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Natural
Wellness News
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Vol.
1, No. 64 * * * December 2011
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Chia, Sprouts, Meal Timing, and
Access Consciousness
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Message
from Bernadette Wulf
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Greetings!
Happy Holidays, whichever holidays you choose to celebrate. I'm looking
forward to the days getting longer in just a few weeks, with all the
plants shooting up new growth. Our autumn weather has been glorious,
with more colorful autumn leaves than I've ever seen, but the promise
of spring is still enticing.
I learned something new this month about the dangers of snacking. I had
often heard that frequent small meals were the best way to maintain
ideal weight and blood sugar balance, but it turns out that is not
true. In fact, we can do a lot of damage to our health by following
that advice. Who knew?
I've also shared a couple of good articles about some old friends of
mine, Chia seeds and Sprouts - two of the best nutritional buddies one
can find. Then there's an article about one of my favorite new
discoveries, Access Consciousness. I've been working with Access
processes for about six months and I feel like it has given me a new
lease on life. Check it out and see if you get the same feeling.
Until next time, have a warm and wonderful holiday season.
To Your Health!
Bernadette Wulf
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Visit
My Website HealItAll.com
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Chia
is Not Just for Pets
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If you are old enough, you will certainly remember the popular "chia
pets" of the 1970s. Ceramic animals with "fur" grown from chia seeds
was all the rage for awhile. But did you know that chia seeds are one
of the most nutritious foods on the planet?
From the Raw for Thirty blog - "Chia seeds have more omega-3 than
Atlantic salmon, more antioxidants than fresh blueberries, more fiber
than bran flakes, five times the calcium of milk, two times the amount
of potassium as bananas, three times more iron than spinach and more
protein, fiber and calcium than flax seed.
"Adding just 2 tablespoons of chia seeds to your daily diet will give
you approximately 7 grams of fiber, 4 grams of protein, 205 milligrams
of calcium, and a whopping 5 grams of omega-3. Chia seeds include
phosphorus, magnesium, manganese, copper, niacin and zinc."
Chia seeds even taste good. They have a mild, nutty flavor. You can use
them as a thickener or even as an egg replacement in many recipes, but
my favorite way to eat them is to soak them in almond milk for about 15
minutes, then add chopped apples, raisins, or other fruit, with a dash
of vanilla. Delicious warm or cold.
You can even eat chia sprouts right off your chia pet.
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Read
About Chia Superfood
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The
Wonder of Sprouts
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I've been growing and eating sprouts since the early 1970s when I was
fortunate enough to hear Dr. Ann Wigmore speak at a small, gathering in
my home town of Saratoga, CA. As an idealistic, health-conscious young
person, I was very impressed by Dr. Ann's energy, vitality, and
commitment to sharing her healthy lifestyle. She was in her 60s at the
time, and had cured herself of colon cancer and gangrene, caused by an
automobile accident that crushed her legs. Sadly, her energetic life
was cut short when she died in a fire at the age of 83.
Ann Wigmore cured herself and maintained her health by eating weeds.
Eventually she developed a living foods program, promoting wheat grass,
raw foods, and sprouts, which could be grown indoors through the winter
in any climate. Today, Hippocrates Health Institute still carries on
her work and thousands of people have reported healing through
following her teachings. We have Ann Wigmore to thank for the
continuing popularity of sprouts and raw foods today.
From NaturalNews.com - "People sprout for three primary reasons:
Reason #1) Vegans and vegetarians sprout seeds to eat high-protein
living foods which make up the bulk of their diets.
Reason #2) Surthrivalists sprout seeds to grow their own emergency
foods indoors, using no soils and having a compact food storage benefit
(seeds are really tiny, but they sprout into larger foods).
Reason #3) Smart consumers sprout seeds in order to save money on their
grocery bill, as sprouted seeds provide high-density nutrition at a
fraction of the cost of traditional superfoods."
I had to look up the meaning of surthrival, since I had never heard
such a word before. Here's what I found “surthrive - to not
only make it through the hard times, but to prosper when the economy
shows improvement." It is a combination of survive and thrive.
That is a perfect word to use in connection with sprouts. Not only do
they supply an abundance of nutrients (far more than the seeds
themselves), but they enable us to go beyond survival and to thrive.
They are also easy to grow and don't take up much room. How does it get
any better?
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Read
About the Benefits of Sprouts
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Lose
Weight, Balance Blood Sugar, Avoid Disease with One Change
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How often have you heard that the best way to balance your blood sugar
or lose weight is to eat frequent meals and snacks? I don't know about
you, but I've heard it a lot! According to Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo, that
is really bad advice. Here's why:
From Dr. Ritamarie's newsletter article, Why Eating Frequent, Small
Meals May be Damaging to Your Health - "Constantly elevated levels of
insulin, either from snacking between meals, deliberately planning
meals close together, or eating foods high in sugar and simple
carbohydrates, causes hyperinsulinemia, a condition of too much insulin
in your blood. This condition leads to insulin resistance as the cells
can no longer take in so much sugar and 'close their ears' to the
insulin signal.
"Insulin resistance leads to weight gain, especially around the middle,
stiffening of your arteries, elevated blood pressure, systemic
inflammation, and eventually to cardiovascular disease like heart
attack and stroke."
To understand why this happens and how it can also cause liver
congestion, I encourage you to read this excellent article, which is
the best I've seen on this subject. The only downside is that those of
us who have formed a habit of snacking frequently will have to learn to
plan our meals at healthier intervals and include a full range of
nutrients in them.
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Why Frequent Meals Can Damage Your Health
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Access
Consciousness and Health
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Have you heard of Access Consciousness yet? If not, today is your lucky
day. Maybe it is not for everybody, but it is definitely for those of
us who want to expand our consciousness and our joy as far as possible
so we can discover amazing new vistas of awareness. Since I discovered
Access, thanks to hearing a Rikka Zimmerman interview, my sense of
possibility has widened beyond anything I could have predicted.
I think Rikka is amazing, but Dain Heer may be more to your liking. He
is calmer and has a more mellow voice. You can find him here -
http://www.accessdain.com/ Both Rikka and Dain have great information
and processes to share.
What if you had a way to clear the clutter from your mind and silence
your mind chatter? Wouldn't life be a lot more fun? I think so. Access
Consciousness is based on the question. When you ask a question, the
universe answers and your consciousness expands. You begin to feel more
space inside yourself. Nagging thoughts fall away and you begin to feel
more free and creative - at least that is how it works for me. Lot's of
other people have reported similar experiences.
Not only that, you can use Access for healing. I was working with a
horse the other day and she had a really runny eye that had been
dripping all the way down her face for over a week. I did an Access
process on her for about five minutes and her eye stopped running. I
checked her again at the end of the day and also a week later and her
eye was perfectly normal. What a great feeling!
I am now in the process of getting my Access Bars certification so I
can teach the Bars class. Bars is a type of energy work on particular
points on the head - just one of many techniques Access has to offer.
If you are interested in having me "run the bars" on you, let me know.
I felt like it cleared a lot of nagging negative thoughts out of my
head when I had it done on me.
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More About Access Consciousness
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To read past issues of
HealItAll.com Newsletter go to
http://healitall.com/newsletterarchives.html
Bernadette Wulf is a Naturopath, EFT therapist, Health and Nutrition
Coach, and Reiki Master with a world-wide practice via phone and
Internet.
Visit http://healitall.com for more information.
For Health & Wellness Coaching contact Bernadette Wulf at
wulfartist@yahoo.com
707-824-0675
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