What Does the Lecture Cover?
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Degradation of Our Food
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The Four Food Groups Scam
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Milk? NOT Milk!
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Bovine Colostrum
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Noni The Secret Is Exposed
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St John s Wort - a Wonderful Weed That Beats Prozac!
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Essential Fatty Acids
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Obesity Big Problem, Easy Solution!
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Detox and Feel Great
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What Exercise?
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Eat, Drink and Be Merry!
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Your Health and Longevity is in YOUR
Hands.
The world of natural healing and has
been with us for thousands of years, and can often be very powerful when we help
ourselves by healthy living. We need to pay attention to what helps us keep in
balance, especially in these times of high stress living, immune breakdown, and
pollution.
Unfortunately, we are living in a
world and time of toxicity and danger. One time to live on this earth and one
chance only.
In this industrial society and world
we live in there are many chemicals and other spheres that affect your health
and happiness. Take time to understand how you can modulate your immune system
to defend against: Allergies, Asthma, Chronic Fatigue, Sinusitis, Rheumatoid
Arthritis, Type 1 Diabetes, Fibro myalgia, Crohn's Disease, Lupus, Psoriasis,
and Eczema. In many cases, these are Auto Immune Disorders.
Therapy for these types of disorders
should include an immune system "modulator".
The path to solid, supportive,
healthy relationships, self-respect, and a quality life starts with the usually
painful decision to make the right choices. This lecture is designed to help you
to get on that path, and to keep you focused on those goals with healthy
lifestyle options.
The meaning of Alternative Health is
as old as mankind and for thousands of years it was the sole type of health care
used, in other words, it was the conventional health care of that day.
Virtually every account of the
History of Mankind suggests that for a very long time humans were hunters and
gatherers. There was a definite allocation of tasks for the men, women, and
children of those early societies. Because men were normally bigger and stronger
than women and children, the men had the formidable task of bringing fresh meat
back to the campfire. They were the hunters and would catch fish in the rivers
and sea.
The women and children were
responsible for the less dangerous work of finding fruits, vegetables, and any
other edible flora that could be gathered. Women, of course, along with children
and injured or disabled men, became the gatherers.
As the years passed, some of the
smarter women soon learned which of the vegetation had curative properties for
some of the ailments that attack humans.
The knowledge they acquired was
passed down from one generation to another and a huge cultural base of medical
information was established, all based on the curative properties of what we now
know as herbs.
That cultural knowledge base is what
we now call Alternative Health and it was then the standard. Certain women who
were accomplished at tapping into this knowledge became known by various names
that all basically mean "Healer".
The typical old time medicine man or
Healer would be adept at identifying the herbs that were effective treatments
for the common illnesses and processing those herbs so that they could be used
most effectively against those illnesses.
Most of the processing would involve
using the herbs to make a soup or broth. Because of their important role, the
women Healers were highly respected members of their societies.
When men became jealous and envious
of the women Healers they conspired to take the healing industry away from them.
They took advantage of the religious hysteria of the Middle Ages and started a
rumour that the Healers were consorts of the devil. The Healers were portrayed
as witches or hags stirring their brew.
The brew was explained as being made
up of as evil potions and not health giving herbs. The vicious lies worked and
many women were killed and other healers went into hiding. As a result of the
Witch Hunts, the healing industry was taken over by men.
The beginning of our drug industry as
we know it began hundreds of years ago. The first drugs were, of course,
processed herbs. As medical knowledge became more sophisticated, techniques were
refined and we had Aspirin, derived from the bark of the willow tree and
penicillin which was discovered on mouldy bread.
Then along came companies, the
pharmaceuticals, which employed chemists who were able to replicate many plant
based medicines in a laboratory.
Wow! They became huge profit makers
and began to donate large sums of money to medical schools. Then they began to,
and still do, dictate that which should be taught in those medical schools.
Laboratory-produced medicine was
deemed to be "in" and Alternative Medicine, herbal medicine, was "out".
Today we have the majority of
mainstream, "conventional", medical practitioners who have graduated from those
pharmaceutical-sponsored medical schools believing that laboratory produced
medicines are very, very good and plant based, herbal medicines are very, very
bad.
Our foundation of modern medicine now
place herbs under the category of Alternative Health, how is that for a
laugh?????
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What Is a Healthy Lifestyle?
People have different ways of describing a healthy lifestyle. But for most, it
means living life in a way that helps the person to be both physically and
emotionally healthy. Many things go into creating a healthy lifestyle,
including:
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Positive Relationships
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Appropriate Exercise
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Proper Nutrition
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Adequate rest
Wellness
involves both choice and action. The choices you make each day, and the actions
you take on those choices, can lead to a healthier lifestyle. Making positive
choices in the areas of physical fitness, stress, work, relationships,
medication, and nutrition - and then acting on those choices - promotes a sense
of accomplishment and well-being.
There are
other benefits from these choices, as well. Making a life-long commitment to a
healthy lifestyle can reduce the effects of chronic mental illness, give you
more energy, increase your self-esteem and confidence, and help you minimize
symptoms of schizophrenia or your chances for relapse.