Never Give Up On Your Health
I was watching the show “America’s Got Talent” where two musicians played their introductory video before they were ready to perform. They shared their story of how they grew up in a Winnebago traveling with their father and learned to play instruments for something to do. Now that they had made it to the performances of America’s Got Talent they were trying to decide if they should follow their road to success or just stay home and be with their father.
These two grown young brothers (I’d guess in their 20’s) had a tear in their eye as they proclaimed that their father had cancer. While the son didn’t elaborate on his dad’s condition I got the feeling that he didn’t think his dad would be around too long and they had to make the decision of going on the road to stardom or staying home with their dad to spend his last days together. His dad looked perfectly healthy on the outside.
My immediate thoughts were how can you just write him off like that. Was it because they heard the dreaded “C” word and thought there was no hope? Could it be because the stats aren’t good from surgery, chemo and radiation? Did they likely just assume he was going to die because the doctors gave him a short prognosis?
This made me so sad. Why have you just given up on him, I thought. Why are you expecting the worse? People’s resolve is to just anticipate and accept the worse when they hear cancer or other serious diseases. They reside with the acceptance of worse case scenario or inevitable death.
Why can’t we be like the frog in the heron’s mouth whose hands are around the heron’s throat saying, “It won’t swallow me alive – I’m not giving up till it’s over, even if I get all choked up.”
Then when I saw the movie “God’s Not Dead” where the young actress told her boyfriend that her doctor said she has cancer and is going to die, my reaction this time was not sadness but anger. NO!
It ain’t over till it’s over!
I thought of all the people that have been stripped of hope by their doctors. In an instant the doctor’s authority has extreme dominion over one’s life and a fatal diagnosis can change “everything”. Yes, everything…
Can there be many tomorrows? Is what I do today important because suddenly my priorities have changed? Do I have any control over my life or my loved one’s? Is there any hope for a brighter tomorrow? Yes, yes, yes, yes!!!!
But it’s not their doctor’s fault, that’s what they’ve been trained to do.
People rely on their doctors, who have little nutritional training, so their only answer is to prescribe pharmaceuticals and procedures instead of successful natural healthy solutions. I am not saying not to listen to your doctor’s advice. But when it comes to chemo, radiation, and surgery, you should definitely get educated to see if there are other options for you and find out if natural methods will work better.
We all know a great deal about nutrition and health. But the science has been covered by harmful information and food industry propaganda. When I learned what conglomerates are doing to us I became radical about exposing the truth and science to prove that eating right and ridding your body of toxins and deficiencies could possibly save your life.
It’s my goal to empower you to make informed choices, eliminate confusion whenever possible, expose the science behind preventing and treating diseases, and redefine what we think of as good nutrition.
I don’t expect you to just take my word for it, nor should you believe everything you read. I don’t have all the health answers because I’m not a medical doctor but what I can offer are conclusions from other scientists and experts who have done the research, and the information from what my partner did to overcome his cancer and our own success.
I hope you enjoy this CompleteHealthyLife.com issue.
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One of the first sources of information that I recommend you read and one of the most comprehensive studies of nutrition every conducted is a book entitled “The China Study”.
Click on the book link to get your copy from Amazon.
There are over 750 references in the book that point the way to less cancer, less heart disease, fewer strokes, less obesity, less diabetes, less autoimmune diseases, less osteoporosis, less Alzheimer’s, less kidney stones and less blindness.
Some of the findings published in The China Study book show that:
- Dietary changes can enable diabetic patients to go off their medication
- Heart disease can be reversed with diet alone
- Breast cancer is related to levels of female hormones in the blood, which are determined by the food we eat
- Consuming dairy foods can increase the risk of prostate cancer
- Antioxidants, found in fruits and vegetables, are linked to better mental performance in old age
- Kidney stones can be prevented by a healthy diet
- Type 1 diabetes, one of the most devastating diseases that can befall a child, is convincingly linked to infant feeding practices.
The findings of authors, T. Colin Campbell, PHD and Thomas M. Campbell II, MD demonstrate that a good diet is the most powerful weapon we have against disease and sickness.
After their long career in research and policy making, they explain why people are so confused and common notions you have been told about food, health and disease are wrong. You deserve to know that:
- Synthetic chemicals in the environment and your food, are not the main cause of cancer
- The genes that you inherit from your parents are not the most important factors in determining whether you fall prey to any of the ten leading causes of death
- The hope that genetic research will eventually lead to drug cures for diseases ignores more powerful solutions that can be employed today
- Obsessively controlling your intake of any one nutrient, such as carbohydrates, fat, cholesterol or omega-3 fats, will not result in long-term health
- Vitamins and nutrient supplements do not give you long-term protection against disease
- Drugs and surgery don’t cure the diseases that kill most Americans
- Your doctor probably does not know what you need to do to be the healthiest you can be.
The authors of The China Study book go on to say that:
- America’s health is failing
- We spend more on health care than any other society
- 2/3 of Americans are overweight
- Over 15 million Americas have diabetes
- We fall prey to heart disease as often as we did thirty years ago
- The war on cancer has been a miserable failure
- ½ of Americans have a health problem that requires taking a prescription drug every week
- Over 100 million Americans have high cholesterol
- 1/3 of young people in America are overweight or at risk of it, are getting diabetes that used to be seen only in adults, and take more prescription drugs than before.
We Are What we Eat!
Have I wet your appetite for change and a more fulfilling life? It could be as easy as 1, 2, 3 – breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Low animal protein diets inhibit the initiation of cancer and dramatically block subsequent cancer growth. In fact, The China Study showed that dietary animal protein proved to be so powerful in its effect that they could turn on and off cancer growth simply by changing the level consumed. The study produced more than 8,000 statistically significant associations between various dietary factors and disease!
People who eat the most animal-based foods get the most chronic diseases. Even relatively small intakes of animal-based foods were associated with adverse effects. People who eat the most plant-based foods are the healthiest and tend to avoid chronic disease.
Check it Out!
I love to experiment with foods and created the following recipe which I think you will enjoy. Couscous is so versatile you can do anything with it and the pearl type is one of my favorites. At the risk of sounding like Forest Gump describing his endless varieties of shrimp concoctions, you can boil it, bake it, sauté it, put it in salads, serve it hot, cold, or lukewarm, and mix it with anything your imagination can conjure up.
Barbara’s Hearty Pearl Couscous | Serves 4+
Ingredients:
1 cup pearl couscous (cook as directed & drain)
3 tbsp lemon juice
½ cup cashews chopped (or other nuts)
4 tbsp olive oil
¼ to ½ sm onion chopped
½ red pepper chopped
1 cup cranberries soaked & chopped
½ yellow pepper chopped
1 cup sugar snaps chopped
1 red chili pepper deseeded and chopped
¼ cup sushi ginger chopped
Mix all of above together
Healthy Tip
Our bodies have wisdom how to fix disease. Just as it knows how to heal a cut or scratch, it knows what to do. We just need to purge from toxins that inhibit healing and give it the proper physical resources. Feed your mind good thoughts, laugh, enjoy nature and music. Feed your heart with love, forgiveness and a sense of purpose. Feed your soul with a trusting relationship with your Creator and give God gratitude. Feed your body good nutrition and supplements it needs to repair itself and you can recover from your disease.
Look Who’s Talking
“Wow Barbara, your story is truly compelling. Having lost several family members due to this terrible disease and seeing the effects from the poison of chemo, your story resonates with me. Like you, my faith in God is very strong. I know with your help and sharing the knowledge you’ve amassed over the years, and through your own personal struggle with your loved one, you will touch others like me and give hope where there is hopelessness.”Debbie Waters, Global Publishing, Inc. Marketing Director
Well done BJ…I am proud of you. I love the article my friend. I will have to try recipe.
I’m so glad you loved the article. I appreciate the feedback, thank you so much for taking the time to respond. I hope you enjoy the recipe as well as much as I do.
Barbara
Your very inspirational! Your right most people do give up. If I had to add any thing to the article it would be to say if your fighting a disease, in progress, this change has to be full, hard charging commitment, like you found out.
Yes, Katrinka, it is worth the commitment. I want to help people see the probabilities are there when they make the commitment. Thanks for your comments.