December 16th, 2010
If there were three trains that went into a tunnel, how many trains need to come out? “Three” you say as if that is an obvious answer. Yet as obvious as that seems when it comes to trains, today the medical system defines constipation as anyone having less than three bowel movements a week! Yes, you read right. Not three bowel movements a day but three bowel movements a week!
In other words, you can eat 3 meals per day times 7 days in a week which equals 21 meals (or in other words 21 trains) and doctors will tell you that just three trains (or three bowel movements) coming out of the tunnel is just fine. As a matter of fact, they make it sound almost normal to be full of you-know-what.
However, if 21 trains literally entered a tunnel and only 3 came out, you would have a massive traffic jam. And that is precisely what most people have in their bodies – a major mess. Yet hardly anybody talks about proper bowel function except for nutritionists such as Brenda Eastwood. And it’s why the last chapter in my book Breast Health Exposed is called The Scoop on Poop.
For many women, they are completely ignorant of the correlation between bowel movements and breast health. Honestly, the two couldn’t seem any further removed from each other. But they are definitely related.
Physicians Nicholas L. Petrakis and Eileen B. King of the University of California, have found that women who have two or fewer bowel movements per week have four times the risk of breast disease (benign or malignant) as women who have one or more bowel movements per day. Read the rest of this entry »
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December 13th, 2010
It can be intimidating for many people to switch over to a completely organic diet. The cost or even the availability can definitely be issues many people need to consider. So here’s something that can help you choose healthier food that is a step in the right direction for optimal breast health.
The Environmental Working Group is a nonprofit organization that advocates for policies that protect global and individual health. They currently tested 43 different fruits and vegetables, and found that these 12 carried the least amount of pesticides when grown conventionally.
* Broccoli
* Eggplant
* Cabbage
* Banana
* Kiwi
* Asparagus
* Sweet peas (frozen)
* Mango
* Pineapple
* Sweet corn (frozen)
* Avocado
* Onion
Of the 43 different fruits and vegetables tested, the following 12 carried the highest amount of pesticides when grown conventionally, and are therefore the most important to buy organic.
* Peaches
* Apples
* Sweet bell peppers
* Celery
* Nectarines
* Strawberries
* Cherries
* Lettuce
* Grapes (imported)
* Pears
* Spinach
* Potatoes
If you aren’t going to go 100% organic due to cost or availability issues, you now know which fruits and vegetables to make sure are organic, and which ones you can save a little on when necessary. Every step you take in the direction of eliminating toxins and pesticides from your life is a good thing. Rather than feel overwhelmed by everything you can’t do, focus on what you can do and celebrate your progress towards better health.
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December 10th, 2010
After speaking at the Women of Worth in November to a group of 90 women, over 90 copies of Breast Health Exposed were purchased by the women in the audience. A young woman who purchased the book emailed me to say that my brief talk had been enlightening, riveting and shocking. She loved the book and has passed it on to a 25 year old friend just diagnosed with breast cancer.
Once considered a disease of women over 50, today breast cancer is touching the lives of young women, pre-teens and women with families. Why the spread of this disease to women of all ages? Here are a few reasons why:
1. Estrogen is a major factor in breast cancer. Today children and teens are subjected to high levels of xenoestrogen through the chemicals in plastic combined with other toxins rampant in our society. Never before have young children been exposed from in utero to so many chemicals that can actually mimic estrogen in their young bodies.
2. The army that was designed to fight cancer in our bodies every day has been compromised by a diet that is nutritionally defunct, by stress, constant bombardment of sugar in most food products and obesity.
3. We are accustomed to using household and personal products that are a witches brew of deadly chemicals under the false pretense that they are safe. These products are creating serious problems in bodies that are already severely compromised.
There are many more reasons but these are three big reasons that need to be dealt with in every woman’s life. “Estrogen dominance”, Read the rest of this entry »
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If there were three trains that went into a tunnel, how many trains need to come out? “Three” you say as if that is an obvious answer. Yet as obvious as that seems when it comes to trains, today the medical system defines constipation as anyone having less than three bowel movements a week! Yes, you read right. Not three bowel movements a day but three bowel movements a week! 
