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How to Lose Weight Spinning in a Circle like Kids
By Jennifer Jolan and Rich Bryda
Introduction
Hi there. I’m Jennifer Jolan and I’m going to explain how you can spin around in circles
(just as kids love to do) in order to help you change yourself in three unexpected ways:
1. You’ll lose weight!
2. You’ll re-energize your body!
3. Your overall health should improve!
Yes, I know it seems kind of weird and strange. Please keep an open mind. Sometimes
some of the most obvious things are overlooked. For example, I recently saw taco shells
for sale where the bottom “folded” edges were flat so the taco wouldn’t fall over on the
plate and spill out. Why didn’t anyone think of this obvious answer decades ago? No,
taco shells aren’t the healthiest food around but it’s an example of things that are right in
front of us that nobody considered... until somebody considered it. Then it seems easy
and obvious.
Spinning, just as kids do it, is one of those things that seem obvious once you understand
what really takes place when you do it. Surprising but true. I’m amazed it hasn’t been
part of a healthy workout regimen for ages. Hopefully it will be now.
In this book, I’ll explain the logic and rationale behind spinning. I’ll show you why
spinning around actually works for the health benefits that I just mentioned. And, if you
still don’t believe me after all that you’ve read, then, I simply challenge you to spin
around (as I outline) for 10 to 14 days and prove or disprove it to yourself.
That’s not much to ask, is it?
How I Learned About This
I like to read. I read just about anything and everything when it comes to health, exercise,
nutrition, or other strange things that makes me curious. My clients, readers, and my own
family benefit from any tool I can add to my healthy arsenal so I stay on top of things
closely.
How I learned about spinning was purely accidental. The source that triggered it all
came, of all places, from my reading about Sufi Muslims living in Turkey. They are
called “Whirling Dervishes.”
The spinning around thing that they did fascinated me. I had to know more about “why”
they did it. The more I read about them and their spinning practice, I began to understand
not just why they did it, but also why the actual spinning itself produced the effect they
sought. I won’t get into the religious aspect of it all. That’s unnecessary for our purposes
here. I will, however, say that the Sufi Muslims spin around until they reach an ecstatic
state of mind as a show of love and a drama of their faith.
That is the “why-they-do-it” part of this. That doesn’t account for any health benefits,
however.
This is what caught my eye the most the more I learned, read, and saw of them in my
research of the Whirling Dervishes: All of them were thin, showed amazing energy and
stamina, and were youthful looking (compared to their actual ages).
I’ll Take It for a Spin Myself!
So I thought to myself “Hmm, okay, what the heck. I’ll spin around and see what the big
deal is about.”
I did it. Just once.
Wow... was that quite an experience.
I’m glad I was alone! I nearly knocked over a lamp after spinning around 20 times. I had
to just sit and then lie down on my couch to normalize myself. I rested and felt normal
after a few minutes. Most important for our purposes though is that I also felt energized.
More than usual. And I’m a person with lots of energy due to the lifestyle I lead.
Again, this really was something new. As I said, I exercise often and I feel energized
from exercising, but this was a different type of energy that I felt.
I had a tingling sensation feeling in my head and heart. A lightness that’s hard to explain
was there too.
I felt more alive than before. I felt good!
I wanted more. This was too good to stop now. I needed to take it to the extreme to see
what the fuss was about. I always want to push things to the limit to find out as much as
possible.
So, I spun around again... this time 15 times. I didn’t want to get too dizzy. I spun around
and on my final spin I just spun right onto my couch lying down right away. I was kind
of delirious with excitement.
Like a child with a new toy. Or like the feeling after a fun ride at an amusement park.
It’s a good thing nobody could see what I was doing I realized. Let’s face it; it’s weird to
see a grown woman spinning around like a little kid.
In mulling over everything, spinning around those 15 times did feel like too much for me.
Still, I wasn’t going to let that stop me. I spun some more. By the time I stopped doing
the spins, 30 minutes had passed. I must have done 10 to 15 sets of spins and I never did
fewer than 10 spins each time.
More Research Was in Order
That’s how I began this quest to see why the spinning did what it did. I also wanted to
know more about the health effects. Did spinning help me or do something I’d rather not
have done? If the spinning did contribute to the Sufi’s thin waistlines then exactly how
did that occur? I’m positive spinning didn’t burn more calories than jogging or other
traditional exercises. In fact, I suspected that spinning burned very few calories, period. I
wanted to know what was going on inside when I spun around. I wanted to know what
gave me the uplifting sensations as well as how those spins affected my weight and wellbeing.
Findings from Research
Honestly, after that first day, I was hooked. I devoted myself to doing the spins each day.
And I wanted to know more about what I was getting myself into. So I dove into doing
more research.
I ended up learning some fascinating things.
For example, I learned that those Whirling Dervishes would spin hundreds of times nonstop. By over-spinning, they’d create a huge burst of ecstatic energy that put them into an
almost delirious state of mind.
Note: I never do more than 20 spins in a set and you shouldn’t either. Stop after 20 and
rest for at least one minute... Always!
I wasn’t after the ecstatic different state of mind thing. I like to keep my senses as I’m
sure you do too. I wanted the health benefits, especially since I always seemed to get a
little sluggish in the mid-afternoon.
But there was something else that I found out. Even though the Whirling Dervishes got
huge bursts of energy, they would also have their energy come crashing down within a
few hours. I experienced this too. This is not good in my opinion. I didn’t want a boost
only to come down lower than I began.
I wanted a nice even, all-day energy-boost. I didn’t want to have an energy-boost that
was followed by a state of tiredness or exhaustion.
Fortunately for me, I never went above 20 spins at a time because who knew? Maybe I’d
throw up or something. I just didn’t know. This was all new to me and I was testing
various things. So I put my heart into spinning, but I still kept limits.
More Findings
I felt great, had an extra bounce to my step and had the energy of a 4-year old child
without having an energy crash by doing too many spins as the whirling dervishes do.
Happily I also noticed I had become more toned than usual.
Keep in mind I’ve always been in good shape because that is my job. I train and advise
people on how to stay healthy and lose weight. I’m a diet and exercise info junkie and my
clients and readers learn from what I learn.
I’ve always thought “outside the box.” I’ve always done things my own way when it
comes to training and consulting people for weight loss. If the whole world does
something (such as extended aerobics, ugh!), then probably there’s a better, easier, and
healthier way to approach it.
Understand that I already had a grab-bag of “tricks” and “tweaks” to exercising and
dieting that gave people miracle results for weight loss and health.
But the spins – what began for me as a way to boost my energy levels – soon proved to
be another weight loss “trick” I could add to my arsenal. But I wanted to be sure. I
thought I better find out if this really works for weight loss for most people and not just
for me.
This was when I approached some of my personal weight loss clients and explained the
spins to them. Besides the laughing I usually got to begin with, along with the “you’re
crazy” looks when I mentioned all this to them, I made them do it.
It was my feeling that, “Geez, if kids do this naturally, what harm could spinning do to
grown women?”
The proof is in the pudding as they say. Are you interested in my clients’ results?
There was 100% success with only a few bumps along the road.
The Successes
After 14 days of spinning, all my clients had more energy, felt better, looked better, lost a
few pounds (some more than others), and acted more youthful.
Note: Think about all that. Even if my clients didn’t lose weight, spinning would still
be awesome for all the other benefits they experienced. I consider any weight loss an
extra benefit of spinning.
Are you going to lose 10+ pounds in two weeks from spinning alone?
No. That won’t happen.
NOTE: If you want to learn how to lose weight fast, check out some of my other books
and reports here: http://www.amazon.com/JenniferJolan/e/B004V1ZAB8/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1362756256&sr=8-2-ent.
But I don’t want to get sidetracked. I want to focus on you spinning around like kids. So,
back to our regularly scheduled program...
My clients loved the spinning and they got great results. To this day, they continue to get
great results from spinning.
Spinning has been a success for my personal clients. I first released this report to the
public in a smaller, less detailed format. Since then, over 120,000 people have learned
and enjoyed great health and weight loss results from spinning around in a circle.
The Few Bumps in the Road Are Simple to Cross
There were a few bumps along the way and it’s my duty to share those with you too. The
feedback I’ve received from some of the women shows that perhaps you should ease into
doing the spins.
In other words, don’t attempt to do 20 spins your first time. Build-up to 20 and use 20
spins as your goal.
Note: You’ll build up quickly. You should be able to do 20 spins easily in less than two
weeks.
Why should you build up to twenty spins?
Some of the women became too dizzy and had a hard time getting normalized from the
dizziness. They simply overdid the spinning. It was too much, too soon and they were
unaccustomed. Their body/mind link couldn’t keep up with too many spins.
Two of the women got sick from nausea. (There are solutions! I’ll tell you about those in
a few moments.)
The women who got too dizzy and the two women who got sick did end up getting used
to spinning within one to two weeks. They didn’t give up and I was proud. They were
rewarded for their persistence with better health and weight loss. They love spinning
now!
There was a happy ending even for those few problem cases.
Some Background on Your Body’s Reaction to Spinning
Before I get to the outline of how you should spin, I want to explain some of what I
found out about the dynamics of why spinning helps people lose weight and gain energy.
Also, there is a simple explanation as to why spinning actually makes you younger at a
“cellular level.”
It all centers around your endocrine system.
Your endocrine system consists of seven glands:
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The pineal gland
The pituitary gland
The thyroid gland
The thymus
The adrenal glands
The pancreas
The reproductive glands (testes in men, ovaries in women)
Your endocrine system is vital because it controls your metabolism. Metabolism is the
key to either weight gain or weight loss. Your metabolism regulates your growth and
development, controls your hormone levels (extremely vital), and plays a part in your
mood.
Staying Level
Your endocrine system controls your overall well-being in that it helps keep your body in
a constant state of homeostasis, or in layman’s terms, your endocrine system wants you
to stay on an “even keel.” You want this for the most part. You never want to be too
hungry, too cold, too hot, too lazy, too energetic, and so on. With rare exceptions you
want to feel as though you’re in control and you’re doing just fine in every way.
Many times in life we want to feel more extreme, and many times in life we accept those
feelings as natural. It’s natural and healthy to feel sadness at the loss of a friend or family
member. It’s natural and healthy to be completely turned on by your spouse. It’s natural
and healthy to feel elation when something good happens to you such as paying off a big
debt or seeing a child’s accomplishment.
But none of us want those extreme feelings to last forever or we couldn’t function in our
other duties. If sadness takes over long after a sad event ends, we find it difficult to get
the energy to work or to be secure and joyful with family whom we love. If we are too
energetic at all times we have difficulty sleeping well because our thoughts are “racing.”
Our endocrine system is monitoring us constantly and is the reason we go from normal to
extremes and also why we can return from the extremes to normal. (We return from the
extremes when our endocrine system is functioning well.) Our endocrine system secretes
whatever hormone our body needs at the time in an attempt to maintain a normal, healthy
level of living. It’s almost like a beautiful ballet act that constantly goes on inside our
bodies without us really being aware of it most of the time.
I realize you don’t want to be bored with anatomy details, but I want to mention the
background behind it all. Those seven glands I mentioned earlier are energy centers for
your body. The cell signals revolve in place at each of the seven locations. They do this
in a circular motion. When I say circular you probably are beginning to realize why
spins can affect our endocrine system.
When cell signals sent by our endocrine system are revolving in place, the signals either
revolve fast, slow, or somewhere in-between. This is important because when they are
revolving fast, you’re in good health and have lots of energy. Everything is going good
with your body.
When they are revolving too slowly, you aren’t in good health and you don’t have much
energy. Too slowly means that you generally just don’t feel good.
Again, our goal is to be somewhere near the middle most of the time, but that doesn’t
seem to be the case if you look at others walking down the street and if you listen to
others talk about the way they feel. Basically, most people aren’t at optimal health.
They’re closer to poor health. Obviously this manifests itself in lack of energy and
obesity.
Their endocrine systems are overworked and overwhelmed
Spinning the News for Good
The good news is, spinning speeds up your endocrine systems ability to send cell signals.
Repeated spinning daily helps to reset your revolving speed upwards. This is good for
your health, good for your energy, and good for weight loss!
I hope I explained all of that clearly enough without throwing too many boring details. I
want you to understand that spinning can have a powerful effect to alter your health,
energy, and weight positively.
Now that you know the reasoning behind spinning benefits, let’s move on.
Oops, I Left Out Important Information...
I got so caught up in my excitement about spinning that I left out an important piece of
information. This comes up more than I expected as I explain to students and clients
about the benefits of spinning.
Note that you can spin either way: clockwise or counter-clockwise.
The Whirling Dervishes spin counter-clockwise. Me? Personally, I prefer to spin in a
clockwise direction. It just feels more comfortable. But either way, it doesn’t matter
which way you spin. Try both ways and see which direction you’re most comfortable
with.
If you want to see how the Whirling Dervishes spin around, just do a Google search on
them and go to the many images and videos you’ll find.
Note, when you watch the videos you’ll see that they tilt their heads while they spin. I do
not want you to do that. Remember, they’re doing this to get extremely dizzy to the point
of delirium. This not only can make you sick to your stomach and make your head spin,
but it’s simply too much and overflows your equilibrium and your endocrine system’s
mechanics.
You’re not doing this to achieve delirium – you’re spinning for better health and weight
loss.
Keep your head straight up like normal. Don’t tilt your head... keep it straight.
Another thing you may see the Whirling Dervishes do that I don’t recommend is they
hold their arms against their chest when they start spinning. Don’t do this either.
For your arms, put them out as if they were airplane wings: straight out at shoulder level.
Then just start spinning around like kids do it. It’s fun!
Your Spinning Routine
Above, I described the correct way to spin around. Head straight up and your arms out
like airplane wings.
Now, here’s how you should start out spinning.
Day 1
Begin your first day with spinning around just five times.
Faster is not necessarily better, but your goal should be to spin around on the faster side
as long as you remain fairly comfortable with the speed. Five times is a base level to try.
If you really want to see the “real” effects of spinning, try 15 to 20 spins.
If you’re hesitant and don’t want to risk extreme dizziness or nausea, just spin five times
on your first set of spins. I don’t want you to have a rough first time and be afraid to spin
in the future.
Once you do this, think through how you feel. Any problems with completing your goal?
How did it go? What is your body telling you?
You goal is this and only this: spin only until you are slightly dizzy. That is your only
goal for each set of spins. That is all you need to do to benefit from spinning and improve
your health as well as lose some weight. The slight dizziness means you affected your
equilibrium some, but you didn’t overdo things the first time.
Note: Excess dizziness can make you feel not-so-good the rest of the day. Obviously.
Just do yourself a favor and trust me. Take it easy and ease into it. Start with five spins
and rest at least a minute before trying to do more, such as a second set of spins.
Pace yourself and take a real inventory the first time. If five spins didn’t really affect you
and you’re not close to being slightly dizzy, try ten or more spins in a row on your next
set.
Keep repeating this until you’ve done at least fifty total spins.
Remember, this is just day one. I want your body and you to get a “feel” for spinning. If
you need a few minutes between each set of spins, take a few minutes. If five spins didn’t
do anything for you, do more. How many? Use your good judgment and guess. Pace
yourself while taking constant inventory of your body and mind. Practice.
Remember:
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Slightly dizzy
Slightly dizzy
Slightly dizzy
That’s what you want.
Watch TV, Lose Weight
When you watch TV, there are usually 20 or more minutes of commercials during each
hour of programming. A good idea is to do your spinning during commercials. You could
easily get in one or two spin cycles during each commercial break and a minimum of
eight sets during an hour of TV.
It’s simple to fit these in; you have no excuses!
After your first set, use your own good judgment on how long to rest and how many
spins you should do for the next set.
If you got really dizzy with just five spins, then consider taking a long rest and doing
three spins the next time. But whatever you do, don’t quit. For almost every person who
follows this outline, their body usually adjusts to the spins within two to seven days... and
14 days at the latest. It rarely takes people two weeks. That can happen though if they
had problems with some extreme dizziness to begin with.
If you’re one who likes to jump into the deep end of the pool right away, you’re more
than welcome to just go ahead and spin around 15 to 20 times on your first try. But I
must warn you, you may get really dizzy to the point of being nauseous and throwing up.
My fear with you doing that is you may quit the program right away without giving it an
honest chance if that happens to you.
So again, you’ve been warned!
Seriously, please use common sense. Listen to your body and mind. Pay attention to how
your body reacts and adjust accordingly with either less or more spins per set, whether
slower or faster spins, and more or less rest between each set of spins.
Just remember the most important goal with spins: spin to the point where you get
slightly dizzy... or at most, do 20 spins during a set. By paying attention to your reaction
to each set of spins, you’ll generally know where that point is.
Just know this: You’re not in a race. This is something you can and should do for the rest
of your life, every day.
It’s that important.
Even if it takes you two weeks to get used to spinning, so be it. Your body, your health,
and your lower healthcare bills will thank you for it over the years.
Days Two through Five
Gradually challenge your body more as time goes by. Complete more spins per set, spin
faster, and rest less between each set. Build up to what your body reacts to well.
Note: Each person is different so, as with most routines, don’t get caught up with the
numbers. The only number that is important is the total number of spins you do each
day. Eventually you’ll want to build up to 100- 200+ spins a day.
But that may take a week or two or more for some people. And that’s fine. Progress is
more important than speedy progress.
Now, understand that 200 total spins each day is your ultimate goal.
However you go about this is fine, I just don’t want you to quit during the first two
weeks. I am positive that if you do the spins for two weeks, you will be so happy with the
results and you’ll be more than happy to do these spins daily for a long, long time.
How I Spin Each Day
My daily spin routine is simple. I usually spin 20 times for each set. I do 10 to 20 sets
daily for a total of 200 to 400 spins each and every day. That probably is on the excessive
side, but I enjoy doing them. They make me feel awesome and help tone me up. (My
children love to spin with me also!)
I usually do three to five sets right when I wake up. After that, I just do them whenever I
get the chance throughout the day. Basically I do them when I have room to spin, and
about 30 seconds of free time. I don’t feel guilty watching TV here and there throughout
the day because I get in a lot of spins during TV commercials also.
So, I personally aim for 20 sets a day, but I usually end up doing 10 sets of 20 spins a
day... and that is more than enough. I’ve turned them into a habit, so I don’t need to think
about it. I just do them when I get a chance. This makes it easy since I don’t have to
stress out about how many sets I’ve done and how many more I need to do.
I simply have the habit of doing my first three to five sets when I wake up and then the
rest will come throughout the day whenever possible.
Final Thoughts
I think of this when I think of the life-changing power spinning around in circles has for
people: I don’t gamble, but imagine knowing of a casino where the blackjack dealer
showed his hand before you made your move and didn’t care how many times you beat
him. When would you stop going there? I hope your answer to that question would be a
resounding, “Never!” (Assuming you’re sane that is!)
Well, that is a perfect analogy on the power of spinning around like a child.
Once you discover the powerful health and weight loss benefits of spinning around in a
circle like a child by practicing it daily, why on Earth would you ever stop doing them?
But guess what? I’ve had clients who lost quite a bit of weight and had a huge increase in
energy and lots of other health benefits, and yet, they quit doing them. I cannot fathom
why.
Please, don’t you be one of them.
With that said, it’s time for you to do some spins!
The 20-Second Bathroom Trick for a Super-Charged
Metabolism and a Flood of Energy
By Jennifer Jolan and Rich Bryda
Cold water, hot water, steam, and ice all produce different reactions from your body and
your internal organs. You can leverage this knowledge to increase your energy and
improve your metabolism with virtually no effort.
Cold Water Does It
For the purposes of this report, we’ll concentrate on cold water because it’s considered
“alive” as opposed to hot water which is considered “dead.”
Cold water energizes, invigorates, and fortifies your body. Cold water creates circulation
and overcomes sluggishness while unblocking any energy barriers within your body. One
of the reasons cold water works so great is because it stimulates the body into a reaction.
I’ll explain this further shortly when we talk about the details of cold water treading.
Cold water treading literally turns your body into a fat burning machine. The reason is
simple. The cold water stimulates your body to heat up. Your body raises its core
temperature as a reaction to the cold water which is in effect forcing your body to a lower
core temperature.
Shivering for Success
Think of your natural reaction when you’re cold. You shiver. That’s your body’s way of
creating heat to warm you up. This is very similar in nature. It’s basically a fight between
cold water and your body. Your body is saying “Uh, nooooooo, I’m going to internally
heat up to fight you. I won’t allow you to change the core temperature.”
You can take advantage of this bodily reaction to cold water. Here is how you do cold
water treading to force your body into a higher internal temperature that helps burn fat
better.
Note: This is possible only if you have a tub/shower combo. Keep reading and I’ll
show you and even more powerful 20-second version than the cold water treading.
Simply take your normal shower. Once you finish, plug the bathtub up while turning the
water to as cold as possible. Once you get about three inches of really cold water, stop
the water and start walking in place in your cold water.
This is often called cold water treading. Keep up your cold water treading for three
minutes after your shower.
Stepping Up Your Success
Now, I’m going to tell you something that is even better for fat loss and general health.
It’s harder, but the results are even better: Take a cold shower… I mean a real cold
shower. The shower should be so cold that you have a hard time breathing. Every second
feels like a minute to you.
Cold showers are better than cold water treading for general health and weight loss. A
cold shower is more immersive and lasts longer than cold water treading. In spite of its
advantages, most people won’t do them. I have a hard time consistently doing them
myself. I understand. And women seem to have more difficulty standing in cold water
than men.
I will admit that I don’t do cold water treading simply because cold showers are better
and produce better results. But I don’t use cold water for my entire shower. I’m realistic
and know most people won’t do cold showers all the time, and neither do I except on
occasion. That is why I started off this report with the next best thing: the cold water
treading.
Here’s My Routine
So here’s exactly what I do. I take my normal shower with the water slightly colder than I
prefer.
I used to take a regular shower using fairly warm water. Going from that to a half minute
or longer of a cold shower was just too much for me, especially in the wintertime.
So I began taking “regular” showers, not using cold water, but using cooler-than-normal
water. This helps my body “ease into” dropping its core temperature at the end. I find that
within about five seconds of entering a slightly cool shower, I no longer notice its cooler
than I used to require. Starting at a cool temperature really helps me succeed at the end of
the shower where I crank it down to as cold as possible.
After I’m done with my normal shower in slightly cool water, I turn the water to as cold
as possible and let it spray all over my body for 20 seconds. That’s it. Just 20 seconds.
Note: I can stand the cold water much longer in the summer, especially if I’ve been
working outside and am hot and miserable from the heat.
After my cold rinse for 20 (or more) seconds, I turn off the water and get a towel and dry
off as quickly as possible!
Again, some days I just can’t bring myself to do this especially on dreary, cold, winter
days. You know what I mean right? But I can consistently do this about four days a
week, especially when it’s not the dead of winter.
One thing to keep in mind is that once you do the cold shower or cold water treading, do
not use hot or warm water on your body for the next 20 minutes. You will be tempted to
do this! But doing so just ruins everything. The warm water will cancel all the effects
your body wants to do to warm you up.
You want to give your body a chance to react to the cold. It is that reaction you need for a
metabolism boost. The metabolism boost remains after the cold shower unless you
shower in hot water.
You’re going to first yell and curse my name when you try the cold showers, but you will
soon think I’m a genius once you see the results. Try them. See for yourself. It’s 20
seconds of torture, but it’s worth it.
More Advantages to Cold Water
The list of advantages of cold water on our bodies is quite extensive.
Here are some of the things:
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Enhances your immunity against infections and possibly even cancer
Gives glands (thyroid, adrenals, ovaries/testes) a boost, improving hormone activity
Jump-starts mood and motivation
Cranks up metabolisms to fight problems such as type-2 diabetes, obesity, gout,
rheumatic diseases, depression, and more
Helps to normalize blood pressure
Decreases chronic pain
Trains and improves blood circulation
Detoxifies your body
Fights fatigue
Strengthens exhausted, irritable nerves (this one can really come in handy some
days!)
Rejuvenates, heals, and tones our skin
Deepens our breathing
Helps with insomnia
Improves kidney functioning
Reduces swelling and edema
Improves lymphatic circulation, thereby increasing the ability of our immune
systems
Reduces stress by regulating our autonomic nervous systems
Regulates temperature which in turn helps to fight chronically cold hands and cold
feet and excessive sweating
Keeps our hair healthy
Helps our bodies guard against hemorrhoids and varicose veins
Reduces typical aches and pains
From personal experience, I must say I cannot disagree with this list.
For example, I’ve taken a cold water rinse right before bedtime and I do sleep better.
Perhaps it’s because we sleep more soundly in a cool room, so by cooling down our
bodies before bedtime, we kick-start our sleep cycle’s response.
In addition, I can go through times where my body just won’t warm up or cool down. All
women can relate to this at one time or another. Assuming there isn’t a hormone problem
going on, I did begin to notice that my seemingly-always cold hands and ice-cold feet
didn’t seem to happen as frequently as they used to before the cold rinsing.
And who wouldn’t benefit from a little less depression from time to time? Consider this
research from the Department of Radiation Oncology at Virginia Commonwealth
University School of Medicine:
... indicates that short cold showers may stimulate the brain’s “blue spot”- the brain’s
primary source of noradrenaline — a chemical that could help mitigate depression. I
guess a bout of the blues isn’t so bad after all.
Good News for Men!
Men have been told from time to time to, “Go take a cold shower.” It’s often said to rev
down his engine.
What may surprise you is the Thrombosis Research Institute showed that taking cold
showers can:
...actually increase testosterone production in men. Increased testosterone levels not
only boost a man’s libido, but also his overall strength and energy level. If you’re
looking to increase your testosterone, instead of juicing up like Mark McGwire, hop
into a cold shower.
If you’re a woman and going through fertility counseling right now, this might be a tip to
tell your husband about. Medically, the reason a man’s scrotum hangs down is to keep
his sperm count slightly cooler than his body’s core temperature. The little swimmers do
much better in a slightly cooler environment than a warmer one. This is why couples
having fertility issues are told that the man should always wear boxers to give more room
for ventilation down there.
The cold showers certainly don’t do any harm in that area either.
Experiments done in the 1950s showed that hot baths for men were an effective
contraceptive. Those men who took a half-hour hot bath every other day for three or
more weeks were statistically infertile for as many as the next six months. Recently, the
University of California at San Francisco studied this same issue using men who were
exposed every week to a half hour of “wet heat.” Wet heat primarily included hot baths.
Keep in mind, this was only once a week but when the men eliminated this exposure,
their sperm count went up by almost 500%! Not only that, the sperm’s motility improved
too. While switching from a hot to cold shower may not have quite as dramatic of an
effect, if you’re trying to help you two create a new little life together, those cold showers
surely won’t hurt.
OK, how about we move on?!
Keeping Our Skin Nice with Cold
You surely know that after cleansing your face, rinsing with cold water helps improve
your skin’s softness and look. This is because the cold water closes our pores and
tightens our skin. (The opposite effect that warm water has, opening our pores, is why
warm water is best to apply before we begin cleansing our face.)
A website called, Secrets of Longevity, goes into great depth about the advantages of cold
water, not just on our skin but on our health as well. It discusses the benefits to our
circulation and also to our overall mental state. The site discusses how cold water helps
flush toxins from our skin. (This is akin to the old tip that says to rinse razors in cold
water and not hot water. Cold water cleans better than warm water because soap washes
away more readily.)
Most homes are supplied water by municipalities. And governments love to pollute us
with chlorine and other toxins they add to our water supplies. The cold water showers, if
you can stand them, eliminate the steam that you breathe during showers. This keeps the
chlorine out of your lungs which you otherwise would inhale in a hot shower.
Keep in mind that heated water is actually, until modern times, a luxury and not
commonplace in every home all the time. Maybe people were heartier back then, but we
can overcome today!
Conclusion
The bottom line is this: although nobody likes to begin the day with a cold water shower,
and almost everybody hates taking cold showers from start to finish, and even cold water
treading is difficult for some to endure for just 20 seconds, the wide range of benefits that
cold water treatments can have on us makes it worth the effort to see just what we can
reasonably take.
Remember, it does get easier so don’t judge your long-term success by your first attempt
or two with cold water. You can get used to more than you think. And your skin and the
rest of your body will thank you for it!
If possible, consider doing these 20-second cold water shower rinses twice a day for even
more health benefits.
One Tablespoon of this $6 Supplement Detoxes 900 Yards of
Toxins from Your Body
By Jennifer Jolan and Rich Bryda
Many of the detoxing methods and supplements and elements remove specific toxins
from specific areas of your body. This is fantastic because many toxins sink into your
cells and need to be grabbed out by any means possible.
Still, for the most part, your body does a good job at detoxing itself. When you eliminate
urine and waste, your body has placed toxins in that waste. This is a perfect avenue for
toxin elimination.
When you breathe out, your mucous membranes secrete toxins that leave your body
through your exhaled breath.
When you sweat, your sweat glands are secreting waste out your skin’s pores. Exercising
will improve the flow of those toxins, both from your sweat glands and through your
intensive breathing.
It turns out your skin is a major toxin remover. Not only do your sweat glands secret
toxins, but waste can leave any pore in your body. Cellular and other bodily waste is
eliminated through your pores.
The Helpful Clay
As you can see, without doing anything you are a detoxing machine. The problem is that
depending on your lifestyle and the food you eat, the toxins catch up to you. Even before
the somewhat dangerous and low-nutrient modern-day food supplies, and before the
industrial revolution added pollutants into the air, and before plastics, pesticides, and
other containments entered our water supply, our bodies would still get sick every year or
so to perform an extra-powerful detox.
But today’s world and our typical bad eating habits and bad food supplies means that for
many, even a once a year sickness and routine bodily removal cannot keep up with the
toxins that enter our systems.
Some of the symptoms of routine toxicity are:
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Mental dullness
Aching-stiff joints
Gas and bloat
High acidity
Digestive problems with the stomach and colon
Acid reflux
Fatigue
Let’s get back to our skin. You might already know that our skin is the largest organ of
our bodies. The reason it’s large is not due to its thickness but to its surface area.
Throughout our skin on every part of our bodies are pores that help keep us as clean as
they can. And we can tap into those pores to enable even more toxins to leave through
our pore through the use of clay, bentonite clay to be specific.
More specifically known as Calcium Bentonite Clay therapy, the application of bentonite
clay is one of the least invasive and safest means to detox that has been found. Plus,
bentonite clay has a high negative ionic charge and is highly effective in pulling the
toxins out your skin like a magnet pulls metal filings.
Clay is alkaline-based, whereas we typically consume far too much acidic substances in
our diets and on our skin. So after bentonite clay therapy, our skin not only has released
extra toxins over the amount it released by itself, but our skin feels nice and clean
afterwards and leaves us often feeling refreshed like a swim can sometimes do. The
clay’s alkaline property works to balance our skin.
Note: Clay is often used for acne treatment.
Detoxing through the use of clay is nothing new. As a matter of fact, it may be one of the
oldest detoxing methods known to man. Indigenous tribes have been using clay for skin
therapy thousands of years as have more advanced civilizations.
Note: Clay is even used to treat radiation exposure.
Clay as a Catalyst
As well as clay works on our skin, bentonite clay is also taken internally.
Both on our skin and when we consume it internally, clay is a catalyst. By that I mean it
becomes active in the removal process of toxins from our bodies. Technically, a catalyst
boosts chemical reactions and does so efficiently. Clay’s catalyst action is so efficient it
can remove toxins from our lower colons before they enter our bloodstream. This frees
up nutrients to repair and revitalize our bodies.
In addition to its detoxing benefits, is clay actually the foundation of eternal youth too?
Dr. Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research seems to think so
based on his experiments from way back to the 1900’s. Years to Your Health explained
Dr. Carrel’s study this way:
“He managed to sustain the life of cells from a chicken embryo by immersing the cells
in a solution containing all the nutrients necessary for life and changing the solution
daily. The cells took up nutrients from the nutrient-rich broth and excreted their wastes
into the same solution.
“The only thing Dr. Carrel did each day was discard the old solution and replace it with
fresh nutrient solution. The chicken cells lived for 29 years until one night Dr. Carrel’s
assistant forgot to change the polluted solution! We do not know how much longer the
cell’s life could have been maintained. Dr. Carrel concluded at the end of his
experiment that the cell is actually immortal. It is merely the fluid in which it floats
which degenerates.
“He is quoted saying ‘The cell is immortal. Renew this fluid at intervals gives the cell
something on which to feed and, so far as we know, the pulsation of life may go on
forever.’ The average chicken lives about 7 years. His detoxified, properly nourished
chicken cell lived for 29 years.”
The upshot was that Dr. Carrel believed we don’t get old because of time. Instead, we get
old due to toxin build-up at the cell level. As it builds and our bodies cannot keep up, cell
breakdowns begin to cause “aging.”
The Clay Therapy
Ran Knishinsky, author of The Clay Cure, is an advocate of eating or drinking clay daily.
He states some of the benefits reported by people using liquid clay for a period of two to
four weeks include:
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Improved intestinal regularity
Relief from chronic constipation
Diarrhea, indigestion
Ulcers
A surge in physical energy
Clearer complexion
Brighter, whiter eyes
Enhanced alertness
Emotional uplift
Improved tissue and gum repair
and increased resistance to infections.
Clay works on the entire organism. No part of the body is left untouched by its healing
energies.
AboutClay.com suggests taking clay daily to maintain a good, clean digestive system.
For adults, a normal dosage would be to take one to two ounces daily. When taking clay
internally, keep your body hydrated by drinking eight to ten glasses of filtered, nonchlorinated, non-fluoridated water daily. The water helps to soften and loosen impacted
fecal material lining the walls of your small intestine and colon. This material is then
absorbed by the clay and removed from the body through normal elimination.
Note: For an initial detox, take a higher dosage as follows: three ounces three times a
day for four to six weeks and then gradually reduce to one to two ounces daily for
maintenance.
One of the best clays available is Great Plains Bentonite Clay. You can find it on
Amazon here (I personally use this):
http://www.amazon.com/Yerba-Prima-Bentonite-DetoxOunce/dp/B00016XI7A/ref=sr_1_1?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1357160080&sr=11&keywords=great+plains+clay
For using clay on your skin, you should look into clay baths (you can also use it just as a
facial). These are highly beneficial for detoxification, especially for cases of heavy metal
poisoning. A typical clay bath would involve using a couple of cups of powdered clay in
a bathtub and then run very hot water over the clay, as hot as it gets. Use a whisk to stir
the clay around and to help it dissolve. When you’ve got about 3 inches of water in the
tub and the clay is dissolved, start adding cooler water until the water reaches the desired
temperature.
The bath should neither be too hot nor too cool, but should be nice and warm, as warm as
is comfortable. Bathing time depends upon your condition, but can be anywhere from 10
to 20 minutes at the most. If you stay in too long you may have what is known as a
cleansing reaction and can experience fatigue, headaches, muscle soreness, and so on. If
this happens to you, note how long you were in the bath and spend half that time the next
session.
Here is an inexpensive bentonite clay that you can purchase on Amazon (I personally use
this):
http://www.amazon.com/Aztec-Secret-Indian-HealingCleansing/dp/B0014P8L9W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1363215052&sr=81&keywords=aztec+secret+indian+healing+clay
Do-It-Yourself Face-Lift: How to Look 5 Years Younger in 2
Weeks – Got 5 Minutes a Day?
By Jennifer Jolan
Women spend billions of dollars on cosmetics each year to look younger, eliminate
wrinkles, nourish the skin, cleanse the pores, and so on. You know how we are. We keep
cosmetics for years and decades, holding onto all the old stuff and getting more new
ones. And we don’t get rid of it unless we find it all dried up in the bottle. At that point,
we agree it might be time to discard our unused cosmetics.
This bonus will show you how look younger, naturally. If you’re willing to give me a few
minutes of your time each day, then I promise you’ll look younger in a few weeks.
About Your Face
Now you must understand a little background before we go further. Your face has 85
muscles in it. These muscles support your face. Like other muscles, they need exercising
if you want them to remain pliable, firm, strong, and healthy.
A lot of the aging and sagging that happens to person’s face is due to those facial muscles
not being able to support the covering facial skin any longer. So this report will deal with
facial exercises, acupressure points on the face, and some common grocery store items
that benefit and extend your facial health.
Note: The DataFace web site offers lots of information about how the muscles in your
face work. They have really cool videos that show which muscles produce different
facial expressions.
It’s true. By regularly exercising the underlying muscles in your face, you’ll be able to
firm up your face, eliminate wrinkles, and reverse aging. The only way you can nourish
the skin on your face is through the blood. Exercising your face brings fresh supplies of
blood to your facial tissues giving you healthier, firmer skin. Many people refer to facial
exercises as facial yoga due to the toning and the ability of them to retain a youthful
appearance.
Dr. Joseph Mercola, MD, thinks highly of these and related facial exercises. He recently
wrote this on his Mercola.com daily message: Clearly, adopting a regular facial exercise
routine is preferred over costly, and potentially dangerous, plastic surgeries. [These
exercises] don’t require any special equipment, although you can find various
contraptions that claim to help; in general, you can easily perform face yoga using
nothing more than your fingers to create light resistance.
Note: Throughout this report, I describe and show you several examples of facial
exercises. My 11-year old niece drew the illustrations for the face exercises. I couldn’t
say no to her – she’s so cute! These illustrations certainly are not of professional
quality, but they are good enough to show you what you need to do. And my niece
loves seeing her work as much as I do. I think you will too.
Face Exercise #1
This first one is simple. Actually, they all are. Simplicity breeds consistency which
breeds success.
Open your mouth as wide as possible and stick your tongue out as far as possible. The
main benefits of this exercise are to eliminate sagging jowls on the sides of your mouth.
Doing this also helps to firm up your neck.
Keep your mouth open and tongue sticking out for 10-15 seconds. Rest 10 seconds and
repeat four to nine more times.
Here is a picture of what this looks like:
Face Exercise #2
For this one, open your mouth as wide as you can. This exercise is almost identical to the
one above, but for this one do not stick out your tongue.
The main benefit of this exercise is to firm up your cheeks and jowls.
Keep your mouth open in this position for 10 seconds. Rest 10 to 15 seconds and repeat
four to nine more times.
Here is a picture:
Note: Form and ease is more important than numbers when you first begin. Do as many
as you feel comfortable as you go through these. If your face begins to tire, do fewer
repetitions until you build up your facial muscles so you can do more. It won’t take
long.
Face Exercise #3
Tilt your head back and stick your chin out as far as possible but while you do this, tense
your neck. The main benefit of this exercise is to firm up your neck and get rid of double
chins.
Note: Simplicity does not mean these are ineffective. Quite the opposite. Take these
simple facial exercises seriously. Do them consistently. You will soon be rewarded
with better skin and a face you like better!
Hold this position for ten seconds. Rest 10 to 15 seconds and repeat four to nine more
times.
Here is a picture:
Face Exercise #4
Open your eyes as wide as possible. This exercise helps with wrinkles around the eyes,
puffiness under the eyes, and it firms up the area right above your eyes
Keep your eyes open like this for ten seconds. Rest 10 to 15 seconds and repeat four to
nine more times.
Here is a picture:
Face Exercise #5
With each of these, you are changing ever so slightly, working on a slightly different area
each time.
With your mouth open, clench your teeth together and tense your neck. This helps
eliminate any sagging and double chins.
Hold this position for ten seconds. Rest for 10 to 15 seconds and repeat four to nine more
times.
Here is a picture:
Note: I guess my niece was trying to scare us with this picture!
Face Exercise #6
Puff out your cheeks like a balloon. Puff as much as possible with as much air in your
mouth as you can hold. If you need to, put a finger up to your mouth to hold the air in.
Then exhale. This helps to firm up your cheeks and get rid of wrinkles. Hold this position
for ten seconds then exhale. Rest 10 to 15 seconds and repeat nine more times.
Here are a couple of pictures:
Face Exercise #7
Close your eyes. Tense your eyelids to the point that you can feel your eyes jumping
around under them. Then open your eyes.
This exercise helps to firm up loose sagging skin all around your eyes and gets rid of
wrinkles in the area.
Hold your eyes closed like this for five to ten seconds. Open them and rest for 15
seconds. Repeat this four to nine more times.
Note: Remember to tense your eyelids; don’t just close your eyes as you normally do.
Here is a picture:
Face Exercise #8
Keep your head back and stick your chin out as far as possible. This one will help with
double chins and firm up sagging skin.
Hold this position for ten seconds. Rest for ten seconds. Repeat for four to nine more
times.
Here is a picture:
Now That Eight Exercises Are Behind Us…
Let me pause for a moment before we go further. We just covered the first group of
exercises. There were eight of them.
You can do them in whatever order you want. You may also skip some (such as the
double chin ones if your neck is fine). You may adjust the amount of time you do them.
Feel free to modify the rest times between each time.
There is no special order of things. You don’t need to follow them in the specific order
I’ve outlined them here. For me personally, I focus mainly on exercises #2 and 6.
Don’t Have Time to Exercise?
Yes you do!
These exercises require no gym. They require no equipment.
Do them when watching television. You can do them right now and still continue reading
this book!
When working on the Internet or writing emails you can do some of these exercises.
These are perhaps the only exercise you truly can do while you work on other things. At
first you may have to do them without combining them with other tasks, but you will
soon master these and doing them while working on something else makes all the sense
in the world.
The Rest of the Exercises
The remaining exercises differ from the first eight. But understand neither these nor the
ones before are more important than the other set.
You can mix some of the above exercises with the exercises I’m about to give to you.
Also, all of these exercises can be done while you watch TV during commercials.
This is your chance to firm up your face and look younger. It is possible.
Sidebar: Reflexology and Acupressure
Many of these facial exercises are based on reflexology and acupressure points. By
focusing on those, you can do all this:
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Help eliminate wrinkles all over your face
Increase your energy
and give yourself better skin tone.
The Acupressure.com website describes acupressure like this:
Acupressure is an ancient healing art using the fingers to gradually press key healing
points, which stimulate the body's natural self-curative abilities. Acupressure was
developed in Asia over 5,000 years ago. Using the power and sensitivity of the hand,
Acupressure Therapy is effective in the relief of stress-related ailments, and is ideal for
self-treatment and preventive health care for boosting the immune system. Acupressure
releases tension, increases circulation, reduces pain, and develops spirituality and
vibrant health. For a pressure point reference and a self-care guide for common
complaints from A to Z, see Acupressure's Potent Points by Michael Reed Gach, Ph.D.,
with 400 illustrations and over a hundred self-acupressure healing applications.
Reflexology provides points of contact that proper acupressure can trigger for
improvement. Acupressure based on these reflexology based points of contact, can help
improve problems you might have with all these factors:
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Sexual problems (physical and even emotional help)
Trauma healing
Emotional pain
Back care
Stress
Beauty (this is what we’re interested in here, but really, we all want the other
benefits too)
Addictions (by breaking compulsive behaviors through stress and muscular
tensions, pressures, and pain
With that little bit of background, let’s get back to some exercises for your face.
Face Exercise #9
Take your two thumbs and press about an inch under your chin. Each thumb should be
about at the corner of each side of your mouth if you were to draw a line downwards.
What you are doing is pressing your thumbs into your lymph nodes under the chin. This
is a soft, pliable area under your chin.
Keep your thumbs pressed into this area for 10 seconds. Rest 10 seconds and then repeat
9 more times. Here is a picture:
Face Exercises #10
There are four pictures needed for face exercise number ten. The exercises in this group
are acupressure exercises on specific reflexology points in your face and neck.
By pressing these reflexology points in a clockwise motion with your finger (or an eraser
of a pencil which is what I do) you will firm up your face and look young. I’m not an
expert in the science behind reflexology, but these acupressure/reflexology exercises
work incredibly well.
My face firmed up and looked younger within five days of doing these.
When I combined the other facial exercises with the acupressure/reflexology, my results
were astonishing. I had a healthier looking face that looked noticeably younger. I must
have gotten at least eight comments from my friends noticing how much younger and
better my face looked.
Back to the exercise. Press a pencil eraser moderately into your skin at each
reflexology/acupressure point. Move it in a small clockwise motion at that point. Do this
for 10 to 15 seconds at each point.
I don’t follow a particular order, and you don’t have to either. I usually start around the
eyes.
Here is what I recommend: Do these acupressure/reflexology point exercises for 10-15
minutes a day for the first two weeks. After that, you can cut back to five minutes a day.
Note: Be careful around your mouth. If you’ve ever gotten a cold sore around your
mouth, being too vigorous with the reflexology/acupressure points around the mouth
may cause a rash.
You can even skip the mouth points and just do the other facial exercises that help with
the jowls area (sides of your mouth).
Here are the four pictures that show this complete movement. (By the way, I tried to
point out the acupressure points with some numbers. When I didn’t think they’re all that
readable, I had my niece add lines to “touch” the points in the third figure. I think the end
result, however, is that we can all agree I’d better stick to health, diet, and beauty and
perhaps not tell my niece the next time I need graphics!)
Face Exercises #11
This exercise is the face tap. Simply tap all over your face and neck with your fingers
tips. Just light taps. Do this for one minute twice a day.
The benefit of this is that the tapping helps the circulation of blood throughout your face.
This helps the blood to feed and nourish all your facial tissues and muscles keeping them
more elastic, flexible, and young.
There is no picture of this. The exercise is self-explanatory.
In Conclusion
With these face exercises, I promise that if you do them as I outlined them you will look
younger and have a more vibrant, younger looking face. You can spare a few TV
commercial time for a few weeks to do these exercises.
You have no excuse not to!
About 2 weeks from the start of this facial exercise program, you can expect the bare
minimum to look at least a little younger; and perhaps 5 or more years younger. You may
immediately begin to get comments about the incredible changes in your appearance
from friends, family, and co-workers. Try the exercises and prove it to yourself.
The 50-Cent Miracle Weight Loss Food You’re Not Eating
By Jennifer Jolan and Rich Bryda
Walk down any grocery store aisle in the industrialized world and you might see tens of
thousands of “fat-free” products. Ever since our government decided it would dictate
what is healthy and what is not, we’ve been told that fat makes us fat. The food makers
followed that lead and began 30+ years ago with fat-free everything.
And for 30+ years, we have been getting fatter and fatter and fatter.
Hmmm.
Maybe… Do you think… Is it just possible that fat does not make us fat and that
reducing fat consumption may do the opposite of what we’ve been told all this time?
(A sneak peak at the answer below: Yes.)
We’ve Become Fat-Free Fatties
Due to a government committee that I’ll tell you about in the next section, in 1982 the
American Heart Association, the American Medical Association, and the USDA issued a
dire and, unfortunately, very public warning against fat in food. This is why only a
couple of years afterwards it seemed as though every product on the supermarket shelves
was sold in a “fat free” version.
That strongly correlates to why the public’s health has degraded ever since as a direct
result.
Today some products are difficult to find in a non-fat-free version. Look through the
salad dressings in your store to see the large percentage that are fat-free. Walk into any of
those Can’t-B-Yogurt stores and see how many flavors are fat-free. In some of them,
every flavor is fat-free. One such store I walked into recently had absolutely no yogurts
that were sugar-free! And therein lies the lie; to make fat-free “food” good enough for
consumers to eat, food makers must add sugar and loads of it. But the sugar is disguised
as High Fructose Corn Syrup, Fructose, Dextrose, maltodextrin, and many other nonsugar-sounding names because if they told the direct truth – that the product is loaded
with sugar – you wouldn’t buy it even if it also says it is “fat-free.”
What’s interesting is the result of the three-plus decades that have occurred since that dire
warning against fat. The amount of fat in products worldwide has decreased dramatically.
According to Dr. Robert H. Lustig, M.D., the UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the
Division of Endocrinology, from 1960 to 2000, the percentage of calories from fat has
dropped systematically from 45% down to 30%, a move of 1/3rd. While all that fat has
been removed from our available foods, the obesity prevalence has increased in that same
time period from 14% to 30%, a whopping 200% increase in fat people! Less fat in food,
but we’re far fatter than before.
It’s not the fat in foods!
But What About Fat, Eggs, Milk, and the Horror of Horrors Red
Meats?
The damage that sugar and sugar substitutes do to your brain first, and then your body, is
so great that even the government’s FDA will admit eating too much sugar is bad for you.
If I were a cynical person, I might say that warning against sugar is one of the only
accurate statements they’ve made since the early 1980s. Others even more cynical than
that might say if they could get away with not saying sugar is bad for you they would.
After all, their food pyramid has been a complex system of lies that promotes a high
amount of daily sugar since they released it decades ago.
The food ideas that the government promote literally says: eat more unhealthy foods than
healthy foods.
If this surprises you, please understand that grains, the entire bottom layer of the FDA’s
food pyramid, are bad for you. Grains turn to sugar almost as quickly as pure sugar turns
to sugar. Yes, the fiber is okay for you but the heavy fiber recommendations that have
been touted for the past many years is nothing but laxative-maker income as doctors such
as William Campbell Douglass have for years been saying. You’ll get plenty of fiber
through vegetables and nuts.
Fruit actually turns to sugar in your blood stream more quickly than grains and the FDA
has said you need lots of fruit, almost as much as grains, in your daily diet. Sugar piles up
on top of sugar.
I’m a huge fan of vegetables, but not all vegetables are created equal. Starches such as
corn and potatoes are horrible and do you know why? Because they turn to sugar rapidly
in your body! Some vegetables, however, are fabulous as opposed to flabulous. I’m going
to tell you about one as soon as I get off my soapbox.
Note: In a recent show, Dr. Oz mocked low-carb diets by saying he tried one for 24
hours and was jittery and anxious by lunchtime. What he dishonestly (perhaps he just
didn’t realize the truth) led viewers to believe is that his lack of fruits and grains that
morning made him jittery. The truth was more likely that his body was going through
major sugar withdrawals.
At least the FDA didn’t put meat on the very top of the food pyramid. But they want you
to eat far less meat and milk and cheese than sugar in the form of grains, fruits, and
indiscriminate vegetables. And fat… such as nuts and olive oil and the fats in healthy
vegetables? Fat is the worst offender they say. So the FDA put the fats on the very top.
Fat makes you fat right?
You know the answer; at least you know what I say the answer is.
George McGovern headed the committee that developed the government’s food
suggestions a few decades ago. He headed the McGovern Committee that gave America
and the world the food pyramid.
What’s important to us is that the McGovern Committee was loaded with animal rights
organization members that knew it couldn’t get America to end its healthy love affair
with meat overnight. Instead, they began promoting heavily the use of sugars on top of
sugars, or as they call them, grains and fruits and starchy vegetables, in an effort to get
Americans to eat less meat. Along the way they came to the completely unscientific and
constantly-disproved notion that fats in food make us fat so the number one enemy of
their committee was fat. (NOTE: I love animals, don’t get me wrong. What I don’t love
is hidden agendas.)
Did you know your brain is composed mostly of fat?
Your brain requires fat to be healthy.
So you have two choices:
1. Make your brain fat with non-nutritional sugar from grains and lots and lots of
fruits and starchy vegetables, or
2. Supply your brain with healthy fats that don’t add poundage to your hips and
thighs by eating healthy meats, good dairy, and get plenty of fats from nuts and
oils such as coconut, flaxseed, good non-starchy vegetables, and olive oils.
As for me and my house, we’ll eat lots and lots of fats. But we’ll eat healthy fats like the
ones in #2 above.
Note: Did you know that farmers feed calves skim milk when they want to fatten up the
calves?
We turn the government’s food pyramid upside down. And our family’s blood screenings
which we get annually show the direct results of eating extremely little grain except as a
“treat” once in a while, far more fibrous vegetables than fruits, no fruit juices, a vast
amount of cage-free organic eggs, grass-fed beef, free-range chickens, wild Alaskan
salmon, nuts, seeds, olive oil, macadamia nut oil, flaxseed, coconut, and other oils that
our brains soak up and utilize those good fats and nutritional foods like a sponge.
(Oh… and one more little vegetable will add a tremendous bonus to your health and
waistline. I’m about to tell you about it.)
The reason we’re fat as a society must be something else besides fat in our diets. Only
two options remain: protein or carbohydrates. All those sugars with non-sugary names
aren’t made from protein; those are carbohydrates. It’s the carbs making us fat and
squeezing far more fat matter into our brains where we function far less effectively
resulting in our brains being hampered from keeping us fit and trim.
All That to Say
I suspect my Editor is going to wonder why I went into all that background before
revealing this chapter’s primary subject.
I did so because I care for you. I want you healthy! I want your family to be healthy!
See, if I tell you the truth and if you try what I suggest, you will get great results. Then
you will be glad you bought one of my books. You might even buy more of my books,
especially some of my healthy eating titles that explain just what makes a perfect diet
perfect. (I’m not embarrassed to tell you that a quick list of titles is here:
http://www.amazon.com/JenniferJolan/e/B004V1ZAB8/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1362839822&sr=8-2-ent.)
But it’s not just for those reasons I’m so passionate. I think our nation cannot be healthy
without healthy people. We have all sorts of problems right now, but we must fix
ourselves before we feel like addressing other problems. This means telling the truth
about the food lies and eating myths.
Exposing the truth about fats and good proteins such as grass-fed beef, wild Alaskan
salmon (about the only fish available without toxic mercury), range-free chickens and
eggs, and yes, even nitrate- and nitrite-free free-range pork is the very best thing I can do
for you. I do the same for every client I have.
Slowly, we are actually seeing a change from the Food Pyramid lies of yesterday. People
are beginning to realize we’ve been sold a bunch of myths on what makes us healthy and
trim. Authors such as Tim Ferriss are finally getting enough exposure that people are
severely questioning they diets and adding healthy fats back into their diets in record
numbers.
And the smart people always have one thing within easy reach: The avocado.
All That to Talk about a Little Green Vegetable?
Yes.
Just as the egg – when it comes from a free-range chicken – is one of the most perfect
proteins available to us today, the avocado is one of the most perfect vegetables.
I’ll just say the statements up front and let you research their authenticity:
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Avocados are full of fat.
That fat is healthy fat – extremely healthy fat.
Eating an avocado daily will – assuming you lay off the starchy carbs, sugars, most
grains, pastas, and reduce fruit consumption – help your body shed weight.
Note: Avocados are usually about 50-cents each. Fortunately, their thick skin protects
you better from pesticides that growers put on the non-organic versions. It’s probably
always best to buy organic avocados if you have a choice and if you have extra money,
but if not, their protective thick skins will make conventional, non-organic avocados
okay for you and your family. Skip the packaged snacks and buy four or five avocados
the next time you’re at the store. Your body will thank you.
Read that last bulleted item once more:
Eating an avocado daily will – assuming you lay off the starchy carbs, sugars, most
grains, pastas, and reduce fruit consumption – help your body to shed weight.
If you don’t eat avocados but do the other things (lay off the starchy carbs, sugars, most
grains, pastas, and reduce your fruit consumption), you will lose weight if you’ve been
overweight until then. I am going the extra step though.
I’m trying to state clearly that if you do those things, and you should, if you also add
avocados regularly to your diet your results will be better than if you don’t eat the
avocados.
But “I Hate Those Things!”
Don’t like avocados? Heaven forbid!
If you hate avocados, then don’t eat them. If, however, you do hate their taste (I can’t
imagine that, but a small percentage of people do), try to find some way to enjoy them
other than eating them raw.
For example, do you like guacamole sauce? If so, most guacamole sauce is 100% healthy
and good for you and encourages weight loss, so get your avocados there.
Note: I’ll include a few avocado recipes a little later that you can – and should – try. I
usually eat an avocado with my eggs.
What They Do For you
Serotonin is a brain hormone that has been called The Happy Chemical because higher
levels of serotonin make you more joyful and confident. People who find they need an
emotional boost often are low on serotonin.
One kind of fat that benefits and stimulates serotonin production is the fat from an
avocado. The avocado is a vegetable but unlike most vegetables avocados are also
wonderful sources of fat.
You often find avocados in Mexican food. Mexican food is wonderful for your brain and
your waist (as long as you don’t eat the tortillas, chips, and rice). All that meat, salsa,
vegetables, beans, sour cream (if real), and guacamole you get in Mexican food are all
fantastic for you. This of course is most true if you locate a Mexican restaurant that
understands the importance of organic or grass-fed beef, but lacking that you can make
your own Mexican food. Your family will love dinner and they’ll begin to lose weight!
Get avocados. Try to find organic ones but lacking those, buy the conventional ones. Eat
as many as you want but at least one a day.
Note: Remember I said the egg is a perfect food? Want to improve on perfection? Eat a
half an avocado with your morning eggs. Delicious! Add some beans and you even
improve upon that perfection due to all the protein, fats, and fiber in the meal.
Keeping Them Fresh
Avocados do go soft and mushy quickly. At the store, buy firm avocados so they last at
home longer.
To stay on top of things and make sure that you eat just-right and just-ripe avocados,
determine how many you and your family eat daily. Get a brown paper bag. Each day,
put the next day’s avocados in the bag and leave it overnight.
By the way, it’s a myth that you shouldn’t keep half-cut avocados in your refrigerator.
Avocados do stay good in your refrigerator. This is important if you have a half of one
left over and want to eat it the next day. To save the uneaten half, keep the big seed in the
half you save, put it in a baggie, and place that in the fridge. It’ll store nicely in your
fridge for the next day, or even two or three days without mushing up too much.
Cutting Them Properly
The way you get to the edible center of the avocado affects the nutrients that end up in
your body when you eat it. To preserve the area with the highest concentration of
nutrients such as antioxidants, you want to peel the avocado with your hands, as you do
with bananas, like this:
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Cut the avocado length-wise, around the seed
Holding each half, twist the halves in opposite directions. This separates them from
their seed
Remove the seed
Cut each half lengthwise
Use your thumb and index finger to peel the skin off each piece
More Advantages to this Perfect Vegetables
Dr. Joseph Mercola, M.D., often discusses the avocado as a healthy vegetable, citing how
that under-utilized veggie can help with:
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Cardiovascular disease
Weight loss
Diabetes
Improves your body’s ability to absorb nutrients from other sources
And the avocado is full of its own nutrients and healthful ingredients without adding
fructose to your body as so many fruits will do. The avocado is known for supplying you
with these and more:
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Fiber
Potassium (more than twice the amount found in a banana, I’ll talk about this more
in a moment)
Vitamin E
B-vitamins
Folic acid
In more stunning news, Dr. David Heber, M.D., PhD reported in Medical News Today
the following:
The researchers observed a significant peak (approximately a 70 percent
increase), of IL-6 four hours after the plain burger was eaten, but less effect on
IL-6 (approximately a 40 percent increase) over the same time period when fresh
avocado was eaten with the burger.
Additionally, the study found that when fresh Hass avocado was eaten with the
burger it did not increase triglyceride levels beyond what was observed after
eating the burger alone, despite the extra calories and fat from the fresh
avocado...
The pilot study also reported that the difference in peripheral arterial blood flow
(the movement of blood to different parts of the body, as measured by PAT), a
predictor of vascular health, after eating the hamburger meal compared to the
hamburger-fresh avocado meal was approaching statistical significance... PAT
scores significantly decreased (signifying reduced blood flow) only after the plain
burger was eaten (approximately a 27 percent drop, on average) compared to a
burger with fresh avocado (approximately a 4 percent drop, on average,
signifying less reduction in blood flow
You may have heard that salt is bad for you. This is simply untrue. What is unhealthy is
an imbalance in sodium compared to potassium. If you up your salt intake, but also
increase potassium, you will rarely have any problems from the salt.
Note: Plus, using a good sea salt in its natural form (it comes packaged as a nonbleached rough-looking salt such as that sold by Real Salt), you improve your health
even more. Your body requires sodium and sea salt is by far one of the most excellent
ways you can give your body what it needs.
Avocados are high in potassium and low in sodium. Therefore an avocado a day helps
improve your sodium/potassium ratios, keeping your body’s “electrolytes” in balance.
Raw or Otherwise, They’re Delicious!
There are so many things you can do with this ultra-healthy, high-good-fat vegetable. So
many people fail to understand how vital these are to our daily diets.
Given how good the fat in an avocado is, for example, use an avocado as a fat
replacement in your baking. Replace the fat called for (like oil, butter, or shortening) with
an equal amount of avocado.
You can also use the soft avocado as a first food for babies. Rotate the avocado with
other kinds of early baby foods. (If you must use store-bought baby food, always get
organic.) (In an unrelated note, never give your baby water tainted with fluoride.)
For hundreds of unique recipes that include avocado–from salads to dessert whip and
everything in between – check out the California Avocado Commission’s website here:
http://www.californiaavocado.com/recipes/
One of the recipes on the site is so incredible, I must tell you about it. It’s the worldfamous California’s Best Guacamole (http://www.californiaavocado.com/recipe-
details/view/31437/california%E2%80%99s-best-guacamole) that takes the following
ingredients:
Ingredients
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One Anaheim chile
One heirloom tomato, diced small
One clove garlic, minced
One sweet onion, diced small
Four ripe, fresh large California Avocados, seeded and peeled
One lime for juice only
Salt and pepper, to taste
Preparation is so simple once you gather those ingredients:
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Roast chile on the stove top until the outside chars and blackens. Let it cool and
then wipe off the charred layer with a towel.
Cut the stem off of the chile and slit it open. Using a knife, scrape off the seeds and
discard them.
Dice the roasted chile and place in a medium bowl.
Add remaining ingredients and mash together. Recipe creator Kate uses a bent fork
to make it easy.
One final bonus, you can “Serve it with everything!”
If you promise me you’ll only use healthy, mercury-free wild Alaskan salmon, I’ll tell
you their most-amazing Chili-Rubbed Salmon with Cilantro Avocado Salsa recipe:
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Medium tomatillos, husked and rinsed
Quarter cup chopped green onion
Quarter cup chopped fresh cilantro
One and a half Tbsp. fresh lime juice
One ripe, large, Fresh California Avocado, seeded and diced
One tsp. jalapeño, seeded and minced (or to taste)
One and a half tbsp. chili powder
1/2 tsp. cumin (an excellent spice for your brain!)
One Tbsp. brown sugar
One tsp. kosher salt (Real Salt sea salt is even better)
Four (6-oz) wild [Alaskan] salmon fillets (The good folks at the California Avocado
Commission suggest Copper River salmon but the wild Alaskan salmon is healthier
and safer.)
Prepare as follows and just sit back and bask in the compliments your family and guests
will give you!
1. Place the tomatillos in a saucepan and cover with water. Bring to a boil, then
simmer for five minutes. Remove tomatillos and when cool enough to handle,
roughly chop them.
2. Combine the tomatillos, onion, cilantro and lime juice. Gently fold in the avocado
and add jalapeño.
3. Season with salt to taste.
4. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Combine chili powder, cumin, sugar and salt.
Sprinkle fish with spice mix.
5. Heat a large oven-proof nonstick skillet over medium heat.
6. Cook the salmon rub side down for two minutes then flip and place pan in the oven
for about five to six minutes or until cooked through.
7. Transfer fish fillets to plates and top with the Cilantro Avocado Salsa.
#1 Cheap Supplement that Reverses Gray Hair & Infuses
Health into Your Body
By Jennifer Jolan and Rich Bryda
Let me begin this with a special warning – The results herein are had by some, but not by
all. I get praise for furthering this information. I also get told it doesn’t work.
Which is it?
Turns out, if you have gray hair and the following advice does not reverse it, you’ll still
be healthier if you do it. This information loads up your body with tons of nutrients like
no other.
So, if you want to reverse graying hair, your hair may benefit as some other people’s do.
Some combination of this and whatever the person’s doing already seems to be the key to
work that wonder. But if your hair doesn’t begin to reverse, your “feeling your age” just
might because the thing I’m about to tell you about is a power-packed goodie!
Possible Causes of Graying Hair
Age by itself is not the cause of graying hair. Yes, more gray hair is often present the
older we get. But many people go gray much earlier than some.
Note: According to EarthClinic, more than 40% of Americans have some gray hair by
age 40.
The causes of graying hair are debated even in today’s modern world. Some attributed
causes are said to be:
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Old age
Heredity
Decrease in the nutrient copper
B12 deficiency
Thyroid imbalance
Reduced blood quality
Kidney weakening
Hormone imbalance
Perhaps graying hair comes about as a combination of one or more of the attributes
above.
My Clients May Be an Indicator
I will tell you a gray hair anecdote from what I’ve witnessed with my diet and exercise
clients. That is, if some of my clients begin to get sloppy in taking care of themselves and
they begin eating more starchy carbs and sugars and exercising less frequently (or not at
all), and they begin gaining weight, one of the things I have noticed more than not is an
added amount of gray hair.
This added salt-and-pepper look in their hair is one common element. It always surprises
me that as they lose their grasp on their health, weight, and exercise, their hair color
seems to correlate with more added gray hair as they lose control.
A Possible Gray Reversal
Fresh wheatgrass might very well reverse your graying hair.
A primary nutrient in wheatgrass is Chlorophyll, from the Chlorella family. It’s what
gives grass its green color. It’s what gives wheatgrass its green color. But it won’t make
your hair turn green!
Algae aren’t just for the sea – they’re good for your body. Chlorella is an algae. Chlorella
contains pigments, or coloring, and that coloring is green. Green in this form is good.
Chlorella is the richest known source of chlorophyll on earth and is chocked full of
healthy stuff. In addition to putting good things into your body, and adding energy
enzymes to jump-start your body’s engine if you need a boost, its detoxing properties
takes out a lot of bad stuff.
Chlorella is known as a whole food supplement. It contains more than twenty different
vitamins and minerals and is a rich source of amino acids, and iron, in addition to
chlorophyll.
Jump into a Jamba Juice
If you’ve been to the juicing store called Jamba Juice, you may have seen wheatgrass on
the menu. You can order a shot of wheatgrass, juiced directly from chlorophyll-laden
wheatgrass. And yes, wheatgrass does look like grass!
I always get a double shot of it. Nevertheless, if you haven’t had wheatgrass shots, you
should begin with just a single shot. Your stomach may need some time to adapt to the
powerful inflow of nutrients.
Juicing with wheatgrass is like taking chlorella on steroids.
The taste is a strong, green taste (stronger than any green salad you’ve ever had in your
life) and is extremely powerful. Most people don’t like it the first time they try
wheatgrass. Actually, I’ve had it hundreds of times and I still don’t like it! But that
matters not to me. The incredibly rich vitamin and nutrients in chlorella and all
chlorella’s cousin greens that comes in the wheatgrass is why I take it.
Some places, such as Whole Foods, will offer wheatgrass, but they don’t cut it fresh right
before they juice it. If this is the only option just save your money and look elsewhere for
your chlorophyll and chlorella.
Back to the Hair
Wheatgrass is known to help kidneys and blood quality. According to The Wheatgrass
Book by Ann Wigmore, wheatgrass cleanses your blood and even reverses your body’s
entire aging process by rejuvenating aging cells and tightening loose and sagging skin.
Note: Wheatgrass is a powerful anti-toxin agent for your body. The horrid heavy metal
mercury, left in your body from just about any fish you’ve eaten the past 20 years and
from amalgam dental fillings, is wheatgrass’s number one victim. Wheatgrass can
reduce the mercury levels in most people who take it.
Its wheatgrass’s ability to reverse many signs of aging and its ability to cleanse your
blood that may be the reason some people see a reversal in gray hair when they take
wheatgrass.
Interestingly, in the book Health Magic Through Chlorophyll from Living Plant Life, the
author cites cases where he was able to double the red blood cell count in a matter of
days merely by having patients soak in a chlorophyll-water bath. Our skin is a powerful
absorber of good or bad. Combined with taking wheatgrass by mouth, your entire wellbeing can be improved after a few weeks.
So if you are seeing signs of the dreaded gray, try wheatgrass. Always get it freshly
juiced if possible. (You can purchase a Champion Juicer to juice wheatgrass yourself at
home. Wheatgrass isn’t difficult to grow.) One to two ounces a day are more than enough
to begin to benefit from wheatgrass.
If you live in a small town without a fresh wheatgrass source and you don’t have room or
money for a juicer, you will benefit from a high quality wheatgrass powder such as the
organic Wheat Grass Juice powdered Green Superfood here:
http://www.amazon.com/Now-Foods-Organic-Powder-4-Ounce/dp/B0014M1WA0
The manufacturer NOW uses a cold temperature drying process to ensure that no
vitamins or nutrients are destroyed going from the fresh wheat grass to the powered form
here. I use 1-3 tablespoons of this wheat grass juice powder daily.
How to Get Rid of Allergies in 90 Seconds with Water
By Jennifer Jolan and Rich Bryda
The neti pot (rhymes with Betty pot) is a small pot, often made of ceramic, in which you
put a saline (salty) solution and use it to irrigate your nose’s nasal passageways. The
process of using a neti pot is also called nasal irrigation or nasal flushing.
The neti pot is an effective way to detox your nose.
Your nose plays an active role in your body’s normal detoxification process. Mucus is
formed and excreted through your nose. (Mucus is also excreted through your mouth
when it builds up to excess levels such as when you are sick, have sinus infections, or
when there is such a temporary build-up of mucus that your nose cannot handle it alone.)
Normally, your nose drains mucus normally and without fuss. You don’t notice much of
its activity. Just by breathing, some of the mucus dries and evaporates. Like sweat that
leaves your pores and evaporates, detoxing your body through your skin, normal
breathing will expel small amounts of mucus and drainage that evaporates out of your
system. Sometimes you’ll need a tissue to blow your nose, even when feeling fine. By
blowing you are helping to expel the mucus and other waste from your body.
Nasal irrigation is said to promote good sinus and nasal health. This includes people with
chronic sinusitis that can include symptoms of facial pain, headache, halitosis, cough,
anterior rhinorrhea (watery discharge), and nasal congestion. These patients often find
nasal irrigation using a neti pot to provide effective relief. In published studies, “daily
hypertonic saline nasal irrigation [fancy talk for using a neti pot] improves sinus-related
quality of life, decreases symptoms, and decreases medication use in patients with
frequent sinusitis.”
As long as you follow your neti pot’s instructions, it has no major side effects to speak
of. When you feel yourself getting sick, it’s time to ramp up your use of the neti pot. But
even when you feel fine, a neti pot helps unclog and eliminate mucus and drainage,
thoroughly cleaning out your sinuses. By using a neti pot from time to time, or even on a
regular basis when feeling good, you help reduce potential infections that can build up in
your nasal cavity and you promote a cleaner air system in your body. The neti pot is also
beneficial for those who suffer from allergies.
Introducing The Neti Pot
Here is a picture of a traditional neti pot:
You can find these on Amazon for a great price here:
http://www.amazon.com/Aromatic-Salt-Premium-CeramicGreen/dp/B0013GY8D0/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1347212536&sr=89&keywords=neti+pot.
United Kingdom readers can find a similar one here:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nettie-Elephant-Comfortable-DesignEffective/dp/B001RNGAT4/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1347214501&sr=8-10).
To use it, you fill the big mouth with a salty saline solution that acts as a nasal cleanser.
You use the spout– as difficult as this may sound at first! – to pour the neti pot’s solution
through one of your nostrils. The solution will enter and wash your nasal cavity and expel
through your other nostril.
I’ll describe the use of your neti pot in far more detail a little later.
Note: To those who have never used a neti pot, and especially for those who have never
seen someone use one, images of waterboarding torture probably come to mind!
Almost all of us who used a neti pot for the first time were amazed at how pouring a
salty water solution through our primary breathing cavity is almost a non-event, hardly
more of a feeling than washing our hands. In fact, irrigating your ear is far more
difficult and causes greater after-effects given how difficult irrigation fluid is to get out
of the ear canal. During your neti pot’s use you’ll not feel a burning or a drowning
sensation. Afterward, you may need to blow your nose two or three times over the next
few minutes to get all the excess moisture out but it’s hardly any more than most people
do each time they take a normal shower.
The Neti Pot’s Cousins
As with anything, several kinds of neti pots are sold. Some people do not like to have
ceramic items in their bathroom due to the possibility of dropping it during the irrigation
process onto the bathroom tile or into the sink. The water and you having to lean over
your sink in a slightly awkward manner increases this possibility. Breakage of any glasslike item in a bathroom is a serious problem; if this occurs you must be diligent in getting
every sliver and fragment.
Therefore, neti pots are available in plastic. Travel neti pots are also offered that come
with their own carry bag for the neti pot and rinse solution.
Ceramic neti pots are far more durable that plastic ones if you’re careful and can keep
from breaking your ceramic pot. In addition, you can thoroughly clean and sanitize a
ceramic neti pot (most are dishwasher safe) whereas a plastic neti pot isn’t as durable,
especially under sanitizing hot water or your dishwasher. After each use you need to
clean your neti pot thoroughly so as not to re-infect yourself or others so ceramic is easier
to clean and sanitize.
SinuCleanse makes a popular rinse. Here is the packaging showing that a plastic neti pot
comes with it:
The US Amazon link to the SinuCleanse solution is here:
http://www.amazon.com/SinuCleanse-Nasal-System-PlasticPackets/dp/B000TFR6MG/ref=tag_dpp_lp_edpp_ttl_in
The UK link is here:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sinucleanse-Neti-Pot-System-packetsBreathe/dp/B000TFR6MG/ref=sr_1_1?s=drugstore&ie=UTF8&qid=1347215993&sr=11
Note: As mentioned before, plastic neti pots will not last as long as ceramic neti pots if
you can keep from breaking your ceramic pot. Having said that, the plastic neti pots are
so inexpensive and are basically free with the saline solution that many people just
restock on nasal solution that comes with a plastic neti pot and discard their old neti
pot.
If you’re concerned about BPA (Bisphenol A) dangers in plastics, you may want to stick
with a ceramic neti pot only. Although you don’t use hot water for the rinse which would
otherwise raise the likelihood of BPA contaminating the solution and entering your body,
you will likely use hot water when sanitizing a plastic neti pot. That can leech some BPA
out of the plastic and onto the surface which might creep into the next rinse you do.
Fortunately, BPA-free neti pots are becoming more common. WaterPik and others make
a BPA-free plastic neti pot.
Here is the US Amazon link to the WaterPik neti pot and it comes with several rinse
packets:
http://www.amazon.com/Waterpik-SWN-260-Sinusense-Eucalyptus/dp/B003QY8BIK
Surprisingly, a search of Amazon.co.uk showed no BPA-free plastic neti pots.
Note: Traditionally, BPA-free plastics are less durable than BPA-laced plastics. This
further reduces your ability to use hot water or your dishwasher to sanitize a plastic neti
pot. For this reason, if you have BPA concerns you’re probably better off sticking to a
ceramic pot.
Instead of a traditionally-shaped neti pot you can use an alternative that accomplishes the
same thing. Nasaline offers a syringe device that enables you to control the flow of the
rinse more easily than pouring a neti pot through a nostril allows. As inert as the
sensation of using a neti pot is, some question whether you need to control the flow rate
but others really like having the syringe and find it a little less messy.
Here is a photo of this Nasaline alternative and the solution that comes with it:
You can get the Nasaline at Amazon here:
http://www.amazon.com/Nasaline-Adult-Nasal-Rinser-Ki-boxes/dp/B0001C0FLG
UK Amazon buyers can get the Nasaline here:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/NASALINE-SOOTHING-SALINE-IRRIGATIONSYSTEM/dp/B0027MF8J2/ref=sr_1_1?s=drugstore&ie=UTF8&qid=1347223762&sr=11
One other alternative that is extremely popular is the NeilMed that comes with a plastic
dispenser you squeeze. Some find it just as effective as the more traditionally-shaped neti
pot only they don’t have to lean their head as extremely to one side or the other to flush
their systems. The NeilMed comes with a lot of saline packets (the typical package
includes 50, more than enough to last as long as the squeeze bottle will last you).
Here is the packaging for the NeilMed to give you an idea of what it is like:
The NeilMed is available at Amazon.com here:
http://www.amazon.com/NeilMed-Sinus-Rinse-PremixedSachets/dp/B000A0S5KC/ref=sr_1_4?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1347224141&sr=14&keywords=neilmed
At Amazon.co.uk you can get the NeilMed here:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/NeilMed-SinusRinse-Saline-NasalRinse/dp/B000A0S5KC/ref=sr_1_4?s=drugstore&ie=UTF8&qid=1347223762&sr=1-4
Note: All of the neti pots and alternatives shown in this book each cost less than $20
and most are closer to $10 than $20.
The Nasal Rinse Solution
While you can make your own nasal rinse solution, you can get the solution already
mixed up and most people do this. As you saw in the previous section, almost all neti
pots and alternatives come with solution packets you can mix with water. Most of the
suppliers also sell the solutions without accompanying neti pots for refilling your supply.
While some solutions are sold in liquid form, it takes a cup or so to fill a traditional neti
pot. That is why the packets that you add water to are so much more available and offer
cost savings.
Note: The less you use municipal water for nasal flushing (or drinking or bathing...) the
better you will be. Municipal water supplies often have chlorine and fluoride that are
harmful agents to your body. Your body has to spend some healing resources to handle
those toxins which takes those resources away from your nasal problems and thus
requires longer to rid yourself of the nasal toxins and to help oncoming sinus problems
such as sinusitis. Use distilled water, well water, or mineral water in your neti pot every
time you’re able to.
Safety Issues
The use of the neti pot is generally considered safe and is encouraged.
When a neti pot is unsafe actually has nothing to do with the process or solution but with
external factors such as using an unclean neti pot. In addition, the FDA warns that using
tap water can put bacteria and protozoa organisms into your system that were not in your
system before which can cause your body new problems.
Note: The FDA is therefore warning you not to use the very municipal water that the
FDA and other government regulators tell you is safe to drink. Are you sure you don’t
want to get a good water filter yet, for all your drinking and cooking and neti pot
needs?
So to make sure you keep your neti pot usage as safe as possible, always use filtered or
non-municipal water and clean your neti pot thoroughly after each use. If your neti pot is
plastic and cannot go in your dishwaher, use soap and warm water to clean it before
putting it away so it’s ready for the next use.
How Often to Use Your Neti Pot
Some people routinely use a neti pot daily. They might be more prone to sinus infections
than others, they work with sick people as in a hospital, or they simply are warding off as
many potential problems as they can. Daily use certainly is fine and should pose no harm
to your sinuses but daily is probably costing you a little more in solution and time than it
returns in health benefits. Still, if you want to daily flush, you certainly don’t seem to be
hurting yourself and you happen to rid yourself of a germ that might have otherwise
turned into an infection.
For normal maintenance, using a neti pot every ten days to two weeks should help you
keep your passages flushed and as healthy as you can.
When you get sick with any kind of respiratory problems you certainly should use your
neti pot daily and then it’s best to do so twice daily, morning and evening. You will help
your body flush the infectious germs and you help your nasal passages eliminate waste
that is so important during those times.
Allergy sufferers should flush with a neti pot fairly often during the times of the year
when they have flare-ups. Again, twice daily is fine and even more if you feel it
necessary. Clogged noses can sometimes be opened, at least temporarily, by the use of a
neti pot.
Won’t Wont the Saline Solution Burn Sensitive, Sick Noses?
Although I’ve discussed this before, for newcomers it’s worth repeating. Be assured that
the salty solution does not burn your sensitive nasal passageways, even after you’ve been
sick for a while and your sinus passages are extremely sensitive and dry and possibly
bleeding when you blow your nose.
Think about how sensitive your eyes are. Yet, tens of thousands of people daily use
saline-based eye drops to rinse out pollen. That saline is a conduit to let water pass
through delicate nasal membranes with little or no burning or irritation, collecting
infecting mucus along the way.
The Details of Using a Neti Pot
Using the neti pot is extremely simple. (As well as strange-sounding for those unfamiliar
with it.) Even your children should be able to use a neti pot on their own once you’ve
taught them and monitored them through a few initial trial runs.
Note: The FDA warns that you read all the instructions with any neti pot and solution
you use. That is good advice. If the instructions, for example, tell you to turn your head
or keep your mouth open, be sure to do so. Improper use can cause you to swallow
some of the saline solution which maybe will not burn you but does taste horrid.
Through proper use, you rarely taste the solution even though a few drops will naturally
drip into your mouth as you use it.
Again, you’ll want to read your neti pot’s instructions but the basic use goes like this:
1. Fill the neti pot with lukewarm water.
2. Add the wash solution to the pot and stir.
3. Hold your head over your sink sideways so you are looking at the side of your sink.
4. Grab the neti pot.
5. Place your neti pot’s spout in your nostril that is closest to the ceiling.
6. Pour the solution into your nostril with your mouth open.
7. The solution will come out your bottom nostril after traveling through your nasal
passageway.
When you’ve used about half the neti pot’s solution, you can stop and turn your head to
face the other side of your sink, and continue with your other nostril.
Be certain to use body-temperature, lukewarm water. As long as you keep the
temperature lukewarm or perhaps only slightly warmer than body temperature, you’ll not
even notice the neti pot’s salt water cleanse. If it’s too hot it will be a hot liquid going
through your nasal cavity which is quite uncomfortable. And some say that if it’s too cold
you almost get the sensation of drowning. That certainly sounds horrible but your use of
the neti pot with lukewarm water truly makes it hardly noticeable.
Before you do this the first time, you will no doubt be hesitant! But as we’ve said several
times now, the sensation is more like nothing than something. Let’s face it; if you’ve
seen someone use a neti pot but haven’t yet used one yourself, you no doubt have a lot of
natural hesitation to run salt water through your nasal cavity, the central point where you
get your life-sustaining air that you breathe! But at a lukewarm temperature you’ll see
there is hardly any sensation whatsoever. It is a non-event in spite of how it may look or
sound and in spite of any apprehension you may have at first.
So drop your apprehensions and trust that the neti pot wouldn’t be as popular as it is if it
burned or if it was an unpleasant experience. You just need to get through your
apprehension the first time. Plod through because it’ll be over before you know it and
you’ll see that the experience is far less impactful to your body than it might sound.
The Ultimate 3-Second Fountain of Youth “Neural” Fat Loss
Exercise
By Jennifer Jolan and Rich Bryda
We’re just now studying the effects of this new exercise craze for an old stand-by
exercise, but we wanted to tell you about it because you may find it not only great for fat
loss, but also exhilarating and great for your long term health!
The exercise is called Standing Vertical Jumps, SVJ’s. Boring you may think, but I hope I
can convince you just how revolutionary this simple exercise can be for transforming the
body and improving your health. It’s an easy exercise.
Easier almost always means better compliance. Better compliance to a routine means a
better waistline and well-being for you!
How to Perform the SVJs
These are simple but can help sculpt a tremendous abdominal core due to the neural
demands it causes and due to the insulin sensitivity it elicits when done explosively.
To do a Standing Vertical Jump plant your feet about shoulder width apart. The width of
your feet is a fairly individual thing, but about shoulder width apart is where you want to
be.
Note: Many exercise-related injuries occur not because of heavy weights or difficult
routines but because we get sloppy. Watch a professional power lifter. He or she will
always approach the weight exactly the same way each time. A professional golfer will
always address the ball the same way each time. A professional tennis player will begin
and follow through on the serve exactly the same way. One professional may do
something completely differently from another in the same sport, but each one will
repeat his or her own approach and follow-through exactly the same way. This not only
enables you to better yourself without any variables changing, but it also helps reduce
injuries. Being sloppy and not planting a foot properly, for example, can take a tennis
player out of the game for months. Develop habits and routines. For the SVJs, your
routine is to begin with your feet planted exactly the same way each time.
Once your feet are planted in a comfortable position, simply dip down as fast as possible
(explosively) and explosively swing your arms up and jump up as high as you can. The
key is to explosively jump because it’s that explosive aspect that gives you the greatest
amount of neural activity and insulin sensitivity. Don’t worry about how high you can
jump compared to other people. Just worry about trying to jump as high as you can.
If your ceiling is not high enough, you may have to go outside. Hopefully you can find a
room with a high enough ceiling (or you’re relatively short like I am) where you can do
these anywhere in your home.
The reason doing SVJs inside is important is that we want you to jump a total of 10 times
a day... and you must spread these out by a minimum of at least 3 minutes between each
jump. Unless you’re outside a lot, it’s not really practical to do these outside while
waiting to do a jump every three minutes. But, if you exercise at a gym, you can sprinkle
in these jumps between sets. After every three or so sets, do a jump. If you’re at home
and want to do these jumps all at one time, just be sure to have at least three minutes
between each jump.
Why SVJ’s Work
Jumping is intense on your Central Nervous System. In fact, jumping has been shown to
cause the most CNS activation of any exercise. This neural intensity can be both good
and bad for you.
We want it to be good for you and your body. It’s bad if you do too many jumps in too
little of a timeframe. You will end up burning out your Central Nervous System. It’s
good if you space out each of your 10 daily jumps by at least 3 minutes (if you watch TV,
do 1 jump during each commercial break). By not doing too many jumps in too little
time, you cause massive amounts of good neural activation that causes a hormonal
cascade that not only makes you feel good and energized, but again, it improves insulin
sensitivity.
The more insulin sensitive you are, the easier it is for you to lose weight (especially
around your waist).
Note: Two of my books, Stupid Hormones and Brain Controlled Weight Loss go into
more depth about insulin sensitivity and other strategies that make you more insulin
sensitive to help improve your health and lose weight.
Now, about the neural activation that these jumps do to your body... There’s a strong
connection between these jumps ramping up your Central Nervous System and
increasing your Metabolic Rate (speeding up your metabolism).
By speeding up your metabolism (through these daily jumps), you will lose more fat due
to a higher level of fat burning activity throughout the day. Over time, this amped up
neural activity, increased metabolism, and increased insulin sensitivity will cause you to
get leaner.
I’ll put it a different way. Your Central Nervous System, CNS, controls all your body’s
physical activities. Your CNS is composed of a complex system of nerve tissues. These
all reside from inside your brain down through your spinal cord. This is how your brain
tells your body what to do next. The more in sync your brain and body are, due to a
healthy CNS, the smoother and easier your body works as a unit.
From testing these jumps out and noting the results on ourselves and others, we believe
these SVJ’s done as outlined above could in fact be a revolutionary “fountain of youth”
exercise. The reasoning for this is due to the fact that there really isn’t an exercise you
can do that has this much of an impact on your CNS... and your CNS is key to how your
body functions.
If done correctly (as outlined above, 10 jumps spread out by at least three minutes or
more between each jump) you will feel energized the whole day.
Note: It may take your body two days to adjust to these jumps to start realizing this
daily, self-generated internal energy.
Every muscle fiber you have in your body will have an increased and more efficient
response to each neural signal sent to it. Instead of trying to fit a circle into a square,
you’re fitting a circle into a circle. What I’m saying is that your body is more efficient
and effective at communicating with itself. This efficient inter-body communication can
only improve your health. The by-product of this is looking and feeling younger. Much
like what the spinning in a circle does for your Endocrine System, jumps do for your
Central Nervous System.
Note: We truly hope you do both these jumps and the spinning in a circle you read
about earlier every single day. They are a powerful 1-2 punch of simple exercises you
can do at home. We try to explain these complex things in as simple of a manner as
possible, but sometimes we don’t explain them well enough to convince you of how
great they are. If you remain unconvinced, the only thing we can fall back on in our
defense is to tell you to try these out as we outline them for a few weeks. By actually
doing them, you will get your answer as to whether what we say is true or not.
People don’t realize how powerful and important jumps can be for improving their body
and health because they never paid attention to how important certain parameters are
when it comes to jumping. If you don’t follow the proper parameters, you don’t and
won’t get the results that we claim you will get. Jumps may be simple, but don’t allow
that fact cause you to discount them. I’m telling you right now. Jumps have been
discounted for decades because people overdid them due to thinking they’re not a
powerful tool that can (and will) change your body and health.
Engage and activate your CNS with these ten daily SVJ’s and you can’t help but improve
how your body looks; as well as your health. Don’t believe us? Okay, prove us wrong.
Each jump only takes three seconds to do. Ten jumps will take you all of 30 seconds to
do each day. The only thing you have to remember is to do them. For this, I suggest you
get a piece of paper or an index card and write the numbers 1 through 10 on it. After each
jump, cross out a number. By the end of the day make sure all 10 numbers are crossed
out. Put the piece of paper somewhere where you will see it frequently.
We are making some big claims here when we say this is a “fountain of youth” exercise
that can rapidly speed up your metabolism, increase insulin sensitivity, and cause a whole
lot of neural activity that will have a positive cascading effect on your hormones. All we
ask is for you to suspend judgment on the claims and just try this exercise out every day
for at least two weeks to see what it does for you. We thing you’ll be quite happy with the
results.
Note: If for some reason you can’t jump or it hurts you to jump, please don’t do this
exercise. Unfortunately, it’s not an exercise everyone can or should do.
The 15-Second “T-Tap” for Overcoming Hypothyroidism &
Sluggish Energy
By Jennifer Jolan and Rich Bryda
A simple trick that takes only a few seconds to do can improve your energy and even
help you with a hypothyroid problem.
A little background will help.
Hypothyroidism
Fatigue-related thyroid problems are grouped together into a category known as
hypothyroidism. Hypothyroidism is the result of an under-active thyroid that produces too
few thyroid hormones. Hypothyroidism, therefore, is a deficiency in thyroid hormones.
You can exercise all day but you just won’t lose weight or keep it off if you have a
hypothyroid problem. Your body won’t allow proper weight loss because your body
cannot properly regulate itself.
There is just not enough thyroid activity to metabolize the fat.
Women are especially prone to hypothyroidism and get hypothyroidism almost ten-toone over men. The most common age range is in the 40’s where hypothyroidism seems to
flare up the most.
As you age, you naturally move less. You can stay active if you consciously exercise and
eat right, but life often makes that a challenge about the age of 40 and hypothyroidism
problems begin to rear their ugly head.
By moving less because you feel so tired, you don’t get the daily benefit of normal
caloric burning through movement as much as you would if you were more active.
Hyperthyroidism
Your thyroid doesn’t just cause problems by being sluggish.
The opposite of hypothyroidism is hyperthyroidism. That is when your thyroid goes into
hyper-activity. At first you might think hyperthyroidism is beneficial because if
hypothyroidism makes you gain weight, then shouldn’t we all strive for hyperthyroidism?
No, not at all.
We should all strive for a balanced thyroid. We want our thyroid hormone group to be at
its optimum level the way they were designed to be.
The autoimmune disease known as Graves Disease is a type of hyperthyroidism.
Fortunately, only a small number of people are susceptible to hyperthyroidism, around
2% for women and only about 0.2% of men. Excess sweating, hypersensitivity to heat,
severe weight loss, and diarrhea can be present in hyperthyroidism’s symptoms. You
might note these are almost the mirror-image of hypothyroidism’s symptoms of being
cold all the time, weight gain, and constipation.
You want neither hyperthyroidism not hypothyroidism. Since hypothyroidism is the more
common of the two problems by far, the next trick is a way to help side-step possible
hypothyroid problems, or at least reduce its effects.
Just Give Your Thyroid 15 Seconds of Attention
Although hypothyroidism is often discussed when targeting weight loss, I want to target
hypothyroidism to help your overall energy levels. More energy is almost always
welcome, especially as we age.
So this tip isn’t just a dietary tip, it’s an overall well-being tip for helping your thyroid
that may cause you to feel sluggish and run down.
Doing this routine takes only 15 seconds or so at a time. No excuses!
The Routine
Your thyroid gland is located on the lower-front part of your neck. This is where the
“hole” is in your next.
All you need to do is tap your thyroid. I call this the T-Tap.
This physical tapping of your thyroid gland stimulates an under-active thyroid to become
more normalized. Take one or two of your fingers and tap your thyroid with your
fingertips for 15 seconds at a time. Repeat this throughout the day as you think of it.
I recommend you do the T-Tap for a total of about three minutes, in 15-second intervals,
each and every day.
You will need to do these neck taps daily and for at least a few weeks. They’re easy and
quick so I recommend that you do them every day for the rest of your life. You can do it
whenever and wherever, even when you’re watching TV, so make an effort to do them so
your thyroid can get back to a normal functioning level.
The T-Tap may not solve your Hypothyroidism all by itself, but at the very least it most
definitely will help.
How to Make Healthy Ice Cream in 2 Minutes and Other
Sweet Surprises!
By Jennifer Jolan
I will be the first to tell you to avoid sugars like the plague!
I will also say I’m the first to crave sugars from time to time. I found that the better I eat,
meaning the further I stray from the government’s suggested Food Pyramid, the less I
crave dangerous sugary desserts. But from time to time, everyone needs something
sweet.
The Only Sweetener I Use
There is absolutely no sweetener I use or suggest using except Stevia. Stevia is extracted
from a South American herb. In other words, there are no chemicals and no toxins in
quality Stevia packets or liquid drops. When you add Stevia to a drink or food you add a
completely natural and original extract that has not been shown to adversely affect your
health the way the other sweeteners do. (And Stevia has no extremely dangerous toxins
the way aspartame is said to have.)
Stevia is also fantastic for those of us who want to stay slim because Stevia:
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Has zero calories
Has zero glycemic impact
Has zero carbohydrates
This means that Stevia has no carbohydrate impact on your thighs, hips, or belly.
Note: I do keep Xylitol-based chewing gum around the house for my family. Xylitol is
effective for removing bacteria from our teeth and is shown to help prevent plaque. Of
course we never use fluoride-based toothpaste because I don’t want my family putting a
major rat poison ingredient into their mouths two or three times daily. (Yes, it’s gross. I
don’t say it to shock you, only to be truthful.) If you avoid sweets and starchy carbs you
should not have many tooth cavity problems in life, but the Xylitol gum is just a
preventative that tastes good and also offers no glycemic impact on our thighs.
So, why spend all that time on Stevia when I promised you a healthy ice cream treat?
This is the best place in this set of 10 reports to mention Stevia and I recommend Stevia
to all my readers, students, and clients. You can cook with Stevia, add it to unsweetened
recipes that otherwise require sugar, and Stevia is great in drinks from coffee and tea and
even in healthy, whole, raw milk if you want to add a shake-like taste to your milk once
in a while.
Note: Add some cinnamon to any drink or Stevia-based dessert – or to just about
anything you eat – and the cinnamon not only improves the taste of just about anything
it will help reduce the impact of any carbohydrates that happen to be in your food or
drink. Yes, even if you order one of the massive ice cream sundaes at Ghirardelli’s
Chocolate in San Francisco, if you happen to take along a bottle of cinnamon, that rare
treat will not affect your body as much as it otherwise would do. Cinnamon helps
regulate your body’s insulin sensitivity levels so you don’t react as badly to sugar and
other starchy carbs. By the way, use lemon juice on foods that cinnamon doesn’t work
as well on, such as hamburgers with buns. Lemon juice also helps regulate your insulin
and causes the carbs to impact you less.
So throughout the rest of this healthy ice cream chapter, keep Stevia in mind. If the ice
cream or anything else you ever eat needs a little sweet stuff, Stevia is the way to go. You
can order Stevia in handy take-along packets here: http://www.amazon.com/SteviaSweetener-Raw-1000Box/dp/B006XEGXCG/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1363193125&sr=84&keywords=stevia+packets or get a little bottle of it and sprinkle it on to whatever it is
you’re eating. You can get the little bottle here: http://www.amazon.com/Aztec-SecretIndian-HealingCleansing/dp/B0014P8L9W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1363215052&sr=81&keywords=aztec+secret+indian+healing+clay
And Now: Healthy Ice Cream!
If you tell me you love fruit and just can’t stop eating it in spite of the tremendous
fructose/glycemic impact most fruits have on your thighs, I’ll tell you great! Be sure you
eat lots of berry varieties for many of your fruits. Your fruit cravings will decrease and
the glycemic/fat impact on your body will be minimal. And the nutrients in berries are
certainly wonderful to put into your body.
Sprinkle some Stevia and cinnamon on top, perhaps eating them in a small bowl of raw,
whole milk, and you have a dessert that only kings dream of!
But if you tell me you want fruit juice, you won’t find me a fan of your cravings. Fruit
juice is about as bad a soda pop. And although I despise the aspartame they put in diet
sodas, I’d rather see you drink a diet soda than fruit juice.
Fruit was made to be eaten only a few months of the year. It’s unnatural to have fruit 365
days a year, but modern times allow us to do that. Our waistlines have suffered because
of it. Many of us eat lots of fruit and especially consume fruit juice to be healthy and our
bodies just expand and expand.
The two fruits that are the worst are: Oranges and bananas.
If you can stay away from those two, go ahead and have as much fruit as you insist. Just
heed my strong suggestion to stick with berries as much as possible.
Now, what if you just have to have sweet, creamy, cold, sugary ice cream?
And I don’t mean the stuff like FroYo at the waistline-inducing “yogurt” places. And I
don’t mean the boring stuff like Sherbert. I’m talking you’ve gotta-have you some of that
silky ice cream that just melts in your mouth.
In that case, I say, have a banana! Only do it this way:
Buy some bananas. Unlike the way many of us do when we decide to have a banana,
don’t eat the banana until it gets very ripe and soft. Although some people do prefer overripe bananas, most don’t and I hate the taste of them. Except...
Now once they are overripe and slightly turning brown, peel them, cut them into little
pieces, and stick the peeled and cut bananas in freezer baggies. Stick them in your freezer
and forget about them.
When that once-in-a-blue-moon ice cream craving hits, and you will not believe what I’m
about to say until you actually do it, pull your bag of frozen bananas out of the freezer
and drop a couple in a blender. Blend on a fairly low setting until they become sludgy.
Note: If you happen to have a Champion Juicer, the texture of the bananas will be far
smoother and more like ice cream than just a blender.
Put the banana mush in a bowl, grab a spoon, and ask someone in your family to try the
new “banana ice cream” you just bought. They’ll try it and unless they just don’t like
bananas, they will say, “That’s really good!” Now, tell them you made it yourself!
Now, ask them what they think you made it with. They will say things like:
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Bananas of course
Sugar
Cream
Whey
Milk
And not one of those is correct except for the bananas!
You must trust me, this is truly sweet, delicious banana ice cream that literally is nothing
more than frozen, over-ripe bananas smushed up into a rich, gooey ice cream texture. I’m
not sure why it works but this is delicious “ice cream” with any ice and without any
cream.
Making It Even Better
Sprinkle cinnamon on top of course to slow down the banana carbs. If you like cinnamon
anyway, you should use it because it not only makes the banana ice cream taste better,
but it reduces the negative impact of the bananas.
Find some high-percentage dark chocolate bars or cacao powder. These will have very
few sugar carbs. One, an amazing 99% percent dark chocolate bar, has only one sugar
carb in the entire bar! A sugar-free, zero carb dieter could get by with eating one of these
every day. But the drawback is that it doesn’t taste very good on its own. The reason
there is no negative sugar carb impact is that there isn’t any sugar.
But sprinkle some of that on top of your banana and cinnamon ice cream and mix it all
in. The natural sugar in the banana will sweeten the chocolate and you’ll think you’re
eating store-bought, unhealthy, zero-nutrient banana-flavored ice cream when the exact
opposite is the truth!
Note: Dark chocolate is healthy for you. WebMD states that dark chocolate is known to
lower blood pressure as well as provide antioxidants. This is untrue for white or milk
chocolate. The higher the percentage of chocolate in the bar, the better its health effects
become. Of course, you don’t want to binge on dark chocolate, but again, the higher the
percentage of actual chocolate, the safer it is for you to nibble away on!
You can get good-tasting bar here with 85% cocoa from Lindt:
http://www.amazon.com/Lindt-Excellence-Chocolate-3-5-OuncePackages/dp/B000HQNBSU/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1363195821&sr=88&keywords=dark+chocolate+bar
If you want to go all the way to 99% chocolate in the bar, for one that is the highest in
health benefits, here is a wonderful one, also by Lindt: http://www.amazon.com/LindtExcellence-99%25-CocoaBar/dp/B002ULCBUY/ref=sr_1_6?s=grocery&ie=UTF8&qid=1363195877&sr=16&keywords=dark+chocolate+bar+99%25
Two More Unusual Toppings to Try
To spice your ice cream further, how about adding some quality whey protein powder
into the mix when you blend it all up? The straight carbs that the banana put into you will
give you a sugar high and you’ll come back down fast. Depending on how much you eat
sugar, this can have quite a surprising and not-so-good after-effect.
Note: If nothing else, you are often hungry after eating sugary things, like bananas, due
to the after-effects of sugar.
Adding a scoop of protein powder adds long-term energy to the bananas. The sugar carbs
in the bananas will give you an energy boost but the protein will continue to give you a
slower, long-term energy boost. Your metabolism will not go high and then fall because
the protein will slow-release energy as time goes by.
Do you like peanut butter ice cream and shakes? I sure do.
I found something even better though!
On my family’s banana ice cream, I often will add almond butter. Many stores such as
Whole Foods will let you make almond butter from organic almonds. Unlike just about
any almond or peanut butter you buy in a jar, this will have no sugar. You only get pure,
healthy almonds with all the good fat and nutrients that come naturally in almonds. Put
this over your ice cream or blend it in, and not only will you get a fantastic banana/nut
ice cream treat but the fat in the almond butter will slow down the carbs not unlike
cinnamon does.
I usually add a half to one cup of unsweetened almond milk into the blender to help with
the consistency of the “ice cream.” You can also use coconut or rice milk instead. Just
don’t use soy milk due to the negative effect it has on your hormones. Also, don’t use
regular milk (even healthy organic or raw milk) due to the excess calories. We don’t want
to go overboard.
There you go. Yummy!
Conclusion
There you have it. We hope you discovered a lot of useful and practical information in
these 10 short reports that you can incorporate into your life in order to lose weight and
improve your health.
Most of this information is probably new to you. If that’s the case, we suggest you not try
everything out all at once. That may very well overwhelm you and cause you to stop
implementing the tips due to the sense of being overwhelmed. There’s no need to rush
into it. Pick a few tips and start from there.
Once you start using these tips and seeing the great results, we suspect you’ll be quite
happy and want even more information from us. Below, we included links to our
Amazon profiles which list all of our books for you to go check out. We also linked to
some of our most popular books. Good luck to you!
Sincerely,
Jennifer Jolan and Rich Bryda
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