About a year ago, a relative was diagnosed with bowel cancer. He was told bluntly by his doctor he wouldn’t make next Christmas. With those words, and not being prepared to hear them, everything turned to blur.
After one course of poisonous chemotherapy and radiotherapy, the relative changed direction and undertook a more natural approach, cleansing his body and replacing usual unhealthy meals with foods from nature. While he’s not in the clear, he has a new lease on life and has, in effect, become his own doctor, managing his own body. He has taken it upon himself to do his own research. It’s now likely he will indeed see next Christmas. Probably the Christmas after that, too.
So, the question remains: what gives another person the right, doctor or otherwise, to tell another human being when their approximate date of death will be? When did we make it part of the health “care” system to strip away a person’s hope? When did Western doctors become psychics?
Read More Post a comment (0)Today is day three of my planned 7-day nutritional fast, which means loads of fresh fruit and veges smoothies (and water). It’s a great way to introduce yourself to fasting, because you’re still getting the fibre of the fruit and vegetables, which can be a lot more satisfying that just water or juice. I’m also a big believer of needing the whole fruit or vegetable to reap all of the nutritional benefits.
Fasting (or juice feasting) is a great way to give your digestion a break, while giving your body an opportunity to dump all built-up those toxins from your organs, including your skin. Plus it’s a fabulous way to ring in the new year—physically rejuvenated and mentally clear.
While I’m going with instinct and my own knowledge to put together a plan, there are plenty of books and websites that can help guide you on a fast/feast that suits you.
Here are some of my faves:
The Blending Book
JuiceFeasting.com
GreenSmoothieRevolution.com
Green For Life
GreenSmoothieGirl.com
GreenSmoothieBlog.com
How Green Smoothies Saved My Life
If you’re tempted to get blending and need a recipe, here’s my organic breakfast smoothie:
• 1 banana
• 3-4 silverbeet leaves
• Big handful of spinach
• 1 apple
• 1/2 small cucumber
• 2 teaspoons Kal’s Nutritional Yeast
• 1 teaspoon of Nutrex Hawaiian Spirulina
• Fresh parsley to taste
• Add water for desired consistency
Also check out Rhonda Lee’s 7 Ways to Make Green Smoothies on The Green Dove.
Hot tip: Be sure to “chew” each mouthful of your green smoothie, to ensure the digestive juices do their work. This allows the body to absorb all of the nutrients.
This month’s New Moon has passed and so have the toxins from my liver and gallbladder (okay, that may sound kinda gross, but bear with me).
I recently blogged about how important it is to cleanse between the full and new moons, so that’s what I did this month: armed with the how-to from Andreas Moritz’s The Amazing Liver and Gallbladder Flush. Without going into too much detail, the six days of drinking a litre of organic apple juice a day, before the the seventh day of the flush, were well worth the time invested.
I consider myself to be a very healthy gal, although my carefree 20s likely contributed to some of the toxins (ie stones) released during this all-important health-boosting cleanse. Also being around household cleaning chemicals, hairspray, dousing myself with the latest hip fragrance and eating animal products would have definitely added to my toxicity. Thank the lord those days are gone!
A day after the flush and I feel light, positive and have a mental clarity that wasn’t quite there before.
According to many religions and spiritual cultures, particularly Native Americans, Shamanism and Wicca, the New Moon represents new beginnings and is a great time to perform rituals and cleanses.
See my original post here.
Speaking of new moons, the actress who’s replacing Rachelle Lefevre (who played Victoria in the first two Twilight installments) is Bryce Dallas Howard (below). Bryce had been a vegan before switching to vegetarianism during pregnancy. She went vegan after watching the Joaquin Phoenix-narrated documentary, Earthlings.
The best time to do a cleanse, according to many holistic health experts, is between the full and new moons. So this month, that’s exactly what I’m doing — cleaning house.
Armed with Andreas Moritz’s The Amazing Liver and Gallbladder Flush, I’m on day two of drinking the required six litres of organic apple juice. That’s one litre a day before the seventh day of the actual flush. According to Moritz, cleansing the liver and gallbladder from gallstones is one of the most “important and powerful approaches to improve your health”.
Thanks to toxins and cholesterol from animal foods, pesticide and chemical-laden water, and deadly pharmaceuticals, the gallbladder can be packed with stones of all sizes, colours and shapes. Some, says Andreas, are even as big as 3cm wide and are literally as hard as rocks. It’s not uncommon for some people to release hundreds of stones with one cleanse—and that usually means there are more where they came from (which means keep on cleansing).
While I’ve been vegan for a couple of years, and have done juice cleanses and undergone colonic hydrotherapy, I have 30-odd years of bad eating and lifestyle habits to clean up after. The liver and gallbladder flush is just the next step in my natural health journey.
So what does the prescribed six litres of apple juice do? The malic acid in the juice softens the stones to enable them to pass easily through the bile ducts. It also has a strong cleansing effect.
Speaking of the apple, this amazing fruit that I’ve often taken for granted is really one of nature’s superfoods (as all wholefoods are in my opinion). Cut an apple in half to reveal a star, which is a mirror of the body’s star formation (think Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man – see below). This wholefood signature suggests that the humble apple benefits every part of the human body. Hence the saying, “an apple a day keeps the doctor away”.
Some of the known benefits from eating (raw) apples include: improved lung capacity, blocking diarrhea, prevention of constipation, cushioning the body’s joints and even slowing the aging process. Bite that, botox!
So this week, to prepare for the actual day of flushing (which will fall on the day of the new moon), I’m not eating any foods or drinks that are cold or chilled because they chill the liver and stop the cleanse from being effective. Andreas also suggests giving animal products the ol’ heave ho. No problem there. Also no overeating.
Rather than bore you all with a day-by-day account of drinking truckloads of apple juice, if you’re curious, check back later in the month to get the lowdown on how the cleanse went.
One of nature's incredible superfoods, the humble apple
