In This Issue

1: V8 juice to lower blood pressure

2: Obesity on the rise - Weight reducing tips

3: How to help protect against getting Alzheimer's

4: Laugh your way to health

5: Audio Special: Dr. Wayne Dyer

 

Dr. Whitaker Comes To Town

We had the opportunity to hear Dr. Whitaker speak a couple of weeks ago. For those of you unfamiliar with this maverick MD, he is a long time practitioner of alternative medicine who graduated from medical school in 1970 with a very conventional education and no interest in alternatives. Several years later a series of events convinced him that nutrition and natural therapies had far more potential for preventing disease and restoring health than conventional medicines blunt tools of prescription drugs and surgery.

In 1979 he launched the Whitaker Wellness Institute Medical Clinic to share his knowledge with patients who had been failed by conventional medicine.

Here are some of the notes I took from his talk :

V8 juice to lower blood pressure

Sometimes the simplest solutions are the most difficult to find. For many years it has been known that high levels of Potassium will have some affect on lowering your blood pressure. Look for low sodium V8 Juice at your grocery store and have a glass each day in order to keep Potassium levels in your body up. Taking a 500mg/day magnesium supplement can also help in this area.

I find v8 or tomato juice easy to digest with a meal. In restaurants they are usually the same price as pop! Tomato based products of any kind (including ketchup) are loaded with goodness. Cooked tomatoes,which are high in lycopene, (including ketchup, though high in sugar) are especially beneficial.

Obesity on the rise

You would have to be living under a rock to have missed all the recent reports on the increase in Obesity, both in Canada and the U.S.. In both countries it is up 50% over the last 30 yrs. This is a major cause of many diseases and emotional struggles.

Dr. Whitaker suggested the obvious that if you are overweight and you want to loose some, cut down on the calories you consume and do aerobic exercise that burns fat.

Also, drink pure water when you are hungry between meals instead of having an unhealthy snack.

A 10 minute walk after every meal will open up your cell gates to nutrients without insulin instead of storing them as fat molecules. Even this small step will put you in the top 95% of active people in North America.

Weight reducing tips include:

• 2 tbs. AppleCider, wine vinegar or lemon/lime juice before meals (mixed with a bit of water if needed), will reduce insulin response to food source. This will increase helpful acidity to aid in digestion. Sourdough bread may have a similar effect.

• If you plan on being inactive after a meal, try to stay away from white bread, pasta and starchy vegetables. These foods are heavy and like to be stored as fat if you don't burn them off through activity after eating.
  

• Fill up on extra low or no starch vegetables and proteins that digest well together.
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• Eat your starches alone or with vegetables. Snack on nuts or eat a canned fish i.e..salmon,mackerel,sardines between meals to balance diet with protein.

• You are an example for your children. Don't be a regular junk food freak. Limit your junk food intake to parties if you must have some.
  

How to help protect against getting Alzheimer's

Eat your yellow curry as turmeric may save you from Alzheimer's. In fact we have heard this from several sources over the last month.

India's elderly residents have the lowest rates of Alzheimer's disease in the world. Their secret just might be Curcumin, which comes from Turmeric (the spice that gives curry its deep yellow colour). It is added to nearly every Indian dish partly because it contains potent antioxidants that inhibit food spoilage.

Curcumin is Anti-Tumoral (inhibits the formation of tumors), Anti-microbial (hinders the activity of microbes and bacteria), Anti-Hepatotoxic (protects the liver and aids in detoxification), Anti-Hyperlipidemic (reduces cholesterol buildup), and Anti-Coagulant (prevents blood platelets from clumping together).

Each Anti effect has its own unique health benefits,including improved circulation.

If you need improved blood flow try eating more Indian food and add curry and turmeric to your home-cooked meals. Take supplemental curcumin (often called turmeric extract)1,400- 1,800 mg/day. Look for a product containing bromelain or piperine for improved absorption.

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Laugh your way to health

Laughing is one of the least expensive and best methods of increasing the quality and quantity of your life! Plus it is fun.We will be featuring options in every issue including the odd bit of humour. The key is to allow yourself to really "Laugh Out Loud" when you see or hear something funny. It sets up a chain reaction to your cells and they immediately start vibrating on a higher frequency that triggers your glands to automatically release endorphins and you feel good.

Here then is a funny definition of Success : )

 

SUCCESS:

At age 4 success is . . . not peeing in your pants.

At age 12 success is . . . ....having friends.

At age 16 success is . . . .......having a drivers license.

At age 20 success is . . ...........having sex.

At age 35 success is . . ...............having money.

At age 50 success is . . . .............having money.

At age 60 success is . . . ..........having sex.

At age 70 success is . . . .......having a drivers license.

At age 75 success is . . ......having friends.

At age 80 success is . . not peeing in your pants.

 

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