Craig Pepin-Donat
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 Should we eat that tempting piece of chocolate cake or be good and maintain a healthy lifestyle? Often, without our knowing it, the brain makes the decision based on past programming or an addictive habit.
All of us are hardwired to seek pleasure and avoid pain. It is the old carrot and stick routine. We want a bite of the carrot and don't want to get hit by the stick. Our old friend, Sigmund Freud, had it figured out with two little principles — the "pleasure principle" and the "reality principle. |
| Treadmills Can Help You Maintain a Healthy Lifestyle" (Article) http://www.fitness.com
Chapter Eight
The Truth About Fitness
Once you know the facts about health and fitness, you will have the knowledge and ability to change your mindset and adjust your lifestyle to achieve results that are believable, achievable and sustainable.
Simple, but Not Easy
We have seen how addictions and toxic exposure, including stress, causes many of our self-inflicted diseases. Prescription drugs play a dangerous, contributing role in our toxic lifestyles. |
| May the first step on your journey to achieve a healthy lifestyle begin right now!
Chapter One
How Addiction Feeds the Lie
Before you can control your body, you first need to understand what controls you.
Cause and Effect
^ou may be wondering why a health and fitness book leads with a chapter on addiction. Most fitness books talk about exercise, nutrition and how to be healthy and happy while looking good. Mountains of books written by genetically gifted individuals with perfect physiques cheer the reader on, telling them, 'You can do it, too, if you just follow my simple program. |
Bill Sardi
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 Source: Cancer 104: 2565-76, 2005
Patients talk
E-mail from a breast cancer patient
/ have a healthy lifestyle, take vitamins. I was diagnosed with breast cancer 8/19/05 - stage 2 Lumpectomy performed on 9/26/05 and sentinel node procedure. Scheduled first chemo treatment 11/2 - cancelled - blood clot...due to injury to foot-they believe.
Just came home from hospital yesterday - as they found the blood clot had not moved... thought there might be an infection due to a cortisone shot 10/31. All I know is that from the beginning I did not want chemo but decided do the first treatment... |
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My 65-year old sister (she seems and looks 20 years younger and never sick) was just diagnosed with breast cancer much to our shock and amazement breast cancer she has led a healthy lifestyle all of her life. No history of hormone therapy and she has eaten healthfully, never smoked nor does she drink alcohol and there is no family history. We both try to read all we can when it comes to taking care of our bodies and do take some supplements. Do you have any recommendations for me to pass along to her. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Mike: I want to come back to statin drugs, because I'm reminded of a full-page advertisement that I saw for a brand-name statin drug, which essentially said that healthy lifestyle changes aren’t enough. You can follow the right diet, you can exercise, but it’s not enough. You need statin drugs. I found that message quite shocking.
Dr. Strand: They have always been very good about saying that you should use statin drugs only after a trial of healthy lifestyles. That’s kind of been the standard approach, but that doesn’t surprise me at all. I feel this is where we are going. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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 Two of these isoflavones, genistein and daidzein, act as both antioxidants and estrogens that when consumed in foods may help contribute to reducing the risk of coronary heart disease as well as protecting against breast or prostate cancer as part of an overall healthy lifestyle.
Adding soy to your diet, as suggested in The SuperFoodsRx Diet, usually is a health plus if only because it provides a protein source—and a complete protein at that—that has a lower and healthier fat content than meat, the protein it usually replaces. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It requires a wholesale shift to a healthy lifestyle that includes raw foods, superfoods, extreme juicing of vegetables, sunlight therapy, and a complete lifetime avoidance of cancer-causing foods, medicines and personal care products.
I'll say it as bluntly as I can: If you are not willing to radically change your diet, take up exercise and eliminate all the poisons from your home, then your outcome is already determined. I've had people literally tell me, "I'd rather die than give up eating my steak." And sure enough, they're already dead. |
Andreas Moritz
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 All of this, of course, is contingent upon your maintaining a balanced, low-protein, preferably vegan diet and a healthy lifestyle.
Q. Can taking Epsom salts have harmful side effects? I find that it causes soreness in my anus during the cleanse.
A. Epsom salts (magnesium sulfate) can be found in mountain regions and is contained in sea salts. It is also manufactured synthetically by combining natural minerals. So long as the liver is congested, Epsom salts have no harmful side effects. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 A: This can be a very expensive step in the move toward a healthy lifestyle. Before focusing on organic foods, balance the acid-base in your diet and normalize your nutrient intake. You also can grow your own garden vegetables without pesticides or fertilizers or participate in community-sponsored agriculture (www.eatwild.com): you buy a share in a local organic farm before the growing season, then pick up your allotment of fresh produce weekly as you move through the harvests. Many organic farms also raise organic chickens, turkeys, and larger livestock. |
| But the impact of correcting vitamin D and dietary deficiencies on your health will be more profound and less costly than any other interventions you could try.
A healthy lifestyle can even drown out genetic differences. Genetics then becomes background noise that's irrelevant. You'll find that your health isn't in your genes any more than it's something projected on you by outside pressures.
Your genes are a collection of notes, almost exactly the same notes we're all given. What's different is the music you make with them, and that determines your health and happiness. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 If you're able to handle it, and if you're consuming it in moderation, red wine can be part of a wonderful healthy lifestyle. The trick is to know when enough is enough.
Or when even a little is too much.
So red wine is antioxidant rich, loaded with healthy polyphenols, and a major dietary source of the anticancer, antiaging compound resveratrol. On the other hand, wine—and alcohol in general—is one of those substances where God truly is in the details, and the dosage makes the poison. Moderate intake of red wine: good. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 While exercise and physical activity are important components of any healthy lifestyle, they are an absolute necessity for people who suffer from sleep disorders. Your exercise program should target flexibility, circulation of blood and lymph fluid, and relaxation. You don't need to run marathons or lift weights to benefit from regular exercise. Exercises from the East, such as qigong and yoga, increase flexibility and also help relax an anxious mind. |
| In addition to a healthy lifestyle, Chinese herbal supplements can be very helpful in strengthening the kidney essence, says Harriet Beinfeld, L.Ac. She recommends the herbs ginseng, lotus seed, and longan fruit for a woman with a kidney essence weakness that results in a heart yin deficiency. Symptoms of this condition are insomnia, hot flashes, anxiety, palpitations, emotional instability, unusual thirst or perspiration, and premenstrual buildup with scanty, bright flow. For women with a kidney essence deficiency that results in a liver weakness, Dr. |
| But many people in their seventies and eighties sleep wonderfully well because they have had a healthy lifestyle. Here are some lifestyle changes that you can make to improve your sleep in the long run:
¦ Get plenty of exercise each day.
¦ Go to bed at a regular time each night and get up at the same time every morning.
¦ Eliminate distractions at bedtime. Turn off lights and the television.
¦ Avoid caffeine prior to bedtime, and preferably after 10 a.m.
¦ Don't smoke. Nicotine is a stimulant.
¦ Avoid sleeping pills. If you must use them, never do so for more than three nights in a row. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 We believe that effective stress management involves three equally important areas: þTechniques to calm the mind and promote a positive mental attitude þFollowing a healthy lifestyle, including regular physical exercise þSupporting your body by eating a healthful diet and utilizing key dietary and botanical supplements.
Calming the Mind and Body
Learning to calm the mind and body is extremely important in relieving stress. Among the easiest methods to learn are relaxation exercises. |
Andreas Moritz
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| The natural turnover of cells or atoms, however, is no longer complete or efficient in the majority of people who live in a fast-paced world that has little time for a healthy lifestyle and balanced diet. People are unhealthy today because they eat unhealthy foods (and think unhealthy thoughts). In contrast, a nourishing diet consists of natural, unpolluted foods and fresh, clean water. Only very few societies have managed to maintain their youth and health at all age levels. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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| We also teach people how to accept these healthy lifestyle changes as a permanent way of life rather than just a temporary discipline while they are "on a diet." Even though many of these changes are based on common sense—like not skipping breakfast, eating more slowly, and avoiding sugary drinks—the only way to make healthy dietary changes a permanent way of life is to provide people with a long-term solution that will reduce their appetite and eliminate unhealthy food cravings so that they are not driven back to their old behaviors. |
Ray D. Strand
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 Instead, I'm talking about a healthy lifestyle that has the side effect of fat loss. I work aggressively with my patients for about twelve weeks so they know exactly how to apply these principles to the way they like to eat. Losing weight is not the answer. Correcting insulin resistance is the key.
Treating Diabetes
All physicians agree that we should first give our patients a chance to improve their diabetes by encouraging them to make effective lifestyle changes. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 I appreciate my healthy lifestyle. It makes me quite aware of the tremendous amount of obesity today. I am confident and pleased with my life.
WENDY
I was a long-time vegeterian, not organic. I was very emotional, angry, low energy, and self critical, with bladder infections, and I did not consider healthy food choices. The quality of my personal relationships was poor. I had fibroid surgery in 1985, which damaged organs, gave me hemorrhoids, and made my kidneys sluggish.
I joined a support group in April 2001 with my husband to renew our relationship. |
| I am with it 80 percent today and plan to reactivate my juicing and healthy lifestyle.
HARRY
Following Gary's food protocols brought valuable changes to me and to other people in my support group. I had a negative medical diagnosis. Family problems left me low in enthusiasm. I required long hours of sleep to rest from daily stress.
Following the program, exercising, juicing, and using supplements, green powders, red powders, and vitamin C, I lost weight and gained a new vitality. I sleep less. |
Dan Buettner
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 One of the goals to a healthy lifestyle is moderation in all things. What one is looking for is moderation, taking in a level of calories that is necessary and balancing those calories across carbohydrates, fats, and proteins. Taking in really what you need. There are some things we know that are just generally bad. Most fast foods are not necessarily healthy. We seem to like a lot of the things that are bad for us: salt, sugar, fat. There is something about humans that is inherently self-destructive, at least when it comes to eating.
The best diet is basically one of moderation. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 You can then live a healthy lifestyle effortlessly day in and day out without feeling deprived. Your body will continue on its path to optimum wellness. And you will rarely again get "caught off guard" when it comes to your health or you read a headline in the paper about tainted tap water in your community.
We have become a society that no longer has to worry so much about things like plague, famine, and poor sanitation. We now suffer from the products and iy-products of our own technological advancements that provoke poor health and chronic illness. |
| They can reinforce unhealthy habits (eating processed foods high in saturated fat, salt, and refined sugars) and serve as a disincentive to create a healthy lifestyle. Moreover, there are hidden risks to statins that don't get publicized nearly as much as their touted benefits. For example, in August 2003, the FDA approved a statin drug called Crestor (rosuvastatin calcium). |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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| Hypnotherapy can be a key to switching off insomnia because it provides a way to contact the deeper, unconscious self, let go of old anxiety patterns, and create healthy lifestyle changes in their place.
Hypnosis works by accessing the unconscious mind and training it to react in a positive way, such as inducing an immediate sense of relaxation. It can be a nurturing and highly relaxing experience. Certified hypnotherapists do not attempt to control your mind or take you into a state so deep that you don't have control over yourself. |
Michele Simon
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 The GMA's Alison Kretser admonished us that education is needed so that children are free to "adopt a healthy lifestyle that meets their own needs" and "enjoy their favorite foods."
What Kretser is effectively saying is that it's up to you, kids, to figure out which of your "favorite" (industry code for "junk") foods best fit you and your "healthy lifestyle." (When did kids start having "lifestyles" instead of a life? |
Elaine Magee
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 Perhaps this is partly why beans are named specifically in the AICR advice for lowering cancer risk as part of a healthy lifestyle.
Lose weight. A current theory of appetite control suggests a beneficial synergy between fiber and protein, and beans offer both. High-fiber foods tend to fill us up so that we stop eating sooner, and moderate amounts of protein keep us feeling full longer. "This combination of an abundance of high-fiber foods and a moderate amount of protein offers an eating pattern that can help us cut back on how much we eat so we can lose weight," says Collins. |
| Eight Strategies to Reduce Stroke Risk
Besides the obvious healthy lifestyle habits, like exercising regularly and not smoking, what can you do? Take note of the following food-related strategies advised by the American Heart Association (AHA).
1. Eat to lower your blood pressure and keep sodium in check. Cut back on sodium by going easy on the processed stuff while upping your potassium with fruits and vegetables, beans, and low-fat dairy foods. |
Marshall Editions
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 What follows is some practical advice on making healthy lifestyle changes that can result in maintainable weight loss.
Avoid "diet" drinks and foods: These items tend to be a rich source of artificial sweeteners and chemical flavorings. Studies suggest that sweeteners of this kind, although low in calories, increase the body's cravings for more sweet foods and drinks. They also tend to be found in nutritionally deficient foods and drinks, which do nothing to provide your body with essential nutrients. |
| This, together with a healthy lifestyle, will help to improve wellbeing and protect against long-term damage to the body's major organs.
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