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Health! For vigorous longevity we need a healthy body, healthy mind and healthy emotional well being. If we do not care about any of the above, we need to ask ourselves why? Our primary focus need to be on supporting our immune system to fight off disease and chronic illness and creating healthy longevity. There are steps that we will need to take to accomplish our goals.

Step 1. The fastest way to a strong immune system is good nutrition. Eating healthy, organic, at least 50% raw foods need to be included in your daily diet. There are some great resources to learning about raw food preparation, however, Fresh uncooked Fruits and Fresh uncooked vegetables are the place to begin. Having 2 fresh salads and a variety of fresh fruit is going to be a good start. When adding fresh fruit for your am and pm snacks your raw foods % will be greatly improved. There are some terrific books on the benefits of eating more raw food. Become Younger by Dr. N. W. Walker, D.Sc., The Raw Foods Bible by Craig B. Sommers, N.D., C.N. , The Rainbow Green Live-Food Cuisine by Gabriel Cousens, M.D., Superfoods by David Wolfe ( all sold at major health food stores), these are but a few of the numerous books on raw food health. Another Favorite healthy lifestyle book I like is, The Coconut Diet by Cherie Calbom. I drink the juice from a coconut every morning (when they are available). I scoop out the coconut meat and add it to my green breakfast smoothie. More information below on fresh raw foods.

Step 2. Exercise, Do what you like or you will not do it, keep it simple, like walking your do to the Post Office or the Park. It is important to find the most beneficial time for you to exercise. Ask yourself when you are most awake and energetic, first thing in the morning, midday, or late afternoon before dinner. Try not to exercise before bedtime because the chemicals that your brain releases from exercising may make it difficult for you to fall asleep. Lastly, the most important part of exercise is exercise. If you do not schedule the time to exercise, mark on your calendar, set an alarm on your cell phone, you will most likely forget. The mind can be very tricky when it wants to do something more fun and will think of all kinds of fun things to do instead of exercise.

It will be important to remember that as you begin to feel more and more fit through exercise, you will begin to want to feed your body more nutritious foods, drink filtered water, and get plenty of rest. Most people need between 5-10 hours a day of sleep any more or any less can be harmful to your health. The best way to determine your natural sleep need is to go to bed on a day that you do not have to go to work like Saturday, do no set an alarm clock and sleep until you wake up. If you went to bed at 11:00pm and woke up at 6:00am you need 7 hours of sleep. Make sure that you are fully rested before you try this, so go to bed at your normal time on Friday and get up when you are fully awake. Then on Saturday, do the same thing and see what time you wake up. You can adjust the time you go to sleep so that you can wake up naturally at the time you need to wake up for work or your daily routine.

Step 3. Body, Emotion, Mind connection, for some of us its called a spiritual connection. Spiritual connections are of your choice, if its church, mass, temple, meditation circle, etc., so be it. The point is, to sit still for a specific amount of time and be quiet. Whether that is in prayer, in meditation or the lotus position, or chanting just make time for your Body, Mind and Emotions to focus on something other than yourself. If that is God, Buddha, Spiritual Guide or your Higher Power, so be it.

Ways to combine your body, mind and spirit are by doing exercises that engage all three aspects of yourself. For example, Qi Gong, Tai Chi, or Yoga. The movements of these 3 exercises will stretch your body as well as stretch your mental alertness. You will feel, mentally on the ball, physically energized and spiritually, your focus of awareness will be on your total being.

Ways to increase your steps, wear a pedometer and work toward 10,000 steps each day. I set my pedometer at 0 and then did my normal routine of work and errands etc. I walked 5,500 steps in a day. So in order to increase my steps to meet the 10,000 steps a day, I walked my dog to the park and back. Another way to increase your steps is to do a walk at home video exercise, that always puts me over the top on the 10,000 steps a day requirement and I don’t have to leave home to do it.

Health workers Nutritionists and Dieticians suggest 2.5 to three cups of vegetables and 2 cups of fruit daily. Divide this into six portions, (breakfast, lunch, dinner, and 3snacks) and you can attain your daily nutritional needs easily.

A portion is one cup of fresh fruit, Start breakfast with a glass of your favorite green smoothie and you can add several fruits bananas, papaya, pineapple, coconut and a vegetable like kale or super green powder.

Maintain a variety of ready available fresh fruit in a glass bowl with grapes, bananas, tangerines, oranges, apples, pears, nectarines plums and peaches. During their season fresh fruits like blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, plums, Asian pears, Dragon Melon, watermelon, honeydew melon, cantaloupe, and grapefruit. Eat fruits that are in season they taste better and are cheaper than out of season imported fruit. You can carry around a mixture of nuts to appease the hungry dragon that lives within until you can get to a place that serves healthy foods when too far way from home.

The best way to meet your daily requirement of vitamins and minerals is by eating healthy organic fresh fruits and vegetables.

Be creative when it comes to salads, instead of eating the same old salad day in and day out. Lettuce, tomatoes, carrots, add something different everyday!

Monday: ½ Avocado, and ½ cup Artichoke hearts, Green olives

Tues: Diced, Celery, ¼ Red bell pepper and Pecans

Wed: Shredded, Beets, Cabbage and ¼ Sweet potato

Thurs: ¼ c. Broccoli heads and ¼ c. chopped Red onion, Cherry Tomatoes

Fri: ½ c. Snow peas, 1 c. Halved red grapes and ¼ c. quartered walnuts

Sat: Handful of Radishes, black olives (sliced) and 2-3 chopped green onions

Sun: ¼ c. Cauliflower, ¼ c. chopped Almonds and 1-2 unpeeled Asian or Persian Cucumbers

Optional: diced garlic and/or ginger

Fruit salads can be used for dessert or snacks.

OUR DAILY EXERCISES...

It is very important that you do not overdue any exercise. The idea is to gently stretch and relax the muscle. As you continue to do the exercises you will notice you will have more flexibility. If you strech to the point of pain you have gone too far. Strectch until it feels good, breathe into the stretch and extend the stretch slightly further, as you breathe out. 

You can start with shoulder shrugs, roll them backwards and forwards a few times, squeeze your shoulder blades back until they touch, then wrap your arms around the front and give yourself a hug, bend forward and feel a slight stretch in your back and squeeze shoulder blades.

Now standing with straight body, extend your arms straight up and over your head and gently pull at your right wrist with your left hand until you feel a slight stretch in your shoulder and repeat exercise with opposite shoulder. Now bring your arms down chest level and extend your arms out in front and away from your body, arms should be shoulder high and squeeze your hands open and close.

Rub your hands together briskly then move right hand up left forearm rubbing up to your shoulders, repeat other side. Rub hands over face to stimulate the circulation of blood and oxygen.

Now, extend your arms over your head and gently pull the right wrist with the left hand until you feel a stretch in your shoulder repeat with left wrist and shoulder.

Now, wrap your arms around the front and give yourself a hug, head down with chin on chest, bend forward and feel a slight stretch in your lower back. Easy does it, remember do not push your body to a painful level. Then release folded arms and place hands on thighs and gently stretch back like a cat up and down, now move hands down and hold a second and feel slight stretch in lower back. Remember to keep your head down. When you bend over blood rushes to your head and if you stand up too fast you will fell dizzy and could fall. Next, reach for the back of your calves, and if it hurts... STOP! and bring hands back up knees and to waist and to standing position.

Otherwise, feel the gentle stretch in your lower back and hamstrings. Next, if you can, reach for your ankles, hold a second for the stretch, then reach for your toes, hold, and then the floor and hold. Do not touch the floor if you are not yet flexible enough be patient you will get there.  Remember to keep your head down reverse the process to your toes, ankles, calves, knees, thighs and waist until you are at a standing position. With head down, you may keep your eyes closed if you need to and raise your head up off your chin, tilt head to the left and the right and center and open your eyes. This process gives the body enough time to find its homeostatsis so you will not feel lightheaded.

Now, extend your arms up over your head and gently pull your right wrist with your left hand until you feel a gentle stretch in your shoulder repeat with opposite shoulder.

Now bring both your arms down at chest level and extend both your arms out in front shoulder high and squeeze both your hands close and then open and closed, repeat several times then make a fist and twist both your fists clockwise and counter-clockwise.

Now, both hands are signing Yes, Yes, Yes, No, No, No.  Then, open both fists and shake hands as if they had water on them, finish, finish, finish. Now do a finger count to ten.  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, with both hands at the same time.  

Now, rub hands together, wringing hands as if you are washing them, twist and pull left thumb with right hand and then each finger repeat, pull right thumb with left hand and then each finger stimulating the flow of blood and energy to hands and fingers.

Now, with extend arms out in front of chest and with your right palm fingers together use your left hand pulling back on the closed palm and fingers toward your body to gently stretch your right wrist, then switch to left closed palm fingers and stretch with right hand. Then turn palm fingers downward toward floor and repeat stretch on both hands a few times.

Now, rub your hands together until they feel really warm, clasp your fingers together turn them out and away from your chest and stretch gently, and slowly raise clasped fingers over your head, breathe and move extended arms back a couple of inches behind your head. Release clenched fingers and slowly, slowly (with palms facing down and away from your body)  lower your hands down to your sides.

Now take a deep breath in and raise both arms up, circle over your head and breathe out as arms cross in front of your face bend knees slightly and lower both arms and hands back down to your sides, repeat this 3 times. 

Now, with arms at sides, raise arms chest high and slide right hand down left arm to left wrist and pull gently on left wrist and feel the stretch at the shoulder, then tilt head slightly to the right (opposite side of shoulder) and feel the gentle stretch. Switch to right arm and right wrist and gently pull right wrist with left hand until shoulder feels a slight stretch then tilt head to the left for a very gentle stretch.

Now with arms at sides, hug yourself then  with left hand, apply a gentle but firm pressure, approximately 10-20 seconds, to right tricep (few inches above back of elbow.) Switch sides and repeat exercise.

Now lift right arm up and over right shoulder, out-stretched fingers are reaching for shoulder blade and then with left hand apply a gentle but firm pressure on the elbow. Switch to left side and repeat exercise.

Now, clasp fingers in front of chest breathe in and slowly twist at waist to the left, and feel the stretch for a few seconds. Now breathe out while slowly returning to the center and breathe in and slowly turn toward your right side hold and stretch, breathing out turn back to your center, repeat 3 times. To avoid feeling dizzy, do not swing head back and forth with movement, focus on a one thing like a picture or close your eyes.

You should be warmed up enough for a great day of interpreting!

Remember do not push your stretch to the level of pain. Go only as far as your body will allow you to go and stop before you feel pain. You will gradually become more and more flexible with regulary exercise.

Got Allergies?

Colds and Flu got you down? 

“18 STEPS TO MAINTAINING MY HEALTH”

To maintain a healthy life in general and in order to prevent proliferation of seasonal illnesses, aggravation of symptoms and development of secondary infections, below are some very simple steps, not fully highlighted in most official communications and not all in one article(s). These concepts might be used in a practical preventative practice, prior to the need of focusing on how to stock N95 or Tami-flu:

1. "Hands-off’’ approach. The need of Frequent hand-washing has been well highlighted in most all official communications as a method of preventing the spread of disease. The need to resist touching any part of your face, has been well documented, however, not enough is being presented about touching your eyes with your contaminated hands and fingers. It’s also widely known that to prevent disease and spread of disease, you need to wash your hands before and after touching your eyes, nose, mouth, and body parts of others, shaking hands, etc. The question is how widely practiced is this approach?

2. “Gargling” at least twice a day I gargle with tepid-warm salt water (tepid-warm, as warm as I can stand it, I test it in the bend of my arm like a baby bottle before using to prevent scalding my mouth) I use “Real Salt“ from most any health food store. (use Cepacol mouth wash, if you don't trust salt). H1N1-flu, takes 2-3 days after initial infection in the throat/nasal cavity to proliferate and show characteristic symptoms. Simple gargling prevents proliferation. It is said that, gargling with tepid-warm salt water has the same effect on a healthy individual, as on an infected one so that indicates it useful as a preventative step. Don't underestimate this simple, inexpensive and powerful preventative method. I Use a large cup, measured 1-cup tepid-warm water, add 1-tsp salt, gargle. Next, measure 2-cups of tepid-warm water, add 1-tsp Real salt, use to clean sinus cavity to prevent possible infection, see nasal lavage.

3. “Nasal Lavage” similarly to gargling cleanse, I clean my nostrils at least once every day with tepid-warm salt water, I use “Real Salt“. If a Neti pot, doesn’t work for you, blowing the nose hard once a day and swabbing nostrils with cotton swabs dipped in tepid-warm salt water is very effective in reducing a viral population. You can also use a bulb syringe or a Nasaline syringe, it looks like a food flavor injector with a special adaptor that fit’s the nasal opening and seals it, this is the easiest method, however, special care needs to be take for cleaning to prevent contamination. I clean my Nasaline after use, throughly with hot water from my teapot.

4. “Vitamin-C” is said to be an extremely valuable vitamin as it plays a part in so many body functions, including maintaining and repairing body tissue; strengthening blood vessels; and absorbing calcium in order to assist in the formation of bones and teeth. It also helps us to maintain resistance to infections and lowers levels of blood cholesterol. Finally, it aids the absorption of iron from food so that it can be utilized by the body, thus preventing anemia. Vitamin C is water-soluble therefore the body is unable to store it, so the supply must be replenished daily either from high vitamin C foods or from supplements. Some of the foods high in Vitamin-C are,

I believe I boost my immunity naturally with foods that are rich in Vitamin C, however, if I have to supplement with Vitamin C chewable tablets, I make sure that it also has Zinc to boost absorption. Be sure to drink water after chewable Vitamin-C. I also swear by a throat spray I use its made by 3 or more companies.

5. Propolis, Echinacea, Goldenseal throat spray (currently at health food stores only) for sore throats, it knocks in our in just a few hours. I have had chronic strep-throat since I was a child and doctors gave me copious amounts of antibiotics, not anymore.

6. Echinacea and Goldenseal are also used to support the immune system. Read up on these on the internet or in books at health food stores.

7. “Breathing Easy“, when I can’t breathe, I use a vaporizer at night while I am asleep. You can buy one at any neighborhood Walmart or Target stores, they are cheaper than a drug store. I order Eucalyptus Oil on the internet, you can find it in some health food stores. I also put 3-5 drops of Eucalytus Oil in 1/2 oz of  Orange Juice and a back-up 2ozs of Orange Juice. I drink the one with the Oil first and chase it with the pure O.J. SHOT! I have never breathed better or recovered quicker from a chest cold than when I use this home-health procedure. It makes me cough up all the congestion in my chest and my chest cold is gone in about 3-5 days instead of the ususal 7-10days of coughing until my ribs hurt. When I have a chest cold, I practice this twice a day, once when I wake up and once before bed. P.S. did you know that Eucalyptus vapors kills skin mites, and bed bugs on in the carpet and in your bed, that's another good reason to vapor your bedroom once a week.

I pull back my bedding and turn of the vaporizer before dinner and at bedtime you can turn it off and sleep easy.

8. “Fluids” Taking in fluids is detrimental to avoiding dehydration. Drink as much of tepid-warm liquids as you can, preferably Green tea. Also, Tepid-warm water with Lemon cleans the kidneys of toxins. If you are not watching your sodium intake, tepid-warm Miso Soup is an excellent fluid to support the immune system. Drinking tepid-warm liquids has the same effect as gargling, but in the reverse direction. Tepid-warm water washes off proliferating viruses from the throat into the stomach where they cannot survive, proliferate or do any harm. Green tea leaves are steamed, which prevents the EGCG compound (powerful anti-oxidant) from being oxidized. Providing support with infections and impaired immune functioning. Here are just a few medical conditions in which drinking green tea is reputed to be helpful: cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, high cholesterol levels, Cardiovascular disease, infection, impaired immune function.

9. “Exercise” Who feels like exercising when your sick? Nobody I bet. So before you get sick and to help you prevent getting ill do a short stretch! I do a 10-min stretch each morning just to get my blood moving. I practice a form Far East Exercise like  Tai Chi. I have added and eliminated movements so I call it the Crazy Crane, it’s a set of slow movements that moves and stretches the body slowly and deliberately to push out stagnant energy from laying in bed all night and bring in fresh energy of the day, while releasing any stiffness or tightness that might have crept in during your sleep. 

If I am under the weather or ill, I do not do any strenuous or aerobic exercise, I put in a walk at home tape and do a nice and easy walk 1-2 miles, depending on how lousy I feel.

10. “Fasting” What’s that old adage starve a fever and feed a cold? It actually works!

Fasting should be with liquids. I usually do a Vegetable drink fast. I throw a bunch of veggies into my juicer and viola! V-12 juice. Remember if you are under a doctor's care (hopefully a naturopathic doctor) check with your doctor before changing your eating habits in any way!

11. “Routines” Have a Routine, good habits work the best and only take 21 days to implement. I use all of the above procedures 4 times daily, I am rarely taken ill. A simple schedule would be; Upon arising, after lunch, after dinner, before bed is an easy routine to remember.

12.“Food” What To eat or What not to eat that is the question what is the answer? Eat Fresh Fruits and Veggies (juicing is best while out of sorts health wise) whenever recovering from an bout of anything that makes you feel out of sorts. Processed foods are lethal to a healthy immune system, longevity and health in general. What is processed food? Anything that is not in its natural state cooked or raw, for example: if its in a box, bag, can, or package it’s not in it’s natural state.

13. “Morning Mouth” Each morning upon arising and at bedtime, I use a tongue scraper and scrape the coating off your tongue, do not swallow this is full of bacteria. I dip my toothbrush in 3% Hydrogen Peroxide (the kind you buy at the drug store to pour over a cut or sore to clean out the germs and hopefully prevent infection) Remember never swallow, I just brush the peroxide over my teeth and let it foam, spit it out repeat 2-3 times (it’s a natural teeth whitener) then dip it again and brush over my tongue and scrape it off and spit it out then I gargle with tepid-warm “Real Salt” Water.

14. "Teeth Brushing" It's very important to brush your teeth everyday. I dip my tooth brush in 3% hydrogen peroxide and brush my teeth and my tongue. It kills all bacteria and whitens your teeth naturally. Once a week I brush with a Baking Soda/Salt mixture.

Combine your dry ingredients in a small jar with a lid and shake jar each time before using. Combine 3-parts of baking soda to 1-part of salt.

In other words:

3-Tablespoons of Baking Soda and 1-Tablespoon celtic or Himalayan salt

If you are on a salt restricted diet you can substitute the salt with sodium free salt that you can find at most health food stores.

Store in your bathroom cabinet. If prefered you may use this dry mixture to brush your teeth daily or whenever you think of it, that is your body telling you what you need.

15. "Skin Brush

If you can brush your skin everyday it's optimum, however, try to do it as often as you remember.  Skin brushing is a natural detoxification. Skin Brushing removes dead skin cells, improves circulation, softens your skin and makes your skin feel alive and tingly.

16. “R&R” Rest and Relaxation, the body heals and repairs itself when its asleep and when you are ill you need more rest and sleep benefit. The best sleep your body receives is before midnight. It’s said you get double effects from all hours before midnight. So, if you go to bed at 10pm you get 2+2=4 hrs of sleep benefit. If you go to bed at 9pm you get 3+3=6hrs of sleep benefit and if you go to bed at midnight you wake up feeling like you haven’t had enough sleep… think about it.

17. Green Tea recipe: Fill tea cup with hot water, add powder or tea bag, let steep 10-min, add fresh squeezed lemon for absorption of Green Tea benefits, especially beneficial during Allergy, Flu, & Cold seasons. I add cayenne to stimulate the heart and blood circulation every morning.

18. Miso Soup recipe: 2 qt saucepan, add 1-2 TBSP of Miso, chop 2-3 green onions, 1-stalk celery thin slices, sea kelp or sea dulce (rolled, cut down the middle and cut a second time crosswise, making small flecks, with scissors), add water to ¾ from the top, heat to boiling, stir miso to dissolve, let stand until tepid warm and drink slowing. Miso and Sea Kelp (Dulce & Kelp are flat sheets of dark green dehydrated sea kelp) are sold in most Asian stores. Also some experts suggest that miso is a source of Lactobacillus acidophilus. Miso also contains Lecithin which is a kind of phospholipid caused by fermentation and is effective in the prevention of high blood pressure. Caution! Miso contains SALT. A small amount is essential to animal life but most scientists believe an excess of SALT can cause a variety of health problems. I use Miso only during times of not feeling well and during fasting.

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Swimming Pools are chemically toxic! You should feel energized after a good swim, however, most of the time we feel tired and groggie because our skin is the largest organ of our body and it absorbs into our entire system whatever you come into contact with.

Did you know...

you can convert your chemically toxic swimming pool in to ocean water like environment. With a converter kit your pool water will be healthy instead of harmful. Swimming in the Ocean is healthier than a Toxic Cocktail swimming pool.