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!

A federal judge, according to the New York Times, has ruled a key provision of Pres. Obama’s health care law unconstitutional. Judge Henry E. Hudson, appointed by George W. Bush, issued  a 42 page opinion, writing that the law requiring a large amount of Americans to obtain healthcare insurance exceeds the authority granted to Congress pursuant to the commerce clause under the United States Constitution.

The insurance mandate is regarded as an essential, if not the central part of the legislation. This is so because insurance providers argue that unless everyone is paying into the system, including those who are well, they cannot afford to cover those with expensive chronic conditions.

The Opinion

The judge wrote in his opinion that the survey of the available law, ““yielded no reported decisions from any federal appellate courts extending the Commerce Clause or General Welfare Clause to encompass regulation of a person’s decision not to purchase a product, not withstanding its effect on interstate commerce or role in a global regulatory scheme.”

There have been more than two dozen lawsuits filed with regard to the health care bill. However, the decision by Judge Hudson is only the third that has been decided. The other two, courts in Detroit in Lynchburg, Virginia have upheld the law.

According to the New York Times article, “The opinion by Judge Hudson, who has a long history in Republican politics in northern Virginia, continued a partisan pattern in the health care cases. Thus far, judges appointed by Republican presidents have ruled consistently against the Obama administration while Democratic appointees have found for it. That has reinforced the notion — fueled by the White House — that the lawsuits are as much a political assault as a constitutional one. The Richmond case was filed by Virginia’s attorney general, Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, a Republican, and all but one of the 20 attorneys general and governors who filed a similar case in Pensacola, Fla., are Republicans. Other lawsuits have been filed by conservative law firms and interest groups.”

Health Care Costs Not Going Down Anytime Soon

One thing is certain, whatever may be your political persuasion the current healthcare system needs to be improved. Although the United States may have one of the best healthcare systems in the world what good is it if the average citizen cannot afford access to this system. Additionally, what good is it if, as both major political parties of the U.S.  have acknowledged, the current way of practicing medicine in the United States  bankrupts the country.

U.S. Health Care System Quality Dropping?

A new report published in the Journal, Health Affairs, pointed out that the US has dropped to number 49 in overall life expectancy among the nations of the world. The United States was ranked at number 24 in 1999 by the World Health Organization.

Commenting on this report  an article at Natural News.com says, “The report blames the nation’s failing health care system and lack of universal health coverage as the culprit. But the true causes of America’s poor health include things like its broken food system, overuse of chemical pesticides, and dependence on pharmaceutical drugs — all of which are poisoning the population and the environment, and lowering lifespans.”

I tend to agree that it is not so much the lack of universal health care, but rather many of the things pointed out such as dependence on pharmaceutical drugs and the attempted crushing out of the alternative or natural health care industry.

The Wrong Basis For Health

The Natural News article also correctly points out that the problem with the current healthcare system is that it is based upon sickness and not health. It is also true as pointed out at natural news that it is much more profitable to treat disease than to cure it. This is true at least for the pharmaceutical companies and all other companies that stand to make a profit from a sick care system as opposed to a healthcare system or a system based upon prevention and alternative methods of healing.

A Choice Between Two Evils

So we have been left to decide between the current system which indeed has its benefits with regard to trauma care and other extreme cases. However, when it comes to the treatment of chronic diseases the current healthcare system has shown to be economically unsustainable. Moreover, it has also shown to be deadly in many, many instances!

Or we can choose a new system of financing further sickness. Neither option, when the facts are taken into consideration, deals with the cost. Even under the so-called universal health care plan the costs of the current healthcare system is simply financed by a larger number of Americans. However, the underlying cost will continue to rise because there is money to be made in a sick care system, as opposed to a system wherein natural or alternative methods are the basis.

One bright spot is this: at least many more people over the past two or three decades have become much more educated in terms of the alternative methods of healing that are available to them. Therefore the people are becoming enlightened with regard to true and healing.

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: New York Times Article

Natural News.com

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The data from the study of more than 11,500 women revealed that some 25% of those women who had been pregnant at least once, had experienced a detectable miscarriage. During the 10 years of follow-up the study revealed that 82 of the women had had a heart attack and 112 of the women had had a stroke. The researchers of the study however did not associate the miscarriages with the strokes in a significant fashion.

However, the rate by which the risk of a heart attack is increased by a miscarriage was very significant.

Analysis of the data found that the risk of a heart attack is increased by 40% with just one miscarriage. That percentage increases by a whopping four times with a second miscarriage! Moreover, women who had more than three miscarriages had a nine times greater risk of experiencing a heart attack.

In Important Factor

The heart attack risk was decreased when other factors such as smoking, alcohol, and excess weight gain were factored in. These things are known to increase the likelihood of heart attack. However, even without these factors the heart attack risk for women that have had miscarriages was shown to still be five times greater than the average or normal.

The evidence of this study is significant because about one in five pregnancies ends in miscarriage. Therefore quite a few women later in life have an increased risk of a heart attack.

Factors That Increase Miscarriage

Just 10 ounces of coffee per day drank by a pregnant woman can double her risk of miscarriage. One study conducted by conducted by Kaiser Permanente researchers and published in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology found that women who indicated that they never drank caffeine had about a 12.5% chance of having a miscarriage. However, women that consumed 200 mg of caffeine per day had a 24.5% miscarriage rate. Thus, the risk is essentially double. It should also be noted, that even when the researchers took into account other risk factors for miscarriages, the risk of miscarriage caused by caffeine remained the same.

Antidepressant drugs also drastically increase the likelihood of miscarriage. In fact, current evidence indicates that antidepressant drugs can increase the likelihood of miscarriage as much as 68%!

Slashing The Chances Of Miscarriage

Of course an overall healthy lifestyle where copious amounts of fruits and vegetables are consumed, is crucial.

Additionally, women who in the past have had repeated miscarriages could find themselves benefited by taking the herb Black Haw when threatened with miscarriage. In fact, Black Haw was listed in the 19th century pharmacy reference books as a treatment for painful menstrual cramps and threatened miscarriage. In fact Black Haw helps to reduce the discomforts of pregnancy. The recommended dosage is: 1 -2 cups of the tea daily and then, upon the decrease of the symptoms, drink the tea for an additional two weeks.

Sources:

http://health.yahoo.net/news/s/hsn/miscarriagesmayraiseheartattackrisk

http://www.naturalnews.com/023827_caffeine_risk_miscarriage.html

http://www.naturalnews.com/028943_antidepressants_miscarriage.html

http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/abstract/182/10/1031

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