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The Goodness and Grace of God by Bobby Connor

3/7/2015

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Bobby Connor reminds us that optimal physical health is within our reach because our God is a good God.  Bobby writes - "I was ministering in a civic center in Mexico City several years ago. About 50,000 people were packed into the meetings. Through an interpreter, I was preaching about the Lord’s power to do great and mighty things.

As I prayed for people during the ministry time, a dear man cradling a baby girl began walking down the aisle toward me. I looked into the father’s tender eyes and could see his desperate heart’s cry. When I focused on his precious little girl, I understood his pain. With her raven black hair and her sparkling, dark eyes, the baby girl was beautiful—but when she turned the side of her face toward me, what I saw took my breath away. One side of her face was missing. I could see into her mouth, her jaw and tongue were exposed, and saliva was flowing down her dress. Oh, Lord! I gasped. What will you do?

Suddenly, I no longer saw or heard the thousands attending the meeting, but was transported out of the present into the future. I found myself standing in the little girl’s room. She was three or four years old—old enough to realize that she was disfigured—and lying across her bed with her face in a pillow, sobbing.

The scene then changed. The girl was about 10 or 11, standing

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Hidden Poison? The Unexpected Places Sugar Lurks by CBN News

3/5/2015

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CBN News shares a video that helps us understand why a diet that avoids excess amounts of sugar is better for you - and what sorts of decisions you can start to make today.  According to CBN News:

Do foods like skim milk and balsamic vinegar seem healthy? The amount of sugar in these foods may surprise you.

Many so-called health foods are loaded with sugar. These hidden sugars are part of why so many people are unhealthy.

Damaging Sugar Spikes

Americans consume a shocking amount of sugar. Many people eat and drink the equivalent of an entire cup of sugar every day! That's double the amount of sugar average Americans consumed 100 years ago.
All of that sugar can be deadly. Dr. Gerald Edelman, a Dallas oncologist and author of the book, Sugar Rehab, has seen firsthand the damaging effects of too much sugar. He says sugar stimulates cancer cells directly and indirectly.

"In prior years it wasn't quite as clear as it is now, that there is a direct link between sugar spikes during the day and cause of cancer," he said.

Find out what foods have the least sugar impact, on Lorie's latest Healthy Living blog.

He adds cancer survivors who are also diabetic have a much higher chance of their cancer coming back than people with low blood sugar.

Edelman points out that too much sugar can cause obesity, a known risk factor for many health problems, from heart disease to high blood pressure as well as the common cold.

"These sugar spikes, which really means an elevation in your blood sugar level, what that does is it causes an inflammation state in the body. It's very harmful to your body," he explained.

"So the inflammation state, with all the chemicals that cause inflammation that are secreted as a result of all these high blood sugars, they can cause a lowering of your immune system," he continued.

"So high blood sugar is an immuno-suppressant effect. It suppresses your immune system, so you're more susceptible to the flu, you're more vulnerable to inflammatory diseases, such as arthritis," he said.

John Speanburg is one of Edelman's patients. He has Hodgkins lymphoma, cancer of the blood. After following Edelman's advice to slash the sugar, he lost weight and has been cancer-free for nine years.
"I love yogurt," he said. "But when you start realizing there's nine grams of sugar in a cup of yogurt, I started cutting out my yogurt."

Sugar Addicts

Edelman suggests an easy way to curtail sugar intake. 

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Eat Foods with a Low Sugar Impact by CBN News

3/5/2015

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Many people would like to lessen sugar's impact on their body to lose weight and reduce the risk of many health problems, including heart disease, cancer, diabetes, arthritis, even colds and flu.

However, there appears to be a lot of confusion about which foods have the greatest sugar impact. Below are some foods that have a low sugar impact, as well as some ones with a high sugar impact that may be surprising.
SPAGHETTI SQUASH
This is a great substitute for regular spaghetti, which has a high sugar impact. Just cut it in half (carefully!) scrape out the ;seeds and pulp, oil the cut part, then put each half, cut side down, on a baking sheet and roast at 375 for 40 minutes.

HOMEMADE SALAD DRESSINGS
This is a lower sugar impact substitute for bottled salad dressing. Just whisk together one part vinegar (not balsamic) and three parts olive oil and season to taste. Salt and pepper are fine, I also add some Dijon mustard, crushed garlic and Italian Seasoning.

HOW TO SOAK BEANS
(excerpted from JJ Virgin's Sugar Impact Diet)
If you can, buy your beans dry, and rinse and soak them before cooking them. They'll be more nutrition, lower in salt, and less expensive than canned beans. Soaking also ensures they'll cook evenly and cuts down on the gas they generate.

There are two main ways to soak beans: the long soak methods and the quick soak method.
  • LONG SOAK
    To long soak, rinse the dried beans, put them in a bowl, and add enough water to cover them by about 3 inches. Then just put them in the fridge overnight, and they'll be ready for you to drain, rinse, and cook in the morning.
  • QUICK SOAK
    When you're in a hurry, pour the bean into a large pot and add water until they're covered by about 3 inches. Boil for 1 minute, then cover and let stand for an hour. When the beans are tender and have doubled in size, they're done and ready to drain.

  • Click the READ MORE link for a list of foods that would be considered low sugar impact, medium sugar impact and high sugar impact.

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Calcium, Vitamin D, Vitamin K, Magnesium & More by Dr. Alan Christianson

3/2/2015

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We are happy to have found some really amazing information to help you on your walk toward wholistic health.  The video to the right features Dr. Alan Christianson sharing some important information about types of nutrients to look for and types of supplements that may be harmful.

A healthy body is an important part of a well managed and destiny driven life.  Doing all you can to take care of yourself is simply wise stewardship of the life you have been given.
The information below is an accompanying article that reiterates and reinforces the information shared in the video.  Enjoy this while learning many important insights to better love yourself.
Hi there. Dr. Alan Christianson here and I want to tell you about the Calcium paradox. There is so many really good questions we get about Calcium. Do we need it? How much? What types? What about the heart attacks? How does it absorb? All these relevant factors and they are very important. I am super jazzed to give you all some clarity on this and make better sense out of it all. A lot of this was spawned by a study from the last year that shows that vitamins raise the risk of heart attacks. That's a pretty shocking headline and rightfully so. The sad thing is that it is data that is not new. Vitamins can cause heart attacks. To be very specific, insoluble versions of calcium can cause heart attacks. So calcium does two very different things in the body.

One is really good and one is awful. The good one we call mineralization. So calcium is an important part of forming bone tissue. Helping our muscles work right. Helping our nerves to conduct signals properly. When we lack it we can have more muscular tension. More fatigue. More stress. So it is a really critical thing.

So now the calcifying. That is like a pearl forming in an oyster. When there is irritation. When there is inflammation in the body calcification can grow around that and it can cause masses to form. Calcified masses. Some of these are small. Some are more significant in size. Even the small ones can be critical. So when there is irritation in the blood vessels that calcium growth creates calcification. That is a big part how plaque forms in the body and that is how heart disease sets up. That is why studies have shown that many vitamins cause heart attacks. Because those that have the insoluble calcium will cause more plaque to form.

Calcification is also a bad deal for your joints. When we talk about joint calcification with arthritis. Its the same process. Its an area that is chronically inflamed. Its calcified. Its material built around that. This is also the process behind kidney stones and gall stones. There are many ways it can go wrong.

So why does calcium do bad things sometimes and good things other times.

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