Achieving Total Wellness Now

The loss of flexibility in our arteries as we age is another factor in the onset of cardiovascular disease.  Arterial flexibility is directly related to body flexibility.

A benefit of our performing regular stretching routines such as Yoga or Pilates is that the body continues to be flexible.  Until recently we haven’t given much thought to the effect of stretching on our arteries and veins; and their need to remain flexible also.  

As we age our blood vessels as well as our muscles and joints start to lose their flexibility; especially if we become less and less physically active.  This lack of flexibility in our blood vessels can increase the onset of high blood pressure and lead to cardiovascular disease.

Now there is a simple test to see how flexible you are.  Sit on the floor with your back against a wall and your legs straight out in front of you.  Now try to touch your toes with your fingertips.

If it is a real struggle or impossible then you need to get busy correcting that. 

A Japanese study found that the there is a direct relationship between your body flexibility and you arterial flexibility.  The more limber you are the more flexible your bloods vessels are too.

Even if you exercise regularly stretching is still a benefit; and, of course, if you exercise not at all, then stretching is more important to your health.

If you tend toward high blood pressure you might want to take 1,000 mg of L-Lysine, an amino acid, each day.  It has been shown to make blood vessels more elastic.  You can find it in capsule form at any health food store or drug store.

Sincerely;

Joanne & Paul

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A study started in the late 1990’s by the Diabetes Prevention Program of 3,200 people who were at risk for diabetes dramatically demonstrated the positive effect of exercise on delaying the onset of diabetes.

If you are overweight or obese and have a fasting blood sugar level of 95 mg/dL you are at risk of acquiring Type 2 diabetes, which is a fasting blood sugar level of 126 mg/dL or higher.

The people were divided into three groups.

1. The people in the intensive lifestyle group were encouraged to lose at least 7% of their body weight and to exercise for at least 2 ½ hours per week.
2. The drug group was given an oral diabetes drug twice a day.
3. The placebo group was given lookalike but inactive pills.

The study was stopped in 2001, a year earlier than planned because the results were so clear.  The risk of diabetes was 58% lower in the intensive lifestyle group than in the placebo.  The oral diabetes drug cut the risk by 31% versus the placebo group.

A follow-up study over the next six years showed that the people from the original intensive lifestyle group maintained their lower risk of diabetes from the original drug and placebo group.

How much proof do you want?  Lose that excess weight and get moving. 

Here are some recomended products: The 30-day supply of the Cleansing and Fat Burning System.

{Note: This article was taken from the “Nutrition Action Health Letter” published by the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest.}

Sincerely!

Joanne & Paul

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Everyone has cancer cells in his body; but a strong immune system will prevent the cancer cells from growing and forming into tumors.  At present, cancer cells are undetectable until they have multiplied to a few billion cells. 

A diagnosis of cancer means that a person has multiple nutritional deficiencies which can be caused by diet, lifestyle, environment and/or genetics.   

Cancer has been treated for decades in the same way.  It is usually a combination of radiation therapy and chemotherapy; but can also involve surgery.  All three treatments are unpleasant to say the least and often just temporarily successful.   They also destroy lots of good cells along with the cancer cells and leave a residue that builds up toxins in the already compromised body so that the immune system is further weakened.

The alternative treatment being advised today is to:

• Get rid of the nutritional deficiencies by changing the diet and adding supplements.
• Starve the cancer cells of the foods that they need to grow on.  Such things as sugar, milk, table salt, caffeinated drinks and foods, distilled water and alcohol.
• Substitute small amounts of honey or molasses for sugar, sea salt for table salt, eliminate the milk completely for its mucous causing properties; and substitute green tea and alkaline water for beverages.
• Substitute fish and poultry for red meats.  Like so many other things, the red meats have lots of bad things including parasites, antibiotics and hormones; and cause the body to be acidic.
• Eat lots of vegetables, especially raw vegetables, and fresh fruits along with nuts, seeds and whole grains.
• Do exercise that causes you to do deep breathing.  Deep breathing will bring oxygen quickly to the cellular level.  Cancer cells cannot live in an oxygenated state.
• Alkalinize your water.  Most of the water we drink today is acidic for a number of reasons and not helping us maintain our body’s alkalinity. 

In our Blog 41 we speak of the importance of ridding the body of toxins and maintaining it in an alkaline state.  When we are able to do both of these things our bodies will begin to once again perform as the highly tuned, magnificent systems they were designed to be.

Here we are again providing you with the links that you need to find out more about good nutrition, cellular cleansing and alkaline water.

Sincerely,

Joanne & Paul

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Cancer is a complex and hard to understand group of diseases that continues to elude simple solutions and treatments.  However, there is growing evidence that there are common factors to all diseases, including cancer, that at least point to possible preventive treatments.

Common to our present day understanding of diseases such as cancer are the roles that diet, exercise, toxins in our environment and the acidity/alkalinity of our body play in either promoting these diseases or preventing them.

In many of our blogs that are posted here on this site and available to you we have discussed the roles of these factors.  Recently, we talked about the mounting body of evidence regarding toxins in our environment and their effect on the huge rise in the incidence of breast cancer.  That diet and exercise have an enormous effect on our health and well-being is at this point in time beyond dispute.  Here is some information on alkalinity.

The body’s natural state of well-being is to be slightly alkaline…a PH of about 7.365; and the body works hard to maintain that state.  However, many of the things we eat like meats, high sugar foods, dairy, coffee and alcohol along with toxins in our environment can overwhelm the body’s ability to neutralize the resulting acid ash left by these substances. 

An even larger problem is that much of the water we drink is acidic because of processing and the environment; and our body needs lots of water on a daily basis.

The bottom line is that an acid state leads to inflammation and promotion of disease.  What should we do?  Here is what we suggest.

Use a cellular cleanser on a daily basis to rid yourself of toxins; and turn acidic water into alkaline water with an alkalized concentrate that you just add to the water. 

Sincerely,

Joanne & Paul

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Warts are unsightly, bothersome and difficult to get rid of permanently.  Over the counter remedies will freeze them or dissolve them but oftentimes they will return shortly after the treatment.   Even surgical removal is no guarantee that they will not return.

Here is a solution that you can try and get almost immediate results that should be permanent.  It is something that is so simple and natural; but you would never think of it.

Remove the wart with garlic.  Yes, the same garlic you use to flavor food, the same garlic that is known to be heart healthy and a natural blood thinner; and the same garlic with which you make a necklace to ward off vampires.

Garlic is a known, natural anti-viral…warts are caused by a virus… and is most effective against warts.  Here is what to do.

Cut up a clove of garlic into tiny pieces. You can also use garlic that is in olive oil.    Place the garlic on the wart and cover with a bandage.  Change it twice a day.  Do this until the wart goes away (usually in a week or two).

Best Wishes!

Joanne & Paul

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We wrote in a blog last year (Cost of Long Life) about how people who live to be 100 cost health insurers only 30% of what people who live to the national average of 78 cost the insurers.  The centenarians are healthy until about 6 months before their deaths while the people who live to the average life span can and often do have years of health problems.

Now a new study in Australia has shown that people who watch an average of 3 hours of TV a day, the national average in Australia, have an 80% higher chance of cardiovascular disease and a 46% higher risk for every other disease.  It is not the TV itself or the radiation it gives off that is the problem.

It is the lack of movement.  That is correct.  It is the lack of muscle contraction during that period of time.

We need muscle activity, that is-contraction, to keep the blood flowing correctly; and the contraction also makes many other lesser known and important things happen as well.

We all watch some TV.  Getting up and moving about a little during commercials (not necessarily to the refrigerator) helps a lot; but it might not be enough.  Here is why!

Many of us also sit in front of computer monitors for hours on end a day.  Then we come home and sit in front of the TV.  To remain healthy it is important to move around and keep the blood flowing on a regular basis.

The length of your life may well depend on it. 

By the way, here in America the national average for time in front of the TV is five (5) hours!

Sincerely,

Joanne & Paul

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It used to be that there was nothing like a golden tan.   Remember Cary Grant and George Hamilton always being several shades more golden than their costars?  That was yesteryears view of life.  Now most doctors and medical practitioners want us all to look like Caspar the Ghost or the Pillsbury Dough Boy.

The increase in the incidence of skin cancer caused the medical community to highly recommend swearing off sunning and tanning completely.  The problem is that our bodies need a certain amount of sunlight to synthesize Vitamin D.  Typically about 15 to 20 minutes a day of direct sunlight will do the trick.

Sunlight gives off both UVA and UVB radiation.  It is the latter that works for the Vitamin D.  In many places right now it is winter; and that means a limited amount of sunshine with the accompanying cold that makes getting overall body exposure impossible. 

The solution- those much maligned places called tanning salons with their tanning beds that can give you an intense exposure to ultraviolet radiation in a very short period of time.

Here is the rub- You get a tan from UVA. You get Vitamin D synthesis from UVB.  Most tanning beds have a high concentration of UVA bulbs. 

If you choose to tan at one of these places here are a few tips:

• Make sure there is a mixture of UVA & UVB bulbs in the bed.
• Cut your exposure time to half that of outdoors based on your natural skin color.  15 to 20 minutes should translate to 7-1/2 minutes under the lights if you are fair skinned.
• Make sure that the bed is sterile and do this only once a week.
• Cover your eyes with proper eye protection.  Intense light on the retina will not have any sensation but you will go blind over time.
• Enjoy your new tan and well-being. 

Best Wishes!

Joanne & Paul

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I have a friend who does not eat chocolate because he has type-2 diabetes; but when we go out to dinner he loves his bread and pasta in an Italian restaurant and his fried rice in a Chinese restaurant…let’s not mention the beer he enjoys.  I cannot seem to get him to connect the dots that all these things are carbohydrates and turn to sugar in his body.

He is quite overweight and still refuses to exercise at all.   The reason I say this is because it is overwhelmingly obvious that the keys to preventing and/or treating type-2 diabetes are diet and exercise.

Few people love dark chocolate more than I do.  If I do not start on them I can usually resist them.  Once started, resistance is futile; so I stake out my times and places and keep my other carbohydrates to a minimum.  When I go out to dinner or even at home I also love bread, pasta and other carbohydrates but I eat them in strict moderation; and I do not have diabetes.

Years ago Joanne and I both realized that when we ate Italian we usually left the restaurant feeling stuffed and uncomfortable.  So we decided that what we really liked about Italian foods were the salads, the soups, the interesting breads and the sauces.  Now we tend to order only the soups, salads and shell fish appetizers off the menu; eat a little bread and rarely order the dinner entrée.  We spend as much, we enjoy it more; and we avoid the big servings of pasta.

Joanne, being of Chinese heritage, does love her rice.  When we eat Chinese, which is quite frequently, I eat all the vegetables and protein but very little rice.  She eats more rice but not a lot more.   We both do exercise regularly so that helps also.

If you want to avoid type-2 diabetes, try doing it our way.  You will feel better, probably lose some weight and not have to worry about it.  We hope you will like it.

Sincerely,

Joanne & Paul

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In 1940, 1 in 22 women was diagnosed with breast cancer.  In 2008, 1 in 8 women had the disease.   Only 5% to 10% of breast cancer cases come from heredity factors.  Most women who get breast cancer have no family history of the disease. 

Medical science wants to know what is driving this dramatic rise in the incidence of this dread disease and are now looking much harder at chemicals within the home.

It is a fact that there is more breast cancer in industrialized areas than in rural areas.  In the United States the incidence of breast cancer is highest in the heavily industrialized northeast.  It is reasoned that as chemical toxins build up in the body over decades one of the results is the huge increase in breast cancer.

Certainly, it has been established that women exposed to higher than normal levels of estrogen in the form of xenoestrogens from toxins have a higher incidence of breast cancer.  Now it is feared that many ordinary household chemicals, cosmetics, shampoos and even food packaging are playing a role in this increase.  

What might be a good defense?  We are big believers in daily cellular cleansing to fight the ravages of all forms of toxins.  We have suggested this before in previous blogs on this site.  It cannot hurt and may well help.  You will definitely feel better.  Here is the link:  Cleanse For Life!

Feel free to contact us: totalwellnessteam@gmail.com/.

Sincerely,

Joanne & Paul

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