Good Sugar, Magnesium, Recycling, Lymph & Ascension!

In This Issue:

A Healthy High-Sugar Diet?
Magnesium Top 10
Want to Know About Recycling?
Taking Care of Your Lymphatic System
Maybe You’re Ascending!

Message from Bernadette Wulf

Spring is in the Air

At least it was for a little while. We had one warm, sunny day and all the plants started popping buds. I gathered a bunch of pussy willows by the local bike path – a welcome sign that nature is waking up. Maybe you have to wait a few more weeks where you live, but it won’t be long.

As always, Spring is a good time to focus on cleansing, both your home and your body. Sometimes Nature does it for us, as I experienced yesterday with a 24 hour bug, but maybe it is better to intentionally choose a day or two of fasting, a parasite cleanse (handy kits available at your local natural food store), or a liver cleanse with fresh spring herbs like dandelion, sow thistle, and milk thistle. Ask your body what it needs.

This month we will take a look at how the healthiest people on the planet eat a high carb diet, ten great sources of magnesium, a peek into San Francisco’s recycling program, important tips for keeping your lymphatic system healthy, and what you might be experiencing as our planetary vibration rises – some call it ascension.

To your health!

HealItAll.com – WulfWorks.com

A Healthy High-Sugar Diet?

What? Carbs are not evil incarnate? Sugar is a good thing? According to this article, and many studies of healthy populations around the world, sugar is not the bad guy it’s been made out to be by modern diet “experts.” In fact, complex carbohydrates are the most essential fuel of life. Of course that doesn’t mean refined white sugar, or even the many forms of raw sugar and evaporated cane juice. It means the natural, whole-food sugars in fruits, and the complex carbohydrates in vegetables, beans, and grains.

This article points to the fact that the healthiest populations on the planet eat a diet high in carbohydrates and low in fat, but that doesn’t mean they live on cookies and white bread. Only whole foods contain all the nutrients we need. Here’s what renegadehealth.com has to say:

There’s a lot of confusion in the realm of nutrition because we hear two contradictory statements. On the one hand, we are told to eat more plant foods. On the other hand, we are told to eat less sugar, including less starch or “carbs.” However, by default, plant foods ARE high-sugar foods. The vast majority of edible plants that have been cultivated by humans are high in natural sugar or starch. Low-sugar vegetables are nutritious, but they can’t sustain a human being because they do not contain much energy. A few plant foods are high in fat instead of high in sugar: avocados, nuts, seeds, coconuts. But those foods are the exception, not the rule. In a natural setting, they were only found seasonally and in very specific geographic locations.

The reason we have this contradiction is because popular diet “experts” all claim that a healthy diet is one loaded with “good fats.” They want you to eat a diet full of salmon, sardines, olive oil, nuts, seeds, chicken, lamb and grass-fed beef. Eat lots of “good fats,” minimize the carbs, eat lots of veggies. That is, more or less, the advice of 95% of diet books.

However, when we look at healthy populations around the world that have experienced superb levels of health, such as NO heart disease, no diabetes, and no breast or prostate cancer, we find that they have one thing in common: they do not eat plenty of “good fats.” Quite the opposite, they eat a plant-based diet that emphasizes natural sugar or starch.

Of course some healthy fats are needed, but not in the quantities being promoted by so many recent diet gurus, particularly of the Paleo variety. In fact, eating a high-fat diet with lots of carbs can be one of the deadliest combinations available. Some people seem fairly healthy on a high-fat, high-protein diet (though it may not be a good long-term diet), and most people can stay quite healthy on a high-carb, low-fat diet for a lifetime, but the combination of high fat and high carbohydrates seems to trigger all sorts of health problems.

The healthiest carbohydrates to eat are fruits and starchy vegetables like potatoes, sweet potatoes. Gluten-free seeds and grains also make wonderful staples, like millet, quinoa, buckwheat, and amaranth. Rice is fine in moderation if you don’t have candida issues, but remember that a lot of rice is contaminated with arsenic these days. Some people do well on oats and corn, and even wheat, but others cannot tolerate them.

Seems like you can’t go far wrong if you emulate ethnic diets that have sustained life and health for thousands of years.

Magnesium Top 10

Magnesium is one of the most common nutritional deficiencies in America. If you look at the list below, you will see why. Aside from bananas, we don’t tend to eat a lot of these foods. And, though yogurt and kefir do have magnesium, they also have lots of calcium and phosphorus to outweigh the balance of magnesium, so I wouldn’t even include them as the best sources.

I would also add a word of caution about spinach and chard, both of which are wonderful in moderation, but can be dangerous if eaten too often, because of their high oxalic acid content. All leafy greens are high in magnesium, so rotate your greens to give your body time to keep things in balance.

Green leafy vegetables aren’t the only foods rich in magnesium. Here are the top 10 foods high in magnesium that you will want to include in your diet.

(Men RDA 400 milligrams and Women RDA 310 milligrams a day)

Spinach — 1 cup: 157 milligrams (40% DV)
Chard — 1 cup: 154 milligrams (38% DV)
Pumpkin seeds — 1/8 cup: 92 milligrams (23% DV)
Yogurt or Kefir — 1 cup: 50 milligrams (13% DV)
Almonds — 1 ounce: 80 milligrams (20% DV)
Black Beans — ½ cup: 60 milligrams (15% DV)
Avocado — 1 medium: 58 milligrams (15% DV)
Figs — ½ cup: 50 milligrams (13% DV)
Dark Chocolate — 1 square: 95 milligrams (24% DV)
Banana — 1 medium: 32 milligrams (8% DV)

Want to Know About Recycling?

This is a fascinating article if you ever wonder what happens to all that recycling they pick up at your curb. I’m old enough to remember when we had to wash cans, cut the bottoms off, and smash them before they could be recycled. Then we had to separate glass into clear, brown, green, etc., and paper wasn’t even collected except for newspaper drives. It took a real commitment to recycle, but now it is much easier in many locations.

Where I live in Sonoma County, we can dump cans, glass, plastic, paper, and clean cardboard into the bin and they will sort it out for us. Plastic bags and styrofoam are not accepted, but a few markets will recycle clean, dry plastic bags. That really cuts down on the amount of waste going into the landfill.

So glad to learn that we don’t have to waste water rinsing things out! I’ve always wondered about that. Read on to find out more:

http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/05/what-happens-to-san-franciscos-recycling-once-it-leaves-the-curb

Taking Care of Your Lymphatic System

Most of us don’t think about our lymph circulation very much. We tend to think it will take care of itself as our blood circulation does, but that is not the case. Lymph needs our help to move, which naturally happens when we exercise, but many of us with sedentary jobs don’t exercise often enough. Going to the gym after work is a great idea, but what about all those hours you are sitting in front of a computer or commuting in traffic?

We need to get up and move at least every hour and include some of the options on the list below. I’m surprised that they did not include jumping on a trampoline or rebounder, which is one of the best ways to get lymph moving. The important thing is to move in whatever way you can!

thetruthaboutcancer.com has come up with some great information about taking care of your lymphatic system:

A congested lymphatic system can lead to serious illnesses and chronic diseases which stem from a weakened immune system. A clog in your lymphatic “drains” can lead to the accumulation of toxins which the body initially tries to remove. Perhaps your symptoms of body rigidity, headaches, bloating, skin concerns, and cold extremities are actually a result of a sluggish lymphatic system that needs improving.

The following detoxification strategies can help you improve your lymphatic system function.

1. Actively Reduce Stress

2. Exercise

3. Chiropractic Care

4. Herbs

Essential Oils

Milk Thistle

Essiac Tea

Manjistha

5. Perspire

6. Dry Brushing

7. Anti-Inflammatory Diet – Red foods are some of the best anti-inflammatory foods you can consume such as:

Cranberries, raspberries and cherries
Vegetables, especially beets
Manjistha, also known as “red root”

8. Hydrate

9. Massage

10. Avoid Tight Fitting Garments

I have greatly abbreviated the list comments, so check out the whole article here:

http://thetruthaboutcancer.com/ten-ways-improve-lymphatic-system-function/

Maybe You’re Ascending!

As a child I always thought ascension was like pictures I’d seen of Jesus rising into the sky in a blaze of glory, but that’s not what this article is talking about. This is an everyday process of aligning with the rising vibrations of our planet. Ascending simply means expanding into higher vibrational dimensions… but perhaps that isn’t simple at all!

Whether we like it or not Earth is ascending. Since 1980, the Schumann resonance has been rising, after thousands of years of remaining constant. What does that mean for us? Read through the list below and you may recognize some of the symptoms. I know I have. From in5d.com:

1. Feeling as though you are reliving your childhood struggles.

2. Feeling “lost,” or directionless.

3. “Left brain” fogginess.

4. Having random influxes of irrational anger or sadness that intensify until you can’t ignore them anymore.

5. Experiencing unpredictable and scattered sleeping patterns.

6. A life-changing event is taking place, or just has.

7. Having an intense need to be alone.

8. Intense, vivid dreaming that you almost always remember in detail.

9. Downsizing your friend group; feeling more and more uncomfortable around negative people.

10. Feeling like the dreams you had for your life are collapsing.

11. Feeling as though your worst enemy are your thoughts.

12. Feeling unsure of who you really are.

13. Recognizing how far you still have to go.

14. “Knowing” things you don’t want to know.

15. Having a radically intense desire to speak up for yourself.

16. Realizing you are the only person responsible for your life, and your happiness.

Again, I’ve removed the comments after each item on the list and there were some good ones. If you want to know more, read the rest of the article.

If none of that stuff sounds familiar, just wait. It will soon. We are all being triggered, but some of us “wake up” sooner than others. That’s probably a good thing, because it would be pretty chaotic if we all started feeling lost in a fog at the same time.

The main point is that, though some of these symptoms can be unpleasant, they all have a very positive purpose. We are expanding out of the limitations of the past into a new and promising future based on our heightened awareness and compassion. Welcome to the new reality!

By the way, I know it looks on the surface like Earth is going to hell in a hand basket, as my dad was fond of saying. We are bombarded with rumors of wars, and pollution, and questions about climate change, and political lies, and on and on. It can be overwhelming, but I also know that all that stuff has been going on for hundreds of years. It is only coming to light now, because we are ready to see it and clear it out of our collective experience.

So remember that it is all part of the process and Mother Earth has her own agenda. We can align with it and enjoy the ride, or we can resist it and have a very challenging time. Either way, we are on an adventure that has never been experienced before. Personally, I find it very exciting and wonderful.

Read the entire article here: