| HealItAll Newsletter |
| Vol. 1, No. 40 * * * December 2009 |
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from Bernadette Wulf- Greetings and Happy Holidays to All! We have been having the most glorious autumn here
in Northern
California. The vineyards around my house have turned brilliant orange,
yellow and red in the crisp night air, but the days have been
pleasantly warm. We have had enough rain to turn the hills green, so
the play of colors is spectacular. I hope it is just as beautiful
wherever you are!
I've been looking around at the whole health and nutrition issue in America and I must say it is alarming. Here we are in the middle of a raging health-care debate, yet the essential factors of health care are being ignored. It is like a giant with a big club is standing in the room with us and we are worrying about a mouse that ran by. Isn't it obvious that the growing number of obese kids with diabetes (1 out of 3 predicted!) and heart disease are going to be a huge burden on the health care system? Wouldn't it make sense to provide them and their parents with healthy, nutritious food, and some basic nutritional education that is NOT funded by agribusiness corporations? Shouldn't our government be subsidizing organic fruits and vegetables rather than GMO corn and soybeans? Of course! But it won't change until we make our voices heard and our dollars hurt. Dollars are the only thing the big corporations understand, so we wield power with every dollar we spend. We can undermine the whole agribusiness and fast food industry by pulling our dollars out of it. Think about that the next time you are deciding between orgainic or conventional produce, or between local or foreign products. We've got the power. Let's use it! And may your days be merry and bright this Yule season! To Your Health! Bernadette Wulf - Visit My Holistic Health Care Website HealItAll.com |
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 It's
Official - Naturopath Certificate- Now I can officially call myself a naturopath! A
naturopath is
someone who practices naturopathy, which is defined by dictionary.com
as "a system or method of treating disease that employs no surgery or
synthetic drugs but uses special diets, herbs, vitamins, massage, etc.,
to assist the natural healing processes."
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Naturopathy was developed in America at the turn of the 20th century as a natural alternative to the drugs and surgery offered by the medical establishment. The naturopathic focus is on prevention and restoring body functions to balance in harmony with the laws of nature. While there are various approaches to naturopathy, nutrition and healthy lifestyle choices are central to any naturopathic process. Due to the predominance of the AMA model of medicine, modern Americans have come to expect fast, easy "cures" with drugs and surgery, and these certainly have their place in life-threatening situations. However, they do nothing to heal the original cause of the disease. With all our high-tech scientific advancements and medical equipment, the American population is getting sicker and sicker. It has been predicted that 1 in 3 Americans born after the year 2000 will develop diabetes! That is absolutely shocking! Especially because it is usually a preventable disease! The naturopathic approach of putting people on a raw foods vegan diet has been shown to reverse diabetes in 30 days! (See link at bottom of this article.) Cancer, heart disease, and many other life-threatening diseases have also had high healing rates with naturopathic approaches such as the Gerson therapy, Budwig treatment, healthy diet, herbs, exercise, sunshine, and fresh air - especially when natural approaches are used without previous radiation or chemotherapy. It should not be surprising that our bodies can heal themselves when given the proper nourishment, along with eliminating toxins. We have been healing ourselves that way for thousands of years. The only problem is that people are often lazy, ill informed, or they lack the will power to resist the ever-present junk foods that erode their health. On top of that, most people have been brainwashed to believe they need to eat large portions of meat and dairy products to stay healthy. Nothing could be further from the truth, as the China Study made clear! That leads me to our next article on the film "Food, Inc." Video on Raw Food Diet Reversing Diabetes! |
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 Food, Inc. - Must-See Film for Anyone Who Eats! - Food, Inc. is not a pleasant, uplifting film like those I would generally recommend. In fact I found it disturbing and even rather scary. I have a hard time watching animal abuse. However, I hope everyone in America will see this film. It made me want to grow all my own food, and I don't even eat meat, which is mostly what the film covers. If you eat meat, you definitely need to see it! Thanks to the run off from the meat industry - and yes, it is no longer farming, it is an industry - even our fresh produce has become dangerously contaminated with E. coli. Children have died from eating spinach, and my own mother, who doesn't eat at fast food restaurants, was recently diagnosed with E. coli, though nobody knows how she got it! (See next article for more on E. coli.) Not only are these agribusiness models creating super-bug strains of E. coli that are somehow finding their way into our spinach fields, they are producing billions of tons of high-sugar, high-fat foods that are rapidly undermining the health of our nation. This stuff isn't even food in the sense that it provides essential vitamins and minerals. Most of it is just calorie-packed garbage made to look and taste like food - and as we saw last month, it is almost as addictive as heroin! What, you may ask, is the solution to this mega threat to life and health in America? It is you! Each of us, as the film points out, has the power to vote with our dollars. These multi-national corporations are all about one thing and one thing only. That is $$$ - money! If we stop spending our money on their cheap burgers, corn syrup-laced sodas, denatured white breads, and 95% of the garbage available in the average supermarket, they will stop producing it. What a concept! Sure, it may cost a little more to buy the organic, locally grown produce. It may take a little more time to make dinner from scratch with fresh, whole-food ingredients. You may have to learn a few new recipes to replace the meat and dairy products you've been in the habit of eating every day. But you don't have to do it all at once. You can make it a weekend thing at first. Try something new. Invite friends over for a whole-foods pot luck. Bring fresh fruits or veggies to work for lunch. Have a leafy greens and raw fruit smoothie for breakfast. Every little bit you can do helps. The more you support local organic agriculture, the more farmers will respond by growing food in a healthy, sustainable way. This will not only benefit your personal health, it will help the environment by removing toxic pesticides, carbon emissions, petrochemicals, and manure runoff that endangers future generations of humans and animals. That is a win - win proposition! - Video Trailer for Food, Inc. |
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| E. coli and Kidney Failure - Nature designed cattle to digest grass, leaves, and herbs, not corn. According to Food, Inc., the strain of E. coli that is causing such serious health problems has resulted from feeding corn to cattle. (This feeding practice also creates a huge amount of carbon emissions - 18% of all the greenhouse gasses in the world - because undigested material in the gut creates gas!) If you must eat beef, at least make sure it is grass fed! Those of us who share the planet will thank you. I mean, who wants to breathe cow farts? I got curious about E. coli after watching Food, Inc., not to mention the incident with my Mom, and I found the following information: From http://www.pritzkerlaw.com/ecoli-kidney-failure/ - "The Progression of Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS) Leading to E. coli Kidney Failure (Renal Failure): "Most cases of hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) occur after an infection of the digestive system by Escherichia coli O157:H7 (E. coli O157:H7) bacterium, which is found in foods like undercooked meats and non-pasteurized dairy products and juices. * The Escherichia coli O157:H7 (E. coli O157:H7) bacterium lodges in the digestive system and forms toxins that enter the bloodstream and start to destroy red blood cells. * The damaged red blood cells clog the tiny blood vessels in the kidneys, making it harder to remove wastes and extra fluid from the blood. * The excess fluid and wastes may in turn cause high blood pressure or swelling of the face, hands, feet, or entire body. "Antibiotics given for an E. coli infection put patients at higher risk of developing HUS. Your medical professional should be aware of this. "Early Symptoms of HUS E. coli Kidney Failure (Renal Failure) * Fever * Vomiting and Diarrhea * Blood in the stools * Irritability * Weakness * Lethargy Advanced Symptoms of HUS E. coli Kidney Failure * Paleness * Unexplained bruises * Unusual bleeding * Swollen limbs or generalized swelling * Yellowish skin (jaundice) * Extreme fatigue * Decreased urine output * Decreased consciousness" That sounds pretty nasty! And taking antibiotics can even make it worse! So I looked up some natural ways of getting rid of the critters. Acidophilus is one of the best. Also ascorbic acid, apple cider vinegar, D-mannose (see link below), Uva Ursi, unsweetened cranberry juice, lots of water, salt, goldenseal, marshmallow root, buchu, corn silk, and horsetail. Homeopathic Remedies: Cantharis (sharp burning pain, intense urge to urinate) Staphysagria (continual burning, result of sexual intercourse) Apparently, E. coli doesn't like acids, hence the Vitamin C, cranberry juice, and vinegar. The sooner you tackle the problem with these remedies the better. Once it starts blocking kidney function you may need medical intervention - possibly for life! - Read D-mannose Article |
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| Venezuella Bans Coke Zero for Health Reasons! - Finally, somebody is willing to stand up to the multi-national health destroyers! Yay Venezuella! From NaturalNews.com - "The Venezuelan government has banned the sugar-free soft drink Coke Zero, citing concerns that its artificial sweetener is harmful to human health. "'The product should be withdrawn from circulation to preserve the health of Venezuelans,' Health Minister Jesus Mantilla said. "The ruling called for the product to be removed from all store shelves and destroyed, and for all further production to cease pending an investigation into the drink's safety. Coke said that it would comply with the government order." Why doesn't OUR government care that much about our health? Look at all the toxic garbage sold as food in America that is going to make our present "health care crisis" look like a walk in the park. A whole generation of kids is now growing up with degenerative diseases that used to be found in older people. What is going to happen when THEY get older? My guess is that we are going to see a whole new assortment of diseases that never existed before. Am I ranting? Well, somebody has to do it. We need to make our voices heard and demand that our health comes first in America, not money and profits for big corporations. - Read Entire Article |
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| Six Essential Nutritients for Women - From Ann Louise Gittleman's blog - "To keep their shape and long-term health, females have to squeeze a lot of nutrition into fewer calories. Because they have more body fat and slower metabolic rates than the opposite sex, it’s easier for women to pack on the pounds. This makes women more likely than men to be overweight—or even obese. "Because females tend to be smaller in size, they’re more vulnerable to everything from environmental toxins to infectious bacteria. Women even process medications differently than men." It is true. Women have a unique nutritional challenge. Not only do they have to provide adequate nutrition for themselves, most women also provide for a growing fetus at some point in their lives. On top of that, being generally smaller than the average man, a woman has to eat smarter to avoid packing on the pounds. Gittleman offers special nutritional advice for women, listing six important vitamins and minerals that every woman needs in the proper amounts in order to function well: 1. Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) 2. Folic acid (or folate) 3. Iron 4. Magnesium 5. Vitamin D 6. Zinc To read about why these nutrients are essential, and how much to take, visit her "Edge on Health" blog. - Edge on Health Blog |
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| ADHD - Alternatives to Ritalin and Aderol - This 2003 map shows the percent of children 4-17 on medication for ADHD. I thought it was interesting that the highest concentrations of cases were all on the East Coast. I wonder if that has to do with diet and lifestyle choices, or some other factor. The article doesn't make it clear. Anyone who has been around a hyperactive kid knows that something is wrong. The question is, how can we help them calm down and focus? A lot of research has been done showing that artificial colors and preservatives may be one of the causes of ADHD, and food allergies may be another. Once again, our children seem to be suffering the consequences of our collective imbalanced lifestyle and poor food choices. But good results have been found by changing to a natural, whole foods diet and avoiding common allergens like wheat, dairy, eggs, tomatoes, corn, soy, sugar, peanuts, shellfish, citrus, peanuts, yeast, and chocolate. Heated oils and high glycemic foods have also been found to trigger ADHD. In short, the human body thrives on a predominance of fresh whole fruits, vegetables, and seeds, grown organically for optimum nutrition. When we stray from our natural diet we suffer a multitude of negative consequences, just like cattle that are fed corn. Kids don't understand that, so we have to make choices for them and set a good example. Sure, it is fun to have an occasional ice cream cone or cookie, or even French fries, but a steady diet of that stuff will erode your health and make you fat. It is not worth the trade off and it is not fair to the children! Here are a few natural alternatives to the drugs usually prescribed for ADHD, from renegadehealth.com - "* Calcium and magnesium have muscle relaxing properties and aid sleep. * A yeast-free B-complex vitamin has a calming effect, improves neurotransmission and appetite. * G.T.F. chromium keeps blood sugar levels stable and decreases cravings. * D.H.A. made from fish oils or algaes improve focus and intelligence. * Digestive enzymes bromelain and papain reduce inflammation and help to calm uneven moods. * G.A.B.A. (gamma amino butyric acid) helps protect the brain from excitatory/anxiety-related messages." - Read Entire Article |
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