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vegetables or cabbage family vegetables. They include
cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, brussels sprouts, kale
and collard greens. Cancer is the second leading cause
of death of Americans. The best food group for helping
with cardiovascular health is berries.

The botanical definition of a berry is a simple fruit
produced from a single ovary, such as a grape or a
tomato. However, in everyday English, a berry is a term
for any small edible fruit. I will use the everyday
English meaning. Heart attacks and strokes are the first
and third leading cause of death among Americans.

The first thing is the Doctrine of Signatures. This
states that an herb, botanical or plant food sometimes
gives a clue about what it is good for by its appearance
like ginseng root looking like a human body or a walnut
looking like a brain.

Berries are the color of blood. Blood that is very
oxygenated is red, but blood without oxygen can appear
blueish or purple. Just look at the veins of someone
with varicose veins. One newer red berry that is great
for cardiovascular health is goji berries. Here is what
webmd.com says about goji berries:

"Research shows that eating berries -- like blueberries,
acai berries, cranberries, strawberries, and cherries --
offers some definite health benefits. Berries like the
goji berry are filled with powerful antioxidants and
other compounds that may help prevent cancer and other
illnesses, including heart disease."

Strawberries are said to help lower high blood pressure
(hypertension) Another good example of the Doctrine of
Signatures is the strawberry. It is red and is shaped
like a heart. Please note that berries have different
anthocyans (a group of phytochemicals) that strengthens
the inner lining of the arteries. Common problems with
arteries include angina, congestive heart failure,
intermittent claudication, peripheral arterial disease
(PAD), strokes and heart attacks.

Superfoods Rx (2008) by Steven Pratt, M.D. says (p 28)
"The anthocyans also work synergistically with vitamin C
and other key antioxidants. They strengthen the
capillary (tiny blood vessel) system by promoting the
production of quality collagen-- the building block of
tissues. This important subclass of flavonoids also
promotes vasodilation (widening of arteries) and has an
inhibitory effect on platelet aggregation-- an
aspirin-like effect on blood clot formation." Please
note that aspirin are drugs and berries are foods.

If you look these things up, you will see that they are
also effective for preventing cancer. A recent study
from the University of Michigan reveals that new
evidence links cherries (a red berry) to heart health
benefits. The study found that a cherry enriched diet
lowered total weight, body fat (especially the important
belly fat), inflammation and cholesterol-- all risk
factors associated with heart disease. According to the
American Heart Association, being overweight or obese,
in particular when the weight is concentrated in the
middle, is a major risk factor for heart disease.

There are other red berries like cranberries and then
there are the other darker color berries. Some that have
attracted a lot of attention for health benefits are
acai berries, yumberries and aronia berries that are
said to improve circulation and strengthen blood
vessels.

There is a red berry that is great for cardiovascular
health. But I have not seen it sold as a berry. I have
only seen it sold in capsules or as a tea. Herbalists
know that it is the best herb for heart health or
cardiovascular health. It is the red hawthorn berry.
Berries are a good example of Natural Cures with foods.

Prescription for Herbal Health (2002) by Phyllis Balch
says " A large body of scientific research has shown
that the fruit, leaves and flowers of various hawthorn
species dilate the blood vessels, lower blood pressure
and dissolve cholesterol. Hawthorn fights
atherosclerosis, in which cholesterol forms plaques on
blood-vessel walls. in two ways." It increases the rate
that the liver converts bad LDL cholesterol into good
HDL cholesterol. It "also fights atherosclerosis by
providing antioxidants, which prevent plaque formation."


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The author, Chuck Bluestein, used to be a chemist. Now
he is a nutritionist, herbalist and studies the healing
ability of foods. He has a website with free information
on losing weight, Cardiovascular Health, natural cures, fasting, lemonade diet and Blackstrap Molasses Health Benefits.

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Then when you build the things and send them in, they will reject most of them and you will decide it is not a good way to make money. But now they have your registration fee. Your desire to make money doing almost nothing makes you susceptible to scams.

You can sell information through the mail as one of the business opportunities. You can charge $30 for a report that costs pennies to copy. But people will try to do this to you. They will say that they have a great way to make money and they will tell you what it is not and how great it is. Just send them $30. They do not tell you what it is.

Forget what they are saying is so great. They are making their money selling information by mail. They can just tell you to do the same thing that they are doing. If they really had such a great business opportunity, they would not need to make money selling information through the mail. They may say that they are trying to help people, but want the money show that you are serious. It is a lie!

Here is an example. An ad says "How to get 20 people a day to send you $5. For instructions send me $5." Then they tell you to place enough ads like this one you read until 20 people a day are sending you the $5. I feel that this kind of stuff is unethical. Many times they will have a rag to riches story to get you to buy the information on one of their business opportunities.

Now I like the things where they do not make money unless you make money. That is why I like network marketing or multi-level marketing (MLM). It is one of the best business opportunities. Billionaire Warren Buffet owns 2 MLM companies. Billionaire Donald Trump says in his book, Why We Want You to Be Rich, "Network marketing has proven itself to be a viable and rewarding source of income."

Sometimes a chain letter will say that it is an MLM program, but MLM has companies, not programs. Also illegal gifting programs or illegal pyramid schemes will claim to be an MLM program. There are many billion dollar MLM companies where some distributors in them make 6 figure annual incomes (over $100,000 a year).

Of course just like anything else some MLM companies can be scams or managed badly so they go under. So you want to promote one that has solid backing and management and maybe some years in business. On the other hand, if it is already very big, then it becomes hard to make money with it. Look for exceptional products, like Amazon Herbs.

For example decades ago, an MLM company, Forever Living Products, introduced a plant to the U.S. that no one that had ever heard of. They claimed that it had all these healing properties and you could use it internally and externally. Now this plant is in hundreds of products and they grow most of it.

This plant is aloe vera and people know that it can heal burns even though the FDA does not allow anyone to say this. They even now sell this plant in stores and many have one. It was one of the best business opportunities. --Chuck Bluestein, www.phifoundation.org



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The author, Chuck Bluestein, used to be a chemist for the federal government. He is a nutritionist, herbalist and a bodybuilder. He makes his living from websites and network marketing. His website has free information on curing colds and flus, Business Opportunities with Herbal Drink, natural cures, losing weight, fasting and cancer cure.

Source: http://www.articletrader.com ]]> http://www.articletrader.com/health/weight-loss/sweeteners-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly.html http://www.articletrader.com/health/weight-loss/sweeteners-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly.html Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500 artificial sweeteners. They have many bad effects on you, including making you fatter. Many have reported many disease like symptoms that appear like diseases like MS. Artificial sweeteners are many times sweeter than sugar. They are not really foods and are more like drugs.

Sugar cane is not really that bad for health. What makes it bad is the process that they put it through.They do a similar thing to with wheat and rice. They take the nutritious part of the sugar cane out. It is a thick black liquid called blackstrap molasses. You can get this is in health foods stores and it is sweet. It is very nutritious with lots of iron, potassium and chromium in it. The part that is left is called sugar and has calories, but has no nutrition.

Advertisements say that people should buy chromium supplements since it is needed to metabolize sugar. The sugar robs your body of the chromium and other things. If blackstrap molasses is sold in the health food store, where is the sugar sold? You can say that it is sold in the sick and fat food store.

Health food stores now have Succanat, a superior version of dried cane juice. This is the sugar cane without taking out any of the good stuff. It is not brown sugar. Brown sugar is just sugar with a little bit of molasses added to it. It is not healthy.

Large manufacturers try to use the cheapest ingredients they can find to save money, no matter how bad it is for you. So they like using artificial (chemical) sweeteners and corn syrup which is slightly worse than sugar.

Health food stores have healthy alternatives and they are ingredients in some health foods. You will find some products containing sugar cane or invert cane sugar. The former is regular sugar even if it says organic sugar cane. The latter is just like corn syrup which is a little worse than sugar. Refined sugar is fattening and very bad for health.

The healthy sweeteners are raw honey, pure maple syrup, agave (from a cactus), barley malt, stevia (a healthy herb that is sweeter than sugar), blackstrap molasses and rice syrup. Agave enters the blood very slowly, making it especially good for diabetic and weight loss.

The dried cane juice may not be the healthiest sweetener, but it is fine as an ingredient in something. The Succanat is better than dried cane juice. Maple syrup is used in the Master Cleanse lemonade diet.

Bottom Line's Super Foods Rx, by Steven Pratt M.D. and Kathy Matthews says, "Honey contains at least 181 known substances, and its antioxidant activities stems from phenolics, peptides, organic acids and enzymes. Honey also contains salicylic acid, minerals, alpha-tocopherol and oligosaccharides. Oligosaccharides increase the number of good bacteria in the colon, reduces levels of toxic metabolites in the intestine, help prevent constipation and help lower cholesterol and blood pressure."

Sugar that is already in foods, like in fruit, are the healthiest sweet things to eat. This information is applied to when you are preparing something or reading the ingredients in a product. It is much healthier to eat fruit on an empty stomach like strawberries, avocados, blueberries, kiwi fruit, watermelon, peaches, grapes, apples, oranges, mangoes and pineapple. Try to get organically grown fruit when it is possible. Copyright 2008 by Chuck Bluestein www.phifoundation.org.

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The author, Chuck Bluestein, was a chemist for the federal government. He worked at the Defense Personnel Support Center in Philadelphia, home to the baseball World Series winners, the Phillies. He is a nutritionist, herbalist and is an expert on fasting.
His free information website has information on curing colds and flus quickly, Nutition Articles-- The Biggest Nutrition Myth Ever, fasting, curing depression and anxiety, natural cures, losing weight, health related articles, lemonade diet, Amazon herbs and Euphoria: Self Improvement for More Health and Happiness.

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When you eat these horrible foods, they need to rob your body of the healthy things that were in them so you can digest them. Because some of the fiber was taken out, they clog the colon.

Over time this destroys your health. They create all these foods with wheat like pancakes, waffles, french toast, cream of wheat, bread, pasta, muffins, biscuits, soft and hard pretzels, cakes, cookies, crackers, donuts, bagels, blintzes, perogies, lasagna, sandwiches, burgers, pies, pizza and strombolis.

Whole wheat and brown rice are whole grains and so are healthy for you to eat.The whole wheat is not ideal for health though, but it is cheap. It is better to use other grains like rye, barley, buckwheat, kamut, brown rice, spelt, amaranth, quinoa, millet and wild rice. Wild rice is not a rice. It is the only grain that is native to North America.

The wheat and rice is originally with 3 different parts. To refine it, they take off the bran. This part of the grain has most of the fiber and is loaded with anti-oxidants that you need. This is then sold in the heath food store. The wheat and rice are sold in the fat and sick food store.

Then they take off the germ and that is sold in the health food store. It has most of the nutrition. Endosperm is the name of this part that is left. Rice endosperm and wheat endosperm are the precise terms for rice and wheat. It is mostly carbohydrates. This is the reason this food can make you sick and fat.

Whole wheat may be bland but brown rice tastes as good as white rice. It has a nuttier taste. Many Indians have switched from basmati rice to brown basmati rice.

Near me, there is a Japanese/Chinese restaurant where 50% of their customers requesting the brown rice instead of the white rice. It is healthy to eat cracked wheat since it is raw. A good friend of mine loves to cook the grain, quinoa, since it takes only 15 minutes to cook.

Instead of cream or wheat, you can eat buckwheat groats and make that as a hot cereal. You can sweeten it with blackstrap molasses, agave or maple syrup. Amaranth is a very healthy grain that you can cook. It takes about 15 minute to cook.

The grain, wild rice would take 50 minutes to cook, but Trader Joes has it already cooked and vacuum packed and you only need to heat it up. Amaranth is one of many Amazon Herbs that are healthy for you. In the Amazon area, they call this grain kiwicha. It was one of the main foods of the Aztecs. Copyright 2008 by Chuck Bluestein www.phifoundation.org


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Chuck Bluestein, the author, was a chemist for the federal government. He worked at the Defense Personnel Support Center in Philadelphia testing materials that went into military use. He is an herbalist and nutritionist. His free information website tells about Losing Weight, natural cures, healing depression, fasting, overcoming colds and flus the quickest way, the Lemonade Diet and enlightenment.

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The fossils of man that are over 10,000 years old have no salt in them. They figure that that is when man started using salt. People have been around millions of years.The refrigerator is only a recent invention. You can leave fruit and vegetables out of the refrigerater but animal products need refrigeration.

Salt kills bacteria so that would help keep animal products to stay good a little longer. Salt can be used to keep foods from becoming bad, until they could ferment. It kills life. Salt can be rubbed into cuts to torture people.

When people consume salt, the body is constantly trying to get rid of it but can only get rid of so much per day with you consuming more everyday. So it stores the excess under the skin. Salt needs to absorb lots of water to prevent it from being toxic. So salt causes a lot of water weight.

If you put 4 ounces of salt in water and drink it, it will kill you. It is simple chemistry. That much salt has about 50,000 mg of sodium. Salt is 50% sodium. No food has anywhere near that amount of a mineral.

LATEST NEWS: In an effort to reduce high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease, the American Medical Association is urging "the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to revoke the 'generally recognized as safe' (GRAS) status of salt and to develop regulatory measures to limit sodium in processed and restaurant foods."

Vitamins and minerals have a minimum RDA (recommended daily allowance). All of them have this, except sodium. Instead it has a maximum RDA.

If you look in the foods made by nature they have around 15 milligrams of sodium. When it comes to man-made foods, a large pizza has 3,000+ mg of sodium and a can of chicken noodle soup has 2,000+ mg of sodium. An avocado has 21 mg of sodium but 1,400 mg of potassium making it a very healthy food for you.

The body determines how much water you need by the concentration of sodium in it. That is the reason that if you are on a raft in the ocean with water all around you, you can still die of dehydration. You will only get more dehydrated drinking the ocean water or your salty urine. This is the reason that I call it anti-water. It makes it so water will not work.

There is a book called The Rice Diet Solution (©2006) by Kitty Gurkin Rosati R.D. and Robert Rosati M.D. says that in addition to salt causing water retention, it also stimulates the appetite causing people to eat more.

During the first 5 days of a fast the body dumps huge amounts (up to 80,000 mg per day) of salt so it gets rid of all the excess salt. So this is why someone can lose up to 15 pounds of weight during the first 5 days of a fast. They lose 15 pounds of water.

If the body continued to lose sodium after this excess is removed then the person would die after a few more days of fasting due to lack of sodium instead of being able to fast a month. But the body no longer needs to get rid of it so the sweat and urine are no longer salty.

But due to ignorance, some people think they need to replace this salt since the body is getting rid of it. Sweating helps you lose retained water since you are sweating out excess salt. Reducing your salt intake is not a Cancer Cure but can greatly improve your health and help you lose weight if you need to. Copyright 2008 by Chuck Bluestein www.phifoundation.org

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The author, Chuck Bluestein, worked for the federal government as a chemist. He is an herbalist, nutritionist and an expert on fasting and losing weight. His website has free information on Natural Cures, losing weight, the lemonade diet, cure for colds and flus, curing depression and Health Related Articles.

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Each of these websites has their own rules. Many of them offer 3 choices. You send them your information (add link or submit link) and they look it over and decide whether to accept it. One choice is a free submission. Some sites may say that with this choice it may take up to 6 months before they review your site. These groups want you to create links back to them so they can becoe bigger. When you do this then you are submitting a reciprocal link. This is a higher priority and it gets reviewed sooner than the other links and has other perks.

Then there is the paid for link called possibly a featured link. This type of link gets looked at the soonest and you get other perks like being able to submit other pages of your website in addition to the main page. Submitting these links to so many sites can take a lot of work. Some sites offer to do it for you if you pay them. So that is something you can try.

A way of getting two way links is by exchanging links. You can just look for sites that you like and ask them if the want to exchange links. there are also link exchange places that help you to do this. They have many members who are looking to do this and they can request you or you can request them through the website to exchange links. I have been using one of these for 2 years. I have a website with Natural Cures for Cancer.

With the group I use, if a site requests a link from you, they have to put up the link first. Then they check it and notify you that it was done and for you to do the same. Many of these sites will put your link on a page that is not connected to their website so no one will ever see it. The exchange group can check that the link is on the page but the page might not be connected to the website which means it does you no good. So you have to check this. There are many unscrupulous people on the internet.

When it comes to links to your website there is a difference of how much it helps you. The Google page rank is a way to measure how much a link from that site helps you. The larger this number is, the better it is. The numbers are from 0 to 10. Some experts tell you not to exchange links with a site that has a PR of 0. If it is a bad site, it could hurt you to have a link to it. Some say not to exchange links with a site that has a PR lower than yours. By Chuck Bluestein www.phifoundation.org



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The author is Chuck Bluestein. He is an herbalist, webmaster and a nutritionist. He has a free information website with information about Fasting, losing weight, natural cures, Amazon herbs business, Natural Remedies for High Blood Pressure and finding happiness.

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Someone on a forum wanted to know what Kevin Trudeau's miracle cure for being overweight was before spending all that money for his book. I sent him to my site and he read about it. Then he thanked me for saving him all that money which would have made him feel like a sucker who was ripped off. Since then, the F.T.C. Federal Trade Commission) has gone attacked Kevin Trudeau for claiming that you can eat whatever you want on the infomercial while the book says that you should not eat any unhealthy food.

Another way to create more traffic is by finding directories online and putting your link on their website. There are some companies that you can pay to do this for you. You may find that some of these site want you to put a link back to them, but others do not. These links can help you get more traffic from the search engines. There are hundreds of these directories out there. Some let you use the code to make a keyword (or term) the link instead of the address of the site. So you can make "vampire antidote" the link to your site.

Then this will help you when someone does a search on a search engine for "vampire antidote." This is better than a link that just says "www.henderson.com."Another way is to write articles and submit the article to article sites like with what you are reading right now. In exchange, they put up a link to your website. The link is usually in the author or bio information. Some only allow text, so you have to just put up your url like "www.henderson.com." Some allow html where you put in the code so the link will say "vampire antidote."

Some of these article sites gets lot of traffic so you can even get people coming to your site from the article. There are others sites that get a small amount of traffic but the links can help you with search engines. To see how much traffic a website gets, see the Alexa.com site. Also you can check on a site's Google PR rank to see how much a link from them will help you with the search engines.

There are hundreds of these article sites and they are growing everyday. I may put up a list of them on my website in the future. Also I may create my own article site in the future and I already have a blog. These articles create a great deal of free information on the world wide web. Sometimes you can get some valuable information from reading these articles. Also when you get one of these articles put up on a site (published), you can say that you are a writer who writes articles.

This way the information that is out there is not just controlled by the publishers, but it is controlled by the people, like you and me. It is a great example of the first amendment of the United States Constitution at work. It will be interesting to see the changes that happen with the world wide web being so new. Many of the founders of the U.S.A. were writers.

I check out these links and most of them have active links to my site. Sometimes a site will have an inactive link and I will contact them to let them know that it is part of the condition to be able to have my article on their site. There are sites that have problems with getting their site to do what they want. Once in a while they use the code rel="no follow" which means that they have the intention to benefit from using your article without you benefiting as far as the search engines go. I click on VIEW and then SOURCE to look for this code.

Tell the sites that do this to remove your article. You can also tell them that you will spread the word about them. You can even write an article about it and they may even put it on their site without realizing what they are doing. A few days ago on a forum I saw someone asking if the article sites actually put up a link to you or just use your article without doing anything for you so this has answered that question. Copyright 2008 by Chuck Bluestein www.phifoundation.org


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Chuck Bluestein is an herbalist, webmaster, nutritionist, and an expert on fasting. His website has information on losing weight, colds and flus, healthy diet, weight loss, lemonade diet, depression and anxiety self help, fasting, natural cures and finding happiness.


Source: http://www.articletrader.com ]]> http://www.articletrader.com/home-and-family/parenting/getting-more-traffic-to-your-website.html http://www.articletrader.com/home-and-family/parenting/getting-more-traffic-to-your-website.html Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0600 The Karate Kid, Miyagi says "There are no bad students, only bad teachers." I say that there are no bad kids, only bad parents. This is a generalization about Americans. It does not apply to all of them. It probably applies to most European countries.

This lack of self-esteem is not because American parents do not love their kids. It is because they never learned how to raise infants. The way that kids are raised now is described in the book, Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem by Gloria Steinem (1992). This tells how children are alive to serve the parents and the parents are perfect and always right and it goes on and on.

But this starts with the terrible way that infants are raised. This information comes from the book, The Continuum Concept, by Jean Liedloff. She spent 2 years with Amer-Indians, who had been raising babies the same way for 100,000 years. The way that the infant knows it is loved is by being held or being against someone. The other senses are underdeveloped and it takes time to learn how to interpret things.

So the baby goes by its sense of touch. When it is against someone, it feels loved. When it is not with someone, then it feels unloved. In many Asian countries, they make sure the infant is held all the time and it sleeps with its parents. By not feeling loved, it never gets the self-esteem it needs.

A sling can help you carry your baby with your hands being free. Dr. Martin Seligman was president of the American Psychological Association and he has written many books on psychology. His wife has many degrees in psychology. They slept with all 4 of their babies. If you are drunk or on drugs, this is not a good idea since you may roll over onto them.

So here is the worst thing about raising an infant. The parents believe they need to break its spirit. This is what you try to do when torturing someone. They believe that this makes them a good parent. You put the baby in its crib to sleep at night. It starts to cry and you let it cry for hours until it cries itself asleep. It will then have a future of crying itself to sleep for the rest of its life.

The author, Jean Liedloff, says that nature never makes a sound (like the baby crying) like someone is being tortured, unless that is actually the case. So by the baby, not being held, it makes it feel that it is unloved and this is the foundation of the person having a severe lack of self-esteem. According to Gloria Steinem's book, lack of self-esteem leads to many different problems.

Before I heard of this book, I did many personal growth seminars. I am more into self-improvement than anyone that I ever met. At these seminars I was very surprised how all these people had a severe lack of self-esteem compared to me. I had no idea how I ended up so different. Then I read this book. My mother got divorced after I was born and moved into her parents house. This book had not been written yet but my grandmother would hold me all the time.

She did this because, even though they were wealthy, her favorite thing in the world to do, was to hold me. This is why people find babies so cute, so they will want to hold them. Once I was babysitting for a 3 month old baby. I sat down with some neighbors. There was a mother with her 7 year old girl and the mother's female friends. The girl kept grabbing at the baby.

So I said to the girl, "Do you want to hold him?" The mother said "Are you crazy?" I told her that I would also be holding the baby like making sure the baby's neck was supported. So the girl held the baby for 5 minutes and was happy. Then the mother asked if she could hold the baby and she held Liam (the baby's name) for about 5 minutes or more. Then this was repeated by the other 4 women there. So that proves what that book was saying.

Babies brought up this way are very calm and have a lot of self-esteem. Also they are much more mature because instead of being in a playpen, they are around other people all the time learning about how to interact. They now have this term after the baby is born as the 4th trimester.

The baby is outside the body, but still needs to be in contact with another body. So even though the infant is outside of the body, it is treated as if it were attached to someone's body. Because of this lack of self-esteem, there is an epidemic of Teen Depression. Copyright 2008 by Chuck Bluestein. www.phifoundation.org



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Chuck Bluestein is an herbalist, nutritionist, and an expert on fasting. His website has information on Neck Pain,losing weight, colds and flus, healthy diet, weight loss, depression and anxiety self help, cutting, Amazon Herbs, lemonade diet, fasting, natural cures and finding happiness.


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The New England Journal of Medicine says "Fasting is a valid experience. It can benefit any otherwise healthy person whose calories now have the upper hand in his/her life." Philippus Paracelsus, a Swiss physician and one of the 3 fathers of Western Medicine (including also Hippocrates and Galen), said "Fasting is the greatest remedy-- the physician within." Elson M Haas M.D. says on his website "Fasting is the single greatest healing therapy."

If you fast too long, you can die but if you drink too much water at one time, you can die. The most common problems of modern day people, like being overweight, having trouble sleeping, feeling tired during the day and headaches, are the things that fasting is best for. When people ask about ways to cleanse the body, others will say that you do not need to do anything because the body is always cleansing itself.

This is true but if the toxins are going in at a faster rate than the body can get them out (cleansing), then they will grow larger and larger. This is similar to the two opposite medical processes that take place in the human body called anabolism and catabolism. This is the building up and the breaking down that is constantly taking place in the body. At the same time that the body is cleansing itself, you are eating and bringing in more toxins or creating metabolic waste to use medical jargon (2: the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group).

So when they say that you do not need to do anything to cleanse the body, the quickest way to cleanse the body is to do nothing, meaning to eat nothing, drink water and rest. Fasting gives your body a rest or vacation, especially the liver, digestive and elimination systems. Your body knows how to fast. When you are not using your mouth to bring in food, the body makes it into an organ of elimination. That is why your tongue gets coated while fasting.

Gabriel Cousins, MD, says "I often observe in the fasting participants that by four days of fasting, concentration seems to improve, creative thinking expands, depression lifts, insomnia stops, anxieties fade, the mind becomes more tranquil and a natural joy begins to appear. It is my hypothesis that when the physical toxins are cleared from the brain cells, mind-brain function automatically and significantly improves and spiritual capacities expands."

John Tilden, M.D., who fasted thousands of people in his Denver center, said "I must say in all seriousness that fasting when combined with a properly selected diet is the nearest approach to a 'cure-all' that is possible to conceive-- profoundly simple and simply profound!" With juice fasting, people can still work a job during it. During the water fast, it is best to just rest. Alex Carrel, M.D. (famous scientist) says "The elimination of waste products by fasting increases longevity."

Prescription for Natural Healing by James Balch M.D. and Phyllis Balch CNC says "Fasting is an effective and safe method of detoxifying the body...A technique that wise men have used for centuries to heal the sick. Fast regularly and help the body heal itself and stay well. Give all of your organs a rest. Fasting can help reverse the aging process, and if we use it correctly we will live longer, happier lives.

Each time you complete a fast, you will feel better. Your body will have a chance to heal and rebuild its immune system by regularly fasting. You can fight off illness and the degenerative diseases so common in this chemically polluted environment we live in. When you feel a cold or illness coming on or are just depressed-- fast!" That is why you lose your appetite-- your body is telling you to stop eating. Losing Weight Fast, with fasting, is faster than any other way to lose weight. Copyright 2007 by Chuck Bluestein. www.phifoundation.org

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Chuck Bluestein is an herbalist, nutritionist, and an expert on fasting. His website has information on curing flus
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Many people will wake up after sleeping and feel fine. Then they will go back to sleep and later wake up and be feeling awful. Then they think that they slept too much or too long. This is similar to when you stop smoking. Even though you feel really awful, it is good for you. Hypoglycemia (why I am I changing the subject) is actually rare. Many people will go all day without food and feel dizzy, sick, light headed and they imagine that their blood sugar has dropped too low. But this is not what is happening. When your body goes too long without food, it goes into a fasting mode. Some will say that it goes into a starvation mode but this does not happen until after the body has been in the fasting mode for about 40 days.

When in the fasting mode, your body is getting rid of toxins at a rapid rate similar to when you stop smoking or stop taking heroin. Some who stop taking heroin at one time, can die. It is common for someone to have those above symptoms when in the fasting mode. This happens when you go all day without eating any food and also when you sleep more than usual. Sleeping accelerates this fasting mode. When you stop your fast, it is called breaking your fast. You fast everyday and break it when you eat break-fast (pronounced brek-fist).

I told this to a woman who said that she cannot fast because she has hypoglycemia. I told her that when the body goes into a fasting mode, the tongue gets coated. She went all day without food and got those symptoms that she thought was hypoglycemia. She looked in the mirror and saw that her tongue was coated so she knew that what I said was right. So she wrote me to let me know that I really know what I am talking about. The way to cure your withdrawal symptoms from smoking is to continue without smoking.

The way to cure this problem with sleep or going all day without food, is with fasting. I used to have that problem with feeling bad after going all day without food. Now, I can go weeks without food and I feel fine. Even though it feels bad, this is good for you when you get plenty of sleep. Many people think that sleeping is waste of time. It is not a waste of time. Very important things happen when you are asleep. It is hard to understand this when you do not get the big picture.

The small picture is that you have better things to do. The big picture is that someday you will die and not be able to do anything in the physical world. When you are in deep sleep, you visit that non-physical world that you are in all the time, but you are not aware of it. It is very similar to the place you go when you die. A sleeping person looks like they are dead, but the difference is that they will wake up. Since sleep cannot be controlled, most Americans have problems sleeping. They have to do things to let go of their stress so sleep can just happen. It is something that you cannot control, which is why you cannot do it too much.

If you have trouble sleeping or Anxiety about sleeping you may want to give up things with caffeine in it. You can try drinking Rooibos tea before going to sleep since this tea helps you to go to sleep. You can try getting exercise (like yoga) during the day, but not right before going to sleep. You can try things that are relaxing like reading, meditation or listening to music. Copyright Chuck Bluestein www.phifoundation.org

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Chuck Bluestein is a nutritionist, herbalist and an expert on fasting. His website has information on colds and flus, Weight Loss, weight loss strategies, healthy diet, Fasting, depression self help, natural cures and how to be happier.

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