, adds a small amount of carbohydrates, and stabilizes blood sugar.

Ketosis is necessary for uncovering (Burning fat) where toxins are present. So, the need to enter a mild state of ketosis is a must for really detoxifying and BURNING FAT! By adding any other nuts and food will disrupt the process.

Diabetics and Hypoglycemic individuals must watch their blood sugar closely for LOW blood sugar. If this occurs, then it is recommended to eat a slice of apple or fruit and if needed, repeat until levels are back to normal.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of people who Panic when the hunger signs hit. This is a trained mind response that occurs as a survival mechanism. One starts to feel their next meal is not coming and PANIC sets in.

This can be reversed and the habit broken in 48 hours by not teasing your self and eating snacks to keep the evil hunger monster away. Regardless of your weight, this can be controlled. In some cases, the mental stress of "The next Meal Syndrome" may require support from a coach, physician, friend, or someone who can work on the strong mental factor of assuring "Death" will not occur, so to speak!

JA WAY TO CLEANSE;
Drink 16 ounces of cleanse during the entire day in your drinking water,
Add 6 snacks daily during your cleanse,
2 IsaDelights are optional,
You may also take your Essentials, Ionix, C-Lyte, Omegas, and a little WME.

NO's;
eggs
nuts
fruit
vege's
salad
or any other foods.
If you do eat these snacks, you will be hungry during the cleanse and have a much harder time, so doing it the JA Way will help you succeed..

ADDITIONAL NOTE; Constipation

NEW MESSAGE SENT TO ME;
“I have battled with extra pounds. The Isagenix concept sounded perfect for my goals and lifestyle. So, despite my tight budget, I opted for the 30 day program. I’m on the 30 day cleanse program and have struggled with constipation since day 1. Despite all my efforts and the supplemental options available (Isaflush), I have not been able to successfully eliminate and unfortunately am not feeling or seeing the benefits of Isagenix. For that matter, I’m quite miserable. I have not experienced anything more uncomfortable and stressful than constipation…and so I’m feeling pretty rotten right now.”

JOHN'S ANSWER;
constipation is sometimes a problem for those who have cronic issues. I do suggest adding IsaFiber Pro when this occurs.
Thanks

My One-Day Cleanse - part 3

2009-08-25T11:02:00.002-04:00

It's now 11:00 a.m. Just finished my first 20 ounces of diluted Cleanse. I also had my one teaspoon of chocolate IsaLean Shake in 10 ounces of water - that went down real nice! Feeling rather chilly, and have a low grade headache, but nothing serious. Have been going to the bathroom quite a bit to empty my bladder. Just finished listening to our amazing Health, Wealth and Freedom Team Call, and now I'm off to walk the dog to the veteranarian's office. Feeling good!!

My One-Day Cleanse - part 2

2009-08-25T10:01:00.002-04:00

Just got out of the shower and realized that I have the chills (a bit) and a very, very mild headache. This is to be expected, and is not bothersome at all.

My One-Day Cleanse - part 1

2009-08-25T08:56:00.004-04:00

I went to bed last night in anticipation! Tomorrow would be a great day!!!

Today, I am doing a one-day Isagenix full-body cleanse, using amazing products developed by world renowned John Anderson, "the Mineral Man." I am cleansing my body, all five systems, at a cellular level.

I've chosen to do my cleanse today so that I'm accompanying my beautiful friend Betty, who is cleansing today for the very first time in her life! Congratulations Betty on ridding your body of the impurities that make us sick, sap our energy and make us grow heavy and old before our time. And congratulations on flooding your body with abundant nutrition - nutrition that our bodies have been lacking for a very long time!

I will be blogging about my cleanse throughout the day today.

I started my day by drinking 10 ounces of water. Then I measured four ounces of Cleanse for Life juice into 20 ounces of water. That was two hours ago. I've been sipping on the deluted juice since then.

I have no idea of how many times I have done this cleanse over the last year and a half ... all I know is that the Cleanse calls me. If I don't cleanse regularly, my body starts screaming out, "Cleanse me! Cleanse me!" My body now knows that cleansing impurities is absolutely necessary.

I am not experiencing much in the way of cleansing symptoms at this point. My head is feeling a bit light, and I'm feeling that lack-of-food feeling in my belly. Nothing I can't handle.

After writing this entry, I will drink another 10 ounces of water, and continue sipping on the deluted juice. If I continue to have that lightheadedness, I will mix a teaspoon of IsaLean Shake into some water and drink that, just so I get a few carbs to keep my glucose levels balanced. (I sure wish I had some Snacks or IsaDelights on hand!)

No one likes to talk about poop, but I noticed how, about half-way through my 20 ounces, my body started telling me it was time. This feeling in my bowels, on a cleanse day, is just this side of the cramping that comes along with diarrhea, but it isn't cramping, and it isn't diarrhea. I love the feeling ... it's a message that says to me: the impurities are on their way out of the body. That's just where I want them - out!

My bowels have been completely cleaned out over the past year and half of living the Isagenix lifestyle, so my stools are pretty much normal. But I remember those days of seeing things that no one should ever see in their poop.

I now know that the Cleanse drink helps to scrub out the mucoid plaque inside the walls of the colon, and with that scrubbing come the parasites that have been living between the plaque and the colon wall. Very interesting. So, for me, no more black/green stools that resemble the Alberta tar sands, and no more parasites.

I have lots of energy still, and have already done laundry, bathed the dog, chatted on Skype with my daughter Laura, dusted the house, and tidied up. I've been at work in my home office for about an hour. It is just 9:15 a.m.

Watch for my next post......

Isagenix® Named Among Nation's Fastest-Growing Companies

2009-08-24T09:17:00.001-04:00

Health-and-Wellness Company Has Moved Up 432 Spots In Last Three Years
CHANDLER, Ariz. (August 14, 2009) - The rapid growth of Isagenix® has earned the World Leader in Nutritional Cleansing™ a spot on Inc. magazine's 2009 list of the 5,000 fastest-growing private companies in the U.S. for the third consecutive year.

Moving up 185 spots from last year, Isagenix ranked No. 1,099 on the magazine's list based on its revenue growth. This year's ranking is up 432 spots since its initial rank in the magazine's 2007 inaugural listing.

"Inc. magazine is the industry standard when ranking successful companies, both private and public," commented Isagenix President and CEO Jim Coover. "The entrepreneurial spirit possessed by each of our Associates drives our success as one of the fastest-growing companies in the nation. We rely heavily on our sales force and the trust we invest in them has been repaid tenfold time and again."

Isagenix was also ranked among the Top 100 Inc. 5000 companies in the following areas:

No. 18 in the Phoenix metro area
No. 72 in the consumer products and services industry
No. 77 in companies ranked by gross dollars of growth

Established in 2002, the Chandler-based health-and-wellness company has achieved cumulative sales of nearly $1 billion relying on an international sales force of more than 200,000 home-based business Associates in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia and New Zealand. Since its inception, Isagenix has created nearly 40 millionaires, hundreds of six-figure earners and led thousands of others to build residual income from distributing its products.

Isagenix offers targeted and complete systems that make it convenient for people to achieve safe, lasting weight loss and long-term wellness. The systems focus on Nutritional Cleansing, a process that improves on the ancient health practice of fasting by feeding the body with nutrients to assist in its natural ability to remove impurities. Isagenix systems combine cleansing with a low-calorie meal regimen and infusion of essential nutrients for a total health and wellness approach. It has helped more than 130 people lose 100 pounds, seven people lose 200 pounds and hundreds of thousands of others lose weight and improve their health and wellness.

The complete Inc. 5000 list, along with a profile on Isagenix can be viewed by visiting, www.inc5000.com.

Natural Alternatives to Viagra

2009-07-22T15:25:00.001-04:00

By Chris Kilham

Woody Allen's late 1970s film 'Love and Death' was eerily prophetic, if in name alone, about the Viagra dilemma. The drug enables many men to achieve an erection and regain lost sexual function, but it can also exact a stiff penalty from users. The Food and Drug Administration has reported dozens of deaths among Viagra users. This seems an unnecessarily severe side effect. Concerns about the drug have spurred interest in effective, natural aphrodisiacs without deleterious side effects.

Responding to this interest, I set off for the Amazon rain forest in search of sex-enhancing plants. I traveled in the company of a Brazilian shaman named Bernie Peixoto, a man skilled in tribal wisdom and the use of plant medicines. There in the world's greatest jungle, we encountered two potent sex-boosting plants with a long history of safe use.

Our flight into Brazil put us into the Amazon city of Manaus, where we met with Antonio Matas, the most highly respected herbalist in that area. Antonio shared stories with us about his decades of healing work using rain-forest plants.

Catuaba and Muirapuama: Sex Enhancers?
"What about catuaba and muirapuama?" I inquired. "Are they really effective sex enhancers, or is that just a myth?" He laughed at the question and spread his hands wide open. "There is nothing that compares with catuaba and muirapuama together. I can tell you, I have used these plants with hundreds of people. The old become sexually young again. I have seen impotent men who can have sex for the first time in years. Even healthy couples find that these plants put extra fire in their sex life. These plants are good for men and women."

I asked Antonio if he used these plants himself. He smiled again. "Sometimes. After all, I've been married to the same woman for 43 years."

Before heading off to the Amazon, I had read everything I could find on reputed sex-enhancing plants from that region. Virtually every reference I found described the use of both catuaba (Erythroxylum catuaba) and muirapuama (Ptychopetalum olacoides) to increase libido and improve sexual function.

When Bernie and I arrived in Manaus, we discovered that the use of these two botanicals was more popular than we ever suspected. Throughout Manaus, a city in the heart of the jungle, which flourished during the great rubber boom of the mid-1800s, we found dozens of guarana stands which served mixed fruit smoothies with herbs.
"Super Sex Drink"
Guarana, the most popular caffeine-bearing plant in Brazil, was added to these drinks, along with other herbs. Every guarana stand offered an aphrodisiac drink, usually named "Super Sex Drink," containing about a heaping teaspoon of powdered catuaba and muirapuama combined.

When we asked the people who work at the guarana bars if their sex drinks were effective, they were quick to affirm their potency. As we sat at various guarana bars, we watched women and men order super sex drinks for themselves and second ones for their partners. Couples showed up together, ordered, winked at each other, and drank. It was clear that catuaba and muirapuama held distinguished positions in popular Brazilian culture.

In fact, few beneficial plants are as popular or as widely consumed among the natives of the northern Amazon river basin as the barks of catuaba and muirapuama. These two common trees grow widely from Peru to Brazil. Both have been used extensively by natives and non-natives for centuries, to increase libido and improve sexual potency. Due to the popularity of these two sex boosters, their harvesting and sale has become big business throughout Brazil.

Improved Erectile Function Reported
Science on these plants is still modest, but reports in scientific journals and at conferences have supported their use for sexual enhancement. In catuaba, a group of three alkaloids dubbed catuabine A, B and C are believed to enhance sexual function by stimulating the nervous system. In muirapuama, chemists have identified a group of sterols including beta-sitosterol, thought to be responsible for the herb's aphrodisiac effects. In one study using muirapuama, 51 percent of men with erectile problems reported improvement, and 62 percent experienced an increase in libido.

After our time in Manaus, Bernie and I boated down the Amazon river where we stayed with Ipixuna and Crinicoru indians in floating shacks on the water. While there we ventured into the rain forest with native guides who showed us catuaba and muirapuama trees growing in different places. We also witnessed the harvesting of catuaba bark and its subsequent sale to a local buyer. We learned that most natives use these plants by placing a small handful of their combined barks in a glass of room-temperature water, let the herbs sit overnight, and drink the resulting amber infusion in the morning.

The Shamans
To confirm what we had read about catuaba and muirapuama, and what Antonio Matas had imparted, Bernie and I set off to interview a couple of elderly women shamans, both of whom were experts in the preparation and use of Amazon medicinal plants. Each woman told us that the sexual restorative virtues of catuaba and muirapuama were significant. One 89-year-old shaman named Therese echoed Antonio's words when she told us, "Catuaba and muirapuama together can make people sexually young again."

Throughout history, people have sought to increase libido and improve sexual function through the use of reputed aphrodisiac plants. Catuaba and muirapuama, two common trees growing widely across the Amazon river basin, enjoy centuries of safe, effective use as bona fide aphrodisiacs.

If you're going to try these herbs, there are a couple of ways you can go about doing so. If you can obtain them as bulk herbs in a natural food store, then two to four grams of the powdered bark combination is a good dosage range. I throw about that much into a blender drink, with good results. But not everybody likes messing around with loose herbs.

A number of supplement companies produce finished products containing these herbs in powdered or liquid form, and offer dosage guidelines. As research into the sex-enhancing value of these rain-forest plants increases and more becomes known about their modes of action, they are destined to become popular and widely used in cultures such as ours, beyond the rain forest.

Source article: www.health.discovery.com

Nitrates in commercial foods more dangerous than we first thought

2009-07-22T11:11:00.003-04:00

By Sherry Baker

According to a new study by scientists at Rhode Island Hospital, millions of Americans could be at risk of serious and even fatal diseases because of chemicals used to fertilize and to preserve food. Scientists have found a strong link between increasing levels of nitrates and nitrites in our food supply and increasing death rates from Alzheimer's, diabetes mellitus and Parkinson's disease.

The research, just published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, investigated trends in death rates due to diseases associated with advancing age. They found convincing parallels between age adjusted rises in mortality from certain illnesses -- Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and diabetes -- and the steadily increasing human exposure to nitrates, nitrites and nitrosamines through processed and preserved foods as well as fertilizers.

Suzanne de la Monte, MD, MPH, of Rhode Island Hospital, and her research team suggest that the exposure to these chemicals is playing a direct role in the cause, development and effects of the pandemic of these diseases. "Because of the similar trending in nearly all age groups within each disease category, this indicates that these overall trends are not due to an aging population. This relatively short time interval for such dramatic increases in death rates associated with these diseases is more consistent with exposure-related causes rather than genetic changes," Dr. de la Monte explained in a statement to the media. "Moreover, the strikingly higher and climbing mortality rates in older age brackets suggest that aging and/or longer durations of exposure have greater impacts on progression and severity of these diseases."

Nitrites and nitrates belong to a class of chemicals called nitrosamines that are created by a chemical reaction between nitrites or other proteins. They've long been shown to be harmful to both humans and animals. In fact, more than 90 percent of nitrosamines have been shown in tests to be carcinogens. However, they are allowed to be freely added to the US food supply. In fact, if you pick up a processed food package such as luncheon meat or bacon, certain beers and some cheese products, you are likely to find that they contain these chemicals. In addition, exposure to nitrates and nitrites are widely found in fertilizers, pesticides and cosmetics. Exposure also occurs through the manufacturing and processing of rubber and latex products.

Nitrosamines are problematic because they become reactive at the cellular level and that means they can alter gene expression and cause DNA damage. The new research suggests that the cellular alterations that occur as a result of nitrosamine exposure create a process much like accelerated aging in the body and that could spur on the development of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Type 2 diabetes mellitus.

"All of these diseases are associated with increased insulin resistance and DNA damage. Their prevalence rates have all increased radically over the past several decades and show no sign of plateau. Because there has been a relatively short time interval associated with the dramatic shift in disease incidence and prevalence rates, we believe this is due to exposure-related rather than genetic etiologies," Dr. de la Monte stated.

For the study, the researchers graphed and analyzed mortality rates and compared them with increasing age for each disease. Next the scientists looked at the growth of the US population and the annual use and consumption of nitrite-containing fertilizers, annual sales at popular fast food chains (which carry nitrate and nitrate containing foods), sales for a major meat processing company, and consumption of grain (often fertilized with nitrates). For a control, the research team also looked at statistics on the consumption of watermelon and cantaloupe -- foods that not typically associated with nitrate or nitrite exposure.

The results show that while nitrogen-containing fertilizer consumption increased by 230 percent between 1955 and 2005, its usage doubled between 1960 and 1980 -- and that's the time period just before the insulin-resistant epidemics of type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease began. What's more, the investigators also found fast food chain and the meat processing company sales increased more than eight fold from 1970 to 2005, and grain consumption increased five-fold. That means the US population has been exposed to dramatic increase in foods loaded with nitrates and nitrites.

Bottom line: the researchers think the increased prevalence rates of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and diabetes cannot be explained on the basis of gene mutations and, instead, are examples of toxin exposure-related disease. "If this hypothesis is correct, potential solutions include eliminating the use of nitrites and nitrates in food processing, preservation and agriculture; taking steps to prevent the formation of nitrosamines and employing safe and effective measures to detoxify food and water before human consumption," Dr. de la Monte, who is a professor of pathology and lab medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, said in a press statement.

Source article: www.naturalnews.com

Facing Freedom

2009-05-16T00:05:00.003-04:00

Today, I am again focused on Freedom.

The idea of having an empty nest is both exhilarating and anxiety-provoking. After being a primary caregiver for almost 25 years, I become almost giddy when faced with the prospect of being able to focus only on me.

Then, the reality hits me, and I am at risk of letting the anxiety creep in.

There is just so much I intend to do to make my mark on the world. My calling is to find creative solutions to difficult challenges, to help people to find their way in the world, and to grow the Body of Christ. There are many ways to do this. I have had the privilege of working in various capacities toward this end for many years. I am excited about the possibilities and the opportunities that are opening up in front of me.

Yet, the anxiety, the enemy, is trying to overshadow my excitement.

How will our daughter manage on her own? Has she been adequately prepared for a life of interdependence? Has her transitional living arrangement (in her apartment within our home) given her the opportunity to learn enough skills to allow her to live away from her parents?

There are two things I know to be true:

1. Our daughter has consistently proven that she can surpass even very high expectations; and
2. We will never know unless we try.

I am confident that God has this situation well in hand and that He will provide the resources necessary for success.

I am just so grateful for the gift of Isagenix, that has given me back my health, and is helping me to grow my wealth so that our daughter's future will be secured.

Visit www.stronghealthycommunity.isagenix.com and www.cleansedforlife.com.

A Day of Impending Freedom

2009-05-14T22:02:00.004-04:00

This blog is all about Health, Wealth and Freedom. Today, I am focused on Freedom!

How do you define freedom?

For me, today, freedom is being able to foresee the day when I am able to let go of some of my maternal duties. Freedom is seeing an empty nest only days away.

Twenty five years ago, our daughter was born with multiple disabilities. Since then, I have dedicated my life to ensuring both she and her brother had the best possible start in life.

Two years ago, our now 21-year-old son left the nest. In six weeks time, our daughter will follow.

Today, I was informed that an apartment has come available and it has our daughter's name on it! On Canada Day, she will get the keys to her new place.

Five years ago, our daughter began to prepare for this day by moving into a brand new "granny suite" within our home - a beautiful 400 square foot apartment with all amenities over our garage. Then, I began praying to God ... Please make it possible for our daughter to move out of this apartment in five years.

We set a date - July 14, 2009 ... our daughter's 25th birthday. We had no idea how it could possibly happen, but I asked for what I wanted, and set my belief.

Today, the answer came, and in six weeks time God will have made the impossible possible ... with 13 days to spare.

I am so grateful to my amazing company, Isagenix, for making it possible for me to work from home, to have flexible working hours so I could attend to our daughter's support needs, and to build an income that will comfortably take care of the costs of her moving outside our home.

www.stronghealthycommunity.isagenix.com

I am over the moon, and a little anxious, as I await the day of impending freedom.

The Cosmic Cleanse

2009-04-30T11:07:00.004-04:00

The Cosmic Cleanse by Kathy Coover
(found in Eat to Live Isagenix Healthy Family Recipes Vol. 1 book)

4 oz. Isagenix Cleanse for Life
2 scoops Isagenix Isafruits
1 tsp. Isagenix Want More Energy
8 oz. purified water
6-8 ice cubes
Blend well and enjoy!

Master formulator responds to question about The Master Cleanse

2009-04-30T11:00:00.003-04:00

John Anderson, world renowned master formulator of over 2300 products for over 600 health and wellness companies,and founder/formulator for Isagenix International, was asked the following question:

I just spoke with a woman who is getting ready to do "The Master Cleanse" which is purified water, organic lemons, organic maple syrup and cayenne pepper for 10-12 days. And they do not eat anything else during those days.

What advice do you have for me when I encounter people who ask how "The Master Cleanse" compares to the Isagenix cleanse?

John Anderson’s response:
FIRST, I would feel their arms and under the arm for muscles.
Get a good "feel" and remember the amount you grabbed. Then tell them you will see them in 12 days for another "feel" of their muscles.

They will ask why you’re feeling them and checking their muscles.

You respond by telling them this:
"Master 12 Day Cleanse" is a very old cleansing technique that burns lots of lean body mass and they will look like a B-52 Bomber with the flaps down coming in for a landing when they finish!

They’re getting no nutritional support during the 12 days except for the minerals in the lemons and maple sap.

The human body needs amino acid support, vitamins, fats, carbohydrates, and more to maintain health and support body functions. Your colon will stop functioning for too long and will have a very difficult time restarting when food is reintroduced.

You cannot just take all the building blocks away from your body and expect it to run on empty. The old ways in the ancient world had good intentions but lacked the knowledge to know the damage they were doing to their bodies.

In modern day, we all know the harm this will bring, and now we support our bodies with the balanced nutrition we need, while cleansing the toxins from their resting places in our body.

Please use caution and cleanse the proper way, safe, healthy, and support your body’s needs!

John

Depression and Mental Illness

2009-04-29T15:48:00.007-04:00

The following article is taken from the Food Matters web site April 2009.

How To Be Free From Depression and Mental Illness... the Natural Way!

Our chemical rich modern diet with large amounts of processed and packaged foods, saturated fats, artificial colors, flavors and preservatives and an excess of caffeine and alcohol radically changes our internal ecosystem. Considering then that ‘we are what we eat’ it is little wonder that the incidences of depression and mental illness are so widespread in our culture.

Interestingly, many of the things that are good for your health will also contribute to a more positive state of mind, for example: daily exercise, meditation, yoga, and eating good whole nutritious foods are all recommended by the world’s leading health and nutrition experts for optimum health. These approaches to whole body health are all things that will transform your internal ecosystem to one of optimum health, balance and harmony.

Can Depression and Mental Illness really be a Nutritional Disorder?

Many research studies are now concluding that eating processed foods and manufactured foods, can be related to the onset of depression. In Paul Zane Pilzer's book The Wellness Revolution he states: “It's the food supply that is causing depression and obesity in this country. It's all the refined ingredients that have their nutrition stripped away.” By eating de-natured foods we are not giving our brain the nutrients it needs to achieve a healthy and balanced mental state.

Why is it that people who pursue healthy diets tend to have a positive outlook and outstanding mental health? It's the foods...because the food we eat greatly affects our mental state, and if we eat healing foods, and foods rich in vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients, then we will have healthy mental function.

Does your doctor or psychiatrist recommend alternative and nutritional medicine?

The truth is your doctor or psychiatrist most probably will not have studied nutrition and alternative therapies as part of his or her qualification. In the US less than 6% of graduated physicians have studied Nutrition as part of their curriculum. Psychiatrists will most likely prescribe antidepressant drugs to treat depression such as Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft which have been linked with potentially dangerous side effects, including increased risk of suicide, violent behavior, and other similar acts of aggression.

It is important to realize that food can have a positive effect on your mood and well being. Healing foods and nutritional supplementation can restore a healthy brain balance. A study published in the February 15, 2005 issue of Biological Psychiatry shows that certain foods are better at treating depression than antidepressant drugs. Based on the results of this study, it raises the question of why to continue to use antidepressant drugs to treat depression when there are simple nutritional approaches available that could do a better job.

For more information on how to treat Mental Illness and Depression naturally please watch Food Matters or take a look at the online learning program which features over 5 hours of footage from the teachers in Food Matters discussing the topic.

Visit www.stronghealthycommunity.com for a link, or see DVD Available Now icon on this blog. To find out about how to get mineral and vitamin rich, undenatured food into your body, visit www.stronghealthycommunity.isagenix.com.

Reversing Diabetes Naturally. Watch it happen...

2009-04-24T09:42:00.005-04:00

By Kim Evans
The Huntington Post, April 14, 2009

There's an interesting movie out called Simply Raw. It chronicles the journey of six diabetics making a 30-day dietary shift to a raw, organic, sugar-free, vegan diet, and along the way, most reversed all medical signs of having diabetes. It's pretty powerful stuff, probably most so for the 246 million diabetics worldwide, many of whom believe that their only option for managing or eliminating their diabetes is pharmaceutical drugs.

It's my understanding that some of the participants also took enzymes to aid the process and did colonics to clean the impacted waste from their colon walls, but when it's all said and done, thirty days isn't bad for a disease that's said to be incurable. And it certainly speaks to how fundamentally what we put into our bodies (and what we choose not to put in them) determines whether we'll have health or sickness.

Many people aren't familiar with raw foods or why they are important. Raw foods are simply foods from the earth that haven't been processed or heated above 118 degrees. They are fruits, vegetables, seeds and nuts, and if you're new to this, you may be asking, "Why 118 degrees?" Actually, it's pretty simple. Raw, unfired foods from the earth have enzymes in them and enzymes are destroyed at temperatures above 118 degrees, as are many of the nutrients in foods.

Enzymes are important because they help your body break down the foods you're consuming, but they also play a larger role. Enzymes are the catalysts for every action in the human body - including stuff like blinking and breathing. Quite literally, when we run out of enzymes, we die. It's the case because our bodies can no longer initiate these basic tasks that are required for life. So, raw foods supplement these enzymes in our bodies, while cooked foods drain them from our bodies because cooked foods require the body to borrow from its enzyme reserves to facilitate digestion.

Of course, by following such a diet, an aspect not to be overlooked is the absence of foods that are processed and filled with unnatural chemicals, which encompass many of the foods that most people put into their bodies daily. Unfortunately, it's not yet common knowledge that many processed foods and foods with pesticides and herbicides sprayed on them actually have a detrimental impact on health. But this movie shines the light on some of the truly amazing things that can (and do) happen when you put a little effort into eating a diet as nature intended, while foregoing the processed and man-made foods that many have come to see as the norm.

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Kim Evans is the author of Cleaning Up!
To learn about nutritional cleansing and a new food technology that encompasses everything mentioned here (which is radically changing people's lives!) visit www.stronghealthycommunity.isagenix.com and click on IsaVideos.

Are vitamins just expensive urine?

2009-04-15T09:35:00.003-04:00

Edited by Dr Andrew Saul as featured in Food Matters

Ever heard this one before? "Your body doesn't absorb extra vitamins. All you get from taking vitamin supplements is expensive urine." Sure you have. And you still will, at websites such as http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/67769 and even the BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/109881.stm. Some people will tell you that any vitamin consumption higher than the lowly RDA is simply a "waste of money."

"Expensive urine." It is an old saw, and one terrific sound byte. Too bad it is also false.

Urine is what is left over after your kidneys purify your blood. If your urine contains, say, extra vitamin C, that vitamin C was in your blood. If the vitamin was in your blood, you absorbed it just fine. It is the absence of water-soluble vitamins in urine that indicates vitamin deficiency. If your body excretes vitamins in your urine, that is a sign that you are well-nourished and have nutrients to spare. That is good.

Here's another way to think of it: Standing at the base of the Hoover Dam looking up, you cannot tell how much water is behind it. However, by observing the overflow spillway, you can tell. If the spillway is dry and dusty, full of tumbleweeds and foxes are making their dens, there has been a drought for some time, and the water level in the dam must be low. If water is pouring down the spillway, the dam must be full. "Waste" indicates fullness, just as an overflowing cup is unmistakably a full cup. Urine spillage of vitamins indicates nutritional adequacy. A lack of water-soluble vitamins in the urine indicates inadequacy.

"Expensive urine," writes veteran nutritional reporter Jack Challem, is "a bizarre argument because a $50 restaurant meal and a bottle of fine wine also lead to expensive urine, but no one seems to be complaining about those things. Numerous studies have shown, however, that vitamin supplements do increase people's blood levels of those nutrients." (1)

Former faculty member at the University of Auckland Michael Colgan, PhD, measured how much vitamin C is actually used with increasing daily doses. He found that "Only a quarter of our subjects reached their vitamin C maximum at 1,500 mg a day. More than half required over 2,500 mg a day to reach a level where their bodies could use no more. Four subjects did not reach their maximum at 5,000 mg." Indeed, says one commentator, "Increasing vitamin C intake from 50 mg to 500 mg tends to double serum vitamin C levels. Increasing intake to 5,000 mg a day will double serum levels again." (2)

Time for a Second Opinion?

Thomas Levy, MD, JD, a board-certified cardiologist, says "There's a popular medical view that taking vitamin C just makes expensive urine. Some of it is lost in urine, but the more you consume, the more stays in your body." (3)

William Kaufman, MD, a physician with a PhD in nutritional biochemistry as well, wrote: "Those who believe that you can get all the nourishment including vitamins and minerals you need to sustain optimal health throughout life from food alone can be very smug. They have the equivalent of an orthodox religious belief: "food is everything." They don't have to concern themselves with the fact that the nutritional value of foods their patient eats may be greatly inferior to the listed nutritional values given in food tables. . . The two-liner 'We get all the vitamins we need in our diets. Taking supplements only gives you an expensive urine' completely overlooks the benefits vitamin supplements can produce in our bodies before being excreted in our urine." (4)

Expensive Breath?

We all know that we breathe in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide. We also breathe out oxygen, and quite a lot of it, too. Inhaled air is about 21% oxygen. We typically consume only about a quarter of that. So exhaled breath is approximately 15% oxygen. (5) Exhaled breath has enough oxygen for CPR to save lives. That also must mean that scuba divers have "expensive breath." For that matter, oxygen-tent patients from preemies to geriatric patients, and those receiving surgical anesthesia all receive far more oxygen than their bodies can actually use. We do not consider that a waste; we consider that a good idea. Abundance is not a bad thing.

Expensive "Drug Urine"?

"When it comes to really expensive urine," says one editorial, "doctors fail to look at the cost of all those pharmaceuticals and chemotherapy drugs they're shoving down the throats of patients. Those drugs are excreted through the urine, too, and when you add up the cost of those, just the financial cost, not even counting the cost in devastating side effects, they far outweigh the cost of eating healthy foods and taking supporting supplements." (6)

Dr. Kaufmann adds: "During the early part of World War II, GI's treated with penicillin had to save all their urine so that the penicillin which had been excreted in their urine could be recovered and then used to treat other GI's with life threatening wound infections. If one only considered the penicillin that was excreted in the urine and not the benefits that the GI had in having his infection cured by penicillin, one could sneer that penicillin's only function was to give the GI expensive urine. If one considered only the function of penicillin in the GI's body, one would have to marvel at the miracle of its curing a potentially lethal infection." (4)

Good nutrition saves lives. The therapeutic use of vitamin supplements, to both treat and prevent serious diseases, has tens of thousands of scientific references to support it. (7) Can all of those researchers and physicians be dumber than the reporter you may have just have heard intone that "vitamins just give you expensive urine"?

So many of us modern-day people are deficit eaters, attempting to obtain our vitamins from a selection of nutritionally weak foods. Foods alone cannot meet our vitamin needs for optimum health. Vitamin supplements are the solution, not the problem. Good health is not about the vitamins you excrete; it's about the vitamins you retain.

To see a full list of references for this article and to view the article at it’s original source please go to http://www.orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v04n21.shtml

The Secret to Optimal Health

2009-04-13T17:08:00.002-04:00

With Susan Sly
From Team Success News, April 12, 2009

"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not." Mark Twain

Isapro and IsaCalcium...The Perfect Combination for Fat Loss

At a recent Super Saturday, in Toronto, Jeff Boris mentioned the powerful effects of taking Isapro and IsaCalcium before bed to combat stubborn fat. Jeff has a Masters degree in Exercise Physiology and is a nutrition expert. Studies show that taking protein before bed does help the body release fat. In my book, the Isabody Beautiful (available at www.isasalestools.com ) I highlighted the power of having IsaCalcium before bed as clinical studies illustrate that calcium helps to lower cortisol levels. Cortisol is a stress hormone that prevents the body from releasing fat.

Stubborn fat can occur if a person is not getting enough exercise, has a high level of stress, is on certain medications or is eating meals that exceed 600 calories and therefore causing digestive and pancreatic distress. By eating smaller frequent meals and finishing off your day with 1 scoop of Isapro and 2-3 tsp. of IsaCalcium you are giving your body the 'one - two punch' of protein and soothing calcium.

In order to truly benefit I recommend you give this regime a try for 30 days non-stop. You will feel different and your muscles will thank you. In addition to this before bed ritual I also recommend 4 ounces of the new Tropical Berry Cleanse for Life every day along with 2 additional Power Shakes with 1 scoop of Isapro, 1 scoop of Isalean, 1 scoop of Isafruits and 1 scoop of Isagenix Greens. This will rev up your metabolism and kick fat to the curb.

To assist with adding fiber and flushing out excess fat I also recommend 1-2 of the new Slim Cakes/day. This will provide your body with wonderful oatbran, anti-oxidants and much more. Oatbran has been clinically proven to assist the body in regulation of cholesterol. Anti-oxidants help fight the aging process. What could be better than a lean, healthy body, a clean colon and flooding yourself with powerful super foods?

I encourage you to embrace a new commitment to Isagenix this spring. Now is the time to truly live into the healthiest body ever. Isagenix provides your body with the best nutrients on the planet. Get started in creating a powerful, lean and energetic body today.

In Health,
Susan

Millionaire Tip of the Week

Commit to the Isagenix regime I listed above. Go for it for 30 days. Record how you are feeling. Of course include your Essentials, Anti-Oxidants, Omegas, C-Lyte, and all of your other favorite Isagenix products.

There is an alternative way to dealing with cancer

2009-04-07T13:47:00.006-04:00

(This article has not been researched for its veracity. Please visit http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/ or other such sites, or speak to your health care professional to do your own due diligence. This information is not intended to replace the advice of a qualified health care professional. Always consult your health care professional before embarking on a new health care regimen.)

AFTER YEARS OF FOCUS ON CHEMOTHERAPY AS THE MEANS FOR ELIMINATING CANCER, WE ARE NOW DISCUSSING ALTERNATIVES.

1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.

2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's lifetime.

3. When the person's immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors.

4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors.

5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.

6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastro-intestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.

7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.

8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor destruction.

9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.

10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.

11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply.

CANCER CELLS FEED ON:

a. Sugar is a cancer-feeder.

By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in color. Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea salt.

b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened Soya milk cancer cells are being starved.

c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment.

A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.

d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).

e. Avoid coffee, tea, and some chocolates, which are high in caffeine.

Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer-fighting properties. Water: best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic; avoid it.

12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines becomes putrefied and leads to more toxic buildup.

13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or eating less meat, more enzymes are free to attack the protein walls of cancer cells, which allows the body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.

14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFA s etc.) to enable the body's own killer cells to destroy cancer cells. Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.

15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger, unforgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.

16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.

PLEASE READ ON

1. No plastic containers in micro.

2. No water bottles in freezer.

3. No plastic wrap in microwave.

What’s really in our bottled water?

2009-04-02T14:28:00.001-04:00

What’s really in our bottled water?

Plastic packaging is not without its downsides, and if you thought mineral water was ‘clean’, it may be time to think again. According to Martin Wagner and Jörg Oehlmann from the Department of Aquatic Ecotoxicology at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, plastic mineral water bottles contaminate drinking water with estrogenic chemicals.

In an analysis of commercially available mineral waters, the researchers found evidence of estrogenic compounds leaching out of the plastic packaging into the water. What’s more, these chemicals are potent in vivo and result in an increased development of embryos in the New Zealand mud snail. These findings, which show for the first time that substances leaching out of plastic food packaging materials act as functional estrogens, are published in Springer’s journal of Environmental Science and Pollution Research.

Wagner and Oehlmann looked at whether the migration of substances from packaging material into foodstuffs contributes to human exposure to man-made hormones. They analyzed 20 brands of mineral water available in Germany – nine bottled in glass, nine bottled in plastic and two bottled in composite packaging (paperboard boxes coated with an inner plastic film). The researchers took water samples from the bottles and tested them for the presence of estrogenic chemicals in vitro. They then carried out a reproduction test with the New Zealand mud snail to determine the source and potency of the xenoestrogens.

They detected estrogen contamination in 60% of the samples (12 of the 20 brands) analyzed. Mineral waters in glass bottles were less estrogenic than waters in plastic bottles. Specifically, 33% of all mineral waters bottled in glass compared with 78% of waters in plastic bottles and both waters bottled in composite packaging showed significant hormonal activity.

By breeding the New Zealand mud snail in both plastic and glass water bottles, the researchers found more than double the number of embryos in plastic bottles compared with glass bottles. Taken together, these results demonstrate widespread contamination of mineral water with potent man-made estrogens that partly originate from compounds leaching out of the plastic packaging material.

The authors conclude: “We must have identified just the tip of the iceberg in that plastic packaging may be a major source of xenohormone* contamination of many other edibles. Our findings provide an insight into the potential exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals due to unexpected sources of contamination.”

*man-made substance that has a hormone-like effect

Source – www.ScienceDaily.com (Mar. 27, 2009)

Are vitamin deficiencies causing our teeth to rot?

2009-04-02T14:21:00.003-04:00

By Andrew W. Saul, Ph.D. as featured in Food Matters

Cavities and gum diseases are not often regarded as serious diseases, yet they are epidemic throughout our society, from the youngest of children to the oldest of senior citizens. Research more than suggests that the same good nutrition that prevents cavities and gum diseases may also prevent other illnesses.

Dental caries and gum pathology are frequently associated with serious chronic health problems. Multiple independent studies published after 1990 document this. Cavities are associated with poor mental health [1-4]. Elderly individuals with dementia or Alzheimer's disease had an average of 7.8 teeth with fillings vs. an average of only 2.7 fillings for elderly individuals without dementia [1]. It is likely that the toxic heavy metal mercury, which makes up half of every amalgam filling, is a contributing factor.

A recent authoritative review showed a clear association between cavities and heart diseases [5]. More importantly, this same study showed that people with poor oral health, on average, lead shorter lives. The association between cavities and diabetes is also a subject of active, ongoing research [6-8]. Connections between heart disease, diabetes, and dental decay have been suspected for decades. Many of the scientists who called attention to this have proposed that diets high in sugar and refined carbohydrates were the common cause of these diseases [9-15].

Dental diseases, mental diseases, heart disease, infectious respiratory diseases, and heart disease are all at least partially caused by common failures in metabolism. Such failures are inevitable when there is a deficiency of essential nutrients, particularly vitamins D, C, and niacin.

There is especially strong evidence for a relationship between vitamin D deficiency and cavities. Dozens of studies were conducted in the 1930's and 1940's [16-27]. More than 90% of the studies concluded that supplementing children with vitamin D prevents cavities. Particularly impressive was a study published in 1941 demonstrated the preventative affect of "massive" doses of vitamin D [28]. And yet no subsequent studies in the scientific literature suggested a need to follow up and repeat this work.

Vitamin D deficiency is linked to respiratory infections, cancer, heart disease, diabetes and other ailments [29]. The evidence for vitamin C was reviewed by Linus Pauling [15], and the evidence for niacin was reviewed by Abram Hoffer [30].

Obtaining vitamins in sufficient doses to help prevent dental disease is safe and easily accomplished. Between 5,000 and 15,000 IU of vitamin D may be obtained from modest exposure to sunshine in the middle of the day. Recommending that people regularly use the capacity of their skin to make vitamin D is common sense. Certainly 1,000 to 2,000 IU per day of vitamin D in supplemental form is safe. 2,000 milligrams per day of vitamin C, and hundreds of milligrams per day of niacin, help prevent tooth and mouth troubles. Sick individuals, and those who are prone to cavities, will typically benefit by starting with higher doses of vitamin D, vitamin C, and niacin under the supervision of an orthomolecular physician.

We believe that individuals taking these nutrients, along with good dental care, will have dramatically fewer cavities and gum operations than individuals just getting good dental care. This idea is easily tested, and the time has come to do so.

Source: http://www.orthomolecular.org

Think Nutrtional Cleansing costs too much? You might be surprised!

2009-04-01T16:42:00.004-04:00

Have you been thinking about improving your health through Nutritional Cleansing, but are concerned about the cost? Or, have you been thinking about speaking to people about joining you in cleansing, but you assume they'll be concerned about the cost?

People who don't have all of the information they need to make a good decision are often concerned about the cost for no reason!

Use the link below to calculate how much money you would save by purchasing a 30-Day Cleansing and Fat Burning System, Total Health and Wellness Pak or 9-Day Challenge Pak. (Be sure to choose Wholesale Pricing.)

http://www.mad-eel.com/tools/cleansing-calc.php?locale=ca

Note: In some cases, nutritional cleansing may add a nominal amount to your grocery bill. It then becomes a matter of choice: for example, do I buy those high-priced, prepackaged meal items that are so easy to prepare, but which lack the nutrition my body is craving, or do I INVEST in my health, well-being and longevity.

For those of you who can't decide, please ask your children (or other loved ones) whether they prefer to eat prepackaged foods or to have you living healthfully for a long, long time. I dare say your children will choose to have you around longer.

I hope this helps you to take that step towards better health. If you like, I would be honoured to walk along with you.

I encourage you to contact me when you or your friends are ready to improve your health. Call 705-742-4126 or email stronghealthycommunity@sympatico.ca. Visit my web sites: www.stronghealthycommunity.com and www.stronghealthycommunity.isagenix.com.

Alkalizing Soup

2009-04-01T16:09:00.002-04:00

Here is a great alkalizing soup to have while cleansing. It helps to alkalize your system and reduce detoxing side effects and nausea.

Make it strong: Simmer 15-20 minutes

Ingredients: Water, zucchini, celery, green beans or lentils.

Strain the soup & only drink the broth. It is to be used preferably the day it is made & no later than the second day. If hungry add an egg yolk; lightly cook it in the broth (only if you need extra nourishment).

Vitamin Studies and Journals and Media

2009-03-18T17:45:00.008-04:00

Why Do We Not See More Positive Vitamin Studies in our Journals and Media?

It may be the worst-kept secret in medicine: pharmaceutical money buys journal influence. What the public has so long suspected has now been demonstrated in a recently published peer-reviewed study. (1) Researchers from Wake Forest University School of Medicine and the University of Florida found that "in major medical journals, more pharmaceutical advertising is associated with publishing fewer articles about dietary supplements." Furthermore, they found that more pharmaceutical company advertising resulted in the journal having more articles with "negative conclusions about dietary supplement safety."

This new study, the first of its kind, specifically looked at pharmaceutical advertising as compared with journal text about dietary supplements. The authors reviewed a year's worth of issues from each of eleven of the largest medical journals: the Journal of the American Medical Association, New England Journal of Medicine, British Medical Journal, Canadian Medical Association Journal, Annals of Internal Medicine, Archives of Internal Medicine, Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Pediatrics and Pediatric Research, and American Family Physician.

The results were statistically significant. . . and embarrassing. Medical journals carrying the most pharmaceutical ads "published significantly fewer major articles about dietary supplements per issue than journals with the fewest pharmads (P < 0.01). Journals with the most pharmads published no clinical trials or cohort studies about supplements. The percentage of major articles concluding that supplements were unsafe was 4% in journals with fewest and 67% among those with the most pharmads (P = 0.02)." The authors concluded that "the impact of advertising on publications" is real, and said that "the ultimate impact of this bias on professional guidelines, health care, and health policy is a matter of great public concern."

Indeed it is. Health care costs are rising and drug profits are enormous. Canadian psychiatrist Abram Hoffer, M.D, Ph.D., says: "We all have to work hard to educate the public about the merits of sane treatment for everyone, where the patient is primary, not Big Pharma." Bo H. Jonsson, M.D., Ph.D., of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, comments that "Positive reports about the effects of high-dose vitamins have long been ignored by the medical establishment instead of being further examined scientifically."

When patients ask about nutritional treatments, many a family physician has replied, "I've never seen any studies supporting the safety or efficacy of vitamin supplements in my professional journals. The research is simply not there."

Sadly, they are right. And now we know why.

Major medical journals, their editors, and their authors appear to be on the take. Harsh words? Perhaps, but only because the truth is harsh. "One the take" refers to receiving cash in exchange for influence. It is naive to assume that money does not corrupt. Promoting vested interests masquerading as science is wrong and it must be stopped. At the very least, accepting money carries an obligation to account for the source of that money. All medical journals should be compelled to print a full disclosure in every issue itemizing exactly how much money comes from exactly which sources.

Any medical journal that won't disclose has a reason to not disclose. And that reason has nothing to do with public health. It's about private cash. The cash that induces the journals to sway the doctors to persuade the public.

Source: http://www.orthomolecular.org

References:

(1) Kemper KJ, Hood KL. Does pharmaceutical advertising affect journal publication about dietary supplements? BMC Complement Altern Med. 2008 Apr 9;8:11. Full text at http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6882/8/11 or http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=18400092

Youngsters and 'Preschool Puberty'

2009-03-18T17:39:00.004-04:00

Why Are So Many Of Our Youngsters Going Through 'Preschool Puberty'?

Hormone-mimicking chemicals found in food, water, and many consumer goods may well be the cause of why children as young as eight are showing signs of sexual development.

Kids these days are growing up too fast -- in more ways than one. American girls are reaching puberty up to a year earlier than in previous generations, with some children showing signs of sexual development as young as age 3. In extreme cases, girls are budding breasts before they’ve even learned to read.

Researchers call this phenomenon "precocious puberty," which some say is on the rise. Forty-eight percent of African-American girls and 15 percent of Caucasian girls show physical signs of puberty by age 8, according to a study of 17,000 U.S. girls published in Pediatrics in 1997. In a subsequent study of more than 2,000 boys, lead author Marcia Herman-Giddens found that 38 percent of African-American boys and 30 percent of Caucasian boys showed signs of sexual development by age 8.

What’s going on?

Although scientists have yet to prove definitive causes, many suspect that hormone-mimicking chemicals, obesity and stress all contribute to precocious puberty. The chemicals, often called endocrine disruptors, are of particular concern because they’re everywhere -- in food, water, personal-care products, some plastics and many consumer goods.

Pediatrician Darshak Sanghavi notes in The New York Times that outbreaks of precocious puberty are most often traced to accidental exposure to drugs in hormone-laden products. He describes a case in which a kindergarten-age boy and his younger sister had both begun growing pubic hair. In addition, the boy was exhibiting aggressive behavior.

When Sanghavi's colleagues examined the children, they discovered that both had extremely elevated levels of testosterone -- equivalent to those of an adult male -- and that their father was using a concentrated testosterone skin cream "for cosmetic and sexual purposes." The children had absorbed the testosterone from normal skin contact with their father.

Of course, we can’t blame it all on testosterone. Phthalates, ubiquitous industrial plasticizers common in everything from personal-care products to vinyl and plastic packaging, mimic estrogen. So do compounds in some pesticides and flame retardants. A growing body of evidence suggests that these and other endocrine-disrupting chemicals can interfere with sexual development, an idea widely introduced in the groundbreaking book "Our Stolen Future" by Theo Colburn, Diane Dumanoski, and John Peterson Myers.

In the two decades since the book’s publication, evidence has mounted that substantiates its main thesis. The September, 2006 issue of Alternative Medicine points out that a number of human studies have found possible links between endocrine disruptors and early puberty. One study found that Puerto Rican girls whose breasts developed earlier were three times more likely to have elevated levels of phthalate esters in their blood.

Some researchers have linked precocious puberty with factors including obesity, stress, and a sedentary lifestyle.

"In the animal industry, to hasten puberty, they keep the animals confined, they feed them really rich diets, and they grow really fast," Marcia Herman-Giddens notes in Alternative Medicine. "

That is exactly what we are doing to our children."Parents can take practical steps to minimize their children’s risk for early puberty and encourage healthy lifestyles:

Avoid meat, milk and dairy products containing growth hormones
Buy organic produce
Minimize soy, which mimics estrogen
Choose green household products
Encourage children to eat well and exercise
Prevent babies from chewing on plastic toys
Avoid polyvinyl chloride (PVC) products, including vinyl shower curtains and toys and packaging that bear the number "3," indicating they’re made with PVC."

Source : http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=19328

Pumpkin Seeds, aka Pepitas

2009-03-18T17:30:00.003-04:00

Pumkin Seeds aka Pepitas – Nature’s Perfect Snack

Pepitas offer an abundance of nutrients including amino acids, unsaturated fatty acids, and a wealth of minerals such as calcium, potassium, niacin, and phosphorous.

They are high in most of the B vitamins, and vitamins C, D, E, and K. They are rich in beta carotene that can be converted into vitamin A as needed by the body, and also rich in the eye protective carotenoid lutein.

Snacking on just one handful of pepitas, about one ounce, provides a whopping 9 grams of body building protein, along with manganese, magnesium, phosphorous, iron, copper and zinc.

Pepitas are chocked full of monounsaturated oil that has been shown to interrupt the triggering of prostate cell multiplication by DHT, a product of testosterone conversion. The omega-3 fats found in pepitas are also being studied for their potential prostate benefits.

The significant amounts of carotenoids in pepitas are of interest to researchers because men with higher amounts of caroteoids in their diets have a lowered risk for prostate enlargement.

The high zinc content of pumpkin seeds adds to their prostate protective virtues.

Another reason for men to eat zinc-rich pepitas is their effect on bone mineral density. Although osteoporosis is usually thought of as a women's disease, it can affect older men, a group that suffers 30 percent of the hip fractures.

Pumpkin seeds offer powerful anti-inflammatory properties. The addition of pepitas to the diet was shown to work as well as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in reducing symptoms of inflammation. And they did this without any unwanted side effects or threat to the liver.

In fact, pepitas have recently been shown to be protective of the liver. In a recent study reported in the December, 2008 journal Food Chemistry and Toxicology, mice fed a mixture of pumpkin seeds and flax seeds showed their lipid parameters decreased significantly compared to controls. Plasma and liver fatty acid composition showed an increase of alpha linolenic acid and linoleic acid, monounsaturated acids, and a decrease of stearic fatty acids. Plasma and liver toxins decreased, and the efficiency of their antioxidant defense systems was improved.

Phytosterols are compounds found in plants with chemical structures similar to cholesterol. When the diet contains high levels of phytosterols, blood levels of cholesterol are reduced. Phytosterols also enhance the immune system response, and can help reduce the risk of developing certain cancers. They are present in high amounts in seeds and nuts. Pistachio nuts and sunflower seeds are the richest in phytosterols, with pepitas coming in third of all the nuts and seeds usually eaten.

The oil in pepitas has an excellent ratio of omega 3 to omega 6 fatty acids. This ratio is important for cellular function and oxygenation. It is also why pepitas make hair glossy, skin clear, and energy levels high.

Source – http://www.naturalnews.com/

Visualize and Affirm - A Step-by-Step Guide by Jack Canfield

2009-03-17T11:16:00.003-04:00

Visualize and Affirm Your Desired Outcomes: Visualizing A Step-by-Step Guide

The following is taken from Your Team Success Update, published 17-March-09 by Susan Sly, Isagenix International

You have within you an awesome power that most of us have never been taught to use. Elite athletes use it. The super rich use it. And peak performers in all fields are now starting to use it. That power is called visualization. The daily practice of visualizing your dreams as already complete can rapidly accelerate your achievement of those dreams. Visualization of your goals and desires accomplishes four very important things.

1. It activates your creative subconscious which will start generating creative ideas to achieve your goal.

2. It programs your brain to more readily perceive and recognize the resources you will need to achieve your dreams.

3. It activates the law of attraction, thereby drawing into your life the people, resources, and circumstances you will need to achieve your goals.

4. It builds your internal motivation to take the necessary actions to achieve your dreams.

Visualization is really quite simple. You sit in a comfortable position, close your eyes and imagine - in as vivid detail as you can - what you would be looking at if the dream you have were already realized. Imagine being inside of yourself, looking out through your eyes at the ideal result.

Mental Rehearsal

Athletes call this visualization process "mental rehearsal," and they have been using it since the 1960s when we learned about it from the Russians. All you have to do is set aside a few minutes a day. The best times are when you first wake up, after meditation or prayer, and right before you go to bed. These are the times you are most relaxed. Go through the following three steps:

1. Imagine sitting in a movie theater, the lights dim, and then the movie starts. It is a movie of you doing perfectly whatever it is that you want to do better. See as much detail as you can create, including your clothing, the _expression on your face, small body movements, the environment and any other people that might be around. Add in any sounds you would be hearing - traffic, music, other people talking, cheering. And finally, recreate in your body any feelings you think you would be experiencing as you engage in this activity.

2. Get out of your chair, walk up to the screen, open a door in the screen and enter into the movie. Now experience the whole thing again from inside of yourself, looking out through your eyes. This is called an "embodied image" rather than a "distant image." It will deepen the impact of the experience. Again, see everything in vivid detail, hear the sounds you would hear, and feel the feelings you would feel.

3. Finally, walk back out of the screen that is still showing the picture of you performing perfectly, return to your seat in the theater, reach out and grab the screen and shrink it down to the size of a cracker. Then, bring this miniature screen up to your mouth, chew it up and swallow it. Imagine that each tiny piece - just like a hologram - contains the full picture of you performing well. Imagine all these little screens traveling down into your stomach and out through the bloodstream into every cell of your body. Then imagine that every cell of your body is lit up with a movie of you performing perfectly. It's like one of those appliance store windows where 50 televisions are all tuned to the same channel.

When you have finished this process - it should take less than five minutes - you can open your eyes and go about your business. If you make this part of your daily routine, you will be amazed at how much improvement you will see in your life.

Create Goal Pictures

Another powerful technique is to create a photograph or picture of yourself with your goal, as if it were already completed. If one of your goals is to own a new car, take your camera down to your local auto dealer and have a picture taken of yourself sitting behind the wheel of your dream car. If your goal is to visit Paris, find a picture or poster of the Eiffel Tower and cut out a picture of yourself and place it into the picture. With today's technology, you could probably make an even more convincing image using your computer.

Create a Visual Picture and an Affirmation for Each Goal

We recommend that you find or create a picture of every aspect of your dream life. Create a picture or a visual representation for every goal you have - financial, career, recreation, new skills and abilities, things you want to purchase, and so on. When we were writing the very first Chicken Soup for the Soul® book, we took a copy of the New York Times best seller list, scanned it into our computer, and using the same font as the newspaper, typed Chicken Soup for the Soul into the number one position in the "Paperback Advice, How-To and Miscellaneous" category. We printed several copies and hung them up around the office. Less than two years later, our book was the number one book in that category and stayed there for over a year!

Index Cards

We practice a similar discipline every day. We each have a list of about 30-40 goals we are currently working on. We write each goal on a 3x5 index card and keep those cards near our bed and take them with us when we travel. Each morning and each night we go through the stack of cards, one at a time, read the card, close our eyes, see the completion of that goal in its perfect desired state for about 15 seconds, open our eyes and repeat the process with the next card.

Use Affirmations to Support Your Visualization

An affirmation is a statement that evokes not only a picture, but the experience of already having what you want. Here's an example of an affirmation:

I am happily vacationing 2 months out of the year in a tropical paradise, and working just four days a week owning my own business.

Repeating an affirmation several times a day keeps you focused on your goal, strengthens your motivation, and programs your subconscious by sending an order to your crew to do whatever it takes to make that goal happen.

Expect Results

Through writing down your goals, using the power of visualization and repeating your affirmations, you can achieve amazing results. Visualization and affirmations allow you to change your beliefs, assumptions, and opinions about the most important person in your life - YOU! They allow you to harness the 18 billion brain cells in your brain and get them all working in a singular and purposeful direction.

Your subconscious will become engaged in a process that transforms you forever. The process is invisible and doesn't take a long time. It just happens over time, as long as you put in the time to visualize and affirm, surround yourself with positive people, read uplifting books and listen to audio programs that flood your mind with positive, life-affirming messages.

Repeat your affirmations every morning and night for a month and they will become an automatic part of your thinking - they will become woven into the very fabric of your being.

© 2006 Jack Canfield

Jack Canfield, America's Success Coach, is the founder and co-creator of the billion-dollar book brand Chicken Soup for the Soul and the nation's leading authority on Peak Performance. If you're ready to jump-start your life, make more money, and have more fun and joy in all that you do, get your FREE success tips from Jack Canfield now at www.JackCanfield.com

Bisphenol A found in canned soft drinks

2009-03-09T15:49:00.001-04:00

Updated Thu. Mar. 5 2009 1:34 PM ET

CTV.ca News Staff

The first comprehensive testing of bisphenol A (BPA) levels in canned soft drinks in Canada has found that most contain the controversial chemical.

While the levels are low, some environmentalists say the levels may very well be enough to cause harm to children, especially those who drink a lot of pop or energy drinks.

To read the rest of this article, visit the CTV site:

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090304/bpa_090304/20090305/

Tests find Bisphenol A in majority of soft drinks

2009-03-09T15:43:00.003-04:00

HEALTH CANADA STUDY

Controversial chemical found in at least 84% of canned pop sold in Canada

MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT

March 5, 2009

ENVIRONMENT REPORTER

The estrogen-mimicking chemical BPA, already banished from baby bottles and frowned upon in water jugs, has now shown up in significant levels in soft drinks.

Tests by Health Canada scientists revealed the highest levels were in energy drinks, the often caffeine-loaded beverages that have become popular with teenagers seeking a buzz and athletes chasing a quick pick-me-up. But the study also found the controversial compound in a wide variety of ginger ales, diet colas, root beers and citrus-flavoured sodas.

Bisphenol A was detected in 96 per cent of soft drinks tested, in quantities below regulatory limits. But a growing body of science suggests the chemical may have harmful effects at levels far below those limits.

To read the rest of this article, visit the Globe's site:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090305.BPA05/TPStory/?query=bisphenol+A

Good Nutrition is Saving Lives!

2009-02-26T16:52:00.004-05:00

Isagenix is saving lives!

I was just on the phone call with an Isagenix colleague, Dianna. She told us something I just HAVE to share with you!!! Here's what she said, paraphrased of course:

"One of my associates only a couple of months ago was told that her health was dire ... if something did not change, and change BIG, she would soon be in very big trouble healthwise.

"She started putting the Isagenix products in her body.

"This week, she went in to have a complete panel done at her doctor's lab. The technician told her that, unless there was something terribly wrong, she would get the results in the next couple of weeks.

"Later that day, she received a call from the doctor himself. He said, 'I need to speak to you as soon as possible.'

"She was alarmed, but he proceeded to call her a 'miracle lady.' He said, 'I don't know what you've done with your diet, but something drastic has happened. In all of my years of practise, I've only ever seen this happen once. You have completely changed the direction and outcome of your life!'"

This is one TRUE story. We are hearing many, many of these stories! They are not stories - they're fact. These products are changing people's lives. Their ingredients are saving lives! When we put the right foods into our bodies, our bodies, being the miracle God created, respond the way they were intended to respond - they get well!

Please visit http://www.isamovie.com/, and then call me to find out how you can take steps to change YOUR life, and the lives of others around you.

Please join me in celebrating yet another saved life! We are SAVING lives!!! This absolutely blows me away and confirms that I am where I need to be ... what better way to build a Strong Healthy Community - a community where all people are living their absolutely BEST lives?

Celebrating my third year anniversary as a cancer survivor, I absolutely know how important this is! I never anticipated being told that I had about six months to live.

I felt fine and was going about my life, putting one foot in front of the other each day. I had been doing what I could to feed my body, mind and spirit, and went to the doctor because a mole was bothering me. I was not expecting to be given such news. (How many of us could say the same thing?)

Having complete belief in the natural approach to health, I chose to attack my cancer with not only surgery but with natural therapy as well. I was cured (THANK YOU GOD!) - much to the astonishment of the medical doctors involved.

I KNOW that putting what my body needs into my body makes my body well.

God has blessed me by bringing Isagenix into my life, and it will be in my body for LIFE. I intend to let as many people know about this as possible - I feel I have a RESPONSIBILITY to do so, and I encourage YOU to tell others as well.

After you visit http://www.isamovie.com/, let me know how I can help you to get started on your journey to better health. And when you want help with sharing the message with others (everyone deserves the gift of health!), I am here to help with that too.

Contact me at stronghealthycommunity@sympatico.ca.

Isagenix is Leaving a Legacy

2009-02-25T20:34:00.006-05:00

Today was a great day! Because of Isagenix, an amazing young lady has taken a big step toward financial security.

Today, our 24-year-old daughter Laura opened up an RDSP - that's a Registered Disability Savings Plan - with her own money. Money she has earned as an Isagenix Consultant.

Imagine how proud she must feel to walk into the bank and say that she has the money to make an investment in her future security.

Living on a disability pension, Laura lives in poverty. Of course, as loving (and doting) parents, we ensure she has more than just the basic necessities of life.

But, we are teaching her that she must learn to live within her means, because her dad and I will not always be around to subsidize her lifestyle. That means living very simply - no extravagances allowed.

Her Isagenix commissions not only have allowed her to take this monumental step, but they have also made it possible for her to enjoy regular "coffee" breaks with friends, and some interesting shopping trips - two very important things to Laura.

But most of all, Laura's commissions give her a sense of pride. She is thrilled when she receives notice that money is being deposited into her account! Her excited "Whoo Hoo" gives notice of pay day!

Feeling great about the money isn't everything though. Laura is also committed to improving her own health, and is becoming quite outspoken about others'! Only yesterday she was teaching a friend about the horrors of pop.

"There's nothing good about pop," she says. "It's really bad for your health. It's better to drink mineral water or green tea!"

So, not only is Isagenix helping Laura to improve her financial status and her self-esteem, it is also helping her physical health, and the health of the people she is "coaching." The more product she gets into her body, the better she feels. Although she has a long way to go to get to optimal health, she is moving in the right direction, and I'm sure, if I asked her, she'd want to invite everyone to come along for the ride.

I'm so proud of what Laura has accomplished! She inspires me and motivates me each and every day. She is the reason I do the work I do. She has great purpose in the world, and is fulfilling that purpose marvellously - God certainly knew what He was doing when He gave Dennis and me the gift of our daughter. I am privileged to be a part of her life.

Isagenix is Changing Lives!

2009-02-25T20:30:00.005-05:00

I wish you all could have attended the Top Achievers event in San Francisco! It was outstanding!! After coming home, I've been trying to take all I learned and integrate it into my growing knowledge about Isagenix, the company, its products and its people.

Photo: Left, Linda Viscardis; Middle, Isagenix Millionaire Luna Pang; Right, Lynn Zeppieri - at Top Achievers in San Francisco, February 2009

Integrity is important to me. Ask anyone who has known me for any length of time and they will tell you that people come first in book. If what I am doing with my life is not having a positive impact on people's lives (including my own), then I don't want to be doing it. I simply cannot be aligned with something that does not fit with my faith and my vision.

This was true as recently as a year ago when I gave up my largest source of income because the work I was doing was not sitting well with me. It was a difficult decision financially, but one that leaves me sleeping well at night. It has made paying the bills considerably more difficult, but it was the right decision.

Isagenix the company continues to absolutely blow me away. The focus of this company is people ... the well-being of its associates and the people who consume their products, and the well-being of those who have yet to discover Isagenix.

The company is growing ... and in this economy, that's quite a feat. By the end of 2008, it had grown by 30%, making $250 million in sales! (In less than seven years, this amazing company has created 34 millionaires, with more coming up in ranks within the next several months.) Hundreds of thousands of people all over the world are joining the Isagenix family and their lives are being transformed.

At Top Achievers, I was moved to tears by the woman who stood up to share that on her street (in America) every house is now boarded up - except hers. The extra $50 per week that she makes from Isagenix saved her home. Can you imagine?! Living on a street with no other families, no children playing except your own, no worry of traffic since there is no one else living there. It must feel like a ghost town. This woman is committed to sharing Isagenix with her former neighbours - hopefully some will return home.

I have also been moved by the story of the 15-year-old young lady who weighs over 200 pounds. She had become so upset about her weight that she became suicidal, unable to go to school. She became isolated and her family didn't know what to do. They got her using Isagenix products and within a very short period of time the young lady had lost 15 pounds, was feeling happier with herself and was back at school. Isagenix certainly is transforming her life!

My own testimonial is pretty cool as well, and I don't know if I've shared it with you. Before Isagenix, I was 25 pounds heavier, four sizes bigger and was unable to function past 7 p.m. My hair was falling out, I had no energy and my brain felt foggy all the time. I even went to the doctor complaining that I must have a brain tumour! Now, I have energy to burn, my hair, skin and nails are so different I hardly recognize myself, and I've released over 62 inches from my body mass. I am sleeping now! Something I have not done in over 25 years!! I am coping SO much better with stress, I surprise myself! And I smile so much more now, and laugh, and my whole attitude is one of optimism and positivity, something that was hugely missing from my life for many, many years.

Life is so much better, and I want to "pay it forward." I want to tell as many people as possible about this amazing gift of health. I look around and see so many people suffering - they're stressed, unhappy, overweight and sick. I know that if they don't change something in their life they will not be able to reach out to others in need. I know that if our community does not get healthy, our daughter Laura will not be well supported after Dennis and I have left this earth. I know that there is a solution, and I am committed to sharing it with others.

The solution is Isagenix. There is absolutely nothing else out there that does what this food does for our bodies. I challenge anyone to prove me wrong. I am definitely into Isagenix for life! Or should I say it's into me!

The Factors that Influence 'How We Look and Feel'

2009-02-25T20:02:00.002-05:00

The Factors that Influence 'How We Look and Feel'
by Susan Sly - BSc. C.P.T., LWMC

The tendency people have is to look in the mirror every day and beat themselves up for the body they do not have. It is easier to show up for being negative with regards to our appearance than looking at what we have as a beginning.

You are a result of what you do on a consistent basis. When you put proper nutrition into your body on a daily basis, your health will reflect this.

On the other side, if you consume soda, potato chips, French fries, hamburgers and pizza on a consistent basis your body will reflect this too.

When it comes to the users guide to your own body, consistency is a major part of the equation.

Rest
Rest is critical to your health. During restful sleep your body creates growth hormone which aids in repair and growth of lean tissue and also assists in stimulating the production of hormones responsible for fat loss.

Exercise
Exercise is perhaps the greatest blessing you can give your body. Exercise relieves stress and tension, burns calories, increases metabolism and assists the lymphatic system in releasing waste.

Portion Control
The best way to eat is to consume smaller meals throughout the day. The human body can only properly digest about 600 calories in one sitting. Anything beyond this can easily be converted to fat. As a rule of thumb I have recommended for years that you put vegetables on your plate first and let them take up most of the room, protein second and starches last. This will give you the correct ratio.

Food Choices
Our food choices are a reflection of time, cost, convenience and taste. In this era when people are busier than ever before and many people are working longer hours it is no wonder we are a so called fast food nation. Try to eat foods that are as close to nature as possible. Strive to include whole grains, raw fruits and vegetables in your daily diet.

Supplementation
Supplementation simply means to add into the diet the nutrients that are not coming from food. For many people adding vitamins, minerals, protein, probiotics, enzymes and other nutrients helps them create and maintain a healthier body.

Support Network
Studies show that people who exercise or change their lifestyle together are much more successful. When you have someone cheering you on it can make all the difference in the world. Who supports your goals? Who is in your corner when it comes to your success? Tell them what you are doing and ask for their support.

Medication
Some medications may make it more challenging to release body fat. Never go off of your medications unless supervised by your doctor.

Genetics
The truth is that being lean is easier for people who come from families where both the maternal and paternal sides are lean. If one parent is obese there is a 25% chance that the child will be obese. If two parents are obese there is a 50% chance the child will be obese. The jury is still out as to which aspect has a greater role - genetics or environment.

Illness and Disease
Sometimes our bodies get sick. Sometimes this sickness can affect how we look and feel. On the lesser end of the spectrum some people eat more and exercise less when they have a cold for example.

Sometimes illness knocks us down and we cannot exercise at all and end up eating foods that we otherwise would not and the result is a loss in muscle and a gain in fat. Even a simple cold can send us running to the kitchen for comfort foods.

Stress
Stress will wreak havoc on your body. Stress affects various hormones and neurochemicals in your brain, one of which is cortisol. When cortisol is high we crave sugar, we have difficulty focusing and often a challenge having a restful sleep and yes a tendency to gain weight.

Lifestyle
Lifestyle is what you do on a consistent basis. It is how you eat, how you rest, how you play and how you work. Lifestyle will define your body greatly.

Are you always working? Are you running from one thing to the next? Is your mind constantly going? Do you rush through meals and forget special occasions? Are you consumed with one area of your life? Do you make time for play and rest? I can tell you one thing for sure, many people are out of balance in their life.

Heart Health and Omega-3's

2009-02-25T19:37:00.001-05:00

Heart Health and Omega-3's

Q. Can I get my omega-3’s by eating fish?

A. Absolutely. In fact, the American Heart Association suggests eating fish at least twice a week because of its high levels of protein and low saturated fats.

But did you know that most of the fish you eat contains mercury, a potentially toxic heavy metal? Certain fish contain lower levels of mercury than others – salmon and mackerel tend to have lower contaminant levels, while shark, swordfish and king mackerel contain very high levels and should be avoided.

Even if you eat fish, chances are you still may not be getting enough omega-3’s in your diet! A supplement can provide you with a daily dose of your omegas.

Still not convinced you need a daily dose of omega-3’s? How about this: Omega-3’s can also help keep your brain healthy and may even reduce your risk of developing certain cancers.

Fast Food Facts

2009-02-23T16:21:00.002-05:00

MUST READ - Fast Food Facts From 'Fast Food Nation'
- by Eric Schlosser

· This year Americans will spend over $110 billion on fast food more than they'll spend on movies, books, magazines, newspapers, videos, and recorded music combined.
· Every day about one quarter of the U.S. population eats fast food.
· Roughly 12% of all American workers have worked at McDonald's.
· The golden arches are now more widely recognized than the Christian cross.
· Children often recognize the McDonald's logo before they recognize their own name.
· American children now get about one quarter of their total vegetable servings in the form of potato chips and French fries.
· The typical teenage boy in the United States now gets about 10% of his daily calories from soda.
· The rate of obesity among American children has doubled since the late 1970s.
· A fast food soda that sells for $1.29 costs the restaurant about ten cents, a markup of more than 1200 percent.
· McDonald's is now the nation's largest purchaser of beef, pork, and potatoes. It is the second-largest purchaser of chicken in the U.S.
· Hundreds of local slaughterhouses used to supply the United States with beef; today thirteen large slaughterhouses supply most of the nation's beef.
· A typical fast food hamburger contains meat from dozens or even hundreds of cattle.
· Because fast food is so highly processed, much of its flavor is destroyed, so the tastes of most fast food are manufactured at a series of special chemical plants in New Jersey.
· Chicken McNuggets contain beef additives, while McDonalds French fries derive some of their flavor from "animal products."

The Return on Investment Effect

2009-02-18T09:56:00.005-05:00

"Instead of giving myself reasons why I can't, I give myself reasons why I can." (author unknown)

Greetings! (From nutritionist, athlete, mother of 3 young children - with one on the way - author, motivational speaker and Isagenix millionaire)

The ROI Effect of Food

When do you feel most sexy and confident?

When you are lean?

What about when you are bloated, crampy, depressed, or puffy?

All foods have cause and effect.

What would it be like if you could eat and feel lighter in your body? Would you feel stronger and more confident?

Think about a time when you felt really powerful? Do you have a favorite outfit you put on and know that you feel amazing?

What if you could feel amazing even in sweats?

If you knew the effect food was having on your body you would be amazed.

Everything we eat has an effect on our health. Our food determines the quality of our blood, which affects our cells, tissues, organs, and even our minds. When we eat healthy foods, we strengthen our bodies. When we eat foods without nutritional value, we weaken our bodies. Choosing foods that supply us with adequate vitamins and minerals is essential to our well- being.

Once we are physically healthier, we can begin to live a more vibrant, full life.

Lifestyle plays a central role in our state of wellness. Just as it is essential to nourish our bodies with healthy foods, it is also important to nourish our spirit with the things that make our lives truly complete.

Fun, laughter, hugs, relaxation, exercise, satisfying work, time with friends, walks in nature, good books, and warm baths are just some of the ways we can nurture our spirit.

Our emotional state affects our health just as much as the food that we put into our bodies.

We know that when we are unhealthy it is difficult to enjoy our lives. We know that health involves more than simply eating a perfect combination of fruits and vegetables. If we are not feeding these other areas of our life, we cannot really be healthy and whole.

True health involves nourishing our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual life.

God's Pharmacy

2009-02-17T14:34:00.013-05:00

Want to read something rather amazing? Read on....

God left us a great clue as to what foods help what part of our body!God's Pharmacy! Amazing!

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 function of the eyes.

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.

Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the hear t. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food.

A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds on the nut are just like the neo-cortex. We now know walnuts help develop more than three (3) dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function.

Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they look exactly like the human kidneys.

Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and many more 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.

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, and prevents cervical cancers. And how pro found 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 studied and named about 141 of them).

Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs increase the mobility of male sperm and increase the numbers of Sperm as well to overcome male sterility.

Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actually balance the glycemic index of diabetics.

Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries

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.

Onions look like the body's cells. Today's research shows onions help clear waste 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.

Compare GNC Product to IsaLean Shakes

2009-02-13T14:00:00.004-05:00

Compare GNC product to IsaLean and you'll find several differences. For instance, one ingredient in the GNC product is not found in IsaLean Shakes is MPC.

What is MPC?

Read on ....

Is There Krap In Your Kraft Singles?

On every package of Kraft Singles American cheese slices you'll find the words "Milk Makes 'Em Taste Great!" Ads for Kraft Singles feature kids describing how much milk goes into every slice. But the fine print of their ingredient list tells a different story - the fifth ingredient on that list is something called "Milk Protein Concentrate." This ingredient, called MPC for short, is an unregulated, untested substance that is far from the wholesome milk Kraft brags about.

What is MPC?

Big food processors, like Kraft - the largest U.S. cheese company, owned by tobacco giant Philip-Morris - use MPC in many popular products: cheese, frozen desserts, and high protein sports drinks, energy bars, and nutritional supplements.

But when it comes to explaining what Milk Protein Concentrate is, it's actually easier to explain what it is not.
MPC is not dry or powdered milk. MPC usually comes in powder form. But unlike dry milk, MPC is what is left after processing to remove more valuable components of milk.
Save for one plant in Portales, NM, MPC is not produced in the U.S. Fluid milk that is not drunk by U.S. consumers, is usually made into milk powder for later use in cheese production. But around the world, the dried leftovers of dairy processing are often mixed together and generically called MPC, in order to exploit a loophole in U.S. trade rules that allows it to be imported with lower tariffs.

MPC is not an approved food ingredient. There is not enough research on MPC to qualify it for the list of food ingredients that the federal government classifies as "Generally Regarded as Safe." But even though MPC is not an approved food ingredient, it can be found on most grocery store shelves!
MPC has not been defined by the Food and Drug Administration and the agency has no standard for the purity of MPC. The FDA admits that they do "minimal monitoring" of MPC as it enters the U.S. This is important because MPC is imported from around the world - including countries where dairy sanitation and food regulations are less stringent or virtually nonexistent.

So Why Is Anyone Allowed to Use MPC?

When it comes to cheese, technically, no one is allowed to use MPC. The FDA has "standards of identity" for most cheeses, including Pasteurized Processed Cheese Food (like Kraft Singles). MPC is not an approved ingredient under FDA's standards of identity. Yet the agency has looked the other way as imports of MPC skyrocketed. In 2000 alone, dairy processors like Kraft imported 52,000 metric tons of MPC - that's the equivalent of 4.6 billion pounds of milk!

Alpine Ontario Launches New Performance Nutrition Initiative

2009-02-13T13:51:00.001-05:00

February 5, 2009
ALPINE ONTARIO LAUNCHES NEW PERFORMANCE NUTRITION INITIATIVE.
Signs agreement with Isagenix International

Alpine Ontario Launches New Performance Nutrition InitiativeSigns Agreement with Isagenix International

(COLLINGWOOD, ON) January 2009 – Nancy Esson, President of Alpine Ontario is very pleased to announce an outstanding new initiative with one of the ‘super food’ industry’s leading innovators in all natural performance nutrition, Isagenix International.

Alpine Ontario will be working collaboratively with their dedicated Isagenix® Team, led by spokesman Todd Brooker, former Ontario and National Ski Team Member and World Cup winner. Our goal in this initiative is to inform and educate Alpine Ontario Members about the benefits of nutritional supplementation using Isagenix® and to recommend Isagenix® nutritional products to all AOA Members including Ontario Ski Team athletes.

We want to encourage our Members to include Isagenix® in their healthy food choices and by purchasing Isagenix® through this new initiative, Alpine Ontario will benefit because 100% of the profits generated by Member purchases made through this new initiative will go directly to Alpine Ontario.
To learn more about Isagenix® products and to purchase please click here: www.4alpineontario.isagenix.com

Our thanks to Todd Brooker for introducing this creative new concept, one that holds great promise in strengthening not just our skiers and ski racers but the foundation of financial assistance our skiing and ski racing depends on.

A keen Isagenix® user himself, Brooker says, “It is very exciting to bring Isagenix together with Alpine Ontario. All of the athletes from Nancy Greene to the Masters can benefit from these great nutritional products. I have at least one Isagenix Shake every day, especially when I need a good energy boost. And when I’m skiing or in the gym I drink lots of the Isagenix electrolyte replacement crystals too, to make sure my hydration levels are right up there!”

Many leading amateur and professional sports organizations, now recommend that their athletes include approved nutritional supplements in their healthy food choices to make sure they get the ‘fuel’ they need to have the energy they need to perform at the highest level in their sports.

Our skiers need ‘super nutrition too, in fact, during our summer camps this past year, our Coaches were recommending that all athletes drink at least two litres of electrolyte replacements every day while training on the glacier.

To that end we will be making Isagenix® protein powders, whole meal Shakes and energy Bars and electrolyte crystals available to all Ontario Ski Team athletes and Coaches during training and racing.

Isagenix International is a young company, just six years old, but Founder and Master Product Formulator, John Anderson, has helped define the industry as one of its leading nutritional supplement formulators and manufacturer/distributors for more than 600 private label companies over the past thirty years creating more than 2,300 performance nutrition and weight-loss products along the way. Hundreds of thousands of individuals around the world have benefited from using Isagenix® products and Systems.

Choose Isagenix®! And, choose Alpine Ontario!

About Alpine Ontario Alpin ...
As the recognized Provincial Sport Organization and promoter of alpine ski racing in Ontario, Alpine Ontario Alpin represents fifty-five member ski clubs, over 34,000 active racers, Coaches, officials and volunteers in four divisions: Alpine Ontario South Division, National Capital Division, Lake Superior Division Alpine and Northern Ontario Division. AOA coordinates several successful programs across the province and continues to foster the development of ski racing programs from the grass roots to the elite level.

Alpine Ontario Alpin “alpine ski racing from start to finish...!”

For more information on Alpine Ontario:Nancy EssonAlpine Ontario President nesson@alpineontario.ca

For more information on this new AOA/Isagenix® initiative:Todd Brooker todd@alpineontario.ca

Isagenix® is the Registered Trademark of Isagenix InternationalIsagenix Products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any medical condition or disease

Cost of Isagenix product seem too much?

2009-01-27T22:33:00.004-05:00

Does the cost of Isagenix product seem to be too much?

Here are some things to ponder:

The cost per meal is comparable to what you might pay for something you make at home or purchase at a restaurant: Total Health & Wellness Pak - $4.00/meal; Sports Pak - $4.00/meal; IsaKids Nutrition System - $4.00/meal; Meal Replacement Pak - $3.00/meal; 9-Day Program - $4.00/meal; 30-Day Program Pak - $2.50/meal.

The nutrition in one IsaMeal is more than you would get in 2 or more "typical" meals

The IsaMeals replace your other "typical" meals - money previously spent on groceries can be reallocated to IsaFood

When health improves and others ask about what we are doing to look and feel so great, we can share our story - by sharing optimal health and well-being with others, we can make commissions that may cover the cost of our IsaMeals (so we could be getting our meals for FREE!)

If we decide to pursue the business side of Isagenix, we can write off the cost of our food (up to 100 BV) as a business expense - so not only can we get our food for free, but we can reduce our taxable income too!

The best payoff in my view is that, by sharing our story of improved health, we encourage others to also improve their own health ... we are building a strong, healthy community, one where people have the energy, stamina, enthusiasm to embrace people who have been set aside by society. It will take a strong, healthy community to engage meaningfully with people who live with intellectual disabilities. My goal is to ensure that our daughter Laura has a community of people around her who have the resources (health and wealth) available to them to enjoy a reciprocal relationship with Laura now, and long into the future, after I am no longer here. Want to know more about Strong Healthy Community? Visit http://www.stronghealthycommunity.com/.

If you have questions about how you can be getting your product for free, please let me know. Email me at stronghealthycommunity@sympatico.ca.

Thinking about Using Herbal Supplements?

2009-01-15T10:09:00.002-05:00

Thinking About Using Herbal Supplements? Do These 5 Things First
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 (Fox News)

With rising herbal medicine sales paralleling a faltering economy, here are some tips on dietary supplements:

— Know that herbal medicines aren't as strictly regulated as conventional medicines and that evidence on their safety and effectiveness is often lacking.

— Do your homework. Find out what scientific evidence exists about the product you're considering. A good resource is http://www.pubmed.gov/, an online service from the National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health that contains summaries from published research.

— Tell your doctor or other health care provider any time you plan to use an alternative treatment; recognize that these products can sometimes interfere with other drugs and may even cause dangerous side effects.

— Find out if your insurance health plan covers alternative medicines; many don't.

— Check out the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine's Web site, http://www.nccam.nih.gov, which contains helpful information for evaluating these products.

BMI (Body Mass Index)

2009-01-14T21:25:00.004-05:00

Want to calculate your BMI? Want a tool to help you keep track as you journey toward better health?

Visit:

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/nutrition/weights-poids/guide-ld-adult/bmi_chart_java-graph_imc_java-eng.php

In this picture, I am obese. My BMI is just over 30 here.

Our view of ourselves has certainly changed over the decades. People who are overweight may see themselves as being at an ideal weight. People who are obese may see themselves as merely overweight. We see people who are at an ideal weight and we think they are too thin!

Society's inability to see our bodies as they truly are is killing us. The current generation of children is the first that is destined to not live as long as their parents. This is absolutely shocking to me!

We are teaching our children that it is okay to be overweight and even obese. We are doing this by the food choices we are making, by making choices to be spectators rather than active participants in physical activity, and by accepting that carrying too much weight is something we cannot change.

By not taking steps to change our situation, we are teaching our children that we have no control over our health and well-being.

But ... we DO have control! And now we have the tools we need - the super foods - that can make it all happen for us.

This is my year of change. Today marks the day that I am officially "overweight." I am celebrating!! Yes, celebrating!!!

I have been obese for so long, I don't even know how many years. Today, I finally got below the dreaded 30 BMI, moving from "obese" to "overweight."

My goal for 2009 is to get below 25 BMI. I know I will achieve this!!! I have the determination, and I have the tools.

If you are interested in learning how I have gone from 33 BMI to 29 BMI in six months, please contact me at stronghealthycommunity@sympatico.ca.

Obese Americans now outweigh the merely overweight

2009-01-14T10:23:00.003-05:00

Obese Americans now outweigh the merely overweight
Fri Jan 9, 2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of obese American adults outweighs the number of those who are merely overweight, according to the latest statistics from the federal government.

Numbers posted by the National Center for Health Statistics show that more than 34 percent of Americans are obese, compared to 32.7 percent who are overweight. It said just under 6 percent are "extremely" obese."

More than one-third of adults, or over 72 million people, were obese in 2005-2006, the NCHS said in its report.

The numbers are based on a survey of 4,356 adults over the age of 20 who take part in a regular government survey of health, said the NCHS, which is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The figures come from the 2005-2006 survey and are the most current available."

During the physical examination, conducted in mobile examination centers, height and weight were measured as part of a more comprehensive set of body measurements," the NCHS report said."

Although the prevalence of obesity has more than doubled since 1980, the prevalence of overweight has remained stable over the same time period," it said.

Obesity and overweight are calculated using a formula called body mass index. BMI is equal to weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared. Someone with a BMI of 25 to 29 is classified as overweight, 30 to 40 counts as obese and people with BMIs of 40 or more are morbidly obese.

A person 5 feet 5 inches tall becomes overweight at 150 pounds (68 kg) and obese at 180 pounds (82 kg). The U.S. National Institutes of Health has an online BMI calculator at www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/.

In the 1988-1994 surveys, 33 percent of Americans were overweight, 22.9 percent were obese and 2.9 percent were morbidly obese. The numbers have edged up steadily since.

Being overweight or obese raises the risk of heart disease, diabetes, some cancers, arthritis and other conditions.

In May, the CDC reported that 32 percent of U.S. children fit the definition of being overweight, 16 percent were obese and 11 percent were extremely obese.

Childhood and adult obesity has emerged as a growing problem not only in the United States but also in many countries around the world.

(Reporting by Maggie Fox; Editing by Julie Steenhuysen and Xavier Briand)

Want to be unstoppable?

2009-01-13T10:02:00.005-05:00

Want to make changes in your life? Enjoy a free audio download from best-selling author, renowned speaker and success coach (and Isagenix partner) Cynthia Kersey.

This powerful program will help you:

Identify a breakthrough 30-day goal that will make a significant impact in your life.

Break down your goal into a daily, proven plan focusing on taking just one step at a time.

Identify your driving force behind the goal and learn how to identify and replace limiting beliefs and behaviors that have stopped you in the past.

Develop a structure and accountability mechanism necessary to support you as you progress through the Unstoppable 30-Day Challenge.

Uncover rewards and consequences for the completion of your 30-day goal.

Develop an unstoppable mindset for achieving your goal that will lay the foundation for continued success.

Visit www.unstoppable.net/successprogram.htm to get your free download - this might be the thing that gets your New Year kick started.

Healing the Gerson Way: Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases

2009-01-11T14:12:00.002-05:00

Visit the Food Matters site to read about this:

http://www.foodmatters.tv/healing-the-gerson-way.html

Here's an excerpt:

If I were asked to choose the most valuable two pages of any medical book ever written, I would not hesitate to nominate pages 196-197 of Healing the Gerson Way. They present a very concise listing of the full Gerson nutritional therapy as an "Hourly Schedule for Typical Cancer Patients." These two pages deserve to be (and may already be) among the most photocopied-and-shared documents in alternative medicine. Authors Charlotte Gerson and Beata Bishop also provide additional, modified treatment schedule tables: one for patients who are severely weakened and/or on chemotherapy, and another for nonmalignant patients.

Are you drinking tap water?

2009-01-11T14:09:00.003-05:00

Follow this link to the Food Matters site to read on this subject: http://www.foodmatters.tv:80/are-you-drinking-toxic-tap-water.html

Here is an interesting excerpt from the article:

As stated by Dr. Peter Mansfield, a physician from the UK and advisory board member of the recent government review of fluoridation (McDonagh et al 2000):

"No physician in his right senses would prescribe for a person he has never met, whose medical history he does not know, a substance which is intended to create bodily change, with the advice: 'Take as much as you like, but you will take it for the rest of your life because some children suffer from tooth decay. ' It is a preposterous notion."

Jack Canfield is on our side!

2009-01-08T10:17:00.004-05:00

I'm sure you are aware of Jack Canfield, of the Chicken Soup book series ...

You may not be aware that he is an Isagenix team member.

On the first Wednesday of each month, Jack makes himself available to Isagenix associates via teleconference. He offers advice, ideas, strategies, encouragement.

Go to http://www.askjackcanfield.com/ to sign up for this free resource!

Every Wednesday at 10 p.m., you can listen for an hour ... and learn from Jack Canfield. When you sign in for the phone number, you will be able to submit your own burning question for Jack to answer!

Isn't it amazing that such people are on the Isagenix team!

Is Artificial Sweetener Poisoning You?

2008-12-24T09:27:00.006-05:00

I think we have all known for some time that artificial sweeteners, such as Aspartame, are not good for us. We like to ignore this niggling thought because we like the idea of having our cake and eating it too.

But, there is a growing movement of people willing to make the facts known.

Please visit this Food Matters URL to read a very provoking article that will make you think more than twice about putting such chemicals into your body.

http://www.foodmatters.tv/is-artifical-sweetener-poisoning-you.html

The chemical components of Aspartame (aspartic acid, phenylalanine, methanol and formaldehyde) may cause cell damage in the brain (multiple sclerosis, ALS, memory loss, hormonal problems, hearing loss, epilepsy, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, hypoglycemia, dementia, brain lesions and neuroendocrine disorders), and a decrease in seratonin in the brain (depression, schizophrenia and increased susceptibility to seizures).

"The EPA recommends a consumption limit of 7.8 mg/day [of methanol]. A 1 Liter aspartame sweetened beverage contains about 56 mg of methanol, seven times the EPA limit. The most common maladies related to methanol poisoning are vision problems including misty vision, progressive contraction of visual fields, blurring of vision, obscuration of vision, retinal damage and blindness." - Food Matters enewsletter, 24-Dec-08

The Disappearing Male - CBC Documentary

2008-12-18T19:16:00.002-05:00

The Disappearing Male
Saturday December 13, 2008 at 10 pm ET/PT on CBC Newsworld

"We are conducting a vast toxicological experiment in which our children and our children's children are the experimental subjects." Dr. Herbert Needleman

The Disappearing Male is about one of the most important, and least publicized, issues facing the human species: the toxic threat to the male reproductive system.

The last few decades have seen steady and dramatic increases in the incidence of boys and young men suffering from genital deformities, low sperm count, sperm abnormalities and testicular cancer.

To read more of this article and to view a trailer of the documentary, visit http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/doczone/2008/disappearingmale/index.html

Prescriptions and Phthalates, Oh My! - Toxic Nation

2008-12-18T19:12:00.002-05:00

Infants and pregnant women - take note:

Just when you thought you knew about the sources of phthalates and how to avoid them, new information comes to light.

Scientists at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Harvard School of Public Health say there are at least 47 prescription medications that contain the chemical. Used as a coating on timed-release drugs, the exposure to phthalates for those taking these medications can exceed other well-known sources by 10 to 1000-fold.

To read the entire article, visit the Toxic Nation web site at http://www.toxicnation.ca/node/205

Better Sleep for Moms with Young Children by Pastor Kevin Smith

2008-12-16T10:33:00.003-05:00

Better sleep, yes you heard me. Better sleep!

When you offer your body the improved nutrition through the Isagenix experience it will respond in amazing ways! When your body is no longer battling itself, it chooses to rest with greater ease.

I know it is easy to be constantly drawn back to the weight release benefit of Isagenix, but there is so much more.

I talked to a brand new associate this week who has two little ones running around the house. Of all the challenges a young mom might have, I never would have guessed one would be an inability to fall asleep. But that was her challenge; notice I say was.

Now I am not saying that her difficulty has been erased, but the struggle has been eased.

Imagine how relieved this young mom is each morning after a better night's sleep.

Imagine the extra measure of patience she has with her children and her whole household.

This is just one of the many benefits of the Isagenix experience.

Determining Ideal Daily Caloric Intake

2008-12-12T14:09:00.007-05:00

For women:

Take your ideal weight in pounds and multiply by 10.
E.g. If your ideal weight is 130 pounds:
130 x 10 = 1,300 calories per day

For men:

Take your ideal weight in pounds and multiply by 11.
E.g. If your ideal weight is 180 pounds:
180 x 11 = 1,980 calories per day

Note that this does not account for calories needed when exercising. Add 250 calories for each hour of vigourous exercise.

Here's the good news for people who are blessing their bodies with Isagenix:

A "super shake" includes:

A scoop of greens: 15 calories (visit http://www.isagenix.com/us/en/greens.dhtml for supplement facts - includes nutrient-rich plants, a balanced formula of specific herbs, vegetables, antioxidants (Vitamin E and three forms of Vitamin C), prebiotics that feed intestinal flora to promote a healthier digestive system.)
A scoop of fruits: 30 calories (visit http://www.isagenix.com/ca/en/isafruits.dhtml - one scoop is the equivalent of an amazing 30 fruits!)
A scoop of IsaPro: 100 calories (visit http://www.isagenix.com/ca/en/isapro.dhtml - contains active enzymes that assist with nutrient absorption while helping your body burn fat without adding too many calories; trace mineral blend boosts nutrient content; hormone- and antibiotic-free.)
A scoop of IsaLean: 120 calories (visit http://www.isagenix.com/ca/en/isaleanshake.dhtml - a balance of quality whey protein with active enzymes assist in absorbing nutrients, while hunger-satisfying fibre, nourishing vitamins and proprietary blend of minerals ramp up the nutrient content.)
TOTAL Calories = 265

So, a 130 pound woman may have 3 shakes a day (795 calories) plus a 500 calorie meal!!! (Total calories = 1,295)

Visit www.stronghealthycommunity.isagenix.com to find out more.

Processing Calories and Protein - the 600:32 Rule

2008-12-12T13:40:00.005-05:00

Did you know that the human body can process only aproximately 600 calories at a time?

Did you know that your stomach is about the size of your fist, and that a meal should only be about that size?

Anything more than 600 calories and you are adding calories that can't be processed. And what does that mean? Gained weight!

So, what can you eat for 600 calories:

A Big Mac has 668 calories
A slice of pecan pie has 800 calories
1 cup of pasta has about 600 calories, but when you add sauce, the number of calories increases
1 carmel latte has about 600 calories
A 7-layer burritto has about 600 calories
A slice of greasy pizza has about 660 calories
A small piece of cheese cake has about 600 calories
Caesar salad, 10 ounce steak and baked potato has about 1,500 calories - not including butter!

Did you know that the human body can process only 32 grams of protein at one sitting? Anything more is not processed by the body.

One ounce of meat is equal to about 7 grams of protein. A 10 ounce steak has about 70 grams of protein. 32 grams of this protein will be processed; the rest will putrefy and rot in the colon.

Meat sitting in the colon will take a minimum of nine and a half hours to digest, depending on what else you eat with it. Steak with salad will take less time to be processed than steak with carbs. (The minerals in the salad will help the steak to be processed more quickly.)

When the body is receiving more calories and more protein than can be processed, the body gains weight. So, if you are eating a 10 ounce steak thinking that because you are eating protein you will lose weight, you will be disappointed.

Things that will sabotage the 600 calorie meal:

large portions
too many starchy vegetables
salad dressings - there are approximately 100 calories per tablespoon of dressing
not enough water-based vegetables
serving of protein larger than a deck of cards
sodium - salt added after cooking will cause water retention
not enough fibre - we need 40 - 50 grams of fibre each day

Chicken McNuggets - McDonalds and Kids

2008-12-11T19:50:00.001-05:00

Do you know anyone who still eats at McDonalds?
Give your kids an IsaLean shake instead - PLEASE!!!

Do you really want to give your kids Chicken McNuggets?

McDonalds chicken nuggets are a favourite with children in many families.

Parents buy the 'chicken nuggets' believing they are indeed made from just chicken. McDonalds even provides flyers titled "A Full Serving of Nutrition Facts: Choose the Best Meal for You."

However as you can see from the ingredient list below, there is a lot more than just chicken.

Ingredients:
Chicken, water, salt, modified cornstarch, sodium phosphates, chicken broth powder (chicken broth, salt, and natural flavoring (chicken source)), seasoning (vegetable oil, extracts of rosemary, mono, di- and triglycerides, lecithin). Battered and breaded with water, enriched bleached wheat flour (niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), yellow corn flour, bleached wheat flour, modified corn starch, salt, leavening (baking soda, sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium aluminum phosphate, monocalcium phosphate, calcium lactate), spices, wheat starch, dried whey, corn starch. Batter set in vegetable shortening. Cooked in partially hydrogenated vegetable oils, (may contain partially hydrogenated soybean oil and/or partially hydrogenated corn oil and/or partially hydrogenated canola oil and/or cottonseed oil and/or sunflower oil and/or corn oil). TBHQ and citric acid added to help preserve freshness. Dimethylpolysiloxane added as an anti-foaming agent.

There are 38 ingredients in a McNugget; many of them made from corn. Further down the list there are the mono, diandtriglycerides, and the emulsifiers that keep the fats and the water from separating. More corn flour is used to make the batter, and the hydrogenated oil in which the nuggets are fried can come from soybeans, canola or cottonseed, depending on the market price.

It gets worse: a number of the ingredients come from petroleum products, to keep the items from spoiling or 'looking strange' after months in the freezer or on the road.

If you are truly worried, look up these ingredients: sodium aluminum phosphate; mono-calcium phosphate, sodium acid pyrophosphate, and calcium lactate.

These are used to keep the animal and vegetable fats from turning rancid. Then there are "anti foaming" agents like dimethylpolysiloxene.

According to the Handbook of Food Additives, this material is a suspected carcinogen and an established mutagen, tumorigenic, and reproductive effector. It is also flammable.

The most alarming ingredient in Chicken McNuggets is "tertiary butyl hydroquinone," or TBHQ, derived from petroleum. This is sprayed directly on the nugget or the inside of the box it comes in to "help preserve freshness."

Again, according to A Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives, TBHQ is a form of butane (lighter fluid) the FDA allows processors to use sparingly in our food. It can comprise no more than 0.02 percent of the oil in a nugget. Which is probably just as well, considering that ingesting a single gram of TBHQ can cause "nausea, vomiting, ringing in the ears, delirium, a sense of suffocation, and collapse."

Ingesting five grams can be fatal.

Do you really want to give your kids Chicken McNuggets?

Source: the Gerson Healing Newsletter - http://www.gerson.org/

Customizing Cleanse by Susan Sly

2008-12-11T16:35:00.004-05:00

What are physical things we put into body that can really mess up the results of our Cleanse? WHY DO SOME PEOPLE NOT GET RESULTS when we have a system that has been proven time and time again – when taken properly the Cleanse will aid the body in releasing impurities, and in experiencing a subsequent weight loss of, on average, 7 lbs during a nine-day cleanse.

The problem is CLEANSE SABOTEURS!

Coffee (with cream and sugar is worse) – you WILL NOT lose weight on cleanse days if you drink coffee because coffee messes up your pH level; it takes 64 oz of water for each cup of coffee to bring the pH back into the state you were at before you started drinking coffee. You may actually need even more.
Alcohol, including wine
Sweeteners, including Splenda
Medications: antihistamines, decongestions, enseds – anti-inflammatory
Sugar is one of the top foods that will really ruin the cleanse effect – this includes pure sugar, fructose, alcohol, maple sugar, pre-packaged foods, soda, juices

What does sugar do in the body:

Lowers immune system by 300% within the first 3 hours of consuming it
Plays havoc with blood sugar levels
The more refined the sugar is, the more it will raise blood sugar
Goes to the liver (body computer) and it will ask if muscle, brain, etc. needs sugar; is glycogen needed? If stores are all full then it will store as fat

In the conversion of sugar to fat, a by-product is acid in the body, which results in inflammation. Disease breeds in an acidic state. The acidic state means a lower pH.

Sugar feeds cancer, and Candida. Candida is an overgrowth of yeast. Men, women and children can get it.

Candida overgrowth causes fungal problems, thrush on the tongue, craving of carbohydrates, because the Candida is HUNGRY.

Another side effect of too much sugar: parasites, feeling sluggish and mood up and down

If you are having sugar on cleanse days, you are going to crave carbs and will be more likely to cheat (i.e. eat foods that will sabotage your cleanse).

Keep an eating log before you start your program (before your Isagenix product arrives).

Often people will binge the night before they start a cleanse. What happens is that all those extra calories cause pancreatic stress and acidosis in the body. This will cause a person to feel nauseous; they may vomit.

So, the night before they cleanse with Cleanse for Life juice, their last meal MUST be a shake. No red meat, fatty foods or alcohol.

If people perceive they are going to have deprivation, they will consume excessive things. If they are prepared ahead of time, they will not feel deprived.

White Flour is equal to sugar on the glycemic index. Everything that sugar does for your body WHITE flour does as well. It will spike blood sugar levels.

WHEAT is like POISON to the body. Wheat is found in so many things: cereals, granola, pizza, crackers, pita bread, tortillas, soy sauce, gravies, salad dressings. Wheat will cling to 5 molecules of water. And it will elevate blood cholesterol levels.

Oatmeal, Oat bran are healthier alternatives.

TAKE all wheat out of your diet if have high cholesterol.

GLUTEN is very slimy, like jello substance, if left with water overnight.

PASTA: as an example will cling to so much water that during your cleanse, if you eat pasta, you will not lose weight.

WHOLE WHEAT: food color is added to make whole wheat products look brown. AVOID ALL WHEAT; use kamut, spelt, oat, or rice.

Many neurological and behavioral CHALLENGES with kids are aided by nutrition.

WHITE RICE clings only to 2 molecules of water. It is good, however more complex, such as brown, whole grain, wild rice, is better. White rice is not known as an inflammatory.

Stubborn fat: get rid of wheat in your diet now.

Learnings:

MAKE SURE YOU KEEP A FOOD LOG!!!
SUGAR REDUCES IMMUNE FUNCTION 300%

You Are What You Eat by Dov Kornits

2008-12-10T11:20:00.003-05:00

Edited December 01, 2008 10:24
A provocative new Australian-produced documentary called "Food Matters" aims to further jolt the trillion dollar worldwide so-called "sickness industry" by declaring a range of scientifically verifiable solutions for curing disease naturally.

Nutritionists turned filmmakers James Colquhoun and Laurentine ten Bosch have produced a bold film based on a challenging and potentially startling message: that with the right kind of foods, supplements, and detoxification processes, we can prevent, arrest, and even reverse chronic illness.

"This film will shatter the belief fed to us by modern medicine that there is "'a pill for every ill'," says Colquhoun. "We're not suggesting that pharmaceutical drugs don't have their place, but we're saying that our overburdened health care practitioners perhaps do not have the time to educate people about alternative treatments and healthy living."

At a time when our struggling health system is under review and global health care reform is urgent, Food Matters brings together the world's leaders in nutrition and natural healing to present astonishing new claims about ways to treat depression, obesity, alcoholism, heart disease, cancer, dementia, and a host of other debilitating conditions, without the need for drugs or surgery.

Can high doses of Vitamin C really cure cancer? Can two handfuls of cashews provide the therapeutic equivalent of a prescription dose of Prozac? According to one of the film's contributors, these claims are entirely viable.

Another of the film's expert commentators claims that a normal, healthy body has such powerful defences that it cannot and will not develop cancer or any other chronic disease.

Aiming to step in where Michael Moore's attack on the American health care system with the film Sicko stopped short, Colquhoun and ten Bosch hope Food Matters will educate people about ways to prevent sickness, rather than encourage them to rely on a system already in crisis to treat symptoms once sickness takes hold.

"If we can help people become more aware of the choices available to them, they can start to reduce their reliance on the "'sickness industry'," explains Colquhoun. "It's about education, not just medication. With access to solid information, people invariably make good choices for their health."

To ensure the information in their film is available to as many people around the world as quickly as possible, Colquhuon and ten Bosch have taken a departure from traditional distribution models. The film [is] available on DVD and for viewing online.

"We're really following a more non-traditional distribution model, and think that this new form of distribution is going to see a lot more popularity in the coming years," says Colquhoun

"The film is available in a Pay Per View format online thanks to technology provider Vividas, who handled the streaming distribution for The Secret. By harnessing the power of the internet we can reach the people who need this information the most in a quick and efficient manner where a traditional approach would fall short. Once we have significant traction in the marketplace though our internet sales, we will then be in a much better position to secure a more appropriate distribution model than having to settle for anything we can get offered to us."

To help the nutritionist filmmakers turn their vision into a reality, they enlisted editor/co-producer Enzo Tedeschi, who not only culled the 40+ hours into a compelling feature length documentary but also suggested what ends up being the theme song for the film, "Used To Get High" by John Butler Trio.

"I heard the song on the radio on the way to a production meeting with James and Laurentine," says Enzo. "I was blown away by how relevant the lyrics were to the film we were making. I played it for them, and they were as excited as I was, so we just thought we'd ask! John Butler Trio's music comes across as all about the message, and those guys are fiercely independent, so we figured if we asked really nicely..."

A recent documentary that challenged the status quo was The Great Global Warming Swindle, which challenged the world's current panic about our environment. Has Food Matters encountered any similar backlash?

"Surprisingly not yet," answers Colquhoun. "I was bracing for some pretty fierce attacks but the feedback we are getting once people watch the film is phenomenal. It's as if all their questions are answered, so we feel as if our message has gotten across well."

Adds Tedeschi, "I could count on one hand the number of negative messages we have received. Frankly I expected many more. The film is challenging beliefs that most people grew up with and were taught by their parents about food and health. People don't like to think they have been doing themselves damage. I know - I was one of them! But I really think that there is a lot of common sense and scientifically verifiable information in the film. It just makes a lot of sense. But as Andrew Saul [one of the people interviewed in the film] says, 'goodhealth makes a lot of sense, but not a lot of dollars, and that's part of the problem.'"

IsaKids(R) Nutrition

2008-12-09T10:52:00.004-05:00

Did you know that most Isagenix products are great for kids?

Did you know that, by blessing our children's bodies with abundant nutrition, we help their wee bodies to be as healthy as God intended them to be?

Did you know that a recent Canadian study indicates that our current generation of children is the first generation that will not outlive their parents?

Our children have never known a time when they were not being bombarded with toxins. Their bodies are hanging on to these toxins because their organs are overwhelmed ... they simply cannot keep up with the task of releasing these impurities.

We feed our children less than ideal foods ... many of which have no nutritional value. Even "nutritious" foods, such as fruits and vegetables, dairy and meat products, are filled with chemicals - herbicides, pesticides, antibiotics, steroids. Even some organic foods are sprayed with nicotine!

Isagenix products help the body to release impurities, leaving the body in a state of balance.

You can give your children, or children you know, an incredible head start by providing proper nutrition every day.

Isagenix products ideal for children:

IsaLean Shake: tastes great, has more than 100 replenishing nutrients, low-lactose whey protein, whey is the highest grade available in the world (Grade 7), has a special digestive enzyme delivery system, complete balanced amino acids
IsaLean Creamy Tomato Soup: tastes great, same benefits as IsaLean Shake, serve warm or hot
IsaPro Supplemental Protein: one scoop provides 18 grams of low-lactose, organic whey protein, supports lean muscle mass, helpful with subbord weight loss, blends easily with IsaLean Shake
IsaKids Essentials (multi vitamin): helps support a healthy immune system, helps build strong bones and teeth, supports eye health, may help aid in healthy brain function, includes Xylitol, which may help reduce cavities and ear infections and candida
IsaFruits: contains more than 30 of the healthiest fruits on the planet, helps improve mental clarity and skin, supports immune and cardiovascular health, great alternative to sugary drinks
Want More Energy: contains a healthy potassium-to-sodium ration, no stimulants, contains B vitamins and ionic trace minerals, great for kids while playing sports, supports peak mental and physical performance, no Ma Huang or caffeine
IsaCrunch: hulled hemp seed, easily digestible complete protein, contains all amino acids, 3:1 balanced ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 essential fatty acids which is optimum for heart and brain health, natural fiber, vitamin E, great for vegetarians and vegans, kids love the tase, THC free
Isamune: contains the finest source of bovine colostrum, supports the immune system, helps with allergic symptoms, nature's immune system enhancer, great vanilla taste
C-Lyte Vitamin Electrolyte Formula: 24-hour vitamin C protection, non-acidic, includes natural metabolites, calcium, and essential minerals, stays in the body longer than ordinary vitamin C, contains digestive enzymes, gentle on your stomach, faster absorption, four times more potent than other products
Omega 3,6,9 Gelcaps: essential fatty acids, essential for heart health, supports cardiovascular health as well as structural, mental and immune health
Isagenix Snacks: perfectly balanced blend of proteins, carbohydrates and fat, provide nutrients while satisfying appetite and cravings, low calorie, provide nutrition throughout the day, delicious chocolate or vanilla
Slim Cakes: high-fibre, high-protein, chocolate chip/oatmeal, promote regularity and health, less than 190 calories, loaded with vitamins and minerals, heart and colon healthy, 9 grams of fibre, 5 grams of protein, 5 grams of flaxseed, Kosher-certified
IsaLean Bars: meal-replacements, balanced protein, fat and carbohydrates, important vitamins and minerals, free of trans fat, gluten, wheat and barley, easily packed into your child's lunchbox for a filling snack, Kosher certified, oatmeal and yogurt or chocolate and peanut butter

Recipe of the Week with Beth Pittman

2008-12-08T16:02:00.000-05:00

You know how there is something that is yummy and only available during the Holiday Season? Yep, you guessed it....Egg Nog! Here is my favorite Holiday shake, it is so simple:

1/2 Cup Organic Egg Nog
1/2 Cup purified water
2 Scoups Vanilla IsaLean Shake
Freshly grated nutmeg to taste, this is KEY! Buy a Microplaner for spices
Blend and Enjoy

Toxins in the Home by Tony Escobar

2008-12-05T14:33:00.002-05:00

Tony Escobar is an Isagenix Millionaire, nutritional formulator and a special advisor to the Isagenix Medical Advisory Board

There are Toxic chemicals and impurities within you right now! Over 50% of all illness is due to indoor pollution! (Source: 1989 State of Massachusetts Study)

Infants, young children, the elderly and people who are afflicted with ill health are more affected by indoor pollutants because they spend more time indoors. (Source: 1988 EPA, 5 year study)

Simply reducing environmental chemicals and impurities alone could save approximately 50,000 lives a year from cancer. (Source: Dr. Lee Davis, former advisor to the Secretary of Health)

Women who work within their homes have a 54% higher death rate from cancer than women who work outside of their homes. (Source: 17 year EPA study)

There are more than 150 potentially toxic chemicals found in the average home that have been linked to allergies, infertility, birth defects, cancer and psychological abnormalities. The average person in North America has an average of 150 potentially, toxic impurities within them at any given time. (Source: Consumer Product Safety Commission)

Many chemical products release contaminants into the air immediately upon use, others do so over time. Some stay in the air up to a year after use. Contaminants found in many household and personal care products can cause dizziness, light headedness, nausea, circulatory health challenges, allergic reactions, diarrhea, fatigue, eye/skin/respiratory tract irritations and cancer. (Source: American Lung Association)

During the last 20 years more and more chemicals have been introduced into our society, the level of environmental pollution stored within our bodies has risen profoundly due to excessive chemicals from foods, the air we breathe, the water we drink, the clothes we wear and the "stuff" we put on our skin and hair. Over 80,000 chemicals are now used in our society and less than 10% have ever been tested for safety.

Studies have documented that many of these impurities stay in our bodies for our entire lives, especially if we have an inactive lifestyle. Many drugs can stay in our bodies for many years despite the fact that we may no longer take these drugs.

More and more chemicals and impurities now are being residually stored and accumulated at younger ages. Diseases that used to occur later in life are now appearing at much younger ages, for example it is estimated that over 150,000 children under the age of 14 are taking medicines to control high blood pressure. Diseases that were, at one time, considered rare are now much more prevalent.
For example:The last few years has seen a dramatic 28% increase in childhood cancers as a result of chemicals and impurities. (Source: National Cancer Institute)

Illnesses such as ADD, ADHD, Anxiety, PMS, Depression, Autism, Chronic Fatigue, Thyroid Dysfunction, Epstein Barr Virus, Hormonal Illnesses, Loss of Memory are now considered epidemic in North America today.

Over the last ten years there has been a 42% increase in asthma - 29% for men; 82% for women - the higher rate amongst women is believed to be due to women's excessive exposure to household chemicals and impurities. (Source: Center for Disease Control)

Due to the increased residual buildup of chemicals and impurities within our bodies, including chemicals such as formaldehyde, cadavers are not decomposing as quickly as they used to. (Source: National Institute of Health)

In fact the truth is the human body now starts to aggressively decompose 7 to 10 days after death. Forty years ago bodies started to aggressively decompose within 48 hours. The truth is twice as much formaldehyde was needed to embalm a person forty years ago as compared to today. The main reason for this is the amount of preservatives that are now found in the human body. There is a much greater risk for leukemia in young children where parents have used chemicals in the home or garden during pregnancy. (Source: Journal of the National Cancer Institute)

Liquid Dish Soap is the leading cause of poisonings in the home. (Most brands contain formaldehyde and ammonia that builds up in the body over time through inhalation of aerosolic compounds and skin and hair contact.)

The top 12 cancer causing products in the average home include the following:

Baby Powder with Talc
Tartar control toothpaste
Cosmetics
Hair Conditioners
Hair Dyes
Oven Cleaners
Polishing products
Disinfectants;
Lipsticks
Adhesives in carpet and furniture
Coatings in pots and pans
Aerosolic compounds

(Source: The National Cancer Prevention Coalition)

Of the chemicals found in cosmetics and skin care:

Over 850 are toxic to human health
Over150 contribute to tumors
Over 200 contribute to reproductive complications
Over 300 contribute to biological mutations
Over 350 contribute to skin and vision health problems

(Source: United States House of Representatives report, 1989)

The State of California recently passed legislation requiring a 45% reduction in the amount of "toxic chemicals" found in:

Furniture polish
Window cleaners
Aerosolic containers
Laundry detergents
Nail polish chemicals
Insect repellent
Hair styling chemicals
Shaving cream

(Source: Healthy Homes in a Toxic World)

Food Matters

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Watch this movie trailer. Contact me if you would like to view the whole movie. You ARE what you eat!! Food does matter!

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Eliminating the Price Obstacle of the 30 Day Cleanse Program

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By Malcolm Murray

December 2, 2008

Timing:
Dealing with a price objection is always done after you have created a clear NEED for the product. $1 is too much to charge for something if you have not already explained the benefits that the prospect will receive from using the product.

Justifying the price of the 30 Day Cleanse Program is done after a good presentation of how the system works, your experience with it, and other testimonials have been given.

Remind everyone how important their health is:

Ask your audience, on a scale of 1 to 10, how important is their health? The answer is obviously a 10, but it is important to get them to say this.

Remind them of the testimonials that they just heard, and ask the audience what they think it is worth to them to improve their health in this fashion.

Make the statement, ‘Isn’t it worth any amount of money to improve your health.’

OK, now let’s get down to the cost of the 30 Day Cleanse Program:

Creating VALUE:

The RETAIL price of the program is $374 and because the company is based in Phoenix, all product is sold in US funds. On top of that, there is a shipping cost, from our warehouses in Canada & USA directly to your home, some tax, and exchange on the currency. So for Canadians, your total cost is approximately $475 Canadian.

Now, I want you to tell me how much an average meal costs. Consider that you may occasionally go out to dinner, have lunches at a restaurant, and make meals at home from groceries that you have bought. Usually, the audience offers numbers such as $7, $8, $10, or higher.

The 30 Day Cleanse Program replaces 68 meals (counting pre cleanse days). At a cost of only $7 (use the lowest number offered) per meal, that’s $476. So how much does the Isagenix 30 Day Cleanse Program actually cost you?

NOTHING, THAT’S RIGHT, IT DOESN’T COST YOU ANYTHING TO IMPROVE YOUR HEALTH.

And on top of that, if you choose to become a member of Isagenix, you can even buy this product at wholesale price, and save more money.

How many people here are members of Costco? How much does your Costco membership cost? (from $50 to $100 annually). What do you get for your $50? Well, you get the right to shop at Costco for a year, and pay retail price. The retail price may very well be lower than many other stores, but it is still retail.

The cost to join Isagenix is $49 (currently $39 to Dec. 31, 2008), and for your $49 you get the right to buy Isagenix products for a year at wholesale price, including your first order of the 30 Day Cleanse Program. So now instead of paying $374 US, you pay the wholesale price of $260 US, and save $114 US.

THE END RESULT OF THIS IS THAT YOU ACTUALLY SAVED MONEY WHILE YOU ARE IMPROVING YOUR HEALTH ON THE 30 DAY CLEANSE PROGRAM.

Close:
Will that be Chocolate or Vanilla? - Visa or Mastercard?

The Significance of Autoship by Isagenix Top Income Earner and 9 Star Golden Circle, Jimmy Smith

2008-12-05T12:55:00.001-05:00

About 10 years ago, there was a statistical study done on autoship programs in Network Marketing. The bottom line statistics of that study were related to autoship and retention rates.

What they showed was that about 92% of the people who signed up on an autoship program when they became distributors were still with their company after 2 years, still on autoship, and roughly 85% of those people were earning regular commission checks.

On the other side of the coin, about 96% of the people who did not sign up on the autoship program when they became distributors, had left their company before the end of the 2-year period.

To me, this proves the clear and vital advantages to autoship programs both for a company and the distributors, and it also gives me a chance to make some extremely strong points to my prospects:
1) If you go on autoship when you sign up, then you'll have an 85% chance of earning regular commission checks within 2 years;
2) If you sign up people in your downline on autoship, then 92% of them will stay with you for at least 2 years, and 85% of them will also earn regular commissions, and;
3) If you don't sign up on autoship then you have a 96% chance of quitting within 2 years and, therefore, not earning commissions.

I use these statistics as part of my prospecting and sponsoring strategy, and my core reasoning to prospects is something like this: "I can sign you up on autoship and give you a 92% chance to succeed within 2 years, or I can sign you up without autoship and give you a 96% chance to fail within 2 years. It's your choice."

Autoship is absolutely critical for your success. Without it, you are only hoping for residual income. Autoship is the glue that holds your business together.

Isagenix is for Kids - Information from Nutritionist, Susan Sly

2008-11-18T13:51:00.001-05:00

Are you aware of the increasing ill health of our children? Have you noticed the number of overweight and obese children in our community? Children are increasingly being diagnosed with diabetes. And just recently, a medical study showed that children are being diagnosed with clogged arteries, placing them at risk of heart and stroke issues - their health is like that of a 40-year-old! Where will they be when they are actually 40?!

You know how we are polluting our air, our water and our food with chemicals and drugs? You know how these pollutants are making their way into our bodies and causing us to lose energy, gain weight and get sick? Did you realize that it isn't just us adults who are being exposed?

Pregnant women are also being exposed, and that means their unborn babies are being exposed as well. A recent medical study of cord blood found more than 700 toxins had passed from mothers to the babies through the umbilical cord!

What are we doing to ourselves? What can we be doing differently?

Now that there is a proven technology that addresses the issue of toxicity in our bodies, can we afford to ignore it? Can we afford to ignore the health of our babies, our young children, and our young adults? And ourselves? If we become ill, who will look after our children?

We can begin to build a stronger, healthier community by cleansing.

Women can start by preparing their body to bear a child. We would not bring a newborn baby into a filthy home; why would we bring one into a filthy womb? Before becoming pregnant, women could spend several months cleansing their body - they may feel stronger and healthier, and this would only add to the wonderful experience of childbirth.

During pregnancy, women may continue to nurture their bodies with many of the Isagenix products. There are some that would not be appropriate, but others that would be ideal for flooding the body with the nutrients the mother and her baby need for optimal health.

Newborn babies may take Isamune, which is organic bovine colustrum. This may help to keep their immune system at its best.

Nursing moms may continue to nourish their own bodies by adding the cleanse drink to their shakes. You can never get too many of these wonderful, plant-based minerals in these wonderful 80% bio-available organic shakes.

By age one year, children may start drinking the IsaLean shake, and may benefit from small servings of IsaCal, our vegetarian, lactose-free calcium supplement. And, mmmmm, it tastes like strawberry. For older children, IsaCal has been shown to help with focus. IsaCal may be mixed with apple juice or put into shakes.

Children aged 2-4 years who are overweight will have a higher likelihood of being overweight in adulthood. The longer a child is overweight, the higher the likelihood of obesity in adulthood.

By age 2, children may take the IsaKids Essentials, a chewable multi vitamin. Sweetened with xylatol, this product helps to reduce the incidence of ear infections and growth of candida.

The Cleanse for Life drink is great for kids - take 1/4 to 1/2 an ounce per day. A little bit every day may help to keep their wee bodies free from impurities.

Of course, every child needs to get their fruits and greens. So, IsaFruits and Healthy Greens are ideal. Mix with water, juice or put these into shakes for the kids.

IsaLean Bars are ideal for kids. Children think they are having a wonderful treat while, at the same time, they are filling their bodies with abundant nutrition. Cut the bars into fingers for a fun treat, or cut into tiny cubes for smaller hands.

Slim Cakes are a wonderful oatmeal cookie, full of essential fibre. Toasted, they are a wonderful after school treat.

IsaLean Soup is a wonderful meal on a cold, blustery day.

IsaCrunch, hulled hemp seed plus our IsaLyte minerals, are vegan, and a great alternative for the vegetarian/vegan child, or a child who just wants a bit of texture in their shakes or soup.

By age 11, children may want to be doing full-day cleanses. They may add the IsaFlush to their program, along with the IsaOmegas, and Antioxidants.

The bottom line is this: get the product into your children. Their bodies will thank you.

Isamune and colustrum

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Isamune is organic bovine colustrum

For centuries colostrum has been considered a potent health aid all over the world. It's a universally accepted natural health food, usually without side effects. Over the years, researchers have proven the outstanding health benefits offered by quality colostrum. No matter the age, gender, or even species, colostrum can revitalize the health of all living beings.

The list of diseases colostrum is believed to cure is impressive. Researches have confirmed that colostrum can cure anemia, asthma, chronic fatigue, chronic pain, diabetes, emphysema, gout, gingivitis, hemorrhoids, influenza, lupus, joint injuries and post-surgery pain, multiple sclerosis, nerve injuries, shingles, stress, stroke, temper outbursts, tendonitis, thyroid disorders, ulcers, and more.

People all over the world take antibiotics to fight diseases. But antibiotics are artificial and they usually come with side affects. Colostrum is as effective as an antibiotic for many diseases but without the side affects. Also, the growth factors found in colostrum can reverse or repair the damage caused by age, injury and more.

Colostrum helps athletes and body builders by building lean muscle mass and it burns fat because it has IGF-1, which metabolizes fat for energy.

And colostrum can work wonders for children, as it revitalizes memory, improves concentration, and develops a strong immune system in kids. Even pets can benefit from bovine colostrum, since the bovine variety is the only colostrum in nature that is not species-specific.

Consumption of colostrum also improves prostate health, speeds healing of injuries, improves hair growth, reduces allergy symptoms, and it can even improve your sex life. To be able to enjoy all the benefits of bovine colostrum, it should be obtained from the first milking.

Personal Testimonial

2008-11-06T22:25:00.000-05:00

Have you ever thought the following?

· I know I need to be healthier, for me and for my family, but I just don’t know what to do.
· I have tried everything and I just can’t seem to lose the weight.
· If only I could sleep better, I’d have the energy to exercise, and then I’d feel so much better.
· If only I could get rid of the cravings – life would be so much easier.
· I’m just so busy; I can’t find the time or energy to exercise, and even when I do exercise it doesn’t seem to help.
· I’m starting to have health issues; I’m afraid of what will happen if I don’t do something soon – but what?!
· What’s the use – this is the way I’m going to look and feel for the rest of my life.

My name is Linda and, in 2007, I turned 50 years old. I’ve thought all of these things, and lots more.

I have been on a journey for many years to find the missing link to optimal health, well-being and balance. It is only since turning 50 that I can truly say that I have found some answers.

In December 2005, I was diagnosed with a life threatening health issue. I was told the prognosis was not good. That was my shake-up call.

But, my story did not begin in 2005 – it began many years ago. For as long as I can remember, my weight has been an issue. For more than 30 years, I have been trying to lose weight, but especially for the past 21 years since having my children. I think I’ve always known that obesity is the cause of many health problems, but even this knowledge was not enough. I simply had not been able to lose the weight I gained since having children – and keep it off. I felt I needed to put on a brave face and accept that nothing would ever change.

The death of my 61-year-old mother when I was approaching 40 gave me incentive to start looking beyond my weight to my health. I was very personally motivated: my then 10-year-old daughter lives with an intellectual disability; I knew I needed to do whatever it takes to ensure that I will be able to provide for her for a long time – I simply could not contemplate an early death. I vowed to change the way I eat, and to incorporate exercise into my life – even if I couldn’t lose the weight, at least I’d be as healthy as possible.

Over the next 10 years, I researched and experimented, and discovered exercise I enjoy and that makes my body feel strong and balanced, and I found food that is life-giving.

However, despite incorporating daily, rigorous exercise and healthy eating into my life, I continued to experience severe distress in my body, including anxiety, lack of concentration, fatigue, interrupted sleep, joint and muscle discomfort, hair loss, food cravings and the inability to lose weight.

Finally, believing I must have a brain tumour (due to my inability to think and speak clearly), I approached a naturopath who specializes in bio terrain/live blood, saliva and urinalysis assessment. He assured me I did not have a tumour, and proceeded to help free my body of the many pharmaceuticals that had been prescribed for me over the past 30 years. During my treatment, I discovered I had a life threatening health issue. Surviving motivated me even more; I knew that I had to take drastic measures to improve my health.

I credit my naturopath (and a lot of prayer) for bringing my body back into balance and (thank you God!) for curing me. However, despite this intervention and my continued rigorous exercise and healthy eating, I could not shed even one single pound. I felt like I was doing all of the right things, but I was frustrated. I wanted to achieve even better health and well-being by shedding the weight I’d been carrying around for so many years.

When I turned 50, I decided it was time for me to do a complete “temple renovation” – to do something just for me, to make an investment in my health, to help my body feel better. After accepting the invitation to consider Nutritional Cleansing, I started using a 30-day system.

I started using the system for the benefit of the nutrients, silently hoping that a side effect might be weight loss. Having been so unsuccessful in the past, I doubted that I would lose weight, but I decided that if I put good food into my body, I would feel better – if I could lose weight, well, that would be a bonus.

I have been amazed by the positive changes I am seeing, and feeling, in my body! Nutritional Cleansing is the missing link, the answer I have been searching for.

Since I have been using the Nutritional Cleansing products, I have more energy and mental clarity, I sleep through most nights (something I have not done in 25 years!), and I am calmer and more relaxed. I experience much less discomfort in my body. My hair is no longer falling out the way it did in the past. I have gained lean muscle, and, almost miraculously, I have virtually no food cravings, and have released weight – so far, I have lost more than 20 pounds and over 36 inches. I have gone down four dress sizes, reduced my body fat by over 3.5 per cent, and brought my waist size down well below the recommended healthy maximum of 35 inches! I feel better now than I’ve felt in 25 years.

I still have a long way to go, but I am finally on the right track! Now that my health is improving, I am able to focus beyond my own personal health and well-being. I am able to focus my attention on nurturing the good health of others in my community – people who may be the ones to welcome my daughter into their lives when I am no longer on this earth. And, because of the business opportunities that come along with this amazing Nutritional Cleansing system, I am able to set a goal of producing an income that will one day provide the supports my daughter needs to live her life beyond her parents.

I want to tell everyone about Nutritional Cleansing. I know that anyone who tries these products will feel better almost immediately.

I feel like I have been given a new lease on life. Within one month of my 51st birthday, six people who do not know me well guessed that I was not yet 40 years old! I feel like I am getting younger and younger as I continue using the Nutritional Cleansing system. And, not only am I healthier and feeling younger, but I’m earning income as a Consultant, as well! Three months after deciding to become a nutritional cleanse and lifestyle coach, I had matched the income I had been making in my private consulting business. This success has inspired me to work even harder to help others achieve optimum health, and it has shown me that my goal of securing my daughter’s future is within sight.

I want everyone I know to experience what I’ve experienced with Nutritional Cleansing. I hope you will consider achieving optimal health through Nutritional Cleansing, and even increased wealth as a nutritional cleanse and lifestyle coach.

When you begin the Nutritional Cleansing program, you will be accelerating the removal of impurities from your body and nourishing your body with vital nutrients to rapidly revive health.

You can do it! Let’s do it together. Please contact me (see below) when you are ready to take control of your health and well-being, and of your financial freedom.

Possible Cleansing Symptoms

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1. Headaches: Why? The body is releasing impurities very quickly and going through withdrawal from substances and chemicals, like, for example, caffeine.

Solution: Increase water intake. Be proactive by doing at least a few days pre-cleanse (shake days), as recommended, prior to your cleanse. Be sure to include IONIX Supreme and IsaFlush. Take it easy, and rest. Have a couple slices of organic apple. Avoid taking pain relievers.

2. Cold extremities: Why? The body is in major cleansing mode and body heat will gravitate to internal organs for cleansing and protection.

Solution: Put on extra layers. Have a warm shower or bath. This usually passes after the first two days.

3. Constipation: Why? Impurities are flooding the colon. It can be a little challenging for the colon to keep up. It may get a little blocked up. You may experience bloating, etc.

Solution: Increase water intake. Take 1 or 2 IsaFlush capsules before bedtime.

4. Nausea, dizzy, upset stomach: Why? The body is either alkaline or acidic and is always striving for balance. Often, if the body is acidic, minerals can cause a feeling of nausea in the body. This can be due to drinking caffeinated beverages, like coffee or pop. A higher acidic content in the body has been attributed to alcohol and even red meat.

Solution: Take one of the Isagenix Snacks with a glass of water BEFORE taking the cleansing drink. This lines the stomach wall and helps with the digestion of the minerals. Make sure you are diluting the 4 oz. of cleanse drink in 8 oz. of filtered water. If you are still bothered, mix 2 oz. cleanse drink with 8 oz. of filtered water to dilute it more and have 8 x 2 oz. instead of 4 x 4 oz. cleanse drinks a day. Adding ice to your drink makes it more palatable.

5. Niacin Flush: Why? B3 Niacin improves blood circulation by enlarging tiny capillaries which carry nutrients to the cells and remove impurities. It also lowers cholesterol. IONIX and Accelerator capsules both contain Niacin.

Solution: Allow at least 20 minutes between when you take IONIX and Accelerators. Any bumps or shortness of breath would indicate an allergic reaction and would require attention.

Plateau Busting

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Want to speed things up a bit? Not having as much "success" as you'd like to see. (Remember! even though you might not be losing weight, you will likely be losing inches, gaining lean muscle and cleansing impurities from your body. You are getting healthier by using your Isagenix system!)

Here are some suggestions that might help you to bust a plateau:
· Remember to measure yourself, as well as to weigh yourself
· Stick to the system as much as possible - adding even a little of this or a little of that to your shake may slow things up a bit
· Choose low-glycemic index fruits to add to your shake - the more sugar you add, the slower things may go
· Be sure to eat your IsaSnacks each day - these provide the mix of protein, fat and carbs that your body needs to keep your metabolism going strong
· Use your Accelerators – if you are using only one each day, increase to two
· Change up your non-Isa meals - try not to eat the same foods every day; your body will soon become used to a regular diet of the same whole foods and will stop working as efficiently at burning fat
· Change up your meal schedule - trick your body: implement a rotation of "lean" days (these could be your cleansing days), "medium" days (stick with the 400 calorie meal), and "treat" days (these could be the days you eat out and/or consume more than 600 calories in your meal); another way to change up your meal schedule is to have your whole meal at lunch time if you've been used to having it in the evening
· Change up your exercise routine every 21 days - do different exercises so you trick your brain
· Change up the amount of exercise you do - be a little more aggressive when exercising
· Be sure to cleanse two days in a row, and try to follow the cleanse schedule to letter - the first day you will be cleansing your colon and the second day you will be in major fat burning mode (so, if you don't cleanse two days in a row, you won't get into that mode!)
· It takes fat to burn fat – add IsaOmegas (at least 2-3/day), or if you are already using these, increase to 3-4/day
· Add IsaPro to your shake – substitute 1 scoop of IsaLean with 1 scoop of IsaPro
· Add IsaCal to your shake
· Add Isamune to your Autoship – the natural colostrum will help the body to burn more fat
I hope you find these ideas helpful. If you need additional support, please do not hesitate to call me.

Don't get discouraged. Feel good about getting the product into your body. You are improving your health - weight loss will happen if you stick with it! You might not even be aware of anything changing .... until people start mentioning how great you look!

Welcome! & Top 3 Reasons People Say "No"

2008-11-06T21:00:00.000-05:00

Welcome to Health, Wealth & Freedom - One Person at a Time.

This is a forum for our IsaTeam to share their journey toward optimum health - and wealth. I will be adding various things to the site that I believe will be helpful to you during your journey. Look below for links to resources that may be helpful to you.

Today's post focuses on health ...

Getting healthy is not always an easy road. The road to ill, or less than optimal health didn't happen over night ... it won't get better over night.

I am a huge believer in mutual support. If I am expected to do anything difficult by myself, chances are it won't happen.

I recently learned the top three reasons why people say "No" to embarking on a new path toward good health:

- they just don't know if they can do it
- they feel uncomfortable with their body changing
- they just don't want to hope again, only to be disappointed

With a strong mutual support system firmly in place, we will overcome these fears. We are sure to be successful!

I hope each of you will acknowledge the strength you give others by sharing your stories, your encouragement, your successes, your challenges, and even your shoulder or a pair of strong hugging arms.

Together, we are building a strong, healthy community.

Linda Viscardis
Nutritional Cleanse and Lifestyle Coach