Diet and Eating - Choose Your Foods Like Your Life Depends on Them

For many months now I have been a subscriber to to free newsletter, Naturopathy Works by Dr. Colleen Huber, NMD.

I’ve enjoyed reading the different natural health topics she writes about. What caught my attention in the May issue is her discussion on food and a new book she has written, Choose Your Foods Like Your Life Depends On Them.

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Young Living has Blue Agave (item # 3221 & 3224), Stevia Extract (item # 3239) and JuvaSpice (item # 3279) in your favorite recipes yet you may want to start. The essential oils and JuvaSpice will add so much flavor. And Blue Agave is a perfect sugar/sweetener alternative, it has a low glycemic index which means you can have your cake and eat it too.

Young Living also has a Cookbook (item # 3947) filled with recipes for using Young Living Essential Oils in your cooking recipes.

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Read the Essential Oils User's Guide to see which Young Living oils can be used in cooking and/or as a supplement.

Remember, that all of the citrus essential oils, peppermint and spearmint can be used to wean off of junk juices and sodas. One drop in your “glass” of water or your “glass” water bottle (recycle your empty NingXia Red bottles for this) will help get undesirable beverages out of your life. Note: never add essential oils to a plastic, styrofoam or a waxed drinking cup, essential oils hate synthetics and petro-chemicals and will begin dissolving them on contact.

Young Living's NingXia Red is also an excellent choice to combat sugar cravings, among other things. Learn more in the NingXia Red booklet.

I have also read from a few different sources recently that chocolate cravings are due to a magnesium deficiency. Young Living's MegaCal (item # 3280) and Mineral Essence (item # 3222) would be good choices to help ward off those cravings.

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NOTE: any information found here refers solely to products from Young Living Essential Oils and is for educational purposes only. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent disease. We urge you to do the health related research necessary to learn what is right for you. Young Living uses only therapeutic grade oils. Perfume grade or poor quality oils may possibly be harmful due to unknown additives and poor plant or distillation conditions. US labeling for essential oils is governed by the Perfume Act, allowing labels to say “100%”pure essential oil” and by law contain only 5% of any grade oils. Know what you’re buying!

Excerpted from the chapter “Food as Medicine: We eat our way into our symptoms, and we can eat our way back out"

“Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food.” - Hippocrates

“We live at a strange crossroads in history. Over the last few decades, the human species has been hypnotized by the temptations offered by the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. The 1950’s ushered in the “better living through chemicals” age. And we believed, and we bought and swallowed and injected and are still consuming them in massive amounts, and, most recklessly, injecting such chemicals as ethylene glycol (antifreeze), aluminum and formaldehyde into our babies as part of vaccines, without any prior safety testing.

But now with massive chronic disease plaguing our most industrialized populations, autism closely following children’s shots, and more pathology coincident with concentrated chemicals, we are beginning to wake up from our long post-World War II slumber. Now begins the next era when synthetic chemicals are starting to be seen as, however useful in many applications, best kept at a distance from our bodies, our homes, public spaces and wilderness.

The old era of unthinking reliance on a synthetic existence is showing severe disadvantages, just as the urgency to forge new relationships with nature is becoming apparent. Plants and other whole foods are coming into their own new era as naturopathic physicians and other well-informed health practitioners rely on them for their central role in healing. Within our lifetimes, natural substances will eclipse pharmaceuticals in medical practice, as the general public awakens to its far superior healing capacity.

But the pharmaceutical industry will be the slowest to catch on, just as most physicians and druggists of the early 20th century refused to believe that absence of certain nutrients could bring on such horrible diseases as scurvy, pellagra and beriberi. Then as now, allopaths were eager to lay blame for these diseases on microbes, until . . . oops! limes cured the “limey” British sailors of their scurvy, and we saw that Vitamin B3 prevented pellagra, while Vitamin B1 prevented beriberi and Vitamin D prevented rickets. As usual, conventional medicine corrects itself long after the natural physicians are already healing patients. In fact, evidence now shows that even bubonic plague, which allopathy still attributes exclusively to bacteria known as Yersinia pestis, was more likely to strike those with low Vitamin C intakes and those who did not eat garlic.

What would possess a person to think that food could possibly be medicine? Our first clue is the structure of our intestines. Whatever comes into the mouth later travels through miles of efficient tubing that extracts certain molecules from the food we eat, then converts them to one common molecule, Acetyl Co-A, from which the building blocks of the body are then made: protein, glucose and (healthy-type) fats.

The intestines are great little machines, but not omnipotent. That is, they can convert food molecules to Acetyl Co-A, because food has familiar and malleable combinations of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen. But it cannot do that with bizarre substances that the body is unfamiliar with, such as petrochemical products and synthetic substances used in pharmaceuticals. The body has no experience with many of these substances, has little clue what to do with them, and often excretes them, which may explain why placebos so often equal or surpass drugs in clinical trials. More often, though, as the body tries to either detoxify or wall off the offending invader drug, it creates new metabolites, which have multiple pharmaceutical effects, some of which may be quite harmful.

Food, on the other hand, is right at home in the body, since our species has always processed it, and we have become quite efficient eating machines as a result. Therefore, we easily break down ingested protein to its component amino acids. These then in turn get rearranged into the proteins that our genes tell us to make, all of the busy construction that takes place in the womb, and for the rest of us: replacement of lost skin and membrane cells, slightly longer fingernails, hair, scabs over wounds, etc. Carbohydrates and dietary fat get broken down to Acetyl Co-A and rearranged to form the molecules our body needs to function, because this is how our bodies have been handling things for all of our existence as a species. How would the body be able to do that from a pharmaceutical? It can’t. It’s like trying to make your car run on orange juice…click here to continue reading

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