Your Body’s Symptoms Are It’s Cry For Help. Are You Listening?
By Deb Hoeve | July 22, 2008
What is your body telling you? Are you Listening?
Since we can’t see what’s going on inside of our body, bad viruses or parasites that have entered, the build up of Candida, the accumulation of waste in our intestines, the toxins building up in our liver, our body sends us signals … “symptoms” … that something isn’t working properly in our body.
Our society has taught us to shut up the symptom. We issue a gag order on the symptom by giving it a purple pill. That shuts up the symptom and we think all is well. But the problem that the symptom was trying to tell you about still exists and still persists in wreaking havoc in your body.
If you would listen, here is some of what you might hear are caused by
• Poor circulation, cold hands and feet, cracked, peeling fingernails are caused by poor nutrition
• Muscle pain and arthritis are caused by toxic build up and poor nutrition
• Sore throat, headaches, and skin problems are caused by environmental allergies, toxic build up, poor nutrition
• Acne are caused by poor immunity, liver congestion, poor nutrition
• Sinus and ear infections are caused by poor nutrition and toxic build up
• Colitis, constipation, irritable bowel syndrome, diverticulitis, and hemorrhoids are caused by poor nutrition and toxic build up in the intestines and colon
• Ulcers, acid reflux, other digestive issues are caused by toxic liver, impacted colon, poor nutrition
• Asthma, bronchitis, pneumonia are caused by food allergies, poor diet, poor immunity, environmental toxins
• PMS, menopausal symptoms, infertility are caused by poor nutrition and environmental and food allergies.
• Autoimmune diseases are caused by environmental toxins and poor nutrition
It’s your body. You have two choices. You can allow the doctor to take responsibility for it and give you a pill to suppress the symptom. Or you can take personal responsibility for your body. Recognize that the conditions above are symptoms telling you something is wrong. These symptoms can be improved, if not eliminated, by removing the toxic buildup in the body, supplying adequate nutrition, eliminating environmental toxins and foods that cause allergies.
When you do this, your doctor may find you do not need to be on medication anymore. NOTE: Do not stop taking prescription medication without consulting your doctor. In the meantime, you can take action to improve the condition of your body through detoxification and improved nutrition. I take you step-by-step how to do that in my free newsletter.
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The Shaker’s are a Good Example of Eating to Live
By Deb Hoeve | July 14, 2008
My husband and I went away for a long weekend to Berea, KY and on the way back stopped in Pleasant Hill at the Shaker Village. We toured many of the buildings and went on several of the guided tours.
The Shakers were a self-contained society of people who raised their own food, built their own buildings and made their own clothing and other necessities. They had active societies in several northeast towns throughout the 19th century. There is one society that remains today in Maine.
What was most intriguing was that the Shakers tended to live 10-20 years longer than their the non-Shakers of the same time period. Why would this be? The Shakers raised all of their own vegetables and fruits as well as meat.
In the summer and fall months, they ate this food fresh at every meal. In the winter and early spring, they ate foods they had naturally preserved from the fall harvest. There was no use of pesticides, hormones, antibiotics, or chemical preservatives.
They carefully selected only the best seeds to use again the following year to ensure optimal crop yield. They replenished their soil and rotated their crops to insure optimal soil health.
The physical activity required of their lifestyle contributed to natural exercise, fresh air, and sunlight. Join my newsletter and learn how you can apply natural food and medicinal choices to your life, allowing you to lose weight and eliminate chronic illness.
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The lemonade diet
By Deb Hoeve | July 8, 2008
clipped from A Lemon A Day To Melt The Pounds Away
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Pediatricians Advised To Give Cholesterol Drugs to Kids
By Deb Hoeve | July 7, 2008
That’s the headline in today’s USA Today. Appalling! This makes me sick to my stomach. http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/07/pediatricians-a.html
Here’ an excerpt:
“A leading group of pediatricians wants some children to begin taking cholesterol medication at age 8.
“If we are more aggressive about this in childhood, I think we can have an impact on what happens later in life … and avoid some of these heart attacks and strokes in adulthood,” Dr. Stephen Daniels of the American Academy of Pediatrics tells the Associated Press.
The group is advising physicians to begin screening children for high cholesterol between the ages of 2 and 10.”
I’m almost too enraged to write this post. Here we go again… addressing the symptoms and not the cause. Anybody with an ounce of common sense knows that the reason for the drastic rise in heart disease, not only among adults, but in children is our poor diets and lack of activity.
As a child, we watched our share of TV, but we were outside all year round and I grew up in upstate New York where it was pretty common to wait for the school bus when it was 20 degrees (F) below zero. We always went outside for recess unless it was raining. When we got home, we played wiffle ball with the neighborhood kids, rode our bikes all over town, swam in the creek. In the winter, we’d sled in the snow or build a snowman. We didn’t have computers and our TV got 3 stations. We had to actually get up and walk to the TV to change the channel…see, exercise even when we watched TV!
As far as dinner, my mom worked a 40 hour / week job, but still made dinner from scratch every night. Nothing out of a box, nothing ordered out. We never ate fast food and rarely ever went out to dinner. What a treat if we did! We had a big garden and even as a kid, I’d go down and pick something fresh for my lunch. We didn’t have soda or poptarts in the house. Mom would make some homemade chocolate chip cookies every 2 weeks … once they were gone, that was it for sweets until the next time.
Parents… please, I beg you not to give in to the drug industry’s push to begin drugging our children. They are just trying to obtain more customers who will take their drugs longer. Meanwhile, the side effects from the drugs will do their own damage to their young bodies and by the time they are 25 years old, they will be on a whole host of other drugs as a result.
Take time to make a healthy dinner, plan menus for the week, serve foods in their natural state (not out of a box or a can), cook with your kids, go for a walk after dinner, initiate a wiffle ball game or other neighborhood activity that meets 2-3 times per week. LIMIT the TV and the computer. At our house, there is one hour of TV per day during the summer, none during the week during the school year (and we don’t have cable or satellite), and no computer privileges.
Please … just no drugs for our kids. And while you’re at it, subscribe to my newsletter and I will give you daily health tips to incorporate into your life and your kids. Let’s fight this absurd recommendation.
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Going Raw: The Benefits of a Raw Food Diet
By Deb Hoeve | July 4, 2008
Whether or not you consider yourself a “health nut,” eating a predominantly raw diet can be very beneficial.
There are varying degrees of a raw food diet allowing and restricting certain categories of foods. Raw vegans allow grains and legumes, while Raw Paleolithic eaters don’t. The vegans don’t allow animal products, while the paleolithics eat their animal products raw.
Where ever you see yourself on the spectrum, there are benefits. This is primarily because cooking food above 105 degrees destroys the digestive enzymes, the micro-organisms, and many of the nutrients.
Here are just some of the benefits of eating a Raw Food Diet:
* Weight loss. If you eat only plant foods, fewer calories and less fat are usually consumed.
* Improved digestion. This is due to the digestive enzymes present in raw foods. If you complain of a low metabolism or acid reflux, try eating more raw food.
* Increased energy. Requiring the body to produce its own digestive enzymes is a huge zap to our energy. Meanwhile, it has to take a time out from producing enzymes that regulate metabolism. So it’s a double whammy.
* Improved health. Eating cooked food results in poorer digestion which can lead to fermented and rotted food in the intestines which in turn create toxins that accumulate in the body which in turn result in obesity and chronic disease.
* A healthy gut. Raw foods contain beneficial bacteria and other micro-organisms that benefit the immune system and digestion by increasing the healthy gut flora in the digestive tract. Taking probiotic supplements can achieve the same thing.
It may sound like the raw food diet is a life of deprivation, but don’t feel like you have to start out eating all raw. Try incorporating more raw food with each meal and experience the benefits yourself. For example, try adding fresh fruit with breakfast, fresh cut vegetables at lunch, nuts and seeds for a snack and a salad at dinner. Experience for yourself the benefits of eating foods the way nature presents them.
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The Wonders of Apple Cider Vinegar
By Deb Hoeve | July 3, 2008
Here are some great beneficial uses of plain ‘ole apple cider vinegar.
* Weight loss: take 2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar in a glass of water about 30 minutes before each meal. This will offer gradual results
* Cold or flu: drink a teaspoon of apple cider vinegar in water several times throughout the day. This will assist in balancing the body’s pH, making it a less favorable environment for the virus.
* Dandruff: Apply apple cider vinegar to the scalp and leave it on for 30 to 60 minutes before rinsing and it will kill the fungus that causes dandruff. It also helps relieve an itchy scalp.
* Type II diabetes: Take apple cider vinegar in water once a day and it will help to lower blood sugar.
* Sinus problems or ear infections: Based on your symptoms, you can drink it with water, mix it with water in a vaporizer, mist it into your nose, or put a couple of drops in your ear with a syringe and let it drain back out.
* Digestive problems and diarrhea: Drink apple cider vinegar and water. It may also relieve the symptoms of acid reflux.
* Sunburn: Soak a towel in apple cider vinegar full strength and place it directly on the burn, or bathe in water with one cup of the vinegar added. This will soothe the burn.
* Varicose veins: soak a towel in full strength apple cider vinegar and apply twice a day to affected area. Also drink two teaspoons in water twice a day. It may take a month to see results.
*Sore Throat: Gargle with vinegar and water every hour. Note - do not swallow the mixture once you’ve gargled with it as it draws out the virus..
* Muscle soreness: Apply full strength with a small amount of cayenne pepper added, or soak in a bath with a two cups of vinegar added.
I buy vinegar by the gallon and add it to my sheep’s water at the rate of 1 oz (2 TBLS) to one gallon of water. It helps maintain their general overall health. If you raise any kind of animals, including dogs and cats, consider adding it to their water as well.
I recommend buying a good vinegar, like Bragg’s, from a health store that still has “the mother” in it. Vinegars containing the mother contain enzymes and minerals that other vinegars may not contain due to over-processing, filtration and overheating.
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Chronic Illness Costs vs. Preventive Nutritional Costs
By Deb Hoeve | June 30, 2008
The other day, I was poking around the internet for a concise list of chronic illnesses for an article I was writing. I stumbled upon this website. http://www.fightchronicdisease.com/news/pfcd/pr12102007.cfm
They pointed out that “The U.S. spends 65 cents of every health care dollar to treat people with two or more chronic conditions, just 26 percent of the U.S. population, according to a new report on chronic disease by Gerard Anderson, Ph.D., Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University.”
So one quarter of our population has two or more chronic conditions. This one quarter of the population spends nearly 2/3rds of the health care dollars offered by the US government (ie. the taxpayers)
And it gets worse…
“… patients with at least one chronic condition have yearly health care spending more than five times greater than those with no chronic conditions - but those with five or more chronic conditions are 10 times more likely to be hospitalized and have 25 times the inpatient hospital spending.”
Can you put a price tag on good health? Without our health, everything else in life is pretty much a mute point.
Sometimes it’s difficult to justify spending $100 -$150 for nutritional supplements per person in my household. But when you look at these figures, I can pay that now or I can pay 5 – 25 times that when I develop chronic conditions because I didn’t care for my health.
Let’s do some quick math. Let’s say my average health care costs are $1000 per year and I’m relatively healthy. I have no chronic conditions. I go for checkups to the doctor, the dentist. I see a chiropractor. If I develop just one chronic condition, let’s say high cholesterol, my annual health costs just went to $5000 per year. But if I had spent $1200-$1800 on myself for good quality nutritional supplements, I would have saved $2200-$2800 per year.
If I develop five or more chronic conditions … how about high cholesterol, high blood pressure, type II diabetes, arthritis, and colitis… doesn’t sound too uncommon, does it? That would put me up near $25,000 per year. With proper nutrition and supplements, not only can these diseases be prevented. They can be reversed. My coaching newsletter takes you by the hand and walks you step-by-step in restoring your health.
With so many people without health insurance, it only makes sense to do everything you can to keep yourself healthy to prevent a high ticket medical condition. Think of the money you spend on supplements as your health insurance bill.
Pay a little bit today and feel great. Pay a boat-load tomorrow and still feel awful. Like grandma said, an ounce of prevention …
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Could Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease Be This Simple?
By Deb Hoeve | June 27, 2008
Alzheimer’s Disease … I don’t need to tell you about the numbers or the impacts. You likely have experienced it or know someone who has.
The medical community wants us to believe its still a big mystery. My simplistic thinking is that all disease is a result of the toxins that enter our body and the nutrition that doesn’t.
Allow me to prove my point with regard to AD… Read the rest of this entry »
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Detox Preparation to Maximize Benefit
By Deb Hoeve | June 24, 2008
There are many ways to detox your body. There are herbal formulas, oxygen formulas, liquid herbal formulas, water detox, foot patch detox, enemas, and colonics just to name a few. Read the rest of this entry »
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Detox: First Step to Weight Loss & Health Restoration
By Deb Hoeve | June 23, 2008
The liver, the kidneys, the digestive system and the skin are all involved in the natural detoxification process of the human body. This system is often heavily burdened by the polluted air we breathe and the unhealthy foods we eat. You wouldn’t leave trash in your house forever or leftovers in the frig for life. Why would you leave the garbage in your body?
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