2019
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JOURNEY TO GOOD HEALTH
BY SHERYL MALIN - EDITED BY DAN MALIN
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In March winter is holding back and spring is
pulling forward. Something
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As some of you know Dan and I have been taking the new
products SOUL AND CORE. This is seed
based nutrition all organic and are cold pressed seeds to boost your immune
system, lower inflammation, pain and to detox your body. The key word here is
NUTRITION. We have been using them daily and see a big improvement in our
health as we have been drinking the pouches for a number of months. Time of
consistent use with these products is important unlike medicine which works
quickly. Thank You all who have given a 6-day trial. Dan’s cholesterol count went way down and his
blood pressure is now normal for his standards and his back pain has
lowered. I have felt more energy. RAIN gives
your body what you need in a more condensed, pure way than just about anything
in the world. Because every ingredient derives from seeds or nature, your body
can digest and utilize it faster and more effectively, allowing you to be the
best you. Rain International has made big changes within the last month, which
leads me into letting all of you to know that the website name has changed and
there are new products. The new one for
more information and to order any products is:
https://www.thejourneytogoodhealth.com/welcometotheseedrevolution and check for more information.
LIFESTYLE OR DIETING? Through my
teachings with the best of functional medicine doctors, I learned that its best
to not diet but to make a good lifestyle change in your nutrition. This gives you a regular balance in your
overall health.
Food is medicine. Bad food is bad medicine and will
make us sick. Good food is good medicine that can prevent, reverse, and even
cure disease. Take away the bad food, put in the good food and magic happens.
What if you could just treat the whole person with lifestyle
changes, upgrading the information given every day to your body through food?
Food is information carrying detailed instructions for every gene and every
cell in your body, helping them to renew, repair, and heal or to be harmed and
debilitated, depending on what you eat. What if you could send messages and
instructions to heal your cells and turn on healing genes? And what if, by some
simple changes in your lifestyle, you could start to get rid of most of your
chronic symptoms and diseases in just one week (or maybe two!)?
If you are constantly putting in information that is
making your body toxic, sick, and fat—hyper-processed industrial junk food,
sugar, flour, chemicals, additives, MSG, high fructose corn syrup, trans fats,
artificial sweeteners, inflammatory foods, or what I call anti-nutrients—it
acts like poison in the body. It inflames your gut and your cells leading to
whole-body inflammation that you experience as pain, allergies, headaches,
fatigue, and depression and that leads to weight gain, diabetes, cancer and
heart disease.
By getting the junk out, getting inflammatory foods
out, adding healing, detoxifying, anti-inflammatory foods—this has the power to
heal in a way that medication can’t and never will be able to. This is a lifestyle change and not some diet.
Are You Ready to Make a Healthy Lifestyle Change?
I have been preaching since I was diagnosed with
cancer that it all begins with the foods that we eat. We are never told that what we see on
commercials or in the supermarket that most are not good for us. This is why we end up with heart disease,
cancer or diabetes. I have been eating organic and healthier as part of my lifestyle
for the good, over eight years and do not sacrifice any food group, just
educated myself on substituting for the bad stuff. A good lifestyle is to stay
away from processed sugars and wheat for cancer feeds on these items.
To avoid ~ however in a later newsletter I will show
how you can eat items that are bad by making them good. You should eliminate
all processed foods especially refined sugars such as; chocolate, soda,
pastries, candy, doughnuts, and cookies.
This is important for managing of blood sugar as well as to help starve
cancer cells. Avoid artificial
sweeteners such as NutraSweet and Splenda. Xylitol is a healthy and safe
natural sweetener that can be used. NOTE ABOUT SUGARS: All processed sugar and grains are considered
harmful sugars to your bodies. To
maintain a healthier lifestyle this excludes all processed sugars and grains
from your list of foods to eat.
You also need to avoid gluten. Gluten free choices would include brown rice,
millet, oats, quinoa, buckwheat, amaranth, and tapioca. Eliminate damaged oils
such as vegetable oils as for corn, canola, and sunflower. Another healthier way is using organic
coconut oil, organic butter or Ghee, also use organic olive oil, avocado, nuts
and butters. Hemp nut butter would be an
excellent choice.
The food we eat is not just important, but what we
drink. Drink plenty of pure water
daily. It is best to sip throughout the
day, taking in about half your body weight in ounces per day. You may add some fresh organic squeezed lemon
to the water if desired. Avoid if you
can drinking from plastic water bottles as there are compounds in plastic that
can disrupt hormone function, look for a glass water bottle that you can use
regularly. You need to eliminate fatty, charred or grilled foods. This has been linked with a higher risk of
cancer.
If you consume meat, poultry and dairy products ~
select organic and or grass fed and hormone free products. These foods could contain residues of
estrogenic hormones that are given to animals in order to promote growth. As far as fish make sure it is wild.
OTHER
RECOMMENDATIONS for a healthier lifestyle Increase vegetables to 6-10 cups a
day. Vegetables provide the body with
good water, fiber, and vitamins & minerals.
This helps us to cope better with stresses and increases immune
function. Other benefits of increased
vegetable intake are increasing the PH within your body and decreases
inflammation.
Decrease your exposure to toxins whenever possible.
This is just as important as the food and water we drink ~ what we put on our
bodies. • Use only shampoos, body
lotion, skin care products that are free of parabens and added chemicals. • Avoid fumes from paint, cleaning solutions,
bug sprays, nail polish, etc. There are organic and natural ways to go about
using these products. • Do not drink
from plastic bottles or cups. Glass
would be best or paper cups. • Avoid
microwave ovens _ never stand in front of the oven while waiting for something
to cook as they all leak radiation.
Microwaves reduces all nutrients in food • Use only non-toxic laundry detergents and
cleaners
The next important topic is supplements.
SUPPLEMENTS we take but do not know the different types and how it can affect your life.
Vitamins: What are they and what do they do?
Reviewed by Debra Rose Wilson, PhD, MSN, RN, IBCLC,
AHN-BC, CHT
Vitamins are organic compounds that are needed in
small quantities to sustain life. Most vitamins need to come from food.
This is because the human body either does not produce
enough of them, or it does not produce any at all.
Each organism has different vitamin requirements. For
example, humans need to consume vitamin C, or ascorbic acid, but dogs do not.
Dogs can produce, or synthesize, enough vitamin C for their own needs, but
humans cannot.
People need to get most of their vitamin D from
exposure to sunlight, because it is not available in large enough quantities in
food. However, the human body can synthesize it when exposed to sunlight.
Different vitamins have different roles, and they are
needed in different quantities.
Fast facts on vitamins
Here are some key points about vitamins.
There are 13 known vitamins.
Vitamins are either water-soluble or fat-soluble.
Fat-soluble vitamins are easier for the body to store
than water-soluble.
Vitamins always contain carbon, so they are described
as "organic."
Food is the best source of vitamins, but some people
may be advised by a physician to use supplements.
What are vitamins?
A vitamin
is one of a group of organic substances that is present in minute amounts in
natural foodstuffs. Vitamins are essential to normal metabolism. If we do not
take enough of any kind of vitamin, certain medical conditions can result.
A vitamin is both:
an organic compound, which means it contains carbon an
essential nutrient that body cannot produce enough of and which it needs to get
from food.
Vitamins are
either fat-soluble or water-soluble.
Fat-soluble vitamins
Fat-soluble vitamins are stored in the fatty tissues
of the body and the liver. Vitamins A, D, E, and K are fat-soluble. These are
easier to store than water-soluble vitamins, and they can stay in the body as
reserves for days, and sometimes months.
Fat-soluble vitamins are absorbed through the
intestinal tract with the help of fats, or lipids.
Water-soluble vitamins
Water-soluble vitamins do not stay in the body for
long. The body cannot store them, and they are soon excreted in urine. Because
of this, water-soluble vitamins need to be replaced more often than fat-soluble
ones.
Vitamin C and all the B vitamins are water soluble.
Using Supplements to Help Fight Cancer. The main difference between chemotherapy and vitamin or herbal supplements
is that most chemotherapy is designed to kill cancer cells, while most
supplements are designed to strengthen the immune system so that it can then
remove cancer cells. The hope is that,
by creating an internal environment that is incredibly strong and healthy,
cancer cells will not be able to thrive.
Today’s fruits and vegetables contain much smaller
amounts of vitamins than they did a hundred years ago. This is due to pesticide use, a lack of trace
minerals in the soil, and the harvesting of fruits and vegetables long before
they are ripe in order to transport them across the country. Consider this staggering fact: today’s fruits
and vegetables have up to 40% FEWER VITAMINS and MINERALS than they did just 50
years ago. Given this widespread lack of
minerals and nutrients in the food supply, you can see why supplements may be
necessary for maintaining health in today’s world.
However, when it comes to the science, the jury’s
still out. Sadly, this is because many
herbal supplements cannot be patented, and therefore large pharmaceutical
companies have very little incentive to conduct research on them—because they
would not be able to make money off them.
Nevertheless, smaller studies have shown that various supplements do
indeed have cancer-fighting properties.
For example, numerous studies done on epigallocatechin (ECGC)—a compound
found in green tea—have found that it actively kills cancer cells, while other
studies have found that mushroom supplements such as “turkey tail” increase the
number of natural killer cells in cancer patients. Additional studies have shown that high doses
of vitamin C, high doses of turmeric spice, and daily doses of probiotics all
help to boost the immune system’s cancer-fighting capabilities.
FINALLY, QUAILITY AND STRENGTH OF SUPPLEMENTS. There has been a dramatic increase in the use of
nutritional supplements over the last several years, with many relying on these
alternatives as a means to prevent and treat disease. There is a common belief
held by the population that all supplements are created equal. This has led
some to seek the best value, not the best quality. A consumer should know that
the grade, form, purity, bioavailability and third-party verification all
contribute to the effectiveness of the product they're ingesting.
Nutritional supplements are typically available in
four different categories: pharmaceutical grade, medical grade, cosmetic or
nutritional grade, and feed or agricultural grade.
Pharmaceutical grade is the highest quality grade of
vitamins, meaning the purity, dissolution and absorption meet the highest
regulatory standard verified by an outside party. Pharmaceutical grade vitamins
may be available without a prescription, but they are typically only sold by
licensed health care practitioners.
Medical grade vitamins are also a high-grade vitamin, although they may not meet all of the standards of pharmaceutical grade vitamins. Prenatal vitamins typically fall into this category.
Cosmetic or nutritional grade supplements are typically sold in health
food stores. These supplements might not always be tested for absorption,
dissolution or purity. Additionally, these supplements do not always have the
same concentrations of active ingredients as what is listed on the label
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The best way to make sure you are purchasing a high-quality nutritional supplement is to buy a pharmaceutical or medical grade form. These are usually only sold or recommended by a licensed health care practitioner such as a doctor, nurse practitioner, compounding pharmacist, chiropractor or certified nutritionist. The manufacturers of pharmaceutical grade supplements know their high-quality products can have a profound effect on an individual’s health; therefore, they want a licensed health care practitioner monitoring the use of their product. If you don't know if the supplements you are purchasing are pharmaceutical grade, make sure the company is Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) certified and find out by whom they are certified. You may also want to make sure they perform laboratory analysis on their products, find out what kind of assays they perform on their products, and see if they do disintegration studies on their supplements. You may also want to see if the company performs human trials to ensure they are safe and effective. Seeking out a health care provider trained in integrative medicine can be a step in the right direction to help you through the process of finding a high-quality nutritional supplement that will meet your personal needs.
FINAL WORDS, I am not
a doctor nor a nutritionist; however, I am in the process to be. Through the
past eight years managing my cancer and keeping cancer free without surgery,
chemo and radiation my passion and knowledge has brought me to you. I have learned from the finest professionals
and functional physicians about lifestyle changes and have attended training
sessions and conventions with my medical tourism group. I’m a big believer of inspiration and
everything is possible. Be true to your
SOUL and keep your CORE healthy.
