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Today I was speaking to our painter about how our society is go, go, go and he started talking about how life was in the 1950′s.
It may sound like a bit of nostalgic but ne did make some interesting points.

Supermarkets didn’t exist so you purchased your fruit from the green grocer who often delivered freshly ripened fruit, so fresh and tasty that the peaches left an pleasant aroma in the air as he passed you in the street on his deliveries.
Even such things as Rock melons were apparently totally different to the variety we have today with the need for greater shelf life and transporation logistics requirring a more sophisticated fruit product when compared to this bygone era.

Bread wasn’t like eating a sponge covered in plastic wrap, it came striaght from the baker with less modified grains and different milling to the varieties we use today.

The average household comfortable paid off the house on a single income, no forms of instant communication so working outside the office just didn’t happen.

Less traffic on the road meant less pollution, less congestion and a safer environment for kids to get out on there bikes without the fear of being run over. With the advent of TV our painter remembers his older brother (12 years old) not getting home until 9.00pm as he was watching this new thing called TV from the window of a shop front, did the parents get stressed and worried, mmm, not really as kids often stayed out playing after dinner, no where to be seen.

Maybe just a case of nostalgia, or is there something to be said for living in the fifties.

There are great benefits to exercise, some may be not so obvious at the time.
To get to level 1 and 2, you can either take the lift and queue for hours or take the stairs and wal right through.

So you’re thinking that 347 steps to the first level and 674 steps to the second level seems a lot, well if you can manage to walk briskly for 30 minutes a day 4-5 times a week you will make the climb.

So next time the path of least resistance may be the car rather than walking, think about how much better you will feel by taking part in some regular form of exercise.
Climbing up 1021 steps is very achievable with less couch time and more movements with the legs.

A great article on looking at alternatives to chemotherapy. A good friend is currently under going treatment with horrible side effects.

Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins:

1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few
billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer
cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to
detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.

2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person’s lifetime.

3. When the person’s immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors.

4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors.

5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.

6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastrointestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.

7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.

8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor destruction.

9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.

10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become
resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.

11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply.

CANCER CELLS FEED ON:

a. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful.

ALL DIET CARBONATED DRINKS CONTAIN ASPARTAME AND ARE POISONOUS. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses, but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in colour. Better alternative is Bragg’s aminos or sea salt.

b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soy milk cancer cells are being starved.

c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.

d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2
or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).

e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer fighting properties. Water – best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.

12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat, especially pork, remaining in the intestines becomes putrefied and leads to more toxic build-up.

13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body’s killer cells to destroy the cancer cells. ??

14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the bodies own killer cells to destroy cancer cells.. Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body’s normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.

15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger, un-forgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.

16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.

1. No plastic containers in micro.
2. No water bottles in freezer.
3. No plastic wrap in microwave.

Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in its newsletters. This information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as well. Dioxin chemicals cause cancer, especially breast cancer. Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies. Don’t freeze your plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the plastic.

Recently, Dr. Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Cast le Hospital, was on a TV program to explain this health hazard. He talked about dioxins and how bad they are for us. He said that we should not be heating our food in the microwave using plastic containers. This especially applies to foods that contain fat. He said that the combination of fat, high heat, and plastics releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body. Instead, he recommends using glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food. You get the same results, only without the dioxin. So such things as TV dinners, instant ramen and soups, etc., should be removed from the container and heated in something else. Paper isn’t bad but you don’t know what is in the paper. It’s just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc. He reminded us that a while ago some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to paper. The dioxin problem is one of the reasons.

Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as Saran, is just as dangerous when placed over foods to be cooked in the microwave. As the food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out of the plastic wrap and drip into the food. Cover food with a paper towel instead.

This is an article that should be sent to anyone important in your life as an alternative to chemotherapy.

After a recent trip to Italy, I was impressed by the locals who showed that you are never too old to exercise.
While there I managed to take some fantastic sneaky video footage of retiree’s enjoying their early morning exercise in the Dolomites.

Check it out and be inspired!
Another very inspiring person is 83 year old Bette Calman who still teaches yoga.

While we all have excused not too exercise, “too tired”, “too unfit”, these spritely 70 year olds show that age is no barrier to keeping healthy and fit, so make a start today, you are never too old to exercise.

it’s worrying that I have experienced on numerous occasions teenagers who have a lazy attitude to exercise, they lack the motivation to exercise while making excuses to avoid any physical body movements. While staying in a hotel on the 3rd floor, I was walking past the lift when I overhead two teenagers commenting that they don’t wish to take the stairs, they would rather take the lifts up the three levels. One girl was overweight. When they commented about waiting for the lifts as it was taking so long and this is a heritage building with an older style lift, I said it would be quicker to walk up 3 flights of stairs…..her response was ‘I’m too lazy’.

This experience was repeated on numerous occasions when visiting major tourist destinations where teenagers where unwilling to climb stairs.
For example on the Arc de Triomphe its 266 stairs to the top and there were some back packers who refused to go up the top based on having to go up the stairs.

Similarly in numerous situations such as the Eiffel Tower where there is about 480 odd stairs to the first level platform, numerous teenagers or young backpackers would rather queue for 1-2 hours to get the lift to get the lift to the first level rather than take the stairs.

This is quiet disturbing as we are only talking 10-15min walk up a flight of stairs which is not an excruciating hard or difficult task.

So with childhood obesity increasing, there are numerous factors that may be contributing to this growing epidemic so teenagers having with a lazy attitude to exercise is concerning.