• You have showered at least 15,000 times . . . .so far,
• You have brushed your teeth 30,000 times . . . so far,
• You have washed your hands . . . on a regular basis.

Most people practice good hygiene.  It is the healthy thing to do and, it minimizes offending appearance and odors.

What About the Inside of Your Body?  Did you know: you have 9 square feet of skin on the outside of your body and 10,000 square feet on the inside?

 Consider this:  Could the very things that affect the cleanliness of the outside of your body affect the inside?

 Have you ever thought about cleansing the inside of your body?  – probably not. Of all the different possibilities, the cleansing of one’s intestines is probably at the bottom of most people’s lists – irritable bowel syndrome, constipation, gas, diverticulitis and colon cancer are simply not things that people think about – until it is too late.

What You Must Know About Regularity

There is an epidemic in America. People are buying laxatives, using prescription drugs and commercial fiber supplements — to no avail — constipation, gas and bloating, weight gain, fatigue, painful, burning stomach, skin problems and a whole host of complaints are taking the fun out of life.

The expression, “Death begins in the colon.” is right on point! Sadly, the debris and toxic wastes that are accumulating between visits to the bathroom produce lots of suffering because that “stuff” is slowly poisoning you from the inside—out.

Don’t believe it? “Autopsies often reveal colons that are plugged up to 80 percent with waste material.”  (Vegetarian Times, March, 1998.)  Most people end up enduring the complaints of constipation when they could put an end to their suffering very simply — become as clean inside as they are outside.

What you Must Know About Pollution

We are all exposed to thousands of toxins and chemicals everyday—–at work, in the home, in the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat. Plus, we are eating more sugar, preserved and processed foods and taking more medicine than ever before. Our bodies are being overwhelmed trying to eliminate all of the different things that we inhale and ingest every day. Unfortunately, most of this debris simply accumulates—in our cells, tissues, blood, organs (such as the colon, liver and brain), stored for an indefinite length of time, causing all kinds of complaints, leading toward a decline in your quality of life and your health.

What You Must Know About Parasites

Every living thing has at least one parasitethat lives inside or on it, and many, including humans, have far more. In fact, National Geographic, in a documentary called The Body Snatchers reports: “parasites have killed more humans than all the wars in history.”

Scientists are just beginning to appreciate how powerful these hidden inhabitants can be. Their research is pointing to a remarkable possibility: Parasites rule the world. Living undetected in the body, damaging tissue, robbing your body of valuable nutrients and burdening your body with the additional wastes produced by the parasite. Like it or not, you probably have one or more parasites living in your body, living undetected until there are more of them than your body can support. At that point, you will start paying the price extracted by parasites.

What You Must Know About Food

Processing robs food of it’s nutritional value and the chemicals used to preserve foods lead to poor digestion causing a toxic build-up of sludge in the intestines and on the intestinal wall, including the colon.

This build up can slow digestion, block nutritional uptake and, because the sludge is waste material, produce toxins that pour into your blood stream and are distributed throughout the entire body.

Are You Clean – On the Inside?

The answer to the question: “Are you clean inside?” is …  “Probably not.” and, the combination of environmental toxins, an unhealthy diet, internal waste and parasites poses a threat to your health.  

If your next question is:  “Will cleansing help me?“, the answer is a resounding YES!   The environment, the food we eat and the way we live virtually guarantees that everyone needs to freshen up their body.  And, feel better because they did.

The threats to your health are: environmental toxins, an unhealthy diet, internal waste and parasites.  “The secret” to great health can be described in these words:  Cleanse the Inside of Your Body.

Here’s a Quick Overview for Cleansing and Detoxing Your Body

1. Sweep away the barriers that are dragging you down.  Cleanse the colon and digestive tract to clear away the toxic plaque, debris and parasites. Plus, “cleaning up that mess” helps detoxify your liver, blood, brain, tissues—basically the first step will purify your whole body
2. Restore and balance the intestinal tract using digestive enzymes, to help breakdown food and friendly microbes to balance digestion, support the immune system that protects you and, along with enzymes, strengthens the body and supports the elimination of wastes thoroughly and often.
3. Support the body’s ability to cleanse itself with diet and nutraceutical supplements to protect your new lease on life.
4. Address parasites twice each year— spring and fall, once your body is balanced.

Most detoxification experts feel that a one or two-week program is simply not sufficient, especially when you consider that it took years or even decades to accumulate all the parasites, waste and toxins in the colon and in other parts of the body.

A more realistic approach takes at least 30 days or even longer, depending on the level of infestation and toxicity in one’s body.  There are 3 factors to consider:

1. In many situations, depending on the age and lifestyle, targeting specific areas for cleansing is enough
2. If the the debris has accumulated over a longer period of time, a thorough whole body cleansing is in order.
3. If the situation is manifesting symptoms, a more direct approach for restoring the internal hygiene of your body, like the NURPO Radiant Health Plan™, is in order.  (The Radiant Health Plan™, developed by NUPRO, is natural systems that is thorough—yet gentle.  This two step program (each lasting 30 days) offers you a gentle, comprehensive, thorough, all-natural cleansing and detoxification.)

Once you complete cleansing and restoring the balance in your body, you should consider establishing a long term strategy to protect your new lease on life.  (NUPRO Fundamental Nutrition and Special Needs nutraceutical supplements are a trusted by Professionals, effective and an affordable choice to help promote and maintain your health – naturally.

Dr. Paul Bragg is a pioneer of natural medicine and author of dozens of successful books who writes: “The secret to great health can be described in these words:  Cleanse the Inside of Your Body!”.

The question is:  “Do you want great health?“  If so, here’s the tools you need

 

When I saw the commercial, it triggered a memory of my grandmother.  Her favorite saying was “You are what you eat.”  When I was little, she applied this phrase when she was cooking, tending her garden or on the occasion when she scorned me for over indulging myself with foods she deemed unhealthy.

Of course, as a child, I perceived these constant reminders as harping and, after 60 years, I can still hear her admonitions.  Even today, each time I consider an indiscretion, I hear her voice asking me “Do you really think that’s a good idea?”

Did you have a Grandmother like mine?

I’m grateful for mine.  She didn’t care for white bread.  She would tell me:  “The whiter the bread, the shorter your life.” Even though we milked cows, she insisted we moderate eating cheese, butter and drinking milk to keep our lungs clear.  When I was a teenager, she attributed any complexion issues to “too much milk.”  She insisted that sugar would rot my teeth.   Kids, who were heavy, which was rare, are “eating too many sweets and drinking too much milk”, according to Grandmother.  Usually, she would finish this observation with “… that mother should know better!”

Grandmother spoke with a voice from the 1920’s.

She was versed in growing, selecting and preparing fresh food.  She was very careful to avoid accidents when working, a real stickler about sanitation and fluent in the ways of self-care, because Physicians were a long way away and expensive.  She practiced and taught me the virtues of healthy life style choices:  healthy diet, physical work and play, rest and sleep; that served her well into old age, and now me, for the past 50 years.

How Times Have Changed

Take out, fast food and microwaved manufactured food is today’s bill of fare.  Gyms and organized recreation are substituting physical work and play. Energy drinks wake people up in the morning and sleeping pills put them to sleep at night.  Physicians are readily accessible with insurance companies paying the bills.

Researchers are warning that “the 50 somethings” will suffer longer and die sooner than their parents – their children more so.

Don’t Worry, Be Happy

Perhaps the science fiction Novelists, who believe, “If we can send a man to the moon … .”,  have it right – or not.

Could You Do Better?

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The NUPRO personnel are busy planning their family time, but before we started, we finished the training outline for our affiliated Natural Health Consultants (NHC).

By way of background: NUPRO was conceived and organized, almost 20 years ago, to offer nutraceutical supplements (combinations of natural ingredients, one complementing another, that historical use and/or scientific evidence has shown to be beneficial for human wellness) as an alternative to single ingredient supplements and “miracle pill” claims that disappoint so many people.

Since then, we have progressed to include natural nutraceutical systems (combinations of nutraceutical supplements that complement one another to expedite the health objective). 

The NUPRO nutraceutical supplements and systems have become the cornerstone of professional tactics and strategies to help people promote and maintain health and healing.  The systems, developed in practice, augment the outcome and experience of natural health and healing.

I thought you might enjoy reading the training paper.  It is a concise, practical approach for maintaining and promoting healing – naturally.

Rather than posting the paper at Americanutra.com, we elected to provide you a link to the Natrual Health Consultant Library at the NUPRO Corporate site.  The paper‘s title is:  How to Become the Master of Your Health.   Your link to How to Become Master of Your Health is here.

We hope you enjoy reading it and that you keep it in your favorites for future reference. 

Americanutra reaches many people around the world, with many different beliefs and holidays, if you celebrate Christmas, we would like to extend our tidings for a Merry Christmas and a Happy, Prosperous New Year.

 

The first time we read the term, we were researching this article.  On the site, Center for Science in the Public Interest, the publishers proclaim:  “Shopping was easy when most food came from farms. Now, factory-made foods have made chemical additives a significant part of our diet.”

In previous articles, we discussed the Balanced Diet:  what it is, how it affects your health, your heath care and the fact that the people are consuming a “Balanced Diet” is  an illusion.  The publishers at the Center for Science in the Public interest drive the point home on their site.

To start the analysis, and If you are interested, here is a listing, from the FDA, of all the additives (3,000 in all) the FDA knows are in the NEW Standard American Diet: Chemcuisine.

The following analysis is a synopsis of our research on the subject of what most people, and their children, are consuming each day.  

Processed, Junk, and Fake Foods

Processed food is made from real food that has been put through devitalizing chemical processes and is infused with chemicals and preservatives. Beef jerky, canned tea, jam, hot dogs, and low-fat yogurt with sugar or aspartame are a few examples of processed food.

Junk foods contain very little real food. They’re made of devitalized processed food, hydrogenated fats, chemicals, and preservatives, and include anything made with refined white flour. Canned breakfast drinks, cold/sugary cereals, doughnuts, drive-through foods, and soda are examples of junk foods.

Fake foods are made primarily of chemicals, and often contain gums and sugar fillers. Examples include bacon bits, bottled salad dressing, dehydrated soups, and instant coffee.

The Energy Output Exceeds Nutritional Input.  These non-foods have one thing in common; it costs your body a great deal more to digest, absorb, and eliminate them than they offer your body in nutritional value – an extremely poor return on your investment that leaves your body sluggish and depleted.

Toxins, Poisons, Processed Food – And The Body

Our ancestors preserved foods naturally, using salt, fermentation, and sun drying. Food processing has evolved away from these simple practices into more complicated and dubious methods.

Today, food companies use nearly three thousand known additives and chemicals to process our food. Many of them can have a devastating effect on our health.

It is important to note that additives and preservatives cannot always be painted with a negative brush. The addition of vitamins to bread and milk has helped to stamp out diseases such as pellagra and rickets.

Unfortunately, the good intentions that characterized the processed food industry during the early days have now de-evolved to finding ways to cheaply process food and manipulate buyers, regardless of the detrimental affects on the health of Americans.

Today, many additives and preservatives are harmful toxic chemicals that are as problematic as the decay they are used to prevent.

Preservatives

 Perservatives are a type of additive used to help stop food from spoiling.

Nitrates and nitrites are used to preserve meats such as ham and bacon, but are known to cause asthma, nausea, vomiting, and headaches in some people in addition to allergic reactions.

The same is true for sulfites (sulfur dioxide, metabisulfites, and others, which are commonly used to prevent fungal spoilage, as well as the browning of peeled fruits and vegetables.

Sodium nitrite in some foods is capable of being converted to nitrous acid when ingested by humans. While animal testing showed that nitrous acid caused high rates of cancer, it is still in use.

Sulfur dioxide is a toxin used in dried fruits and molasses as well as to prevent brown spots on peeled fresh foods such as potatoes and apples. Sulfur dioxide bleaches out rot, hiding inferior fruits and vegetables. In the process, it destroys the vitamin B contained in produce.

Antioxidants

While antioxidants such as alpha-carotene are recommended by health specialists to prevent premature aging, some of the antioxidants used as food preservatives may be unhealthy. Contained in nearly every processed food on the market, antioxidants prevent fatty foods from spoiling when exposed to oxygen.

For example, BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene) and BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole) are two of the most widely used, yet controversial of all antioxidants. So alarming were the results of BHT and BHA in animal testing, that a number of countries have severely restricted their use.

Some people have difficulty metabolizing these chemicals, which is thought to result in health and behavioral problems, and hyperactivity. They cause allergic reactions, may also contribute to the development of tumors and cancer, as well as be toxic to the nervous system and liver.

In spite of these findings, the use of BHT and BHA has increased, rather than decreased, in the U.S.A.

Coloring

Each year, the American food industry uses three thousand tons of food color. Many coloring agents are derived from coal tar, and nearly all coloring is synthetic. Norway has a total ban on all products containing coal tar.

Though some artificial food dyes have been banned because they are believed to cause cancer, most dyes used today are of the artificial variety. They are also linked to allergies, asthmas, and hyperactivity.

The long list of foods and beverages in which color is altered includes butter, margarine, the skins of oranges and potatoes, popcorn, maraschino cherries, hot dogs, jellies, jellybeans, carbonated beverages, and canned strawberries and peas.

Even the chicken feed on large-scale egg farms is colored so that chickens will lay golden-yolk eggs similar to those laid by free-range chickens.

Sweeteners

Most processed foods contain sweeteners, many of which are artificial sugar substitutes containing no natural sugars, such as saccharine and aspartame.

Artificial sweeteners are linked to behavioral problems, hyperactivity, and allergies. Because saccharin was shown to increase the incidence of bladder cancer in animal testing, all foods containing this sugar substitute are required to carry a warning label.

Emulsifiers, Stabilizers, and Thickeners

These additives alter the texture of foods. Emulsifiers, for example, prevent ingredients from separating into unappealing globs in food such as mayonnaise and ice cream.

A first cousin to anti-freeze, propylene glycol is a synthetic solvent used as an emulsifier in foods. Although it is recognized as toxic to the skin and other senses, and is considered a neurological toxicant, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has deemed it generally recognized as safe (GRAS).

Flavorings

The most common food additive, flavorings – of which there are over 2000 in use – may be natural or artificial, and are usually comprised of a large number of chemicals.

Artificial flavors are linked to allergic and behavioral reactions, yet these ingredients are not required to be listed in detail as they’re generally recognized as safe.

MSG (monosodium glutamate) is a common flavor enhancer. Found to cause damage in laboratory mice, it has been banned from use in baby foods, but is still used in numerous others. It causes common allergic and behavioral reactions including headaches, dizziness, chest pains, depression, and mood swings, and is also a possible neurotoxin.

Refining

Refined flour has had the brown husk of the grain stripped away, leaving the white, refined starch that is found in white bread, white rice, pasta, cookies, and numerous other junk foods.

Without the fibrous husk, refined starches are broken down quickly into sugar and absorbed immediately into the bloodstream causing glucose levels to rise, and increasing the risk of obesity, diabetes and a host of other “not so nice” health complaints.

In contrast, whole grains – such as whole grain bread and cereals, brown rice, and barley – retain the bran surrounding the starch, so they’re absorbed more slowly into the bloodstream than refined starches. This slows sugar absorption from the intestine, and reduces the risk of consuming refined food.

Refining Destroys and Devitalizes Most of Foods’ Goodness

Healthy unsaturated fatty acids – high in food value – are lost during the milling process. Half the vitamin E is destroyed when the wheat germ and bran are removed. Refining wheat into white flour removes between 50 and 93 percent of wheat’s magnesium, zinc, chromium, manganese, and cobalt.²

Additionally, approximately 50 percent of calcium, 70 percent of phosphorus, 80 percent of iron, 50 percent of potassium, 65 percent of copper, 80 percent of thiamin, 60 percent of riboflavin, 75 percent of niacin, 50 percent of pantothenic acid, and about 50 percent of pyridoxine is lost.³

Refining sugar cane into white sugar depletes it of 99 percent of its magnesium and 93 percent of its chromium. Polishing rice removes 75 percent of its zinc and chromium.  Refined table salt has had most of the trace minerals removed during processing. It contains no sodium chloride, sugar as filler, and may even contain aluminum.⁵

Bleaching

Part of the process wheat undergoes to become the white flour in popular baked goods involves bleaching. Various chemical bleaching agents are used including oxide of nitrogen, chlorine, chloride, nitrosyl, and benzoyl peroxide mixed with a variety of chemical salts.

Chloride oxide – which catalyzes a chemical reaction that destroys beta cells in the pancreas is now being linked to diabetes.  This toxic effect is common scientific knowledge in the research community. In spite of this, the FDA still allows companies to use chloride oxide in processed food.

A Healthier Lifestyle

Eradicating every guilty pleasure in life is not the end goal here, nor is it a particularly realistic approach to making changes because everyone enjoys the occasional cheeseburger, order of fries, or bag of chips.

But if you understand the consequences of making what ought to be an occasional treat into the mainstay of your diet, you can begin to make wise choices about how many of these things you are willing to eat.

When it comes to avoiding many of the questionable – and possibly deadly – additives contained in processed foods, you’re only human after all so, taking baby steps toward change is usually the best approach.

If you can accomplish just one of these 10 steps, you’re moving in the right direction.

Try implementing one change a month …

1. As a general rule, if you don’t recognize – or can’t pronounce – the words on a label, don’t buy it, or eat it. Instead choose the real thing!

2. Avoid products containing

• Nitrates and nitrites (including sodium nitrite)
• Sulfites (including metabisulfites)
• Sulfur dioxide
• Benzoic acid (aka sodium benzoate)
• BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene)
• BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole)
• Coloring
• Coal tar
• Propylene glycol
• MSG (monosodium glutamate)
• Refined or bleached flour (i.e. whitened using chloride oxide)

3. Don’t eat partially hydrogenated or hydrogenated trans fats

4. Don’t eat products containing sugar substitutes such as saccharine and aspartame.

5. Avoid products with a long shelf life – the better they do on the shelf, the worse they are for your body.

6. Avoid products that have been “enriched“. They have been completely devitalized during processing.

7. Avoid food that has been genetically modified or engineered. Nearly all processed food contains GMOs.

8. Avoid products made with ingredients euphemistically described as “natural flavoring” or “natural coloring.”

9. Avoid products with added sugar – watch for words with “-ose” endings, such as fructose.

10. Incorporate a high quality multi-vitamin into your health regimen.

If you’ve had a history of eating products high in sugar and are concerned about diabetes, incorporate disease-fighting foods such as garlic, onion and quality Aloe vera juice into your diet. Natural phytonutrient supplements can also protect your body from the harmful effects of eating refined products that have been bleached with chloride oxide.

As you begin to eliminate processed food from your diet, and start to enjoy eating real food that has not been processed to death, you will be on your way to optimizing your health, making an investment in your body’s future and, ultimately, feeling better.

Processing Food Facts

In addition to the more than three thousand chemicals and additives in our food, preserving processes have changed beyond recognition from the simple use of vinegar, salt, and sunshine. Many processed foods are stripped bare, rendering them of little or no nutritional value.

Worse, foods are deliberately tampered with to create the desire for more. And the health effects of certain processing methods – such as the very controversial irradiation – are not yet known.

Irradiation

Irradiation is the use of x-rays or gamma radiation on food to kill bacteria mold, viruses and parasites. Unfortunately, its effects are also harmful to test animals. Those fed a diet of irradiated wheat developed increased numbers of cells with chromosome abnormalities. As well, there were unexplained stillbirths in the offspring of test rats.

So unpleasant is the mere sound of the word “irradiation” that euphemisms such as “Cold Pasteurization” and “Picowaved For Your Protection” are being used on labels because food companies fear that using the term “irradiation” may hurt sales.

Junk Food

Junk food – high in fat and sugar – is one of the leading causes for the soaring number of cases of type 2 diabetes, obesity, heart disease, and tooth decay. It is also linked to hypoglycemia and yeast overgrowth.

Did you know that cravings for processed foods are initiated by eating processed food? It’s a vicious, addictive cycle.

Food scientists know that it is necessary for certain nutrients to be present in the blood stream in order to feel full. While it is not fully understood how this process works, food companies know enough to use this knowledge to manipulate consumers into eating more by subtracting various nutrients, and adding others such as fat, sugar, and salt.

This manipulation creates a desire for processed foods – one that can never be satisfied – no matter how much of it you consume.

Natural Flavoring

“Natural flavoring” can be just about anything, from the cells of yeast extract and nucleic acid from cell chromosomes, to waste bi-products from cattle. Some reports suggest that the ingredients in so-called “natural colors” have been known to contain products as unlikely as monkey intestines; others note that some “artificial flavors” are comprised of ingredients as unappealing as minced cat.

How is it possible to determine exactly what “flavorings” are comprised of when the list of items from which they are concocted often includes a long ramble of unrecognizable chemicals?

Here is an example from the ingredient list for the strawberry flavoring in one popular fast food outlet’s strawberry milk shake.

It contains:  Amyl acetate, Amyl butyrate, Amyl valerate, Anethol, Anisyl formate, Benzyl acetate, Benzyl isobutyrate, Butyric acid, Cinnamyl isobutyrate, Cinnamyl valerate, Cognac essential oil, Diacetyl, Dipropyl ketone, Ethyl butyrate, Ethyl cinnamate, Ethyl heptanoate, Ethyl lactate, Ethyl methylphenylglycidate, Ethyl Nitrate, Ethyl propionate, Ethyl valerbate, Heliotropin, Hydroxyphrenyl-2butanone (10% solution in alcohol), A-Ionone, Isobutyl anthranilate, Isobutyl butrate, Lemon essential oil, Maltol, 4-Methylacetophenone, Methyl anthranilate, Methyl benzoate, Methyl cinnamate, Methyl heptine carbonate, Methyl naphthyl ketone, Methyl salicylate, Mint essential oil, Neroli essential oil, Nerolin, Neryl isobutyrate, Orris butter, Phenethyl alcohol, Rose, Rum ether, G-Undecalactone, Vanillin, Solvent!

And this is just the stuff in the flavoring.

 Do you want to know what’s in the “milk” part of this so-called milk shake? 

It contains:  Milk fat and nonfat milk, Sugar, Sweet whey, High-fructose corn syrup, Guar gum, Monoglycerides and diglycerides, Cellulose gum, Sodium phosphate, Carrageenan, Citric acid, E129, Artificial strawberry flavor.

MMM, MMMM!  yummy and so good for you – NOT!

Packaging

There are also concerns regarding the materials used to coat and package foods.³ The protective wax on produce such as cucumbers, peppers, and apples may trigger allergies, and can contain pesticides, fungicide sprays, or animal byproducts. Further, the plastic (vinyl chloride) some food is wrapped in is considered carcinogenic, and has been linked to immune reactions and lung shock.

Dioxin

A by-product of whitening, especially of food containers, Dioxin has become a health concern. It has been reported, for example, that certain ice creams contain high levels of dioxins, reportedly leaked into the product through the whitening used in its containers.

A known carcinogen, dioxin is associated with genetic and reproductive defects as well as learning disabilities.⁴ Dioxin exposure is a possible cause of endometriosis – a painful condition that can result in fertility problems and/or hysterectomy, as well as chronic pelvic pain and other conditions.

Conclusion

After reading this, one could conclude that the situation is hopeless.

Quite the opposite is true – because knowledge is power.  Simply use this knowledge to make different choices. 

 It makes good sense to pay attention to the food you are buying, especially if it has been processed. One thing is for certain – most of these added ingredients have nothing to do with nutrition and everything to do with increasing food sales by keeping addicted, depleted consumers coming back for more.

Besides adequate rest and moderate exercise, the fundamental nutritional thresholds must be consumed, if you have any expectation for staying healthy.  Your body needs copious amounts of: (in descending order) clean water, protein from vegetables with a limited quantity from animals, minerals, carbohydrates from whole grain, healthy fat from fish and a smattering of vitamins to stay healthy.  You can choose to consume them or take fundamental supplements to fill the gaps in your diet.

If you are experiences any of the likely complaints associated with failing to meet these thresholds, you may want to consider choosing supplements help you address your specific needs to expedite your restoration.

We’re all in this together – I’m pulling for you. (Sorry Red Green, I left out the attribution)

Notes:
1. Hanley, J.L., M.D. and Deville, N., Tired of Being Tired, Berkley Publishing Group, NY, 2001. (p. 66)
2. Wilson, Lawrence, M.D., F.I.C.B., Why Take Nutritional Supplements, article on www.drlwilson.com.
3. Hull, Janet, M.D., Bleaching agent in flour linked to diabetes, from The Idaho Observer, July 2005, cited on www.detoxprogram.net.
4. Wilson, Lawrence, M.D., F.I.C.B., Why Take Nutritional Supplements, article on www.drlwilson.com.
5. Hanley, J.L., M.D. and Deville, N., Tired of Being Tired, Berkley Publishing Group, NY, 2001. (p. 220)
6. Hull, Janet, M.D., Bleaching agent in flour linked to diabetes, from The Idaho Observer, July 2005, cited on www.detoxprogram.net.
7. Chek, Paul, excerpted from the CD/Workbook Program: You Are What You Eat! at www.chekinstitute.com.
8. The New York Nerd: Eat Fast, Die Young, April 24, 2006, at www.nynerd.com.
9. Hass, Elson M., M.D., Food Additives and Human Health, excerpted from Staying Healthy Shopper’s Guide: Feed Your Family Safely, cited on www.healthychild.com.
10. Hass, Elson M., M.D., Food Additives and Human Health, excerpted from Staying Healthy Shopper’s Guide: Feed Your Family Safely, cited on www.healthychild.com.

 

Could I have become a Luddite on the subject?

Could my appreciation for the cause and affect, for declining or failing health, and associated natural remedies have so colored my thinking that I failed to grasp the possibility that technology had turned me into a dinosaur?

I was compelled to reexamine “new fashioned thinking” and to consider all of the advances in the technologies of medicine, laboratory techniques, drugs and food processing.  There have been many advances during the 40 years that I have actually been paying attention, so I won’t bore you with the details.

I Reached a Verdict – Not Guilty!

My accuser missed the most important fact of all: There is no Version 2 of the human body.  In all of time, the body’s needs haven’t changed.  The human body still requires nourishing food, clean water and rest to protect itself from infection, repair damage and to regenerate itself. 

In Fact, My Accuser is Guilty.

Guilty of promoting the lie that new technology can replace the basic characteristics of your body.

Guilty of repeating the deceptions surrounding manufactured food, exaggerations from researchers, laboratory “hair-splitting” and the medical and pharmaceutical breakthroughs.

Guilty of repeating all of the “stuff” that communications experts demand to ply their reporting and advertising trade.

Old School – Indeed

Regardless of the technologies that automakers build into their new cars, there are three things that never change – a fuel gauge, a temperature gauge and an oil gauge – for obvious reasons.  Wouldn’t it be nice if your body had gauges?  Alas, it doesn’t.  Maybe it will when Version 2 is completed.

The body is, to a point, adaptable.  It can compensate for the lack of nourishing food, fresh water and rest until the deficiencies become so profound as to cause functional failure – the process that leads declining health culminating in sickness.

Despite all of the bravado to the contrary, this almost imperceptible decline in health is predictable - but not inevitable.  Continuing on the car metaphor, the lesson is:  if you keep the fuel tank full, the engine cool and lubricated, you won’t find yourself stranded on the side of the road.

My job is simple:  to help you keep the tank full – to help you fill the gap, with supplements, when the food in your diet fails to meet your body’s threshold for sustaining your health.

One Final Thought

Choosing and using supplements is like filling the fuel tank in your car, toping of the fluids and keeping air in the tires.  This analogy should make perfect sense unless you want to trade cars every time it runs out of fuel, gets a flat tire or “dies” from neglected basic maintenance .

Unlike your car, your body is resilient – it can, in many cases, heal itself.  So, don’t despair if you find yourself on the side of the road.  It is possible that time and attentiveness could get you “back on the road.”  But, that’s your choice.

So Accuser, go ahead, call me old fashioned if you want.  But, until the introduction Version 2 of the Human Body, I’m sticking to my guns – Healthy People Don’t Get Sick.

P.S.  If you’re interested, there is a Free Health Test to help you evaluate “how you’re doing” – take the test and see.

 

This could be the wonder product of the century!

 I’ll bet you are you asking yourself:  “How much does it cost?” and “Where can I get it?”

 Here’s how you can get your supply today:

 Go to your kitchen sink, fill a glass with water and drink it. That’s right – it’s WATER

Incredible as it may seem, water is the most important component of good health known to man.

In fact, 60% – 70% of the body’s weight is water.  Water is the body’s solvent:  it thins blood, carries away toxins, helps metabolize fat, liquefies consumed food, rinses out organs, balances electrolytes to support nerve function, carries hormones for endocrine function – in short it is the body’s magic potion.

However, when the body gets less water than it needs, it perceives the situation as a threat to its survival and begins to conserve every drop. Many of the cleansing functions of water are affected as it reuses and reuses and reuses the conserved, filthy water.

Drinking enough water is the best treatment for a whole litany of things – headache, constipation, digestion, sluggishness, clarity of mind, water retention, weight gain – all symptoms of dehydration.

There is a good rule of thumb for drinking enough water:  divide your body weight by two. The result is the number or ounces of water to consume every day.

Caffeinated beverages such as coffee, soda, energy drinks and certain teas are diuretics, which force the body to expel water. If you consume caffeinated beverages, compensate for their effect by drinking two ounces of water for each one ounce of these beverages

If you are trying to lose weight or are not healthy, increase the amount by 20%. Contrary to popular opinion, juices, soups and other liquids that require digestion do not count! Water is water!

Follow this schedule to utilize water effectively:

• Morning (right after rising):  consume one quart of water during a 30-minute period.
• Noon:  consume one quart of water during a 30-minute period.
• Evening:  consume one quart of water during a 30-minute period.
• Drink the remainder of your requirement throughout the day.

 The body’s signal for hunger and thirst are similar and are often confused. Try drinking a glass of water instead of eating something. Your body just might need hydrating instead of a snack!

When the body gets all the water it needs to function efficiently, its fluids are perfectly balanced. Glands, nerves, and bowel begin to function efficiently. Skin begins to glow, water retention subsides, weight normalizes, endurance increases, concentration improves, and on … and on … and on!

P.S.  Chlorine isn’t good for your body but it kills the stuff that gets in your water pipes that can make you sick. Chlorine is normally a gas … so if you put a one gallon, open topped container full of tap water in your refrigerator before you go to bed, the chlorine will dissipate and your fresh water (without chlorine) will be waiting for you in the morning.

P.P.S.  Most people are deficient in trace minerals because they aren’t eating enough fresh vegetables (5 to 7 baseball size servings – daily).  Add an ounce of a trace mineral supplement to your daily water to fill the gap in your diet.

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Some types of cells are programmed, at the DNA level, to be replaced more frequently. For example, scientists discovered that red blood cells are replaced every 120 days; heart cells—every 2 months; colon/intestinal cells—every 5 days; skin—every 4 weeks; bone structures—every year.

On one side of the coin, this ongoing process of building a new body from the food we eat and the water we drink challenges the mind. On the other side, the daunting task of breaking down, recycling and eliminating the wastes created by processing several hundred pounds of dead cells boggles the mind.

The wastes of cellular breakdown, general metabolism and digestion are, to one degree or another, poisonous. Another word for this is toxic. If these toxins were to remain and accumulate in your body, you would suffer an agonizing death by poisoning. The body has a system to eliminate toxins before the buildup can damage cells, tissue and organs..

The two main organs of detoxification, the liver and the kidneys, act like filters, removing toxic substances, purifying the body.

If the body is faced with an overload of toxins (toxemia), secondary organs of elimination: the large intestine, lungs, bladder and the skin, are frequently forced into helping eliminate the extra toxins.

The secondary organs of elimination may become inflamed, irritated and weakened when are forced to process toxins.  The results can be skin irritations, bacterial or viral infections, asthma, sinusitis or a whole host of other issues depending on the area involved.

Sometimes, the toxins are deposited instead of eliminated which leads to another, different set of complaints: toxins stored in joints result in arthritis; in muscle tissues— rheumatism, skin and organs—cysts and benign tumors.

When toxins weaken the body’s immune response, infesting/infecting organisms successfully invade and begin attacking the body or worse yet, genetic alterations may occur.

In a perfect world, the liver and kidneys would keep up with their job for 80, 90 or even 100 years before beginning to tire. In this ideal world, the food would of course, be very nutritious and free of pesticide residues, the air and water would be pure, food would not be denatured or turned it into high calorie/no nutrition junk food. In this perfect world everyone would get moderate exercise into old age, and live virtually without stress. In this utopia, doctors would have little or no work other than repairing traumatic injuries, because everyone would be healthy.

Back in reality, the less-than-ideal world of today, doctoring is a financially rewarding profession. Fast, sweet and convenient are the dietary guidelines for the day. People eat whatever they feel like eating—whenever they feel like it.

The food is denatured, processed, fried, salted, sweetened, preserved— overburdening the liver and kidneys. Children develop the very same diseases as their parents because as children, they put their feet under the same dining table as their parents—their diet is overburdening the organs of elimination—just like Mom, Dad and Uncle Bill.

Everyday, people choose to eat the food that contributes to their decline in health.

If you want a new, favorite hobby like hanging out at the doctor’s office reading outdated magazines—do not consider changing the unconscious habit of eating the fast, sweet and convenient food that advertisers recommend.

To change the way things are you must first change the things you do. Experts and nutritionists finally agree: “There is a direct relationship between staying healthy and consuming 7 servings of colorful vegetables and fruits each day.”

A great first step is to examine the habits that contribute to declining health and lead to sickness, then begin changing them. Be honest! Some example are: I’m 20 pounds overweight. I need help with regularity. I am uncomfortable after eating. Some people even write down the different issues that are keeping them from being healthy.

Everyone will have a gap in their diet, so don’t despair if you can’t eat everything you need to become and stay healthy. Simply fill the gap in your diet with a well designed nutraceutical program.

Remember, it is not what you do occasionally that damages your health, it is what you do everyday. Eat whole foods, drink clean water and use a nutraceutical supplement to sustain your healthy body.

Why wait?  Stop Poisoning Yourself.  Start enjoying the benefits from cleansing and detoxifying your body with restored energy and vitality. Learn how you can sweep away the barriers that are stealing you health.

 

Your cells are programmed to die.

Virtually every cell in the body is replaced every seven years (estimated to be 750 trillion cells).  Some types of cells are programmed, at the DNA level, to be replaced more frequently. For example, scientists discovered that red blood cells are replaced every 120 days; heart cells—every 2 months; colon/intestinal cells—every 5 days; skin—every 4 weeks; bone structures—every year.

On one side of the coin, this ongoing process of building a new body from the food we eat and the water we drink challenges the mind. On the other side, the daunting task of breaking down, recycling and eliminating the wastes created by processing several hundred pounds of dead cells boggles the mind.

Wastes are Poisonous

The wastes of cellular breakdown, general metabolism and digestion are, to one degree or another, poisonous. Another word for this is toxic. If these toxins were to remain and accumulate in your body, you would suffer an agonizing death by poisoning.   The body has a system to eliminate toxins before the buildup can damage cells, tissue and organs.

Eliminating Wastes

The two main organs of detoxification, the liver and the kidneys, act like filters, removing toxic substances, purifying the body.

If the body is faced with an overload of toxins (toxemia), secondary organs of elimination: the large intestine, lungs, bladder and the skin, are frequently forced into helping eliminate the extra toxins.

The secondary organs of elimination may become inflamed, irritated and weakened when are forced to process toxins.  The results can be skin irritations, bacterial or viral infections, asthma, sinusitis or a whole host of other issues depending on the area involved.

Sometimes, the toxins are deposited instead of eliminated which leads to another, different set of complaints: toxins stored in joints result in arthritis; in muscle tissues— rheumatism, skin and organs—cysts and benign tumors.

When toxins weaken the body’s immune response, infesting/infecting organisms successfully invade and begin attacking the body or worse yet, genetic alterations may occur.

In a perfect world, the liver and kidneys would keep up with their job for 80, 90 or even 100 years before beginning to tire. In this ideal world, the food would of course, be very nutritious and free of pesticide residues, the air and water would be pure, food would not be denatured or turned it into high calorie/no nutrition junk food. In this perfect world everyone would get moderate exercise into old age, and live virtually without stress. In this utopia, doctors would have little or no work other than repairing traumatic injuries, because everyone would be healthy.

It Isn’t a Perfect World

Back in reality, the less-than-ideal world of today, doctoring is a financially rewarding profession. Fast, sweet and convenient are the dietary guidelines for the day. People eat whatever they feel like eating—whenever they feel like it.

The food is denatured, processed, fried, salted, sweetened, preserved— overburdening the liver and kidneys. Children develop the very same diseases as their parents because as children, they put their feet under the same dining table as their parents—their diet is overburdening the organs of elimination—just like Mom, Dad and Uncle Bill.

Everyday, people choose to eat the food that contributes to their decline in health.  If you want a new, favorite hobby like hanging out at the doctor’s office reading outdated magazines—do not consider changing the unconscious habit of eating the fast, sweet and convenient food that advertisers recommend.

What Can You Do?

To change the way things are you must first change the things you do.  Experts and nutritionists finally agree: “There is a direct relationship between staying healthy and consuming 7 servings of colorful vegetables and fruits each day.”

A great first step is to examine the habits that contribute to declining health and lead to sickness, then begin changing them. Be honest! Some example are: I’m 20 pounds overweight. I need help with regularity. I am uncomfortable after eating. Some people even write down the different issues that are keeping them from being healthy.

Everyone will have a gap in their diet, so don’t despair if you can’t eat everything you need to become and stay healthy. Simply fill the gap in your diet with a well designed nutraceutical program.

Remember, it is not what you do occasionally that damages your health, it is what you do everyday. Eat whole foods, drink clean water and use a nutraceutical program to sustain your healthy body.

 

What is it?
The Healing Crisis or as it is formally known, The Herxheimer Reaction, is characterized by a temporary increase in discomfort during the process of a detoxification cleanse. It occurs when toxins and wastes are being released faster than the body can eliminate them. The complaints may vary from none, to mild or severe.

The reaction is an indication that the process of cleansing and detoxification is working and that your body is cleaning itself of impurities, toxins and imbalances. Such reactions are temporary and may occur immediately, within several days or even several weeks later.

The possible reactions are:

• Many people experience little or no discomfort.
• Some people feel ill (flu like complaints) during the first few days of a cleanse because your body is dumping toxins into the blood stream for elimination. The ill-affects usually pass within 1-3 days. On rare occasions, they may last several weeks.
• Sometimes, the discomfort during the healing crisis is of greater intensity than before starting the cleanse.
• Another crisis may come after you begin feeling your very best.
• Or, there may be many small crises to go through before the final crisis is experienced.
• In any case, the cleansing and purifying process is underway, and stored wastes and toxins are in a free-flowing state. The severity and duration of the healing crisis is an indication of amount of toxins and wastes stored in your body. Better out than in!

For Others, the Symptoms Vary From Mild to Not-So-Mild
The healing crisis may bring about experiences of past conditions. While people often forget the diseases or injuries they have had in the past, they may be reminded during the healing crisis. There are a wide variety of reactions (ranging from none to severe) that may manifest during a healing crisis including:

Easing Your Way Through the Healing Crisis:

1. Drink plenty of fresh water to flush the body of toxins from the detoxification cleanse. Some professionals recommend distilled water as the best. Drink from 3 to 4 quarts (or liters) per day. This will help flush the toxins out of your system and speed along the detoxification.
2. A headache may indicate insufficient water intake … drink more water!
3. Avoid “white” foods. White flour products (bread, pasta, etc), milk and all dairy products, sugar and starches (white rice, potatoes).
4. Eat light meals. Chicken, turkey, vegetables and soups are especially beneficial.
5. Avoid red meat.
6. Be kind to yourself, and get the rest that you need. If you are feeling fatigued or sleepy, your body is telling you to rest.
7. On occasion, a reduction of the dosage or temporary cessation may be required until the severity subsides.
8. Symptoms frequently disappear immediately after a good bowel movement.
9. A good massage might be helpful to speed up the healing process and reduce the discomfort.

The benefits of a detoxified, pure body far outweigh any inconveniences that you might experience during the process.  Many people describe experiencing a feeling of lightness, others are unable to describe what they experience other than to say they can’t remember when they felt better.

People who choose to maintain a high level of Radiant Health, consider a detoxification cleanse: good insurance for maintaining their edge.

People who feel their edge slipping away should consider whole body cleansing their second chance at health.

 

Are You Clean Inside?
Who hasn’t heard the expression CLEANLINESS IS NEXT TO GODLINESS thousands of times?

• You have showered at least 15,000 times . . . .so far,
• You have brushed your teeth 30,000 times . . . so far,
• You have washed your hands . . . on a regular basis.

Most people practice good hygiene.
It is the healthy thing to do and, it minimizes offending appearance and odors.

What about the inside?
Did you know: you have 9 square feet of skin on the outside of your body and 10,000 square feet on the inside?

Consider this: could the very things that affect the cleanliness of the outside of your body affect the inside?

Have you ever thought about cleansing the inside of your body? Probably not.

Of all the different possibilities, the cleansing of one’s intestines is probably at the bottom of most people’s lists – irritable bowel syndrome, constipation, gas, diverticulitis and colon cancer are simply not things that people think about – until it is too late.

What You Must Know About Regularity.
There is an epidemic in America. People are buying laxatives, using prescription drugs and commercial fiber supplements — to no avail — constipation, gas and bloating, weight gain, fatigue, painful, burning stomach, skin problems and a whole host of complaints are taking the fun out of life.

The expression, “Death begins in the colon.” is right on point! Sadly, the debris and toxic wastes that are accumulating between visits to the bathroom produce lots of suffering because that “stuff” is slowly poisoning you from the inside—out.

Don’t believe it? “Autopsies often reveal colons that are plugged up to 80 percent with waste material.” – Vegetarian Times, March, 1998.  Most people end up enduring the complaints of constipation when they could put an end to their suffering very simply — become as clean inside as they are outside.

What You Must Know About Pollution.
We are all exposed to thousands of toxins and chemicals everyday—–at work, in the home, in the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat. Plus, we are eating more sugar, preserved and processed foods and taking more medicine than ever before. Our bodies are being overwhelmed trying to eliminate all of the different things that we inhale and ingest every day. Unfortunately, most of this debris simply accumulates—in our cells, tissues, blood, organs (such as the colon, liver and brain), stored for an indefinite length of time, causing all kinds of complaints, leading toward a decline in your quality of life and your health.

What You Must Know About Parasites.
Every living thing has at least one parasite that lives inside or on it, and many, including humans, have far more. In fact, National Geographic, in a documentary called The Body Snatchers reports: “parasites have killed more humans than all the wars in history.”

Scientists are just beginning to appreciate how powerful these hidden inhabitants can be. Their research is pointing to a remarkable possibility: Parasites rule the world. Living undetected in the body, damaging tissue, robbing your body of valuable nutrients and burdening your body with the additional wastes produced by the parasite. Like it or not, you probably have one or more parasites living in your body, living undetected until there are more of them than your body can support. At that point, you will start paying the price extracted by parasites.

What You Must Know About Food.
Processing robs food of its nutritional value. The chemicals in preserved foods lead to poor digestion causing a toxic build-up of sludge in the intestines and on the intestinal wall, including the colon. This build up can slow digestion, block nutritional uptake and, because the sludge is waste material, produce toxins that pour into your blood stream and are distributed throughout the entire body.

The answer to the question “Are you clean inside?” is “Probably not.” The combination of environmental toxins, an unhealthy diet, internal toxins and parasites poses a threat to your health.

Here’s a quick overview for cleansing your body:

1. Sweep away the barriers that are dragging you down. Cleanse the colon and digestive tract to clear away the toxic plaque, debris and parasites. Plus, “cleaning up that mess” helps detoxify your liver, blood, brain, tissues—basically the first step will purify your whole body.
2. Restore and balance the intestinal tract using digestive enzymes, to help breakdown food and friendly microbes to balance digestion, support the immune system that protects you and, along with enzymes, strengthens the body and supports the elimination of wastes thoroughly and often.
3. Make choices to support the body’s ability to cleanse itself with diet and nutraceutical supplements to protect your new lease on life.
4. Once your body is balanced, address parasites twice each year—spring and fall.

There are several cleansing methods, some of which can be quite harsh.

Most detoxification experts feel that a one or two-week program is simply not sufficient, especially when you consider that it took years or even decades to accumulate all the toxins in the colon and in other parts of the body. A more realistic approach takes at least 30 days or even longer, depending on the level of toxicity in one’s body.

The first objective of the Radiant Health Plan, developed by NUPRO, is to be thorough—yet gentle. This two step program (each lasting 30 days) offers you a gentle, comprehensive, thorough, all-natural cleansing and detoxification program.

And, once you complete the cleansing and restoring your body, a third step provides a long term plan to protect your new lease on life with comprehensive nutraceutical programs to help you fill the gap in your diet between what you are consuming and what you should be eating to keep your body pristine and healthy.

Dr. Paul Bragg, a pioneer of natural medicine and author of dozens of successful books writes:
“The secret to great health can be described in these words:
Cleanse the Inside of Your Body!”Why wait?  Start enjoying the benefits cleansing and detoxifying your body and restoring your energy and vitality.   Learn how you can sweep away the barriers that are stealing you health.