YOUR HEALTH
WHY ORGANIC
By Lalai Saebi, Innate Healing Support
Cancer incidence rate has increased from 1 person in 500 in 1900, to 1 person in 3 today! Why?
Organic whole foods have formed the basis of human diet through the ages. Only in the twentieth century did we begin to be subject to countless man-made chemicals in food and in the environment. One foundation for health is to eat foods that provide exactly the amount of energy required to keep the body in perfect balance.
Today just to disarm the alien and often toxic chemicals, a great deal of energy is wasted, some of which cannot be eliminated and so accumulates in body tissues. It is now impossible to avoid all of these substances, as there is nowhere on this planet that is not contaminated some way as a result of the by-products of our modern chemical age!
We can choose though, to eat organic foods whenever possible. By supporting the production of organic foods, not only we help our bodies today, but also minimize the damage of chemicals which poses a real threat to the future of humanity!
According to medical expert Dr. John Lee, breast cancer is occurring more frequently and earlier in women’s life than in the mid eighty’s. Mammograms show micro-calcifications in the breast that never have been picked up before. Dr. Lee believes the major cause of breast cancer is unopposed estrogen. There are many reasons for this condition, among them is the chemical “Xenoestrogen” from the environment, found in pesticides, that can damage breast tissue and lead to increased risk of cancer later in life.
The effect of Xenostrogen in men is through blocking the action of the hormone Testosterone and causing anti-androgenic symptoms ( similar to menopause in women ). Dr. Malcolm Carruthers, the world authority on testosterone research is convinced that andropause is connected to decrease in levels of free testosterone. To what extent the average intake of pesticide residue is contributing to decreasing of free testosterone in men, cannot be measured.
The amount of fruits and vegetables consumed by the average person in a year has the equivalent of up to 1 gallon of pesticides sprayed on it which according to professor William Rea the director of the Envol Health Center in Dallas, Texas, is linked to asthma, eczema, migraine irritable bowel syndrome, rhinitis and more. Washing produce with water has little effect on these residues, as most are formulated to resist being washed off by the rain. The only way to reduce your exposure to pesticides in your diet is choosing organic as often as you can.
Since 1950 over 3500 man-made chemicals have found their way into manufactured food through pesticides, antibiotics, hormone residues in staple foods such as grains and meat. Many of these chemicals are anti-nutrient meaning they stop nutrients from being absorbed and used in our body. Once the body’s threshold is exceeded, toxins accumulate in fat tissue bringing on muscle aches and fatigue, arthritis, and of course extra pounds to our weight.
Organic crops according to national standard set by the US Department of Agriculture must be produced without conventional pesticides, herbicides, synthetic fertilizers, bio engineering and soil ionizing radiations. Organically raised animals must be given organic food and kept free of growth hormones and antibiotics. Organic farm animals must have access to the outdoors including pastureland for grazing.
FRUITS AND VEGTABLES HIGHEST AND LOWEST IN PESTICIDES
Highest in pesticides:
Apples, Bell peppers
Celery, Cherries
Grapes (imported), Nectarines
Potatoes, Red raspberries
Spinach, Strawberries
Lowest in Pesticides
Asparagus, Avocados
Bananas, Blueberries
Broccoli, Cauliflower
Citrus, Grapes (California)
Kiwi, Mangos
Melons, Onions
Papaya, Pineapples
Peas (sweet)
Lalai Saebi, the founder and consultant of Innate Healing Support, has been researching alternative health, healing and nutrition for more than a decade.
CHILD-LIFE CRISIS TODAY
By Lalai Saebi, Innate Healing Support
Childhood should be a happy thing, a time to learn, to play, and to have fun. Yet the trends show that something rather unpleasant is happening to many children. Learning difficulties, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), autism, depression and worse are rapidly increasing. More children are having more problems learning, behaving appropriately and socializing.
According to a survey, a quarter of children often or always feel stressed. In the United States more than 8 million children are on Ritalin- a habit-forming chemical similar to cocaine.
Diagnosis of Autism more than tripled between 1987-1999, especially late-onset autism after second year of life. This strongly suggests that something new is triggering this epidemic, including diet, vaccination, digestive disorders –Crohn’s disease and Celiac disease.
Symptoms such as poor coordination, inability to concentrate, mood swings, inappropriate emotional reaction, fatigue, depression, digestive problems, writing and reading difficulties in varied degrees are very common. What all these have in common is the brain.
The brain is the most vulnerable organ of the body. Optimum nutrition during fetal development has a profound effect on the brain, learning, and behavior. Yet many of the most important nutrients for brain development -essential fats, vitamins and zinc- are commonly missing in the 21st junk food diet. These nutrients are also essential for digestive health that unfortunately have been replaced by high-sugar foods, highly processed fat, refined wheat and dairy products.
High-fructose corn syrup is twenty times sweeter than sucrose-white sugar- cheaper to make, and convenient for food manufacturers because it retains moisture and blends well with other ingredients,. The free fructose in corn syrup interferes with the heart’s use of minerals, depletes the ability of white blood cells to defend against infections, and raises cholesterol and triglyceride level-and we’re wondering why our children have low immune defence- plus the free fructose inhibits the hormone-insulin and leptin- that make us feel full, and triggers the hormone-ghrelin- that makes us feel hungry. Children do much better on diets free of corn syrup -most commercial sweet processed foods contain high-fructose corn syrup. These products include candy, soda, energy bars, sweetened yogurt, energy drinks (Gatorade), and super market baked desserts.
By school-age a child’s eating patterns and taste preferences are pretty much established. Children are able to voice their desires of what they want to eat. These choices unfortunately are often negatively influenced by the media and their peers.
The process which leads to modern-day nutritional diseases, such as heart disease, begins in childhood. American children eat too much fat and sugar and not enough dietary fiber, iron and calcium.
Growing children need plenty of energy and nutrient-dense foods. Since they have small stomachs and large energy needs, their meals need to be more frequent and regular than adult’s. They need to be encouraged to eat plenty of fresh (organic) fruits and vegetables that provide a rich source of essential vitamins and minerals. Fried, fatty and sugary foods, such as cookies, chocolate, candy bars, chips and most processed foods, provide a lot of calories and very few nutrients.-empty calories. A child’s nutritional needs are easily met when he is eating a healthy varied diet, very little junk food, and adequate calories.
THE SWITCH TO A WHOLESOME DIET
Children require wholesome foods, such as unrefined grains, beans, nuts, seeds, fruits and vegetables to maintain optimum health. As parents you need to provide them with a variety of fresh, organic, wholesome foods to help them grow into healthy adults. A child’s body relies on the right quantity and combination of nutrients for growth as well as physical and mental vitality. A deficiency of even one important nutrient can cause imbalances in the body, which can lead to serious diseases. Whole foods ensure health and proper development.
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
Fresh organic fruits and vegetables are an essential part of a healthy diet. 3 servings of fruit and 4 servings of vegetables is the minimum children should be eating. Fruits and vegetables are the ultimate whole foods because they provide important vitamins, minerals and enzymes as well as fiber to help maintain regularity. They contain active compounds such as anti-oxidants and phytochemicals, which play an important role in cancer prevention.
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By Lalai Saebi, Innate Healing Support
Alcohol is a saboteur because it hinders your body’s ability to absorb, process, use and store the nutrients found in food – plus it tends to edge out food in your diet.
Alcohol irritates the digestive tract in every one, making it more permeable to undigested food proteins, increasing the chances of an allergic reaction to anything.
Alcoholic beverages are essentially made of water, pure alcohol and sugar - no nutritional values, empty calories – so if you drink more than 1-2 drinks every day, those empty calories replace other nutrients in the diet. In addition alcohol has a direct toxic effect on the gastro-intestinal tract and pancreas. The result is that many of the vitamins, minerals and other nutrients extracted from food during digestion cannot be absorbed through the gastro-intestinal tract and into the bloodstream.
Alcohol is toxic to the liver as well. Once the liver is damaged, the body’s ability to properly use many vitamins and minerals is significantly reduced, and since damaged liver produces less bile, causes impaired absorption of fat-soluble vitamins - A, D, and E .
Research shows that alcohol affects the body’s natural anti-oxidant defense against free- radicals. It depletes the stores of anti-oxidants like vitamin C and E and increases the production of free-radicals as well.
Alcohol also impairs the body’s ability to convert beta-carotene to vitamin A. Vitamin A is needed to help you to reproduce, to grow new cells to fight infection, and to see at night. Taking vitamin A supplement has a very small therapeutic window and may also enhance the toxic effect s of alcohol.
Excess alcohol consumption damages the nervous system and shrinks the brain because of its direct and indirect effects on the brain. The part of the brain responsible for coordination and learning – cerebellum – seems to be especially vulnerable to alcohol through vitamin B1 deficiency. Unfortunately brain damage caused by thiamin B1 deficiency cannot be reversed.
Alcohol drinking causes both zinc and magnesium deficiencies that can be replaced by eating a well balanced diet and supplements – if you have kidney problem talk to your doctor before taking magnesium supplements.
Long-term alcohol consumption can decrease the density of bones by causing calcium and vitamin D deficiencies.
Since nutrient deficiencies in people who drink alcohol regularly can vary wildly from person to person, you need to have your nutrient status evaluated by your doctor or nutritional consultant.
Also remember the only comprehensive cure for alcohol deficiencies is abstinence. There is no point in popping vitamin pills or eating a balanced diet while you are still drinking every day. If you have been drinking regularly in excess of 5-10 years, you can consider yourself as a person at health risk. However if you stop drinking before the problems progressed too far, the liver damage maybe reversible once you are on a regular balanced diet and supplementation.
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By Lalai Saebi CNC
You may have heard the saying: “today you are either the one who makes a living out of cancer, or the one who dies from it”.
But fortunately there is a third category which would be the one who prevents; or reverses/wins cancer.
Cancer incidence rate has increased from 1 in 500 in 1900 to 1 in 3 today. As much as the pharmaceutical industry wants people to believe that cancer is inevitable and unpreventable, but there are cancer-free communities where people have a balance human diet with less stress and less toxic environment.
Here is some less heard information about cancer from nutritional point of view that you may be interested to know:
Cancer occurs when cells start to behave differently, growing, multiplying, and spreading. It is like a revolution in body, where a group of cells stop working for the good of the whole and run riot. This is a common occurrence and the body’s immune system isolates and destroys such offenders. However, in cancer the attack is so intense that the immune system is overcome and the damage spreads.
Yet it may surprise you that cancer is, a twentieth-century invention. The top five cancers- lung, breast, stomach, colorectal, and prostate- were basically unheard of before the beginning of the 20th century. The growth in the incidence of cancer parallels the industrialization and chemicalization of our world.
Conventional treatments see cancer very much as the enemy and cut it out, burn it out through radiation, or drug it out with chemotherapy, all of which weaken the body instead of removing the underlying cause of the cancer development.
Most cancers are primarily the result of changes that humans have made to the chemical environment – what we eat, drink, and breathe, and lifestyle factors, from oxidants in cigarettes to the tumor-promoter IGF-1 in cow’s milk- many of which are easily avoidable. In the space of two generations, we have invented ten million new chemicals and released thousands of them into the environment unwittingly.
Today’s diet is devoid of nutrients as a result of depleted soil, food refining and processing, which is now thought to be the greatest single contributor to cancer risk. By eating the right diet you can cut your risk of cancer by 40% says the World Cancer Research Fund. According to the British Cancer Research Campaign, “At least three out of four of all cancers are potentially preventable, but will only be avoided if the measures get through at a young age.” In the USA, according to a statement issued by sixty nine highly respected and scientific experts, “Over the last decade some five million Americans died of cancer and there is growing evidence that a substantial proportion of these deaths were avoidable.
At least 85% of cancers are associated with lifestyle factors, including diet, smoking, and drinking alcohol, drugs and stress. However of all risk factors diet is the greatest. The underlying cause in many types of cancer seems to be one of the three things:
- the free radical damage to the DNA of cells, triggering their altered behavior in smoking and radiation, while a good intake of antioxidant nutrients from fruit, vegetables, and also antioxidant supplements provides a measure of protection.
- Overexposure to hormone-disturbing chemicals in food and water. Eating a diet low in hormone-disturbing chemicals and high in phytoestrogens- in legume, citrus fruits, wheat, licorice, alfalfa, fennel, celery- is another important factor, especially for hormonal cancers such as breast and prostate.
- Poor methylation - methylation is a chemical reaction in body that controls both the synthesis and the repair of DNA- Our body can suffer from poor methylation due to B vitamins deficiencies.
In addition to the damage trigger, cancer is a chronic, metabolic deficiency disease that is exacerbated by poor immunity, general mineral depletion and lack of dietary elements. We must consume each day of organic raw fruits, deep green leafy vegetables and nuts that come with vital trace minerals, if we are to make our body a place where cancer cannot thrive.
