Garner Healthy Living

Many parents, especially new mothers, are prone to panic when a child gets sick.  There is a lot of bad advice out there that helps to cause that panic.

That is why I was pleased to see this tip listed in the Readers Digest.

“ The University of Michigan Health System rates any fever from 100°F to 104°F as beneficial. Fevers ranging from 105°F to 107°F also are considered beneficial, but should be monitored due to higher risks of bacterial infections. Any fever greater than 107°F should be treated by a medical professional ”

In other words, there is no need to panic at a temperature of 104°F.  Even 105°F is OK.  Just be more watchful and careful as the temperature rises above that.

Too many people panic at temperatures of 100°F to 104°F.  These are not dangerous temperatures.  This is just the body going through it’s natural function of fighting off infections.  When you are sick, fever is usually a good sign.  It proves that your immune system is working.

Many doctors around the world have even learned to help the body warm-up by keeping someone with a fever well covered.  This usually helps the body to heal even faster.

Just remember that it is important to keep the body well hydrated with water during these healing times.  The water helps to eliminate toxic wastes, as well as helping in the regulation of all of the bodies resources.

Remember that health comes from within. We need to give our bodies the resources that they need to take care of themselves.

Just eat a high quality natural foods diet, exercise, drink plenty of good clean water, make sure you get fiber (whole raw foods), get plenty of sleep, breathe deeply, serve others, and have a gratitude attitude.

Your body will take care of you, if you take care of it.

Coach G.

Disclaimer: All thoughts expressed here are the opinion of the author. The author does a lot of research to try and be as accurate as possible, but all observations are made from the author’s point of view. Your health is totally in your own hands. Seek out the best knowledge you can find and don’t allow anyone else to make your choices for you. Only your body can cure your body. And of course it can only do that if it has the proper resources to do so. Use any and all information given here at your own risk. If you get healthier and stronger by following the suggestions from this web site, it is your own fault.

A year end wrap up of the cancer news for 2008 was a very sad thing to read.  In picking the 12 biggest news stories of the year about cancer, the authors talked about 10 drugs.  If you look at the actual studies on these drugs you will find that the results are very questionable and the side effects many.

The 11th story is that they estimate that by the year 2020, the U.S. will have 4,000 too few cancer specialists. By then, the number of cancer patients will increase by 55%. The number of oncologists is increasing at a much slower rate.

The 12th news story they mention is just a cry of dismay about children with cancer, and how the cancer treatments are causing these children heart problems later in life.

Their conclusion is that they need permission to speed up the testing of new drugs.

 It is so sad to see that our medical system has gone so far down hill that all they can think about is coming up with a new drug (poison) to put into our bodies.  Why not learn to help the body be strong and healthy in a healthy way.  Use food!

Healthy bodies kill off cancer cells all the time.  How do they do it? 

It’s easy, it comes natural to them.  The bodies natural defenses are designed to get rid of any cancer cells that may come along.  They simply use available resources and eliminate the problem.  Why not just make sure that your body has plenty of good natural resources to address any potential problems?

What resources are we talking about?  Vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, proteins, fats, carbohydrates, water, air, muscle, blood, etc.

How does your body get these resources?  Eat good natural wholesome foods.  The less processed most foods are, the more good resources are available to your body. 

One of the shocking things in the medical world is that oncologists rarely ever talk to their patients about the importance of good diet, avoiding toxins, or the simple fact that sugar feeds cancer cells.

It’s estimated that 1.4 million people found out they had cancer in 2008, and that half a million people died from cancer in the U.S.A.  Why do they expect 55% more cancer patients?  Because they expect you to keep buying into the silly notion that you can ignore living a healthy lifestyle and just consume tons of drugs to hide and mask symptoms until your body gives up. 

Anyone who believes that drugs are the answer to health problems simply hasn’t been paying attention.

Drugs never solve a health problem!  They mask a symptom while at the same time causing another less obvious, but sometimes more serious problem.  Drugs always cause an imbalance in the body, that is their purpose.  The only way to restore balance is through a healthy lifestyle. 

Cancer is such an easy problem to solve.  It is just ridiculous that our medical society doesn’t seem to know that.  Cancer is not a mystery!  It is just the result of a body with too many toxins and not enough good resources to clear the toxins.

Remember that health comes from within. We need to give our bodies the resources that they need to take care of themselves.

Just eat a high quality natural foods diet, exercise, drink plenty of good clean water, make sure you get fiber (whole raw foods), get plenty of sleep, breathe deeply, serve others, and have a gratitude attitude.

Your body will take care of you, if you take care of it.

Coach G.

Disclaimer: All thoughts expressed here are the opinion of the author. He does a lot of research to try and be as accurate as possible, but all observations are made from the author’s point of view. Your health is totally in your own hands. Seek out the best knowledge you can find and don’t allow anyone else to make your choices for you. Only your body can cure your body. And of course it can only do that if it has the proper resources to do so. Use any and all information given here at your own risk. If you get healthier and stronger by following the suggestions from this web site, it is your own fault.

Electro-Magnetic Fields (EMFs) are a major source of concern these days.  Nearly everything around us is run using electricity.  In fact if you look into it, you find that the human body is also an electrical machine.  In fact that is why strong electrical fields generated by machines around us can cause problems in the human body.

 There are many studies that show deleterious effects to the human body from EMF emissions.  Also there have been various solutions both suggested and tried to mitigate or eliminate the problems.  Everything from living caveman style to living in a protective bubble.  Which of these are possible, but more importantly desirous?

I like living in a world with many electrical gadgets to embellish our lives.  I see no desirability at all to the caveman lifestyle.  So lets talk more about what we can do to protect ourselves while living in an electrified world.

Some of you may have noticed that in the news lately there has been talk about hybrid vehicles being bad for your health because of the EMF emissions they create.  You may not however know that the current vehicle you are driving may be just as bad or worse.  All types of vehicles on the road today emit strong EMFs, and there is measurable effect to the human body while riding in them.

One solution to this problem is that you can buy shields to plug into your house electrical system.  These drastically cut the amount of excess EMFs in your home.  Some people who have used these have seen dramatic improvements their health and well being.  Some have not.  Why?

Well of course there is variability of product quality.  But some people are just much more sensitive to electrical pollution than others.  However we are all susceptible to some degree, so I think that it is worth while to protect your self.

As I was looking for what might be the best way to protect myself and my family, I looked at many options.  There are devices that put out a cancelling wave to cancel out negative EMFs in the area.  There are devices that absorb some of the EMFs from local electrical devices.  But I decided that a better way would be to have a personal protection shield that could go with me where ever I go.  That way I’m protected at home, at work, while shopping, while driving my car or riding in a bus, or whatever.  So instead of spending thousands of dollars to protect my house, I protect myself for less than a hundred bucks. 

The device that I found and use is called the Q-Link.   It’s fundamental technology can be understood by imagining a tuning fork that vibrates at a certain pitch.  It is sold as a pendant that you wear around your neck.  It is tuned to optimize the human energy system through resonance.  It leads to a re-balancing and restoration of your body’s bio-field according to your individual needs. 

The Q-Link has proven its effectiveness in a wide range of experiments, including trials at UC Irvine, University of Vienna, and Imperial College London, all of which demonstrated significant effects on living systems.

Some the research highlights are:

* Doctors who tested the Q-Link found that it instantaneously amplified healthy energy states, and decreased energy drains caused by a wide variety of stressors. 

* In brainwave studies (EEG), the Q-Link reduced the harmful effects of EMFs from computers, cell phones and other electrical devices.

* World-class athletes reported that the Q-Link improved their mental focus and endurance, giving them a significant competitive edge.

* In live blood studies, the Q-Link led to greater cellular integrity and more efficient blood oxygenation.

If you have concerns about how EMFs  may be affecting your life, I highly recommend you get a Q-Link.

You can learn more and get one by Clicking Here For A Q-Link.

Of course the other things that you can do to minimize the side effects of using electrical devices is to live a healthy lifestyle so that your body has the resources it needs to deal with whatever challenging circumstances it may encounter.

Remember that health comes from within. We need to give our bodies the resources that they need to take care of themselves.

Just eat a high quality natural foods diet, exercise, drink plenty of good clean water, make sure you get fiber (whole raw foods), get plenty of sleep, breathe deeply, serve others, and have a gratitude attitude.

Your body will take care of you, if you take care of it.

Coach G.

Disclaimer: All thoughts expressed here are the opinion of the author. The author does a lot of research to try and be as accurate as possible, but all observations are made from the author’s point of view. Your health is totally in your own hands. Seek out the best knowledge you can find and don’t allow anyone else to make your choices for you. Only your body can cure your body. And of course it can only do that if it has the proper resources to do so. Use any and all information given here at your own risk. If you get healthier and stronger by following the suggestions from this web site, it is your own fault.

I was having a discussion the other day with a lady who was very concerned about her husbands health. I would like to share with you some of our conversation without going into any detail about the specific case. I told her that I was concerned about some of the possible side-effects of some of the drugs that his doctor had him on. Her response to me was, “Well, his doctor has kept him alive so far, so I’m happy.”

His doctor kept him alive????

This lady works hard and makes mostly nutritious meals for her husband. He works hard and is quite physically active. He is a very loving and giving man, often expending much time and energy to help other people without any monetary compensation.

Upon examination of his lifestyle and the things that his doctor is giving him, I would have to say that his lifestyle is keeping him alive in spite of his doctor.

Doctors are not gods! They are men who have gone through a lot of schooling. Unfortunately most of their schooling is designed and guided by pharmaceutical companies. They are taught to give drugs to deal with symptoms that they have been taught to diagnose.

If you meet a medical doctor who knows very much about nutrition you should congratulate him. He studied it out on his own. As unbelievable as it may sound, the typical medical doctor is not taught about food and how it effects the human body. You see, pharmaceutical companies cannot patent food.

Did you know that the third leading cause of death in the U.S. is medicine correctly administered. If you factor in administrative mistakes and overdosing, medicine is number one. That’s right! Ahead of heart disease and cancer.

All drugs have negative side-effects. That is because all drugs cause an imbalance in one or more systems of the body. Most drugs in use today have not even had sufficient studies done on them to show what the long-term side-effects may be.

Please don’t misunderstand me. Doctors are not bad guys. Doctors mean well. They are trying to help people avoid suffering and pain. They have simply gotten caught up in a system going the wrong direction.

Modern medicine is wonderful for emergency situations to save lives. However, headache, high cholesterol, joint pain, high blood pressure, arthritis and the like are not emergency situations. They can easily be handled through positive lifestyle changes including good nutrition and exercise.

On the other hand if you break a bone or suffer other serious injury, if you have a heart attack or stroke, or any other occurrence that brings you to the brink of death, see a medical doctor quickly. They can save your life.

I would even advise you to go see a doctor for aches and pains that you can not explain, or that persist for more than 90 days. But if possible find a doctor who has taken the extra time to study health and nutrition and can suggest wholesome ways to deal with the problems without the side effects of man-made chemicals.

There actually are more and more doctors who are taking the time to learn about how natural real foods help to balance and nourish the human body. Seek them out and you will be way ahead of the game.

Remember that health comes from within. We need to give our bodies the resources that they need to take care of themselves.

Just eat a high quality natural foods diet, exercise, drink plenty of good clean water, make sure you get fiber (whole raw foods), get plenty of sleep, breathe deeply, serve others, and have a gratitude attitude.

Your body will take care of you, if you take care of it.

Coach G.

Disclaimer: All thoughts expressed here are the opinion of the author. He does a lot of research to try and be as accurate as possible, but all observations are made from the author’s point of view. Your health is totally in your own hands. Seek out the best knowledge you can find and don’t allow anyone else to make your choices for you. Only your body can cure your body. And of course it can only do that if it has the proper resources to do so. Use any and all information given here at your own risk. If you get healthier and stronger by following the suggestions from this web site, it is your own fault.

Perhaps you saw recently in the news the story about a study done in Bangladesh where they claim the results show that flu shots are good for pregnant mothers and their unborn infants.

Lets look at what the study actually says.

You can find it here:

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/NEJMoa0708630

First off, note that just like many studies done these days for immunizations and many drugs, there actually is no control group. In other words, none of the results were compared to mothers and/or infants who had not been immunized.

Isn’t that amazing! The comparisons are actually between two different types of immunization methods.

The study was done in an area where the actual frequency of flu in the general population has never been studied and is unknown. In other words there is no way to show that the vaccines caused more or fewer instances of flu than normal.

Let’s look at the numbers.

340 mothers were selected for the study.

316 completed the study. We aren’t told what happened to the other 24.

22 infants had confirmed influenza infection.

159 mothers were given the newer injection, and 6 of their children got influenza.

157 mothers were given the older shot, and 16 of their children got influenza.

When looking at fever and diarrhea, you can see that the infants were more than twice as likely as the mothers to get sick.

Another interesting thing is that the newer injection seemed to cause influenza earlier than the older one, but the older eventually surpassed the newer in numbers.

Respiratory illness with fever was another interesting thing to look at.

110 infants suffered out of 159 in the newer group.

153 infants suffered out 157 in the older group.

As you read through this study you also find out that there were not sufficient materials to test all infants for influenza. So how is there any validity to this test at all?

I don’t see here much argument in favor of getting the flu vaccine.

Another disturbing thing noticed in the data is that 45% of the families of the older vaccine contained smokers. While there was only 40% smokers in the group with the newer vaccine. Therefore the older group would be expected to get a little more illness anyway.

Another thing that disturbed me about this study is that they only had the mothers breast feed for 3 or 4 months on average. No wonder the respiratory and fever problems escalated so dramatically shortly after that time period. They give pregnant women a toxin filled shot (which they see no problem with, because they are drug pushers) then shorten the one action (breast feeding) which builds infants immune systems the very best.

And why did they do this in Bangladesh? Can it be to avoid places where the education level is high enough to know not to do this kind of experimentation with pregnant ladies?

The mean education level of this group of mothers is less than 12 years of school. In other words, they haven’t graduated from high school. They don’t know that breast feeding and eating good food is the surest way to keep their babies healthy.

Bottom line: There is no proof whatsoever in this study to encourage anyone to give flu shots to pregnant women either for their own benefit of for the benefit of their infants.

Vaccines don’t protect children.

People don’t tend to believe me when I say that, so would you believe it from a pharmaceutical chemist and parent?

Shane Ellison’s entire career has been dedicated to the study of molecules; how they give life and how they take from it. He was a two-time recipient of the prestigious Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Grant for his research in biochemistry and physiology. He is a bestselling author, holds a master’s degree in organic chemistry and has first-hand experience in drug design.

See what he says about vaccines here:

http://www.thepeopleschemist.com/view_learning.php?learning_id=25

You are much better off building you and your child’s immune systems by eating good food, drinking clean water, exercising and sleeping regularly, and avoiding the toxins in today’s world.

Vaccines are drugs. Drugs are some of the worst toxins in our environment today. Avoid them as much as possible in all their forms.

Remember that health comes from within. We need to give our bodies the resources that they need to take care of themselves.

Just eat a high quality natural foods diet, exercise, drink plenty of good clean water, make sure you get fiber (whole raw foods), get plenty of sleep, breathe deeply and have a gratitude attitude.

Your body will take care of you, if you take care of it.

Coach G.

It was in 1987 I think.

I had gone back to school at Mesa Community College and I had some eligibility left so I had joined the cross-country team.   I did fairly well for an old guy (I was born in 1956), usually running as the 5th or 6th man on the team.

Well, the season ended around the first of November.   I got a bit lazy and didn’t run much for the rest of November and into December.   Then about mid way through December we were over at my mother-in-law’s house and she mentioned that she had seen in the newspaper an announcement for the Fiesta Bowl Marathon.  

She said, “Layne, you have always talked about running a marathon, why don’t you run this one?   I’ll pay the entry fee for you.”

I thought, “Well, I have always wanted to run one, and I’m not in too bad of shape just coming off of the cross-country season.   Why not.”

I agreed.

The problem was the marathon was in two weeks.

I started to workout again and did several long runs of 6 to 8 miles before marathon day.

I just thought I would take it easy and enjoy a nice long run.   Hey, I had done 20 mile runs in High School.

So, the race started on a beautiful day.   I felt good.   The weather was nice.   I was soon clipping along at an easy 7 minute per mile pace.   I considered slowing down, but I felt really good and comfortable.

Until at about 12 miles into the race.   Suddenly my upper right leg got very tight.   I instantly slowed to about a 10 minute mile pace.

By the time I got to about mile 17, it was just too tight.   I was probably doing about 12 minute miles, but then had to go to a walk.

I walked the next 9 miles.   (There was no way I wasn’t going to finish.)

I gathered up all my intestinal fortitude and ran the last 100 yards to the finish line.

All together it had taken me 4 hours and 40 minutes.   Much different than the 3 hour workout I was thinking it might be.

It took me several months to fully recover.

Lesson #1 - Never run a marathon that you haven’t trained for.

Duh!

Coach G.

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Some times my articles seem a little longer than they should be.

It’s just that I am trying to help people understand some of the processes that go on in the human body.  What an amazing machine the human body is!

Today I thought I would share a simple short summation of things.   Something that people can just kind of take with them and work on, slowly changing their lifestyle to become healthy and happy.

Here it is:

1.  Eat more fresh fruits, vegetables, whole grains and nuts. 

2.  Work up to exercising at least 30 minutes a day, five days a week.  

3.  Stop as many toxins as you can from entering your body. 

4.  Forgive

5.  Give thanks.  

6.  Drink plenty of good clean water.  (Your weight in pounds divided by 10 is the minimum number of cups of water you should get each day.)

7.  Try to get to sleep 2 to 3 hours before midnight each night.

Add variety to most of the above.

They say variety is the spice of life.  Variety is also the foundation of good health. 

If you eat a variety of whole natural foods you will get all the nutrients you need. 

If you do a variety of exercises you can get all the muscles and joints of your body active and strong in all the different directions of motion. 

If you eliminate all variety of toxins your body can rebuild cleanly. 

If you forgive for all variety of offenses, you can let go of all sorts of pain. 

If you show gratitude in all things, you can always be happy.

However, you should hardly ever vary from your daily minimum consumption of water(body weight in pounds/10 cups each day) or from getting a good nights rest.

These are simple rules, that if truly followed will bring great blessings into your life.

(For more details see the list of articles on my website:  http://ghlcom.com )

Coach G.

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The other day I was watching TV and saw an advertisement for a drug that was was supposed to help people who were in danger of prostate problems. As it got to the second half of the ad, where they start to give the precautions, I said to myself, “People who use this drug must not listen to these commercials.”

As it continued to talk about terrible health problems (including death) that the proper use of this drug might possibly cause, I thought back on other similar ads I’ve seen for other drugs. It seems that people are willing to take drugs that promise a possibility of help for what ails them, without regard for the dangers associated with those drugs.

It made me realize that most people must ignore the precautions given about drugs. Why are they willing to do this? Many people take drugs for something as simple as indigestion, while ignoring that these drugs can cause kidney failure, liver failure, ulcers, vomiting, and even death. The excuse is that these side effects are very rare.

The problem is that no matter how rare a side effect might be, it can still be devastating to one who suffers it.

Let’s review what drugs are and how they are made:

Scientific studies reveal that a certain substance helps to promote health in someway.

Drug companies take whatever that substance is (usually a plant) and break it down.

They test each of the components of the substance to see which part causes the effect.

Then they concentrate that particular part of the plant and put it into a pill or capsule.

A new drug is born.

The problem is that even though a plant may have been health promoting, the concentration of a particular part of it makes a substance that is no longer balanced in it’s effect on the human body.

The original plant was balanced by nature (God) to be good for the human body. In a concentrated form it actually becomes a poison. This is why doctors are supposed to be in charge of our intake of drugs, because they are poisons. Unfortunately the same is true of many if not most supplements that people take. Concentrations of a particular substance are almost never a good idea for the human body.

So how do we keep the body in balance? M.D.s will tell you that that is what they are doing by managing your intake of drugs. The problem is that they don’t actually understand enough about the drugs or about the human body to be able to realistically do such a thing. All they can do is wait and see what kind of problem a drug causes you and then prescribe another drug to compensate for that one. Then wait to see what problems that one causes and so on ….

Why not let nature keep your body in balance. Eat all the good foods that God has created for us and enjoy life. The more studies that are done, the more we learn that if people will just eat whole fresh foods, drink good clean water, breath fresh air, exercise regularly, work to serve your fellow man, get a good nights rest, smile and give gratitude, the miraculous human body will take very good care of us for a very long time.

Remember that health comes from within. We need to give our bodies the resources that they need to take care of themselves.

Just eat a high quality natural foods diet, exercise, drink plenty of good clean water, make sure you get fiber (whole raw foods), get plenty of sleep, breathe deeply and have a gratitude attitude.

Your body will take care of you, if you take care of it.

Coach G.

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Are you on a diet?

 I saw this questions today, and my first response was, “What a silly question!” 

Everyone is on a diet of some kind.  Your diet is what you are taking into your body. 

The better question would be, “Are you aware of your diet and it’s consequences?”

Most people, in my opinion are very unaware of their diet and it’s consequences.  They just go along eating what looks good, or sounds good, or smells good.  Unfortunately these perceptions are highly influenced by advertising of all kinds.  Most people do not read food labels, and in fact wouldn’t know what to look for if they did.  Most people eat junk food that they don’t know is junk food.

Even many people who are aware of their diets, because they are “watching” their weight or are concerned about certain health issues, don’t know enough to analyze what their diet is doing to them.

There is so much misleading diet information out there.  It can be a daunting task to make sense of it all.  Many recommended diets for health and weight control, are actually not good for you in the long run.

Keep your diet simple and straight forward.  Don’t go for special mixes or supplements.  These are just extra expense that is not necessary.  As long as you are eating good whole natural foods and eating them mostly in raw form, your body will take in the goodness that God created in these wonderful foods.  Your body will have what it needs to balance it’s systems. 

If you buy packaged foods from the grocery store, please learn to read the labels.  Disregard all health claims printed on the package, they are meaningless.  The nutrition label can be useful, but when it really comes down to your health, it too is mostly meaningless.  What you really want to read is the ingredient list! 

The major thing that you are doing in reading the ingredient list is to make sure that there are not toxins that will cause harm in the human body.   The worst ones you want to watch out for are:

High Fructose Corn Syrup

Hydrogenated Oil (any kind of oil)

The elimination of those two ingredients would probably improve the health of the nation immensely. 

The second group of things to try to eliminate would be those that are not necessarily toxins but are know to compromise your health in various ways.  The worst of these offenders would be:

Sugar and ALL artificial sweeteners (sugar is much better than any artificial sweetener)

MSG (Mono Sodium Glutamate)

Artificial Colors or Flavors of any kind

Next, watch out for any chemical names that you can’t identify.  In many instances these are just vitamins that have been added in, but sometimes these are strong chemicals that can cause imbalances in the human body. 

Ideally the ingredients should be words you can understand, that you could possibly grow in your garden, or your neighbor’s garden (if your thumb isn’t so green).

Of course the best course would be to buy fresh fruit, veggies, whole grains, nuts & seeds, and lentils and prepare them yourself at home.  Try to get to the point of eating 80% of these in a raw form. 

Encourage those that you love and care about to become aware of their diets.  Help them to learn to read labels and/or buy fresh food.  Ignore all the hype about calories, proteins, carbohydrates, fats, etc. 

Try to eat good food, drink plenty of good water, get a good nights sleep each night, exercise 5 or 6 times a week, and let your body take good care of you.

Remember that health comes from within. We need to give our bodies the resources that they need to take care of themselves.

Just eat a high quality natural foods diet, exercise, drink plenty of good clean water, make sure you get fiber (whole raw foods), get plenty of sleep, breathe deeply and have a gratitude attitude.

Your body will take care of you, if you take care of it.

Coach G.

Find spiritual success and have a little financial success by going to http://ghlcom.com/money

Salmonella has been in the news lately because of wide spread outbreaks of food poisoning around the country (particularly the southwest US). At first they blamed it on tomato imports, but then discovered that that couldn’t account for most of the cases. Because of how wide spread the infection is they are having a lot of trouble pinning it down to a root cause.

I have an idea of what that cause may be.

Remember, as discussed in my article on Salmonella and Eggs, the truth about Salmonella is that it really can’t take hold and cause any problems in a healthy human body. In fact most of us have some small amount of Salmonella introduced into our systems all the time. In a healthy body the Salmonella is controlled and killed by healthy intestinal flora in the gut.

In the laboratory when they take a sample from someone that they suspect may have Salmonella poisoning they have to add an “enrichment culture” to the sample to get the Salmonella to grow. Otherwise the other “beneficial bacteria” from the gut inhibits it’s growth.

In other words, Salmonella can only cause trouble in a system with compromised intestinal flora. So if you keep a healthy intestinal environment you don’t need to worry about Salmonella poisoning, unless you could somehow ingest a whole bunch of it at one time.

These outbreaks of Salmonella poisoning could just be that the Standard American Diet (SAD) is catching up to a larger and larger portion of our society. And the larger outbreaks would be where the Salmonella can grow the best. Remember that Salmonella is all around us all the time in small quantities. If we give it conditions conducive to it’s growth, it will grow.

Processed foods create an unhealthy intestinal environment. The more processed foods we eat the more acidic our bodies become. Salmonella thrives in warm, moist, acidic conditions. Processed foods and chlorinated water, as well as all of our other environmental toxins in our modern world, combine to kill off much of the beneficial intestinal flora that keeps our digestive systems healthy.

People need to get away from the Standard American Diet and start eating whole healthy foods that are conducive to a healthy intestinal environment.

The medical establishment, in my opinion, is only making things worse. They basically tell people to eat foods that have been sterilized. Sterilized foods worsen the condition of the intestines. You can not stay alive eating dead food. They give people antibiotics which kill the good bacteria in the gut that keep us healthy. The antibiotics are less and less effective all the time as the bad bacteria adapt to survive them.

Individually the Salmonella bacterium are a stronger more resilient bacteria than the intestinal ‘good bacterium’ that would keep them in check (at least in an acidic environment). But, usually in a healthy system the ‘good’ far outnumber the ‘bad’ bacteria. Thus the healthy body simply casts aside the bad stuff and gets back to business as usual.

However, the modern American lifestyle has depleted the health of the intestinal environment of many people to the point where a Salmonella type bacteria can throw the whole system out of kilter, simply because there aren’t enough ‘good guys’ left to keep the ‘bad guys’ out.

So, how do you make sure that you and your family and friends have a healthy intestinal environment?

First, don’t do things that will kill off your good intestinal bacteria. That means don’t drink a lot of chlorinated water. Chlorine will kill off the bacteria. Don’t smoke. Don’t drink alcohol. Avoid foods treated with pesticides as much as possible. Avoid antibiotics.

Second, do things that are good for your intestinal flora. Eat fresh fruit and vegetables and whole grains. Perhaps add Jerusalem artichokes to your diet. Get plenty of healthy natural fiber which is also good for the intestines. You can also use natural yogurts that contain live beneficial bacteria, or drink raw milk which contains those beneficial bacteria.

Make sure that you are drinking a bare minimum of 10 glasses of water everyday. Exercise regularly to help keep the immune system in good shape. Whole raw grains, fruits, and vegetables, along with plenty of water will keep your intestinal ‘good guys’ alive and well.

If you live a healthy lifestyle your immune system will take care of any stray bacteria that happens to come along.

Also make sure that you are not growing a lot of excess Salmonella bacteria in your kitchen. Remember it loves warm, moist places. Keep your kitchen clean and dry. Many people unknowingly grow Salmonella on their kitchen counter tops. (That’s the other major source the officials should be looking for.)

If you already have a weakened immune system, it may be a good idea to take some extra vitamin C for a while until your body can rebuild with good healthy foods. (See my article on Vitamin C.)

Remember that health comes from within. We need to give our bodies the resources that they need to take care of themselves.

Just eat a high quality natural foods diet, exercise, drink plenty of good clean water, make sure you get fiber (whole raw foods), get plenty of sleep, breathe deeply and have a gratitude attitude.

Your body will take care of you, if you take care of it.

Coach G.

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When it comes to exercise, there are all kinds of ways to do it, and many different “experts” telling you how it should be done. Today I want to help you understand a little more about exercise.

How important is exercise?

We all know that you need to eat good food to get the nutrition that your body needs. But how does your body get that nutrition out of the food and into all the different parts of your body?

Well, it takes muscle. There are many processes involved, but muscle is what makes everything move. So, it is obviously very important to have muscles that can do the necessary work. Of course you know that the heart is muscle that causes the blood to circulate. Muscles all over the body continue that process of moving nutrition around to get it to every cell in the body. Some muscles you are probably aware of, but many you are not.

Exercise is what helps muscles to grow and to get the conditioning they need to optimize bodily processes. There are good ways to exercise, as well as bad ways to exercise. Muscles grow after stimulation. Basically, when we use muscle we cause it to be stressed. As we rest, the muscle recovers from the stress and tries to build itself stronger in preparation for the next stress that we may put it under.

Couch potatoes don’t stress their muscles, so the muscle doesn’t grow. Their circulation is poor and they gain a lot of body fat. Muscle fiber is active. If you build good healthy muscle fiber, it helps to rev up your metabolism, circulate your blood, and burn off excess body fat.

Notice that I referred to good healthy muscle. You can actually build muscle that isn’t as healthy as other muscle. Surprise! We will get to that later.

Exercise also helps to develop healthy lungs that are very good at getting oxygen to the cells of the body. Breathing deeply is one of the healthiest things you can do for a body.

An interesting story:

Covert Bailey is an exercise guru who doesn’t make exercise tapes. He does seminars to inspire and motivate people to exercise regularly. He used to be a certified nutritionist. Then he recognized that the best improvement in peoples lives is brought about when they exercise regularly. Exercise even helps people to eat healthier, because a healthy body desires healthy food.

Why do so many exercise gurus approach it in so many different ways?

There are so many different ways to exercise, it can be lots of fun trying out different exercises and finding what you like. Many people develop a favorite exercise and do it all the time. This can be a good thing if it keeps you exercising regularly. However, this can be a bad thing if you always exercise your body in the same way. It is still better than no exercise at all, but it is important to work your body in many different ways to develop all of your muscles and also to avoid overuse injuries.

Many “exercise gurus” are people who have made a particular form of exercise their life. They have had success with an exercise and have helped others to have some success with it also. This can sometimes blind them to the disadvantages of always doing the same thing.

Is there a right way to exercise?

Ideally you want an exercise that will work the whole body. One way to do that is to make sure that you are doing different exercise routines on different days. This also helps alleviate monotony.

Also remember that muscle needs rest to build and grow. So one common thing to do is concentrate on upper body workouts one day, then lower body the next day. It is also important to rest from exercise one day a week. A Sabbath day for the body.

One of the popular things that is out there is the 12 to 20 minute exercise programs. These are the programs I want to warn you about. They appeal to our hurried lifestyles. They promise wonderful results with just a little bit of work.

They actually do make some good points, but they also miss some important ones. Short but intense work outs do help to build strong hearts and lungs, but that is because they are hard on your heart and lungs. If you are trying to build from a weakened position this is not the way to go. Over taxing the heart, lungs, or other muscles can cause major problems.

It is best to ease into exercise. Then as the body gets stronger and more used to a little exertion, it will allow you to move up to higher levels of exertion. You do want to get to where you can exert yourself every couple of days. This why coaches work intervals into a work out after a basic fitness level has been attained. The exertion helps us to breath deeply and build powerful muscle that is capable of being called on to do wonderful things whenever the body requires it. But again, the hard exertion should not be done day after day. Rest is just as important as the exertion for building strong bodies.

The other problem with a short intense work out is that the body doesn’t build the capability of endurance unless there is a sustained effort that goes beyond 20 minutes. Endurance should not be under estimated. The endurance building mode is where the body builds new pathways to get oxygen and nutrients to the cells of the body.

Endurance training is where healthy muscle is built. Short bursts of intense exercise builds muscle fiber that doesn’t have the capability to endure. It doesn’t have a good blood flow going to it. It is white instead of red. It looks like swollen atrophied muscle. It is only good for quick short bursts of energy. Life is not made that way. Life requires endurance. I have often seen muscle builders (you know, the ones that bulk up at the gym) get a job on a construction site and not even be able to handle the first half of the first day.

Also beware of weight machines that only allow a muscle to function in one plane of motion. The joints and muscles need to develop strength in all directions, not just one.

Long slow exercises are good for building endurance, but if long and slow is all you ever do, you don’t develop speed and power. You want to develop both kinds of muscle fiber. You need a good combination of both. It is best to alternate hard and fast work outs with long and slow workouts. This gives you a rest day from each as you do the other. Again, make sure that you rest from all exercising one day a week.

Endurance training is simply doing something consistently for a period of time. Twenty minutes is the minimum. The longer you exercise the more endurance you build. But never go for much longer workouts than you are used to. Over exertion can do more tearing down than building up. It is suggested that the best method for lengthening out a workout is to just increase your workout 10% every two weeks. In other words gradually build up to the level you want to be at. Don’t over do.

Interval training is important, so lets talk a little about how to do it properly. We want to build the strength and power that we get through interval training, but in a safe way. Always make sure that your body is warmed up and comfortable before going into an intense portion of a workout. This is usually accomplished with a warm up period.

A warm up consists of doing similar motions to what you will perform in the intense part of the workout, but in a relaxed way that won’t stress the muscles too much before they are ready. A warm up can take 5 or 10 minutes.

After the warm up, begin exercising at a pace that is relaxed and normal for you. You should be able to carry on a conversation with someone during this part of the exercise. Then when you feel ready, suddenly increase your exertion level.

Don’t go full out, but try to do about 75 to 80 percent of your maximum effort. Try to hold this level of exertion for 30 seconds to a minute. Then drop back down to an easy exercise level. This is the exertion-recovery cycle. There is an interval of exertion followed by an interval of rest. Thus the name, interval training.

Don’t stop exercising during the recovery. Keep going, even if it seems very slow. You will actually recover quicker if you continue to exercise at an easy pace, than if you stop completely.

The recovery time should be somewhere between the length of the exertion and twice the length of the exertion. The longer recovery is for when you are just beginning an interval program, and the the shorter for when you are in better shape and trying to maximize performance. At the end of the recovery interval start the next exertion interval.

When first starting interval training do only about 4 interval cycles, followed by a nice relaxing cool down. As you get in better shape and build endurance, gradually increase up to 10 or 12 cycles.

Remember that variety is the spice of life. Do a variety of exercises, trying to make sure you are exercising all the major muscle groups of the body. Also vary the length and intensity of your work outs. Keep it fun.

If you are out of shape and just starting an exercise program, be sure to check with your doctor to see how cautious you should be with an exercise program. Start slowly. Walking is an excellent start. Do only walking for at least a couple of weeks before starting interval work.

Interval work can be incorporated into most exercise routines. Walking, running, bicycling, swimming, canoing, hiking, stair stepping, or whatever you like to do. You could even do it with house cleaning.

Find an exercise that you enjoy and will do regularly. If you can get a buddy to exercise with you, all the better. Be sure to drink plenty of water before, during, and after exercising. Also eat good sources of both carbohydrates and protein within about 30 minutes of finishing your exercise routine. This will allow your body to start the rebuilding and strengthening process.

Remember that health comes from within. We need to give our bodies the resources that they need to take care of themselves.

Just eat a high quality natural foods diet, exercise, drink plenty of good clean water, make sure you get fiber (whole raw foods), get plenty of sleep, breathe deeply and have a gratitude attitude.

Your body will take care of you, if you take care of it.

Coach G.

Success in health comes from lifestyle described at http://ghlcom.com.

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Wheat is a grain that has been said by prophets of God to be good for man. Grains should be the staff of life according to God.

Why then are there so many people that will tell you to avoid grains, and wheat in particular?

Let’s take a look at what we know about wheat.

Wheat contains plenty of nutrients. In fact one of the interesting studies that has been done with mice is to feed them different diets over long periods of time. You see, it is estimated that mice metabolism is very much like human metabolism. So, they test stuff on mice and then assume that it will have the same or similar effects on humans. One advantage of testing with mice is that a month in the life of a mouse is like a year in a humans life. So you can run what would be a 3 year study in humans, in just 3 months with mice. So anyway, they fed these mice all kinds of different diets for long periods of time, even over generations of mice. One of the things that they discovered was that they could live healthy lives for generations eating just wheat and powdered milk.

So, if you are looking for what you could survive on long term for emergency food storage, consider wheat and powdered milk.

One question that many people ask is what kind of wheat is better, white or red? Looking at nutritional data on them it is kind of a toss up. I tend to prefer the red myself. Red or darker colored foods generally have more phytonutrients that don’t show up on nutrition labeling. Plus I like the nuttier taste.

Now back to why many people, even some doctors and nutritionists, tell you to avoid wheat. One of the most identified allergies is to wheat gluten. Why is this? Well, unfortunately most wheat consumed in the Standard American Diet (SAD) is processed and refined wheat. It has most of the goodness of the whole grain stripped away from it. What is left is a substance that is just a drain on the human body. Because the nutrition is mostly gone, the body has to try and process the intake of this kind of food without having the proper resources to do so. Instead of helping the body to grow strong, like whole grain products do, it is much more like a toxin that just causes the body problems.

The Standard American Diet also creates a problem known as leaky gut. This allows partially digested food to enter the blood stream in chunks that would normally be to large to enter the blood stream. These larger chunks of food are seen as foreign invaders in the blood stream so the body creates an allergic reaction to try to take care of them. It has also been discovered that the use of aspirin and NSAIDs specifically contribute to the entry of wheat proteins into the blood.

So, if you already have a wheat allergy, you will have to avoid wheat while you get your gut healthy again. After you get your leaky gut taken care of (about 6 months of no processed foods or drugs) you can slowly reintroduce wheat back into your diet. Just make sure it is whole wheat.

Whole wheat has another very cool ability. It is one of the best things you can find to balance the acid/alkaline systems of the body. Many of those who tell people to avoid grains are the same people who tell you to learn to eat for your body type. If you study eating for your body type, you find out that it is actually all about balancing the bodies acid/alkaline ratios. So instead of memorizing lists of what you can and can’t eat, just get your gut healthy and then eat plenty of wheat on a regular basis.

Wheat is very good for building a good strong body. It is plentiful and easy to use. One of my favorite things to do is to just throw wheat into a crock pot with 3 times as much water as wheat. Set the crock pot on low before going to bed at night. When you wake up in the morning you have a delicious and nutritious cereal ready to eat. Add honey and milk for a great breakfast.

Freshly ground wheat also makes a healthy and delicious bread or cereal. Add in a little powdered milk, salt, and water and you are good to go. For a simple recipe just use about 4 cups of freshly ground whole wheat flour, approximately 2 cups of water, 4 teaspoons of sea salt, and 3 Tablespoons of powdered milk. You may have to adjust the amounts of water and wheat a little bit depending on what type of wheat you are using. This makes a bread that is good tasting and that you could live off, if you needed to. I quite often just eat it plain, but I also like to eat mine with butter and honey, both excellent health promoting foods. Honey is another of those things you can very easily add to food storage supplies.

I have heard of a retreat that is held in a mountainous area to help people regain health and vigor. They go into the mountains and hike and camp for exercise and fresh air. The only food they take is freshly cracked wheat.

Good News For Allergy Sufferers

I also have good news for anyone out there that might have gluten allergy problems. You can get the goodness of wheat from wheat grass or wheat grass juice without any gluten. Wheat grass is actually an even better source of nutrition than the wheat grains. As wheat grass grows it pulls the nutrients from the soil and becomes an even better source of minerals and enzymes. The gluten stays in the grain seed, and as long as you harvest the grass before it goes to seed and creates new grains, the grass is also gluten free.

Now I know that most of you don’t want to go to the trouble of planting and harvesting your own wheat grass, so here is a link to the company that perfected the process of harvesting wheat grass and freeze drying it into a powder that retains all the phytonutrients, chlorophyll, antioxidants, amino acids, vitamins, minerals, and enzymes. They grow everything organically, so there are no pesticides to worry about. Click here to get the Original Certified Organic Wheat Grass Juice Powder.

It can be easy to boost your health.

Just eat a high quality natural foods diet, exercise, drink plenty of good clean water, make sure you get fiber (whole raw foods), get plenty of sleep, breathe deeply and have a gratitude attitude.

Your body will take care of you, if you take care of it.

Coach G.

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This comment was recently left on my blog, and I would like to share my response with everyone.

Here is the comment as it appeared:

Christi Says: 

Hi Coach G. I am an old family friend! I love your website and check in on it often. These are many of the ideals I was raised with and I am glad to see so many out here using such good common sense! Anyway I was wondering if you have come across anything more holistic for itchy eyes due to seasonal allegies. I am sick of taking bendadril and then caffine to wake up! All I could find online was cucumber slices on my eyes and that worked great til I took them off! I hope everyone is well in your family!!
-Christi

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Here is my response:

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Christi,

It’s nice to hear from you. I hope this finds you and your family doing well.
Sorry to hear about your allergy problem. Perhaps this information could help a little.

Itchy eyes caused by allergies is never fun. I developed an allergy after going through chemotherapy. It still bothers me a little sometimes, but it seems to be getting milder.
The most important thing to do is to take care of the underlying cause. Here are two ideas.

1. Many allergies will go away, or at least lessen if all processed sugar is eliminated from the diet. This is not an immediate solution, but in a few weeks the symptoms should subside.

2. The basic underlying cause of most allergies is ‘leaky gut syndrome’.
Leaky gut is damage to the bowel lining, caused by antibiotics, toxins, bad diet choices, or infection. It can lead to increased permeability of the gut wall to toxins, microbes, undigested food, waste or larger than normal macromolecules. This increased permeability allows things through the wall of the intestine that usually would not get through. The body recognizes these things as foreign elements in the blood stream and so initiates an immune response to get rid of them. In many cases this is an allergic response.

In other words, leaky gut syndrome is caused by the Standard American Diet (SAD) of processed foods and the polluted environments we live in. It causes inflammation in the intestine.

So what are the steps to take to heal leaky gut?

Eliminate Toxins - Avoid the use of chemical products. Eliminate the use of : chlorinated water, drugs of any type (if it’s OK with your doctor, of course), antibiotics, MSG (Mono Sodium Glutamate), High Fructose Corn Syrup, white flour, white sugar, hydrogenated oils of any kind, all artificial sweeteners, and artificial coloring.

Also anything that has been pasteurized is dead food and is a drain on the body.

Leaky gut also causes problems with mineral absorption. I suggest that you supplement with a good macro-mineral and trace-mineral supplement for a while. Ideally you should get all the minerals and trace minerals you need through eating good fresh organically grown foods. But leaky gut makes it harder to get the minerals from your food. I like the mineral supplement made by Trace Minerals Research based out of Roy Utah. It is made from the great inland sea water and includes all the trace minerals. It is also in a form that the body can absorb very easily. Minerals are so imperative to good health. I actually like to get the “Gourmet Spray Salt Seasoning” made by Trace Minerals Research. I spray it on my food, and I actually use a spray or two in my water bottle each time I fill it up if I’m using the RO (Reverse Osmosis) water.

Fiber in your diet is important to get the gut functioning properly. It helps with nutrient absorption. It also keeps you regular. The best way to get fiber is by eating fresh fruits and veggies. Eat them raw as often as possible. Also eat whole grains and nuts.

Get good nutrition by eating plenty of leafy greens and whole grains as well as fresh fruit, and get good fat by eating nuts, particularly walnuts and pecans. In fact some people have been helped with allergies simply by getting oils in proper balance by eating walnuts or pecans regularly. Lots of antioxidant rich foods (the colorful ones) should also be eaten.

The intestines need plenty of water to keep them flowing and cleaned out. One very successful gut doctor has his patients drink a quart of good clean water one half hour before each meal. My basic rule of thumb for water is to take your weight in pounds, divide it by 10, and drink at least that many cups of water every day. That is a baseline. If you are trying to flush something out of your system or lose weight, increase that amount by up to a factor of 2. (In other words, double it.) Of course if you are working out in the hot Arizona sun, your water intake must increase to compensate for that as well.

If you can find yogurt that has the live bacteria in it, but no artificial sweeteners, that is a good way to repopulate the good bacteria in the gut to help with digestive health.
Avoid antibiotics, they kill both good and bad bacteria, and you really need the good ones.
If you really need to have an antibiotic, use garlic. It has good antibiotic properties against the bad bacteria, but generally won’t harm the good bacteria.

As you live a healthy lifestyle and eat well your body can heal it’s self and eventually allergies can subside and disappear.

In the mean time, blink a lot and get plenty of rest for those sore eyes.

As far as other holistic types of remedies, there are energy techniques for treating allergy problems. Some of these are EFT, APN, NET, and TBM.
There are some learning curves to learning how to use these, or you can find a practitioner to go to.

There are also some herbs that can be used for a temporary solution. Butterbur has been used as a successful antihistamine.
I’ve also been told that a herbal combination product of quercetin and stinging nettles works well to combat allergy symptoms.
Some use quercitin alone. Quercetin is found naturally in apples, onions, red grapes, citrus fruit, broccoli, green leafy vegetables, cherries, raspberries, and the fruit of prickly pear cactus.
I discovered that quercetin is also found in tomatoes with the interesting side note that organically grown tomatoes had 79% more quercetin than conventionally grown tomatoes.

Quercetin is also used in conjunction with natural buffered Vitamin C.

Apples are so high in so many good things. I’m beginning to believe that perhaps an apple a day will keep the doctor away.

Caution: the benadril and caffeine are not doing you any good. They are actually both introducing more stress into the system. They are both toxins as far as the body is concerned.

Good luck with this Christi. Keep me up dated from time to time on how you are doing. Also feel free to write with any other questions or concerns.

Remember that I am not a doctor, and this is not medical advice. This is just information I have learned over the years. My opinions are only mine, you must decide for yourself.
I would be happy to help you in finding any other information you would like to find on the subject, or any other subject for that matter.

Coach G.

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I hope you found that interesting and perhaps even helpful if you are in a similar situation.

Remember that health comes from within. We need to give our bodies the resources that they need to take care of themselves. Treat them like your own children. Give them the things they need, but don’t indulge them too much. Protect them from the bad stuff. Encourage them to work and be productive members of society. Make sure they get enough sleep, but don’t let them be too lazy.

Just eat a high quality natural foods diet, exercise, drink plenty of good clean water, make sure you get fiber (whole raw foods), get plenty of sleep, breathe deeply and have a gratitude attitude.

Your body will take care of you, if you take care of it.

Coach G.

Success in health comes from lifestyle described at http://ghlcom.com.

Find spiritual success and have a little financial success by going to http://ghlcom.com/money

They are working on creating a new drug for use in combating hepatitis C. They are using a substance called naringenin. It is a substance found in grapefruit and other citrus fruits.

Hepatitis is the major cause of liver disease in the world. The problem with current hepatitis treatments (the reason they are looking for better ones) is that they don’t work very well, and they have negative side effects.

The problem is that they want to isolate naringenin from grapefruit and concentrate it, and put it into a pill that they can patent and sell. In other words, they want to make a new drug. Of course, experience shows that any time we concentrate a substance and give it to people it always causes unwanted side effects.

Why? Because it causes an unnatural imbalance in the body.

Modern medicine has gone so far down the road of drugging everyone for every little thing, that they can’t even recognize the ridiculousness of their methods.

The original idea was of course a common thought that many of us have when we are immature and inexperienced. “If a little of this helps the body to heal, then a lot of it will help even more.”

News flash!!! More is not always better. Sometimes it is just more. Sometimes it is dangerous.

Naringenin is only a small part of what makes up a grapefruit. There are many other things in a grapefruit that can also help to optimize health. The creator balances these things in such away that it also helps to balance body systems.

Man has shown his ignorance time and time again in his inability to understand and balance the systems of the body.

Hepatitis actually means inflammation of the liver. Inflammation denotes that something has harmed or caused damage. The liver is a major organ in the body that is important in metabolism and also helps in detoxification. Guess what most drugs have in common. They eventually cause kidney and/or liver damage.

So the whole idea to create a drug to help with hepatitis is somewhat ludicrous.

Of course one can always hope for that magic pill that will cause healing and have no negative side effects. But that isn’t reality when you look at the history of medicine. History has many important lessons for us. However we are usually too egotistical. We think that we are now so much smarter than people were in the past, we can do the same things with a different outcome.

The researchers working on this new drug are also quick to point out the you can’t get the beneficial result by simply eating grapefruit. Why? Because you would have to eat a lot of it to get the same effect (duh, they concentrated it), and if you eat too much grapefruit it might interfere with other drugs that you may be taking.

Why would grapefruit interfere with drug effectiveness? Because it helps to detoxify the body, and drugs are toxins.

To avoid hepatitis and other virus related infections, or any infections for that matter, do things that will boost your immune system. The best thing that you can do is to eat good wholesome food, drink plenty of water, get plenty of rest, get regular exercise, think happy thoughts and allow your body to do it’s thing.

Of course with hepatitis in particular you also want to avoid promiscuous sexual relationships as well as homosexual relationships.

Avoid toxins of all kinds as much as possible. Recognize that anything can become a toxin if taken in excess.

Just eat a high quality natural foods diet, exercise, drink plenty of good clean water, make sure you get fiber (whole raw foods), get plenty of sleep, breathe deeply and have a gratitude attitude.

Your body will take care of you, if you take care of it.

Coach G.

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Salt is one of those things which is very interesting. It is vital for the human body to function. It is also considered to be a major health problem for many people. Why is that?

Perhaps we can shed a little light on this subject. When we speak of salt we generally are thinking about sodium, or more specifically, sodium chloride. There are however many salts made up of many minerals.

Table salt is generally made up of nearly all sodium chloride. High salt intake is considered unhealthy. It causes an imbalance in the blood vessels of the body, as well as in the blood it’s self.

Many processed and packaged foods are very high in sodium, and so people are cautioned against using them too liberally.

While I was studying water I discovered that the high sodium diet is not a problem if one drinks enough water. This fascinated me, and also helped me to understand how very important it can be to drink lots of water every day. Given the proper resources the body is very good at balancing body systems.

I have further learned that it is very important to also get other mineral salts into the body to help in all the functions of the body. I now suggest that people use sea salt regularly to get all necessary minerals and trace minerals.

It is actually better to get your minerals and trace minerals from eating plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables. But since so many of us don’t get good organic produce, I do recommend some supplementation with sea salt.

The next thing that you need to know is not to buy sea salt from a grocery store, and even be leery of sea salts sold in health food stores. Most of them are actually just like normal table salt without hardly any trace minerals at all. Look for an actual listing of trace minerals on the label. Even though it may say that it is made from evaporated sea salt it is usually processed to the point of being just like table salt.

I suggest the use of products made by Trace Minerals Research. Seawater has a similar mineral content to the human blood stream, including all the trace minerals. Trace Minerals Research makes sea salt from the inland sea called The Great Salt Lake, in Utah. Their products contain all the trace minerals found in the sea. They are very healthful for the human body. You can’t buy them directly from the company unless you are a wholesale buyer. But they can be bought through “Mineral Oasis”.

Salt can cause health problems if too much is used without adequate water intake, but it is important to make sure that you are getting all the trace minerals that are available through eating good food, or at least using a good supplement.

Again, be sure that if you supplement with minerals of any kind, make sure that you are drinking plenty of water so that the body can use what it needs and flush out what it does not need.

Plenty of water means drinking at least one cup of water for every ten pounds of body weight each day.

Remember that health is all about balance in the body. Given the right resources from good food, along with rest and exercise and plenty of water, the body will keep the proper balance to keep you healthy.

Just eat a high quality natural foods diet, exercise, drink plenty of good clean water, make sure you get fiber (whole raw foods), get plenty of sleep, breathe deeply and have a gratitude attitude.

Your body will take care of you, if you take care of it.

Coach G.

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Here are 11 things that every cancer patient needs to know. They are not necessarily in order of importance. The big scary cancer thing can be a lot easier than you may think.

First thing is: Don’t blame yourself. It’s not your fault.

Second thing is: Don’t blame someone else. There are so many things in our polluted world of today that can contribute to and cause cancer that it is nearly impossible to say exactly why you have cancer. I can point to at least four major contributing factors to my getting cancer, but there are also many other small contributing factors. Don’t worry about the causes, except of course, to eliminate the very obvious ones from your lifestyle.

Third thing is: Forgive and love yourself and all around you. A good attitude is probably the strongest indicator of how well you will survive.

Fourth: If you haven’t done so already, stop eating processed sugar. Cancer feeds on sugar. Oncologists generally don’t tell you that, because it is not part of their training. Also, do not use artificial sugar substitutes. They are even worse than the sugar. Don’t worry about eating natural sugars found in your fresh fruits and vegetables.

Fifth: Eat lots of fresh fruits and vegetables, particularly darker green, leafy vegetables. This is where you will get a lot of your antioxidants and phytonutrients to help fight off the corrupted elements in your body

Sixth: Eat lots of good raw nuts, seeds, and whole grains. You’ve got to have lots of good stuff to rebuild a better body, and balance all the systems in the body. Whole grains are particularly good at balancing the body.

Seventh: Drink plenty of good clean water. This is so important in flushing out the bad stuff. One tenth of your body weight in pounds is the number of cups of water you should drink throughout the day, MINIMUM. Try to get even more than that. Don’t worry about how many times you have to make the trip to the bathroom. Trust me, it is worth it.

Eighth: Be sure to get a good variety of minerals in your diet, including the trace minerals. If you are eating much grocery-store-bought foods, you probably should consider supplementing with a sea-salt that contains all the trace minerals. Nothing good happens in the body without minerals.

Ninth: Never use a microwave oven, or eat anything that has been cooked in a microwave oven. Did you know that they test microwave ovens for safety to make sure that they don’t leak too much radiation, but they never test the food that comes out of them. The one doctor who actually tested people eating foods that had been microwaved, discovered that the microwave oven actually disrupts and deforms the DNA of the food, basically turning the food into carcinogens.

Tenth: I highly recommend using high-doses of Vitamin C. On my website you will find an article all about Vitamin C and why, when and how to use it. http://ghlcom.com/content/VitaminC.html

Eleventh: Get a little exercise and sunshine at least six days a week! Exercise is what makes the body function. Without exercise of some kind you don’t have the muscle tone to move things around inside your body, delivering nutrients to where they need to be and moving waste out of the body.

Your body is the only thing that can cure cancer! Give it all the tools it needs to do so.

Generally speaking, living a healthy life isn’t really that difficult.  It just requires a few decisions. 

Just eat a high quality natural foods diet, exercise, drink plenty of good clean water, make sure you get fiber (whole raw foods), get plenty of sleep, breathe deeply and have a gratitude attitude.

Your body will take care of you, if you take care of it.

Coach G.

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The human body contains lots of minerals. These minerals get used and discarded. They have to be recycled.

Mineral ions with positive and negative charges are called electrolytes. These electrical charges allow them to function in the body as messengers that are used to make practically everything work.

The body keeps a very delicate balance of minerals in the blood stream. When your body doesn’t get the minerals that it needs you are in trouble.

Many health concerns have been helped by simply making sure that the body gets the minerals that it needs. So the trick is, how do you know what your body needs, and how do you get them in a form that the body can use?

The body can only use minerals that are in ionic form. Colloidal or chelated minerals can be broken down by the body to ionic form, but only a small portion gets used. It is much better to put minerals into the body that are already in ionic form.

Plants draw minerals from the earth and make them available to us in an ionic form that is readily available to the human body. They are the best sources for us to get our minerals from.

The more that we process the foods that we grow, the more vitamins and minerals are lost. Eat your plant foods fresh and raw when ever possible.

How do you know what minerals your body needs? You really don’t. You can’t micromanage minerals. Don’t try. There are many macro and micro minerals. They all work together to help the human body function correctly. There are many supplements that you can buy for this mineral or that mineral. But how could you possibly know if you were balancing your minerals, or causing an imbalance?

If you only supplement the macro minerals (calcium, sodium, magnesium, potassium, etc.) you might be low on trace minerals. Trace minerals (or micro minerals) are minerals that your body needs in very small amounts, but they are still necessary for a healthy body.

The thing with trace minerals, as with many other things, is that you can get too much of some of them to the point that they would become a toxin in the body.

One quick example:

A little while ago there were news stories about arsenic in the water supply. Most everyone knows that arsenic is a poison that can kill you. What most people don’t know is that arsenic is also a trace mineral that is necessary for human health. The news stories were all about the Democrats in Washington D.C. trying to give President Bush a hard time because he wouldn’t push for lowering the regulation for the acceptable amount of arsenic in drinking water. The Democrats had made the erroneous assumption that there should be zero arsenic in the water. President Bush correctly stated that the science did not show that the level needed to be any lower than the current standard of 10 parts per billion.

You see, if you don’t get any arsenic, you will actually get sick. You can have an arsenic deficiency. Some researches have recommended that water should have an arsenic level of at least 1 part per billion.

So, how do you get the right amounts of minerals and trace minerals?

Believe it or not, you will get the minerals and trace minerals you need by eating organic produce daily.

You can also get them by eating traditionally grown produce, but besides being lower in vitamin and mineral content than organic produce, there is also more danger of getting chemicals that you don’t want.

I should mention that if you are currently having health problems, and you think that you are not getting the minerals that your body needs to function, your doctor can run tests to see if you are actually mineral deficient.

If you need to supplement, I suggest you go with a seawater based mineral supplement. Rain and erosion washes minerals to the sea. Seawater has a similar mineral content to the human blood stream, including all the trace minerals. Probably the best mineral supplements I have seen come from the inland sea called The Great Salt Lake, in Utah. They are made by “Trace Minerals Research” and can be bought through “Mineral Oasis”.

The proper lifestyle as a whole is important. For instance, if you are trying to eat good food, exercising and drinking enough water, your body can flush out any excess minerals (and other junk) that you might get from food sources that might not be balanced.

As you round out your lifestyle with healthy actions and foods, your body will naturally balance all of its resources to keep you going strong.

Just eat a high quality natural foods diet, exercise, drink plenty of good clean water, make sure you get fiber (whole raw foods), get plenty of sleep, breathe deeply and have a gratitude attitude.

Your body will take care of you, if you take care of it.

Coach G.

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So the CDC reports that hospitalizations related to kidney problems have quadrupled in the last 25 years. That is a bit scary. And we are not talking about small numbers either. It’s not like it went from 100 to 400, We are talking about 10 million hospitalizations for people with kidney problems in the last 25 years. There were 1.6 million hospitalizations in 2005.

Why have kidney problems increased so much?

The CDC says that it is due to more people getting old, and better reporting. This is just misdirection. Age is not actually a cause of kidney problems. Many people live long lives without kidney problems. Reporting has changed some, but doesn’t make nearly that much difference.

Looking at the report a little more we learn that there is a huge jump in acute renal failure. Acute renal failure means that suddenly the kidneys stopped functioning. Acute renal failure hospitalizations went from about 29,120 in 1980 to about 960,000 in 2005. That is 33 times as many kidney failures.

That is alarming!

So what causes kidney failures?

It is caused by imbalances in the body. Usually involved are mineral levels and/or acidity levels. The kidneys moderate these levels in the body. If the imbalances are too drastic then the kidney becomes overloaded and results in renal failure.

In other words, the kidneys try to sense the acid levels and electrolyte levels in the blood stream and to regulate them. If the blood is too rich or poor in any of these, the kidneys try to correct that. If we have so much acid that the kidneys can’t handle it, that causes what we call kidney failure. It isn’t really that the kidneys have failed, but that we have overloaded it so much that it can’t do it’s job.

It would be like putting a baseball catcher behind home plate and then have multiple pitchers throw balls to him all at once. He might catch one or two balls and perhaps even be able to throw them back. But as you increase the number of balls thrown it becomes impossible for him to do the job.

So, in what ways do we throw too much at our kidneys?

There are several things that the American way of life throws at our kidneys that could give them a rough time. One of the biggest problems for the kidneys is that we don’t give them what they need.

It’s like if we didn’t give the baseball catcher protective gear or a mitt, and then we started throwing balls at him. If he has protective gear, he can at least survive. Without it, he could be in really big trouble.

Kidneys need water to function. One of the big problems that we see with kidney disease is that people are dehydrated. Most people don’t drink enough good, clean water to allow the body to do all the things that it needs to do. Kidneys and their associated organs can’t do their jobs of moving, cleaning, and balancing the blood, without water.

Kidneys also need minerals. When we don’t eat fresh fruits and vegetables daily we don’t get all the minerals that we need. Processed foods are generally very imbalanced when it comes to mineral content. Also, most mineral supplements are in forms that the body can’t really use all that well. The best sources for minerals are fresh fruits and vegetables. They contain many trace minerals that you just won’t get from processed foods, but that the body needs to function properly.

The other problem is acidity. Processed foods tend to cause our bodies to become very acidic.  Eating fresh fruits and vegetables, and particularly whole grains, help to balance out the acidity of the body.

Probably one of the biggest acid problems are all the drugs that people tend to use. There are so many drugs used these days, both over-the-counter and prescription, that it is a major problem. If you look into the side effects lists of drugs, you will see that many drugs actually give warnings about kidney problems.

So help your kidneys do their job and stay healthy by giving them plenty of good clean water and eating as much raw, whole food as you like. Avoid using drugs as much as possible. If you do have to use drugs, then during that time be extra vigilant at eating lots of fresh raw foods and drinking water.

Remember that your weight in pounds divided by 10 is the number of cups of water you should drink daily. And even more than that if you are trying flush toxins from your system.

Just eat a high quality natural foods diet, exercise, drink plenty of good clean water, make sure you get fiber (whole raw foods), get plenty of sleep, breathe deeply and have a gratitude attitude.

Your body will take care of you, if you take care of it.

Coach G.

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All kinds of things get added to packaged foods to help enhance taste and/or visual acceptability. But what most people don’t understand is that most of them are not healthy.

Artificial flavoring and coloring have been consistently shown to cause hyperactivity in children. Most artificial sweeteners have proven to be even worse for the human body than the sugar they are supposed to replace. Of course, the food industry denies nearly all of these claims. They continue to insist that it is all safe.

The food industry continues to find ways to make food more desirable and addictive. By adding different chemical concoctions, they get us hooked on their products.

The problem is that in so doing they destroy the goodness of the food. They cause imbalance in foods that used to be balanced by nature. Food that used to contribute to health, now detracts from health as it causes imbalances in the system.

As you are reading food labels, watch out for artificial flavorings and artificial colorings. Also avoid artificial sweeteners. Real food doesn’t need to be sweetened. Fruit and vegetables and grains and nuts are delicious when eaten in their natural state. Also, watch out for preservatives that are added to food. It may make the food last longer, but food that can’t spoil is most likely no longer alive.

Live food can give life. Dead food can not.

Eat live food whenever possible.

The other important things to watch out for on food labels is any kind of “hydrogenated oil” and “high fructose corn syrup”. Both are toxins to the human body.

Also watch out for any thing that says it is enriched. That generally means that it has been processed to death, and then they try and make up for it by adding a few vitamins. Then they call it enriched.

Food is always better the way that nature makes it. When man tries to micro-manage stuff, he always messes it up. Because his understanding is always incomplete.

Just eat a high quality natural foods diet, exercise, drink plenty of good clean water, make sure you get fiber (whole raw foods), get plenty of sleep, breathe deeply and have a gratitude attitude.

Your body will take care of you, if you take care of it.

Coach G.

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Medical science has finally started to admit that cholesterol is not the big bad wolf that they tried to make it out to be. Half of all people who have strokes or heart attacks have normal cholesterol levels.

So now they have identified the new culprit to make excuses to sell drugs with.

The new culprit is CRP. CRP stands for C-Reactive Protein. C-Reactive Protein is a protein that reacts to inflammation in the body. When you have more inflammation, your CRP levels are higher. People with higher CRP levels are more prone to heart attacks and strokes.

The solution, they say, is to get tested for CRP. It is a blood test. Of course, a test is not a solution. But it could give them a reason to prescribe a drug for you.

The question you should be asking is, “What causes inflammation in the body?”

Inflammation is a natural process that occurs when your body tries to rush healing processes to the site of a problem. The problem could be caused by toxins, foreign substances (including bacteria or viruses), or damaged and dying cells (which could be caused by a cut or a blunt force injury).

The inflammatory response allows the body to discard the bad stuff and cause healing in the affected area. This is, of course, a very important response for your body to make.

A drug that would turn off this response would not be such a great idea. However many people take these types of drugs all the time. They are called anti-inflammatories. They have many side effects.

Anti-inflammatory drugs include:

     Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs – such as aspirin, ibuprofen or naproxen)

     Corticosteroids (such as prednisone)

     Anti-malarial medications (such as hydroxychloroquine)

     Other medications including methotrexate, sulfasalazine, leflunomide, anti-TNF medications, cyclophosphamide and mycophenolate.

One of the biggest reasons that people take anti-inflammatory drugs is to get rid of headaches. But let me explain the most common side effects of theses drugs. They can cause damage to both the kidneys and the liver. They can cause gastrointestinal problems, including diarrhea and constipation. And they cause dizziness and headaches.

So, if headache medicine causes headaches, what should we do?

Look for the cause of the headache and then try to eliminate it.

Is the headache caused by not enough drugs in the system? NO!

Headaches can be caused by a number of things, but the most common causes are stress and dehydration. Stress comes in many forms and is caused by many things. The best way to eliminate stress is to make sure you are getting good nutrition, good sleep, good exercise, good water, and use prayer and meditation to help you relax with a thankful heart.

If you have a headache, the first thing to do when you recognize that you have one is to drink two cups of water. Then breathe deeply and relax. Breathing deeply involves slowly blowing all the air out of your lungs (like you are trying to blow out birthday candles), then inhaling deeply to fill your lungs with fresh air. Fifteen to twenty minutes later, if the headache is still there, drink two more cups of water and continue to breath deeply and try to relax with prayer and meditation. Repeat the process for an hour if the headache persists that long.

Toxins in one form or another are the major causes of stress and inflammation. Strive to eliminate toxins from all your food and water sources. Drugs are toxins. Many supplements are also toxins. Herbs can also be toxins. Get your nutrition from whole raw foods as much as possible. Organically grown fruits and vegetables have less toxins than traditionally grown food. Be sure and get good fats by eating nuts and seeds. Eat whole grains that are unprocessed (sprouted is great). Drink plenty of good, clean water. Remember that the chlorine in tap water is a toxin.

Just eat a high quality natural foods diet, exercise, drink plenty of good clean water, make sure you get fiber (whole raw foods), get plenty of sleep, breathe deeply and have a gratitude attitude.

Your body will take care of you, if you take care of it.

Coach G.

Find spiritual success and have a little financial success by going to http://ghlcom.com/money