The Six Step Plan
Sandy Powers
February 23, 2009
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Another New Year´s failing weight loss resolution? Time for a change in thinking. Replace that ever familiar craze that often fails with a new perspective: time to get healthy and stay that way. Dieting is temporary. Good Health is permanent. This is especially important in the wake of the soaring costs of health care.
After a grim diagnosis of cancer and liver problems in 2005, I developed a Six Step Plan to Health. After 6 months on the plan, my liver healed and my cancer went into remission. It´s simple and it works. In the words of my oncologist: "It´s good for whatever ails you." Whether it´s a cold, flu, or cancer, the Six Step Plan guides you to better health.
The Six-Step Plan:
1. Stop all multiple vitamin and mineral supplements.
Recent studies, for example, in The Journal of the American Medical Association and The Annuals of Internal Medicine concluded daily intake of beta carotene, Vitamin A, and Vitamin E in the form of vitamin pills increased risk of death: Vitamin A by 16 percent, Vitamin E by 4 percent and beta carotene by 7 percent. Researchers further suggested these and other artificial vitamins overload the liver.
2. Switch to organic foods for the most toxic foods known as the "Dirty Dozen"
and begin using olive oil for all cooking and baking. By eliminating the
"Dirty Dozen" (conventionally grown apples, peaches, sweet bell
peppers, pears, celery, potatoes, cherries, raspberries, imported grapes,
strawberries, spinach, and nectarines), and switching to organics for these
foods, the toxic pesticides and toxic fertilizers contained in these
conventionally grown foods will be eliminated from your diet.
Olive oil is healthy for the liver.
3. Increase your daily food intake of Vitamin C.
Vitamin C is an antioxidant that protects the inside of a cell from free radicals that can cause diseases like cancer. Vitamin C is the most important antioxidant of them all. According to the National Academy of Sciences, one out of every six adults receives less than one-half of the daily-recommended amounts. Since our bodies can´t manufacture or store Vitamin C, make sure you drink orange juice, eat tomatoes, sweet bell peppers, broccoli, and/or parsley every day. But do not take Vitamin C supplements. According to researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, large doses of Vitamin C—like in supplements— also protect the cancer cells inside our cells. Vitamin C taken in food sources does not.
3. Go out into the sun every day for 15 minutes without sunscreen for Vitamin
D. Vitamin D is known as the sunshine vitamin. Science Daily reports studies show a clear association between a deficiency of Vitamin D and disease. Have a daily ritual of fifteen minutes of sun a day.
5. Walk every day for exercise.
In the top 10 countries in the world with the longest lifespans, walking is
the preferred exercise. By the way, the United States is 45 in the world for life expectancy. Read more on this in my article "Searching for Health."
6. Meditate or practice some form of stress releaser like Yoga twenty minutes a
day to reduce stress. Read more on meditation in my article "You Never
Know."
A little stress makes us productive. A lot of stress makes us sick.
It´s that simple. Six easy steps to health.
Another New Year´s failing weight loss resolution? Time for a change in thinking. Replace that ever familiar craze that often fails with a new perspective: time to get healthy and stay that way. Dieting is temporary. Good Health is permanent. This is especially important in the wake of the soaring costs of health care.
After a grim diagnosis of cancer and liver problems in 2005, I developed a Six Step Plan to Health. After 6 months on the plan, my liver healed and my cancer went into remission. It´s simple and it works. In the words of my oncologist: "It´s good for whatever ails you." Whether it´s a cold, flu, or cancer, the Six Step Plan guides you to better health.
The Six-Step Plan:
1. Stop all multiple vitamin and mineral supplements.
Recent studies, for example, in The Journal of the American Medical Association and The Annuals of Internal Medicine concluded daily intake of beta carotene, Vitamin A, and Vitamin E in the form of vitamin pills increased risk of death: Vitamin A by 16 percent, Vitamin E by 4 percent and beta carotene by 7 percent. Researchers further suggested these and other artificial vitamins overload the liver.
2. Switch to organic foods for the most toxic foods known as the "Dirty Dozen"
and begin using olive oil for all cooking and baking. By eliminating the
"Dirty Dozen" (conventionally grown apples, peaches, sweet bell
peppers, pears, celery, potatoes, cherries, raspberries, imported grapes,
strawberries, spinach, and nectarines), and switching to organics for these
foods, the toxic pesticides and toxic fertilizers contained in these
conventionally grown foods will be eliminated from your diet.
Olive oil is healthy for the liver.
3. Increase your daily food intake of Vitamin C.
Vitamin C is an antioxidant that protects the inside of a cell from free radicals that can cause diseases like cancer. Vitamin C is the most important antioxidant of them all. According to the National Academy of Sciences, one out of every six adults receives less than one-half of the daily-recommended amounts. Since our bodies can´t manufacture or store Vitamin C, make sure you drink orange juice, eat tomatoes, sweet bell peppers, broccoli, and/or parsley every day. But do not take Vitamin C supplements. According to researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, large doses of Vitamin C—like in supplements— also protect the cancer cells inside our cells. Vitamin C taken in food sources does not.
3. Go out into the sun every day for 15 minutes without sunscreen for Vitamin
D. Vitamin D is known as the sunshine vitamin. Science Daily reports studies show a clear association between a deficiency of Vitamin D and disease. Have a daily ritual of fifteen minutes of sun a day.
5. Walk every day for exercise.
In the top 10 countries in the world with the longest lifespans, walking is
the preferred exercise. By the way, the United States is 45 in the world for life expectancy. Read more on this in my article "Searching for Health."
6. Meditate or practice some form of stress releaser like Yoga twenty minutes a
day to reduce stress. Read more on meditation in my article "You Never
Know."
A little stress makes us productive. A lot of stress makes us sick.
It´s that simple. Six easy steps to health.
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