Sleep—Needed for Optimum Wellness

Problem
We live in a fast-paced world, filled with technology that consumes us and projects that drive us. Our desire to get the most out of every day pushes us to compromise on a very important aspect of health—sleep.

Thinking you can get by on a few hours of sleep, you push ahead and grab the coffee or energy drink to prop yourself up. It becomes such an ingrained pattern, you fool yourself into thinking you can do this. Who needs sleep?

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Wisdom Wednesday

Tip:
How to make your own almond milk. This video shows how easy it is:

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Butternut Squash, Shiitake Mushrooms & Kale Soup

You are gonna love the taste of this immune-boosting soup. It's better than chicken soup, especially when you're feeling a bit under the weather. It's full of antioxidants and nutrients to help you fight disease—even cancer. While the flu season is still going, make up a batch to fortify your family.

I always have kale on hand as an ingredient for juicing or making smoothies. Don't eat kale you say. Then you need to read how healthy this lovely green vegetable is for you.

This soup calls for julienned kale, which means having it cut into small thin strips. Here's the quick way I do it:

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Conquering Illness: A Personal Story

Jeff Dyrek in Longyearbyen on Spitsbergen Island, Norway

Recently Jeff Dyrek wrote to me to tell his story of how Vitae Elixxir helped him recover from a health condition that doctors were unable to help. During service to his country, a serious accident that should have killed him caused damage to numerous areas of his body and exacted a toll which lasted thirty years. Read Dyrek's story of the accident and what followed. The illusive health condition was killing him with pain—and, for a time, he thought he would die. His personal story of what herbs can do to help the body heal is quite striking. Here is his story

"I now live in Illinois and I'm 59 years old. In 1977 I had a real bad accident while in the Navy. Doctors treated me with all kinds of medicine after only a five-minute exam. 

Nothing worked. In fact, I became very ill from all of the drugs they gave me over many years.

Dyrek with world's most intact woolly mammoth at the North Pole

I had swollen glands—extremely swollen for thirty years. The doctors would all say the same thing, "Well, a lot of people have swollen glands." And then they would make up a disease for me and give me more drugs. 

I was an electronics engineer and I lost my job, my house and everything that I owned because of this illness and gave the doctors countless dollars.

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March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month

Colon Cancer Awareness Campaign
It seems every type of cancer has its own month. For colon cancer, the month of March is devoted to bringing attention to the reality of this killer. Colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related death. And it's the most preventable—in many ways. Is everyone listening now?

Throughout the month there are numerous fun runs/races that support awareness of the disease and raise funds for organizations that do research. March 7th provides a visual element with Dress in Blue Day. Perhaps if you wear a blue shirt, your fellow worker may ask you, "Hey, Fred, why are you wearing blue today?" Then you'll have the opportunity to launch into your pitch about scheduling a screening with your doctor—a primary point of prevention for colon cancer. Okay… maybe if a whole lot of people wear blue on March 7th, you'll get a question like that, but otherwise… not so sure anybody will be noticing.

Colon Cancer Prevention
Okay… enough of that. Cancer is serious, so let's talk seriously. I found this video on the Colon Cancer Alliance website wondering what it would say about prevention. Have a look...

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Exercise: Begin Now & Keep Moving

Exercise is one of the four roots of optimum wellness, but too few of us treat exercise as important for health. How many tell themselves they are too old to start exercise—that's for young people. Well… tell that to Olga Kotelko, who, at 94, began exercising at the age of 77 and hasn't stopped. She is so into exercise that she competes in senior track and field events and has amassed a collection of 200 medals.

Exercise is a key part of a healthy lifestyle. Along with diet, sleep and attitude it's a root to good health. Exercise contributes to being and staying healthy. So what motivates you to get out and exercise? For me, its knowing I feel so much better when I exercise.

My main source of exercise is running. I really don't like running, but I know its a quick way to get exercise with the most benefit. I currently run at a small lake about a mile from my house. The residents keep it interesting—copious Canada geese, a few mallard ducks and groups of coots are visited regularly by several swans, a couple of cranes and sometimes a bald eagle.

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Wisdom Wednesday

Tip:
For Valentine's Day, don't fall for chocolates that are loaded with sugar, which contributes to the risk of dying from heart disease. Love your sweetheart by making them healthy, yummy chocolates for Valentine's Day:

Red Velvet Chocolate Squares Recipe

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Tabouli Salad

Fellow clean eater, Jennie Zraick, often comes up with some simple and delicious recipes. She recently responded to a request to post her Tabouli salad recipe. Like me, Jennie needed to measure out the ingredients since she normally eye-balls the ingredients in true KISS fashion. The Tabouli salad can be modified to your taste, so feel free to experiment.

A key tool she swears by is the multi-blade scissors. It makes quick work of chopping up herbs making it her favorite kitchen tool. Here's a link if you want to purchase one: multi-blade herb scissors.

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The Road to Health Comes Down to Diet

Bad Food = Sick Bodies
It amazes me how people can get a diagnosis of cancer and NOT look at the diet they have been eating as a problem. The more I learn about the human body, the more I am in awe of my Creator.

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Psalm 139:14a

It’s clear to me that our bodies were created to withstand a lot of abuse. There is no man-made thing that would survive the analogous ill-treatment some dish-out to their bodies. Artificial ingredients, hydrogenated oils, chemical sugars… the list of unpronounceable items is endless.

How long would you expect your car to work if you put junk in your gas tank?

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