Viva For Your Health

Visit an alternative health clinic if you are interested in exploring options that do not fall within the realm of conventional medicine.  This alternative health approach to healing is more metaphysical and spiritual, and goes along with the belief that the body is capable of healing itself, and this medicine is just part of the healing process.

Aromatherapy, which dates about 80 years back, is a popular form.  This is to apply or inhale essential plant oils.  This technique is said to be a growing industry.  It brings to mind the scented oils and candles, but modern aromatherapy includes more than those relaxing accessories.

Another alternative health care option the clinic might suggest is the use of herbal supplements as a healing power. Herbs commonly used include aloe vera, chamomile, belladonna, ginkgo biloba, and valerian.  Aloe vera can help with burns, such as sunburn and other irritations to the skin. Chamomile is said to be relaxing and can relief ailments such as indigestion and heartburn.  Many products are available, as there are A-Z medicine cabinets that are ways of healing that differ from the conventional way.

Some other techniques an alternative health clinic might suggest include deep breathing, magnet therapy, meditation and spirituality.  The medicine has gotten both advocacy and skepticism, so talk to a professional and research the product or method in question thoroughly before making the decision.  So which option is better, these alternative health style methods or conventional, scientific prices?  It all depends on what you want for your body.

Health Warning: Belief happens when someone makes you believe something. But What if they were wrong? And even worse, what if they know they were wrong?

“When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied.” Herophilus

“If you eat all your greens up you will grow up big and strong.”

Does that sound familiar?

It should! It is what I heard when I was younger and it is most likely what you heard at some point too.

But long gone are the lessons that we learnt from our mothers and fathers. We now have a new mother and father and they are called:

THE MEDIA

The Media has consistently groomed us since we were little kids and we have unwisely followed every one of their steps and lessons by the book!

But is what they told us right?

That all depends upon whom it is right for! It is definitely not right for us, so it must be for the people who are making all of the money. Any guesses who?

For years we have followed fad diet after fad diet in the attempt to get healthy.

“Just go on this diet and you will feel better than ever” rings out from every advertisement.

You have heard it all before and fallen for it time after time.

So many lies infest our minds that we do not know which ones are true or false. That is why I am here to help you find your way through the myriad of lies and find the truth that is going to help you defeat your illness.

Just take a look at some of the lies that we are stupid enough to fall for:

“Prescription drugs will make you healthier.”

They do not make you better. Get this simple lesson into your head: they suppress the symptoms and only make illness worse in the long run.

“The U.S. health care system is the best in the world.”

The health of U.S. citizens is declining rapidly. U.S Citizens pay double, triple, and even quadruple the price for prescription drugs than any other country.

“You can get all the nutrition you need from three balanced meals a day.”

Again, believe it if you want to. In fact, today’s foods are nutrient depleted, and they come from depleted soils. They are also processed and manufactured which kills almost all the nutrients. Which in turn is absolutely no good for the body.

Not to say that all is wrong, they do have the right ideas about the balancing of the food we eat. The human body needs food that indeed balances, but unfortunately the food we are eating today certainly does not provide the necessary ingredients for a balanced life. The human race is in for a rude awakening very soon, but that won’t save the people who don’t get off their butts and do something about it.

We Have Used the Wrong Ingredients and this has unbalanced our health scales.

Which side of the scales are you on? I needn’t be a psychic to find this one out.

For as far back as I can remember, people have been saying:

“You need to have a healthy Balance”.

Listen up; this could be one of the most important things you will ever hear. You are living out of balance, hell so many people today are living out of balance, and as I do hope you can figure, this is not the best way to live.

What you don’t know about your health is hugely affecting how your life is and what it will eventually become.

? Our Body functions are a mystery to us, we are not told a thing!
? We are not told what we need to live and have a vibrantly healthy life, even a normal life!
? And we are not taught about the little intricacies that are within us, which we should be looking after.

Your Body has to perform millions of complex functions every moment in order for it to survive.

The Clock & You

Try to imagine that your body is a clock. Everything within the Clock needs to work in harmony for it to run smoothly and for it to tell the correct time. That is exactly the same for the Human Body. If things are not running smoothly, this is when the trouble starts.

Your body operates on an electro magnetic current. A fine balance that exists in your biochemistry creates electrical power in your body.

This electrical power within your body depends on your blood stream to make it function properly. So, you can imagine what happens when your blood is out of balance.

Our blood stream relies on the balance of its pH Level.

When we have imbalance in our bodies we start to show signs of disease, which could include the following symptoms:

Low energy,
Fatigue,
Poor digestion,
Excess weight,
Foggy thinking,
Aches and pains,
As well as major disorders.

What you have to do is bring all the good things back into your life, and with my help & The Health Warrior Way we certainly will.

Say goodbye to disease, and hello to:

Health
Energy,
Clear thinking,
Smooth operation of all body systems,
Clear, bright eyes and skin,
And a lean, trim body.

Everywhere I look I can see that people are out of balance. I for one was tired, fat, ill, feeling old before my time, and I always told myself, that was my life. That was what nature had intended. But nature didn’t, and I learnt that. I got off my lazy ass and did something about it. I wasn’t always The Health Warrior.

I can almost guarantee, that you know at least one person who is suffering from one of the top three Killers in the United States-Heart Disease, Cancer, or Diabetes.

Just look at the shocking statistics, this will be you, this will be your kids and this will be the whole planet if we don’t get off our lazy fat guzzling asses and do something about it.

1/2 of the population will die from Heart Disease or Diabetes &
1/3 will die from Cancer.

Do you want this? Hell, do you want your kids to have this?

Well this is it, but the absolutely mammoth news to get into your head is that….

…..These 3 KILLERS are Preventable and Reversible, each one of them being a direct result of poor diet and nutrition. So Simple, But yet so far away from most sufferers.

If you eat the proper foods and get the best nutrients, in balance, this will help you avoid illness, together with the pain and horrific quality of life that so often we are stuck with before our demise, sometimes by decades.

You don’t want that, I don’t want that for you, that’s why I’m trying to get this simple but powerful message across.

Even mainstream medicine agrees:

“Foods contain nutrients essential for normal metabolic function, and when problems arise, they result from imbalances in nutrient intake and from harmful interaction with other factors.”

According to the 1988 Surgeon General’s Report on Health and Nutrition, this is related to:
“What we EAT”

Since this report, people have stupidly made attempts to follow one diet craze after another. They are killing themselves. This is not only an attempt to drop excess weight, but also as a way to find their way back to good health. However,

“We (as a country) are now fatter than ever. And we’re certainly no healthier.”

The problem is that while diet and nutrition is the key to a healthy weight, overall health and well being, it simply must be a diet that properly balances our body chemistry.

The diet trends and crazes that have swept over the nation in recent years only cause more damage to us by making our bodies more out of balance than ever. Get this into your head… These useless diets Are Killing You!

Diets, which are hugely popular, including the “Popular Celeb” diets, Health regimes, low-fat diets, the food pyramid, and vegetarianism all create wildly imbalanced body chemistry. And this is completely messing up the human body.

Even if one way of eating does get rid of extra pounds (usually temporarily), lower cholesterol levels and lessen digestive trouble for some people, it does not fulfil the promise of simple good health.

A good thing for you to do is to FORGET what you have heard in the doctors’ office and diet books about your health! Forget it all, start from new, can’t you see that what you thought you knew is a load of rubbish.

Have YOU ever heard your doctor talk about YOUR pH when you have gone for a check-up?

The single most important measurement to your health is the pH of your blood and tissues. By keeping this in BALANCE, you will keep yourself HEALTHY!!!

It’s not that simple when we live in a toxic world and the food we eat has been all but destroyed.

Disclaimer

The author of this material believes in a natural, no drug approach to creating vibrant health, energy and vitality throughout life. A main part of his views are placed on promoting and maintaining the perfect balance within the human body. The author realizes that within medical and scientific fields there are widely differing opinions and attitudes. This material is written for the sole purpose of sharing educational information and scientific research gathered from the studies and experiences of healthcare professionals, scientists, nutritionists, informed health advocates and the author. The information contained in this eBook is for informational and educational purposes only. It is not intended to constitute medical practice nor medical advice. It is not intended to diagnose, prevent, treat, or cure any disease, nor is it intended to prescribe any of the techniques, materials or concepts presented as a form of treatment for any illness or medical condition. Please, before beginning any practice relating to health, diet or exercise consult a suitably licensed & qualified physician, medical practitioner or healthcare provider about the appropriateness of any opinions or recommendations in regard to what symptoms you have or your own medical state. Should you choose to make use of the information contained herein without first consulting a health care professional, you are prescribing for yourself, which is your natural right. However, the author assumes no responsibility for which choices you choose to make after your review of the information contained herein and your consultation with a licensed healthcare professional.

None of the statements in this article or in the book have been evaluated by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA), or the American Medical Association (AMA).

This is the story of ‘Rosie” who had to wait seven months, because of a dire Irish Health Service, to see a consultant for bowel cancer.

This brave ladies’ real name was Susie Long and she passed away in October 2007…she really never had a chance because she didn’t have Health Insurance. She left behind two teenage children.

Below is her letter to our national broadcaster RTE…Joe Duffy’s Liveline Program.

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Dear Joe,

Today I had my 12th session of chemo. I got to talking to the partner of a man who was also getting chemo. She told me that when her partner’s GP requested a colonoscopy for him he was put on the waiting list. She then phoned the hospital and told them he had private health insurance and he was seen three days later. He had bowel cancer that was advanced, but had not broken through the bowel wall and spread to other organs. She said the tumour was the size of a fist and what made him go to the doctor (apart from her nagging) was he started to lose weight rapidly. Thank goodness they got it in time and he’s going to recover.

I then came home, flicked on the tv and got into bed. The first ad on the tv was from the government telling people that bowel cancer can kill, but not if caught in time. If Bertie Ahern or Mary Harney or Michael McDowell were within reach I would have killed them. Literally. I’m not joking.

I don’t have private health insurance. It’s a long story, so I’ll start at the beginning.

I’ve suffered from digestive complaints for years. It started out with being unable to eat in the mornings or when my stomach felt tense. I’d feel too queasy. Then I got heartburn after just about everything I ate. I lived on Rennies. Then, in 2005, I got a lot of diahrea and after a few months it became constant and blood accompanied some of my bowel movements. I went to my GP clinic in the Summer of 2005. Probably about 2 months after the blood started appearing. I look back now and feel stupid for delaying for 2 months, but I wasn’t sure if the blood was caused by piles, which my late mother suffered from. I was 39 years old and had read in books and heard a doctor say on tv that bowel cancer doesn’t affect people under 50. Anyway, my normal GP was on holiday, but I saw his colleague, and she immediately sent a letter to the local hospital requesting a sonogram and a colonoscopy. Within weeks I was called for a sonogram and was diagnosed with a gallstones. That explained the queasiness and the heartburn. I expected to soon be called for the colonoscopy. I waited through the autumn, then through the start of winter. No word on the colonoscopy and no word on when my gall bladder would be removed.

In November I started to get serious lower abdominal pain after eating. I phoned the consultants secretary and asked if I was on the waiting list. She assured me I was and would be called soon. In December I started to rapidly lose weight. This definitely wasn’t like me! I love my food, Joe. I phoned the hospital again after Christmas. Again I was told that I was still on the list and would definitely be called soon. (I later found out that that consultant had retired and they had just hired a new one). Joe, from November to the end of February I was in agony. Apart from the pain and diahrea I was tired all the time. I’d literally got out of bed to go to work at 4.30 in the afternoon. Came home around 10.30pm, ate my dinner (I couldn’t eat before work because it’d make me too sick to do my job), tidied the kitchen and went to bed again. I was miserable.

Finally, on February 28, 2006, four days after I turned 40, I was called for a colonoscopy.

I woke up in the middle of the procedure and saw on a large screen, them probing a blob on my colon. They were taking a biopsy. But I didn’t have to wait for the results. I knew what I had. Soon after I met my wonderful consultant, Dr George Nassim. What a gem he is. Friendly, compassionate and funny on top of being a great surgeon. I felt like I was in good hands. I didn’t panic for more than a few hours after I was told that I had cancer. They can do loads of things to save cancer patients these days. I was young and strong. I’d been a vegetarian since I was 16. I ate mostly healthy foods, although eating at night was a serious no no when it came to my weight. I went for walks a few times a week. I felt I could beat this.

I was booked in for surgery to remove the tumour. I was given a stoma, which means I’ll have to poop in a bag for the rest of my life. I found that really difficult to handle. More difficult than the cancer sometimes. I was in St Lukes hospital for over 50 days last year. (I had to have a second surgery due to complications) Recovery was hard, but I did it. I shared a room with two lovely women who also had cancer. They have since died. In another ward I was in I was next to another woman who had cancer. She died too. The staff at St Lukes in Kilkenny are the most kind, hardworking people I’ve ever met. In March, in between surgeries, I was sent to the Mater in Dublin and had a porto-cath put in for putting the chemo through, and a PET Scan to see if the cancer had spread. If it hadn’t, I’d live. If it had spread to other organs, I’d die. It had spread to my lungs.

I felt bad enough to go to the doctor. She did what she was supposed to do. She told them I had diahrea and blood from my rectum. But what could they do? So do lots of people. Should I have skipped the list ahead of those other people with the same symptoms? I don’t think so. Should there be a list so long that it puts people at risk of dying? No. Definitely not.

I know in my heart and soul that when I started to feel really, really bad, especially in from December to February 2006, is when the cancer broke through the wall of my bowel. Of course I can’t prove it. But I know. Because it broke through the bowel I have been given 2 to 4 years from diagnosis to live. The chemo is to prolong life, not to save it. I have 3 years, tops, to go. Despite that, I’m going to try my best to make it for 5 more til my youngest turns 18. He needs me too much now. My husband has suffered right along side of me in his own way knowing that the woman he loves will be dead soon. My 18 year old daughter has been told and has gone quiet and doesn’t want to talk about it. But I know she’s scared. I haven’t told my 13 year old son yet. He’s too young to handle it. The South East Cancer Foundation in Waterford have been very helpful and will help us when the time is right to do and say the “right” things.

I don’t blame the wonderful people who work in St Lukes in Kilkenny. They work with what they are given. St. Lukes has the best A+E unit in the country. I had to use it three times in 2006 and twice with my son (nothing serious, thankfully). What did the government do? Threaten to shut it down. They also threatened to shut down the maternity unit AFTER spending millions to improve it!! That would mean Carlow women would have to travel to already overcrowded hospitals in Dublin and Kilkenny women would have to travel to Waterford, which is grand if you live in South Kilkenny. The rest could lump it and birth at the side of the road if necessary.

Twice I had to listen to two women die next to me in hospital because there’s no place for people nearing death and their loved ones to go to die and grieve in dignity.

My time in the Mater was dreadful. I was terrified I’d pick up MRSA because it was filthy. I was put on a ward with cardiac patients, mostly men, who because of their ill health were unable aim too well when they went to the toilet. Once when I used the toilet my pajama bottoms soaked up urine up to my ankles. Even though I was still sick and weak I still tried to hover over the toilet so I wouldn’t have to touch it. I wasn’t able to hover and hold up my pajama legs at the same time. I had just given my sister-in-law two sets of pj’s to take home and wash and had nothing to change into. I rinsed them out in the grimey sink and wore them damp until she returned the next day with clean ones.There was excrement stuck to the sides of the toilet for days at a time. Water flooded the shower room, soaked my clean pjs and towel that were on the floor outside the shower and ran out into the hall. After that happened the first time I learned to take a chair in to the shower room to put my stuff on. At least I knew THAT floor got water and soap put on it regularly. The man in the bed next to me, who had suffered a triple bi-pass was served up a greasy fry for tea when he had specifically ordered fish because it was healthier. On the third day he refused to eat it when they wouldn’t give him what he had ordered and went without eating on principle. I was vegetarian and so was served cheese on crackers and cheese sandwiches (fake cheese slices on white bread) for all but two meals. They brought one of the two nicer meals when I was fasting and not allowed to eat it. My suspicion is that the catering has been privatised, although I could be wrong. The staff, apart from one really nasty nurse, were lovely.

Should I blame anyone for my hard luck? I’ve thought about it over the last year and have tried to be reasonable about it. After all, I waited to get Christmas over with before I phoned the hospital for a second time asking to be seen. But today, when I heard that a very nice man who was in the same, if not worse condition, than me when he went to his GP is going to live because he had private health insurance and I’m going to die because I didn’t, I had to bite my tongue. I’m happy he’s going to live. He deserves to live. But so do I. Then I came home and watched that ad which told people to hurry up and get checked out for bowel cancer because it will save their lives, and I fucking lost it.

I’ve finally reached the angry stage, I guess. Who am I angry at? I’ll tell you, Joe. The health service has been in the hands of Fianna Fail and the PD’s for years and all they can think to do is put resources into privatisation. They don’t have the ability to change structures in the public sector that would put more resources toward patient care. But it’s not just the politicians. I’m also angry at every single voter who voted for Fianna Fail and the PDs because they thought they’d get a few more shillings in their pockets but were too greedy and stupid to realise that that money they saved in wage taxes would be made up with stealth taxes. We all knew before the last election what their health policies were and the majority of people ignored this and voted for them anyway. Maybe they thought this would never happen to them. Or maybe because so many have private health insurance they just didn’t care because they were alright, Jack.

I never dreamed I’d get cancer, let alone die from it. But I was wrong. My message to anyone with symptoms of bowel cancer is go to your GP immediately. If you, like me, don’t have health insurance, pester them until they hate you, go to your politicians and beg them to help, go to the media, get a solicitor to threaten to sue the government and the hospital if they don’t get you in soon for a colonoscopy. Otherwise, the people who love you might lose you and you’ll not get to do all the things you planned in life.

I’m writing to you because the way this country is run leads me to believe that contacting a radio show is the only way to try to change things like this. I hope that when Ms SUV and Mr Builder goes into the voting booth, they’ll think about me, my husband and especially my children. My husband is a decent man. He works full time in a good job and I worked part-time in a job I loved that helped people, but didn’t pay well. It depended on government money to help women and children in crisis, so of course couldn’t pay me well. We know what Bertie, Michael, Micheal and Mary’s priorities are.

Despite 1 1/2 incomes we couldn’t afford VHI or Bupa. But even if we could have we wouldn’t have gotten it because we believed (and still do) that all people should get good care despite their incomes. We thought jumping queues was wrong. We’re socialists…just like Bertie. Ha Ha. Now I feel like vomiting and it’s not the chemo!

From a Cancer Patient in Kilkenny.

Smoking was once thought to be “cool” and many people, especially the younger generation attempting to emulate the more experienced folks energetically participated and quickly became addicted and vulnerable to the Health Effects Of Smoking, without thinking, and in the case of youth, without the experience and knowledge needed to consider future consequences.
Youth, peer pressure, and sometimes just pure innocence have a way of misleading us at times, but those times are the times that most of us commonly look back on as we progress in Life, experience preventable health risks and say, “If only I could go back and do things differently”.
Armed with modern day information on the health risks of smoking, a lot of current smokers would probably go back to prevent the negative health effects if they could, in any case, they could surely find the incentive to stop smoking from the alarming facts.
Because of the approximately four thousand different chemicals coming from cigarette smoke, many of which are toxic, a person’s organ functions and immune system can be affected if a smoker-smokes for a long time. Occasionally, in minimal cases, a smoker will experience negative affects to the internal organs and immune system after less than a year of smoking.
Chemicals in cigarette smoke affect the Human body in many ways:
The nicotine gets to the brain in just a matter of seconds after inhaling cigarette smoke and is found in all parts of a smoker’s body, including in the breast milk of nursing mothers.
Carbon monoxide binds itself to the red coloring matter of red blood corpuscles called hemoglobin which deliver life giving oxygen to the body’s tissues – hemoglobin also delivers carbon dioxide from body tissues to the lungs.
The much heard of carcinogens cause cancer and damage genes that control cell growth, influencing them to form abnormally or to generate to fast, whereas a carcinogen known as benzopyrene binds itself to smokers’ major organs and airways.
Chemicals from cigarette smoke also induce a physiological reaction called oxidative stress to occur. The oxidative stress causes DNA to mutate and brings about inveterate lung injury. Oxidative stress is also suspected to be behind the aging process which contributes to cancer development and heart disease.
Antioxidants that the body produces help it to repair its damaged cells, but smoking inhibits the production of those antioxidants.
The health effects of smoking that every smoker should know about but apparently does not, impact the body with unnecessary health risks that if known about and understood, would most-likely-cause all smokers to reconsider their asinine choice.