Understanding the Benefits of Rolfing

Tension can easily build up in the body, and that is why it feels so good when someone gives your neck or shoulders a rub. This is basically what Rolfing is, but it involves massaging the tissues in a certain way to get the desired results. Sometimes it is confused with a deep tissue massage but they are different forms of making your body feel its very best.

You may have come across the term Rolfing lately as it is certainly becoming quite popular. However, it has been around for about 60 years. Due to the many benefits of it though as well as more people looking for a way to look and feel their best though it is becoming something you see going on more often.

This particular format involves massaging the face in order to help the muscles to relax. Those muscles may be subjected to strain and even injury without you realizing it. However, with the techniques of Rolfing you can reduce the effects of it by giving those muscles the attention they need.

It is believed that Rolfing allows the gravity of the body to become balanced. It allows the physical part of the body to be aligned with the emotions of it. This is very important as how you feel physically can affect your mood and your emotions. Likewise, how you feel emotionally can result in your body feeling great or experiencing various aches and pains.

This explains why so many people feel rejuvenated after they engage in it. While you can get some of the sensation by doing the procedures yourself, most people agree that it feels much better when someone else is doing the massaging for them. Not everyone feels the results right away though. It is best to give it several sessions before you decide if it is a good method to help you relax or not.

Too much tension in your body can be toxic. It can drain your energy and even make it hard to sleep. Rolfing can help ensure you don't have extra tension in your body. As a result you can sleep better and you can wake up revived. You don't have to depend on various types of drugs to feel your best.

Rolfing is a natural way to help your body relax. You will see more of it taking place as the benefits of it continue to get attention. For the best results you want to get the procedures done by someone who is certified in the various techniques. They can assess your personal needs so you get the most benefit from it.

Rolfing is a natural technique that can be used to help your body relax. It is something you can try to see how it works for you. There are plenty of professionals out there offering such services. You can also learn how to do it on your own. It is a great way to treat your partner to something special as well.

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Becoming a Healthier You

You only have one body and it has to last you your entire life. I have seen people in their 50's who have no energy and can just barely get through the grocery store. I have also seen people in their 70's that are full of life and energy. They travel all over and enjoy every day of their life. It all depends on how healthy you are though and what steps you take now to protect it for the future.

Most of us don't eat like we should. We either skip meals or we eat fast food due to a lack of time to really make a decent meal. We have very busy lifestyles and so things like planning menus just don't happen like they should. We also live in a society where people love to eat out for social interaction. Making healthy choices though will give you a healthier body.

Too many people reading this will translate that to mean they have to go on a diet. Eating a healthy diet is something you should incorporate as a lifestyle change, not something you do for a short period of time. Make sure you have plenty of great foods you enjoy to choose from so you won't get bored.

Don't be afraid to try new recipes. You want a balanced diet that includes lean meats, fresh fruits, fresh vegetables, and a small amount of grains. You can have some snack foods that you love but do so in moderation. If you can't live without them look for fat free and sugar free options.

Your body consists of mainly water but too many of us don't drink enough of it. That means your body has a harder time getting rid of waste materials. Your heart, kidneys, and liver all have to work harder than they should. Drinking enough water will give them a break and it will keep you hydrated. Your skin will look radiant and toxins will be flushed from your body.

You need to take an honest look at how much exercise you get each day. If you sit at a desk in an office for 8 hours a day you don't get much movement. Add all you can during the day. Take the stairs rather than the elevator and park a distance away and walk. You can also get out and walk on your breaks and at lunch after you eat.

To get a healthier body you need to be willing to assess what your current habits are. Then you can focus on where you need to make changes. Encourage yourself to stick to a plan and to reach your goals. Don't be too tough when you slip though and just get right back on track.

A common mistake is to make too many changes at once. That is a formula that often leads to a person giving up. Instead you need to make one or two small changes at a time. Once you are comfortable with automatically doing them daily you can add some more changes. This will ensure you are able to stick to the plans you have laid out for yourself.

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Move Away From Fear and Into Success, By Best Selling Author Geoff Thompson

The Fountain of Youth World Summit with Geoff Thompson, martial arts guru, best selling author and BAFTA winning screen writer.

Kevin Gianni: Let's get started. I'm here with Geoff Thompson. Geoff Thompson is a BAFTA winning screen writer and out in the U.K. that's similar to the Oscars, right or Academy Awards Geoff?

Geoff Thompson: Yes, it's classed as the British Academy Award.

Kevin Gianni: That's fantastic. He's also a Sunday Times best seller and a martial arts guru. And he's here to talk about how he's gotten this fantastic success. Basically Geoff and he'll tell you himself. He was just an ordinary guy and he's brought himself to just fantastic, fantastic success. So Geoff I want to welcome you aboard.

Geoff Thompson: Thank you. Thank you. It's great to be here.

Kevin Gianni: So why don't we start. Why don't you tell your story and then we can start to get some idea of what everyone else can do to reach some of this fantastic success.

Geoff Thompson: Well, what's great about my story is that I used to sweep floors in a factory and just did lots of menial manual jobs and I was told by the people around me that I should be grateful for that; that jobs on that didn't grow on trees and I shouldn't get above my station. So my great story is that I didn't believe that was true. I've always believed anyone can do anything if they're prepared to step into their fear. So I started working as a nightclub doorman because I have lot of fears. I started working to overcome my fears. This is what the poet Rumi call night traveling. He said that we should go out into the night and hunt down our fears. And he said that the moon shone for night travelers so that if you went out and hunted your fears you would get light.

Kevin Gianni: Okay.

Geoff Thompson: So I started confronting all my fears and did what I really wanted to do, which is become a writer. And I've gone on, as you said, to become a BAFTA winning writer. My first feature film it's actually in production as we speak. We're two weeks into production. I've got another three films that we're making this year. I intend to make a film a year for the next 30 years. That's my intention.

Kevin Gianni: Wow.

Geoff Thompson: I intend within five years, with God's help, to become one of the top five screen writers on this spinning blue planet. That's my intention.

Kevin Gianni: That's fantastic.

Geoff Thompson: And when I stand at the Oscars after thanking God because I connect to this unseen hand, that's where my power comes from, but when I'm at the Oscars I'm going to hand my Oscar up and I'm going to say this is for the likes of us. You know that lovely thing from the Ragged Trousered Philanthropist where the character says this is not for the likes of us, which is what I grew up being told. So I'm going to say to all them kids out there, that want to be screen writers or want to be sculptors or whatever they want to be whether they want to be healthy. I'm going to say to them this is for the likes of us. I want to be there to prove to myself and to prove to everybody else that thinks they can't that they can. That we can access any dimension, any sphere, any level we want if we're prepared to just turn into our own sharp edged. And so I think people believe they can't do anything but I know we can. I look at thing from Carlos Castaneda when he's training with Don Juan Matus and Don Juan Matus says to him your reality is like one room in a house of a hundred rooms. He said if you train with me I'll show you how to actually fill the 99 rooms. He said actually if you come and train with me I'll show you how to get out of the house. So my whole life has been about accessing different rooms, accessing different realities, accessing, you know, actually getting out of the house because I know I can. I know that we all can.

Kevin Gianni: Um-hum.

Geoff Thompson: And to do that it's been a process of growing my consciousness, getting more information, which is what I love about your program because it's full of empirical information. And just turning into my fears because I've always recognized that the growth is where the discomfort is; where people feel uncomfortable, where people feel hurt, where people feel they can't go. That's where the gold is. That's where the alchemistic change happens.

Kevin Gianni: Okay.

Geoff Thompson: So I just encourage people herever they are to turn towards their discomfort, overcome their fears and they can become and do anything

Kevin Gianni: That's a challenging thing to do. I know a lot of people experience fearfulness every single day. What are some of the techniques that someone can use to actually turn into their fear and not feel like they're going to get hurt?

Geoff Thompson: I think the main thing for me was I wanted to develop a desynthetization towards the feeling of adrenalin.

Kevin Gianni: Okay.

Geoff Thompson: Because it's mostly the feelings that stop us from growing. And anticipation is normally much worse than actually the thing we want to do. So I find that if I can get the anticipation out of the way actually doing the thing isn't actually that difficult. You know, we always tend to blow things out of proportion. So we've got to make sure that the discomfort we turn into is anabolic and it's there to help you grow and not catabolic, which is a discomfort. You, know, like if you put your hand over the stove that's a catabolic discomfort.

Kevin Gianni: Um-hum.

Geoff Thompson: It' doesn't help us grow but injure us. And every individual has to, you know, has to listen to their gut and their gut will tell them when it's catabolic and when it's anabolic. So, obviously, we don't want to do things that are discomfort that are going to create atrophy or injure us.

Kevin Gianni: Um-hum.

Geoff Thompson: We just want to turn into the things, into the discomfort that can help us to grow. And everybody really knows what that is. They just have to be very brutally honest with themselves. For me what I did initially, my initial thing, was I drew a pyramid on a piece of paper.

Kevin Gianni: Um-hum.

Geoff Thompson: And on each step of the pyramid I wrote down one of the things I feared. Now, first of all that takes a lot of self honest because you have to be very honest about your fears because a lot of people say I'm not really scared of it, I just don't want to do it.

Kevin Gianni: Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.

Geoff Thompson: But you have to be very honest .

Kevin Gianni: And I wonder if anyone out there has heard them say that before?

Geoff Thompson: I've said it so many times when I was younger; I'm not really scared of it. I just don't want to do it.

Kevin Gianni: Right.

Geoff Thompson: You've got to be brutally honest even if it's just to yourself. Write the fears down and then systematically confront them one by one until you gain desynthetization over it. They call it flooding.

Kevin Gianni: Okay.

Geoff Thompson: Because you just flood yourself with the thing that you're uncomfortable with. Now, you can do this very gradually or you can just dive in according to your according to your character, according to how you are.

Kevin Gianni: Okay.

Geoff Thompson: Sometimes you can confront the thing once and you will overcome it and other times you may have to confront it three or four times.

Kevin Gianni: Okay.

Geoff Thompson: One of the things I learned Kevin is that fear didn't actually go away. You just learn to use it as an alchemistic fuel.

Kevin Gianni: Okay.

Geoff Thompson: So you just learn to manage it and to drive it. So it's a difficult fuel if you don't do anything with it because it's caustic. If you do something with it then it will take you out of the stratosphere. So I don't really see it as fear anymore. I just see it as part of the chemical cocktail. Part of, you know, for me it's an indicator that I'm going in the right direction because most people are always turning away from discomfort and I'm always turning into it.

Kevin Gianni: Okay. So when you're writing them down in a pyramid form I mean are you arranging them in any particular order?

Geoff Thompson: Yes I would arrange it so that my least fear is at the bottom; my biggest fear is at the top.

Kevin Gianni: Okay.

Geoff Thompson: So my least fear when I started was a fear of spiders but it was a debilitating fear. If there was a spider in the corner of the room I couldn't sleep.

Kevin Gianni: Okay.

Geoff Thompson: So I started to get a few utensils together like a broom with a crop on the end and started to kind of touch a spider at a distance and got closer and closer until the end I could pick a spider up and handle it and let it roam around my arm. And recognize that the majority of spiders are completely harmless. My biggest fear was a fear of violent confrontation.

Kevin Gianni: Okay, and now you're a martial artist?

Geoff Thompson: Yeah, even as a black belt I still feared violent confrontation because as a black belt I was still training in very controlled environments.

Kevin Gianni: Oh, I see. Okay.

Geoff Thompson: I was frightened of the actual eruption of violence; you know the expletives, the aggression.

Kevin Gianni: Um-hum.

Geoff Thompson: So I became a nightclub doorman so that I could expose myself to violent confrontation. Now, that's extreme and that worked very well for me. I mean I spent ten years as a nightclub doorman and developed a security mentality because of it and that worked for me. I know with the people who become security men or that climb mountains or have done other things that have they've developed to, you know, overcome their internal fears but that's the one that worked for me so I became a nightclub doorman. So I've always been a night traveler. I didn't know that's what it was at the time but that's what I've always been and that's what's enabled me to go from living in a bad sect sweeping floors and L. L. Cool Jay thinking that was my lot to, you know, share in a conversation with LL Cool J at the BAFTAS and, you know, having my photograph taken with Renee Zelwegger and Peter Jackson and, you know, that's just the reality that I've accessed. And that reality sat just beyond my fear. That's the big secret. The big secret is that everybody turns away from discomfort but actually if you turn into it you'll find that the gold is hidden just beyond it. And the confrontation itself is never as bad as the anticipation. And it's not like you've got to jump in all in one go. You can do it a little bit at a time.

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Build Health and Success

The Fountain of Youth World Summit with Geoff Thompson, martial arts guru, best selling author and BAFTA winning screen writer.

Geoff Thompson: What I did find though Kevin is that once I got to the top of my pyramid I was automatically at the bottom of another pyramid because there's always something out there and if you don't have any discomfort in your life, or any fear or any adrenaline then you're probably too comfortable because there's no growth in comfort.

Kevin Gianni: Right.

Geoff Thompson: And obviously there are levels of consciousness beyond this chemical cocktail and the levels of consciousness that I have accessed intermittently and there are levels of consciousness that I am looking to access more because there is a place above and beyond fear where, you know, where we can be even more successful but at this moment in time I'm still juggling with that and enjoying it. I'm enjoying the challenge. I like to be out there. I like these mountains to climb. You know, it's because I've developed a relationship with it. I realize that, you know, I'm not being punished. It's like that lovely poem that Rumi did about the chick pea being boiled in the pot and it's trying to climb out and the chef is pushing him back in with the ladle and the chef says to him you think I'm punishing you but I'm not. He says I'm just trying to make you sweet so you can sit with the rice and the herbs. And when the chick pea realizes that he's not being punished he says push me in twice because I want to be sweet. And whenever I find myself in a very uncomfortable situation when I'm growing, which is often I always say to myself push me in twice because I want to grow. I want to be sweet, you know, and that's where the real growth is.

Kevin Gianni: So when you're in these uncomfortable situations I want to stay around this area here because I think it's such a fantastic philosophy to actually, you know, lean into the sharp edges, as you say. Let's talk a little bit more about, you know, ways and say if someone wants to be healthy or say if someone wants to be more successful what are some of the ways that they can lean into these edges? I mean when you feel that anxiousness or that anxiety I mean do you just do the thing that you're afraid of. I mean and how do you get your head around that?

Geoff Thompson: It's like lifting weights really Kevin. You start off with light weights, you know, and then you build up. You build up a senue mentality by adding weight to the bar. It's really as simple as that. It's just almost like antigravity techniques for your mind. So in the case of my fear pyramid I started off with something that wasn't too frightening, something that I could achieve like overcoming my fear of spiders. Then I added another fear of dentists. I had a very strong fear. I didn't go to the dentist for about ten years. So I returned to the dentist and had treatment and was completely desynthetized to it. So I started doing things that weren't massively challenging but that they were things that were bullying me, things that were beating me up.

Kevin Gianni: Um-hum.

Geoff Thompson: And I just started gradually turning into them and I found that if I just turned in the direction of my fear I started to get lots of help. It was almost as though the universe conspired to help me. You know, the right books would land on my desk, the right people would come into my conversation. I'd get an e-mail with an inspiring quote on it or I'd hear something on the radio that would help. Once you turn into the right direction, you know, the universe conspires to make it happen. I remember watching a program with a gardener and he was talking about plants. And he said the great thing about plants is that they want to grow. They want to grow. They want to help you. And I feel as though the universe is like that with us. It wants us to grow. It wants us to achieve. It wants us to fulfill all our dreams but it's not going to happen if we don't move. We have to initiate it. So when you turn in the direction of your discomfort, lean into them sharp edges. Even if it's just gradually you will start to get assistance and that's when the miracles start to happen. And whether you read in the Bhagavad-Gita or the Bible or Lao Tzu or whether you're talking to one of the Swamees or the yogi's they all tell you the same thing. You orchestrate and control your own universe. When you act things change. It's something Leonardo da Vinci said. He said when a bird lands in a tree the whole world changes. Everything affects everything. So when you act everything changes. And I think that's partly why people are fearful because they fear change. And what we need to do is not just, like I said about night traveling; we have to engage the change. We have to turn into the change. Well Gandhi said we have to be the change we want to see. People want to change the world but they haven't got the discipline to change their underpants. So if we want to start doing big things then we have to start working on the little things. So one of the biggest ways of completely changing your world for the better is to start with palette; get your food right.

Kevin Gianni: Okay.

Geoff Thompson: Gandhi went from being a peasant to having two hundred million followers. Two hundred million people followed Gandhi and he built that up from control of palette. He said that if you control palette all of the other senses fell into line. And when you control the senses you control yourself and when you controlled yourself you literally control the world. This is what Gandhi said.

Kevin Gianni: Um-hum.

Geoff Thompson: So he went from being a peasant. He trained to be a lawyer but he was a terrible lawyer. He never won a case for two years. His family thought he might starve, you know; to having two million followers. He did that by educating himself, which is why this program is massively important because information gives you power. He educated himself and then he started controlling himself beginning with palette. So there's lots of people out there now who are listening to this I'm sure who are overweight or unhealthy because they eat wrong.

Kevin Gianni: Um-hum.

Geoff Thompson: So if they start by controlling their food, which is a very difficult thing to do and it's very uncomfortable to change. If they start with that they will empower themselves immediately. So once you start controlling yourself then you have a shot at controlling your world, controlling your universe. It's like we are the conductor but we have to get ourselves in shape first.

Kevin Gianni: Um-hum. So do you believe that food, and palette and everything that you're eating and taking in controls emotions, and reactions and things like that?

Geoff Thompson: Yeah. Someone said to me the other day I've just realized how important palette is in training. I said no palette is the training. It's huge. It's massive and it's not just my theory. It's science. You know, what you eat affects the adrenals and if the adrenals are active and you're in sympathetic nervous system, which is far to a flight then you are in a predatory state of mind. It's very difficult to be positive and to be spiritual when you are feeling in this primary state. You know, when you're almost back to this hunter gatherers state.

Kevin Gianni: Um-hum.

Geoff Thompson: So not just what you eat but what you ingest, what you watch on television, the conversations you have, what you listen to on the radio, what you read. All of it feeds the body and the mind. One of the main foods of the brain is information. So if you're having, you know, if you're having junk food information like tabloids speak or pornography or violence, you know, watching too much violence. All of that affects the adrenals. When the adrenals are triggered adrenaline is released and we go into sympathetic nervous system. The whole physiology is changed; literally, your whole physiology changes. Most people are walking around in a predatory state all the time and they wonder why they get ill all the time. And they wonder why they're aggressive. And they wonder why have all this displacement. So palette is absolutely vital. I think it's the big secret because palette just isn't about the food you put in your mouth. It's about the information you put in your mind. And again this isn't just a loose theory. Deepak Chopra says that what you listen to, what you watch actually becomes chemicals in your body and if you watch it actually becomes flesh because, you know, if you start watching too much of the wrong thing or get too much of the wrong information in it leaves its mark on the brain and literally leaves ridges on the brain of memory and track.

Kevin Gianni: Um-hum.

Geoff Thompson: So what you watch and what you listen to is flesh. It becomes real. It becomes physical. That's why I'm very careful about who I talk to, very careful about what I read, very careful about what I watch, you know. I don't mind if there's violence in a film or sex as long as it's responsible story telling. You know, I write some things with violence in but they're all responsible story telling. It's all about showing the real consequences of violence. The real consequences of any access, you know, anything that can over stimulate the adrenals. So it's getting away from, you know, too much stimulation; bringing ourselves into a more moderate state, having control over ourselves. I think it was Tolstoy who said everybody wants to change the world. Nobody wants to change himself. So start with the self. You know, there's a great thing in the Bhagavad-Gita, which I live my life by. It says lift the self by the self. Never let the self droop down because the self is the self's only friend and the self is the self's only enemy. If you can grasp that then take that. You can literally change the world. There's nothing you can't achieve. The minute you start projecting, and blaming and walking around with big placards and trying to change things out there before you change things in here you disempower yourself.

Kevin Gianni: Um-hum. And do you believe that everyone has the power to change the world?

Geoff Thompson: Oh, cocky yeah because everybody's connected. Whether you look at the Bible, which says we're all one or science in string theory, which says everything's connected. You know, everything's affected. That's what I said about Leonardo. You know, when a bird lands in a tree everything changes.

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Making Permanent Changes Today For Tomorrow, With Resources Shared by Award Winning Author

The Fountain of Youth World Summit with Geoff Thompson, martial arts guru, best selling author and BAFTA winning screen writer.

Kevin Gianni: That's great stuff. If you were to give someone three books to read what would they be?

Geoff Thompson: The Doudhi Gi.

Kevin Gianni: Okay.

Geoff Thompson: I would have to say The Shake Shifter as well. I know it's my own book. It's the only book at the moment that goes heavily into palette and the actual real process of success, which is about fully immersing yourself into what it is you want to become and get an expert tuition and dedicating your bones to it. So I will say Shake Shifter; and the third one Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz.

Kevin Gianni: Absolutely.

Geoff Thompson: You know, my friend – I won't say his name because it doesn't matter but he sold his business for 50 £ million and he puts his whole success in business down to the principles in that book about seeing what you want.

Kevin Gianni: Um-hum. It's a fantastic book. I recommend it to just about everybody.

Geoff Thompson: One of the all time greats.

Kevin Gianni: Yeah.

Geoff Thompson: And all of this stuff's in the Bible. It's in the Bhagavad-Gita. It's in the Koran. It's in all the great religious texts but it's also in great books like, you say, from Maxwell Maltz and people like Normal Vincent Peale spoke just so much truth and it's unfortunate sometimes that people kind of think it's whimsical to think positively but to me that's how you create your world, how you think.

Kevin Gianni: If you were to want someone to take one thing from this call moving forward what do you think that would be?

Geoff Thompson: Lift the self by the self.

Kevin Gianni: Okay.

Geoff Thompson: You know, stop looking outside. Look in. Everything you want and everything you need is contained within you and the moment you start to use that and take responsibility for yourself your whole world will change. It will change so dramatically that it will shock you. I think something Nelson Mandela said; people aren't afraid of failure. They're really afraid of success because success means change. They're not frightened that they can't do something. They're terrified that they know they can. They know they're powerful beyond their belief. People really are. They call it the Jonah complex. It's called the fear of success. People are afraid to succeed because success means change and change creates discomfort and people avoid discomfort. But when you recognize that change is the only constant, is the only constant then that encourages you to embrace change and to go out and hunt change and be the change rather than wait for things to come to you and wait for things to happen. Actually go out there. Not for me. I was very frightened of sending my scripts off to people for whatever reason. It just created a tremendous amount of fear in me of rejection and also of success because of the responsibility of that. So what I did was I just kept sending my scripts out to everybody until end the end the scripts would come back some with good points, some with bad points but I was indifferent to it. If it came back I'd put another name on it and send it back out again.

Kevin Gianni: Took the front cover off and...

Geoff Thompson: Yes and just start all over again because it's not personal. You know, everything that comes into your life is not difficult. It's there for you to grow. It's just another disc on the bar. It's developing a relationship with our discomfort or with that suffering. There's a really great book actually by Victor Franco called Man's Search for Meaning.

Kevin Gianni: Okay.

Geoff Thompson: Which is amazing and it talks a lot about developing our relationship with discomfort and understanding discomfort and recognizing that within that discomfort there is always a massive growth within that restriction. When life restricts you it's giving you the opportunity to really, really break out of your stratosphere. A typical life restriction is when someone like Lance Armstrong had cancer, a huge life restriction but within that not only he found that he could cure himself he went on to win, I think, eight Tour de France. He was so good at the Tour de France that they actually changed the route several times just to give the other competitors a chance. You know, he was just so affective at what he was doing and that's because within the restriction he had, which was cancer, he found huge growth. I do it in training. I fight people when we're doing, say, boxing training. I force people to sit on the floor and punch because they can't use their hips. They can't use projection. You know, and when they sit on the floor and punch they're force to find something else. They're forced to develop power and find another resource. So that's what I call restriction training and when they do that people suddenly find that the ability to punch harder from a seated position, which is very restrictive, than they do when they're standing up. But if you think of life as exactly the same if you have an illness, or financial worries or relationship problems with that restriction if you're prepared to immerse yourself into the belly of it you will find gold.

Kevin Gianni: That's fantastic. That's a fantastic message. If someone was to write something down or do something right now tangible what would that be? Would that be to put their pyramid or to grab a particular book or...

Geoff Thompson: I think everybody's a little bit different. I just think the first thing people should do, I think, is to write down the things that they perhaps they don't want to acknowledge. You know, the things that are uncomfortable that they don't want to look at.

Kevin Gianni: Um-hum.

Geoff Thompson: And then just the act of writing down and only look to them is an act of like turning in that direction.

Kevin Gianni: That's pretty easy to some degree.

Geoff Thompson: Yeah and once you've done that and turned in that direction just gradually keep moving towards it. So if you you're frightened about sending a script off or if you're frightened to talk to your partner then just gradually start seeing yourself doing that. Start to see yourself doing it the way you want to do it. Again, that Maxwell Maltz, Psycho-Cybernetics is a great book to read because it's all about seeing the outcome you want, seeing what you want to happen and just start moving towards it.

Kevin Gianni: Hmm, that's great. Well, Geoff we are running out of time here though I want to thank you for that. I know I'm going to actually when we're done with this call I'm going to sit down and I'm going to write down some of those fears that I have too. I think it's just a fantastic exercise. I'd never heard of that before.

Geoff Thompson: See, because that's where everything gets hidden behind that because everybody turns away from that and it's like they're thinking so where's the secret? Where is success? It's right where that discomfort is. That's where it is. My children ask me what should I do and I say see all them people, you know, all them 95% of people walking that way. And they say yeah. Then walk the opposite way because you don't follow the crowd because they're all looking for comfort and you will not find any growth in comfort. And once you develop a relationship with discomfort and you become comfortable with discomfort it's no longer uncomfortable. It's like a body builder. When a body builder lifts weights he knows that the growth is in the burn. That's when the muscle tissue breaks down and builds back up again.

Kevin Gianni: Um-hum.

Geoff Thompson: And because he developed a relationship with the burn he knows that the burn equals growth. He will find the burn very quickly and he will stay in it long and he comes out of it saying oh, that was fantastic. That was a real good burn. So he learned to really like the burn. You know, what they say is that they say is that the top five percent of people in the world, the top five percent in business and sports, particularly, are the people that have developed a relationship and have become comfortable with discomfort. And the top one percent are the people that have learned to like discomfort.

Kevin Gianni: Okay.

Geoff Thompson: So I love discomfort.

Kevin Gianni: That's a fantastic affirmation.

Geoff Thompson: Yeah.

Kevin Gianni: I love that discomfort. That's a fantastic thing to say I think.

Geoff Thompson: That's where all the growth is. That's what I've found and that's what I continue to do. But, you know, what they say in the Kabala, we all experience the forgetting. So two or three days down the road we're in some discomfort and we desperately try to get back out of it again because we forget that there's a message within the discomfort of our growth. So we have to do is keep reading, keep studying, keep talking to people or keep reminding ourselves that everything that happens to us is good.

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Why Diets Fail

This article is from Kevin Gianni's Fountain of Youth Summit. In this article Phoenix Gilman shares on the neurochemistry of why diets fail. Phoenix Gilman is the author of "Diet Failure - The Naked Truth About Weight Loss."

KEVIN: So, let's start talking a little about what you do. I said weight loss in the introduction. You also are an ADD and ADHD expert as well. So, let's talk a little bit about what you do, how you got into this, and then we'll move forward from there.

PHOENIX: OK. Well, as you said, my area of expertise kind of goes across the board because primarily, the area that I wanted to research was neurochemistry.

KEVIN: A-ha.

PHOENIX: And neurochemistry is the study of brain chemicals. My initial goal was to really find out why so many diets fail, pretty much the rate is ... pretty alarming and about ninety-eight percent of all diet fails.

KEVIN: It's incredible, isn't it?

PHOENIX: Yeah. And the only thing I have to look around to see that, a rate of obesity and of course, the type 2 and ... But that being said, the brain chemical that I discovered that controls the two key reasons that diet fails, also as the master communicator of all the brain chemicals then, when that brain chemical becomes depleted, this is why we have so many side effects or health conditions because of it. So not only is it tied into why diets fail but it also is a direct link to the so-called ADD, ADHD.

KEVIN: Got you. So, you're saying that one of the main causes of ADHD is because of the body chemistry?

PHOENIX: Absolutely. The brain chemical that I put my focus on is serotonin. As most people know, serotonin, Kevin, has a relation to depression, but not, again it's the key brain chemical, the key master communicator of all the brain chemicals. When that brain chemical becomes depleted, which is why we have all these side effects and they can be anything from carbohydrate cravings, binging or simply eating more than our body needs, from rage, depression, insomnia, PMS, so-called ADD, the inability to stay focused and many, many other health conditions. So, to understand that the brain chemical, when it's depleted, and unfortunately it's depleted by everything in life, that that ADD, ADHD or adult ADD, whatever title you want to give it to is simply due to low serotonin.

KEVIN: A-ha. And let's talk a little bit about how that works, how does serotonin form, I mean, how does it get in your body, you know?

PHOENIX: Excellent question. Excellent. Serotonin, first of all, again, is a brain chemical. It's not something you can take. It is something that is within the body and found in the brain and in the different areas in the body, primarily in the brain and the stomach.

KEVIN: A-ha.

PHOENIX: There of course are pharmaceutical drugs out there who, you know, Prozac, Zoloft, things like that, that will help elevate it. However, it's a pharmaceutical drug which will always come with side effects. And the problem is, which is an interesting and unfortunate side effect, is when people take those pharmaceutical drugs to elevate the serotonin. The problem is that with every pharmaceutical drug that you put in your body will deplete this brain chemical. So, which is why you see on the antidepressant, the drug, can in fact, increase depression and suicide and that's the reason.

KEVIN: Really? OK.

PHOENIX: Yeah, absolutely. It's depleting the same brain chemical it's designed to elevate. And so, to understand that all of the things that might deplete this brain chemical, stress, who doesn't have stress, the lack of quality sleep, pharmaceutical drugs, over-the-counter meds, high sugar, high GI diet, high glycemic index carbohydrates, lack of exercise, caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, artificial sweeteners, you name it, it depletes it.

KEVIN: Right.

PHOENIX: So, we basically live in a society, Kevin, that we are surrounded by everything that will deplete this brain chemical. The most wonderful thing, though, to understand is that to really empower yourself with the knowledge, to know why you have these health conditions and to know that you can really safely and affordably be able to maintain that brain chemical with dietary supplements that you can find in almost any health food store.

KEVIN: A-ha. And you talked about how pharmaceuticals like Zoloft and all those drugs can elevate serotonin levels. Is, I think I've heard this, I don't know if this is a rumor or not, maybe you can dispel some myths here. I think I've heard that sometimes they don't know what the activating agent is, is that true or no?

PHOENIX: I haven't heard that...

KEVIN: Yes. OK.

PHOENIX: ...in the Zoloft and the Prozac and stuff like that?

KEVIN: Yes.

PHOENIX: I wouldn't doubt it.

KEVIN: OK. Yeah.

PHOENIX: But really, the big concern there which is exactly, they, take quite a few years for that black box warning to be put on those antidepressants but, I mean, how insane is that that you were marketing a drug that is designed to supposedly alleviate depression and suicidal thinking and yet it exacerbates the exact same condition that it is designed to alleviate. No, and I'm like, "How can that even..." I mean, that's like a joke. We know that in our industry that if we have a supplement that we were trying to sell that would have to have that type of a warning, I mean, you would be pulled so fast you would make your head spin.

KEVIN: That's an interesting point. Interesting point. You mentioned GI diets, and I think that a lot of people still don't know what that is. You know, high GI, low GI.

PHOENIX: A-ha.

KEVIN: Do you want to explain that a little bit?

PHOENIX: Absolutely.

KEVIN: Great.

PHOENIX: The whole thing, Kevin, is really for me to empower people with the knowledge about understanding why their diets have failed, why they're depressed, why they can't sleep, all of these things that come with low serotonin. It's also to understand that it's no by eating good, healthy fat that makes us fat. Why? Because fat does not trigger the body's insulin response, and insulin is a hormone that commands the body to store fat, among other things.

KEVIN: A-ha.

PHOENIX: So, it is, however, about the type of carbs that we eat. It's not about not eating carbs. I like the phrase that it's saying it's about being carb-conscious. Now, to be carb-conscious is to understand what are the good carbs. There are people who really, and I don't blame them because there's so much misinformation out there. What is a good healthy fat, what is a good carb, what is a good quality protein and all that.

KEVIN: A-ha.

PHOENIX: But the GI, which stands for glycemic index, and that was best to describe to say how quickly when you eat a carbohydrate, because all carbs are recognized by the body as sugar, but they do affect the blood sugar level differently. So, the glycemic index is the rating of how quickly those carbohydrates will affect your blood sugar. So, the lower on the GI, the better. If I may continue to just say this, so you can take a low GI carb such as spinach or some sort of a green... And you can, or even berries. Berries are a wonderful low GI carb, but you can take a low GI carb. If you were just to eat it by itself and turn it into a high GI carb, just for the mere fact that you haven't eaten a healthy protein or fat with it to help lower it.

KEVIN: OK.

PHOENIX: Now on the other hand, you can also take a high GI carb and help lower it by combining healthy fat and protein.

KEVIN: OK. That's an interesting point. And is fiber included in that as well, if you...

PHOENIX: Yeah. Fiber is included in those carbs and the other thing though, Kevin, is to really understand, for those people who get it, who know that it is really eating good healthy carbs, minimizing, because again, carbs, if you eat more carbs than your body can utilize, they are stored as fat, period. But to adhere to eating a good healthy diet, and to adhering to those low GI carbs is entirely dependent on being able to maintain the serotonin because if you can't, your brain will force you on a subconscious level to consume the things that will elevate it and it is only those high GI carbs that will do it. And those high GI carbs not only trigger the insulin to ....our rate of obesity but all the other issues, depression, insomnia, PMS, migraines, schizophrenia, suicide, all the way down the line. OK. When I tell people that, look, which is why the book is titled, "Diet Failure - The Naked Truth" is to empower people with this knowledge, if you have dieted and failed. Even though I don't believe in dieting. If you have dieted and failed, it is not your fault. It is about to understand that it is about a brain chemical, and the master communicator of all the brain chemicals that when it is depleted, for the brain and the body to function at its best, Kevin, this brain chemical will do, has to be maintained. And so, therefore, the brain will be anything and everything to elevate it. And the quickest and by far not the healthiest way to do so is to consume high GI carbs. It's not about flavor, it's not about food addiction or carb addiction even though there's plenty of people out there who would claim that it is.

KEVIN: A-ha.

PHOENIX: It is not about emotional attachment and it is most certainly not about being weak-willed. It is though, because that brain chemical once again has to be maintained for the body and brain to function properly. And on that subconscious level, it pushes us towards the things that each of us on an individual basis have conditioned, have trained, our bodies and our brain to a lifetime of habit. Your trigger food may be, you know, a cold beer. Mine used to be sourdough toast. Somebody else's is a chocolate bar and, you know, all these different high GI items, we have again conditioned our brains to a lifetime of habits to know what will work for us and that's when that pattern starts, that's when that noise, it's usually around three or four o'clock in the afternoon, it starts to say, "Hey, Phoenix" or, "Hey, Kevin. That beer smells good or a bag of chips sounds really good." And that is nothing more than the brain pushing us toward those items that it knows will elevate that brain chemical.

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ADD/ADHD, Children and the Effects of Sleep Disorders

This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni's Fountain of Youth Summit, which can be found at http://fountainofyouthworldsummit.com. In this excerpt, Dr. Michael Breus shares on children and sleep disorders, including ADD and ADHD.

The Fountain of Youth World Summit with Dr. Michael Breus, the author of Good Night and Web MDs sleep expert.

Kevin: That's incredible stuff. [Laughs] I'm saying "Wow!" to everything. It's amazing. You don't think about, you know, the effects that sleep have, and the benefits that they have, until you realize, you know, some of the things that are happening to people who are not getting enough sleep.

Dr. Breus: Oh, there's no question about it. And here's another area. Even if you're not even, even if you're not interested in your own health, Kevin - and I know that you and I both are - but even if some of [those may] say "Well, yeah, I sleep fine. It's not that big a deal.". Let's talk about your children's sleep for just a second here.

Kevin: Mm hmm.

Dr. Breus: Okay. Children, if there's, this study blew me away. Twenty-five percent of the children who're apparently diagnosed with ADD and ADHD are actually found to have a childhood sleep disorder.

Kevin: Twenty-five percent.

Dr. Breus: Twenty-five percent. Now what's the normal, you know, treatment regiment for a kid who's got ADD or ADHD?

Kevin: Ritalin.

Dr. Breus: Mm hmm. Ritalin is a stimulant and it prevents children from sleeping. So, here's the problem. You stick a kid on Ritalin who really has a sleep disorder, now you've messed up their sleep even worse.

Kevin: Yeah.

Dr. Breus: Now you've got an even more vicious cycle. And think about kids who are sleepy. What do they do? I've got a five-year-old and a three-year-old. When my kids are sleepy, you know what they do? They don't say "Daddy, I want to lie down and take a nap." They get rambunctious.

Kevin: Yeah.

Dr. Breus: And they look like ADHD kids!

Kevin: [Laughs] Yeah.

Dr. Breus: Right?

Kevin: Right, right. [What does that...]

Dr. Breus: And so it's very easy for the practitioner to not ask the question about sleep, as soon as the child [can have] ADHD and stick them on Ritalin.

Kevin: Yeah. Which...

Dr. Breus: And that's, you know, I don't have a problem with a lot of the pharmacologic treatments for ADHD. What I do have a problem with is misdiagnosis.

Kevin: Yeah.

Dr. Breus: So again it's a big, big issue. I want to move on to a section that I call "Looking better with better sleep".

Kevin: Mm hmm.

Dr. Breus: It's not to be vain. But it is to say "We all want to feel good. We all want to look good. We all want to feel refreshed. We all want to be ready to meet the day." And I want people to know and understand how sleep can affect, you know, all of those areas.

Kevin: [Yeah], this is about the Fountain of Youth too. You know, this is finding a youthful and lively appearance.

Dr. Breus: Mm.

Kevin: And energy. So, I mean this is right along the line.

Dr. Breus: Well good. Then let's talk about it. 'Cause what I call it is "Beauty Sleep".

Kevin: Mm hmm.

Dr. Breus: And, you know, it's not to be confused with "Sleeping Beauty".

Kevin: [Laughs]

Dr. Breus: But, "Beauty Sleep" is really the time-out that your body requires to make cellular repairs. And deep sleep is when your skin actually repairs itself. [Now], when I talk about deep sleep, remember I'm talking about that "Delta Sleep".

Kevin: Mm hmm.

Dr. Breus: That deep sleep, that Stage Three and Four sleep. That people all need to be aware of. This is the time when you have new growth of cells, you have a fortification of defenses against moisture-loss, and free-radical damage.

Kevin: Okay.

Dr. Breus: Okay. So, another big factor about being asleep, is - you're out of the sun. So, you're not getting any damaging UV rays while lying in bed, hopefully. So again, things to think about - we know that free-radical damage increases the ageing process. We know that moisture-loss can cause wrinkles, dry skin, [cerisis], all these other problems. And so allowing yourself to sleep, simply allows you to just build back all the damage that you've been doing to your skin and health during the day.

Kevin: Okay. Then moisture-loss, what do you mean by moisture-loss? Do you mean...

Dr. Breus: So, I mean everything from sweat, evaporation to intra-cellular moisture-loss.

Kevin: Okay, okay.

Dr. Breus: Okay. So we're also talking about during "Beauty Sleep" or deep sleep an increase in protein production, which is the building blocks of cell growth and repair. So one of the things we know is during sleep, when your body is asleep, it allows your cells to increase proteins. What does that do? It allows for your rebuilding or re-strengthening of the cells. Okay, everything from muscles cells to skin cells. So, it's not necessarily only about aesthetics, the beauty, but it's also about the musculature. It's about the exercise. It's about having effective exercise, by being able to sleep effectively. Now one of the things that I talk about - and I joke about this - is that I call him Doctor GH appears in sleep. Dr GH stands for Dr Growth Hormone, or Human Growth Hormone.

Kevin: Mm hmm.

Dr. Breus: Now what's interesting is during deep sleep or Stages Three and Four sleep is when you have the highest spike of Human Growth Hormone. Okay. Now, so what does that mean? Well, Growth Hormone is responsible for a lot of different areas of [development]. Everything from tissue repair, to [cellular] placement, to even [serve naps] like some brain function. Okay, so what are the areas that Growth Hormone affects most in the body? Well, we see that it revitalizes the immune system. So remember I was talking before about how some of those flu shots don't work so well ...

Kevin: Yeah.

Dr. Breus: When you are sleep deprived?

Kevin: Mm hmm.

Dr. Breus: This is a direct relationship to Growth Hormone.

Kevin: Okay.

Dr. Breus: Alright. We talk about reducing the risks of [oxyo-perosis], okay, with more Growth Hormone. We talk about the restoration of skin elasticity. And there's another area that people don't know whole lot about that I've been doing significant amount of reading on which is called "The [Arteriole] Aging". So what's interesting is, just like every other part of our body, our artery have a tendency to age. That ageing process can be sped up or, in some cases, slowed down by the presence or absence of Growth Hormone.

Kevin: Okay.

Dr. Breus: Right. So if you deprive yourself of sleep and you are not getting enough Growth Hormone cause you're not getting enough deep sleep, your arteries would be aging faster.

Kevin: Okay, and some of the negative effects of ageing arteries?

Dr. Breus: Well, you know, there's a zillion of them.

Kevin: Yeah.

Dr. Breus: Let's talk about just a couple. A big one is you're going to have potentially an increase in blood pressure. What happens when you have increase in blood pressure? You have an increase in fluid retention, and that can lead to those big puffy bags underneath people's eyes.

Kevin: Mm hmm.

Dr. Breus: Now, don't get me wrong, it's not like puffy eyes is the only thing I want to talk about here, because increased blood pressure [in another cell] is a huge factor.

Kevin: Sure.

Dr. Breus: Okay, it's a huge factor for health. But when people turn to me and they say "You know, Micheal, how do I get rid of these bags under my eyes?" One of the first things I tell them is "Get some more sleep.".

Kevin: Yeah.

Dr. Breus: Okay, now don't get me wrong. If you look at your mother and you look at your grandmother, and everybody had these genetic bags under their eyes, well, then you may have it genetically too. And no amount of sleep may get rid of those.

Kevin: Mm hmm.

Dr. Breus: But if you notice that [these] have been coming on for, you know, quite some time, and you know that you've been sleep deprived and things like that, then yeah, that could be a big factor. Also people need to realize that the area right underneath your eye sometimes have small fat deposits in it. And sometimes that can lead to the bags under the eye. Those fat deposits are actually cushioning for your eyeball.

Kevin: Okay.

Dr. Breus: Okay. So, sometimes, that's protective in nature. And we need to realize that sometimes that's an okay thing.

Kevin: Mm hmm.

Dr. Breus: Another big factor from sleep deprivation and arterial ageing is the decrease in circulation.

Kevin: Okay.

Dr. Breus: Okay. So the blood isn't moving as quickly because the arteries aren't as efficient. Well, the thinnest piece of skin in your body is directly under your eye.

Kevin: That's why it shows the most.

Dr. Breus: That's right, gotcha. Raccoon eyes as they are better known.

Kevin: Mm hmm.

Dr. Breus: Okay. And also the decrease in circulation gives you a lifeless skin color. The reason people look healthy and vibrant is cause blood is flowing through their skin and they have rosy red cheeks. So, again, sleep deprivation affects, you know, multiple areas of how you look and feel.

Kevin: Dr Breus has some slides and we're going to make some of these available. There's actually pictures here. They're just pretty telling about how the puffy eyes, the difference that you can see. So, we'll make those available for everyone to take a look at.

Dr. Breus: Absolutely. The second area that I want to go into which still talks about the Fountain of Youth is weight gain. You know, we all struggle with this in different forms and fashions throughout our life. Sometimes it's easy to lose weight. Sometimes it's hard to lose weight. Sometimes when you go past thirty, or you go past forty, or you go past fifty, it may be easier or more difficult. Believe it or not, within the last two to three years, some stunning new research has come about. And this research has shown that sleep deprivation equals weight gain.

Kevin: Wow! Say it again? [Laughs]

Dr. Breus: Sleep deprivation equals weight gain.

Kevin: [Laughs] Remember the diets are going to work guys! [Laughs]

Dr. Breus: Well, here's what I would say. I would say "Many of the diets would work if you get a good night's rest.".

Kevin: There you go. [Laughs]

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Handling the Stresses in Your Life

We have all felt overwhelmed from time to time due to the various events going on in our life. Stress is what will often take place during these times. There is no way to eliminate all of the stress in your life but too much of it can harm you physically and mentally. You can end up feeling zapped of all your energy. It can also make it very hard for you to concentrate and to make decisions.

It seems like most of us have taken on so much these days that we are carrying around more stress than we need to all the time. The formation of the family has evolved from what it was in the past. There are often both parents working to make ends meet or only one parent in the home doing it all. This can really take a toll on a person. If your to do list is always longer than the day and your thoughts are racing you need to get control of it now.

Stress can consume a person, and the sad thing is you don't know it. The weight of it gets to be more and more over time so you may not realize the huge impact of it. For many individuals a leading cause of depression is stress. Therefore you need to take a realistic look at what is causing your stress. Do your best to eliminate as much of it as you can.

One common element is relationships. It seems that we can get into a cycle where a relationship with someone is bringing us down all the time. It can be with a friend, family member, spouse, or co-worker. If you can effectively resolve the situations that are taking place you may need to remove yourself from the relationship. Some distance there can really help to reduce the amount of stress you are experiencing.

Take a good look at the volume of responsibility you have at work as well. If you are taking on too much there then it can be stressful. Some employers continue to add more duties all the time so they don't have to hire more people to work there. Take some time to explain to your boss that you are overloaded. If they aren't willing to make some changes you may need to consider finding a job that is less stressful.

A person needs to have an outlet for their stress as well. This can be talking to a friend about what is bothering you as well as exercising. Yet many people stress as they don't have enough time to do everything. It is time for you to take control of what you do each day. Don't feel guilty turning down invitations if you are already at your limit. Schedule some down time in there too just for you. It will rejuvenate you enough that you can tackle everything else.

Writing down what is bothering you can also help to remove the stress from your life. It could be that you are having a bad day so everything seems worse than it really is. Likely tomorrow you will find it wasn't as bad as it initially seemed. Writing can help you work through your emotions too so don't analyze what you put down, just let it flow.

Reducing stress is very important. Too much stress can result in you not enjoying your life like you used to. It can cause you to lose sleep and become irritable. It can result in you making poor choices and being worn out both physically and mentally. Pay attention to your level of stress so you can keep it under control.

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Hemp Seeds, One of the Ways to Rebalance and Detox Your Body

Unless you live in a pesticide and chemical free environment and eat only 100% organic, there is an excellent chance that your body is overburdened, nutrient deficient and headed toward obesity and long term problems. North America in particular has been lulled by the food industry to eat supposedly safe, processed, packaged and canned foods. Well you've been fooled long enough!

Almost every time you open a package to cook something, not only are you eating inferior food, you are also for the most part eating MSG. (Even some organic foods). I cover this in an earlier article and I recommend you educate your self on this subject as well.

In the last 50+ years man has changed the way we eat so much that the health our great grandparents enjoyed are difficult to obtain today. Not impossible but very difficult. Our big problem today is toxicity! Our bodies are toxic and over acidic and we need to take steps to ward off future problems. Hemp seeds can help in a big way!

No other seed or nut that I know of can match the quality and balance of nutrients that the hemp seeds contain. Flax seeds come close but the hemp seed contains the correct balance of Omega 3 and omega 6 essential oils as well as linoleic acid, vitamin E and trace minerals and is an impressive 33% protein.
Hemp seeds are an excellent solution for vegetarians.

Our diets today are often without the correct balance of nutrients, for example, if you take a calcium supplement, you may not be absorbing it into the body because calcium needs magnesium and something acidic with it like a bit of vinegar or lemon juice in water to be absorbed into the body. So it is with omega 3 and omega 6. You need both to provide the cells in the body what it needs otherwise imbalances occur.

You can take fish oils for omega 3 and 6 but if you don't like the after taste or have concerns about our polluted lakes, rivers and oceans, then eating hemp seeds or using cold pressed hemp oil in salad dressings can be a great alternative. They have a mild nutty taste and can be added to just about any meal. It is best to start your morning with hemp seeds in your breakfast, (add it to cereals, yogurt or smoothies or grind them to make a nut butter.) If you want to replace dairy you can make hemp milk a home. Here is a recipe;

2 cups of hulled hemp seeds
Very hot water
Blender
Colander
Hemp cloth or cheese cloth

Put the hemp seeds in the blender. Add hot water to about ¾ of the way. Place the lid on the blender and hold tight with your hands. Start the blender on the lowest setting so that the content doesn't explode out of the blender. (Hot liquids can do that). Once your blender is working smoothly you can increase slowly up to high and blend for a couple of minutes. Place the colander into a large bowl, then place the cheesecloth into the colander. Slowly pour the milk into the colander. When all of the liquid is in the bowl, grab all four corners and squeeze out the remaining liquid. Pour the milk into glass container with a lid and refrigerate. Use it any where you would regular milk.

The body needs healthy fats and hemp seeds have all the essential fatty acids your body wants. When your body starts getting the nutrition and the healthy fats it needs, it will start to detox and rebalance the body to the proper acid/alkaline state and this is what you want because disease only thrives in an overly acid body. Eating hemp seeds daily may restore luster to your hair, improve skin conditions and more importantly may improve cardio vascular health and who wouldn't want that!

You may want to consider the benefits of eating organic fruits and vegetables in addition to hemp seeds to improve overall health

Enjoy!

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WEB MD Sleep Expert Explains the Reality of Sleep Disorders

The Fountain of Youth World Summit with Dr. Michael Breus, the author of Good Night and Web MDs sleep expert.

Kevin: I think it's going to be an awesome talk. And as many people out there know already, I like to get right into it. So let's start talking about sleep. I know you have some facts and you have some numbers. Let's start talking about them.

Dr. Breus: Oh yeah. Let's get right into it. One of the things that's really pretty fascinating, Kevin, is just how many people are reporting any symptom of a sleep problem. If you look back at the National Sleep Foundation data from 2000, you'll see that roughly sixty-two percent of the overall population was reporting a problem. But now in 2005, this is still data that's two years old, we're seeing that almost seventy-five percent of people are reporting a type of a sleep problem.

Kevin: Wow! So it's a thirteen percent increase.

Dr. Breus: Yeah. It's truly amazing. Right now, we're thinking that more than seventy million Americans are suffering from known sleep disorders. Almost fifty percent of people snore. The thing to remember here is snoring is not necessarily a sleep disorder, but it can be a sign or symptom of a sleep disorder called sleep Apnea.

Kevin: Um Hmm

Dr. Breus: Unfortunately, the medical community classify snoring as more of a social nuisance in terms of keeping other people awake. Here's another fascinating statistic is individuals who sleep with somebody who snores lose on average about one hour of sleep per night.

Kevin: Wow! That's incredible! [Laughs]

Dr. Breus: So it might not even be your sleep problem that's keeping you from getting a good night's rest. It could be your bed partner's.

Kevin: Wow.

Dr. Breus: Sleep deprivation affects things like creativity, productivity, memory, relationships and even sexual activity. So there almost isn't an area that sleep doesn't affect. Interestingly enough, it affects every single organ system available. And here's the thing that was kind of baffling to me when I first started getting into this field - I don't know if you know this, but there are eighty-eight different sleep disorders.

Kevin: No kidding!

Dr. Breus: Yeah. You wouldn't think that there would be so many. I mean you'd figure "Well, you know, I close my eyes, I go to sleep, how many things could go wrong?" Well, the truth of the matter is, there are literally eighty-eight different types of sleep disorders. Now some of them can be long-term, they have specific categories. And there are really four or five main sleep disorders that I [haven't seen to] to deal with them. I practice and also talk about them in my book. And those who fall into the category of insomnia, which could be "having a problem falling asleep" or "having a problem staying asleep" or either "waking too early". there's also a new category of insomnia that we should talk about just for a brief moment, which is called, it's not really called insufficient sleep, it's basically called "poor quality sleep"?

Kevin: Okay.

Dr. Breus: And so it's not about the number of minutes that you get but the quality of those minutes. So what's interesting here is that some people might sleep eight hours but they wake up, and they feel horrible.

Kevin: Right.

Dr. Breus: That's a whole new phenomena that we're just starting to learn more about and trying to investigate more about.

Kevin: Anything about the factors? What are some of the factors about?

Dr. Breus: Well, you know what? That's a good question as there could be multiple factors. It could be anything from stress, to caffeine, to other medical problems, to even medications or supplements that you could be taking that could be affecting your sleep.

Kevin: Mm Hmm.

Dr. Breus: So that's a lot of different things that could affect your sleep. The thing that people don't realize is - I'm kind of like, sort of an internal medicine doctor but, for the night time, if you will, simply because every single area, every single thing you do, can have a potential affect on your sleep. Now that doesn't mean that I want everybody to lock themselves in the room,

Kevin: [laughs]

Dr. Breus: You know, never drink coffee again,

Kevin: [laughs]

Dr. Breus: [Have a glass of wine] or anything like that, because that's just not me, number one. Number two is that's just not realistic. What I'm hoping to do today with this talk is to let people know, first of all, that this is a serious situation. Second, that there are a lot of different things that we'll be able to do. Very quickly, here even today, even notes that you'd be able to take today during this teleconference, that will allow you to sleep better tonight. And they're very realistic, and they're not, [say], going to change your life forever.

Kevin: Well, that's fantastic. I must get into that. [Laughs]

Dr. Breus: Absolutely. Some people like to know what are some of these big problems that everybody's talking about. So, first of all, about fifty-three percent of people say that they often wake up not feeling refreshed. Thirty-six percent of people say they have trouble falling back to sleep. And then just thirty-one percent of people say they just can't fall asleep in general, [just] that sleep on insomnia, what we call it. Again, kind of interesting but more often than not, people are saying it's not the falling asleep, even though a third of people have a problem with that, it's the staying asleep,

Kevin: Okay.

Dr. Breus: That seems to really get to them.

Kevin: Okay.

Dr. Breus: Now, the other thing that's kind of fascinating is looking at who has these problems. Believe it or not, women have a tendency to report sleep problems more than men do. Now, I think there're a couple of different reasons for that. One of the different reasons I feel is that women, first of all, they have a reasonably better in touch sense with their body. They know and understand their body. They listen to their bodies, but they also have a greater likelihood to talk about these issues.

Kevin: Sure.

Dr. Breus: Not necessarily just with their friends, but also with their physicians, their therapists, whoever happens to be speaking with them. And so, interestingly enough, eighty-three percent of the people who are talking about these are women.

Kevin: Guys are just like "I'm okay.". [Laughs]

Dr. Breus: Right, it's kind of like this bravado "Hey, I don't have any problems. All I need is five hours of sleep. Rrrr".

Kevin: [Laughs]

Dr. Breus: You know. And the truth of the matter is, that's just not the case. You know, I was with executives from Fortune 100 to Fortune 500 companies all over the world. And, you know, men, women, doesn't really matter. What I find is men come in and they say "You know, I'm tough, blah blah blah. But when you get them into room and you talk to them, they're in trouble. They're having a really tough time because they're not eating right, they're not exercising while they're on the road, and they're certainly not sleeping right. And that's affecting their performance not only at work, but at home.

Kevin: Right.

Dr. Breus: And that's a big deal. And we're also seeing, interestingly enough, there's sort of a bimodal distribution where we're seeing a lot of people between the ages of eighteen and thirty-four having sleep problems. But then also in my practice, I'm seeing people who are in their forty-five and up range having sleep problems as well. So it really seems to be the two distributions which probably speak to the fact there're two different types of sleep problems that are probably available in those groups.

Kevin: What do you speculate those to be?

Dr. Breus: I think the speculations would probably fall that the younger group - we're going to see more people with insomnia type problems?

Kevin: Okay.

Dr. Breus: And what I call disordered sleep.

Kevin: Okay.

Dr. Breus: See, there's a big difference between a sleep disorder which is a form of diagnosis like insomnia or [apnea] or [narcolepsy] and what I call disordered sleep, which is just wake up and "I don't feel so hot.".

Kevin: Right.

Dr. Breus: I think those insomnia and the disordered sleep fall in the eighteen to thirty-four range. When you start to get above forty-five, I think that's where we start to see a greater preponderance of sleep [apnea],

Kevin: Mm Hmm.

Dr. Breus: Most of us seem to go throughout any particular age range but restless life syndrome pops up huge in the older population.

Kevin: Okay. Is sleep apnea due to overweight, obesity?

Dr. Breus: Well, here's the interesting thing - is there're multiple factors for sleep apnea. Let's just go into, real quickly, what is sleep apnea.

Kevin: Mm Hmm.

Dr. Breus: Sleep apnea is where you stop breathing in your sleep. Okay. Generally speaking I like my patients to breathe,

Kevin: [Laughs]

Dr. Breus: Okay, and so it's good when they keep breathing all night long. Now the truth of the matter is this - you won't stop breathing in your sleep and not start back, okay. I had a funny time. I was sitting with a patient. I'm explaining her results, studying with her. And I sat down with her and I said "You know, Mrs XYZ, I want to let you know that you stopped breathing in your sleep over two hundred times last night.".

Kevin: Wow!

Dr. Breus: You know what she said to me? "Did I start back up?"

Kevin: [Laughs]

Dr. Breus: Now that's pretty classic. But that's the level of education that we have to get to here in teaching people what's going on. So the answer is - yes, she did start back up. And would you believe me if I told you that her sleep apnea was only moderate, and she stopped breathing over two hundred times a night?

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The Effects Of Sleep Disorders And Daylight Savings Time

The Fountain of Youth World Summit with Dr. Michael Breus, the author of Good Night and Web MDs sleep expert.

Dr. Breus: When I was working with Rosie O'Donnell from the television show "The View", she too had obstructive sleep apnea. We talked about it nationally on television with her, and she stopped breathing in her sleep over two hundred and fifty times in a night.

Kevin: Wow! Then how do you know that it's happening? They don't know that it's happening!

Dr. Breus: They have no idea. And that's what's so scary about this situation with sleep. It's you wake up and you don't feel so hot, but you have no idea what was going on.

Kevin: Right.

Dr. Breus: So there's multiple ways to get at that. Sometimes it's going for a formal sleep study. Sometimes it's even easier than that. Sometimes it's just asking your bed partner "Hey, have you heard me snore?" or "Have you heard me stop breathing in my sleep?", or things like that. Because again that can be a really big factor. But all of these different things - whether it's a sleep disorder or disordered sleep - cause sleep deprivation.

Kevin: Yeah.

Dr. Breus: And that's the real big kicker here. It's not necessarily stopping breathing in your sleep that's not so great for you, even though, believe me, having low oxygen levels isn't good. Because it can cause stroke and heart attack and things like that.

Kevin: Mm hmm.

Dr. Breus: But what happens is this - your brain says "Holy cow! There's no oxygen." And it wakes you up. And it's like an alarm clock going off all night long.

Kevin: Two hundred times.

Dr. Breus: [Every] five or ten minutes.

Kevin: Yeah.

Dr. Breus: I mean, think about that. If an alarm clock went off every five minutes all night long, how good would you feel the next morning?

Kevin: [Laughs] Terrible.

Dr. Breus: Right, you'd feel pretty crappy.

Kevin: Yeah.

Dr. Breus: Well, every time you do that - from either sleep apnea or insomnia or restless life syndrome or what I call disordered sleep - it causes sleep deprivation. And sleep deprivation affects several different areas. The first area that it affects is cognition or thinking in creative process. You know when we're at work, or we're at home, or we're trying to problem-solve or come up with new solutions, we have a real big problem if we're too sleepy to do it. You know what I'm saying?

Kevin: I'm pretty sure there's a lot of callers on the line right now have experienced that.

Dr. Breus: Yeah. There's no question about it. Another big area is reaction time. So how quickly do we react to external stimulants?

Kevin: Mm hmm.

Dr. Breus: Turns out to be a major factor, from sleep deprivation. So, what does that mean? Driving a car, big factor. Here's a great example - Daylights Saving Time. We all just experienced this, the spring forward aspect. What we lose - approximately one hour of sleep -

Kevin: Right. Dr. Breus: Well, did you know that the two days after Daylights Saving Time are the number one and two days for car accidents?

Kevin: Get out of here. That's incredible.

Dr. Breus: Yeah.

Kevin: Hmm.

Dr. Breus: And that's from losing one hour of sleep. Now you'd think "Oh so what I lose an hour. It's not that big a deal.". The truth of the matter is, it turns out to be a bigger deal because we are a sleep deprived nation. The average individual gets approximately 6.9 hours of sleep per night. But what we're finding is when we really look at that a little bit closer ( cause that's what they report ) it's about 6.9 hours, which you see now, seven hours of sleep. That's not so bad.

Kevin: Mm hmm.

Dr. Breus: When we actually study them in the lab, it turns out they're getting closer to 5.9 hours of sleep.

Kevin: Really? And the difference is ...

Dr. Breus: About an hour's worth of sleep, and then when you're talking about people who are getting six hours worth of sleep verses seven, that's almost a full sleep cycle towards the end of the night, which can have a tremendous amount to do with memory, reaction time, creativity, you name it.

Kevin: Yeah. Well, without getting too detailed, can you go into a sleep cycle?

Dr. Breus: Sure. So what happens when you go into a sleep cycle? First of all, people should know, that sleep is not just an on-off switch. It doesn't work that way. You don't just walk into a room, turn off the light and boom you're asleep. It's more like pulling your foot slowly off the gas

Kevin: Yeah.

Dr. Breus: Multiple things have to be released and multiple things have to occur in order for that switch-over to happen. But once [you actually], your body does settle down and calm down enough to fall asleep, that's when things start to get interesting. So we measure sleep in multiple different ways, but primarily through brainwaves, or what we call EEG. Now people have probably seen it on you know, "[Grey's] Anatomy" and, you know, "E.R.", normally thinks we see the line flipping across the screen,

Kevin: Mm hmm.

Dr. Breus: Well, there are different wave forms that we can identify that will tell us which stages of sleep people are in. And that has to do with how quickly information is moving across your brain. So right when you close your eyes, you have alpha wave, which is a calm, sort of bio-feedback situation where you're relaxed just somewhere between seven and nine [hertz], so seven to nine cycles per second of your brain moving back and forth. After that, you move into Stage One sleep. and Stage Two sleep. Now, Stage One and Stage Two sleep are kind of hard to tell apart. There are a couple of different landmarks, and we don't have to go into all the specifics of it. But basically, Stage Two sleep occupies almost fifty percent of your night, as an adult.

Kevin: Okay.

Dr. Breus: But as a child, it only represents about twenty percent of your night. And as an infant, it [laughs] almost doesn't represent any of your night.

Kevin: Okay.

Dr. Breus: So, if I take a baby and I hook him up to an EEG, it's almost all deep sleep, which we as adults are lucky if we get eighteen to twenty percent [of our night hour]

Kevin: Okay.

Dr. Breus: And that's the wake-up-and-feel-great sleep. That's the "Wow! I feel recharged. I feel refreshed. I feel ready to meet the day" sleep.

Kevin: Okay.

Dr. Breus: Okay. Infants also have a much larger bit of R.E.M. sleep, or rapid eye movement sleep. Now, a lot of people say "Well, Micheal, isn't that the sleep where you dream?". Well, yes and no. You have a greater [preponderance] to dream during R.E.M. sleep. But you can actually dream at any stage of sleep, believe it or not. Most people don't know that. And the way you can prove that to yourself is if you ever fall asleep on the couch, and you've had a dream, you'll know that you probably want to sleep that long. The average person, it takes them between eighty and a hundred and twenty minutes to get to R.E.M. sleep.

Kevin: Well, okay.

Dr. Breus: So it turns out to be quite a big difference there. So, again, it's not necessary that you're only going to dream during R.E.M. sleep. You have a greater tendency to dream then, but you can dream during any stage of sleep.

Kevin: Okay.

Dr. Breus: Let's get back to some of the facts of sleep,

Kevin: Sure.

Dr. Breus: Provision on health. It also affects how we heal. One of the things we know is that research studies shown here, hospitals show that individuals who have better sleep in hospital actually heal better. We know that people lose weight better when they're not sleep deprived and when they're... going into the specifics of that in a little while.

Kevin: Mm hmm.

Dr. Breus: We know that we defend against disease. There was a fantastic study that showed that individuals who take the flu shot actually find that they are less effective when they are sleepy. I mean, think about that. Think about all the people who go out and get flu shots. And if they are sleep deprived, they're doing themselves no good. You know what I mean? Depression is a whole other factor. One of the things we're starting to learn about now, is that individuals who are sleep deprived have a greater tendency to have depression. And people who have a genetic propensity for depression, they can kick off in the bed, just like being sleep deprived.

Kevin: Okay.

Dr. Breus: So it's pretty serious stuff. When we look at just women, in general, there are some pretty amazing statistics here as well. Seventy-five percent of menopausal women experience hot flushes, alright. Hot flushes will affect your sleep. Forty percent of menopausal women have sleep problems caused by hot flushes. So, what we're talking about now, is we're talking about roughly thirty- five percent of all menopausal women are having disrupted sleep. And all women go through menopause.

Kevin: Wow.

Dr. Breus: So, that's a pretty tremendous section of the population who're going to have sleep problems, just from the life hormonal changes.

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Why Short Workouts Work Best: Build a Better Body in Less Time

The Fountain of Youth World Summit with Ryan Lee, fitness professional, the founder of Prograde Nutrition and fitness sites Sports Specific and Work Out Pass.

Kevin: Great. Well, tonight is going to be absolutely awesome. I know that for sure and as you know I don't like to waste any time and as everyone else knows I don't like to waste any time. Let's get right into it. Let's talk a little bit about your story, how you began in the workout business?

Ryan: Okay and I will cut right to the chase too. Basically, I've been a fitness professional since '94. I've always worked out my entire life since I started at 12 years old working out in my basement, you know, with the Joe Weider set. I progressed up. I was a competitive athlete in high school and college. I was a track athlete. I was a sprinter, did really well there and continued just to stay in the fitness industry. I always worked out clients. I did strengthening and conditioning clinics. I did the USTA, United States Figure Skating. I worked at Children's Rehab Hospital. I trained people in their houses. I trained people in gyms. So I pretty much trained people my whole life and also as a phys. ed. instructor in a school, as well, in New York City. So I had to learn to be adaptive with my workouts. And what I did I was kind of one of the first people back in like '94, '95 to do 30-minute workouts.

What I found was a lot of my clients just didn't have a lot of time. They were busy and then when I started training people in the school the classes were 50 minutes but by the time my kids got to the class, and they changed and they gave me a hard time I usually had about 20 minutes to work out. And when I first got to the school we didn't have any equipment. There was no room literally. I had to go to the student's rooms, to the classrooms. And they'd say okay, let's do the workout. So I had to really be creative. So I would come up with these 20-minute, 30-minute workouts, 15-minute workouts and from there, you know, I would start to do this on my own and started really studying the science of exercise. That's what I got my Master's in, exercise physiology, and I started to realize that, you know, I think a lot of people were working out wrong. I'd see these guys spending two hours in the gym, you know, and I'd say what do you do? They'd say, oh I'm just working arms. And they would do like preacher curls, and barbell curls, and dumbbell curls, and preacher. It was just unbelievable. They just seemed to be wasting so much time.

I created the whole system and then after my first daughter was born, Jordan, I really had no free time. So I read this study by Professor Tabota out in Japan doing these four minute workout intervals just using anaerobic training so I kind of adapted it and created this whole four minute work out system using strength training, body weight, dumbbells. You know things that you had at home and I would literally do these workouts while my little girl was like taking a nap or in the room watching a baby Einstein. And I would do these quick workouts and I started actually seeing really good results and I started--created a DVD on the workouts and I started prescribing these workouts to clients online and then people started getting great results. Then Men's Fitness reviewed it and called it the world's fastest workout and, you know, the rest is history.

Kevin: Four minutes is pretty intense man. How did you get from hours in the gym to four minutes? I mean how -- that's not to say, and we'll talk about this later, that's not to say four minutes is perfect for everyone but how does it start from those hours in the gym? What goes in your physiology to get that short period of time and still gets results?

Ryan: Well, basically the reason why typical workouts, you know, the two hours in the gym aren't as effective is first of all there's a lot of time wasting and there's a lot of -- you know, when you're at the gym you get your towel and you get a drink of water, you talk to your buddy. You know, there's definitely between each set you end of wasting probably four or five minutes on average. So one typical set of three exercises, you know, one exercise for three sets usually takes about 15 to 20 minutes or even more. And it's just not efficient. I mean when you -- typical gym workouts are you break it into body parts. Say today is arm day, or today is leg day, or today is, you know back day and you end up hitting the same muscle group but you do like five or six exercises and there's just no real benefit. I mean unless -- the only time you should be doing those type of workouts, personally I feel, is if you're a professional body builder or you want to be a body builder. I mean that's when it would be most appropriate; but if you're like 99% of the population who just want to look better, have more energy, and feel more fit then you just need to kind of get rid of those single joint movements, like a bicep curl, and just go multi joints. So you know what the best bicep exercise is? Like a pull up. I mean you're doing, you know, your elbow flexion. You're working your biceps but you're also working your back.

You can play around with your leg positioning and work your core region as well or you could do -- maybe grab a pair of dumbbells and do a squat, and then as you come up do a curl, and then maybe you can turn into a press. So you're getting your bicep, you know, your elbow flexion and extension with the press. So you can work your biceps but you can do many other body parts at the same time and it's all about being efficient and, you know, these workouts -- see the difference is too when I used to train, you know, I ran track in college competitively. So I trained as a sprinter. So all we did were sprints. I mean by sprints I mean in practice we'd go all out 100 meters, or 150 meters and for people who are a little metrically challenged 100 meters is pretty much, you know, a football field from end zone to end zone and sprinting that as hard as you can. You know, resting for a couple of minutes and sprinting it again; and those are the type of workouts that get you just writ and feeling good and feeling energetic and raises your human growth hormone level. And all you have to do is watch a competitive track meet on TV the one time they show it a year or the Olympics and you look at the finals of the 100-meter dash; and you tell me those athletes, the men and women, are not in just phenomenal shape. And then, you know, wait until they show the marathon guys. Wait until they show the guys running 5 miles and 10 miles and they look awful. They are thin as a rail. They look like they're older. Their faces are drawn. They're always hurt. And I'm like why would I want to train like that? I don't want to look like that.

I want to look lean, and cut and healthy. So I'm not even sure if I answered your question but anyway you're transitioning.

Kevin: You did. Well, the next question is going to give some more insight for everyone out there. Now, you're talking about sprinting and then you're talking about marathon running. Why don't you talk about the difference in the two systems, not necessarily as applied to a marathon and sprinting but just the two energy systems and how that's working?

Ryan: See, here's the big misunderstanding with exercise. You know, I'll give you the real, real basic physiology of it for everyone listening right now. Basically, when you go at a slow pace, you know, you go a walk or a slow jog you're using more fat as energy at the slower pace. So everyone once they heard that they said, oh my god if that's the case compared to a sprint where it's more, you know, the carb source, the glycolysis and all that kind of stuff. You know, people start to think okay, then you have to go slow if you want to burn fat but here's the problem. Let's say you run three miles and you're using more of your fat as energy. What happens is your body uses a little bit of the fat during the workout and then once your workout's done now you're getting ready for your next workout. So the next time you workout your body is like, oh my god. Okay, we're doing more exercise but last time we used this fat as an energy so now we have to really hold onto it because your body thinks that there's some trouble. They're like okay; we're going to need this fat later on. So now your body actually starts to conserve the fat. So it said hey, we are going to do some exercise now. Now we've got to really hold onto the fat. And then as you start getting more fit and your body adapts to the workouts it starts holding onto the fat even more.

And that's why, you know, when you look at distance runners they are not muscular. They're thin but they're soft. They don't have muscularity because their body is just so used to conserving the fat. And now three miles now takes three and a half miles, now take four miles and it's a never ending cycle; as opposed to the opposite when you're sprinting you're using a different energy system but you're actually burning more calories and oxygen consumption when you're done working out and there have been studies that show, you know, up to 38 hours later. When you're done doing aerobic exercise maybe it's for an hour and then it's done but the high intensity sprint- type workouts that's why it's so much more effective because it's not holding on to the fat storage.

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Four Minutes to a More Fit and Healthy Body

The Fountain of Youth World Summit with Ryan Lee, fitness professional, the founder of Prograde Nutrition and fitness sites Sports Specific and Work Out Pass.

Kevin: Okay. Let's talk about the four minutes. What's included in the four minute workout? I mean it seems even to a lot of people out there that four minutes just doesn't seem like enough.

Ryan: Yeah. You know, it's funny because people do say that. They say how much, how hard, is four minutes? And I speak at some big fitness conferences and there was one about a year ago where I put people through these workouts, you know high level fitness professionals. And I said, okay I'm going to give you guys a little sample. Let's do two minutes of it and they were floored. A lot of them couldn't even finish it. If you think about it like this, okay, if you want to run a mile, you know, the best milers in the world run a mile at about 4 minutes, right? 3 minutes and 58 seconds. Are you telling me that if you run a mile in four minutes you're not getting a good workout? Like four minutes doesn't sound like a lot but it is tough. When you were doing my strength exercises for 20 seconds as hard as you can and as many reps as you can and then you only rest for 10 and then you've got to do it again and you rest and do it for 8, you know. I could floor the best athletes in the world with depending on how intense I want to take it, depending on the exercise I choose. If I'm choosing real full body intense and, you know, as they get more fit you could just load up more weight and more resistance. You know, I know well over a hundred ways to do a push-up, you know, between a regular push up, a one-handed push up, a one hand, one leg push-up. You know, push up with two legs on the ball, one leg on the ball, two legs on the ball, one hand, two legs on the ball and one hand on the ball, you know.

So there's so many ways you could progress and change just one exercise to make it more difficult as you get stronger. So I'm not saying that for the rest of your life all you need to do are these four minute workouts but it's definitely a great thing to add into your routines and I've gone like a month or so that these are the only type of workouts I'll do or I'll cycle them into different workouts but I think that you'd be surprised how much of a workout you can get. And then as you get more fit you can do a couple of them. I was working up to three of these four-minute workouts a day. Sometimes I would do one or two in the morning and then I'd do one in the afternoon or one at night or you could do one in the morning, one in the afternoon and one at night.

Kevin: Yeah. This sounds like an awesome solution for people who are busy. I'm sure that's one of the reasons why you put this together. What does an average week look like if you're doing this type of program?

Ryan: The average week, you know what I like to do is try to maybe just do some straight training three times a week and rest the other two or some aerobic training. That was in the past. I like to personally try to do these workouts five days a week.

Kevin: Okay.

Ryan: But what you can do is if you're feeling a little burnt out, you know, you could maybe do the strength exercises like a Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Tuesday, Thursday stay with the same interval with the 20 on, 10 off but choose more, you know, anaerobic-type exercises; so maybe sprinting. So you'll sprint for 20 seconds, you rest for 10, sprint for 20, and then rest for 10, especially if you want to get into the fat burning mode.

Kevin: Right.

Ryan: Or jump rope, or jumping jacks, or mounting climbing or things like that; or a stationary bike. It's hard to do on a treadmill because by the time you start – unless it's a manual treadmill where you're powering the treadmill but on a typical motorized treadmill by the time you get it up to full sprint, you know, on the treadmill they usually go up to 12, maybe 15 miles an hour. It takes like 8 seconds or 10 seconds. By the time you get up there you're up there for 10 and then you've got to lower it again. So it doesn't really work on a treadmill. When I used to go to the gym, a typical gym, what I used to do is go into the aerobics room. I would get one of those resistance bands that most gyms have or bungee cords and I would tie it around a pole and make a big loop and then tie the other part around my waste and I would literally sprint in place.

Kevin: Okay.

Ryan: And do my intervals and watch the clock as I did them. And people probably thought I was insane. Like okay, we have these treadmills, and treadmills with built in fans and we have ESPN and you can watch all this stuff. I'm like, nah, that's all right. And you know what? I looked better than everyone who was on the treadmills for an hour. They'd be just sweating their butt off and they'd look terrible.

Kevin: So the intervals that you're talking about are 20 seconds on, 10 seconds off. What are some of the exercises? I know you ran over some. I mean does this need any equipment?

Ryan: No, no. Actually I did one DVD where it's all body weight.

Kevin: Okay.

Ryan: I have ten different workouts. It's all purely body weight. You don't need any equipment. You can always, obviously, if you have some equipment all you need are a simple pair of dumbbells. You can use – I love kettlebells too. I don't talk too much about kettle bells just because most people don't have them yet. So I want to at least teach them the system using body weight because everyone can find a pair of dumbbells. Just go to any sporting goods store and get a cheap pair of the gray, you know, metal dumbbells. They're called hex dumbbells. They're probably about $0.50 a pound. So you guys can go get those. Start off light. Maybe if a female maybe start off with like a five pound set because you're like, oh five pounds is nothing but when you start doing these exercises if you're doing thrusters, and renegade rows and all these kinds of things five pounds starts to feel very heavy by about the sixth round.

Kevin: Sure.

Ryan: And the guys maybe start off with a ten or fifteen. You can always go up in weight.

Kevin: Yeah, guys will think that's pretty light. I mean what can you tell them?

Ryan: Oh, my god. I challenge anyone to do dumbbell thrusters with 20 pounds for a full four minutes. Within 20 second I'll tell...

Kevin: What is a dumbbell thruster just so they'll know?

Ryan: Okay, a dumbbell thruster – okay, imaging you're standing up right now and now you have the dumbbells in each hand. And now bend your elbows and put your hands like on your shoulders, almost like you're about to do like just a regular standing shoulder press. And now what I want you to do is quickly you go down to a full squat position and with the dumbbells still staying on your shoulders. So you come down with a squat, the dumbbells still on your shoulders. As you come up from the squat explosively you raise your hands above your head like you're doing a shoulder press.

Kevin: Okay.

Ryan: And then you repeat and as you come down the squat you lower it to your shoulders. So it's almost like a squat press and you do those as fast and as many as you can in 20 seconds, rest for 10 second and repeat that for 8 full.

Kevin: So there's a challenge out there for guys, four minutes? Holy cow.

Ryan: Yeah, you do it for eight full rounds. So it's four minutes total, 20 seconds on, 10 seconds off. I challenge you. Go 20 pounds, go 25 pounds and you'll see how quickly you can be humbled. I've worked up to like – I've done them with 35 pounds. It is brutal.

Kevin: Why don't you give the sample of – if you can take us through one or two of maybe your favorite four-minute workouts quick.

Ryan: Okay. There's literally thousands of them but I'll just try to give you a couple. Let me give one for people who are beginners. So if you haven't worked out before and you're a little intimidated here's just a really simple beginner workout that will kind of work every body part. Okay, so maybe we'll start off – let's do an upper body pushing exercise. So we'll do some type of pushup movement and if you're a beginning and you're like oh, my god I can't even do one pushup. Start off with a wall push up so you keep your body straight and you just find a wall, a little bit of an angle and you just pushups against the wall. Again, as many as you can, so let's just say 15 seconds and then you take a 15 second rest. The next exercise we'll break it up and let's do a lower body and we'll go with just a regular wall squat where you know you put your back against the wall, keep your feet about two or three feet in front of the wall and then you just slide down, slide down the wall, slide back up. Go down to about parallel positioned so your thighs are parallel to the floor and slide yourself back up against the wall. And again 15 second on and 15 seconds off. And now let's get back to an upper body. Let's do an upper body pull. If you have resistance bands you could just do a regular standing row or if you have a pull up bar, some way to modify it you could do a modified pull up, which is a pull up basically on an angle so you're laying down lower. If you're at a gym a good machine for this is a Smith machine. The Smith machine are those barbells that are like attached to a lever that just go up and down in a fixed position so you lower that to a lower position and it's almost like you're doing – almost like a reverse bench press if you think of it like that. Pull yourself up; pull yourself down, 15 on, 15 off. And then we could finish up with, let's say, a core-type movement, maybe just a basic crunch or a basic bicycle crunch. So that's four exercises right there.

This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni's Fountain of Youth Summit, which can be found at http://fountainofyouthworldsummit.com. In this excerpt, Ryan Lee shares what's in his four minute work out.

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Surrounding Your Self With Success and Dealing With Negativity

Kevin: How do you deal with your family or people who say, oh yeah, you know, Sally's back on this like workout thing again or yeah Jim's going to train for that marathon for another month and then he's going to hurt himself again. How do deal with that? That's pretty intense to have that sort of energy around you.

Ryan: It is. You just say hey, that was the past. This is the new me. Like also when you declare it, it's definitely harder for you to go back on it, you know. If you've had a history of saying you're going to do something and don't follow through that's in the past. Today is the present and you just have to say, look this is what I'm doing. I've changed my life. This is my goal. You either support me or don't talk to me at all, you know. That's it. I've been able to – well first of all I'm blessed to have a wife who's supportive of me and a family who's very supportive but, you know, I've found that when I used to work full time with different jobs, you know, I would sometimes go to lunch with these people who were just so negative. And literally when I worked at the children's hospital I used to always have lunch with the guys in the engineering department and they would literally all they did was complain and just oh, this stinks and I just had to get away. I said look, I can't have lunch with them any more. And I just didn't. I would just sit at a different table and I'd rather just go out and eat by myself. You're better off being alone than being surrounded by negative people. It's true. I truly believe that. If everyone in your life is negative you're better off being alone because all they're going to do is put you down.

So you have to surround yourself with positive people and, you know maybe if it's your mom who every time you talk to her is all she does is put you done negative then stop talking to your mom so much and get online and start making new relationships with other people. Yeah, you know, go on discussion forums where's it's positive people. Not the negative ones. I have some private forums for my membership sites and, you know, I go through it and make sure that it's like positive, supportive people and you'll find when you attract these positive people into your life your life will start to feel better. Another thing too is most people who work, you know, tend to have some kind of commute, whether it's ten minutes in the car, an hour on the train. During that time what I do all I do is listen to positive motivational audio programs. That's it.

Kevin: Who do you listen to now?

Ryan: Now, like in my car coming here it's the second time I've listened to it, one of Jack Canfield's programs, the Success Principles.

Kevin: Okay.

Ryan: I've listened to Tony Robbins and Bryan Tracey and I'll listen to marketing information, and fitness CDs, or anything that helps me learn and stay focused and stay positive because what happened was actually two weeks ago I was just listening to some of the local radio shows and they just complain. They're negative. They make fun of people and it really put me like in a little funk. And to show you also how powerful energy is it's funny because my business partner Jim LaBeatty and I are in the same office suite here and there's all these other businesses too in these suites. There's one guy who was down the hall from us and he was here ever since we moved in and he was probably the most miserable looking person I've seen in my life. Like, I'm telling you Kevin, you would walk by this guy's office and you'd feel the negative energy. You really would.

Kevin: Wow.

Ryan: He always had his door open. Every time I'd walk by I'd smile and say hi. He never, ever said a word to me. He'd just give me like a dirty look. It's really weird and it was also no shock that he was probably about 150 pounds overweight too. So he's probably just annoyed that I'm this fit looking guy. But anyway he was so – I just gave off the worse energy and it was right by where the water machine in and I always had to walk by every day and they finally moved out about two weeks ago. And I said to Jim yesterday, I said did you notice. I wonder if this is a coincidence and then two new guys moved in to his old office. They're like young, energetic, always smiling, always saying hi. I said do you feel like the difference? He said, yeah I do. And we actually felt the physical difference in the office by the amount of negative energy this guy was giving out. And if that's just one guy in an office imagine if you're surrounded like this in your family, or your friends or everyone is so negative. And you know what? That's just something you have to deal with. You're going to have to go to activities that are going to attract other positive successful people and people who are supportive of you. You know, there's always going to be negative people who would rather bring you down with them than see you succeed. And they're the people who are jealous and maybe your friend is overweight and they see you losing weight and they're like oh, you don't look good thin anyway or your face doesn't always positive. To be honest I don't watch the news any more. I don't read the newspapers because all it is is just negative stuff to try to get ratings. That's all it is. I probably shouldn't be saying this because I'm going to start a bit publicity campaign in the newspapers and on TV. So if you're the media listening I love you very much.

Kevin: I believe, and this is okay to move into this. Though I believe it that's people are that's where you need to get them, correct?

Ryan: Um-hum.

Kevin: You know, because a lot of people on this call they're getting this information now and I can tell by the testimonials already that I'm getting from this is that, you know, we're opening people's minds up here and this stuff absolutely applies. And I really think that it's just essential. And what I'm going to ask you now is what do you think is some of the biggest things that are stopping people from getting on the success track and getting on the fitness track and getting things in order?

Ryan: Well, I think, you know, first of all there's obviously the mindset part there is they don't actually make the decision that I'm going to change, and they don't stick to it and they just live in the past. In terms of more of the logistical part I think that it's intimidating. There's so much information about fitness, about training. It's like what exercise routine do I do? Which guru do I follow? You know, then most – I'd say 99% of fitness professionals tell clients, you know, you're going to have to work out five days a week for two hours a day and you're going to have to do your aerobic training for 45 minutes on the treadmill. And clients are just intimidated like I don't want to do that, you know. I want to stay fit and lose weight but I don't want to have to spend two hours in the gym. So I think it's intimidating and people are afraid to get started, or they go to a gym and they don't have a trainer, and they don't have any instruction and they just are following what the big muscle head's doing and people are telling them the wrong information and they're afraid they're going to get hurt. It's just a lot of misinformation and it's overwhelming. You know, you look at the encyclopedia of body builders, like it's a 500- page monster. So I think it's just intimidating and they don't know where to turn, you know. And maybe I'm throwing another level onto it saying, hey you can do these workouts in four minutes but, you know, I think that if I can teach people that hey, you know, you don't have to be a model on the cover of a fitness magazine.

You know, you can lose weight, and feel good and have more energy and get healthier just by doing these simple workouts and if you can't find four minutes. If you can't find four minutes in your day and you tell me you're too busy you're full of crap. I'm sorry. If you can't find four minutes you're telling me you can't set your alarm for four minutes earlier or eight minutes earlier. You're lying because I have two little kids. I run about 13 businesses, you know. I work every minute of my life is like planned and I still find time to work out and you can too. I don't care if you have 30 jobs. Everyone has a lunch break. You know, when I used to work in the city that was the thing. I would get to work really early and do the work there and during lunch I would run over to the gym and do a workout, you know, where everyone else would sit and shove pizza in their face at the desk, you know. And then they complain that they feel like crap and they're having heart attacks at age 35 years old. You know, stop making excuses. And you also have to take responsibility for everything in your life.

If right now you're listening to this and you are 250 pounds, or you're 180 pounds and you should be 140, whatever it is. Stop blaming. Don't blame your parents. Don't blame your parents for bad genetics. Don't blame McDonald's. Don't blame, you know, infomercials. Don't blame, you know portion size. It's your responsibility. You are the one who's not exercising or not exercising right. You're the one who's eating poorly. You're the one picking up the Big Mac and putting in your mouth and washing it down with fries and a soda. You know, it's you. It's 100% your responsibility. If you're successful and you said, hey I did that and I'm proud of myself. Then you should also take responsibility for your failures. If you take responsibility for your success take responsibility for your failures because until you do that you're always going to be blaming people and I'm tired of people not taking responsibility for their own actions. And use that success. Whatever you've been successful in. Maybe you know how to speak two languages. And maybe you've been successful in raising two kids. Whatever it is find that success and say okay, if I've been successful in this I can definitely lose weight. And take the success but take responsibility. Take responsibility for everything.

This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni's Fountain of Youth Summit, which can be found at http://fountainofyouthworldsummit.com. In this excerpt, Ryan Lee shares on dealing with negative relationships or circumstances.

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Paying For Individual Health Plans For Employees

Many employers in California do not realize that paying for employee's individual health insurance policies presents many problems. There can be liability for the employer in doing so. Let's look at the implications and understand why providing Small Group health insurance to your California employees is important.

First, we need to understand the differences between Small Group health or employer sponsored health insurance and individual/family or private insurance. Small Group is quite different in a few key ways. First, it is governed by California law AB 1672. Among many provisions set forth in AB 1672, Small Group coverage is guaranteed issue to qualified small companies with 2-50 employees. This means that a person with a legitimate employer-employee relationship (can be full or part-time depending on group preference) cannot be declined due to health.

Individual/Family health insurance is quite different in this respect. Individuals must qualify based on health in a process called medical underwriting. They can be declined coverage have rates increased based on their health history or status. This difference in medical qualification is a big issue for small groups that pay for individual health insurance plans for their employees if the group is eligible or capable of providing group health. If an employee is declined coverage and/or suffers a major medical bill, he/she can go after the employer saying that the employer should have sponsored a qualified (guaranteed issue) group health plan. This assumes that the employer met the requirements under AB 1672 to offer such a plan. As an employer, you also do not want to know too much about an employee's health status. If you need to let the employee go, there can be issues in knowing that they were declined individual health insurance. Keep a good separation from this knowledge to avoid issues in hiring/firing.

Employers usually offer individual plans based on cost but the difference hardly justifies this exposure to liability. In California, the employer can pay as little as 50% of the employees health insurance premium and with options such as Employee Elect through Anthem Blue Cross, an employer can now offer a full range of plans to each employee with a fixed contribution (dollar amount or a percentage of a given plan).

The other main issue deals with the tax treatment of employers paying for employee's individual health plans. Officially, only a qualified group plan premium for employees can be deducted as a business expense. Paying for individual health plans generally cannot be deducted. Make sure to run your company's situation by a tax professional but this is a major drawback for paying for individual health plans.

In summary, with all the options, both from a plan and cost perspective, on the market, small group health insurance makes the most sense. Run your instant quote and please let us know how we can help investigate your Small Group health insurance options. It is important to avoid the liability of employees not qualifying for individual health plans due to health history and to make sure you take advantage of the tax benefits associated with paying for qualify Group health plans.  

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Dennis Jarvis is a licensed California group health insurance broker with extensive knowledge of the Small Group health market in California. http://www.california-group-health-insurance.com

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Death by Diarrhea - New Mutant Bacteria Invades Hospitals

Sound like a sci-fi scenario? - Unfortunately it is too real. A new and very virulent mutant pathogen has infected patients in hospitals in at least 38 states. Because cases of the infection by these bacteria are not reported in many states, the incidence of infection is likely increasing at a much more rapid rate than has been recognized. Alerts have been sent out by the CDC and other offices responsible for communicable disease control in the U.S. This new epidemic strain of anti-biotic resistant bacteria is now suddenly ranked with MRSA or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureas (aka Staph) as the top 2 potentially deadly infections that can be contracted during a hospital visit.

What is this new bacteria? It is actually a common bacteria (a bug) that has caused treatable diarrhea in older patients at nursing homes and in hospitals for years. Clostridium difficile or C.diff. is transmitted through contact with fecal matter, usually from hand or food to mouth. C.diff related diarrhea occurs most commonly as a result of anti-biotic use. When certain anti-biotics are used they kill some of the good bacteria in your body that usually keeps bad bacteria like C.diff from flourishing. (C.diff is resistant to most anti-biotics) Ironically, when you are attacked by C.diff because of the anti-biotics you are taking - you must take a specific anti-biotic to kill the flourishing C.diff. Here-in lies the new problem. A mutant strain of C.diff called NAP1/027 resists all anti-biotics and this bacteria is more toxic. C.diff produces spores when it senses that it is under attack from anti-biotics and these spores are not easily killed by the usual sanitization products used to clean hospital environments. These C.diff spores can remain on hospital surfaces for months and can contaminate food and anything touched by hospital personnel or patients. Contracting C.diff, especially the NAP1 strain can lead to uncontrolled bouts of diarrhea, up to 50 per day, and can lead to more serious, imagine something more serious, like C.difficile associated disease (CDAD) and chronic colon problems.

What can I do about it? Not a lot. But here are a few things which may help you avoid infection:

1) Avoid over-use of anti-biotics. Ask you doctor if anti-biotics, especially any anti-biotic that has been associated with CDAD, is really needed for treatment. Anti-biotic over-use is a major reason that these resistant bacteria are mutating.

2) Wash your hands thoroughly before you put anything in your mouth, especially after visiting a hospital or nursing home.

3) Wear surgical gloves if you are caring for patients with CDAD or diarrhea.

4) Do not let severe cases of diarrhea go untreated by a doctor. Unfortunately, common diarrhea medicines can make c.diff infection worse by stopping the bacteria flushing effect of diarrhea. C.diff infections call for more than over-the-counter medicines.

5) If you suspect a problem, call your doctor, especially if you develop diarrhea after tending to a patient or visiting a hospital setting.

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Mark Thevenot(aka Steve Thevenot)authors family-friendly health articles. Visitors to his website, http://www.superrxcard.com, can print a free prescription drug discount card that is accepted at over 60,000 pharmacies.

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Fasting, Losing Weight and Stop Smoking

This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni's Fountain of Youth Summit, which can be found at http://fountainofyouthworldsummit.com. In this excerpt, Dr. Gabriel Cousens answers questions about the safety of fasting, losing weight and smoking cessation with fasting.

The Fountain of Youth World Summit with Dr. Gabriel Cousens, the founder of Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center and author of "Conscious Eating" and "Spiritual Nutrition."

KEVIN: Some people will say fasting is unhealthy. What do you have to say about that?

GABRIEL: Well, there is a quote from Atheneus, a Greek physician, he said, "Fasting cures disease, dries up bodily humors, puts demons to flight, gets rid of the impure thoughts, makes the mind clear, and the heart pure, and the body sanctified, and raises humanity to the throne of God." And again, you're talking about, you know, 2000 years of observation. Fasting is extremely safe. Now, let's qualify what we say, when we say fasting is extremely safe. We are talking about a 1-week fast, extremely safe.

KEVIN: OK.

GABRIEL: Humans on water can go 40 days and may naturally push on it. We do not recommend that at all and I just can go a 100 days. We do green juice fasting here. We don't use any foods because it is way too sweet and it creates sugar imbalances and aggravates diabetes and hypoglycemia, which we don't like to do. We use green juices and in the juices, you get the minerals and the enzymes which help stimulate and support the fasting process. The problem with water fasting, while we don't really recommend it and try to discourage people, is that even though you obviously get detoxification from it, you get really weak and so you can't really enjoy life in the same way. The second thing is the mineral deficiencies can show up being the heart palpitations and other kind of weaknesses that are actually potentially dangerous. We don't have that on juice test. So, those are the big things, plus you got the enzymes in the vital life force. I mean, there's vital life force. We only at the Tree of Life, we only use organic.

KEVIN: OK.

GABRIEL: And it is fresh, very very fresh, like within a few minutes. So people are getting the tremendous vital life force in nature. We said that earth and water elements are being really actively pooled into the system. This is really safe. We've been doing this for, you know, since 1988. Well, that's quite a few years. That's almost 20 years now.

KEVIN: Sure.

GABRIEL: And no one has really, really had problem. Water fasting, different things. So there may be a crossover. People say fasting, end. Now, there's another thing that we need to understand is that going without food is immediately threatening the people. Why? Because the Americans overeat. And why do they overeat? Not just because they like being the numbness of bowel toxicity, which is what happens, you get numbed out when you overeat, but it is a way of suppressing emotions.

KEVIN: OK.

GABRIEL: I am depressed. I am going to treat myself, you know, or I am going to celebrate, so you eat all those kinds of junk food. I don't know what kind of a celebration it is, but apparently some people say this is a celebration.

KEVIN: A-ha.

GABRIEL: And so, this is the point, and does that make sense? This fear because it goes into an ego defense called eating, if you see what I am saying.

KEVIN: OK.

GABRIEL: And the fact is we can live a really long time without eating food, you know, on liquids. You do not have to, but a week fast is completely safe.

KEVIN: Right. And what are some of the longevity benefits from not eating as much? I guess it's the best way to say it. What are some of the studies on that? What are some of the things that have been proven to show that this is the case?

GABRIEL: That is a good question. Dr. Spindler who is a biochemist at the UC Riverside, published in Science, the magazine, in 2001 a research he did with rats and he underfed them 40%, and after 1 month, the rats had a 400% increase in the anti-aging gene expression. He was using 1100 gene chip-type system at 400% and also anti-aging and anti-inflammatory. So what he concluded, now there's lots of research since the early 1900s that the less you eat, the longer you live, that's clear. But you usually thought it was actually just slowing the aging process down, right?

KEVIN: A-ha.

GABRIEL: But now we are talking something different after Spindler's research. You're actually activating the anti-aging genes. You actually had the potential to reverse the aging process. That is the whole of the statement.

KEVIN: Wow. It does not stop, it's reversed.

GABRIEL: Right.

KEVIN: OK.

GABRIEL: And what happens when you are fasting? Fasting usually begins in the 2nd or 3rd day and when the body goes into what we call autolysis where it begins going after the dead and dying cells, OK, and clearing them out. The pre-cancer cells and the not so healthy cells. And so that process speeds up. So by the end of the fast by 7 days, you have increased the healthy vibrant cells and you have decreased the dead and dying the cells, so you're really into a rejuvenation process. You see what I am saying?

KEVIN: Yes.

GABRIEL: Whereas before, when you're toxic, there are a lot more dead and dying cells because they had all the toxins and then they couldn't survive or they are half alive. That's how most people feel anyway, they're half alive.

KEVIN: Sure. I've heard that before. Yeah.

GABRIEL: And that's what we are talking about. But the research is, the literature is enormous and the basic summary of all the research, animal research and human research, the cultures that are long-lived like the Karmacoma Indians in Ecuador I think in the 100s, is that their calorie intake is half as much as other people.

KEVIN: OK.

GABRIEL: Because they're primarily, not a 100%, but primarily vegan.

KEVIN: OK.

GABRIEL: So those seem to be the 2 things. Eating the animal products can secrete a lot more toxicity and speed up the aging process.

KEVIN: OK. And now let's say I wanted to put together a fast on my own, I mean , is that advised to 7-day fast on your own? I mean, would you lock yourself in a room with a juicer? I mean, what kind of protocol would someone consider taking?

GABRIEL: Well, what really happens here is that it's really a generally good idea to have somebody guide you the first time.

KEVIN: OK.

GABRIEL: Because as a holistic physician, as a kind of yogi, you know, I did the 40-day fast but that's an exception. I do not recommend that for most people. It's not that safe you know, OK. So it's really good to have a run through.

KEVIN: A-ha.

GABRIEL: In about a year or two, I will be coming out with the book on spiritual fasting but right now I'm writing a book on diabetes and I don't really have time. But after that then what we see a pattern as what people will do, maybe fast at home and may be come here twice a year, so they're doing it that way. What you want is an optimal situation where you are vitalizing the body, so where you can get good sun, fresh air, healthy water, and you know, clean organic juices. That's what you want.

KEVIN: Yes. So you wouldn't recommend anyone go into their high stress job?

GABRIEL: Right. Because the body doesn't open up. The body...that's work, in that the body has to be able to relax to let go to heal itself.

KEVIN: OK.

GABRIEL: And if you're going to continue, you can do it. You can lose weight that way. .Let's put it that way.

KEVIN: OK.

GABRIEL: And aside from losing weight, there's not nearly as much healing because a high stress job tends to shut the body down. It doesn't tend to go into that kind of place where it really works to heal.

KEVIN: And do you recommend a fast for people who want to lose weight?

GABRIEL: That's the best way to lose weight.

KEVIN: OK.

GABRIEL: For the last 5000 years, it's been the best way. We have started 2 programs here. One is what we call juice feasting which involves really liquids and juices, 4 juices a day and then blended fruit.

KEVIN: A-ha.

GABRIEL: And people could be on that for a 100-120 days if they do really, really, really well, and they lose weight gradually, you know. In live food itself, we could lose about 100 pounds in a year.

KEVIN: Wow.

GABRIEL: Because with live food you can eat half as much. Because when you cook your food, you lose 50% of the protein and 70%-80% of vitamins and minerals and up to 95% or so of the phytonutrients. Well, the math is simple. If you just simply go on live food, you eat half as much. That means you take in half as many calories. You're taking double the nutrition but half the calories and the result is you lose weight.

KEVIN: A 100 pounds in a year. That's pretty intense.

GABRIEL: Yes. But it happens gradually and you're not doing any physiological tricks. This is very important. Fasting is not a physiological trick. You're actually helping the body accelerate the process. Now, during that time, your stomach tends to shrink and so you will not be that hungry. You really start to lose that interest. So we have, you know, let's say, a lot of people have done 70-day fast, 85-day fast for weight loss. And that's usually people who are between 100-200 pounds overweight.

KEVIN: Right.

GABRIEL: It's a very good thing that is also a very good for smoking. Agatha Trash, and I don't know if she is alive but she and her husband are the 2 physicians at the head of anti-smoking clinic in Arkansas and they saw over 3000 successful cases of helping people to get off cigarettes. Why? Well, fasting helps you lose your cellular memory for your toxins. OK. And it also alkalinizes you. The result is that when you're alkalinize, it's a lot easier to break the nicotine habit.

KEVIN: OK.

GABRIEL: The moment that you get 5 days, it's really good, 7 days is really excellent. Now when you use a few other homeopathic remedies and things like that, pack and release to help people break their smoking habits. But then we also recommend the psychological aspect and that's why we use the Zero Point Course, which we use to do 1 day afterwards. So, they're linked, but fasting is really good for all of us. It's so simple. It's really quite simple.

KEVIN: Right. What are some of the best things to juice? What are some of the best things that will get you the most minerals?

GABRIEL: I think the thing that's most important is the organic.

KEVIN: OK.

GABRIEL: And we get whatever is in season although we use a lot of cucumbers and celery because they have lots of minerals particularly sodium which we need, healthy sodium, and flushes out the toxic sodium in the system. And then we get whatever greens are in season. And mostly, we are growing a lot of our own, but we also will use beet and carrot diluted, which is good for the liver.

KEVIN: A-ha.

GABRIEL: But what were finding is it doesn't matter. We really...basically, if you're doing juice fasting, everything gets better.

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To read the rest of this transcript as well as access The Fountain of Youth World Summit experts just like Dr. Gabriel Cousens, please visit http://fountainofyouthworldsummit.com. To watch the daily health show that is causing waves online, please visit http://www.The http://RenegadeHealthShow.com.

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Dr. Gabriel Cousens, Raw Food Expert and Author Shares the Benefits of Detoxification

This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni's Fountain of Youth Summit, which can be found at http://fountainofyouthworldsummit.com. In this excerpt, Dr. Gabriel Cousens shares what detoxification can do for you.

The Fountain of Youth World Summit with Dr. Gabriel Cousens, the founder of Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center and author of "Conscious Eating" and "Spiritual Nutrition."

KEVIN: I am extremely excited about this. So, why don't we start talking about detoxification? What's your story? How did you get involved in this?

GABRIEL: Well, initially I was exploring it from a spiritual point of view. In 1982, on my own did a 40-day fast.

KEVIN: A-ha.

GABRIEL: It's not the...probably the best way to start - it was a great way for me to start but I don't really recommend it for most people.

KEVIN: [Laughs]

GABRIEL: In 1988, I really began to do fasting retreats for people.

KEVIN: A-ha.
GABRIEL: And did a lot of different researches. We've got along, and in fact right now, we are in the middle of a spiritual yoga juice fast.

KEVIN: OK.

GABRIEL: So, it's really, fun to share that at the same time. At the Tree we do, we've evolved really 2 different fasts. One is where people who come every once a week, and what we'd just called a detox-fast.

KEVIN: OK.

GABRIEL: Then we had a spiritual fast, which is like a week-long seminar. It's really a 9-day fast. So, that's kind of what we do. It's one of the main things we focus on. So we've developed a lot of research in technology along the way with that. I think the most important thing to understand is that fasting is the most natural and most powerful way to detox. Paracelsus, the great Renaissance physician in the 16th century and so forth, talked about that the most powerful healer is fasting.

KEVIN: A-ha.

GABRIEL: And Hippocrates, one of the great Greek physicians, said again, that fasting is the inner doctor. So, why does fasting work? It's because it activates a vital life force, and it's the vital life force which energizes the body that gives it enough energy to detox.

KEVIN: OK.

GABRIEL: So, the model we can hold is that the cells are filled with toxins but they're also overloaded.

KEVIN: OK.

GABRIEL: And so they're not as able to get the toxins out. So when we fast, we stimulate a process of energizing the cells, and also I'm going to use it to call it a process of diffusion. What we mean by that is, as you're pulling toxins out by the act of fasting by doing what we do, eliminating in several areas, we do skin brushing which we'll talk about…we do enemas and colonics.

KEVIN: A-ha.

GABRIEL: We do kidney and liver cleanses. We do breathing to clear the toxins out of the lung. We help people out gas, so they, they - here in Arizona you can be in nude outside in certain areas so you are getting a whole body air cleansing. So, all those things start to pull toxins out naturally. And in that way, it starts with ...of the cells. But the key truly is the vital life force, and that's strongly activated by the power of fasting.

KEVIN: OK. And you talked about detoxification, I mean, what are some of the things that we need to detoxify from?

GABRIEL: Life!

KEVIN: [laughs]

GABRIEL: Really, we have physical toxins, emotional, mental, and spiritual toxins.

KEVIN: OK.

GABRIEL: And when people come here to Patagonia, Arizona they were getting a very, very clean air and clean water. People are able then to rest and relax because in most people in the modern day world have lost touch with their rhythm.

KEVIN: OK.

GABRIEL: What life is about, they've lost touch with the meaning about what life is about, and in essence their mission, their sacred mission in life. And so fasting is a time to reestablish so we get in touch with your sacred rhythm, your sacred design, and also get in touch with the rhythm of the planet. We live in cities, what rhythm in the planet, you know?

KEVIN: Yeah.

GABRIEL: You can't see the sunset because the skyscraper is in the way, and it's like that kind of thing. So fasting, in a deeper way, helps you reconnect with your essential self. Now that being said, we are going to focus a little bit more on the physical part of it and different fasts have different effects.

KEVIN: OK.

GABRIEL: A 7-day fast is what we do. Now we - just to be clear, there are people who come here and fasted for 80 days.

KEVIN: Wow.

GABRIEL: 90 days, and had tremendous benefits. We will talk about that a little later. I think the one-week fast is maybe most appropriate for people and a good place to start. First of all, fasting is not a new thing. It's 5000 years old. Almost every culture has done it.

KEVIN: A-ha.

GABRIEL: And in the animal world, dogs can fast up to 60 days. Salmon go upstream for months without food. Penguins go 3 months without food. It's part of that - the cycle of nature.

KEVIN: OK.

GABRIEL: But why one week and why has that worked well. What we found is it takes about a week according to my research to get rid of the bowel toxins. Now, where do bowel toxins come from? Well, they come from this - most people have pathogenic bacteria in the bowel.

KEVIN: OK.

GABRIEL: And because we eat too much, and we're not digesting well. And the ...pathogenic bacteria begin to take the putrefied food, and it turns into toxins.

KEVIN: OK.

GABRIEL: That's what we are talking about, specifically.

KEVIN: And those are being reabsorbed?

GABRIEL: And those get reabsorbed into the body. They go into the nervous system. They go into everywhere in the body. In 1917, just to make it clear, this is not some kind of a newfound idea, in 1917, Sedderly and Eldrich, two AMA physicians, okay?

KEVIN: A-ha.

GABRIEL: Now, this is the way from what the AMA people do now. But at that time, they were on it. They cited 517 cases whereby clearing the bowel toxicity, people reverse their depression, their anxiety, their paranoia, their lethargy, their stupor, their general feeling of malaise.

KEVIN: Wow!

GABRIEL: Really impressive! Okay, so they understood that the toxicity in your bowel was affecting your - functioning of your mind. It was affecting your mood. It was affecting your clarity. OK, and it's true! The Russians had done some research with schizophrenics. And they took supposedly incurable schizophrenics and put them on a water fast. We don't really recommend water fast. There is some danger to it, but I don't even know if they have any juicers in Russia, so we'll just put it that way.

KEVIN: [laughs]

GABRIEL: And particularly when this research was done, and what they found was 28-35 days in water which is a severe water fast. That 65 percent of the schizophrenics became healed.

KEVIN: Wow!

GABRIEL: And the only time that they relapsed is that they ate meat. Now, what's the reason for that is schizophrenics have a certain metabolic pathway or some schizophrenics at least 65 percent.

KEVIN: A-ha.

GABRIEL: Where when they eat meat, the putrefactive bacteria produce 6 times higher 5-hydro skatole. Skatole is one of the bowel toxins. And that is what was literally making - have a schizophrenic nervous system.

KEVIN: OK.

GABRIEL: So, that's how powerful it can be. Now in 1933, Dr. Bassler cited 5000 cases where people healed from sinus, sciatica, almost every element you can think of, you know arthritis, again emotional problems, and related again to clearing the bowel toxicity. So these are not a metaphor in other words. These are real - toxins are real things. You got skatole. I'm not going to list all, ammonia.

KEVIN: And how do you know if you have them?

GABRIEL: Well, everybody has them.

KEVIN: OK. [laughs]. So this is like, this is a blanket, everyone has this. It's just a matter of how much and what levels they have?

GABRIEL: Exactly. Now, when you're fasting, when we fast because we're doing fasting all over the world, we have a fasting center in Israel as well.

KEVIN: A-ha.

GABRIEL: By the Dead Sea, so very much and they have seen kind way of being.

KEVIN: A-ha.

GABRIEL: And were having fast here, or you - you know, frequently besides our weekly 10-day detoxing. And basically if you don't like foods, and you're not overeating ... foods then you're fasting frequently, you're not going to have much bowel toxins. You'll have a little bit.

KEVIN: OK.

GABRIEL: Most people tend to build it up overtime, particularly if they aren't taking a lot of acidophilus. So, it's pretty endemic. And the good news is really in a pretty short time within 1 week, we measured the indican which is a measure for bowel toxicity.

KEVIN: OK.

GABRIEL: In 1 week, by day 6, most people, no excuse me, a hundred percent of the people we tested no longer were showing indican in their urine.

KEVIN: OK.

GABRIEL: So we pretty much know by day 6 on a juice fast, you're going to be done with your bowel toxin. And that's also about the time people's mental state begins to clear. And they begin to get a tremendous amount of energy. There's a lot of energy that you get when you get the toxins out. On a 60th birthday 4 years ago, we - on day 5 or 6, I did 601 push-ups.

KEVIN: OK.

GABRIEL: And that was something that I couldn't do while I was eating. I was up to 550 something like that. I wasn't breaking the barrier.

KEVIN: A-ha.

GABRIEL: The reason is, there's this – even if someone who's - you know eating the right foods, 100 percent right foods, and you know juicing, and doing all of that on a regular basis, there's certain amount of toxins that you build up. That's something in everyone.

KEVIN: OK.

GABRIEL: And just that difference of 5 days juicing cleared enough the toxins to give the extra strength. Once after a 7-day fasting, we did Mount Chester that was in the '90s. We walked up, a group of us walked up Mount Chester. Usually, it's a 2-day trip to go to 10,000 feet, and on the 2nd day you go, and you camp out, and then you go over 2000 feet.

KEVIN: A-ha.

GABRIEL: We started at 3' o clock in the morning. We reached the peak by about 11.

KEVIN: Wow.

GABRIEL: And we just walked straight too because we had that extra energy.

KEVIN: Wow. That sounds good. I think it probably just about everyone in this call could use a little extra energy. [laughs].

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Learn How to Increase Your Physical and Mental Energy, With Dr. Gabriel Cousens

This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni's Fountain of Youth Summit, which can be found at http://fountainofyouthworldsummit.com. In this excerpt, Dr. Gabriel Cousens shares what zaps energy and fogs mental clarity.

The Fountain of Youth World Summit with Dr. Gabriel Cousens, the founder of Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center and author of "Conscious Eating" and "Spiritual Nutrition."

GABRIEL: The reason people don't have energy is the term that Paul Brad coined as "autointoxication."

KEVIN: Okay, explain that.

GABRIEL: What it means is really the toxins, in my opinion, it's primarily bowel toxins.

KEVIN: A-ha.

GABRIEL: Build up in the system, and really cause general weakness in every muscle, and affect your mind, and affect all your organ systems. They poison the system. And most people again, suffer ... from bowel autointoxication. Auto meaning yourself, toxifying yourself.

KEVIN: OK.

GABRIEL: Mostly it's through our lifestyle, and also primarily through our food. So when we fast in a good setting, meaning fresh air, fresh water in a kind of relaxed setting, so your body can let go, this is very important principle here. Dr. ...was one – a natural doctor, who in the turn of 19th century, talked about and he basically said that you had a buildup and a lot of people are so toxic that they couldn't really respond - the bodies couldn't respond. It was only when they began to detoxify, and then they can build up a kind of a deeper life force energy.

KEVIN: A-ha.

GABRIEL: You see, and so that's what we're talking about. And when we're fasting, we're really feasting. Now, what do I mean by a feast? Well, there are 4 forces of nature that we feast on - air, sunlight, water and earth.

KEVIN: OK.

GABRIEL: And when you look at our life today, what we find is that the air is not pure. The sunlight is blocked because the atmosphere is cloudy. Then most people can't see the sky at night, right?

KEVIN: A-ha.

GABRIEL: In the least, we can still see that where we are in Patagonia, but most of people can't see the sky at night. There's you know, tremendous amount of smog, pollution. So suddenly your ability to draw prana with vital life force in the air is greatly diminished.

KEVIN: A-ha.

GABRIEL: Same with the water. Water is all kinds of toxins, and plus chlorine, fluorine in many cases, and so, literally it's a poison to the system. Now, when I say poison, I mean explicitly chlorine and fluorine are explicit poisons. Chlorine specifically blocks our enzyme function in many, many places in the body, and process all kinds of problems. We do not want to get all over into that but at least in the principle. So, water. Now, the air of course we need, the sunlight we need, and the clean water, and then the earth is the food element. And the juices are pure earth and water element. And so, suddenly you're feasting on those elements, and you're being able to pull in the life force or prana from those elements and that rejuvenates you.

KEVIN: OK.

GABRIEL: That's a very important thing. So, does that mean you can't fast and say yes you can fast in the city, but it is nowhere near the same result because you're not really being able to pull in those 4 forces of nature which actually activate every body.

KEVIN: Okay, so those 4 aspects of nature are the basic principles of fasting. So say someone is, you know, realizes now after this call that they might have bowel toxicity which as we've established they already do. You know, how would they go about putting some of those together to create something that will help them feel better, look better, live better.

GABRIEL: Right. Well, the first thing is you know if you're going to do fasting and I recommend instead of long fast because it's a lot of time and energy, and if people don't know how to do it, it can a be little depleting, now we use it more as the fast, long faster more is medications, if you follow what I'm saying.

KEVIN: OK.

GABRIEL: I'll give you an example of how powerful it can be. There's a lady who is for 5 years hospitalized in a mental hospital, and she's on lots of medications. She was grossly overweight from her stay in the hospital and so forth and so on, and also her medications. When she first got here, she could barely walk 25 yards.

KEVIN: A-ha.

GABRIEL: After 2 weeks of fasting, she was off all her medication and she was beginning to function and she went 85 days. She lost an enormous amount of weight. She became this very beautiful 26-year-old lady, and her depression left her, and she can walk up the mountain. We have a mountain ... high where we are – you know after about a month. I mean, it was a total rejuvenation on mind, body and spirit, simply with the fasting focus. I mean, she took our zero point course which is of course a psycho- spiritual course, but it was the fasting that really did it. And she never went back to the hospital.

KEVIN: Wow! And, and what brought her there? For that hope? The hope to be able to do that?

GABRIEL: Yeah, I don't know how she got there. I'm not sure but she was actually from Mexico and her family had sent her to a place in Boston, the very famous mental hospital in Boston, and they put her on medication, and she was just stuck in the hospital. I guess they let her go out in a break and she came.

KEVIN: A-ha. That's great.

GABRIEL: She had learned about us, "The Tree of Life" in the website but that's the point, that's the long term. Now, those are the kinds of things that happen. You know. Now, we're using fasting also medically for high blood pressure and also for diabetes.

KEVIN: OK.

GABRIEL: We have what you call 21-day plus diabetic program and literally within 4 days while people are fasting, and this is a medical thing, OK, so you won't do this on your own, we have people off their insulin and other on no medications for days, and pretty much within a few weeks, their blood sugars come to normal.

KEVIN: Wow.

GABRIEL: So, because we're - this is one of the great things about fasting is it actually after about a week , minimum, it resets your genetic expression and turns on the anti-aging genes, the anti-inflammatory genes, that's one of the reasons that is so good for arthritis, anticancer genes, and antioxidant genes. So, you're really literally upgrading your genetic expression. Literally now, this is experimentally shown. It is not a metaphor.

KEVIN: OK.

GABRIEL: So, those are things that I have. So really a 1-week fast twice a year, 4 times a year if you can do it is a really good thing.

KEVIN: OK.

GABRIEL: Really good thing because it really supports you in a lot of ways, and it keeps you - your bowel toxicity at a very minimum. And what happens to is people go back in the world, it's like "Uh-uh-uh-uh-uh, this is really hard!" and they start to fall back into old habits although we do a lot of support work in between but it's nevertheless the thing that really works is they come back, and they fast, and they get good. I have a poem here by Rumy, and it really speaks to it. And upon this, there's a hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness. We are loots, no more or no less. If the sound box is tough, full of anything, no music. If the brain and belly are burning clean with fasting, every moment a new song comes out of the fire. The fog clears. A new energy makes you run up the steps in front of you. Be emptier and cry like reed instruments cry. Emptier, write secrets with the reed pen. When you are full of food and drink, say dance sets where your spirit should. An ugly mental statue instead of the Kabah. When you fast, good habits gather like friends who want to help. Fasting is all interim. Don't give it to some illusion and lose your power. But easily if you have, if you have lost all will and control and they come back when you fast. Like soldiers appearing out of the ground, pellets flying above them, a table descends to your tense. Jesus' table, expect to see it when you fast. This table spread with other food better than the broth of cabbages. That's really in his poetry book Open Secrets.

KEVIN: Wow. That's great.

GABRIEL: It tells you the whole story right there.

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All Natural Cures Must Be Tested

In this day of age, more and more people seek out products that are all natural, in order to maintain a good and naturally healthy body, mind and soul. Natural cures for most of the common health complaints are available due to high demand. Consumers are tired with having to accept any medication or remedy just because it was produced in a science laboratory. They are turning back to nature, looking for a natural cure for just about any ailment or disease.

Bear in mind that there are extremely poisonous substances to be found in nature. You only have to think of the poison ivy to understand that certain plants in nature can be harmful. Scientists try to copy nature in order to find suitable remedies for the many diseases afflicting mankind. When using natural products it is important to know the source. Natural ingredients must be used in the right dosage. All natural cures must be tried and tested. There are many sophisticated laboratories that exist for this function.

A very well known element is penicillin and it is all natural. Cures relating to this element have saved countless lives over the years. It is used to get rid of many infections that are caused by bacteria. Over the years scientists discovered they could make an artificial version of penicillin. This became the antibiotics that we use today. This is not a bad thing because there are many people who are so allergic to penicillin it could kill them. The artificial antibiotics are safe and as effective as all natural cures. They have also saved many lives.

Getting Accurate Information About Natural Cures Is Essential: There are a great number of people who do not have accurate information regarding all natural cures. They believe that if a substance is from nature it must be one hundred percent safe to use, and that by all means is not the case. It is as essential for natural substances to be researched by properly qualified professionals as traditional medication. Any other information is simply ignorant. If you have any intention of purchasing all natural cures in any form then make certain you know where it comes from and who did the research.

A popular plant called St John's Wort is used for mild depression. It does work. However, if taken in large quantities, this plant is toxic.There are many examples such as this, and anyone contemplating using a natural cure for anything ought to be aware of the dangers connected to using natural cures so they won't risk being overdosing naturally. The consumer should be aware of this.

All natural cures can be obtained without a prescription because they are not listed as drugs. But it is very important for you to know that plants and herbs are very powerful. This is why they have been used by many cultures over thousands of years. There have always been members within these cultures specially chosen and trained to study the regional plants and herbs. They were highly esteemed and there are still many who carry out this function even today. The same care and knowledge in handling and dispensing all natural cures should be adhered to in modern societies.

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Colon Cleanse - 12 Tips For Herbal Colon Cleansing

Herbal colon cleansing is a natural way to rid your body of harmful toxins and is preferable to certain cleansing procedures as the ingredients are all natural plus this method is non-invasive. Here are some of the best herbs for colon cleansing:

1. Dandelion Root - Dandelion root has been known as an effective liver cleanser as it stimulates bile discharge. This enables the liver to release toxins into the bile from which these toxins now enter the intestines and consequently get excreted from the body in the form of feces. It also consists of essential salts needed by the body and is useful in the treatment of gall bladder problems, arthritis, asthma and kidney infections.

2. Psyllium - Psyllium has very high fiber content. It increases the amount of water in the body thereby making bowel movement easier. This herb also works against digestive problems such as diverticulitis, constipation and blockage in the colon.

3. Goldenseal Root - This herb helps get rid of harmful germs that accumulate in waste matter and helps prevent inflammation in the intestines and problems associated with mucus membranes. Goldenseal root also has antibacterial properties.

4. Cascara Sagrada - Cascara Sagrada has laxative properties and considered safe in the treatment of constipation.

Capsicum. When used in combination with other herbs, Capsicum heightens the effectiveness of these herbs used in colon cleansing. It is also beneficial to the kidneys and helps prevent ulcers.

5. Fennel - Fennel seed is one of the best herb cleansers that you can use although it is not recommended for children. It arrests muscle contractions in the intestinal tract.

6. Burdock - Burdock is a natural diuretic and helps rid the body of toxins. Like the goldenseal root, it has antibiotic properties plus it is also anti-fungal.

7. Peppermint Leaf - Indigestion, flatulence and stomach upset are just a few of the problems that this herb can address.

8. Apple Fiber - Apple fiber aids digestion and is beneficial to colon health.

9. Licorice Root - This herb is an organic detoxifier and it has laxative properties. It promotes regular bowel movement.

10. Flax Seeds - Flax seeds function much in the same way as fiber does – it makes the elimination of bodily waste much easier. It also promotes good digestion.

11. Bentonite - This herb attracts metals that are harmful to the body and acts like a sponge by collecting harmful toxins.

12. Slippery Elm - Not only is this beneficial to the colon, it also has positive effects on the stomach and the intestines.

There are a many other herbs that you can use to cleanse your colon. It all depends on your location, take time to check what is available in your locality. You may use these herbs in combination with each other to make herbal concoctions, opt for herb supplements or drink them as teas.

Whichever form you choose there is no denying the advantages that you can gain by incorporating herbs into your cleansing regimen. To be extra safe, make sure you consult your physician or a licensed herbologist if you are planning to use herbs as colon cleansers.

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How Do You Know When To Wear Makeup?

Back when you were a child your parent or guardian told you when you should wear makeup for most young girls the magic number was 16. We can all agree that most girls don't need it, yet they wear it anyway because they like the way they look in it and most of all it makes them look older. Now let's speed up to age 26 plus, why is it that some women avoid wearing make up when they need it? Is there no one around them to tell them that they should wear it? Do they think they look better or younger without it? Maybe. So how does one know when to start incorporating in their daily regimen a time for makeup application? The following statements will answer that question.

People often say that you look old, worn, or tired.

If this statement has been repeatedly told to you, then you need to consider what people are saying. Working long hours, stress, diet and other reasons may be the cause for it. However, if you have done all that you can to brighten up your face and still people don't seem to respond very well to you, then add some makeup to your face.

The lines on your face are making you appear older than your age.

Tired of misunderstanding people when they say you don't look your age? Listen to the relative or friend who has been telling you the truth, "You don't look your age, you look older." This is a clear sign it is time to visit a makeup consultant who can tell you how to apply make up that will make you sincerely look better and if younger is what you want, then go for it!

Your mate no longer looks at you like he once did when you wore makeup.

Remember when he looked at your face when he thought you weren't looking? He talked about how beautiful you looked. Well, you can rekindle those moments by doing special for not only him, but for yourself. Apply some makeup.

You have tried everything to make your complexion clear and youthful looking, but nothing works.

Some markings on your face will not go away no matter what you eat, cream you apply or medicine you take. Make up is a simple solution to cover up those unattractive markings on your face.

You don't like what you see in the mirror or have grown bored with your appearance.

Make up can be a nice gift for yourself when you simply want a change. Why not check out a magazine at the local drug store, find a celebrity's make up you like, then visit the make up aisle and pick out some colors? Go home and dress up your face like you were a child again, you never know what you might end up liking in the mirror?

You have the kind of face that makes people think you are angry, upset or confused often.

People will only respond to you in the way that you look at them. Now on occasion, there are those that no matter how pleasant you are they will still glare, we aren't talking about those people. If you find that your facial expressions misrepresent how you feel on the inside, then touch up your face with some makeup.

In summary, when people have boldly pointed out flaws on your face, you aren't happy with the way you look, and you have already tried make up but don't like how it looks, it is time to visit a make up consultant, do some research, and most of all be bold wear it and allow yourself to get comfortable in it. Tell yourself that you will no longer allow yourself to walk around in public not looking your best! Inventors have spent long hours on a daily basis trying to come up with a product that would make women and (some men) feel better about themselves, why not take advantage of it?

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Makeup Pet Peeves: Why Bother With It?

The men enjoy looking at it on the first few dates, until it is time to come in contact with it. What could the "it" be? You guessed it, make up! Why is it that some women wear it and others do not? The obvious reasons they wear make up range from wanting to defy their age to having no choice due to unattractive markings on the skin. Other women simply don't wear it for the following reasons indicated in this article.

Here are the eleven most popular pet peeves women have with make up.

Let's begin with the first. "Women wear too much of it" as both women and men have complained. One male guest commented on a major network talk show, women "just don't get it, we don't like it." Another guest stated, "I like it, I just don't know why women wear so much of it."

These complaints not only come from men, they come from women as well. A mother of two daughters said, "Some women, mainly older ones look like clowns." She added, "I saw one lady with blue eye shadow that was put on too high, ruby red lips that were painted past the outline of her natural lips. She looked terrible!"

As a result of men who don't like it and women who wear too much of it, some women rather not wear it. An older woman in her seventies said, "I just don't bother with it. I don't know how much I should wear." Other women say they just don't feel like wearing it.

The second concern women have with make up is it costs too much. According to Avon's marketing tips for their sales representatives, the average consumer pays approximately $15 per campaign on make up. So the representative already knows approximately how much you are willing to pay before you open up your wallet. She (or he) will offer you that additional lipstick you don't need, the new mascara that just came out, or something else that will help them make a decent profit off of you. A single lipstick can cost anywhere from $7 to $15 retail. Many women find alternatives to buying makeup through independent contractors and on-line websites; instead, they will head to their local drug store. While there, they will look for makeup that is on sale. Costing them dollars less than Internet retailers. However, when their favorite make up is not on sale in the drug store, savvy shoppers will revisit Internet stores for savings. "Rarely do I purchase make up on sale unless there is a sale," says a stay-at-home mother.

The third pet peeve women have with wearing make up is it doesn't do what it promises. How many times have you purchased a product that claimed that it would cover up your facial flaws only to make them appear worse? So you go back out to the store in search of another product that could do a better job. Before long, you have a drawer full of make up that you don't use and wasted dollars ready for the trash can.

The fourth reason some women don't wear make up while others will complain, yet wear it anyway, is it irritates the skin. Allergic reactions to make up are common with many women and their complaints are posted on many Internet chat room sites. The products supposedly made with natural ingredients are suppose to solve this problem.

The fifth pet peeve women have about make up is it runs out too fast. You may have just bought a certain facial cream used it for half the month and found out that you will have to buy another jar to finish out the rest of the month. If you don't use the product for 30 plus days you won't know if it's effective, according to researchers of makeup products. Therefore, you will make the false claim it doesn't work and go back to the store to find someone else's product.

The sixth reason, some women don't like make up is because it comes off the face easily. If you are the kind of woman who sweats or cries easily, then you will be spending more for the make up that promises to stay on all day.

The seventh issue women have about make up is staining. Men are particularly concerned when they are wearing a nice shirt and hug women who wear foundation. They don't know whether the stain will come out or not. Women who are wearing certain fabrics that can only be dry-cleaned don't want the make up to come off on their expensive clothes either.

The eighth pet peeve about make up comes from women of color. They complained there isn't enough colors for a variety of skin tones. Some cosmetic companies have responded to this cry by making products that compliment skin tones by just turning a dial on a bottle of foundation to the shade you prefer, making samples easy to obtain, or having a makeup consultant readily available to help you match your skin tone.

The ninth concern women of about makeup is how fast it becomes outdated. Oftentimes those sales are just being offered because the products are due to expire. In the case of some mascara, you know when it has become outdated when you apply it on the eyelashes and it clumps. Lipstick is old, when you apply it to the lips and it doesn't go on smooth. Nail polish is old when you look at its appearance and you see that the color is beginning to separate in the bottle, it may be clear looking at the bottom and the color seems to have floated to the top. When it is applied, it goes on lumpy or doesn't seem to cling to the nail.

The tenth pet peeve about make up is it simply is difficult to apply. Some women no matter what they read, who they talk to, or who shows them how to apply it, they can't seem to get it right.

Lastly, this pet peeve is from mothers with children, products are too easy for little ones to open. How many mothers have been surprised to find their little girl or boy sitting on the floor scribbling on the carpet or wall in lipstick while their face is covered with some eyeliner, foundation and more lipstick?

Simple solutions to these pet peeves the cosmetic industry should consider would be: make items tamper proof, offer simple instructions and include diagrams on how to correctly apply their products, create a reward system for loyal customers, make more coupons available in the Sunday newspapers and other places, include trial sizes of other products in packages, and most of all have someone available in the store once or twice a month to go over product application.

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Does a Multiple Vitamin Boost My Health and Wellness?

Multiple vitamins should be designed with one purpose in mind. They should provide you the ability to properly balance your regular diet with the additional vitamins, minerals, amino acids and antioxidants needed to make your diet nutritionally complete.

It is rare that people follow the recommended daily allowances in their regular diets. For this reason, multi-vitamins were developed to provide the missing nutrients to your daily diet. Vitamins designed with this purpose will automatically provide you with the essential additional nutrition you need to boost your health and wellness.

The Correct Multi-vitamin Make-Up:

A good multivitamin supplement will contain all of the following ingredients. It is designed to balance an average diet and boost health and wellness.

* Major vitamins
* Minerals
* Amino acids
* Carotenoids
* Tocopherols
* Tocotrienols
* Antioxidants

Antioxidants are an important part of any diet because they attack and neutralize free radicals. These fragments of chemicals are caused by:

* Normal metabolism
* Pollution
* Ultraviolet radiation
* Rancid oil
* Other toxins

Scientists believe that free radicals are one of the elements responsible for aging and degenerative diseases like Alzheimer's, arthritis and cancer. It is because of the nutrient deficiencies in our regular diets that we have become more susceptible to degenerative diseases.

Mixed Tocopherols and Tocotrienols:

Vitamin E is a series of related compounds. The four main forms are alpha, beta, delta and gamma. Most multi-vitamin supplements only contain large amounts of alpha tocopherol. A healthy diet needs a mixture of them all.

When too much alpha tocopherol is induced, gamma tocopherol is depleted. This causes deficiencies because gamma tocopherol is crucial to good health as well. For this reason, it is important that your tocopherol intake is balanced. A mixed intake of all tocopherols is more effective in preventing cardiovascular disease.

Tocotrienols are potent antioxidants that complement the alpha tocopherol. The combined nutrients are much more effective at preventing oxidation. This is why you must have a balanced combination of tocopherols and tocotrienols to maintain a healthy diet and a healthy body. To accomplish this you must have a balance of all of the compounds that make up vitamin E.

Mixed Carotenoids:

These are the red, orange and yellow plant pigments that are found in all of our fruits and vegetables. All of these contain different amounts of carotenoids, but the colors are often hidden by the plant's chlorophyll content. Examples of foods containing large amounts of carotenoids include:

* Kale
* Collard greens
* Swiss chard
* Broccoli

Tomatoes contain Lycopene, which is a red carotenoid found in tomatoes. It is a potent antioxidant that reduces the risk of prostate cancer. Unfortunately, carotenoids are better absorbed through the ingestion of supplements than from foods. Multi-vitamins usually only contain beta carotene. It is important to find one that contains beta carotene, alpha carotene, lycopene, lutein and zeaxanthin.

The Bottom Line:

A complete multiple vitamin supplement is necessary as a part of a daily health and wellness regimen. The best multi-vitamin contains a healthy balance of everything listed above in the correct dosages. It is important to do your homework and be sure the multi-vitamin you choose will do its job correctly.

Learn as much as you can about your own body's individual nutritional needs. By giving your body proper nutrition, you help it to fight off illness and diseases much more efficiently. A complete multi-vitamin will:

* Strengthen your immune system
* Decrease your risk of cancer, heart disease and osteoporosis
* Increase your level of energy
* Elevate your moods
* Help you to enjoy a healthier, more productive life

Choose a multi-vitamin that has been developed based on the latest science and technology. You will be taking a well-rounded supplement that was designed to properly complement a typical daily diet.

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Can\t Find The Time To Exercise?

As a Health and Fitness Coach, one of the most frequent question and problems I'm asked by new clients is: "What should I do Larry, I just don't have time to exercise?

In our very fast paced world today with many of us balancing multiple roles, as an employee or business owner, parent, spouse, household manager, and responsible citizen, finding time for exercise can be a real problem. As a result, our health and fitness goals often get put on the back burner.

Most of us realize that regular physical exercise is absolutely necessary for us to maintain our overall health and fitness, keep our weight down, to look and feel great, and to stay young longer. So what's the answer?

Well I have good news for you. Several studies, including one published in The Journal of Physiology, clearly show that short bursts of intense exercise, equivalent to only a few minutes per day, can produce the same or even better results than traditional cardio endurance training or spending hours at the gym lifting weights.

You may not have time to go to the gym, but everyone can find just 7-10 minutes per day to exercise at home. So time really does not have to be an issue, if you are really want to lose weight, get in great shape, and improve your health.

The key is to first make a decision to make taking care of your health and fitness a top priority, and then the taking steps necessary to fit a few minutes of exercise into your schedule at least 4-5 times per week. Once you've made that decision, you'll find there are lots of ways to accomplish your health and fitness goals in just minutes each day.

If you don't have time to go to the gym, get a small bench or fitness ball and a set of dumbbells for your strength training exercises. There are also many effective body weight exercises you can do, as well as short intense interval cardio exercises that will burn lots of calories, help you lose weight, and strengthen your cardiovascular system.

You could also find ways to include exercise as a part of your daily schedule. Go ahead and make a list of all the times, places and ways that you could fit in some kind of physical activity into your day.

Are there are there stairs in your office or apartment building? Go ahead, and climb them for five minutes a day.

When you go on a short errand, can you walk instead of taking the car? Do so.

Do you take a lunch hour? Use 10-15 minutes of it to walk, stretch, meditate, do push-ups, crunches, squats, lunges or dips.

The bottom line is that regardless of how busy your daily schedule is, a lack of time doesn't have to keep you from losing weight, and getting really fit, slim, and healthy. And, in fact, ongoing exercise research is clearly showing that short intense strength training and cardio exercise is actually far more effective than long slow cardio or spending hours in the gym.

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Larry Kann is an active health and fitness researcher and online health and fitness coach. To find out how to get fit with just 7 minutes of exercise each day, go to: http://fitnesscoachreviews.blogspot.com/ For FREE Special Report Download go to: http://www.seniorhealthandfitnessonline.com

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Is Amalgam Dangerous?

What is Amalgam made of that goes into our teeth and stays in our mouths up to ten or more years? For thousands of years mercury has been known to be a poison whether it is eaten, inhaled or absorbed through the skin -it's a heavy toxic metal.

The major ingredient in amalgam is 50 percent liquid mercury which is highly toxic. Mercury is used to bind the other materials in amalgam fillings which include nickel, tin, lead, copper, silver, and alloy powders.

The Dangers: Up front and personal in your mouth where all food digestion commences and where chewing food, swallowing, and saliva enters into your digestive tract mercury is released to your lungs, stomach and eventually ends up in your blood stream.

As these fillings degenerate over time the mercury which becomes ionized seeps easily into your gums turning healthy pink gums into gray discolored and mercury leached gums. The mercury vapor has been documented in many cases and reports indicate people have readings as high as 12 micrograms every 24 hours which is extremely high levels of such a toxic material as mercury.

Countries such as Canada, Germany, Denmark and Sweden have banned amalgam fillings especially with pregnant women and children. The FDA has a notice on their site that " Dental amalgams contain mercury which may have neurotoxic effects on the nervous system of children and fetuses".

Symptoms of Mercury Poisoning:

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is often found as a reaction of mercury and other dental metals. Mercury poisoning from dental amalgam will deteriorate the immune system as the body fights the toxin. Freya Koss the Development director of Consumers for Dental Choice in Pennsylvania developed lupus after having her mercury fillings replaced with more mercury fillings. She later had them all replaced by a qualified natural dentist and is on a high antioxidant diet.

Some dentists challenge mercury poisoning by dental fillings by suggesting that once a tooth is capped off or sealed, no mercury can escape into your body. This suggestion is overruled by the fact that fillings break, and over time fall out requiring replacement.

What Can You Do To Protect Yourself:

The amino acid known as Glutathione can be used to offset high mercury levels and is needed to keep your immune system operating a peak levels. Tests such as hair analysis will reveal mercury levels and other chemicals in your body.

You can request simple blood and urine tests from your doctor to investigate the levels of heavy metals in your blood stream.

Most people will have all amalgam fillings removed by a qualified natural dentist who are trained to handle the extractions - a very dangerous procedure if done incorrectly. It is both dangerous for the dentist and the patient and must be done with oxygen masks. A regiment of supplements for 5 days will detoxify the bloodstream of the remaining mercury.

What Material is Safer than Amalgam:

The use of porcelain fillings is considered safe in the cosmetic dentistry field and they look better than a mouth full of metal. Porcelains are more expensive but worth the money. Some people will put a new, expensive grill on their car and have ugly teeth with heavy metals. The beauty of a great smile with white teeth is becoming very popular and porcelain fillings do not decay or turn black.

The next time you look at your teeth which would you rather have in your very mouth?

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How Do You Know When Your Blood Sugar is Low?

Whether you are pregnant or have some other health condition that affects your blood sugar, you should be aware that there will be times when your blood sugar levels may decrease. When this happens the medical term for it is called, Hypoglycemia.

According to national organizations that provide information about diabetes such as the American Association of Diabetes Educators and the American Diabetes Association, reasons for a drop in blood sugar varies. Some of the causes are as follows as well as what you can do to manage the symptoms before they worsen.

When an individual takes too much medicine, eat too little food or skip or delay a meal, he or she may experience lower blood sugar levels. In addition, sometimes people will exercise too much without extra food, drink too much alcohol or lose a lot of weight.

Some of the symptoms that will occur include: headache, hunger, drowsiness, irritability, blurred vision, slurred speech, weakness, numbness or tingling, shakiness, staggering, and sweatiness. Diabetes patients will use a glucose monitor to check their blood sugar usually before the symptoms get out of control.

When these signs occur, patients will treat themselves by immediately eating or drinking one of the following: A sports drink or soft drink (not diet), a ½ cup of orange juice, hard candies such as jelly beans, raisins or taking glucose tablets which can be found at the local drug store.

The individual will test their blood sugar about 15 minutes later. If it's still low, they will have another snack or drink. After another 15 minutes has passed, the blood sugar is tested again. If it's still low, they will have another snack. The healthcare provider is usually called when the person is still suffering and the sugar still is low.

Family members who are aware of the individual's condition can be a great service to them by helping them administer a glucagon shot (also known as an insulin shot). This is usually prescribed to people who have been diagnosed with diabetes. The shot will help normalize blood sugar levels. When some individuals have been unable to get control over their blood sugar levels, they have passed out, couldn't swallow, acted confused, uncooperative or had a seizure, when this happens and there is no shot available, the ambulance is contacted.

Hypoglycemia affects people differently, one person's experience may not necessarily be the same as someone else's. So loved ones will train themselves to know what to expect and how to deal with symptoms when they arise with their relatives and/or friends. For instance, in the event of an emergency, a victim is placed on his or her side. If a glucagon shot is available, they will inject the glucagon by following the steps provided that come with the kit. The place of injection is usually discussed before a situation like this occurs. When the victim feels better, he or she will eat a healthy snack not a Twinkie, a bowl of ice cream or a glass of chocolate milk or some other unhealthy snack. However, there are those situations that a victim will not respond to a shot, if this occurs the ambulance is called. Severe hypoglycemia can cause one to pass out or worse enter a coma.

If you have been experiencing any of these warning signs, make an appointment to see your health care physician. During the office visit, he or she will question how often you have been experiencing these symptoms, they will conduct a blood test, prescribe a medication if necessary, and show you how to monitor your blood sugar levels. With some pregnant women with gestational diabetes (another type of diabetes that happens during pregnancy,) they have to journal what they eat and interview with a dietician to go over a meal plan that will best help them control their blood sugar levels.

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Broke and Depressed to Fit and Successful

This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni's Fountain of Youth Summit, which can be found at http://fountainofyouthworldsummit.com. In this excerpt, Donna Krech shares her story of going from broke and depressed to fit and successful.

The Fountain of Youth World Summit with Donna Krech writer, speaker and "belief builder."

Kevin: This is going to be a lot of fun and I don't like to waste any time, so let us get right into it. Why don't you tell us a little bit about your story and why you are here on the phone now.

Donna: Here's the situation. I have always been a pretty motivated person, as far as, if I saw something I wanted, I would have the inspiration or at least the aspiration to go after it, and I would get involved in success seminars or company training programs or, who knows, new fitness programs, weight loss programs, budgeting plans, whatever! And would be completely motivated about it and then would look up a few days later only to find that I wasn't working on it anymore. Well, some time would pass, I would find the next thing and I would be totally jazzed and this time this is going to be it, this was going to be my wealth building planner, this was going to be the one that got my body ripped or whatever the case was, and I would look up a few days later and guess what? I wasn't motivated again. I had just stopped and what we will talk about a little bit later on the call is I figured out how to figure out what was going on, what was zapping my motivation.

First of all, that the motivation was getting zapped and then what was zapping it and, more importantly, how to make it ongoing and never ending, but as far as the overall story goes, I was raised in a family with seven children. My father was an alcoholic. My mom was the breadwinner and she was in sales. Shocker! And I found myself in 1982 pushing a baby stroller in Midland, Texas. They weren't paved roads, they were bumpy gravel and I am pushing my baby in the stroller and I am walking to a carryout to buy her milk and I can hear the change jingling in my pocket and I am sobbing, just sobbing out loud as I am pushing her because I know it's the last money I have on earth, and I am wondering how I am going to feed her the next time she is hungry. That is probably the worst feeling anybody can ever have, and now the blessing of that feeling though is that it changed me. As I am sobbing not knowing what I am going to do, somewhere in the back of my mind, because I will tell you I don't remember identifying it at that moment, but somewhere in the back of my mind I said, "This is not going to happen anymore."

I will tell you that I wasn't just penniless, I was also married, unfortunately, to someone who had a lot of addictions and those addictions went all the way to extremes. When I was depressed, when I put her to bed at 7:30 at night, I would go to bed at 7:30 at night and I know what that is like to be overweight. I was overweight, I was depressed, I had no money and as time moved on and I came back to Ohio and started with a part-time job, went to a fulltime job, went into management, went into sales, went into business ownership. With every level that I moved up, I found how to maintain motivation better, the sizes were dropping and I was making more and more money and I am still humbled and I do not know how many times I have said this to people, but I still find it all-inspiring when I can say to you out loud that by the age of 33, I was an American millionaire and today, I own multiple companies. We have about eight thriving companies.

Kevin: Wow! That's fantastic. And, you know, I think a lot of the people who are listening can identify with the depression, some of the feelings of hopelessness that you had, and I think that even in terms of, not even in terms of just wealth, but in terms of their health, and what can you say to some of these people who are in that situation right now that maybe what...maybe give some examples of what you used to get yourself out of that.

Donna: Oh, boy! You know what, the very first step I took is I got around some people who are going to speak some life into me, and I got around some people, now certainly this call and the series of calls is a great place to start. Also, just getting around people who will speak life into you and that means going to where they are, so you and I both know that could mean a fitness club, it could be joining a personal development group, getting around family who is positive, maybe you've gotten away from them and kind of getting away from the negative forces in your life, that's the first thing that I did and from there, we began to go through how to build motivation by defeating what I love to call the motivation assassinators because they're out there and we're not aware that they're out there, but once we're aware that they're out there, Kevin, it's literally magical because that's how I changed everything. I began to build on the storehouses that keep motivation going and growing; and therefore, I never have to go get re-motivated again.

Kevin: OK.

Donna: Too often, we have to go get re-motivated, so when you understand how to build motivation on an ongoing basis, then the moment the motivation starts to dwindle, you can instantly identify what is going on and you can defeat the motivation assassinators and go right back into building again. So, I would say the overall answer, what I personally did was I started with my surroundings and I started with what was being spoken into me, that it might be building and improving your focus. What do you want? Why do you want it? It might mean learning how to change your belief, which we will talk about a little bit later, but it may be identifying that you've got some habits that need some altering or emotional reactions that need to be turned into emotional responses. Mine was surroundings. It could be time management. It could just be in this world we live in. We're so doggone busy that we don't realize that what you talked about was like depression. You don't realize that you're so doggone busy, it's feeding the depression. These things are so intricately tied together that when you begin to build never-ending motivation and defeat the motivation assassinators, you start overcoming all kinds of other obstacles because things are so intricately "tied together," so whether it's weight loss, whether it's fitness, which is the industry that I've been in and all our brick and mortar locations since 1982, it could also be success, making money, building relationships, which is the speaking and writing that I do. The stuff, the secret stuff that works is the same stuff no matter what the category.

Kevin: Yeah, that's fantastic! Now, isn't it hard to change your environment?

Donna: You know, it is one step at a time. We can be tied to people that...or the attitudes of those people because we think there's a sense of security there. Somebody who has really applied the never-ending motivation concept, as a matter of fact, was involved in a relationship that was very unhealthy and, I mean, she had become completely unfit, she was making no money and she was in a company that had just unending income potential for the position that she was in. I mean, she just found herself so down and when she started studying never-ending motivation, she realized that her surroundings were the real thing that was bringing everything else down, and she just started taking a step and I'll tell you quite frankly, she didn't shift it all overnight. She identified it first, and then she took one little step of starting to add some more positives in her life. She did not just get rid of that negative overnight. She just began to add a piece of positives and she got involved in a personal development program. She got headed back to the gym again. She started pouring some good stuff in her mind for her sales position with work and started hanging around people that were already being successful and it just kind of began to happen, it began to build. She didn't do it all at one time, so I think the hard part is not adding the good stuff, I think the hard part is letting go of the bad stuff.

Kevin: OK.

Donna: And so, we need to add something good realizing that you really don't get rid of habits, you replace them, and so you replace the ones that aren't so good with good ones. Well, the same thing is true with surroundings, as you begin to add more good into your life. There just isn't room for the not so good anymore.

Kevin: Right. And in your opinion, how strong is the relationship between your health and the relationships and your interactions with people and other things around you?

Donna: Crucial. It's crucial. I think that if you want to be ultimately fit and at at-a- goal weight and, you know, live until 120 years old of age, I think that you...law of attraction, you know, you want to talk about where you are as if you're already there, and in that where-you-are statement is everything that you want including your health. Well, you need to be hanging around people who get that, who talk that way as well. You needn't think about your goal everyday. The thing that is so inspiring to me and this is why I do what I do, you know, people have said, "Gosh, you're on weight loss, you're in fitness and there aren't a lot of people that are in both," and "Oh my Gosh! You're in personal development too, Donna, you know, isn't that complicated?" You know what, Kevin? To me, it's a no-brainer. Those three match so intricately that whether you want my help with building your business, growing an empire, making more money or getting down to a size 4 if you're a woman, I can do that because they're all tied together so much. They just match. If I'm hanging around the people who get again, for example, law of attraction or if I am speaking that way, if I am focused on my goals, people who achieve fitness goals and who achieve money goals or success goals, think about it. They are of a disciplined mindset. If you have a disciplined mindset to achieve one goal, it just became about 300% easier to achieve another goal. So it's just, it's really a matter of which direction you put your attention at, but the character traits are the same no matter what the goal is. So, when you find somebody who has achieved a goal, I can take that person and literally help him achieve any goal they ever, ever wanted to achieve in their life because the disciplines and the attitudes and the beliefs, they are all foundational.

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Habits, Emotions and Motivation: Key Factors to Changing Your Life and Losing Weight

This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni's Fountain of Youth Summit, which can be found at http://fountainofyouthworldsummit.com. In this excerpt, Donna Krech shares her examples from her life changing system.

The Fountain of Youth World Summit with Donna Krech writer, speaker and "belief builder."

Kevin: Right. Let's get into that system, it sounds good. I'm fired up. What are some of the key things that we can identify for people who want to be successful in weight loss and success? How people can identify their motivational assassinators, and what they can do to get through them. So, we'll start with the first part of the question, what are a couple of things that people need to identify as keys to success or things that are causing them failure.

Donna: I think you can probably do it in one and that is you can maintain your motivation so that you can have life success. You can maintain motivation. I don't know if people stop and realize that motivation has been zapped. Identify a few of the keys to whether it's weight loss again or business success, relational success, it doesn't matter." The very first thing I would tell you Kevin is that you need to picture a funnel in your mind, and I don't care if coming out the bottom of that funnel is permanent weight loss, permanent fitness, or being a millionaire, or building a business empire, it doesn't matter what is. When we go to the top of that funnel and I'll just use, for example, weight loss, what happens is people look at that funnel and go, "Oh, I've got to watch what I eat. I've got to put all the different foods that I eat to that funnel." No, no. I'll tell you that if you can picture that the bottom part where the, you know, the end-result comes out, that bottom part of that funnel, you're going to go up on that funnel only about 15%, and 15% of permanent weight loss has to do with food.

Kevin: OK.

Donna: Now you are going to move up on the funnel, and I'll give you about 30% more space in that funnel and I am going to tell you that movement has to do with about 30% of permanent weight loss. It's more important than the food, but it's not the remaining 55%. The remaining 55%, Kevin, is motivation or what we call life success. And I could prove that to you by telling you to ask anybody you know this question, "Well, let's see have you ever counted calories to lose weight?" "Yeah." "Have you counted carbs to lose weight?" "Uh-hmm." "Have you gone on the newest high-protein craze?" "Yup." "Have you tried the bars?" "Uh-huh." "The pre- packaged foods, etcetera?" "Yes." And we could just keep going and going, and everybody goes yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yeah. OK, so you've done about everything there is to do with regard to food, and you're still not at your goal, right? So, it must not be about the food. It must be about focus and belief and habits and emotional reaction and surroundings and time management. It must be about maintaining motivation. Now, I can go to that same thing with you and have the bottom of the funnel be making money or business success. Business success only has about 15% to do with the sales that that business makes.

Kevin: Gotcha.

Donna: It's only got about 30% to do with the marketing and the relationship. It's got 55% to do with maintaining the motivation so you can celebrate when times are high and keep going when you hit the hiccups. No matter what the successes we're trying to achieve, you got to picture that funnel and you have to understand the components of the funnel.
Now, the second point, the second thing that I would identify is that you need to understand that in that 55% section live, unfortunately, the motivation assassinators, but the good thing about getting to know the motivation assassinators is that that is how you now can attain never-ending motivation. The motivation assassinators are focus or they try to zap your focus. You would maintain your motivation when you learn how to maintain the focus. The negative belief, motivational assassinator, but then learning how to build your belief and you can completely change your belief, you can completely change from "Money only happens in people's lives who are conniving and evil" to "I was created to be incredibly wealthy and full of abundance and prosperity, so that I can bless others lives as well." Habit is what "H" stands for, emotional reactions, surroundings, and time management and the "E" for emotional reactions can also stand for energy, but the acronym that we live by is FBHEST. That's how you maintain motivation, that's how you start to increase never-ending motivation, and that's how you identify the motivation assassinators.

The third thing I would say, you asked for three keys, is to understand life success, like I said weight loss is not about food, anymore than building a business is about making sales, or leaving a million dollar legacy is about making money. It's about maintaining motivation. You have to know where you want to go, and you got to understand ahead of time what is most likely going to come against you to keep you from getting where you want to go, and then you make a choice, and if you'll allow me to say it this way, choose your weapons because if you've got a motivation assassinator coming against you maintaining your motivation, there are tools that you can use, simple, easy to use tools that will equip you with a never- ending motivation artillery, and you can take out the motivation assassinators. That's been the biggest difference in my life from the old story to the new story. The biggest difference in my life has been...listen I just identify... because they don't go away completely ever, but I identify them. I can see those motivation assassinators when they start showing up and I get rid of them so quick. Where unfortunately, we in the past, we've let them kind of eat at us.

Kevin: Right.

Donna: And then sometimes even, I'm sad to say, they destroy us before we even realize they were coming against us. Well now, I know which of them are going to come against me most often, and that's true by the way for everybody. Everybody's got a couple that comes after them most regularly.

Kevin: Let's talk about what that means. What is never-ending motivation? To me, that sounds awesome. I want to know how you can do it. I think everyone has some sort of an issue with motivation, maybe procrastination, maybe "laziness," so what is never-ending motivation and let's just tear into it.

Donna: Well, let's talk about the person I mentioned a little bit earlier when we were talking. Marsha is a...she really is a go-getter. She really is. Yet she found herself at a point in her life...and she has been a goal-setter too, by the way, so she's a go-getter and she's a goal-setter. She found herself at a point in her life where her confidence had just disappeared. She was unfit. She was depressed. As I mentioned before, she had an incredibly low income in a company where there was astronomical potential in the position that she was in. She knew the potential that she had in her position, but she also knew that she was not motivated, that she didn't feel the motivation she had once felt. Now, she didn't understand why she didn't feel it. She just knew that she wasn't motivated and she would tell me that, "I'm just not motivated. I'm just not motivated," and you know what, if we're honest, we can all say that about a certain point in our life, "I am just not motivated."

Well, we began to go through FBHEST, and we began to identify what was zapping her motivation, so that she could then build the never-ending motivation, and she identified that when she was in her work environment, she was pretty good. She wasn't really producing a lot because the motivation had been zapped, but she felt better when she was in her work environment because it was positive, it was upbeat, it was uplifting, and at about the moment she would go home, she would get into a funk. She would, in her case, dig into the ice cream, sit in front of the television with the remote in her hand and never left her house for like the whole weekend. Now, you have to understand, her personality is very social, very outgoing, very fun-loving, and she was completely the opposite of most of what she is, and her motivation assassinator was "S," as in Sam, and it was surroundings, and she identified that in order to build her never-ending motivation, she had to change her surroundings. Now when she did that, she became incredibly fit. She lost weight. Her habits began to change. She doubled her income. Her entire life got better. She thought that her motivation assassinator was time management because she was a little bit scattered and not getting everything done when it needed to get done, and while the time management tools provided in never-ending motivation were very helpful to her and she really has applied them, when we really got to analyzing it, we found out that her main one was surroundings and again, we all, like I said, we all have a couple. When she got her surroundings kind of repaired, she really focused on the time management tools with never-ending motivation and, well, that's how everything has happened. She is now making more money. She is more fit. She is building her career, she's, I mean, she's completely changed her look. She is so confident and her life is full of friends again, and it was simply because she needed to learn how to build never-ending motivation.

Kevin: Right.

Donna: So, that she could keep it going in her life.

Kevin: And so, if she is having these challenges, what are some of the ways that, what are some of the techniques that she specifically used? How do you go about changing some of that belief?

Donna: We identified first, obviously, which of the motivation assassinators come against you most often. From there, we then know how we can begin to give you never-ending motivation by providing you with the tools. So, we'll use more Marsha's example. She believed it was time management, and like I say, in most cases of her life, she was right. Time management was a problem. Most people can't and don't identify, "Oh, gosh! Time management is a problem for me." They go, "Oh, my Gosh! I am so busy. I'm so busy." So, when I hear a person say that to me, I can then begin giving them tools. Marsha began to use that tool and just picked a couple of those techniques. One of which was she cut her television back. She didn't cut her television out because that's pretty unrealistic for most people. She cut back and in place of the television, on one day, she would workout and on another day, she would read, some sales building or personal development building material. OK. So now, she had found time to build herself up where she was spending time that was actually taking her down. She then started making more money in less time because of the tools that she was using in the time she had found.

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Donna Krech: Motivational Speaker and Writer Shares on Celebrating Every Success

This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni's Fountain of Youth Summit, which can be found at http://fountainofyouthworldsummit.com. In this excerpt, Donna Krech shares on weight loss and fitness. The Fountain of Youth World Summit with Donna Krech writer, speaker and "belief builder."

Kevin: Right. And with weight loss and health, now does someone have to do a separate law of three, or does that come in or again as we were talking before, does it somehow just find its way into it? I mean, how does that fit into?

Donna: Same motivation assassinators, same never-ending motivation. It's a little bit more specific obviously. If somebody is focusing on losing a certain amount of weight, then their law of three is going to be different. We're going talk about what do they want, what types of things do they feel could come against it, what do they need to pay attention to, how do they need to change their thinking, what now is their law of three, going into the day, what are the top three most important things I need to pay attention to, to get me the results that matter to me.

Kevin: Right.

Donna: Well, when the person wants to lose weight or become more fit, those are pretty easy to come up with, and when you think about them everyday, the magical thing about our minds is they almost just kind of happen, but the biggest reason people don't achieve goals or maintain motivation is they lose their focus. But you lose your focus because you are not thinking about it. We had a member named Connie, who had been involved in one of our brick and mortar locations around the country, and she had lost her weight. Well, unfortunately, you know, it's good that you learn from what you lived through. In that particular location, they weren't practicing coaching as much as they were practicing counseling and the difference is with coaching, I ask you questions that take you to your own answers and supply my expertise in the process. In counseling, I tell you what to do.

Kevin: OK.

Donna: Well, in this particular location, too much counseling was going on, and they were telling her what to do and consequently, she was focused on the food. Now, she was focused on the food plan, so she lost her weight, but because she was only focused on the food plan, Kevin, guess what happened after she lost her weight?

Kevin: There you go.

Donna: She gained it back again. Now, she got online and got involved in our coaching that we offer off of our online program and that coach really did begin to help her focus on a lifestyle that would keep the weight off, helped her change habits, helped her see that she actually had to believe that she would keep the weight off and that was part of why the weight had come back. The coach helped her identify the powerful why that we talked about so that she knew why she did not want to regain it, and not only did she lose the weight, listen to this, the woman has increased her income. She is building credible relationships. She started counting the victories that occurred in her life everyday again, but she hadn't even been talked to about the law of three before, and she gained her weight back. Once we started talking to her about the things that really should be talked about in a weight loss coaching session, not only did she lose it, she has kept it off for years.

Kevin: Wow! That's fantastic!

Donna: Yeah, we're very proud.

Kevin: Tell me a little about counting victories. I think that's a neat concept.

Donna: Well, the definition of victory is success in battle or war by the defeating of an enemy or an opponent. Now that definition tells me that there are three types of victories. There's success in battle, OK. So, that means the little things are victories. The little things that I do well are victories. There's success in war, which means the big goals are victories too, but then by the defeating of an enemy or an opponent means every time I don't succumb to doing something that I know I shouldn't do, that's not going to help me get to my goal, that's a victory too.

Kevin: OK.

Donna: So, we teach people to count all three types of victories. So, for example, if you go out to eat with your friends, and they're all eating just everything that's calorie laden and you really don't want to do that, and you choose to have something really healthy like a chicken breast and/or salad and/or baked potato, you just got probably four victories there because they might have had pizza and brownies and French fries.

Kevin: Right.

Donna: So, you did the little things, you won the battle, and you also didn't do the things that would keep you from your goal, more victories and we literally keep friends posted of all the victories that are achieved everyday. Well, when we have people start being aware of their victories, they want to have more victories, and they realize they are not too tough to come by.

Kevin: It's fantastic! So, when you continue to see victories, I mean, I would imagine that the chances of you succeeding quicker and faster is just that much...

Donna: Yeah! Just multiply it by factors we can't even come up with because you're not feeling beaten up by the battle.

Kevin: Yeah!

Donna: You are feeling victorious.

Kevin: Yeah! And do a lot of people, when you talk to them, they feel beaten up, don't they?

Donna: Oh my! Oh my! That's probably the number one thing. I am just...Here's the classic line, "I am just tired!"

Kevin: Yeah! Donna: "I am tired and I'm weary and I feel beaten up. I just want some hope," and the neat thing is we can give them hope in a very realistic, simple way because never-ending motivation works for everybody.

Kevin: Yeah! Now, finding the why is a challenge for a lot of people, I think, and what is the best way that someone, I mean, do they need someone else to help them find the why, or can they get down and there you'd really find out why they want to do something.

Donna: You know, I think what you can do on your own without any problem is really come to understand and appreciate that you need a why, and I'll help you with that in a second. The finding your "why" may need a coach because you have to keep asking "why" over and over again.

Kevin: Yeah.

Donna: For example, if we take a 20 ft 2 x 4 and we lay it out on the floor, and we say to someone...let's say it's a 2 x 6, it is nice and wide, OK, we lay it on the floor and we say to somebody, "Can you step on the other end of that 2 x 6 and walk across there that 20 ft. and come over to me?" The person of course says, "Well yes, I can do that, good grief". OK, let's put that 2 x 6 up on two cement blocks and let's secure them real firmly, so it's not going to go anywhere, "Could you step up on the cement block and walk across the 2 x 6," and the person says, "Yes, I am sure I could, we're balancing things, no big deal, I just did it on the floor, I could do it again." Then I say, "Let's take that 20 ft 2 x 6, let's suspend it between two 30- story buildings."

Kevin: [laughs]

Donna: "Now, I'll secure it real firmly so it's not going anywhere. Can you walk across there?" And of course, you know, outside the fact that sometimes, I think they want to call me names. They go, "What are you, are you out of your mind? There's no way, you are crazy. I can't get cross that." And then I say, now this is key Kevin, and if say, "OK. We've got the 20 ft 2 x 6 suspended between two 30-storey buildings. You are standing on one 30-storey building and on the other 30-storey building stands a person who you love more than anyone in this world, and the building is on fire, and the person that you love is about to be engulfed in flames in front of you. Can you get across there now?" And you better believe the entire room always says, "You better believe I'll get across there. I'll dangle, I'll crawl, I'll run, I don't care at all what I have to do, I will get over there." That in my case, that would be one of my babies. Now listen, my babies are 20 and 25 right now.

Kevin: Oh, yeah! [laughter]

Donna: That would be one of my babies. So, I have coined that "you're burning baby."

Kevin: OK.

Donna: You need to understand what your burning baby is? Why do you want what you want? Well you know what, with regard to weight loss and fitness, Kevin, people don't want to wear a certain size. You might want to wear a certain size to go on a cruise. That's not your ultimate burning baby. That's a temporary why, and temporary why's do work but what happened to you, you go on the cruise, you're looking on the cruise and you come back and you follow back in the old lifestyle and you gain your weight back again, OK. The burning baby is a powerful "why". The best time to get in shape is in the middle of the week for no reason or whatsoever, that is the best time to start. You do not say I will start on Monday, I will start in January. I will start because I am going on a cruise. You just start because now you are doing it for a powerful "why" reason. You know what, I don't work out to maintain my size two and I wear a size two. I don't work out because people tell me I look 20 years younger than I am, although, that is a really flattering thing. I work out because my energy goes to the roof because my mind is clear, and I can make great decisions quickly and my focus is acute, and my personality is nicer. I have more fun in life, and all these things I'm listing don't have anything to do with my size.

Kevin: Yeah.

Donna: They are my burning babies. Same thing with business, we can do the same example with wanting to make X amount of dollars so you could put X amount of dollars in your retirement, is not a burning baby. Why do you want that retirement? And then again, I would say why do you want that? Now, we are getting into, you can identify why-oh-why as important on your own. You might need someone's help with coaching you on finding your real "why". It is not tough, it is just sometimes, it takes a two-way dialogue because the other person is needed to look at you, and after you give the extended version of what you want and why, I then look at the person and go, "OK, why?"

Kevin: Yeah, why do you want that again? [laughs].

Donna: And then when you take them to about three "whys", they had a burning baby.

Kevin: Yeah.

Donna: And then you will achieve any goal you ever want to achieve because you have got your burning baby.

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Avoid Cancer Through Personal Care

Trends have shown that the coverage media is giving to the disease focuses more on treatments and not on prevention. As with any disease, prevention is the key and avoiding the disease or preventing one from contracting it outweighs the need for treatment. Media should bring more light into the need for measures such as the administration of the HPV vaccines which greatly decreases the risk of getting the disease in later life. A survey of several newspapers showed that over a two-year period, more than 200 stories have been published regarding the disease with only 18% of those total articles focusing on prevention. The amounts of preventive measures abound yet not many know enough.

The disease is preventable as with most forms of disease with enough knowledge and effort it can be avoided; if people would just take time to learn the ways of how to prevent the disease then we wouldn't have to present the numbers of fatalities and disfigured women from the whole country as much. Scientists have come up with many forms of treatments for the disease but scientists warn that their ability to provide cures can never outweigh the importance of prevention. The stories are quite sad and people feel that the life changing disease is out to get them, what they don't know is that there are several methods of reducing risk and getting regular screenings is one of them so any changes can be diagnosed and prescribed proper treatment. Media sees the sad story as more sellable than the ones regarding high-risk people who are doing great because they are eating and living healthy. A healthy person is not much of a story but somebody who is suffering from the disease has a higher market affecting readership.

MicroRNA has been found to have regulatory in many cancer-related processes in the human body that researchers in Israel are capitalizing on as a sure way of detecting squamous and non-squamous cells that are sure sign of lung cancer. This is vital for current available treatments for non-squamous cancers are deadly to squamous cancer sufferers and vice versa. On the other hand, Italian researchers have devised a way by which oncologists can check for three genetic markers as determining factor of the best approach treatment is to take. This allows better diagnosis with treatment customized to individual patients giving the oncologist the best possible chances of success and the patient recovery. To determine the advancement of the disease greatly enhances our ability to treat and provide the best possible medical solutions for a particular disease. This for m of diagnosis is being tested out for other forms of cancer which can greatly increase survivability rates of sufferers. It may also aid scientists in providing better prevention drugs or through genetic analyses be able to say who is susceptible of what thus giving patients time to adjust their lifestyles to avoid contracting that form of the disease.

As with any disease, there are lots of myths surrounding the ability of a family member to develop the same form of disease. Some experts say there is no direct link to the said relation and your ability to get the same disease except perhaps for the same environmental factors which may be causing the disease to manifest in both of you. There is no solid scientific basis for cancer being inherited but it should be used as an indicator that you are susceptible to it. The size of breasts is also a point of contention for many claim that having large natural breasts are a sure sign of you being prone to getting breast cancer. Experts say there is also no medical foundation for the myth and that whatever size of breasts you may have; the best tool in the fight against cancer would be to get screened regularly. There are more myths regarding the disease and most are said to be just plain myth without scientific basis. The best tool for prevention and successful treatment is early detection which is the key.

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Handle Fatigue Factors the Right Way

This may sound pretty cheesy but we'll have you know that everyone needs to invest in detox and escape from reality every so often (note: sex does count but we want alternatives). Every month, set at least one day for detox: you can find many articles to guide you with the right procedure, just make sure these are legit claims, do not detox for more than two days without the approval of a doctor. Also, yoga, meditation or even psychotherapy helps the body calm down and makes way for positive thinking. Doing both is a good way to combat fatigue as we know that beating anxiety and stress is as good and as hard as keeping yourself healthy emotionally, physically, mentally and spiritually.

This is the era of the young and the over-achievers so is it any wonder that depression seems to be a norm too? Depression is a chronic condition prompted by stress, anxiety and of course fatigue. Next to the latter is depression, so before you get to the last stage, its only right that you slow down before that point. Fatigue is one of the symptoms of depression. this is brought upon over exertion which is induced by the need to excel. To avoid it, do not set unrealistic goals, by this we mean "all in due time." Learn to prioritize, the competition isnt about the prize, enjoy the process, by doing so your body relaxes with the strain off your mind. It's as simple and as complex as mind over matter.

When you're tired, the last thing on your mind is exercise but we assure you that its one of the first thing you need to relax. Mental strain needs to have a physical exhaust, the body needs to get rid of the mental toxin accumulated through sweating. Inability to do this resorts to sluggishness and a feeling of constant tardiness resorting to fatigue. Always make time for exercise, if your physical body is in good shape, you'd soon find your mental and psychological being getting better too. We recommend you turn to sports that is most applicable to your body type so that socialization is also infused in your lifestyle.

This may sound pretty cheesy but we'll have you know that everyone needs to invest in detox and escape from reality every so often (note: sex does count but we want alternatives). Every month, set at least one day for detox: you can find many articles to guide you with the right procedure, just make sure these are legit claims, do not detox for more than two days without the approval of a doctor. Also, yoga, meditation or even psychotherapy helps the body calm down and makes way for positive thinking. Doing both is a good way to combat fatigue as we know that beating anxiety and stress is as good and as hard as keeping yourself healthy emotionally, physically, mentally and spiritually.

Its obvious that fatigue is caused by a lack of rest, but too much sleep also induces it. It is important to take note that a person's average sleep contain eight hours, anything less and in excess by more than one hour is bound to cause trouble. Over sleeping causes the body to feel more tired as opposed to well rested just like under sleeping. To avoid both, try to stick to a normal sleeping pattern, messing up with our biological clocks is bound to cause resting troubles. Naps are okay so long as it is timed to 15 minutes and is used to re-energize instead of make-up for lost sleep. The use of sleeping pills are also highly discouraged as it also ruins the natural state of the body.

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Value Your Life by Being Aware of Health Constraints Today

The world was stunned when an ordinary cancer patient suffering from a form of Leukemia announced that he may have produced a device that could spell a revolutionary approach to cancer treatment. John Kanzius used to be a radio operator and technician turned inventor when he got fed up with chemotherapy and the other types of treatments that are currently available for treating the many forms of cancer. He came up with the idea of using high-power radio waves to kill off cancer cells deep within the human body that promises to be non-invasive. The treatment would have a patient administered with protein attaching compounds that would attach themselves to the cancer cells and only the cancer cells that is loaded with metallic Nano-materials. Radio waves passes through the human body without harming the living tissue and this happens everyday with cosmic radiation on the form of radio waves penetrating and passing thought the human body without any harm done.

The approach and type of treatment has attracted the attention of top cancer researchers much so that they have started experimental tests on the Kanzius device. Though an actual cancer treatment machine that would be useable and safe for human use is still a few years away, the novel approach he took is making his invention the talk of the cancer research world. When asked what his expectations would be of his invention (which by the way he funded with his own money) he simply says he doesn't need to earn money from it all, and that a cure for cancer that would make tomorrow a better one for all the cancer sufferer's out there would be enough reward for him.

Psychological exams would be able to tell if depression is present allowing the prescription of alternative treatments. Much is the concern that the cosmetics industry is now under scrutiny due to many substances that are commonly found in them that have long been banned from other developed countries due to harmful side effects. It is estimated that the average woman in their daily routine for beauty, can apply as much as 200 different compounds on their faces and body some of which have been determined to cause some health problems as they are absorbed into the blood stream passing thought the skin. Anything that has active ingredients, even natural products should be treated as drugs due to their ability to pass through skin and cause health problems in the future.

According to experts, elderly people who are getting treatment/medication to overcome dementia associated with their relative age can result in death or hospitalization short after. The side effects of older and newer drugs were analyzed when researchers tried to find an explanation for the rash of deaths that were plaguing elderly communities in health care facilities/nursing homes finding that those who did receive the antipsychotic drugs are three times more likely to get hospitalized or even die due to long term side-effects of the drugs in question.

The study recruited people in nursing homes as test subjects and their results did confirm that the adverse effects of individuals who received antipsychotics did have a higher risk of getting into health problems as a result of the drugs. Most elderly people who are confined to nursing homes are getting treated with antipsychotics to manage their often fragile health but compared to those who live outside of them they are more likely to die or get into serious health problems. The researchers are advising that these drugs be prescribed with caution till they get to the bottom of the problems as many follow-up testing and research is in order to establish better data.

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Jon Caldwell is a professional content manager. Much of his articles can be found at http://healthcare101blog.com

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Phoenix Gilman, Nutritional Expert and Author Shares Food Choices For Weight Loss

This interview is an excerpt from Gianni's Fountain of Youth Summit, which can be found at fountainofyouthworldsummit.com. In this excerpt, Phoenix Gilman shares choosing foods for weight loss.

The Fountain of Youth World Summit with Phoenix Gilman, the author of "Diet Failure - The Naked Truth About Weight Loss."

KEVIN: When we go to the supermarket, and we see all those low fat, no fat, net carb, everything that you just said, you know, what's the policy?

PHOENIX: Oh, stay away from them. Stay away from because... here's the thing again. Yeah, it's not, which I'm so surprised that there's so much of them still on the shelves. I'm such... I'm just still so fascinated when I go to the grocery store to see what they are perpetuating on the trusting consumer. And so many consumers, with all due respect, they don't have the time to do what I did to research some stuff. They want to trust what the food manufacturers are telling them. So, they put on the label, "It's fat-free." For those who believe it's ... fat, then they're going to grab it. And they're probably going to eat it in excess because they think, "Well, it's no fat." And it's the same thing with the net carb and impact carb. It's all BS, if I may say.

KEVIN: Yeah, sure.

PHOENIX: Because anything that has disclaimed that, there is some sort of label trickery behind it. I tell my clients, "Look, do they ever put that on a nice tomato or a nice piece of fruit?" No. Because their goal is, on those foods, is to really, I mean, how does the food business stay in business? They do it by selling their food. And how they make sure they sell it and make us a loyal faithful customer? They'd have to get us addicted. And how do they get us addicted? By hiding sugar and under all kinds of names. So, for those foods, again, it's not about eating good healthy fat. I'm not talking about trans fats that you find in the processed potato chips and crackers and stuff like that. I'm talking about good healthy fat. So, it is about eating those good healthy fats and staying away from all the deceptive labeling that comes under the low fat, you know, net carb and impact carb products.

KEVIN: Yeah. And talking a little about good fats and bad fats, what are the good ones, a lot of people, here, good fat, good fat. Well, what is it, you know?

PHOENIX: Well, good fat, Kevin, would be things as eggs, whole eggs. Eggs is one of the most perfect foods for those who are concerned about cholesterol. Another myth. I talked about it in great detail in the book, that is, you have to eat good, healthy fat, and with good healthy fat comes good healthy cholesterol. So, eggs, the whole eggs.

KEVIN: And why have people been saying that, you know, egg whites...

PHOENIX: Egg whites only?

KEVIN: Yeah.

PHOENIX: Well, that was perpetuated many years ago by the cereal industry and I would say that that was a huge success, wouldn't you?

KEVIN: Yeah.

PHOENIX: Because it really is. For those who understand really how the body works, again, you have to trigger the insulin because the body ... fat. And healthy fat does not cause that insulin response.

KEVIN: A-ha.

PHOENIX: So, by eating good healthy cholesterol, you have to actually eat cholesterol with every meal, Kevin, to stop your body's internal production of it. And if you don't eat good healthy cholesterol with every meal, your body will make it out of the carbohydrates that you eat, and that is not a good form. That is what will lead to plaquing of the arteries.

KEVIN: OK. So, your body's creating those hormones from cholesterol?

PHOENIX: Yes. Your body will create cholesterol on its own. It has its own internal mechanism to make it. If you don't make it, if you don't consume food that contain it, which is what, then when you do eat it, it shuts down its own production of it.

KEVIN: OK.

PHOENIX: But some other healthy fats are olive oil, extra virgin olive oil, grapeseed oil, flaxseed oil, nuts and seeds, unsalted please with none of those smoked, you know, and salty things. Avocados, organic mayonnaise, fresh white cheeses, your mozzarella, feta and goat. Those are all wonderful good healthy fat. And of course, in your fishes, you know, like salmon and things like that you'll have the health, I look at it more as a protein source, but you also get good sources of fat in that as well.

KEVIN: A-ha. What about fish oils and flaxseed oils, are those good as well?

PHOENIX: Absolutely, for your Omega-3 and the 6's and things like that, I recommend, you know, in my book I do give a list of, I do chapters of, just one chapter of excellent low GI carbohydrates.

KEVIN: A-ha.

PHOENIX: And then a list of foods that somebody would find in my house on any given day and that is a list of all types of whether good healthy fats, low GI carbs, different food for, different fish for your Omega-3's and things like that. So... I've had many people who say, "Oh, you need to write a recipe book." But it was more important for me to give the tools to people to teach them how t to think for themselves because that will take you a lifetime versus, who lives off a cookbook? I mean, it's not going to happen.

KEVIN: Yeah. Could you give us a snapshot of some of the things that are in your house right now?

PHOENIX: Oh, sure. I just ... hey now, no, it's ... This morning, I had three eggs with mozzarella cheese...

KEVIN: A-ha.

PHOENIX: ...with some tomato and olive oil.

KEVIN: A-ha.

PHOENIX: I always have, I have about two dozen eggs, I go through about two dozen eggs a week and they're a great snack as well for people who say, "Oh, I don't know what I'll have for snack." Boil some eggs, they make for a great snack.

KEVIN: A-ha.

PHOENIX: I have some raw almonds, I make my own trail mix, I usually have an assortment of almonds, macadamias, walnuts, I mix those together and make my own trail mix.

KEVIN: Oh, great.

PHOENIX: I have fresh whipping cream that I put in my decaf green tea, which I have sitting right here topped with a little cinnamon, absolutely wonderful, better than any latte.

KEVIN: So, fresh whipped cream, you mean, just straight from the farm, or...

PHOENIX: Yes. Fresh whipped cream which, you know, not the spray cream, but the fresh, real, whole whipping cream.

KEVIN: A-ha.

PHOENIX: And why? Because it's, even though I try to limit my intake of any cow products, it is a good healthy source of fat and it has zero carbs which means zero sugar. So...

KEVIN: Got you.

PHOENIX: ...it's not about the fat-free milk or the skimmed milk which, again, is a carb and as a liquid carb, it's going to affect your blood sugar level even more dramatically. So for me, it's whole whipping cream.

KEVIN: And could you explain that a little more? I think a lot of people don't realize...

PHOENIX: The liquid carb?

KEVIN: ...that milk, dairy, lactose is a sugar and that there are carbs.

PHOENIX: Well, no, exactly, Kevin, and the thing is two just like the fruit. When I tell people, "Oh", I mean, the fruit juice, they go, "Oh, you're telling us that it's not healthy?" I said, "No, no, no. It's how you consume those carbs." Because fruit has fructose, which is fruit sugar.

KEVIN: A-ha.

PHOENIX: Milk has lactose, which is milk sugar. And so, when you have, not only is it a carb, but as the fruit juice and the milk, you will have a liquid carb. And as a liquid carb, you will affect the blood sugar level much more dramatically. Why? Because it's nothing more than liquid. It's going to go much quicker into the bloodstream. It has nothing, the body doesn't have to take time to break it down.

KEVIN: A-ha.

PHOENIX: So, which is why I recommend, of course, I want you to eat fruit. There are better fruits than others and mine, when I'm really working with clients who have an excess insulin gauge which is where that weight you carry around your midsection which is the most harmful to your health, it is about your lower GI fruits, which, for me, the berries. I highly recommend any of the berries. But again, eat them in their natural state. Don't take them in a juice form. One only has to look at any bottle. When you go into the grocery store, Kevin, you can pick up any bottle, look at all the fruit juices that are marketed, just read the panel. Look at how much sugar is in there and look at how many servings are in there. There is often amazing, at least thirty, if not sixty to eighty grams of sugar in one of those juice products. So again, it's about taking your carbs in their natural form. The fruits and things like that, so that the body has its ability to break down the fiber which will help lower the blood sugar responses going to be caused by it.

KEVIN: So, these juices, when you look at them in the grocery store that say a hundred percent juice?

PHOENIX: Yeah, but they can say a hundred percent juice or they can say whatever, but it's still, it's just pure sugar water.

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Nutrition Expert and Author Shares Important Diet Information For ADD, ADHD and Weight Loss

This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni's Fountain of Youth Summit, which can be found at fountainofyouthworldsummit.com. In this excerpt, Phoenix Gilman shares on maintaining serotonin levels in ADD, ADHD and weight loss.

The Fountain of Youth World Summit with Phoenix Gilman, the author of "Diet Failure - The Naked Truth About Weight Loss."

PHOENIX: This whole thing with ADD, ADHD, if people and the parents and everyone were to come to understand that everything we put in our body obviously affects us physically, but to understand that it also affects us mentally and emotionally, our ability to concentrate, this whole ADD, ADHD, well no wonder most of these kids are bouncing off the walls and can't focus. One, we have to remember what it was like to be a child, first of all. That to me is so important. That child has so much energy that should not be harnessed with a drug. If parents were to understand that everything that they put in their child's diet, even though they probably think, I'm sure they think they're doing right with the low fat milk and the cereals and all that, and the bagels. But all those foods are all very high GI. And the juices and things like that and of course, what kid doesn't enjoy a Red Bull which is nothing but caffeine and sugar. All those things deplete that brain chemical which, among many things, will lead to more cravings, more binge eating and the so-called ADD, ADHD.

KEVIN: Yeah.

PHOENIX: So, just by understanding what a healthy diet will help tremendously in that child being able to focus and to lose the weight and to be a much healthier child without having to drug them with, you know, sort of Ritalin or Strattera.

KEVIN: Sure. And with kids, if we can move into that just for a little bit...

PHOENIX: A-ha.

KEVIN: ...I mean, kids like chicken fingers and french fries and ketchup. I mean, how do you get them to, as a parent...

PHOENIX: Yeah.

KEVIN: ...what does a parent do to get them to eat a healthier diet?

PHOENIX: Well, that's another excellent question because I talk about it in the book saying, you know, I wrote the book in a dialogue form to one, to give a voice directly to the consumer. And so, the woman says to me, "Well, you can eat like that because you don't have children. I have children." And I wanted to put that out there, because I do understand that it is, when you have kids, that's a whole another thing. I don't have to worry about anyone, it's just me. However, there is no better time to help your child than now and he is a child. They might not like it right away, but you can do it slowly. There are things that you can just start to incorporate. I mean, most kids like eggs. You can start instead of giving them breakfast cereal every morning.

KEVIN: A-ha.

PHOENIX: You know, Hot Pockets and Pop-Tarts and things like that. Slowly start to put other healthier things in there. And the dietary supplements as well, Kevin, that are crucial to be able to maintain that brain chemical so you can maintain on this healthy way of living and eating, is even though in our industry we have to ... those standard claims, keep away from children. However, if I had a child, knowing how safe it is, I would have them on this product that they could then, because that is the most important thing for me, to maintain that brain chemical so I can get on with my life and do the things that I need to do and staying and eating healthy is the most important thing. So, that would be a good place to start to also then really educate yourself to know what's healthy, start there and then also get on that supplement.

Because that's the key. That's the key. Again, all diets, generally ninety-eight percent of all diets fail unless you understand how to maintain that serotonin. And so that's really the missing link for any of the diets that are out there.

KEVIN: Right. And you talked about supplements a little bit. What are some of the ingredients in a healthy supplement regimen?

PHOENIX: A-ha. Well, for me, I don't really get too much into, my key focus, as I said, is to help maintain serotonin.

KEVIN: Yeah.

PHOENIX: I have my own personal thing. I mean, I'm not really big and overloading on supplements even though I'm in the industry. I could be taking twenty or thirty a day based on what the reports say that you need. I try to get as much as I can naturally through my food. I'll take a good multiple vitamins and minerals ......

KEVIN: A-ha.

PHOENIX: I take an extra E and B. And other than that, the most important one for me, if I only had to take one, it would not be any of those, it would be the product that will elevate my serotonin. And the ones that I recommend in my book, I don't promote my products in my book even though I spent four years developing supplements to prove these theories, that I had read, the clinical theories, it is about sharing those products and the supplements that people can go in any health food store and get. And by far, the one that is the favorite of mine and has the most wonderful studies to support and what I have used in all my products in the last seven years, is called 5HTP, 5 hydroxytryptophan.

KEVIN: OK. Tryptophans, OK.

PHOENIX: Yeah. And there's other ones that I list but that is by far the best, and they could be picked up, as they say, it's great. Because why? It's safe, it's affordable, it's effective, extremely effective and no prescription required.

KEVIN: Wow. That's interesting. And what does it do chemically?

PHOENIX: Well, actually the 5 is an amino, it's a natural amino acid, it's found from the Griffonia seed, a plant out of Africa, South Africa.

KEVIN: A-ha.

PHOENIX: And it is the closest thing to serotonin. It crosses... it's easily...to cross the blood-brain barrier, which the blood-brain barrier is very, very protective for obvious reasons. From anything that can go in there. But the 5 has what I like to call, the "Key" to quickly get across that barrier. And so, once it gets in across the blood-brain barrier, it transforms into serotonin, thereby elevating this brain chemical.

KEVIN: Wow.

PHOENIX: And unlike any diet that anyone's been on in the past, Kevin, I always say, you know, "What do we think about it especially women when we're on a diet?" We think about all the foods we can't wait to eat once we get down to that perfect size.

KEVIN: Yeah, it's true.

PHOENIX: And so, and plus, diets are associated with starvation, deprivation and frustration. And eventually, we end up with our head in the bag for whatever it is we crave. Because, not knowing that what's driving us to consume those things is this brain chemical depleted. So, unlike any diet that anyone's been on, whether you're trying to lose weight, whether you want to help alleviate depression or ADD or help lower your risk for heart disease, cancer, all those things, it is absolutely imperative to be able to maintain it. And to maintain it with a safe effective dietary supplement, Kevin. Once you're able to maintain that brain chemical, the most amazing thing happens and that is, you will no longer be driven to consume those things. You could have those foods, those trigger items, those comfort foods that you thought you couldn't live without, you could have them right in front of you and you would no longer want them. Why? Because the brain is now satiated. It's content. It has no need, no desire to push you for those things. And that is what makes this work long-term. Because what happens when you maintain the serotonin, you subsequently stabilize the insulin. You're no longer consuming the food and/or beverages that constantly trigger the insulin, making the body store more fat, more fat, leaves depression, more cravings, all the issues that will come to a cycle you now start to stabilize the body. The body starts to burn its own stored fat instead of constantly triggering it, and that is the crucial long-term link.

KEVIN: Wow. It sounds just fantastic to be able to have that power.

PHOENIX: A-ha. It is. Absolutely. That's why I have so many wonderful testimonials. People say, "Look, for the first time in my life, I'm not driven to consume those." They just simply lose the desire. And a lot of people say, "Oh, you know, I just found new willpower." I said, "I don't care what you want to call it as long as it's working."

KEVIN: Yeah.

PHOENIX: What it is is just simply, because it happens within your own head, it really is. It feels like, "Wow, I finally got it." But it's nothing more, you know, not to take away, it's powerful but it's simply nothing more than you finally understanding how to safely maintain that neurotransmitter.

KEVIN: Wow. You just mentioned testimonials. Why don't you share with us, you know, a story or two about how, you know, this has worked for the people you worked with.

PHOENIX: There's two I'd love to share. There's one, it's so emotional, though, it was a woman I was doing a show out at Minnesota and I do that really early in the morning and she wrote me and she said, "I heard you one cold wintry morning on WCCO and I almost drove off the road in shock of how you could know what I struggled with all my life with food addiction, carb addiction, never being able to keep the weight off. I felt like such a failure." Anyway, this woman went on to lose forty-five pounds in about four months, which is a nice, steady pace, not too quick...

KEVIN: Yeah.

PHOENIX: ...which I tell my clients, "Look, I will never tell you you're going to lose thirty pounds in thirty days. I'm not even going to tell you you're going to lose fifteen pounds in thirty days. This is about coming to understand the long-term solution, and to how far you want to take it, if you add in working out, doing some weight training to help build that lean muscle mass, you could take it probably a little quicker but it is, for me, always about long-term." But anyway, that woman with a huge...she was a binge eater for her whole life. She was about my age, forty-seven at the time. And she just could not control it. She said, "I felt like such a failure." Having lost the forty-five pounds, she had kept it off for a year, which is a huge success, because sometimes, like people say, "Oh, I can lose the weight. It's keeping it off that's an issue." So, most of the people that I have now, the book has been out a year, these people have maintained that. And she says now, she says, "You know Phoenix, it is so wonderful to finally be able to go out to dinner with my two boys, enjoy a meal, have a nice piece of pie without wanting to eat the entire pie."

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Water: The Best Thirst Quencher

You've probably heard by now how important it is to drink lots of water. How much? The answer varies according to who you read or listen to, but my advice is to not get carried away. Your body will tell you when it needs water -that's what thirst is for.

The funny thing is, at the same time we are bombarded with health information about the importance of staying hydrated, the market is saturated with products that are supposed to quench our thirst, give us energy, nourish us, make us smarter, and who knows what else. The only problem with all of these products? They aren't water.

I'm not saying that you should only drink water. There is definitely room for other beverages. Juices can be healthy and refreshing. Coffee and tea are debatable, but there is evidence that even they have health benefits when consumed in moderation. The same is true for alcohol -again, stressing the need for moderation. Soda and the various sugary "fruit flavored" drinks you would really be better off skipping altogether.

What I'm focusing on here is the way that juices, energy drinks and various "thirst quenchers" are being marketed as alternatives to plain water. They can never replace water, and in many cases they aren't even that good for you. Of course, this is a generalization, and with all of the products out there, new ones coming on the market every week, we cannot possibly make a general statement about all of them. Or can we?

The next time you are tempted to reach for an energy drink, or even pure juice, take a look at the list of ingredients and the sugar content. Now some sugars are better than others, but even if you are gulping down gallons of, say, 100% all natural, organic apple juice, you are still consuming lots of sugar. Natural sugar, to be sure, but still way more sugar than your body needs. That's why some health experts recommend to get your fruit from whole fresh fruit rather than juices.

For example, have you ever had a large glass of fresh squeezed orange juice? It's certainly refreshing, but watch the person who makes it and see how many oranges they have to use to make one large glass. Certainly more than you'd ever eat if you were just sitting there eating oranges. I'm not saying that a glass of orange juice is bad for you, but if you rely on juices to quench your thirst, you will be getting lots of superfluous sugar.

When it comes to energy drinks, there are other things to watch out for. Many have high caffeine content. Combined with sugar, and maybe some herbal stimulants such as Ginseng as well, you may indeed get a burst of energy, but you will probably also crash. Many energy drinks have an impressive list of vitamins, herbs and other supplements. In most cases, you are better off getting these from a proper diet or taken as pure supplements, without all the added sugar.

The real point is that nothing replaces water. Pure water -finding a good source of water can be problematic nowadays, but buy the best you can or find a good purification system- should always be your primary thirst quencher. If you use anything else as a way to satisfy your thirst, especially when exercising or in hot weather, you will almost certainly be consuming excessive sugars, caffeine, and even vitamins (you can consume too much of certain vitamins, depending on your age, gender and overall state of health).

The bottom line, then, is simple --when you're thirsty, drink water. Sip on other beverages for variety, as a treat, at social occasions or whatever, but when you need to gulp down large quantities of a liquid, make it H2O.

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Larry Christopher is a writer and researcher on many topics, including cultural issues, health and wellness, the arts and metaphysics. For more about water and other health topics, visit http://www.naturalhealthchoices.info and click on the link, Healthy Water.

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Colon Cleanse – 5 Colon Cleansing Methods

The colon is a repository of waste material in our bodies. It is important to regularly cleanse it to avoid serious diseases. Now there are a number of methods that you can adopt as part of your cleansing regimen. Some are natural and can be as simple as altering eating habits while some involve rather complicated procedures. Here are some of the most popular means by which you can keep your colon clean and healthy:

(1) Colonic Hydrotherapy

In colonic hydrotherapy (also known as colonic irrigation), water will be flushed into your system to cleanse it of harmful, leftover waste. During this procedure, a tube will be inserted into the anus and water will be expelled into the large intestine via this tube. The water will help wash off the compacted waste that have built up inside the colon. More water is used in hydrotherapy than in enemas and it is important that they be administered by an experienced health professional. A lot of people actually shy away from this procedure as it is quite invasive and can be very uncomfortable.

Colonic hydrotherapy can also be quite pricey going up to as much as $100 to get it done. Another drawback to this procedure is that while it helps flush out fecal matter, it doesn't really get rid of the mucus and other toxins that have accumulated in the lining of the intestines. This brings us to the next method.

(2) Oxygen-based Cleansers

An oxygen-based cleanser is more thorough than colonic hydrotherapy in that it is able to effectively dissolve the toxins and other build up that are attached to the intestinal lining. Oxygen-based cleansers are said to be the best option for cleaning out your colon. Not only does it address hard to eliminate waste build-up in the colon, it also cleanses the small intestines. These cleansers contain an ingredient called ozonated magnesium oxide that turns the compacted waste into gas or liquid form. This makes cleansing easier and more thorough. Oxygen-based cleansers are natural and non-toxic so they pose no dangerous side effects to the user. It is also painless and non-invasive which is another reason most people prefer this method.

(3) Enemas

Enemas function in the same way as colonic irrigation in that it is a procedure that requires the flushing out of waste with the use of water, although more water is used in colonic irrigation. Also, enemas are only able to get rid of waste material stored in the rectum and are usually unable to clean the inmost part of the colon. Besides water enemas, people can also opt to go for clay or coffee enemas.

(4) Herbal Treatments

A lot of herbal treatments involve the use of psyllium, a high fiber herb that acts as a sponge and absorbs waste material. This is then flushed out of the colon as psyllium also has laxative properties. Other popular cleansing herbs are dandelion root and cascara sagrada.

(5) Laxatives

Laxatives are effective at emptying the bowels but this treatment provides only temporary relief and does not really address the more serious problems associated with colon blockage.

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Stressed Out With Belly Fat Pt. 2: Too Much Pressure And Not Enough Elimination

Can a pill reduce stress and "stubborn" belly fat? The "diet" and weight-loss industry has preyed on our lack of knowledge about health, fitness, and nutrition for too long. Since much of the truth has been exposed about the fat-free fad, the low-carb fad, and the food pyramid misrepresentation in the Standard American Diet (SAD), the "diet" and weight-loss industry has revamped its approach by jumping on the "stress factor" bandwagon.

Using a pill as the answer to stress, may just be more pressure for your body to contend with? The answer to this question may shock you and save your life. As we discovered in the article Stressed out with Belly Fat Pt. 1: The Truth about Body Fat, the symptoms of stress, low self-esteem, and depression are results of chemical imbalances that often manifests as excess weight. In a vicious cycle, excess weight gain and food addiction contribute to most physical, emotional and spiritual maladies.

For many people who are not health conscious, their body's pH level is about 5.1 to 6.0, stress maximizes. The stress is caused and multiplied by the amount of pressure placed on the body in its attempt to eliminate metabolic waste. The pressure you feel is mentally and emotionally is actually physical pressure stemming from metabolic waste trapped in the body. Ultimately, we feel stressed out because our bodies are stressed out.

For example, have you ever tried to sleep in a junky room with papers piled up on the floor, clothes, and leftover food every where? There is foul odor and nothing is in order. There's hardly any room on the bed for you to sleep. And just when you get things cleaned out a little bit, more clothes are thrown on the bed, more leftover food, and the odor gets more and more unbearable. How well rested do you think you would be in this environment? How stressed do you think you would be?

Accordingly, the same thing happens in the human body. When your body has a highly acidic environment, the body feels the pressure. It needs to alkalize the body so it starts by searching the blood for minerals. If there are no minerals in the food, then the body robs it from your bones. Finally, the body is able to eliminate some of the metabolic waste. But, oh no, you just drank a diet soda, ate a pile of fries, and greasy double cheese burger. Now just when the body had a little bit of the metabolic waste eliminated, you bring in non-nutritional substances that the body can't even use to restore itself from all the work it has done to eliminate some of the previous metabolic waste. As result, you feel that lack of energy so suddenly you crave a pack of Oreos.

These are the daily battles and pressure we force our bodies to endure. The answer to this pressure and elimination problem is not a pill. What we truly need is found right in nature. And what might that be? The answer is a pH balance diet of raw fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, and grains. By increasing our raw food intake daily and avoiding process foods and meats, we can melt away body fat and enjoy a stress-free lifestyle.

About the Author:
Carmellita M. Brown, a Wellness Coach and Visionary Spiritual Teacher, teaches how you can trim stubborn belly fat by adding more raw foods to your diet in the world-class online training course "Lose Weight on the Raw Food Diet and Become a Wellness Coach located at http://universalclass.com/i/9478.htm


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Stressed Out With Belly Fat Pt. 3: What Your Tummy Really Needs

In the article, Stress About Belly Fat Pt. 2: Too Much Pressure and Not Enough Elimination, we discussed that when your body has a highly acidic environment, the body feels the pressure. We discussed how the body needs to alkalize itself so it starts by searching the blood for minerals to accomplish this. If there are no minerals in the food, then the body robs it from your bones.

But what we don't realize is that while your body is robbing and leech your blood stream and your bones for minerals, it become lethargic and wants sugar. This happens because the body has been robbed of calcium. So, in response to the cravings, eat a candy bar and suddenly think you feel better.

What has really happened? Here is the real scenario. The body then gets that "quick" energy it needs. Therefore, it begins to work from that energy. It has enough energy to digest the food to help you get through some of your physical activities for about 2 hours. Suddenly, you're tired again. The body has digested the food but much of the food you ate was dead and useless. It had no nutritional value. So, much of that food becomes metabolic waste. And once again, the body feels the stress of getting rid of this acidic material, so it searches the blood for minerals. No minerals are there; then, it robs the minerals from the bones. And the cycle continues.

Do we really understand the physical stress the body is under? Can we see now how aging, weight gain, and stress are inevitable? And what have we been told is the answer? A pill is what the diet and weight-loss industry has provided as an answer--yet another foreign substance. Let's put the facts on the table. If what you put in the body is not a fat, carbohydrate, or protein, your body eliminates it as waste plain and simple. Yes, some water soluble minerals and phyto-nutrients are great supplements but these substances naturally assimilate in the blood stream adding minerals. To settle the question about herbs, herbs are food with nutrients. Many of the pills on the market today supported by the diet industry are stimulants.

Stimulants only work for a short period of time after which the body becomes immune to them and they stop working. Have you ever taken a diet pill to suppress your appetite? After about 6 months of taking the pill, you probably had to up your dosage in order to continue to suppress your appetite. Quick fix pills carry you the distance with weight-loss. Moreover, these pills, which have been manufactured to reduce stress and burn fat, contain stimulants that cause heart palpitations, elevated blood pressure, and liver damage. When we lose weight we want to be healthy, fit, vibrant and full of life.

What is the point in losing fat if we lose our lives in the process? It is time to get the knowledge we need about health, fitness, and nutrition. We need to learn how the body and food work together as well as the role that exercise plays in alleviating stress and aging.

Finally, what does your tummy really need? Adding raw foods such as fruit, vegetables, nuts, seeds, and grains to your diet is what the tummy really need. With more raw foods in your diet, you are getting high-octane energy and there is nothing like it on the market.

Your body will be able to heal and repair itself daily. After all, health is the rate at which your body has the ability to heal itself. Great health means regaining your youthful vigor, weight management, more energy, and getting older without aging. Give yourself a chance at a healthy and vital life. Knowledge is power. Learn how you add more raw foods to your diet and experience optimal health. With this knowledge, you will find there is no need to be stressed out about belly fat.

About the Author:
Carmellita M. Brown, a Wellness Coach and Visionary Spiritual Teacher, teaches how you can trim stubborn belly fat by adding more raw foods to your diet in the world-class online training course "Lose Weight on the Raw Food Diet and Become a Wellness Coach located at http://universalclass.com/i/9478.htm

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Is There an Easy Way to Lose Weight?

Obesity can wreak havoc in the lives of its sufferers in many ways such as: lowering ones self confidence and their self respect along with health risks including stroke, heart attacks, diabetes, difficulty breathing and it also limits mobility. This disease is hard to overcome for many reasons but one of the most common is the amount of non-successful diets available on today's market. None-the less if you look hard enough you will find that good programs do exist.

Before you run out and sign up for a program it is a good idea to make sure that you are doing this for all the right reasons. In order to be successful in any weight loss program you must have the yearning to succeed. Therefore, doing it solely to benefit others will impede your progress and most likely will cause you to fail.

Prior to starting a program you will also want to look into what factors are leading to your obesity. Many people eat to fill an emotional void or because they are bored. Some people are overweight due to pre-existing health conditions such as thyroid or metabolism disorders. Stress can also play a factor in obesity as some people use food as a stress reliever. You will want to keep this in mind when starting up the program that is going to work for you.

You will find in most cases that in order to be successful in your fight to lose weight you will have to incorporate certain things into your lifestyle. A few of those adjustments may include scheduling and eating the right foods and portions along with regular exercise.

Another important factor is to set realistic and attainable goals. Though it is easy to want to set your sights high you will stay motivated by setting smaller goals and progressing from that point until you ideally obtain your desired weight loss.

Now if you enjoy having your share of sweets or junk foods do not fret, though you will most likely have to reduce your junk food intake drastically you are still entitled to indulge once in a while. And having that occasional sweet will also help curb cravings so it will in the long run benefit the progression of your successful diet.

Research indicates that those who go into a program with an optimistic outlook stand a higher chance of successfully attaining their desired results. This not only positively affects your diet but all aspects of your day to day life as well.

Making this move to lose weight will not only improve your health and mobility but your self confidence also is bound to sky rocket with success. You are now armed with the information you need to get started.

So now that you are ready to go where you should start? Well that's the perfect question because I am prepared to give you that answer. You should start right here with my Weight Loss Breeze program. I have found the secret that is often neglected and overlooked in most diets and this program will have you wondering why you didn't try it years ago.

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Expert Danny Dreyer Shares on Eating Healthy and Listening to Your Body

This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni's Fountain of Youth Summit, which can be found at http://fountainofyouthworldsummit.com. In this excerpt, Danny Dreyer shares his views on eating right and listening to your body.

The Fountain of Youth World Summit with Danny Dreyer, author of ChiWalking and ChiRunning.

Kevin: What does eating right mean to you?

Danny: I am mostly on organic diet. We cook everything from scratch. We don't eat out of boxes or cans. I only eat meat about once a month. I mean, I will have - - that's like red meat. I don't drink coffee. I do drink tea but not an over abundance of it. And - -

Kevin: What about for training?

Danny: Oh, the training is really fun, you know on our break, we break part nutrition and diet as related to training so you know, what I do is that when I am going out for a really long run I want to have a lot of good carbohydrates in my system before I do that. It's just like [pumping] for a race and not a run. And so usually I have beans and rice and peas - -

Kevin: OK.

Danny: the night before I run because it just burns really clean and even though it's a complete protein and also a very good cover meal. And because I don't eat pasta as a carbohydrate meal in fact I rarely eat pasta anyway. We have a law here. We don't eat anything white.

Kevin: OK. [laughter]

Danny: Unless it's yogurt.

Kevin: Got you.

Danny: So you want to eat a good carbohydrate before a long workout and you want to eat a really good protein meal afterwards along with the carbohydrate and sometimes during the week you always want to eat a really healthy salad like really leafy green lots of colors.

Kevin: OK.

Danny: And other than that we eat a lot of green vegetable meals. I also eat most of my meals out of a bowl, and my bowl only holds two and a half cups and when it's full it's full, when I sit down and that's what I eat.

Kevin: That's interesting.

Danny: Yeah that way I don't ever overeat and it doesn't matter what's in that bowl I just don't eat more than that.

Kevin: So how big is it?

Danny: Two and a half cups might be two and three quarters.

Kevin: OK. When you pile it up?

Danny: Pile it up, OK salads a little lighter I might pile a little higher but you know for most meals I level to the top. And then I eat two meals a day, I don't eat three. You know I learnt something for the Europeans. They just eat the right amount. A lot of people there have taken on some of our bad habits but a lot of people in Asia especially and also in Europe are just the right body size. Because they just eat, when they are done they're done.

Kevin: Yeah.

Danny: And a lot, the other thing that I do is, it's a hotsy question what do I do to stay in shape? One is I run about every other day or walk and I am not afraid to stop my running and start walking at any point.

Kevin: I think that's a fantastic point right there.

Danny: Yeah, I am not a fanatic. Yeah, I wrote the books on running or walking but I am not a fanatic of either one. Here's one thing I do when I get across to people and what we're trying to do is this whole thing about having to being mindful about when you're walking and running,

Kevin: Um.

Danny: Like always doing the right thing, is that we really are on a campaign to change running and walking from a fitness regiment to a practice and if you think of what you do as a practice, you know, there is Tai-chi is a practice, Yoga is a practice, Polaris is like a practice, Meditation is a practice. All those things are practice and nobody really thinks about approaching their running or walking as a practice. Because if you did then everytime you went out to do it there would be something you're working on to get just a little better, just a little looser, just a little most grounded or centered or relaxed or there is always something to work on to get just a little bit better. And you end up becoming a better person through your practice of walking and not just get stronger muscles and a great heart.

Kevin: Right.

Danny: It's more about a holistic approach to whatever fitness thing you are doing.

Kevin: It's actually the value of it.

Danny: That's the value of it. That's why it's so cool because it's not just a fitness thing. So people go "how do you stay fit", well I don't just use my body. I use my mind.

Kevin: Yeah.

Danny: You know, you just have to use both. Otherwise it's not complete. You are imbalanced. So there's a lot of jokes out there that really, you know, that's why people get to mind over body. They don't really listen to their body as well as they could. We have a principle called 'body sensing', its one of the Chi skills.

Kevin: Um.

Danny: 'Body sensing' is just learning how to listen to your body, how to direct it with your mind but how to really sense when it needs something, when it doesn't need something. When something is right, when it's not right, when you're imbalanced when you are balanced, and if people were much more in their bodies we wouldn't be near the disease rate, cancer rate, obesity rate anything that's going on in the society today if people just learnt to listen what the body is trying to tell them.

Kevin: So how does somebody when they're walking or running, how do they start to feel their body? Obviously sometimes they feel it, you know, but the body does not give them an option well - -

Danny: Yeah, you know if you are feeling, I will tell you this, it's really simple. If you feel any discomfort in your body. Well, it starts with tension. If you feel tension then your body that's not discomfort ness there, it's just tense.

Kevin: Um.

Danny: So if you feel tension in your body, what I do is when you're walking or running just do what I call a body sweep. When you start at the top of your head and just scan all the way down to your body top to bottom and if you feel just looking for any tension like you're your own MRI, you just looking for tension anywhere head to toe, if you find any try to see if you can how to let go of that, how to just relax that part, how to breathe into it, give it a little more range of emotion to stretch it out or something, but listen to your body and just start the practice of just listening, just scanning. And then once you get good at scanning and listening then you want to know what you are listening for. And so first you are listening to tension, that's the first, the lowest level.

Kevin: Um.

Danny: And then listen for discomfort. If the tension goes on long enough your body is going to start talking a little louder if you don't start doing something.

Kevin: Um.

Danny: Right. And then discomfort turns to pain. Because if you don't listen to discomfort it's not going to get better, it's going to get worse. And your body will start screaming, "Hey wake up, we're hurting down here. What you going to do about it?" And then if you don't listen to pain it's usually either illness or injury. And it's the people that you know just keep going no matter what the body is telling them; they end up with in the last two categories. So it's really training to have a mindful practice that you're always listening to your body and trying to co-operate with it and work with it, and say how can we do this better, you know how can we feel better, how can we eat better, how can we stop when we are supposed to. It's a fabulous way to go through life listening to your body and instead of listening to what everybody else is trying to tell you what to do with your body.

Kevin: Absolutely. And you had a statistic that you told me once about runners and the average length that they run. Is that, do you recall what that was?

Danny: There's a statistic that you know out of all runners, at least there's a study done in the United States and that was couple of years ago when there was 22 million people that called themselves regular runners. There's a 65 percent injury rate.

Kevin: Really?

Danny: Every year 65 percent of 22 million people get injured long enough to disrupt their training program. That's like you're sure of two out of three chances of getting injured if you start running unless you are doing it right. So what we tell people, it is not running that hurts your body, it's the way you run. Its not walking that hurts your body, its the way you walk. And so if you are constantly mindful of studying how you move your body, then you are much much less likely, completely reduce your chances of injury or even discomfort, and so you get to a point where you can do your fitness program and feel great the whole way, the whole day, the next time you do it. It always feels great. And there's no downtime.

Kevin: Now is there one thing you recommend someone do, what is it?

Danny: Move your body.

Kevin: Yeah?

Danny: Yeah. It's got to be it. My Tai-chi says that when you stop moving your spine you start dying, that's it. Period! You sitting on your couch watching TV, you are not moving your body you're going to start dying. And so that's why you got to get your Chi moving through your body. That means every time you move your body you're activating your Chi moving through your body. The more relaxed you are, the easier it flows through your body. When you get outdoors there's tons of Chi outdoors that your body can absorb through your eyes, through your skin, you know, and you're gaining energy and you want to really be working at always gaining energy and it's really your movement. And you know, unfortunately there is a large emphasis nowadays on the intellectual center. Anybody who wants to get ahead, you know, work hard and go to college and do all that and not forgetting that they have a body that also it's the reason why you are in the planet. If you didn't have it you wouldn't be here. You got to take care of that as well as your mind. The mind isn't everything. No. It tends to feed the brain too much I pod, the MP3 players, Videos, Computers, name it , it's all brain stuff. So for as much as I am in front of the computer writing everyday whatever, I get outside move around, you know. You got to move your body. If I could say one thing, you know, and eat right.

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Developing Proper Poster For Walking and Running and Better Health

This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni's Fountain of Youth Summit, which can be found at http://fountainofyouthworldsummit.com. In this excerpt, Danny Dreyer shares on developing proper posture for walking and running.

The Fountain of Youth World Summit with Danny Dreyer, author of ChiWalking and ChiRunning.

Kevin: You are an expert at this topic, I have been to some of your seminars and I have absolutely loved this approach to walking running and it is so radically different. I want to tell everyone out there is, if you have views about walking and running I want you to listen to this with an open mind because this could possibly change the way that you approach it for years and years to come. So Danny, why don't you tell us a little about your story?

Danny: Well, basically I have been running for about 35 years. In 1991, I started off just doing ultra running; I didn't start off with 5kms or 10 kms I just went off to ultra running.

Kevin: Explain what ultra running is.

Danny: Basically an ultra marathon is, any distance longer than a marathon. So it goes from 26.3 [laughs] all the way up to any amount, in fact there are some that are 3000 miles.

Kevin: Wow!

Danny: I didn't do that. My distance is 50km, 50 miles, 100kms, 100miles. I have done a couple 100 milers and I call myself a retired 100 miler at this point. But, I got into ultra running and in order to run those kind of distances I really needed to learn to become highly efficient with my running.

Kevin: Sure.

Danny: So I wasn't burning up all my fuel plus I was not banging myself up over the race course. Then I took my first Tai-Chi class and there was a tai chi master from China that was teaching us how in Tai-chi you have a centre line that runs down through the axis of your body, from your head to your toes.

Kevin: OK

Danny: You rotate through the centre line and if your posture and alignment is correct then your body weight is supported by the centre line not your muscles. And then you can relax everything else because Tai-chi is done in very aligned state, but a very relaxed state. So your arms and legs are really relaxed. The whole thing about Tai-chi is to get chi to move through our body directing it with your mind but letting the Chi move through your body. And I combined that with trying to keep my posture line really straight, trying to keep my arms and legs really relaxed, and at the same time trying to fall forward because I had been playing with this thing of leaning into the pull of gravity. To help propel me and it completely rocked my boat, I mean, I was never the same runner after that. So I have been working on perfecting this technique now for 10 years and been teaching it for about that long and we are having great results with people, you know, especially people that are afraid of injuries. When you said you want people to do this with an open mind, it's like you know, running has one of the worst reputations for hurting people -- Suspended disbelief is when you have a belief that when you think running is going to hurt you, I want you to suspend your disbelief momentarily while we explain this, but we have gotten people that have really come back from knee surgery, or avoided knee surgery, you know, all kinds of athletes that have found that not only feels better afterwards but they don't get hurt while they are doing it.

Kevin: Wow.

Danny: So two things that we really emphasize and teach people in ChiRunning is energy efficiency and injury prevention and those are our hallmarks. That is exactly what we are at. Not necessarily just with the lead athletes or anything. We'll take anybody who has never had a pair of running shoes on. We turn them into a fabulous runner.

Kevin: Wow! And when you say ChiRunning, I mean, you apply the same principles to walking too, so there are people on the call who just want to learn how to walk more efficiently, this applies.

Danny: Oh. It's across the board. Walking and running as long as you are bi-pedal we call it – yes, it definitely works for walkers too and the basic principles that I learned from Tai-chi I brought into running and walking. Running and walking even in themselves have technique that is different from each other but not that different.

Kevin: Let's talk about those principles. How were you able to go to that Tai-chi class and say "alright, this is what I am learning here" and how are you able to directly apply that?

Danny: There was my Tai-chi class, I'll tell you, the first three weeks I was there and that was the class that was twice a week for an hour and a half.

Kevin: Oh my!

Danny: First three weeks of class, all I did was stand there. The master had me just work on my posture. Then he got me into this correct posture form that Tai-chi uses. And then he had me stand there and then he went away and you know, and talk to other people in his class, they were about 30 people in the class and everybody was at different levels.

Kevin: OK.

Danny: And for twice a week, for an hour and a half, for three weeks all I did was stand there in class. Yes and I kept paying and am going "what am I paying this guy for" [laughter] But I will tell you, he was trained in the old way in the old school and this was how they started people and I tell you, I am so thankful that I learned, because in those three weeks I was standing there and there isn't a whole lot to do but focus on what you are doing.

Kevin: Right.

Danny: And it was fabulous. It really altered my approach to the alignment of my body. And then I had to work out getting that down while I was standing still, so that when I am moving with my running and walking, I could still feel that same stand every time my foot came down on the ground.

Kevin: Got it.

Danny: So when you are walking or running your weight is supported basically by one leg at a time. Every time you come down on your leg while you are running, your whole body weight is on that leg. When you are walking and you step forward, as you go on to that leg, your whole body weight is on one leg while you pick up your other foot. So that is the similarity between walking and running. So while you are on that one leg, it's very important to have your posture correct so that your weight is supported more by your structure than by your muscles. That's where your energy efficiency begins.

Kevin: And how do you feel that posture? So how would I feel that I am in proper alignment?

Danny: Well, one way to be able to feel is - - it's interesting because what you are looking for in a posture stand, in a correct posture stand, is if you are standing beside a full length mirror you'd want to stand in a way that you could see that your shoulders, your hip bones and your ankles formed a perfectly perpendicular line and they were in line with each other.

Kevin: OK.

Danny: Most people stand with their hips a little bit forward, I would say 75 percent of all people in the United States and I would say [laughs] 10 percent of people outside. We have lousy posture. And our hips are too far forward as we are just standing there because we slouch a lot and things and so I would suggest, to start people up with basic posture. Stand on your two feet have them about hip-width apart, and you want to not lock your knees, it's a big mistake.

Kevin: OK, and then.

Danny: Stand on your legs so stand on your two feet, feel the balance on your two legs. So one leg isn't holding more weight than the other and then you want to balance it so that you don't feel the front of your feet more than you heel. So you balance that way. And then you also want to balance inside to outside on your feet. So you are not a pronater caving in on the inside and you are not bowlegged when you weight is all on the outside.

Kevin: Got you.

Danny: You want to really create balance from the bottoms of your feet in all three directions, side to side, inside to outside and front to back. Once your legs are aligned, then you want to straighten up your upper spine, you know, where you are not hunched over, just want to kind of straighten up a little bit to where you are not pulling your shoulders back, it's like how the marines do it that's really not correct. You know, you just want to straighten your spine a little. Then I just have people lift up, put their hand up under their collar bone and kind of lift up their collar bone. Well this helps you breathe easier and helps you align your spine better. And then the other thing they do like in the yoga class is just, links on the back of your neck pretend like you are trying to really make the back of your neck longer and this will naturally drop your chin in a comfortable way. Then once you get your legs kind of aligned, and your upper body aligned, what you want to do is look down and see if you can see your shoe laces and if you can't see your shoe laces, then your hips are too far forward or you need to quit drinking beer.

Kevin: [laughs]

Danny: And so what you want to do is if you can't see your shoes laces, put your two fingers on your upper hip bones, they are not really your hip bones, they are your aliac crest, your pointers, put your two fingers on that and just move your pelvis to the rear so that you can see your shoe laces.

Kevin: Got you.

Danny: And if you do that and look into this side view, the rear view mirror at the same time you will be able to see that actually you are standing in a straight line, even if thought it might feel like you are y bent over at the waist a little bit. You are actually straight. And when you get into this where your feet are balanced and your posture is perfectly straight, you don't feel any work going on in your body at all. Its like, it's hard to explain, I don't feel any muscles. When I was doing this three weeks of standing there, I could stand there and just about fallen asleep.

Kevin: Wow.

Danny: Yeah, you just don't feel your body. It doesn't ache, your back doesn't hurt, your knees don't hurt, you find this balance point where you don't feel a thing.

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Chi in Motion, Techniques For Walking, Posture and Health

This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni's Fountain of Youth Summit, which can be found at http://fountainofyouthworldsummit.com. In this excerpt, Danny Dreyer shares on Chi in motion.

The Fountain of Youth World Summit with Danny Dreyer, author of ChiWalking and ChiRunning.

Kevin: Let talk a little about how Chi works in motion. I think that's a pretty cool concept and how if you are being supported on your spine, how everything else kind of rotates around that.

Danny: Yeah, now what we do, in walking and running, we have your whole weight supported by your spine, and your alignment basically; we call it your column.

Kevin: OK.

Danny: Once you can practice that every time you foot comes down, your weight is supported by your column, then we have runners and walkers both choke their entire body forward just slightly. This engages the pull of gravity. It's like if you watch little kids run or little kid walk, they always lead with their upper body.

Kevin: Oh Yeah.

Danny: Yeah. Because they are falling, controlled fall and half the time the fall isn't controlled [laughter] That is why we all got stitches in our chins.

Kevin: [laughs]

Danny: Abrasions in our elbows, is that as kids, we learnt how to use the pull of gravity to propel ourselves, you know, kids don't have strong legs, so they have to use this balance, this forward balance to do it, to move around, and so once your body is aligned and you allow it to just slightly fall forward, gravity takes over to pull you forward, then your job is just to allow your body, your arms, your legs to rotate around the central axis and really relax your arms and legs so that they are not pouncing anywhere. And so if gravity is your proportion, then your legs aren't.

Kevin: That is an interesting point.

Danny: Your legs are just your support system, they are not your propelsion system which is a big mistake a lot of runners make and that is why people, you know, hit the wall and get hammered quads in races and even hikers and walkers, you know, their legs feel it because their legs are working too hard.

Kevin: OK, that's an interesting point.

Danny: So then when you can move forward, let gravity do the work of propelling you, then your job is just to relax everything else so that gravity can do its job. If you are blocking, if you holding tension in your shoulders, or tension in your hips and a lot of people have tension in their ankles even, anywhere you hold tension it's going to restrict the flow of your mobility, period. There is now way around that.

Kevin: OK.

Danny: You hold tension, you are not going to swing your arms or move your body as easily. So this is a really – it's kind of like a walking or running relaxation exercise.

Kevin: OK.

Danny: And there are so many people that are running and walking come back with sore muscles and sore muscles means that you are holding it tight. Anytime you feel pain that means that Chi is not flowing through that and that's why Mai Tai-chi master will tell you.

Kevin: Over and over again.

Danny: While you are standing there. If you feel pain it's because you are not relaxed at some point.

Kevin: That's a whole new paradigm of running. So you are not using your legs as propelsion, but you are actually, what, just lifting them?

Danny: Yeah. You are just picking up your feet to keep up with your forward fall.

Kevin: Wow.

Danny: Yeah. Just so you don't trip. [laughs] That's about all you are doing. But your legs, it's picking up your feet. You know, you can imagine, if I weigh 140 pounds and I am running a marathon or walking a marathon, if I'm propelling myself, my legs, my quads, my curves, everything is pushing me around all day.

Kevin: Right.

Danny: If I run three and a half hour marathon or walk six hour marathon, my legs are doing a lot of work, propelling 140 pounds forward. If I am falling forward, then my core muscles, because I am leveling my pelvis, I'm using all these big strong muscles to do what; to pick up my feet, that's a big difference is muscle usage.

Kevin: Right, then those muscles are toned much more efficiently for that type of exercise.

Danny: Yeah, you know, I tell people the body is set up in a very Marxist way, in that each body part contributes to its ability. So if you have; how big are the muscles in your lower leg as opposed to how big are your larger core muscles.

Kevin: Right.

Danny: So your lower leg shouldn't be doing much work at all and your toes definitely shouldn't be doing much either and if you push yourself forward walking or running and the last part of your body to leave the ground is your toes, at some point that means that your entire body weight is resting on you're a very tiny appendage.

Kevin: Sure.

Danny: And that's why people get bunions, that's why they get stress fractures.It's over use of those little tiny places in your legs that really shouldn't be working that hard.

Kevin: Right. I think you've just touched on some of the injuries that people have. Let's talk about how people normally walk without this information, walk and run and what are some of the things that are happening as they are moving forward.

Danny: OK, well, when people normally walk it starts when people normally stand, which I mentioned earlier, when people normally stand their hips are always forward. So when they walk, there hips are a little forward. That means that they are leading with their legs. Now I would say that if you walked out on the street right now and looked at people walking by, I would say 95 percent of them you would see lock their legs in front. They throw it, they kick their foot in front of them; they lock their leg, and come down on their heel.

Kevin: Got you.

Danny: And you would see that their heel lands in front of their shoulders and in front of their hips. So if you are moving down the road, now this is Tai-chi in action and this is how injuries happen at the same time. If you are walking down the road, however, fast you are walking, that's the same as having a force coming at you because you are moving across the road, but you have to consider there is a road coming at you. And how do you want to deal with that force coming at you, right? In Tai-chi it's a martial art and the whole training is about this, how do you co-operate with the force. Someone is throwing a punch at me the last thing I want to do is throwing a punch at them at the same time. I want to absorb there punch or re-direct it, OK. So if there is a force called the road coming at you, the last thing you want to do is stick your leg out into it.

Kevin: Sure.

Danny: Because that force is going to travel either into your heel give you a plantar fasciaitis or heel bruises, or it's going to go up into your knee and get you knee problems, it's going to go into your IT bands or your hip joint or your lower back, wherever your weak spot is you walk far enough you will feel it. OK. That's if you put your foot out in front of you. So it's like every step you take you are putting the brakes on.

Kevin: Wow.

Danny: That is a repetitive motion injury, you know, there's an impact, every time you come down moving a long the road with you leg out in front of you. OK. So there is a lot of injuries that can happen from leading with your leg as I call it. That is striking on the back of your heel. So what I have people do is take this posture stand and have them tilt their upper body just slightly forward bending at the hips not at the waist.

Kevin: OK.

Danny: Slightly forward so that as they are walking along, their hips are always directly over that lead leg when it comes down on the ground.

Kevin: OK. And how do you make that not feel awkward?

Danny: I'll tell you the truth, it doesn't feel awkward, it just feels really different.

Kevin: OK. [laughs]

Danny: You've watched a race walker walk.

Kevin: Yeah!

Danny: And a regular walker walk, the race walker will have a shorter stride.

Kevin: Yeah!

Danny: Now that's funny because those guys are cruising along at a seven and a half minute pace.

Kevin: Yeah! Faster that a lot of you can run.

Danny: Faster than a lot of people can run. But their stride is very short. They just increase their turnover.

Kevin: OK.

Danny: To go faster. Because if you over stretch your legs, especially if you are a race walker, you're going to, you know, you're going to stress out your ligaments and tendons and pull muscles and everything like that. So, as a race walker goes faster they don't increase their stride length. And it's a big mistake that a lot of walkers make as they walk and power walking and that means they've got to have a lot of practice years and years ago and so people are taking these huge longer strides, thinking that they are, you know, really burning a lot of calories. Well they were but they all ended up in the therapy office. [laughs]

Kevin: Right.

Danny: There knees are gone, the hips are gone and everything else. So I would suggest for people that in order to reduce injury to your legs and impact to your legs, um, to shorten your stride and that also allows you to stay more over your feet, over your legs. Because then as your foot comes down on the ground it gets swept behind you, rather than stopping your forward momentum in front of you. See what I mean?

Kevin: Um!

Danny: I'm not having people reach out in front with their legs. They are reaching with their upper body, not their lower body.

Kevin: And that's with the lean.

Danny: That's the lean, that's the lean for running and walking. With walkers you don't have to lean quite as much.

Kevin: OK. But we are turning into running. And that's the neat thing about this. Is it correct that once you get the form of the walking you can turn this into running very easily?

Danny: It's a great step up for walkers. Great step up, because a lot of people are either coming back from injury or just now getting started on the fitness program and want to get out moving and they look at runners and they go, "Oh, there's no way! You know, forget it!" But if they can learn to be a real efficient walker and fluid and smooth along the ground they start loving their walking so much, that they just start going, "Well you know, I think I really could run! Because the faster I walk the easier it is to actually jog". [laughs]

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Coping With Diabetes Cases

If you have diabetes, perhaps your doctor has told you some regimen in your food intake and for you to have lots of exercise. However, some diabetics are facing another problem: arthritis. According to the statistics, most diabetics are actually victims too of arthritis—that's double jeopardy in their part since they cannot do strenuous exercises like jogging and jumping jacks. Researchers said that providers of health care should keep track of those people since they tend to be inactive. It is important to note that exercise helps reduce the glucose in the blood and other risks for complications.

Senator Frank Lautenberg (Democrat, New Jersey) and Senator Johnny Isakson (Republican, Georgia) are being praised by the American Diabetes Association for lobbying an act that will benefit diabetes patients. The Diabetes Prevention Access and Care Act of 2008, if approved, will allow the Congress to support the research for the betterment and improvement of diabetes care, education etc. for the considered minority. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) included Hispanics, African Americans and American Indians etc. in their list of minorities and stated the fact that they are the most affected by this disease. This Act hopes to educate the people more about diabetes for further prevention.

There is a new discovery made Nature Genetics: a certain gene is responsible in making your waistline's circumference big, your weight increasing and for you to have type 2 diabetes. As we all know, obesity is linked with diabetes as obese people have a high insulin resistance, therefore, making them vulnerable to type 2 diabetes.

The gene discovered is most common to the Indian Asian race than those with European ancestry. This discovery can in fact help minimize, if not eliminate, obesity and diabetes amongst the people. It is said that half the population has this kind of genetic sequence, ergo, making this discovery vital to the human race if pursued and developed.

If you have been diagnosed of diabetes (either type I or type II), watch out, because recent studies show that diabetes is in fact connected with the dreaded Alzheimer's disease. Before, the connection's foundation was blurred according to the experts as they could not find the direct link that will establish the connection of diabetes with Alzheimer's however, researchers from the Salk Institute claimed that they have found it: the Alzheimer's interaction. They said that the brain's blood vessels are damaged or ruptured if the blood glucose count is high. Salk Institute plans to further their research to determine if there are still other factors to it.

An analysis fo 48 studies was done, comprising 160,000 participants worldwide. The purpose was to look at efforts to increase the number of diabetic patients who would actually have their eyes tested.

The following interventions were able to help propel people to have their eye examined: by increasing patient and caregiver of diabetic retinopathy; improving access to healthcare; using computer-based reminder systems; augmenting collaboration among screening organizations; and developing a community-based healthcare system. Combining interventions together worked even better.

About the Author:
Jon Caldwell is a professional content manager. Much of his articles can be found at http://challegediabetes.com

Keyword tags: health, medicine

Sleep Disorders and the Problems They Bring

Did you know that snoring contributes a lot in divorce of partners? I am not trying to crack a joke in here. Most couples may not be aware of it consciously, but the relation of snoring and divorce is higher than expected. Of course, the main reason that one states in a court room is not snoring but other major problems. Studies prove that 50% of the population in United States snore, and that snoring problem between two people is acknowledged to lead to several problems in the relationship. Individuals who are in a relationship can testify to this one.

There are a lot of types of treatment for sleep eating sufferers just like any other sleep-related disorders. The first thing to do is to have the right diagnosis or interpretation on his/her symptoms. Usually, a doctor will recommend you to visit in a sleep center. The place has a laboratory where a series of tests for the sleep eater will be conducted.

In the sleep test, it is important that other diseases or health medical conditions will be identified so that we will know if it has something to do with the signs of sleep eating disorder. Some of these conditions include sleep apnea, low blood sugar, hepatitis or encephalitis.

People who are suffering from a sleep eating disorder will soon encounter some health risk that includes:

Poor Quality of Sleep – the sufferers tend to sleep in unusual hours and in limited time.

Gaining weight – because of too much intake of sweets and fats, most of the sufferers lead to obesity.

Anxiety Attacks – Due to stress and anger. Usually occurs in daytime.

Injuries – They acquire it by preparing their food while sleeping

If you are encountering the following, I suggest that you go to the nearest hospital and have a medical check-up with a good doctor. It is better that you work on your sleeping problems before it's too late.

Do you know someone who is suffering from a sleep eating disorder? It is the type of disorder wherein the patient eats at night without him knowing it. They unconsciously prepare their meals while they are sleeping. This is actually a dangerous condition. It is known scientifically as the Nocturnal sleep-related eating disorder (NSRED).

The dangerous thing about this condition is that the sufferers are not really aware on what they are doing at night. When they later on find clues that they did such thing, they start to feel guilty and ashamed of themselves, which later on leads to depression.

It was found out that most of the sufferers are those who are addicted in food that has a lot of sugar and fat contents. Sometimes, they unconsciously eat inedible stuff and the also combine strange foods.

Anyone can cure sleeping disorders by taking medical drugs and by following medical procedures, but did you know that the most important cure actually starts in your dear home? Specifically, in the bedroom. If you observed that your child is suffering from a sleeping disorder, the first thing to do is go to a doctor and undergo a medical check-up. Next, go to the room and ask yourself "What should I do in this room to make my dear child sleep comfortably?" The first thing to check is the bed, really. The beddings and the pillows contribute a lot in a child's sleeping habits.

About the Author:
Jon Caldwell is a professional content manager. Much of his articles can be found at http://challengesleepdisorder.com

Keyword tags: health

Preventive Measures Against Dengue

The World Health Organization's World Health states that as of 1998, infectious and parasitic diseases slashed one-third of all deaths in the world in 1997 and 43% of deaths among developing nations. The low rate in Cuba is an exception because of the possible high educational and health awareness rate with regards to the disease in the country. This can be attributed to the consistent improvements of Cuba's health system over the past 50 years which was further amplified b it speedy modernization. The United States, as nation thought of by most people as a world leader is even inferior to the Cuban health care system, a sheer proof that you don't need power to heal.

About 50 years back, a town in the Caribbean which happens to be a part of Cuba decided it has to hasten the pace in terms of medical education. This is when several mass infections hit the nation killing many, among these viral killers are Dengue. Today,Cuba hasa population of about 11 million which are all served by dedicated health workers which includes more than 70,000 medical doctors all working in a first class medical system. Now isn't this an inspiring scenario for other developing countries? I mean if Cuba can do it, why cant they? It is believed that corruption and not simple lack of resources causes nation to die of any viral epidemic.

During the 1960s, Dengue casualties were reduced significantly with the advent of vaccines and anti-biotic along with deadly viruses such as smallpox, poliomyelitis, and acute rheumatic fever. But Dengue is more than just a seasonal disease, as opposed to the others mentioned above. It is a killer spurned by poverty, social exclusion, health systems, environments, food security, water and sanitation. To win against it, proper education is very important. To truly win against the disease, public health vigilance in terms of modern structures will be needed. This will include disease monitoring, disease prevention, communication, and financial supports are all needed.

Maria Guzman and her husband are both working to battle against Dengue for 20 years now. She works at the Tropical Medicine Institute Pedro Kourí (IPK), in Havana, Cuba as one of its head virologist. Her work there has been acknowledged to have made significant contributions in the field of pathogenesis, diagnosis, epidemiology, and clinical progression of this disease. The good doctor has been with the Cuban academy of Science for the Developing Worlds but she concentrates in the fight against Dengue. She is currently a member of several the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), World Health Organization (WHO), and the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR).

The Dengue prevention organization also believes that educational programs are not prioritized seeing that resources to implement them are not evaluated on a regular basis.

The education is somewhat mixed-up and done by inexperienced individuals who at most times give confusing instructions. The training of the staff to be truly credible in educating the public about dengue costs too much for countries whose number one problem is famine. Governments have to keep in mind that if it wants to prevent a mass outbreak, it should make dengue prevention a priority. They don't have to spend much, Dengue prevention is all about making do with available resources.

About the Author:
Jon Caldwell is a professional content manager. Much of his articles can be found at http://denguefeverinformation.com

Keyword tags: health

Handling Allergies the Right Way

The Allergy New Zealand is a non-profit organization working to provide education, information and support to people afflicted with allergies. Originally known as Allergy Awareness Association Inc. it started in 1981 as a small self-help group, until it grew bigger and became a national organization and in 2001, it was called Allergy New Zealand. Volunteers increased tremendously and now its goal is to be one of the major patient support groups in New Zealand. The organization wants to make life healthy, safe and comfortable for those with allergies. The main office is located in Auckland and they get their funds not from the government but from community grants, membership fees and fundraisings.

Normally, allergies are treated with medication to control the symptoms. But actually these medications are just there to contain the symptoms leaving the allergy disease source getting worse. Allergy is a chronic disease which means that allergic reactions can happen over and over again. Untreated allergy may lead to a more serious disease which of course we don't want to happen. When you have allergies, it's not only your health that is affected but every aspect of your human being. Fortunately, you can now neutralize the source of your allergy with drug-free, natural under-the-tongue immunotherapy drops. They are custom formulated to the kind of allergen you have allergic reaction.

The first thing to consider in treating an allergy is to eliminate the allergen that causes the allergic reaction. The good news is that there are effective medications that can be prescribed by physicians. One is antihistamine. Obviously, it opposes the effects of histamine, the chemical in our body responsible for the allergy symptoms. The topical nasal steroids, different from anabolic steroids used by athletes to enlarge their muscles, are anti-inflammatory. The cromolyn sodium is a nasal spray for allergic rhinitis. Decongestants on the other hand are used to re-establish drainage of the nasal passages. Lastly is the immunotherapy which is a sequence of allergy shots and has more potential of prolonging the reduction of allergy symptoms.

The most dangerous food allergy is brought by anaphylaxis. It is a vicious allergic reaction and different parts of the body may be involved simultaneously. Just like any other allergic reactions that are less serious, anaphylaxis can come about after exposure to an allergen. But usually, it does not occur during first exposure. Anaphylaxis can be triggered by any food and the most common are nuts, sea foods and dairy products. The symptoms can be severe in just 5 to 15 minutes. However, life-threatening reaction can happen in hours. Injectable epinephrine is used to treat this kind of allergic reaction and prompt treatment is critical to survival.

There are so many ways to prevent and provide relief to allergies. However, we cannot deny the fact that still the best weapon for your battle against allergies is good nutrition. Prescribed and over-the-counter medicines will just help you contain the allergy symptoms. But good and proper nutrition will work to make your immune system strong so that in the process you can avoid allergy attacks. The chemical which we can account the allergy symptoms in our body is called histamine. Vitamin C lowers the histamine level and it can be found in certain fruits and vegetables. Bioflavonoid and vitamin B5 strengthen the immune system of the body and they can be found also in fruits and vegetables.

About the Author:
Jon Caldwell is a professional content manager. Much of his articles can be found at http://everythingaboutallergy.com

Keyword tags: health

Plastic Surgery Changes More Than Looks

Just because you could afford it doesnt mean you should go for it. A lot of celebrities have gone under the knife to fix something that wasnt wrong in the first place but they wanted to perfect only to end up looking ten times worse. when Tara Reid opted to have a lipo instead of a normal exercise, she ended up having the stomach of a wrinkly old lady, she would have been better off doing it the normal way with dieting and working out. Same with a lot of celebrities, Hillary Duff had her normal lips pimped and now she looks like a horse. Lesson? There are no instant gratification and, love your body coz its not something you can play with like clay with a surgeon.

Cosmetic surgery should be the last option for anyone who wants a physical make over and with good reasons. If you think going under the knife is tough, wait until you experience the aftermath. The after effect of cosmetic surgery is no different from a major surgery, patients are made invalid and suffer from wide range of side effects for a period of time, and as if that is not enough, the maintenance part is ever harder not to mention more expensive. So if you're thinking that liposuction is the easy way to losing weight, remember that the procedure was made to be maintained with diet and exercise after wards, so if your too lazy to do both now, forget about it.

There are two types of plastic surgery: Reconstructive and cosmetic. Reconstructive surgery from the word reconstruction deals with repair. If one had an operation that resulted to a deformation, like that of a breast cancer patient who needs to have her mammary glands back, then that is where reconstructive surgery comes in. Cosmetic surgery is the we often call vanity operation, it is done to improve physical disposition. This type of surgery has two types: Surgical and non surgical, surgical includes rhynoplasty (reshaping of the nose) breast reduction or enlargement, liposuction among others. Non surgical inclued dermabrassion (lightening of scars), laser peeling and other skin

We know that surgery is a very expensive not to mention lucrative procedure, which is why it is imperative that the public makes sure that the doctors who does them are still bounded by ethical behaviors. In the case if plastic surgeon, they should put it to themselves to make sure that they only accept patients who either have major deformities or have justified the need for a plastic surgery. It is disappointing to know that some of them no longer discourage patients from resorting to the life threatening procedure. FOr instance, how many doctors actually refer their patients to a therapist or the gym to boost self esteem the non surgical way?

Plastic surgery is often associated with vanity but for some people, it really is a serious case of reconstruction. The most famous type of plastic or cosmetic surgery is done to remedy cleft chin. Operation smile aims to uplift children's self esteem by giving them a chance to relieve themselves of their deformity through operation .Dermabrasion and laser procedures are also done to help minimize the appearance of birthmarks and scars derived from accidents. Operation smile believes that even though character trumps physical attributes anytime, it doesn't hurt to be free from major deformities. In a visual world wherein we cannot be helped but be judged with our looks, it pays to look good, or at the very least, normal.

About the Author:
Jon Caldwell is a professional content manager. Much of his articles can be found at http://everythingaboutplasticsurgery.net

Keyword tags: health, surgery

Eat Right to Live Right

A mother in South Florida is challenging the idea that healthy food maybe too expensive by putting up a group that helps other members in buying food straight from the organic produce farmers. Donna Kass is the Organic Produce Buying Club of South Florida's Pinecrest group's host.

The members think it's a great deal because it's cheaper than Whole Foods, Wild Oats, even Publix. The group was originally put up by Jayme Rosenbaum because a lot of people were unable to buy organic produce due to high prices. Since they 've cut the middleman, and bought food from the source, it's cheaper.

As we mentioned a few days ago, schools were having problems in financing healthy food options in the cafeteria. The best way that your children can help them and themselves is by packing lunch. How does this serve the school? It allows them to buy less food if they notice that fewer people were buying from the them.

School owners are now in a quandary: do they serve the more expensive healthy food or the less expensive not-so healthy ones? It's economics vs. nutrition now as educators are stuck between a rock and a hard place.

There's a fine line line between eating health and obsessing over the matter. Add to this the "paranoia" regarding eating particular foods and advising them to totally deleting them out of the kitchen for good, and you have orthorexia. No, it's not yet part of the manual for psychiatrists, but an alternative physician, Dr. Steven Bratman, phrased it in one of his books.

It's a condition when people focus too much of their time thinking about the virtue of what they eat rather than if it tastes good or not. Not only can they be irritating to the people around them, but also they pose a danger to themselves by pushing themselves to disordered eating.

Writing articles for a living sometimes make you drink and eat the weirdest things. In order to research and write more, you have to be awake; and you know what that means…yes, coffee multiple mugs of it. Caffeine is supposedly a writer's drug of choice. However, it isn't healthy. One more problem it causes is that once you're done, you can hardly fall asleep. And when that happens to you, you tend to feel hungry.

If you're a teenager, and you heard the word "exercise" , it may just not register. However, besides toning up your muscles, it also does other good things to you. Remember, you only need 60 minutes of vigorous exercise to be healthy.

From infancy, milk has been a dependable source of nutrients. Except for individuals with extreme lactose intolerance, people are encouraged to drink milk in a regular basis as a source of essential nutrients, aside from regular meals and supplements. Studies have shown that milk helps in maintaining bone health, and may also help prevent diabetes, hypertension, reduce risk for particular cancers, help ease pre-menstrual syndrome, and it has been proven to be beneficial for pregnant women.

Studies have shown that the ordinary teenager's reluctance to sleep early is biological in nature. Yes, parents, if your teen can't sleep earlier, it's not because he doesn't want to, but rather because he can't.

About the Author:
Jon Caldwell is a professional content manager. Much of his articles can be found at http://foodandfitnessguide.com

Keyword tags: fitness, health

Managing Through Recurring Pain

Depending on posture and activities you undertake, your back may become vulnerable to pain and it will recur if you do not take the right precautions and advice from people who specialize in it.

Some may inherit back pains from carrying heavy loads while others may get it from problems with their spine. This in turn can be chronic and it is a common issue we see from people who are really hyperactive.

We can see this as a common problem from athletes. Players who fall a lot are valued customers of chronic back pains. When this happens, you can just see them resting and out of action. Overall it is something that even you cannot deal with if you are not careful.

Headaches will occur through a lot of reasons. Some people get it from stress, others from problems and over-thinking, while others get if for some medical reason such as lack of sleep or hereditary reasons. Migraines are the number one culprits of migraines and while you would want to address it fast, there will always be the pain killers and aspirin to help you out.

But recurring headaches should not be left to the pills alone. For serious ones, having a doctor or a neurologist check it out may be the best way to get to the bottom of it. You never know what you are overlooking to which only doctors can really figure out.

At times when you feel pain in the internal organs such as your heart and lungs, you better not take any chances and see a doctor right away. These parts of the respiratory and cardiac system of your body are quite delicate and taking it for granted can cause dire consequences.

You can always say you have a high tolerance for pain. However, when your key organs are in question, do not play Mr. Know-it-all. Visit a doctor since it can lead to something more serious than you think. Get necessary tests and have them evaluated so that you can pinpoint the actual cause of it all.

At times when we are upbeat and at very high adrenaline level, we sometimes forget pain. Normally this is part of psyching yourself out and placing your thoughts on something other than the pain you feel inside of you.

But while that can be attributed as a spur of the moment, it just remains that you will revert to the normal way of living sooner or later. It is only at that time that you will realize that you have to face the pain all over again.

Adrenaline rush is only temporary. However, it would be best if you could make sure to address the actual health problem overall.

For athletes, chronic pains in the ankles, knees and backs are bound to occur. This stems from strenuous activities to which our bodies can take only so much. There are therapies present to help address these problems but unless we listen to our medical advisers, chances are we will experience them all over again.

The matter of curing time needs to be addressed. For muscle and bone problems, there are specified periods to which we should follow. It would take months to a year for them to recover. After recovering it would be best to take it one step at a time. Do not rush it or else it will come back possibly worst!

About the Author:
Jon Caldwell is a professional content manager. Much of his articles can be found at http://allaboutchronicpain.com

Keyword tags: pain management, health

Wise Ways to Take Care of Your Heart

If you think high blood pressure only poses a risk to your heart, better think twice. It can actually harm your cognitive thinking, making it impossible for you to think, concentrate and learn. According to the doctors at the Columbia University Medical Center in New York, hypertension is connected with cognitive impairment by means of the different cerebrovascular diseases that may arise when a person has hypertension. Hypertension can also play a big role as a blood to brain barrier dysfunction. This dysfunction is seen by the doctors as somewhat connected with the Alzheimer's disease and other known cerebral problems.

Meditation is one of the most soothing and most relaxing of all activities. It requires silence and isolation (not at all times) for better focus. Contrary to what people believe or know, there are actually a lot of variations of meditation. If you have troubles concentrating, then might as well try transcendental meditation. Transcendental meditation is different from the other meditations known to many as most meditations require concentration; however, transcendental meditation does not. It only requires closing of ones eyes and submerging oneself into silence. University of Kentucky said that this kind of meditation can in fact help a person lower down his or her high blood pressure if done 20 minutes a day.

Who would ever think that high blood pressure and Alzheimer's disease are connected? Although high blood is not the cause of Alzheimer's, it can be a contributing factor to the said disease that targets the memory of old people. When a person has high blood, the flow of his or her blood in the brain is greatly reduced. The blood travels to the arteries with great speed (shoots up) and this is affecting the activity of the brain. It is only recently that high blood is being associated with brain ailments. Statistics by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute show that about 50 million Americans suffer from hypertension. That's something to look at.

The Olympics is an international event held every four years. Those who participate in the said event are said to be the cream of the crop of every country—basketball athletes, football/soccer stars, the most flexible gymnasts—name it and the participating country has it (depends if it is winter or summer Olympics). The marathon runners too, are perhaps considered as one of the fittest of all the athletes since they run everyday during practice to perfect and increase their running speed. However, according to a recent study made by University Hospital in Germany, revealed that these marathon runners are indeed in danger of future heart problems. Through MRI, they were able to see that the left ventricle muscle of the marathon patients (all of which ran 5 marathons 3 years before the study was made) are heavier than the normal heart. This can actually be considered as an early sign of cardiac arrest according to the doctors supervising the study.

If you have had a fight with someone, experts say that you should stop musing over it. Past is past, let go of it. It has been proven by UC Irvine that the more you sulk on it, the higher your risk of developing heart issues later on in life. Of course, stress is a key player here. UC Irvine said that just by thinking about the scenario, repeating the scenes over and over again in your mind can make your blood pressure sky rocket. If it is an office problem, it is best if you leave it in your office and not mull over it at home. If it is a family problem, better try to mend your relationship with your family right now so that you won't have to worry about anything when you get home.

About the Author:
Jon Caldwell is a professional content manager. Much of his articles can be found at http://allabouthearthproblems.com

Keyword tags: health

Understanding the Threats of Leukemia

Good news for those who need treatments for leukemia: new research reveals that Parthenolide, a compound present in the Feverfew plant, could kill leukemia stem cells without harming healthy blood cells. It was found out that after 18 hours, leukemia cells exposed to Parthenolide was destroyed. This is better than Cytaribine, a common drug used in chemotherapy, because Cytaribine is known to decrease blood cells within the bone marrow. Parthenolide may also make cancerous cells more sensitive to cancer-fighting agents so that destruction of these may be speeded up. With a little modification and testing, it would be an effective cure against this dreaded disease.

In Ayurveda, Leukemia is viewed as an imbalance which results from the failure of the digestive system. The food is not ingested and broken down properly. This creates a poisonous slime which circulates in the body and kills the healthy parts in it. To remedy this, the three elements of vata, pitta and kapha present in the body must be rebalanced. This can be done through a balanced diet. Eating raw fruit and vegetables purifies the toxins in the digestive system. Also, a relaxed lifestyle will do wonders, along with proper sleep and exercise. By doing these, the toxins will be removed, the balance restored and positive energies are freer to heal the body.

Ayurveda is an ancient Indian medical practice. The word Ayurveda comes from the two words Ayu meaning life and Veda meaning science. Ayurveda means science of life, and Ayurvedic medicine is a combination of physical, psychological and spiritual therapies. It makes use of the body's ability to heal itself through alignment of the energy structure that makes the physical body live. It makes use of herbs that stimulate or ameliorate certain essences in the body like the air or nervous system, water or mucuous, and fire or energy. One of the diseases that Ayurveda claims to cure is Leukemia, or cancer of the blood that is believed in Ayurveda to be caused by improper digestion and distribution of essences.

Both sides has its good and bad sides. Conventional treatments are tried and tested by different hospitals on may patients therefore there is a degree of certainty on methods and results. However there are many side-effects to these kinds of treatment that until now is not yet fully remedied. Alternative treatments are currently untestable and there are no guarantees to the effectivity of the methods. However these are mostly harmless and they make use of natural substances. A combination of methods may be used but make sure that one method doesn't affect the other negatively. Know the side-effects of these and the precautionary measures you must take in order to get the best results.

Alternative treatments are called 'alternative' because it is outside of Western medical practice. These include herbal medicines, meditation, prayer, massage, chiropractic among others. These kinds of treatments are usually taken by patients who either have no faith or have lost hope in conventional treatments. These alternative treatments have the assumption that there is a connectedness between the body and nature and the power of the mind can heal the body's illness. Techniques are used so that the patient will be healed through the forces of nature, alignment of the energy system of the body, and positive thinking. Though these methods aren't proven to be truly effective, trying these are not a hindrance for those in need to restore their health.

About the Author:
Jon Caldwell is a professional content manager. Much of his articles can be found at http://allaboutleukemia.com

Keyword tags: health

Putting Focus on Your Lungs

Two active tobacco smoke carcinogens have been identified to be the most likely culprits that leads to lung cancer in heavy smokers. One is a nicotine-derivatitive and the other polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH)have been isolated and identified to be the damaging constituents tnat leads to lung cancer. PAH, has been identified as the component that binds to DNA in the lung cells that causes abnormalities to occur resulting in mutations. The compound has also been found to contribute to supress or damage genes that are vital for the body to fight the disease weakening the defenses of the body from within.

Promoters of the alternative no-prick alternative to insulin intake have received another blow with industry leaders announcing their fears of detecting several cases of lung cancer in people who were receiving them under clinical trials. This is another in a long list of blows that the product has received and with many pharmaceuticals pulling the plug on research, the outlook seems bleak for the new diabetes treatment option. Many have been searching for alternative treatments for diabetes who have long been plagued by needles they use for administering the drug to supplement their insulin levels. The products were supposed to take away the pain and fuss of using syringes which is still the preferred method of administration.

A small molecule known as let-7 MicroRNA has been found to have beneficial effects on mice by reducing the growth levels of lung cancer cells. The study shows that the molecule in question has a direct role in treating cancers as we learn more and more about the possible causes and mechanisms that would lead to a cure for the many cases of the disease. The results were exciting for cancer researchers for they have been looking for the same results for many years without much success. The said that the same molecule is an agent that causes the disease to progress but heightened levels have been seen to have a counteractive effect on cancer cells. The study highlights the vast amounts of information that is still yet to be discovered that may hold the key to prevention and treatment of the killer disease.

Lung cancer that has resulted from inhalation of asbestos from the environment or through work related activities are showing that using chemotherapy for treatment is not getting any positive results. Called Malignant Plural Mesothelioma (MPM), the disease is more related to asbestos exposure which causes the lungs to develop lung cancer. The material was hailed as a miracle construction material and was used widely in the West due to heat, electrical and chemical resistance. It was only later that the material was found to induce cancer that had most nations ban the substance from all new building materials, and necessitating the removal of already installed ones from all types of structures. Clean-up crews without proper protection also suffer from the disease and oncologists are finding it hard to find proper treatments of the killer disease.

Premature babies that were delivered way before their bodies have fully developed receive a myriad of drugs to augment their still weak bodies that should have developed further in the mother's womb. Studies have shown that babies who were delivered prematurely have a higher risk of lung problems due to the inability of their lungs to work properly without the administration of surfactants that are used to prevent their lungs from collapsing. Full term babies have fully developed lungs that can function unassisted but premature babies need the administration of surfactants (substances that prevents the lung's air sacs from sticking together preventing them from inflating properly to absorb oxygen) to their lungs to get them to function properly. Without them, their lungs would constantly collapse (due to premature development) and can cause death. Current administration methods have shown that they can cause more harm to the infant in later life where lung infections become assured. The development of better administration techniques is underway to minimize the problems associated with their use to help their lungs strengthen in time as they mature.

About the Author:
Jon Caldwell is a professional content manager. Much of his articles can be found at http://allaboutlungcancer.net

Keyword tags: health

Figure Out Why Your Head is Shaking Hard

One of the main causes to trigger having a migraine is not eating on time. We all know that this has a great effect in our digestive system especially in our stomach. Not eating on time does not just give you an ulcer but a migraine also. If skipping meals for a day or two does not give you any harm, I tell you, you're wrong! You can not feel the pain right now but as time goes by you might develop illnesses like migraine. And I tell you it's not easy to overcome and manage. Beware if it attacks you!

Do you have a migraine? People with migraine usually prefer to have a good rest by sleeping to avoid feeling the painful thing caused by severe headache. It is not just a simple headache huh, it is like your head is being squeezed and torn apart! Exaggerated? I think it is not! I wonder what people with this kind of sickness do to tolerate the pain.

I asked my mom who has a migraine and she said that she keeps trying to vomit every time her migraine attacks. She puts her finger inside her mouth near her tonsils to trigger vomiting. According to her, this helps lessen the pain. I don't know how and I don't know why but as for her this is effective.

Do you have a migraine? People with migraine usually prefer to have a good rest by sleeping to avoid feeling the painful thing caused by severe headache. It is not just a simple headache huh, it is like your head is being squeezed and torn apart! Exaggerated? I think it is not! I wonder what people with this kind of sickness do to tolerate the pain.

I asked my mom who has a migraine and she said that she keeps trying to vomit every time her migraine attacks. She puts her finger inside her mouth near her tonsils to trigger vomiting. According to her, this helps lessen the pain. I don't know how and I don't know why but as for her this is effective.

FHM or Familial hemiplegic Migraine is a type of migraine with a possible polygenetic component which attacks may last from 4 to 72 hours and is apparently caused by ion channel mutations. Migraine sufferers who experience this kind of syndrome have moderately typical migraine headaches preceded or accompanied by reversible limb weakness on one side and also visual, sensory or speech difficulties. It is often difficult though to make a diagnosis between basilar-type migraine and hemiplegic migraine. Basilar-type migraine though can present with tingling or numbness while true motor weakness and paralysis occur only in hemiplegic migraine, which makes that as their differential diagnosis.

Scientific studies have not consistently demonstrated an association between chocolate consumption and headaches although it has been reported to trigger migraine. Red wine has shown to be a migraine stimulator to some migraine sufferers but white wine is not sure to cause it. Tyramine, a chemical found in cheese, beer, wine, dry sausage and sauerkraut can sudden migraine headaches but there is no further evidence that having a low-tyramine diet can reduce its frequency. MSG has been reported as well to cause migraines when consumed in high doses on an empty stomach. Nitrites which are chemicals found in hotdogs and hams as well as Aspartame, a sugar-sub found in diet drinks have been reported to cause migraine as well.

About the Author:
Jon Caldwell is a professional content manager. Much of his articles can be found at http://allaboutmigraine.com

Keyword tags: health

The Sensitivity of Skin-Related Issues

Skin cancer, there's no telling when you'll get it (if you'll get it) on top of that it does not inflict pain in developing stages making it difficult for you to detect it right away.

It would be best to search your own body. There is nothing to lose and very little to fear because skin cancer is treatable if found early.

Start by cleaning your body , then you would need to be in a comfortable, well-lighted room a full length mirror, pen and paper and a hand mirror as well.

Check the moles and birthmarks you've always had ever since you were born. If you detect something that wasn't there before, write its location. Even though moles appear randomly in a humans' lifetime, you still can't take the possibility that it may be a developing melanoma.

The truth is that sunburns make your skin more vulnerable to cancer, BUT UV in sunlight damages the skin whether you get sunburned or not. You can still get cancer even if you avoid sunburns.

Yes the skin can heal the visible damage. This is why sunburns lasts for days. But unknown to us there are underlying damages that accumulates with every exposure to the sun, it is long term and may not be seen immediately. So it is advised to use proper protection (sun block, clothing etc), and still limit direct exposure to the sun even  when you are protected.

While it is true that MODERATE exposure to the sun will help in the production of Vitamin D in the skin, it is not advisable to prolong yourself in the sun. Excessive Ultraviolet Rays exposure will most likely raise the risks of you getting skin cancer. A few minutes will do. Eating food rich in vitamin D is a better option.

Acral lentiginous melanoma is the most usual form of melanoma in Asian and Black races.

This kind of melanoma forms on the skin surfaces that have no hair, and usually the parts that are seldom exposed to sunlight but researches have no findings that Acral Melanoma us caused due to the lack of sun exposure.

It is like a black pigmentation that occurs in the palms of the hands, soles of the feet and under the nails (fingers and toes).

When you detect a dark discoloration in your fingernails or toe nail, in your nail folds or any of the areas in your palms or soles it is advised that you seek a dermatologist to have it checked.

Melanomas can be cured if caught early.

Methotraxate is usually administered to people with rheumatoid arthritis, a chronic inflammatory disease which affects 1 percent of adults worldwide. Rheumatoid arthritis often leads to disability and eventually a diminished quality of life, it can also cause an early death as one who acquires it is more to developing cancer.

MTX is believed to be carcinogenic because of numerous reports about patients getting lymphoma after being treated by MTX. And the surprising thing is, tumors disappeared when the patients stopped taking the drug.

About the Author:
Jon Caldwell is a professional content manager. Much of his articles can be found at http://allaboutskincancer.net

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Mixed Thoughts on Brain Cancer

The radiation therapy can be administered in different ways. External radiation uses a high-energy radiation to pinpoint the tumor. The beam travels to different layers before reaching the tumor itself. It passes through the skin, skull, healthy brain tissue before reaching the tumor. The treatment lasts for about four to six weeks, given five days a week and will usually last for only a few minutes.

The other kind of radiation technique is the internal or implant radiation, where the surgeon uses a small radioactive capsule which is placed inside the tumor itself. The radiation that comes from the capsule is what will kill the tumor and the radiation will decrease a little bit each day. The patient will need to stay in the hospital for a few days while undergoing this treatment.

The patient will undergo several procedures and treatments before the actual surgery. To relieve the swelling, the patient will be given a steroid drug such as dexamethasone. If in any case there is an excess of cerebrospinal fluid around the brain, a thin plastic tube is placed to drain the fluid. The end of the tube is placed in another part of the body wherein the fluid can be easily eliminated.

Radiation therapy is the use of high-energy rays to eliminate the tumor and kill the abnormal cells and to prevent them from coming back. It is often used for people who cannot undergo surgery, or sometimes used after the surgery to eliminate tumors that are left.

Brain cancer treatment depends on the age, general health, and the size and location of the tumor. The type of the tumor and other medical conditions of the patient is also a factor.

The treatment of brain cancer is usually complex and may involve consultation to several different doctors. This team of doctors usually includes a neurosurgeon, who are specialists in the brain and nervous system, and the primary health-care provider. The team will also consist of a dietician, a social worker, a physical therapist and other specialists.

The most widely used treatments nowadays are surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy.

The secondary brain tumor occurs when cancer starts from another part of your body and starts to spread in your brain. Some may occur when the person has a history of cancer when a brain tumor is discovered.

Brain cancer can occur at any age between 3-12 and 40-70 years old. Ever since researchers have acquired this data, they have discovered some risk factors. Workers in industries such as rubber and plastic manufacturing, drug manufacturing and oil refining are in much greater risk than those working in other industries. They are also still studying if brain cancer is hereditary since some occur in the members of the same family.

Researchers have found that the main cause of brain cancer is due to mutations of the DNA of the genes, thus proving that brain cancer is genetic.

There are two types of brain cancer: Primary brain tumors, that originates in the brain or close to it and secondary (metastatic) brain tumors that starts from another part of the body and spreads to the brain.

Primary brain tumor is less common than the secondary brain tumor. It begins when normal cells acquire mutations in their DNAs thus allowing the cells to grow and divide while the healthy cells continue to die.

About the Author:
Jon Caldwell is a professional content manager. Much of his articles can be found at http://allaboutbraincancer.com

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How a Mexican Food Menu Promotes Healthy Living

Today more than ever, people are health conscience. Staying healthy is the key to a rich, fuller life. But knowing how to use what you have in your kitchen is not always easy. Having a Mexican food menu is a great way to promote a healthier lifestyle while insuring the dishes you eat are scrumptious and appealing to the whole family regardless of heritage, age, or gender.

When you want to prepare your own specialized Mexican food menu, there are a few tips that will insure you get more for your time and money.

How healthy do you want your meals to be? There are many options available when it comes to the health factor of the meals. For instance, if you want completely healthy foods, you can use all fresh fruits and vegetable. In addition, you would want to avoid cheeses and sour creams. Of course, frying foods would also be out of the question!

However, if you are a little more lenient, you may want to add a bit of sour cream or cheese. Of course, you will find there is indeed a middle ground, which is easy to find. This middle ground makes the meals from all fresh ingredients, but when it comes time to serve, have the option on the table. This will allow each person to choose his or her own favorites.

The great thing about making a healthy Mexican food menu for your family is that it is affordable. The ingredients are going to be fresh fruits and vegetables mixed with a healthy dose of grains. This is the stuff good living is all about. Having more of the stuff you need while allowing the mixture to mingle producing a taste sensation that will appease every one of your senses.

Many people wonder if organic food is really worth the extra cost and hassles. While organic foods are great, there are not within everyone's budget. However, organic food is a great way to insure you are reducing the number of additives and preservatives your family is partaking of on a regular basis. Organic foods are a great way to stay healthy and live a longer, richer life.

To add organic foods to your mean plans, you can either have your own garden or you can choose to shop at a retailer with organic certified foods. Either way you choose, you will be offering more of the good stuff that works great when you are planning a wonderful Mexican food menu.

Healthy living is a combination of wants and needs. Yes, you need vitamins and nutrients, but you also want a great taste. This cuisine is one of the best in the world for promoting healthy living with a meal plan that is not only good for you but tastes great. Choosing organic foods is a great way to add even more health benefits, but you can still remain healthy, wealthy, and wise without going completely organic.

Making your own Mexican food menu plan is a wonderful way to insure the health of you and your family. Start small, and feel confident in adding this bright mix of taste and looks to your regularly schedule dining please.

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More about Annie Dubois and great Mexican food or gift boxes can be found at Mexican Food & Gifts To Go. http://www.texmextogo.com/

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Get Healthy With Some Fruity Fun

It can often be difficult to factor fruit into your diet, especially if you are a determined junk food addict. However, you do need to eat a wide range of fresh fruit if you want to live a full, healthy life.

Fortunately there are lots of innovative ways to introduce some fruity fun into your life.

Blend it up

If you own a blender – and it doesn't have to be a top-of-the-range model – you can start making delicious smoothies straight away.

Don't be afraid to experiment with the selection of fruits and berries in your smoothies. A combination of bananas, a mango and a chopped apple makes a wonderful and nutritious banana smoothie, while blackberries, blueberries and strawberries can also be blended together to make a tasty mixed berry drink.

The choice really is yours. Making smoothies is a great way to introduce healthier foods to your diet, because you can decide which ingredients suit your tastes. If you have any specific health complaints (for example, cranberries can ease the symptoms of cystitis), you can easily blend the appropriate fruits into your smoothie for an extra-healthy boost.

Cooking to keep the goodness in

In the case of many fruits and vegetables, cooking destroys vital nutrients. However, apples and pears become easier to digest if you roast them gently in the oven. Sprinkle on a little water to help the cooking process, and dust them with cinnamon to create a deliciously sweet snack.

Other fruits that can be cooked include pineapples and even strawberries. Stuck on a bamboo kebab skewer and lightly grilled, these make a wonderful warm dessert, especially when served with a little natural yoghurt.

When you're heating fruits, do remember not to cook them to death, as this will destroy many of the enzymes that help keep your body healthy. You should also make sure you include a mixture of cooked and raw fruits in your diet.

How fruit helps

A diet that includes a wide selection of fruits is very important if your body is to function properly. Fresh and dried fruits can ease the symptoms of constipation, high blood pressure, osteoporosis and problems with memory and concentration.

As fruits are a valuable source of natural sugars, they also help to keep your energy levels stable and constant throughout the day, thereby promoting healthy sleep and combating insomnia.

Berries are particularly high in antioxidants and can help the body fight off a number of eye problems. For example, blepharitis is an inflammation of the eyelids which can be eased by eating raspberries and drinking tea made from raspberry leaves.

If you want to get rid of unsightly dark circles under the eyes, cranberries, blackberries and blueberries can all improve liver function and make these circles fade.

So whether you blend your favourite fruits together to make a sumptuous smoothie or sprinkle a few strawberries on to your porridge for a brilliant breakfast, the number of ways to get fruit into your diet is limited only by your imagination.

About the Author:
Gillian McKeith is a world-renowned nutritionist. She has helped thousands of people become healthier and happier: http://www.gillianmckeithclub.com/resources/recipes/weightlossrecipes.php This article was written by Stephanie Lee, a copywriter with an interest in healthy living.

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Inspired To Be Fit For Life

Fit for Life

I had never considered my fight to get fit for life as I recovered from breast cancer as particularly inspirational, but when Dr. Peter Tylee considered it worthy of a mention in his news letter, I got to thinking that maybe others might be interested in how I took the holistic approach to self healing and to get fit for life. So for those of you that are suffering from any debilitating disease, I hope you find this encouraging.

My desire to get fit for life started a few years ago when I was treated for breast cancer. After the operation I used the time while recuperating to really consider where I was at as far as my health was concerned.

I did some research and came to the conclusion that my cancer had been brought on by stress. (Just as an aside, I think stress is one of the primary causes of cancer, yet little research is being done in this area.) So as well as looking at my diet and exercise, I also looked at ways to reduce my stress levels as a constructive path towards my healing process.

As I did more research, I found that each part I looked at was linked to another. A healthy diet seemed to be a prerequisite to become fit for life. Then there was the need to do some form of exercise.

This came as no surprise, but then I found I also needed to be in the right frame of mind, to set goals , be positive, to know where I was going and what I believed in. I had thought of these things as totally different to my physical health, but I was finding out how much control our minds have over our bodies.

I had found for myself what several people already knew and that is to be fit for life you need to embrace holistic health. By this I don't mean total alternative medicine. Just that we need to treat the body as a whole being, including the mind and soul. I liked the idea and the more I read the more I liked the idea, and the more sense it made.

I became interested in mind power and began to understand more about how attitude has such a large bearing on how we react to illness. I knew that the surgeon had done what he could, but the rest was up to me.

I had always been fit, a big part of our life has been living aboard and cruising our yacht, but even so I decided that to stay fit for life meant making a proper effort.

Part of my exercise was to cycle to work. I took up meditation and once I had mastered the relaxation technique, I was amazed at how good it made me feel. Some years previously my husband had used meditation and mind control to cure seasickness, so he was always very supportive.

Gradually I began the changes that I thought would be more beneficial to my health. I also embraced techniques and ideas, some of which are many thousands of years old, but all new to me.

Being fit for life encompasses the physical, spiritual, emotional and mental parts of ourselves. As we grow we need to be aware of areas that need attention. It might be hard to get your head around some ideas such as emotional health, but you don't need to be a rocket scientist to know that if you dislike your job and hate going to work every day, somewhere down the line it will impact on your health.

If you are carting around emotional baggage such as guilt, resentment or grudges, they will eventually eat away at you and cause problems, not only in your life but also in your health.

I was grateful to medical science for making it possible for me to be treated for breast cancer, but at the same time I didn't want to spend the rest of my life taking drugs. When the surgeon suggested a course of radiation after the operation, I refused.

The same went for the drugs, though I had no medical knowledge to back up my belief, I just knew it wasn't right for me. There had to be a better way to staying healthy other than taking drugs for the rest of my life.

Being fit for life isn't about a quick fix or instant cure, it is about getting to know yourself and finding out what is right for you. It is prevention rather than cure. Had I been following a fit for life regime earlier, I would not have got the cancer in the first place.

Once we understand that we have the tools to facilitate self healing, that it is up to us to start learning how to use them, we can stop the use of drugs and the over burdening of our hospital systems.

I changed my whole life. I not only ate a better diet and did more exercise, that was the easy part. I also got rid of the stress and emotional baggage, I changed my job to something I enjoy doing and now live a more positive life.

About the Author:
Having recovered from breast cancer, Trish turned her attention to health and wellbeing. Trish became an author and life coach specializing in health, wellbeing and relationships. For more information and tips on these and many more subjects go to her website at http://www.wellbeing-information.com/eye-exercises.html

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Life’s Transitions and the Importance of Healthy Eating

This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni's Fountain of Youth Summit, which can be found at http://fountainofyouthworldsummit.com. In this excerpt, Dr. Maria Grace shares more on maintaining your health through transitions.

The Fountain of Youth World Summit with Dr. Maria Grace, psychologist, psychotherapist and author of Reel Fulfillment.

Kevin: And you mentioned transitions before and let's go back to that. You start to get on a path that you feel is good for you regardless of what anyone else thinks. You're eating in a way that you feel makes you feel good and you're healthy and then bam something happens and you know maybe you lose your job or something happens or you know three things happen at once. Like how, it's inevitable that happens to everyone at one point...

Dr. Grace: Absolutely.

Kevin: ...what can you do to maintain your health and maintain your sanity, too?

Dr. Grace: Absolutely. Well, after you eat your first bag of chips, which you will, let's assume again, yes, you will eat your first bag of chips and you may buy a 6 pack with it, too, and you will do that. Then you pick up the phone and you call a support group. You call a therapist. You call a counselor. You call a hotline. You call your sponsor. You call your trainer. You call your gym. You call your aunt. You call your friend. You call your family.

There's so many people you can call and you say, "You know what? I need help. I need help because I lost my job and my girlfriend left me and my cat died and my basement flooded and I need help because I'm sitting on my couch in front of the TV eating chips and drinking beer and I'm doing that after I was able to maintain a healthy eating program for 3 months and get my body in shape and feel really good about myself and I feel really rotten right now. I need help."

And if the other person on the other end of the line says, "I'm sorry. I can not help you" you hang up and you call the next one and then you call the next one and then you call the next one and you know I'm painting a really grim scenario here because chances are that the first person you're going to call are going to help you, is going to help you, because people love to help.

Kevin: Yes.

Dr. Grace: Do not be alone and then hold onto what is steady. Hold on to what is constant. In times of transition and loss we need to hold onto what is constant. For me, these days, and I'm talking about me now because I am going through tremendous transition, what is constant is to know that I have a place, a safe place to sleep, I have a few people to talk to on the phone, and I have the food interestingly enough. I have food to eat, but it's not junk food. I eat well and I then make, I start making lists of things that have to be addressed and I go, when I have a problem I try to think of the solution. Thinking of what will resolve the problem takes away about 80% of the stress of thinking about the problem itself.

Kevin: Okay.

Dr. Grace: So focus on the solution and then take steps to resolve the problem. The other thing that we're going to have to pay attention to when we go through transitions or experience failures is to pay attention to all these voices in our heads that say, you know, "You're a loser. You should know better. You should have let this happen to you. Life stinks. You'll never get ahead" etc. Well, a lot of those voices are interjected from early on in our life. We heard them when we were kids. We believed in them. We interjected them and they're not ours.

Kevin: Okay.

Dr. Grace: They're not ours. So instead of believing the voices we should just allow them to be and then turn them around.

Kevin: How can you do that?

Dr. Grace: This is the whole essence in meditation. Mediators learned to observe their thoughts and let them be. They don't really take them for granted and they do not give power to them. Now this is an art in itself.

Kevin: Yes.

Dr. Grace: This is a spiritual practice and I am working on it day and night and that is in fact as true and powerful a spiritual practice as changing our eating habits is because they're so interconnected. So not placing judgment on our fault is an amazing way to free ourselves from all this negative self talk that gets exacerbated when we go through painful or challenging life transitions. So let the thought be and continue being regardless of the thought because just a thought when we give it power it takes a life of its own and thoughts inform actions, you see? Thoughts inform actions. We are not aware of it, but if I keep saying to myself, you know, "I'm a bad person. I'm a bad person" and it keeps believing it then whatever I do will be a bad action.

Kevin: Yes.

Dr. Grace: Even if it's good. Even if it's good I will say it's a bad action. So don't give power to your negative thoughts.

Don't feed them and don't judge them either. Don't have judgment about your thoughts. Turn them around. Now turn them around means what? It means that when we go through transitions not only about ourselves but about the world, too, you know?

Kevin: Yes.

Dr. Grace: You hurt me. She ripped me off. They did that to me. Well, or you know they should be better. They should be better. That is the complete opposite. I mean, we get 2 things when we go through transitions. One is all those interjected thoughts take a life of their own and the interjected thoughts we should not pay attention to, the negative thoughts and the other thoughts are about the world. What the world should be or how it should have behaved. This is projected thoughts. Not the projected thoughts we should turn them around and apply them to our self. Okay?

Kevin: Okay.

Dr. Grace: So instead of saying, "The world should be a better place" or "They should have never done this me" okay? We should turn this around and say, "I will be a better person. I will not let this happen to me." This should is always about something that they should have or should be is a, belongs to time that doesn't exist. Right?

Kevin: Explain that.

Dr. Grace: It doesn't exist. If I say, "Kevin, you should have been smarter." What is this? What am I saying? That doesn't exist. Okay? You should have been smarter about buying a better car.

Kevin: It just can't happen again.

Dr. Grace: I will refer to a time and space that doesn't exist.

Kevin: It's an amazing distinction.

Dr. Grace: But if I say or if you say, "I will be smarter about the car I will buy" this is how you assert, actually you assert your intention. I will, we talked about willpower before. I will assert intention. So I will be smarter, assert intention, and it also informs yourself about the action that you are going to take. So when we go through transition, you know, I should have never left that, said this and if I had said that then she should have done this and then it would have been different. That doesn't exist. None of this exists.

Kevin: It's just wasting your time almost.

Dr. Grace: Completely. Completely. So we turn those thoughts around into "I will do such and such. I will," it does not necessarily refer to the future. This is not about the future tense. I will means I assert my intention.

Kevin: Okay.

Dr. Grace: I will be self loving means I assert my intention to be self loving or caring about my wellbeing.

Kevin: If there was just 1 last thing that you could leave everyone with what would that be?

Dr. Grace: Take time to appreciate the moment because now is all we have. So slow down and be fully present in your life in the here and now and tell the people you love that you love them because you're here to leave memories and that's our legacy. Good memories is our legacy and therefore memories happen through our presence in the here and now. So don't postpone a good deed if you can do it now.

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To read the rest of this transcript as well as access The Fountain of Youth World Summit experts just like Dr. Maria Grace, please visit http://fountainofyouthworldsummit.com. To watch the daily health show that is causing waves online, please visit http://www.The http://RenegadeHealthShow.com.

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The Value of Preparing Food to Be and Stay Healthy and Satisfied

This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni's Fountain of Youth Summit, which can be found at http://fountainofyouthworldsummit.com. In this excerpt, Dr. Maria Grace shares on the value of preparing food.

The Fountain of Youth World Summit with Dr. Maria Grace, psychologist, psychotherapist and author of Reel Fulfillment.

Kevin: What do you think of some of the biggest challenges that people face? That people just eat food, it's not prepared with love, it's processed? Is that the biggest challenge that people face from staying healthy?

Dr. Grace: It's one of the biggest challenges, yes. Food that you buy and eat out of the box is no longer food. You know, we need to eat live today alive. When you eat something dead, how can you turn something dead into life? I don't get it.

So we eat dead stuff. We eat dead stuff, we eat fat, we eat without paying attention to what we are eating, we don't share the food that we eat okay? And so because we take away all these pleasures that surround the ritual of eating we concentrate just, we concentrate is a figurative term here, because we don't really concentrate when we eat. We eat unconsciously.

So we keep eating and eating and eating and just stuffing our body with food and then the only gratification that we're most likely to get is this fixation from having eaten. Sometimes we don't even remember what we ate. Sometimes we don't even pay attention to how many times we chewed of what we ate. Wouldn't you agree?

Kevin: Yes.

Dr. Grace: We eat very, very fast and then what does this do to us? It taxes the body and we eat fast and, again, you see, you may eat very healthy food. You may eat just the raw food or just organic or just vegan or just I don't know you name it. I mean there's just so much, the technology and the of good, healthy food is so advanced today that every day we come up with a new brand or a new department of good, healthy food. I don't care what kind of food we eat, but we may eat it very fast.

If we slow down a little bit and start paying attention to how we eat, how we eat is the first one, our behavior around eating. Then we're going to start paying attention to what we eat. We need time to pay attention, we need time and space to pay attention to what it is that we're eating.

Kevin: Right.

Dr. Grace: I really think that in order for us to become conscious of what we eat, we first need to pay attention how we eat it.

And then we will realize that when we sit down and we eat, I don't know, and the 30 ounce sirloin steak...

Kevin: Oh gosh.

Dr. Grace: ...at 10:30 pm and then try to go sleep and we need to eat, we need to take pills...

Kevin: Sure, enzymes and everything else.

Dr. Grace: So we need to 5 or 6 of them and about, I don't know, 3 or 4 glasses of Alka-Seltzer and then walk up and down and then we need god knows what else to fall asleep and we think all this is stress. Well, it's maybe stress, but not all of it may be stress from the office or stress from the boss. A lot of it is actual stress from the steak, you know, that is trying to be digested by our stomach which is working overtime while we, the rest of the body, needs to rest.

Kevin: Yes.

Dr. Grace: You see? When we sleep our bodies shut down. So what that this does, that the stomach should be relatively empty or free from heavy food okay? So if we slow down, though, and paid attention to all this process then perhaps that sirloin steak might be eaten with less frequency or a little earlier in the day.

Kevin: Yes.

Dr. Grace: So I'm not saying stop eating meat, I'm not saying this because I can not force people to completely change their food habits because I believe that, you know, such and such is better than other, but what I firmly believe again and I'll say it again is that if people change the way they eat then the food they eat would be reconsidered and they would also change the food they eat as well.

I'm talking about what do we watch on Food Network that makes us salivate every time?

Kevin: Yes.

Dr. Grace: We sit in front of the TV and we watch the Food Network for hours and we say, "You know what? I love this channel" and I've asked thousands of people, "Why do you love this channel?" They say, "Look at they prepare this food. It's just fantastic". Well, what I am saying is turn your own kitchen into Emeril's kitchen. Be your own Emeril. Be your own Rachel Ray. You can. Buy the ingredients, buy the baking sheet, buy the pots, buy the pans and start cooking. The satisfaction that you're going to get is amazing. It's phenomenal. It will change your whole outlook on food. You will learn a lot more how to pick the right ingredients. You will learn a lot more about the difference between organic vegetables. You will learn how to pick free ranged chicken from hormone fed chicken. You will, that is where you really, really learn the difference. Not by reading just books or watching TV shows.

Kevin: And here's the big objection: I don't have time. What...

Dr. Grace: But you have time to watch TV. I ask people, "How many hours of TV do you watch a week?" And it's incredible. If we count the hours that we watch TV. If we could cut them in half we could still have time to cook.

Kevin: Sure.

Dr. Grace: Okay? And even zapping through channels is a time-consuming or what about the internet surfing? What about people reading recipes on the internet? That's another secret addiction, you know? They search for recipes and then they go from one recipe to another and one recipe to another or they collect recipes. All that takes time. Well, what I'm here to say to you people is, okay, pick one of those recipes and cook it. Make it happen. Make it happen. Bring it to work. Share it with people. It will give you enormous satisfaction. Even the feedback that you're going to get from some people, they will say, "You know what? I like it." Some other people will say, "Well, it needs a little bit more, I don't know, sugar or salt or less of this or more of that". This builds community. This builds friendship. This is why people love watching Chocolate for example, the movie. Where we have a character who moves into this little village with her daughter and she's a chocolate baker and she makes fantastic recipes using chocolate and the movie shows how this woman heals an entire community just by teaching them how to make chocolate cakes.

We yearn for this healing. We yearn for this love that we see that is shared among those people on big screen. You are the director of your movie and that is your life. So make the banquet. Prepare the banquet. It's not difficult. It's really easy and it's a lot of fun. That is how you are going to feel active and engaged in your own life. In one very, very, very significant aspect of your life which is your eating. We live, if you think about it, Kevin, I mean that's the bottom line here. If we don't eat, we don't stay alive.

Kevin: That's a fact of life.

Dr. Grace: Okay, and isn't that the bottom line?

Kevin: You say pick one recipe and it sounds so easy and I work with a bunch of people and I say, "Pick one exercise" or you know even in the success field is just pick one route and go for it. Though, that really, for some people it's very difficult to make a decision. You know, you have hundreds of recipes. It's almost like it's easier to collect a hundred of them than actually make one. What do you say then?

Dr. Grace: Yes, well, I have to say a couple of things. First of all, we live in a culture of accumulation here. We think that accumulating material objects equals abundance. We have our pantries are always overstuffed, but and we order takeout. I mean, what is that? I think we, personal growth and self-fulfillment and self-actualization always implies, that's the whole idea of the hero is journey by the way, always implies that we have to question the culture. At a certain point we do have to go against the cultural demands to carve our path in life. To carve our hero's path.

So the culture says that you must have stuffed cabinets and you must have 12 shelves full of cookbooks and about 1300 handwritten recipes, okay? But brand new pans and pots and never used pots and pans in your kitchen, okay? We have to reverse this and start using our pots and pans and it's okay if we have 12 recipes and not 1200 recipes, but we use them all. We can make the first step right now. We can pick one recipe. The one that we've always wanted and it does not have to be complicated. I love cooking meals that take less than 20 minutes to prepare.

Kevin: Sure.

Dr. Grace: We have all sitcoms are about 20, 25 minutes okay? Or series. Sex and the City, I mean, minus the commercials, is about 20 minutes. That's it. That's as long as we can stay with a ritual. So pick something that takes anywhere between 20 and 30 minutes and once you love it then go through the next recipe and then to the next .

Now let me give you an example about how I practice what I preach in my own life. I am currently going through a rather big transition and I just moved from a very functional and small apartment in New York City to a 4 bedroom house in on the shore of New Jersey. The house is empty for now because it's a renovation and work I have an empty fridge. So what did I do yesterday? I went to the store and I was really hungry and I had a choice of buying something and eating it on the spot or buying something that I could prepare.

So I bought ham and cheese and whole grain bread and I went to my car and I opened it up and I made a sandwich. Right next to my car there was another car with a guy who looked at me through the window and he was holding a huge bag of chips. So as I was making a sandwich for myself he was opening the bag of chips and he looks at me and laughs. We look at each other and we both say with one word, "We're hungry, hey."

Kevin: Okay.

Dr. Grace: Now, what was the difference, though, between us? I was not eating chips out of a bag. It was something almost automatic for me to buy something that I could create a ritual out of alright? My ritual was to make my own sandwich because I took time. The few minutes that it took for me it was my food, it was my ritual and I opened a little napkin and I ate it and this is what I do.

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Reel Fulfillment: What Can You Learn From Movies?

This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni's Fountain of Youth Summit, which can be found at http://fountainofyouthworldsummit.com. In this excerpt, Dr. Maria Grace shares on using movies to teach concepts about self-development.

The Fountain of Youth World Summit with Dr. Maria Grace, psychologist, psychotherapist and author of Reel Fulfillment.

Kevin: So why don't you tell us a little bit about your background, about your story, how you came into self-fulfillment and then we'll move right into getting into what works.

Dr. Grace: Well, I'm a psychologist and a psychotherapist. I have been practicing psychotherapy for over 17 years and being a psychologist was the dream of my life. It was almost a desire that I had ever since I was 12 years old. To study psychology and help people improve their life and understand themselves and so the whole process of self-fulfillment and my whole expertise in self-fulfillment began with my own life.

I've always gone after my dreams and I never stopped until I made them true and as a therapist and psychologist I worked with people from all walks of life in many countries actually. Not just the States, in Europe and Canada and Latin America and I found in the years of practicing psychotherapy that deep down inside we all want the same thing. We want to be happy, we want to fulfill our dreams, and we want to know how to make it through hardships in coming to the other end without losing everything. Holding on to what's good and keeping it and building on it and this is the same for everyone regardless of ethnic or racial or cultural background.

Kevin: It's interesting that you boiled it down to just about that because when I hear it, it seems like the information that we're looking for. So tell me a little bit. You based your information, you've given a lot of information, you've also included movies as a part of a tool which I think is just really interesting and we'll talk more about movies later, but just give us a little brief introduction of how that incorporates into the whole thing.

Dr. Grace: Well, sure, I have always tried in my practice to find ways to help my clients know faster through their issues and especially their defenses and early on I used myths and stories. I'm originally Greek and Greek mythology has a wealth of stories about the various stages of life and in fact myths have always been u