Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Detoxification Is An Important Element In Weight Loss.

There is no doubt that a clean diet and exercise are keys in healthy weight management. So why is it that many of us eat well and are active but still have difficulty in losing weight?

A few years ago, an interesting hypothesis on the present obesity epidemic emerged from the Occupational and Environmental Health Research Group at Stirling University in Scotland. The researchers pointed to evidence indicating that the body’s metabolism does not function properly in those suffering from obesity. Researchers went on to say that the current level of human exposure to synthetic organic and inorganic chemicals might be responsible for damaging many of the body’s natural weight-control mechanisms.


In a nutshell, the food additives, environmental toxins, herbicides, pesticides, medications, caffeine and household chemicals we are exposed to must be detoxified by our liver in order for our bodies to stay clean and healthy and for our metabolism to function properly.


The thousands of toxins that overwhelm our detoxification system increase our susceptibility to disease and hamper metabolism. So these toxins not only make us sick, they may in fact make us fat!


Your liver is not only the largest of the internal organs, it is your body’s premiere cleaning and removal station for both internal toxins (those produced by your own metabolism) as well as external toxins (including xenoestrogens). Many MD's believe that the liver can handle all the toxic load it is presented with and does not need to be supported in the detoxification process. However, our bodies and our liver are faced with many more toxins than they were 50 or so years ago, the liver is under more stress than ever and I do not believe it has adapted to detoxify the load it is presented with by modern lifestyle.


There are no miracles in weight loss. The best advice is to support you body in a healthy way with a clean diet and exercise. You also want to make sure that your body is functioning at optimum levels. Make sure that your hormones are balanced (including thyroid and stress hormones) and that your liver is detoxifying your body well. If you follow this advise, your metabolism and your body will balance itself and your healthy and optimum weight will be achieved.


Basics of Supporting Your Liver in Detoxification.


  • Avoid process foods and those with artificial colors, flavors, additives. Eat whole fruits, vegetables and grains. Especially those that are organic to reduce your toxic load.

  • Bitter leafy vegetables...lettuce, spinach, kale, ect....are especially detoxifiying.
  • Avoid household chemicals, pesticides and herbicides.

  • Avoid caffeine and alcohol and any kind of soda....especially "diet".
  • Drink water!

  • Start each morning by flushing out your liver. Before you eat or drink anything...have a tall glass of water with a good squeeze of lemon. It's even better if you can drink it hot, but room temperature is just fine.

  • Make sure that your bowels are moving at least 1-2 times per day....we want to make sure your body is getting rid of the toxins once your liver is clearing them.

  • Castor oil packs help the detoxification prossess...and keep the bowels movingregularly. http://www.edgarcayce.org/health/database/health_resources/castor_oil_packs.asp

  • Dry skin brushing....your skin is one of the largest detoxification organs and you want to make sure that it is open and can eliminate the toxins well. http://www.ehow.com/how_2277219_improve-skin-dry-skin-brushing.html

  • Multivitamin....many vitamins are essential in helping the liver detox.
  • Deep diaphragmatic breathing.

  • There are many detoxification protocols that can promote even greater liver clearing. Beware of OTC products and specific diets before consulting with your physician first.

Friday, August 22, 2008

FDA Unleashes Mass Irradiation of Spinach, Lettuce and Other Vegetables

I came across this post by Mike Adams(NaturalNews) and felt it would be fitting to post it here:

The FDA has announced that beginning today, spinach and lettuce sold across the United States may now be secretly irradiated before it reaches grocery store shelves. What's "secret" about it? The FDA previously decided that irradiation warning stickers would not be required on any food items because it would be "too confusing to consumers." (The word IRRADIATION apparently has too many letters to be understood to food buyers.) Thus, irradiated foods will not be labeled as such, and consumers are going to be left in the dark about all this (except for those who actually eat the irradiated food, in which case they will glow in the dark).

The FDA, of course, insists that the levels of irradiation used to kill e.coli will have no effect whatsoever on the nutritional value of the food. This astonishing statement comes from an agency that doesn't believe food has any nutritional value in the first place, so lowering the value to zero by destroying all the phytonutrients does not, in the opinion of the FDA, alter its nutritional value at all. Thus, destroying all the anti-cancer nutrients in a head of broccoli merely brings that broccoli into "compliance" as a non-functional food, according to the FDA.

Radiation, of course, destroys delicate phytochemicals in plants -- the very phytochemicals protecting consumers against cancer, heart disease, high cholesterol, inflammation and other diseases. Microwaving broccoli, for example, destroys up to 98% of its anti-cancer nutrients. (The FDA has not yet acknowledged this scientific fact, either.) In a similar way, irradiating food destroys much of its nutritional content, including vitamins, carotenoids, anthocyanins and other delicate protective nutrients that are right now providing the last, desperate nutritional defense against the American diet of meat, milk, fried foods and processed junk.

Irradiating fresh produce will leave the U.S. population is a state of extreme deficiency in protective plant-based nutrients.

Does the FDA plan to destroy the health of the U.S. population?

Many people suspect that's what the FDA really wants. A nutritionally-deficient, disease-ridden population would mean a windfall of profits for the FDA's buddies in Big Pharma -- the folks who sell patented medications at monopoly prices. With the food supply destroyed by radiation, ordinary people would have virtually no remaining sources of protective phytonutrients!

In promoting this food radiation policy, the FDA has accomplished what all the terrorists in the world could not: The mass irradiation of the U.S. food supply -- much like setting off a dirty bomb over the nation's farms (but with less radiation). This destruction of the nutritional value of the food supply is a far greater threat to the health of the U.S. population than any terrorist event, including 9/11. And yet it is being done by our own people, TO our own people, by a lawless agency that answers to no one. FDA officials are not voted into office by the People; they are appointed by politicians. They answer to no one, they refuse to follow federal law, and they operate as tyrants over a quarter of the U.S. economy.

And now they have taken it upon themselves to destroy the national food supply.We should be more than just alarmed -- we should be outraged! The FDA has committed an act of war against the People. With this decision, the FDA has firmly positioned itself as an enemy of the People, and a bringer of death and disease to the nation. Why are our elected representatives in Washington allowing this madness?

Think about this: If the FDA has its way:
• All your food will be irradiated, pasteurized or killed
• All your children will be vaccinated
• All your medicine will be based on pharmaceuticals
• All your free speech about health will be suppressed
• All informative labeling on food and supplements will be outlawed
• Growing and selling non-irradiated garden vegetables will become a crime!

Today it's spinach and lettuce; tomorrow it's all fresh produceDon't think the FDA will stop with spinach and lettuce, either. They're already talking about irradiating tomatoes, peppers and onions. Before long, radiation could become mandatory for ALL fresh produce, and all the fresh fruits and vegetables that are supposed to contain health-protecting nutrients will be transformed into sterile, inert plant mass with no health benefits at all. (Brilliant scam, huh?)

This is by design. I believe the FDA wants the American public to be sickened and diseased. Why else would they ban Free Speech about healing foods like cherries, broccoli and garlic? Why would they outlaw the selling of herbs and nutritional supplements that claim to treat and prevent disease? The FDA wants you to be sick, enslaved and medicated, and irradiating the food supply is the quickest way to accomplish that.He who controls the food controls the People.He who destroys the food can profit from the People's sickness.
The FDA's crimes against humanityIn pushing this radiation agenda, the FDA is committing a crime against humanity -- a nutritional atrocity that violates fundamental human rights. And yet the FDA's top decision makers continue to operate with zero oversight and zero accountability. They make decisions in a corporate-sponsored vacuum, absent any input from reasonable, health-conscious consumers or scientists. And because they have been granted tyrannical powers by Congress, the FDA operates above the law.

It is not subject to any laws whatsoever; not even the U.S. Constitution which is supposed to protect the People's right to "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" (as stated in the Declaration of Independence).The mass irradiation of the food supply is a violation of the "Life" part of that phrase, wouldn't you agree? If we can no longer buy nourishing foods with their nutrients intact, then we are all doomed to degenerative disease and death... but not before paying out our life savings to doctors, drug companies and hospitals. That's the evil genius of the food irradiation plot: It kills you slowly, at just the right pace to drain your bank account before you expire from malnutrition.

I truly believe this irradiation of the food supply is the beginning of the end of America. No nation can survive the destruction of its food supply. The FDA is dooming America to a slow, painful, medicated death. In a generation, this nation will be lost, destroyed from within by short-sighted tyrants who violated nature and left the People to rot.

What you can do right now to fight this latest transgression by the FDAFor starters, you can:
1) Grow your own food. A little gardening is good. Grow whatever you can, even if it's just a few kitchen herbs.
2) Buy your food at farmer's markets, coops and CSAs. See http://www.localharvest.org/csa
3) Ask your grocery store if they are buying irradiated spinach. If they don't know, demand they find out!
4) Raise hell with your Senators and Congresspeople, demanding they pass new laws protecting consumers from the FDA and its plot to destroy the nutritional value of the food supply.

Also, listen to two podcasts I've posted on this topic. The first was recorded several months ago, where I publicly predicted the FDA would do exactly what we're seeing right now. Listen to that podcast here: http://www.naturalnews.com/Index-Podcas...The second podcast was just posted today. I recorded it right before writing this article. It goes into much greater detail about the FDA's plot to destroy the health of the U.S. population. You can listen to that here: http://www.naturalnews.com/Index-Podcas...

Finally, don't stand for this food supply madness! Raise your voice. Write your local paper, call your representatives in Washington and tell them you strongly oppose the irradiation of the food supply. Teach people about phytonutrients. And stay tuned to NaturalNews as we continue to cover this important story.The FDA has gone mad. Criminally mad. It is an agency that will literally kill you if given the chance, and it is up to all of us to stop this madness before we lose our health, our children and our very nation.

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Acupuncture Facial Rejuvenation...A Natural Botox Alternative.



Have you ever noticed how beautiful the skin is of women in China? In addition to genetics, perhaps this is because facial rejuvenation originated in China many, many years ago. Facial rejuvenation has enabled many women to keep their skin beautiful by reducing fine lines, increasing elasticity and collagen in the their skin, firming up their facial muscles, and improving the quality of their skin through acupuncture and herbal therapies. It has become a safe and effective alternative to the use of therapies such as BOTOX and RESTYLANE.



This delicate use of acupuncture and essential oils is arranged in a sequence that develops collagen and stimulates rejuvenation processes. While your skin is reacting to the subtle stimulation, the treatment is also adjusting energy throughout your entire body. Each treatment is 1 hour long and is part of a ten treatment series. Each treatment consists of Facial Rejuvenation Acupuncture, application of essential oils and acupressure massage of the face and declotte and stimulation with cooling jade. Maintenance sessions are scheduled according to the individuals needs after the initial series. Changes may be seen as soon as the first treatment is completed, but each succeeding treatment builds on the last. The program is safe, effective and brings with it none of the great expense, adverse effects or toxicity of more invasive approaches that involve drugs or surgery.


How Does Facial Rejuvenation Work?
According to the latest research in dermatology and Dr. Howard Murad, a professor of dermatology at UCLA and Vogue magazines proclaimed “One of America’s top dermatologists”, the problem is free radicals.
Aging skin ...wrinkles, sagging, enlarged pores, puffiness, thin and dry skin…is due to the damaged caused by free radicals.


Free radicals are destructive molecules. They destroy the integrity of other molecules. They first attack and destroy the walls of your skin cells. So if you imagine your cells as being like a water balloon. Free radicals are like a knife that pokes holes into it. The balloon will then leak like a sieve…and your cells become dehydrated. They become deflated and dehydrated, because all the vital fluid and nutrients have leaked out.

Facial Rejuvenation Acupuncture helps restore the integrity of your skin cells by stimulating the nervous, circulatory and hormonal systems to boost collagen and elastin production.



What Are The Effects Of Facial Rejuvenation Acupuncture?
Facial Rejuvenation Acupuncture can actually take five to fifteen years off the face. Some of the most common effects of facial rejuvenation include:
· Reduction of fine lines
· Diminished deep wrinkles
· Droopy eyelids are lifted
· Jowls are firmed
· Under eye bags are reduced
· Puffiness around the eyes is reduced or eliminated
· Increase of blood and lymph circulation to the face increases skin moisture
· Increased collagen production
· Improved muscle tone
· Dermal contraction
· Tightening of pores
· Brightening of the eye area
· Improving hormonal balance to help with acne
· Reducing evidence of stress from the face
Acupuncture Facial Rejuvenation is a safe and effective alternative to the use of more invasive therapies such as BOTOX, RESTYLANE, RESURFACEING, CHEMICAL PEELS or even COSMETIC SURGERY.