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Mind/Body Health 101
    #6823220 - 04/23/07 01:29 PM (16 years, 10 months ago)

"Fill the stomach halfway with food, one quarter with water, and one quarter with air." Zen Teaching :japsmile:



I think the most striking thing about medical science is that it has no standard and no real definition of what health is. They can define diseases, and classify them, but they cannot really define what health is. Or at most they can only define negatively that when a person is not ill, then he is healthy. But this is no real definition because here disease becomes the primary thing by which health is defined. It is like trying to define wakefulness as the absence of sleep. This may be true in a sense, however not sleeping does not always necessarily mean that you are awake (see: Automaton).

So what is health really about? Two things.

First off, health is not a state of being which can simply be labeled with one general definition because well-being applies to every person in different ways. This is important to understand because this requires you to honestly examine yourself as a whole and figure out what makes you feel good and what does not.
Science can give us good advice regarding nutrition and fitness, but when it comes down to applying the knowledge, self-knowledge becomes a prerequisite to a successful practice.

Secondly, health is not an absolute, but a relative balance between one's mind and body. If one puts all energy into developing the body without nurturing the mind, then the symptoms of dis-ease will reveal themselves mentally. Same goes for the opposite. A well-developed mind with a malnourished body will eventually bring about physical dis-ease. The gateway to balance lies in harmony. The key to harmony lies in a conscious application of knowledge.

Take a moment to not only absorb this information, but to also understand it. And in addition, question it as well, because that too will help you understand for yourself how this may apply to you and how it may not.

I. Food, Water, and Air

They say that you can live weeks without food, days without water, and minutes without air. This makes air your number one priority and hence breathing is your first step to a healthy being.
Many people are not aware of how they breathe throughout the day. Oftentimes their breath is very shallow because they will either breathe through their throat or through their chest. Rarely do they breathe deeply through the abdomen.

Abdominal breath is the natural breath. In China, the abdominal area is known to be the center of what they call chi energy, or life force. Although chi circulates through all organs and every cell in your body, all energy ultimately returns and concentrates in the abdomen, which acts as the control center for vitality.

You can research deep breathing and find all the information right at your finger-tips, but remember knowledge is only the means, practical application is the goal.

Water is number two on the list of your vital priorities.

Commercial culture today provides an endless variety of soft drinks, sodas, and juices. The essential problem with artificial forms of water is that they are often highly processed and contain large amounts of sugar, preservatives, and unnecessary flavoring. Depending on your metabolism this can have a speedy effect on your being, simply because sugar is still a drug, regardless of how it is perceived by society.



Water is in essence the ideal drink in the world and always has been since the dawn of life. I suggest learning to love the natural flavor of water and say no thank you to processed drinks as much as possible. Purity of liquid is a determining factor of a clean body and as a general rule, the fewer additives there are in the water, the more health-promoting it will be for your body.

Food is physical need number three, and also the most complex topic to cover concerning body health.
Sometimes it may seem a bit intimidating to look into food because of all the information and misinformation that exists about it. But realistically, if you know what to look for, and can narrow your needs down to a simple scope, then the choice of eating habits becomes very easy to manage.



A few basics regarding healthy food, three things.

1. Organic fruits and vegetables are extremely beneficial as they are foods which come straight from the earth and are rich in vitamins and minerals. Generally the more natural the food is, the more nutrient-dense it will be. Artificial processing breaks food down and reduces the amount of nutrients available once it reaches your plate. Fruits and vegetables are thus very high in vital compounds and are also easily digestible by the body. Put this high up on your list.

2. Whole grains is what is needed when you wake up in the morning because your body is at this time running on a low amount of energy. Whole grains are great because they are not refined or bleached as many white breads are. They provide you with essential carbohydrates which unlike sugar provides your body with energy that burns steadily and carries you further through the day.

3. Protein. The food for your muscles, as well as your brain. Carbs alone won't get you far without including the basic building blocks of your body. Fish, lean meat, eggs, beans, nuts and seeds, milk, and cheese will all give you the protein you need to strengthen your body. They are best taken after physical exertion or your daily fitness routine since this is the time when your body needs them most to recover. The only thing to look out for is that many protein foods can also contain decent amounts of fats, so therefore it is important to know the food you're eating and minimize unnecessary fat intake.

Now exactly how you incorporate food into your life is entirely up to you. For instance some people may simply not like to eat raw vegetables, and neither do I, therefore I juice them along with fruits. Or to provide another example, some people may not enjoy eating seafood, but they may love the flavor of turkey. So they're still getting their protein. The key is to improvise and find the foods to eat which suit you and fit into your own frame of health, without losing out on the essential nutrients which every biological system requires.

The World's Healthiest Foods is a great resource which helps me find my selection of foods. :thumbup:

Use your power of creativity to form and shape your eating habits in a way that benefits you and your vehicle called the body. Oh, and don't forget about the water and air. They come first. :grin:

:mushroom2: :earth:

Edited by AlteredAgain (11/09/07 10:58 PM)

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Re: Mind/Body Health 101 [Re: AlteredAgain]
    #6823372 - 04/23/07 02:02 PM (16 years, 10 months ago)

You forgot to mention that people should avoid chemicals, and carcinogens. Fast food, MSG, BHT, cigarettes, drug abuse, sodas, excess sugar, etc.

*EDIT*Also, it is said that should not put anything on your skin that you wouldn't eat since your skin is porous and absorbs whatever you put on it. Hairdyes are known to cause cancer, and I would imagine a lot of other personal hygeine products.

Nice thread BTW.

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Re: Mind/Body Health 101 [Re: buHHH]
    #6823422 - 04/23/07 02:16 PM (16 years, 10 months ago)

toxicity certainly deserves a chapter of its own along with many other topics. i will try to include everything chapter by chapter and all in due time. :yesnod:

thanks for pointing that out. :thumbup:


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Re: Mind/Body Health 101 [Re: buHHH]
    #6823426 - 04/23/07 02:16 PM (16 years, 10 months ago)

Quote:

Also, it is said that should not put anything on your skin that you wouldn't eat


What about soap and lotion? :shrug:


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I will not fear my passions like a coward.
My body I will give to pleasures,
to diversions that I’ve dreamed of,
to the most daring erotic desires,
to the lustful impulses of my blood, without
any fear at all, for whenever I will—
and I will have the will, strengthened
as I’ll be with contemplation and study—
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Re: Mind/Body Health 101 [Re: AlteredAgain]
    #6823439 - 04/23/07 02:19 PM (16 years, 10 months ago)

Also, to the threadstarter: You did not mention soy anywhere in your list of healthy foods.  Someone recently told me she had heard that soy is generally unhealthy because the human digestive system is not built to process it.  Do you know if this is true?

I have been trying to eat vegetarian recently and it has been really successful.  I may not get quite enough protein, as I mainly get it from dairy, beans, nuts, and rice.  I occassionally eat chicken or turkey, and I like to stay away from eggs but I have no logical reason for this other than that the yokes are high cholesterol.

Thanks for the thread.  The breathing and water reminders were instantly beneficial to me. :grin:

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Re: Mind/Body Health 101 [Re: Lion]
    #6823450 - 04/23/07 02:21 PM (16 years, 10 months ago)

check out the link i provided in the OP. you should be able to find answers to most of your food related questions there. :wink:

Soybeans


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Re: Mind/Body Health 101 [Re: AlteredAgain]
    #6827445 - 04/24/07 12:37 PM (16 years, 10 months ago)



II. Fitness

Over the past decades the idea of physical fitness has been heavily altered by modern television culture and this consequently affects the way people look at fitness today. Rather than recognizing the individuality of a person's body, the culture has instead imposed a high ideal of the perfect body. This does not necessarily help people get off their couches and do something with their bodies; not to mention, the sole meaning behind the term 'working out' already implies that it is work and not fun. Time to decondition.

As with nutrition, the basis of fitness is to do that which nurtures your body. The only difference is that instead of taking in quality energy (food), in physical fitness, you release quality energy (exercise). One of the main reasons why people become overweight is because they don't release their energy, which inevitably causes the body to store the energy in the form of fat. Unhealthy eating habits result in this as well, for example a high fat diet.

Fitness can generally be divided into two distinct categories.
One, cardiovascular training. Two, resistance training.

The first includes pace walking, jogging, running, jumping, climbing, and swimming to name a few.
The second includes weight lifting, body weight lifting, and isometrics, which can be combined with cardiovascular activities as well.

Possibly the most important thing about physical exercise is self-knowledge. The body naturally has  certain limits which are always relative to your present level of your endurance and strength. These limits are to be transcended, as this is the key to physical development, however one needs to overcome one's limits in increments. Knowing where you stand, how far you can run, or how much weight you can comfortably lift are essential to determining the safest and most efficient way to transcend your boundaries.

So if you're just starting out, play it safe for a week, and just feel yourself out a bit. On the first day jog a mile. On the second, aim for an extra quarter mile. On the third, try running that 1.25 mile at a faster pace. In a nutshell, always set yourself out for improvement, no matter how small. By the end of the week you'll be comfortably jogging two miles. :wink:

The same basically goes for resistance training, except that when working with weights, it is a wise thing to do some research on proper technique. In my experience, it is not what you lift that matters, but how you lift. Also, keep the recovery stage in mind when exerting your body. The first hour after completing your exercise is a necessary time to provide your body with protein so that it can build the muscles you have been stressing. And finally, rest well and give your body a break when it asks for it.



Since the main principle of holistic health is the recognition of the totality of one's being, it would only be half the story if we solely  talked about the fitness of the body without including the fitness of the mind. :yinyang:

All too often it seems that we lose awareness of the fundamental role our minds play in manifesting our physical realities. By no surprise, the material world is what naturally appears to be the most real of all our experiences. It is tangible, definite, and it follows concrete laws. The mind on the other hand is completely opposite. It is intangible, definitions are questionable, and laws seem to be in a state of constant change.

The puzzling dynamics of the mind however do not hinder us from determining what feels good to us and what doesn't. Despite apparent indefinition, real definition becomes possible through willpower.

We know that positive thinking reduces stress, or that meditiation promotes inner peace. It is precisely these tools which we can apply to our daily lives to improve our mental well-being.

To speak from my own experience, jogging has become therapeutic to me. It is a time when I can be completely alone with my thoughts, when I can forget about my personal problems, let go of relationships, and just be. I have found that my self-confidence rises as a result of this. I notice that I become more relaxed and attentive throughout the day. It is these results that indicate mental fitness.

The toolbox of the mind is vast and I provide a number of techniques in my thread on Inner Landscape Design. Use the power of the mind to your advantage, as it is there for you to create your world. :tripping:

That's about all I got to cover for now. I hope I could provide a helpful frame of reference here.


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Re: Mind/Body Health 101 [Re: AlteredAgain]
    #6832738 - 04/25/07 02:26 PM (16 years, 10 months ago)

Once again, a wonderful thread. I really appreciate these collections of insight.

One thing I would like to add is in regards to nutrition for the body. I have recently read a book called "Fit For Life", and one of the main teachings of it is the idea of food combining. When one properly combines the foods which they eat, their body has a much easier time digesting it and thus less waste builds up and less energy is used in digestions, freeing up more energy for important bodily processes, such as fighting disease and clearing out toxins etc. It makes you feel good too because you have more energy.

The basics of food combining are something like this:

Do not eat fruit with anything else. Fruit takes very little time to pass through your stomach, about 30 minutes, and is very good for your body if you eat it alone, and it passes through quickly. However, when you eat fruit after or with a meal of other food, such as carbohydrates or proteins or even vegetables, the fruit gets stuck in the stomach behind the slower digesting foods, and ends up fermenting everything in the stomach and turning to acid. This is very much not a good thing. So basically, try and wait about 30 or so minutes after eating fruit before eating anything else. And try to wait about 3 hours after eating other things before eating fruit. Also, in Fit For Life they recommend only eating fruit in the mornings up until lunch, because it is very easy for your body to digest, and gives you easy energy and allows your body to complete the elimination cycle of toxins in the morning without having to waste energy digesting a hearty breakfast full of protein and carbs.

Another main point is not to mix different types of concentrated foods. That is to say dont mix starches with proteins, if you can avoid it. However, anything can be mixed with high water content foods such as vegetables (except for fruit). Mixing different kinds of proteins together is bad too supposedly, though mixing different types of starches is supposedly not so bad.

-Also try to avoid drinking water with your meals, as it dilutes the digestive juices and causes the body to expend more energy in digestion.

I recommend if you are interested in this you simply google food combining or look it up on wikipedia. There is a wealth of information out there, and the more knowledge the better.

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    #6834382 - 04/25/07 08:57 PM (16 years, 10 months ago)

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    #6836426 - 04/26/07 10:58 AM (16 years, 10 months ago)

From the mind of a purist, thought it would fit in here..

This mindful inhabiting of spin can be practiced practically, everyday. The following is some practical advice on including Ecstatic Process in simple daily life...

First it is important to realize just how critical regular ecstatic and joy intense activity is to the maintenance of the immune system. If you give your four billion cell bodies the honor to accept it's wisdom, it will tell you of its need to periodically act in such a way as to bring ALL your attention to the present... and by doing so, periodically conduct a "bringing to a point" or critical digestive assembly of separate memories, into one sense of overall meaning.
Many human bodies will con-tinue to gain weight, if nothing is done to bring memories to focus, and thus to "consume perspective" & harvest memory or spin for the oneness. This sense of digestion also extends to the EMOTIONAL digestion of memory. Think of this as bringing spin to the flame to see what fits oneness, thus enabling you to sort out a filing cabinet which might otherwise become cluttered.

The purpose of human activity is to increase the amount of spin which can be folded into the body. This relates to choice of water, oil, and mineral to make electro-lites hold dense electrical foldedness. Without great symmetry/ purity/charge in what we consume nutritionally and emotionally, information density/awareness cannot grow. Think of your cell waters as a medium for charge, which at maximum self-contained-ness is called love. Serve this recursion/nestedness of spin in yourself, as it is imbedded connectedness to everything that is shareable. You will find your horizon of who you can feel for with compassion, growing like a flower petal.

In practice, this means several things:

1. We need to follow the spirit of the "twinkling eyes lifestyle", so our tissue issues will not overheat & foul up like an unbalanced water wheel when the river rushes.

2. It is vital that your home be magnetically alive. This means you need an altar or sacred space in your home which you regularly charge. Crystals are OK, but they can sometimes become overfilled with electrical charge leftovers. Your "medicine bundle", and special sacred items.. some paramagnetic stones, symmetrically arranged, using your OWN dowsing, are helpful..

3. If your home is not in a physically quiet, AND magnetically quiet environment, DO YOU AT LEAST HAVE A PLAN FOR GETTING THERE! Noise or power line messes are the OPPOSITE of an ecstatic and eternal life style!! Not all of us can live in a pristine paramagnetic stone kiva over a quiet sacred spring.. but we can at least make gentle dedicated moves in that direction. Isolate the wiring from the people space.. Live in a structure with the least metal possible (but copper is better than steel, aluminum is terrible for people's magnetism).
Curved and or pent shapes are always better than cubic where possible. The edge length ratios of adjacent walls tells you whether you are in-cube-ating, or phi-cycling into lo-phi (lo-ve). To phi-cylce (the best essence of physical) is to resonate into recursion which creates self-awareness which is what the uni-versal mind gathers to itself. In your home this means pent or spiral and curved structures based on recursion, will help your awareness become "self"-contained. You may find that careful arrangement of the symmetry of the major organic masses of your home, produces a resonant or "sweet" spot, that you can then always go to, when you wish to "pull the (spin) elements of your "self" together. It is not sufficient for the inside of your home to have a nice magnetic ring to it, induced (inductively) by structural symmetry. Please locate your domi-cile by finding the place where the magnetic donuts on YOUR LAND all circle to center nicely. Then your memories can do the same. Your own dowsing, or a friends, are needed to site the stones and the beds. Other-wise "pandemonium may break out upon the scene". Gradually assemble a living space where your home is fractal to its magnetic landscape, that way you can em"bed" yourself inside. Then your ideas will have leverage on your land directly, by the morphic resonance which fractality idealizes.

4. Take a fairly deep warm bath daily. Leave the soap out of the water initially. Perhaps a little natural mineral or sea salt.. Submerge yourself and breath deeply for a while. Round breathing, in through the nose and out the mouth. This is most of the rebirthing ritual, which simply means re-bonding with the matrix of the infinite fractal. This technique of warm bath in live water & deep relaxed round breathing plus tantra was the prescription for eternal life in "Jitterbug Perfume". (Chlorine and fluoride in the water definitely are absorbed in your skin, if you can get better water than "citified" water by a short drive to a friend, try that and compare how you feel!.) Dream of someday bathing in a natural warm spa at the bottom of a flow-form.. ours at the farm is almost complete.

5. Combine the above with gentle investigations into tantra and kundalini.
Note: round breathing is a relaxed process of breath where you notice that the gentle completion of the in-breath should take exactly as long as the out-breath. Then perfect inform-ation infinite cold-fire lightening stillness will be approached if the depth of each succeeding breath graduates toward the still-point in a perfect damped sine wave (each succeeding breath is about .618 depth of the preceding one.)
Tantra is a process where the gathered sweet "blue-fire" juices of eros/lovemaking, are permitted to sit gathered and rich at the base of the spine, before orgasm. This gives the root of the spine time to draw the sweetness upward to the top of the brain, nourishing the high end growth of the nervous system.

6. It is usually most helpful to consult a homeopath-naturopath, and a good bodyworker occasionally. It is very important that these critical services be provided by someone whom you relate to with genuine love and caring.

7. Notice when and where your body wants to sleep, and make a genuine attempt to honor your body's wishes. Prepare your sleeping space like you would a wedding bed. Bless it. If there is a magnetic rats nest crossing your bed, you WILL DIE prematurely. Electric blankets and water bed heaters are very bad news for living cells. Every electric dohickey within reach of your bed is wiping out magnetic bloodlines to your cells. GET RID OF THEM. Sleep on natural fibres and wood or best above live paramagnetic stone. The metal coils in your mattress are focusing magnetic holes into your body.
Do not permit any metal items or synthetic fibres to be part of what you wear or carry. This may sound hard, but try a couple days with natural fibres and no metal & then muscle test your body. For an example of body strength crash, just try your arm strength with vs. without your metal watch.. (one with a battery is particularly harmful to yor magnetic aura).

8. Ecstatic means waves of "Eck" approaching stasis/stillness. Approach the stillness gently. Do it exactly like a gradual musical chord which eventually helps the singer to reach another note higher or lower. You can easily try sacred circle dance by yourself, or with 1 or 2 gentle and reverent friends. (or use our Sacred Circle Dance Film). Try a little favor-ite music which is gentle in pace and which has in the past made you tingle just a little bit. Try stepping simply in a circle while focusing your vision on feelings of compassion. Permit your movement to become just a little bit hypnotic, while truly dedicating yourself to the love you feel radiating from your inner voice. Breath in the "round" (balanced in vs out times), in the nose, out the mouth. As you gently slow to stillness for a moment, also permit your breath to gently slow to stillness also for just a moment. Just before sunset is a good time for ecstatic process. Do you have a stone circle or natural or wood structure to do it in? Little or no wiring is best.

9. Always take every excuse to get out from under non full spectrum fluorescent light. Warm pink, and mercury vapor light are particularly bad. Ananda teaches the darkness retreat. Alternating with real daylight this can open up the light sensors to pick up subtle (aura like) waves in the brain. Strongly recommend this be combined with the "kiva", experience. This means you enter under-ground somewhere, particularly magnetically alive. You will find your aura washed and re-grounded to Mother Earth's information rich magnetic bloodstream.

10. In order to live the continually eck-static, continually in touch with the leverage of stillness, we must hear our genes whispering in our ears like lightening saying "your bliss is this way." Learn to follow inner urges and intuition like a phone line to miracles. The more relaxed and gentle you are feeling, the easier it will be to be totally intuitive.

11. As you become more aware of the need NOT to hold your breath, actively seek out quality braided AIR. Fans and cars and heavy metal fractionate AIR. Trees and hill and quiet and natural green braid air. Braided air feeds the soul and awareness. Fractionated air creates impatience, short attention span, and death. "Choose life" by choosing to live in the quiet by the trees! Walk barefoot on healthy quiet Earth, then put on synthetic shoes and walk on concrete in a noisy city. Imagine you were a living cell. Upon tasting the difference might you not quit and choose death if were stuck in the wrong place?

Here is what I do to maintain twinkle:

a) I avoid red meat & poultry (or, at least I choose the stuff not filled with
artificial hormones & antibiotics)
:cool: I avoid all dairy products (I use calcium supplements & get calcium from
kale, sesame, etc..) I observe immediate problems with mucous and colds
from dairy.
c) I choose only oils which are raw, and expeller pressed (usually require
refrigeration) olive and safflower are good. Most oils on the store shelf
are gasoline distilled and very dead and help others to die.
d) I choose LIVE Veggies, and fruit, (Radiation or microwave treated foods
are also death trying to happen inside us.)
e) I use WHOLE GRAINS!!!!! (Quinoa, amaranth, buckwheat, brown rice are
good) I avoid wheat... even whole wheat is still a genepool in pain from
monoculture: result mucous. Whole oats are wonderful. Fresh ground
whole oats & blended flax seed & good oil= great bread/pastry/pizza
crust. If you must grind and fractionate your grains and your memories,
can you do them fresh ground and coarsely ground? Here is my break
fast recipe, almond milk (&/or rice dream) and almond amazake, less
than boiled, add soaked whole &/or coarsely fresh ground oats, quinoa,
brown rice.
I usually add Earthnet green algae nutrition powder.. (very rich).
f) I undercook or consume raw. HEAT KILLS ORDER!!!! Microwave is
worst, electric heat 2nd worst, then gas, then wood.. heat in sequence of
life destroying ability.
g) I don't mix fruit and grain. I suggest study at least a summary of macro-
biotic principles... however I DO suggest quality steamed or broiled
seafood periodically. Recipe :nice fresh salmon, cover with some undi
luted frozen or fresh squeezed OJ, sprinkle with dill, and broil lightly-8 or
so minutes per side. Serve with wild rice or quinoa and lightly steamed
fresh beans or broccoli.. I drink little or nothing during meals, it dilutes
digestion and mineral absorption (I believe excess mineral deposits on
bones from body fluids-arthritis- is related to this dilution). I make a con-
scious effort to note how I feel during the hours after eating, to help me
choose food more wisely each day.
h) I never eat anything fried.
i) I never take any stimulants or pain "killers".. or alchohol. Caffeine strips
the body of it's own ecstatic juice making equipment.
f) I drink ONLY quality spring water (I like EVIAN< CRYSTAL Gyser,
Volvic etc...) I Never drink very hot or very cold anything. "Carbonated"
beverages dump only mind killing carbon dioxide to your brain... this
includes "Carbonated" waters. I avoid chlorine & fluorine waters like
they were slow death, because they are. Tell your water utility you want
flowform/reed-wetland/ozonated water, and not chlorine death. Store
your water in glass in a cool, dark, and paramagnetic space (away from
metal & synthetics as much as possible).
i) I avoid sugar in EVERY form.. RAW honey or chopped dates are useful
occasionally in small quantity.
h) If your food was not prepared by someone with love, you will be eating
and dreaming their impatience or anger!!!!!
j) Food should touch wood or glass.. Touching metal is bad, (it shorts the
field), touching aluminum in ANY form is a kind of electrical spin death
to food!! This means use glass cookware(& undercook!).
k) The daily supplements I use are: calcium, alfalfa, b-complex.. I recom-
mend some form of the blue-green algaes, I have found the complex of
products offered by EARTHNET particularly helpful, and more reason-
ably priced on the algae products. We can send you a little catalog from
Crystal Hill. Muscle testing is an excellent way to check your body for its
unique supplement needs.

- from "Nourished By Spin - The Twinkling Eyes Lifestyle" by Daniel Winter

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Re: Mind/Body Health 101 [Re: Middleman]
    #7061183 - 06/18/07 11:49 AM (16 years, 8 months ago)



III. Fasting

Fasting for long periods (many days) can be a difficult and even dangerous experience for many, especially for those living in stressful or polluted environments. Yet fasting is the only real natural way to cure or alleviate almost any ill. It's powerful, effective, quick (that's why it's called "fast"ing), and best of all - it's free. No need to go to the doctor, wait in line, or pay exorbitant fees for treatments that rarely solve your problem or often just make it worse.

Of course, some problems, such as a broken bone or serious injury may require medical help or assistance, but for most ailments or diseases, fasting is the answer. Your body is your own best doctor and is always trying to heal or regenerate itself - if you let it. That's just the problem; most of us are so ignorant about our bodies and so addicted to certain bad habits that we never really give it a chance to heal properly. Only through pain and discomfort (the body's danger signals) are we made to listen. And even then we do not always understand what it is our bodies are trying to tell us.

We just haven't been taught the truth -that there is a price to pay for our sins, errors, or indulgences, and that they have a cumulative effect. Rich, unnatural, or chemically-laden foods will play havoc with your body, as will stress, overwork, pollution, or dangerous chemicals. Constant exposure to these and other negativities will slowly but surely break you down until you become ill or even die. That is why it is important to give you and your body a break from the maddening world around us. This can be in the form of a long vacation, relaxing weekend, or a fast. Vacations, weekends, or days off do not always turn out to be restorative, but you can't go wrong with fasting.

Fasting is the oldest, simplest, and surest way to put your health and spirits back on track. Nothing else works like it. The idea of refraining from food or water for regenerative purposes sounds strange or even frightening to most Westerners, but this is exactly what the(true) doctor ordered. In Eastern countries such as India and the Middle East, fasting is common and encouraged, and we would do well to follow their example. While it is true that stress and pollution make fasting today more dangerous than fifty or sixty years ago, this only applies to the longer fasts of about a week or more. Shorter fasts of one, two, or three days, when done properly, are perfectly safe and beneficial.

The one-day fast seems to be the ideal for most, whether you are a novice or experienced faster. By fasting one day a week (no food whatsoever -water is optional) you are giving your body a much needed true rest and time to catch up on neglected repair or cleaning. Important note: fasting of any kind is not recommended if you are pregnant, infirmed, on medication, a child, or in any other abnormal circumstance that requires supervision. Also, it is best to fast in a clean and quiet environment.

For novices, the first fast can be a challenge, but every succeeding fast will be much easier. For myself, it has gotten to the point where fasting for twenty-four hours every now and then has become quite effortless and even a joy. This is because I am thoroughly familiar with it and can count on its efficacies or benefits, which are immediate, both during and after the fast.



Naturally, there will be some weight loss, discomfort, dizziness, and other withdrawal symptoms, especially for beginners, but this is all part of the body's way of cleansing and healing itself: excess fat or weight will be burned off and chemicals and other poisons will be released into the bloodstream for expulsion. Only diseased or worn out tissue is burned or expelled. The body is not stupid enough to consume its own healthy tissue. The sicker you are, the more will be thrown out or eliminated. This is why those with advanced diseases must be supervised, and require longer and more frequent fasts.

By fasting, what you are in effect doing, is marshaling all of the body's energy (much of which would normally go into digesting) and focusing it on whatever needs to be cleaned or repaired. Rest or the conservation of your energy is also important to your fast. Sleep in itself is a kind of enforced fast that allows us to recover from our days' activities.

Your first one-day fast may not cure you of a long-standing illness or ailment but it will certainly help. Frequent or repetitive one-day fasts (once or twice a week) will be much more effective. I used to suffer from arthritic pain in my shoulder due to a work accident and found out that the shorter fasts were more effective in healing and eliminating the pain than the longer fasts. The first one-day fast greatly diminished the pain, but it wasn't until the third or fourth fast that I felt completely pain free. In cases where the injury never healed properly the fast will back-track and the original pain or condition may resurface before the healing occurs.

One way fasting works is by shrinking or constriction. Your tissues and arteries constrict, loosening whatever garbage or material is stuck to its walls that is causing the problem. When you eat again, the tissues and vessels expand again and the material is forced out. Of course, if you wait long enough the body has its own (better) way of eliminating the waste. Also, during fasting, the blood thins as it expels its waste, and this is what causes the dizziness. This dizziness, however, goes away as the blood rebuilds or normalizes. Sitting before getting up from a lying position is recommended.

Fasting improves blood flow or circulation and the body's capacity to eliminate resulting in better overall health. One will feel more energetic and alert and be more resistant to all forms of disease or illness. It will even slow down the aging process which is little more than the accumulated effects of our bad habits or wrong ways of living.



One-day fasting will teach you control or discipline. It will greatly help you to break those bad habits or addictions that are destroying you and help you start to acquire new and positive ones. Nearly everything we do is habit or addiction, including eating and sex. We were not meant to be ruled by our stomachs or base desires. It is our lower carnal desires which enslave us and keep us bound to this material plane and which cause us to continually reincarnate. If we are to rise above our animal state to that of the angels or higher, we must begin by conquering our lower natures, and fasting is the key.

Fasting one day out of seven is not a huge sacrifice to make, especially when you consider the benefits or rewards. Begin your fast in the evening, right after your last meal. By the time you wake up, half the fast will already be over. Resume regular eating in the evening. The braver ones can extend it to thirty-six hours although I don't recommend this unless you've had previous experience or feel compelled to do so. Many people like to fast on their Sabbath day, reflecting the biblical or scriptural injunction to rest on the seventh day. The beauty of the one-day fast is that you do not have to slowly work your way in or out of it as in the longer fasts. Twenty-four to thirty-six hours is just long enough before the fasting process starts to get really serious.

Of course WHAT one eats is also important. Try to improve your diet with each succeeding fast. Learn to break those sugar and salt habits. Eat less junk food. Cut down on meat and dairy products, and try to grow or prepare your own food. Your taste buds may not like it, but your body will love you for it. Most people don't realize that the more stimulating a food is the more damage it will do. Endless additives and enhancers are increasingly adulterating our food, and our endless desire or addiction for more and more flavor or stimulus is quickly driving us to the grave.

Fasting helps re balance our unnatural cravings or desires by eliminating the chemicals or properties that cause them. Remember, your body is your friend and wants the best for you, but you must give it a chance to do its work, and fasting gives it that opportunity. Short-term fasting can also correct weight problems, energy imbalances, blood pressure, sleep disorders, depression and mood swings, nervousness, and just about every other ailment or disorder. It can also improve eyesight and hearing and the better functioning of your senses in general. I have often noticed being wittier and more quickly able to come up with solutions to problems during and after my fast. I am also amazed at how quickly and effortlessly I am able to drive my car while fasting - the concentration is perfect.



It's best to do your one-day fast privately or without much fanfare as most people are ignorant about fasting in general and will not understand and may even try to dissuade you from it. Society in general is still so ignorant on so many basic issues and until we wake up we will continue on the path to misery and destruction. This is partly due to our own lethargy and partly to our government and social leaders who are more interested in controlling us or putting us to sleep than they are in awakening or liberating us.

Once you are comfortable with the one-day fast and are convinced of its benefits, you can then cautiously go on to the longer and more powerful fasts, if that is your desire. By mastering the one-day fast you have taken an important step or foothold on the long and narrow road to regeneration.


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    #7087161 - 06/24/07 12:59 PM (16 years, 8 months ago)

I'm loving it!
Keep it coming!!:grin:

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    #7087182 - 06/24/07 01:12 PM (16 years, 8 months ago)

You should do a chapter on posture. :thumbup:


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    #7157003 - 07/10/07 04:08 PM (16 years, 8 months ago)

Altered...can you be my personal cook?

Free of charge of course :cool:


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    #7487827 - 10/05/07 09:51 AM (16 years, 5 months ago)

A Traveler's Concise Guide To The 4 Secrets Of Longevity
What, How & Where You Think, Eat, Act & Live Dramatically Affect Your Life Span

The First, MIND POWER

In Asia, it is called Ki or Chi - In the West, will or spirit, even life force - Whatever name you favor, its effect on your life is literally profound!

Negative thoughts shorten life.

Each of us has a unique genetic code (different from everyone else) which is our "program" for life (& death) - But the mind is an incredibly powerful tool - For example, a healthy person who genuinely believes themselves ill (or old, or without hope) will, in a surprisingly short time actually develop symptoms of that situation - & seeing such evidence of decline, will spiral ever deeper down.

Positive thoughts extend life.

Therefore, fellow passenger, through time - Make use of this amazing & proven adaptability of life - EXTEND YOUR HEALTH & HAPPINESS.

Immunity Drains:

DON'T be a sacrificial goat for others.
DON'T live in the past (plan for the future).
DON'T be elitist (tolerate differences).
DON'T hold grudges/anger (let it go).
DON'T be bullied (action defeats fear).
DON'T be a 100% perfectionist.
DON'T keep sorrow (cry & let go).
DON'T worry (do something).
DON'T overwork (designate).
DON'T take criticisms to heart.
DON'T be obsessively neat.
DON'T ever get depressed.

Immunity Boosts:

DO always have an exciting future goal.
DO love & be loved (in family or group).
DO have mental/actual security (on any income).
DO be confident & pleasantly self-assertive.
DO be an individual (dare to be different).
DO practice prompt decision making.
DO stay calm inside during conflict.
DO relax/have fun without guilt.
DO practice healing visualization.
DO ask for help unashamedly.
DO develop quiet self-esteem.
DO be an outrageous optimist.

The Second, PLACE POWER

Environment has a massive effect on our immunity level - Which with widely snowballing permeation of our "modern" world from chemical, radiated & other pollutants devastate our health & shorten our lives by huge proportions - Is it any wonder that toxin-related diseases such as cancer & birth defects are so feared today?

Horrifyingly simple examples of how we daily deplete immunity are
- Plastic covers/bags, furniture, foam etc. emit allergenic formaldehyde gas - Microwave exposure can cause cancer &/or birth defects - Professional painters have a 40% higher risk of lung cancer than average - Over 50% (& rising) of all food, water (including rain) & air in our world is now polluted by varying amounts of pesticides/chemicals/heavy metals.

DON'T

DON'T live near factories.
DON'T live in big cities.
DON'T work in heavy industry/construction.
DON'T live near a tip.
DON'T live anywhere near nuclear power stations.
DON'T live/work near pylons/transformers etc.
DON'T live near/work with granite rock (Radon).
DON'T live/work near intensive farming (pesticide vapors).
DON'T have anything to do with asbestos (on roofs, round pipes).
DON'T use fly sprays (swat).
DON'T use cosmetics/soaps with harmful chemicals.
DON'T live/work around formaldehyde plastics (packing/cavity walls).

DO

DO heat with central (not in room) fuel burning.
DO avoid breathing in paint/thinner vapors.
DO avoid using garden chemicals/weed killers.
DO avoid exercise in polluted/dusty air.
DO place your bed away from sockets/appliances.
DO avoid wearing dry cleaned clothes (solvents).
DO avoid regular long city commuting journeys.
DO clean home etc. with vinegar/baking soda etc.
DO try to sleep with window open (oxygen).
DO avoid smoky rooms/bars & people.
DO use air-conditioned transport in cities.
DO avoid D.I.Y dusts/glues/solvents etc.

The Third, FOOD POWER

What you eat strengthens or weakens immunity.
30+% of cancers originate from diets/drinks.

Food Plan

50-70% cooked whole organic grains
20-30% raw/lightly cooked fresh vegetables
5-15% local fruit
5-15% white sea fish, poultry, organic eggs
5-10% vegetable soup/juice
0-5% low fat dairy

extras: RNA/DNA, Zinc, Selenium, Royal Jelly, Dolomite, Lecithin, Spirulina, Chlorella.

Vitamin Plan
adults & time-release

High pot. multivitamin & chel. minerals breakfast & dinner.
Vitamin A: 20-30,000 IU total (incl. above) 6 days/week.
Super Vit. B Complex at lunch & bedtime.
Vitamin C with bioflavs, 4-16g spread over all daytime.
if taking large amounts, supplement with magnesium to prevent kidney stones.
Vitamin E: build up to 1,000 IU spread over all daytime.

DON'T

DON'T cook with heavy fat/oil (free radicals).
DON'T eat any refined/processed foods.
DON'T eat red meat or fat content dairy foods.
DON'T eat sugar/canned/smoked foods.
DON'T cook in microwave/aluminum/teflon.
DON'T eat a lot or animal protein after lunch.
DON'T drink coffee/sugar/fruit drinks.
DON'T eat very cold or spicy food.
DON'T eat if stressed or fevered.
DON'T eat too much raw food.
DON'T drink at/or close to meals.
DON'T drink tap water.

DO

DO chew food well & digest without haste.
DO cook in glass or stainless steel.
DO drink/use herb teas selectively.
DO seek out organic/additive free foods.
DO cook food lightly & serve it warm.
DO identify & remove allergens from diet.
DO promote appetite with exercise.
DO study Yin/Yang (macrobiotics).
DO eat & drink in moderation.
DO study food combining.
DO avoid protein/starch together.
DO vary diet from day to day.

The Forth, ACTION POWER

DO chart progress to goals.
DO take up yoga/tai chi.
DO work to a schedule.
DO laugh a lot.
DO enjoy music.
DO think young/well/happy/expectant.
DO be very creative.
DO listen to your body.
DO find a friend to talk out problems with.
DO make a change for the better now, not later.
DO avoid crossing arms/legs (inhibits Ki flow).
DO avoid taking drugs unnecessarily.

DO sleep at set times.
DO stretch/flexibility exercises 6 days/week.
DO enjoy sex with one longterm partner.
DO avoid TV/PC/Radar/microwave radiation.
DO strength/weight exercises 3-5 days/week.
DO aerobic/heart exercises 3-5 days/week.
DO be adventurous in experiencing life.
DO avoid more than 1 glass of wine 3 days/week.
DO deep breathing exercises 6 days/week.

Immunity/Longevity Herbs
(study & alternate usage monthly)

Bee pollen, Ginseng, Gingko biloba, Gotu kola, Garlic, Licorice, Alfalfa, Don quai, Burdock, Fenugreek, Golden seal, Cats claw, Damiana, Sarsaparilla, Echinacca, Astragalus, Guarana, Shiitake, False unicorn, Reishi.

excerpted from The Art of Shen Ku


Disclaimer: Take what you need, apply what is useful.

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    #7765632 - 12/16/07 01:45 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony.
In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity."

Albert Einstein




Raw Foods

Scientists and doctors are now emphasizing the importance of fresh, raw foods in our diet due to the loss of essential vitamins, enzymes, friendly bacteria, and other food factors caused by cooking. Modern scientific medicine is finally catching up with traditional wisdom and helping us prevent the diseases caused by the Standard American Diet (appropriately known as the "SAD" diet).

The core philosophy of the raw food movement revolves around the idea that enzymes, the catalysts needed to aid digestion and nutrient absorption, are destroyed at temperatures around 118°F (some say 108°F). Without these food enzymes, our bodies have to work harder to digest and assimilate the foods we consume. Enzyme-rich foods help provide our bodies with a more viable and efficient energy source. Raw foods rapidly digest in our stomach and begin to provide energy and nutrition at a quick rate.

Consuming cooked food, either alone or before raw food, can cause a condition called leukocytosis, an increase in white blood cells. Your body may respond to cooked food as if it were a foreign bacteria or a diseased cell, which causes your immune system to waste energy on defending you. By eating only raw food or eating raw food prior to eating cooked food, you can prevent leukocytosis.

While the body also produces enzymes, some researchers believe that only finite amounts of them are available over the course of a lifetime. They theorize that as the enzyme supply dwindles, the body ages more quickly, has less ability to fight disease, and essentially runs out of energy. Because raw food is in its original, natural form, it is more wholesome, assimilative, and digestible. Food  eaten raw puts very little stress on the body's systems. Gabriel Cousens, M.D., recommends raw foods for many reasons, including their alkalinity, their high enzyme levels, and their ability to improve circulation. He says, "Live cell analysis experimentation has shown that within ten minutes after ingesting enzymes, red blood cells become unclumped. Something is happening in the blood after the enzymes are ingested that suggests the enzymes are effective in the blood." In other words, the live enzymes in raw foods have a healing effect on the body.

Remember, raw doesn't necessarily mean cold. Foods may be warmed to well above body temperature and still maintain their life force. A good rule of thumb is: If you stick your finger in it, it should feel warm - not hot.

In his popular book, Alkalize or Die, author Dr. Theodore A. Baroody writes about the importance of a lifestyle that supports alkalinity. When foods are eaten, they are broken down into small components and delivered to each and every cell in the body. These nutrients are burned with oxygen in a slow, controlled manner to supply the necessary energy for us to function. After oxidation, the cells excrete waste products.

The digestion of foods, all foods, healthful or unhealthful, results in waste products. The difference between healthful food and unhealthful food is the amount and kind of wastes produced: acid or alkaline. Human cells die in about four weeks: Some regenerate and some are destroyed. Dead cells are waste products. All waste products need to be discarded from the body, mostly through urine and perspiration. Most of these wastes are acidic; therefore, when we excrete them, our urine is acidic and our so is our skin.

Most of us overwork, stay up late, get up early, and stress ourselves to the limit without giving ourselves time to rest. Most people like to eat meat and refined grains and enjoy colas and other soft drinks, which are all highly acidic foods and drinks. Furthermore, the polluted environment kills our healthy cells, thus producing more acidic wastes. This means that we cannot get rid of 100% of the acidic wastes that we make daily, and these leftover wastes are stored somewhere within our bodies.

Since our blood and cellular fluids must be slightly alkaline to sustain life, the body converts liquid acidic wastes into solid wastes. Solidification of liquid acid wastes is the body's defense mechanism to survive. Some of these acid wastes include cholesterol, fatty acid, uric acid, kidney stones, phosphates, sulfates, urates, and gallstones; and they accumulate in many places throughout the body.

One of the biggest problems caused by the buildup of acidic wastes is the fact that acid coagulates blood. When blood becomes thicker, it clogs up the capillaries, which is why so many adult diseases require blood thinners as part of their treatment. It is commonly known that degenerative diseases are caused by poor blood circulation. Where there is an accumulation of acidic wastes, and the local capillaries are clogged, any organ in that area will be deprived of an adequate blood supply, which can eventually lead to dysfunction of that organ.

Doctors have found that more than 150 degenerative diseases are associated with acidity, including cancer, diabetes, arthritis, heart disease, and gall and kidney stones. All diseases thrive in an acidic, oxygen-poor environment.

The symbol pH (power of hydrogen) is a measurement of how acidic or alkaline a substance is. The pH scale goes from 1-14. For example, a reading of 1 pH would be acidic, a reading of 7pH would be neutral, and a reading of 14 pH would be alkaline.

Mushroom growers know this. :mushroom2:

Keep in mind that a drop in every point on the pH scale is 10 times more acid (that is, from 7 to 6 is 10 times, from 7 to 5 it is 100 times, etc.). From 7 to 2 is 100,000 times more acidic! And sodas are in the acidic range of 2 pH. Over the long term, the effects of sodas are devastating to the body. Acidity, sugars, and artificial sweeteners can shorten your life. In fact, it takes 32 glasses of alkaline water at a pH of 9 to neutralize the acid from one 12 oz. cola or soda. When you drink sodas, the body uses up reserves of its own stored alkaline buffers - mainly calcium from the bones and DNA - to raise the body's alkalinity levels, especially to maintain proper blood-alkaline pH levels. Acidic blood levels can cause death, which is why it is beneficial to have an alkaline (7.1-7.5) pH level.

Most of the degenerative diseases we call "old-age diseases," like memory loss, osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, and hypertension, are actually lifestyle diseases caused by acidosis, an overall poor diet (especially a lack of leafy green vegetables), improper digestion, and too much stress.

So how can you alkalize your body? Baroody suggests following an 80%/20% dietary rule. Choose 80% alkaline-forming foods and drinks and 20% acid-forming foods and drinks for vibrant health. In a nutshell, most fruits and vegetables are alkaline and most other foods, including meat, dairy, fish, fowl, grains, seeds, and nuts are acid-forming. He recommends that we build up to eating a diet of 75% fresh and raw plant-based foods and 25% cooked foods. He encourages the daily practice of meditation, deep breathing, exercise, deep sleep, and positive thinking - all of which increase alkalinity.

One of the quickest and best ways to improve health and increase alkalinity is to make fresh vegetable juice every day. Chlorophyll, which gives green vegetables their color, builds the blood and powerfully alkalizes the system.

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    #7800112 - 12/26/07 04:49 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

(this method is NOT for first time schizophrenia oncomings)

(this method is for long time depressent recovered but sick)



There is one FAST fix to a suicidal.
Its called INSTINCT.SuRIvaL Do not overlook our GOD given TOOLS.
BE RADICAL.
SHOW THEM ANGER
AND FURY
AND PASSION
RAGING AMBITION
SHOW THEM HOW PATHETIC IT IS TO SIT THERE CRYING CONTEMPLATING SLICING UP A WRIST TAKE THEIR PICTURE
OUR ANIMILISTIC TRAIT
RAGE
RAGE
RAGE
FIGHT THEM PHYSICALLY BUST THEM OUT OF THEIR MIND THEY HAVE TO MUCH BOTTLED UP DONT STEW THE POT DESTROY IT-
(if you clearly overpower them u have to let them win u have to take punches and it needs to seem real dont kill your friend lol)

ONE ANIMAL THE ONLY ANIMAL CAPABLE OF A APPAULING FEAT SUCH AS SUICIDE. AND ITS HUMANS. DONT FORGET YOU ARE AN ANIMAL-




SUICIDAL-ROOT-
MASONRYS DEFININITION-

YOU LIVE IN YOUR HEAD TO MUCH
TIME TO GET PISSED-
TRIGGER IT YOUR -SURVIVAL-

in·stinct2 /ɪnˈstɪŋkt/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[in-stingkt] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective
1. filled or infused with some animating principle (usually fol. by with): instinct with life.
2. Obsolete. animated by some inner force.




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    #7802878 - 12/27/07 03:38 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Reading my post i devolped a concern.
DONT GIVE THEM A GUN AND TELL TO THEM DO IT

Its tricky a bit
Some Phrases to help.

FUCKING LIVE
ENVIGORATION CAN YOU FEEL IT


Dont expect it fast.
Dont ask them in questions they will answer
Dont just sit there insulting them
Dont walk up and start punching them in the face


BE POWERFULLY SUGGESTIVE TO THEIR PRIMAL FORCES
Hire someone to create a scenario' that would appeal to the survival trigger.


Their eyes youll see them change, when it comes out.
BEWARE
They are NOT dead----just buried.




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    #8196639 - 03/26/08 01:41 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)



an informative and easy to understand presentation on the basic significance of alkaline PH and ionized water for true health and well-being. :sun:


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    #8200686 - 03/27/08 09:58 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Quote:

Lion said:
I like to stay away from eggs but I have no logical reason for this other than that the yokes are high cholesterol.




Your local grocer probably sells egg whites by the carton. These are what I eat. They are nothing but pure protein. No fat, no cholesterol, wow! I highly recommend.

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    #8210458 - 03/29/08 01:54 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Great thread :thumbup:


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    #8603647 - 07/07/08 10:24 AM (15 years, 8 months ago)

Time for a proper update. :wink:



Fruits are not everything - but without them everything is nothing.

Fruits symbolize the gifts that mother Earth gives us. In all mythologies, the fruit was the favorite food of the gods. Practitioners of yoga see them as the food that "paves the path to inner and outer cleansing." Even our most conservative medicine men admit that nearly nothing strengthens the body's defenses more than regular fruit fasts.

In the bible, and in all other famous religious works, one can find many references to fruits. In fairy tales they also play an important role as the "Fruit of Good" and the "Fruit of Evil."

Why exactly do fruits carry this clearly thousand year old symbolism? U.S. Psychologist Barbara Walker explains: Because in the past, numerous people almost never had enough to eat, so that the sweet fruits came to symbolize their wishes for nutritional satisfaction. Today, eating fruits has become a kind of icon for the healthy lifestyle. It is the idea that one could only remain completely healthy with a daily consumption of a variety of fresh fruits. As idealistic as this statement may seem, there is quite some truth to be recognized here.

:clementine: :clementine: :clementine:

Few calories, no cholesterol.

Let's first praise the many benefits:

- Fruits are one of our most beautiful and healthiest nutriments. When it comes to taste, almost nothing beats the flavor of a ripe, juicy apple, a sweet banana, a sun kissed grape, or a peach that just overflows with heavenly aroma. :heart:

- With fruits there is no problem concerning the calories, and no cholesterol problem because they contain little protein and fat (with exception of the avocado). However even their few proteins are valuable, because they relieve the liver and kidneys from other uric acid forming proteins. :peace:

- Fruits are very rich in carbohydrates, but because their natural sugars barely require any digestion and are simply "injected" into the blood stream, fruits are always welcomed wherever quick energy and performance is called for, whether it be physically or mentally. :mushroom2:

- Fruits deliver us plenty of fiber, which is why these foods happen to assist our digestive process so well. It is true that 200g wholegrain contains about 3x more fibers than 200g of fruit, but it is only the fruit fiber that contains extra helpful bioactive substances such as flavonoids, phenolic acids, terpenes, and carotenoids. Noteworthy at this point however is pectin, a substance more commonly found in the skin of apples, in quinces, bananas, carrots, blackcurrants, strawberries, raspberries, and also in medlars.

What's so great about pectin is that it especially benefits heart and intestinal functions! In World War I, experienced military doctors healed people suffering from dysentery. They discovered that pectin powerfully detoxifies the intestinal tract. Since then so-called "Pectin Days" are called for during troublesome cases of diarrhea. U.S. professor Ancel Keys advised in 1961, that the best way to prevent arteriosclerosis and heart attack is to eat two or three apples daily because its pectin (15g per day recommended) is enough to sufficiently sink cholesterol levels in the blood. Latest studies confirm this effect. :shineon:

- Fruits are excellent sources of vitamins A, B, C, and essential minerals which assist our entire metabolism, all digestive organs, the blood circulation, the lymphatic system, the nervous system, and the brain. The fruits contain a valuable balance of calcium, magnesium, and phosphorus (which we need for strong bones and teeth as well as for the smooth functioning of the circulatory and nervous system) along with rare trace elements such as chromium, cobalt, manganese, iodine, fluorine, and selenium. Their favorable proportions of sodium and potassium are also worth mentioning (water regulation and heart support).

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- Above all fruits contain many of the still mysterious bioflavanoids which continually turn out to be a subject of heightened interest. They are those yellow, red, and blue plant pigments that have been found to help against blood clotting, infections, and allergies, and that to an extent also have hormonal properties similar to cortisone. The flavonoids were discovered by Hungarian biochemist Albert Szent-Györgyi, who received the nobel prize in medicine in 1937. Flavonoids have long been underestimated since their discovery and research is today still far from completed.

Bioflavonoids are what gives flowers, leaves, and of course all fruits and vegetables their radiant colors. Over 500 different types have been defined. Their active substances, for example quercetin, citrine, rutin, hesperidin, appear in all plant nutriments that are known to be healthy for us. Hopefully in some years they will play a significant role in the healing of heart ailments, stroke, and cancer cases in the mainstream medical establishment.

So far in the U.S. "Nutrition Almanac" there are already countless pages of scientific accounts documenting the benefits of flavonoids. They are shown to treat radiation damage, vein infections, hemorrhoids, menstruation problems, rheumatisms, ulcers, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol levels. Most of all they strengthen the immune system and act as a detoxifier against mold, viruses, and harmful bacteria. For example it is said that they can neutralize the cancer encouraging mycotoxin Aflatoxin.

The reason for all these phenomenal effects: Bioflavonoids are potent antioxidants, and namely always in combination with vitamin C. Their intimate connection with ascorbic acid is required because the vitamin is very easily absorbed by the body. Only that way are the flavonoids able to reach out deep into the cellular structures. Along with vitamin C, the flavonoids strengthen the capillaries and protect the cell walls from the invasion of destructive free radicals. A deficiency of bioflavonoids (and vitamin C) expresses itself for example in the form of rheumatism and arthritis.

When you contemplate that our capillaries, the finest hair thin blood vessels, are responsible for the provision of the whole supply of nutrients, liquids, and oxygen, as well as for the removal of all metabolic waste, and that the entire capillary web of a human being (when stretched out on a line) is over 100,000 kilometers long, or could be wrapped around the Earth two and a half times, then one needs little imagination to picture just how important the capillary protecting flavonoids are for our bio-organism. :earth:

These treasures can all be found in high amounts in blackcurrants, rose hips, plums, blueberries, raspberries, elderberries, blackberries, cherries, yellow plums, red grapes, and in the citrus fruits.

- Last but not least, fruits deliver us many fruit acids that not only refresh us and quench our thirst, but even more so stimulate the digestive juices, revive the circulatory system, and help to disinfect. Take warm lemon juice for instance when you have a cold or the flu. The acids hold vitamin C and B1 very well.

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Final Tips

Eat fruit solo or before a meal.

Let us take nature as a role model.
Here we find acids and sugars in combination, like in oranges, pineapples, and grapefruits. That is good.
We find starch and proteins together in whole grains and vegetables. That is also good.
Just as well do we find proteins and fats matched together in nuts, seeds, or milk.

But nowhere in nature do we ever find the harmful combination of acids and starches in ripe fruits - only in green hard apples, and green peaches. And these fruits don't taste good at all.

So if you happen to find yourself with stomach aches, then check to see if you are eating raw fruits, even more sour fruits, on a full stomach and after heavy meals. In contrast to hamburgers and French fries, fruits are the authentic fast food. They speed through the stomach and from there are sent directly to the intestines where the nutrients are quickly absorbed. Now if you eat fruits at the end of a heavy meal, then what happens is that your dinner, since it takes longer to pass through the stomach, blocks the path for the fruits, then there's a huge mess, the intestinal tract gets confronted with this fruity starch mix and in the end the digestive system becomes irritated. This same drama plays itself out when you drink large amounts of orange, lemon, or apple juice during a meal.

So again, it is better not to combine raw fruits and fruit juices with a main course meal, even if it's only vegetables (with exception of celery, carrots, red beets, and salads. They get along with fruits). Certainly a little bit of fruit during or right after a meal isn't going to end in a catastrophe, but larger amounts may just happen to break the dam. Use your food sense.
And another common rule is: Eat the juicy and sour fruits first. They are cleansing. Wait 20 minutes, then eat the more concentrated and nourishing fruits such as bananas and avocado.

Fruit fasts are cleansing.

To lose weight, or for detoxification, a 24 hour fruit fast is very beneficial. Take about three pounds of ripe fruits, divide them in five or six portions, and eat them over the course of the day. Chew well. No avocados, no dried fruits, also few bananas, grapes, or sweet cherries if possible. Drink calorie and caffeine free herbal teas for plenty of liquids and use only warm water.

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    #9222539 - 11/11/08 03:23 AM (15 years, 4 months ago)

green drinks such as greens plus are great

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    #9698795 - 01/29/09 07:17 AM (15 years, 1 month ago)

So I thought I'd bump this thread with two book recommendations. On my quest for health there's been some difficulty in discovering new information regarding unrefined whole foods, optimal sources of nutrition, and recipes. I've always had to look in different places for it, read a myriad of books, surf the net for websites, still not feeling like I am getting the complete picture of what is available out there. This hurdle has now been overcome since I've stumbled across these two books:



Healing With Whole Foods by Paul Pitchford

This book is a 753 page reference volume packed with the essential information for becoming skillful in healing through diet. It does not promote any specific way of eating, but actually encourages the reader to discover his own path to health by teaching practical applications of traditional Chinese medicine fused with the modern scientific knowledge of nutrition. Containing facts about nearly every aspect of food and healthy nutrition, it is the most detailed sourcebook I have ever come across. And it's loaded with recipes as well. :smile:



The Dictionary Of Wholesome Foods by Embree De Persiis Vona, Anstice Carroll, and Gianna de Persiis Vona.

This rather smaller 240 page dictionary is a nice and simple A-Z guide, another valuable addition to the food reference shelf. It provides practical guidance on how to make sense of the burgeoning selection of healthful foods, herbs and supplements, and provides a concise understanding of the sources, characteristics, benefits, and uses of health foods. This is the perfect shopping companion or armchair read; sure to delight information seekers and food writing enthusiasts alike. Also includes recipes that require no fancy ingredients.

Both books have been worth every penny for me and are proving invaluable to my home kitchen. :mushroom2::mushroom2::mushroom2::mushroom2::mushroom2:


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    #9705897 - 01/30/09 02:11 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

Thanks, I'll check those out.

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    #11451061 - 11/13/09 10:11 PM (14 years, 4 months ago)

Haven't updated this thread in a while so today I would like to share some of the movements I have been making in regards to good diet. Being in the standpoint of having a sensitive stomach and intestinal system, I've recently found myself adjusting back into a way of eating that empowers me physically, mentally, and emotionally.

I have little money, but I am able to do buy the healthiest foods in the world for about $30 - $40 at the produce shop, where I go once per week. This is luckily due to a locally owned market that has much to offer.

My primary nourishment is the blended green smoothie. My blender is one of the few gadgets I would never move out of the house without. Best prepared upon waking, a harmonious mixture will set the foundation of energy I need for the day.

Here's what it contains (experiments are ongoing):



Pineapple is my base, for flavor and liquid. Its enzyme bromelin increases digestive ability and the fruit is thirst-quenching also. Then I prepare the greens,



Kale. Benefits the stomach. Is an exceptional source of chlorophyll, calcium, iron, and vitamin A. This has been my favorite green for quite some time. I use a bunch of it.



Collard Greens. These are becoming a favorite as well. Makes me feel like a real herbivore when I pick their big leaves. Much like



parsely,



dandelion greens,



swiss chard, kale, and other greens which I still look forward to trying, they are treasure coves of vitamins and minerals, an exceptional promoter of the growth of beneficial intestinal flora, and provider of chlorophyll, a key green phytonutrient made from light!

I'll drink these smoothies and never regret the meal. Over time I even found my laziness to prepare the food, to wash and cut it, is diminishing, as I learn more that the reward is undeniable.

It's fun to mix and match different fruits for added nutritional source or to just get to know how they make you feel. I always tend to keep the ratio of greens very high as I've discovered that with the right balance of sweet fruits, you can still use a lot more greens than you would usually estimate and the flavor remains deliciously pleasant. I drink out of a 1 liter German beer mug as I make one full blender my meal.

Apples



and bananas



are often my fast food to go, something I can eat on whim, or on my way home from work. :smile:

I eat raw walnuts and almonds, only when I have a nutcracker around. If I need serious calories for weight lifting I cook brown rice and couscous with garlic, or mushrooms.

These are just some of the things I've been incorporating more and more lately. I feel that my health is paramount as is my choice of foods. I consume meat rarely, but I still eat it. I aim to eliminate it entirely one day. It is incredible how many vegetational crops don't even reach another human being. Most is grown for livestock food and biofuels about 50% of it I hear. If this is true then world hunger is completely solvable without mass meat production.

Last is water. Lots and lots of water, but not right before or immediately after a meal. When I'm at home, I always brew a tea, right now it's a bag of green tea and a bag of ginkgo biloba in a 1 quart jar. Today I just picked up a ginger royal jelly extract that comes in little glass vials which I mix with the tea.

Overall, I feel like I'm vibrating on a higher frequency than what I know. 4 good weeks into this already, results are definitely showing along with the gains of exercise. Hunger is more of a need than a desire now. If I eat the occasional luxury food, my favorite being pizza, I eat until first sign of satiation. I won't eat until full.

This is just some of my personal accounts so far relating to my own Mind/Body 101.

If not inspiration, hopefully I could leave some pieces of useful knowledge! :smile:

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    #11453268 - 11/14/09 11:22 AM (14 years, 4 months ago)

you would like my smoothies

barleygrass, wheatgrass, alfalfa, sprulina, powders
I buy a lb of each and mix them together
they are organic and come from a really great supplier
I use the blended powder in pills and smoothies
the smoothies go something like this....

3 REALLY big scoops of the superfood pwdr
certain combinations of frozen berries, mangos, peaches, cherries
ripe banana
raw cacao powder
dash of cinnamon and/or cardamom
additive free whey protein pwder
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    #11453300 - 11/14/09 11:29 AM (14 years, 4 months ago)

right on :cool: sounds like i'd love them

since my money is tight at the moment i'm still waiting to buy bulk powder of algae and grasses. but not for long. :sun:

i like your addition of peaches and cherries. sounds like it would go really well with parsley too.

i use cinnamon for pears. makes them taste amazing.

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    #11470969 - 11/16/09 11:02 PM (14 years, 4 months ago)

Great stuff here, I think I'm gonna try fasting sometime this week now.  I've never done it... at least not intentionally.  I'll let you know how it goes.


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    #12056079 - 02/18/10 06:59 PM (14 years, 1 month ago)

I just reread this entire thread again from start to finish. Was my third time through I believe, but I'm always game for a refresher course(especially one as beneficial as this).

Anyways, thought I'd bump this to the top, and say thanks to everyone who contributed. Shine on :sun:

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    #12136735 - 03/03/10 06:26 PM (14 years, 19 days ago)

awesome thread, thanks!


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    #12150705 - 03/05/10 08:20 PM (14 years, 17 days ago)

A fantastic presentation by a medical doctor who explains why human beings are not carnivores. A striking comparison of a meat and plant based diet that will open your eyes to the reality of natural health that arises from eating whole foods. :thumbup: :earth:



It's a 6 part video so give yourself about an hour for this. :peace:



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    #12152110 - 03/06/10 02:12 AM (14 years, 16 days ago)

Great thread - i am going to buy some Kale to add to my smoothie tomorrow!


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    #12954018 - 07/26/10 03:17 AM (13 years, 7 months ago)



I hope some of you, like me, who shake their heads at those "got milk?" AMP ads, will enjoy the above. :smile:

Maybe I'll get another update in here soon.

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    #12954190 - 07/26/10 05:22 AM (13 years, 7 months ago)

AlteredAgain, In one of your posts you praised fruit for not having cholesterol - do you know what cholesterol is? Please, give it a shot, tell me why it's bad for you while you're at it, you seem pretty passionate about it in your posts.


why do you post about things you don't really understand? At best, you come off as a douche to those who actually know something about what you post, at worse, you spread misinformation to those who don't know anything about what you post.

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    #12954205 - 07/26/10 05:35 AM (13 years, 7 months ago)

Do quote where I said that fruits have no cholesterol so I know what you're referring to..

I'm sorry if you're not getting much out of this thread. It isn't meant to be a scientific journal or anything of that sort. It's a general guide. If you spot any misinformation I'm open to hear about it.


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    #13049495 - 08/14/10 05:29 AM (13 years, 7 months ago)

Breasts, Broccoli, and Cancer



Breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer in the World today. More than 1.1 million women each year are diagnosed with breast cancer and over 200,000 of these women are Americans. These statistics are frightening especially in light of the fact that we are increasingly being told that genetics play such a major role in the development of cancer. The result is that most women feel helpless – as if getting cancer is as likely to happen as getting the flu.

Fortunately, we are coming to understand that influences other than genetics are far more important in the development of cancer and can even override genetic “tendencies.” In January of 2008, the National Institute of Health announced that it would invest over $190 million during the subsequent five years into researching epigenetics. Epigenetic processes determine how a gene will be expressed and therefore control growth and development.

What Does This Have To Do With Broccoli?

Epigenetic refers to the fact that it is the environment of the cell that determines which genes will be turned on and which genes will be turned off. Clearly, if all of the 30,000 to 35,000 genes in our cells were turned on simultaneously, we would not only be totally dysfunctional and unable to sustain life, but we would not even look human. So, it is not the genetic code that influences health and disease but rather the delicate coordination of these genes turning on and off. It is this symphonic interplay of gene expression, which results in the unique complexity of every individual. Even identical twins change differently over time when exposed to different environments.

What determines the environment of a cell? Diet and environmental conditions!

Researchers have also come to understand that epigenetic changes can be passed on from generation to generation. So, what you eat and how you live can actually influence how your grandchildren will fare when they are born. This “inheritance” is far more important than any amount of money or property that one could or would leave.

Let Health Be Your Legacy

There are over 300 case-controlled studies that clearly demonstrate that eating vegetables (more specifically vegetables that are in the genus of plants known as Brassica, and more specifically, broccoli) protects against the development of cancer. Other vegetables in this category include cabbage, watercress, kale, brussels sprouts, cauliflower, kohlrabi, and many others including Peruvian maca and mustards.

As the number of servings per month go up, the odds ratio of developing cancer drops significantly. For example, the odds ratio for breast cancer when five or more servings per week are eaten is 0.58, which is almost a 50% reduction in risk!

Although researchers at the University of California at Berkeley discovered that DIM in Brassica vegetables is a powerful modulator of the immune system resulting in potent anti-viral, anti-bacterial, and anti-cancer activity, it is Dr. Jed Fahey who has been at the forefront in this explosive area of research.

Dr. Fahey is a Faculty Research Associate in the Department of Pharmacology, Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a plant physiologist who manages Johns Hopkins University's Brassica Chemoprotection Laboratory. Much of the fruit of his work has been in developing cruciferous (Brassica) plants as chemoprotective agents.

This information is becoming critically important and supremely relevant today, since the World Health Organization (WHO) announced last year that by 2010, cancer would become the leading cause of death worldwide. The Multinational Brassica Genome Project (MBGP) and much of the research in this area can be found at http://www.brassica.info/.

Brassica Vegetables Kill Cancer

Researchers in Italy published in the June 2005 issue of the Journal of Nutrition that when they mixed cauliflower juice with breast cancer cells, not only did the cancerous cells stop growing, but at higher doses they were actually killed (they exploded), and not by the usual mechanism known as apoptosis. Furthermore, normal cells were not affected because, for some unknown reason, cauliflower has a preference for breast cancer cells over other mammalian cell lines. Even more remarkable is that this same effect was seen in both estrogen-receptor ER (+) and ER (–) cells. There is an obvious implication here that not only are these vegetables protective regarding the development of breast cancer, but they may even be useful in treating cancer once it has arisen.

It is not estrogen that is the problem in breast and other cancers, it is what the liver does with the estrogen – the metabolites. The cytochrome 1B1 enzymes in the liver are stimulated by cigarette smoke, charbroiling of flesh foods, the burning of different fuels (e.g., gasoline and coal), as well as many other environmental toxins. These enzymes, in turn, convert estrogen into 4-OH-estrone (E1), a potent genotoxic (cancer producing) substance. On the other hand, 2-OH-E1 is a “good” estrogen metabolite that is produced by the cytochrome 1A1 enzymes of the liver stimulated by broccoli and its Brassica cousins. One can easily measure the ratio of the 2-OH E1 to the 16-alpha-OH E1 in the urine over time (24 hours). If the ratio is low, the risk for breast cancer is increased; and, if high, the risk is reduced. In fact, one pound of broccoli per day (approximately 500 grams) shifts the ratio significantly. For every 10 grams of broccoli consumed per day, there is an increase in the ratio of 0.8. Therefore, the recommended amount to be consumed for different individuals can be calculated readily, once these results have been obtained. The conclusion drawn by a respected cancer journal is that broccoli is an effective and acceptable strategy to prevent breast cancer.

Brassica Vegetables Are Detoxifiers

In addition to the metabolism of estrogens, the Brassica plants stimulate certain enzymes in the liver to enhance detoxification, which is of considerable import since we swim in a sea of carcinogenic toxins.

The liver utilizes two mechanisms to remove toxins, referred to as Phase I and Phase II detoxification. In Phase I, liver enzymes modify toxic substances in order to make them recognizable to Phase II enzymes. In Phase II, a different set of enzymes convert these modified toxins into more water-soluble forms, which can then eliminated through the urine or the feces.

The compounds in Brassica plants that make them bitter and give them a strong and sometimes disagreeable odor are actually the active, anti-cancer components. They function as the defense system of the plant, sort of like its “immune system.” They are known as phytoalexins. These substances are actually modified and used by the agriculture industry to develop pesticides and fumigants.

Chemically, these compounds are known as glucosinolates, which are modified to become isothiocyanates (ITC), the active, anti-cancer compound. An enzyme known as myrosinase is released when these plants are injured, which then converts the glucosinolates into ITC, hence chewing is required to activate these anti-cancer compounds. The normal gut flora (healthy bacteria) also produces myrosinase, however, most Americans have taken too many antibiotics and other toxic chemicals, both voluntarily and involuntarily resulting in very unhealthy and unbalanced gut flora. So, it is advisable that we all chew thoroughly, just in case.

These ITC compounds, after conversion from glucosinolates, greatly induce Phase II enzymes in the liver, which results in excretion of the carcinogens circulating throughout the body. Although these compounds from Brassica vegetables may modify the Phase I enzymes, they have a much greater effect on Phase II, which is why they are so important. Environmental toxins, such as dioxin (extremely poisonous), have their effect by inducing only Phase I enzymes, which activate many carcinogens. Without the concomitant activation of Phase II enzymes, the results are often fatal.

These Brassica-derived chemicals also stop the growth of cancer cells after the initiation phase (cancer cells begin), interfere with promoters that make cancer cells grow (such as estrogen), interfere with angiogenesis (blood vessel growth in tumors), activate apoptosis (cell death) and block rapid growth of cells. This data is found throughout the scientific literature in both in-vitro and animal studies.

There are many excellent supplements containing flavonoids, quercetin, sulforaphanes, and the other compounds derived from Brassica plants; but if one wishes to obtain these benefits in the most potent, efficacious, and natural way, just eat them.

A word of caution, though, is in order. About 97% of these nutrients are lost with microwaving and 66% with boiling. Steaming is an acceptable way of preparing these vegetables for consumption; but raw, fresh, and organic will give you what nature intended – a long and joyful life.

By Thomas Lodi, M.D.

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IMMUNITY BOOSTING FOODS PART I: CITRUS

Immunity Strengths: Citrus fruits benefit the cardiovascular, glandular, digestive/detoxification, and musculoskeletal immune centers.



On an average day, 50 percent of all Americans eat no fruit at all, according to the USDA. But when they do, they (and perhaps you, too) are likely to reach for an orange. Citrus are surpassed only by apples and bananas in terms of the quantity in which they are produced and eaten—and they’re a good choice. Besides helping prevent your next rhinovirus infection, the flavones in oranges reduce LDL (bad) cholesterol and increase the good HDL. All our favorite citrus—from street oranges to exotic satsumas—are also rich in vitamin C, folate, potassium, and bone-building vitamin D, as well as capillary-supporting and antiviral bioflavonoids. But that’s not all.

Immunity Benefits

An orange a day provides big nutritional self-defense for four of the body’s immune centers—starting with digestion-maximizing and cholesterol-minimizing fiber.

Easily Digested Fiber.

That grapefruit or tangerine beats bacon at breakfast. Unlike meat, which has no fiber and creates waste products during the forty-eight-hour digestion period, high-fiber, fat-free citrus is efficiently digested two hours aft er you put your grapefruit spoon away, advises Elson Haas, M.D., at the Preventive Medical Center of Marin in California, making citrus a perfect immunity-boosting breakfast starter.

Drink OJ for LDL.

According to researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the flavones in oranges stabilize cholesterol levels so effectively that high cholesterol sufferers might consider upping their intake of oranges before downing statin meds. (But remember, statin meds and most other prescription drugs don’t mix with grapefruit juice, which increases the effects of many meds.) Citrus fruits like grapefruit also provide pectin, a soluble fiber that helps regulate cholesterol.

Think Citrus, Think Cancer-Fighting.

Like tomatoes, red (but not white) grapefruit supplies lycopene, one of the top ten nutrients for fighting off and preventing prostate cancer and heart disease. A grapefruit supplies more lycopene than do sun-dried tomatoes or sweet red peppers.

According a recent Nurses’ Health Study, women with the highest intake of luteolin, a flavone found in oranges and other citrus (as well as spinach and broccoli) had a 34 percent reduction in ovarian cancer risk, the fourth leading cause of cancer death among women.

Ascorbic Acid, Plus.

Citrus fruit offers four times the vitamin C of bananas and more than three times the ascorbic acid of apples. If it’s organic, you get 30 percent more vitamin C, according to researchers at Truman State University, plus a healthy dose of potassium. Potassium helps lower blood pressure and risk of stroke and is in short supply in the traditional diet. If you’re getting your share (2,700 mg to 3,500 mg), you’re probably eating oranges or drinking orange juice, which rank above bananas as a source.

Boosts Iron Absorption.

The ascorbic acid in citrus boosts your body’s absorption of non-heme iron found in plants. Having a glass of grapefruit juice before you fork up that spinach salad can help you absorb two to four times as much energizing iron as that salad would supply solo, according to the American Heart Association. The vitamin C in that lemonade or grapefruit also boosts your production of collagen for healthy, youthful-looking skin.

Citrus for Your Cerebellum.

All citrus contain flavonoids for stronger brain power and a sharper mind. Try a cup of grapefruit sections raw at breakfast sprinkled with soy lecithin granules (for more cerebral muscle) or toss tangerine sections or a few kumquats in your tossed salad at lunch. Do citrus, not Xanax. Up your mood by squeezing a lemon wedge into a glass of water. According to Japanese scientists, the scent of lemon affects a portion of the brain called the cerebellum, lifting your spirit and reducing mental fatigue. A whiff of lemon is also said to affect stamina.

Fruit or Juice?

A citrus juice like grapefruit juice, says a study by the University of Florida, contains more nutrients per calorie than apples, prunes, grape, or pineapple juices. Oranges have an ORAC rating of 750, surpassed by only eight other fruits. To limit both calories and sugars, choose the tangerine or navel orange over the juice. A glass of OJ adds 110 calories and 20 grams of sugar (as much as a small Almond Joy) to your daily totals. (A warning to people with diabetes: fruit juice raises blood sugar levels faster than a whole citrus does, because the high fiber of the fruit is digested more slowly.) High blood sugar levels make it harder to lose weight and may predispose you to type 2 diabetes. A third reason to reach for the whole fruit rather than the carton or can is that processed juices are heated and pasteurized, destroying some of the vitamins A, C, E, and B complex and, just as important, damaging the enzymes that aid in digestion and detoxification.

Sipping (Not Staring at) Our Navels: The Most Nutritious Fruit Juices.

On the other hand, according to a report in Pediatrics, children who drink orange, pineapple, and other fruit juices have higher intakes of potassium, folate, and vitamin C. Oranges are citrus with the highest visibility. But there are plenty of other-than-oranges citrus worth bringing home. Consider other members of this large extended family:

. Blood orange (including Ruby Red, Moro, and Tarocco)
. Mandarin oranges (satsumas and clementines)
. Tangelos (a cross between the mandarin and the grapefruit)
. Ugli fruit (outsized tangelos from Jamaica)
. Murcott (a cross between the tangerine and the sweet orange)
. Grapefruit (white, pink, red, and golden)
. Pomelo (Chinese grapefruit)
. Lemons (including Eureka, Lisbon, and Meyer)
. Limes (including Persian, Kaffir, and Mandarin)
. Kumquat, almost the only citrus with an edible skin (The Meyer lemon can be eaten whole but probably rarely is.)

There are even the sour tangerine-sized Japanese yuzu, the limequat, and the lemonquat among the oddball citrus.

Buying, Storing, and Preparing

. Eat locally grown citrus. Citrus fruits imported from other countries are invariably fumigated, and all the travel miles leave a big carbon footprint.

. Pick fruit that is ripe, small, thin-skinned, but heavy for its fruit. If organic, don’t demand cosmetic perfection.

. Think twice about commercial oranges that may have been dyed red to appear ripe and waxed (thus trapping pesticide residues) for a longer shelf life. Nonorganic citrus is sprayed with fifty different pesticides, and traces always remain.

. Avoid green oranges. They’re less sweet because they haven’t matured, are lower in vitamin C, and may aggravate existing joint pain.

. Chill your citrus to keep it fresh, but bring it to room temperature before eating or cooking with it.

. Wash with a vegetable wash or rinse with hydrogen peroxide (one tablespoon to a quart of water) before eating to remove mold, bacteria, and pesticide residue (if commercial).

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    #13721734 - 01/02/11 08:06 PM (13 years, 2 months ago)

Awesome.  I enjoyed reading this thread.  And I just finished watching "foods that kill".  Excellent.

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    #13724004 - 01/03/11 09:36 AM (13 years, 2 months ago)

This thread is great, I hope to read all when I get home.
New year resolution = get healthier.


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    #13725078 - 01/03/11 02:19 PM (13 years, 2 months ago)

Best time to start is always now :smile: glad to see the excitement

sheddingtheveil, haven't heard of that film. downloading right now, thanks!

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    #13727263 - 01/03/11 10:13 PM (13 years, 2 months ago)

It's the name of the film you posted about the medical doctor showing how humans are herbivores and not carnivores.

I just watched another good film tonight about Max Gerson.  It's called, "The beautiful Truth".  Good show.  Also probably an hour or so in length.

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    #13727887 - 01/04/11 03:04 AM (13 years, 2 months ago)

Yeah, I've seen that one. I still remember that scene showing the mercury vapor coming from a filled tooth enamel. :eek:



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    #13727994 - 01/04/11 04:32 AM (13 years, 2 months ago)

IMMUNITY BOOSTING FOODS PART II: NUTS AND SEEDS

Immunity Strengths: Nuts and seeds benefit the glandular, digestive/detoxification, and respiratory immune centers.



Pop a nut if you know what’s good for you. That handful of nuts taken five days a week may be just what you need to erase fatigue, irritability, insomnia, or asthma. At the very least, say researchers, it can reduce your risk of a heart attack by 15 percent and perhaps more. Even better, there is an inverse relationship between eating nuts and death from any cause.

Immunity Benefits

Nuts contain both polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats and the essential mineral magnesium. More than 350 enzyme systems in the body depend on magnesium to function in your favor. Nuts are among the twelve food groups that are high-fiber foods—5 or more grams of fiber per serving.

Best Nuts, All-Star Seeds.

While the gateway nut for many of us may be the peanut (two-thirds of our nut consumption is this legume eaten as a nut), the best choice for immunity is the walnut, followed by the almond and the pistachio. Among the seeds, sunflower and pumpkin seeds outscore sesame, chia, and all the rest, with the exception of flaxseed, in a category by itself. Pecans are rich in gamma-tocopherol, which helps minimize fat oxidation, which in turn deters arterial decline. For vitamin C, enjoy chestnuts, the only nut with any of this nutrient (3.5 ounces give you more than 40 percent of the DV for vitamin C).

Fish Oils in a Nut.

Walnuts, like flaxseeds, have more antioxidants than other nuts and are one of the few sources of plant-based fatty acids (otherwise known as ALA, or alpha-linolenic acid) plus plant sterols, which help lower serum cholesterol, improve cognitive function, and reduce the risk for anxiety, depression, and Alzheimer’s, says the Linus Pauling Institute. Because of this special polyunsaturated fat (or PUFA), walnuts (and walnut oil, for a treat) may also protect against asthma and rheumatoid arthritis. Walnuts are rich repositories of minerals in short supply in most diets—magnesium, folate, and copper.

Almonds for Your Health.


Almonds are the best source of vitamin E among nuts, also delivering more protein (7.6 grams) than a large egg. One-quarter cup also gives you 75 percent of your need for the B vitamin biotin, essential for energy and smooth skin. Because of its argentine content, almonds promote vasodilation, relaxing the blood vessel walls and increasing blood flow.

Peanuts for Protein.

One ounce of peanuts a week in some studies reduced the risk of diabetes by 30 percent. Nuts are the high point of many a hypoglycemic’s day and with good reason. Like almonds, peanuts supply more protein than a large egg (without the saturated fat and cholesterol) plus fiber and zinc for normal immunity.

Pistachios for Fiber.

You get more fiber from a serving of pistachios than from a half cup of spinach. You also get more nuts in a serving (47) than with most other types.

Four Heart Benefits.

All nuts contain high levels of a compound called protease inhibitors, known to block cancer in animals. Also nice about nuts are the lipid-lowering polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats they contain. In one study at Loma Linda University in California, participants who ate nuts five times a week had half the risk of heart attack and coronary-related death as those who didn’t. Indeed, a handful once a week produces a 25 percent reduction in your heart disease risk, including hypertension and stroke.

Pop a Nut for Cancer Protection.

Pop a big Brazil nut, and you get a small helping of selenium, a mineral that lowers the rates of several types of cancer. Stir those nuts into some steamed whole grains and you double your dose. Indeed, according to a joint report by the American Institute for Cancer Research and the World Cancer Research Fund, a high-nut diet can protect you against certain cancers—ellagic acid is one reason. Walnuts and pecans contain this phytochemical that can inactivate cancer cells and also has antiviral and antibacterial properties. Isoflavones, which protect the heart and defend the body from tumors, are another. Nuts also contain luteolin and tocotrienols.

Seeds.

An ounce of sesame seeds supplies three times the iron in an ounce of beef liver without the contaminants and the fat. Hemp seeds, like quinoa and soy, supply a range of essential minerals, are a complete protein similar to milk and dairy, and are richer in omega fatty acids than olive or flaxseed oils. Seeds are available as a tasty cold-pressed oil, as a seed meal to use as a protein food, and as a ready-to-eat cereal. Keep all three on hand. See the earlier section on flaxseed, too.

Buying, Storing, and Preparing

. Cashews, walnuts, and other nuts can provoke allergic reactions, often severe. Also, 90 percent of kids who are allergic to tree nuts are often allergic to peanuts (a legume, not a nut) as well.
. Nuts are contraindicated if you have colitis, Crohn’s disease, or divrticulitis.
. Nuts are relatively high in calories. Eat them by the handful, not like popcorn. The recommended serving is ¼ cup.
. Peanuts, especially when processed into peanut butter, can be contaminated with a mold that produces a highly carcinogenic substance called aflatoxin. Eat peanut butter in moderation, and buy organic to reduce the risk.
. Buy raw nuts in sealed packages. Roasted or exposed to light and heat (in bins), the oil in nuts can turn rancid and risky.
. Keep nuts and seeds in the fridge (even the freezer) to prevent rancidity. This is even truer for nut and seed oils, which should be purchased in small quantities in dark bottles to prevent oxidation from air and light.
. Buy cold-pressed organic nut and seed oils for safety and to get the best quality.

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    #13795499 - 01/16/11 06:46 AM (13 years, 2 months ago)

IMMUNITY BOOSTING FOODS PART III: APPLES

Immunity Strengths: Apples benefit the cardiovascular, glandular, and digestive/detoxification immune centers.



A symbol of fertility, temptation, and immortality, the apple appears in many religious traditions as a forbidden fruit. But nutritionally it is prescriptive not forbidden. The Malus domestica, a member of the rose family, was born in Central Asia and is now the most cultivated tree fruit in the world. Today there are 2,500 varieties of the domestic apple’s wild ancestors grown experimentally, although few reach us. The ones that do—from the crisp Gala, to the aromatic Braeburn, to the tart Granny Smith, to the old-fashioned Winesap—provide plenty of variety. Farther afield, at farmers’ markets and through family  farms, there are hundreds more unusual heirloom apples for sale.

Immunity Benefits

According to folklore, the male larynx is called an Adam’s apple because it resulted when the forbidden fruit got stuck in Adam’s throat. And what better fruit to stick in your craw: apples should be the apple of your eye if you’re working on nutritional self-defense, and they probably are if you’re the typical McIntosh-eating American. Individually, we each eat twenty pounds of Malus domesticus apiece each year—that’s roughly one Delicious, Ida Red, or Granny Smith (or other variety) every four days. Paltry compared to the European average of almost two a day, but a munch in the right direction.

Big McIntosh—Big Medicine.

Apples supply dozens of phytochemicals, including the ocular and antiallergy flavonoid quercetin, and more potassium than fresh oranges. Eating an apple a day is the same as taking a megadose of natural vitamin C in terms of antioxidants and flavonoids. Apples rank sixteenth on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC) values chart, a ranking that reflects a fruit’s antioxidant density—or the food’s capacity to destroy or subdue free radicals and block oxidative damage to cells. Apples are even more “fruitful” if you eat the peel, which contains triterpenoids—compounds that have anticancer activity, according to Cornell University researchers. Triterpenoids appear to halt the growth of cancer cells, especially breast, colon, and liver. The flavonoids and phenols also inhibit other chronic diseases; flavonoids like quercetin are also responsible for raising neurotransmitters and protecting the brain against Alzheimer’s and dementia.

Apples even strengthen the gallbladder. These juicy fruit foods help you satisfy your daily requirement for water. One medium apple is 84 percent water and supplies almost 4 ounces of water. Better yet, apples are “negative calorie” foods (along with watermelon, berries, and zucchini). This means that at 80 calories per average fruit, they burn more calories than they add and provide a lot of don’t-need-a-second-helping satiety.

A Top Fruit Food for Fiber

Every part of any apple is good medicine. Apples rank as one of the top fifteen fruits and vegetables, providing four kinds of fiber. The fiber called pectin in apples helps the body’s hormone disposal system work more efficiently, stabilizing blood pressure. Apples cleanse and rejuvenate the intestinal tract (for super cleansing, juice your apple with some parsley) and provide 3 grams of fiber (as much as a slice of whole-grain bread) to help prevent constipation and encourage a healthy bowel environment.

Buying, Storing, and Preparing


. The only downside of an apple a day? If it’s not organic, it could be lowering, not raising, your immunity—so buy organic whenever possible.
. Apples are characterized (along with apricots, nectarines, and pears) as climacteric fruits, which ripen on their own, although they don’t become sweeter in the process. Refrigerate apples to shut off flavor production in the skin. Letting the fruit sit at room temperature before eating will reactivate skin aromatics. Most apples will keep two weeks refrigerated. (Fujis and Granny Smiths have a longer life.)
. Buy with purpose in mind. Rome apples are best for baking and applesauce, Jonagolds and Ida Reds are best for pies, and allpurpose reds include Cortland and the McIntosh.
. If sliced or cut apples have to wait to be served, squirt them with lemon or other citrus juice to retard oxidation and browning.
. Go to the source. Visit a local orchard in harvesting time and pick your own. (This makes for a fun family outing, so take the kids!)

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    #13798360 - 01/16/11 06:24 PM (13 years, 2 months ago)

Awesome man! Keep em coming:shineon:

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    #14109909 - 03/12/11 04:53 PM (13 years, 10 days ago)

Got anything on specific lower back pain? I'm icing it and taking it easy because I have three herniated disks and it's not too late for me to correct the problem and surgery is not required for me, unless I aggravate it severely, so the icing keeps the swelling down.

I've tried taking kava root extract to help relax the muscles, as well as tylenol to alleviate the swelling (I'm allergic to all NSAIDs and aspirin). Helps somewhat.

I currently see a chiropractor and it's helping.

Obviously opiate-based painkillers are out of the question now because it just makes the pain worse after they wear off, recent use of oxycodone, diacetylmorphine, hydromorphone, but I've stopped taking that as of a week ago)

This is a recent injury...like within the last two weeks, and it's my first back injury. I'm 21 if age matters.

I do drink a little alcohol (1-3 beers a day if I do drink).

I don't smoke...cigarettes. :wink:

I'm obviously avoiding heavy weights, sitting for prolonged periods, and bending/twisting my back, so I was wondering if anyone knows some good physical therapy exercises for, specifically, the lumbar region--and more specifically, L5 on the lumbar, the one that's the most inflamed (the last disk).

I just want to get back to lifting weights as soon as possible, I like that form of exercise. I got this injury from a backwards fall on cement, lower back hitting first, and I didn't catch my fall at all.

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    #14111960 - 03/12/11 10:51 PM (13 years, 10 days ago)

I'd recommend yoga and Myofacial Triggerpoint work(this is a fancy way of saying deep tissue massage from someone who knows what they're doing)

This is a great thread, lots of good info here.

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    #14112918 - 03/13/11 03:28 AM (13 years, 9 days ago)

I have some good medical Qi Gong books that could have that kind of specific info for you, physical therapy exercises for the lumbar region, disc L5.. I'll have a look at them when I get home to my hard drive and then I can send those books your way if you like.


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    #14114853 - 03/13/11 04:03 PM (13 years, 9 days ago)

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I have some good medical Qi Gong books that could have that kind of specific info for you, physical therapy exercises for the lumbar region, disc L5.. I'll have a look at them when I get home to my hard drive and then I can send those books your way if you like.




Thank you, I would love to read into it. :smile:


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    #14117711 - 03/14/11 01:12 AM (13 years, 9 days ago)

There should be more on asana yoga here  :awesomenod:

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    #14119706 - 03/14/11 02:33 PM (13 years, 8 days ago)

So post post post! Feel free to submit :smile:

Sorry Tyler, I looked through the ebooks I had and unfortunately I couldn't find any physical therapy exercises for the lower back even though I thought I did have them somewhere. :frown: Nevertheless if you're still interested I can share those medical Qi Gong books here.


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    #20320928 - 07/24/14 11:10 AM (9 years, 7 months ago)

Amazingly informative! I will have to look more into this practice. Thanks for all of your insights!


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    #20633126 - 09/28/14 10:12 PM (9 years, 5 months ago)

I haven't posted on here I'm ages but this I such a great thread guys keep the good vibes coming

I'm going to add some more helpful tips tomorrow when I find the time

Much love fellow shroomers :cool:

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