We are in a time of Paradigm Shift!
Medical science is changing fast. How does the tradition of herbal healing fit in? Herbal supplements have been meeting people's medical needs for thousands of years. Clearly, North American consumers are enthusiastically increasing their use of herbs as natural complements to drugs and drugstore medicines.
In many ways, in America, and indeed around the world, we are in a time of paradigm shift…especially in the global approach to healing. As our world grows undeniably smaller, people are interacting more, and changing long-held beliefs.
We are coming to see the Earth as an 'intelligent being', evolving and growing. The knowledge of mankind is also evolving and growing. Unfortunately pathogenic organisms that cause diseases are changing too-often replicating at enormous rates. Organisms and diseases are becoming more virulent, and our immune defenses are becoming weaker. More than ever, we must protect ourselves!
The latest chemical drugs aren't the answer. In fact, it seems that new drugs are soon becoming less effective against pathogens such as powerful viruses, instead of more effective. Recent research shows that even the newest, most powerful antibiotics hardly survive a year before the microbe they were designed to arrest, develops, mutates and grows stronger against them. It's a good example of a non-living agent like a drug trying to control a living thing.
While we must be respectful of all methods of healing, most of us don't realize we have a choice. All the advances made by modern medicine still do not address chronic sickness nor disease prevention very well.
You could call today's allopathic medicine "heroic medicine" because it was developed largely in wartime for wartime emergencies. But this type of medicine often also hits our systems with a heavy hammer, preventing us from being able to rebuild against slow-growing, degenerative diseases. Drugs cannot help our bodies stimulate immune responses either. In fact, most drugs and all surgeries create body trauma, along with their corrective benefits.
Immune strength is where natural, complementary, medicines, such as the herbal products provided by Avena Originals, are important. Each of us is so individual; our healing supports need to be able to work with us in a personal way for permanent health. We have to clean and feed our bodies, and Avena's Electrically Available™ nutritional supplements provide the building blocks for our bodies to do their own work better.
Avena believes that proper herbal formulations are a path to the universe-an eye of the needle through which we can glimpse the wonders of creation, and what it is really all about. God shows us His face in herbs, as they seem almost miraculous in their benefits to mankind.
Nature's herbs can conceivably be used to point out a path for us on how we may grow and modify in a big world that is becoming a 'global village'. We know we can count on the safety and efficacy of Nature, in ways that the latest drugs can never achieve. We know that using the products of Nature with their marvelous complexity and abilities help us address the health problems of today, just as they were used to address ancient ones. The Gifts of Nature may be our best hope to bring the balance back between the healing forces and disease. Their healing work goes on automatically, whether it is analyzed or not. Our bodies know how to use the body-balancing nutrients of herbs, without our brains having to know why. Nature provides a Unique Healing Experience. Avena believes the original genius of Nature cannot be duplicated.
Nature provides for each day to be Original
Avena Originals brings you Nature!
Monday, March 14, 2011
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
"Miracle Pill"
A "Miracle Pill" - Today
Imagine a pill so effective and so diverse it could prevent or heal a multiplicity of diseases from the common cold to cancer. It sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it? At least for the time-being it does. It may be possible to take such a pill in the future perhaps but, today, such pills belong to the realm of science fiction.
Now consider further. Would you take this pill, if it were available to you? You bet you would! After all, you enjoy life and you care about your health. Would such a pill be expensive? Certainly it would if it were to be manufactured and patented by one of the world’s major pharmaceutical companies. Such a pill would have to undergo vigorous testing by the authorities, since it would be classified as a "drug." This would cost millions of dollars and take from five to fifteen years. These costs would eventually have to be passed on to you – the consumer. Once determined to be "safe," the pill would be available by prescription only, and you would probably not be able to acquire it for "preventive" purposes.
Amazingly, this miracle pill is available today, without a prescription, from Avena Originals. Since the research into its remarkable effects on the body is in its infancy, we can expect that more refinement will be needed for the pill to merit "miracle" status. Notwithstanding, it has already been discovered that this amazing supplement can have a profound effect on the following diseases.
Ankylosing spondylitis (spinal fusion); cancer of the bladder, breast and colon, candida, (yeast infection), cirrhosis and other liver conditions; colitis; Crohn’s disease; constipation; diarrhea in infants and in adults as a result if intestinal infection, antibiotic use, prescription antidepressants, radiation and chemotherapy; dysbiosis, dyspepsia; cardiovascular problems resulting from elevated cholesterol levels; irritable bowel syndrome; migraines; osteoporosis; rheumatoid arthritis; stomach ulcers; urinary tract infections and viginosis.
The supplement we are talking about is called a probiotic. Which literally means "for life." Although probiotics encompass a variety of organisms, two of the most powerful are L. Salivarius & L. Plantarium OM, available in Avena‘s Friendly Flora.
At Michael O’Brien’s lectures, you will learn & understand how human health is impacted by the use of probiotic supplements, and how they may be utilized for maximum effect. It is essential that you do not stop taking your prescription medication unless directed to by your health practitioner. Simply begin to use your probiotic along with your medication (although not necessarily at the same hour).
For more information on L. Salivarius & L. Plantarium, see Friendly Flora Product Page
This article has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration or Health Canada. It is for information only and is not intended as medical advice. or to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Always consult a Health Practitioner about persistent symptoms.
Imagine a pill so effective and so diverse it could prevent or heal a multiplicity of diseases from the common cold to cancer. It sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it? At least for the time-being it does. It may be possible to take such a pill in the future perhaps but, today, such pills belong to the realm of science fiction.
Now consider further. Would you take this pill, if it were available to you? You bet you would! After all, you enjoy life and you care about your health. Would such a pill be expensive? Certainly it would if it were to be manufactured and patented by one of the world’s major pharmaceutical companies. Such a pill would have to undergo vigorous testing by the authorities, since it would be classified as a "drug." This would cost millions of dollars and take from five to fifteen years. These costs would eventually have to be passed on to you – the consumer. Once determined to be "safe," the pill would be available by prescription only, and you would probably not be able to acquire it for "preventive" purposes.
Amazingly, this miracle pill is available today, without a prescription, from Avena Originals. Since the research into its remarkable effects on the body is in its infancy, we can expect that more refinement will be needed for the pill to merit "miracle" status. Notwithstanding, it has already been discovered that this amazing supplement can have a profound effect on the following diseases.
Ankylosing spondylitis (spinal fusion); cancer of the bladder, breast and colon, candida, (yeast infection), cirrhosis and other liver conditions; colitis; Crohn’s disease; constipation; diarrhea in infants and in adults as a result if intestinal infection, antibiotic use, prescription antidepressants, radiation and chemotherapy; dysbiosis, dyspepsia; cardiovascular problems resulting from elevated cholesterol levels; irritable bowel syndrome; migraines; osteoporosis; rheumatoid arthritis; stomach ulcers; urinary tract infections and viginosis.
The supplement we are talking about is called a probiotic. Which literally means "for life." Although probiotics encompass a variety of organisms, two of the most powerful are L. Salivarius & L. Plantarium OM, available in Avena‘s Friendly Flora.
At Michael O’Brien’s lectures, you will learn & understand how human health is impacted by the use of probiotic supplements, and how they may be utilized for maximum effect. It is essential that you do not stop taking your prescription medication unless directed to by your health practitioner. Simply begin to use your probiotic along with your medication (although not necessarily at the same hour).
For more information on L. Salivarius & L. Plantarium, see Friendly Flora Product Page
This article has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration or Health Canada. It is for information only and is not intended as medical advice. or to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Always consult a Health Practitioner about persistent symptoms.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Microwave Madness
Microwave Madness
Microwave cooking ovens were originally researched and developed by German scientists to support mobile operations during the invasion of the Soviet Union. Had they perfected the electronic equipment to prepare meals on a mass scale, the Nazis could have eliminated the logistical problems connected with cooking fuels while producing edible products in far less time than they could using traditional campfires.
After the war, the Allies discovered the medical research and documentation concerning these apparatuses the papers and experimental microwave equipment were transferred to the U.S. War Department and classified for Reference and scientific investigation. The Soviet Union also retrieved some of the devices and began to experiment on them separately.
The Russians – Who have done the most diligent research into the biological effects of microwave ovens – have outlawed their use and issued an international warning about the biological and environmental damage that can result from the use of this similar – frequency electronic apparatus.
MEDICAL RESEARCH SUMMARY
The most significant German research concerned with the biological effects of the microwaves was done at the Humboldt University ZU Berlin in 1942-43, during the Barbarossa military campaign. Beginning in 1957 and continuing up to the present, Russian studies in the field have been conducted at the Institute of Radio Technology.
In most research, the foods were exposed to microwave propagation at an energy potential of 100 kilowatts per cubic centimeter per second to the point considered acceptable for sanitary normal ingestion.
The Observations made by the German and Russian Microwave researchers will be presented here in three categories: cancer - causing effects, destruction of nutritive value and biological effects of direct exposure of hums to microwave emissions.
MICROWAVE FOODS CAUSE TUMORS
2. The following effects have been observed when foods are subjected to microwave emissions
Effects on foods themselves
Meats: Heating prepared meats sufficiently to insure unitary ingestion creates d-nitrosodiethanolamine, a well-known cancer-causing agent.
Proteins: Active-protein, bimolecular compounds are destabilized.
Increase in Radioactivity: A "binding effect" between the microwave food and any atmospheric radioactivity is created, causing a marked increase in the amount of alpha and beta particle saturation in the food.
Milk and Cereals: Cancer – causing agents are created in the protein – hydrolysate compounds in milk and cereal grains.
Frozen Foods: Microwaves used to thaw frozen foods alter the catabolism (breakdown) of the glucoside and galactoside elements.
Vegetables: Even extremely brief exposure of raw, cooked or frozen vegetables to microwaves alter alkaloid catabolism.
Resulting effects on the human body
Digestive System: The unstable catabolism of microwaved foods alters their elemental food substances, causing disorders in the digestive system.
Lymphatic Systems: Due to chemical alterations within food substances malfunctions occur in the lymphatic system, causing a degeneration of the body’s ability to protect itself against certain forms of neoplastics (cancerous growths).
Blood: A higher-than-normal percentage of cancerous cells in the blood serum (cytomas) can be seen in subjects ingesting microwaved foods.
Their residual magnetism effect can render the psychoneural-receptor components of the brain more subject to influence by artificially induced, microwave-radio-frequency fields form transmission stations and TV relay networks.
Free Radicals: Certain trace – minerals molecular formations in plant substances – in particular, raw – root vegetables – form cancer-causing free radicals.
Increased Incidence of stomach and intestinal Cancers: A statistically higher percentage of cancerous growths result in these organs, plus a generalized breakdown of the peripheral cellular tissues and a gradual degeneration of digestive and excretory functions.
2. MICROWAVES REDUCE FOOD VALUE
Microwave exposure caused significant decreases in the nutritive value of all foods studied. The Following are the most important findings to date.
Vitamins and Minerals Made Useless:
In every food tested the bioavailability of the
Following vital nutrients decreased: Vitamin B complex, vitamin C and E, essential minerals and lipotropics.
Vital-Energy Fields Devastated: The vital-energy-field content of all tested foods dropped 60 to 90 percent.
Digestibility of Fruits and Vegetables Reduced: Microwaving lowers the metabolic behavior and integration-process capability of alkaloids, glucosides, alactosides and nitrilosides.
Meat Proteins Worthless: It destroys the nutritive value of nucleoproteins in meats.
All Foods Damaged: It greatly accelerates the structural disintegration of all foods tested
BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF MICROWAVES
Exposure to microwave emissions also has a negative effect upon the general biological welfare of humans. This was not discovered until the Russians Experimented with highly sophisticated equipment and discovered that humans can be adversely affected without even ingesting the foods that have been subjected to microwave radiation. Merely entering the energy field of the food causes such a harmful side effect that the Soviets outlawed all such microwave apparatus in 1976.
Here are the effects observed in humans having "direct" exposure to microwaves, that is, without their having consumed the irradiated food substances-
Life-energy Field Breakdown: Persons near microwave ovens in operation experience a breakdown in their life-energy fields which increases relative to the length of exposure.
Cellular Energy Decreases: The cellular-voltage parallels of individuals using the apparatus degenerate – especially in their blood and lymphatic serums.
Destabilized Metabolism: The external-energy activated potentials of food utilization are both destabilized and degenerated.
Cell Damage: Internal cellular membrane potentials during catabolic processes into the blood serum from the digestive process degenerate and destabilize.
Brain Circuitry Destruction: Electrical impulses in the junction potentials of the cerebrum degenerate and break down.
Nervous System: Nervous/electrical circuits degenerate and break down while energy-field summetry is lost in the neuro-plexuses (nerve centers) in both the front and rear of the central and autonomic nervous systems.
Loss of Bioelectric strength: the bioelectric strengths within the ascending reticular activating system ( the system which controls the function of waking consciousness) go out of balance and lose their proper circuiting.
Loss of Vital Energies: Humans, animals and plants located within a 500-meter radius of the equipment in operation suffer a long term, cumulative loss of vital energies.
Hormone Imbalances: The production of hormones and the maintenance of hormonal balance in both males and females becomes destabilized and interrupted.
Brainwave Disruption: Levels of disturbance in alpha – delta - and theta-wave signals patterns are markedly higher than normal.
Psychological Disorders Because of the disarranged brain waves, negative psychological effects also result. These include loss of memory and the ability to concentrate, suppressed emotional threshold, deceleration of intellective processes and interruptive sleep episodes in a statistically higher percentage of individuals subjected to continual range-emission field effects of microwave apparatus, from either cooking apparatus or transmission stations.
POTENTIAL USE IN MIND-CONTROL
Due to the creation of random, residual magnetic deposits and bindings within the biological systems of the body (nervous and lymphatic systems damage) which can ultimately affect the neurological systems (primarily the brain and nerve centers) , longer-term depolarization of tissue neuroelectronic circuits can result.
Because these effects can cause virtually irremissible damage to he neuroelectrical integrity of the various components of the nervous system ingestion of microwaved foods is clearly contraindicated in all respects.
Their residual magnetism effect can render the psychoneural – receptor components of the brain more subject to influence by artificially induced, microwave-radio frequency fields from transmission stations and TC relay networks.
Soviet neuropsychologists at Uralyera and Nocosivirsk have theorized the possibility of psychotelemetric influence (i.e. affecting human behavior by transmitting radio signals at controlled frequencies), causing subjects to comply – involuntarily and subliminally – with commands received through microwave transmissions acting upon their psychological energy fields.
For this reason and due to the 28 other contradictions listed above, the use of microwave apparatus in any form is definitely ill advised. Present scientific opinion in many countries clearly opposes them, as exemplified by the mentioned Soviet Ban.
Microwave cooking ovens were originally researched and developed by German scientists to support mobile operations during the invasion of the Soviet Union. Had they perfected the electronic equipment to prepare meals on a mass scale, the Nazis could have eliminated the logistical problems connected with cooking fuels while producing edible products in far less time than they could using traditional campfires.
After the war, the Allies discovered the medical research and documentation concerning these apparatuses the papers and experimental microwave equipment were transferred to the U.S. War Department and classified for Reference and scientific investigation. The Soviet Union also retrieved some of the devices and began to experiment on them separately.
The Russians – Who have done the most diligent research into the biological effects of microwave ovens – have outlawed their use and issued an international warning about the biological and environmental damage that can result from the use of this similar – frequency electronic apparatus.
MEDICAL RESEARCH SUMMARY
The most significant German research concerned with the biological effects of the microwaves was done at the Humboldt University ZU Berlin in 1942-43, during the Barbarossa military campaign. Beginning in 1957 and continuing up to the present, Russian studies in the field have been conducted at the Institute of Radio Technology.
In most research, the foods were exposed to microwave propagation at an energy potential of 100 kilowatts per cubic centimeter per second to the point considered acceptable for sanitary normal ingestion.
The Observations made by the German and Russian Microwave researchers will be presented here in three categories: cancer - causing effects, destruction of nutritive value and biological effects of direct exposure of hums to microwave emissions.
MICROWAVE FOODS CAUSE TUMORS
2. The following effects have been observed when foods are subjected to microwave emissions
Effects on foods themselves
Meats: Heating prepared meats sufficiently to insure unitary ingestion creates d-nitrosodiethanolamine, a well-known cancer-causing agent.
Proteins: Active-protein, bimolecular compounds are destabilized.
Increase in Radioactivity: A "binding effect" between the microwave food and any atmospheric radioactivity is created, causing a marked increase in the amount of alpha and beta particle saturation in the food.
Milk and Cereals: Cancer – causing agents are created in the protein – hydrolysate compounds in milk and cereal grains.
Frozen Foods: Microwaves used to thaw frozen foods alter the catabolism (breakdown) of the glucoside and galactoside elements.
Vegetables: Even extremely brief exposure of raw, cooked or frozen vegetables to microwaves alter alkaloid catabolism.
Resulting effects on the human body
Digestive System: The unstable catabolism of microwaved foods alters their elemental food substances, causing disorders in the digestive system.
Lymphatic Systems: Due to chemical alterations within food substances malfunctions occur in the lymphatic system, causing a degeneration of the body’s ability to protect itself against certain forms of neoplastics (cancerous growths).
Blood: A higher-than-normal percentage of cancerous cells in the blood serum (cytomas) can be seen in subjects ingesting microwaved foods.
Their residual magnetism effect can render the psychoneural-receptor components of the brain more subject to influence by artificially induced, microwave-radio-frequency fields form transmission stations and TV relay networks.
Free Radicals: Certain trace – minerals molecular formations in plant substances – in particular, raw – root vegetables – form cancer-causing free radicals.
Increased Incidence of stomach and intestinal Cancers: A statistically higher percentage of cancerous growths result in these organs, plus a generalized breakdown of the peripheral cellular tissues and a gradual degeneration of digestive and excretory functions.
2. MICROWAVES REDUCE FOOD VALUE
Microwave exposure caused significant decreases in the nutritive value of all foods studied. The Following are the most important findings to date.
Vitamins and Minerals Made Useless:
In every food tested the bioavailability of the
Following vital nutrients decreased: Vitamin B complex, vitamin C and E, essential minerals and lipotropics.
Vital-Energy Fields Devastated: The vital-energy-field content of all tested foods dropped 60 to 90 percent.
Digestibility of Fruits and Vegetables Reduced: Microwaving lowers the metabolic behavior and integration-process capability of alkaloids, glucosides, alactosides and nitrilosides.
Meat Proteins Worthless: It destroys the nutritive value of nucleoproteins in meats.
All Foods Damaged: It greatly accelerates the structural disintegration of all foods tested
BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF MICROWAVES
Exposure to microwave emissions also has a negative effect upon the general biological welfare of humans. This was not discovered until the Russians Experimented with highly sophisticated equipment and discovered that humans can be adversely affected without even ingesting the foods that have been subjected to microwave radiation. Merely entering the energy field of the food causes such a harmful side effect that the Soviets outlawed all such microwave apparatus in 1976.
Here are the effects observed in humans having "direct" exposure to microwaves, that is, without their having consumed the irradiated food substances-
Life-energy Field Breakdown: Persons near microwave ovens in operation experience a breakdown in their life-energy fields which increases relative to the length of exposure.
Cellular Energy Decreases: The cellular-voltage parallels of individuals using the apparatus degenerate – especially in their blood and lymphatic serums.
Destabilized Metabolism: The external-energy activated potentials of food utilization are both destabilized and degenerated.
Cell Damage: Internal cellular membrane potentials during catabolic processes into the blood serum from the digestive process degenerate and destabilize.
Brain Circuitry Destruction: Electrical impulses in the junction potentials of the cerebrum degenerate and break down.
Nervous System: Nervous/electrical circuits degenerate and break down while energy-field summetry is lost in the neuro-plexuses (nerve centers) in both the front and rear of the central and autonomic nervous systems.
Loss of Bioelectric strength: the bioelectric strengths within the ascending reticular activating system ( the system which controls the function of waking consciousness) go out of balance and lose their proper circuiting.
Loss of Vital Energies: Humans, animals and plants located within a 500-meter radius of the equipment in operation suffer a long term, cumulative loss of vital energies.
Hormone Imbalances: The production of hormones and the maintenance of hormonal balance in both males and females becomes destabilized and interrupted.
Brainwave Disruption: Levels of disturbance in alpha – delta - and theta-wave signals patterns are markedly higher than normal.
Psychological Disorders Because of the disarranged brain waves, negative psychological effects also result. These include loss of memory and the ability to concentrate, suppressed emotional threshold, deceleration of intellective processes and interruptive sleep episodes in a statistically higher percentage of individuals subjected to continual range-emission field effects of microwave apparatus, from either cooking apparatus or transmission stations.
POTENTIAL USE IN MIND-CONTROL
Due to the creation of random, residual magnetic deposits and bindings within the biological systems of the body (nervous and lymphatic systems damage) which can ultimately affect the neurological systems (primarily the brain and nerve centers) , longer-term depolarization of tissue neuroelectronic circuits can result.
Because these effects can cause virtually irremissible damage to he neuroelectrical integrity of the various components of the nervous system ingestion of microwaved foods is clearly contraindicated in all respects.
Their residual magnetism effect can render the psychoneural – receptor components of the brain more subject to influence by artificially induced, microwave-radio frequency fields from transmission stations and TC relay networks.
Soviet neuropsychologists at Uralyera and Nocosivirsk have theorized the possibility of psychotelemetric influence (i.e. affecting human behavior by transmitting radio signals at controlled frequencies), causing subjects to comply – involuntarily and subliminally – with commands received through microwave transmissions acting upon their psychological energy fields.
For this reason and due to the 28 other contradictions listed above, the use of microwave apparatus in any form is definitely ill advised. Present scientific opinion in many countries clearly opposes them, as exemplified by the mentioned Soviet Ban.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Low-fat Diets are Making People Fat
Avena Originals Articles
Low Fat Diets
Hold the pasta. Bring on the nuts, the scrambled eggs. Dr. Walter Willett, Chair of the Nutrition Department at the Harvard School of Public Health, says the much-touted, low fat, high carbohydrate diet is making you fat.
His controversial findings were presented to the 16th International Congress of Nutrition, which opened in Montreal drawing 3000 nutrition experts from around the world. They spent a week looking at everything from herbal medicine to genetically modified foods. Why is it, he asks, that North Americans are growing fatter at an alarming rate while food shelves are groaning with low-fat products and fat intake has been going down?
His research led to a nagging suspicion: Low-fat diets might be making people fat. People have been forsaking good fats in favour of rice & pasta in the mistaken belief that as long as they‘re eating carbo’s, they won’t add inches to their waistline, Willett said. While everyone worries about saturated fat, which is found in meat and dairy products, he said there is a much worse culprit lurking on supermarket shelves: transfatty acids. You won’t see those words on food labels as they are sugarcoated with names like hydrogenated oils and shortening.
Low Fat Diets
Hold the pasta. Bring on the nuts, the scrambled eggs. Dr. Walter Willett, Chair of the Nutrition Department at the Harvard School of Public Health, says the much-touted, low fat, high carbohydrate diet is making you fat.
His controversial findings were presented to the 16th International Congress of Nutrition, which opened in Montreal drawing 3000 nutrition experts from around the world. They spent a week looking at everything from herbal medicine to genetically modified foods. Why is it, he asks, that North Americans are growing fatter at an alarming rate while food shelves are groaning with low-fat products and fat intake has been going down?
His research led to a nagging suspicion: Low-fat diets might be making people fat. People have been forsaking good fats in favour of rice & pasta in the mistaken belief that as long as they‘re eating carbo’s, they won’t add inches to their waistline, Willett said. While everyone worries about saturated fat, which is found in meat and dairy products, he said there is a much worse culprit lurking on supermarket shelves: transfatty acids. You won’t see those words on food labels as they are sugarcoated with names like hydrogenated oils and shortening.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Avena Originals Articles
Is Our Bowel Our Lifeline?
Bowel Toxemia—yuck! Health problems linked to an unhealthy colon? Does immunity boost really start in the colon? Do you want to help take years off your face and put a spring back into your step? Good health is based on an understanding of what truly causes the many health problems plaguing us today. Our digestive system is the first line of defense against illness, and yet the most often ignored—until there is a problem. Using a very effective bowel cleanse and support daily–Avena's Herb Cocktail–is crucial.
The human suffering and the social, medical, and economic costs of gastro-intestinal diseases and disorders represent a huge share of our annual health care expenditure and loss in productivity. Up to 100 million North Americans suffer from intermittent forms of digestive or alimentary canal diseases with the estimated total cost in lost work, lost wages, and medical costs at over $50 billion per year. It is estimated that some 200,000 workers miss work every day due to digestive problems—more than any other group of disorders!
The annual sales of prescription and over-the-counter drug products used for digestive diseases are approximately $2 - 2.5 billion per year, and have been growing at a steady 10% rate over the last decade. The following breakdown, a "barometer" of sorts, adequately demonstrates the fact that these problems are a significant public health problem, contributing substantially to overall health care costs.
Laxatives $850 - 900 million Antidiarrheals $100 million
Antihemorrhoidals $250 million Antacids $1 billion
The number one immunological organ in your body is your colon. It contributes to good health, vitality, and longevity. When toxic wastes are allowed to accumulate, they will contribute strongly to poor health, low energy, and serious health problems--which then start a whole host of other health problems. Cancer of the colon and rectum (Colorectal Cancer) is the second most common form of cancer overall in the United States (exceeded only by lung cancer). This year alone, there will be approximately 150,000 new cases and approximately 60,000 related deaths. Perhaps as many as one in every 10 of today's Americans will die of this disease.
Other obvious health problems directly related to the colon include:
- appendicitis (it is estimated that more than 300,000 appendixes are removed each year)
- diverticular disease (Diverticulitis/Diverticulosis-reported to be present in more than one-third of those over 40, and in up to two-thirds of those who are over 80 years of age)
- hemorrhoids (believed to be present to some degree in nearly half of those over 45 years of age)
- benign tumors (reported to be present in 1/3 of all autopsies done on patients over the age of 20)
- bloating
- gas
- fatigue
- bad breath
- diarrhea
- heartburn
- indigestion
- body odor
- headaches
- depression
- abnormal bleeding
- coated tongue
- acid reflux
- mental dullness
- aches, pains
- constipation
- low energy levels
- weight problems
Less obvious results of accumulated toxic waste in your colon are tumours, cysts, polyps, fibroids, and high cholesterol. As your eating habits worsen, so does your elimination efficiency. If you are eating 2 to 3 normal size meals, you should have 2 or 3 bowel movements a day. Additionally, a normal bowel movement should be over ½ the width of your wrist; from your elbow to your wrist in length (we are all built in proportion to that); and, because everything in it has been properly digested, it should float; it should not soil the tissue paper; it should be easy to pass; be a medium brown colour (no old dark material); it should not have a foul smell; and you should not have smelly gas. Now there's a goal! Ignoring any warning signs is costly!
Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Ulcerative Colitis, Crohn's disease, and that's not all…
Many, if not most, of the list of disorders mentioned are characteristic of modern Western civilization. Available evidence suggests that most, if not all of these disorders were rare or uncommon in the Western world less than one hundred years ago and that the prevalence of each has greatly increased during the last 50 years. Researchers (such as Cleave, Trowell, Burkitt, and others) have known these diseases are almost unheard of in the communities that still adhere to their traditional way of life. In developing countries in Asia and Africa, for example, documented evidence has proven the rarity of diseases such as diverticular disease, appendicitis, bowel cancer, adenomatous polyps (multiple glandular tissue overgrowths), ulcerative colitis, varicose veins, deep vein thrombosis (clots), pulmonary embolism, hemorrhoids, and hiatus hernia, appendicitis, ischemic heart disease, diabetes, gallstones, varicose veins, venous thrombosis, and hemorrhoids.
But as these countries develop and begin to adopt Western customs, a rise in the frequency of these disorders follows almost just as surely as night follows day. They first appear, and then become common, in the upper socioeconomic groups and in the more urbanized communities (which are, of course, the first groups to become “Westernized"). For example, this has been the case in Africa and then in Japan since World War II, particularly in the urban communities. As a result of years of investigations, the evidence supports not an environmental factor, but what the researchers say is the "F-Hypothesis" (‘F' for fibre).
After a 25-year study of over 5,000 cases, the New York People's Hospital stated that “every physician should realize the intestinal toxemia is the most important primary and contributing causes of many disorders and diseases of the human body” and that “one must note that such toxemia is at the root of more problems than commonly imagined or suspected”.
In the past it was thought the large intestine was not really involved in absorption (the principal absorptive functions being to conserve water and electrolytes secreted into the gut during digestion). However, recent research has demonstrated that the colon does also participate in protein absorption, among other things.
Toxic Megacolon
his is extremely significant as the colon is the major exposure site most of the endogenous bacterial proteins, enterotoxins, and the breakdown-antigens, which may be involved in the origination and development of a number of diseases—including ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, food allergies and allergic gastoenteropathy, bacterial enteritis (from toxins produced by Escherichia coli, Shigella, or Vibro cholerae, etc.), and certain extra-intestinal immune-complex diseases.
Immune disorders, resulting from the interaction of circulating antibodies with absorbed antigenic protein (particularly those bad bacterial breakdown-antigens originating in the colon), have been implicated in the development of even some forms of chronic active hepatitis, glomerulonephritis (a kidney problem), myocarditi (inflammation of heart muscle), and also the arthritis that is associated with inflammatory bowel diseases. Even a role in the origins of celiac disease and of collagen-vascular diseases (such as systemic lupus
erythematosis) has been suggested. As research continues, the bowel-toxemia ‘you-need-to-keep-the-sewer-pipes-open' school will be completely vindicated as correct.
As we live, we pour a lot of toxins down our gullets and our bodies do not always handle them well so they accumulate. Unfriendly microbes, non-utilized foods, toxic metals and chemicals, and carcinogenic agents can get gummed up inside our digestive tracts and begin to cause problems. Of course if we smoke or use alcohol, we are accumulating considerably more toxins.
Enzymes create the necessary digestion and with Friendly Flora probiotics help protect the bowels and absorb the nutrients. Without digestion you create the one and only real basic disease—Intestinal Toxemia. Generally intestinal toxemia manifests itself as one of even more symptoms than those already listed: nervousness, endocrine disturbances, neuro-circulatory abnormalities, arthritis, sciatica and low back pain, allergy, asthma, eye, ear, nose and throat disease, cardiac irregularities, pressure on the prostate, and pathological changes in the breasts, mental sluggishness, loss of concentration, irritability, exaggerated introspection, obsessions, excessive worry, and more! Without the breakdown of food—which actually starts with your saliva, then in the stomach and duodenum, the breakdown of health begins.
When your digestive tract is not functioning properly, your body has to make room to accommodate that growing pile of putrefied waste, which can harden and cause your colon to significantly expand in size to become what is referred to as a ‘mega-colon' and even put pressure on other organs (e.g. prostrate gland).
Will I feel worse or better while detoxing the ‘garbage' out of my system??
Some Possible Detoxification Symptoms:
Clogged sinus
Constipation
Cough
Lack of energy
Fever / Flu symptoms
Gas / Bloating / Diarrhea
Dull headache
High blood pressure
Irritability
Mental fog
Moodiness
Skin rash
Stomachache
Water retention
Excessive sweating
Changing your diet may result in misunderstanding as to what is going on in your body; because sometimes the symptoms are similar to those felt in other health issues. To help in understanding, let's look at playing softball with your kids. If you have not been getting regular exercise, the day after this activity you might not feel so good—tired, sore muscles, stiffness, etc. This is your body reacting to something it is not used to doing. You may also see this same thing when stopping a regular activity—such as if you are a soda pop drinker and stop, you may notice you have less energy or even a headache—your body is reacting to your decision to change .
In the same way, when we make a change in our diet by stopping a bad habit or by eating better, our cells begin releasing the stored toxic substances into the blood stream which are then carried through the circulation system to be eliminated through bowel movements, the kidneys and bladder or through the skin. Often those with impaired liver or kidney function will find their skin, the largest elimination organ, releasing toxins through sweating and may even break out in a rash in their body's attempt to get rid of toxins quickly. Of course,
exercise will help detoxify by stimulating the lymphatic fluid movement, with the accompanying deeper breathing that helps eliminate toxins and enhance the immune system. You may also find that once the toxins are diminished or gone, you absorb substances more easily. Thus sugar or caffeine, etc. might really set you off considerably more than before you started your positive changes. You may also find that the symptoms come in repeat cycles, feeling great, then detoxing symptoms, feeling great and then detoxing symptoms, as the body “goes deeper” to find more toxins to eliminate. Realize that your body is simply cleaning and correcting itself naturally. This is commonly referred to as a ‘healing crisis'. If you find this too symptomatic, you may increase your Herb Cocktail to go through the process faster, or you may decrease it to have lesser symptoms, which stretches out the detox period, but it may make the detoxification process more comfortable.
Conclusion:
Obviously, the best thing to do is to commit yourself to a change in your diet by decreasing or eliminating refined flours, cooked carbohydrates, sugars, processed foods, items with partially hydrogenated oils, and fried foods, etc. In contrast, help your whole system by increasing the amount of good water you drink, increasing raw vegetables and fruits in your regime by making delicious salads, raw soups, etc, and also by consistent good exercise.
Be consistent in taking your Herb Cocktail powder or capsules twice daily. Herb Cocktail is one of the most effective support and cleansing products available because it honours the electrical formula of each plant used—it contains various sources of dietary fibre, a special combination of herbs, and it is Electrically Available รข for the electricity of your body to recognize as food. Formulation is everything–and it is important to have a variety of dietary fibres, since different types of fibre add different benefits to the bowel. Herb Cocktail is non-habit forming, and the primary action is not the normal ‘hydraulic effect' of other cleansers. It is one of the most effective support and cleansing products available today. The various special herbs and herbal combinations used by Avena Originals are efficient, desirable, and recognized by Master Herbalists to be extremely beneficial in dealing with a wide range of gastro-intestinal problems—and have been used in this way for hundreds of years.
Bowel problems do not happen overnight, so do allow time for your body to correct its situation. T herefore, prevention must be a sustained, consistent, effort over the course of your lifetime. In other words, you need to begin making the necessary changes now, and continue with them for the rest of your life. Your body always goes for quality, so when food coming in is of higher quality for building than the present cells had, the body will discard the present cells to make room for those created by the higher-quality food. It is suggested that when you fill your plate at mealtime, 80% of the food on it be raw and the other 20% may be cooked (such as protein). The key here is to keep it simple—but also have fun!
We hope this has highlighted the importance of cleansing the body – Start with paying attention to what you are eating, ensure that it is digested (Avena's N-Zymes), and that you are drinking plenty of good water. Be sure you include Avena's Herb Cocktail twice daily on an empty stomach with good juice or good water if necessary.
Remember that old familiar saying—‘an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure'? There is no doubt in our mind that if we are consistent in providing our bodies the ability to cleanse daily and at the same time giving the bowels healthy support, we will see a rapid increase in the quality of our health, and a steady decline in the kinds and types of dis-eases and dis-orders that unnecessarily afflict our bodies in today's toxic world.
Sources: “ Come Alive ” by Dr Bernard Jensen; Michael O'Brien, Researcher & Formulator
Bowel Toxemia—yuck! Health problems linked to an unhealthy colon? Does immunity boost really start in the colon? Do you want to help take years off your face and put a spring back into your step? Good health is based on an understanding of what truly causes the many health problems plaguing us today. Our digestive system is the first line of defense against illness, and yet the most often ignored—until there is a problem. Using a very effective bowel cleanse and support daily–Avena's Herb Cocktail–is crucial.
The human suffering and the social, medical, and economic costs of gastro-intestinal diseases and disorders represent a huge share of our annual health care expenditure and loss in productivity. Up to 100 million North Americans suffer from intermittent forms of digestive or alimentary canal diseases with the estimated total cost in lost work, lost wages, and medical costs at over $50 billion per year. It is estimated that some 200,000 workers miss work every day due to digestive problems—more than any other group of disorders!
The annual sales of prescription and over-the-counter drug products used for digestive diseases are approximately $2 - 2.5 billion per year, and have been growing at a steady 10% rate over the last decade. The following breakdown, a "barometer" of sorts, adequately demonstrates the fact that these problems are a significant public health problem, contributing substantially to overall health care costs.
Laxatives $850 - 900 million Antidiarrheals $100 million
Antihemorrhoidals $250 million Antacids $1 billion
The number one immunological organ in your body is your colon. It contributes to good health, vitality, and longevity. When toxic wastes are allowed to accumulate, they will contribute strongly to poor health, low energy, and serious health problems--which then start a whole host of other health problems. Cancer of the colon and rectum (Colorectal Cancer) is the second most common form of cancer overall in the United States (exceeded only by lung cancer). This year alone, there will be approximately 150,000 new cases and approximately 60,000 related deaths. Perhaps as many as one in every 10 of today's Americans will die of this disease.
Other obvious health problems directly related to the colon include:
- appendicitis (it is estimated that more than 300,000 appendixes are removed each year)
- diverticular disease (Diverticulitis/Diverticulosis-reported to be present in more than one-third of those over 40, and in up to two-thirds of those who are over 80 years of age)
- hemorrhoids (believed to be present to some degree in nearly half of those over 45 years of age)
- benign tumors (reported to be present in 1/3 of all autopsies done on patients over the age of 20)
- bloating
- gas
- fatigue
- bad breath
- diarrhea
- heartburn
- indigestion
- body odor
- headaches
- depression
- abnormal bleeding
- coated tongue
- acid reflux
- mental dullness
- aches, pains
- constipation
- low energy levels
- weight problems
Less obvious results of accumulated toxic waste in your colon are tumours, cysts, polyps, fibroids, and high cholesterol. As your eating habits worsen, so does your elimination efficiency. If you are eating 2 to 3 normal size meals, you should have 2 or 3 bowel movements a day. Additionally, a normal bowel movement should be over ½ the width of your wrist; from your elbow to your wrist in length (we are all built in proportion to that); and, because everything in it has been properly digested, it should float; it should not soil the tissue paper; it should be easy to pass; be a medium brown colour (no old dark material); it should not have a foul smell; and you should not have smelly gas. Now there's a goal! Ignoring any warning signs is costly!
Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Ulcerative Colitis, Crohn's disease, and that's not all…
Many, if not most, of the list of disorders mentioned are characteristic of modern Western civilization. Available evidence suggests that most, if not all of these disorders were rare or uncommon in the Western world less than one hundred years ago and that the prevalence of each has greatly increased during the last 50 years. Researchers (such as Cleave, Trowell, Burkitt, and others) have known these diseases are almost unheard of in the communities that still adhere to their traditional way of life. In developing countries in Asia and Africa, for example, documented evidence has proven the rarity of diseases such as diverticular disease, appendicitis, bowel cancer, adenomatous polyps (multiple glandular tissue overgrowths), ulcerative colitis, varicose veins, deep vein thrombosis (clots), pulmonary embolism, hemorrhoids, and hiatus hernia, appendicitis, ischemic heart disease, diabetes, gallstones, varicose veins, venous thrombosis, and hemorrhoids.
But as these countries develop and begin to adopt Western customs, a rise in the frequency of these disorders follows almost just as surely as night follows day. They first appear, and then become common, in the upper socioeconomic groups and in the more urbanized communities (which are, of course, the first groups to become “Westernized"). For example, this has been the case in Africa and then in Japan since World War II, particularly in the urban communities. As a result of years of investigations, the evidence supports not an environmental factor, but what the researchers say is the "F-Hypothesis" (‘F' for fibre).
After a 25-year study of over 5,000 cases, the New York People's Hospital stated that “every physician should realize the intestinal toxemia is the most important primary and contributing causes of many disorders and diseases of the human body” and that “one must note that such toxemia is at the root of more problems than commonly imagined or suspected”.
In the past it was thought the large intestine was not really involved in absorption (the principal absorptive functions being to conserve water and electrolytes secreted into the gut during digestion). However, recent research has demonstrated that the colon does also participate in protein absorption, among other things.
Toxic Megacolon
his is extremely significant as the colon is the major exposure site most of the endogenous bacterial proteins, enterotoxins, and the breakdown-antigens, which may be involved in the origination and development of a number of diseases—including ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, food allergies and allergic gastoenteropathy, bacterial enteritis (from toxins produced by Escherichia coli, Shigella, or Vibro cholerae, etc.), and certain extra-intestinal immune-complex diseases.
Immune disorders, resulting from the interaction of circulating antibodies with absorbed antigenic protein (particularly those bad bacterial breakdown-antigens originating in the colon), have been implicated in the development of even some forms of chronic active hepatitis, glomerulonephritis (a kidney problem), myocarditi (inflammation of heart muscle), and also the arthritis that is associated with inflammatory bowel diseases. Even a role in the origins of celiac disease and of collagen-vascular diseases (such as systemic lupus
erythematosis) has been suggested. As research continues, the bowel-toxemia ‘you-need-to-keep-the-sewer-pipes-open' school will be completely vindicated as correct.
As we live, we pour a lot of toxins down our gullets and our bodies do not always handle them well so they accumulate. Unfriendly microbes, non-utilized foods, toxic metals and chemicals, and carcinogenic agents can get gummed up inside our digestive tracts and begin to cause problems. Of course if we smoke or use alcohol, we are accumulating considerably more toxins.
Enzymes create the necessary digestion and with Friendly Flora probiotics help protect the bowels and absorb the nutrients. Without digestion you create the one and only real basic disease—Intestinal Toxemia. Generally intestinal toxemia manifests itself as one of even more symptoms than those already listed: nervousness, endocrine disturbances, neuro-circulatory abnormalities, arthritis, sciatica and low back pain, allergy, asthma, eye, ear, nose and throat disease, cardiac irregularities, pressure on the prostate, and pathological changes in the breasts, mental sluggishness, loss of concentration, irritability, exaggerated introspection, obsessions, excessive worry, and more! Without the breakdown of food—which actually starts with your saliva, then in the stomach and duodenum, the breakdown of health begins.
When your digestive tract is not functioning properly, your body has to make room to accommodate that growing pile of putrefied waste, which can harden and cause your colon to significantly expand in size to become what is referred to as a ‘mega-colon' and even put pressure on other organs (e.g. prostrate gland).
Will I feel worse or better while detoxing the ‘garbage' out of my system??
Some Possible Detoxification Symptoms:
Clogged sinus
Constipation
Cough
Lack of energy
Fever / Flu symptoms
Gas / Bloating / Diarrhea
Dull headache
High blood pressure
Irritability
Mental fog
Moodiness
Skin rash
Stomachache
Water retention
Excessive sweating
Changing your diet may result in misunderstanding as to what is going on in your body; because sometimes the symptoms are similar to those felt in other health issues. To help in understanding, let's look at playing softball with your kids. If you have not been getting regular exercise, the day after this activity you might not feel so good—tired, sore muscles, stiffness, etc. This is your body reacting to something it is not used to doing. You may also see this same thing when stopping a regular activity—such as if you are a soda pop drinker and stop, you may notice you have less energy or even a headache—your body is reacting to your decision to change .
In the same way, when we make a change in our diet by stopping a bad habit or by eating better, our cells begin releasing the stored toxic substances into the blood stream which are then carried through the circulation system to be eliminated through bowel movements, the kidneys and bladder or through the skin. Often those with impaired liver or kidney function will find their skin, the largest elimination organ, releasing toxins through sweating and may even break out in a rash in their body's attempt to get rid of toxins quickly. Of course,
exercise will help detoxify by stimulating the lymphatic fluid movement, with the accompanying deeper breathing that helps eliminate toxins and enhance the immune system. You may also find that once the toxins are diminished or gone, you absorb substances more easily. Thus sugar or caffeine, etc. might really set you off considerably more than before you started your positive changes. You may also find that the symptoms come in repeat cycles, feeling great, then detoxing symptoms, feeling great and then detoxing symptoms, as the body “goes deeper” to find more toxins to eliminate. Realize that your body is simply cleaning and correcting itself naturally. This is commonly referred to as a ‘healing crisis'. If you find this too symptomatic, you may increase your Herb Cocktail to go through the process faster, or you may decrease it to have lesser symptoms, which stretches out the detox period, but it may make the detoxification process more comfortable.
Conclusion:
Obviously, the best thing to do is to commit yourself to a change in your diet by decreasing or eliminating refined flours, cooked carbohydrates, sugars, processed foods, items with partially hydrogenated oils, and fried foods, etc. In contrast, help your whole system by increasing the amount of good water you drink, increasing raw vegetables and fruits in your regime by making delicious salads, raw soups, etc, and also by consistent good exercise.
Be consistent in taking your Herb Cocktail powder or capsules twice daily. Herb Cocktail is one of the most effective support and cleansing products available because it honours the electrical formula of each plant used—it contains various sources of dietary fibre, a special combination of herbs, and it is Electrically Available รข for the electricity of your body to recognize as food. Formulation is everything–and it is important to have a variety of dietary fibres, since different types of fibre add different benefits to the bowel. Herb Cocktail is non-habit forming, and the primary action is not the normal ‘hydraulic effect' of other cleansers. It is one of the most effective support and cleansing products available today. The various special herbs and herbal combinations used by Avena Originals are efficient, desirable, and recognized by Master Herbalists to be extremely beneficial in dealing with a wide range of gastro-intestinal problems—and have been used in this way for hundreds of years.
Bowel problems do not happen overnight, so do allow time for your body to correct its situation. T herefore, prevention must be a sustained, consistent, effort over the course of your lifetime. In other words, you need to begin making the necessary changes now, and continue with them for the rest of your life. Your body always goes for quality, so when food coming in is of higher quality for building than the present cells had, the body will discard the present cells to make room for those created by the higher-quality food. It is suggested that when you fill your plate at mealtime, 80% of the food on it be raw and the other 20% may be cooked (such as protein). The key here is to keep it simple—but also have fun!
We hope this has highlighted the importance of cleansing the body – Start with paying attention to what you are eating, ensure that it is digested (Avena's N-Zymes), and that you are drinking plenty of good water. Be sure you include Avena's Herb Cocktail twice daily on an empty stomach with good juice or good water if necessary.
Remember that old familiar saying—‘an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure'? There is no doubt in our mind that if we are consistent in providing our bodies the ability to cleanse daily and at the same time giving the bowels healthy support, we will see a rapid increase in the quality of our health, and a steady decline in the kinds and types of dis-eases and dis-orders that unnecessarily afflict our bodies in today's toxic world.
Sources: “ Come Alive ” by Dr Bernard Jensen; Michael O'Brien, Researcher & Formulator
Monday, February 14, 2011
Individual Enzymes
Individual Cultured Enzymes
ENZYMES—the Key to Life! Every living thing depends on enzymes. Enzymes are especially valuable in producing the energy required to run our bodies, and are essential for digestion. They help our bodies break down the foods we eat so that the nutrients can be utilized. When we have eaten cooked or processed food (which destroys most enzymes) our bodies actually sacrifice their own metabolic enzymes to digest that food. Our bodies contain a limited amount of “enzyme potential”– our ‘enzyme bank’ for metabolic ability, which has to last us a lifetime. To maintain our optimumenzyme potential for metabolism etc., we really only have two choices when it comes to digestion:
- Eat only foods high in natural enzymes, such as fresh raw fruits, vegetables, nut, seeds and berries, or
- Use supplemental plant-based enzymes to offset those lost in cooking or processing.
Avena’s N-Zymes are plant-based, multiple, full-spectrum, high-potency, high activity level cultured Enzymes active in a wide pH-range. Designed to assist the body in the assimilation and utilization of food nutrients, they should be taken with meals to replace the naturally-occurring enzymes lost during cooking and processing. They perform many different jobs including biological reactions in the body, without themselves being changed or destroyed. Unlike vitamins and minerals, enzymes are used over and over again by the body until completely utilized. Because they are the kick-starters for the chemical reactions involved in breathing, growth, reproduction, blood coagulation, regenerating, healing, combating disease, and every action and reaction that goes on in our bodies, it is vitally important for us to also take Avena N-Zymes on an empty stomach in between meals. You might say that if your body was a construction site, N-Zymes would be the Prime Contractors, ensuring that the ‘workers’ (friendly bacteria) and the building materials (vitamins, minerals, amino acids) are utilized in order for the job to be completed. One of the first, or most obvious signs of an enzyme deficiency is poor or disturbed digestion, including excess gas, indigestion, heartburn, diarrhea and constipation, premature skin wrinkles, joint stiffness, gray hair, or a decrease in or a general lack of energy—these should not be accepted as ‘signs of aging’ as we are often lead to believe! Avena’s GASTRIC N-Zymes are multiple plant-based cultured Enzymes minus the protease, providing high potency enzymes and herbals to assist our bodies in healing gastric conditions, or sensitive stomachs as a preparation towards being able to utilize Avena’s full spectrum multi N-Zymes. Gastric N-Zymes are intended to be taken with meals to replace naturally occurring enzymes lost during processing and cooking.
Consider Enzyme Therapy with Avena’s Individual Cultured Enzymes:
Amylase is excellent for ingestion between meals when amylase deficiencies may be detected. Amylase enzymes break down carbohydrates (such as grains, bread, potatoes, noodles, pasta), and may be beneficial in cases of asthma, hay fever, air-borne allergies, joint immobility, insect bites, & poison oak/ivy, skin eruptions, acne, rashes, histamine
reactions, mood swings, PMS, depression, fatigue, hot flashes, writer’s cramps, neck and shoulder aches, and sinusconditions. Amylase will also help ease muscle soreness and pain following exercise.
Protease is intended for ingestion between meals when protein deficiencies may be detected. Protease digests protein (such as meats, fish, eggs) breaking it down into smaller units called amino acids. Not only protein from food, but also organisms composed of protein such as the protective coating on certain viruses or tumours, and toxins from
dead bacteria, etc, found at any sites of injury or inflammation. Protease may be beneficial in cases of infection, fever, lowered immune response, hypoglycemia, PMS, osteoporosis, candida, high blood pressure, constipation, insomnia, hearing loss, gingivitis, colds/flu’s, back problems, and acute traumatic injuries. Protease helps purify the blood.
Lipase is excellent for ingestion between meals to break down lipids and neutral fats (triglycerides) into glycerol and fatty acids. Lipase is important for cell permeability. Before Lipase can digest fat, bile (an emulsifier or degreaser) must break down the fat into smaller units. People who are low in HCl cannot make adequate bile for this complete
process. As these are inter-related, lipase and protease deficiencies also contribute to low HCl. Lipase is beneficial in chronic inflammatory conditions, lymphatic swelling, joint pain with swelling, or acne. Excellent results are experienced when used in weight management programs. Lipase deficiencies may show up as psoriasis, gallstones, cystitis (bladder infection), heart problems, incontinence, diarrhea, etc.Faulty fat digestion in the digestive tract because of poor lipase activity is often a factor in cardiovascular diseases, such as the cholesterol that is similar to fat which can clog arteries. The fat in animal and fowl tissue contains lipase, as do some plants such as avocados and coconuts. However modern butter, for example, lacks the lipase of unpasteurized butter. In fact, fat in human obesity and in fatty tumors contain less lipase than does normal fatty
tissue! When fats are eaten along with their associated enzymes the arteries and heart do not suffer.
Cellulase increases intestinal absorption of nutrients and is intended for ingestion between meals. It digests soluble fiber that is eventually converted to glucose. It is the only enzyme that our bodies cannot produce, therefore it must be obtained from food sources (all raw fruits, veggies, whole grains), or from plant-based enzyme supplements. It may be beneficial in cases of food allergies, toxicity, chemical blockage, mental fog, metal taste in mouth, liver swelling/pain, drug withdrawal, inability to digest raw foods and nuts, a yeast overgrowth from sugar intolerance (helps digest yeast-fungi), and pain syndromes. Cellulase helps to digest certain neurotoxins in the colon that would cause facial pain or facial paralysis (Bell’s palsy). Cellulase transports nutrients into our cells while transporting toxins (including heavy metals) out of our cells. According to the Surgeon General’s report on nutrition and health, 8 out of 10 leading causes of death in the USA are diet related! This fact points to the ‘average’ diet as the reason for our high rate of degenerative diseases. Wild animals are incapable of ‘firing’ foods (cooking is the biggest difference between their food and ours), and they are virtually free of diseases such as Cancer, AIDS, Diabetes, etc. However, when kept in captivity and fed a diet of ‘fired’, preserved foods, they surprisingly develop the same disease conditions as humans! Realizing this gives us the knowledge to reverse our dis-ease conditions by improving our daily dietary habits.So, let’s look at the differences between ‘fired-foods’ and living raw foods. Upon cooking, proteins, fats, and fibre,
though still present are seriously altered. Some vitamins and minerals may be replaced by fortification duringprocessing stages. But what about the naturally-occurring enzyme factors naturally found in all foods before cooking,processing, or preservation? Research has proven that heating at temperatures above 118 degrees destroys virtually all
naturally-occurring enzymes in food! And as society continues to suffer the effects of an enzyme-deficient diet, wesee it is too costly to our health and quality of life to ignore the negative effects of ‘dead’ food.
Enzymes power all physical movement, regulate organ function, generate the immune system, and help to digest our food. Even thinking and breathing depend on enzymes! Without the required enzymes in our food to sustain dietary integrity, our body is forced to continually sacrifice its “enzyme bank”. Continual robbing of our metabolic enzymes for digestion purposes sacrifices the integrity of our immune system–. This is clearly shown by our high rate of immune-related diseases (Dr. Kutchacoff, “The Effects of Food Cooking on the Blood Formulas of Man”). Without proper assimilation and utilization of nutrients in the gastric stomach area, the result is poorly digested, or worse, undigested foods moving into the colon, putrefying while creating extremely toxic by-products on the long trip to excretion. Life-giving enzymes within food (or introduced as a supplement at the beginning of your meal) have the ability to begin, and even complete the digestion of food adequately—well before the body would be required to draw upon its own bank of enzymes. However, in the absence of enzymes, any remaining undigested material bypasses the uptake sites (villi) in our small intestines, collecting in the colon. Enzymes called from the pancreas by the pituitary gland are soon exhausted, leaving undigested foods to bacterial toxic breakdown and putrefaction—producing toxic byproducts! These toxic by-products are then re-absorbed by the body, creating an even greater strain on an already overtaxed system (referred to as intestinal toxemia, which is associated with aging, degeneration and disease). Our livers, when working well, remove many of these harmful toxins, only to empty them directly back into the intestine! Toxins not handled by the liver get released for general circulation throughout the body.
Proteins are the building blocks for the body and are necessary for the transport of vitamins and minerals to the bloodstream, and are required in order for the body to make hormones and enzymes. A weakened pancreas fails to deliver the necessary proteins to the needed areas, contributing to degeneration. Without utilizable forms of protein, our bodies must use raw materials from our inner sources (catabolism) in order to function. An extensive study by Dr. Henry Pottenger revealed that ‘enzyme potential’ is passed in genetic structure from one generation to the next. Groups of cats fed only raw enzyme-rich foods passed their abilities for high potential levels of enzymes to their younger generations. While groups fed only cooked enzyme-void foods rapidly deteriorated and passed their deterioration into the genetic structure of their offspring. Quite clearly, adequate levels of enzymes are
essential in order for our bodies to utilize proteins, vitamins, and minerals. Enzymes truly are the KEY to life!
Assist your body by eating more fresh, raw and living foods, preferably in season and hopefully grown locally; buying foods with a “fresh” smell (as in tomatoes); trying to buy rganically grown foods, buying the “whole” fruit or vegetable instead of cut food where enzymatic changes have been initiated. When cutting your food at home for serving, slice it on a slant or angle to help preserve its electrical viability. Supplement your meals with Avena’s multi N-Zymes. Consider enzyme therapy using Avena’s Individual Cultured Enzymes in between meals on an empty stomach along with multi N-Zymes when the need is indicated.
For vibrant health—Avena’s full-spectrum Cultured Enzymes—active in acid or alkaline conditions!
ENZYMES—the Key to Life! Every living thing depends on enzymes. Enzymes are especially valuable in producing the energy required to run our bodies, and are essential for digestion. They help our bodies break down the foods we eat so that the nutrients can be utilized. When we have eaten cooked or processed food (which destroys most enzymes) our bodies actually sacrifice their own metabolic enzymes to digest that food. Our bodies contain a limited amount of “enzyme potential”– our ‘enzyme bank’ for metabolic ability, which has to last us a lifetime. To maintain our optimumenzyme potential for metabolism etc., we really only have two choices when it comes to digestion:
- Eat only foods high in natural enzymes, such as fresh raw fruits, vegetables, nut, seeds and berries, or
- Use supplemental plant-based enzymes to offset those lost in cooking or processing.
Avena’s N-Zymes are plant-based, multiple, full-spectrum, high-potency, high activity level cultured Enzymes active in a wide pH-range. Designed to assist the body in the assimilation and utilization of food nutrients, they should be taken with meals to replace the naturally-occurring enzymes lost during cooking and processing. They perform many different jobs including biological reactions in the body, without themselves being changed or destroyed. Unlike vitamins and minerals, enzymes are used over and over again by the body until completely utilized. Because they are the kick-starters for the chemical reactions involved in breathing, growth, reproduction, blood coagulation, regenerating, healing, combating disease, and every action and reaction that goes on in our bodies, it is vitally important for us to also take Avena N-Zymes on an empty stomach in between meals. You might say that if your body was a construction site, N-Zymes would be the Prime Contractors, ensuring that the ‘workers’ (friendly bacteria) and the building materials (vitamins, minerals, amino acids) are utilized in order for the job to be completed. One of the first, or most obvious signs of an enzyme deficiency is poor or disturbed digestion, including excess gas, indigestion, heartburn, diarrhea and constipation, premature skin wrinkles, joint stiffness, gray hair, or a decrease in or a general lack of energy—these should not be accepted as ‘signs of aging’ as we are often lead to believe! Avena’s GASTRIC N-Zymes are multiple plant-based cultured Enzymes minus the protease, providing high potency enzymes and herbals to assist our bodies in healing gastric conditions, or sensitive stomachs as a preparation towards being able to utilize Avena’s full spectrum multi N-Zymes. Gastric N-Zymes are intended to be taken with meals to replace naturally occurring enzymes lost during processing and cooking.
Consider Enzyme Therapy with Avena’s Individual Cultured Enzymes:
Amylase is excellent for ingestion between meals when amylase deficiencies may be detected. Amylase enzymes break down carbohydrates (such as grains, bread, potatoes, noodles, pasta), and may be beneficial in cases of asthma, hay fever, air-borne allergies, joint immobility, insect bites, & poison oak/ivy, skin eruptions, acne, rashes, histamine
reactions, mood swings, PMS, depression, fatigue, hot flashes, writer’s cramps, neck and shoulder aches, and sinusconditions. Amylase will also help ease muscle soreness and pain following exercise.
Protease is intended for ingestion between meals when protein deficiencies may be detected. Protease digests protein (such as meats, fish, eggs) breaking it down into smaller units called amino acids. Not only protein from food, but also organisms composed of protein such as the protective coating on certain viruses or tumours, and toxins from
dead bacteria, etc, found at any sites of injury or inflammation. Protease may be beneficial in cases of infection, fever, lowered immune response, hypoglycemia, PMS, osteoporosis, candida, high blood pressure, constipation, insomnia, hearing loss, gingivitis, colds/flu’s, back problems, and acute traumatic injuries. Protease helps purify the blood.
Lipase is excellent for ingestion between meals to break down lipids and neutral fats (triglycerides) into glycerol and fatty acids. Lipase is important for cell permeability. Before Lipase can digest fat, bile (an emulsifier or degreaser) must break down the fat into smaller units. People who are low in HCl cannot make adequate bile for this complete
process. As these are inter-related, lipase and protease deficiencies also contribute to low HCl. Lipase is beneficial in chronic inflammatory conditions, lymphatic swelling, joint pain with swelling, or acne. Excellent results are experienced when used in weight management programs. Lipase deficiencies may show up as psoriasis, gallstones, cystitis (bladder infection), heart problems, incontinence, diarrhea, etc.Faulty fat digestion in the digestive tract because of poor lipase activity is often a factor in cardiovascular diseases, such as the cholesterol that is similar to fat which can clog arteries. The fat in animal and fowl tissue contains lipase, as do some plants such as avocados and coconuts. However modern butter, for example, lacks the lipase of unpasteurized butter. In fact, fat in human obesity and in fatty tumors contain less lipase than does normal fatty
tissue! When fats are eaten along with their associated enzymes the arteries and heart do not suffer.
Cellulase increases intestinal absorption of nutrients and is intended for ingestion between meals. It digests soluble fiber that is eventually converted to glucose. It is the only enzyme that our bodies cannot produce, therefore it must be obtained from food sources (all raw fruits, veggies, whole grains), or from plant-based enzyme supplements. It may be beneficial in cases of food allergies, toxicity, chemical blockage, mental fog, metal taste in mouth, liver swelling/pain, drug withdrawal, inability to digest raw foods and nuts, a yeast overgrowth from sugar intolerance (helps digest yeast-fungi), and pain syndromes. Cellulase helps to digest certain neurotoxins in the colon that would cause facial pain or facial paralysis (Bell’s palsy). Cellulase transports nutrients into our cells while transporting toxins (including heavy metals) out of our cells. According to the Surgeon General’s report on nutrition and health, 8 out of 10 leading causes of death in the USA are diet related! This fact points to the ‘average’ diet as the reason for our high rate of degenerative diseases. Wild animals are incapable of ‘firing’ foods (cooking is the biggest difference between their food and ours), and they are virtually free of diseases such as Cancer, AIDS, Diabetes, etc. However, when kept in captivity and fed a diet of ‘fired’, preserved foods, they surprisingly develop the same disease conditions as humans! Realizing this gives us the knowledge to reverse our dis-ease conditions by improving our daily dietary habits.So, let’s look at the differences between ‘fired-foods’ and living raw foods. Upon cooking, proteins, fats, and fibre,
though still present are seriously altered. Some vitamins and minerals may be replaced by fortification duringprocessing stages. But what about the naturally-occurring enzyme factors naturally found in all foods before cooking,processing, or preservation? Research has proven that heating at temperatures above 118 degrees destroys virtually all
naturally-occurring enzymes in food! And as society continues to suffer the effects of an enzyme-deficient diet, wesee it is too costly to our health and quality of life to ignore the negative effects of ‘dead’ food.
Enzymes power all physical movement, regulate organ function, generate the immune system, and help to digest our food. Even thinking and breathing depend on enzymes! Without the required enzymes in our food to sustain dietary integrity, our body is forced to continually sacrifice its “enzyme bank”. Continual robbing of our metabolic enzymes for digestion purposes sacrifices the integrity of our immune system–. This is clearly shown by our high rate of immune-related diseases (Dr. Kutchacoff, “The Effects of Food Cooking on the Blood Formulas of Man”). Without proper assimilation and utilization of nutrients in the gastric stomach area, the result is poorly digested, or worse, undigested foods moving into the colon, putrefying while creating extremely toxic by-products on the long trip to excretion. Life-giving enzymes within food (or introduced as a supplement at the beginning of your meal) have the ability to begin, and even complete the digestion of food adequately—well before the body would be required to draw upon its own bank of enzymes. However, in the absence of enzymes, any remaining undigested material bypasses the uptake sites (villi) in our small intestines, collecting in the colon. Enzymes called from the pancreas by the pituitary gland are soon exhausted, leaving undigested foods to bacterial toxic breakdown and putrefaction—producing toxic byproducts! These toxic by-products are then re-absorbed by the body, creating an even greater strain on an already overtaxed system (referred to as intestinal toxemia, which is associated with aging, degeneration and disease). Our livers, when working well, remove many of these harmful toxins, only to empty them directly back into the intestine! Toxins not handled by the liver get released for general circulation throughout the body.
Proteins are the building blocks for the body and are necessary for the transport of vitamins and minerals to the bloodstream, and are required in order for the body to make hormones and enzymes. A weakened pancreas fails to deliver the necessary proteins to the needed areas, contributing to degeneration. Without utilizable forms of protein, our bodies must use raw materials from our inner sources (catabolism) in order to function. An extensive study by Dr. Henry Pottenger revealed that ‘enzyme potential’ is passed in genetic structure from one generation to the next. Groups of cats fed only raw enzyme-rich foods passed their abilities for high potential levels of enzymes to their younger generations. While groups fed only cooked enzyme-void foods rapidly deteriorated and passed their deterioration into the genetic structure of their offspring. Quite clearly, adequate levels of enzymes are
essential in order for our bodies to utilize proteins, vitamins, and minerals. Enzymes truly are the KEY to life!
Assist your body by eating more fresh, raw and living foods, preferably in season and hopefully grown locally; buying foods with a “fresh” smell (as in tomatoes); trying to buy rganically grown foods, buying the “whole” fruit or vegetable instead of cut food where enzymatic changes have been initiated. When cutting your food at home for serving, slice it on a slant or angle to help preserve its electrical viability. Supplement your meals with Avena’s multi N-Zymes. Consider enzyme therapy using Avena’s Individual Cultured Enzymes in between meals on an empty stomach along with multi N-Zymes when the need is indicated.
For vibrant health—Avena’s full-spectrum Cultured Enzymes—active in acid or alkaline conditions!
Monday, February 7, 2011
Focus on a Healing Diet
Focus on a Healing Diet
Every time you eat you can do something good for your health. You can always use your food as medicine. The food we eat changes our weight, mood and our outlook on life. The old saying still rings true.. We literally are what we eat. And eating is one thing we have control over every day for our health. Here are three (3) important tips to help you get started:
Promise yourself whole foods for your healing diet. Whole foods keep you whole. Today, we live in a man-made jungle of food substances instead of foods – many of them highly processed, devoid of nutrients, chemical-laced, sugar-drenched and full of hidden fat. Eat whole grains rather flour products; focus on fresh organic fruits and vegetables for healing enzymes and nutrients. Eating out of a box or eating lots of chemically treated, microwaved foods on a regular basis doesn’t give your body what it needs. These foods only add to the toxic burden already on your body.
Go organic. Organically grown foods are popular and easily available today. Organic food sales totaled $2.4 billion in 1995 and the market is growing 25% each year. Soils that aren’t treated with synthetic chemicals grow healthier plants that taste better and contain more nutrients. Organic food almost certainly helps protect you from cancer. We’ve known this since the 80’s. A 1987 study by the National Academy of Sciences showed that pesticides on commercial product probably cause up to 1.4 million cancer cases in Americans. Sadly, our children are affected first. The average U.S. child receives 4 times more exposure than an adult to cancer-causing pesticides in food!
Eat with the seasons you live in. If you look closely, you’ll find that Nature provides what is needed for each part of the year-fruits in the summer for cooling, and root vegetables in the winter for building, Eating fruits and vegetables as they are harvested in your own area is a wonderful way to keep a closer touch with where you are and who you are.
Get Back To Nature With Whole Foods
You aren’t going to find anything natural about Parma-foods, or any type of refined processed foods that have been fortified with nutrients. These nutrients are only a small portion of the whole food – and will never do for you what these wonderful whole foods that are full of nutraceuticals can do. When we eat foods that are locally grown or from our own garden, not only will we have better health and more energy – this way of living does wonders for harmony of mind and body – a step toward keeping the balance around us right and reminding us that we are all part of the natural chain.
Every time you eat you can do something good for your health. You can always use your food as medicine. The food we eat changes our weight, mood and our outlook on life. The old saying still rings true.. We literally are what we eat. And eating is one thing we have control over every day for our health. Here are three (3) important tips to help you get started:
Promise yourself whole foods for your healing diet. Whole foods keep you whole. Today, we live in a man-made jungle of food substances instead of foods – many of them highly processed, devoid of nutrients, chemical-laced, sugar-drenched and full of hidden fat. Eat whole grains rather flour products; focus on fresh organic fruits and vegetables for healing enzymes and nutrients. Eating out of a box or eating lots of chemically treated, microwaved foods on a regular basis doesn’t give your body what it needs. These foods only add to the toxic burden already on your body.
Go organic. Organically grown foods are popular and easily available today. Organic food sales totaled $2.4 billion in 1995 and the market is growing 25% each year. Soils that aren’t treated with synthetic chemicals grow healthier plants that taste better and contain more nutrients. Organic food almost certainly helps protect you from cancer. We’ve known this since the 80’s. A 1987 study by the National Academy of Sciences showed that pesticides on commercial product probably cause up to 1.4 million cancer cases in Americans. Sadly, our children are affected first. The average U.S. child receives 4 times more exposure than an adult to cancer-causing pesticides in food!
Eat with the seasons you live in. If you look closely, you’ll find that Nature provides what is needed for each part of the year-fruits in the summer for cooling, and root vegetables in the winter for building, Eating fruits and vegetables as they are harvested in your own area is a wonderful way to keep a closer touch with where you are and who you are.
Get Back To Nature With Whole Foods
You aren’t going to find anything natural about Parma-foods, or any type of refined processed foods that have been fortified with nutrients. These nutrients are only a small portion of the whole food – and will never do for you what these wonderful whole foods that are full of nutraceuticals can do. When we eat foods that are locally grown or from our own garden, not only will we have better health and more energy – this way of living does wonders for harmony of mind and body – a step toward keeping the balance around us right and reminding us that we are all part of the natural chain.
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