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Health Matters October 2011

Health Matters!!!

Without a doubt our health is one of our most unquestionable blessings isn’t it? It has the ability to impact our quality of life in a way that is quite unique. In short our health matters!!

Optimizing it then is or should be a high priority.....but the reality is that it’s not always easy – there’s a good deal of misinformation out there, profiteers and incompetents abound and products/information can often be complex and confusing.

So it is with great pleasure that we welcome you to the first of our regular editions of Health Matters where we will be seeking to:

Advise you on current issues
Alert you to what’s on offer
Separate myth from fiction
Entertain you with success stories
Challenge you to care about what you look like on the inside

Are you beach-worthy for summer???

We held the first of our in-store Health Buzz Sessions last week to a capacity crowd. The topic was how to get ready for summer and attendees found it “inspiring”; “life-changing” and “informational”.

On arrival our special guests were treated to savory pizzas and apple crumble snacks all made from organic spelt….and our unique forest berry tea, which smells amazing and tastes even better.

Then it was onto the meat of the evening with the challenge to be healthy for summer by balancing the blood sugar; learning how to find the right exercise for your body type and then how to increase the absorption of the nutrients you need for optimal body functioning.

Why not give a gift of health this year?

Do pop into our (New) store and check out the Health Gifts to Go that we’ve put together to help you find something that’s special, different and better for the next occasion that you’re invited to an needing a great gift.

If that doesn’t suit you, ask about our gift vouchers and give a Gift of Health to someone you care about.

Don't Miss the next health talk!

- Bad blood is really not healthy at all...

Do you know the acid in your body and why you should care about it? Then be sure to join us for our October Health Buzz on the 20^th October 19:00 - 20:30 where our special guest speaker Blake Kent will be joining us in-store.

This family was nearly destroyed by Lupus. Wholly recovered from Lupus simply by following the sort of advice he will be talking to you about, Blake’s dad, Garth is compelling evidence that 7.5 works – whether you are sick and need to get well or healthy and want to achieve optimal health.

Seating is limited and the cost is nil, so don’t miss out. And why not bring a friend? There’ll be yummy health food, goodie bags and a lucky draw. Click here to ensure your seat.

You don’t have to be sick to get better?

If you’ve been for a Live Blood Analysis and done the 5 day Cleanse, Nourish & Balance program, you no doubt know what it feels like to be really well. You also probably know that it’s easy to drift off course. So we’re offering you a complimentary follow up appointment during October to help you get back in step. Click here to make your booking.

Till next time

The Eirene Health Team

30 September 2011

Meeting the owner of Biostrath

Consultations

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 13:25:46 +0200

Wo offer Live Blood analysis and e-Consultaions

Live Blood Analysis.

Because we really care about what you look like on YOUR inside, we use the only reliable Live Blood Analysis in South Africa to see what goes on celullary in your body.

Live Blood Analysis has been pioneered by Sevenpointfive in South Africa since 1997.

What are the benefits and what can it actually show you?

The pictures below are taken from our microscope systems. Our microscopes are laboratory quality units with brightfield, darkfield and phase contrast. This enables us to use the correct view to pick out all aspects and conditions in the blood and enables us to advise you on a personal program to optimize you health.

The Live Blood Analysis involves a pin prick of blood taken from your finger and placed on a microscope. We then have a look for imbalances, deficiencies and problems in your body. Unique to Sevenpointfive, is the before and after process we follow. After the initial sample is taken and analysed, you are given Coral Calcium, Assimil-8 and Activ-8. Just 15 minutes later a second sample is taken, and the pictures below demonstrate the differences exhibited in the blood in that short space of time.

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Recipes

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:35:03 +0200

Apple cinnamon muffins

Ingredients (Makes 6 Muffins):

1 egg, beaten

40 g sugar (I used organic brown Rapandura sugar)

120 ml milk (I used rice milk)

50 g unsalted butter, melted

200g refined spelt flour (or 150g all purpose flour)

½ tablespoon baking powder

pinch of salt

½ t ground cinnamon

2 small organic apples, peeled, cored and finely chopped

For the topping:

sugar

ground cinnamon

Cook’s tip: Do not over mix the muffin mixture - it should be lumpy.

Method:

Preheat the oven to 200 degrees C.
Line six medium sized muffin tins with paper cases.
Mix the egg, sugar, milk and melted butter in a large bowl.
Sift in the spelt/flour, baking powder, salt and cinnamon.
Add the chopped apple and mix roughly.
Spoon the mixture into the prepared muffin cases.
To make the topping, mix sugar with the cinnamon. Sprinkle over the uncooked muffins.
Bake for 30 - 35 minutes, until well risen and golden brown. Transfer to a wire rack to cool.
Serve immediately

16 October 2011

Butternut soup

1 large or 2 medium butternuts, peeled, seeded & cubed

2 large sweet potatoes, peeled & cubed

2 large potatoes, peeled & cubed

1 onion, chopped.

Melt some butter and olive oil in a large pot. Brown the onion in the butter, add vegetables.

Add 1 litre chicken broth, 1 tablespoon cumin(optional) and 1 teaspoon salt.

Cook until soft, then blend with stick blender. Add either 250ml cream or 2 round crumbled feta cheese and blend again.

10 September 2011

Chicken Broth

10-12 Chicken Drum Sticks

2 Carrots peeled and cut into 1" sections

1 Onion quartered through the stem end

Bouquet Garni (Bundle of herbs tied up with a piece of kitchen string)

Preheat the oven to 220Deg C

Spread the drum sticks in a heavy roasting pan just large enough to hold them in a single layer and sprincle the carrot and onion on top

Roast for about 45 Minutes, or until the drum sticks are well browned, and have released all their juices, and the juices have caramelized on the bottom of the pan.

Transfer the drum sticks to a pot and put the roasting pan on the stove top over high heat.

Pour about 2 cups water into the roasting pan, bring to a boil and deglaze the pan.

Scrape up any brown bits on the bottom of the pan with a wooden spoon. Pour the liquid over the drum sticks in the pot.

Add cold water to the pot to cover the drum sticks by about 50mm and nestle Bouquet Garni in the centre. Bring to a gentle simmer, starting at a high heat and reducing the heat to low once a simmer is reached.

Move the pot slightly off centre of the burner/stove plate and adjust the heat so the liquid bubbles gently on one side.

Simmer gently (uncovered) for 3 hours, adding water as needed to keep the drum sticks covered.

Remove from the heat, lift out and store away the drum sticks, and strain the liquid through a fine mesh strainer into a storage container.

Can be stored in a tightly covered container in the refrigirator for up to 5 days, or in the freezer for up to 1 year.

25 September 2011

Chicken Strip Salad

Chicken Strips (Ingredients)

500g Free Range Chicken Fillets

2 Cups Spelt Flour

2 TBS Dried Thyme Leaves

2 TBS Non Irritating Curry Powder

2 TBS Herbamare Herbal salt

Butter/Palm Fruit oil for frying

Method

Slice Chicken fillets into thin slices.

Mix every thing together in a bowl (except the Chicken)

Heat butter/Palm fruit oil in a sauce pan.

Dip the chicken strips in the flour/herb mix. Shake off excess flour.

Fry in the pan until light brown.

Put on a cooling rack to drip and cool.

Salad (Ingredients)

200-300g Rice Vermicelli Pasta

Lettuce leaves

Peppers

Red Onions

Avocado

Cherry Tomatoes

Organic Apple Cider Vinegar

Himalayan Salt

Olive Oil

Method

Boil the Rice Vermicelli for 2 minutes. Drain and rinse with cold filtered water.

Wash all the salad ingredients (salt water / H2O2 is prefered)

Slice & decorate the plate with the lettuce leaves.

Put well drained rice pasta on the leaves.

Put all the other salad ingredients on the pasta.

If you would like to season the salad - now is the time: Sprinkle some fine Himalayan salt, some olive oil and some apple cider vinegar.

Lastly add the cooled chicken strips on top.

Enjoy with a glass of GOOD ORGANIC wine or what you prefer!

08 September 2011

Oat Crunchies

Ingredients

500ml (2 cups) Oats

125ml (½ cup) Linseeds

125ml (½ cup) Sesame seeds

250ml (1 cup) Oat flour

250ml (1 cup) Chopped dates or raisins

280ml (1 cup & 2 tbsp) Honey

Pinch of salt

Method

Heat the oven to 180°C. Grease baking tin. Mix the sesame seeds, linseeds and oats together. Sift the flour and salt into the oats mixture. Add the chopped dates/raisins. Blend the honey into the oats mixture. Press evenly into the baking tin with your fingers. Bake for 20 – 25 minutes. Cut while still warm. Allow to cool in the oven while the oven is turned off (this allows the crunchies to harden). Store in an airtight container once cooled.

Optional: If you would like to have carob crunchies, you would need to buy carob chunks.

Melt two to three blocks of the carob chunks in a double boiler. Pour over crunchies once they have cooled and then place the crunchies in the fridge for the carob to harden

10 September 2011

Pancakes

8 Cup. Spelt flour (White)
4 tsp. Baking powder
½ tsp. salt
4 free range eggs
7 cup. water
4 tsp. Lemon juice
1 cup. Olive oil

Mix dry ingredients in large mixing bowl.
Beat the egg, water, lemon juice & olive oil together
Mix in the dry ingredients in, mix till smooth.
Put a little oil in pan and heat for the first pancake
You should be able to bake the rest of the pancakes without oiling the pan

Flavour with honey and cinnamon after the pancake is baked.
Add a few drops of lemon juice on the pancake for an extra zest!

Enjoy!!

10 September 2011

Reliable Food suppliers

Organic Meat & Free Range Chicken

Voorsorg Vleis (Brandvlei)

(054) 6030181

Delivery to Cape Town 1st Wed of the month

Pre-Order Only

Organic Fruit, Vegetables etc.

The Ethical Co-Op

The Business Place

Cwangco Crescent

Cnr Lansdown Rd and New Eisleben Rd

Behind Shoprite Centre

Philippi

Order Online

28 September 2011

Spelt Bread

What is spelt?

Spelt (Triticum spelta) is a hexaploid species of wheat. Spelt was an important staple in parts of Europe from the Bronze Age to medieval times; it now survives as a relict crop in Central Europe and northern Spain and has found a new market as a health food. Spelt is sometimes considered a subspecies of the closely related species common wheat (T. aestivum), in which case its botanical name is considered to be Triticum aestivum subsp. spelta. Read more…

Spelt Bread

500g spelt flour (50/50 refind/wholemeal)

5ml instant yeast

5ml salt

30ml olive oil/Butter

5ml Organic unrefined sugar

400ml luke warm water

1 Free-range Egg

Add all ingredients to bowl and kneed for 5 min. Dough will be soft and sticky.

Cover with damp cloth and leave to rise at approx 40 C for 30 - 60 min until doubled in size.

Then knead it down again and place in well oiled baking tin and pat flat. Dough will still be very sticky.

Leave to rise uncovered for 15 - 30 min until nicely puffed up.

Bake at 190 C for 35 min or until loaf sounds hollow when tapped. Place a bowl of water in the base of the oven while baking. This helps to keep the crust soft.

Cool on wire rack.

10 September 2011

Spelt Bread for bread machine

Add ingredients in the bread machine in the same sequence as given below. Use the measuring spoon and cup provided with the bread machine.

2 ½ tsp Yeast (Anchor)

350 g Refined Spelt flour

200 g Stone-ground spelt flour

1 ½ tbsp rice milk powder

1 ½ tbsp brown sugar

1 ½ tsp salt

30g butter

1 Egg

280ml Water

Choice of "select" - whole wheat

Choice of "option" - Bake "Rapid" (This option bakes the best looking bread)

Choice of "option" - Bake (if you want to wake up tomorrow morning with the smell of freshly baked bread - set the "timer").

Choice of "size" - XL

Choice of "Crust" - can only be chosen with certain options

Choice of "timer" - when you want to bake overnight. Choose the amount of hours that you want remaining until bread is done.

"Start" - press when process needs to start or to activate the "timer".

It's also used to cancel process or timer. (depress for longer than 1 s)

10 September 2011

White Sauce

40g butter
40ml refined spelt
2.5ml salt
15ml Kikkoman soy sauce
500ml rice milk

1. Melt butter in saucepan.
2. Add spelt over low heat and mix well (roux mixture)
3. Slowly add milk and cook for 3 - 5 min. over low heat, until smooth.
4. Add salt and soy sauce for flavour.
5. Additionally you may add a little grated lemon skin, Herbamare Salt, or Curry powder for extra taste!

10 September 2011

Articles

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 07:01:12 +0200

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
Gian Carlo

Cancer

"But nobody today can say that one does not know what cancer and its prime cause be. On the contrary, there is no disease whose prime cause is better known, so that today ignorance is no longer an excuse that one cannot do more about prevention.That prevention of cancer will come there is no doubt, for man wishes to survive. But how long prevention will be avoided depends on how long the prophets of agnosticism will succeed in inhibiting the application of scientific knowledge in the cancer field. In the meantime, millions of men must die of cancer unnecessarily."
Nobel Prize Winner Otto Warburg in a meeting of Nobel Laureates, June 30, 1966

Vitamin B17

During 1950 after many years of research, a dedicated biochemist by the name of Dr. Ernest T. Krebs, Jr., isolated a new vitamin that he numbered B-17 and called 'Laetrile'. As the years rolled by, thousands became convinced that Krebs had finally found the complete control for all cancers, a conviction that even more people share today.

Back in 1950 Ernest Krebs could have had little idea of the hornet's nest he was about to stir up. The pharmaceutical multinationals, unable to patent or claim exclusive rights to the vitamin, launched a propaganda attack of unprecedented viciousness against B-17, despite the fact that hard proof of its efficiency in controlling all forms of cancer surrounds us in overwhelming abundance. Why has orthodox medicine waged war against this non-drug approach? G. Edward Griffin, author of the book World Without Cancer contends that the answer is to be found not in science, but in politics, and is based upon the hidden economic and power agenda of those who dominate the medical establishment. Read on...

18 September 2011

Budwig Protocol

The Flaxseed (Linseed) oil diet was originally proposed by Dr. Johanna Budwig, a German biochemist and expert on fats and oils, in 1951. Dr. Budwig holds a Ph.D. in Natural Science, has undergone medical training, and was schooled in pharmaceutical science, physics, botany and biology. She is best known for her extensive research on the properties and benefits of flaxseed oil combined with sulphurated proteins in the diet, and over the years has published a number of books on the subject, including "Cancer--A Fat Problem," "The Death of the Tumor," and "True Health Against Arteriosclerosis, Heart Infarction & Cancer."

Dr. Budwig found that the blood of seriously ill cancer patients was deficient in certain important essential ingredients which included substances called phosphatides and lipoproteins, while the blood of a healthy person always contains sufficient quantities of these essential ingredients.

She found that when these natural ingredients where replaced over approximately a three month period, tumors gradually receded, weakness and anemia disappeared and life energy was restored. Symptoms of cancer, liver dysfunction and diabetes were alleviated.

Dr. Budwig then discovered an all natural way for people to replace those essential ingredients their bodies so desperately needed in their daily diet. By simply eating a combination of just two natural and delicious foods not only can cancer be prevented but in case after case it was

actually cured. (These two natural foods, organic flax seed oil & cottage cheese) must be eaten together to be effective since one triggers the properties of the other to be released.)

After more than 10 years of solid clinical application, Dr. Budwig's natural formula has proven successful where many orthodox remedies have failed. Dr. Budwig's formula has been used therapeutically in Europe for prevention of: cancer, arteriosclerosis, strokes, cardiac infarction, stomach ulcers (normalizes gastric juices), Prostate (hypertopic), arthritis (exerts a favorable influence), eczema (assists all skin diseases), and even immune deficiences.

Thousands have been helped by her protocol. Testimonials can be found for almost every type of cancer and tumors, even late stage. Dr. Budwig has assisted many seriously ill individuals, even those given up as terminal by orthodox medical practitioners, to regain their health through a simple regimen of nutrition. The basis of Dr. Budwig's program is the use of flaxseed oil blended with low-fat cottage cheese.

Dr. Johanna preaches against the use of what she calls "pseudo" fats - "hydrogenated," "partially hydrogenated" and even "polyunsaturated." The chemical processing causes the oils to become a harmful substance deposited within the body. The heart, for instance, rejects these fats and they end up as inorganic fatty deposits on the heart muscle itself. They end up blocking circulation, damage heart action, inhibit cell renewal and impede the free flow of blood and lymph fluids.

Science has proven that fats play an important role in the functioning of the entire body. Fats (lipids) are vital for all growth processing, renewal of cells, brain and nerve functions. Our energy resources are based on lipid metabolism. To function efficiently, cells require true polyunsaturated, live electron-rich lipids, present in abundance in raw flaxseed oil.

Lipids are only water-soluble and free-flowing when bound to protein; thus the importance of protein-rich cottage cheese. When high quality, electron-rich fats are combined with proteins, the electrons are protected until the body requires energy. This energy source is then fully and immediately available to the body on demand, as nature intended.

Budwig claims that the diet is both a preventative and a curative. She says the absence of linol-acids [in the average western diet] is responsible for the production of oxydase, which induces cancer growth and is the cause of many other chronic disorders.

The theory is: the use of oxygen in the organism can be stimulated by protein compounds of sulphuric content, which make oils water-soluble and which is present in cheese, nuts, onion and leek vegetables such as leek, chive, onion and garlic, but especially cottage cheese.

It is essential to use only unrefined, cold-pressed oils with high linolic acid content, such as linseed, sunflower, soya, poppyseed, walnut, and flax oils. Such oil should be consumed together with foods containing the right proteins otherwise the oils will have the OPPOSITE EFFECT, causing more harm than good.

The best combination is cottage cheese and linseed oil. The linseed should be freshly ground. Carbohydrates containing natural sugar, such as dates, figs, pears, apples and grapes, can also be included in the diet. Honey is also beneficial. She feels most of the synthetic vitamin A preparations are bad because they contain oxidation products, but much carotene as pro-vitamin A (from carrot) is consumed. Vitamin B from buttermilk, yogurt, and natural yeast is beneficial.

A person requires daily about 4 oz. of cottage cheese mixed well with 1.5 oz. of linseed oil. A blender or egg beater works fine. The mixture an be sweeten with honey or otherwise flavored naturally. Fresh fruits can be added.

The Budwig Diet

Dr. Johanna Budwig Mix:

Put in your blender:

1 cup Organic low fat cottage cheese

2-5 Tbsp. of flaxseed oil

enough water to make it soft

Optional:

1-3 Tbsp. of freshly ground up flaxseed (coffee grinder works fine)

cayenne

garlic

red pepper

For those who can't eat dairy products, you can substitute "Companion Nutrients" available through Nature's Distributors in Arizona, 1-800-624-7114. These are capsules containing dried sulfurated proteins and enzymes which activate the essential fatty acids. They guarantee that one capsule will activate one Tbsp. of oil.

Make it very soft.

Eat some of it every day.

Some people just add the above to their diet, while others follow a Program that she recommends:

The patient has no nourishment on day #1 other than 250 ml (8.5 oz) of Flax Oil with honey plus freshly squeezed fruit juices (no sugar added!). In the case of a very ill person, champagne may be added on the first day in place of juice and is taken with the Flax Oil and honey. Champagne is easily absorbable and has a serious purpose here. (The champagne vehicle IS easier to assimilate and get someone almost on their death-bed going again. A retention enema of 250 ml (8.5 oz) of oil is another route to get this precious life-furthering, ELECTRON-RICH oil into the body. It can also be applied to the skin for transdermal absorption.)

1) SUGAR IS ABSOLUTELY FORBIDDEN. Grape juice may be added to sweeten any other freshly squeezed juices.

2) Other 'forbiddens' are:

- All animal fats.

- All Salad Oils (this included commercial mayonnaise)

- All Meats (chemicals & hormones)

- Butter

- Margarine

- Preserved Meats (the preservatives block metabolism even of Flax Oil)

3) Freshly squeezed vegetable juices are fine - carrot, celery, apple, and red beet.

4) Three times daily a warm tea is essential - peppermint, rose hips or grape tea - all sweetened as desired with honey. One cup of black tea before noon is fine.

DAILY PLAN

Before breakfast - a glass of Acidophilus milk or Sauerkraut juice is taken.

Breakfast - Muesli (regular cereal) is overlaid with 2 tablespoons (30 ml) of Flax Oil and honey and fresh fruit according to season - berries, cherries, apricots, peaches, grated apple. Vary the flavor from day to day. Use any nuts except peanuts! Herbal teas as desired or black tea. A 4 oz (120 g) serving of THE SPREAD (directions below). This is fine to eat 'straight' like a custard, or add it to other foods taken in the day as you will see.

Morning tea (10am) - A glass of fresh carrot juice, apple, celery, or beet-apple juice is taken.

Lunch - Raw salad with yogurt-Flax Oil Mayonnaise (directions below).

In addition to 'greens' salads, use grated turnips, carrots, kohlrabi, radishes, sauerkraut or cauliflower. A fine powder of horseradish, chives or parsley may be added for flavor.

Cooked Meal Course - Steamed vegetables, potatoes, or such grains as rice, buck-wheat or millet may be served. to these add either THE SPREAD or THE MAYO - for flavor and to up your intake of Flax Oil. Also mix THE SPREAD with potatoes for an especially hearty meal. Add caraway, chives, parsley or other herbs.

Dessert - Mix fresh fruit other than those used for breakfast with THE SPREAD, this time (instead of honey), flavored using cream of lemon, vanilla or berries.

Afternoon Tea (4pm) - A small glass of natural wine (no preservatives) or champagne or fresh fruit juice with 1-2 tablespoons of honey-coated Fax Seeds.

Supper - Have this early, at 6pm. Make a hot meal using buckwheat, oat or soy cakes. grits from buckwheat are the very best and can be placed in a vegetable soup, or in a more solid form of cakes with herbal sauce. Sweet sauces & soups can always be given far more healing energy by adding THE SPREAD. Only honey or grape juice can be used for sweeteners. NO white sugar (or brown!) Only freshly squeezed juices and NOT reconstituted juices (preservative danger) may be used. These must be completely natural.

How to prepare 'THE SPREAD'

Place 250 ml (8.5 oz) Flax Oil into a mixer bowl and add one pound (450 g) of 1% Cottage Cheese low fat or Quark) and add 4 tablespoons (60 ml) of Honey. Turn on the mixer and add just enough low fat milk or water to get the contents of the bowl to blend in together. In 5 minutes, a preparation of custard consistency results that has NO taste of the oil (and no oily 'ring' should be seen when you rinse out the bowl).

Alternatively, you can use Yogurt instead of Cottage Cheese in proportions of 1 oz (30 g) of Yogurt to 1 tablespoon (15 ml) each of Flax Oil and of honey and blend as above.

NOTE: When Flax Oil is blended like this, it does not cause diarrhea even when given in large amounts. It reacts chemically with the (sulphur) proteins of the cottage cheese, yogurt, etc.

How to prepare 'THE MAYO' (Mayonnaise):

Mix together 2 tablespoons (30 ml) Flax Oil, 2 tablespoons (30 ml) milk, and 2 tablespoons (30 ml) Yogurt.

Then add 2 tablespoons (30 ml) of Lemon juice (or Apple Cider Vinegar) and add 1 teaspoon (2.5g) Mustard plus some herbs such as marjoram or dill.

Next add 2 or 3 slices of health food store pickles (no preservatives! - read label!) and a pinch of herbal salts.

According to Dr. Budwig, you need to remain on this diet for a good 5 years. If you break the rules of this diet, Dr Budwig reports, (ie. eating preserved meats, candy, etc), the tumors will sometimes grow rapidly worse.

FLAX (LINSEED) OIL is readily denatured by oxygen, heat, and light. Rancid oil is bad for health, so oil MUST be carefully produced, packed under nitrogen in light-proof containers, refrigerated until used, used as fresh as possible, and stabilized with protein (THE SPREAD, etc) promptly once the container is opened..." Brands to look for include Omegaflo and Barleans. These should be refrigerated and used within a couple of months after opening.

Flax Seeds may also be used. Seeds need only be cracked in a food blender, or they may be ground in a coffee grinder. One needs three times the amount of seed to get the oil equivalent. Seeds are high in calories, so one may gain weight. The seeds are also high in soluble fiber, so blending with liquid tends to produce ever-hardening "jellies". Fresh-cracked seeds can sprinkled on muesli and should be eaten promptly.

12 September 2011

Cancer is a Fungus

Cancer is a Fungus - Dr. Tullio Simoncini

If 40, 30, or even 20 years ago it was still possible to somehow convince people of the goodness of official oncology and of its results, today, after results that are as continuous as they are inane, although trumpeted regularly by the media, nobody accepts being seduced by words, about hypotheses and promises that are undelivered and undeliverable, any longer. The painful awareness, which almost everyone has experienced, of the miserable end of this or that relative, friend, or acquaintance, is associated with these failures.
We must surrender to the evidence that contemporary oncology is incapable of giving us the answers and the necessary to those who are cancer patients and that therefore it is our moral and ethical obligation to try to find the correct solution for the gravest and most painful disease of our time.

Cancer is a fungus
For about 100 years, the fundamental theory behind cancer has been based on the hypothesis that it is a malfunctioning of the genes. This point of view implies that cancer is intracellular. My point of view however is that cancer is a fungal infection, and therefore an extra cellular phenomenon.

Candida
In the plant world, cancers are caused by a fungal invasion, and it is possible to argue that the same thing happens in human beings. Fungi are always involved in cancers: they are found both in vivo and in the post-mortem examination*.
However, scientists believe that they develop after the onset of the illness. My opinion is that they come before it: they produce the cancer, blunt the immune system and then invade the entire organism.
Each type of cancer is caused by fungi of the Candida species, as also referenced by other research*, and the histological configuration is a result of the defence reaction of a tissue against the invasion. In time, the tissue gets exhausted and produces only undifferentiated cells.
A cancer could be termed a ‘solid abscess,’ where the colonies form the centre, and host cellular reaction is all around.

Sodium bicarbonate

Traditional anti-fungal drugs are ineffective in treating tumours because the solid colonies can be attacked only on the surface of their volume, and after the first administrations they become resistant.
A solid infection is much more powerful than a bacterial one. That is why simple fungal infections can last forever.
I have identified the substances uniquely able to penetrate these volumetric infections: for cancer of the internal organs it is sodium bicarbonate; and the best substance to eliminate skin cancer is iodine tincture, particularly when it is spread onto the growth. There are many publications that describe the effectiveness of sodium bicarbonate on cancer*, but the conclusions drawn in them are invariably wrong because they assume intracellular, rather than antifungal action.

The treatment
My methods have cured people for 20 years. Many of my patients recovered completely from cancer, even in cases where official oncology had given up.
The best way to try to eliminate a tumour is to bring it into contact with sodium bicarbonate, as closely as possible, i.e. using oral administration for the digestive tract, enemas for the rectum, douching for the vagina and uterus, intravenous injection for the lung and the brain, and inhalation for the upper airways. Breasts, lymph nodes and subcutaneous lumps can be treated with local perfusions. The internal organs can be treated with sodium bicarbonate by locating suitable catheters in the arteries (of the liver, pancreas, prostate, and limbs) or in the cavities (of the pleura or peritoneum). It is important to treat each type of cancer with the right dosage. For a phleboclysis, 500 cc at 5% or 8,4% is required; for external administrations it is enough to taste if the solution is salty. Sometimes it is judicious to combine different administrations. For each treatment, take into consideration that tumour colonies regress between the third and fourth day and collapse between the fourth and fifth, so that a six day administration is sufficient.
A complete, effective cycle is made up of six treatment days on, and six days off, repeated four times. The most important side effects of this care system are thirst and weakness.
For skin cancer, a 7% iodine tincture should be spread on the affected area, 20-30 times once a day, with the aim of producing a number of layers of crusts. After this treatment, the cancer will be gone and stay away forever.

Pediatric oncology
This therapy is also applicable in paediatric oncology, provided the dosage is adjusted and revised according to the weight and age of the infant, as well as the type of neoplastic formation.

Clinical cases
Several well-documented clinical cases, examined before and after sodium bicarbonate treatments, were reported on and outlined on www.cancerfungus.com.
I wrote a book entitled ‘Cancer is a Fungus’ published in Italian, Dutch and English, thanks to the help of family and friends. Video footage of patient testimonials is also available on the internet site mentioned above. My deep wish is to make this therapy available to all humanity. In order to do so I must carry on my research. This research is done privately, since I have received no response from official institutions — despite having published the results of the well-documented and successful clinical cases I have treated. It is my firm hope that soon, the fundamental role of fungi in the development of neoplastic disease is acknowledged, so that it is possible to find, with the help of all existing forces of the health establishment, those anti-mycotic drugs and those systems of therapy that can quickly defeat, without damageand suffering, a disease that brings so much devastation to humanity.

Why Cancer comes back

Why cancer comes back following chemotherapy, radiation or surgery

August 07, 2007 by: Mike Adams

Adapted by Christo Lues

One of the most common problems in cancer patients who choose to undergo conventional cancer therapy is recurrence. They might think they have beaten their cancer with chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery, only to find a few years later that tumors have spread into other tissues -- usually the lungs, brain, or even the reproductive organs. Conventional medicine has not yet caught on to what's happening here, but the reason why this phenomenon occurs is quite simple: Conventional cancer treatments only treat the symptoms of cancer (tumors or growths) and do not actually do anything to help the patient regain a level of health necessary to keep cancer in check.

A tumor is not technically a disease. It is a symptom of an underlying imbalance in the patient. Unless you treat and reverse the underlying imbalances, you will never eliminate the underlying cause of the cancer. You will continue to see more tumors and complications, even if you are able to treat the first tumors.

Think of it like this: suppose you have a dam holding up a body of water such as a lake. One day, due to poor maintenance, the dam begins to crack and water starts leaking through. In the world of conventional cancer treatment, they would say the problem is the water, and they would begin treating the water. They would try to evaporate the water or eliminate the water from flooding the valley below. But the problem isn't the water leaking through the dam; the problem is the integrity of the dam itself. Unless you diagnose the problem with the dam and repair it, then you will never stop the leaking water.

The same is true with cancer. Unless you address the underlying integrity of the immune system and the body's self-repairing technology, all you're doing is chasing symptoms. You can treat all the cancer tumors in the world and still do nothing to actually help the cancer patient solve his or her underlying problem.

The cancer industry remains ignorant of useful treatments

Amazingly, after decades of research, and billions of dollars spent on cancer research, the conventional cancer industry remains oblivious to this simple truth about cancer. They don't teach cancer prevention, and they don't believe in cancer cures even though many exist. They are still treating the water rather than the dam by treating the tumors rather than the underlying problem.

Conventional cancer treatments actually harm the patient and the patient's immune system, making it even more difficult to overcome cancer in the future. Chemotherapy harms the immune system and impairs organs such as the brain, liver, and the heart. It's sort of like using TNT to blow out the water leaking through the dam. You destroy the dam at the same time. It leaves the patient unable to stop the progression of the cancer. The real answers to cancer prevention and cure are found in nutrition, exercise, reduction of stress, and avoidance of environmental chemicals and toxins, and most of all - stop cellular fermentation as a result of intra-cellular acidity. Chemotherapy is not a cure for cancer, nor is radiation, because both of those treatments actually cause cancer.

When you poison the immune system and irradiate tissues, you create physical imbalances which in turn can create cancer or feed existing cancer. This is the simple reason why so many people who subject themselves to conventional cancer treatments find themselves battling recurring cancer years later.

Where to start with curing cancer

The bottom line is that conventional cancer treatments are a sham and they do nothing to help the patient overcome the causes of cancer. They do a great job of creating repeat business for the cancer industry, however, and pharmaceutical companies now have a reliable market for the anticancer chemicals that have now become mainstream treatments for this entirely preventable and curable disease. But if you want to really cure cancer, you've got to focus on detoxification and healing from the inside out. Nearly all cases of cancer are caused in part by a burden of toxic, synthetic chemicals lodged in the liver, heart and digestive tract. Eliminating those is the first step towards a real cure, and cleansing the liver is probably the single most important thing to do when seeking to cure your own cancer (or to have a "permanent remission" as conventional oncologists might call it, since they don't believe there is such a thing as a cure for cancer).

So, how do you cleanse your liver? I could write an entire article just on that, but here's something to get you started on what to investigate: The best modalities for liver cleansing are, in my opinion, Traditional Chinese Medicine and rainforest herbs (Amazon herbs). Also investigate coffee enema's.

In my opinion, there is no such thing as a cancer recovery without a healthy, functioning liver. So start with supporting the liver. Isn't it interesting to note that chemotherapy -- which is still somehow accepted as the mainstream treatment for cancer -- is extremely toxic to the liver? In fact, chemotherapy compromises the body's ability to cure itself of cancer in the future, thereby ensuring continued entrapment in the pharmacological medical system. The reason conventional medicine is so incredibly profitable is that the chemical products they use harm patients just enough to make sure they need to keep coming back for more treatments.

Dangers of Microwave cooking

Microwave ovens have become like a kettle or a toaster in our homes. Yet there are some hidden dangers, that if left unpublished, can injure a lot of people. Read More...

18 September 2011

Does the birth control pill cause abortions?

By Randy Alcorn

“The Pill” is the popular term for more than forty different commercially available oral contraceptives. In medicine, they are commonly referred to as BCPs (Birth Control Pills), OCs (Oral Contraceptives) and/or OCPs (Oral Contraceptive Pills). They are also called “Combination Pills,” because they contain a combination of estrogen and progestin.

About fourteen million American women use the Pill each year. Across the globe it is used by about sixty million. The question of whether it causes abortions has direct bearing on untold millions of Christians, many of them prolife, who use and recommend it. For those who recognize God is the Creator of each person and the giver and taker of human life, this is a question with profound moral implications. After coming to grips with the importance of this issue, and hearing conflicting opinions for the last few years, I determined to research this question thoroughly and communicate my findings, whether or not I liked what I found.

If you have ever wondered about the little pill you pop daily, please read on...

18 September 2011

Help, I have Blood Pressure and Cholesterol!

By Christo Lues

This seems to be one of the biggest problems of our day! Most people that I consult with on a daily basis is on blood pressure and cholesterol medicine.

From medical aids to life insurance to doctors to friends want to know what your cholesterol level is.

If you walk into your local convenience shop, you find it very hard to buy anything that’s not labeled “Low-Fat” or “Fat-Free” or “Cholesterol Free”

Fat has become the ultimate culprit of the post modern food world.

It is not the intention of this article to discuss the origin of this notion, but rather to point the way for the future.

Does consuming fat clog up our arteries?

The following is on the front page of The International Network of Cholesterol Skeptics:

For decades, enormous human and financial resources have been wasted on the cholesterol campaign, more promising research areas have been neglected, producers and manufacturers of animal food all over the world have suffered economically, and millions of healthy people have been frightened and badgered into eating a tedious and flavorless diet or into taking potentially dangerous drugs for the rest of their lives. As the scientific evidence in support of the cholesterol campaign is non-existent, we consider it important to stop it as soon as possible.

The International Network of Cholesterol Skeptics (THINCS) is a steadily growing group of scientists, physicians, other academicians and science writers from various countries. Members of this group represent different views about the causation of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease, some of them are in conflict with others, but this is a normal part of science. What we all oppose is that animal fat and high cholesterol play a role. The aim with this website is to inform our colleagues and the public that this idea is not supported by scientific evidence; in fact, for many years a huge number of scientific studies have directly contradicted it.

So what does this mean?

Does this mean that avoiding saturated animal fat, eggs, low fat milk, fat free milk, fatty meat, organ meats etc. will not benefit you?

Does it mean that your Specialist Doctor who puts you on a cholesterol lowering diet wrong?

Well let me try and explain the dilemma with the current cholesterol treatment model.

It all starts in the saliva. Yes, in your mouth. I am talking about the pH of your body. When the pH of your saliva drops to acid (below 7) it means that the water between your body tissue cells become acid. When this situation continues for any length of time the cell will start malfunctioning and disease may set in.

We may all be familiar with one such acid borne symptom. If you’ve done strenuous exercise and experience stiff or sore muscles the next day, it’s due to a build up of lactic acid in the muscle tissues. Because the arteries in your body is also made from muscle tissue, they too may become too acid, much like the muscles in your legs for instance.

Lets say you were to stretch that stiff leg muscle too much, it will actually tear! This is of coarse very painful.

The same happens when we “stretch” an artery. This may happen when you end up behind a taxi in traffic or standing in a slow moving line at the post office. Because of these, umm, stressful situations, you may experience a sudden constriction of the arteries, increasing your blood pressure to fight off the eminent enemy in front of you.

In order for these arteries to constrict, the muscle tissue forming the arteries contracts and thus a higher pressure is the result. Now, if those artery muscle tissues happened to be too acid, a small tear may be the result of the sudden constriction. This may result in a microscopic tear in the artery wall. As a result there is a small leak of blood from the artery.

When this happens the body springs to action. Bleeding is serious and if left unattended can have catastrophic consequences. So, to plug the “hole” the body gets some fibrous material from the liver called fibrinogen. It uses this much like you would plug the hole in a fiber-glass boat, this being the fiber. Secondly for “cement” it draws calcium from the bones to strengthen the patch. Lastly, to make sure there is no leak, it puts a sealant over the patch, called; “bad cholesterol” or Low Density Lipoproteins (LDL).

Low density means it can float on-top of something else. This means that the so called bad LDL will float on top until it gets to the point of where it’s needed, and then attach to the inside of the artery wall to seal the patch. A miracle just occurred, your life was saved!

However, when your specialist doctor, called a Cardiologist, opens you up to find blocked arteries, he blames the patches for blocking your arteries, and puts you an anti-patch medicine called, statins!

You may ask why he would do such a thing? Well see, it’s all about cholesterol, in fact it’s all about the “bad LDL cholesterol.”

When your artery tissues are acid, like I explained above, you don’t just form one little hole, you may have thousands! In order to seal off these thousands of microscopic holes, you need a lot of “sealant” or LDL cholesterol.

So, when your clever doc tests your blood, sure enough, he will see the higher levels of patch material, or LDL or “bad cholesterol” Bad for saving your life!

As the arteries hardens due to prolonged acidity, you may have more and more of these “patches” being formed. You may even have total blockage of certain arteries. This is serious, but it is certainly NOT the fault of the “bad” patching material - LDL!

The fault is to be laid at the feet of the acid buildup in your system.

In fact, as the artery walls hardens over time, due to high acid levels, you may even find yourself with a whole new condition - high blood pressure!

High blood pressure then results from the hardened arteries not being able to contract or relax, the action whereby it regulates the blood’s pressure.

So, you mean that the whole cholesterol thing is a lie we are being fed by pharmaceutical companies sponsoring adverts and doctors conventions? Well, one recent study by Dr Malcolm Kendrick showed that the people with the lowest cholesterol (Australian Aborigines) has about thirty times higher cardiovascular disease as Britten, in fact the highest on the planet. The Swiss with the highest average cholesterol levels have the lowest incidence of CVD in the WORLD!

So, you decide…

What about the medication given for cholesterol? Well, one good source of information on the effect of “Statins” (Cholesterol medicine) is a book called “Did your Doctor tell you?” by Prof. Willem Serfontein. On pg. 27 he lists just a few possible side effects of taking statins, among them are; Increased Cancer risk, Suppression of insulin levels (Called diabetes), weakening of the heart muscle, Immune malfunction, Peripheral nerve damage AND Increased cardiovascular risk!! Some others that he does not list may include loss of memory, burning feet, dementia and loss of sex drive. Good stuff this...

What can you do about it?

The best thing you can do, is to get your body pH tested. Remember, this is NOT your stomach acid. It’s the pH of your intercellular fluid.

Once you have this value tested, you can start acting on correcting this value to an optimal level of 7.5. As your acid level drops, your body can regain it’s optimal level of functionality, and start repairing itself.

Certain supplements may help the body regain its optimal healthy level much more effectively. Amongst these are Omega 3 with Alkoxyglycerol and Squaline added, Coral Calcium to help achieve a good pH, and a complex of anti-oxidants.

18 September 2011

Help, I have Hay Fever

OK, so you are sneezing, can't see where you go and your eyes look like you had a few very late nights!

The only thing you want to do is get a shot or a pill to chill untill it passes. Only problem is that you would sleep through your day, as life goes on for other people. This is when that luring cortisone shot seems awefully attractive (barr the terrible side effects)

Do not dispair, there are natural ways around this!

Step one

The less water you drink, the more Histamine your body produces - making everyting run and itch. So instead of taking anti-Histamine - rather increase your water intake. If you apply the following formula you will drink the correct amount of water:

Your GOAL weight x 0.7 / by 14 days = amount of water per day / by 250ml gives you the number of glasses per day

Example: 70kg x 0.7 = 49L (water content of your body) / 14 days = 3.5L water per day / by 250ml glass = 14 glasses of water per day.

At this point you realize then that drinking 14 glasses of tap water may kill you! You may just be correct, so please get quality water. I recommend Nestlè or Valpre water. If you have a KDF type filter, you are winning.

Make sure you pop 2 sachets of Coral Calcium in your water.

Step two

Remove ALL wheat and wheat containing products from your diet. This means bread, muffins, pancakes, biscuits and crackers made from wheat. Alternatives to these are products made from 100% rye and spelt or rice.

Remove all dairy and dairy containing products from your diet for 2-3months. This means milk, cream, cheese, yogurt and ice-cream. Butter is ok to use in moderation.

Alternatives can be rice milk.

Step three

The following supplements may help modulate your over-responsive immune system, and bring safe relief.

Elderberry capsules

In severe attacks try using 2 capsules every hour, and there after 2-3x per day.

Quercetin

Try 1-2 Capsules 3 x per day

MSM

Try 2 capsules (2000mg) per hour in severe attacks, and there after 2-3x per day

I have found that when nothing seems to work, taking 1 each of the following hourly brings immediate relief:

Activ 8, Assimil 8, Coral 8, Berriola, CMO and Mindset.

Homeopathics

Homeopathic remedies are very specific and if you find the CORRECT one for you personally, it can work instantaneously! Here we may look at the following:

Hay F tablets by Natura

Mixed Allergins by Natura

Sinfrontal by Natura

Luffeel spray by Heel in an accute attack

Luffeel Tablets as a maintenance

If you have Blocked sinus passages or acute sinusitis rather use Euphorbium spray and drops

I hope this helps! Some of us live in areas polluted by farmers in the area. This is so sad, as these ruthless crop spraying individuals don't seem to think twice, spraying (sometimes daily) in and near residential areas. When confronted, the knee jerk answer is that there is "no proof" that the chemicals they spray cause asthma and allergies, and that they are allowed to spray. Do we just accept this…?

07 October 2011

Help, my child has ADD

From The Health Reporter Issue 7/2008

By Christo Lues

Dr. Peter Breggin, one of the foremost experts on the dangers of prescription drugs, writes:

In the 1970s, there was a public uproar, outraged books, and congressional hearings about one hundred thousand children being prescribed Ritalin. Now hardly anyone remembers that controversy. Instead, millions of children are taking stimulant drugs with hardly any outcry at all.

Estimates vary widely, but the total number of children on Ritalin has been estimated between 6 and 8 million children or more in 2000. The United States accounts for 90% of the world’s consumption of Ritalin, which prompted the International Narcotics Control Board to issue a warning in February of 1995 which deplored the fact that “10-12 percent of all boys between the ages of 6 and 14 in the United States have been diagnosed as having ADD and are being treated with methylphenidate [Ritalin].” The board raised concerns about doctors’ seeking “easy” solutions to “behavioural problems which may have complex causes.” It also drew attention to the “promotional practices” that were leading to the over prescription of Ritalin in our country.

ADHD and Ritalin

Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is the “disorder” that supposedly accounts for so many children having trouble in school and posing disciplinary problems to adults. Ritalin is promoted as the “cure” for this condition, on the basis that ADHD is a “biochemical imbalance” in the brain that is fixed by the “magic bullet” of Ritalin. But is ADHD a real physical disease? Can it be scientifically identified?

According to Dr. Peter Breggin and many, many scientists, ADHD cannot be physically identified:

There is no physical test that can detect the supposed existence of ADHD. There are no specific physical symptoms associated with it. The ADHD diagnosis is made by comparing the child’s behaviors with a description of the disorder as defined and accepted by experts and practitioners in the field.

Dr. Breggin also writes:

There are no objective diagnostic criteria for ADHD—no physical symptoms, no neurological signs, and no blood tests. Despite claims to the contrary, there are no brain scan findings and no biochemical imbalances. No physical tests can be done to verify that a child has ADHD.

Gerald Golden, a professor of paediatrics and neurology, put it bluntly: “Attempts to define a biological basis for ADHD have been consistently unsuccessful. The neuroanatomy of the brain, as demonstrated by neuroimaging studies, is normal. No neuropatholical substrate has been demonstrated….”

In a scientific review, Diane McGuinness called Attention Deficit Disorder “the emperor’s new clothes.” In The Hyperactive Child and Stimulant Drugs, Roger Freeman labelled the state of the art and practice in the field surrounding ADHD “a mess.” He went on to note that this area is “characterized by rarely challenged myths, ill-defined boundaries, and a strangely seductive attractiveness.”

With facts such as these, many people have concluded with Dr. Breggin that there is “no evidence that ADHD is a valid clinical entity associated with physical dysfunction of the brain.”

How does a child become diagnosed as ADHD? What are the criteria for such a diagnosis? This is a shocker. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition (DSM-IV), considered the “bible” of psychiatric diagnosis, the entire criteria for making a diagnosis of oppositional defiant disorder is the following:

A pattern of negativistic, hostile, and defiant behaviour lasting at least 6 months, during which four (or more) of the following are present: (1) often loses temper, (2) often argues with adults, (3) often actively defies or refuses to comply with adult requests or rules, (4) often deliberately annoys people, (5) often blames others for his or her mistakes or misbehaviours, (6) is often touchy or easily annoyed by others, (7) is often angry and resentful, (8) is often spiteful or vindictive.

No physical cause is described but only behavioural conflict and anger. Dr. Breggin notes that the above diagnosis is merely eight ways to say a child is angry.

If ADHD is not a medical entity, then why is Ritalin so heavily prescribed? Arthur Caplan, director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Centre for Bioethics, writes, “There’s either a strange plague of hyperactivity in the U.S., or we’ve got a lot of folks prescribing Ritalin as a psychopharmocological nanny.” Dr. Breggin hits the nail on the head: “Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has one over-riding purpose—to put a medical veneer on the use of medication to control the behavior of children.”

Drug companies and Ritalin

It should alert any parent’s attention that, with virtually no understanding of the long-term effects of stimulant drugs such as Ritalin, these drugs were heavily advertised by the drug companies for the treatment of problem children. There are enormous sums of money involved in the development and marketing of prescription drugs. Leon Eisenberg, a professor of psychiatry and social medicine at Harvard Medical School, says that the sale of Ritalin and other stimulant drugs for children are “driven by the convenience of the doctor, the profitability of the drug company, and the notion that there is nothing more meaningful to life than biochemistry.”

Read the whole original article here

With all this said, what should a parent do?

Many people come to me in desperation, usually wit words like:

The teacher says that if I do not put him on Ritalin, he is not welcome in the [boring] class.

If I do not give him the drug, I may upset the school, [and it’s such a good school]

I had him on the drug, but he becomes like a Robot or a Drone [but the teacher is happy now]

The Teacher is in favour of “other alternatives” but I have tried every thing, nothing works, the drug is the ONLY option out.

The Doctor says there is NO side effects to using Ritalin (schedule 6 drug), Strattera (schedule 5 drug) or Concerta (schedule 6 drug)

Well, that means your doctor does not read, if you would like to be more informed on the effects of these and other drugs, then you may click below:

Ritalin [Methylphenidate]

Step # 1

Accept responsibility

It is and will always be YOUR responsibility to make important decisions regarding your child. Make sure you come under that weight, and carry it – you are made for it and you are the ONLY one that has your child’s best interest at heart. ANY body else, wants a quick way out, or wants to make money out of you and claim the glory. There is no, well lets first put him on the drug and then when he is better try something alternative – poison is always poison!

So with that in mind, make sure you get as much information as possible on what the (long term) effects of taking such dangerous drugs are. Study the web and related books (not sponsored by a pharmaceutical company or a doctor in favour of the related drugs, there are enough of those) by people that did find an alternative.

Children are all individuals, so with some discipline (or the lack thereof) may be the main problem, with other it may be diet, yet another may have emotional issues due to divorced parents, an absent father or mother, or some other trauma in their lives. You may find your child has a combination of these or needs supplements. You are not alone; other people have gone through the same issues.

Once you have accepted responsibility, you evolve from being a victim to being a victor, and you are ready to take action.

Help your child with managing him self by using a Time Timer.

Step #2

What goes in comes out!

The old saying is “Garbage in garbage out.”

This is probably the most important change you can have on your child’s being. Although you may already be feeding your child a healthy diet, some foods are more beneficial than others.

There are foods that contain what we may call “Excitotoxins”

The most well known, and widely used is MSG or Mono Sodium Glutamate

It stimulates the brain’s glutamine receptors but without a purpose. Like someone once said to me: “I feel like running but I don’t know where to” This substance is to be found in:

 Canned soups.

 Aromat

 Pre-prepared stocks (soup powders) and stock cubes.

 Condiments such as barbecue sauce. And most Knor products.

 Frozen dinners.

 Frozen seafood.

 Common snack foods such as flavored potato chips and flavored tortilla chips.

 Most fast food.

 Instant meals such as the seasoning mixtures for instant noodles.

The second BIG toxin is cane sugar. It has many adverse effects in children (and adults) but you may only see the real difference once your child is off sugar for a while and then ingests some sugar. The effect is sometimes within minutes and often lasts for 24-48 hours after ingestion.

When sugar was first refined, many years ago, it was used as a mind altering drug…

Refined sugar, as we know it today, has been refined 17 times from the sugar cane. This means that if you ingest 1 teaspoon of refined sugar, it would have been 17 spoons of the original sugar cane, of which it is not possible to consume in such large quantities. Brown sugar is simply refined white sugar with sweet molasses added, and has NO health benefit. When you consume black strap molasses, it’s a different story.

Sugar is often used in tea, coffee (another stimulant) or on cereal. If you are already living a healthier diet, then you may already be taking in less sugar, and that’s great, but sugar is concealed in many products like:

 Breakfast cereals

 Yogurt and flavoured milk

 Biscuits

 Sweets

 Coke, and other fizzy drinks

 Snacks, even the savoury kinds

 Juice

 Snack bars

 Health snack bars

 Desserts

 And Much more (read the label for Sugar, glucose or sucrose)

Using artificial sweeteners are equally unhelpful as they belong to the Excitotoxin clan.

The only healthy and well tolerated is Xylitol, a natural healthy sugar.

The third HUGE culprit is wheat. Wheat in its original state is tolerated well by the human body. The body has the enzymes to digest it correctly. Unfortunately as man got involved in mass agriculture the seed was genetically modified in the laboratories. It still looks the same to the naked eye but to the delicate digestive enzymes in our intestines, it looks quite different. In fact they don’t know what to do with it! They simply start breaking apart the “new wheat” molecule as best they know. As they do not have the right “size spanner” to take the molecule apart as it should be done, we find certain by-products forming.

Some of these by-products are called lectins, and they have a range of terrible effects in the body like eczema, asthma, sinus problems, digestive disorders and then THE BRAIN. The neurons in the brain start misbehaving, (combined with excitotoxins, sugar etc) and starts firing when it’s not supposed to, or miss-firing when required to make a quick decision.

Products that contain wheat:

 Breakfast cereals like Wheatbix, Muesli, and most Boxed cereals.

 Muffins, scones, pancakes, biscuits, Provita, Cream crackers, etc

 Bread (all) Except when it states Wheat free

 Pastas (all) Except when it states Wheat free

 Pizza base

 Sandwiches, Burgers, Hot Dogs, pies etc.

There are a number of save alternatives to wheat:

 Spelt (an ancient grain, rather expensive, but almost a direct replacement for wheat) available at health stores

 Rye

 Oats

 Rice

Colourants and preservatives is an obvious no-go. These are many of these (hidden) in things like, sweets, yogurt, bottled juices etc.

The last but most important part of your child’s diet is his breakfast. Yes grandma was right. Too often people tell me that they are too rushed in the morning and thus swallow breakfast on the way out the front door.

Breakfast then quite often comprise of a “lifeless boxed cereal” with dead milk, or no fat milk. Some people are more health orientated and have been taught that fruit is best for breakfast.

Well it simply does not do the trick. If you eat something simple and refined like a boxed cereal (or worse a microwave variant) or muesli, fruit and yogurt, your blood sugar quickly rises too much. The body then responds by secreting too much insulin, as to lower the blood sugar. Because of the steep rise in blood sugar the body secretes too much insulin, resulting in a fast drop in blood sugar. So you go from feeling “on top of the world” (hyper – bouncing off the wall) to the “world being on top of you” (a low – cannot concentrate and fall asleep at his desk)

That’s called a “mood swing”

The remedy of cause is to change what your child has for breakfast. You need to combine a non wheat starch with an animal protein, like a slice of 100% rye bread with mince or an egg on toast etc. Avoid things like just oats – rather have the oats and straight after it an egg.

This causes the breakfast to digest slower, causing a slower rise in blood sugar and thus a more stable blood sugar level which in turn prevents mood swings (and drugs) Your child will also have sustained mental and physical energy with a breakfast like that.

Have you ever seen what chaos breaks out when a preschooler’s blood sugar drops – the same is true for your child or us adults.

Step #3

Supplementation

If it’s not in the soil – you don’t get it in the diet – no matter what the dieticians hand book says.

Due to modern day food processing and mass agriculture we do not get the micro nutrients from our food that we need. If you still think you get everything from your diet, think again, you would have to get 13 portions of Non-genetically modified, organically grown vine ripened fruit and vegetables daily. On your own farm this may be possible but is a near impossibility in suburbia.

The following supplements we have used extensively over the last decade, and we get consistent good results with them. There may be others, but we have not used them like we have with the ones listed below.

Omega 3 is an essential fatty acid. This means that our body cannot make it, we need to take it in through our [depleted]diet. The best way is to supplement with a few capsules of these per day. As this is no medicine, simply food in a capsule there is no maximum dose. As a good friend put it when asked how much is needed, his response was simply “as much as is needed to make it work” We usually give a higher dose in the first few weeks, as this helps the body to regulate itself faster. This may amount to as much as 6000mg per day with meals. After that you may be able to lower the dose slightly or not, depending on the individual. We only recommend Omega SO

The brain also needs a selection of amino acids, minerals and vitamins to function properly. This is as needed as the oils.

For this we use one proven product only: MINDSET

The best way is to supplement with a few capsules of these per day. As this is no medicine, simply food in a capsule there is no maximum dose. The same is true – how much do I give? ”as much as is needed to make it work” We usually give a higher dose in the first few weeks, as this helps the body to regulate itself faster. This may amount to as much as 6 capsules (or more) per day on an empty stomach. After that you may be able to lower the dose slightly or not, depending on the individual. If they struggle to sleep you may need to give 1 or 2 caps before bedtime for the first few weeks as well.

If your child has a problem with swallowing these or other capsules, simply open them in in a little (wilde/purejoy) Mango juice, stir up and swallow.

Lately I have been adding Z!ng to the formula. This amazing product increases the blood flow to the brain, optimises the glucose usage of the brain and stimulate the formation of NEW brain cells. Start by taking 2 capsules 3 x per day with the Mindset. If the desired result is achieved you could lower it. This really adds a new dimension to helping ADD/ADHD

The third problem that we sometimes find is, fungi. When a child has been on a high carbohydrate/sugar diet i.e. white bread, muffins, biscuits, sweets, coke etc, we usually find that their candida count is too high. In this case we put them on Silvermax spray for a few weeks, and that usually does the trick in killing off the fungus.

The problem with fungus is manifold. It messes up the blood sugar control, brain sharpness, focus, aggravates mood swings and can also place an extra load on the immune system. These of cause, worsen the response/over responsiveness of the brain.

When your child has problems falling or staying asleep, try give him some more Mindset before bedtime.

Sometimes the brain (and other parts of the body) lacks vital communication. In this case heavy drugs are prescribed. We feel it’s simpler and less invasive when you correct the communication structure between the cells. These communication lines are made up out of 8 sugars. Again, due to our depleted modern day diet, we only get 2 of these sugars in through our diet, glucose and galactose. We are however deficient in the other 6, greatly impairing our cellular communication. We have seen miraculous turnarounds when people start supplementing with the sugars. For this we use Berriola

What you have just read, can save your child from going onto dangerous drugs. The onus is on you, as parent, to see to it that he takes the supplements, and to see you change the diet of the family. It is of absolutely no value, tying to change his diet, while the rest of the family still indulge in the gunk that he has grown accustomed to as good food. Never look at these changes as a “burden” rather a redirection to better health for the whole family!

If you feel that your child has many health issues, or that he needs an in depth health evaluation, then book an appointment for a Live Blood Analysis by Christo. Here we take a look at all the individual health challenges and give you a step by step, info in the hand, approach.

08 September 2011

Manna Articles (Afrikaans)

Espresso… STERK & BITTER maar propvol geur en smaak

Hierdie is 'n reeks artikels wat in die Manna tydskrif verkyn het. Christo het besluit om nie meer in id etydkrif te skryf nie.

Die Christen en Gesondheid

Uit Manna Jan/Feb 2008

Christo Lues

Kyk jy ook dikwels na die afkondigingsblaadjie in die kerk en sien die name van tientalle siek mense waarvoor weekliks gebid moet word? Te gereeld is daar nie die herstel waarvoor gehoop of gebid is nie.

Of het jy al self vorentoe gegaan vir gebed, vertrou dat jy genees is, net om later uit te vind dat die siekte of probleem steeds teenwoordig is?

Wat nou gemaak? Wil God my dan nie gesond maak nie, glo ek nie genoeg nie, of is daar ŉ stukkie van die legkaart waarvan ek nie weet nie? Ons weet immers nie alles nie...

God is groot, God is soewerein, soms gee God genesing, soms nie. God is nie aan ons ŉ antwoord verskuldig oor Sy aksies nie. Hy het egter sekere reëls ingestel op aarde. Daar is sekere natuurwette bv. seisoene, die wet van gravitasie, ens. As ons hierdie wette minag of ignoreer, is daar sekere gevolge. As ek byvoorbeeld van ŉ vierverdieping gebou se dak afspring in die hoop dat God my lewe gaan red, is daar sekere gevolge. Dan kan my reaksie wees; “maar ek glo dan nie in die wet van gravitasie nie” of “ek het dan gebid dat die engele my sou vang”

Hoekom gebeur dit dan nie? Kan God Sy eie wette breek? Natuurlik kan Hy! Dink byvoorbeeld aan die skeiding van die Rooi See, manna uit die hemel, verandering van water in wyn, Moses en die brandende bos, Jona en die vis en talle ander. God kan natuurreëls breek. Hy het dit gedoen vir baie spesifieke redes en Hy het die glorie daarvoor ontvang.

Waar laat dit ons?

Jy mag vra, maar wat het God, natuurwette en gesondheid in gemeen? Alles! Net soos sekere reëls en beginsels in die natuur geld, is daar sekere reëls en beginsels ten opsigte van God se tempel op aarde, jou menslike liggaam.

Of ons onkundig is, of nie in die wette glo nie, die uiteinde is dieselfde - ons liggame gaan agteruit – soms vinnig, soms stadig en pynlik.

Wat is hierdie beginsels?

Ons voorouers en ouers het baie van hierdie beginsels geken. Sommige, is ou beginsels, nuut toegepas in die postmoderne era waarin ons, ons bevind. ŉ Era waar daar nuwe en eiesoortige aanslae op die liggaam is soos nooit tevore nie.

Ek sien die prentjie van gesondheids-beginsels as ŉ legkaart.

Wanneer jy ŉ legkaart vir die eerste keer uit die boks haal, is dit moeilik om te glo dat die stukkies karton ŉ pragtige prent kan voorstel. Stel jou voor hoe moeilik dit is om die legkaart te bou, as jy nie die prentjie buite op die legkaart boks het, wat wys hoe die eindproduk behoort te lyk nie.

As ons die prentjie het kan ons soek en stukkies pas, totdat ons ŉ pragtige legkaart voltooi het, dit geniet en met ander deel.

Gesondheids-legkaartstukke.

Vir 'n gesonde liggaam is daar verskeie legkaartstukkies nodig om al die sisteme van ons Godgeskape tempel te laat funksioneer, soos die Skepper dit bedoel het.

Baie keer dink ons, ons pas die regte legkaart stukkies in mekaar. Die realiteit is egter dat die prentjie van gesondheid in ons gedagtes, wat gevorm word deur die media baie keer skeef of onvolledig is. Dit veroorsaak dat ons dink ons weet wat ons doen ten opsigte van ons gesondheid, maar steeds ernstige siektes ontwikkel en dan nie verstaan hoekom dit gebeur nie.

In die volgende paar maande deel ek graag met jou 'n paar van hierdie legkaart stukke, en gaan ek jou help om dit maklik in jou eie lewe toe te pas.

Die eerste en waarskynlik die belangrikste legkaart stukkie is om die liggaam skoon te maak.

Ek konsulteer mense op ŉ daaglikse basis oor gesondheid, en vind dat die meeste mense se liggame vol gifstowwe is.

Die belangrikste skoonmaakmiddel in die liggaam is goeie kwaliteit gefiltreerde water. Dis baie interessant om deur Levitikus te lees, en te sien hoe dat God vir byna alle onreinhede water as skoonmaakmiddel gegee het.

Meeste mense wie ek konsulteer reken dat hulle genoeg vloeistof inneem. Alle vloeistof is egter nie goed vir die skoonmaak van die liggaam nie. Jy gebruik byvoorbeeld nie koffie of tee of sap om jou wasgoed te was nie, nee jy gebruik skoon water.

Wanneer jy dus jou liggaam wil skoon was van onsuiwerhede is dit uiters belangrik om die regte soort water te gebruik. Gewone kraanwater is eenvoudig nie goed genoeg nie. Om water aan die massas te voorsien word allerhande chemikalieë by die water gevoeg om skadelike goggas dood te maak. Dis ŉ goeie ding, buite die liggaam, anders vrot die water. Binne die liggaam is dit egter nadelig, omdat dieselfde chemikalieë ook die vriendelike bakterieë binne die spysverteringstelsel doodmaak. Hierdie bakterieë is belangrik om sekere van die mikro voedingstowwe uit kos, om te skakel in vorme wat die liggaam kan aanwend om sy selle te voed. Bakterieë binne die spysverteringskanaal is ook uiters belangrik om ŉ gesonde immuunstelsel te handhaaf.

Is gebottelde water dan die alternatief?

Omdat bottel water geen van die nadelige chemikalieë bevat wat in kraanwater voorkom nie, word dit as ŉ beter alternatief beskou. Die probleem is egter, omdat daardie chemikalieë nou nie in die water is nie, kan die bakterieë binne die bottel water sommer maklik aanteel. Hierdie bakterieë is nie altyd goed vir die liggaam nie.

Die heel beste water is natuurlike, onbesoedelde bergstroom water. Natuurlike water bevat spoorelemente van essensiële minerale wat ons liggaam benodig om korrek te funksioneer. Ons praat nie van die paar bekende minerale wat mens in meeste goeie multivitamien aanvullings kry nie, nee hierdie is minerale in mikro hoeveelhede byvoorbeeld: Fosfor, Gallium, Silver, Ytterbium, Vanadium, Chroom ens. Ons benodig ongeveer sewentig soorte van hierdie minerale in mikro hoeveelhede. Ongelukkig woon ons in die stad waar bergstroom water is nie die opsie nie.

Die beste plaasvervanger vir bergstroom water is gefiltreerde water.

Gebruik is ŉ KDF tipe filter. Hierdie filter bevat geaktiveerde koolstof om die slegte smake en onaangename reuke te verwyder en chloor uit die water te haal. Verder bevat dit silwer om die water te steriliseer van bakterieë en ander ongewenste lewendige organismes. KDF is ŉ allooi van sink en koper wat swaar metale verwyder, maar goeie minerale deurlaat. Afhangend van die vervaardiger se spesifikasies, filtreer hierdie filter gemiddeld 20 000L water, voordat dit vervang moet word. Die koste is minder as 5c per liter!

Omdat kraan water deur groot suiwerings aanlegte gaan en behandel word, voordat dit by die filter ingaan, is die gefiltreerde water arm aan spoorminerale. Dit is dus nodig om die minerale in die water terug te plaas. Die heel beste vorm van minerale is ioniese minerale, wat natuurlik deur rotse by water gevoeg word soos wat die water daaroor vloei. Omdat ons in die stad woon, behoort ons ioniese minerale by die water te voeg om beide, die mineraal balans te herstel en ook die pH van die water alkalies te maak.

Die hoeveelheid water wat jy behoort in te neem, tydens ŉ ontgiftings periode hang af van jou gewig. Hier is ŉ interessante manier om te sien hoe gesond jou liggaam is ten opsigte van die hoeveelheid water wat jy per dag drink.

Jou liggaam is ongeveer 70% water. Om gesond te wees moet hierdie water gereeld geruil word, soos in ŉ opgaar tenk, anders word dit sleg. Indien jy 85kg weeg (70% water van 85kg = 59liter) en 1 glas water van 250ml per dag drink, neem dit 236 dae om die water massa in jou liggaam te ruil met vars water (59L/250ml=236 dae). Indien jy 2L water per dag drink (koffie, tee, sap en koeldrank word nie as water gereken nie) neem dit 1 maand om die water in jou liggaam te ruil. Die ideaal is om die water in jou liggaam elke 2 weke of selfs korter te ruil.

Party mense reken dat jy te veel water kan drink. Indien jy goeie kwaliteit gefiltreerde water met ioniese minerale daarin drink, is daar geen manier om jou liggaam te beskadig met selfs drie keer die aanbevole hoeveelheid water per dag nie.

Tot ons weer gesels, hoop ek jy skaf ŉ goeie kwaliteit KDF tipe water filter aan, en begin om jou water inname daagliks te verhoog. Sorg dat jy ioniese minerale in jou water gooi. Sodra jy begin om jou liggaam skoon te maak, mag jy effense ongemak ervaar soos wat die gifstowwe uit die liggaam onttrek word. Hierdie simptome kan naarheid, hoofpyne en lyfseer insluit maar is van korte duur, gewoonlik drie tot vyf dae. Dis heel normaal, skadeloos en kom bykans by alle persone voor wat hulle liggame skoonmaak.

Maak jou liggaam skoon. Begin die pad van volgehoue gesondheid stap om die taak wat God jou opgelê het, met ywer en durf te kan voltooi!

17 September 2011

Die gevare van suiker

Deur Christo Lues

Die mens is nou maar een maal verslaaf aan iets wat soet is. Sommige mense reken dat dit ‘n aangeleerde smaak is, maar ek twyfel sterk. Van die eerste oomblik dat ‘n baba borsmelk drink, ervaar hy wat soet beteken. Dit is daarom nie vreemd dat ons, ons hele lewe die soeter dinge in die lewe uitsoek nie.

In die natuur is daar baie dinge wat soet smaak, van boombas tot vrugte. Die probleem ontstaan wanneer ons daardie soet smake isoleer en te veel daarvan begin verbruik.

Het jy al ooit ‘n mamma gesien wat ‘n kleinding suiker voer, ek bedoel lepel vir lepel soos wat sy pap aan die kleinding sou voer? Natuurlik nie, dis ondenkbaar! Tog is dit presies wat elke dag gebeur, sonder dat ons dit besef.

Maar voordat ons na die effekte van suiker op die liggaam kyk is dit belangrik om te weet wat suiker is. Suiker kom meestal vanaf die suikerriet, en dis heeltemal natuurlik. As jy al aan ‘n stukkie suikerriet gekou het behoort jy die soet smaak daarin te proe. Die suiker is deel van die plant soos God dit gemaak het. Om egter die suiker te kry wat jy in jou tee of koffie gooi word die riet deur soveel as sewentien verfynings prosesse verwerk. Hierdie prosesse raak ontslae van alles wat nie suiwer glukose en fruktose is nie soos, vitamiene, minerale en vesels. Die eindproduk is sewentien keer soeter as dit waarmee begin is, dus sewentien keer meer gekonsentreerd, gestroop van alles wat goed was in die oorspronklike riet!

Dit beteken dat die 1 teelepel suiker wat jy in jou koffie gooi gelykstaande is aan 17 teelepels rou suikerriet. Al daaraan gedink om 17 teelepels suikerriet in jou koffie te gooi.

Wat die verfynings proses regkry, is om al die Godgegewe meganismes, wat verhoed dat jy te veel kan inneem (bloot omdat die volume te veel sal wees), te verwyder en net dit wat soet is in ‘n totaal onnatuurlike hoë konsentraat te voorsien sonder die vitamiene en minerale wat jou liggaam voed. Die verfynings proses verander die suikerriet wat ‘n komplekse plant matriks het na ‘n eenvoudige chemiese molekule. Hierdie onnatuurlike lewelose chemikalie word dan as ‘natuurlik’ en goed aan jou bemark!

Jy word vertel dis goedheid uit die natuur en dat dit ‘n perfekte bron van energie is.

Dis interessant om te weet dat toe suiker die eerste keer so geweldig verfynd gemaak is, dit as ‘n kragtige brein-funksie-modulerende middel onder dokters toesig gebruik was, net soos opium!

Omdat daar groot internasionale besigheid betrokke is by die handel van suiker wat eie belange ten alle koste beskerm, sal jy selde hoor wat ek jou volgende gaan vertel.

Wetenskaplike studies wys dat suiker geïmpliseer kan word in die groei en verspreiding van kanker, tog word die verbruik daarvan bykans nooit deur enige onkoloog aan ‘n kanker leier as nadelig vir sy herstel van kanker uitgewys nie.

Suiker is gevaarliker as rook vir jou liggaam, omdat jy dit reeds van ‘n jong ouderdom af in gekonsentreerde vorm inkry en dit word in amper alle kommersiële kos soorte versteek.

Daar is ‘n direkte verband tussen suiker verbruik en die toename in die obesiteit van veral die jonger generasie.

Suiker verongeluk die delikate mineraal balanse in jou liggaam, soos byvoorbeeld die van koper, magnesium, en kalsium wat lei tot ernstige toestande soos aneurismes van slagare, verkalking van are en versteurings van kolesterolvlakke.

Suiker het ‘n nadelige effek op jou dermkanaal wat die absorbsie van voedingstowwe benadeel en kan lei tot siektes soos Chrone se siekte en ulseratiewe kolites.

Suiker kan lei tot alkoholisme, verswakte sig, diabetes, osteoporose, tand bederf, voortydige veroudering, arteritis, asma en veelvuldige sklerose.

In ‘n vorige artikel het ek oor ADD en ADHD geskryf en die gevare van suiker uitgelig. Hierdie is egter net een van die probleme wat suiker in die brein veroorsaak. Suiker kan die delta, alfa, en theta golwe in die brein verhoog wat jou brein se vermoë om helder te kan dink nadelig beïnvloed. Verder kan dit depressie veroorsaak en jou kanse op Alsheimer se siekte verhoog en die frekwensie van epileptiese aanvalle verhoog.

Suiker kan ook jou hormone deur mekaar gooi soos, estrogeen in mans verhoog, PMS in vrouens vererger en ‘n afname in groei hormone veroorsaak.

Soos jy kan sien uit ‘n paar nadele wat ek genoem het (en daar is nog BAIE meer) is dit nie die ideale ding om naby jou of jou kind te laat kom, indien jy enigsins gesond wil wees en bly nie. Suiker is nie bloot iets wat jy behoort te vermy as jy gewig wil verloor nie, jy moet dit vermy as jy bloot gesond wil bly.

Wat is die alternatief vir suiker?

1. Kunsmatige versoeters

Stap in enige restaurant in en jy sal ten minste twee soorte suiker (wit en bruin) op die tafel aantref. Onthou tog net dat daar geen verskil is tussen bruin en wit suiker nie, beide is uiters nadelig vir jou gesondheid. Bruin suiker is net so nadelig os wit, en is wit suiker met soet molasse bygevoeg.

Die ander sakkie wat jy sal aantref op die restaurant tafel is die ‘kunsmatige versoeter’. Iemand het een keer gesê: “As God dit nie gemaak het nie, of jy dit nie kan uitspreek nie, moet dit nie eet nie!” Dit is eers waar van kunsmatige versoeters.

Onder kunsmatige versoeters verstaan ons dat dit dus op geen manier natuurlik is nie (daarom die naam kunsmatige versoeter) Dis iets wat iemand met ‘n wit jas agter ‘n gesig skerm in ‘n laboratorium ontdek het en as iets voordelig aan jou probeer afsmeer met slim bemarkings foefies.

Daar bestaan tans ‘n paar van hierdie chemikalie op die mark wat kwansuis deur die FDA in Amerika en ons eie beheer liggame as ‘veilig vir menslike gebruik’ verklaar is. Hierdie kom voor in dieet koeldranke, gegeurde water, aanmaak sap asook in baie van die liggaams bou drankies of ontbyt melkskommel drankies voor, asook in versoeters soos: NutraSweet, Canderel, Equal, NatraSweet, Splenda, Advantage en Miwon

Aspartaam

‘n Onlangse Italiaanse studie het aangetoon dat daar ‘n direkte verband tussen die verbruik van aspartaam en Leukemie (bloed kanker) bestaan asook met limfoom kanker.

Daar is baie tegniese redes hoekom aspartaam so nadelig is, maar laat ek net sê dat onder die regte omstandighede dit in dodelik gevaarlike substanse verander wat veelvuldige sklerose en Lupus tot gevolg kan hê.

Aspartaam is ŉ neurotoksiese bestanddeel wat met verskeie gesondheids probleme verbind kan word wat insluit: lighoofdigheid, suisende ore, spier en gewrigs pyne, hoofpyne, angs aanvalle, sleeptong, gesigs versteurings, pankreatitis, hoe bloeddruk, bloedklonte in die niere, epileptiese aanvalle, depressie asook geboorte defekte.

Dit beskadig die brein deur die ‘elektriese draadjies’, tussen brein selle, se insulasie af te breek, wat dan kan veroorsaak dat kortsluitings in die brein plaasvind, wat kan lei tot verlies van sekere liggaams funksies.

Sukralose is ontdek toe wetenskaplikes op soek was na ‘n nuwe insekdoder. Dit is 600 keer soeter as suiker en word gemaak van suiker wat deur veelvuldige chemiese prosesse verander word. Die vervaardigers roem daarop dat dit nie deur die liggaam geabsorbeer word nie en geen kalorieë bevat nie. Omdat dit so soet is, benodig jy onsigbare hoeveelhede om iets uitermatig te versoet. Om die rede word dit dikwels met dekstrose maltodekstrin vermeng om dit te verdun, sodat jy ‘n lepel daarvan kan gebruik. Hierdie veroorsaak dat dit nie kalorie vry is nie. Wetenskaplikes is dit egter eens dat tot 40% deur die liggaam geabsorbeer en gemetaboliseer kan word, wat deel van die rede kan wees hoekom studies wys dat dit die timus klier met tot 40% kan laat krimp (nadelige impak op jou immuunstelsel), vergrote niere en lewer veroorsaak, en die milt en limf nodes laat krimp.

Acesulfame (K) of ACK se veiligheids toetse is deur die vervaardiger self gedoen en nie deur onafhanklike laboratoriums nie. Dit is waarskynlik die rede hoekom die oorpronklike studies wat getoon het dat hierdie chemikalie kanker en skildklier probleme in diere veroorsaak geïgnoreer word. Dit is ook aangetoon dat Acesulfame (K) insulien afskeiding stimuleer, sonder die aanwesigheid van suiker, en dus lae bloedsuiker aanvalle kan veroorsaak.

Sakkarine: Is die versoeter wat die meeste studies ondergaan het deur die jare. Dit is steeds nie sonder twyfel as veilig vir menslike gebruik bewys nie. Inteendeel daar is wetenskaplikes wat besorg is oor die moontlike skakel tussen sakkarine en kanker. Vanweë die chemiese samestelling kan dit ook die volgende probleme veroorsaak: vel uitslag met erge jeuk, naarheid, diarree, blase op die tong, hoofpyne, hartkloppings en baie meer.

2. Ander alternatiewe vir versoeting.

Fruktose of vrugte suiker was vir lank deur gesondheids deskundiges as gesond beskou. Meer onlangse studies wys egter dat dit nie so voordelig is as wat gehoop was nie. Fruktose word baie maklik deur die lewer in vet omgeskakel, en kan die sogenaamde goeie cholesterol (HDL) verlaag, hoe bloeddruk veroorsaak, en insulien weerstandigheid verhoog. Ek kan nie nalaat om te noem dat hierdie die gevolge is van hoe inname van fruktose, soos bv. in konfyt, vrugte sappe, vrugte lekkers en vrugte stafies nie. Dit beteken nie dat jy moet ophou om vrugte te eet nie. Klein hoeveelhede HEEL vrugte kan baie voordelig wees.

Xylitol is korter op die mark en alhoewel dit tans as "veilig" beskou word is dit belangrik om te weet dat dit nie natuurlik voorkom nie. Dit word chemies afgelei van ‘n sekere boom bas. Alhoewel dit nie so ‘n negatiewe uitwerking op die gesondheid as geheel inhou soos die kunsmatige versoeters nie kan dit diarree en maagkrampe tot gevolg hê as groot hoeveelhede ingeneem word. 'n Verdere probleem is dat dit die liggaam se pH negatief kan beïnvloed.

Xylitol in klein hoeveelhede het ook voordele soos dat dit die opname van B-vitamiene en kalsium verhoog, tandbederf beveg, varser asem bevorder, beter atletiese prestering bevorder en sinus infeksies teen werk.

Indien dit met ‘kunsmatige’ versoeters vergelyk word is dit dus nie naastenby so nadelig nie.

3. Gesonde alternatiewe vir suiker.

Stevia is ‘n ekstrak wat van die Stevia plant se blaar. Dit is 100% veilig vir versoeting. Stevia is nie net veilig nie, maar word in sekere dele van die wêreld as medisyne vir diabete gebruik wat help om die funksie van die pankreas te normaliseer. Dit is beskikbaar in poeier, vloeistof en pilletjies. Dit is baie soeter as suiker en dus benodig jy ‘n baie klein hoeveelheid om die soet smaak te veroorsaak.

Heuning is so natuurlik dat die mens dit nog op geen manier kon namaak nie. Afgesien van heuning se medisinale eienskappe is dit ‘n uitstekende versoeter in klein hoeveelhede. Maak seker dat jy heuning van jou omgewing bekom en maak ook seker dat dit rou heuning is. Rou beteken dat dit nie vernietig is deur radioaktiewe bestraling, pasteurisasie of verhitting nie.

Indiese Palm suiker of ‘Jaggery’ wat van die Indiese dadel palm gemaak word en rou verkoop word in gesondheids winkels is goedkoop en is uiters natuurlik en besit self medisinale eienskappe.

Rapandura suiker uit Brazilië is ook natuurlik en voeg 'n wonderlike geur by enige iets waarin dit gebruik word.

Agave stroop (organies) werk uitstekend in gebak en voeg nie regtig enige geur by kos nie.

Dadels, rosyne en vye kan gebruik word om koekies en ander gebak te versoet.

‘n Goeie vriend en kollega van my, Garth Kent, het die volgende filosofie oor dinge wat ons by ons mond laat ingaan, of dit supplemente, drankies of kos is. “Is dit SDGG?” is altyd sy vraag. SDGG beteken, is dit wat jy wil inneem Soos Deur God Gemaak? Indien nie, behoort jy uiters versigtig daarvoor te wees. As jy dit as maatstaf gebruik vir alles wat jy in jou liggaam toelaat, sal jy lank ‘n gesonde tempel besit!

17 September 2011

Help, ek het 'n nuwe baba!

Deur Christo Lues

Iemand het gesê dat selfvertroue die oomblik is voordat realiteit jou tref! Dit is vir seker waar wanneer mens ŉ nuwe baba het om groot te maak. Vir baie ma’s is dit ŉ skok as hulle tot die volle besef kom dat hul baba volkome afhanklik van hulle is. Sy moet presies weet wat die baba nodig het – en die meeste van die tyd het sy sonder twyfel geen idee wat dit is nie! Dis dan wanneer dit na ŉ goeie opsie lyk om eerder te vlug. . . dis realiteit!

Ek en my vrou het tans agt kinders van ons eie. Ja, een man en een vrou, ek weet dit klink vreemd, maar ons glo regtig die Woord as dit sê dat kinders ŉ seën van die Here is. Hoe dit ook al sy, om die rede het ons amper altyd ŉ baba in die huis, en het ons oor die afgelope seventien jaar baie ondervinding met babas opgedoen. Daarom deel ek graag hierdie kennis met jou, want ek weet hoe jy kan sukkel, en hoe deurmekaar en soms teenstrydig almal se raad aan jou mag klink.

Ek kan met sekerheid sê dat álles wat jy eet ŉ direkte invloed op jou baba het.

Wanneer jy borsvoed, beïnvloed dit wat jy geëet en gedrink het, jou baba se spysvertering, sy gedrag, en sy slaappatroon! Die algemeenste wanopvatting is dat jy enige iets kan eet en dat net kafeïne jou baba negatief kan beïnvloed.

Sekere kosse kan jou baba ongemaklik laat voel en selfs krampe veroorsaak. Die geheim is om so eenvoudig as moontlik kos te maak en om weg te bly van enige kleur- en geurmiddels. Bly maar by gewone wit see-sout of Himalaja-sout (die pienk sout). Soos wat jou baba ouer word (3-4 maande) kan jy meer geurmiddels soos vars kruie uit die tuin of Kikkoman se soja-sous by jou kos begin voeg.

Vermy enige kos wat byvoegsels bevat, veral wors, varkworsies, hoenderwors en boerewors. Bykans alle wors bevat byvoegsels, selfs al is dit natuurlike kruie. Vermy ook spek en enige kos wat in krummels gerol is. Moet ook nie uie, knoffel, broccoli, bone, erte of selfs komkommer eet nie. Bly maar weg van koffie, Cylon-tee, suiker en alle kunsmatige versoeters.

Kosse soos sop-poeier, Aromat en braaivleisspeserye wat MSG of HVP bevat moet vermy word. Vermy alle geurmiddels en preserveermiddels, selfs natuurlike soute soos Herbamare en kerrie poeier.

Die heel maklikste is om by suiwer sout te bly, en ja, ek weet dit kan baie eentonig raak, maar jy as mamma gaan ŉ rustiger baba hê wat makliker gaan slaap, en jý gaan kan slaap. Vermy ook alle produkte wat koring en suiwel bevat. Dit beteken dat jy moet wegbly van meeste ontbyt-grane, pasta, muesli, brood, volgraan en saad-brood, muffins, pro-vita en ander beskuitjies.

Moet ook nie enige jogurt, melk, kaas, room, roomkaas of roomys eet nie. Jy kan wel botter gebruik. Koring, suiwel en suiker is sekerlik die grootste bron van slegte spysverterings-reaksies soos ekseem, krampe, slaaploosheid, loop-neuse, oor- mangel- sinus- en keel-infeksie.

Op die stadium lyk dit sekerlik vir jou of daar niks oor is wat jy wel mag eet nie!

Daar is wel kosse wat veilig is om te eet. Jy moet besef dat jou baba ŉ groot lading op jou liggaam plaas. Om genoeg borsmelk te produseer, is dit belangrik om jou bloedsuiker so stabiel as moontlik te hou. Al hoe jy dit kan regkry is om die korrekte ontbyt te eet. Daarmee bedoel ek kos wat nie te vinnig verteer en dan jou bloedsuiker te vinnig laat styg nie. Moet nie jou dag met vrugte, jogurt, ontbytgraan of iets lig begin nie.

Eet met ontbyt ŉ stysel en diere-proteïen saam. Wanneer jy dit doen, verbrand jou liggaam dit stadig en bly jou bloedsuiker konstant. Eet byvoorbeeld 100% rog- of speltbrood saam met eier (gebak, gekook of geroer), hoender, tuna, salm of enige ander vis. Bly weg van die mayonnaise! Indien jy dieselfde beginsel met elke ete toepas, sal jy voortdurend genoeg energie hê en sal jou bloedsuiker stabiel genoeg bly om jou melkproduksie konstant te hou.

ŉ Uitstekende plaasvervanger vir koringmeel is spelt. Nog nooit daarvan gehoor nie? Spelt is ŉ antieke graan wat nog nie soos koring deur die mens ‘verbeter’ is nie. Jy kan dit by ŉ gesondheidswinkel koop en in jou gewone resepte gebruik om mee te bak.

Ander kosse wat gewoonlik nie krampe veroorsaak nie is skaapvleis, hoender, eiers, geroosterde vis, aartappels, rys, botterskorsie, organiese -appels, -pere, -druiwe, -perskes, -wortels, -sampioene, -skorsies en -patats. Jy kan hierdie met gewone sout en ŉ bietjie botter gaarmaak.

Maak baie seker dat jy absoluut geen kos in die mikrogolfoond ontvries, verhit of gaar maak nie. Gebruik liefs ŉ stomer of die stoof hiervoor. ŉ Mikrogolfoond veroorsaak veranderinge in die mikro-strukture van enige kos of vloeistof en veroorsaak ŉ ongewenste reaksie in jou brose jongeling.

Wanneer dit by vloeistowwe kom, is water al wat oorbly. Dit is nie waar dat te veel water skadelik vir jou liggaam is nie. Dit is die mees lewegewende drankie wat daar op die aarde bestaan! Die mense drink te min water, veral as jy borsvoed het jy baie water nodig.

Wanneer jy borsvoed het jou liggaam baie meer water as normaal nodig. Die water behoort gesuiwer te wees met ŉ KDF en koolstof tipe filter en nie met ŉ distilleerder of tru-osmose sisteem nie. Ek beveel ook vir alle mammas aan om ŉ mineraal supplement soos Concentrace of ioniese koraal-kalsium sakkies in die water te gooi. Dit sal verseker dat jy nie jou belangrike kalsium en ander minerale uit jou dieet verloor nie. Jy kan ook soms tee soos chammomile met fennel-saad drink. Dit het ŉ strelende effek op jou baba en is boonop baie aangenaam.

Raad om te volg wanneer jou baba huilerig is:

Maak seker baba is nie te warm of te koud nie. Babas is gewoonlik meer gemaklik as hulle bietjie warmer as ons volwassenes aangetrek is. Hulle lyfies het amper geen natuurlike hitte nie, en hulle word sommer baie gou koud . . . en kyk of die doek skoon is.

Maak seker baba se magie is vol gedrink. Moet nie baba slegs 5 minute aan die een bors en dan 5 minute aan die ander bors voed nie. Gee vir baba een bors om leeg te drink. Daarna kan hy eenvoudig aan die leë bors suig sonder dat hy oorvoed word. Soos wat baba groter word gaan hy later al twee borste in een voeding leeg drink.

Gee ŉ homopatiese chammomile-poeier – dit help om baba rustig te maak sonder enige newe effekte.

Indien hy steeds huil en sy beentjies optrek en jy dink hy het dalk ŉ krampie, druk ŉ Spascupreel-pilletjie baie fyn. Druk jou vinger in sy mondjie en met die speeksel aan jou vinger, neem van die poeier en plaas dit in sy mondjie.

Indien jy verkeerd geëet het en hy dalk die effek daarvan beleef, druk ŉ Gastricumeel-pilletjie (homopaties) baie fyn. Druk jou vinger in sy mondjie en met die speeksel aan jou vinger, neem van die poeier en plaas dit in sy mondjie.

Indien nie een van die bogenoemde werk nie, is dit moontlik dat baba tydens geboorte ŉ werwel of ŉ gewrig effe ontwrig het. Neem hom na ŉ chiropraktisyn wat ondervinding het om babas hiervoor te behandel.

Indien baba deur middel van ŉ keisersnit gebore is, het hy nie die vriendelike bakterie in die geboortekanaal ingekry om sy spysverterings stelsel aan die gang te sit nie. Hiervoor beveel ek ABC Dophilus van Solgar aan. Gee baba ¼ tot ½ teelepel per dag om die probleem te herstel.

Raad om te volg wanneer baba besig is om tande te kry:

Jy kan begin deur te kyk of die tandvleis rooi is. As baba sy vingers ongeduldig eet en soms gille uiter, is dit om jou te laat weet hoe irriterend dit is.

Probeer wat ek hierbo aanbeveel, maar indien dit nie werk nie, neem ŉ klein bietjie Traumeel S-salf en smeer dit aan die tandvleis.

Indien baba koors ontwikkel, kan jy bogenoemde probeer of vir hom Engystol-pilletjies gee. Druk die pilletjie baie fyn. Druk jou vinger in sy mondjie en met die speeksel aan jou vinger, neem van die poeier en plaas dit in sy mondjie. Hierdie help om die immuun stelsel te stimuleer. Indien dit aanhou kan jy Viburcol -setpille gebruik. Dit is 100% veilig en natuurlik.

Raad om te volg wanneer baba brand-boudjies het:

Hierdie kan as gevolg van tande wees.

Wend ŉ klein bietjie Squaline, (van Sevenpointfive) na elke doek wat jy omruil, aan die boudjies. Traumeel S-salf kan ook aan die boudjies gesmeer word.

Was baba se boudjies liggies met lou warm water na elke vuil doek en droog dit saggies af.

Dis baie belangrik vir jou om aanvullings te neem. Swangerskap, geboorte en borsvoeding neem baie uit jou liggaam en jy behoort ŉ paar supplemente te neem om jou liggaam in ŉ goeie toestand te hou.

Begin met ŉ goeie multivitamien formule, die bestes is beskikbaar in gesondheidswinkels. Ek beveel ŉ multivitamien met hoë vitamien B5 (goed vir die stres) van Viridian aan. Neem een met ontbyt.

Neem Omega SLO (van Sevenpointfive). Ek beveel dit spesifiek aan omdat dit omega 3 en Squaline bevat asook ander bestanddele wat jou borsmelk uitstekend verryk en jou liggaam van essensiële boublokke vir hormone voorsien.

Neem baie water met minerale in soos ek hierbo verduidelik het.

Om jou melkproduksie te verhoog, vermy tog asseblief die chemiese middel wat so graag aanbeveel word. Probeer eerder die natuurlike kruie soos fenegriek in tee of kapsule vorm. Drink baie skoon water.

Die seerste seer is seker wanneer die nippel kraak, bars of bloei. Baba moet verkieslik aanhou voed aan die bors en mamma moet sterk bly. Smeer ŉ klein bietjie Kamillosan of Lansinoh voor en na elke voeding aan. Dit is belangrik om met die eerste tekens van seer borste, bogenoemde aan te wend. Ons het gevind dat ‘tepel skanse’ uiters effektief is om tepels kans te gee om te herstel tussen voedings. Dit help om die tepels droog te hou en hou klere wat kan skaaf weg.

Indien jou tepels reeds so seer is, dat jy skaars daaraan kan raak, mag dit raadsaam wees om jou melk vir ŉ dag of twee uit te pomp om jou tepels kans te gun om te herstel. Laser behandeling deur ŉ fisioterapeut mag help om die helings proses te versnel. Hierna kan borsvoeding voortgesit word en kan jy voor en na elke voeding ŉ klein bietjie van bogenoemde salf aanwend om jou tepels te beskerm. Hou aan om die ‘tepel skanse’ te gebruik totdat jy 100% herstel het.

Indien jy rekmerke ontwikkel het of ŉ nare wond opgedoen het, is Squaline uiters effektief vir die herstel van die wond en dit help om merke te minimaliseer. Wend ŉ klein bietjie aan op die wond of rekmerk. Dis ook raadsaam om net na die geboorte Traumeel S-druppels te neem om jou liggaam se herstel aan te help.

Indien jou borste stu of swel of inflammasie ontwikkel, kan jy rou kool blare binne in jou bra druk en gereeld omruil. Ons vind dat Lymphomyosot N en Traumeel S uiters effektief is om die inflammasie op te klaar. Drink baie water.

Psalm 127 en 128 beskryf watter absolute seën kinders is. Gaan lees dit gerus. Ek hoop hierdie help jou om jou baba regtig baie te geniet. Gaan besoek gerus ŉ homeopatiese dokter wat jy vertrou indien jy steeds met baba sukkel. Gaan aanlyn en besoek ons webtuistes waar nog raad beskikbaar is.

17 September 2011

Hoekom baie nie hulle potensiaal bereik nie

Die atrikel is nooit geplaas nie

Deur Christo Lues

Jare gelede het ek met ŉ volwassene in die geloof gesels. In die loop van die gesprek noem hy toe dat hy dink Satan die Christene met ŉ baie groot leun gevang het. Nuuskierig om te weet wat hy bedoel het ek hom daaroor uitgevra. Sy antwoord het iets soos volg gelei.

Vir jare word ons grootgemaak met allerhande lekkernye. Ons geniet van kleins af om lekkertjies, koekies, gegeurde melkies ens. te eet en word ook daarmee beloon.

Soos wat ons groter word, begin ons dan koffie drink met lepels vol suiker daarin. Ons begin gaskoeldranke drink wat belaai is met suiker of kunsmatige versoeters. Ons eet vinnige wegneem etes van bekende handels merke, wat presies weet hoe om ons jong mens verbeelding vas te vang met ŉ waardelose speeldingetjie wat ons “gratis” kry as ons die kindermaaltyd bestel.

Wanneer ons tieners word, en nou ons ‘eie kop’ kan volg, is daar die ligte alkoholiese drankies, wat stelselmatig ons jongmens brein voorberei op iets sterker wat in die toekoms gaan volg. Omdat ons as jong tiener groot word, en liggaamlik begin ontwikkel, raak ons onseker oor waar ons behoort in te pas, en is ons maklik beïnvloedbaar deur vriende, wat rook en geleentheids dwelms gebruik. Ons dink baie keer dat ons tog nie deur ons ouers verstaan word nie, en dat ons vriende ons baie beter verstaan en dat wat ons saam met hulle doen, rigting aan ons lewe gaan gee, ten minste word ons as deel van die groep gesien.

Soos wat ons meer kontak met die werklikheid begin verloor, begin ons na iets meer soek, en vind dit dikwels in seksuele verhoudinge. Omdat ons bang is dat ons ouers ons gaan uitvang begin ons maklik leuens vertel oor allerdaagse nuttlooshede.

Wanneer ons oud genoeg raak begin ons na-skoolse opleiding of ons soek ‘n werk wat ons kan besig hou, en darem kan betaal vir my en die maat wat by my ingetrek het en met wie ek soms ŉ seksuele verhouding het.

Later verdien jy meer geld, en jou aansien styg, as dit nie gekortwiek word deur swak gesondheid, of swak karakter eienskappe soos leuens, flirtasies en ander afstootlike gewoontes nie. Jy eet gereeld uit by die aanvaarde sosiale uithang plek, waar die vriende is, en die kos swak is.

Kort voor lank besef jy dat jou saamwoon maat nie die een vir jou is nie, en begin jy soek na iemand vars, iemand nuut, net om uit te vind dat jou maat swanger is. Op die punt maak jy een van twee keuses, jy besluit om uit blote pligsbesef met haar te trou, of julle besluit as ‘volwassenes’ om die ‘ongewenste swangerskap te termineer’. Jy regverdig dit baie maklik omdat julle nie ŉ kind in hierdie gebroke wêreld wil inbring nie.

Die keuse was ŉ gemors en julle begin mekaar beskuldig vir wat fout gegaan het. Kort voor lank is julle uitmekaar, of indien julle getroud was, nou in die egskeidings hof.

Omdat jou binneste pyn oor die situasie begin jy depressief raak. Jy wil nie pille drink nie, daarom is enige vorm van alkohol ŉ uitweg. By die werk neem stres toe omdat jou produktiwiteit afneem. Omdat alkohol nie in werksure aanvaarbaar is nie, gebruik jy sigarette as die naas beste uitweg om jou ‘stresvolle’ werk te kan hanteer. Kort voor lank is jou werk op die spel, en jy bevind jou in ŉ ‘loopbaan’ situasie waar jy of jou werk gaan verloor, of toegee aan ŉ goedkoop seksuele verhouding wat vir ŉ kort tydjie uitkoms bied.

Later ontmoet jy weer iemand, trou en kry twee kinders. Jy gebruik chemiese kontrasepsie of kry ŉ klein ‘snip-snip’ operasie. Jou kinders en werk is jou hoof fokus in die lewe. Jy ry agter hulle aan, ry hulle rond en kry hulle met ŉ gestoei deur skool en op universiteit.

Skielik is jy veertig! Die helfte van jou lewe is verby. Dit tref jou soos ŉ hamer voor die kop - dat jy nog bykans niks blywend in die lewe bereik het nie. Skielik lyk die groot huis en die twee karre nie meer so wonderlik nie. Jy begin wonder of daar dalk ŉ ander pad vir jou was, ŉ pad wat jy gemis het? Is hierdie regtig waaroor die lewe gaan? Jy besluit om die gedagte uit jou kop te skuif, want jy moet fokus, jy het vanmiddag ŉ dokters afspraak. Jy het die laaste tyd nie so goed gevoel nie.

Die telefoon lui. Dis die dokter wat skakel om te sê jy moet hom dringend kom sien, daar was iets ‘abnormaal’ in jou roetine bloedtoets.

Jy kom uit die dokter se spreek kamer, verslae, jy kan dit glad nie verstaan nie, hoe kon so iets jou getref het.

Jy bevind jouself met hande vol pille, wat geweldige newe effekte veroorsaak na jou ‘lewensreddende’ operasie.

Jy onthou skielik dat daar een is wat jou gesond kan maak – God.

Wat hierdie wyse man probeer uitbeeld het, was dat ons as Christene ons lewe en ons liggame vir ongeveer veertig jaar oorgee aan ons eie giere en luste.

Hy gaan toe verder deur te vertel hoe anders dit kon gewees het, en dat ons, ons kinders hieroor behoort te leer.

Ons behoort van kleins af ŉ gesonde leef patroon te volg vir beide liggaam en siel. Ons moet leer, dat as ons net een liggaam, en een lewe het, en alhoewel God baie genade het, daar ook blywende gevolge van ŉ roekelose lewe gaan wees.

Ons moet van kindsbeen af leer dat ons nie per ongeluk gebore is nie. Dat God ŉ definitiewe uitgewerkte plan vir ons lewe het. Dat God die beste vir ons in stoor het en dat ons dringend moet uitvind wat dit is. Daar word gesê dat as God ŉ nood in die wêreld sien, hy ŉ kind in die wêreld instuur. Ek wonder baie keer hoeveel goddelike politieke leiers, prokureurs, ingenieurs, mode ontwerpers, fotograwe, regisseurs, boere, besigheids manne ens. nooit gebore is nie, omdat hulle ouers kortsigtig was.

Sy slot woorde was dat Satan ons vir hierdie leun gevang het, van vergrype aan als wat lekker smaak, lekker klink, lekker lyk en lekker voel.

Wanneer ons egter rondom veertig jaar, die fleur van ons bediening behoort binne te gaan, vind ons uit dat ons cholesterol, bloeddruk, diabetes, arteritis, hartomleidings, bors kanker, gebroke huwelike, rebelse kinders, skuld, depressie en baie meer ons totaal immobiliseer. Hierdie goed neem dan so baie energie om te beveg, dat ons nooit by die roeping uitkom wat God vir ons beplan het.

Wat staan jou nou te doen?

Die beste raad wat ek jou kan gee is om self verantwoordelikheid vir jou eie lewe te begin neem.

Neem verantwoordelikheid vir jou eie geestelike groei. Neem verantwoordelikheid vir jou verhoudinge met jou maat, jou kinders en vriendskappe.

Neem verantwoordelikheid vir jou eie gesondheid. God het alles tot jou beskikking gestel. Hy het egter ook ŉ woord van waarskuwing gegee toe Hy gesê het, dat als aan jou gegee is, maar nie als voordelig vir jou is nie.

Vir jou gees en jou gedagtes:

Ek beveel een resep aan: keer terug na die ou wee toe. Keer terug na die Woord van God toe. Die handleiding van die mens was nog nooit so nodig om te volg soos nou nie. Jesus het gesê dat hy die Vader sal bid om vir ons ŉ ander helper te stuur, die Heilige gees, wat ons in alle waarheid sal onderrig. VRA Hom, wat jou te doen staan, en toets ALS wat jy hoor aan die Woord. Gebruik die Woord van God as die lig vir jou pad en die lamp vir jou voet. Lees en bestudeer dit daagliks en vra die Gees om dit vir jou oop te breek.

As die Here iets aan jou openbaar, - Neem aksie!

Vir jou liggaam:

As jou liggaam optimaal funksioneer, is dit soveel makliker vir jou denke om helder te funksioneer.

Keer terug na natuurlike medisyne, soos God dit in die natuur gegee het.

ŉ Paar basiese en eenvoudige dinge wat jy kan doen om beter te voel sluit onder ander die volgende in.

Probeer om sover as moontlik kos te eet wat nie met chemikalie behandel is nie. Eet organiese groente, eiers, vleis en matige hoeveelhede vrugte.

Maak seker jy drink genoeg skoon water. Water wat oormatig gefiltreer is, is uiters nadelig vir die liggaam, soos byvoorbeeld, tru-osmose filter of gedistilleerde water. Ek beveel eerder KDF gefiltreerde water aan. Maak seker dat die water wat jy drink ŉ pH van hoër as 7 het. Meer hieroor op my webtuiste.

Sorg dat jy daagliks uitstekende anti-oksidante, salm olie, minerale en vitamien inkry. Ek het al baie hieroor geskryf in vorige uitgawes, lees dit weer.

Sorg dat jy alle suiker uit jou dieet uitsny. Indien jy oorgewig is, probeer om vir 90 dae, ALLE soet goed uit jou dieet uit te skakel – selfs vrugte. Jy kan weer later matig vrugte eet. Onthou, die ding wat vet maak en are verstop is nie vet nie, maar fruktose. Fruktose is die ding wat die soet smakie aan daai lekkernye gee. Bly weg vir 90 dae, en kyk wat jou gewig, bloeddruk en cholesterol doen.

Vermy alle geprosesseerde vleis soos, salami, polonie, koue vleis, spek, rooi worsies, visvingers ens.

Ek beveel gewoonlik aan dat jy jou eetplan volgens jou bloedgroep begin aanpas, ek sien al vir ŉ dekade uitstekende resultate daarmee. Gebruik dit as riglyn vir wat vir jou voordelig of nadelig is.

Stap daagliks vinnig vir vyftien minute as gesin. Gaan doen iets saam met jou maat wat julle nog nooit gedoen het nie!

Na vyf dae behoort jou energie te begin terug keer, en sal jy vroeg genoeg kan opstaan om te hoor wat die Here vir die jou te sê het.

17 September 2011

Is jou hart seer?

Uit Manna Nov/Des 2008 (Un-edited)

Deur Christo Lues

Die hart is die middelpunt van al ons emosionele wese. Wanneer jou hart seer is, lei jou hele liggaam daar onder. Ons fisiese hart is nog meer belangrik, en as hy siek word, is ons in groot moeilikheid.

ŉ Maand of twee gelede was die hele land aan die praat oor die hartoperasie wat op nasionale TV uitgesaai was. Dit was voorwaar verstommend om te sien hoe die hart binne in die borskas klop en wat moderne tegnologie kan doen om iemand te help.

Almal is meer bewus daarvan om te sorg dat hulle hartsake in order is. Net soos met ons emosionele hartsake, is dit belangrik om te sorg dat die raad wat jy oor jou hart kry, korrek is, anders kan jou hart dalk nooit optimaal funksioneer nie of kan jy sterf.

Die moderne media is baie aggressief met die verspreiding van inligting oor hartvatsiektes. Ongelukkig is die populêre aanbevelings wat die rondte doen nie altyd in lyn met goeie wetenskaplike feite nie. Indien jou are verstop is met cholesterol, is die eerste ding wat jou dokter aanbeveel, dat jy ŉ geen vet dieet moet volg. Die soort dieet is uiters gevaarlik, omdat jou liggaam vet nodig het om, brein funksies, sel bou funksies en hormoon vervaardiging te kan uitvoer. Indien jy gehoorsaam is, en dit doen, behoort jou cholesterol te normaliseer na wat populêr aanvaar word as ŉ veilige vlak.

Indien nie, skryf jou dokter ŉ Statin voor. Die werk van hierdie chemikalie is om jou cholesterol vlak af te dwing tot die veilige vlak, en dit is dan ook presies wat gebeur. Jy, en jou dokter, is dan gelukkig dat als nou onder beheer is, of so wil hy glo.

ŉ Studie wat in die Lancet gepubliseer is, het daarop gewys dat bykans drie kwart van mense wat in die hospitaal beland, met verstopte are, se cholesterol normaal is! Dit beteken dat die dokter tevrede is dat hierdie persone se cholesterol onder die gevaarlike hoë merk is, maar dat hulle are steeds aanhou om te verstop. Dit gebeur dan ook gereeld dat hierdie persone herhaalde omleidings of stente moet kry, ten spyte daarvan dat hulle ŉ normale cholesterol waarde het.

Dit spel een ding: Ons oog is op die verkeerde bal. Ons kry die cholesterol af maar dit help nie om lewens te red nie.

Om die waarheid te sê, die bal wat ons dophou werk nie net nie, maar is ook baie gevaarlik! In sy boek “Did your Doctor Tell You?” wys die gerespekteerde Suid Afrikaanse Professor Willem Serfontein op die gevare wat statins inhou, dit sluit onder andere in:

· Verhoogde kans op Kanker,

· Onderdrukking van Insulien vlakke (wat lei tot Diabetes)

· Verswakking van die hartspier (wat lei tot hartversaking)

· Onderdrukking van die immuunstelsel

· Dood van die fyn senu punte in die liggaam

· En nog baie meer!

Nogal ernstige newe effekte, van iets wat jou behoort gesond te maak!

Nog ŉ studie wat ook onlangs in die Lancet gepubliseer is wys daarop dat Omega 3 (visolie) baie meer effektief is om lewens te red as wat Statins is.

Baie geleerdes probeer rondom die probleem kom deur te redeneer dat jou cholesterol waarde van 4 dalk te hoog is vir jou. Hoe dit ook al sy, die cholesterol trein rol voort en die farmaseutiese maatskappye oes groot.

Daar is egter baie gesonde individue wat rondloop met ŉ hoë cholesterol en wat perfekte are het met geen verstoppings nie.

Die vraag ontstaan dan, wat is die eintlike probleem? Hoekom verstop die are? As cholesterol nie die groot vyand is nie, wat is dan?

Indien ek jou sou vertel van iets wat veertig maal meer akkuraat is as cholesterol, om hartvatsiektes te voorspel, behoort jou hart vinniger en warm te klop.

Wel dis waar. Indien jy ŉ klein bietjie eie inisiatief aan die dag lê, kan jy hierdie toets laat doen en bepaal wat jou eintlike risiko vir hartvatsiektes is.

Hierdie belangrike ding waarvan ek praat is Homosistien. Homosistien is ŉ aminosuur wat deur ons liggaam gemaak word uit ons normale dieet. Indien die homosistien waarde in jou bloed te hoog raak, kan jy sommer ŉ hele wa-vrag van siekte toestande ontwikkel en dit sluit in:

· Hartvatsiekes,

· Hartaanvalle

· Osteoporose

· Infertiliteit

· Beroerte

· Kanker

· Diabetes

· Seksuele wanfunksionering

· Hoë bloeddruk

· Alsheimer se siekte

· Geboorte defekte

· En sommer nog 40 ander.

Terwyl jou liggaam homosistien maak, deur bloot ŉ normale dieet te volg, word homosistien omgeskakel na twee ander produkte toe. Die een is Sam-e, ŉ hormoon wat jou laat goed voel, die ander is Glutathione – ‘n antioksidant wat jou brein beskerm.

Die probleem ontstaan wanneer die omskakeling van homosistien na hierdie twee voordelige bestanddele, vertraag word of oneffektief raak. Dan bou homosistien op in die bloed en kan veroorsaak dat cholesterol en ander bestanddele aan die binnekant van jou are begin vasplak.

Die rede hoekom die omskakeling van homosistien oneffektief raak, is omdat die mikro – voedingstowwe wat die omskakelings proses moontlik maak, nie beskikbaar is nie. Redes hiervoor kan wees dat jy dit nie inneem nie, of dat jy dit inneem, maar weens ‘n suur pH, absorbeer jou liggaam dit nie genoegsaam uit jou dieet nie.

Net soos cholesterol is homosistien van kardinale belang vir die normale funksionering van jou liggaam, daarsonder, is ons in groot moeilikheid!

Wanneer die vlakke egter verhoog, as gevolg van redes wat ek hierbo genoem het, raak die effek daarvan op die liggaam negatief.
Om te bepaal wat jou vlak van homosistien is, moet jy ŉ patoloog besoek wat ŉ bloedmonster sal neem om die waarde te toets. Dit is nodig dat jy vir ten minste tien ure voor die toets vas, so ek beveel gewoonlik aan dat jy dit eerste ding in die oggend doen en daarna ontbyt eet. Dis egter toelaatbaar om water te drink.

In Suid Afrika is die aanvaarbare waardes vir die homosistien lesing tussen 5 en 15. Neem byvoorbeeld ŉ geval waar jou bloeduitslag ŉ waarde van 10 aandui, volgens die patoloog (en jou dokter) is hierdie waarde perfek. Die Suid Afrikaanse strekwydte van 5 tot 15 is ongelukkig te wyd, en kan baie misleidend wees.

Indien jy egter die beste vir jou hart en hartvate wil doen, behoort jy te poog om jou homosistien waarde onder 7 te kry. In ander dele van die wêreld is die boonste grens reeds verlaag, om die net nouer om die veilige sone te trek.

Om jou homosistien waarde af te bring is ook nie te moeilik, of duur nie, en jy hoef nie duur en gevaarlike chemikalie te neem daarvoor nie.

Daar is ŉ paar vitamiene en minerale wat nodig is om te neem, en dan behoort jou waarde stadig te verlaag tot binne die veilige vlak van onder 7.

Indien jou waarde tussen 9 en 15 is, kan die volgende help om die waarde te verlaag:

· Folien suur - 1200 mikrogram

· Vitamien B12 - 1 mikrogram

· Vitamien B6 – 75 mg

· Vitamien B2 – 20 mg

· Sink - 15 mg

· TMG 2000mg

Neem dit dan daagliks. Indien jou waarde laer is, byvoorbeeld 8, kan jy die hoeveelhede halveer en indien dit bo 15 is, is dit raadsaam om effe meer te neem.

Indien jy dink dit klink te ingewikkeld vir jou, maak gerus ŉ draai by jou naaste gesondheids winkel, want daar is bestaande formules beskikbaar wat al hierdie aanvullers in een kapsule bevat. Neem hierdie aanvulling vir twee maande, en laat jou waarde dan weer toets. As als goed gaan behoort jou waarde aansienlik laer te wees. Indien jy sukkel om jou waarde af te bring, is daar meer areas van jou gesondheid wat ook aandag nodig het, hiervoor beveel ek aan dat jy na my DVD reeks, Understanding The Health Puzzle, kyk.

Dit is egter ook belangrik om van jou gewoontes effe aan te pas. Hier volg ŉ paar riglyne.

· Verminder inname van te vetterige vleis, en eet organiese vleis waar moontlik.

· Vermy egter alle margarien en vervang dit eerder met ŉ bietjie botter of palm vrug olie (Carotino) en moenie olyf olie gebruik om jou pan te smeer nie. Die verhitting van die olyf olie maak dit ongesond, gooi dit eerder oor jou kos, nadat jy dit gebraai het.

· Eet organiese groen groentes.

· ŉ Huisie knoffel ŉ dag is baie voordelig – indien die smaak te sterk is, kan jy dit sommer insluk soos ŉ kapsule.

· Vervang gewone wit tafel sout met organiese Himalayan Kristal sout – hierdie sout is gebalanseerd met al die minerale en is baie voordelig om te gebruik, veral, as jy hoë bloeddruk het.

· Verminder jou inname van kafeïne soos in koffie, tee en sjokolade.

· Beperk jou inname van alkohol tot ŉ minimum.

· Neem ŉ goeie maak multivitamien, verkieslik in kapsulevorm.

· Neem 3000mg tot 6000mg Omega 3 per dag.

· Neem ŉ wye spektrum anti-oksidant.

· Indien jy rook, is dit bykans onmoontlik om jou homosistien vlak te verlaag.

· Sorg dat jou liggaam se pH alkalies is – soos ek in vorige artikels verduidelik het moet jou speeksel ph omtrent 7.5 wees.

· Verhoog jou water inname.

· Kruie soos rooi peper en “Hawthorn” bessie is uitstekende natuurlike tonikums vir jou hart. Indien jy op cholesterol medisyne is of was, is dit uiters belangrik om met ekstra Co-ensiem Q10 aante vul, aangesien hierdie chemiese middels Co-Q10 uitput wat lei tot hartversaking.

Ek het ŉ klomp tegniese inligting met jou gedeel, maar dit is baie belangrik om korrek na jou liggaam om te sien. Wanneer ons liggame optimaal funksioneer, kan ons optimaal in die koninkryk van God aangewend word.

Indien jy meer oor die onderwerp wil weet, raai ek die volgende verdere leesstof aan;

The H-Factor, deur Patric Holford en Dr James Braly.

Did your Doctor tell you? Deur Professor Willem Serfontein, uitgegee deur Struik.

17 September 2011

Is voedsel aanvullers nodig?

Deur Christo Lues

Uit Manna Sept/Oktober 2008

Die moderne tye word gekenmerk deur die elektroniese media. Kanse is baie goed dat jy al blootstelling gehad het aan verwarrende media berigte oor voedsel supplemente. Jy het waarskynlik ook al gewonder of dit regtig nodig is om vitamine te neem, want, sê die media baie keer, dis oneffektief en net ŉ geldmaak besigheid.

Wat bydra tot die verwarring is dat sogenaamde mediese kenners soms gevaarlike uitlatings maak soos:

· Alles wat ons liggame benodig, kry ons in ŉ gesonde gebalanseerde dieet.

· Daar is nie bewyse dat aanvullers veilig is nie.

· Aanvullers veroorsaak net duur urine.

· Daar is geen bewyse dat vitamine enige terapeutiese effek het nie.

Indien jy dan die kenner in jou lewe daaroor uitvra, wat gewoonlik jou dokter of dieetkundige is, sal hulle sonder om te blik of te bloos dadelik bogenoemde stellings bevestig.

Indien jy egter ŉ gerespekteerde kenner op die gebied van natuurlike medisyne raadpleeg, gewoonlik ŉ naturopaat of kliniese voedingkundige, sal jy ŉ heel ander beeld kry.

As jy die soort uitlatings lees of hoor is jy dan so verward dat jy sommer niemand wil glo nie en ophou om enige supplemente te neem.

Wat is die waarheid?

In die vorige uitgawe het ek gesê die eerste plek om te begin, is om te verstaan dat as jou liggaam uit gesonde selle bestaan wat goed gevoed is, dit gesonde weefsel sal vorm. Gesonde weefsel sal dan gesonde organe vorm. Gesonde organe vorm dan gesonde sisteme, en wanneer sisteme gesond is en optimaal funksioneer, kom simptome nie voor nie. Die boublokke van ons selle is ondermeer:

· 72 spoor minerale wat al ons ensiem prosesse laat werk,

· 26 Vitamine wat ons immuunstelsel, brein en ander funksies laat werk,

· 21 Aminosure wat ons brein, spiere en ander funksies voed,

· 2 Essensiële vetsure (omega 3 & 6)

· 8 suikers wat die kommunikasie tussen ons selle hanteer

· antioksidante wat ons selle beskerm teen vrye radikale, wat ons uit besoedeling en ander bronne opdoen.

Indien ons nie hierdie mikro voedingstowwe op ŉ daaglikse basis inneem nie word ons selle arm aan voeding en kan siektes begin ontstaan. As jy dan die onnatuurlike medisyne roete volg word jy nooit die ontbrekende voedingstowwe aangebied nie, maar eerder giftige chemiese middels, terwyl jou selle skreeu vir kos! ŉ Honger sel kan nooit gevoed word deur ŉ chemiese middel, bestraling of deur dit weg te sny nie.

Moderne boerderymetodes en voedsel prosesserings metodes stroop voedsel van hierdie uiters belangrike mikro voedingstowwe, en ons liggame kry dit nie meer genoeg mikro voeding deur dieet in nie. Voorbeelde hiervan is kunsmis formules wat meestal net 3 van die 72 belangrike minerale bevat. Wanneer jy 3-2-1 of 2-3-2 op jou gras of blomme strooi, gooi jy ŉ mengsel van Kalium, Stikstof of Fosfor op jou plante (3 minerale), maar jy is kort aan die ander 69 uiters belangrike minerale. Die drie minerale is al wat nodig is om of mooi vrugte te dra, of mooi blare te groei, bv. spinasie, of wortels, beet en uie.

Wat sake verder versleg, is, omdat boere nie alles in die grond terug plaas wat nodig is nie, word die plante siek, net soos ons selle. Die boer volg dan dieselfde onnatuurlike chemiese pad om die honger plant te behandel, en spuit giftige middels om die plant siekte vry te maak. Net soos in die liggaam gaan die siekte simptoom vir ŉ kort rukkie weg, maar die middel veroorsaak ook intussen ander probleme.

In die grond waar die plant groei, leef daar miljoene mikro organismes wat deur die middel gedood word. Hierdie is nodig om van die grondstowwe om te skakel vir plant voeding. Dit gebeur dan nie meer nie en die plant word weer siek, waarop meer chemiese middels toegedien word, net soos in ons liggame. Baie van hierdie middels word sistemies deur die plant opgeneem en wanneer ons die plant eet, kry ons oorblyfsels van hierdie chemiese middels in en dit kan weer katastrofiese gevolge in ons liggame tot gevolg hê.

Wanneer vrugte of groente aan die plant ryp word, gebeur daar wonderlike dinge. In die laaste paar uur van die ryp word proses stel die pitte van die vrug, phyto-chemikalieë vry in die vrug. Hierdie plant chemikalieë is deels om die vrug te bewaar, en deels vorm dit die bou blokke van ander baie belangrike mikro voedingstowwe wat ek vroeër genoem het naamlik, vitamine, die agt suikers en ook ŉ reeks anti-oksidante.

In die moderne wêreld van massa boerdery, ketting winkels, supermarkte en lang raklewe, is dinge egter drasties verskillend van hierdie idilliese voedsame vrugte en groente. Om die tamatie rooi op die supermark rak te kry, word dit groen gepluk, lank voor dit aan die plant kon ryp word. Dus word daardie uiters voedsame plant chemikalieë nooit vrygestel nie, met die gevolg dat die vrug mooi lyk, aanvaarbaar proe, maar weinig van die mikro voeding bevat.

Jy mag dalk organiese groente en vrugte by jou bekende hoë kwaliteit voedsel en kleding ketting winkel koop en reken jy is goed gevoed. Organies geproduseerde produkte word gewoonlik nie met giftige middels behandel nie, en dus is jy vry van daardie gifstowwe in jou gebruik van die produk. Alhoewel organies geproduseerde produkte verseker beter is as nie-organiese produkte, eet jy steeds ŉ vrug of groente wat nie aan die plant ryp geword het nie omdat dit ook te vroeg gepluk word. Jou selle trek dus steeds aan die kortste ent wat voeding betref.

Dieselfde probleme geld ook ten opsigte van hoender, skaap en bees boerderye

Die vraag ontstaan dan, watter supplemente, hoe gereeld en hoeveel behoort ek te neem.

Eerstens is dit belangrik om te besef dat alle voedselaanvullers nie gelyk is nie. Miskien het jy al met mense te doen gehad wat een of ander natuurlike produk aan jou wil verkoop en jou hand mond beloof dat hierdie maak die heel beste in die wêreld is, dat dit deur een of ander professor of dokter onderskryf word ens.

Alhoewel dit in uitsonderlike gevalle waar mag wees, word mense se persepsies baie beïnvloed deur hoeveel geld hulle daaruit maak. Die feit dat een of ander geleerde of bekende persoon die produk gebruik of onderskryf maak dit nie noodwendig die beste in die wêreld nie.

Hoe weet mens of ŉ aanvuller goed of sleg is?

Daar is ŉ paar maatstawwe om die kaf van die koring te skei.

1. Die chemiese vorm waarin die aanvuller voorkom. Neem bv. kalsium wat een van die mees algemene aanvullers is. Meeste kalsium aanvullers is in die elementale vorm(soos uit die grond gehaal), wat beteken dit is ŉ klip. Wanneer laas het jy ŉ klip vir aandete gehad? Die mens is eenvoudig nie gemaak om klippe te eet nie. Indien jy die klip baie, baie fyn maal, bly dit steeds klip en is steeds baie moeilik absorbeerbaar vir die liggaam. Die vorm van kalsium is dus nie ŉ goeie keuse nie. Ook moet kalsium altyd saam met ander minerale voorkom om goed deur die liggaam opgeneem te word. Die beste vorm van kalsium is gesuiwerde ioniese koraal kalsium van Okinawa in Japan. Hierdie kalsium kom in ŉ sakkie wat jy in jou filter water gooi en dan deur die dag drink. Dit bevat ook al (72) minerale wat jou liggaam nodig het vir optimale funksie. Hierdie soort kalsium is ook die enigste manier wat effektief die liggaam se pH kan beheer, soos ek in die vorige artikel verduidelik het.

2. So na aan God se skepping as moontlik. Neem ŉ vitamien aanvulling wat so natuurlik as moontlik is. Van die mees bekende vitamien formules word van sintetiese vervaardigde vitamine gemaak. Alhoewel dit steeds effektief is, kan jy beter doen deur te soek vir iets wat van plantaardige materiaal gemaak word. Dis gewoonlik meer natuurlik en is makliker vir die liggaam om te absorbeer. Probeer altyd om ŉ aanvuller te neem wat so omvattend as moontlik is, dis beter as om tien talle verskillende middels te neem.

3. Hoeveel bottels is nodig? Mense vra my gereeld vir een pil wat als bevat. Dit is om te vra vir een kossoort wat als bevat wat jy nodig het – dit bestaan nie. Sommige vitamine is water oplosbaar terwyl ander vet oplosbaar is. Die twee meng nie in een kapsule nie. Dis nodig dat jou liggaam al die voedingstowwe wat ek bo genoem het daagliks moet inkry om optimale voeding te verseker. Daar is goeie produkte beskikbaar wat die regte soort minerale, plant afgeleide vitamine, suikers en antioksidante bevat. Onder normale omstandighede behoort die volgende voldoende te wees. Multi -Vitamien formule, Koraal Kalsium sakkies vir jou water, ŉ wye spektrum anti-oksidant, Hoë kwaliteit visolie vir omega 3 en ŉ supplement wat die 8 suikers bevat. Sorg dat jy die beste kwaliteit koop wat jou sak kan bekostig.

4. Oppas vir die gratis ekstras. Wanneer jy volgende keer jou aanvuller koop, kyk vir die ‘onaktiewe’ bestanddele of gewoon die bestanddele lys. Hierdie dui die vullers, bindmiddels, vloeimiddels, kleurmiddels, geurmiddels en preserveermiddels aan. Jou supplement, behoort geen van hierdie te bevat nie. Indien daar nie so ŉ lys op jou bottel verskyn nie, los die maak en soek ŉ vervaardiger met integriteit. Oppas vir die goedkoop reekse op ketting winkel rakke. Wees veral versigtig vir kinder supplemente wat helder kleure, suiker en ander geurmiddels en preserveermiddels bevat. Dis ook die beste om produkte te koop wat in bruin of blou glas bottels en in kapsule vorm eerder as tablet verpak word. Jou gesondheids winkel kan gewoonlik die beste raad in die geval gee.

5. Hoeveel is daagliks nodig? Baie vitamien vervaardigers wys ŉ 100% RDA waarde. Die “Recommended Daily Allowance” is veronderstel om genoeg vir jou te wees. Hierdie is egter baie ou en soms arbitrêre waardes met min of geen effektiwiteit nie. Indien jou selle baie honger was vir ŉ lang tyd, benodig jy meer aanvulling. Die goue reël is, gebruik soveel as wat vir jou effektief is. Besoek weereens jou gesondheids winkel en vra vir ŉ aanvuller wat tipies baie hoër as RDA waardes bevat.

6. Voedsel aanvullers is wat die naam aandui. Dis nie medisyne nie. Dis eenvoudig substanse wat kortkom in ons dieet, en daarom ontstaan siektes. Om mediese aansprake te maak vir voedsel of voedsel aanvullers is baie misleidend. Omdat dit bloot voedingstowwe in kapsule vorm is maak dit, dit nie ŉ medisyne en dus gevaarlik nie, dis bloot kos vir jou selle.

7. Jy het duur urine nodig. Mense vra gereeld of die aanvullers nie net duur urine produseer nie. Die feit dat as jy water drink en daarna urineer is ŉ normale fisiologiese funksie. Beteken dit dan dat omdat jy water uitskei, jy dit nie behoort in te neem nie? Natuurlik nie! Dit het tog belangrike funksies in jou liggaam voordat dit uitgeskei word. Dieselfde is ook waar vir kos wat jy eet en aanvullers wat jy neem. As die liggaam dit nie kon uitskei nie en dit kon net akkumuleer in die liggaam (soos sommige chemiese middels) sou aanvullers giftig gewees het.

Die beste wat jy kan doen vir jou en jou gesin, is om jou eie kennis oor die onderwerp te verbreed. Kontak my gerus of kyk na die DVD reeks Understanding the Health Puzzle.Op die manier kan jy die beste besluite maak vir jou individuele behoeftes.

17 September 2011

Jy is wat jy eet

Uit Manna Maart/April 2008

Christo Lues

Met die moderne tegnologie wat beskikbaar is in landbou en voedsel verwerking behoort die kwaliteit van ons kos beter en beter te word. Die teenoorgestelde is egter waar, meer en meer siektes toestande ontwikkel en wel op ŉ vroeër ouderdom as in die verlede. Selde koppel media en ander bronne hierdie toename aan die moderne dieet wat ons het, anders as om te se ons moet geen vet eet nie.

In die vorige uitgawe het ons gesels oor water en hoe om jou liggaam skoon te maak deur die regte soort en hoeveelheid water in te neem. Ons sien hierdie as die eerste en die mees belangrikste begin om jou liggaam skoon te maak.

Die volgende legkaart stuk in die skoonmaak van jou liggaam is die kos wat ons eet. Baie mense verkeer onder die wan indruk dat kos maar weinig invloed op ons liggaam het anders as om ons vet of maer te maak. Ons besef gewoonlik nie dat ons dieet direkte invloed op ons gesondheid het nie.

Met soveel verskillende opponerende diëte wat die lig sien, is dit geen wonder dat die meeste mense moed opgee om te probeer gesond eet nie.

Die meeste christene met wie ek konsulteer, glo, dis eenvoudig genoeg om te bid oor jou kos en dan is alles reg en goed vir die liggaam. Ek wonder soms of ons regtig verstaan wat dit beteken om te bid voor ons eet?

In die tye toe Jesus op die aarde geloop het, was daar nie die moderne preserveermiddels en prosesserings prosesse wat daar vandag bestaan en wat die oorspronklike voedsame kos stroop van uiters noodsaaklike mikro voedings stowwe nie. Die landbou was nie gekommersialiseerd soos vandag met kunsmatige voedings stowwe, groei hormone, genetiese modifikasie en gifstowwe nie.

Die voedsel van antieke tye was baie ryk in minerale, vitamiene en essensiële plantaardige chemikalieë.

Die gebruik om vir jou kos te bid kon dus nie betrekking gehad het op die voedings waarde (of die gebrek daaraan nie) maar het eerder ŉ geestelike konnotasie. Daar was gereeld offers aan vreemde gode gebring. Paulus verduidelik dit baie mooi as hy sê dat enige iets waaroor jy bid geheilig of afgesonder gemaak word deur dit aan God te wy deur gebed. (1Timoteus 4:5)

Dit beteken nie dat ŉ stuk hout in ŉ filet verander word deur gebed nie, of dat jou uitstekende bemarkte gunsteling koeldrank van gif vir jou selle in ŉ lewegewende drankie verander nie.

Watter soort kos is dan reg en goed vir ons liggame?

Die bladsye van hierdie tydskrif is nie genoeg om dit breedvoerig te bespreek nie, maar ek sal ŉ paar riglyne gee waarvolgens jy jou dieet kan bepaal. Ek gee meer breedvoerig aandag aan die aspek in die reeks : Understaning the health puzzle.

In die tuin van Eden het God vir Adam en Eva gesê wat hulle kan eet en dit was net plantaardige kos (Genesis 1:29-30).

Daarna kom die sonde val en God jaag hulle uit die tuin uit. Nadat hulle uit die tuin is, bly die dieet dieselfde. (Genesis 3:18)

Dan kom die sondvloed en nadat die aarde totaal verander het gee God vir Noag ŉ ander dieet. Hulle kon nou als eet wat beweeg. Met ander woorde, hulle kon nou alle vlies eet, asook plante. (Genesis 9:1-4)

Van Noag tot by Moses verloop daar ŉ tyd waar mense als kon eet wat hul kon vang of pluk.

In Levitikus 11 verander God vir altyd die mens se dieet. Hier gee hy toe vir die mens net sekere kosse om te eet. God gee vir Moses ŉ koderings stelsel om te bepaal of iets rein of onrein is.

Vir meeste Christene is hierdie bepalings van die Ou Testament egter vergete wettiese reëls. Dis tog interessant dat ons die tien gebooie as tydloos sien en geen aandag gee aan wat God gee as dieet nie. Miskien moet ons weer kyk na wat God voorstel.

Ongelukkig word baie moderne christene verwar deur die wit laken wat Petrus gesien het (Hand 10:9-16). In kort was die betekenis van die wit laken uit die hemel met onrein diere daarin, nie dat onrein diere nou rein was nie, maar bloot dat die evangelie na die heidene geneem kon word(Hand 10:19,28). Meer hieroor in die DVD soos ek vroeër genoem het.

Wat sê God dan oor ons eet gewoontes?

Om die vraag in ŉ moderne samelewing te antwoord is dit belangrik om te sien wat God oor ons liggame sê:

“Of besef julle nie dat julle liggaam ’n tempel van die Heilige Gees is nie? Julle het die Heilige Gees, wat in julle woon, van God ontvang, en julle behoort nie aan julleself nie” 1 Korintiërs 6:19

Ons liggame is ŉ tempel van God. Dis duidelik uit hierdie en ander gedeeltes dat God sy tempels op aarde, goed daaruit wil laat sien. As jy jou tempel met gesonde voedsame kos bou, sal dit goed lyk en lank kan hou. As jy egter verfynde ongesonde kos gebruik om jou tempel mee te bou gaan dit nie goed lyk nie en sommer gou siek word en verbrokkel.

“Daar is mense wat sê: ALLES is my geoorloof.” Ja, maar nie alles is heilsaam nie. “Alles is geoorloof,” sê hulle. Ja maar alles is nie opbouend nie. (1 Korintiërs 10:23) Sal jy byvoorbeeld dood neerslaan as jy vark eet? Nee, beslis nie, maar gereelde gebruik daarvan kan nare gevolge hê (moderne wetenskap bevestig dit), so ook van die ander soorte kosse wat God sê ons nie behoort te eet nie.

Deur ondervinding het ek gesien dat as die mens probeer om God se skeppings reëls en voorskrifte te verbeter, dit gewoonlik katastrofies eindig.

In daaglikse konsultasies met honderde kliente het ek oor jare gesien dat daar basies drie groot allergene is.

Die eerste is koring produkte. Ja u het reg gelees – koring. Die probleem daarmee is dat die oorspronklike koring sewe gene gehad het maar deur dit te “verbeter” sodat dit pes bestand is, in amper enige toestand groei en baie groot opbrengste kan lewer, word dit nie meer effektief deur ons spysverterings ensieme afgebreek nie. Dit veroorsaak dan dat ons liggame verskeie negatiewe reaksies toon. Omdat koring in amper alles is wat ons eet, verbind ons dit selde aan ongemaks toestande soos spysverterings, vel, sinus en ander probleme.

ŉ Wonderlike plaasvervanger vir koring is spelt. Spelt is baie nader aan die oorspronklike koring korrel. Dus verstaan ons liggame hoe om dit af te breek en te gebruik. Moenie skrik nie – kyk net rond in gesondheids winkels en jy sal dit maklik opspoor. Gebruik jou eie bestaande resepte en vervang jou koring meel eenvoudig met spelt meel.

Die tweede groot allergeen is melk en melk verwante produkte. Ons gebruik melk, kaas en jogurt op ŉ daaglikse basis. Omdat melk gepasteuriseer en gehomogeniseer word, word al die ensieme wat God daarin geplaas het om ons liggame te help om dit te verteer vernietig. In ons spysverterings stelsel heers daar dan konstante oor produksie van spysverterings ensieme wat in mukus voorkom. Sistemies verhoog mukus produksie in ons liggaam en ons is meer geneigd tot lugweg infeksies, sinus probleme en oor probleme soos ons sien in klein kindertjies wat gereeld jogurt eet en melk drink. Borsmek is ALTYD die beste.

In die plek van melk kan rys melk met gemak gebruik word. Nou wonder jy dadelik waar jy jou kalsium gaan kry? Wel, die kalsium wat jy uit die melk behoort te kry is maar taamlik moeilik absorbeerder vir jou liggaam omdat die pasteurisasie proses die kalsium kristal struktuur beskadig. Soos ek in die vorige artikel genoem het is die koraal kalsium in die water ŉ beter opsie vir goeie kalsium. Donker groen blaar groente is ook ŉ goeie bron van kalsium.

Die derde groot allergeen is suiker.

Meeste mense dink hulle gebruik min suiker. Dit mag wees, maar het jy al oorweeg hoeveel verskuilde suiker jy inneem in koeldranke, fyngebak, ontbyt graan, nageregte, roomys, toebroodjie smere, koffie en tee?

Omdat suiker ongeveer sewentien keer verfyn word voordat jy dit inkry, is dit totaal gestroop van alle goeie mikro voedings stowwe en kry jy basies suiwer glukose in.

Glukose vereis amper geen omskakeling in jou spysverterings kanaal nie en word baie vinnig deur die liggaam opgeneem en maak jou buierig omdat dit jou bloed suiker vlakke te vinnig laat styg. Na so ŉ vinnige styging reageer die liggaam deur oor te kompenseer en te veel insulien af te skei, wat jou bloedsuiker vlak weer te vinnig laat daal. Dit is hoekom jy so ŉ emosionele “hoog” ervaar nadat jy suiker ingeneem het, maar kort daarna ŉ laagtepunt beleef, as jou bloedsuiker vlak weer val. Op die langduur kan dit jou kanse op diabetes baie verhoog.

Suiker onderdruk ook jou immuniteits stelsel. Dit maak dat jy meer vatbaar is vir bakterie wat jou selle probeer binne dring.

Die beste plaasvervanger vir wit of bruin suiker is natuurlijke "Rapandura" Suiker. Dit kan ook met gemak in gebak gebruik word en werk net soos suiker in en die hoeveelhede bly ook dieselfde as suiker in jou resepte. Kunsmatige versoeters is nooit ŉ goeie alternatief vir suiker nie.

In kort is dit belangrik om die dinge uit jou dieet te verwyder wat die meeste probleme veroorsaak. Oor ŉ lank tyd met baie mense het ek besef dat koring produkte, melk produkte en suiker die meeste gesondheids wanbalanse veroorsaak of vererger.

Ek glo ook ons moet terugkeer na die Woord en meer aandag gee aan wat God voorstel as goed sleg vir sy skepsels en gelukkig is daar wonderlike gesonde voedsame alternatiewe wat ons met gemak kan gebruik om ons boere etes aantreklik en smaaklik voor te berei.

17 September 2011

Is jy te suur?

Deur Christo Lues

Uit Manna van Julie/Augustus 2008

Soos baie ander dinge in die lewe, word ons gesondheid ook deur ŉ paar grondbeginsels onderhou. Ons Skeppergod, het toe Hy ons liggame gemaak het, bepaal dat ons aan sekere beginsels onderwerp sou wees. Ons moet bv. voedsame kos en water inneem, genoeg oefening en rus kry anders neem die funksies van ons liggame doodgewoon af en sterf ons, dalk voordat ons die taak wat Hy ons opgelê het, kon voltooi.

In vorige artikels het ons gekyk na die kwaliteit en hoeveelheid water wat ons liggame nodig het, ook watter soorte moderne kossoorte probleme in ons liggame mag veroorsaak en hoe ons dit met uitstekende alternatiewe kan vervang. Ek kry gereeld vra oor hoe mens regtig seker kan wees dat jy gesond leef , is daar dan nie ŉ manier wat mens kan gebruik om te bepaal hoe gesond jy regtig is nie, of leef jy maar net voort en hoop vir die beste?

Baie van die moderne mediese wetenskap is egter beperk tot die behandeling van ŉ siektestoestand, nie die voorkoming daarvan nie. Daar is bv. meer as die helfte van mense wat in die hospitaal beland met aangepakte are, wie se cholesterol vlakke normaal is. Dit beteken dood eenvoudig dat die groot geveg teen cholesterol nie so effektief is as wat ons wysgemaak word nie, iets anders is ŉ belangriker faktor in die aanpaksels in ons are – meer hieroor op ŉ volgende keer.

Jou dokter en polisieman is goeie ouens om byderhand te hê wanneer ŉ noodsituasie onstaan. Maar net soos die polisieman maar min kan doen voordat ŉ misdaad gepleeg is, kan jou dokter min doen aan jou gesondheid voordat ŉ simptoom kop uitsteek. In baie gevalle is dit dan reeds te laat. By vyftig persent van vroue, met hart probleme, is die eerste simptoom, wanneer hulle dood neerval – sonder enige vroeëre waarskuwing of simptome!

Die moderne manier van siektes behandel is om te wag tot ŉ simptoom voorkom en om dan daardie simptoom te probeer onderdruk deur behandeling. Neem bv. ŉ hoofpyn wat behandel word deur ŉ hoofpynpil te neem. Die hoofpyn is egter selde ŉ toestand in dit self, dis veel eerder ŉ waarskuwings sein van die liggaam dat iets onderliggend fout is. Maar as ons die hoofpyn behandel het, deur dit te onderdruk, voel ons, ons was suksesvol. Die onderliggende probleem is egter steeds daar en soek slegs na ŉ volgende manier om jou te laat weet dat daar ŉ probleem bestaan.

Sien, ŉ simptoom onstaan in ŉ sekere sisteem (bv. die spysverterings stelsel). Sisteme bestaan uit spesifieke organe (bv. die maag of die kolon. Organe bestaan uit weefsel en die weefsel bestaan weer uit selle.

Wanneer ons dus ŉ simptoom soos ŉ hoofpyn behandel, gee ons bloot die liggaam ŉ chemikalie wat die orgaan binne in ŉ spesifieke sisteem vir ŉ tydjie buite aksie stel en jou op die oppervlak beter laat voel. Die onderliggende weefsel en selle is egter steeds ongesond, en wanneer die orgaan dan weer begin lewe voel, kom die simptoom weer na vore. Dit raak dan ŉ bose kringloop totdat ons genoeg van die orgaan gehad het en dit laat uitsny – wat steeds nie die probleem oplos nie, aangesien God dit daar geplaas het vir ŉ baie spesifieke rede, en dit kan nie nou meer vervul word nie.

Ek sien gereeld mense wat sommer ŉ lys chemiese pille neem. Een vir bloeddruk, een vir cholesterol, een vir diabetes en dan voel hulle so depressief dat ŉ antidepressant en slaappil ook nodig is. Hierdie konkoksie laat die kolon dan gaan stil staan, en daarvoor gebruik hulle dan ŉ gewoontevormende lakseer middel. So dink hulle dan het hulle al die simptome goed behandel...

Wel, daar is maniere om te weet of jy gesond is en hoe gesond jy regtig is.

Die eerste plek om te begin is om te verstaan dat as jou liggaam uit gesonde selle bestaan, sal hulle gesonde weefsel bou. Gesonde weefsel sal dan gesonde organe vorm. Gesonde organe vorm dan gesonde sisteme, en wanneer sisteme gesond en optimaal funksioneer, kom simptome nie voor nie.

Die vraag is dan, hoe weet jy dat jou selle gesond of ongesond is?

Gesonde selle word gevoed deur mikro nutriënte, waarvan ons daagliks sommer ŉ hele klomp benodig waaronder; 72 spoor minerale, 26 Vitamiene, 21 Aminosure, 2 Essensiële vetsure, 8 suikers, antioksidante en nog meer. Omdat ons moderne kos ons nie meer van baie van hierdie voedingstowwe kan voorsien nie moet ons dit gewoonlik in een of ander soort aanvulling inneem. Hieroor sal ons op ŉ volgende keer gesels.

Wat egter baie meer fundamenteel is, is dat ons hierdie mikro voedingstowwe moet kan absorbeer, tot in die selle, wat dit nodig het om korrek te funksioneer, en dan begin om gesonde weefsel te bou, wat op hul beurt weer gesonde organe bou en so voorts totdat ons werklik gesond is.

Die sentrale faktor in jou liggaam wat bepaal of voedingstowwe opgeneem word of nie, is iets wat ons jou pH noem. Dit is doodgewoon ŉ aanduiding van hoe suur of alkalies jou liggaam is. Ek moet dadelik noem dat baie mense dit verkeerdelik met maagsuur en sooibrand verbind, nee die suur of alkali waarvan ek hier praat is die soort ding wat kan veroorsaak dat jy seer spiere of seer gewrigte of talle ander siektes ontwikkel.

Vergelyk dit met jou swembad. As die pH balans van jou swembad te suur is, gewoonlik onder 7 dan begin dinge skeef loop. Alge en ander goggas begin groei, die water raak troebel en kan later begin sleg ruik. Wanneer die pH egter bo 7 is, gewoonlik 7.2, is dit alkalies en kan hierdie soort goggas nie groei nie en geniet almal die plesier van skoon helder blou water.

Dit werk baie dieselfde in jou liggaam. Wanneer die pH te suur is kan goggas soos bakterie en ander begin groei en siektestoestande begin ontwikkel. Hierdie suur pH in ons liggame is dan ook die mees belangrike faktor wat bepaal of ons voedingstowwe die selle bereik, al dan nie. Ons kan die pH meet deur ŉ eenvoudige speeksel toets te doen met ŉ stukkie litmus papier. Wanneer die litmus papier met die speeksel in aanraking kom verander dit van kleur na gelang van ons pH. Gewoonlik word die papiertjie meer geel of groen as ons suur is of blou as ons pH alkalies is. Die pH van ons speeksel verteenwoordig die pH van ŉ belangrike oordrag vloeistof tussen ons bloedvaatjies en ons selle, en die pH hiervan behoort ŉ ideaal van 7.5 te handhaaf. Indien die pH onder 7 is kan oordrag van ons mikro voedingstowwe nie effektief plaasvind nie en word ons weefsel selle siek as gevolg van te min kos, en dan begin die proses van ongesonde organe ens. weer van voor af.

In die allerdaagse lewe is daar sommer baie dinge wat kan maak dat ons te suur is. Die grootste hiervan is dit wat ons verkeerd eet en drink. Hierdie is die verfynde of geprosesseerde kosse of kosse of koeldrank wat belaai is met suiker of ander suur vormende bestanddele en wat gewoonlik gestroop is van goeie voedingstowwe.

Soos wat ek in ŉ ander artikel verduidelik het is dit van kardinale belang dat ons water moet inneem wat genoeg minerale bevat en waarvan die pH meer alkalies van aard is. Hierdie is een van die beste maniere om te verseker dat ons pH aan die alkaliese kant van sake bly.

Om die kolon nie skoon en gereeld te ledig nie, is seker een van die grootste faktore wat meeste mense wat ek sien kortwiek. Wanneer ons die kolon nie ten minste twee maal per dag ledig nie, kan van die voedselreste wat te lank in die kolon bly begin afbreek in giftige produkte. Hierdie produkte word dan opgeneem in die stelsel en veroorsaak dat die stelsel se pH meer en meer suur word.

Een van die beste maniere om die kolon aan die gang te kry is om daagliks 2 eetlepels lyn saad in ŉ groot glas water te neem. Dit gee die baie nodige vesel aan die kolon om sy ontgiftings en uitskeidings taak effektief te verrig. Dit spreek van self dat ŉ dieet wat genoeg, gesonde vesel bevat sake net kan verbeter. Soos ek in ŉ ander artikel genoem het is genoeg goeie kwaliteit water van uiterse belang wanneer vesel ingeneem word anders kan die hoë vesel teen produktief wees as dit in die kolon vassteek omdat daar te min vloeistof is om gladde beweging te verseker.

Spreuke 14:30 “’n Rustige hart is die lewe vir die vlees, maar hartstog ’n verrotting vir die gebeente.”

Wanneer ŉ mens te veel stres of spanning beleef, of wanneer ŉ mens in onvergewende bitterheid leef , word jy suur. As jy suur word en nie die nodige alkaliese water en voedsel inneem nie, neem jou liggaam kalsium uit jou bene om te keer dat jy dadelik sterf. As die situasie dan lank voortduur, word massas minerale uit jou bene onttrek, en ontstaan osteoporose of een of meer van ŉ reeks degeneratiewe soort siektes.

Om gesond te wees is en te bly, is dit dus baie belangrik dat jy sorg dat jy gesonde selle het. Gesonde selle het mikro voedingstowwe nodig en kan dit slegs opneem as jou pH alkalies is en die ideaal is om jou speeksel se pH by 7.5 te hou.

My gebed is dat hierdie jou sal help om ’n rustige hart te hê en dat dit lewe vir jou vlees sal wees, sodat jy jou Godgegewe roeping op aarde tot eer van ons Vader kan uitleef.

17 September 2011

Natural Medicine Talk

Read more articles by Christo and other health professionals.

01 December 2011

pH Explained

Saliva PH test

The Saliva PH test is a simple test you can do to measure your susceptibility to cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis, arthritis, and more than 150 other degenerative diseases.

How to Perform the Saliva pH Test

First, you must wait at least 2 hours after eating. Fill your mouth with saliva and then swallow it. Repeat this step to help ensure that your saliva is clean. Then the third time, put some of your saliva onto the pH paper. Take the reading IMMEDIATELY.

The pH paper should turn blue. This indicates that your saliva is slightly alkaline at a healthy pH of 7.5. If it is not blue, compare the colour with the chart that comes with the pH paper. If your saliva is acid (below pH of 7.0) wait two hours and repeat the test.

What the Reading means:

"When healthy, the pH of blood is about 7.4, the pH of spinal fluid is 7.4, and the pH of saliva is 7.5. Thus the pH of saliva parallels the extra cellular fluid...pH test of saliva represents the most consistent and most definitive physical sign of the ionic calcium deficiency syndrome...The pH of the non-deficient and healthy person is in the 7.5 (dark blue) alkaline range. The range from 7 (neutral) to blow 7 (blue-green) which is weakly acidic to 4.5 (light yellow) which is strongly acidic represents states from mildly deficient to strongly deficient, respectively. Most children are dark blue, a pH of 7.5. Over half of adults are green-yellow, a pH of 6.5 or lower, reflecting the calcium deficiency of aging and lifestyle defects.

pH and Cancer

Cancer patients are usually a bright yellow, a pH of 4.5, especially when terminal." The Calcium Factor: The Scientific Secret of Health and Youth, by Robert R. Barefoot and Carl J. Reich.

You have NO CHANCE to defeat cancer if your pH is below 7.5. Professor Willem Serfontein recently wrote an article in the SAJNM on this issue.

Other Diseases

Virtually all degenerative diseases, including cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis, arthritis, kidney and gall stones, and tooth decay are associated with excess acidity in the body. While the body does have a homeostatic mechanism which maintains a constant pH 7.4 in the blood, this mechanism works by depositing and withdrawing acid and alkaline minerals like Calcium from other locations including the bones, soft tissues, body fluids and saliva. Therefore, the pH of these other tissues can fluctuate greatly. The pH of saliva offers us a window through which we can see the overall pH balance in our bodies.

Cancer cannot exist in an alkaline environment. All forms of arthritis are associated with excess acidity. Acid in the body dissolves both teeth and bones. Whatever health situation you are faced with, you can monitor your progress toward a proper acid/alkaline balance by testing your saliva pH.

Why not check urine pH?

Urine should always be acidic, if it is not, you are in trouble as your kidneys may be malfunctioning. The other problem is that the pH range of Urine varies greatly during the day. It can go from 4.5 to almost 7, marking a jump of almost 500X to 1000X, purely depending on what you had last night or 10 minutes ago. The saliva pH does not vary this much as it represents the mineral level in your entire system, unlike urine.

What does "Acid" and "Alkaline" mean (technically)?

Water (H2O) ionizes into hydrogen (H+) and hydroxyl (OH-) ions. When these ions are in equal proportions, the pH is a neutral 7. When there are more H+ ions than OH- ions then the water is said to be "acid". If OH- ions outnumber the H+ ions then the water is said to be "alkaline". The pH scale goes from 0 to 14 and is logarithmic, which means that each step is ten times the previous. In other words, a pH of 4.5 is 10 times more acid than 5.5, 100 times more acid than 6.5 and 1,000 times more acid than 7.5.

Acid and Alkaline Minerals and Foods

Minerals with a negative electrical charge are attracted to the H+ ion. These are called acid minerals. Acid minerals include: chlorine (Cl-), sulfur (S-), phosphorus (P-), and they form hydrochloric acid (HCl), sulfuric acid (H2SO4), and phosphoric acid (H3PO4). Minerals with a positive electrical charge are attracted to the negatively charged OH- ion. These are called alkaline minerals. Nutritionally important alkaline minerals include calcium (Ca+), potassium (K+), magnesium (Mg+), and sodium (Na+). To determine if a food is acid or alkaline, it is burned and the ash is mixed with water. If the solution is acid or alkaline then the food is called acid or alkaline. Ash is the mineral content of the food.

Why am I acid in the 1st place?

Many people ask why they are acid, as they think they eat a pretty healthy diet and take expensive supplements. The reasons are various and can be one of the following or a combination.

1. Diet plays the most important role in determining your pH. Some of the most acidic foods include, SUGAR, SUGAR, SUGAR!!! Hidden Sugars in cakes, pastries etc, too much read meat, coffee, tea (including rooi bosh trea) Coke (including diet drinks)

2. STRESS, the more you stress, the more acidic you become.

3. Ongoing deficiency in Ionic Calcium and deficiencies in trace minerals

4. Fillers, binders and other FREE ingredients in supplements. These include substances like:

Dicalcium phosphate, microcrustalline cellulose, croscaramellose sodium, modified starch, maltodextrin, magnesium stearate, silicon dioxide, dextrin, corn starch, magnesium hydroxide, dextrose monohydrate, sodium carboxymethylcellulose, sodium citrate, hydroxypropyl cellulose, hydroxypropyl methelcellulose, milk, soy, Wheat, sorbitol, caramine, sugar, glucose, sucrose, Evaporated cane juice, milk solids etc

5. Chemicals like, pharmaceutical drugs, street drugs, alcohol, smoking

6. Excessive exercise , I often see sports people who exercise at all costs and against common sense without putting any good nutrients back into the body.

7. VERY FEW vitamin companies have any decent knowledge on the vital importance of pH, for this reason, you may be taking “good” supplements, but not absorb much.

Ways to Restore Acid/Alkaline Balance in Your Body

If your saliva is too acid you would benefit from increasing the alkalinity of your body. Ways to do this include:

1. Eat mostly foods Accoring to your BLOOD TYPE.

The first science that understands you as a biochemical individual. Following decades of ongoing research and clinical work, Dr. D'Adamo created The Blood Type Diets™, a way of eating and living that has transformed the health of millions. During his three decades in clinical medicine, Dr. D'Adamo has continued to research, lecture and write about personalized nutrition.

You can read more here

2. Supplement your diet with alkaline minerals.

The best form of Minerals that we found is Fossilised, Cleaned and Re-activated Coral Calcium Sachets from Okinawa Japan. The ONLY reputed make I know of is from Sevenpointfive. I

Its is IMPERATIVE to use good quality water when putting the Ionic coral calcium sachets in the water. This does NOT include any of the following:

Reverse Osmosis (RO) or Distilled water Read why....

Tap water due to heavy metal impurities and other unknown substances (Irrespective of what water works will tell you)

Use ONLY KDF filtered water Read why...

Use our Pack a Life regime Including the following: Ioinc Coral Calcium, Activ 8 and Assimil 8 , add Mindse t and Omega SLO if you are very stressed.

Alkaline base powders does NOT work, other than neutralizing your stomach acid!

Important to NOTE!

pH is not just another fad. It’s VERY scientific and is recognized by the top scientists of the past, present and future as the center point of our cellular health. You an do some research on the work of Dr. Otto Warburg. They recognize that we live or die on cellular level, long before we develop any clinical symptoms.

As long as your saliva pH shows up acidic, you can take the best or most expensive supplements you can lay your hands on, but very little of it will get absorbed. GET YOUR pH TO 7.5!!!

We offer c onsultations to help you get it right.

11 February 2012

Tips for (Breastfeeding) Mothers

If you read this, you are probably struggling with a baby that has colic or cramps. It may also that your baby presents with eczema or respiratory problems.

Contrary to what your pediatrician or clinic sister will tell you, everything that you eat has an influence on your baby. Anything you eat or drink gets digested and absorbed into your breast milk. Baby drinks that and it can cause digestive upset in your baby.

There is a smaller variety available for breast feeding mothers, and finding foods that are good for both baby and mother is by far the hardest part of breast feeding. It is important what condiments you use during cooking. The make of product i.e. Soya sauce, salt etc is extremely important, as some makes, add ingredients what gives baby cramps so easily and mother a hard night.

Absolute simplicity in the cooking is imperative.

Foods to Avoid

No sausage or any meat/fish in crumbs, no pork; not even bacon!

No onions (raw or cooked) or green vegetables such as broccoli, beans, peas and cucumber.

No coffee or sugar or artificial sweeteners.

No soup powders, Aromat, Herbamare salt, curry, herbs or spices in fact - nothing that contains MSG also called Mono Sodium Glutemate or HVP or Hydrolysed Vegetable Protein (it is important to make sure on the etiquette of the products labelling) Use only pure sea salt or the Himalayan crystal salt.

No wheat including foods like pasta, bread, whole wheat bread, muesli, muffins, biscuits like cream crackers and pro-vita’s, cookies, etc use only Spelt flour in the making of bread (recipes with Spelt flour are available here). Use wheat free pasta, cookies, muesli, biscuits etc.

Be very careful of breakfast cereals, they may contain any of the above or a combination thereof.

No dairy products including: milk, cheese, cream, cottage cheese yogurt etc, use rice milk when you need to use milk but I am still a bit careful about the rice milk as it is flavoured with vanilla, and I find that sometimes my baby cries if I drink more than 50 ml rice milk in a day soy (being a bean also causes cramps) Rooibos tea makes you acidic and can make you babies urine very acidic and eventually bring out a rash.

Drink only water with Coral Calcium sachets and/or Concentrace Drops (1 drop for ever 2 kg of your weight). This gives you the correct type of calcium and other minerals you need to supply your baby through your breast milk.

Here is an example of my menu when I breast feed. When you follow this menu for a week, and your baby is quiet, you can begin to add some of your favourite foods, one at a time. For example a dish with cooked onions, green beans etc. As your baby grows up, onions and green beans should not be a problem any more. BUT dairy, MSG, sugar and wheat will definitely still have an effect.

Breakfast

We believe in a mixed breakfast, and NOT only fruit/muesli and yogurt. Combining ananimal protein and a carbohydrate is contrary to what many health gurus advocate, but we have found it extremely beneficial over many years. Doing this keeps the blood sugar level constant and allows you to go a lot longer during the morning without feeling hungry again. Remember that when you breast feed you output a lot, and if you start your day with a cereal or fruit and or yogurt you will feel your blood sugar dip very soon after breakfast. This could make your milk production drop. We find the same with children, that a mixed breakfast gives them better concentration. The same goes with toddlers, they are more able to keep themselves busy and there is less strife when they have a breakfast as I described. Some Sunday mornings we only eat muffins and rusks with tea, and then you can immediately see the effects on their temperament. The same goes for adults.

Breakfast normally consists of the following:

Spelt bread (Backed with Spelt flour with the Panasonic Bread Machine)

Fried egg, Boiled egg or scrambled eggs (to use butter is 100% please avoid margarine.) Yes it’s 100% OK to have egg EVERY day of the week. There is NO cholesterol issue…

No honey (I found that some of my babies get cramps from honey)

Also no jam or paté (e.g. Fish paste), only St. Dalfour apricot or peach jam. (Available from Pick & Pay or health shops)

For a Snack

I found that when you eat only wheat free bread, baked with Spelt, you don’t pick up weight. We believe only in the Blood group Diet: ‘Eat Right for your Blood Type’. I found a rusk recipe that worked with my other babies, but this baby cried a lot and I decided to leave it.

Plain Oat biscuits from Nairn’s (available in health shops) are generally ok to have.

Lunch

Spelt bread sandwiches (Baked with Spelt flour) with the following fillings:

Leftover chicken from the night before

Tuna (in water)

Leftover mince(flavoured with salt, pepper and tomato)

You may add lettuce or tomatoes to spice it up.

Supper

1. Rub salt and pepper into chicken or chicken pieces.

2. Cut carrots, potatoes and or turnips into cubes and put in to an oven pan.

3. Roast at 200deg C for 45 mins

4. Reduce heat to 150Deg C for 1-2 hours (depending on size of Chicken)

5. Take chicken out of the oven proof pan

6. Deglaze the caramelized juices in the pan to form a gravy

The chicken can be served with brown rice, butternut and fresh salad (No salad dressing).

Butternut

1. 1 medium organic butternut, peeled and cut into blocks

2. 60g butter and a pinch of salt

3. Just enough water to be able to steam the butternut

Cooked Chops

1. Place 500g – 1Kg of lamb chops in a oven dish.

2. Fill only the bottom of a oven dish with water

3. Cover with foil and bake it for 180º C for about 90 min

4. Take the foil off and sprinkle sea salt or Himalayan salt over the chops, turn the chops over and sprinkle sea salt over the other side of the chops.

5. Grill the chops till they are brown and slightly dry.

6. Pour water into the oven dish to make sauce.

Carrot salad

4 organic carrots peeled and grated.

Half a pineapple, peeled and cut into small pieces. Do not use any fruit juice or sauce over the salad

Chicken and Rice Dish

1. Cook about 1½ cups raw rice with 4 cups water and 1 teaspoon sea salt till cooked

2. 6 organic chicken filets cut into pieces

3. Fry the chicken pieces in about 2 teaspoons butter till it is light brown

4. Add 1 tbsp Kikkoman soy sauce, 2 teaspoons organic balsamic vinegar(Otallio from Pick ‘n Pay), the juice of one lemon, and half a cup water.

5. Allow it to simmer till all the water evaporated and the chicken is brown

6. Place into a mixing bowl.

7. Cook 1 finely chopped onion till light brown, in the same pan as you cooked the chicken, adding a bit of butter if needed. (A welcome addition could be baby marrow or cherry tomatoes)

8. Mix rice, chicken and cooked onion together and spoon into a backing dish

9. Place in oven at 180º C till light brown.

You can serve this with Sweet potatoes and fresh salad (no salad dressing).

Sweet potato

1. 5-6 medium sized organic sweet potato, peeled and diced

2. 60 g butter

3. Just enough water to steam it till soft

Menu for Baby

Begin to feed your child solid food at 6 months. Give fruit and vegetables first, then porridges (7-8 months) and then meat and chicken (9 months).

Start with non allergic foods like apple, pear, and butternut.

Avoid the more allergy prone foods like banana and avocado.

Make sure to peel the fruit, you could steam the fruit lightly, let it cool down and then give little bits to your baby.

At the age of 11-12 months they eat out of your plate at the table. This means that you don’t make special food for them, they just get the food that everybody else is eating, only cut smaller. At this stage your baby should be able to eat everything that you are able to eat.

They are mad over butternut, gem squash, green beans or carrots cooked with small pieces of potatoes and then cut very fine. (Yes you may give them green beans from 7 months old, with very good results.)

Make their own porridge with organic rice flour and rice milk (available at health shops-not the sort that you get in boxes in the supermarket shelves) and sweetened with a little honey. At 10 months they can eat bread (spelt bread-not wheat).

For Lunch a sandwich with tuna or finely chopped chicken. For supper they can be given the same food as the family.

In between meals give them only organic fruit. The genetic modification of fruit and the poisons that fruit are sprayed with, affect my family immediately (because our bodies are very ‘clean’). My children and I immediately react with an allergic cough or rash when we eat normal fruit. (Organic fruit is sometimes difficult to get-sometimes impossible-especially in winter). Alternatively you can give your toddlers spelt bread during the day or at specific times (eg. 11h00 and 15h30). There are also muffin recipes and desert recipes on the here that you can make for both toddler and adults.

For you to drink.

Although everybody sings the praises of Rooi Bos tea, different people get affected differently by it differently. I have seen many people with arthritis and or eczema or bladder related problems, which seems to correlate to their regular consumption of rooi bos tea. If you do not get stiff/sore joints from using it, then go ahead – otherwise, just omit the rooibos from the recipe.

Make the following tea.

1 Tsp Chammomile flowers (Calmative effect)

1 Tsp Fennel seeds (Soothing for the digestive system and anti-spasmodic)

Let it simmer in a pot on the stove and enjoy at any time.

Helpful remedies

Baby born via Caesarian Section?

When you have a vaginal birth, baby ingests some of the natural bacteria that lives in the birth canal. These bacteria is good and helps kick start baby’s immune system AND digestive system. This helps baby to be healthy and digest your breast milk well.

The problem comes when baby is born via Caesarian Section and do not ingest these friendly bacteria. We then more than often see baby cry from cramps, have lots of mucus in the ears, nose or tonsils. All these “symptoms” are then treated with an array of drugs, from antibiotics to immune suppressants and even operations.

The remedy is very simple, follow our dietary guidelines and give baby these friendly bacteria supplemental to breast milk. We always use ABC Dophilus by Solgar. You simply give 0.25 to 0.5 teaspoon to baby twice a day in the mouth. You may want to mix it with a drop or two of water or breast milk.

Baby crying:

1. Make sure baby is neither to hot or cold, generally babies are calmer, being a little overdressed than underdressed – also…..check the nappy.

2. Give a chamomile powder and wait 15 minutes, if the crying continues then

3. Give baby one Spascupreel tablet, crushed finely between two teaspoons –this is a very effective and 100% safe antispasmodic remedy.

4. If you tried all the above, and baby still cries, get hold of a Chiropractor (with experience with babies) Sometimes during labour baby’s skeletal system mis-aligns. The chiropractor will gently adjust this, and baby should be much better.

Baby teething:

1. You may start by inspecting the gums, and find that they are not necessarily more red ir inflamed than normal.

2. You could try the remedies above, if that is unsuccessful then apply a little Traumeel S ointment on babies gums.

3. If baby is restless with or without fever, you may insert a Viburcol S suppository. It is 100% safe and natural and very effective.

4. As a general immune stimulant at the first onset of a fever we generally respond by giving baby an Engystol tablet - crushed finely between two teaspoons.

Nappy rash:

This can be due to baby being very acidic or teething. Try the following.

1. Apply a little Squaline after every nappy change.

2. If the problem persists mix (in your hand) a little Traumeel S ointment and Squaline together and apply to the affected area.

3. Wash baby’s bottom if needed, with lukewarm water only.

4. Any dry spots on baby’s skin can be treated with Squaline. This is for external use only.

For mother:

As a breastfeeding mom, your baby takes a lot from you. This is natural and your body is made to handle it. With today’s stresses and generally depleted foods, it has become necessary to take a few supplements to your general diet. Again, your dietician, paediatrician, gynaecologist or GP is not trained to advise on these and other natural supplements. As far as their training goes, you get every thing from your food. The fact that modern day agricultural methods deplete foods of essential micro nutrients is not part of their thinking.

1. Start by taking a good multi vitamin formula. I recommend High 5 from Viridian. One capsule with breakfast should be sufficient.

2. Take Omega SLO. I recommend this particular omega 3 as it contains , alkoxyglycerols, a natural substance found in mother’s milk. This will strengthen your milk and aid baby’s development, as well as protecting and nourishing your own body.

3. Drink PLENTY filtered water, drink PLENTY filtered water, drink PLENTY filtered water, drink PLENTY filtered water – you get the picture?

You also need to get minerals to aid all the processes in your and baby’s body. I recommend adding one coral calcium bag to every 1.5L of water. A breastfeeding mother can easily drink 4L of filtered water daily – to supply in the lactation needs of baby.

4. If you are taking the above but the stress of a new baby and life in general is getting you down, you may want to add Mindset to your supplementing regimen . Mindset is 100% natural and safe for you and baby. Stress also makes it difficult for your body to produce enough milk. It supplies food to the brain, thus aids the body’s ability to regulate stress response, focus and sleeping patterns. Best taken away from your meals.

5. If you are doing everything I mentioned, but your milk supply is still struggling, try supplementing with Fenugreek capsules. This aids greatly in stimulating lactation. Avoid taking Eglonyl for lactation stimulation. Contrarily to your doctors advise, Eglonyl is a dangerous Schedule 5 mind-altering drug, that goes through your milk to baby and can adversely affect brain development.

6. If you have sore nipples, make sure baby latches correctly. Get baby to open wide and get the nipple as far into the mouth as possible. Apply a little Lansinoh ®, before and after feeding to your nipples. It’s 100% safe for babies. You may also want to use NUK nipple guards, which prevents clothing from irritating your (tender) nipple.

7. In the first few days of breastfeeding you may first have very little milk, but then the milk producing glands start functioning, resulting in the production of more milk than what baby is used to. This can possibly result in swollen breasts, which can really be very painful. The remedy for this is for baby to continue to feed (amidst the pain) and to put raw cabbage leaves inside your bra. This is an age old remedy, don’t scoff at it - it works. Keep changing the leaves with fresh ones every hour or so. If left untreated, the swollen breast can develop in to mastitis, which is inflammation of the breast tissue. For this we use Lymphomyosot drops. Use 20 drops every 30 minutes in acute cases or 10 drops 3 times a day if less severe. When there is full blown infection or inflammation it is wise to use a natural anti-biotic like Olive leaf (5 sprays every hour), Vitamin C (1000mg every hour) as well as a high dose Omega SLO (2 caps 3 times per day with meals). In addition use Traumeel S pills or drops and apply Traumeel S ointment to the breasts. You may also find great relief from comming into the store for a RIKTA cold laser treatment.

8. Stretch marks respond very well to Squaline. Apply a little to any stretch mark, wrinkle or sore nipple. You can safely use it as a personal lubricant.

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Hope this helps. Please ask if you have any other queries.

Strength and lots of love.

Linnie and Christo Lues.

Linnie has breast fed all seven her children, and is currently breastfeeding.

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