Whatever It Takes

I know everybody is now aware of the importance of fiber in our body.  It helps us digest the food that we take in.   That would mean if foods are properly digested then we also get 100% the nutrients from the food that we eat.   But do you know how to determine if we have enough fiber in our diet?

Here’s something that everybody should know.

One nutritionist said that you should pay attention when you go to the bathroom.  Look before you flush!!!

If your stool floats, you have enough fiber!

If your stool sinks, you need to eat more fiber!

If you fart a lot, you have too much fiber in your diet!

So that’s  how to determine the amount of  fiber we have taken.   Next time take a look before you flushhhh

Friends I wanted to introduce to you Jim La Valle.  Actually I don’t know him personally but I’ve read a lot of articles about him.   He is a great pharmacologist, a dynamic public speaker and one time he speak at the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine’s continuing education conference in Boca Raton.   Many physicians from all over the world joined the conference.  I was struck by the fact that our country’s doctors need to be better educated about disease prevention and natural healing techniques before they reach for the prescription pad.

One example which Mr. Jim La Valle gave in his presentation was about diabetes in relation to high blood pressure.  According to him Metabolic Syndrome is a cluster of disorders that includes insulin resistance, high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol levels, and obesity.  The comulative effect of these disorders can lead to type 2 diabetes and heart disease.   Most physicians will prescribe the drug hydrochlorthiazide (HCTZ) for early blood pressure problems and Metformin for insulin resistance.

The problem is, HCTZ causes depletion of nutrients like magnesium, potassium, zinc, CoQ10, and sodium, but the package level only warns you of potassium depletion.   By unknowingly losing all of these vital nutrients, your body cannot properly metabolize glucose.  So the end result is that medication being prescribed to manage blood pressure pushes the insulin resistant person right into the path of becoming a type 2 diabetic.

And that’s not all.  Metformin will deplete B12 and folic acid causing your homocysteine levels to rise to dangerously high levels.   This can result in kidney and cardiovascular damage and contribute to Alzheimer’s disease —– all known consequences of type 2 diabetes.   So by taking Metformin and not supplementing with B12 and folic acid,  you could be accelerating the complications of the very disease you are trying to prevent :((

Here’s another piece of information that I think is new to many doctors.   That because HCTZ causes the loss of magnesium, Restless Leg Syndrome can develop.  So after people take HCTZ for awhile, they complain to their doctors that they can’t sleep at night because of restless legs or muscle cramps.  The doctor then prescribes Requip for Restless Leg Syndrome, when the solution is really to take more magnesium.

I was made to imagine how many doctors now a days still unaware of these facts.   If you care please spread this great learnings and save a life.   I am unearthing every day new knowledge about diabetes because my father is a diabetic and most of the employees in the company where I worked in are also diabetic.   I wanted to impart health teachings in preventing the disease.

In dealing crisis situation in an organization managers should consider these ideas:

1.  Don’t overreact -  You need to acknowledge that mistakes   will happen.

If people in your organization are afraid to communicate problems or emergencies because of
your overreaction to their news, they may wait as long as possible or even stop telling you when
things go wrong.

2. Figure out if it’s a real crisis or just seems like one - Often you’ll  discover that what appears to be urgent crisis turns   out to be nothing at all.   A real crisi is something that is truly important that requires your immediate attention.  If the situation is a real crisis, then you may have to drop everything you are doing and eal with it.  If it is not a real crisis, and it  doesn’t require your immediate attention,  you can often delegate it and treat it as a training experience.

3. Avoind management by crisis - Management by crisis is allowing unexpected events, interruptions, problems, or emergencies to dictate your priorities and actions.

Sometimes we do need to react quickly to a crisis and contain it before it does more damage.   The  problem comes when crisis management becomes the routine rather than the exception.   If you spend more of your time putting out fires than doing your work, you are managing by crisis.

When crisis management becomes the routine, it can easily lead to what Stephen Covey refers to as “Urgency Addiction.”

People that are addicted to urgency enjoy putting out fires, they like stepping in and solving problems, and their bosses often reward them for doing so. They have no incentive to avoid or prevent the fires because they get a payoff
every time they put one out.

When crisis management becomes your normal way of doing business, it’s usually pointing to a more fundamental problem that you need to solve.

An old Chinese proverb says, “The superior doctor prevents sickness. The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness. The inferior doctor treats sickness.”

Don’t just treat the symptoms of the latest crisis, cure the underlying disease and prevent it from recurring.

Here’s something I wanted to share to those who are diagnosed of osteoarthritis, gout, and rheumatoid  arthritis.   I am hoping that by this simple rules for diet,  this will  alleviate your painful joints and body as a whole.

For all arthritis cases, follow these simple rules for diet:

1. Drink 8 glasses of filtered water each day.
2.  Limit or eliminate the consumption of red meat, which may be eaten     occasionally if digestive enzymes are used.
3.  Avoid refined sugar.
4.  The vast majority of the diet should be based on vegetables, grains (except wheat), legumes, fruits, nuts, and seeds.
5.  Try to exercise when possible, and reduce body weight.

Here are also Phytotherapy and Herbal Medicines that can help us manage arthritis.

1. Turmeric (curcumin): This has powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, lending itself in the support of rheumatoid complaints.
2.  Bromelain: This enzyme is derived from pineapple.  Its action is to decrease inflammation and it works well when combined with turmeric.

In the past, arthritis meant that you would have to learn to live with it and modify your lifestyle.    But today, dietary and lifestyle changes, combined with the use of natural agents, can provide support, and may actually improve symptoms of arthritis.    Ask your pharmacist about the wide variety of high quality natural products available to you.

Have you ever thought of having a beautiful home with a lovely garden? Or going to nice church for worship? Eating good and nutritious foods, living in a village of kind and thoughtful neighbors, and ultimately of being a citizen of a happy and prosperous nation? Today, we keep on thinking of wonderful thoughts to keep ourselves going in this unruly and difficult times. We tend to recall those good old days when life is easy and in harmony with what we desire. Old folks would say that the new generation are unfortunate for they are the ones who suffered the ill effect of population explosion, pollution and political chaos. Yes, there’s truth in it. If you were to choose, would you like to remain in the olden days system or way of life? Well, in every generation their is what we call setbacks and dilemmas that existed. These are all relative because what might be good for you might not be good for me. How you see time depends on where you’re viewing it. Difference of opinion seem to be almost inevitable when it comes to agreeing on the facts that happened in each generation. One thing for sure is that all generations are interrelated. We cannot achieve this modern generation without the stone age.

KEEP A SYRINGE OR NEEDLE IN YOUR HOME TO DO THIS…….

It’s amazing that we have an unconventional way to recover victim from stroke.  Please take time to read this.  Through this you  can help save life one day.  Please keep this very handy.  You’ll never know you can use this someday.

When stroke strikes, the capillaries in the brain will gradually burst.

When this occur stay calm.

No matter where the victim is, do not move him/her.  Because if moved, the capillaries will burst.

Help the victim to sit up where he/she is to prevent from falling over again and then the blood letting begin.

If you have in your home an injection syringe that would be the best.

Otherwise, a sewing needle or a straight pin will do.

1.    Place the needle/pin over fire to sterilize it and then use this to prick the tip of all 10 fingers.

2.   There are no specific acupuncture points, just prick about an mm from the fingernails.

3.   Prick till blood comes out.

4.   If blood does not start to drip, then squeeze with your fingers.

5.   When all 10 digits is bleeding, wait a few minutes then the victim will regain consciousness.

6.   If the victim’s mouth is crooked, then pull on his ears until they are red.

7.   Then prick each earlobe twice until 2 drops of blood comes from each earlobe.

After a few minutes the victim should regain consciousness.

Wait till the victim regains his/her normal state without any abnormal symptoms then take him to the hospital.

Otherwise, if he was taken in the ambulance in a hurry to the hospital, the bumpy trip will cause all the capillaries in his brain to burst.

This blood letting technique in managing stroke is from a Chinese Traditional doctor, Ha Bu Ting, who lives in Sun Juke.

Furthermore,  here’s a practical experience by a Chinese professor who was teaching in Fung Gaap College in Tai Chung way back 1979.

One afternoon when she was teaching a class, her co-teacher came running to the classroom telling her that their supervisor had a stroke.    She immediately went to where the supervisor was and saw him pale and with slurred speech.    His mouth was crooked - basically all the symptoms of stroke.

She immediately asked one of the practicum student to go to the pharmacy outside the school to buy a syringe, which she used to prick the victim’s finger tips.

When all 10 fingers were bleeding, after a few minutes, Mr. Chen’s face regained its color and his eyes returned to normal also.

But his mouth was still crooked.  So she pulled on his ears to fill them with blood.   When his ears became red she pricked this twice to let out 2 drops of blood.

When both earlobes were already pricked, his mouth returned to normal and his speech became clear.

They let him rest for awhile and gave him a cup of hot tea.  Then he was userred down the stairs and drove him to Wei Wah Hospital.   He rested one night and was checked out the next day and returned to school to teach.   Everything worked normally.

There were no ill effect on that blood letting procedure.

If we can all remember this blood letting method, we can revive a victim and regain 100% his normal state.

Have you realized how powerful our brain is?   I know long time ago that our brain is so powerful but I didn’t realize the specific amount of information it can process.    I’ve come to realize that we normal person can still maximize the usage of our brain.   Let’s try to search HOW?   But before that,  I want you to read the paragraph below.   It’s my objective that whoever read this blog will be motivated to search further improvement in the usage of their own brain.    Is it not wonderful to think when all of us will be very intelligent someday?    If you think it’s too late for you to start training your brain then materialize this with your children.    I can’t imagine how long will a commencement exercises last when all the children are going to receive honors and awards hahahahaha.

The brain is unlimited when it comes to the potential of processing information. It can make an unlimited amount of connections and has no boundaries as to the amount of information it can process at any one time. We are mostly unaware of how intelligent we are. In fact, we are only consciously aware of 2000 bits of information every second, while our brain is actually processing 400 billion bits of information every second. The 2000 bits of information mostly concern the body – is it cold, warm, hungry etc., the environment – where am I, where am I going next, etc., and time – when is my next appointment, what time do I need to wake up, etc.