7 of 2007
Well back in Heathrow airport after a quick trip back to South Africa to sort out a few issues.
One thing I am continually amazed at is how much abuse the human body can take.
I am reminded of this every time I fly and see how much alcohol and processed foods people consume.
But… I suppose a couple of cups of coffee or a cola or two and it somehow keeps you going.
Mark and I never suffer from jet-lag anymore and it is fascinating to see how some people take 2 weeks to get over traveling across different time zones.
The best rule of thumb for avoiding jet-lag is do not eat on planes and if possible try to avoid eating in airports unless it is fruit or freshly extracted fruit juices.
The reason for this is simple. Even though it may be breakfast time back home, it is actually the early hours of the morning at your destination. You need to get your digestive tract in tune with your destination as soon as possible and the best time to do that is immediately you board the plane. The other reason is not to eat on planes is that your body is under huge strain flying at over 900km an hour in a pressurized cabin with air-conditioning and limited space. So give your body a break and just fast. I promise you will not die not eating and the results are just so worth it.
Then, when you land make sure you spend as much time outdoors on that first day, yes even in overcast weather. At least go for a long walk and don’t wear any sunglasses. This is to help reset your pineal gland, which is what controls your day/night cycles. (plenty more on this in both “Take Control” and “Perfect Health” (USA only) and “The Natural Way”)
Then the only thing we drink is water and BarelyLife (dried barley grass juice) and we travel with the sachets that are now available and drink 1-2 of these every few hours or whenever we feel the need for more than just water.
On a typical 10 hour flight we will drink 2 sachets each when we depart and 1-2 when we wake up on the plane, then another 2 each when we land.
To date we have avoided all the tummy bugs, respiratory infections and flu that do the roads on flights.
It is one thing we always have on us.
Mark and I will be attending the Aim convention in Florida and I am particularly interested this year as the people that formulated the energy drink “Peak Endurance” will be there to explain why it is such an amazing product.
I have for years encouraged people to not drink the normal power and energy drinks on the market and rather drink grape-juice and this is covered in great detail in my book “Healthy Kids”. But when it comes to long distance training many people have found grape-juice, bananas and raisins not enough for the unnatural distances and times that they push their bodies. So, even many natural-health enthusiasts resort to drinking or eating unnatural substances. Peak Endurance from the Aim company, is possibly the best product I have seen ever in the field of energy drinks. It contains no harmful products and contains ATP, which is what your body needs to actually make energy. So I will give a full report back from the conference and follow this news letter up with the full details.
In the meantime, here is some feed-back from a few people that work closely with Marcel Viljoen, the natural health and exercise consultant in Johannesburg, South Africa that have been using it for the last 3-4 months…
During the short period that Peak Endurance has been available on a trial basis, we
have tried and tested it during a number of endurance events (8 km to 56 km ultra events), and the following points have come to the fore:
Runners recover faster after short as well as long distance running events (e.g. marathon events) with minimal muscular discomfort;
Upon consumption during races a distinct “boost” in energy can be noted;
Peak Endurance has been used with good effect during training runs lasting 2 to 4 hours.
Peak Endurance has been used as an in-between-meal snack in combination with organic smoothies with long-lasting energy effects.
Marcél
Fitness From Africa
+27 11 705-3068
082 675-6399
This last point is interesting as quite a few people have told me they are replacing their high sugar, caffeine energy drinks and coffee with “Peak Endurance” with great results. Certainly this is a much better option.
You can order Peak Endurance directly from Aim in South Africa, the UK, the USA and Australia, contacting any of the Natural Health consultants on www.mary-anns.com or Melissa on info@mary-anns.com
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Last month we interviewed a couple Jim and Merrily Bright in San Juan Capistrano as they shared with us how their health has improved dramatically since changing to the Natural Way program. Besides Jim losing 26 pounds of extra weight, both have increased energy levels and Merrily’s Platar Faciitis is a thing of the past and she can exercise once more.
We knock together a delicious meal with Alice again and I speak on the amazing benefit that exercise has on the hormonal system.
Order the DVD’s from Jason on dvd@mary-anns.com
Interesting info and success stories
Great News for someone on The Natural Way sailing through the menopause
Common Preservative in soft drink and margarine causing problems with DNA
Oranges help prevent heart disease
Flax helps prevent prostate problems
I have followed the Natural Way with great success for 8 years and have sailed through Menopause and so enjoy your newsletters .
Ann
Over the years many people following The Natural Way have found that a healthy woman goes through the menopause with no bad symptoms, she simply stops menstruating, yet another reason to do things naturally.
Warning: Soft Drinks May Seriously Harm You
You may want to think twice before you sip another soft drink: research reported in the UK's Independent newspaper says a common preservative used in fizzy drinks can switch off essential parts of DNA. The preservative may bring on premature aging and trigger diseases associated with old age.
The problem preservative is sodium benzoate, commonly used for many years by the $160 billion worldwide soft drink industry. Sodium benzoate, derived from benzoic acid, prevents mold in drinks like Coca-Cola, Oasis, Dr. Pepper, etc., and is also used in pickles and sauces.
Alarm bells have already been ringing about it, because it's been discovered that when it's mixed with vitamin C in soft drinks, it creates the carcinogenic substance benzene. Now UK Professor Peter Piper of Sheffield University has sounded an even louder alarm — his experiments show that benzoate damages DNA in the energy-producing mitochondria of cells.
"These chemicals have the ability to cause severe damage to DNA in the mitochondria to the point that they totally inactivate it: they knock it out altogether," Piper said. "The mitochondria consumes the oxygen to give you energy and if you damage it — as happens in a number of diseased states — then the cell starts to malfunction very seriously. And there is a whole array of diseases that are now being tied to damage to this DNA—Parkinson's and quite a lot of neuro-degenerative diseases, but above all the whole process of ageing."
The World Health Organization, the Food Standards Agency in the UK, and the US Food and Drug Administration all say that sodium benzoate is safe. Professor Piper, however, says that FDA tests are out of date.
"The food industry will say these compounds have been tested and they are completely safe," Piper said. "By the criteria of modern safety testing, the safety tests were inadequate. Like all things, safety testing moves forward and you can conduct a much more rigorous safety test than you could 50 years ago."
This is the same preservative found in all margarines and way back in 1991 I first mentioned that this preservative causes many problems including asthma and hyperactivity. Damaging the DNA was also mentioned back then and what is frightening is that in 16 years the food industry just ignores the research and continues to add this substances to many soft drinks consumed by children the world over. Unless the food or soda says preservative-free, it is not free of preservatives. Treat all processed foods and drinks with suspicion until otherwise proved
I drink Ceres fruit juices when I travel as it is available in the UK and USA and of course South Africa where it is made.
Margarine I avoid like the plague and always use extra virgin olive oil, Organic butter, virgin, coconut oil (Millbrook still makes the best in South Africa) and extra virgin oil blends like Millbrook superior blend.
Oranges May Fight Heart Disease
Eating an orange every day could lower your risk of developing heart disease. A study at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem found that chemicals called flavanones found in oranges, grapefruits, and other citrus fruits could prevent heart attacks and protect against cardiovascular disease.
Researchers found that flavanones reduced cholesterol levels by 20 to 25 percent in rats. In addition to reducing total cholesterol, they also reduced the levels of LDL (bad) cholesterol while raising the ratio of HDL (good) cholesterol.
Grapefruit has long been known to have an effect on cholesterol levels. It is the reason that doctors warn patients who take cholesterol-lowering drugs not to eat the fruit because it can alter the way the liver functions and increase the effect of the drugs.
Researchers suggested that people with high cholesterol try eating diets rich in citrus fruits before they resort to drugs such as statins to lower their cholesterol.
Yet again those God-made foods are resulting in God-made health. Always remember there is no drug that does not have at least 1 if not many side effects. Flavones are what the wine industry has been going on about for years; forget the wine as the alchol promote cancer, stick to flavones in fruit and vegetables, they only promote health and prevent all degenerative disease. Follow the five steps in by books to help you increase your fruit and veg intake with very little effort.
Then for those of you who have heard that flax (seed and or oil) causes prostate, here is the latest on some genuine research. Just in case you are confused, the runour about flax causing prostate cancer was started by the fish oil peddlers and in research they quote from is referring to Omega 3 found in processed foods such as commercial salad dressings and mayonnaises and also in red meat. There is no mention of flax. Unfortunately people are prone to manipulate and twist the facts to suite their own commercial interests. It is sad but true.
Flaxseed slowed the growth of prostate tumours in men, while ginseng helped relieve the fatigue that cancer patients often feel
Flaxseed slowed the growth of
prostate tumours in men, while ginseng helped relieve the fatigue that
cancer patients often feel, United States researchers reported on Saturday
in two of the first scientifically rigorous looks at alternative medicine.
The studies reflect doctors' efforts to explore the risks and benefits of
foods and supplements that are routinely taken by their patients with little
scientific proof that they help.
"Patients are taking these compounds but we need to know if they are doing
any good or any harm," said Doctor Bruce Cheson
of Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, who presented the findings
to a meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
In the flaxseed study, researchers at Duke University Medical Centre in
North Carolina and colleagues evaluated the seed's role as a food supplement
in 161 men who were scheduled to undergo surgery for prostate cancer.
"The growth rate was decreased in the men who got flaxseed," said Doctor
Nancy Davidson, an oncologist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore who
is president-elect of ASCO. "I think this is fascinating."
Flaxseed is rich in omega-3 fatty acids and lignans,
a fiber found on the seed coat.
"We were looking at flaxseed because of its unique nutrient profile," said
Wendy Demark-Wahnefried, a researcher in Duke's
School of Nursing.
In the study, half of the men added 30 grams of flaxseed daily to their
diets for about 30 days. And half of the flaxseed group also went on a
low-fat diet.
After the surgery, the researchers looked at the men's tumour cells to see
how quickly the cancer had multiplied.
The cancer cells in both the flaxseed groups grew about 30 to 40 percent
slower than the control group.
But Demark-Wahnefried is not ready to prescribe
flaxseed.
"It's a healthy food. It has a lot of vitamins and a lot of
fiber. But we can not
definitively say at this point you should take flaxseed because it is
protective against prostate cancer," she said, adding that flaxseed now
needs to be studied to see if it can prevent prostate cancer.
In the ginseng trial, Debra Barton of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester,
Minnesota, and colleagues tested three different doses of the herb on
patients with a variety of cancers who were expected to live at least six
months.
Twenty-five percent of patients taking a 1 000 mg dose and 27 percent of
patients taking a 2 000 mg dose said their fatigue symptoms were "moderately
better" or "much better."
Only 10 percent of those taking a 750 mg dose reported an improvement, which
was about the same as the placebo group.
Patients in the trial took Wisconsin ginseng from a single crop that was
tested for uniform potency. It was powdered and given in a capsule form.
"I wouldn't have predicted this, I have to admit," Davidson said in an
interview. "We might want to test this on a large scale." - Reuters
Aim makes the only water-soluble Gingo extract that I know of called Gingosense, my family have used this for the last 7-8 yeares when studying and writing exams. In fact you can email Jason my son-in-law and he can let you know how it has helped him with his accounting exams in the last 3 years. He can also let you know how you can order directly from Aim to get the best price. dvd@mary-anns.com
Thought for the week
Proverbs 16:33
The Lot is cast into the lap, but every decision by it is from the Lord