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Surviving Ovarian Cancer

“If we don’t change, we don’t grow.  If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living. –Gail Sheehy

Betsy Horn shares an encouraging story of reflection, rebirth, forgiveness and wellness in her book “A Little Touch of Cancer and How it Made Me Well.” The story is based on her personal life experiences and how surviving ovarian cancer lead her to understand that to be completely healthy she needed to make positive changes in her life.

Betsy shares how Traditional Chinese Medicine helped her better understand the connection between the body, mind and spirit and how to apply that knowledge to bloom into a healthier woman.  After moving from her cosmopolitan life in Manhattan to the more peaceful countryside, Betsy had more time to truly sit and reflect on her life.  She came to recognize that letting go of a traumatic past through forgiveness was essential to turn negative feelings into positive ones for a healthier mind and spirit. She also gives insight to different therapies and techniques of holistic medicine that transformed her life for better. “I had become an elder, gaining wisdom and a richer approach to living, as well as a stronger sense of my own identity” (Betsy Horn).

In a portion of the book called, “Betsy’s Toolbox,” she offers detailed information on her health routines, how they work and why they work cialis pris. Some of her methods include:

  • Diet and Nutrition
  • Health and Wellness Support Team
  • Dietary Supplements
  • Meditation
  • Emotions and Homeostatic Balance
  • Exercise
  • Life Balance
  • Yoga

For more details on Betsy Horn’s book or on the techniques she uses to maintain a healthier body, mind and spirit you may visit her website, www.betsyhorn.com.

Written by: Betsy Badell

*Also enjoy one of Betsy Horn’s recipes:

World’s Best Smoothie Recipe

The world’s best smoothie is a moveable feast, if it is as organic and natural as possible! Many people don’t have the time to prepare the fabulous five portions of veggies necessary each day for health but this recipe does the trick!

1 Scoop Gruvolo’s Premium Greens (24 cal.) – Equivalent to 6 portions

1 Packet Eveliza/Alen, an organic, cereal compound (60 cal.), 5 grams protein, or other protein powder

½ avocado

½ banana

1 apple or pear, blueberries (whatever is in the kitchen)

1 small handful of nuts (almonds, walnuts, cashews, pignoli*)

1-2 cups ‘good’ water, unsweetened almond, soy or hemp milk

1 scoop chia seeds

1 tbsp. Udo’s evening primrose or favorite oil (optional)

1 scoop spirulina powder

1 shake each of cinnamon and/or turmeric

1 dropper green tea extract

1 dropper Wellness Herbal Resistance Extract from Source Natural

1 dropper Sea Buckthorn Oil

1 drop grapefruit seed extract**

 

Place all ingredients into blender (I love the Vita Mix’s power, as it doesn’t strip the ingredients of texture) and let it rip!

News

A Cleanse; Just for YOU!

Do we really need a colon cleanse? Isn’t the human body perfectly capable of filtering out impurities?

Well, according to leading health professionals an internal cleanse is now essential for optimum health.

“It is very necessary because our world is so toxic. We are ingesting, breathing, and coming into contact externally with toxins all day long and there are more environmental toxins then there has ever been and it’s growing,” says Dr. Tom Ziegler, a pharmacist at the Medicap Pharmacy in Ashburn, VA. “We need to do a cleanse to rid the body of those toxins.”

But let’s not assume that one size fits all. Because men and women have different physiological and nutritional needs, when it comes to internal cleanses there are different requirements for men and women.

For instance, companies like Yerba Prima are including Chaste-tree berry extract, the fruit of a small tree native to Central Asia which has been used for thousands of years to ease menstrual-related issues in women.

In addition, using a cleanse with both psyllium and bentonite provides a more complete internal cleansing.  Together psyllium and bentonite can deliver a one-two punch to waste and toxins accumulated along the digestive tract and colon.

On contact with water, psyllium seed husk thickens into a gel-like substance.  This acts like a broom to sweep waste from the colon. Working synergistically with psyllium, bentonite attracts toxins like a magnet binding them together as they move along the body’s digestive tract.

By:

Peter Finkle

Director of Quality Control

Yerba Prima – AnAshland,Ore.based company credited with developing the first internal cleanse

For more info, email [email protected]; visit www.yerbaprima.com; or write to Yerba Prima Inc. at 740 Jefferson Ave., Ashland, OR  97520  USA.

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Diet, News, Psychology

Your Body, Yoga-Body

In “The Yoga-Body Cleanse”, Robin Westen guides readers through a life-changing transition, eliminating the unhealthy choices many make on a daily basis.

The book begins with why “cleaning up your act” is necessary, and  what foods to avoid when cleansing your body. Ms. Westen also incorporates a survey into the book, allowing the reader to answer about fifty questions with Never, Occasionally and Frequently. At the end of the section, the reader tallies up their score and Westen provides them with an explanation of what their total means for their toxicity level.

The previous section builds up to the changing of the reader’s lifestyle which Westen begins with Ayurvedics. In short, these are principles that detox a person’s body and leave them feeling rejuvenated. She uses Ayurvedics along with the seven step program illustrated in the next chapter to prepare the reader for the “7-Day Yoga Body Cleanse”.

This “Cleanse” instructs the reader to diet intelligently, eating scrumptious foods with extremely beneficial vitamins and nutrients that strengthen the body and leave it satisfied. Using Yoga along with the dieting tools provided by Westen, the body will be relieved of toxins, endure less stress, and increase mental awareness and performance.

An excerpt from the book; “Partaking in the Yoga-Body Cleanse and renewing your precious self is not a one-time event….Once you’re aware of the toxicity and temptations, and you’ve gained the tools and commitment to change the way you live, a new and beautiful reality opens. Now you’re fully alive.” (Robin Westen)

written by Nicholas Messina

News

Desserts Cure Obesity: “Sweet Feast Forever”

In 2005 Dr. Robert Schwarazberg advised Chuck Weiss to lose some weight, and so Weiss began counting calories and getting on the scale every morning. His initial weight loss was a huge success, but Weiss found that after his big first loss, the lifestyle of maintaining his weight was actually harder than the original weight loss.

Unwilling to give up sweets, but still dedicated to maintaining his weight, he came up with a new diet concept. Weiss allowed himself to chew sweets, but this time around he wouldn’t swallow, he would spit them right back out.

The new spit-out weight loss regimen worked so well for him that he chose to share it with the world. “You Must Tongue it to believe it,” says Weiss. After his new found weight loss success, he created DessertsCureObesity.com, which explains the medically approved program that has been successfully tested for more than eight years.

For more information on this unique diet, and its benefits visit www.dessertscureobesity.com

 

Diet, Food, Gluten Free, News

Just Add Trader Joe’s!

Sometimes getting your diet on track can lead you to some interesting methods.

Start off with a little pep talk, add a pinch of motivation and education then throw in some goals and include some of the recipe’s in “Livin’ Lean with Trader Joe’s®” and you could be off to a great start.  You can certainly keep it going with over 150 pages of breakfast, lunch and dinner ideas.  From a slow cooker to a quick wrap, Jamie Davidson, M.S. has compiled recipes to share, that can show you how to deliciously reduce fat and calories…and we’re talkin’ Butternut Squash & Peanut Butter Soup!

Could this be your 2014 Diet Jambalaya resolution?

Diet, News, Products

Consume Alomune

Alomune is a preventive in strengthening the immune system to maintain an active lifestyle.  It’s also an excellent source of dietary fiber.  Tasty berry flavors in stick packets or chocolate flavor chewable tablets.  Antioxidant activity similar to that of pomegranates (as measured by Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC) per 100g) is also found in Alomune.

Activate your body’s defenses with Alomune and their slogan is:

“The Care You Take Everyday!”

News, Psychology

Stress Tips & Lists

According to Kathy Gruver, PhD, health and wellness expert and award-winning author of The Alternative Medicine Cabinet, stress will always be a part of life. But we can control how we react to stress.

In her new book, Conquer Your Stress with Mind/Body Techniques, Gruver explains the stress response, its history, and how it affects us today. She gives practical tips for decreasing the body’s reaction to stress and how using simple mind/body techniques can increase health by lessening tension.

Dr. Gruver offers a treasure trove of easy methods readers can do at home, in her down-to-earth style.  She demystifies the multitude of available professional therapies that you can incorporate into your life.

Fun, fit, and quick-witted, Gruver tells it like it is, in her balanced approach to combining Western and Alternative views. The book is liberally sprinkled with examples from Kathy’s own life, expert friends’ stories, and from her clients’ experiences.

Topics include: Creative Visualization/Guided Imagery … Warning Signs of Stress: Physical, Behavioral, Emotional, Cognitive … BioDots … Affirmations …  Meditation and Mindfulness … Herbs … Pain management … the “How to Stay Sick” list … the “How to Stay Healthy” list, and more – all offered with both scientific and anecdotal information, in Dr. Gruver’s down-to-earth style.

Dr. Kathy Gruver, PhD, LMT, RM

Author of the new books Conquer your Stress with Mind/Body Techniques and Body/Mind Therapies for the Bodyworker

Host of the National TV Series, The Alternative Medicine Cabinet on OTV.
Author of The Alternative Medicine Cabinet, WINNER of the Beverly Hills Book Awards

Natural Health Speaker, Author, Educator and Practitioner
Inspiring you to have better health; Body, Mind and Spirit

http://youtu.be/mwNXK2DIb1s

www.TheAlternativeMedicineCabinet.com
www.facebook.com/drkathygruver
http://www.linkedin.com/in/kathygruver
Twitter: @klgruver

 

News, Nutritional, Vitamins

Skinny Trim

Slip into those old skinny jeans with a little help from Water Trim. Water Trim uses plant-based ingredients to support a healthy fluid balance for your body. This may be just the support you need to get those jeans on – in a snap!

Water Trim is provided to you by Pure Health. They are a great company that never adds any harmful or unnecessary binders, fillers, excipients, preservatives, artificial colors, artificial sweeteners, stimulants or other unnecessary ingredients. They always use vegetarian capsules to support the absorption of nutrients in their products.

People everywhere are experiencing the amazing effects of Water Trim!  And those skinny jeans again…

Written By: Daniel Guethon

Food, News

Line up for the tabs!

Who doesn’t love sneaking in a little ‘junk food’ every once and a while? Unfortunately ‘junk food’ does not like us as much as we like it. But, with lineatabs you no longer have to take extreme measures to trim off your guilty pleasures! Lineatabs is an exclusive state of the art dietary supplement that is refreshing, light, healthy and best of all, sugar free!

Occasionally, we eat the foods that might not be the best for us and we try to avoid the fact that comfort food is a ‘in the moment delight’ that can have some not so great bodily effects. No more “ uh, the food made me eat it” moments! Time to enjoy what you want to eat, when you want to eat it, without having to constantly worry about gaining more weight. Lineatabs® is not a replacement for a healthy diet and regular exercise, but it can sure make your life much less complicated while being incorporated into your healthy lifestyle!

Written by: Daniel Guethon

News, Vitamins

Dr Knows Best!

DrVita Six Daily Advanced Multi-Vitamin provides your body with over 100 essential vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, fermented whole foods, herbs and other powerful nutrients to promote anti-aging, healthy energy production, good cardiovascular and immunity. These nutrients include effective dosages of alpha lipoic acid, magnesium, B-complex and CoQ10 for healthy energy production, standardized green tea equivalent to five cups of tea to protect cells from damaging free radicals and resveratrol found in red wine that are missing entirely in most multi formulations.

Six Daily also contains 10X higher levels of vitamin D3 when compared to others based on recent studies showing this is the amount required for optimal blood levels to promote healthy bones, cellular health and immunity.