Water is perhaps the most essential of nature’s gifts to us. While we are aware of the fact that water helps eliminate waste materials from the body, it has numerous other functions that we overlook. With the numerous benefits to be had from drinking water, I thought it would do well to take a look at some of them. Drinking water can cure many health conditions like headaches, hypertension, backaches, ulcers, asthma and even morning sickness.

Water is essential for transporting nutrients all over the body and also for washing toxins out of the body. It’s like giving your insides a shower to clean away all waste materials. Drinking plenty of water means you won’t leave a single cell in your body unwashed and dirty. We’re all familiar with the term “beauty comes from within” and if we’ve got clean insides you can understand how beautiful the outsides will be.

Washing Away the Sins of Indulgence!

As a result of cleansing our body internally, urine formation and excretion is increased, this keeps you safe from infection and formation of kidney and gall stones.

• You can’t honestly suppose bacteria will be able to survive a flood in the digestive tract–well neither will urea the key agent responsible for kidney stones.
• Accumulation of toxins can often cause headaches; guess who your best friend is at times like this? Yup, water! Water cleanses your bloodstream keeping you safe from a host of serious problems.
• While toxins may seem innocent in the short term, they can affect arteries of the heart and brain causing early onset of arteriosclerosis.
• Water also prevents build up of uric acid in the tissues which can cause rheumatism and uric stones in the urinary tract.
• Uric acid can also cause platelets to thicken and clump together which can result in thrombosis. Imagine that something so drastic can be averted with adequate regular water intake. These are serious health concerns that can be prevented with healthy water habits.
• If you are aiming for healthy, younger-looking skin, treat yourself to plenty of water.  It causes sweating which opens up pores and throws out epithelial cells and dangerous bacteria.
• If you’re suffering form high fever drinking plenty of water will cause you to perspire and bring your temperature down while preventing dehydration.
• Plenty of water also keeps your bowel movements regular and stops stools from hardening.
• Dehydration also causes excessive production of histamines–the main cause of asthma. Drinking plenty of water keeps histamine production low and saves you from asthmatic attacks, as well as other less-drastic immune responses such as itchy eyes.
• Did you know that adequate hydration can even cure some cases of dry-eye? This is a plague for mature people, so any possible source of relief will come as good news.

So How Should You Take Your Water?

Drinking around a glass of water every hour is much better than drinking ten glasses after a long period of no water at all. And while we’re on the subject, the idea that you only need 8 glasses of water a day is probably not accurate–our body functions better with considerably more that that. Try around 3 liters of water a day and see if your health issues don’t improve.

Most of us could use a little health boost: for some there is more of a challenge so the outlook may be a little difficult.
It’s often surprising how much difference we can make with tiny little adjustments in our everyday routines though.

• For increased energy, cut your food portions in half and cut out all sweets. Take a good natural supplement such as flax seed or wheat grass to help your system. If at the end of two weeks you don’t feel like a new person, you have my permission to have a relapse and eat yourself into a coma!
• When you walk, whether it’s to visit the bathroom or a trip to the mall, hold your head high and pick up your pace a little so you’re walking faster than you would normally. And don’t avoid the opportunity to walk–embrace it. Energizing? I thought so.
• A major cause of health issues today is an acid system: most of the foods we eat every day cause our systems to be too acid. The easiest thing in the world is to adjust your diet to alkalize your system: Slices of fresh lemon in pure spring water are not only delicious, they’ll stop the problem of acidity in its tracks. Eat plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables (especially leafy salads), eliminate coffee, cigarettes (oh God how stupid archaic to still smoke), milk, dairy & all processed foods and see how your digestive problems melt away.
• Get to bed before 11:00 pm and wake up at least 2 hours before you need to leave for work. This will leave you time to organize yourself, make a nutritious, health-giving breakfast, and maybe even do half-an-hour of yoga before you leave. It’s really true what they say:

Early to bed,
Early to rise,
Makes a man healthy,
Wealthy and wise.

• Keep a positive outlook and declutter your mind from negative thoughts and attitudes. This one will help with everything: how you feel, how you look, and how successful you are.

There you go: a simple strategy for better health. It will help you

Setting Yourself Up for Success in 2010

It’s wonderful to begin the New Year fresh, and with a clean slate, so you’re ready to go on and make the most of this wonderful time of opportunity ahead of us. In order to greet your opportunities with the zeal and enthusiasm they deserve, make sure you’re read for ‘em.

Here’s a quick list of things you can do to clean out your body and your energy field:

• First, forgive everyone for every hurt or inconvenience in the past.
• That includes forgiving yourself. Give yourself a chance to start the year with no hidden grievances against yourself!
• If your diet isn’t serving you well, take a decision to do better. But don’t launch yourself onto a strict regimen that you can’t keep up. Give up just 3 things you know are holding you back. How about staying away from fast food, eating at least 2 pieces of fresh fruit every day and making yourself a generous portion of tasty salad each day. Just those steps will take you quite a way closer to vibrant health.
• Spiritually you need to do the same thing. Don’t expect miracles but do just 3 things that are going to help you to achieve a higher level of spiritualit in 2010. May I suggest: smile at yourself first thing in the morning and forgive yourself each day. Smile at everyone you meet. Count to ten before you get angry and say something you might regret.

Let's take a closer look at what we feed our kids!

Think Twice Before You Give Your Kids Milk!

For decades we have been told that milk is good for us: and in its natural state milk is, indeed, one of the most perfect foods for human beings of all ages.

But when Mankind starts to mess with things we get just that: a mess.

First we’re told that our cows need to be treated with antibiotics to protect us. Wouldn’t it make a lot more sense to create an environment where cows were as healthy as they could possibly be? Then they inject them with all kinds of artificial hormones so that they produce more milk, earlier, and for a lot more years than would be normal, no matter what kind of diet they’re getting.

Those hormones get passed on to us through that milk that we drink. And we all know how dangerous hormones that are foreign to our bodies can be–whether they’re real or artificial.

When you look at it in the light of what we know about human physiology and health, it sounds like a recipe for disaster doesn’t it?

The bad new is, IT IS A RECIPE FOR DISASTER!

Essentially, by allowing our food to be contaminated in this way we are setting ourselves up for a complete breakdown in human health. This is no exaggeration.

Today’s commercially-produced milk is NOT good for anyone. And most of us have no idea just how bad it is. As usual, Monsanto is the company that’s responsible for this assault on our freedom and our health.

Here’s a glimpse of the truth that has been deliberately kept from us:

You may have seen the buzz recently about Hilary Swank in her new movie Million Dollar Baby: guess how she managed to put on all that vibrantly-healthy muscle?

Perfect Source of Omega 3s

The benefits of Flax have been known to man for centuries. The main reason for its popularity today is the huge payload of Omega 3 fatty acids. But it also contains a wide range of other valuable nutrients, including hard-to-find amino acids. Joanna Budwig was first to use it as a cure for cancer mixed with cottage cheese or yogurt. But you shouldn’t wait until you’re ill to use this nutritional tool for health.

How Flax Seed Can Help You

Just a few of the health issues you can expect to improve with adequate use of Flax seeds includes:

• Normalizes high blood pressure
• Improved regulation of blood sugar levels
• Eases inflammatory tissue conditions, including arthritis
• Alleviation of dry skin, eczema and psoriasis
• Enhanced immune system
• Increased metabolic rate with a positive impact on weight management
• Helps with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)
• Natural, gentle laxative
• Helps with dry-eye which is a difficult condition to treat
• Healthy skin
• Increased energy, vitality, and stamina
• Increased sense of calmness under stress
• Reduced threat of blood clots
• Protection against cancers, particularly hormone sensitive cancers such as breast and prostate
• Lowered blood cholesterol levels
• Protects against heart disease
• Healthy hair and nails

Meditation continues to gain in popularity as we all seek some brief respite from the turmoil of the busy lives we lead. Tranquility is bliss even if we only achieve it for the short time it takes to meditate.

Meditation is difficult for some: The more stress has taken hold of your life the more difficult it may be for you to let go and embrace meditation. But making the effort and taking the time can pay off in terms of increased health and heightened focus for your goals in life.

The keys to successful meditation are the same whether you meditate by yourself or in a guided situation:

1. Choose a quiet room where you will have no distractions or interruptions
2. For some meditations you may need to sit in a comfortable chair with both feet on the ground, for others you may lie down if you with but make sure that you won’t fall asleep
3. Allow plenty of time for your meditation and make arrangements for the family to leave you alone
4. If guided meditation, focus on the words and allow them to form an image in your mind
5. Allow your mind to remain open to the meditation throughout

You are now ready for a period of relaxation and renewal of energy.

Benefits of Meditation

The benefits that can be had from regular meditation have been known to man for thousands of years. Meditation is known also to all cultures, although you may find it goes by another name: mankind needs periods of introspection, tranquility and recharging, all of which can be found in meditation.

This Washington Post article on brain research shows how meditation can give the brain a charge–a shot of energy or clarity.

Wikipedia tells us how meditation can lead to a heightened state of awareness–which we are all surely looking for.

And here’s an article that explains why Zen meditation can even reduce pain levels.

But don’t stop with these three articles: the Web is full of documented evidence to prove that meditation has a long list of benefits.

Sample Meditation for Cleansing, Renewing Energy

Get comfortable and be aware of your breathing… in…out…in…out

Breathe slowly and deeply and allow your breath to assume a rythm…

As you inhale visualize energy in the form of bright, pure  light descending from above your head, down, into your body…

As you exhale visualize stagnant energy flowing down through your spine and into your feet, and then out of your body into the ground…deep into the earth…

Inhale more clear, pure, vibrant energy… in the form of a gold or white light…

Now exhale all that stale energy deep, deep into the earth…

Continue breathing like this for three or five counts and then place your hands whereve you feel you need more energy–let’s say your heart area–and visualize energy flowing through your hands and into your body…

Slowly allow your breathing to return to normal and remain in your calm and relaxed state until you’re ready.

In the coming weeks we will have a series of guided meditations here for you to allow you to develop your meditation practice.

Why Vegetables? Why Green?

We all know that freshly pressed juice is good for us, and that carefully prepared supplements are the next-best thing if we can’t get a regular supply of the juice. Most of us like the taste of fruit juice of all kinds, but to be honest, green juices are an acquired taste.

You can try mixing them to make them more palatable, but often if you know just how good they are for you somehow the taste doesn’t matter so much any more.

Chlorophyll: That Special Something

Chlorophyll is that special something that makes green juice so very beneficial to the human body.

First, it is a cleansing, purifying agent. It stimulates the bowels and can help amazingly if you suffer from odor due to congestion within the body. All the various kinds of body odor respond to chlorophyll due to its powerful detoxifying action.

Chlorophyll is one many natural substances that has been found to be effective against high blood pressure.

Second, it is a powerful blood strengthener. That may surprise you, but did you know that chemically, chlorophyll is similar in composition to hemoglobin? As a result the body can more-or-less slot it right in so that with very little energy it can make your blood much stronger.

A Shot of Energy

But overwhelmingly, the main reason people stick to their intake of chlorophyll once they get going, is a sense of wellbeing and greatly increased energy levels.

Those energy levels are undoubtedly partly to do with the detoxification. But chlorophyll’s effect on the blood is major.

See the amazing similarities between chlorophyll and human blood!

Chlorophyll has health-giving properties far in excess of what you’d expect due to the almost identical structure of the chlorophyll molecule to hemin, the pigment component of the hemoglobin molecule. Hemoglobin molecules carry oxygen around the body. Chlorophyll also stimulates the part of the bone marrow that produces hemoglobin.

Sadly, most of us just can’t fit regular juicing into our busy schedules. So the next-best thing is to purchase a reliable product that will give you your daily shot of chlorophyll. Stay tuned because those products will be up on our site very soon.

Wheatgrass is full of vitamins, minerals and amino acids. The juice has many health benefits due to the high concentration of chlorophyll, Vitamins B-12, B-6, K & C, and beta-carotene.