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Health Habits: The Douglas Robb Interview

October 28, 2008 · 1 Comment

Douglas Robb runs a very successful blog called Health Habits, giving advice on health, diet and fitness. As well as being very informative, his writing style is relaxed and humorous which is why it is one of my favourite blogs and is on my Blogroll.

Health Habits is well subscribed to with many people contributing with comments and despite being less than a year old it has achieved a Google Page Rank of “5″, which I find incredible in that time frame. So I asked Douglas if he would consent to doing an interview for me, which he kindly consented to do.  So without any further ado, here is the interview:

 

CW: Douglas, can you tell me a bit about your background and experience in the health and fitness field? 

DR: Professionally, I have been a personal fitness trainer since 2000.

However, I have been designing training and nutrition programs for family, friends and friends of friends since 1988.

While at university, I designed training programs for the members of the wrestling, swimming, football and basketball teams.

After university, I continued helping others strictly as a hobby. During that time, I helped young athletes trying to earn university sports scholarships, amateur bodybuilders get ready for competitions and lots and lots of people trying to drop 20 pounds of excess weight.

As we approached the year 2000, I became more and more dissatisfied with the work I was doing and found myself spending more and more of my spare time helping others transform their bodies.  I was also spending more time researching more effective ways to help people make those changes.

After a few months of soul searching, I retired from the 9 to 5 world, became a certified personal trainer and went to work in a gym.

Over the next few years, I moved from gym to gym, trying to find a place where personal trainers were encouraged to actually make a difference in their clients’ lives.  This was not an easy task.

As an example, in my last position, clients were paying $140 per session to work with me.  I was being paid $45 per session and the health club was keeping $95 per session. It was all about making money.  In fact, personal training is by far the biggest money maker for health club industry.

The final straw came when the original gym owner decided to sell the business and bounce my last 2 pay checks.  And the new owners had no intention to honour this debt.  So, I left the gym to start my own personal training company…along with 9 of my favourite clients.

Fast forward to 2008…I am running a in-home personal training company with 4 of the best personal trainers that I have ever seen. My business is based purely on word of mouth and we are growing every day.

Earlier this year, I decided to give back to the universe (Sorry if that sounds a little too Oprah-like) by starting a health / fitness blog.

Health Habits

Health Habits is my attempt to teach others how to transform their bodies without spending thousands of dollars on books, videos, gym memberships and personal trainers.

Even though I still believe that a good personal trainer can be worth their weight in gold.

CW: I was interested that in your “About” page you not only deal with physical fitness and nutrition, but you also deal with mental and emotional health.  Is mental and emotional health a very big part of your service, or just occasionally when required? 

DR: The mental / emotional side of the equation is much more important than the physical / nutrition side. Everybody that comes to me “wants” to make some sort of change.  Lose 20 pounds, get stronger, get faster, increase their energy or simply to increase their fitness.  However, most of them want to do this without having to make any significant changes in their lives.

Getting them to commit to making significant life changes requires a little bit of mental manipulation.  I need to find the button that needs pushing.  But when I do, the client becomes extremely self motivated, my job becomes much easier and changes start to happen.

CW: What kind of emotional and mental health support/treatment do you provide (or recommend)? 

DR: Keeping in mind, that I am not a psychiatrist/psychologist, I employ a variety of techniques.  Most of these are based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.

CW: One of the things that I have always enjoyed about your blog is that you use a lot of humour.  Do you find that humour helps to motivate and inspire your clients? 

DR: Most definitely.

Let’s face it, most of my clients don’t exercise because they want to, but because they need to.  They are paying me to push their bodies much, much harder than they ever would.  Most of them find exercise boring.

Humour is one of the tools I use to keep their minds off of the boredom, the sweat, the pain, etc…

CW: When it comes to nutrition, do you believe in taking supplements, or do you feel that a well balanced diet will suffice? 

DR: If you are in decent physical fitness, get adequate exercise, sunlight, rest and eat a healthy diet, supplements are not necessary.

However, I don’t know anyone who does all of these things.

As a result, most people need to supplement their diet with a ‘good’ multivitamin / multimineral supplement.  Some people need to go a little further than this.  For these people, I have them get some blood tests done to look for deficiencies.

I also recommend that people try to eat more organic/free range produce and protein.

My athletes get a little more involved in the supplement side of the equation.  All of them supplement with creatine.

CW: Your blog gives a lot of advice on losing weight.  Obviously there are a number of factors involved, but what do you believe is the most important factor of all? 

DR: The type of food that they eat.

Obviously, the amount of food is important, but my experience tells me that calorie counting becomes irrelevant when the right food choices are made.

CW: When creating a nutritional plan for a client, how different would it be for somebody who is aiming to be very fit compared with somebody simply aiming to lose weight? 

DR: Not much different. I recommend the highest quality fuel for all of my clients.

On this diet, an overweight & unfit client will lose fat, build muscle and improve the functioning of their internal environment.

A fit client will not see the same drastic outward changes as they are already closer to their genetic potential.
 

CW: What different generic types of exercises do you prescribe to support weight loss as opposed to maximum fitness?  

DR: I prefer to have my clients focus on movements rather than bodyparts. This goes for my Average Joe clients and my Athlete clients.

Their are certain movements that we all perform in our day to day activities. These movements require different muscles to work together as a team. When we break our bodies into separate parts in our exercise programs, we are re-training our bodies to move. This can be good or bad.

If I am helping someone re-hab an injury or am trying to correct an existing muscle imbalance, I will use specific exercises. However, once I have those issues addressed, I prefer to improve the functioning of my clients’ bodies by improving their ability to perform the movements that they need to do every day.

CW: Many people as they get old mature, get problems with their joints.  Having Creaky Knee Syndrome myself, what do you recommend (either exercise or supplements) for people with this problem? 

DR: Look for muscular / structural imbalances in your body.  Get someone to take some polaroids of you standing still – from the front, rear and both sides (sorry, but the less clothing, the better).  Then look at how you stand. Is one shoulder higher than the other?  Are your toes turned out? What about your arms? From the side, look at your lower back and pelvis. Look at the curves in your back.

Imbalances result in pain.  Pain causes your body to adapt.  It adapts by shifting the load and creating new imbalances. It’s quite a vicious circle.
 

CW: I find when I have been off training for a long time, my knee swells up when I restart.  However, with persistence and not pushing too hard, it normally gets better after a while as the knee get used to it again.  Do you think it is a good idea to “work through” these weaknesses or is it likely to cause long term damage?   

DR: Look for the imbalance.  Why is the pain there?

A lot of runners have issues with swelling on the lateral / outside of their knees. If this is the case, you may want to look at some soft tissue therapy on your IT band. I would need to have you do a few tests to be sure, but it is a pretty typical problem.

If you can fix it, fix it. If not, you have to decide if it’s worth it to push through the pain. Are you going to make things worse?

I have bad knees. Both have been completely re-built.

I used to love to run. But, if I go running today, I can guarantee that my knees will be swollen for the next 2 days. However, I can exercise my heart by skiing, cycling, rollerblading, etc…without killing my knees.

So, as much as I love to run, I have made the decision to hang up my runners and hop on the bike.
   

CW: How would you advise people with serious illnesses like cancer or heart disease, who still want to be very active in exercising?  And do you find that they need more emotional support than most other people? 

DR: Unless your health is going to suffer from an exercise, people NEED to get out an move.  Our bodies were not built to sit and stare at a computer monitor.  We are physical.

They will need to design their fitness program in a way that helps them reduce the symptoms of their specific condition if possible.

When it comes to emotional support, my experience tells me that people struggling with an illness need to know that they can do it. I know it sounds like a Nike ad, but hopelessness in the face of illness is a very real thing. If they believe that they are doomed, they are. If they believe that they can turn things around, they just may be able to.

CW: So you think that people with serious illnesses should exercise (assuming that they are capable). What kinds of benefits do you think they will get from it?

DR: Yes…They can expect to receive physical benefits like improved cardio-vascular fitness, reduced body-fat, improved strength and co-ordination. But more importantly, they can improve their mental outlook. As their body strengthens or resists the assault of their disease, they should feel better about themselves and their chances of beating their illness.

CW: Douglas, thank you very much for taking the time to do this interview and for your insightful answers.

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Caffine: Friend Or Foe

October 23, 2008 · 2 Comments

If you like your coffee (or caffine supplements) you might like to look at a very informative article on Dr Buttar’s Blog, Caffine – Friend or Foe?.  This outlines both the negative and positive effects of caffine, from both an athele’s and an ordinaray person’s perspective.  It quotes research debunking some common myths.

I like Dr Buttar’s Blog as he is an exerienced medically trained professional, who is open to challenging mainstream ideas and applying methods that whilst still having their basis in science, are usually in the reserve of alternative therapies.  A wholesome approach.

I remember hearing years ago on a radio show that as caffine is addictive, it does not actually give us the boost that we associate with having a cup of coffee.  What is does is to relieve the withdrawal symptons from not having had a cup of coffee for while.  The arguement was that it is this relief from the withdrawal symptoms that makes us feel better, rather than the coffee waking us up and stimulating us.

Being on a radio show years ago, I can’t offer any authenticity to this claim.  I include it here simply as a point of discussion or for consideration. 

As the Dr Buttar’s Blog article gives quite the technicalities of the chemical effects of caffine in our bodies, then I suspect that the truth is maybe a bit of both.

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Supplement Or Not To Supplement, That Is The Question?

October 19, 2008 · 1 Comment

The question of whether one should take vitamin & mineral supplements is an old debate, with many arguing that we all need a bit extra in this day and age whilst others argue that a good well balanced diet is enough.

But how many of us, even if we have good intentions, actually do have a well balanced diet all the time.  How many of us will grab a quick and easy snack when we are busy, or have to attend a meeting or run round after the kids.  Most of us take short cuts with out diet because of our commitments and if we are honest, not many of stick to complete balanced diet all of the time.

There are far more toxins in our diet and environment than ever before and having a good supply of vitamins and minerals which help us to detox is probably more important now than ever before as our bodies struggle under the greater toxic load. 

Even if you do have a balanced diet, it is still likely to be mineral deficient in some areas due to the intensive farming methods used today.  Back in medieval times, they used to rotate the crops that they grew as they realised that growing the same crop in the same soil year after year would depreciate the amount of minerals in the soil.  As different crops take out different minerals, rotating crops would give the mineral content in soil chance to recover, by planting a different crop that took out something else instead.

Do we use this wisdom today?  Do we heck.  We grow the same crop in the same piece of soil, decade after decade.  We do however try to fertilise using chemical products that add toxins into our diet.  This problem is especially bad in densely populated countries like the United Kingdom where there is a lot of people to feed and not so much farmland to do it with.  So in fairness to our agriculture, we don’t really have the luxury of being able to rotate crops like our ancestors did.  The situation is exacerbated in the UK be experiences in the Second World War, when German U-Boats tried to starve us out by attacking our supply lines from the USA and the Empire.  This has left the UK with the philosophy of maximising yield from every acre of land (to reduce risk of starvation if cut off).  This is definitely quantity over quality and I doubt that the UK is alone in this.  Why?  Because it is also good business sense, to maximise your yield, and whose going to know that it is mineral deficient compared to what it should be.

The best crops are found at the foot of glaciers, where the ice melts each year bringing down floods and silt which fertilises the farmland at the foot of the mountains.  Crops grown in these areas absorb natural minerals that are deposited each year and the people there live longer healthy lives than those of us in the West.

The argument has been put forward that if people take supplements, then they probably won’t bother about a having a well balanced diet.  I don’t believe this to be the case, because people that go to bother of seeking out supplements are more health conscious than those that do not.  Vitamin and mineral supplements should not replace a balanced diet, but the key word here is “supplement”.  That means to support, not replace.

Some people may not agree with me here, but I believe that the best vitamin and mineral supplements are those supplied by Multi Level Marketing (Network Marketing) companies (no I’m not going to try to sell you some).  The reason for this is that MLM products have to survive the word or mouth referral and most people will not refer a second rate product to their family and friends and risk damaging relationships. 

The mediocre or rubbish products can be sold in the High Street stores or supermarkets, where they will be carried by the name of the store that sells them.  These supplements do not need to survive word of mouth referral.
Just my opinion.

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Blog Action Day On Poverty: Link Between Poverty And Health

October 15, 2008 · Leave a Comment

I only found out about this by chance, but today (15th October) is Blog Action Day.  The aim is to get thousands of bloggers to unite and all talk about the same subject, which this year is poverty.    The aim is “to raise awareness, initiate action and to shake the web”.  As most bloggers have different areas of interest, they should write about how poverty encroaches on those interests.

My main area of interest is health, so I would like to talk about it from 2 angles.  First of all from a First World perspective, then from a Third World Perspective.

A serious health issue in the developed First World can cause a lot of hardship.  Not only for the sick person who is unable to work, but also if they require a full time carer (who is usually a family member), then the carer cannot work either.  Having been a carer to my partner, Michele, who sadly passed away after a very long fight with cancer, I can vouch as the financial strain. 

The UK government gives a carers allowance, but it is a pittance and you have to qualify for it.  The public policy states that the government supports carers to look after loved ones at home.  Of course they do, it is a very cheap option for the government, keeps the hospital beds free and the family bare the brunt of the cost.  Add to this, Michele was following mainly alternative therapies which cost an arm and a leg and the government will not help with this either.  When you are in that position of having to reduce your income because you can’t work, yet your expenses are rising due to the costs of treatment, you are facing a nightmare situation. 

There must be hundreds of thousands or even millions of people in this trap of just having to keep spending, borrowing, spending, borrowing and being completely hamstrung as to being able to do anything about it.  Many will lose their homes.  This can be an extremely lonely place to be as few people will help you.  Some will even stop coming to visit you as they feel uncomfortable around illness.  Many people end up isolated and feeling very alone (both patient and carer).

If you want to help poverty but you don’t feel that you have any spare money to donate, then maybe you can just give some time instead.  Go and visit a sick friend.  Take them out for a few hours and give their carer a break too, as that is the person who has to carry the burden of everything in that household.

However, bad it is in developed World, it has to be even worse in the Third World, where often the medical supplies are simply just not there.  Many people die of diseases that can be easily cured in the West because they (or their government) can not afford the medicines.   

Pharmaceutical companies are not about making medicines to cure people, they are all about making medicines to make money.  They can only make money if they can patent something.  I have pointed out before that in the days of the sailing ships, it was discovered that oranges and limes (Vitamin C) could cure scurvy, one the most feared diseases of the day.  Hence the nickname of “Limeys” for Brits.  However, if that were to be discovered today, Vitamin C could never be promoted as a cure for scurvy because nobody can patent oranges and limes.  Hence nobody would pay the enormous sum of money to complete the FDA (or other countries equivalent) testing. 

This means that many very cheap herbal and nutritional cures (like limes for scurvy) cannot be used in the West and the West will not supply “unproven” medicines to the Third World.  It all protects the interests of the Pharmaceutical companies.  I believe that some international body (maybe the UN World Health Organisation) should pay for and oversee the testing of herbal and nutritional remedies by the FDA, so that they too can be accepted as cures and medicines.  Funding for this testing should be divided between the governments of the richer countries, this way no firm or corporation is out of pocket, yet many cheap herbal and nutritional remedies/medicines could be made available to the poorest countries of the world who suffer the worst diseases, but can afford the least medicines.  It would also reduce the costs of health care in the West too.  Somewhere a campaign has to be set up to lobby for this.

Finally, Nutronix International market an advanced colloidal silver solution, that has been proven in African trials to cure malaria.  However, it has yet to be sanctioned by the FDA, so the West will not be supplying this cheap cure to the worst hit African countries.  Nutronix however have taken their own initiative and are asking customer to purchase bottles of the colloidal silver solution at a special low price to donate to African malaria clinics.  For every bottle donated by a customer, Nutronix will be donate another bottle of colloidal silver solution for free. 

For just $10, you could save a child’s life from Malaria.

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The Budwig Oil-Protein Diet (Part 3): Oleolox

October 15, 2008 · 2 Comments

As with Part 1 and 2 of this posting, the Budwig Oil-Protein diet which has applications for cancer sufferers to athletes, is very versatile.  Another important component is Oleolox (don’t ask me how to pronounce it, I have enough trouble spelling it).

Oleolox is very simple to make.

Ingredients:
     250g coconut oil/fat
     125cc Flax Seed Oil
     1 onion
     10 garlic cloves

Put the Flax Seed Oil in the freezer to chill for half an hour.  Slice onion and brown it slightly in the coconut oil for about 15 minutes.  Then add 10 garlic cloves and heat for another 3 minutes.  Strain the coconut oil through a sieve into the chilled Flax Seed Oil, mix in and store in the fridge. 

When it cools down it becomes solid (though soft) and is ready to use.  It can be used as a spread just like butter though it is a matter of taste.  I like it, some don’t.  It can be used as a salad dressing and to flavour stews or casseroles.  But as with the Flax oil/quark/milk mix in Part 2 of this posting, warm by all means but don’t boil it or you damage the electron field of the Flax Seed Oil.  It is this electron field that gives Flax Seed Oil its health giving properties.

Many uses for Oleolox are given in Dr Budwig’s recipe book.  Although I have been advised that the Flax Seed Oil will negate the effects of a dairy allergy (Part 2) when using it with quark and milk, the advantage of Oleolox is that there is no dairy at all.

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The Law Of Attraction

October 14, 2008 · Leave a Comment

There has been much discussion about the “Law Of Attraction”, especially over the last couple of years since the release of the cult DVD “The Secret“.

So what is the Law Of Attraction and how does it work.  Well basically, it says that the more you focus on something, the more of it you get.  In The Secret it talks of how the rich elite have passed down “the secret” to each other for thousands of years, which only now is being passed on to the masses.  That secret is that the more you focus on something, you send out brainwaves and thought energy into the universe, which in turn will attract more of the same energy back into your life.

I will admit that I have some trouble with that explanation of the Law Of Attraction.  However, I did read that in one big city an experiment was conducted with a big group of experience meditators.  They meditated and focused on peace and (allegedly) the crime rate went down in that city.  I’m not convinced, but I’ll keep an open mind!

However, in Nuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), practitioners have been applying the practice of focusing on what you want for decades.  Lets say you want to “give up smoking”.  Your unconscious mind does not recognise negatives (“give up”, “stop”, “quit”) and will simply focus on “smoking”.  That is why it can be so hard to give something up (because you keep focusing on it).

If my daughter is sullen, I sometimes tell her, “whatever you do, don’t smile”.  The brain does not recognise the negative and she just can’t help but having to smile (which makes her even more cross with me).

If you were to go to an NLP practitioner, they try to help you to find the answer for yourself rather than to tell you (human nature is to take it more seriously if you feel it is your idea).  So the conversation would probably go something like this:

You:            I want to give up smoking.
NLP guy:     Good, what do you REALLY want.
You:            To give up smoking.
NLP guy:     But why do you want to give up smoking.
You:           Well, to be healthier.
NLP guy:    And how would you know that you were healthier.
You:           Well if I had more stamina and energy.
NLP guy:    So your real goal is to have more stamina and energy?
You:           Errrrr.  Yes.

That is very simplified, but you can see how a negative focus of quitting smoking and been turned around to be a positive focus of having more stamina and well-being.  If you focus on the stamina and well-being you will not be thinking so much about the smoking, so it will be easier to give it up. 

You can apply this to many things:

I want to lose weight . . . . . I want to look goood in my new clothes.
I want to get out of debt . . . . . I want to be rich/well off.
I don’t want to mess up the interview . . . . . I want to impress them.
I really don’t want look silly . . . . . I want to excel (or, I want to fit in).
I don’t want to fail that exam . . . . . I want to do well at that exam.

Many people experience ideas “just popping out of nowhere”.  Not true, they pop out of the unconscious mind.  So how do you get the unconscious mind to produce the results you want?  By focusing the conscious mind on WHAT YOU DO WANT (not what you don’t want).  When you focus the conscious mind on the WHAT, the unconscious mind will work on the HOW.

This is why visualisation is a very important tool.  Visualisation is simply one method of focusing the conscious mind.   If you have money problems it is difficult not to worry, but if you focus on debt, that is what you unconscious mind will work on.  If you focus on being rich (or at least better off), then your unconscious mind will pop up ideas (hopefully legal) of how you might be able to earn a bit more money (either by being better at your job, or some little enterprise on the side).

This is the true secret and the true Law Of Attraction and it is not new.  However, if you accept the teaching of the DVD The Secret (sending out thought energy) as a metaphor and focus the conscious mind, then I think it is probably the best presentation of how to apply this concept that I have seen.  I don’t agree with the explanation of how it works, but it is great for showing the principle of the Law of Attraction (focusing on what you want).

Famous motivational speakers and authors like Paul McKenna and Anthony Robins (both of whom I’d recommend) are high level NLP practitioners, so if you have followed any of their works then you may recognise some of what I have said above in their teachings.

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Test For Drugs In Tap Water

October 14, 2008 · Leave a Comment

An interesting article from The Independent (UK):

Drinking water supplies are to be tested for the presence of prescription drugs amid fears that rivers are being contaminated by the growing quantity of pharmaceuticals flushed unwittingly down the drain.

 

The Government has commissioned scientists to test river water at intake points where it is abstracted for human consumption, The Independent can reveal. They will also test drinking water after it has been through the water-treatment cycle.

Under a pilot project to begin next year, supplies will be examined for about five of the most common and potentially dangerous prescription drugs. The experts will meet over the next few weeks to decide which drugs to look for and where testing should be carried out. However, an insider said this was likely to be at selected sites on the river Thames because its water-catchment area covered the most densely populated part of the country.

Click here to read the rest of the article

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The Budwig Oil-Protein Diet (Part 2): How To Use It

October 12, 2008 · 1 Comment

At the heart of the Budwig Oil-Protein diet is Flax Oil and Cottage Cheese or Quark (protein).  As mentioned in Part 1 of this posting, the protein makes the the essential fatty acids more soluble and hence better absorbed by the body.

Before going any further, many people will be saying, “yes, but I have a dairy allergy”.  So did my Michele, but our therapist told us that good done by the flax oil would over-ride the damage of the dairy.  She was allowed to take dairy, but only with the flax oil.  However, I would suggest that you discuss this with your own doctor or therapist if you have any doubts.

Dr Budwig has written a receipe book which contains quite a variety.  One recurring part however is the following key ingredients mixed together in a blender:

        3 tblsp of Flax Seed Oil
        100grams of Quark
        2 tblsp of milk

This gives a slightly thick yogurt like consistency which is the base for numerous uses.  It can be sweetened with a tblsp of honey and used as a topping for breakfast (on top of fruit and blended mix of linseeds and honey (we found this topping a bit thick and added a little extra milk, but try to your own taste). 

You can make an type of ice cream from it by adding honey, fruit, fruit juice concentrate, cocoa or whatever you can dream up to flavour it.  We found banana was one of the best, but its up to your taste and imagination.  I would often double or treble the quantities and use some for breakfast and some for ice cream to cut down on time and work.

If you add honey, fruit, ice and extra milk, you can make a fruit smoothie out of it. 

If you are trying to keep sugar free, then you might like to replace the honey with stevia, which is very sweet and all natural.

With an extra tbsp of milk, 2 tbsp of apple cider vinegar, 1 tbsp of mustard and some salt, you can make a mayonnaise substitute.  Several variations are given in the recipe book as well as recipes for chutney.

You can experiment for yourself too.  Bearing in mind that food should not be cooked in oil (even good oils get damaged by over heating), I used to prepare meat and vegetables in a frying pan with a lid and a small amount of water.  The lid creates extra pressure which allows the water/steam to reach higher temperatures than it can at atmospheric pressure, though you do need to keep a close eye to make sure it does not boil dry.  I would then add the basic blend (quark/flax oil/milk) with grated cheese, salt and herbs to make a white cheese sauce (not in Budwig’ recipebook, but we liked it).  I would heat it only until the cheese melted as overheating would damage its healing properties. 

Another alternative was to use it as a curry base (many curries use yogurt which is similar consistency).  Again cook meat and vegetables as above, adding curry spices.  When it is cooked add the mix (with more spices if you like and again heat it but don’t boil it.

As mentioned in my previous posting, this diet is used by people with a wide range of chronic diseases and by athletes looking to improve their energy level for maximum performance (and not have to worry about drug testing).  It is versatile, quite tasty, and relatively cheap compared to other diets (especially cancer diets). 

I would recommend Budwig’s recipe book to anybody interesting in maintaining their health, or anybody that fears that they might be in a risk category.  I still use it regularly myself, especially the ice creams as I can make up a big quantity and freeze it . . . . yes I’m lazy :)    Sadly it’s too late for my Michele, but it might not be for you or your loved one.  If you only buy one book this year, I recommend that you make it this one.

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The Budwig Oil-Protein Diet (Part1): For Cancer, Heart Infraction, Arthritis And Atheletes!

October 11, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The Budwig oil-protein diet is not new, the work of Dr Johanna Budwig (7 times Nobel Prize nominee) has been around for decades as she devoted 50 years of her life to these studies.  She passed away in 2003 at the age of 95.  But it still surprises me how few people have ever heard of it.

We all know how toxins in the body will damage our health and well being.  Well Dr Budwig, a specialist in oils and fats, studied how highly unsaturated essential fatty acids when combined with high quality protein (which makes the essential fatty acids easily soluble), counteract toxins and poisonous build ups in our body tissue.

Budwig found that commercially processed fats and oils damage our cell membranes, lowering the voltage of our cells.  We often forget that our bodies are electrical with our cell nucleus being positively charged and the cell membranes being negatively charged.  Simply put, pure unsaturated fatty acids have an active electron field that works with our cell membranes to keep them negatively charged (and the cell “battery” live).  When these unsaturated acids are processed or cooked at high temperature, they lose their electron field so they can no longer supply our cell membranes.  This results in our cells losing their electrical charge (like a flat battery). 

When cells begin to divide they should be bipolar (positive nucleus, negative membrane) so that they can divide properly.  This is why essential unsaturated fatty acids are “essential”; because without the electron field that they supply, new cells cannot be formed properly and we get chronic diseases.  As we are talking about cell reproduction, this can effect literally any part of our body.

It also stops the cell maturation and shedding process, where the cell would normally mature and die off, and then be cleared from our bodies.  As the cells do not mature, and do not die, but continue to divide and produce more cells that will not mature and will not die; this leads to tumour production.  Where as most cancer therapies look to killing cancer cells and stopping them dividing, Budwig is totally different in that she seeks to enable them to grow and mature, so that they can then die off in the normal way (without chemotherapy and whilst strengthing the rest of the body too).

When living tissue rejects fat, our body has a mechanism to isolate it (which it does to most toxins that it cannot process normally).  These “isolated fats”, then get deposited by the body in places where fats would not normally be found.  Muscles affected with rheumatism where found to have isolated fats where as healthy muscles did not.  Cancer cells contain isolated fats too.

One of the core principle of Budwigs diet is to stop using any processed fats and oils, and to stop cooking with any fat or oil (stop putting toxins in).  However, oil with pure unsaturated essential fatty acids should be consumed, but not cooked at high temperature (which takes toxins out). 

Budwig recommends Organic Flax Oil as the best source for unsaturated fatty acids.  She recommends mixing it with cottage cheese or quark (a German soft cheese) to make the unsaturated fatty acids more soluble and easily absorbed by the body.

The diet is suplemented by massages and enemas with ELDI (Electron Differentiation) oils.  This oil is not taken orally. 

As such it can help with a number of chronic diseases by removing the toxic load.  I tried this diet with my partner, Michele before she passed away.  Obviously it did not save her life.  However, I think that by the time we started this diet she was too far gone with the cancer and had hardly any appetite left at all.  It was very hard to persuade her to eat or do the other parts of her therapy towards the end.  However, if you Google “oil protein diet” you will find that many people swear by it and that it has saved an enormous number of other lives.

Furthermore, compared with some of the other cancer diets, it is quite versatile and relatively inexpensive.  Many cancer diets (like the Coy diet), whilst effective, require special foods which are expensive.  Coy products are also difficult to get outside of Germany too.  The popular Gerson diet requires fruit and vegetable juices every hour also gets expensive because of the shear volume of organic fruit and vegetables you need to purchase, not to mention the how much time it takes to preparing it all.

The most exotic items in the Budwig diet are cottage cheese (or quark) and organic flax oil.  I know that cost is not the main concern when looking after a loved one, but if you start missing mortgage payments, it puts even more pressure and stress in your lives which nobody needs.  Although it was too late in the day to save my Michele, I would still recommend it for the following reason:

  • It is quite flexible and versatile, allowing a good variety of different flavours.
  • It HAS saved many lives.
  • It is not only used by sick people, it is also used by some athletes to get them into peak condition.
  • It is relatively inexpensive compared to other cancer diets.

I still use parts of this diet regularly to improve my own health and as a preventative (though I’m not enamoured to try the ELDI oil enema yet).  Next posting I will talk more about applying the diet.

Best Seller by Dr Budwig

Categories: Budwig Oil-Protein Diet · Cancer · Health
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New Advanced Silver Solution Gel

October 9, 2008 · Leave a Comment

A long awaited new addition to the Nutronix range of products is the New Silver Solution Gel for application onto external wounds.  This contains silver to the same advanced technology as the advanced colloidal solution, but in a gel form instead of water.  Whilst the colloidal version of the new advanced silver solution can be sprayed onto wounds, there is nothing to stop a portion of it simply running off.  The new Silver Solution Gel will remedy that.

To puchase the gel you need to go to the main Nutronix website, click on “Products” then click on “Immune Support” in the left hand column of links to find the New Silver Solution Gel.

Categories: Colloidal Silver Solution
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