Nutrition and Skin Care
One of the important aspects of taking care of your skin is good nutrition. Good products for general skin care especially of that of the face can be found at Stacy Sossner Organics. Check out all the she has to offer as well.
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Nutrition and Children, it’s NOT JUST for the kids though…
Most moms have trouble getting good nutrition into their children every day. Totally understandable given busy schedules, past eating habits, peer pressure etc. so many variables.
This VIDEO provides some excellent tips plus a way to unsure they and you get your daily nutrition. A system proven to be VERY effective to maintain the best of health in today’s society. A pediatrician and a mom are interviewed.
Nutrition supplements (Whole Food) vs. Vitamins
Scientific evidence over the last decade has concluded that vitamin pills or capsules are ineffective for filling the nutrition gap that occurs in most of our diets. The reason is vitamin “Supplements” are not what is needed, but rather concentrated supplements from “whole food”. Vitamins have “x” amount of milligrams of a small number of nutrients, vs thousands of phytonutients aka (plant chemicals) that occur in whole, organic, vine ripened produce. That is what we need the most of in our diet for optimum health. The best of whole food supplementation that I and more importantly, many health professionals know and use is this. See the video to learn a bit about the extensive independent 3rd party research done on this. No one else has this caliber of research done.
As We Enter the Cold and FLU season....
….something that is important for us all to be doing every day but often don’t is to get proper nutrition. Especially if you work an office it’s often hard to get proper nutrition every day. For many the 9-5 routine is something they only wish they could do, but instead find themselves working many more hours. Not only earlier, but later as well. Then if you have school aged children as well, makes it even tougher, unless you can establish a ritual of healthy eating every day. And then again, what constitutes healthy eating?
Other that proper hydration (Half your body weight in water every day) nutrition is very important for keeping up our immune system. One of the best ways I’ve found to do this is to get the nutrition of 9-13 servings of fresh fruit and veggies everyday without necessarily consuming them. How do you do that?
See this video and let me know if you have any questions:
Nutrition and Your Inner Child
There comes a time when you just have to give in to your inner child. Who is your inner child? It’s the you that’s inside you before you entered puberty and became an adult. Your inner child is still a part of you and the part that must be connected with, nourished and loved by the you as an adult. If the adult you does not pay any attention to your inner child, your inner child will become very unhappy and affect you in your adult life in ways you won’t realize and really can’t imagine. By connecting with your inner child you can heal yourself in many ways that you can’t possibly imagine. I did not realize how much I neglected my inner child for many years. I felt because of my responsibilities I could not afford the time nor spend the energy to allow that part of me to come out. I felt such an indulgence could only be allowed once some success was attained on my part to earn that ability. I did not realize that I had it backwards, The reality is that your success in any area of your life can not be attained UNLESS you tend to your inner child’s needs. Your inner child being happy is a big part of what will make you happy. It’s also along the lines of the saying “stop and smell the roses”…..well stop and pay attention to your inner child. Address your inner child by name. I use Ricky, since that’s what I went by as a child up till I was about twelve.
The reason I call this post Nutrition and You Inner Child is not just about food, but Nutrition or nourishment in many forms, love, attention, nurturing, what ever he or she wants. He will tell you, you just have to listen. However taking things a little more literally one of the things Ricky really likes once in a while is root beer floats. Of course that consist of rootbeer and Ice cream. Of course either of these is what I normally consume but doing so once in a while will not kill me. Quite the contrary it is a comfort food and since it feeds me spiritually, it will indeed be good for me because feeding my spirit, in this case my inner child will make him happy and feel good. There can be other kinds of things that your inner child wants that may not necessarily be considered healthy as I promote here in my blog but if we don’t feed our spirit. And I’m not talking about just your inner child but your inner teenager as well. That is another level of your being that should never be ignored.
As I’ve been saying recently about the need for connecting with your spirituality, your spirit being you higher self. Some things that may not be “nutritionally sound” but strengthening your spirit is more important than “nutrition excellence” all the time. Plus if you follow my advise of the solution I refer to in getting concentrated nutrition on a regulaar basis. These occasional or maybe some what regular “intercessions” will help your spirit and make you a more powerful person with a balanced well rounded lifestyle that resonates with your being. That’s what’s really important, doing what resonates with you. If you follow that, you can’t really go wrong.
Messages for you from Movies, Books, TV, Music and People
Messages that many of us get everyday all day are from our everyday environment like movies, books and songs, and People. One of the things I’ve learned about paying attention to the guidance I receive is sometimes just a pattern of feelings that leads me to an awakening or seeing something from a perspective that hadn’t occurred to me before. In a previous post I mentioned shifting. When ever that happens I experience a shift. One major shift I had was during the
Exercise, Nutrition and Spiritual Energy
The other day I posted my first blog post about spirituality. As a mix for good health with Nutrition and exercise which I’ve been posting for a couple years now.
With my last blog post about sports injuries, or wear and tear when it comes to exercise, it came to be that many feel you can do all the concentrated nutrition and exercise you want and it didn’t stop “someone they know” from getting cancer, Alzheimer’s, or some other deadly disease. I will say that although this is true, I feel the occurrence of the disease likely came about from a stressful scenario in their life that wasn’t resolving. There is a book that I can’t remember the name of that lists a bunch of behaviors or habits that have an amazing cause and effect on the manifestation of disorders. When I looked at the book I was amazed at the examples I found in the cause and effect of the behaviors and habits of my dad, my mom, myself and others and certain ailments that they had. Being aware of these was an eye opening experience to make changes in those areas. However often times knowing of these is not enough. I have also found that getting myself exposed to various energies can help to make the changes or other wise known as shifts. Shifts are something that happen when either we are exposed to different information that helps us to see things in a different way, or and experience that occurs with similar results. I’ve also seen that happen in that one can make pretty immediate changes when just exposed to different spiritual energies. When I say energy I am not referring to when someone feels a lot of energy they feel like doing a lot of activity. Another way to put it would be to refer to these energies as frequencies or vibrations. As you know vibrations and frequencies are all around us, though many associate those as the electronic ones we are bombarded with every day, I’m referring to the natural ones. There are vibrations that all matter have. As we know all matter is made up of molecules and the only difference between say air and a table are the frequencies that they vibrate at. Well these spiritual energies come about as a result of what some people can bring about and what can just be called upon by us. Remember we are all spiritual beings here in our bodies to fulfill a purpose.
Many of us have difficulty finding our passions because we’ve become so accustomed to not really enjoying life but just surviving. Know that you are here to do more than just survive, you are here to really enjoy living your passions. Another method I was made aware of by a few of my spiritual friends is a workshop called EOB or “Essence of Being”, This is an incredible workshop which is facilitated by a woman named Burge Smith Lyons and is an incredible person in my opinion. This workshop is one in which you interact with others doing different exercise of interactivity, questions are asked of you and those you do this with which is an incredible experience. They use a number of techniques, many of which I’ve seen and used before but combine them in such a way to really help you to get to the root of many of the things that are troubling you in life. It helps you learn to take control of your life. As I say, we are all here for a purpose and if you’re not sure what tat is, I recommend taking this workshop. Get more info at www.Essenceofbeing.com or check out the FB invite http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=147990078592813 assuming you’re on FaceBook. If you’re not let me know, I’d be happy to provide info to this amazing experience.
That is why we are all here. The only thing we need to do is make yourself aware of that purpose and to go about executing it. Sound simple right? Obviously not since many of us are clueless as to what that purpose is that we’re supposed to fulfill. What it comes down to is our passions. Whatever it is that makes you feel good, feel alive, that is where you should be and what you should be doing. If you love what you do, it makes life much easier. Some of us are still searching and still feel clueless, or find what makes us feel great or have trouble finding how to make it our livelihood. Usually when we have trouble either finding our passions or finding how to make it our livelihood is due to fear. Fear that we’re not good enough with our passions to charge people for it. However the reality is that we are indeed good enough for those who need our help, our guidance, our talents that we do not realize the benefits we provide. Another issue with this is to allow. Allow yourself to be available to those who need what you are passionate about, Who are more than willing to pay a good price to receive what you have to offer.
The bottom line here is, Taking good care of your body and exercising regularly for optimum health are all useless if we are not fulfilling our passions. It is said that man does not LIVE on food and water alone. Love is a part of that and Love is the most powerful energy in the universe. If we don’t have a love for what we do and we don’t give and share love in our day to day lives being involved and doing, following our passions, then we are not fulfilling the purpose our spirit put us here for in the first place and it may be your spirit manifesting the disease because you are wasting time by not fulfilling your purpose.
As I said in that previous post as well I have discovered that fulfilling your spirit’s purpose for putting you here, is actually more important the nutrition and exercise. Though doing both of those I feel will make you more productive in fulfilling your purpose. Personally I feel promoting nutrition and exercise is part of my purpose, The other is working with people to help them resolve who they are and why their here. Which is why I feel I was led to Reiki., Tantra and the other spiritual practices I’m involved with that all resonate with me so much and makes me grateful to have found my place.
Sports Injuries, or Exercise Wear and Tear.. and Nutrition.
The bones cartilage and all parts associated with the joints would be repaired and strengthened through proper nutrition for. What it takes is to increase the nutritional concentration on a daily basis. The key factor is getting the ALL important enzymes that are only mostly found in vine ripened produce.
Yesterday as I was riding my bike I came across a woman running using a device on her shoes or perhaps it was part of her shoes, that was a kind of a bow spring, I slowed down on my bike to ask her about it. I felt it was to increase the strengthening of her calves, but actually it was to relieve the impact to her ankles and knees, I said ah, ok cool. I said that on the out side, but on the inside I said bad idea. You may ask why a bad idea, isn’t that good to be able to get the running exercise in without stress to the ankles and knees since running is known to cause issues there? And the answer is……. No, I don’t agree!!!
The reality is that common injuries or wear and tear on certain joints etc associated with some sporting or exercise activities are “known” to occur and some accept those as facts. The reality is they are misconceptions. Do these injuries and wear and tear not occur? Of course they do but it is not due to the activity, it is due to inadequate nutrition one gets in the dietary intake that is the problem. Not the activity itself. If we needed a contraption like that woman was wearing don’t you realize we would have been suited with something like that in our anatomy to prevent problems. No, if we take in sufficient amounts of nutrients on a regular basis these injuries or “wearing out” would not occur, those areas of the body would repair and get stronger according to what is needed for the body to protect itself. Just as body builders take nutrition to help their muscles adapt to handling the workout, there fore building muscle mass. The bones cartilage and all parts associated with the joints would be repaired and strengthened through proper nutrition for. What it takes is to increase the nutritional concentration on a daily basis. The key factor is getting the ALL important enzymes that are only mostly found in vine ripened produce. Increasing your nutritional intake starts with consuming lots of raw, vine ripened fruits and veggies on a daily basis. Problem is your local grocery store does not have vine ripened produce. And no organic isn’t necessarily vine ripened either, Vine ripened means the produce was picked at it’s peak of being ripe. That’s when the. They only get in in the last couple weeks of becoming ripe occur and what is at the store shelves are picked way before that.
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I will say that this information is not just about what I’ve read, or heard about but what I’ve experienced for myself. I, about 10 or more years ago decided to start running regularly since I wanted to get rid of abs fat that I always had trouble with and I learned running was the best way to get rid of it. So I did so for a couple months but found my ankles and knees were bothering me from the “impact” from running. So I stopped, and did different exercise. Then when I learned of the way to increase my nutritional density I did so and had been at it for maybe two years when I began learning about how others were benefiting. So I decided to start running again and found that not only could I run 3 miles daily without any problem, I got up to 6 and as much as 8 miles in a day with only some minor discomfort. That’s when I realized how important nutrition plays. Another part of nutrition which I’ve mentioned before which is key which is hydration. Hydration is really important for so many areas, so if you combine good hydration with concentrated nutrition it’s a very good combo. Though seeing me to get some Reiki is very helpful as wellJJ As I said in a blog post from a coupe days ago. Getting some life force/spiritual energy in the mix makes for an unbeatable combo when it comes to good health.
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Obama Health Care Reform?
I’ve posted on the Obama Health Care plan in the past and what we have going on now and comments being made about it really just enforces what I said previously I think. The only Real Health Care Reform requires a totally new paradigm. What I mean is the money making aspect would need a totally new approach. Using the current system of healthcare in the US, I mean the way medicine in general is practiced would need to change and that would involve a totally different mindset with the American people. I have to say they actually perpetuate the problem. They are improving but the idea of what too many Americans consider good eating and lifestyle habits is the first step. This new paradigm I refer to would mostly put the pharmaceutical companies out of business as well as the medical equipment companies, probably hospitals as well. Doctors and other medical personnel would need to be totally retrained. Nothing that could be done in one or two presidential terms.
Here is a discussion that was on the Diane Rehm Show, Thursday, March 25, 2010 on NPR. By the way NPR is my favorite news source because it is not influenced by commercial interests.
This link is to a page with a podcast of the Diane Rehm show on NPR.
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2010-03-25/whats-health-care-bill
It includes the comments I refer to above.
As a person who believes in a holistic approach to good health; eating as natural as possible to include as little processing and artificial ingredients as possible, maintaining the body physically with regular exercise and feeding oneself spiritually are key to preventing disease and illness. The spirituality aspect is one I’ve come to learn and appreciate more in the last few months. In reading my blog if your just seeing it, I talk of many aspects of diet, medical procedures and other environmental issues that effect our health and give a heads up to readers who may appreciate a different perspective on information they’ve already heard or read.
I’ll likely be following up on the healthcare reform issue as I get more from my nutrition and health resources.
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Dr. Servan-Schreiber: Anti Cancer- A New Way of life.
This posting is mostly content from an Interview by Joseph Cooper, host of the show, Tropical Currents on WLRN radio in Miami Florida. I recommend you listen to the interview yourself at http://204.13.1.19:81/and select the podcast from Monday, March 15th. In this partial transcript I add some of my own comments. Though mostly I agree with and applaud what Dr. Servan-Schriberis doing to promote prevention of cancer and disease in general with Oncologists, some of his statements are in contrast to what I’ve learned from other reputable sources of which I will do follow-ups once I inquire with those sources for their feedback. I comment accordingly to those statements in this posting. Dr. David Servan-Schreiber wrote the book Anti Cancer- A New Way of life. Go to the website http://anticancerbook.com to read more about him. He is a clinical professor of neuropsychiatryat University of Pittsburgh. At 31, while doing an experiment in brain scans and a test subject did not show, he did the test on himself, to discover he had a brain tumor. He went through the conventional treatment of surgery and chemo and went into remission. However a few years later, he got it again. After repeating the round of treatments, he asked his doctors if there was anything he could do to prevent it again. They said not really, just keep getting checked, if it happens again, we’ll get it sooner for better treatment results. He was not satisfied with that answer so began doing his own research and learned what changes in his lifestyle; diet and exercise he could make to prevent a recurrence again. In his research he found the reality is you can help your body resist disease. What you eat can either slow down or prevent any disease, cancer or otherwise. In doing research, he learned that brain tumors are more common in young people. Part of the problem is that modern Oncologists do not see it as part of their job to see what patients can do to prevent of slow down recurrence. The reason we don?t all die of cancer is that although we all have cancer cells in the body, the immune system keeps it from being a problem. The point is to find the right diet that will strengthen your natural defenses.
The approach is to create a “Tumor Micro environment” to make the biological environment unpleasant for the growth/development of those cells. He says with brain cancer, you can never cancer free. Just a matter of keeping under control. He pointed out that Cancer for almost all cases is not genetic. There have been Cases of foster children getting cancer as per their foster parents. Children have the risk of adoptive parents, showing it’s lifestyle, not genetics.
The question was posed, why the increase of cancer over the last 40 years. Part the population is older, since people are living longer. Also screening for more than had been in the past. But cancer has been growing 1.5% per year in children. Other cancers like prostate and others have been increasing as well. Lifestyle changes, diet- avoid the obvious bad choices. Foods that slow down cancer growth (some are listed below), more activity, move on bike or walk instead of using a car. Stress management, pursue work that is most satisfying, or has most meaning to you. It’s been learned that stress does not cause cancer, but can help cancer grow. If you need help with your needs, call on friends or family to help out. Staying isolated is problematic.
How does one avoid quacks? Dr. Servan-Schreiber is much in favor of helping body as much as possible, however his opinion is that conventional treatment is the only proven treatment. He feels other treatments have not been proven. I will do a follow-up on this in a later blog posting but I’ve learned otherwise. He warns against anyone that tells you that conventional treatment is not proven. If they say that, beware. Those who say that if you don’t get better from their non-conventional treatment, you did not want it enough.
Make sure your diet moves away from refined sugar. Most problem sugar is from sodas, the corn syrup.
Cell phones can also be a problem. This cell phone comment relates to my previous post, we should all be conscious of this. Dr. Servan-Schreiber points out that the current research literature says there is no relationship between cell phone use and brain tumor. The problem here is the results of any studies had not taken place over a long enough period of time. Studies must be over 10 years or more. He points out that withcigarette smoking, it takes 10-20 years for any evidence of cancer to show up. He proposes the same is probably true with cell phones and that they are the “Cigarette” of the 21st century. He also proproses that 1 hour or more per day of cell phone use is considered a problem.
Here is some of his suggestions for disease prevention:
Drinking 3 cups or more a day of Green Tea for 50% reduction. Their Polyphenols kills cancer cells and prevents blood vessel growth, preventing tumor growth. Will lower blood pressure. Best to drink it outside of meals for better absorption.
Consuming Stone fruits daily.
Mind body links- don’t live long in helplessness. Use breathing techniques to reduce stress. Any Yoga breathing technique will do. Make sure to reach out to friends, do things with people you like, it’s better for your health than television.
Less cancer in Eastern than Western diet. Mushrooms are great for immune systems, especially Japanese mushrooms, consuming 2-3 times a week.
So the some of the diet biggies, Stone fruit, mushrooms and green tea.
With relation to Organic, vs. Non-organic? Recommendations are for more fruits and vegetables. No distinction of such is made. It’s less of a problem to get a little pesticides in your daily fruit and vegetable consumption than no fruits and vegetables at all. 80% vegetable is best diet. Cooking vs raw. Cooking won’t destroy most cancer fighting chemicals. Hope you find this useful.
Would love to get your comments.
A key part of leading a healthy lifestyle is to get lots of fresh raw fruits and vegetables in your daily diet. The problem is, most people do not and with children it’s worse. Cell phones and their wireless accessories expose us daily to more radiation than ever before. One way to protect is by using a wired earpiece. The best way to protect from the damage done is with fruits and vegetables. For an easy way to accomplish that go here: Contact me rick@rickfigley.com or 954-649-5896 to learn more or visit my Juice Plus+ website www.rickshowsjuiceplus.com
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