The Vegan Lifestyle

People spend lots of money to maintain their health. Millions are paid in hospital bills, doctor’s fees, laboratory fees, medicines, and in regular medical checkup. Almost all of man’s striving and endeavors are for his health, happiness, and well being.

But money cannot buy health. Rich people are not exempt from diseases, and even the richest die of terminal cancers which their money has no power to reverse. It is for man’s good to finally come into realization of how futile and worthless wealth can be in a life bereft of good health, and therefore very mandatory that he strives to acquire good health.

Good nutrition is one among the eight secrets of good health. Food is the most basic need of man to live. But it is not only the eating and gulping of food you like – it must be nutritionally balanced to be truly beneficial for the body.

A nutritionally balanced diet must include carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins and minerals. Rich sources of these nutrients are fruits, nuts, grains, and vegetables.

Most people, especially the children prefer meat than vegetables. They believe that proteins can only be obtained from meats, fish, and other animal products. But this is not true. On the contrary, plants, seeds, grains and vegetables are more abundant sources of proteins. Proteins from meats are heavy proteins and are hard to digest. Plant-based proteins are light proteins and are easily digested and assimilated by the body.

Fruits, nuts, grains, and vegetables have all the nutrients needed for excellent health. True, no plant or herbs can produce vitamin B12 – a very essential vitamin in the formation and production of the red blood cells. But the human body can produce its own vitamin B12 when it has enough supply of cobalt which is available in plants or herbs such as Nova Scotia dulse, and Norwegian kelp (types of seaweeds). Vitamin B12 or cobalamin is also partially found in food rich in vitamin B1 or thiamine such as nuts, seeds, beans, brown rice, whole-grain cereals, oats, and leafy vegetables.

Flesh meats of animals, on the other hand, are very harmful to health. Meats of diseased animals are carriers of communicable diseases which are easily transferred to human beings. Most animals today are feed with growth hormones, feed additives, and their meats are loaded with preservatives, food colors, and other toxic chemicals that are dangerous to the body. Healthy animals are butchered in dirty slaughter houses, and bacteria and other pathogens thrive on these meats, and are already putrefying and decayed before it reach the consumers. Eating of flesh meats had long been suspected as the cause of tumors and cancers. Only in this modern time have it been verified and confirmed by medical doctors as true.

Think twice before eating meat. Where do people get these dreadful diseases: cancers, tumors, mad-cow disease, foot-and-mouth disease, bird’s flu, and the latest scare – the Ebola Reston virus?

Most people are not aware of the dangers of MSG. Monosodium glutamate or MSG is a toxic substance that is used as an enhancer in almost all processed foods. It was first discovered in  1908 by Kikunae Ikeda of Tokyo Imperial University. He isolated this flavor from seaweed broth and called it monosodium glutamate. Ikeda patented MSG in 1909 through the help of Ajinomoto Corporation of Japan, and from then on, it became the most popular food flavor in the name of Ajinomoto.

Monosodium glutamate is an excitotoxin like aspartame, and caffein. Like all excitotoxins, it is very dangerous to the body especially the brain and the nervous system. It causes brain tumors, brain cancers, and many more different disease.

Some of the consumers are now aware of the harmful effects of monosodium glutamate, and because of this, the manufacturers of MSG are hiding its name in euphemised names such as hydrolyzed protein, textured protein, yeast extract, sodium caseinate, glutamate, calcium caseinate, yeast nutrient, yeast food,  autolyzed yeast, hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP) , hydrolyzed plant protein (HPP), and others.

Hydrolyzed protein is made from rotten vegetables. This decaying vegetables are boiled in a vat of acids. After the acid bath, the veggie-acid slurry is then neutralized with caustic soda. The proteins then coagulate into a brown sludge, solidifies as a sludge mat on the surface of the vat. This brown sludge is dried up and powdered and sold as hydrolyzed protein.

MSG disrupts the endocrine relationship between the meta-thermoregulatory modulators like neuropeptide Y (NPY) and leptin and their target tissue, reducing the thermogenicity of brown fat while suppressing the food intake (hypophagia). This means that MSG will make you to gain weight even when you decrease your caloric intake.

Glutamic acid is one of the amino acids that are the building blocks of protein occurring naturally in tomatoes, milk and mushrooms. This natural glutamate in plants and animals is called L-glutamic acid. Nomal digestive process breaks this natural or “bound” glutamic acid, and then delivered to glutamate receptors in our body and brain. Broken this way, it is harmless, but when it is processed (autolyzed, hydrolyzed, modified or fermented with strong chemicals, bacteria or enzyme, it becomes “free” , modified and harmful. MSG is 78.2% glutamate, 12.2% sodium, and 9.6% water. This ‘”free” glutamic acid contains d-glutamic acid, L-glutamic acid,  pyroglutamic acid, and other contaminants which are not found in natural glutamic acids in plants and animals.

The following are some of the symptoms of MSG toxicity: swelling of hands, numbness or paralysis, mouth lesions, atrial fibrillation, rise or drop in blood pressure, rapid heartbeat, angina, vomiting,  heart palpitation, stomach cramps, painful rectum, spastic colon, joint pains, muscle aches, water retention, shortness of breath, mental dullness, tightness of chest, depression, runny nose and sneezing, loss of memory, dizziness, anxiety,  extreme dryness of mouth, migraine headaches, Parkinson’s, insomnia, infertility, gall bladder problems, kidney pain, aching teeth, skin rash, tinnitus or Meniere’s disease, , slurred speech, balance problem, obesity, brain tumors and cancers, chronic cough, asthma, ALS, ADD, ADHD, diabetes, epilepsy, hypothyroidism, multiple sclerosis, pituitary tumors, hypoglycemia.

To stay younger is the dream of most women. Millions are spent on cosmetics, rejuvenating creams, lotions, and herbals to maintain youthfulness and beauty. Women flock and frequent beauty parlors  to have their hairs trimmed and colored, and gray hairs dyed to look more younger. The rich and the affluent pay large sums of money to have their sagging skins in the face, neck, and arms stretched to remove wrinkles. And still others resort to cosmetic surgery to remove unwanted skins and muscles to look younger and more beautiful.

Are cosmetics and surgery the only way to a youthful beauty?

No! There are natural ways to a youthful beauty that are more cheaper and lasting than cosmetics and surgeries with no side effects.

To stay younger, we must learn the principles of good health. First and foremost, we must think young. Stop worrying about getting old, and start thinking of getting younger everyday. The mind is a powerful machine that makes real what we feed on it. As we believe, so we are.

There are 8 secrets to good health: nutrition, exercise, water, sunlight, temperance, air, rest and trust in Divine Power.

Let us discuss nutrition first. A balanced diet must include all the nutrients essential for a healthy body. This includes carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins and minerals. With carbohydrates, we “go”, with proteins, we “grow”, and with vitamins and minerals, we “glow”.

Avoid junk foods. They are loaded with food additives, flavors, enhancers, colors, and preservatives that are very harmful to the body. Most of these substances are excitotoxins that cause tumors, cancers, and many diseases that can hasten old age, and eventually death.

Eat fruits, grains, nuts and vegetable. They are complete with all the nutrients needed by the body. Plant proteins are light and are easily digested and assimilated by the body. Fruits, grains, nuts, and vegetables have phytochemicals that have healing powers. Almost all fruits grains, nuts, and vegetables have antioxidants that can prevent and protect the body from the harmful effects of pollution and stress which can hasten premature aging.

Eat three square meals a day.There should be no meals in between. You can skip dinner, or even lunch, but never your breakfast. Skipping breakfast makes one fat and obese.

Chew your food well. Eat less and do not overindulge. Practice temperance. Whatever is in excess is not good for the body.

Avoid sugar and all confectionery products. It destroys the brain and the nervous system, especially the memory.

Avoid flesh meats of animals. They are loaded with toxic chemicals such as feed additives, growth hormones, and preservatives. Flesh meats have parasites, virus and other pathogens that can carry communicable diseases to consumers such as mad cow disease, foot and mouth disease, bird’s flu, and Ebola Reston virus.

Avoid tobacco, coffee, soft drinks, liquor, and other alcoholic drinks. These are all  substances that overstimulate the brain and the nervous system. Soft drinks and other carbonated drinks have caffeine and aspartame. These are dangerous excitotoxins that destroy the body. Tobacco has nicotine, and cigarette has hundreds of toxic substances, 22 of which are proven carcinogens.

Drink at least 8 to 10 glasses of water every day. Except for fruit and vegetable juices, do not drink water during meals. They should be taken an hour after meals or between meals. Drink fruit and vegetable juices. They cure a lot of diseases including cancer. Fruit and vegetable juices are the elixirs of youth.

Have a regular exercise in the open air free from pollution, and under the invigorating heat of the morning sunlight. This is very beneficial to the body. It reduces bad cholesterol, and increases the good cholesterol in the body. The fresh air and the sunlight are good for blood circulation, and is an excellent blood toner.

Take time to rest. It is very essential for body repair and rejuvenation. Go to bed at least 2 hours before midnight to be able to avail the best effects of a very sound sleep. Have at least 6 to 8 hours sleep every day. Do not oversleep. It is not good for the body.

Trust in Divine Power. You were created in God’s image, and you are in perfect health. Have a positive outlook in life. Hope for the best. Think of beautiful things. Do not worry about tomorrow; let tomorrow worry about itself. Smile  and laugh – these are potent stress killers! Laugh till your stomach aches. This is the best way to boost the immune system, and to kill cancer cells. Laughter activates the built-in healing mechanism in the body.

Flesh meat eating is harmful to health. It is the main cause of cancers, tumors, heart diseases, heart attack, strokes,  and other diseases.

In the beginning, God gave man his original diet: fruits, grains, nuts, and vegetables. Man was originally designed as a herbivore. As such, the structure of his mouth, teeth, jaw, and intestines, are distinctly very different from carnivores. He has small mouth opening, and he has sharp cutting incisors with flat or nodular surfaced molars for crushing and grinding food. His jaw has  three distinct motions – up and down; sideways; forward or backward, but in a limited degree. Also man’s large intrestines runs through the abdominal cavity like an inverted U, and consists of ascending, transverse,  and descending colons.

After the Flood, plants and all the vegetation were all totally destroyed, and man was allowed to eat the flesh meats of clean animals which were brought in the Ark. From then on, man started to eat flesh meats, and all forms of diseases followed. His life span became shorter –  from over a hundred years to 70 years old.

During those ancient days, the animals were clean, and grazed on clean grasses, as vegetation started to grow back. Nowaday, animals are injected with growth hormones that are harmful to the body. And their feeds are mixed with dried pulverized carcases, additives, and other toxic chemicals. These animals are butchered in dirty slaughter houses – where animal fecal wastes mingle with their flesh meats. Also some of these animals are sick with communicable diseases that are transferred to the consumers, such as flu, pneumonia, tuberculosis, mad cow disease, foot and mouth disease, bird’s flu, Ebola Reston virus, and others.  Even the flesh meats of healthy animals, besides the chemicals from feed, and other additives, are flooded with insulin which they secrete in reaction to fear when butchered.

In the 17th century, Mrs. Ellen G. White, by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, wrote a warning concerning flesh meat eating. She predicted that flesh meat eating will be the cause of tumors, and cancer. It is only now in the 21st century that doctors confirmed her prediction as true.

Flesh meats contain a stress hormone called 17-hydroxycorticosteroid which stimulates the pituitary gland, and cause man to be more animalistic, and less rational. During cooking, some chemical substances are produced in meats, such as benzopyrene, and methylcholanthrene. Benzopyrene can cause stomach tumors, and leukemia. It is so toxic that in a one kilo of charcoal-broiled steak, there is as much benzopyrene as in 600 cigarettes. Methylcholanthrene is a cacinogenic  sustance formed when the fat of meats are superheated.

Besides, the toxic chemical substances in meats, there is also greater risk of having heart diseases, heart attacks,  strokes, and cardiovascular diseases that are closely related with flesh meat eating. Animal flesh meats are high in cholesterol that clogs the vein and arteries resulting to heart attacks and strokes.

Laughter The Best Medicine

Laughter is the best Medicine

A lot of diseases could have been cured had people learned to laugh. More deaths could have been prevented had they laughed their diseases and problems off.

A study by Doctor Lee Berk and Doctor Stanley Tan of Loma Linda Hospital showed that laughter lowers blood pressure, produces a general well being, and boosts the immune system by raising the levels of infection-fighting T-cells, disease fighting proteins called gamma interferon, and B-cells which produced  disease producing antibodies. Laughter reduces stress hormones such as epinephrine, cortisol, dopac, and dopamine. It triggers the release of endorphins, the bodies natural pain killer.

The study showed that after exposure to laughter, there is a general increase in activity within the immune system including an increase in the number of activity of natural killer cells that attack viral infected cells and some type of cancer and tumor cells. It was found that after exposure to humor there was an increase in activated T-cells (T-lymphocytes) also the following were noted; increase in the antibody IgA (immunoglobulin A) which fights upper respiratory tract infection, increase in gamma interferon which tells various components of the immune system to “turn on”; increase in IgB, the Immunoglobulin produced in greatest quantity in the body, and an increase in compliment free, which helps antibodies to pierce dysfunctional or infected cells.

Laughter is the best medicine. There is indeed a built-in healing mechanism that is activated when we laugh. Laughing relaxes the muscles, and brings rejuvenation to the organs of the body. Laughter has a tremendous curative power. Indeed laughter cures almost all ailments and diseases even without the aid of any medication.

Curative Powers Of Garlic

Garlic has tremendous curative powers. Hundreds of diseases can be cured by garlic. Garlic has proven germicidal power. It is also a good antiseptic. Garlic kills most vicious germs such as those of typhoid, polio, cholera, cold, and flu.

Among the diseases that can be helped or cured by garlic are asthma, bronchitis, emphysema. Garlic can lower and normalize high blood pressure. Also, garlic can relieve earaches, toothaches, abdominal pains, and arthritic pains. Garlic is good for diarrhea, dyspepsia, and colitis. It relieves constipation, and is a very effective laxative. This is due to the high potassium content of garlic – 529 mg. in 100 grams, which is essential in muscle contraction in the stomach. Garlic contains allicin which stimulate the peristaltic motion of the intestinal walls, thereby producing bowel movement. Garlic cleanses the bloodstream of toxins in the body specially in the intestines, and it kills all germs of putrefying food in the stomach to purify the system. Garlic soothes and reduces inflammations.

Garlic can restore failing eyesight.  It has a thiamin-boosting ingredient that increases the body’s absorption of vitamin B-1 (thiamin) ten times. Impairment of the field of vision, inability to focus or see up close, dimness of vision, and blackouts can be corrected by taking garlic to boost the absorption of vitamin B-1, which is very necessary for good eyesight. Garlic has healing effect on eye catarrh and inflammation of lacrymal duct. Too much alcohol and tobacco depletes the body of vitamin B-1.

Garlic can also be used to cure upper respiratory tract infections such as tonsillitis, sinusitis, pharyngitis, and inflammations of the salivary glands and lymph glands. Sore throats and colds are easily relieved by garlic.

Garlic is also good in relieving headaches. It dilates the veins and arteries to relieve congestion.

How To Grow Organic Vegetables At Your Backyard

Organic is the trend in vegetarianism nowadays. Vegetables sold in markets are not safe anymore. Commercially grown vegetables are sprayed with pesticides, and boosted with fertilizers that areloaded with chemicals harmful to health. And to preserve these vegetables fresh, they are sprayed with formalin.

A safe alternative is to grow your own vegetable at your backyards.When your backyards have limited spaces or no soil, you can plant them in flower pots or in plastic bags. Buy flower pots or plastic bags big enough to accomodate your plants when they grow. Among the vegetables that thrive well on pots are tomatoes, eggplants, raddish, pechay, okra, and bell pepper. You can also plant lemon grass, sweet potato, and lemon.

Use sandy, loam soil. Do not use soil mixed with clay – it becomes sticky when you water the plant, and eventually becomes hard, preventing the water to go down and to be absorbed by the plant. Cover the soil with rice husks to prevent it from drying.This will prevent excessive water evaporation, and maintain the soil moisture.

Before transferring the seedling, or the young plant, be sure to prepare the soil in the flower pot or plastic bag well. Put enough loam soil up to the level will prevent draining out or erosion when you water the plant. Put fertilizer around  the plant, especially the bottom part. Put more soil and fertilizer at the bottom for the roots to really absorb the nutrients. Then plant the seedling or young plant on the pot. Be sure that the roots are not damaged or cut, and the soil are not pressed hard around the plant.

Use home-made organic fertilizer. Make a compost pit. Put grasses and leaves in it, and let them decompose until ready for use. You can buy an organic fertilizer at the store. There are one or two varieties of organic fertilizer available in the market; choose those made by vermiworms. It is really organic and very good for the plants. If you can afford, you can make your own organic fertilizer from vermiworms. Look for stores that sell vermiworms. It is a little bit expensive, but it is a good investment. Cover these worms with dried grasses, and after a time you will have a pure organic fertilizer.

Be sure to put fertilizer in your plants from time to time, either once a month, or once every two months. It depends on the plants – how big it is, what kind of plant it is, how fast it absorbs the fertilizer, and of course, how much fertilizer is eroded with the soil when watering the plants. Do not forget to put rice husks as toppings over the top soil. This will prevent excessive water evaporation, and will maintain water moisture around the plant.

Do not forget to water your plants. Water them in the morning and in late afternoon before the sun sets. Like us, they need water to grow. When the soil are left dry for a certain period, the plant withers and die. So water your plants regularly.

Do not just water your plants – check them also for insects. Insects eat up the leaves of plants, and kill the plants eventually. Check for caterpillars and snails too. They also eat the leaves of plants. Caterpillars are hard to find. They crawl behind the leaves, and can mimic the color of the leaves. And the snails too. You cannot see them crawling on the leaves – you will only see leaves eaten up.

Check your plants for aphids too. Never use toxic chemical spray to control them. Put a little petrol in water-soap mixture, ansd spray on plant leaves to remove aphids.

Avocado has many health benefits. It is a very palatable fruit that tastes and looks like an egg yolk. It is a very nutritious food that contains all the nutrients in egg less its cholesterol. It is good for the brain and the nervous system. It is  packed with vitamins,  minerals and other phytonutrients or plant compounds that are very  important for a healthy body functioning. It has monounsaturated fat that lowers bad cholesterol levels in the body. It was shown in research studies that monounsaturated fats reduces LDL (bad) cholesterol level in the blood, and increases or boost the HDL (good) cholesterol.

Avocado contains folate, one of the B complex vitamins that promotes healthy cell and tissue development. Folate also reduces the risks of birth defects.

Avocado also contains potassium, vitamin E, vitamin C, vitamin B6, lutein, beta-sitosterol. Potassium helps balance the body electrolytes. Vitamin E is a powerful antioxidant known to slow down the aging process, and helps protect against heart diseases and some types of cancer. Lutein is a carotenoid that can protect against eye diseases such as macular degeneration and cataracts. Beta-sitosterol is a phytonutrient that inhibits the absorption of cholesterol in the body, and it helps lower blood cholesterol levels.

Avocado also contains magnesium, riboflavin ( vitamin B2), glutathione, niacin (vitamin B3), pantothenic acid(vitamin B5), biotin (also a Bvitamin), copper, vitamin K, iron and zinc.

Avocado is nutrient booster. A research in Ohio State University showed that when avocado is added to green salad, more disease-fighting nutrients like lutein, lycopene, alpha carotene, and beta carotene are absorbed. These members of the carotenoid family are associated with healthy heart, prostate, and good vision.

Far infrared sauna for a healthier you!

We have tried everything to be healthy, and wasted a lot of money to be healthy. Now we can truly be healthy with the use of  infrared sauna. Infrared heat penetrates the skin deep enough not only to open skin pores to remove toxins from the body, but also to dissolve excess fat and cellulite in the body.

Far infrared sauna is the best way to increase blood flow to all parts of the body. As almost all diseases are caused by poor blood circulation, far infrared sauna can heal almost all diseases and prevent their recurrence. Good blood circulation triggers the release of endorphins to melt away stress which can cause a host of diseases.

Far infrared energy heats the muscle tissues to dilate the peripheral blood vessels which can relieve muscle spasm, joint stiffness, and other body aches such as rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, and fibromyalgia.

Far infrared sauna is very effective in detoxifying the whole body. The deep penetrating heat energy of far infrared sauna removes toxins stored in fat cells, and other cancer-causing heavy metals that we ingest from food, water, and air such lead, mercury, sulfuric acid, sodium, nicotine, and alcohol.

Far infrared sauna is the answer to the prayers of most women who have weight problems. With far infrared sauna, obesity will no longer be a problem to cause us inferiority complex and make us social outcasts. Far infrared heat energy of far infrared sauna not only burns cholesterol but also dissolves unwanted cellulite to restore your beautiful body.

Far infrared sauna is also good for the heart. It increases heart rate, and cardiac output. Far infrared sauna can lower high blood pressure.

Indeed, with far infrared sauna, we can truly be healthy, and free from diseases. Far infrared sauna promotes good blood circulation which triggers the release of endorphins to fight stress that can cause premature aging, and other diseases.

Certain foods can prevent cancer. These foods are primarily found  in fruits, grains, nuts, and vegetables.

Fruits, grains, nuts, and vegetables are rich in phytonutrients that are very essential in the healthy functioning of the body. These phytonutrients not only supply the body with the needful energy and vitality, but also have healing powers for a lot of diseases including cancers.

The following foods are best for the prevention of cancers:

• deep-green leafy vegetables, such as spinach, collards, kale, and broccoli.
• deep-orange or deep-yellow vegetables, such as squash, carrots, and others.
• all the allium-containing foods, such as onions, garlic, chives, and leeks.
• citrus fruits, such as lemons, oranges, grapefruits.
• red fruits and vegetables, such as strawberries, raspberries, tomatoes, and beets.
• whole grains, such as barley, whole wheat, and oats.
• legumes, such as soybeans, red beans, pinto beans.

There are many testimonies from terminal cancer patients who were  miraculously cured by drinking on a daily basis the fresh juices of  fruits and  vegetable. The juices from red beets, carrots, apples, pineapples, grapes, tomatoes, papaya, spinach, onions, garlic, cabbage, and grapefruits have potent curative powers for cancers. Cabbage and broccoli are good for the prevention and treatment of colon cancer. Horseradish has a phytochemical niazimin that can prevent the development of cancer cells. Cayenne can prevent prostate cancer. Soybeans and its products can prevent stomach cancer, colo-rectal cancer, prostate cancer, and lung cancer. Garlic and onions are powerful body detoxifiers that cleanses the blood to prevent a host of crippling diseases including cancers. The laetrile in cassava tubers is used to cure certain cancers.