Keith Henry, N.D.

Below I have reprinted the contents of a newsletter that I receive from health educator Danny Vierra. The principles that he has outlined below are excellent and  if followed you will certainly benefit health wise in the upcoming  year.

Here are some wonderful health guidelines for you to practice in 2011. We are closer to Christ’s coming then ever before, and we need to get in the best shape as possible so we can share the health message with the world and the church. There is no better way of convincing people of God’s health program then by living out the principles in your own life. As people notice your health and energy and see the glow of health on your face, they will want to know what you are doing. Here are the guidelines for 2011 that you can share with them.

1. Eat a whole plant food diet with lots of organic fruits and vegetables from the garden. I always say, “Eat rainbows.” Remember that even the color of the plants have healing power. Such as the red pigment in tomatoes known as lycopene can help preventing prostate cancer. My advice for men is to eat many red fruits and vegetables to avoid prostate problems and cancer. Also a plant-based diet is highly alkaline. Acid foods like meat, dairy, and sugar will make you more vulnerable to disease and cancer.

2. Get 60 to 80 percent of your diet from living or live food such as fresh organic fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds. There are many great raw cookbooks available with delicious recipes. Another easy way to get plenty of healthy raw food is to start the day with the following Super Energy Breakfast Drink: Start with a good blender or Vita-Mix. Add 1 apple, 1 banana, a handful of grapes, 1 kiwi, or whatever fruit you like, 3 tablespoons of Organic Flaxseed Oil, 2 Scoops of SuperManna, add a few ice cubes or use frozen fruit to give it a little chill but not too cold. I also may add a tablespoon of pumpkin, flax, and sunflower seeds  and perhaps 10 almonds. Add all of the above to 24 ounces of organic apple juice and blend for 30 seconds to one minute. This will make four or five servings. You will get amazing amounts of energy from the 14 Super Foods and the four or five servings of fresh live fruits seeds and nuts first thing in the morning, right when you need it. The Super Energy Breakfast Drink contains all the protein, essential fatty acids, and healthy carbohydrates you need for the a great start for the day. In addition to the breakfast drink, have a big green salad for lunch or dinner with all your favorite vegetables containing even more fiber and protein, vitamins, and minerals. If you will eat 8 servings of fresh organic produce every day you will protect yourself against cancer, heart disease and other major diseases. Eat a high alkaline diet of fresh fruits and vegetables.

3. Try growing some of your own food and plant some fruit trees. Citrus trees are beautiful in landscaping the yard and they are evergreen. Teach your children how to plant seeds and make a garden together. Make it fun. I just started a new garden method called the Square Foot Garden. You use less water, spend less time weeding, and get more produce with less time and energy. I bought 15 raised garden beds and am so excited on teaching this method at BellaVita and our coming Medical Missionary School — R I S E N!

4. Avoid eating animal foods. Animal food is high in protein and fat that increases one’s chance of getting cancer and other chronic diseases like heart disease and diabetes. Animal food is void of all fiber making it a major cause of colorectal cancer. It is also high in cholesterol and therefore a contributor of heart disease. Cultures that eat the highest amounts of animal foods have the highest amounts of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, stroke and other diseases. Eating the flesh of animals is not necessary, and in fact contributes to an early grave. Global obesity is plaguing the world and animal foods are a major cause of the increase in overweight people. Obesity is a major cause of disease and diabetes.

5. Avoid all dairy products. Dairy is liquid meat, and any disease in the animal is most likely also in its secretions. Milk is the number-one cause of childhood anemia and allergy. I remember the late Dr. Vigil Hulse once told me that as a Milk and Dairy inspector for 13 years in California, he found 80% of the herds had cows with leukemia and 50% of the herds had cows with Bovine AIDS. This was in the county in which I live. Milk Does A Body Good? Instead, drink water or fresh juices when thirsty. The FDA allows 750 million pus cells per liter of milk.

6. Avoid refined white sugar, white flour, and ordinary salt or sea salt. Use Sugar is acid forming and weakens the immune system. It contributes to diabetes and obesity. When using salt, use Celtic Salt or Real Salt instead for they contain all the minerals from the ocean instead of just sodium and chloride.  Regular table salt is a poison to your cells. Learn to eat foods as close to God’s original design as possible.

7. Avoid artificial sweeteners like Nutrasweet that causes lesions in the brain, MS symptoms, diabetes, and painful joints to name a few. Learn to eat food as God gave it in the garden like fresh fruit which I call “God’s candies.” Artificial sweeteners are associated with increase disease and cancers.

8. Exercise at least four or five days a week.  We need all the oxygen we can get. My favorite exercises are racquetball and weightlifting. This gives me the combination of aerobic exercise like racquetball for my heart and circulation and anaerobic exercise like weightlifting for building bone density, strength, and toning the muscles. Both forms of exercise are good and necessary for eliminating toxins through the lymph system. Exercise is wondeful for fighting depression and increasing longevity.  Perfect health comes with perfect circulation.

9. Increase your consumption of pure water and drink 6 to 8 glasses a day or more depending on your size and weight. One rule is a half-ounce for every pound of body weight. Avoid chlorine and fluoride. They can cause cancer, hypothyroidism, and other complications. Use a water filter if necessary.

10. Start drinking fresh organic juices everyday if possible. A combination of carrot, apple, celery, chard and parsley is a great immune-building formula that is high in potassium and phytochemicals. I make a green smoothie in the morning by adding green leafy vegetables like kale to my fruit smoothie. The leafy vegetables with the fruits do not cause indigestion.

11. Cleanse your elimination organs on a seasonal basis. Cleanse the colon, liver, kidney, lung, blood, lymph and skin using organic herbal formulas, saunas, skin brushing, etc. And do not be afraid of cleansing. Remember the old saying: “Death begins in the colon.” I recommend doing a 10-day cleanse like Modern Manna’s Super Cleanse. Many people come to BellaVita for a fabulous cleansing and detoxifying experience like no others. We constantly witness healing miracles at our programs.

12. Have a positive attitude and get moving if you feel depressed. Doing something for someone else that has a need will help heal your own discouragement. My #1 recommendation for depression is exercise! Memorize Scripture promises and claim them when you are assailed with negative thoughts. I recite Isaiah 26:3, 4: “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:

13. Breathe deeply several times a day of fresh air. Take a walk in the open air. Walking outside or through a forest is always nice and refreshing. Exercise in the open air is a blessing.

14. Get 30 minutes of sunshine every day on your front and back if possible, but do not burn. The best times are before 11 AM or after 4 PM.

15: Exercise self control and practice temperance. Temperance is a Bible doctrine. It means to abstain entirely from things that are harmful and use judiciously the things that are good. In other words do not overeat or be a glutton. Some Bible verses to review on temperance are: Acts 24:24-26; 1 Cor. 9: 24-27; Galatians 5:22-25; Titus 2:1, 2; 2 Peter 1:6. Try to avoid eating between meals or before bed. Eat at regular intervals so digestion will be thorough and complete.

16. Trust in God, spend time in prayer, and study your Bible every day. Prayer is the key in the hand of faith that unlocks Heaven’s storehouse. Ask for fresh supplies of grace everyday. Make time for morning prayer, devotion and have family worship everyday. I have made family worship a priority and have seen the difference in my children.

17. Love your enemies and forgive those that have wronged you. Remember, Forgiveness is the key to freedom. Don’t delay since Christ is coming soon!

Please forward  email to your friends and family or anyone else who may benefit from it. May God richly bless you as you begin a new year!

Many people do not realize how very important their overall eating is to their health. The alkalinity or acid level of your foods will play or do play a large role in your health or sickness. In this post I will be talking about acid and alkaline forming foods.

I will not be going into a whole lot of detail in this post, because I have already written an article on this topic here. You can go there and read  about the importance of the pH levels in the human body. You will find upon reading that article that the optimal blood pH  of the body is between 7.35-7.45. You will also discover in that article that when the the pH falls below 6.8, and remains there, or rises above 7.8 cells begin to die and when enough body cells die, the human dies.

About 80% of your diet should consist of good alkaline forming foods, the remaining 20% should be good acid foods. Now allow me to explain when I say good acid foods.

The pH level of the human body is naturally a little more alkaline than acid. The body desires to be at the stated level of alkalinity for optimal health. With that being said one might understand the importance of eating large quantities of alkaline forming foods. Nevertheless, there are some acid foods that are beneficial for the body. Now we can look at a few of the good acid forming foods.

Good Acid- Forming Foods:

Asparagus, beans, brussels sprouts, buckwheat, chickpeas, cornstarch, cranberries, flower, legumes, lintels, oatmeal, olives, plums, prunes, sauerkraut.

Good Low-Level Acid Forming Foods:

Canned fruit, dried fruit,( most non-sulphured), grains (most), lambs quarters (type of wild greens those parentheses, nuts and seeds (most), parsley.

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Good Alkaline -Forming foods:

Avocados, citrus fruits( become alkaline in body), corn, dates, fresh coconut, fresh fruits (most), fresh vegetables( most, especially onions, potatoes, rutabagas), honey, horseradish, maple syrup, molasses, mushrooms, raisins, soy products, sprouts, watercress.

Good Low-Level Alkaline forming foods:

Almonds, blackstrap molasses, Brazil nuts, chestnuts, lima beans, millet.

Bad Acid- Forming Foods:

Alcohol, catsup, cocoa, coffee, fish, meat, organ meats, pasta, black pepper, poultry, shellfish, soft drinks, sugar (all foods with added sugar),black tea, vinegar,tobacco, aspirin, drugs (pretty much all of them).

Bad Low Level Acid Forming Foods:

Butter, glazed fruit, cheeses, dried sulfured fruit (most).

As I said earlier about 80% of the diet should consist of good alkaline forming foods. Additionally, the remaining 20% should be good acid foods. Of course the list above is not an all-inclusive list; however, the foods above give you a good idea of which foods leave a acid ash in the body, and which foods leave a alkaline ash in the body.

A very good gauge for determining whether or not your overall diet is good is by following the original diet given by The Creator in the book of Genesis.

The original diet given to mankind by their Creator was a strict vegetarian or vegan diet. This type of diet is a alkaline forming diet. Interestingly enough science has also provided much evidence that this diet is the best for mankind.

Remember, the health of your body is dependent upon the health of your cells, and the health of the cells are dependent upon the pH level of the body. Keep this in mind, follow the principles and you will have health.

Keith M Henry, N.D. is a traditionally trained naturopath and the staff naturopath for phase 3ministries, based in Orlando FL. He is also a medical missionary herbalist,  Download your free copy of his report,—>> Emergency Herbal Medicine It may very well save your life.

Sources: Angels Of Life Natural Health Journal

Natural Remedies Encyclopedia 4th Edition

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Total cancer treatment costs increased from $24.7 billion in 1987 to $48.1 billion in 2001-2005, the researchers found. This paralleled the rise in overall health care costs, suggesting that cancer treatment did not become more expensive in that time.

In 1987, cancer accounted for 4.8 percent of all health care spending. In 2001-2005, it accounted for 4.9 percent.

Over the same time period, however, cancer-related inpatient admissions dropped from 64.4 percent to 27.5 percent of cases. This suggests that the drop in more expensive inpatient care has been offset by cost increases in other areas.

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The researchers attributed the increase in cost to increasing cancer prevalence, an aging population and, paradoxically, higher survival rates leading people to be on cancer drugs longer.

“Our society’s very success in simultaneously increasing income and medical care and the length of life of the population is driving up the cost of healthcare far more than efficiency measures seem able to keep pace with,” said Daniel P. Sulmasy of the University of Chicago, who was not involved in the study.

Some researchers hailed the study as evidence that cancer drug costs have not increased as much as is popularly assumed. Yet in the time period studied, prescription drug spending for both out-of-pocket payers and patients with private insurance increased as a proportion of overall cancer costs. More significantly, the most controversially expensive cancer drugs have been introduced in the last four years, a period not covered by the study.

The majority of new cancer drugs approved since 2006 cost more than $20,000 for a 12-week course.

“I believe oncologists need to be aware of the cost and discuss this with patients,” lead researcher Florence Tangka said.

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Source: NaturalNews.com