Conquering your cravings

Steve and Darren

EnerHealth Botanicals

Let's admit it, we have all had them at some point in our lives. How to come to terms with them, understand why they occur and eventually gain control of them, is an important topic in our goal for long-term health. Cravings see us reaching for chocolate, beer, sugary snacks, excessive carbs and a sundry of other foods that are rarely good for us. In this article we will explore why we crave what we do and what strategies we might employ to gain the upper hand.

Cravings in general reflect a signal from the body, physically or emotionally, that something is missing. In the case of physical signals, it normally refers to one of two missing substances. The first is water and is frankly the one to satisfy before exploring whether the craving has been satisfied. More often than not, if we feel a craving coming on and first drink some water, the unexpected or unrecognized dehydration is the true craving signal. Of course the kind of water you drink is very important. Drinking high quality filtered water is essential to good health and also cleansing. Secondly, if you satisfy your thirst whether you realize you are thirsty or not, you should then wait five minutes. If you are still craving, the most likely reason is that you are lacking certain nutrients; most often these will be vitamins, minerals or good fat. When I feel any kind of craving I first drink water and if the craving persists I eat a spoonful of coconut milk powder. The good fats will quite often eliminate your cravings, since our bodies need good fat. For years the western world has been on a proverbial witch-hunt against anything that contains fat, yielding a plethora of supposedly healthy low fat versions of everything. Since the body needs fat for the liver to produce cholesterol, an essential cell and brain repairer and for the body to make hormones, if we don't get it we crave it. If the fat does not calm the cravings my next approach is to replenish my stock of essential vitamins and minerals which I am convinced can only be accomplished with a good food based formula comprised of super foods that are themselves densely packed with these essential nutrients. When your body is thus well nourished it is very unlikely that you will be craving any longer. If you are and your craving is of the sweet kind, it is quite possible that you have an overgrowth of yeast such as Candida and it will be necessary to cut drastically down on your sugar consumption, consume more coconut and take an anti fungal formula. When you have conquered the sugar cravings in this manner and those mentioned above, future cravings might have a strong emotional component. We often reach for certain foods or substances that conjure up cozy feelings of stress free childhood moments. Being conscious of when we reach and what we reach for can help us understand and eventually redirect our choices, along with the wise dietary suggestions above.

So good luck! Follow the advice above and you should soon find yourself more in charge of your cravings.

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Orwellian DoubleThink: Illness is Health

Orwellian DoubleThink Series, part 4
Activist Post

The primary duty of the regulatory agencies responsible for ensuring public health in our Orwellian world apparently is to guarantee that we are laced with toxic contaminants and additives.  Whether it is physical ormental health, it has become clear that federal agencies, and even our local municipalities, are coordinating an overall health agenda that favors corporate interests, while corrupting the promotion of true health and well-being. 

Here are three primary examples that highlight the lengths to which our "protectors" will go to convince us to listen to their upside-down worldview, instead of reason and logic:

Alternative Products:  The FDA sent warning letters to many E-cigarette companies in an attempt to control an alternative market to Big Tobacco.  It is a pattern of the FDA to attack the free market of products that provide a healthier option than what has been officially approved.  Big Tobacco has a firm foothold in the FDA, so it is no wonder why they would rather keep people smoking their toxic product. If we believe the FDA is actually there to protect us, let us not forget that this is the agency that ignored evidence that CT scans are killing 14,000 Americans per year, just to name one of their oversights.


Vitamins and Supplements:  For a case study in Orwellian language, the link to the Codex Alimentarius FAQs that highlights this section is a must-read.  The real agenda is not safety, but using safety as a way to gain control over products that have been proven to be safe in a free market.   The complications that have arisen from nutritional supplements are the tiniest fraction of the illnesses and deaths from medications that are approved to the market in the "official" way.  This is a concerted effort to protect Big Pharma, not the consumer.

Natural Foods:  People across the world are waking up en masse to the dangers of agribusiness.  Coupled with a disastrous global economy, people see the health and fiscal sense it makes to begin growing their own food.  And, again, whenever freedom asserts itself, there is the tyranny of regulations to clamp down.  Just recently, county code enforcement officers ticketed a farmer for growing too many vegetables.  His real crime?  Giving it away to a local farmers market.  If that is not Orwellian, I don't know what is. This is combined with raids on raw food producers, as well asproposed legislation that could even ban home gardens.  After all, those home gardens might be growing marijuana.

It appears that private corporate interests are being supported by our public consumer safety agencies.   Everything chemical, engineered, and produced by mass industry is championed, while all that is good and wholesome is maligned.  Their agenda is akin to a declaration of war upon the natural world, where all human activity will be micromanaged by scientists and bureaucrats.  It is time that we say no.

SERIES LINKS:

Part 1: Welfare is Employment

Part 2: Rights are Privileges
Part 3: War is Peace

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Vitamin D has emerged as the star of the vitamin world

Dr. Mercola

In recent years vitamin D has emerged as a star of the “vitamin” world. Vitamin D deficiency is a growing epidemic across the world and is contributing to many chronic debilitating diseases. Optimizing your vitamin D levels can cut your risk of cancer, heart disease and diabetes, writes Dr Mercola.


The Astonishing Power of Vitamin D to Transform Your Health

Vitamin D influences more than 200 genes. This includes genes related to cancer and autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis.

Vitamin D affects your DNA through the vitamin D receptors (VDRs), which bind to specific locations of the human genome.  Reuters reports:

“Vitamin D deficiency is a well-known risk factor for rickets, and some evidence suggests it may increase susceptibility to autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS), rheumatoid arthritis and type 1 diabetes, as well as certain cancers and even dementia.”   

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Additional resources:  Learn about Vitamin D @ Wikipedia.

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