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If you are trying to lose weight, gain lean muscle, and improve your overall health, there are 6 rarely spoken of things through out the “Lose Weight” community you need that effectively and rapidly improve your health. Losing weight and embarking on a healthier lifestyle is a battle, inputing the following six weapons into your arsenal can help you win the battle outright!

The first is: Apple Cider Vinegar: Lower cholesterol, weight loss, increase metabolic rate are just some of the benefits of this great supplement, and to top it all off, it’s natural! You can take ACV up to three times daily. It’s best to take it before each meal as it will help in curbing your appetite thus reducing the amount of portions you would usually get with your meals. The recommended amount to take is 1-3 tablespoons (3 is recommended), mixed with a glass of water and a little honey to lower the acid taste. Make sure to consult a physician before taking this or any other supplement.

Second: Fish Oil or (Omega 3 Fatty Acids) Fish oil have two main fatty acids: DHA (docosahexanoic acid) / EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid). Make sure the supplements you purchase contain an adequate amount of these two fatty acids. They are also found in fish such as salmon. Fish oil is important to take on daily basis as it helps with mental health, helps in prevention of colon, prostate & breast cancer, also, heart health, and overall health. Make sure to consult a physician before taking this or any other supplement.

Third: Multi-Vitamin Just about everyone has heard of Multi-Vitamins. But, most don‘t realize how important taking this supplement actually is. Due to busy lifestyles, and/or poor eating habits, most of us are lacking in important vitamin and mineral intake that our body need for optimum functionality. Choosing multi-vitamin brands can be a little tough. I recommend to search around and do good research on the different types of vitamins on the market today. Also, try to get multi-vitamins that are more tailored to you, i.e. (active lifestyle, for men, for women, for seniors, etc.). Make sure to consult a physician before taking this or any other supplement.

Fourth: Ice Cold Water I know, I know, who else doesn’t know that you need to drink plenty of water daily if you want to stay/get in great health! But, did you know that drinking ICE COLD water is really what does the trick with helping you lose weight? When you drink ice cold water your body begins to burn fat so that it can warm the water you’ve just drunk to body temperature. This is also known as the thermogenic effect. You won’t burn a large amount of calories, but drinking large amounts is still incredibly important for your health.

Fifth: Olive Oil Olive oil consist of unrefined monounsaturated fats, which is healthy for your body. Olive oil can also increase fat burning, healthy HDL cholesterol levels and more! Replace all of your usual cooking oils with olive oil. You can also use it as a base for salad dressing. Refer to healthy salad dressing recipes for more information on how to make this healthy alternative dressing to the usual high calorie and carb dressings on the market today. Before you take any type of supplement, even Multi-Vitamins, it’s important to consult with your physician first.

Sixth: Green Tea Green tea is highly recommended daily. Powerful antioxidants that helps cleanse your body, plus lowering cholesterol levels, weight loss, speeding up your metabolism, helping in treatment is skin disorders and so much more! In conclusion, as with any program, supplements, etc., nothing is going to work correctly without maintaining a consistent routine of exercising.

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The Master Cleanse, or “The Lemonade Diet, is a widely popular, fasting diet described in the book “The Master Cleanser” by Stanley Burroughs.

This is an excerpt from the 1st chapter:

“For the novice and the advanced student alike, cleansing is basic for elimination of every kind of disease. The purpose of this book is to simplify the cause and the correction of all disorders, regardless of the name or names. As we eliminate and correct one disease, we correct them all, for every disease is corrected by the same process of cleansing and building positive good health. Man’s mastery of disease will only be final when ignorance and fear are overcome by proper observance of all laws pertaining to the creation of bones, flesh, and blood.”

The Master Cleanse is a liquid mono-diet that cleanses and detoxifies the body as it stimulates healthy tissue growth. It consists of fresh lime or lemon juice, maple syrup, and cayenne pepper mixed with water and drunk 6-12 times a day

Even R&B singer; Beyonce, is in on the program as she reportedly used the Lemonade fasting recipe to shed weight while filming the movie: Dreamgirls.

The Lemonade Diet is another name for The Master Cleanse. Because the principal ingredients of the diet are lemon juice, maple syrup and cayenne pepper, it is also sometimes called the lemon juice / maple syrup / cayenne pepper diet. Whatever name you call it, it remains one of the most effective cleanses known.

This regimen that can be followed for 10 days, and may also be safely extended to 40 or more days, depending upon a persons physical condition.

Master Cleanse

2 tbsp lemon or lime juice (1/2 lemon)

1-2 tbsp of pure grade B maple syrup (Grade B maple syrup contains a large variety of minerals and vitamins. These include: potassium, calcium, magnesium, manganese, iron, copper, phosphorus, sulfur, chlorine and silicon. Vitamin A, B1, B2, B6, C, nicotinic acid and pantothenic acid are also present.)

1/10 tsp cayenne pepper (red) or to taste

8-10 oz of purified water (very warm to medium hot)

Combine master cleanse ingredients and drink. You may double the Master Cleanser recipe and fill a large thermos bottle and drink all day long.

An herbal laxative tea is taken twice a day, and no other food is consumed.

The Master Cleanse helps purify the liver. The Master Cleanse helps dissolve and eliminate toxins and congestion that have formed in any part of the body The Master Cleanse helps cleanse the kidneys and the digestive system The Master Cleanse helps purify the glands and cells The Master Cleanse helps eliminate unusable waste and hardened material in the joints and muscles The Master Cleanse helps build a healthy blood stream The Master Cleanse helps relieve pressure and irritation in the nerves, arteries and blood vessels The Master Cleanse helps with weight loss

One common Misconception is that The Master Cleanse is for everyone.

Truth is The Master Cleanse is great, but it’s not for everyone. It is probably the second most powerful way to detoxify the body (a water fast is the most powerful). If a person has a great deal of stored toxins, releasing them too quickly results in detox symptoms, such as headaches, rashes, tiredness, irritability, even vomiting. Those people should not do the Master Cleanse. They should detoxify using a much slower, less powerful, diet. Also, people recovering from surgery need large amounts of protein to regenerate tissue and should not perform the Master Cleanse until they have completely recovered from surgery.

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Understanding the “Holiday Blues”

The holiday season can be a difficult time for many. It is meant to bring joy and celebration but sometimes this time of year can bring sadness and despair. Changes in life, such as being separated from family and friends, or living through the grief of a loss, can be especially hard.

Holiday blues are also thought to be primarily caused by expectation and comparison along with a lack of planning and action. People generally have high expectations for the holidays. We often hope that they will make up for a year gone wrong. We expect family members to become friendly, season’s greetings to be sent, gifts to be given, and happiness to reign. The mass media, through news stories, TV specials, and advertising, raise this hope for “what may be.” The reality of “what is” often falls short of the expectation and there is disappointment.

Negative memories may also be associated to the holiday season and those suffering with depression and other mood disorders can also be affected at this time of year due to change of daylight. Many people are lonely at this time of year if they are working or going to school without a way to get back to your family for the holiday season. You may have not been in Vancouver long enough to make many friends. It can be hard to find comfort.

Characteristics of “The Blues” are emotions - sadness, loneliness, depression, anxiety - and, although intense and unsettling, these emotions are generally short-lived and usually subside within a few weeks once a daily routine is resumed. Other symptoms of the “Holiday Blues” may include:

* headaches * inability to sleep or sleeping too much * changes in appetite causing weight loss or gain * agitation and anxiety * excessive or inappropriate feelings of guilt * diminished ability to think clearly or concentrate * decreased interest in activities that usually bring pleasure, such as: o food o sex o work o friends o hobbies o entertainment

The most important things to remember are: it’s a normal response to a stress-filled time of the year and you don‘t have to suffer unnecessarily. If you anticipate feeling very lonely on Christmas Day or Christmas Eve, there are ways that you can help yourself feel better and survive the holiday season. 26 Ways to Improve Your Mood During the Holiday Season:

1. Volunteering offers a way to interact with others, give to the community, and help keep your spirits up through giving. The Union Gospel Mission, Salvation Army, Carnegie Community Centre, or various churches will provide Christmas dinners and benefit by receiving help from volunteers. This is a good way to help yourself by not being alone and by helping others in need.

2. If you are in a new community, try to get an invitation somewhere for Christmas. Let others know that you would enjoy having dinner with them.

3. Invite someone to join you in celebration.

4. Find out what the community offers and participate in it. Go to the concerts and parades. Get involved.

5. Takes gifts to a children’s home.

6. Be active by going for walks. Getting some exercise will help keep mood levels up. Don‘t stay cooped up inside too long. 20 minutes of exercise every day will raise endorphin levels and allow you to absorb what sunshine there is.

7. Be aware of your diet - try not to overindulge in alcohol or sweets. Alcohol and sugar can really affect mood and brings on ‘moodiness’.

8. Get enough rest: general self-care of the body is important.

9. Organize your time: make lists and prioritize.

10. If you are going home to be with family, bad memories might come up that can be really stressful. Take items from your current home that you have positive associations with. This might be a teddy bear, pictures of friends, a good book, or candles. Anything to help you feel more comfortable.

11. Plan time away from family. If you are going for a few days, it can be stressful. Getting away can help to lessen the stress.

12. If you find that you fall back into old patterns when you are around family members, it can he helpful to remember that you are an adult now and you have the ability to behave and respond in a different way. Spend some time planning ahead. What kinds of circumstances will occur that might bring up old feelings?

13. Be Prepared. There may be certain things that happen every year that drive you up the wall. This year, talk to the people involved ahead of time and try to defuse those situations before they occur.

14. If finances are a concern, be aware of this and set reasonable limits.

15. If there is a significant loss that you are reminded of this time of year, such as a death in the family or a divorce, it can be helpful not to push it away and pretend it didn’t happen. Recognize that there was a loss and take time to acknowledge it. Create a healthy way of remembering. Examples could include putting out favorite photographs and lighting a candle before them.

16. If you are in a new city or find yourself lonely, try to create new memories for yourself. You may enjoy events around the city such as the Festival of Lights at VanDusen Botanical Garden -

Dates and times: 4:30 to 9 p.m. every night, December 7th, 2007 through January 1st, 2008 (except December 25th when the Garden is closed).

17. Another tool to help you get through the Holiday Blues is to remember that the Christmas season will pass.

18. Also, remember that winter will pass. Winter does not last forever.

19. Remember to take your medication. Also, taking multi-vitamins and fish oil capsules daily can contribute to overall health and keep stress down. Other vitamin supplements such as Vitamin D or a B Complex can be helpful for mood.

20. Keep yourself busy to take your mind of things if that helps. Make plans to go out for lunch, go for walks, go to the movies or even curl up at home and watch a movie.

21. If you are suffering from clinical depression, getting some help can be beneficial this time of the year. Go to see a therapist, look for a support group, or contact the mental health team in your area. Get as much help and support as you can.

22. Give yourself a break — plan to prepare (or buy) one special meal, purchase one special gift, and take in one special event.

23. If you don‘t like shopping, shop online or make small gifts.

24. Do your best not to create unrealistic expectations and don‘t get caught up in comparisons.

25. Find someone to talk with who can help you through this difficult time — a family member, friend, a spiritual leader, or professional counsellor.

26. Call a crisis line in your time of need: Vancouver area 604-872-3311.

© Janel Ball 2007

Thank you and plesae take care of yourself over the holiday season,

Janel Ball, MA, RCC, MBACP Healing Solutions Professional Counselling Services janel@healingsolutions.ca http://healingsolutions.ca

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More than a million people around the world are affected by this very disagreeable disorder of the digestive and the GI tract called Crohn’s, it has many unpleasant symptoms, to alleviate which, a remedy (drug-free) called Ablene was developed by scientists.

What is this remedy Ablene?

Forcible discharge of the nutrients from the body with diarrhea, vomiting, and fever are one of the symptoms associated with Crohn’s disease. Ablene is specifically developed to supplement these nutrients in patients with Crohn’s disease and irritable bowel syndrome. This makes the patients recover from such a loss.

The biggest irony of the various medical treatments for this disease is that they make the intracellular deficiency even worse. Ablene is developed to addresses this aspect of the treatment, especially.

The way Ablene works:

Apart from diarrhea and abdominal cramping, other notable symptoms are major weight loss, loss of appetite, rectal bleeding, and fever. While keeping the patients under close observation to monitor and control these, they are advised to avoid allergy-causing foods like diary products, fats, chocolate, artificial sweeteners, and cereal grains.

Ablene resists inflammation-causing substances and enzymes, as it contains anti-inflamatories.

Nutrients of optimum quality: Ablene contains sufficient quantity of those nutrients found to be ideal for digestive health, as it is designed with a view to improve the quality of life of the people whose digestive tract is affected.

The ingredients:

The body loses vital nutrients necessary for the body due to a digestive system affected by Crohn’s.

The following are some of the important ingredients of Ablene:

The extracts of iron, iodine, magnesium, zinc, and copper are most important in the regulation of the functions of the digestive tract.

Vitamins A, C, E, and B-complex, natural plant extracts of olive, cat’s claw and licorice to control inflammation.

To control the side effects of Crohn’s, Inositol, choline, l-glutamine, and rutein are present in Ablene.

When combined with the physician’s treatment program, the ingredients of Ablene significantly lower the symptoms of Crohn’s. It is proved by the available research that these ingredients are very useful in the battle against Crohn’s disease and GI tract disorders.

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With the growing awareness of the importance of healthy food, many people are also becoming vegetarian because it matches the kind of low fat, high fiber diet recommended by dieticians and doctors. Concern about the environment is another factor as people become more aware of the effect raising animals for their meat is having on the environment. Or you may be concerned about wasting world food resources by using land to raise animals for meat instead of growing crops that can feed more people directly.

Animals need far more water than grain crops. According to the USDA, growing the crops necessary to feed farmed animals requires nearly half of the United States‘ water supply and 80% of its agricultural land. Additionally, animals raised for food in the U.S. consume 90% of the soya crop, 80% of the corn crop, and a total of 70% of its grain.

One acre of pasture produces an average of 165 pounds of beef; the same acre can produce 20,000 pounds of potatoes.

Vegetarian diets have been found to satisfy the nutritional needs for all stages of life, and large-scale studies have shown vegetarianism to increase longevity, improve health, and significantly lower the risks of many diseases.

Studies show that vegetarian diets help to keep body weight under control and reduce the risk of heart disease, osteoperosis and many cancers - particularly lung cancer and colon cancer. Vegetarians tend to have lower levels of cholesterol, lower blood pressure, and less incidence of dementias such as Alzheimer’s. Vegetarian diets that are low in saturated fats have been successfully used to reverse severe coronary artery disease.

It was once widely believed that vegetarians had to carefully combine plant protein sources in each meal in order to obtain all the essential vitamins, minerals and amino acids needed to stay healthy. However, scientific studies have shown that the human body can store essential amino acids and combine them as necessary. So, while combining beans and rice, or peanut butter and bread produces a complete protein, it’s not necessary to consciously do this at every meal. If you eat a varied diet and adequate calories, combining proteins is not an issue.

Vegetarian diets are lower in saturated fats, cholesterol, and animal protein. They’re also high in folate, anti-oxidant vitamins like C and E, carotenoids, and phytochemicals.

Some famous vegetarians are Leonardo Da Vinci, Charles Darwin, Socrates, Plato, Sir Isaac Newton and Thomas Edison. Famous modern day vegetarians include Bryan Adams,