Restoring Healthy Through Nutrition

We found these at Gilroy's Hardware Since our personal experience with cancer, my husband and I have done everything that we can to avoid and protect ourselves from exposure to toxins.  We have found that natural cleaning agents in our home have saved money as well as protected our health.  I have been making my own laundry soap for more than a year.  It works very well, saves the environment from the constant consumption of plastic jugs and costs just a penny and a half per load!  I will post the recipe that I use at the bottom of this post if you are interested in trying it. Dryer Balls? Yes, dryer balls!  They look more like baby toys, but the purpose is far different.  Dryer balls work inside the dryer while the clothes are being tossed around.  They help to keep the clothes separated and offer a reduction in static.  I like how they keep certain clothing items from getting twisted and wrapped around other garments.  I only have two but t...

There is a chemical difference between the fluoride used in toothpaste and the fluoride dumped in the public water supply.  Studies have revealed the danger that fluoridated water poses to the health of the population, and most concerning to the development of young children.  In fact, fluoridation of water could easily be considered a method of poisoning the population.  Fortunately, the USA is in the minority worldwide with its fluoridation of water.  Since 2009, more than 2000 scientific, medical and environmental professionals have called for an elimination of  worldwide  fluoridation.  Here is the reason why it needs to stop: Professional Perspectives on Water Fluoridation Fluoride is a neurotoxin Fluoridated water cannot be delivered to individuals with dosages proportional to the age or weight. National Academy of Sciences states that there is no essential use for fluoride in human growth and development. If there is any benefit of flu...

The skin and the lungs are both organs.  But this is not the only thing that asthma and acne have in common.  The organs that are affected by these diseases have a function of detoxification.  When the body comes in contact with environmental toxins (food, insecticides, household cleaners, air pollutants, dry cleaned clothing, or health care products),  the liver has to filter them out because toxins kill cells.  The liver sends toxins out through the lung tissue, the skin and the intestinal tract.  A low nutrient diet can trigger the liver to store toxins until the proper foods are eaten, which then trigger the liver to dump its junk.  When someone is eating a diet that is low in fruits and vegetables but high in fat, sugar and protein, the liver is bogged down with stored toxins.  When ready for elimination, the toxins should be eliminated quickly.  This requires sweating (exercise), unimpeded air exchange and frequent intestinal ...

Pregnancy and child rearing was before a major dietary change in my life.  I consumed a full fat diet of meat and dairy along with regular - albeit low - consumption of fruits and vegetables.  I successfully carried four babies to full term; but due to cephalopelvic disproportion, everyone of them was born via Cesarean  section.   There is a new video from Dr. McDougall's most recent Advanced Study weekend.  Dr. McDougall, though he lends toward Darwinian thought (I disagree with that theory of origins), has a reasonable argument regarding C-sections.  The rising number of surgical interventions for childbirth is more evidence that we are not eating properly as a nation.  The starch based diet can provide perfect nutrition for everyone - even men and women in child-bearing years. Dr. McDougall compares his wife's pregnancy while eating a Standard American diet versus a strict starch based diet.  This is an encouraging video to watch.  He...

I  have a personal motto about making a dietary change.  My diet has never started on "Monday" or "after the holidays", but my motto has always been that my diet starts with what I put in my shopping cart.  Now, it is freeing to have reached the point that I don't need  to "diet" for weight loss because my eating patterns have eliminated all the foods that were robbing me of my health and causing weight gain.  But still, I "choose"  to eat for my health every time I go grocery shopping.  Sometimes the bakery department will turn my head.  I look, and I keep on going.  I don't want that stuff anymore; but as I walk by it, I remember how it tasted.  Then, I remember how I used to feel when I ate doughnuts and cookies along with other processed foods.  My choice is to find the foods that will nourish my body, make me feel good when I have eaten them and provide me with energy for an active life. While raising my family, processed treat...

I have read a few books which presented broad and convincing studies to support the efficacy of treating disease and obesity by eating "vegan" (free from animal and dairy, concentrated in whole and plant-based foods.)  So, why not broaden my understanding of some apparent dietary solutions to disease which come from a different slant (non-vegan)?  As I sat down at my dining room table with a couple pieces of my homemade, organic, whole wheat toast, I attempted to read a borrowed book - Wheat Belly  by William Davis, MD.  It wasn't long, maybe half of the first chapter, before I thumbed to the back of the book to see what this author recommended for the daily diet.  The list began with  unlimited consumption of vegetables.  This pleased me.  After that (again without limit) raw nuts and seeds.  Again, pleased.  Next on the list - oils, meat, eggs, cheese, unsweetened condiments, flax seed and high-fat plant foods such as avocado, olive, c...