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Every human body has its optimum weight and contour, which only health and efficiency can establish. Whenever we treat women's bodies as aesthetic objects without function we deform them.
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Germaine Greer (The Female Eunuch)
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If you want to be in optimum emotional health, realize that social isolation stands between you and it. Reach out to others. Join groups—to drum, meditate, sing, sew, read, whatever. Find communities—to garden, do service work, travel, whatever. We humans are social animals. Spontaneous happiness is incompatible with social isolation. Period.
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Andrew Weil (Spontaneous Happiness)
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I do not claim to have attained optimum emotional well-being. Actually, I think that may be a lifetime goal. For me it’s an ongoing process that requires awareness, knowledge, and practice. I do know what good emotional health feels like, and that motivates me to keep at the practice.
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Andrew Weil (Spontaneous Healing)
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Using the combined, integrated force of the mind and body is more efficient than using one without the other. Since the body can only exist in the present, that’s where the mind should be too (unless we deliberately choose to contemplate the past or future). At the same time, the body needs to be healthy and in optimum operating condition so that it can respond effectively to the mind’s directives.
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H.E. Davey (Japanese Yoga: The Way of Dynamic Meditation)
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unpredictability, repetition, and lack of control are the aggravating factors in stress.
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Deepak Chopra (Super Genes: Unlock the Astonishing Power of Your DNA for Optimum Health and Well-Being)
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Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine
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Andrew Weil (You Can't Afford to Get Sick: Your Guide to Optimum Health and Health Care)
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The fact is, you will never reach your optimum health without paying attention to the spiritual dimensions of your life.
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Rick Warren (The Daniel Plan: 40 Days to a Healthier Life)
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Sea level adapted humans are meant to live near sea level for optimum health.
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Steven Magee (Toxic Altitude)
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Every human body has its optimum weight and contour, which only health and efficiency can establish. Whenever we treat women’s bodies as aesthetic objects without function we deform them and their owners. Whether the curves imposed are the ebullient arabesques of the tit-queen or the attenuated coils of art nouveau, they are deformations of the dynamic, individual body, and limitations of the possibilities of being female.
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Germaine Greer (The Female Eunuch)
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The Harvard Nurses’ Health Study found that eating just one serving of lettuce or other vitamin K–rich foods (leafy greens and veggies) a day can cut the risk of hip fracture in half compared to eating just one serving a week.
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Stacy T. Sims (Roar: How to Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Unique Female Physiology for Optimum Performance, Great Health, and a Strong, Lean Body for Life)
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Without clean water, we cannot experience optimum health, but by practically every public health standard issued during the past 50 years, humans have not experienced optimum health. One of the reasons for this fact is simple: the Earth’s water is in crisis.
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Elson M. Haas (Staying Healthy with Nutrition, rev: The Complete Guide to Diet and Nutritional Medicine)
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Ginger modulates this system in ways that reduce abnormal inflammation and clotting. It may be as effective as, but much less toxic than, some of the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs that are now in such widespread use, because ginger protects the lining of the stomach instead of damaging it.
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Andrew Weil (8 Weeks to Optimum Health: A Proven Program for Taking Full Advantage of Your Body's Natural Healing Power)
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Working on your deep psychological issues opens the possibility for psychological freedom, making you independent of your past and the scars you carry around with you. These are meaningful choices that go beyond the limited definition of stress management, yet it’s this kind of change that transforms someone’s life.
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Deepak Chopra (Super Genes: Unlock the Astonishing Power of Your DNA for Optimum Health and Well-Being)
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Our spiritual selves resonate with others; if the interaction is positive, human connectedness is a most powerful healer, capable of neutralizing many harmful influences on the material plane.
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Andrew Weil (8 Weeks to Optimum Health: A Proven Program for Taking Full Advantage of Your Body's Natural Healing Power)
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The key to optimum breathing, and all the health, endurance, and longevity benefits that come with it, is to practice fewer inhales and exhales in a smaller volume. To breathe, but to breathe less.
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James Nestor (Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art)
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Based on the newly discovered function of leptin in muscle, the necessity of consistent exercise to maintain health has never been more important.139 People who have been in a consistent exercise program and have slipped out of the pattern will notice that this was an adverse turning point in their health. Conversely, people who get into a good exercise pattern notice an improvement in health. Individuals
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Byron J. Richards (Mastering Leptin: Your Guide to Permanent Weight Loss and Optimum Health)
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It is recommended that people eat 40 grams of fiber a day, twice what most of us consume. White flour provides very little of it; you would have to eat fifty loaves of white bread to get your recommended daily allowance from that source alone.
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Andrew Weil (8 Weeks to Optimum Health: A Proven Program for Taking Full Advantage of Your Body's Natural Healing Power)
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Besides increasing energy and enhancing the immune system, laughter diminishes pain, improves focus, reignites hope, restores connections, enhances relationships, relieves tension, relaxes muscles, optimizes hormonal balance and reduces the effects of stress.
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Rashid Buttar (The 9 Steps to Keep the Doctor Away: Simple Actions to Shift Your Body and Mind to Optimum Health for Greater Longevity)
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Buy whole organic flaxseeds at a natural foods store. Keep them in the refrigerator, and grind a half-cup or so at a time, using a blender or coffee grinder. Ground flax has a nutty taste that is quite good added to cereals, salads, potatoes, rice, or cooked vegetables. A tablespoon of the meal once a day will give you a good ration of omega-3s.
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Andrew Weil (8 Weeks to Optimum Health: A Proven Program for Taking Full Advantage of Your Body's Natural Healing Power)
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Neoliberal economics, the logic of which is tending today to win out throughout the world thanks to international bodies like the World Bank or the International Monetary Fund and the governments to whom they, directly or indirectly, dictate their principles of ‘governance’,10 owes a certain number of its allegedly universal characteristics to the fact that it is immersed or embedded in a particular society, that is to say, rooted in a system of beliefs and values, an ethos and a moral view of the world, in short, an economic common sense, linked, as such, to the social and cognitive structures of a particular social order. It is from this particular economy that neoclassical economic theory borrows its fundamental assumptions, which it formalizes and rationalizes, thereby establishing them as the foundations of a universal model. That model rests on two postulates (which their advocates regard as proven propositions): the economy is a separate domain governed by natural and universal laws with which governments must not interfere by inappropriate intervention; the market is the optimum means for organizing production and trade efficiently and equitably in democratic societies. It is the universalization of a particular case, that of the United States of America, characterized fundamentally by the weakness of the state which, though already reduced to a bare minimum, has been further weakened by the ultra-liberal conservative revolution, giving rise as a consequence to various typical characteristics: a policy oriented towards withdrawal or abstention by the state in economic matters; the shifting into the private sector (or the contracting out) of ‘public services’ and the conversion of public goods such as health, housing, safety, education and culture – books, films, television and radio – into commercial goods and the users of those services into clients; a renunciation (linked to the reduction in the capacity to intervene in the economy) of the power to equalize opportunities and reduce inequality (which is tending to increase excessively) in the name of the old liberal ‘self-help’ tradition (a legacy of the Calvinist belief that God helps those who help themselves) and of the conservative glorification of individual responsibility (which leads, for example, to ascribing responsibility for unemployment or economic failure primarily to individuals, not to the social order, and encourages the delegation of functions of social assistance to lower levels of authority, such as the region or city); the withering away of the Hegelian–Durkheimian view of the state as a collective authority with a responsibility to act as the collective will and consciousness, and a duty to make decisions in keeping with the general interest and contribute to promoting greater solidarity. Moreover,
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Pierre Bourdieu (The Social Structures of the Economy)
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performance during PMS: Take 250 milligrams of magnesium, 45 milligrams of zinc, 80 milligrams of aspirin (baby aspirin), and 1 gram of omega-3 fatty acids (flaxseed and fish oil) each night for the 7 days before your period starts. Pretraining: Take 5 to 7 grams of branched-chain amino acid supplement (BCAAs) to fight the lack of mojo. These amino acids cross the blood-brain barrier and decrease the estrogen-progesterone effect on central nervous system fatigue. In training: Consume a few more carbohydrates per hour. In this high-hormone phase, aim for about 0.45 gram of carbohydrate per pound of body weight (about 61 grams for a 135-pound woman) per hour. In the low-hormone phase (first 2 weeks of the cycle), you can go a bit lower—about 0.35 gram of carbohydrate per pound of body weight (about 47 grams for a 135-pound woman) per hour. (For reference: 2.2 kilograms = 1 pound.) Post-training: Recovery is critical. Progesterone is extremely catabolic (breaks muscle down) and inhibits recovery. Aim to consume 20 to 25 grams of protein within 30 minutes of finishing your session. Overall you should aim to get 0.9 to 1 gram of protein per pound per day (a 135-pound woman needs about 122 to 135 grams of protein per day; see the Roar Daily Diet Cheat Sheet for Athletes for more information). THE MARTIAL ARTIST WHO BEAT HER BLOAT It may not be nice to fool Mother Nature, but there are definitely times when you need to trick her a little.
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Stacy T. Sims (Roar: How to Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Unique Female Physiology for Optimum Performance, Great Health, and a Strong, Lean Body for Life)
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Apple Cider Vinegar is a helpful tool in maintaining optimum health.
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Amy Leigh Mercree (Apple Cider Vinegar Handbook: Recipes for Natural Living (Volume 1))
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Organizations naturally decline, so for optimum results, actively experiment and continuously tweak.
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Chris Hutchinson (Ripple: A Field Manual for Leadership that Works)
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By repeating and emphasizing the term “physical health” three times in the response, Saddleback was obviously trying to distance itself from Oz, Amen, and Hyman’s New Age beliefs. But the “we’re only using them for physical health purposes” defense was not convincing. All three physicians are alternative medicine/holistic health practitioners who teach the indivisibility of “mind, body, spirit” in achieving optimum well-being. In other words, their New Age spiritual beliefs are necessarily embedded in their medical practice, their best-selling books, and their public appearances.
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Warren B. Smith (The Dangers of Rick Warren's Daniel Plan: Dr. Oz, Dr. Amen, & Dr. Hymen--the New Age/Eastern Meditation Doctors behind the Saddleback Health Program)
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3) Third, is the ability to discontinue medications. Most of you will be able to reduce or eliminate your medications for high blood pressure, type II diabetes, arthritis, indigestion, reflux, and constipation, among other things. Imagine the freedom that will come with being healthy without having to depend on pills, without having to worry about paying for them, without being limited by their schedule, and without having to endure their side effects. (Please note you should NOT alter your medication regimens without physician supervision.) 4) Next, is improvement in vigor, vitality, and overall well-being within DAYS of starting the program. You will shed those feelings of fatigue, heaviness, and mental cloudiness and they will be replaced by energy, agility, and clarity. In addition, rather than crashing after a meal, feeling sluggish at best, you will be invigorated. 5) Finally, you can save thousands of dollars per year in food and health care costs. Sound too good to be true? Let’s take a closer look, beginning with research that has shown that adopting healthier eating habits can save you as much as $2000 to $4500 a year.30 Add to that the thousands of dollars per year you can save just by stopping five of the most commonly used medications (for cholesterol, high blood pressure, osteoporosis, reflux, and arthritis). Moreover, many of you have bought into the need for taking supplements to enhance your diets. Unfortunately, not all of these supplements are necessary
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Alona Pulde (Keep It Simple, Keep It Whole: Your Guide to Optimum Health)
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Modern medicine has failed us in many ways but health is a journey that is never too late to begin. The failures above are only a few of many and I believe that we can only achieve optimum health when we learn to provide our body with the nutrition it needs. When we get sick, we are not deficient in a pharmaceutical drug…we are out of balance and deficient in some nutrient most of the time. Pharmaceuticals only cover up symptoms. They don’t heal us…only our body has the ability to repair and heal itself.
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Jeffrey Blair (Unleash Your Inner Health!: Harness Your Body's Desire to be Healthy & Fit in 21 Days!)
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Try taking time for a few minutes of deep, slow breathing morning and evening, to train yourself for optimum breathing all
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Gerald M. Lemole (Lymph & Longevity: The Untapped Secret to Health)
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unless Siberian-ginseng products specify their eleutheroside content, you are probably not getting the real thing.
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Andrew Weil (8 Weeks to Optimum Health: A Proven Program for Taking Full Advantage of Your Body's Natural Healing Power)
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ephedra and ephedrine with bitter orange and its main active compound, synephrine, which are much the same as ephedra and ephedrine and carry the same risks for interfering with sleep.
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Andrew Weil (8 Weeks to Optimum Health: A Proven Program for Taking Full Advantage of Your Body's Natural Healing Power)
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None of us can do as well solo as we do in a race when we compete with others. Your competitor is helping you to discover your limits and potential and how you have more in yourself than you thought possible. She is your greatest ally in that self-discovery, and you are the same for her,
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Stacy T. Sims (Roar: How to Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Unique Female Physiology for Optimum Performance, Great Health, and a Strong, Lean Body for Life)
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The Pill seems to have particularly ill effects on your muscle tissue and strength. In one study, women not taking oral contraceptives saw a 40 to 60 percent greater gain in muscle mass from training than their peers on the Pill saw.
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Stacy T. Sims (Roar: How to Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Unique Female Physiology for Optimum Performance, Great Health, and a Strong, Lean Body for Life)
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30 minutes or more of moderate physical activity most, if not all, days a week.
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Stacy T. Sims (Roar: How to Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Unique Female Physiology for Optimum Performance, Great Health, and a Strong, Lean Body for Life)
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To sum it up, exercising early in your pregnancy has a profoundly positive effect on your developing baby, as it stimulates placenta growth and function as well as the organs and systems of your baby. Staying active through the later stages of your pregnancy keeps your baby’s growth and development on track. All this good stuff happens with just 30 to 45 minutes of exercise a day.
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Stacy T. Sims (Roar: How to Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Unique Female Physiology for Optimum Performance, Great Health, and a Strong, Lean Body for Life)
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In fact, women who exercise have better bloodflow to the placenta when they’re not exercising, so it’s likely beneficial for the baby’s development in the long run.
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Stacy T. Sims (Roar: How to Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Unique Female Physiology for Optimum Performance, Great Health, and a Strong, Lean Body for Life)
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Neural mechanisms (mind-muscle connections) are actually more important for women’s adaptations to strength training than they are for men’s. So by doing power moves and low-rep, high-weight strength training, you enhance the number of fibers recruited for a contraction but don’t really grow the size of your muscles very much. The short of it is that you end up with a stronger, more powerful contraction with less muscle bulk.
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Stacy T. Sims (Roar: How to Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Unique Female Physiology for Optimum Performance, Great Health, and a Strong, Lean Body for Life)
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Progesterone also increases muscle breakdown (catabolism), and with the catabolic responses during exercise, getting a good dose of protein postexercise becomes critical for us to rebuild our muscles and reduce the signaling to store body fat.
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Stacy T. Sims (Roar: How to Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Unique Female Physiology for Optimum Performance, Great Health, and a Strong, Lean Body for Life)
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Both estrogen and progesterone reach peak levels about 5 days before menstruation.
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Stacy T. Sims (Roar: How to Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Unique Female Physiology for Optimum Performance, Great Health, and a Strong, Lean Body for Life)
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In one study of 20 active females, researchers found that the women could make greater strength gains and produce more force when they strength trained during their low-hormone phase compared to training in the high-hormone phase. You’re also likely to feel less pain and recover faster.
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Stacy T. Sims (Roar: How to Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Unique Female Physiology for Optimum Performance, Great Health, and a Strong, Lean Body for Life)
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There is also evidence that blood sugar levels, breathing rates, and thermoregulation are negatively impacted during this time of the month, which may well account for the slight decreases in aerobic capacity and strength.
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Stacy T. Sims (Roar: How to Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Unique Female Physiology for Optimum Performance, Great Health, and a Strong, Lean Body for Life)
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Dr. Esselstyn’s son Rip, a former swimmer and professional triathlete, and later an Austin, Texas–based fireman, authored a New York Times bestseller called The Engine 2 Diet, which, in plain English, demonstrates the power of a plant-based diet by chronicling the astounding health improvements of his Engine 2 firehouse colleagues who undertook his regime. And yet another influence on me was former pro triathlete and ultra-runner Brendan Brazier’s Thrive—a go-to primer that details all the hows and whys of plant-based nutrition for both athletic performance and optimum health.
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Rich Roll (Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself)
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mean high-intensity power training—heavy lifting for pure strength. This kind of training stimulates your neuromuscular system, activating the maximum amount of muscle fibers. It also keeps those high-energy, powerful type II muscle fibers engaged, which is essential because those are needed for speed, and they’re the first to go.
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Stacy T. Sims (Roar: How to Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Unique Female Physiology for Optimum Performance, Great Health, and a Strong, Lean Body for Life)
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When your tissues are more lax, your joints don’t have the integrity they should because they’re stretched out,” says Dr. Starrett. This impairs your proprioception, the sense of where your limbs are oriented in space and in relation to one another, which is a huge factor in mobility and stability. When you’re not getting that proprioceptive feedback, your movement patterns are thrown
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Stacy T. Sims (Roar: How to Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Unique Female Physiology for Optimum Performance, Great Health, and a Strong, Lean Body for Life)
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Becoming a Supple Leopard
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Stacy T. Sims (Roar: How to Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Unique Female Physiology for Optimum Performance, Great Health, and a Strong, Lean Body for Life)
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Now, take our existing structure and add some 40 years to the average life span. What happens? You have perhaps five generations instead of three as the typical unit: children, parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, great-great-grandparents, and nonbiological family. Add in the fact that people will still have life bumps and changes, divorce will still happen, and blended families will grow. Families will become tribes rather than small units. Most of all, enhanced longevity underscores the importance of strong relationships—romantic, familial, and platonic—as they are a major source of optimum health. Keeping connected as we age is critical, especially for the very old (relationships keep us in the present, not the past).
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Michael F. Roizen (The Great Age Reboot: Cracking the Longevity Code for a Younger Tomorrow)
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The ABC’s of Bodybuilding, Diet and Fitness – Learn how to use the secrets of the fittest bodybuilders in the world to condition your body for optimum health. Click
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Jenny Allan (The Ultimate Bodybuilding Diet, Nutrition and Workout Plan for Men and Women)
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WILD GREENS—BOTH FOOD AND MEDICINE The wild greens that hunter-gatherers consumed were so rich in phytonutrients that they used them as medicine as well as food. The leaves of wild lamb’s-quarters (Chenopodium album), also known as goosefoot and fat hen, were consumed by hunter-gatherers from North America to Africa. The greens were eaten raw, fried in fat, dried, added to soups, or mixed with meat. The Pomo people, who lived in northern California, steamed the leaves and used them to treat stomachaches. The Potawatomi of the upper Mississippi region used lamb’s-quarters to cure a condition that we now know to be scurvy, a nutritional deficiency caused by a lack of vitamin C. The Iroquois made a paste of the fresh greens and applied it to burns to relieve pain and speed healing. Many tribes consumed the seeds of the plant as well as the leaves, even though the seeds were very small and tedious to gather. Americans are now eating the seeds of domesticated varieties of lamb’s-quarters, which are unusually high in protein. They go by the name quinoa. Lamb’s-quarters may prove to be a potent healer in twenty-first-century medicine as well. Recent studies show that the greens are rich in phytonutrients, fight viruses and bacteria, and block the growth of human breast cancer cells. More investigations are under way. Dandelions, the plague of urban
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Jo Robinson (Eating on the Wild Side: The Missing Link to Optimum Health)
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HONEY MUSTARD VINAIGRETTE You can alter this basic recipe by adding any of the following ingredients: ½ teaspoon sweet paprika, 1 teaspoon grated lemon or orange peel, or 1 teaspoon dried herbs, such as tarragon, basil, mint, or oregano. If you prefer fresh herbs, use 1 tablespoon of the finely chopped leaves. TOTAL TIME: 5–10 MINUTES YIELD: 1½ CUPS ¼ cup vinegar of your choice 1–2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice, lime juice, or orange juice 1 tablespoon honey 1–2 garlic cloves, finely minced or pushed through a garlic press 1 tablespoon prepared mustard or 1 teaspoon powdered mustard ¾ teaspoon salt, or more or less to taste Freshly ground black pepper to taste 1 cup extra virgin olive oil, preferably unfiltered Combine all ingredients except the oil and mix until well blended. You can beat with a spoon or wire whisk or blend for ten seconds in a food processor on medium-high speed. Then add the oil in a thin drizzle, whisking constantly. If you’re using a food processor, process on medium speed as you add the oil. Pour enough dressing over the salad to coat the greens, but not so much that it pools in the bottom of the salad bowl. Store in the refrigerator for up to two weeks. Bring to room temperature before using.
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Jo Robinson (Eating on the Wild Side: The Missing Link to Optimum Health)
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IgA and IgM antibodies produced in saliva (and feces) are detectable months before IgA and IgG antibodies appear in the blood and several months before lesions occur on the surface of the GI tract (these lesions enable veterinarians to clinically diagnosis inflammatory bowel disease [IBD] or leaky gut syndrome). So, the saliva testing system can detect the progressive, pathological process of gut destruction and permeability much sooner than it can be detected via either blood testing or clinical diagnosis.
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W. Jean Dodds (Canine Nutrigenomics: The New Science of Feeding Your Dog for Optimum Health)
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Nutriscan measures IgA and IgM antibodies in a dog’s saliva. By detecting high IgA and IgM antibody levels, NutriScan identifies changes in the dog’s gene expression when faced with the reactive food, enabling the test to clearly identify the specific ingredient(s) causing the problem. NutriScan can also differentiate between a food intolerance/sensitivity and a food allergy because food allergies are typically mediated by different antibodies (IgE and IgG) than food intolerances/sensitivities (Dodds,
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W. Jean Dodds (Canine Nutrigenomics: The New Science of Feeding Your Dog for Optimum Health)
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Most partners do not have sex frequently enough for optimum mental, physical, and emotional health.
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Diana Richardson (Tantric Sex for Men: Making Love a Meditation)
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Because the bulbs had so many important uses, tribes could be very protective of their allium fields. The Menominee Nation of the Great Lakes region laid claim to an extensive field of wild garlic, or ramps, that was located on the southern tip of Lake Michigan. The area was so rife with ramps that their odor perfumed the air for miles. The Menominee called their prized field Shikako, or “skunk place.” The name lives on today in its anglicized form, Chicago.
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Jo Robinson (Eating on the Wild Side: The Missing Link to Optimum Health)
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There is another notion that needs to be revised. Many people in this country believe that the varieties of fruits and vegetables that were raised by our grandparents and great-grandparents are better for our health than the ones we grow today. According to this view, we should consume more heirloom fruits and vegetables. But the latest research shows that many modern varieties are more nutritious than our coveted heirlooms. The Golden Delicious apple, for example, is a one-hundred-year heirloom. The Liberty apple, which was released seventy-five years later, has twice the antioxidant value. It is now clear that the date that a variety is created is not a good predictor of how it will influence our health.
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Jo Robinson (Eating on the Wild Side: The Missing Link to Optimum Health)
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Now it is known that we cannot absorb some of the most important nutrients in salad greens unless the dressing or the meal it’s eaten with contains some type of fat. Olive oil, according to a 2012 Purdue University study, does the best job of making those compounds more bioavailable. It takes almost seven times more soybean oil, by contrast, to get the same results. Soybean oil is the most common oil in commercial salad dressings.
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Jo Robinson (Eating on the Wild Side: The Missing Link to Optimum Health)
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Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies. —Leo Tolstoy
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Rashid Buttar (The 9 Steps to Keep the Doctor Away: Simple Actions to Shift Your Body and Mind to Optimum Health for Greater Longevity)
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Most native plants are also higher in protein and fiber and much lower in sugar than the ones we’ve devised. The ancestor of our modern corn is a grass plant called teosinte that is native to central Mexico. Its kernels are about 30 percent protein and 2 percent sugar. Old-fashioned sweet corn is 4 percent protein and 10 percent sugar. Some of the newest varieties of supersweet corn are as high as 40 percent sugar.
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Jo Robinson (Eating on the Wild Side: The Missing Link to Optimum Health)
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When it comes to beer, we are the world’s wimps. There
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Jo Robinson (Eating on the Wild Side: The Missing Link to Optimum Health)
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Carefully planned vegetarian and vegan diets can provide adequate nutrients for optimum health(11). Evidence suggests that infants and children can be successfully reared on vegan and vegetarian diets(68,69).
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Claire T. McEvoy
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all the right proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins and minerals. This is the diet for the seriously healthy and everyone who loves good food. These recipes are full of flavor, easy to make and so good for you. Each can be easily adapted
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Jenny Allan (40 Top Paleo Recipes: Quick and Easy Paleo Diet Recipes for Weight Loss and Optimum Health)
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Be careful when scooping out cooked eggplant, not to pierce the skin
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Jenny Allan (40 Top Paleo Recipes: Quick and Easy Paleo Diet Recipes for Weight Loss and Optimum Health)
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Stir in spices and garlic When lightly brown, stir
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Jenny Allan (40 Top Paleo Recipes: Quick and Easy Paleo Diet Recipes for Weight Loss and Optimum Health)
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Heat oil on med/high until bubbles rise up to surface (about 250F) Cook 1 cup sweet potato chips at a time Turn frequently, cook until crisp and golden Remove to drain on a paper towel lined plate Serve with cinnamon sprinkled on top
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Jenny Allan (40 Top Paleo Recipes: Quick and Easy Paleo Diet Recipes for Weight Loss and Optimum Health)
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The right pH is absolutely critical for optimum health. Innumerable factors, including pollutants, physical and psychological stress, negative emotions, prescription and non-prescription drugs, all push our bodies toward acidity. Our bodies are clever and keep a reserve of “alkaline buffers” on hand, including sodium, calcium, potassium, and magnesium (the minerals best suited to neutralize acids).
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Tess Masters (The Blender Girl: Super-Easy, Super-Healthy Meals, Snacks, Desserts, and Drinks--100 Gluten-Free, Vegan Recipes!)
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proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins and minerals. This is the diet for the seriously healthy and everyone who loves good food. These recipes are full of flavor, easy to make and so good for you.
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Jenny Allan (40 Top Paleo Recipes: Quick and Easy Paleo Diet Recipes for Weight Loss and Optimum Health)
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For optimum health and menopausal benefits, you should be aiming for at least 25 grams of fiber from plant foods every day.
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Stacy T. Sims (Next Level: Your Guide to Kicking Ass, Feeling Great, and Crushing Goals Through Menopause and Beyond)
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Some 37,000 people told us what they ate and how they felt. A staggering 85 per cent reported low energy levels, 81 per cent don’t have a bowel movement every day, 64 per cent are anxious, 62 per cent are bloated, 56 per cent have dry skin, 45 per cent are depressed, and 64 per cent of women suffer premenstrually.
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Patrick Holford (Optimum Nutrition Made Easy: The simple way to achieve optimum health)
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Pfizer could potentially earn approximately $36 billion in sales resulting from an unprecedented Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) investment—$560 million from BMGF, totaling $4.3 billion with government contributions—that promotes Depo-Provera as the optimum contraceptive for women of color and low-income women.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health)
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Carbohydrate: optimum nutrition guidelines Eat whole foods – whole grains, lentils, beans, nuts, seeds, fresh fruit and vegetables – and avoid refined, white and overcooked foods. Eat four or five servings of vegetables a day, including dark green, leafy and root vegetables such as watercress, carrots, sweet potatoes, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, spinach, green beans or peppers, either raw or lightly cooked. Eat three or more servings a day of fresh fruit, preferably apples, pears, oranges, plums and/or berries. Eat four or more servings a day of whole grains such as rice, rye, oat flakes and oat cakes, corn and quinoa as cereal, breads, pasta or pulses. Avoid any form of sugar, added sugar, and white or refined foods. Dilute fruit juices and only eat dried fruit infrequently in small quantities.
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Patrick Holford (Optimum Nutrition Made Easy: The simple way to achieve optimum health)
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Meals: Aim for at least 25 grams of protein for women, 30 for men, and at least 5 grams of fiber. Snacks: Aim for at least 7 grams of protein and at least 2 grams of fiber.
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Stephen Perrine (The Whole Body Reset: Your Weight-Loss Plan for a Flat Belly, Optimum Health & a Body You'll Love at Midlife and Beyond)
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Optimum nutrition is very simply giving yourself the best possible intake of nutrients to allow your body and brain to be as healthy as possible – and to work as well as it can.
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Patrick Holford (Optimum Nutrition Made Easy: The simple way to achieve optimum health)
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Confidence and competitiveness in women is often socially equated to bitchiness. Speaking in broad terms, men are rewarded for those traits, while women are put down. The considerable and negative social feedback for feeling confident and embracing it can be really, really difficult.
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Stacy T. Sims (Roar: How to Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Unique Female Physiology for Optimum Performance, Great Health, and a Strong, Lean Body for Life)
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Persistent low mood is an early indication that you’re heading toward overtraining and the first sign that you should pull back your intensity and let yourself get adequate rest and recovery.
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Stacy T. Sims (Roar: How to Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Unique Female Physiology for Optimum Performance, Great Health, and a Strong, Lean Body for Life)
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Probiotic and prebiotic drinks such as Goodgut and kefir are great choices
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Stacy T. Sims (Roar: How to Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Unique Female Physiology for Optimum Performance, Great Health, and a Strong, Lean Body for Life)
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The best carb sources are those that are richer in glucose, because they shoot straight into your system. Starchy veggies such as white potatoes, peas, corn, winter squash, and root veggies such as parsnips are not only richer in nutrients, but they also provide greater amounts of carbohydrate overall.
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Stacy T. Sims (Roar: How to Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Unique Female Physiology for Optimum Performance, Great Health, and a Strong, Lean Body for Life)
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Peel the beets first. They’ll be less bitter. Add a carrot or some lemon to sweeten the drink. Don’t have a juicer? You can buy ready-to-drink beetroot juice at natural-food stores.
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Stacy T. Sims (Roar: How to Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Unique Female Physiology for Optimum Performance, Great Health, and a Strong, Lean Body for Life)
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(KET): These are the end product of excessive fatty-acid breakdown, and they’re usually not present in urine. A positive test result suggests that you’re either not eating enough carbs (low-carb and paleo eaters are notorious for this) or you rely too much on fat for resting fuel. Ketones will be steady during training, as you are using fat for fuel. However, a dark purple result means you need to add a bit more carbohydrates to your training fuel; otherwise you run the risk of hitting the wall and not recovering well.
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Stacy T. Sims (Roar: How to Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Unique Female Physiology for Optimum Performance, Great Health, and a Strong, Lean Body for Life)
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Morning: Stimulating Breath, followed immediately by
Relaxing Breath, followed immediately by
Breath Observation (minimum five minutes), followed
immediately by
Reversal of Inhalation and Exhalation Bedtime: Let Yourself Be Breathed (ten breaths), followed immediately by
Relaxing Breath
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Andrew Weil (8 Weeks to Optimum Health: A Proven Program for Taking Full Advantage of Your Body's Natural Healing Power)
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For wellness optimum,
Breathe maximum, eat optimum
Stretch maximum, contract minimum
Meditate...be mum
Healing harmonised... mankind #Mickeymized!
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Dr Mickey Mehta
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Remember that cheese is the major source of saturated fat in the Western diet, and start there.
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Andrew Weil (8 Weeks to Optimum Health: A Proven Program for Taking Full Advantage of Your Body's Natural Healing Power)
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You have no meaningful connections in your life, not to a mate, a lover, friends, your work, a hobby, a pet, or, really, anything beyond yourself and your symptoms. That is not healthy.
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Andrew Weil (8 Weeks to Optimum Health: A Proven Program for Taking Full Advantage of Your Body's Natural Healing Power)
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And there are ways in which we can consciously work to develop feelings of love and kindness. For some of us, the most effective way to do so is through religious practice. For others it may be nonreligious practice. What is important is that we each make a sincere effort to take seriously our responsibility for each other.
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Andrew Weil (8 Weeks to Optimum Health: A Proven Program for Taking Full Advantage of Your Body's Natural Healing Power)
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Note that the widely prescribed statin drugs inhibit the body’s own production of this compound. Anyone on a statin for management of high cholesterol should be taking supplemental CoQ10.
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Andrew Weil (8 Weeks to Optimum Health: A Proven Program for Taking Full Advantage of Your Body's Natural Healing Power)
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Garlic has three very important cardiovascular effects: One, it lowers blood pressure and is a key component in any natural approach to treating hypertension. Two, it lowers cholesterol and fats (triglycerides) in the blood, raising the protective (HDL) fraction of total cholesterol while reducing the susceptibility of the harmful (LDL) fraction to oxidation and thereby diminishing its potential to damage artery walls. Three, garlic inhibits blood clotting by reducing the tendency of platelets to clump together.
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Andrew Weil (8 Weeks to Optimum Health: A Proven Program for Taking Full Advantage of Your Body's Natural Healing Power)
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All decisions you will have to make in life come down to different motivations and causes. All these various motivations and causes can be distilled down to two root motivations. These two root causes determine everything you do based on the choice you make. One of these root causes is love. The other is fear. Whatever you are faced with in life you will make the choice ultimately either based on love or based on fear.
You may think there is another root cause but you would be wrong. Everything can be distilled down to either love or fear.
Here is the funny part,though.
One of these root causes is real. The other is nothing more than an illusion simply existing in your mind created completely by your own imagination. Love is real.
(Epilogue has above quote:page 304)
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Rashid Buttar (The 9 Steps to Keep the Doctor Away: Simple Actions to Shift Your Body and Mind to Optimum Health for Greater Longevity)
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In taking uncontrolled, unlimited, unceasing growth as the only recipe for economic health, we’ve dismissed the ideas of optimum size and keeping the organism in balance.
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Ursula K. Le Guin (No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters)
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Rabbit & Chicken Combo Ingredients: 3¾ pounds ground rabbit (ground rabbit typically includes the meat/bones/head which includes the heart, liver, and thyroid gland – check with your supplier) ¾ pound chicken thigh meat and skin (no bone) 14 oz chicken hearts (if not using – add 14 oz chicken meat/bones to recipe and add 4000 mg taurine) 0 or 7 oz chicken livers (if the ground rabbit contains liver – do not add) 2 cups water 4 egg yolks (raw egg whites contain avidin which depletes biotin in the body) 4000 mg wild salmon oil (never cod liver oil) 200 mg vitamin B complex 800 IU vitamin E 0 or 1.5 teaspoons lite iodized salt (if the ground rabbit contains the thyroid gland – do not add) 4000 mg taurine additionally, if freezing for more than a week Directions:
1. Rinse the meat, under cold running water, to remove surface bacteria.
2. Chunk up most of the chicken muscle meat with poultry shears.
3. Grind the rest of the chicken muscle meat, skin, liver (if using), and heart (if using) and add to ground rabbit. Stir well.
4. Measure two cups of water into a bowl and whisk in the egg yolks, salmon oil, vitamin B complex, vitamin E, lite iodized salt (if using), and added taurine (if using in place of hearts and/or adding because of freezing).
5. Mix the chunked meat, ground mixture and supplement mixture together.
6. Fill containers. Leave room in the containers for expansion from freezing. Mark the containers with the contents and date and freeze. Makes approximately 6¼ pounds (100 oz). Cats eat about 4-5 ounces per day. This recipe is not recommended for cats with chronic renal disease.
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Lynn Curtis (Feline Nutrition: Nutrition for the Optimum Health and Longevity of your Cat)
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1 am green. A lotus flower in full-bloom residing in the lushness of the heart. Reaching, embracing, nourishing all in need. Fragile as the morning dew, as expansive as the depth offragrant forests. Ultimate unconditional acceptance, like the Mother Earth's love for her children.
I am blue. Calm and cool, a reflection in a mirrored pond. Diamond stars married to the nighttime sky. The ocean waves curling back to their source. Kind, compassionate words serving as our guide, teacher, and mentor. Father Sky carries truth in the celestial music of his voice.
I am purple. The richness of velvet and the elegance of silk. Diamonds of intuition embedded in the space of all-knowingness. Imagination running through the vastness of the dreamscape, playing in afield of swaying lavender, swirling in the energy of dimensions. Insight radiates softly into the mind's eye.
I am white. Living within us like the innocence of a child. Sitting quietly, still with peace and patience, ready to serve. Every sparkling, dazzling particle on our planet shining forth universal light. The phenomenal beauty of pure Spirit.
I am many colors.
NOTE TO READERS
This book is intended as an informational guide and is not meant to treat, diagnose, or prescribe. For any medical condition, physical conditions, or symptoms, always consult with a qualified physician or appropriate health care professional. Neither the author nor the publisher accepts any responsibility for your health or how you choose to use the information contained in this book.
Names and identifying details have
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Deanna M. Minich (Chakra Foods for Optimum Health: A Guide to the Foods That Can Improve Your Energy, Inspire Creative Changes, Open Your Heart, and Heal Body, Mind, and Spirit (Healing Foods))
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As humans we are concurrently senders and recipients of infrared radiation. We are capable of radiating between 3 and 50 microns. Most often our wave length is in the range of 9.4 microns. As already mentioned – this is within the healing margin (between 4-16 microns). We can draw the following conclusion from this: We all have healing abilities through the laying on of hands.
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Uwe Karstädt (98,6: Ideal Body Temperature as the Secret to Optimum Health)
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The heart is like a smelting furnace for infrared radiation and supplies the hands with the necessary healing or infrared radiation. The image of Christ or Maria in which the heart is depicted as the origin of love and healing can also be interpreted in the same way. We should never forget that we all have similar abilities if we are in harmony with our hearts.
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Uwe Karstädt (98,6: Ideal Body Temperature as the Secret to Optimum Health)
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Reclaim your health, naturally.
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Uwe Karstädt (98,6: Ideal Body Temperature as the Secret to Optimum Health)
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Every choice you’ve made in your life up to this point has led to your current state of health.
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Rashid Buttar (The 9 Steps to Keep the Doctor Away: Simple Actions to Shift Your Body and Mind to Optimum Health for Greater Longevity)
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If you are looking for best pediatrician in Chennai then shens speciality hospital is the optimum health care center to be reached. Then hurry up and instantaneously book an appointment with Shens medical care.
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Child Care Hospital in Chennai
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Humans with low body temperatures ❖ have decreased immunity, ❖ suffer from circulation disorders, ❖ have increased genetic changes and thus an increased cancer risk.
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Uwe Karstädt (98,6: Ideal Body Temperature as the Secret to Optimum Health)
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Without negative ions, supply channels in the cells constrict, nutrient distribution and cell activity is impaired, and the body begins to send out pain signals. Pain is felt when the brain receives too many electric signals from positive ions.
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Uwe Karstädt (98,6: Ideal Body Temperature as the Secret to Optimum Health)
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Infrared radiation penetrates all natural fibers.
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Uwe Karstädt (98,6: Ideal Body Temperature as the Secret to Optimum Health)
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Fifty percent of polled athletes in a 2014 ESPN The Magazine survey reported that menstrual cramps affected their game at some point. The best way to mitigate this is to do some preplanning. In the 5 to 7 days before your period starts, you can reduce the effect of cramp-causing chemicals (specifically PE-2, an estrogen-mediated prostaglandin) by taking magnesium, omega-3 fatty acids, and low-dose 80-milligram aspirin. Yes, it has to be aspirin, not ibuprofen or another nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID), because aspirin suppresses the production of prostaglandins irreversibly, whereas other NSAIDs are reversible. Headaches
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Stacy T. Sims (Roar: How to Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Unique Female Physiology for Optimum Performance, Great Health, and a Strong, Lean Body for Life)
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both rising to the top of their game. Peak performance during PMS: Take 250 milligrams of magnesium, 45 milligrams of zinc, 80 milligrams of aspirin (baby aspirin), and 1 gram of omega-3 fatty acids (flaxseed and fish oil) each night for the 7 days before your period starts.
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Stacy T. Sims (Roar: How to Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Unique Female Physiology for Optimum Performance, Great Health, and a Strong, Lean Body for Life)
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Excellent prebiotic food sources include barely ripe bananas, artichokes, onions, garlic, leeks, asparagus, dandelion greens, oatmeal, and legumes.
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Stacy T. Sims (Roar: How to Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Unique Female Physiology for Optimum Performance, Great Health, and a Strong, Lean Body for Life)
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If our spiritual boundaries are intact, we will know ourselves as spiritual beings, no matter the condition of our lives. Whether we are sick or in good health, depressed or happy, in a primary relationship or alone, we will know ourselves as part of the spiritual family of the living and the passed, the visible and invisible, the natural and the supernatural. We will be assured of grace, the optimum goal of life, or peace in the midst of anything.
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Cyndi Dale (Energetic Boundaries: How to Stay Protected and Connected in Work, Love, and Life)
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we are now finding that more than one genome can be found in the nucleus of a single human cell. More specifically, some people have been found with groups of cells that contain multiple gene mutations occurring nowhere else in their body. This can happen when the genomes of two different eggs fuse together into one egg. A pregnant mother can even gain new genomes in her cells from her child, who leaves fetal cells behind after birth. These cells can migrate to the mother’s organs, even the brain, and be absorbed. This event is known as mosaicism, and it looks to be far more common than ever imagined. In some cases, mosaicism is believed to contribute to diseases like schizophrenia, but for the most part it is considered benign. Even among Darwinian
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Deepak Chopra (Super Genes: Unlock the Astonishing Power of Your DNA for Optimum Health and Well-Being)
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women have a greater ability for social interaction, language, and relationship building. We are also better at tasks involving memory and multitasking, while men have stronger coordination and perceptual ability.
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Stacy T. Sims (Roar: How to Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Unique Female Physiology for Optimum Performance, Great Health, and a Strong, Lean Body for Life)