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TOP TEN Immune booster Tips |
- Consume nutrient rich unprocessed organic / free range produce that is in season. Certain foods are available at certain times of the year for a reason!! Remember you gain lasting energy through nourishment not stimulation!!
- Take a quality probiotic daily to support your digestive system. Remember 70% of the immune system is in the digestive system.
- Consume enough quality water (0.033 x your body weight in kg = litres per day) your body needs before any stimulants like caffeine, alcohol, sugar and exercise.
- Exercising 3-4 times a week, choosing movement that will cultivate and build your energy rather than use and expend it beyond what you have to give, E.g yoga, Tai Chi, Qi Gong and walking mediation.
- Create peace points through out your day to manage stress levels – simply pop a posit note on your computer that reminds you to check in with how your breathing and for 1 minute consciously breath diagrammatically, allowing your muscles to relax and the tension in your body to relax.
- If you feel your body needs some support or a boost – supplement your diet with a quality vitamin C powder, Vitamin B6 and Echinacea.
- Use plenty of garlic, ginger with your cooking
- Herbal immune boost Echinacea, Goldenseal and Astragalus are a powerful herbal combination that your local pharmacy or naturopath can put together for you.
- Herbal boost for your circulation - Ginger, Garlic, Ginkgo & Cayenne Combination will stimulate your circulation.
- The harboring of negative emotions such as anger, resentment, jealously, blame and hurt all suppress the immune systems ability to thrive. Spend time with yourself and allow yourself to receive from the eternal love and wisdoms within you that reminds you of your ability to forgive, trust, love and know that you are more than your life experiences and circumstance.
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Welcome once again to your 4 week LHI challenge. The rules are simple; all you need to do is avoid all foods that have been overly interfered with by human processes!
Ok that’s the simple part and now for the easy part! By following the lists below you will find it’s easy to stay away from the foods that have been overly proceed beyond the point of healthy? I have given you 3 lists - Ten inspiring reason why you should give the 4 week LHI challenge a go (print it off and pit it on your fridge as a friendly reminder)
- Top tips to give you a winning start
- Foods to eat and foods to avoid
10 reasons to give the LHI challenge a go: - To prove to yourself you can!
- You will build awareness for what constitutes as LHI foods verses, highly processed and nutritionally deficient foods.
- You will start to experience the subtle difference in how your body feels and functions when eating foods that are wholesome, alive, and nutritionally dense, verses foods that have no life force (energy and nutrition) left in them.
- You will be on your way to achieving your ideal weight.
- You will feel lighter physical and emotionally.
- You will experience more energy.
- You will improve the function of your liver and digestion while symptoms like bloating, gas, and indigestion will drop away.
- You will think more clearly.
- You will be able to overcome sugar cravings and comfort eating.
- You will be helping to sustain the environment and become a caretaker of our mother earth.
Top tips to help you stay committed to the challenge: - Listen to your body and what it is “feeling”. It will tell you what it needs and its often not what you “think” its needing. For example, do you really think that you’re body would tell you that it feels like a Coca Cola or a coffee for a pick me up? Would that not simply be your head over-riding what your body is trying to communicate to you - which is that it is in need of some ‘real’ food to replenish and sustain your energy.
- Don’t skip breakfast.
- Make sure all meals, including breakfast have all three food groups’ carbohydrate, protein and fat in it and are in the ratio that best suits your body. You can experiment with this over the 4 weeks to find out what amount of each food group feels right to have at each meal. For some it can be the same ratio at each meal for others it may vary throughout the day. Again, check in with what your body is feeling after each meal to understand what your needing less of more of and not what your head thinks it wants!
- Drink plenty of quality water between meals 0.03 x kg(your body weight) = the amount in liters you need to be consuming and that’s before you’ve exercised or consumed stimulants that dehydrate you like coffee, tea, alcohol, soft drinks and processed foods.
- Plan ahead – create a week’s meal plan and shopping list by following the foods to eat and the foods to avoid listed below.
- Make sure your pantry has all the essentials for creating an easy meal in minutes and book in for my next “Done in 15” cooking demonstration
- Make double for dinner and take to work for lunch.
- Winters just around the corner, invest in a slow cooker and book in for my next “slowing cooking for fast people demonstration”.
- Travel with a healthy snack that’s easy like some raw organic nuts and an apple.
- Avoid drinking alcohol on an empty stomach, always have some quality fat like a piece of cheese, some nuts, chicken liver pate or avocado to slow done the insulin response.
- If the food wasn’t around when your great grandmother was alive don’t eat it!
- Spend 2 minutes each day in love and gratitude for all that you are, all that you have and all that you wish to become
HHI (High Human Intervention) foods to avoid:
The 4 white devils (white flour, Pasturised dairy, sugar and table salt)
All soft drinks
All Soybeans and soy products
All boxed cereals
All commercially produced vegetable oils like canola, corn, safflower, sunflower, soy and grape seed
All pre-made frozen meals
All low fat products
All fast food outlets
All canned foods
All commercially made cakes, pastries, biscuits, crackers, chips and crisps
All commercially made dips, spreads, sauces LHI (Low human intervention) foods to enjoy:
All organic or free range fresh meat poultry and dairy
All fresh seasonal fruit and Vegetables
Non gluten grains — brown rice, oats, millet, quinoa, amaranth, teff, tapioca, buckwheat
Raw nuts and seeds
Cook with quality fats such as organic butter, ghee, coconut oil and palm oil
Use olive oil, flaxseed oil for salads
Try young Thai drinking coconuts
For sweeteners use— brown rice syrup, agave nectar, stevia, molasses, honey
Explore flavors using common herbs that support various functions such digestion, the metabolism, the immune and nerves system — basil, garlic, cinnamon, carob, cumin, dill, ginger, mustard, oregano, parsley, pepper, rosemary, tarragon, thyme, turmeric.
Use quality salt – Celtic or Himalayan Have Fun Feeling Lighter, Healthier and Energetic |
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The Importance of Exercise by Joanna Rushton |
Numerous statistics and references today indicate that levels of disease, dysfunction, drug dependency and obesity are at an all time high with 52% of Australian females and 67% of Australian males in the obese category, that’s an average 60% of the Australian population that is dangerously over weight.
Diet and exercise are two crucial components in the reversing and prevention of obesity and other major diseases such as heart disease and cancer, however without sound knowledge and understanding of the basic principles of exercise and nutrition and how they effect the psychology of the body an individuals good intentions often lead to further physical mental and emotional stress on the body.
It is never the case that exercise is inappropriate, but rather that the appropriate exercise is selected in accordance to an individuals overall health. You may be bed ridden or have been diagnosed with cancer but there are still forms of movement combined with breath work that are suited to positively stimulate the healing process of the bodies’ systems in that environment.
Exercise in its purest form is the movement of life force otherwise referred to as Chi or energy around the body by combining movement with breathing.
When the correct choice of movement and breath are made to support an individual’s physiology and psychology then positive adaptation will result. However, the reverse is true when the wrong choices are made. I have had many clients seek my help when their own attempts to engage in a nutrition and exercise program left them gaining weight and feeling tired, unwell and depressed.
If you are somebody who is trying to get their health and well being back on track or suffering from cancer or other life threatening disease and are seeking guidance as to how to effectively incorporate exercise into your healing journey then please don’t hesitate to contact me on 0412 271 224 |
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Keys for creating “Festive Health” & a Stress Free holiday Zone!
The Festive season can be a time of great fun and celebration, time spent relaxing and rejuvenating. Time with loved ones and catching up with friends. It can be time spent doing what you love the most, simultaneously creating joy and happiness for all around you.
So what are the keys to creating an experience of “Festive health” and a “Stress Free” zone this holiday season?
Unfortunately for many the festive season can be more stressful than joyful. It can become a 2 week triathlon testing ones physical, mental and emotional endurance and stamina, often leaving the body in need of a holiday to recover from its holiday!
For many the holiday season is spent feeling obligated and divided between how long and with whom they think they should be spending their time, whilst others endure feelings of great loneness and separation. Both experiences often lead to an unhealthy over indulgence of food, alcohol and/or drugs to fill the void or mask the discomfort of their situation with short lived pleasures.
For those suffering from food, drug and alcohol addictions it’s often seen as a time of the year that its ok for them and others to turn a blind eye to their needs whilst they fall pray to their wants and desires that result in rebounding effects on there health..
Meanwhile corporate giants manipulate the holiday season as an opportunity to leverage between a human beings natural nature to want to “give” to pulling on the emotional strings of guilt spending! Leading many to spend beyond their means.
So what are the keys to creating an experience of “Festive health” and a “Stress Free” zone this holiday season?
Key One - Get clear on what you wish to experience this holiday. Set your intentions and check in with your self daily as to whether your choices are supporting your intentions. Write a list of things that if you could spend time doing this holiday would make your heart sing.
It might be to read those books still sitting beside your bed!
Take an afternoon nap everyday!
Catch up with friends you haven’t had time for!
Spend time in nature, walking or swimming. What ever it is make that list!
The ego is well trained in creating any number of justifiable distractions to keep you from valuing and meeting your own needs first!
Key Two - Meet your needs before your wants.
This will help you to create balance and harmony in all your choices. You can manage the temptation to over indulge by simply making sure that you meet your body’s basic physical needs first before your wants.
Once a persons basic needs are met through providing them with enough quality water, quality unprocessed food, enough movement, rest and quiet time then that persons wants and desires can be much more easily supported.
A body that is well hydrated nourished with wholesome food and given the time to rest is less likely to crave an excess of sugar, processed food, coffee and alcohol or even recreational drugs. Often our commitment and diligence to meeting our body’s basic needs is lost in the busyness of the holiday season leaving us susceptible to increased cravings for what ever an individual’s weakness is and before we know it we’ve tipped the scales the other way and the slippery slop spirals out of control from there!
A few practical examples of meeting your body’s basic needs are:
Start the day with a balanced breakfast to manage blood sugar levels during the day: Either poached eggs on quality sourdough bread or a soaked Bircher muesli with natural full fat organic yoghurt.
Go for a walk or exercise during the day to support your metabolism and circulation.
Honor yourself with some quiet time just you, you don’t have to meditate, a walk alone in nature can quiet your mind and bring you back into you.
Avoid drinking on an empty stomach, have a piece of cheese or raw nuts before hand and have a glass of water between each alcoholic drink
Key Three - Value YOU time as equal to time spent with others.
Feeling obligated and divided in how and with whom you wish to spend your time can quickly and easy create stress and anxiety.
Don’t over commit your self and you won’t disappoint yourself and another by under delivering!!
Taking the time out to give back to yourself is the most effective and empowering way to provide your self with the energy to give back to others, even those you find more challenging to be with! Honoring time for you gives you the space to realign yourself to the truth that everyone provides a mirror for you and that to the degree that you don’t like another person; you are simultaneously rejecting a part of yourself.
It is this rejection that creates a feeling of disconnect in relation to the other.
So why not this holiday season focus on meeting your basic physical needs first along with enough quiet time so that you stay aligned to your intentions for a healthy stress free festive holiday season.
With that said I send Love and blessing to you all.
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Achieving and maintaining a balanced Blood pH within the body is one of the easiest and gentlest ways for promoting the successful outcome of any imbalance or disease.
Our body’s blood pH simply refers to the balance of acid and alkaline within our bodies, similar to the analogy of balancing the pH of a swimming pool so that bacteria and algae don’t grow. It is the balancing and harmonizing of the body’s acidity and alkalinity that supports a healthy internal environment for our body’s to thrive.
Our blood pH is affected by a number of variables such as food, alcohol, exercise, our thoughts and emotions and the environment around us over a 24 hr period and it is our body’s ability to find homeostasis when the body deviates from its optimal Ph that determines the potential for disease and ill health.
One of the cornerstones of the Metabolic Typing theory (www.healthexcel.com) is evaluating blood pH. When the blood pH deviates too far from the optimal level of 7.46, disease conditions are more likely to manifest. This is equally true whether the blood is overly alkaline (i.e. with a pH greater than 7.46) or overly acid (with a pH less than 7.46). It is often rather simplistically stated by alternative health experts that diseases appear when we are too acidic; but, actually, they can equally appear if we are too alkaline. The more extreme the relative acidity or alkalinity of the blood, the more extreme the manifestation of the disease is likely to be.
“One Mans Food Is another Mans Poison” and for hereditary reasons, your metabolism is unique. Cutting edge research shows that no single diet works well for everyone, the very same foods that keep your best friend slim may keep you overweight and feeling unhealthy and fatigued.
Food can be both the problem and the solution and nutrition picks up the ball where traditional medicine falls short. So many health problems can be corrected, or at least greatly alleviated, simply by knowing which are the right foods and supplements for any given individual.
It is common in traditional medicine to think that all foods have a fixed pH effect in everyone who eats them. However, extensive research conducted through the metabolic typing theory shows that the net pH affects of the food once it enters the body is modified by the metabolism of the person consuming it.
Why do certain foods acidify the blood of one individual but alkalize the blood of another? George Watson Ph.D painstakingly explained in his out-of-print classic, Nutrition and Your mind, how the process of oxidation renders certain foods acid forming and others alkaline forming. This occurs through the biochemical transmutations that nutrients undergo as they are processed through the Krebs cycle inside each of our cells.
I urge anyone who is on a journey of healing themselves back to optimal health to consider the benefits of Metabolic typing and to take the time to find out what your own type is so that you have an understanding for what types of food and in what ratio to consume them for optimal results. You can visit www.healthexcel.com for further information.
Diet alone may not always be entirely sufficient to achieve total wellness across mind body and spirit. Managing ongoing emotional and mental stress, the onslaught of toxic chemicals from mercury fillings, environmental pollution, and the contamination of our food, water and the very air we breathe are all part of today’s health challenges. Overwhelming as these factors may seem, we are not helpless in cleaning up our act.
We can choose to feed ourselves and our families organically grown food, drink pure water, have toxic dental work removed, and play our part to clean up the environment. We can stay physically active, choose exercises that support our body’s to cope with its current stresses and be sure to get plenty of rest and sleep.
We can choose to play an active part in our soul’s path of awareness and choose to step from the 4th dimension into the 5th leaving behind the victim mentality and choosing to take full responsibility for what we choose to eat, drink, think, believe and create moment to moment. The fifth dimension is a choice to create from and be guided by the love in your heart not the fear in your mind. You are life its self, made from the same source frequency that you breathe in with each breathe that sustains you. Wow, what a creation you are I hope you equally enjoy all that you create…
Recipe of the Month:
Sprouted green salad with toasted sesame seeds. High alkalizing salad rich in digestive enzymes.
Serves 4
2 handfuls of lambs lettuce
2 handfuls of sunflower sprouts
1 handful of alfalfa sprouts
1 handful of snow pea sprouts
1 cup of sprouted mung beans
1 cup of blanched asparagus – sliced
1 cup of chopped avocado
¾ cup of cherry tomatoes – sliced vertically
1 cup of chopped parsley
½ cup of mixed sesame seeds, sunflower seeds and petites
2 tbsp of organic cold pressed sesame seed oil or flaxseed oil
1 tbsp of balsamic vinegar
Pinch of Celtic sea salt
Combine lettuce, sprouts, beans, asparagus, parsley and salt together.
Combine oil and balsamic together and fold into salad mix (be gentle and light in your handling)
Sprinkle with mixed seeds and serve
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