Sticking with it in 2011 – Week 4 – The 3 White Poisons

OUT WITH Processed White Flour!

For some, these nutritional facts will be shocking and scary! To some, this will be the necessary eyeopener to change their diets once and for all!

You will think twice before eating your next sandwich on white bread or any processed breads or serving peanut butter jelly sandwiches to your kids. Studies show that alloxan, the chemical that makes white flour look “white” and “clean”, destroys the beta cells of the pancreas. Without the beta cells, the pancreas is not able to produce insulin!  That’s right; you may be devastating your pancreas and putting yourself at risk for diabetes and Pancreatic Cancer, all this to taste spongy “clean” looking bread!?

Scientists have known of the alloxan-diabetes connection for years; in fact, researchers who are studying diabetes commonly use the chemical alloxan to induce the disorder in lab animals. In the research sense, giving alloxan to an animal is similar to injecting that animal with a deadly virus, as both alloxan and the virus are being used specifically to cause illness. Every day, consumers ingest foods made with alloxan-contaminated flour. Would they just as willingly consume foods tainted with a deadly virus? Unless they had a death wish, they probably would not. Unfortunately, most consumers are unaware of alloxan and its potentially fatal link to diabetes because these facts are not well publicized by the food industry.

How does alloxan cause diabetes? According to Dr. Hari Sharma’s Freedom from Disease, the toxin alloxan damages the beta cells of the pancreas, causing the cells to malfunction and die. When these beta cells fail to operate normally, they no longer produce enough insulin, or in other words, they cause one variety of adult-onset type 2 diabetes. Alloxan’s harmful effects on the pancreas are so severe that the Textbook of Natural Medicine calls the chemical “a potent beta-cell toxin.” However, even though the toxic effect of alloxan is common scientific knowledge in the research community, the FDA still allows companies to use it when processing foods we ingest.

If you’ve been eating white bread for years and you have a family history of diabetes, you still have a good chance of recovery. Studies show that you can reverse the effects of alloxan by supplementing your diet with vitamin E. According to Dr. Gary Null’s Clinicians Handbook of Natural Healing, vitamin E effectively protected lab rats from the harmful effects of administered alloxan. Now, I know you’re not a lab rat, but you’re also a mammal and vitamin E is definitely worth adding to your daily regimen of nutritional supplements, especially if you have a history of eating foods made with white flour and are at high risk for diabetes.

The next time you serve your child processed white bread, buns and McDondald’s, I want you to think about the fact that you might be damaging your child’s pancreas to the point where he/she gets diabetes or worse -cancer!
If you take your health and life seriously, then you can’t ignore Week 4! Got it? Good!

• NO Processed Sugars – you know why
  
• NO Foods with Processed White Flour
• NO Artificial Sweeteners
  

Now, if you just had a bagel with cream cheese, a muffin and a coffee with a pack of sweetener – I think  you can do better at lunch time!

Enjoy your Week 4

Monika Baechler

www.monikabaechler.com

How to Raise a Healthy Child

“The percentage of overweight children in the United States is growing at an alarming rate, with 1 out of 3 kids now considered overweight or obese.”

Are your children hooked on electronics?

Hours and hours of video games, on the phone with friends, on the computer chatting with friends and too much junk food can lead to overweight children and later overweight adults. You already knew this and it’s no wonder with all the “excess” in this world today.

According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, the average child is watching about 3 hours of television a day. And the average kid spends 5½ hours on all screen media combined (TV, videos and DVDs, computer time outside of schoolwork, and video games). (1)

The combination of to much excess and not enough of the healthy components can leave your child lethargic, depressed and unhappy. What follows is craving more of the bad stuff like TV, candy, fast food, and more junk.

How can I get my kids to exercise?

Don’t refer to exercise as exercise. Just ask them if they want to go play outside or ride their bike. Children love to play and run. They don’t know that playing tag and soccer is exercise. Well, not consciously anyway.

Adults usually think of exercise as something negative, a chore, something like a never ending treadmill session. For children, exercise is fun. Remember your school recess? Running after others, being chased by your friends, ( hopefully they were playing a game of tag!), skipping rope and so forth. Remember how much fun you had climbing trees and spending hours outside with classmates monkeying around on play structures?

How important is outside play to children?

You as a parent can provide the happy childhood you had to your children, by replacing the negative habits with positive ones.

Let them play almost everyday outside, even if there is a chill in the air or it’s rainy. I understand how that might not seem like fun to you, but hear me out. Children love to play in wet leaves, in puddles and on forest trails. Why not, how much harm can they get into if it’s a little wet outside. Put them in warm clothing, a pair of rain boots and a hat. Fresh air detoxifies the lungs and body and can clear your mind.

Exercise doesn’t only control obesity, exercise helps them:

• develop stronger muscles and bones (1)
• have a leaner body because exercise helps control body fat (1)
• decrease the risk of developing type 2 diabetes dramatically (1)
• possibly lower blood pressure and blood cholesterol levels (1)
• fell positive about themselves (1)
• fit in better with their peers (1)

How to spot dehydration symptoms in my child?

The human body is about 60% water. It is necessary for our health and well-being. Water is part of our cells, blood, digestion, and waste elimination. Water also controls cravings. We can’t live more than a few days without water – water is life.

Too little water can lead to dehydration and the following symptoms:

• Fatigue
• Headache
• Dry mouth
• Dry and itchy eyes
• Muscle weakness
• Dizziness
• Lightheadedness
• Lack of concentration
• Overeating

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Apple – Celeriac and Strawberry Salad

What you’ll need:

• 1 celeriac root
• 1 apple
• 3 medium carrots
• 1/2 cup raisins
• 2 tbsp pumpkin seeds
• 5 strawberries
• 1/2 cup orange juice
• 1/2 lemon
• 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
• little mint

Put it all together:

1. peel the celeriac root and carrot
2. grate celeriac, carrot and apple in the food processor
3. set it aside
4. in a bowl, mix the orange juice, lemon juice, olive oil together
5. mix the vegetables with the dressing
6. cut the strawberries into slices
7. mince the mint
8. mix the rest of the ingredients
9. you can garnish each serving with more mint leaves, pumpkin seeds or more strawberries

Enjoy!

Stay Healthy!

Monika Baechler

Cert. Nutrition Specialist

The “30 Day Juice Fast” eBook is available!

Finally the “30 Day Juice Fast” eBook is available for download.

Thank you for the pre-orders and I hope you enjoy reading and fasting with the eBook as a detailed guide. This 52 page eBook about fasting and juice fasting is written with you in mind. No nonsense info you don’t need and all the detailes you always wanted to know about fasting and detox.

Special Content you will appreciate.

• herbal supplement list to relieve your detox symptoms and support your body, all explained in detail and with added links if supplement is not available in regular health food stores
• Shopping list, recipes for transition days and build-up days
• tips on how to eat after you end your fast and how to stay on track

I hope you’ll enjoy reading the eBook as much as I loved writing it for you. Try the guide for 60 days, if you’re not 100% satisfied, I will refund your full purchase price, no questions asked.

Download the “30 Day Juice Fast” eBook! (don’t forget to add your pre-order code!)

Stay Healthy and Keep Juicing!

Monika Baechler

Nutrisystem’s Diet Scam Secret!

Would you have thought that one can get healthy, eating crap and manufactured garbage (you can’t call it food for sure). Here they are, advertising that you can lose all the pounds you need with Nutrisystem by eating their prepackaged, manufactured foods!

As a Cert. Nutrition Specialist and a huge advocate of Whole Foods and whole food lifestyle, I just can’t sit still and let you be fooled by this gigantic food manufacturer, because this is the biggest diet scam of the last couple of years. The last idiotic diet scam was Slim Fast – what a garbage! Do you really expect to get healthy by eating and drinking Nutrisystem’s foods? How could you?

Let’s look at a typical Nutrisystem Day as described by Nutrisystem on their website:

Typical breakfast foods choices are:

Typical lunch menu choices:

• Beans & Ham Soup
• Black Bean Tortilla Soup
• Black Beans and Rice
• Cheese Tortellini
• Cheesy HomeStyle Potatoes
• Chicken and Pasta in Cacciatore Sauce
• Chicken Noodle Soup
• Chicken Salad
• Chocolate Peanut Butter Bar
• Chocolate Raspberry Bar
• Cream of Broccoli Soup
• Creamy Caesar Salad with diced Chicken
• Creamy Tomato soup
• more Double Chocolate Caramel bar
• Fettuccini Alfredo
• Fudge Graham bar
• would you really want me to go on?

Typical dinner choices:

• BBQ Sauce over Beef, Beans and Rice
• BBQ Sauce with Pork Wrap
• Beef and Noodles in Teriyaki Sauce
• Buffalo Chicken Wrap
• Cajun Style Chicken & Sausage with Rice
• Cheese and Spinach Ravioli with Meat Sauce
• Cheese Ravioli with basil Tomato Sauce
• Chicken Pasta Parmesan
• Chicken with Dumplings
• Chili with Beans
• Flame Broiled Burger
• Grilled Chicken Breast
• Italian Flatbread Pizza
• Lasagna with Meat Sauce
• macaroni & Cheese with Beef
• Macaroni & Cheese
• are you kidding me?

and you haven’t seen the snack list yet:

• Almond Biscotti
• BBQ Soy Chips
• Blueberry Lemon Dessert
• Carrot Cake
• Cheese Puffs
• Chocolate Cake
• Chocolate Chip Cookie
• Chocolate Chip Pudding
• Chocolate Crunch Bar
• Chocolate Fudge Bar
• Chocolate Peanut Butter Bar
• Chocolate Candy
• Coconut Almond Bar
• Double Chocolate Almond Cookie
• Fudge Brownie
• Goden Pound Cake
• and these aren’t all of the desserts!

Where are all the vegetables and fruits, where are the vitamins, minerals and enzymes?

Does this sound like the healthy diet you should be eating to avoid diabetes, cancer, heart disease, allergies, high blood pressure and all of the degenerative diseases we all are trying to avoid. What the hell is Nutrisystem doing to all the overweight people out there? What is their motto? We will help you lose weight with low calorie, low nutrition food if you pay us, but you will die of all kinds of degenerative diseases in the long run anyway! Holly cow? Shame on you, Nutrisystem! This is a big diet scam, the biggest diet scams out there! Stop lying to North Americans and Stop selling your crappy manufactured toxic laden garbage which you call food.

Are you asking yourself what your diet SHOULD look like? I bet you already know!

Your diet should be filled with

• vegetables, raw and steamed or baked
• whole grains – brown rice, millet, sprouted grains etc.
• fruits
• some lean natural meats and fish – natural, organic, no antibiotics added
• maybe if you have to, a little whole and organic dairy (I don’t suggest it)

You should be juicing every day and supplementing with green juices, because vegetables and fruits are life food – life food is health and nourishment. North America, start cooking your own darn foods! How did we become so lazy as a continent? You can’t spare 30 minutes to cook dinner but you can call take-out and wait on your butt while watching TV for up to 45 minutes? And go broke doing it!

This has to change! Take these steps and yo WILL lose weight – you WILL get healthy – you WILL be a role model to your children – Because you deserve to live a long and healthy life!

Easy lifestyle changes to become healthier and lose weight:

1. Start juicing
2. Detox
3. Add green food supplements
4. One juicing day per week
5. Follow the Baechler Food Pyramid
6. Exercise
7. Start walking
8. Cook your own food
9. Eat raw salads before lunch and dinner
10. Cut sugars, white flours, saturated fats and cheap meats
11. Cut MSG

I’m working on a very special eBook that contains all these suggestions and describes them in detail. Until then, please refer to the Baechler Health and Nutrition Blog for juicing tips, exercise recommendations and information about green foods and detox.

Eat 80-90% clean and 10-20% treats or sweets a week – That is about 4-8 treat snacks a week! (of 35 meals a week)

Follow the Baechler Food Pyramid to reach your weight and health goals easily. Not in a week – but a steady and safe weight loss. Add some light weight-training as well as walking and you are that much closer to your healthy goal weight.

Keep Juicing and Stay Healthy!

Monika Baechler

Get Rid of Funky Spunk Once and For All

This is more and more a problem among men. They don’t understand why it happens to them, worse, men (and women) actually think it’s normal. Let me tell you one thing: It is absolutely not normal and definitely not healthy.

It is easier to say,”I don’t like doing that”, then saying,” you have a funky tasting spunk.”

Could you be to Acidic?

Your body should be at a healthy PH-level between 7,37 – 7,45. The lower your personal Ph-level the more acidic you are. Personal acidity comes not only from bad food, alcohol, smoking and junk food, our body’s PH-level gets affected by stress as well. You can download my “Acidic Foods, the good, the bad and the ugly” here in a couple of days.

What are the obvious symptoms of acidity?

Well, there are a couple but the most important signs are change in color of the whites of the eye (grey, yellowish), bad breath, digestive problems like acid reflux and heart burn, weak immunsystem, rashes, funky spunk, weight issues and more… These are some important signs to look for but you don’t have to have all of them to be acidic. If you have one of these symptoms then you are most likely too acidic and need a change of diet and lifestyle.

What can you do today to turn it all around?

It’s quite easy.

• Stop drinking alcohol
• Stop eating lots of meat and milk products
• Stop drinking pop/sodas
• Stop smoking
• Stop eating only fast foods
• less sugar, less pastries
• less bread
• less coffee
• less chocolate
• less stress
• more exercise
• more veg
• more fruit
• more water
• more juicing
• more water (I know I said that already but it is really important)
• more herbal tea

If you can incorporate the changes into your lifestyle then your lady is going to be –  how can I put this – very appreciative?! You know what I mean. Now go on and make yourself a juice. By the way, eating some pineapple or drinking pineapple juice once in a blue moon is not going to turn the wheel around. Put in more effort – and I guaranty you – she will too!

Don’t forget to visit my sister site, 30dayjuicefast.com, which is a great place for detailed information on detox and  juicing for better health. If you guys want to be a “human lollipop”, juicing is the way to go.

It comes down to this,  take care of yourself, eat healthy, exercise more and you can start enjoying the “REWARDS”!

If you are a women, please print this article and give it to your men!

For your entertainment I included the very funny and “open” Samantha from the Hip TV Show, Sex and the City. Enjoy! Episode Segment “Funky Spunk.

Currants stop Cancer before it starts?

It’s not the high value of vitamin C that excited researchers. Gary D. Stoner, Ph.D., director of the cancer chemo-prevention program at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center in Columbus says, ellagic acid is a member of a disease-fighting family of compounds know as polyphenols. Raspberries, strawberries, and grapes also contain polyphenols. In laboratory studies, ellagic acid has been shown to be a powerful antioxidant, meaning that it helps neutralize free radicals, harmful oxygen molecules that are missing one electron.

What are free radicals? Well, free radicals are harmful oxygen molecules which are missing an electron. So they try to replace it with one from your healthy cells, therefore causing cellular changes which could lead to cancer. Ellagic acid has also been shown to block the effects of cancer-causing chemicals in the body at the same time it stimulates the activity of enzymes that fight cancer growth. Because of these two reasons, ellagic acid in currants, make it a powerful ally for blocking cancer.

Doctors are not really sure how much currants you would have to eat to get the cancer fighting effect. Dr. Stoner speculates that four to six servings of fruits (including currants) and vegetables a day is enough to substantially lower your risk of developing cancer.

Please be smart, only if you eat healthy whole foods like fruits and vegetables plus follow a exercise program can you prevent degenerative deseases. But including cancer-fighting foods like currants you could enhance the effect!

How to look 10 or 15 years younger without surgery?

You probably think, yeah right Monika, what kind of snakes oil are you selling? I’m not selling you anything but you probably spend to much on anti aging creams already, am I right? It’s the same thing in every commercial, buy our cream and you will look younger.

Yes it is true, you can make a little change with creams and serums but is it really going to make you look 10 to 15 years younger? Not very likely.

One thing I can bet my shirt on is this. Change your lifestyle and see the result. What would you pay to look 10 to 15 years younger without creams, gimmicks and no pain or recovery? To see real changes, all you need is 8 – 12 weeks. In the summer, you could be looking in the mirror and see your younger sister or your baby brother.

How am I going to do that, you ask? It is soooo easy if you follow this rule! “Don’t live life like a young person, love your life like a smart and mature one!” Now you think, how does that make sense? Let me explain. Most young people eat like crap, smoke, don’t care about their health and go party all night and stay up all night. Now the smart mature people who love themselves, will start respecting their bodies. Respecting your body and loving your life means eating nutritious food, not smoking, little or no alcohol, exercise and lots of sleep. If you can add a healthy relationship, you are set.

If you are interested in a detailed outline of the program, please let me know!

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