By Jennifer Jordan
Ah, the battle of the bulge: for most of us, there is no love lost between our hips, our thighs, our stomachs and our extra pounds. With the world - and most notably the United States - becoming increasingly overweight, diets, and exercise routines have popped up around every corner. Still, there is a bit of a conundrum: people aren't only looking for a way to lose weight, they are looking for an easy way. Well, what do you know, H2O may be the easiest way yet.
Drinking water isn't an end all be all to weight problems: anyone who chokes down two double cheeseburgers for lunch won't be saved from extra baggage simply by sipping on a liter or two of water. But, for those who eat sensibly and exercise regularly, the consumption of water may help speed up metabolism and take a few calories right off the top (or, perhaps, the bottom).
According to a recent study, water may increase your metabolic rate by as much as thirty percent on a daily basis. It doesn't take a mathematician to know that's quite a bit. Normally, in regards to weight loss, water was shoved down our throats (forgive the pun) in an attempt to make us feel full and thus, more likely to pass on that third slice of pizza. Nowadays, however, water is proving to do more than fill us up: it's a much more talented liquid than we previously thought.
In 2003, an article was published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. It spoke of a study involving seven healthy men and seven healthy women. All participants were of normal weight. Each participant consumed 500 ml of water per day. When their metabolic rates were measured, the researchers found that all metabolic rates were increased by roughly 30 percent.
This spike in the metabolism, according to the study, occurred quickly after water consumption: the metabolism was at its greatest spike within a half an hour and was maintained for more than an hour. The reason for this? Well, it's all really pretty simple: the water enters the body cold and must be warmed up in the stomach. This "warming up" causes the body's metabolism to skyrocket.
This study further substantiates the idea that ice water, in particular, can help burn calories. Just as the researchers stated above, the ice water in your system must be warmed up by your body. It goes in cold, but when it exits - unless you find yourself peeing icicles - it's no longer freezing. The conversion from ice water to warm water burns calories.
A person who consumes the recommended eight glasses of water a day - and adds in a few ice cubes - can burn around 70 extra calories on a daily basis. While 70 extra calories doesn't seem like much, over time it does add up.
Drinking water without adopting other weight friendly goals probably won't get you fitting into your tight jeans anytime soon, but it can help. It's easy, it's simple, and it provides all sorts of other benefits so why not raise a glass to H2O. Bottoms Up!
Jennifer Jordan is an editor and staff writer for http://www.phdrinkingwater.com. A fitness buff, she simply could not live without consuming a lot of water everyday. Yes, she prefers water even to wine.
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Drink, Drink, Drink - How Water Increases Metabolism
How Water Keeps You Healthy
By Jennifer Jordan
Like the earth itself, our bodies are made up mostly of water. It is not only essential to our cognitive and physical functioning, but it plays a vital role in health. This, no matter what way you look at it, is pretty good news. Drinking water to maintain health is cheap, easy, and something people can't fairly detest: no one can really claim to hate the taste of water.
It used to be that drinking eight glasses a day was enough to quench our bodies thirst, but nowadays eight glasses doesn't seem like nearly enough. With exercise routines, hot temperatures, and the consumption of spicy foods, most people find themselves doing their best camel impersonation as they down liter after liter of H20.
But, water isn't merely about quenching thirst, and fighting off dehydration. Water - a multi tasking substance - aids health in ways we are just starting to discover. So, next time you raise a glass to this hydrogen and oxygen molecule, remember that it's doing the following:
It Keeps us on Our toes: When we think of dehydration, most of us probably picture running a marathon on a hot day. Surely that's what it would take to become dehydrated, right? Not exactly. It's actually very easy to dehydrate your body. In fact, simply feeling tired or being lethargic could be a sign of mild dehydration. Headaches, diarrhea, and muscle cramps are also signs. Staying hydrated, on the flip side, helps us avoid all this while staying awake, alert, and well quenched.
It Keeps us From Being Constipated: When it comes down to it, water is nature's laxative. It might not be as potent as chocking down an ex-lax, but it's also not drastic and completely natural. Water flows through our system and regulates all of our functions, including the functions of our digestive system. The more water we drink, the more our intestines and kidneys flush out excess waste.
It Regulates our Body Temperature: We get hot, we get cold, we get just right. Water helps us do the latter. When we perspire, we lose body fluids, a loss that can result in dehydration and other ailments. Not only does drinking a lot of water keep our cooling and heating systems on track, but it also lubricates the joints and prevents dry mouth.
It Regulates our Metabolism: In a society as weight conscious as ours, there may be no function of the body quite as well studied by the laymen as metabolism. We are always looking to increase it. The function that allows us to burn calories and rid excess pounds is regulated by - that's right - metabolism. Keeping a regular metabolism helps avoid unwanted loss of muscle and unwanted gain of fat.
It Helps Prevent Disease: Disease is like a visit from the in-laws: it's something no one wants. There are a variety of things in our world that cause disease. But, luckily - in the grand yin and yang fashion of the Universe - there are also things that prevent it. Water belongs in this category. Water can help prevent colon cancer, bladder cancer, and a slug of other illnesses. It can also help people heal from everyday colds and viruses. Feed a fever, starve a cold, but drink water for both.
Jennifer Jordan is an editor and staff writer for http://www.phdrinkingwater.com. A fitness buff, she simply could not live without consuming a lot of water everyday. Yes, she prefers water even to wine.
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3 Easy Steps To Build The Perfect Diet Plan For You
By Mark Dailey
The way you diet can get you get a great looking body and more confidence or it can ruin all your hopes of feeling and looking great. It seems like everyone is trying this or that diet, hoping to get that perfect body, sometimes without even knowing it! For example we all know we should eat a lot more raw more fruits and vegetables as well as less fat and so on.
For the most part of our lives, we do try to live life on the healthy side, but its not always easy to keep up with. And it doesn't get any easier when every magazine and health ad is revealing their perfect new diet plan and what you should be eating. This can make anyone confused about what they really need to do to reach their own personal dieting goals.
So what can you do to make sure your diet is both healthy as well as moving you toward your weight loss goals?
How to hand craft the perfect diet for you in 3 easy steps
1. Have common sense. First of all, common sense is your friend. You wouldn't let yourself starve to death with a whole bunch of yummy food around you. Common sense will also tell you when you've had enough food so you don't easily give in to hunger cravings, and to eat a fruit if you do! Common sense is your best ally when it comes to making smart diet choices.
2. Forget about dieting myths. No matter what you've read or heard, your body needs proteins, fats, sugars, fibers, vitamins and minerals at every meal so you feel satisfied and healthy during your day. Really, every time you eat you should have some protein, a little fat and some fiber on your plate to make sure you feel full and satisfied.
This takes some planning as its much easier to reach for the first bag of junk food you see and start munching. Try mixing up your healthy foods by eating an apple, followed by some plain yogurt to get rid of hunger cravings more than just eating 2 apples. Think of which healthy foods cover the bases and eat a little bit of everything at each meal
3. Raw food is good, but don't overdo it. We're always hearing about how raw food is healthier than cooked food. How you should be eating as much raw food as possible. But what you don't hear is how dangerous some raw foods like eggplants and beans are, which can damage your digestive tract if you consume too much of it. Many starch foods cannot be eaten if our bodies do not digest that type of starch unless its changed through the process of cooking it.
Other veggies like carrots have fragile nutrients that can be destroyed when fried. But cooked carrots still have plenty of excellent nutrients and vitamins. Whats the best mix? There isn't one! Just use common sense and eat a mixture of raw and cooked fruits and veggies. If its usually eaten raw, eat it raw.
If its usually cooked, don't eat it raw! Use these common sense dieting tips and include more healthy foods that cover all the nutrients your body needs to feel full, maintain a balanced diet, and look and feel great!
Mark Daily is a popular Weight Loss author. While you plan out your perfect diet, read more about herbal fat binding supplements that naturally absorb up to 27% of the fat you would normally store away so you can eat what you like while still losing weight.
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Problems with Our Health Care System
By Dr Jenny Tylee
Given the enormous amount of money that is spent on our health care system and the research that has gone into the various diseases we would be excused if we think that there should be able to trust our health care system to deliver quality health care. Sadly, our Western health care system falls well short of what is desired. Instead of healing and health it largely delivers suffering and further disease. Mendelssohn as far back as 1979 (and he wasn't the first to suggest it) considers that the public has been 'conned' about the benefits delivered by 'scientific medicine'. There is a great deal of myth that surrounds our current system.
A part of the myth is that medical practice has produced an overall increase in health in the past one hundred years. However, historical analysis has found that general improvements in social and environmental conditions provide a more adequate explanation of the changes than the rise of 'scientific medicine'. Factors such as the improvement in diet and nutrition, sanitation and improved general living conditions have made the greatest difference.
Hospitals are deadly. Mistakes/errors, accidents, infections, medical drug disasters, diagnostic equipment including; X-rays, ultrasounds and mammograms make hospitals very dangerous. Hard technology has taken over the central role in modern medicine as it is considered effective and efficient. This has however been questioned. It is considered uneconomic and it also causes an unnecessary amount of pain and suffering. Accidents in hospitals now occur more frequently than in any other industry except mining and high rise construction. In addition to this are the medical doctor caused diseases. They are so common that they have their own name - iatrogenesis. Again the general public is unaware of how common this disease is. All told, iatrogenesis accounts for 784,000 deaths each year in the United States - more American deaths than all the wars of the 20th century combined. 98,000 deaths a year are caused by medical errors alone, and surgical errors account for another 32,000 deaths. These figures include only deaths. Officials admit that medical errors are reported in official data only 5 percent of the time, so the problem is much greater - exactly how much greater, no one really knows.
Research carried out in Australia showed that the equivalent of a jumbo jet load of people died unnecessarily died each week in Australia because of medical interventions - this information was contained in an official Health Department report. It was substantially hushed up - because of the potential impact of the information on the general public! We talk about and work to reduce road accidents and we 'ground' airplanes that are shown to have faults - but the general public is generally unaware of the risks that they take when they come under the care of the medical health care system.
Apart from accidents and medical mistakes adverse drug reactions and infections account for many of the incidences of iatrogenesis. Adverse drug reactions are very common. Some of these reactions can be minor but they can also be deadly. There are five main groups into which these adverse reactions can be placed. Those that:
* adversely affect the blood cells,
* cause toxicity in the liver,
* damage the kidneys,
* affect the skin, and
* affect the unborn baby.
The hazardous side effects listed here do not include allergic reactions or medication errors, but rather the effects of the drugs themselves. Out of the 2.2 million cases of serious adverse reactions to drugs each year, authorities have listed four types of drugs as being the worst offenders for adverse reactions. These are antibiotics (17%), cardiovascular drugs (17%), chemotherapy drugs (15%), analgesics/anti-inflammatory drugs (15%). 198 drugs were approved by the FDA from1976 through 1985 and over 50 percent had serious post-approval reactions. Many adverse reactions were discovered during clinical trials and were covered up by pharmaceutical manufacturers in order to get FDA approval. The FDA is also far from blame free when it comes to giving approval for drugs that have serious reactions. The whole drug approval process has many problems and cannot be relied upon to protect the public from dangerous drugs.
Antibiotics are no longer working on many extremely dangerous bacteria or they only work in doses that that cause serious side effects. The development of these antibiotic resistant 'superbugs' is in the order of a crisis. In the years following the introduction of antibiotics they were (and still are) used for the treatment of common colds and flu and other complaints. Antibiotics, such as tetracycline were used (and still are) over long periods of time for the treatment of acne. Ampicillin and bactrim were used for the wrong reasons and there has been a reliance on antibiotics to treat recurrent bladder infections, chronic ear infections, chronic sinusitis, chronic bronchitis and non-bacterial sore throats. The UK office of health Economics in 1997 (cited in Chaitow) reported the following statistics:
· 5,000 people are being killed every year (in UK hospitals alone) by infections that they caught in hospital.
· A further 15,000 deaths are being contributed to by the infections that they caught in hospital.
· One in 16 patients who goes to hospital for anything will develop a 'hospital acquired infection'.
· Many of the infections acquired involve the difficult to treat 'superbugs'.
· USA figures published more than a decade ago show that 1 in 10 patients develops an infection that they caught in hospital - this involves around 2.5 million people every year.
· Every year 20,000 of these people die from their infections and the deaths of a further 60,000 are contributed to by the hospital acquired infection - a large number of these involve antibiotic resistant 'superbugs'.
The current approach of our health care system is ineffective and can potentially cause more harm and damage than the original condition. Although undoubtedly many lives have been saved by timely medical intervention much medical intervention is unnecessary and alternatives, which don't cause the same devastation, are available. Everyone needs to consider the way they interact with the medical system. Try to avoid the health care system if you can and certainly question your medical practitioner very carefully about any intervention they wish to make. Many will not like this questioning and just want to be seen as the 'all knowing, all wise doctor' - but this they are not! Do not be conned and do not buy into myths about the medical profession and health care.
Having said this it is important that if you are currently taking medication that you don't suddenly stop. Seek information, discover alternatives and discuss changing you approach to health care with a health professional. If your current medical practitioner is uninformed about alternatives (as many are) or unwilling to discuss these with you (as many are) then you may need to seek a different health professional who is prepared to help you improve your health rather than just use medical drug prescriptions or surgery!
Dr Jenny Tylee is an experienced health professional who is passionate about health and wellbeing. She believes that health is not just absence of disease and seeks to actively promote vitality and wellness through empowering others. She encourages people to improve their health by quit smoking, cleansing their body, taking essential vitamin and mineral supplement and many other methods, including herbal remedies. Visit Dr Jenny's blog and join her newsletter for more quality information.
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Men With Breast Cancer - Is It Possible?
Underdeveloped as they may be, men too have breast tissues. This means men are prone to developing breast cancer too, just like females, even though their risk is about a hundred times lesser than females. About 1% of breast cancer cases are those of male breast cancer.
When a man has risk factors for male breast cancer, the breast tissues may start developing cancer cells, and he may get breast cancer. There is no age requisite for male breast cancer to occur, however, men between 60 years to 70 years of age are most vulnerable. Exposure to radiation is a common male breast cancer risk factor. Also, the risk goes high if there is a family history of breast cancer. Men with Klinefelter's disease and cirrhosis have high risks too. Klinefelter's is when a man abnormally has two X chromosomes instead of one. Cirrhosis comes with high levels of estrogen, which is a big male breast cancer risk factor. Also, men with weight and alcohol problems are more prone to developing breast cancer.
About 30% cases of male breast cancer are due to heredity, compared to just 5% to 10% in females. Breast cancer genes - BRCA1 and BRCA2 can increase the risk of men developing breast cancer, if the genes show defects or mutation. Genetic mutation is usually not inherited, and is acquired during the course of your life. Radiation therapies or operations may be one cause for these mutations.
Just as in females, the presence of a lump is a symptom for male breast cancer. It is often painless, and may be occur along with increasing thickness of breasts. The breast skin may appear pitted and show the peau d'orange syndrome. Changes in the nipple, fluid discharge from nipples, inverted nipples, redness around the nipples, and change in the breast skin texture are all symptoms of male breast cancer.
You should instantly get an enlarged breast or other abnormalities examined. For diagnosis, clinical breast examination, biopsies, mammograms, breast ultrasounds, even nipple discharge examination can be adopted. Mammograms are said to work better in men than in women because females have a dense breast tissue which makes the process difficult. If the biopsy reveals cancer cell presence, getting the breast tissue tested for presence of estrogen and progesterone is a good idea, since these female hormones can stimulate cancer growth, as is the case with 80% to 90% male breast cancer cases, and can be stopped at source.
If the diagnosed breast cancer has not spread outside the original site, that is, if it is in situ, a mastectomy gives great results. If the cancer is invasive, which means it has metastasized outside the site where the cancer started developing, doctors test it to see how much it has advanced. There are four stages, Stage I being the most curable and more reactive to treatment, and Stage IV meaning the cancer has metastasized beyond the stage where a certain cure is possible. This grading helps doctors determine what kind of treatment is needed for you.
For men with Stage IV of invasive breast cancer, chemotherapy, hormonal treatment and radiation therapy become imperative, since metastasis makes cure so hard. Likewise, treating male breast cancer is not very different from treating females with the disease, for any stage of breast cancer
Leading a healthy life during treatment is quintessential. Abstinence from alcohol and curing weight problems go a long way in both prevention and cure of breast cancer. You will always have family and friends for all the help and support you need, and you should never stop yourself from availing that help. Rest assured, you will lead a perfectly happy life thereafter.
Here is how men develop male breast cancer symptoms. Inform yourself about breast cancer treatments before it is too late.
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My Brush With Breast Cancer Or How A Lump Helped Improve Other Lives
How It All Started
For many years I have "looked after myself". Eating healthy foods, no animal products, exercising regularly, gynaecological check-ups on a regular basis... At 59 I have been happily remarried for nearly ten years... I have great relationships with my children and step children... a wonderful job... I am spiritually content.
So perhaps you can imagine how shocked I was to discover that a benign lump in my right breast, which I had had for fifteen years, suddenly changed at the beginning of 2006. It grew larger and suddenly became painful. Not screaming out loud can't stand it pain, just a dull ache that sometimes sparked like I was being jabbed with a horse prod. I dutifully went to my gynaecologist for my regular mammogram. Best to have a biopsy she told me.
Long story short, my medical aid would not pay for a biopsy at the clinic where my gynaecologist practised. So my frustrated gynaecologist referred me to 'a very nice surgeon' to have the lump removed - the medical aid agreed to pay for that!
The very nice surgeon told me it was a simple procedure. Was I prepared that the lump might be serious? Just take it out so you can see it is nothing was my confident reply. He just nodded and booked me in for the operation.
Everything went well and I came home the same day. I had an appointment to see the surgeon for the results a few days later and I duly arrived, accompanied by my husband, at the surgeon's offices.
When he asked my husband to come into the office with me I knew something was not right. I was diagnosed as having breast cancer.
I went into total shock and disbelief, just sat there and said nothing. Luckily my husband asked the questions while I could do nothing but think why me?
I was more angry than fearful. I had done everything I was supposed to do... had the lump checked every year at my annual check-up... had my mammograms... lived well - I don't even have a medical doctor as I am always healthy... what was the Universe trying to tell me?
Cancer was something that other people got. I had spent several years working through 'problem' areas in my life with various forms of therapy. I was fine... I had no hidden anger at anyone. I had resolved all my issues. Why then was I sitting in this doctor's chair hearing him tell me I had breast cancer?
I calmed down and thought about what to do. My surgeon was very composed. He said I had a rare strain of breast cancer that only 2 - 3% of women get; 'very well behaved' was how he put it - and I did not need radiation or chemotherapy (that would be like swatting a fly with a ten pound hammer were his words), only surgery and follow up hormone treatment.
Well... I was just about OK with having surgery (mostly to assuage any 'how wacky can she get' comments from any members of my family if I refused surgery) but no way was I taking hormones for the next five years. First of all, I believe that we, as human beings, can resolve our issues ourselves and, perhaps more importantly for me, was that being vegan there was no way I was going to take drugs, prescription or not, that were more than likely tested on animals (I currently follow a vegan lifestyle after being vegetarian for over forty years).
It is all well and good to have personal belief systems that are not 'main stream' when the chips are not down... everything is going well... but it seems that a lot of people expected me to ditch those beliefs now that the dreaded 'C' word had come into my life. What good are one's beliefs if they never get tested? I was still 'lucky' as the type of breast cancer I had was not life threatening and would not be rushing all over my body within weeks or even months. It was as if I had got breast cancer 'lite'. Nonetheless it was breast cancer. And something had to be done about it.
After we arrived home I sat by myself and thought quietly about what I was going to do. Then I phoned my step-daughter in the USA who was in her final year of studying as a doctor of Chinese Medicine. She told me about herbs I could take... what to watch out for... Then I thought about 'taking' anything and decided that if I did that I would only be treating symptoms and not the root cause of the cancer.
I decided to contact a therapist with whom my son had worked successfully in the past who specializes in Journey therapy and chat to her about things. Fortuitously, (and as I realized afterwards, also serendipitously) she had a cancellation on the day before my scheduled surgery.
So off I went to see her and we sat and talked and she explained to me that many women nurture everyone else ahead of themselves. I actually had no idea of what I personally wanted out of life. I knew what I wanted for my husband, for my children... for the world even - but no idea what I wanted for me.
Talking about this triggered the memory of a recent coffee date I had had with my youngest son. He and I went out just to chat about things as I hadn't seen him for a while. So Mom, he said, what do you want from life? Well... I want this and that and the other... He interrupted me with 'But what do you want for yourself?' I looked at him blankly. For myself? I don't subscribe to 'selfish' when I want things for myself. I buy myself clothes when I need them, I don't go short of material items any longer, not how it used to be in my days as a single mother with no maintenance forthcoming. Things are different now but it seemed that I really had no idea of what I wanted for myself. As my son continued to ask me I honestly couldn't think of anything. How sad is that I thought.
Meanwhile back at the therapist... she said that as I had basically ignored the lump, the Universe had decided that the heat needed a bit of turning up, hence the change in the structure of the lump. But I did do something about it was my reply... I mentioned it every year at my checkups. What I did not do, she explained, was find out why the lump arrived in the first place and actively do something about the reason why.
Hmmm. Now that's an interesting idea I thought. It made a lot of sense and I was excited about this discovery. So how can we sort this out, I asked?
We started to talk about a new therapy she was finding effective. 'It is called Emotional Freedom Techniques', she said, "and 'all' you do is tap on various places on your face and body and talk".
Within minutes I was exploring memories going back to my childhood and even though I had (in previous other non-EFT therapy sessions) rationalised them, there was apparently still a lot of emotion attached to them. Tapping on various facial and body points with my fingers and repeating various phrases helped unlock the emotional response to these memories and 'freed' them, never to return!
She told me that in subsequent sessions we would work to implant new thoughts so I would be able to learn how to nurture myself. Once you 'weed' out all the old stuff and get the soil right you need to plant new things so they can flourish and you become healthy and happy. I was really looking forward to that experience as my mind was totally blank on how I could nurture myself. She assured me implanting the new nurturing ideas were a habit and new habits just take a bit of practice to become entrenched.
By the time my first session was up, we had established that I was beginning to heal myself. I also felt about ten years younger. I looked lighter and I suddenly had an enormous reservoir of energy and was actually looking forward to my surgery to see what the doctor would find!
Surgery went successfully - and as I came out of the anaesthetic, the surgeon's words to me were: 'I am ecstatic with how well the operation went... there was hardly anything to take out!'
I healed better than he expected I would, the drain came out sooner than usual, the scarring has faded and the scar tissue has disappeared much more quickly than any previous scar tissue from any operations I have had.
I had a bit of a 'discussion' with the surgeon regarding my refusal to take the drugs; apart from the vegan viewpoint (which we talked about for some time), these were 'wonderful drugs' that I could only take for a maximum of five years, as by then the hormones would have essentially destroyed my bones and I would be left suffering from osteoporosis. It didn't sound like an option at all - five years of drugs and then basically no bones left. My surgeon obviously thought it was a reasonable trade off. I did not.
Needless to say I am not taking any medication. I have had regular blood tests and my surgeon and I are convinced the cancer is gone never to return. He is the first orthodox medical doctor I have met who is open to discussing various alternate means of therapy. He never dismissed my ideas and views - always discussing them with me and acknowledging that I could well be correct for me. That is the most important point I think... that my views are right for me, not necessarily for the rest of the world (even though I would welcome everyone becoming vegan and preferably overnight!)
I soon got back to my weight training and walking. Water skiing took a bit longer! I cannot truthfully say I am 'proud' of my scar but I can say that I am happy that I had this opportunity. I have never felt that I was a breast cancer 'survivor' - I had a breast cancer experience.
How the Lump Changed Lives The reason a lump has changed lives? Since my discovery of EFT, I have become a qualified EFT therapist; I have helped numerous people to heal themselves, from both physical and emotional problems and I now specialise in helping women deal with weight loss issues. My eldest son has also become a qualified EFT therapist and is now helping improve the lives of children as well as specialising in sports performance issues.
EFT is not restricted to people! I have helped heal my pets, most significantly helping one of our cats, Snowball, to overcome his skin cancer; helped many other cats and dogs with various issues, including several with cancer, jealousy and fear of thunder. I have even helped a Hadeda Ibis (bird) with a crippled foot!
It may sound too good to be true, too easy a way to heal... but it is just as easy as I have written. As long as you want to heal. If you are not ready, there is no shame in that; perhaps later in this life you will be ready.
There are no drugs to take, no lengthy soul-searching sessions with years of therapy, just simple tapping and talking. It works for children, for adults, for animals, for sports people and senior citizens! You can literally try it for anything!
Thank you Universe for the wakeup call that has helped me and will continue to help me help others.
For many years I have been interested in the welfare of animals, companion animals and especially farm animals. Being vegetarian for over 45 years and vegan for nearly 10, I felt drawn to helping those that had no voice.
Several years ago, I discovered EFT, when I found I had breast cancer. EFT helped me tremendously to solve the emotional issues that I had rationalized many years before, issues that I thought were resolved but as I found with using EFT, were not!
I decided to train further and found I had great empathy for animals. I tried EFT on my own cats for various issues and was amazed how quickly the issues were resolved! I tried EFT on other animals... I was surprised to find that I had success with them!
I then decided that I didn't want to do this... it was too strange, too weird, but with some pushing from my EFT teacher I continued to expand my knowledge about surrogate energy healing.
At this time I was also expanding my human EFT practice and was having wonderful success.
I now teach humans how to use EFT - on themselves and on their animals - and hold regular training courses in Johannesburg. I also have many international clients (human and animal!) and communicate with them by phone, Skype and e-mail. That is one of the many great things about using EFT... you don't have to be there in person, face to face. Although face to face works great too!
You can read much more about EFT and how I work with EFT on the Stuff Busters web site - http://www.stuffbusters.co.za
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Green Tea's Fight Against Cancer
Green tea has long been known for its cancer-preventing and cancer-fighting properties. But with more scientific research coming in every year, we're finding out that drinking green tea is a much more potent fighter in the war against cancer than previously thought.
There have been dozens of research studies that have linked drinking green tea regularly to both a preventative and fighting effect on cancer cells in the body. Scientists believe that it is the high number of the antioxidants epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), flavonoids and polyphenols that help to prevent the formation of cancer cells, kill existing cancer cells and stop the progression of cancer cells.
Breast cancer. Studies on animals suggest that the polyphenols in green tea slow the growth rate of breast cancer cells. In a study of 472 women with varying degrees of breast cancer, scientists found that those who drank the most amount of green tea had the least spread of cancer
Prostate cancer. Researchers in Southeast China found that the risk of prostate cancer declined with an increase in green tea consumption.
Lung cancer. The polyphenols in green tea have been found to slow the growth of human lung cancer cells in laboratory test tubes.
Colorectal cancer. Various studies have concluded that drinking 1.2-4.5 cups of tea per day results in a significantly reduced risk of both colon and rectal cancers - in some studies the risk was dropped by 60%.
Ovarian cancer. Studies have found that 1) there is a distinct correlation between an increase of tea consumption and a decrease in the risk of ovarian cancer, 2) women who drank at least one cup of green tea per day lived longer with existing ovarian cancer.
Skin cancer. Studies have found that EGCG and polyphenols in green tea have certain anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer properties that may help to prevent the formation and growth of skin tumors.
Stomach cancer. Controlled laboratory studies using test tubes found that the polyphenols in green tea inhibit the growth of stomach cancer cells.
Bladder cancer. One study found that women who consumed green tea had a lower risk of developing bladder cancer. Another study revealed that bladder cancer patients (particularly male) who drank green tea had a substantially better five-year survival rate than those who did not drink green tea.
Esophageal cancer. In animal testing, studies have found that green tea polyphenols slowed the growth rate of esophageal cancer cells.
Pancreatic cancer. Researchers have found that a direct link exists between drinking green tea and a lowered risk of pancreatic cancer. For women, those who drank the most green tea were 50% less likely to develop pancreatic cancer. Men who drank the most green tea were 37% less likely to develop pancreatic cancer.
As studies continue be conducted with findings pointing towards a positive link between drinking green tea and a reduced risk of cancer, there seems to be no doubt among researchers that green tea is the most healthy drink on Earth.
Kerry Gregg is the proprietor and driving force behind http://www.TeaDen.com TeaDen sells a variety of antioxidant-rich organic whole leaf teas and the site also has a wealth of information on the proven benefits of drinking tea, such as cancer prevention, weight loss, and cardiovascular health.
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