Cancer Prevention and Your Lifestyle

Cancer prevention is something we can all do. Just think of all the friends you know and family members that have had cancer. The life-changing emotional toll as someone you love goes through treatments. Not to mention the enormous cost. It is estimated that 95% of the cancers that occur are preventable from a healthy lifestyle. That is a huge number. That information is not new and it is available on the American Cancer Society webpage.

Setting yourself up in a healthy lifestyle is your best insurance against developing a cancer. Though not a guarantee, it is the closest you will be able to come to living cancer-free. Cancer prevention is as simple as eating a diet high in vegetables, grains, beans, and fruits.

Full Body 30 Day Vegan Cleanse is a great program to learn how to truly eat healthfully and in a way that is cancer preventive. This 30 Day Vegan Cleanse has changed people’s lives. By following this program, people lost weight, felt more energetic, had less body aches, a big increase in mental clarity and felt much better every morning when waking up. Many of the people who have already taken this Full Body 30 Day Vegan Cleanse keep these recipes in their diet regularly because they loved the foods and felt so much better. Every one of these people also know that by eating this way, they are doing the best they can for themselves and their families to prevent cancer.

Pictured is a dinner of Adzuki beans I made for my family. Adzuki beans are known to help prevent cancers of the breast, if eaten on a regular basis; and also colon cancer due to all the fiber the beans contain. Research is also pointing out that Adzuki beans can help lower the risk of getting other types of cancer too. There is a great recipe for Adzuki beans in the Full Body 30 Day Vegan Cleanse.

Staying Healthy with Citrus Fruits

Staying Healthy with Citrus Fruits

The base for the yummy and refreshing smoothie I made for the boys was fresh lemonade! It doesn’t get better than this!!!!!! Citrus fruits have so many benefits that staying healthy with citrus fruits is easy. Once you read all these health advantages you will see why you should have a citrus fruit 5-7 times a week.

Weight Loss and Metabolism

Citrus fruits are so good for helping the body with metabolism. Lemons and grapefruits help to keep insulin levels low, translating to your body utilizing calories instead of storing them. Stored calories become fat. Lemons and grapefruit then also allow your blood sugar levels to remain more constant. Avoiding highs and lows, and not having dips in blood sugar means you will not have sugar cravings. It is through this mechanism of keeping insulin levels low that is the cause for your metabolism being increased. Hence, the very popular Grapefruit diet, that actually started as far back as the 1930’s.

Anti-Inflammatory Effects and Your Heart

There are several phytonutrients in citrus fruits that help reduce inflammation and reduce blood clotting. By reducing inflammation and blood clotting, citrus fruits are very helpful for your heart. Some studies have shown that people who consume higher amounts of citrus fruits have less heart disease and stroke. All of that has to do with reducing inflammation.
Citrus fruits also provide a good dose of fiber, which helps to keep the bad cholesterol down and good cholesterol up. This is also helpful for your heart. Once you think about just these benefits for your heart alone, staying healthy with citrus fruits is a no-brainer. Why would you Not regularly eat citrus fruits?

The Bottom Line in Staying Healthy with Citrus Fruits

All the benefits our body’s receive from citrus fruits is due to the phytochemical composition. Citrus fruits provide flavanoids which reduce inflammation. Flavanoids also help remove free radicals, so citrus fruits have an anti-oxidant effect, which is always helpful to reduce the risk of cancer. Citrus fruits also supply us with, potassium, folate, B6, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, pantothenic acid, riboflavin, thiamine, and niacin. With so many helpful fabulous nutrients – how can you go wrong!!!!

And of course, we all know that citrus fruits give us a whopping dose of Vitamin C. Vitamin C is in constant demand in our bodies. It is needed constantly to scavenge for free-radicals. It is helps reduce inflammation. And Vitamin C is needed to help your body regenerate cartilage, keep your skin elastic and smooth.

Your brain benefits tremendously from citrus fruits. Between all the fiber, anti-inflammatories and phytonutrients your brain is very well protected in the development of Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease and other dementia’s. which all have inflammation is a core component.

Numerous studies have all pointed to anti-cancer benefits from a diet high in citrus fruits. There are a number of the phytonutrients that play a role in this ability. You can see it is a package deal. It is Very apparent that staying healthy with citrus fruits will make a difference to your life!

Staying Healthy with Citrus Fruits and Other Vegan Foods

Just that information on citrus fruits should be enough to get you thinking “If staying healthy with citrus fruits, 1 vegan food, can do all of that – what could 1 month of being vegan do for me?” Everything written about above is just some of the reasons to choose a vegan diet, even if for 1 month, as in the Full Body 30 Day Vegan Cleanse. Just think how wonderful you will feel everyday if you followed this Cleanse just like so many others. Just think about how much better your health could be and as a result, how much better your quality of life can be!
This is the perfect time for you to make a dramatic difference to your health. You can order Full Body 30 Day Vegan Cleanse by going to the website Full Body Vegan Cleanse.

staying healthy with citrus fruits

Happy Healthy Halloween!

Halloween could still be a healthy day!! It is a matter of how you set yourself up. Hopefully you will dress up and have a fun-filled day. But, that day does not have to include eating, or even gorging, on candy. It is in how you mentally set yourself up for this day.

Today make this a healthy Halloween and maybe even the first of a new tradition. Skip the candy completely. Just because you have always had candy on Halloween doesn’t mean it always Has to be that way. Interject with thoughts about what you really want for yourself. Thoughts about how you really want to be healthy and that this could be that first day of a better way of life. Then follow-up on those thoughts by acting accordingly. You can skip the candy. You will actually feel better without it. This is written with adults in mind.

As for kids, they should be able to enjoy Halloween much like we did, with the candy. Then even with your kids, it is a matter of how you set it up for them. Halloween is a day that we can teach kids how to enjoy a celebratory day with balance. Gorging on candy until they feel sick is not teaching balance. Halloween is a great day to let them eat some candy and enjoy a day that is fun because they dressed up in a costume and were given lots of candy. That is a super fun day!! As parents we get to revel in their fun and also teach a little. It’s very easy, just let your kids know that they can eat 3-5 pieces of candy. The best thing you can do as a parent is to tell them why. Tell them that you love them and care about them, and because their health is so important to you, this matters. Not eating lots of candy does make a difference to their health.

There is the healthy message for your kids and for their future Halloweens. This sets them up so that they won’t have to battle years of Halloween gorging and a need to set up new habits around a holiday.

Healthy Kid Friendly Smoothies

Yummy!!! The perfect way to pick up my boys from school with a Dairy-Free Banana Date smoothie. It tastes as good as it looks! It is so creamy and yummy! It actually tastes like it has ice cream in it. Which of course it does not! We are a dairy-free family!! I have been making them healthy kid friendly smoothies for years. Majid and I have been dairy-free since 1993. A long time ago when there weren’t as many dairy-free options available.This means I have decades of creating great meals and smoothies without any dairy products at all.

My Full Body 30 Day Vegan Cleanse has this recipe in it. And many more healthy kid friendly smoothies that you can make for your family to keep them healthy! Your kids will love them just as much as my kids have! And the best part is, it is only made from ingredients that will benefit their body’s. No ingredients that are harmful in any way for them. Which is Very different from the majority of smoothies made for kids. The majority of smoothies that are made for kids have way too much sugar in them, and some places use frozen yogurt making their smoothies even higher in sugar. These smoothies are not healthy for kids once you realize they can have more sugar than candy bars! Horrifying fact!

It is a priority to me to feed my boys in the healthiest way possible. I have been in the Wholistic Health field since 1993 as a licensed Herbalist/Acupuncturist and with decades of experience I fully understand the dynamic relationship between the human Microbiome and the gut. Which is why I chose to make healthy kid friendly smoothies for my boys that will give their body’s nutrients and phytochemicals their body’s needed.

healthy kid friendly smoothies- Delicious! Dairy-free.

Heart Healthy Soup

I made this delicious lentil soup for my family. This was the perfect soup for a multitude of reasons:
Heart healthy! Absolutely! Lentils provide a whopping dose of soluble fiber. This is great for your heart as it helps to keep cholesterol low. Another heart health contributor is the fact that lentils have been found to reduce homocysteine levels. Homocysteine is a bio-chemical which is produced by the body that is in stress. It is always found in people who have had a heart attack and is used as a marker in blood tests as an indicator for predicting heart attacks.
It is very nice to know what foods can help reduce this marker.

Lentils are also great for your digestive tract. All the soluble fiber stimulates the peristalsis in the large intestines and helps to move waste along and then out. Good digestive health can be accomplished by increasing foods with high fiber content in your diet. Many of the digestive problems seen in Americans have everything to do with the fact that the majority of Americans are not eating as many fiber rich foods as their bodies really need.

Lentils can also be a big help in loosing weight. Lentils are not high in calories but because of their high fiber content, they can make you feel full enough that you are satisfied. That being the case, you won’;t eat anything else and therefore your dinner was a low-calorie healthy and satisfying meal.

“Bon Appetit”

Eat by Color

Eat by Color for Better Health

It was the perfect day for a beautiful salad! A salad is always the perfect opportunity to eat by color. Your health is determined by the foods you eat, and if you eat by color, you are ensuring a better health status.  In fact, an easy way to get healthy or stay healthy is by eating different colored vegetables and fruits every day. This is because the colors of vegetables and fruits are the result of the make up of that particular vegetable or fruit; the colors represent the vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients contained in that vegetable or fruit. This is actually a very ancient way of eating, the Chinese culture thousands of years ago knew to eat a  wide range of all the colors in order to be healthy.

Greens and a Little Deep Red/Purple

Baby field greens provide the basis for this varied color salad because there are a number of different field greens, just as the name implies. Some of the common greens in baby field blends are romaine, baby kale, baby spinach, baby arugula, curly endive, mustard greens, field lettuce or mizuna. Each is a different depth of green and supplies some variation in its phytonutrient content. The deeper the green the more nutrients the leaf provides. But overall, a mixture of the above greens will provide a good amount of Vitamins, A,B, C, E and K. And the phytonutrients are beta-carotene, calcium, magnesium,potassium, folate, chlorophyll and a large amount of lutein. Lutein is helpful in reducing cardiovascular disease and age related macular degeneration.

Often there is raddichio, a deep red-purple color, in the field greens as well. These deep red colors providing Vitamins B, C and K. A nice combination of minerals in raddicho are manganese, copper, zinc and iron. Raddichio has a lot of fiber which is great for the intestines. And the phyotnutrients in raddichio are quercitin, lycopene,ellagic acid, and inulin. In other words, raddichio is very good for you! You can eat raddichio on its own too and reap even more benefits. Another not oft fount phytonutrient in raddichio is lactucopricin which has a little sedative and analgesic effects. Including raddichio in your menu often is a great way to eat by color since the color of raddichio is unique and its phytonutrients are distinctive. Raddicio is helpful in digestion, at keeping blood sugar levels stable and is a great source of fiber.

Red Vegetables and Fruit

Chopped red bell pepper brightens any dish and gives your body a heaping dose of several powerful phytonutrients. The color red is known for supplying lycopene, a powerful anti-oxidant that helps neutralize free-radicals. Lycopene is more effective than the other carotenoids. Lycopene shows a protective mechanism against heart disease by binding with LDL cholesterol and preventing it from attaching to plaques in the arteries, which would narrow the arteries. Lycopene also suplies carotenoids, Vitamin A and Vitamin C, which are very good anti-oxidants. The color red in vegetables and fruits also gives you manganese.

Enhancing Your Digestion

Two more greens to include in a meal if you want to eat by color are fennel and avocado. Fennel has been known for centuries as a carminative, a plant that prevents gas and helps bloating. Avocado is also a carminative so this salad provides you with 2 plants that will help your digestion. Whether you want to eat a fennel bulb or steep the seeds into a tea, either helps with digestion.

Fresh fennel also provides a large dose of Vitamin C working as a strong anti-oxidant. Fennel  is also known for having a strong anti-inflammatory effects in the body. Another great attribute is the fiber provided by fennel. Fennel can contribute to your daily requirement for fiber, which is important in keeping your intestines healthy as well as keeping blood glucose levels stable and helping to keep bad cholesterol down. And, as if that isn’t enough, fennel has shown anti-cancer abilities. A phytochemical in fennel called anethole inhibits tumor necrosis factor which is present in cancer cell proliferation. So many great benefits from fennel! and it tastes great!

Avocado along with helping with digestion is a very healthy source of fats. Fats are vital to the immune system and the endocrine system. Fats are also utilized to make up part of the cell membrane. Avocados have been shown to help keep cholesterol low. Avocados have recently been proven to help reduce the risk of Coronary Vascular Disease. There are numerous phytochemicals in avocados such as glycosylated abscisic acid, which is anti-inflammatory and has anti-diabetic properties: cytochrome P-450, which is helpful to the liver in metabolizing thousands of self-produced chemicals and externally derived chemicals, as well as helping to synthesize and breakdown hormones…and the list goes on. It s such an extensive list, trust me – include avocados in your diet regularly.

Phytonutrients Have Potentiating Effect on Other Phytonutrients

This salad is the perfect opportunity to eat by color to ensure you get a variety of nutrients. Think of it as a cross-training effect. The benefits from one of the ingredients has a potentiating effect on the other ingredients. One example of this is the effect of the avocado with the fennel. It has been shown that eating fennel with a healthy fat, strengthens its anti-inflammatory effects.

How to Easily Eat By Color

My Full Body 30 Day Vegan Cleanse is full of recipes guiding you through how to make all of your meals just this healthy and colorful.
Full Body 30 Day Vegan Cleanse takes you step-by-step through 30 days of every breakfast, lunch and dinner with different colors. There is no guess work and you will feel great!!

Eat by color to be healthy