Lose Weight Without Starving ~ Eat Protein

Eating adequate protein keeps the sugar/carb cravings at bay.

"Whey protein contains all the essential amino acids. Plus it boasts the highest protein quality rating among all proteins. Thus, it is a complete protein.

Whey protein is a by-product of the cheese manufacturing process. At one time it was discarded or used for animal feed, but researchers later realized whey protein has incredible benefits for humans.

The main difference between protein, versus fats & carbs, is the fact that your body can’t store protein from day to day. Regretfully, we know the same can't be said about fat!" ~Dr. Mercola

My favorite whey protein powder is free from hormones, i.e. rBGH, rBST. I order mine from Dr. Mercola. He offers clean & nutritious protein powders, including vegan sourced.

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Watch Out For These Dangerous, Common Foods!

1. Canned Tomatoes
2. Corn-Fed Beef
3. Microwave Popcorn
4. Non-organic Potatoes
5. Farmed Salmon
6. Milk Produced with Artificial Hormones
7. Conventional Apples

Why? Read more...
excerpt from The 7 Foods Experts Won't Eat
Shine/Healthy Living by Liz Vaccariello, Editor-in-Chief, PREVENTION

Remember "roughage"?

What we call dietary fiber is what used to be called " roughage". It acts as the body's internal scrub brush. Most people simply don’t get enough fiber in their diet. It’s either because they’re not aware of how important fiber is, or they have been misinformed on the sources of dietary fiber.
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Benefit of Feeling More Gratitude ~ Good Digestion

If you're like many health-conscious people, you pay a lot of attention to what you eat. But even the highest quality foods won't necessarily help you build health if you don't digest them well. Try to eat with a feeling of gratitude. Conscious eating will enhance your body's ability to assimilate nutrition: the vitamins, minerals, and life force of your food.

Gratitude is much more than a "feel good" emotion. Gratitude is a genuine soul-felt appreciation for being personally involved with life. The more gratitude we feel, the more optimism, relaxation, and overall happiness we experience. That's because focusing on gratitude shifts our attention away from stress and worry and has us look at the bright side of things. Concentrating on things we are grateful for moves us beyond conflict and drama, where we can focus on what is most important to us. Gratitude is not about being loving and happy only when life is ideal. Gratitude is an awareness that while things may not always be perfect, life is still filled with wonder and beauty.

Intensify gratitude by paying attention to the small everyday details of life. If you want to increase the enjoyment of your overall life, then enjoy the small details everywhere. Take a step out of the day-to-day noise, confusion, and stress, and deliberately do things that you love. Instead of blindly walking through your day, activate your senses as you feel the sun on your skin, smell the bright red roses, look deeply into the eyes of a kindred soul, and let your heart smile as children giggle past you on the street. Paying attention to the small details enables you to expand your awe of life. Focus on the activities that bring joy to your heart.

Before long, your life will become a beautiful expression of gratitude, and your digestion will enhance all aspects of your health, and maybe even your wealth!

Discover the Newest Safe Cancer Screening Tool

""The best way to beat cancer and other chronic illnesses is to prevent them in the first place. Now there’s a revolutionary, new high-tech diagnostic tool called thermography that can help detect cancer and disease anywhere in your body. It’s safe, painless, and reliable. Why take the chance of developing a serious illness when you can stop it in its tracks...measuring inflammation through thermal imaging is a proactive, preventative method you can use for detecting disease, which significantly improves your chances for longevity and good health." ~Dr. Joseph Mercola
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What Do Janet Jackson, Usher & Matt Damon Have In Common? Colonics, of course!

Colon Hydrotherapy is rapidly becoming one of the most dynamic areas of interest in integrative health modalities. Colon hydrotherapy is gaining recognition in part because of the modern instrumentation. The emergence of this ancient cleansing practice is also entering mainstream consciousness as celebrities Madonna, Matt Damon, Usher, Janet Jackson, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Anniston, Beyonce, Cindy Crawford and a host of other celebrities, as well as, professional athletes speak publicly about their personal use of colonics.

Emotional Constipation Causes Bad Feelings

Many people don't realize it, but negative emotions can become trapped in the body. The reason they become trapped is because we didn't know how to deal with them appropriately. The consequence is that those stuck emotions negatively affect us long past the original emotion.

With deep cleansing you can release and remove old, trapped negative emotions and end the cycle of being triggered by them. Dr. Richard Anderson explains in Cleanse and Purify Thyself. "Emotions get trapped in cells and when we...cleanse, these emotion-carrying cells, especially weak, dead, or dying cells are rapidly released from the body. In this way we release forever the emotions that were trapped within those cells."

Dr. Anderson continues to say that most people are more affected by the past than the present, and that when we cleanse a striking emotional transformation often occurs, especially when mucoid plaque is released. Mucoid plaque is a toxic and often hardened, rubber-like substance that is found in most people's colons. It`s the result of years of poor dietary habits and neglect in cleansing the colon. Deep bowel cleansing is required to remove it.

Toxic waste material is a warehouse for negative emotions, and negative emotions can become trapped anywhere in the body. Where they're located can be related to what the emotion is - and stuck emotions often result in behavioral blocks. For example, people with difficulty speaking up for themselves may have trapped emotions that reside in the throat.

Emotions can also be stuck along the meridian of the organ that the emotion relates to. This is understood using Chinese medicine which explains how the various organs are connected to different emotions. Chinese medicine also tells us that energy from those organs travels along defined paths in the body, known as meridians.

For example, emotions relating to resentment - which is a feeling of anger at having been wronged - are often lodged in the shoulders. Resentment is the emotion of the gallbladder, and the gallbladder meridian runs along the shoulders.

It might surprise you how many people with tension in their shoulders actually have stores of waste there. That waste can then block the energy's pathway, and interfere with the person's ability to appropriately feel and manage emotions relating to resentment.

Information extracted from:
Cleanse and Purify Thyself, Dr. Richard Anderson, N.D., M.N.D.
Molecules of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Thought Medicine, Candace B. Pert, Ph. B

Reminder: Laughter Is The Best Medicine

Laughter, along with an active sense of humor, may help protect you against a heart attack, according to a recent study by cardiologists at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. The study, which is the first to indicate that laughter may help prevent heart disease, found that people with heart disease were 40 percent less likely to laugh in a variety of situations compared to people of the same age without heart disease.

"The old saying that 'laughter is the best medicine,' definitely appears to be true when it comes to protecting your heart," says Michael Miller, M.D., director of the Center for Preventive Cardiology at the University of Maryland Medical Center and a professor of medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. "We don't know yet why laughing protects the heart, but we know that mental stress is associated with impairment of the endothelium, the protective barrier lining our blood vessels. This can cause a series of inflammatory reactions that lead to fat and cholesterol build-up in the coronary arteries and ultimately to a heart attack." Miller says, "The recommendation for a healthy heart may one day be exercise, eat right and laugh a few times a day."

At Oasis Colonics, we discover lots of funny puns. Laughter is part of the treatment!

Oasis Colonics: Colon Hydrotherapy Explained

Oasis Colonics: Colon Hydrotherapy Explained

Colonics vs Enemas ~ What's the Difference?

The large intestine or "colon" ranges between 4 -- 6 feet in length. An enema merely flushes out the lower end of the colon where the waste matter (feces) collects. The average enema uses only about two quarts of water, while a colonic hydrotherapy treatment uses 15 to 30 gallons of water to flush out the entire lower bowel. Warm, purified water is introduced at the rate of one cup to two quarts at a time according to the body's comfort and tolerance. The fecal matter is expelled . This action can soften and wash away impactions lining the colon or "lower bowel".

For a description of the differences between "Open" and "Closed" Colon Hydrotherapy systems click here.

The closed-system colonic devise used at Oasis Colonics allows water to gently irrigate the colon in a slow, comfortable manner. During a colonic, the body's own natural peristalsis propels the waste material out by means of wave-like muscular contractions. The colon cleansing "machine" is NOT a type of internal vacuum cleaner or waste extractor, nor is it a pressure hose. It's function can be understood as a technologically advanced "enema bag" that administers water into the colon while simultaneously monitoring temperature and pressure ensuring safety and efficacy.

CLICK HERE, and scroll down, to see a picture of the Colon Hydrotherapy equipment used at Oasis Colonics in Portland, Oregon.

Detoxify With Bieler's Broth

Dr Henry G. Bieler, MD often used his famous Bieler’s Broth to help his patients detoxify. Dr. Bieler prescribed this simple soup to help restore alkalinity and mineral balance, thereby supporting the organs, especially the liver. The endocrine glands, such as the adrenals and thyroid, are greatly benefited by a cleanse using Bieler’s Broth. Eat daily as part of your winter restoration!

Adapted from Food Is Your Best Medicine by Henry G. Bieler, MD. Use organic vegetables!

Beiler's Broth

1 lb green beans
2 lbs zucchini
4 stalks celery
1-2 bunches parsley
4 cups clean filtered water
Extra virgin olive oil or unsalted organic butter (optional)

Cut up the zucchini, green beans and celery. Steam in a stainless steel or porcelain pot using the filtered water. Blend with the cooking water and parsley to the consistency of pea soup. You may add a small amount of extra virgin olive oil or unsalted organic butter if desired. Variations include adding garlic, onions, ginger or other fresh herbs

Buy Dr. Bieler’s pioneering nutrition book Food Is Your Best Medicine (currently $6.99 on Amazon)

Gallstones Are More Commmon Than You Think

The majority of gallstones start out as microscopic crystals of cholesterol. The word cholesterol originates from the Greek chole (bile) and stereos (solid). Cholesterol = chole + sterol (solid bile). Small gallstones normally exit the gallbladder. Very few gallstones grow larger then 2mm. Most are expelled while small as sand, although many accumulate. A very effective, non-surgical means of cleansing the bile ducts is a liver and gallbladder flush. There are various "recipes" to follow. Most recommend the ingestion of olive or coconut oil, apple juice, lemon juice and, sometimes, magnesium sulfate (Epsom salts). Colonics are highly recommended during and after the flush to assist in the thorough removal of gallstones.

One of my favorite Liver/Gallstone Flush recipes is, as follows:

• 3 Tablespoons warm extra virgin coconut oil
• Quarter glass apple juice
• Half a lemon
• Clove of garlic
• Small piece of fresh ginger

Whiz all the ingredients in a blender. Lemon can be replaced with orange, grapefruit or lime. Drink this mixture every day for several weeks, if you are suffering from gallbladder attacks, allergies, indigestion, constipation, bursitis and other chronic health problems...and get a series of colonics!

Gallbladder & Liver Flush
An Alternative to Gallbladder Surgery

If you are considering a liver flush for gallstones
or for gallbladder attacks, click this link!

Obstruction of the common bile duct is often caused by gallstones:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=2407039&dopt=Abstract

Passage of gallstones into the common bile duct occurs in approximately 10-15% of patients with gallstones. The incidence is related to the presence of gallstones, which are very common in 10-20% of population. http://www.virtualgastrocentre.com/diseases.asp?did=191

Crucial Vitamin D Research

"The evidence is overwhelming, and the solution is incredibly simple. One way to drastically reduce your risk of cancer and countless other chronic diseases is to optimize your levels of vitamin D -- either by safe sun exposure, tanning in a safe tanning bed or taking a high-quality supplement." ~ Dr. Joseph Mercola

Vitamin D Research links