Eating For Good Health

Health Benefits of Eating Breakfast - Reasons for Eating Breakfast

admin — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:04:01 +0000

The health benefits of eating breakfast extend throughout your day, making it the most important meal of the day. Consuming a good, hearty breakfast is like priming a pump, to help your body get ready for a full day’s worth of activity. Not only does the first meal of the day heat up your metabolism to better burn calories, studies show that the effects of this “jump start” help keep the metabolism working at a higher rate throughout the day. Blood sugar levels rise up and remain higher longer, instead of having a quick drop off that might be generated by eating just high sugar content breakfast snack foods. Skipping this important meal does you no good at all. You will be hungry sooner, eat more later, and not have the good energy to function efficiently.

Additional health benefits of eating breakfast include an increased ability to use your brain, an excellent idea for those younger ones who need to pay attention at school. Some dieters have found that they have better success by flipping their food intake, having dinner for breakfast and typical breakfast foods for dinner. The higher caloric intake at the breakfast meal allows the body to function better all day, and the impact of a good breakfast helps the body become less hungry at later meals. The body can burn off the higher calorie levels all day long, instead of having food sit idle at night, turning into fat with inactivity. Calories burn faster in the morning, following the breakfast meal, and the body metabolism slows down near nighttime.

Being able to eat more food is another of the health benefits of eating breakfast. You can actually eat more with a good balanced breakfast followed by a moderate lunch and lighter dinner. People who skip breakfast eat more snacks during the day, and have heavier meals later. It is easier to incorporate protein, fiber and fruit into typical breakfasts. Breakfast eaters exercise more because they have the energy to do so, making personal fitness a by-product of eating healthy breakfast meals.

Tangible health benefits of eating breakfast include a boost in concentration, energy and productivity levels. Eating high fiber breakfast foods like cereal, fruit, grains, nuts, and yogurt are lower calorie than snack foods like doughnuts or sweet rolls. They give you needed bulk in your diet, last longer, help you feel full and less hungry longer. High protein breakfast foods like eggs, milk, and meats are good breakfast foods, but watch out for the fats like butter and cream cheese. Always take fats in moderation.

Eating breakfast will improve your overall nutrition, and help reduce the risk of heart disease and regulate cholesterol. Breakfast is important to body metabolism by breaking the fast of sleep time; long term fasting does not allow you to produce the enzymes needed to metabolize fat to lose weight. Extensive studies on this topic have been done by researchers at the Cleveland (OH) Mayo Clinic and Harvard University/Massachusetts General Hospital.

Instill Good Eating Habits In Children For Good Health

admin — Mon, 05 May 2008 08:41:46 +0000

As we are besieged daily by more news of overweight and obese children in the United States, we are reminded that our children aren’t eating healthfully. And it’s our fault. Our children follow our lead, trust our judgment and take our advice.
It’s our responsibility to make sure children are eating a healthful, varied diet. But that’s truly a tall order since children are often not open to new foods and will willingly and loudly reject a variety of healthy foods.
So what do you do? There are several steps to getting your children to eat better, be healthier and, hopefully, keep their weight in check.
First, set a good example.
If your children see you skipping breakfast, woofing down a burger for lunch and eating a beige, carb-laden dinner, they are learning very little about good nutrition from you.
Remember that your children are watching what you do and, as with so much else, they are taking your lead. If your diet needs re-working, use your children as inspiration for that change.
Second, go slowly.
If your children are accustomed to fruity pops for breakfast and chicken nuggets and fries for dinner, definitely go slowly in making changes to their diet. If you suddenly give them a smoothie with a protein chaser for breakfast and a spinach salad for dinner, you will meet with resistance, substantial resistance.
Start with slowly adding more fruits and vegetables to their diet. You can offer a fruit smoothie with breakfast (maybe make it with frozen yogurt to begin with to literally “sweeten the pot”, then taper that off as your children get used to it). Switch from white bread to whole wheat. Make this a non-negotiable item. If they are used to cold cereal in the morning, allow that, but add the smoothie. Then adjust the kind of cereal they eat, and so on.
For lunch and dinner, it’s much the same. Make changes slowly, and get your children accustomed to one thing before making another (hopefully subtle) change. Remember, some experts say it takes 10-12 exposures to a new food before children will accept it. They might never accept brussel sprouts, but if you have offered them a dozen times in various forms, you might be surprised one day when they say, “yum”.
Third, make it fun.
Since many adults consider healthy eating to be torture, imagine how hard a change this can be for a child, particularly if they’ve literally been raised on carbs, sugar, and fat. If you’ve set a good example, and been patient by moving slowly in changing your child’s diet, you might be surprised to see some resistance fading away. Now you can add in some fun.
* Head to a salad bar restaurant. Although there are abundant bad choices at these restaurants, there are enough good ones to bring even the most resistant child to the baked potato bar, or the spaghetti bar, or even – gasp! – the green salad bar. Dessert is often frozen yogurt.
* Or make your own Lunchables for your child, but fill the individual spots with grapes, cheese cubes, carrot sticks and turkey breast.
* Take your kids to the park for a picnic dinner, but instead of hauling along some fried chicken, make oven-baked at home, and add a homemade potato salad and fruit salad. *Get your kids into the kitchen with you. Although they might still sniff at the thought of eating asparagus, having a hand in preparing it might encourage them to at least try it – that’s the child ego coming out and you can exploit it for all its worth in this situation.
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The “Healthy Eating Pyramid” Pathway Toward Good Health And Long Life

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Do you ever wonder what happened to the Food Guide Pyramid?
The Food Guide Pyramid was created more than ten years ago by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The Pyramid illustrated what the USDA said were the elements of a healthy diet. The Pyramid was taught in schools, appeared in the media and brochures, on cereal boxes and food labels. It seemed like the absolute final word on what we should really eat.
The Food Guide Pyramid is now like a fairytale. It did not point the way toward healthy eating. We are told now the Food Guide Pyramid was based on shaky scientific evidence. It still has not changed over the years to reflect major advances in our understanding of the connection between diet and good health.
Recently, the USDA retired the old Food Guide Pyramid and replaced it with MyPyramid, a new symbol and “interactive food guidance system. This revision is basically the old Pyramid turned on its side.
Good news about the new MyPyramid:
• It tears apart and buries the flawed Pyramid.
Bad news about the MyPyramid:
• The new MyPyramid does not give us enough information to help us make informed choices about our diet and long-term health.
• It continues to recommend foods that are not essential to good health.
• The food quantities recommended may even be detrimental to our overall health.
So…..what do we eat to become and stay healthy?
According to a new dietary guideline released early in January of 2005:
• We are to continue to concentrate on controlling weight;
• Fats were once considered bad. The new guidelines emphasize low intake of Trans fats and to limit our saturated fats. There is not an artificially low cap on fat intake. The latest advice recommends getting between 20% and 35% of daily calories from fats. The new guidelines also recognize the potential health benefits of monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats;
• Complex carbohydrates was a term used in the past that has little biological meaning;
• The new guidelines advise Americans to limit sugar intake and stress the benefits of whole grains;
• The guidelines suggest eating half of our grains as refined starch, although refined starches behave like sugar, add empty calories, have adverse metabolic effects, and increase the risks of diabetes and heart disease.
• The guidelines lump together red meat, poultry, fish, beans and soy products and tell us to judge these protein sources by their total fat content. This means to make choices that are lean, low-fat, or fat-free. This advice ignores the evidence that these foods have different types of fats. It also leaves out evidence that replacing red meat with a combination of fish, poultry, beans, and nuts offers numerous health benefits.
So…..if we follow this new dietary guideline we still may not be eating “right,” according to the Harvard School of Public Health. The Harvard School of Public Health nutrition experts created the “Healthy Eating Pyramid.” It is based on the best available scientific evidence about the links between diet and health.
The Healthy Eating Pyramid is based upon daily exercise and weight control. Evidence proves daily exercise and weight control influences your chances of staying healthy. They also stress what and how you eat and how your food affects you.
Some highlights of the Healthy Eating Pyramid are outlined below:
• Whole grain foods (at most meals).
• Plant oils: Good sources of unsaturated fats include olive, canola, soy, corn, sunflower, peanut, and other vegetable oils and fatty fish such as salmon.
• Vegetables (in abundance) and Fruits (2 to 3 times per day).
• Fish, poultry, and eggs (0 to 2 times per day). Eggs which have been a long time noted as being “bad for you” because they contain fairly high levels of cholesterol, aren’t as bad as once thought to be. An egg for breakfast is much healthier than a bagel made from refined flour.
• Nuts and Legumes (1 to 3 times) are excellent sources of protein and contain healthy fats.
• Dairy or Calcium Supplement (1 to 2 times) Dairy products have been American’s main source of calcium. Cheese has also been another popular choice for calcium needs. Try to stick with no-fat or low-fat products. If you don’t like dairy products, calcium supplements are the way to go.
• Red meat and butter (use sparingly): If you eat red meat every day, switch to fish or chicken several times a week to improve cholesterol levels. Switching from butter to olive oil will also improve cholesterol levels.
• White rice, white bread, potatoes, white pasta, soda, and sweets (use sparingly): This group of foods can cause fast and furious increases in blood sugar that can lead to weight gain, diabetes, heart disease, and other chronic disorders.
• Multiple vitamins: Taking a daily multivitamin, multimineral supplement offers a nutritional backup. They do not replace healthy eating or make up for unhealthy eating. A standard, store-brand, RDA-level is fine. Look for one that meets the requirements of the U.S. Pharmacopeia, an organization that sets standards for drugs and supplements.
• Alcohol (in moderation): Many studies suggest that having an alcoholic drink a day lowers the risk of heart disease. For men: 1 to 2 drinks a day. For women: One drink a day.
The Healthy Eating Pyramid certainly summarizes the information I personally have been reading recently as the best dietary information available to us. It is not something set into stone because nutrition researchers will continue to turn up new information in the years ahead. The Healthy Eating Pyramid will change to reflect the new evidence.
The Healthy Eating Pyramid is not the only up-to-date guide for eating healthy. It does take advantage of more extensive research and offers a broader guide that is not based on a specific culture, such as the Asian, Latin, Mediterranean and vegetarian pyramids.
To sum it all up the number one tip for eating for improving your health would be eat foods that have a lot of vitamins and minerals as well as foods that are not high in fat. Exercise moderately.
More Healthy Tips:
• Find the strong points and weak points in your current diet and improve in those areas where you are weak.
• Make small, slow changes.
• Keep track of your food intake by writing down what you eat and drink every day. Use this record to help you see where you need to improve.
• If you have medical problems talk it over with your doctor or a nutritionist before making any significant changes.
• Good nutrition does not come in a pill. Get your doctor’s recommendations on vitamins and mineral supplements. Your body will benefit the most from eating healthy foods.
• Eat a variety of foods, and learn to try new foods.
• Prepare your meat either by baking, grilling or broiling rather than frying. Take the skin off chicken before eating. Eat fish at least once a week.
• Cut back on extra fat like butter, margarine, sour cream and salad dressings.
• Eat plenty of fruits and vegetables with your meals and snacks.
• Drink no- or low-calorie beverages like water, unsweetened tea and diet soda.
• Exercise moderately daily.
Balanced nutrition and regular exercise are good for your health if your weight never changes. Don’t be discouraged because you don’t loose weight after months of regular exercise. The regular exercise offers you a multitude of benefits toward keeping you healthy.
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Eating For Health And Efficiency

admin — Mon, 05 May 2008 08:40:54 +0000

Errors in diet are very largely responsible for the majority of the chronic ailments which afflict the civilized portions of the human race. This is particularly true of maladies which affect the alimentary canal. It naturally follows that the adoption of a biologic diet is of first importance in any serious attempt to cure patients suffering from disorders of nutrition.
The following simple rules if faithfully followed should enable a patient who has changed his flora and gotten a new start in life by the aid of the fruit regimen and the milk regimen, to maintain and greatly add to the improvement which he has secured by the aid of these specific regimens.
1. Eat only natural foods; that is, those which are naturally adapted to the human constitution. The natural dietary includes fruits, nuts, cooked grains, legumes, and vegetables. Natural foods impart to the body the greatest amount of energy, and maintain normal conditions of life. No animals but scavengers and men eat everything.
2. Avoid meats of all sorts (flesh, fowl, fish, including "sea food"). These are unnatural foods. They are all likely to contain parasites of various kinds, and countless numbers of noxious germs. "Meat bacteria" or "wild germs," which infect the intestines, cause putrefaction and other poison-forming processes, and inoculate the body with colitis and many other diseases. These germs are not destroyed by ordinary cooking, such as stewing, broiling, frying, and roasting.
3. Take care to avoid an excess of protein; that is, the albuminous element which is represented by lean meat, the white of eggs, and the curd of milk. An excess of protein promotes putrefaction, and thus intestinal autointoxication, the chief cause of "biliousness," colitis, appendicitis, gall-stones, arteriosclerosis, possibly cancer, Bright’s disease, and premature old age. Ordinary bread contains a sufficient amount of protein, as do also other cereals. Most nuts, also ripe peas and beans, contain an excess of protein.
4. Eggs should be eaten in great moderation, if at all. They encourage autointoxication, and thus often cause "biliousness." The yolk of the egg is more wholesome than the white. Eggs and even milk as well as meat may be discarded if nuts are eaten.
5. Such animal fats as lard, suet, and ordinary butter, should be avoided. They are difficult of digestion, and promote intestinal auto-intoxication, and thus cause "biliousness." Vegetable fats are more easily digestible, and do not encourage intestinal autointoxication. Butter must be perfectly sweet, and should be made from certified or sterilized cream.
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Eating Healthy for Weight Loss

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Weight Loss is no magic which can occur over night. You have to practically struggle your way down the weight ladder. Eating healthy is the key to gradual weight loss. We eat food every day but do you think what we are eating? We are mostly eating junk food and not eating healthy food. We are eating for filling our stomach and fulfilling our taste buds but not for our health. Now that you are overweight and are planning to have some weight loss, it is the ripe time to start eating in an healthy manner.
First of all, lets clear the misconception that by just replacing ‘bad foods’ in their diet by the ‘healthy foods’ their energy levels will increase, the health will improve and there will be weight loss, but in reality in the long run you always run the risk of ruining your health due ot other problems which will come with such a diet arising out of some sort of deficiency in your eating habits.
By eating healthy, we do not mean eating those so called ‘healthy foods’ but eating such food which will provide you with optimum energy and health which will go a long way in your weight loss program. The food you must eat should have a proper balance of all the good nutrients which the body needs all the while eliminating the unwanted fats from the diet. Now what would constitute nutritious depends upon an individual body, energy needs, race, gender, age, health, and overall genetic make-up of the person.
Eating Healthy plan includes providing the body with a balanced diet comprising of all the four groups of food namely fruits, dairy, vegetables and meat. The body will receive all the necessary nutrients which are required to remain healthy and cutting flab from your body gradually.

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Healthy Eating - A Way Of Living

admin — Mon, 05 May 2008 08:39:35 +0000

There are a lot of things we can change in our life by changing our diet! What you eat has widespread effect on your health. There is more than common sense that goes into deciding what goes inside your mouth is healthy or not! With healthy eating you can improve quality of your life – you not only feel better you look better also!
Just have a look at what are the benefits of health eating:
Help you in maintaining healthy weight:
Healthy eating can help people in maintaining healthy weight. The term "healthy weight" not only is significant for those who are over weight but also for people who are too thin. With healthy eating you can control your body weight without being over weight or under weight.
Keeps providing you surplus energy:
With healthy eating you feel better by providing you great energy. You are able to have more energy to carry out and enjoy things which involve physical activity. You can see for yourself how you transform from a sluggish self to the active one who has no problem in carrying out daily activities. Realize your full potential with eating healthy!
Prevent health complications:
Healthy eating is your prevention against health problems like cholesterol, high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis and even some form of cancer.
Maintain emotional health:
A busy and stressful life calls for healthy eating. With healthy eating you not only become less prone to diseases but also fell better by being fit. By eating right you are more productive and happy being able to meet your day to day requirements.
Healthy eating is not starving yourself. It is just picking the right stuff keeping in mind what your body really needs and it can be really enjoyable too. So next time you go grocery shopping make sure some amount of all food groups is in your basket. Making healthy changes is not that hard. By some simple steps you can make healthy eating as a way of living.

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Live Longer, Feel Better - Eat Healthy

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This article is going to talk about seeds that are beneficial to our health and well being, once again seeds should be eaten raw and unsalted, and of course there are always exceptions to this rule, such as some seeds can be made into oils and other forms, which are just as healthy for us. This list is not conclusive, I am just covering some of the most popular and beneficial seeds so that it gives you an idea how good seeds are for you and you will use them in your daily diet and your menu preparation and on to healthy living.
Pumpkin Seeds: They are also called Pepitas and are very nutritious. They can promote increased energy, and who can’t use that; they support the function of the immune system; assists in prostate health; they have protein, minerals, calcium, omega 3 fatty acids, zinc and have the heart healthy fat that reduces bad cholesterol. You can eat them as a healthy snack on the run or in a trail mix blended with the other seeds listed below and/or the nuts in part 1, however, they are high in calories, so they should be eaten in moderation; you can roast them at home and put them in salads, soups and cereal.
Flax Seeds: This is one powerhouse of a whole grain food, it is considered one of the super foods, its health benefits are many: helps prevent colon cancer; regulates cholesterol; regulates blood glucose readings; helps prevent the onset of cancers; prevents constipation; can aid in weight loss; it is contains Omega 3 which supports metabolic, cardiovascular functions. You can sprinkle the seeds on salads or in your cooking, how I like it is ground (just grind in your coffee grinder) and put in my morning smoothie. Flax seed is also consumed in the form of oil and that will be discussed in another part of this series Sesame Seeds: Wow, these little tiny, wonderful seed is a real powerhouse seed. These seeds are 25% protein; you do not want to toast them as when you do they loose some of their nutrients. The fat content is another marvelous observation, with 38% monounsaturated and 44% polyunsaturated which equals 82% unsaturated fatty acids; also because sesame seeds are a plant food, there is no need to worry about cholesterol. They are also high in calcium, vitamin B, riboflavin, thiamin, niacin, and folic acid. Even though you can eat these whole on salads and cooking; it is best to get the full nutrient value by consuming in the form of sesame oil, tahini or sesame butter, as the whole seeds do not break down readily and release all their nutrients. Tahini is sesame seeds ground into a paste and used in stir fry and/or any other kind of cooking, you find this in a lot of Asian cooking and it is available in most health food stores, get use to using this super food in your everyday cooking and reap the healthy benefits of this tiny food wonder and it also tastes really yummy.
Sunflower Seeds: Once again these powerful seeds can be added to salads, popcorn, homemade baking, eaten whole and added to a trail mix. Seeds should be eaten raw and unsalted; and it is important to never eat rancid or overheated sunflower seeds as they can increase the risk of free radical formation. Sunflower seeds are very high in vitamin E, which is linked to reduce heart disease.
Fenugreek Seeds: This seed seems to be a powerhouse on helping to reduce the stress of diabetes by stimulating the pancreas to release insulin; insulin causes the blood sugar to drop, which may help ease diabetic symptoms. It has also been know to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and aids in digestion. So here are some really healthy alternatives to eating healthy and living healthy; make a practice to add one or more of these wonderful powerful seeds in your daily living and give yourself a boost of energy and a mental feeling of doing a good deed for your mind, body and soul. Thought for the day: "The greatest blessing you can make on food is to enjoy it" -Alan Cohen
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Founder Of Living Foods Institute Shares Her Healing From Cancer

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This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni’s Raw Food Summit which can be found at http://rawsummitarchives.com. In this excerpt, Brenda Cobb shares on her amazing healing from breast and cervical cancer.
Raw Food Summit Excerpt with Brenda Cobb, the founder of The Living Foods Institute.
Kevin: Today I have an incredible guest on the line. She is an author and founder of the Living Foods Institute. She also has had an incredible healing journey from breast and cervical cancer, which we’re going to talk about today. So, Brenda Cobb, I want to welcome you to the Raw Summit.
Brenda:: Thank you so much, Kevin, I’m real excited to be here.
Kevin: Brenda, you have an incredible story, and I want to get into it, and I want to kind of give a landscape of where you were before you were diagnosed, and then move into what you did.
Brenda:: Well, where I was, was in a very high stress job, I owned my own business, I was in film in television, I had a recording studio, and a production company. And, I was very busy in helping people in promoting their careers, and in producing shows for big events, and that was very stressful.
During that time, yeah, I didn’t really eat well, and I ate all kinds of various types of foods that weren’t really great for me. And, if I had a headache, I took a Tylenol. And, if my stomach was upset, I took some kind of another type of a pill. And, then in 1999, I was diagnosed with both cervical and breast cancer. And so, that woke me up big time. The doctor told me that I needed to have surgery, chemo, and radiation.
I knew that I did not want to. I really felt that I needed to look for a natural way to heal myself. And so, I got on the Organic Raw and Living Foods Lifestyle, and it changed my life. I’ve started using wheat grass juice, and energy soup, and other really healing foods, and the cancer went away, but other problems I had had, arthritis, acid reflux, indigestion, heartburn.
I had taken Pepcid AC, Tums, Rolaids, all of those types of products to try to help myself, and that didn’t really work, it just made me worse, not really better.
But, you know what? When I got on this program to heal cancer, all those other symptoms went away. So, I never had any more migraine headaches. Arthritis went away, I lost weight, my energy increased, my skin improved, I felt better, I wasn’t as depressed, I felt happier, and everything really changed dramatically. That’s when I realized that my mission in life was going to be to help other people, and teach it, and tell other people about it because I felt like if it helped me, it could help other people.
And, it’s still thrilling. I mean today to just watch how much health can be improved on this program. And, I don’t care how sick people are Kevin. I have gotten people in my center that everyone else has given up on completely, and they’ve told them that they have a terminal, hopeless situation, and yet when these people are willing to change what they’re doing and their mental thinking, and some of their lifestyle habits, we see that the body is miraculous, and it can bounce back from most anything.
Kevin: How did you get turned on after you got out of the doctor’s office, how did you get turned onto the natural way of helping yourself?
Brenda:: Well, I went to the health food store as soon as I left the doctor and I asked them if they knew of any books I could read, or anyone who had ever healed in a natural way. And, they pointed me to a little book that a woman had written that said How I Conquered Cancer Naturally, and her name was Eydie Mae. And I bought the only copy of that book that they had on the shelf. And, it was all about how she had used Dr. Ann Wigmore’s method for raw and living foods with wheat grass, and energy soup, and Rejuvelac, and veggie crowding, and colon cleansing. And, how she had a very serious challenge with cancer and that, she didn’t think that there was any other place for her to turn. It kept getting worse and worse, and coming back after treatment. And, when she heard about this program and got on it - it healed her.
When I read that book I had cold chills all over my body. I thought you know something, if it can work for her, it can work for me. Why not? What do I have to lose? At least I need to try this. So, I really had faith and belief in it. You know how it is sometimes that you read something or you hear something and immediately it resonates with you. It’s like you already know this at some level. It’s in there and it was just kind of waiting to be remembered and that’s how I felt about it. I started reading enough, Wow,this just makes sense if I clean my body out, if I start giving it optimum nutrition, if I don’t cook my food, because of course I never knew that when you cook you killed it. I learned that by cooking it I was killing the enzymes and compromising the vitamins and the minerals. And, that if I would start putting in really good organic nutrition that my body would do what it was created to do. It would heal itself.
So, I use Eydie Mae’s example, and then I started reading other books that Ann Wigmore had written. And, I started reading testimonies from people who had done her program before and everybody seems so positive. And, there were so many stories that really seem miraculous. I mean of people recovering from all kinds of diseases that I became more and more encouraged. And then the more I did it, the more I was able to see for myself that it really did work.
Kevin: And so you believe after you read that book. You believed right away?
Brenda:: I did. I’ve really had total faith and belief. In fact, it was a good thing because well- meaning friends and family who loved me a lot really thought I was crazy, and they felt that I should what the doctor said. And that I should do the surgery and the chemo, and the radiation. Of course, I asked some of those well-meaning people, "Well, why would I?" Because, it didn’t work for, one of my aunts or maybe one of your sisters. You know, because of my aunts would be talking to me about it or other loved ones. I say, "You know it didn’t work for them. I don’t see why it should work for me. I’m going to try something different." Now, those same people who then thought I was crazy, they think I’m a genius now. I did it, you know when they thought I’d lost my mind but now they have seen that it really does work.
And, I’m glad I had that total faith and belief because it’s tough when a lot of people around you are thinking you’re ought to do one thing and you’re knowing that you should be doing something else. You have to a hell lot of courage, you know to do that. And, I just kept saying, "You know I know God is leading me in this way and I’m going to do what I know I need do and I’m not going to worry about what other people think because it’s my life and I’m going to be responsible, and be self sufficient." And, you know what if it doesn’t work I take full responsibility but what is it does? And, I believe it will, and I believed to this day that mental attitude and, faith and belief in a program - what ever that program maybe. I think that’s 99% of it.
Kevin: Um hum.
Brenda:: If you do something and you don’t believe it’s going to work - if already you’re sabotaging yourself I’m saying, "I don’t why I’m doing this. I’m sure it’s not going to help me." Then the truth is it’s not going to help you. I believe that you do get what you expect, and what you really visualize, and feel and think it’s going to happen for you. I think that you get more of those positive results and thinking that way.
Kevin: When did you know that this was working?
Brenda:: Immediately really although my first my first few days on it, I tell you I was really detoxing pretty strong.
Kevin: Sure.
Brenda:: And, because I have been a coffee drinker. So, I had a lot of caffeine and that started coming out and I had a headache that I thought every time my heart beat, I thought my head was going to burst wide open.
And, that lasted for about a 24 hours but it gradually begin to get better, and after a couple of days I would just have a little intermediate headache here and there. And, by about the third or fourth day I never had a headache again, and then I was nauseated because again toxins were coming out, and I thought that probably was the worst and maybe the first and the second day. And by the third day I began to feel like I was coming a little bit back to life. By about the fifth or the sixth day, I was really beginning to get encouraged because I was feeling better. Weight was beginning to melt tough because I weighed almost 200 pounds when I was diagnosed.
Kevin: Wow.
Brenda:: And so the weight was melting away and then I began having more clarity. I was having a lot of heavy bleeding from the cervical tumors and that began to subside and actually in 30 days of being on the program that completely stopped.
Kevin: Wow.
Brenda:: So that was an immediate, I’m like "Wow!" something is working.
Kevin: 30 Days?
Brenda:: Yes, in 30 days. Now in my… as far as my breast tumor I could feel it going down and decreasing. After my first 30 days it felt like to me just from touching that it was about half the size. And of course I continue to decrease until it got to the point within about the third or fourth month I was not able to detect it there at all. You know, it was in about seven or eight days I never had acid reflux or heart burn or indigestion again.
And now that actually was more empowering to me than in anything else because I had it so bad that I could not lie down flat to sleep. I had to prop up with pillows and that was miserable. I mean, I never slept well at night because I had that burning sensation.
When that went away I felt like, "Wow!" this health program was worth it If nothing else got better because that one thing gave me better quality of life. The more that I ate this good nutritious food and the less junk I ate, you know I stopped eating meat and dairy and sugar and all that stuff. That impacted my sleep and just my well being so I felt better and had more energy and when you have more energy everything is better.
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