Your Life-Your Choice ISSN 1488-0253 ==================== February, 2000 Issue 48 Letter from the Editor Has everybody heard? March is Nutrition month. I don't believe that there has ever been a time when society has been as hectic as it is today. It seems that we are all busy, busy with our 9 to 5 jobs, then rushing to take one child to dance class and the other to soccer. Remember to stop quickly, in your travels, to pick up milk; you'll do a full shopping tomorrow after your gym workout. And don't forget you promised to go to your best friend's candle party on Thursday. Oh my stars!... What are we going to have for dinner? When am I going to be able to make it? And who's got time to eat it? I know this sounds like MY life, and I'll be willing to bet that there's a few of you out there who share a story similar to this. Well, because this is Nutrition month, I propose that we all do SOMETHING to make a positive change in our eating habits. Even something as simple as adding one piece of fruit to your diet every day. Did you know that studies have found a lower risk of cancer among those who eat more fruits and vegetables? The Canada's Food Guide recommends 5-10 servings of fruits and vegetables, and the U.S. Dietary Guidelines recommend 2-4 servings of fruit and 5-7 servings of vegetables. Bearing in mind that these are MINIMUM requirements to maintain a MINIMUM standard of health, my guess is that most of us could stand to add one more serving to our daily routine. So how about we "grab" an apple or a banana while we're on the run, or get adventurous with a guava or mango. This one little change may not mean the difference between life and death, but it IS one significant positive step in the direction of optimum health. Our health is drastically impacted by nutrition. You'll find that almost all health issues are more easily controlled by adding or eliminating certain foods. We also know that fast food is not as high in vitamins and nutrients as our bodies require. We've searched the web and found the perfect site to introduce you to this month! Dietitians of Canada brings you Great Food Fast! Click on this link and find some wonderful suggestions and recipes for the family on the go. http://www.dietitians.ca/english/frames.html I'll bet if you are able to add a few more meals that are high in nutrients, you'll find yourself with a little more energy to help get you through your hectic schedule. Enjoy the newsletter, and stay well until next time. Brigitte Synesael Editor of Your Life-Your Choice Traditional Medicine Isn't Enough Any More! Your life is your choice-don't give it away! http://www.Life-Choices.com ********************************************** ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE: 1. Dental Wellness 2. Therapeutic Massage: A Valuable Tool for Self-Healing 3. What is Iridology? ******************************************** Section 1 Dental Wellness by Dr. Jacob Trager, DDS http://www.dentalwellness.net ----- Becoming aware of the multiplicity of causes and contributing factors to dis-ease (dis-harmony) is an important first step toward self reliance and empowerment. This knowledge and awareness will allow success on the healing journey, especially when programs for addressing these causes are conjointly developed and actualized. >From the following list of causative factors, look for the ones that may pertain to your particular health challenge. The list may also stimulate you to find additional causes that may be unique for your situation. (Causes of the level of the soul and spirit will not be addressed in this article.) Outline of Cause Factors: 1. Genetic or developmental defects. (Requires a realignment of attitudes.) 2. Family attitudes and beliefs about health and hygiene. Includes fears, phobias and anxiety toward all aspects of health care. 3. Mental and emotional stressors: A. Repressed or suppressed feelings and emotions (can become harmful if not dealt with constructively) e.g. 1) Persistent thought or feelings of: a) dissatisfaction b) anger c) resentment d) ungratefulness e) doubt f) worry g) fear h) depression B. Childhood Trauma (unresolved) 1) physical or psychological abuse 2) accident or injury 3) loss of family member or pet 4) parent divorce or separation C. Addictive habit or behavioral patterns (alter normal body functioning), e.g. 1) Drugs (prescription or street) 2) Foods 3) Alcohol 4) Nicotine 5) Work or recreational excesses D. Workplace stress E. Financial Stress (a breakthrough study listed this stressor to be the onset of periodontal disease) F. Family or relationship stress 4. Dentally induced stress a. Painful/traumatic dental experiences (especially as a child) b. Faulty/improperly fitting dental fillings c. Biologically incompatible dental materials d. Missing teeth e. Dissimilar metal fillings or crowns causing electromagnetic stress f. Toxins from infected root canals 5. Environmental Stressors A. Poor air quality B. Toxic chemicals or pesticides C. Electromagnetic fields D. Geopathic stress 6. Nutritional or dietary stress A. Lack or essential vitamins, minerals or antioxidants B. Lack of cleansing/alkaline foods (fresh fruit, vegetables, legumes) C. Improper chewing and digestion D. Unconscious eating 7. Physical stressors A. Lack of adequate self care 1) hygiene 2) rest and relaxation 3) Nurturing of self a) meditation b) prayer B. Hormonal deficiency or imbalance C. Chronic (long term) Disease or pain D. Physical Disability Other causative or contributing factors may be present in your particular situation. Utilize this list as a guide for you to uncover all of the factors that could be influencing your state of health and wellness. In my next article, I will make specific suggestions and recommendations of how you can address and work to resolve these causes and contributing factors prior to beginning or completing extense/expensive treatments. In the meantime, if you have a personal concern, I can help you address, or a question I can help you resolve, call me directly at: 727-384-4025. ----- Read about Dr. Trager on our Meet the Team page; http://www.Life-Choices.com/team.html ********************************************** PLEASE VISIT OUR SPONSORS 20 Minute Recipes! Here is what our visitors are saying about our free service: "Your pasta with Mushroom Sauce was incredible - thank you very much!" "am so excited, I have 3 small children and fix the same thing every night!" "bravo on the introduction of the healthy foods!" Sign up now for our free weekly newsletter by sending a blank email to mailto:subscribe@minutemeals.com or try our website: http://www.MinuteMeals.com ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Don’t miss this special opportunity!! On line seminar on Therapeutic Massage, presented by Laurel Duran CMT. Presentation and question and answer format. Starts 7:00pm sharp on Mar 28. Instructions to join us at http://www.life-choices.com/Member/benefits.html Become a member or attend only the seminar. Register NOW while there is still space available. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Section 2 Therapeutic Massage: A Valuable Tool for Self-Healing by Laurel Duran, CMT http://www2.amigo.net/bluecord ---------- It has been more than twenty years since I first began helping others as a Certified Massage Therapist, and one single truth has woven itself consistently across the miles of my career. Each client is giving me the greatest honor one person can give to another: their trust. I am providing a safe haven for my client to lay down their worldly shield so we can release the tension they’ve collected. I take their trust in me very seriously. Not until my seventh year of practice when I had a life-altering experience did I realize the importance of trust in a client/Massage Therapist relationship. I had a near-death experience car crash in which I visited heaven and united in love with the Creator. It was, and remains to this day, the most wonderful and challenging experience of my life. While on the other side, my spirit was flooded with unconditional love directly from the Creator. The joy and freedom that came to me was so great that I decided to come back into my broken body, then completely paralyzed with a broken neck. Through thick and thin, I tenaciously held onto that love and with strong-willed determination, I applied it to every thought and second of my life until I could walk out of the hospital on my own power. Medical professionals I encountered in American hospitals often told me I’d never move again, and because they did not recognize the value of Massage Therapy combined with visualization and prayer, they did not provide the bodywork I so desperately needed. So a dear friend volunteered to come to the hospital daily to massage my limited, suffering body, and to comfort my often-discouraged spirit. She had no formal massage training, but she knew very well how to extend love and hope to someone in need. She was endlessly patient as I gave her explicit verbal massage directions, and I trusted her compassionate touch completely. Together - and with the Creator’s loving power - we achieved a successful healing. For the last 13 years I have been running four miles daily, and I continue to extend hope and healing to those in need. My own self-healing experience has taught me that it is the spirit, not the body, that is the source of healing potential in each one of us. It is impossible to work with just the body -- focusing only on which soft tissue is being manipulated using which physical techniques -- while ignoring the spirit living within. But when the mind, emotions and spirit of a patient are treated as a unified whole, and with the greatest compassion and respect, the physical body is very likely to rebuild itself. I believe that each of us contains natural potentials for self-healing. My profession has grown over the years and made significant contributions to the changing public mind regarding dominion over personal health. Today there are many more compassionate Massage Therapists and many more clients choosing Massage Therapy over a purely physically-focused wellness strategy whose primary tools are surgery and medication. Patients who hunger for nurturing touch are discovering that compassionate Massage Therapy is a found treasure. Insurance comapnies have noticed that their customers willingly pay the reasonable Massage Therapy fees out of their own pockets, a fact that is motivating insurance providers to participate in this economic boom by including coverage for Massage Therapy. We used to think that self-nurturance meant being self-centered, but research into the psychology of disease is showing us that if we wish to live long healthy lives, we must regularly include tension-reducing, pleasurable activities in our lives. By nurturing the spirit and the body, our health automatically improves. If you haven’t received a luxurious Therapeutic Massage lately, why not make a well-deserved appointment? While you have greater peace to gain, you have nothing to lose but a few pounds of tension! ----- Read about Laurel Duran, CMT on our Meet the Team page; http://www.Life-Choices.com/team.html ******************************************** Please Visit Our Sponsors The Insider Secrets to Marketing Your Business on the Internet - Learn from the best. The author of this site, Corey Rudl gets over 4 million visitors to his websites yearly, does 5.2 million dollars in sales online each year (yes, that is $5,200,000), and personally makes hundreds of thousands of dollars from his online businesses. All from his one small office. So listen to what he has to say as he knows what he is talking about when it comes to starting and promoting a business on the Internet. 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Share your thoughts, what you'd like to see by emailing, mailto:yourlife@life-choices.com with "Feedback Your Life-Your Choice" in the subject heading. ******************************************** Section 3 What is Iridology? By: Joan Vankoughnett mailto:joana746@sprint.ca ----- The science of iridology is based on the analysis of one of the most complicated tissue structures of the whole body, the iris. It is a method whereby the doctor or health practitioner can tell, from markings or signs in the iris, the reflex condition of various organs and systems of the body. These markings represent a detailed picture of the integrity of the body, its constitutional strength, area of congestion or toxic acumulations and inherent strengths and weaknesses. The iris of the eye reveals structural defects, toxic settlements, inherent weakness, presence of acids, catarrh, prolapus, anemia, nerve tensions, glandular disorders, chemical imbalances, congestion and the power of recovery. The laboratory testing procedures practiced today, which are not always necessary, are expensive, time-consuming and, often, uncomfortable to the patient. Nature has provided us with an invaluable insight into the vital status of the health of the body by transmitting this information to the eye. With iridology, we have a simple, painless, economical and non-invasive way of looking into the body. It may be employed in conjuction with any other system of analysis or diagnosis that a practioner wishes to use. Now, more than at any other time in history, we are in need of accurate and less complex means of analyzing a patient's condition. Eighty percent of the diseases treated in this country are of a chronic nature. The tissue found in chronically afflicted patients can be monitored better in the iris of the eye than, possibly, by any other method of analysis. Iridology gives an essential insight to the development of these chronic diseases or the diminishing or the diminishing of that disease or inflammation. It is this tissue change that takes place in the patient that makes iridology especially valuable for those specializing in the treatment of chronic diseases. Iridology is dealing with one of the most basic truths of the healing arts, one that the averae form of analysis has not dealt with properly. With this information, a health program can be developed which is tailored to the specific needs of the client, thus preventing the manifestation of disease. Iridology in its basic philosophy, stresses the treatment of the patient, not the disease. By identifying the underlying imbalances in the body that produces symptoms, it is an invaluable asset in the formation of remedial therapies. When one has come to fully appreciate the value of being able to determine from the outside of the body what is occuring within it, he will realize that iridology is truly a science whose time has come. The birth about iridology is said to have been about 1861. ----- Joan Vankoughnett has been involved in the alternative health industry for over 20 years. Her intense interest in health and natural treatments has encouraged her to further her education and gain certification in numerous modalities. Her diversified expertise and advanced training has resulted in her being elected to a Fellowship in the Emerson College Research Council. Joan can be contacted through email at: mailto:joana746@sprint.ca ********** Your Life-Your Choice makes every effort to provide you with healthy recipes where the nutrition is geared towards specific health issues. If you have a recipe you'd like to share, submit it to mailto:yourlife@life-choices.com?subject=recipe from YLYC subscriber. 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