I wanted to share some of my favorite or compelling health quotes..please share yours!
“Your choice of diet will affect your long term health prospects more than any other action you may take.”
-C. Everett Koop Former Surgeon General
“I don’t understand and why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic while it is medically conservative to cut people open or put them on powerful cholesterol lowering drugs for the rest of their lives.”
-Dean Ornish M.D.
” I submit that scientists have not yet explored the hidden possibilities of the innumerable seeds, leaves and fruits for giving the fullest possible nutrition to mankind.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
“…greens are not an optional product”
-Jeff Schneider
“..Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food”
-Hippocrates
“As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.”
-Adelle Davis
“Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.”
-Albert Schweitzer
“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.”
-Albert Schweitzer
“Fitness – If it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.”
-Cher
“Health is not valued till sickness comes.”
-Dr. Thomas Fuller
“Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you’ve met your New Year’s resolution.”
-Jay Leno
“Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.”
-Oprah Winfrey
“A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.”
-Paul Dudley White
“Pain (any pain–emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories: “We would be more alive if we did more of this,” and, “Life would be more lovely if we did less of that.” Once we get the pain’s message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.”
-Peter McWilliams
“The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.”
-Peter McWilliams
“Quit worrying about your health. It’ll go away.”
-Robert Orben
“A Hospital is no place to be sick.”
-Samuel Goldwyn
“Most men’s awareness doesn’t extend past their dinner plates.”
-Scott Westerfeld
Post your favorite health or diet quotes in the comments!
(BECOME A GREENIVORE! – An Introduction to the High-Green Diet & Lifestyle)
With Eco-Green Raw & Living Foods Chef Dina Knight
Whether you are new to the kitchen or a long time “foodie”, you will learn to create healthy, delicious, beautifully presented, satisfying gourmet GREEN cuisine. Chef Dina will demonstrate recipes that are nutrient dense, gluten and dairy free, that will leave you feeling energetic and vibrant. Our flavors are bold and our desserts are decadent! You won’t want to miss this! Are you ready to transform your life? Gourmet health food has never been more delicious! Join us for a life altering experience!
Here are some examples of just a few benefits from the HIGH-GREEN DIET & LIFESTYLE!
ü RELEASE EXCESS BODY WEIGHT
ü MINERALIZE YOUR CELLS
ü BOOST YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM
ü MINIMIZE CRAVINGS
ü BALANCE YOUR THYROID
ü BEAUTIFY YOUR SKIN
ü BALANCE YOUR HORMONES
ü BOOST YOUR ENERGY
ü DETOXIFY AND CLEANSE YOUR BODY
ü REDUCE YOUR CARBON FOOTPRINT
“I recently attended a class hosted by Dina ….and it was truly AMAZING and INFORMATIVE, plus the food was so tasty. I highly recommend checking out her website, and signing up for her future classes. Best of luck to those seeking better health”. S. Gurusamy (CA)
The title might sound kind of strange but it’s very possible that your brain is being limited by several things that could be altering it’s function unknowingly into a negative area.
Cerebral hypoxia
Cerebral hypoxia technically means a lack of oxygen supply to the outer part of the brain, an area called the cerebral hemisphere. However, the term is more typically used to refer to a lack of oxygen supply to the entire brain.
Causes
There are many causes of cerebral hypoxia. These include, but are not limited to:
Asphyxiation caused by smoke inhalation
Carbon monoxide poisoning
Cardiac arrest (when the heart stops pumping)
Choking
Complications of general anesthesia
Compression of the windpipe (trachea)
Diseases that cause a loss of movement (paralysis) of the breathing muscles
Brain cells are extremely sensitive to oxygen deprivation. Some brain cells actually start dying less than 5 minutes after their oxygen supply disappears. As a result, brain hypoxia can rapidly cause death or severe brain damage.
source: PubMed
Are you getting enough Oxygen to your brain?
Info from Dr. Blaich-
“The diaphragm is the second most important muscle in the body, second only to the heart. Yet the average person’s diaphragm muscle is working at far less than 100% of its ability. Because the diaphragm is the pump that determines how much oxygen comes into our systems, anything less than 100% of normal function of this vital muscle means less oxygen to our brains as well as all our muscles and internal organs.
Good diaphragm function is important for your health and vitality. Antioxidants, found in fruits and vegetables, can be quite helpful. But the best antioxidant is oxygen itself. If you improve your body’s ability to deliver oxygen to its own tissues, you reduce oxidative stress and tissue damage throughout your body and slow the decline in body function that occurs with aging.
I really like the information on the diaphragm that Dr. Blaich provides in his book check it out.
How can the function of the diaphragm be improved?
The first step, as with any malfunctioning muscle, is to identify what could be inhibiting or weakening the muscle. With the diaphragm, there are common patterns of weakness. The nerves that stimulate the diaphragm exit the spine in two areas, the neck or mid-cervical spine and the lower thoracic spine, where the ribcage ends. If these spinal areas are misaligned or fixated (failing to move properly), there can be a reflex inhibition, or weakness, of the diaphragm.
Other common faulty mechanisms can affect the diaphragm. If the rib cage is not moving freely on either side, usually from past injury, the motion of the diaphragm can be limited. A common pelvic or lower-back misalignment creates a torquing in the body that limits diaphragm motion. If the cranial bones are misaligned or limited in their normal respiratory motion, this can prevent a person from breathing deeply. An important lower-back supporting muscle, the psoas, attaches indirectly to the diaphragm. A common imbalance of this muscle can also compromise the diaphragm. Many people with low-back problems have an imbalance of this muscle.
All of these are switches that commonly disturb the normal function of the diaphragm. To obtain normal function of the diaphragm, a healthcare provider has to determine which biomechanics are impeding its normal function. Treatment then entails manipulation or adjustments to specific areas of the spine that affect nerves leading to the diaphragm, or the correction of other muscle imbalances as well as a manipulation to the stomach itself.
Consider what frequently happens to the stomach over a lifetime. As we age, our shoulders and upper back can become increasingly hunched over. In mechanical terms, thoracic kyphosis increases, or we get more kyphotic.
Try this: hunch over for a moment and try to take a deep breath. It’s difficult, because there is no room for your diaphragm to move when you are in that position. If you were constantly in that position, you’d never be able to take a deep breath and, of course, your brain would receive less oxygen. Furthermore, in that position your stomach is compressed up into your diaphragm, putting extra pressure on the esophageal sphincter and challenging its ability to keep the contents of your stomach out of your esophagus.
Now, sit or stand up straight and take in a deep breath. Not only can you inhale more oxygen, but you might even feel your head clear immediately.
Stress can adversely affect the diaphragm in several ways. In stressful situations, you naturally tighten up. You breathe less deeply and sometimes feel tightness in your chest. I frequently remind people to breathe deeply during stressful times or even when working intensely in a stationary position. A more extreme example of diaphragm tightness is caused by a physical trauma. Most of us have had the wind knocked out of us from a fall or a physical injury, which is a good reminder of what a spastic diaphragm feels like.
Emotional traumas and stresses can have a similar tightening effect on the diaphragm. On a deeper level, chronic stress can really upset the diaphragm. The body’s sphincter muscles, such as the esophageal sphincter, are controlled by the autonomic nervous system. The sympathetic nerves tighten the sphincters, while the parasympathetic nerves relax them. When you are exhausted from constant encounters with saber-toothed tigers, your sympathetic nervous system (which enables the fight-or-flee response) is depleted and may be unable to maintain the normal tone of the sphincters. This laxity of the sphincter then predisposes you to gastric reflux. If you are chronically stressed, adjustments and corrections that selectively stimulate specific parts of the nervous system are useful, as is taking specific vitamins and nutrients that will provide the building blocks to rebuild exhausted parts and functions of the body. And of course, you must commit yourself to lifestyle changes that reduce the effects of the saber-toothed tiger on your body so your body can heal itself.
One reason for the recent increase in diaphragm-related problems in younger people is that a sedentary lifestyle generally means more sitting, poor posture, and shallow breathing. Most people don’t think of their diaphragm as a muscle, just like your biceps. Activating and exercising it makes it stronger. Yet, just like any other muscle, its function is greatly affected by the integrity of the nerve supply to the muscle from the nervous system. So many people have a “weakened” diaphragm because the muscle is being partly inhibited by their nervous systems, and it is one of the most comon causes of fatigue, poor digestion, and GERD. Like any other muscle, the diaphragm must be used. To read more from Dr. Blaich check out his book. Your Inner Pharmacy: Taking Back Our Wellness
Breathwork is one of the keys to health!
Join me at my next Green Diet-Emotional clearing workshop, we’ll be doing a lot of breathwork there that will be a very powerful tool for not only optimizing brain function, but clearing emotional blocks as well.
