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Posted on 11.25.05 by Peg McQ. @ 6:42 pm
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Posted on 11.22.05 by Christina Jones @ 9:16 am
You know, I hate the word supplements, but I guess that is just what they are.
 I went to the drugstore yesterday, actually on a search for probiotics which came up pretty fruitless, but did go ahead and get a couple of things. Naturally, my main intention was to get Vitamin C, and that is the one thing I walked out of the store without. I got a big bottle of Vitamin E instead–I think I was overwhelmed and got confused. Oh bother. Anyway, back to the task at hand. There are so many brands of vitamins, I wish there was a good trusty reference as to which are actually useful, but I guess time will tell. I would be thrilled to hear from any of you who know a lot more about these things than I do. What I don’t want is to be told that I have to spend a fortune to get a decent vitamin! I chose the mid-range brand, as I usually do in situations like this.
I also did the no no and chose flax oil in a capsule form rather than in the seed form. I thought that I would be much more likely to actually use it that way, I hope I will still reap the benefits. As I get more in tune with all of this, I will change to the seeds and grinding them myself, I imagine that they would be tasty in yogurt, and I know the fiber will be very beneficial.
Anybody else adding supplements to their diet this week?
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Posted on 11.22.05 by Denise @ 6:58 am
This is my favorite way to make salmon. I got the recipe from one of my sisters, but I’m not sure if she made it up or got it from someone else. Preheat oven to 350. Put salmon in a baking pan. Salt & pepper to taste. Squeeze the juice of one fresh lemon and one fresh orange onto the fish. Mix together honey & mustard and baste salmon with it. Bake until salmon is beginning to flake. At the end, turn the oven to broil for a few minutes. And that’s it! I hope you enjoy this simple recipe! Does anyone else have a recipe they’d like to share? Filed under: 8 Weeks To Optimum Health and Week 1 Comments: 1 Comment |
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Posted on 11.21.05 by Christina Jones @ 12:43 pm
I have a question, and wonder if anyone knows the answer. I know the downside of all of the artificial sweetners like NutriSweet and SweetnLow (besides the fact that they taste disgusting), but does anyone know any bad things about Splenda? I haven’t heard anything mainstream against it, but I am sure that there is. Dr. Weil answered a question about Splenda back in 2002, but I haven’t found any more current info from him on the topic. If anyone knows any, I would sure appreciate the information!
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Posted on 11.21.05 by Denise @ 11:24 am
In Dr. Andrew Weil’s “Eight Weeks to Optimum Health”, Week One outlines some concrete suggestions on things we can do to help our bodies get healthier. His first suggestion is to begin to pay attention to the ingredients used in the foods we eat. He recommends using olive oil and avoiding any products with partially hydrogenated oils in their ingredients. He also suggests not using artificial sweeteners or products with artificial food coloring in them. The first project he encourages us to do is to go through our food pantries to discard any oils that may be rancid and to plan to replace the contents of our pantries with the healthiest items available. This is a basic summary of the actions encouraged for the first week. I find the positive outlook that Dr. Weil brings to the idea of health and well-being to be like a breath of fresh air! I am looking forward to making these changes in my home (especially bringing home fresh flowers!) The only thing I find difficult is the suggestion about Vitamin C. I get heartburn from taking a lot of vitamins. Does anyone have any suggestions for me about this? If you have had this problem too and have found a solution, I would really appreciate hearing about it. Thanks! And good luck to everyone who is starting along with us today! Filed under: 8 Weeks To Optimum Health and Week 1 Comments: 1 Comment |
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Posted on 11.20.05 by Christina Jones @ 9:07 pm
Homeostasis is a state of equilibrium that is the aim for all living things. When a living thing is sick, the healing part of it bursts in to action, in an attempt to return things to normal. We have created drugs to help us achieve this quickly, but at what price? With almost every drug that helps you, it has a side effect that is harmful, even if we don’t recognize this effect immediately. Take the problem of antibiotic resistance for one thing. Even if there were no other harmful side effects of antibiotics, we have disrupted the genetics of bacteria, making them stronger and more difficult for our bodies to handle themselves. We did not see this effect when we were taking the antibiotics, but boy do we see it now. Filed under: 8 Weeks To Optimum Health and Part 1 The Capacity To Change Comments: None |
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Posted on 11.20.05 by Christina Jones @ 8:41 pm
Dr. Weil stresses in the introduction of this book, that he works with “the whole picture of health,” rather with just one area. He is interested in improving our health from through our minds, our bodies and our spirits. These three things really do make up the whole person. Take a minute to think about how you feel when each one of those things is out of whack individually. When seperating them, you can really see how very important each of them are to your wellbeing. Dr. Weil takes issue with the way western medicine seems to treat one problem at a time, instead of an overall wellness problem. Each function in our bodies rely on another function to perform, which does seem to make it nearly impossible to treat just one thing and repair it. Filed under: 8 Weeks To Optimum Health and Part 1 The Capacity To Change Comments: None |
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Posted on 11.18.05 by Christina Jones @ 8:09 am
I know I mentioned this somewhere else on the site recently, but I thought I would address it here, as it is something that Dr. Weil mentions– Is your doctor open to therapies other than conventional medicine? Personally, ours is not. I was admittedly a bit disappointed by this fact when I addressed it with her at my last appointment with her, last week. She was very quick to brush off any ideas other than those available by prescription, and was quick to advise me to be very careful. Not to say that it wasn’t good advice (to be careful), but it was a bit disappointing, especially when comparing her to my last doctor (in Tennessee) that is very interested in it. My mother is still going to our doctor in Tennessee, and she has relatively recently advised my mother to take things such as garlic and cinnamon, and to supplement with other vitamins, and has even taken her off of some of the medication that she had been taking prior to this (cholesterol drugs, ect). After all, most of our drugs have been derived from naturally occurring chemicals, haven’t they? Filed under: 8 Weeks To Optimum Health and Part 1 The Capacity To Change Comments: None |
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Posted on 11.15.05 by Christina Jones @ 1:58 pm
Dr. Weil’s group has been kind enough to offer our group trial memberships to his online Optimum Health group. I really don’t know the specifics of the trial, but I cannot find where one is offered anywhere else, so this might be an opportunity that you might like to explore (I know I am interested!). Anyway, I will be sending them the email addresses of our interested members on Monday morning (the start of studying week 1), so hurry and get registered if you would like to be a part of this! Filed under: 8 Weeks To Optimum Health Comments: 3 Comments |
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Posted on 11.15.05 by Christina Jones @ 1:44 pm
In the first chapter, Dr. Weil talks about motivation: “If you are motivated to seek better health, all that you need to achieve it is practical information (p.7).” I know that our battle with MRSA has given me that motivation, along with the realization that I am no longer 20 and immortal. Dr. Weil goes on to talk about how with the proper motivation that even something as strong as an addition to drugs can be beaten. I have been following a thread about 12-stepping in another group I belong to in the last couple of days, and between this book and that group, I have thought a lot about addiction lately. I have several addictions myself that I need to address–I am no doubt addicted to food, chocolate and (yes, I am admitting it as much as I hate to) smoking, and could probably come up with a few others if I really tried. I was very happy to read that Dr. Weil has seen success with people quitting smoking, and that he addresses the issue of how difficult it is to part company with an addiction that has become something of a security blanket in your life. Filed under: 8 Weeks To Optimum Health and Part 1 The Capacity To Change Comments: None |
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