Kiwi - the "Fuzzy Fruit"

KIWI the “Fuzzy Fruit"

Great Health benefits are attributed to eating this delicious and nutritious “Fast Food”: 

-      A couple of Kiwis each day can significantly lower your risk for blood clots and reduce the amount of fats (triglycerides) in your blood.

-      Kiwi increases blood flow to the eyes and visual cortex

-      It’s a blood thinning alternative to Aspirin for protecting cardiovascular health (asprin and other NSAID drugs such as Thlenol and Ibuprofen can cause inflammation, ulcers and bleeding in the intestinal tract.)

-      100,000 people are hospitalized and 10,000 to 20,000 die from NSAID drug related complications each year.

-      Kiwi is an excellent source of Vitamins C (more than an orange) as well as vitamin E, polyphenols, magnesium, potassium, and copper - all working together to protect the blood vessels and the heart.

-      Kiwi is one of the most nutrient dense of the major fruits.

-      Lutein - effective in reducing the risk of heart disease and cancer. It may also help prevent cataracts & macular degeneration.  A serving (two medium sized kiwis) is the richest source of Lutein in the plant food world right behind fresh, organic yellow corn.

-      Kiwi contains soluble fiber that protects the heart and pancreas and insoluble fiber that reduces the risk of some cancers, constipation and diverticulitis.

-      Copper - vital for the growth of infants, bone strength, brain development, the making of red blood cells and building a strong immune system.

-      The heart works more efficiently with the help of potassium from fruits and vegetables.  Potassium is significant in controlling blood pressure, heart activity and maintaining fluid balance.  A serving of kiwifruit outranks bananas as the highest source of potassium among all fruits.

-      Folate, magnesium and vitamin E are well represented in kiwifruit - benefits range from bone formation to reduced heart disease.  Folate helps protect against birth defects, cancer and heart disease.  Magnesium aids in bone formation, heart rhythm regulation, muscle relaxation and nerve function.  Vitamin E reduces the risk of heart disease, cancer and exercise-induced oxidative damage.

I don't know about your neighborhood, but my Love Wholefoods and Publix has good deals on KIWI fruit. 

  

Best wishes to you for a HEALTHY, HAPPY life!!!!

F@#% Cancer

I've been saying this for years -  
Medicine, chemotherapy, radiation and surgery are not prevention methods and are not the only ways to prevent, combat and eliminate cancer:

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 again yet. (Prevention is the obvious cure for all disease).

2. Cancer cells occur in the bodies of all animals almost every day.

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 nutritional deficiencies (and an immune system deficiency). These could be due to genetic, but also due to environmental, food and lifestyle factors. 

5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, change your diet to eat more adequately and healthy, eat 6-8 times each day and include supplements that 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 it 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. (It is important to note that initial treatment with chemo and radiation will also substantially damage the body’s immune system).

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 substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and are harmful. 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 color – a better alternative is Bragg's Aminos or 24kt raw 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 or almond milk, cancer cells are being starved. (There is a whole chapter on the dangers of milk in my Health and Happiness book).

c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat based diet is acidic and it is best to eat only fish. 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 (and are acidic). Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer fighting properties. It’s best to drink purified or filtered water and to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic and it needs to be alkalized if you drink it. The natural way to alkaline it is to squeeze fresh lemons in it. Lemons are an alkalizing fruit. 

12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines becomes putrefied and leads to more toxic buildup. 

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, vitamins, minerals, nutrients and anti-oxidants build up in the immune system to enable the body’s own killer cells to destroy cancer cells. Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death -which is 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. (Stress Less)

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

One more bonus tip from SeanDon: skip the deodorant/antiperspirant or use an all-natural, organic deodorant. Your typical off-the-shelf deodorant/antiperspirants contain toxins – and also block toxins from escaping your body through sweat.

“Fight as if you already have a disease and you may never get one – if you wait until you have a symptom or diagnosis, it could be too late!”

Health and Happiness to you - and F@#% you, cancer.

My Motive

My number one motive is to motivate. I want to motivate you to make positive changes in your life and the lives of others. I truly want to see people healthy and happy – especially those close to me - because seeing other people smiling makes me smile too. I want people to live longer, happier lives free from disease, stress and other ailments. I get my happiness from seeing other people happy and I believe there is no greater gift than to make someone smile. So take any knowledge you gain from reading my writing and use it to better your life and then pass it along to someone else who needs it. Share a smile with a stranger – you may make their day and you may make a new friend along the way.

I am fed up with our society’s outlook on health and disease prevention. I am angry that someone like my co-worker Kathleen can fight a cancer battle, lose her breasts, irradiate and chemically poison her body with chemotherapy and get a clean bill of health from her doctors - only to have the cancer return 5 years later in a different form and kill her at age 36. She did nothing wrong - she didn’t deserve it. She was positive and happy. She loved life. She didn’t smoke or drink. What caused her problem - twice? Her doctors never offered any explanations as to what may have caused her cancer(s). Her doctors never dug deep and questioned her personal life including every product she used and food she ate. This was also the case for my other family members who had cancer - their doctors offered up no explanation, solution or possible preventative measures for the future. The only lifestyle question asked by doctors was whether they smoked or not.

I think there are a lot of other factors besides smoking that are contributing to the cancer epidemic in our society today.

It also stands to reason to me that if you get cancer once, survive, but make no changes in your life - there is a good chance that whatever caused your cancer will remain present and return to haunt you again later.

It is my hope that my influence through this book may help prevent someone from having a health crisis. If this book saves only one person’s life - then it is a success. If I can make everyone who reads it a little healthier and happier then that is the icing on the cake of life!

If you want or need to change your life – then do it! Appreciate life and live it to the fullest. You only live once – make the most of it. You only get one body – so take care of it.

Here is my recipe to get you started on the road to Health and Happiness: Health and Happiness: an owner's manual for the mind and body

How to Test Your Body's pH

Day one –Eat your typical daily diet and drink your typical beverage consumption throughout the day
- 6am to 9am - Test your body’s pH first thing in the morning upon waking by placing the yellow end of the test strip into your stream of urine for a few seconds. Compare the color of the tip of the strip with the chart provided with the test strip. Write down the result.
- Noon – Repeat the urine test and write down the result
- 6pm – Repeat the urine test and write down the result
- 9pm – Midnight – Final test of the day and write down the result

Day two – Drink no alcohol, soda, coffee or tea – drink only water (preferably ph neutral water or Fiji Water) – at least half of your body weight in ounces or ideally one liter per 50 lbs of body weight. Eat your normal and typical diet

Day three – Continue drinking only water and eating your typical diet
- 6am to 9am - Test your body’s pH first thing in the morning upon waking by placing the yellow end of the test strip into your stream of urine for a few seconds. Compare the color of the tip of the strip with the chart provided with the test strip. Write down the result.
- Noon – Repeat the urine test and write down the result
- 6pm – Repeat the urine test and write down the result
- 9pm – Midnight – Final test of the day and write down the result

Day four – Continue drinking only water, but consume only raw fruits before noon and raw vegetables after noon.

Day five – Drink only water and eat only raw fruit before noon and raw vegetables after noon
- 6am to 9am - Test your body’s pH first thing in the morning upon waking by placing the yellow end of the test strip into your stream of urine for a few seconds. Compare the color of the tip of the strip with the chart provided with the test strip. Write down the result.
- Noon – Repeat the urine test and write down the result
- 6pm – Repeat the urine test and write down the result
- 9pm – Midnight – Final test of the day and write down the result

Compute the results for each day by adding all 4 numbers together and dividing by four – this will give you your average pH level for that particular day. How does each day compare? You should have gotten progressively more alkaline each day. Ideally your pH should be around 7.4 – a healthy daily range would be between 6.5 and 8.0. The most acidic reading for your body should be first thing in the morning due to the fact that your body has detoxified and removed lactic acids while you slept. The most alkaline reading for your body should occur in the late afternoon and early evening as your body has become alkaline from the assimilation of a healthy diet, air, sunlight, exercise and movement throughout the day. If you average below 7, contact me for consultation and/or coaching at sean@seandon.com