Wellness Lifestyle Implementation Steps 4/18/10

Did You Know???: Chiropractic care sees remarkable results with ADD/ADHD? How? Chiropractic adjustments stimulate an area of the brain called the Vermis. The Vermis is the starting point of the Movement-Learning Pathway in the brain. What does this mean? Movement-Learning Pathway. It means that proper spinal joint movement (which stimulates the Vermis) is a necessary requirement for us to learn at our full potential. When our spine is aligned properly, it moves properly, providing proper stimulation to the brain, allowing it to function properly. Misalignments in the spine occur in 95% of child births, and continue to occur throughout life as they learn to crawl, walk, run, ride a bike, play sports, etc. Before the age of 6, the average child suffers 2,000 falls, 200 of which are considered serious. If your child has never been checked for spinal misalignments, now is the time to get them checked and corrected to unleash their full health and learning potential.

Book Of The Week: Health And Nutrition Secrets That Could Save Your Life by: Russell Blaylock, MD

Recipe Of The Week: Robert's Greens

1 onion, chopped
many cloves of garlic, chopped
1 carrot, chopped fine
1 1/2 long andouille sausage, sliced or chopped
1 large can chicken broth
1 cup canned tomato chunks
2 bunches kale, spines removed, coarsely chopped
olive oil
pepper
hot peppers, fresh (chopped) or dried flakes

Sauté first three ingredients in olive oil until onion is transparent.
Add andouille and cook for a few minutes. Add the broth and tomato and
bring to a boil. Add kale and peppers. Turn heat to very low and
simmer until done. Will be fairly soupy.

Quote Of The Week: "The human brain is unique in that it is the only container of which it can be said that the more you put into it, the more it will hold."
-- Glenn Doman

Goal Of The Week: Eat Fresh Fiber First at every meal. Begin each meal with fiber in the form of salad, fresh fruit, or vegetables. Fiber cleanses your intestines of toxins and gives your body the feeling of fullness faster, preventing you from over-eating.

Top Article From This Week

The FDA Shuts Down Common Infant Vaccine After Startling Discovery Become Empowered Here

Doctor's Soapbox

This vaccine with Pig Virus DNA in it was approved by the FDA in 2008. Over 1 million US children have been subjected to the vaccine, and over 30 million worldwide. Dr. Margaret Hamburg, Commissioner of the FDA is quoted as saying to CNN, ""It [Pig virus DNA] should not be in this vaccine product and we want to understand how it got there."

It's a little late, don't you think? Don't you think you should have tested the vaccine for these contaminants before approving it in 2008? That seems logical to me. But hey, that would slow down the profits for the pharmaceutical industry, GlaxoSmithKline and Merck, in this case. Why not poison people worldwide for 2 years, make our money, and determine it's safety in the process? And that's exactly what has happened. The corrupt collusion of our federal government and Big Pharma continues to destroy the American people while fattening the wallets of the elite and their payroll. No wonder this generation of children is the first predicted to not outlive their parents. It's designed to be that way by those in control!!!

And right now you may be offended that I even offer up that idea. If so, try and explain this, why did the independent team of scientists, who found the contamination, notify the vaccine manufacturer first rather than also immediately reporting their finding directly to the FDA? So they can get their cover-up story ready, perhaps?

The point of all of this is I, YOU, WE, need to become accountable for our health and the health of our innocent and vulnerable children. You cannot trust the government and definitely not the pharmaceutical companies to give you truthful, non-biased information. Do your research before subjecting your children to vaccines. The best site on the web to provide you with non-biased information that will allow you to make your OWN DECISION as to vaccinate your children or not is The National Vaccine Information Center. Please make it a priority to become empowered with the information necessary to make an intelligent decision. Your child's life depends on it.

A long, happy life requires TLC

Cheerios, Raisin Bran, and Cornflakes. The breakfast of heart disease and diabetes....not champions. PART 2

Once glycogen stores are full from the increased glucose that resulted from your breakfast bowl of Cheerios, Raisin Bran, or Cornflakes the excess blood sugar is stored as fat (yep you heard that right, FAT) in the form a triglycerides, or fatty acids (for all of you nerds like me think about the Kreb’s cycle). What form are these fatty acids are stored as? Saturated fat! (Palmitic acid specifically) Now what’s funny is we’re eating the low fat, high complex carboydrate diet marketed to us via the USDA and the lovely food companies that produce our cheap “healthy” food to avoid saturated fat because we’ve been lead to believe that eating saturated fat is one of the causes of heart disease (more how this came about later). Do you see the problem with this recommendation? This is nothing but a high sugar, high glucose diet that ends up converting the glucose into the deadly thing we have been told to avoid, saturated fat.

I grew up in Iowa and my family had a farm that raised some cattle. I learned early on that to make your cattle fat to give them that so desired fat marbling craved in steaks you don’t feed them what they’re supposed to eat (grass), but instead feed them grain and don’t let them move around very much. They get fat very quickly and we don't feed them fat. Look at our food pyramid! We're told that we should be eating a lot of grain. Is there any wonder why we currently have an obesity epidemic in the US? At least we’re becoming well marbled Americans.

Think about what else happens because of the insulin that is being produced to reduce your blood sugar after your favorite bowl of cereal every morning. When blood sugar levels are constantly spiking from a diet high in carbohydrates, the amount of insulin required to deal with that will, over time, damage the insulin receptors, blunting their ability to work. Yet the high levels of sugar still need to be lowered, and lowered quickly. So the pancreas pumps out even more insulin, which temporarily forces the insulin receptors into action but ultimately creates still more damage. Now there is so much insulin in the blood that by the time it's all absorbed by the insulin receptors, blood sugar levels will be too low. This cycle, of high blood sugar à too much insulin à low blood sugar, is called hypoglycemia, and it ends when the sufferer, biologically desperate to raise her blood sugar levels, puts another dose of sugar into her mouth with a sweaty, shaking hand. That will help, for an hour or two-until her blood sugar crashes again and the whole process starts over.

Where it really ends is in type II diabetes (which is currently affecting children and adults at pandemic levels, yet we hear more about the swine flu than we do about our children dying from preventable lifestyle diseases, this crushes me inside). The resistant insulin receptors demand too much insulin, more than the pancreas could ever make. The chronic excess sugar destroys the nerves, the arteries, the retinas, the heart. Despite every advance in medical science, a diabetic's life can be shortened by one third. Such are the wages of civilization's dietary sins. No drug or surgery is every going to fix a lifestyle problem. Lifestyle problems need lifestyle solutions (Eat Well, Move Well, Think Well).

Because insulin also controls a number of other basic life functions, high levels of insulin will cause damage throughout the body. Insulin triggers cholesterol synthesis, activating the enzymes that spur cholesterol production. About 80 percent of your cholesterol is made in your body: only 20 percent is dietary, which is one reason why low-fat diets have proven basically useless. Though every one of your cells both makes and needs cholesterol, most of it is produced in the liver. Elevated insulin means elevated cholesterol. It’s these elevated cholesterol levels that have been caused by a lifestyle problem caused by the “healthy” diet that has been marketed to us via companies like Pepsico, Frito Lay, and General Mill that have made the pharmaceutical industry trillions of dollars. My guess is 100% of the people reading this blog know someone who is on a statin drug. But our dependence on cholesterol medications hasn’t reduced the cases of heart disease in the US. In fact heart disease on the rise. Why? Too much insulin triggers the growth of smooth muscle cells that line the arteries, thickening the walls and reducing elasticity. Blood volume of the arteries shrinks, which means the heart has to pump harder, which is another way of saying "high blood pressure. Insulin also triggers the kidneys to retain fluid, which again increases blood pressure. Arteries with less elasticity are more prone to plaque and arterial spasm, which are the causes of heart disease. Insulin also encourages fibrous connective tissue to grow inside the arteries, providing a scaffold for the first layer of plaque. Lifestyle problems need lifestyle solutions (Eat Well, Move Well, Think Well).

Sources:

Keith, Lierre. The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice and Sustainability. Kindle Edition. PM Press. March 1, 2009.
Chesnut, James. The Innate Diet and Natural Hygiene. 2004. The Wellness Practice--Global Self Health Corp.