Gratitude Weekend: Celebrate Your Health with Raw Food Recipes and Health Enhancing Resources
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So this year, I decided to offer a “Gratitude Weekend” sale, filled with very special offers of products and services to empower you to be healthy and vibrant throughout the holiday season. The average person gains extra pounds of fat during this season, because food surrounds us at every turn. Yesterday, as I watched my relatives consume processed, nutrient depleted, and dangerous to their health foods without thought about how it affects their “bottom line”, I started thinking about ways to reach the masses with the message that their food choices are hurting them. Read on for details of my “Gratitude Weekend” sale. You’ll see 5 special sales! Enjoy these special offers through the end of the weekend. Order Today and Win!
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Tags: adrenal exhaustion, black friday, cleansing, dessert, Dr. Ritamarie, Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo, Exhaustion, Green Cleanse, Healthy Holiday, healthy meals, holiday feasts, living food, raw food breakfast, raw food recipe, recipe collections, vegan, Vibrant Health
Posted in Appreciation for Health, Cleansing Programs, Events
The Healing Cancer World Summit: Make the Madness Stop!
- by Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo
As you know if you’ve been getting my newsletters for a while, I have lost quite a few loved ones to cancer.
Most recently, my brother-in-law died over the summer after a long and painful hospital stay that resulted from complications of his lung cancer treatment. It was painful, to say the least, to watch him suffer and die after racking up well over a million dollars in hospital bills.
The same thing happened to my sister 3 years ago, and several cousins, friends, and even children of my friends.
I know there are alternatives that have a high rate of success.
I also know that there are lifestyle practices you can put into place right away to prevent yourself from becoming a statistic.
Starting Wednesday, October 25th, 2011, you can hear from the experts about their methods and successes in a controversial and powerful online event called The Healing Cancer World Summit.
http://www.drritamarie.com/go/HealingCancerSummit
Natural and integrative cancer techniques have never quite been explored in the way it will be during the event.
For 5 nights, Kevin Gianni – health author, organizer, and host – will interview 9 of the top natural cancer doctors and researchers around the world and they will share what they’re doing in their clinics to help prevent or even treat cancer.
During the program you’ll learn:
- What therapies these doctors and experts are using that they say can prevent and even treat cancer naturally.
- What herbs and supplements are scientifically known to prevent cancer.
- Scientific and documented proof that natural cancer treatments work.
- How to stack the deck in your favor and do your best to prevent cancer, including how to detoxify and cleanse your body naturally… and safely!
- About a unique treatment that brings the best of natural and conventional medical wisdom together.
- The best natural and integrative options for you and your budget.
- What the cancer industry doesn’t want you to know.
- How natural treatments work from a survivor’s perspective.
- And much more.
http://www.drritamarie.com/go/HealingCancerSummit
These experts are doctors, nutritionists, advocates and survivors who will share their science, research, and stories so you can discover options you may never have heard about.
There are 9 experts in all, with decades of experience amongst them working with cancer patients in their clinics. The experts include Dr. Nicolas Gonzalez, Dr. Francisco Contreras, Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, Dr. Thomas Lodi, Charlotte Gerson, Mike Adams, Burton Goldberg, and others.
The event starts the evening of Wednesday, October 25th, 2011, so now is the time to sign up.
The event is free!
To register now, all you have to do is visit this page here…
http://www.drritamarie.com/go/HealingCancerSummit
If you’d like to have the recordings and transcripts of the Cancer Summit for your own library there is a special option for you to purchase the downloads and transcripts very reasonably once you sign up.
I signed up for the recordings because I have a few conflicts next week, and would like to listen later. Plus, I like to have transcripts so I can take notes and highlight pertinent points to refer back to later. In addition, there’s a unique benefit to getting the recordings – you get to share them with 3 people for no additional charge. I have a few family members who I will be gifting these to.
This also means that you and 3 friends can jointly purchase the recordings and each of you will have your own private access to the recordings, transcripts and bonuses, plus any extras that may be added later for a very tiny investment.
Here’s where to go now and register…
http://www.drritamarie.com/go/HealingCancerSummit
I was brought to tears by the video on the sign-up page.
I, like Kevin, have lost loved ones to cancer, and I wish I would have had access to this resource to share with them. It brings together all in one place a collection of cancer treatment and prevention alternatives that everyone needs to know.
Wishing you and your loved ones love, health, and joy,
Dr. Ritamarie
PS. The event registration is open until October 25th as is the special offer for the recordings, transcripts, bonuses, and no cost share with loved ones option.
When you register now, you’ll also get 3 special bonuses delivered to you right away.
http://www.drritamarie.com/go/HealingCancerSummit
Tags: Burton Goldberg, Cancer, cancer prevention, cancer treatment, Charlotte Gerson, Dr. Francisco Contreras, Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, Dr. Nicolas Gonzalez, Dr. Thomas Lodi, healing cancer world summit, Kevin Gianni, Mike Adams
Posted in Cancer, Events
Fear, Anxiety, and Thanklessness – A Sure-fire Prescription for a FAT Midsection
Most people consider me an expert in restoring and maintaining health using diet and lifestyle approaches. My “claims to fame” are my in-depth knowledge of nutrition and biochemistry, and my program effectiveness for restoring balance to achieve vibrant health and energy.
Countless people come to me for advice, wondering why they are still overweight and ill, in spite of eating a healthy diet.
How Stress May Supersize You
While I can usually find things to tweak in clients’ diets, and I can recommend herbs or natural nutrition supplements to restore balance, we’re fighting an uphill battle if we ignore the role of stress, negative emotions, and worry; your health, energy level, AND weight are all affected.
On a past radio show, Your Muscles May be Making You Fat, I explored in detail the mechanism by which stress and worry contribute to belly bulge, and I encourage you to listen for details.
In summary, fear, worry, stressful thoughts and situations, and negative emotions trigger the release of cortisol and adrenaline from your adrenal glands. This hormone release triggers a series of fight or flight mechanisms that cause your liver and muscles to release sugar into your blood. Normally, this release would ready you for your “chase” or “escape”.
But what also happens, and this is the troubling part when it happens frequently, is that your insulin is also triggered to rise, so the sugar in the blood can be absorbed by your cells and fuel them to flight or fight. Keep in mind, that extra sugar in your blood would normally get used. Unfortunately, when your stresses are mental, you can’t burn all the released sugar. Insulin, in following through with its job of maintaining healthy blood sugar levels, causes the sugar to be put back into storage… as white adipose tissues, whose main receptors are – you guessed it – right around your belly.
I discuss more details concerning insulin, its role, and insulin resistance in Video 1, of the 5-part Bye-Bye Belly Fat, Brain Fog, and Burnout video series.
When you get stressed over situations that are beyond your control – like fires, earthquakes, hurricanes, traffic, other people’s attitudes – you are creating the perfect environment not only for “turning your muscles into fat” but for injuring your insides and setting yourself up for diseases. The three most serious and very common sequelae [secondary conditions] to chronic stress are the BIG 3: Heart disease, Cancer and Diabetes.
If achieving a slim trim body and keeping yourself safe from “the Big 3″ aren’t enough motivation to get a handle on stress, there’s more.
A Change of Heart Can Mean a Change in Dress Size
Your thoughts and emotions impact others around you, both those in close proximity and those far away.
Let me explain.
Research at the Institute of HeartMath has confirmed that your thoughts and emotions affect your heart rate variability (HRV). When you’re calm, HRV, when graphed, looks like a nice even sine wave and when you’re frustrated or angry, worried or anxious, it’s erratic and spikey. Notice the difference in the graphs to the right.
The smooth wave pattern is associated with ideal blood pressure, clear thinking, proper metabolic function and overall well being. The other pattern hallmarks disease, dysfunction, resistant weight loss and a host of other serious metabolic disruptions.
This article on the HeartMath website gives all the details, and it also takes you step-by-step through a couple of their techniques for restoring balance:
http://www.alternativeworldwidehealth.com/files/Heartmath_Stress_chapter.pdf
According to HeartMath:
In my Mend Your Metabolism & Maximize Your Vitality webinar, I will take you step-by-step through one of the HeartMath processes for Transforming Stress so you can feel for yourself the effects of being in a state they refer to as “coherence”.
It’s an amazing feeling and you too can learn it. In my 30-day B4 Be Gone program, I guide my patients and students through daily practice of this technique, and send them daily reminders and a recording of me guiding them through the process.
Join us on the webinar to get yourself started.
Get Slim, Stress-free, and Save the World
So now for the really amazing, almost unbelievable finding.
YOU have more power than you think over the state of the world, the energy in the room, and the stressful feelings of others.
Hear me out on this one…
When two people with different HRV patterns come into each other’s energy fields, the HRV’s tend to synchronize, and the strongest field prevails. This has been measured by the institute of HeartMath researchers on medical equipment!
By practicing the HeartMath technique called Quick Coherence several times a day, with as little a time investment as 5 minutes a day, you’ll become proficient at changing your emotional state and the HRV’s of others with whom you come into contact.
How cool is that?
And when you practice their more advanced technique, called Heart Lock-in, you actually practice deliberately projecting your energy out into the room. To master Heart Lock-in takes a bit more time, 15 minutes about 3-4 times a week!
When natural disasters like fire and flood strike, the natural tendency is to feel victimized. That puts you into the “triple P emotional state” that has been shown to be the most damaging of all… powerlessness, pessimism, and pervasive worry.
It’s times like these that we need to band together energetically and send positive thoughts, prayers, and uplifting energy to those whose lives are affected. Imagine the effect of thousands of people all over the world projecting their positive energy field! According to the above aforementioned article from the Institute of HeartMath (which I highly recommend you read in its entirety), “positive thinking” without accompanying positive feelings usually only provides temporary relief from emotional distress. Whereas the activation of positive emotions is more likely to transform the stress at its source.
According to Joe Vitale, author of The Attractor Factor, “there are over 25 scientific studies that prove when a group of people meditate together, they can change their surroundings — just by getting settled inside.”
Dr. Vitale lives not too far from where I live, just outside of Austin, and he sent out a plea for help with getting the fires under control through the power of positive emotion.
I’ve printed his entire letter on my blog, where Joe tells of his experience with this process when Hurricane Rita threatened Austin a few years back.
Whether you believe Dr. Vitale’s account of changing the course of natural events or not, there’s no disputing the positive effect of appreciation and love on your own chemistry and that of those around you. Lots of studies at www.heartmath.org support this.
So, what do you have to lose?
Even if you think it’s goofy, it can’t hurt and it will change your own emotions and your internal well-being.
So take a deep breath… find that place of peace inside yourself where you know all is well. Access that area of inner calm…and then just feel the fires going out; imagine the hurricanes heading out to sea; envision the earth’s core relaxing; and perceive that all the people affected are safe, sound, and protected.
Stop, breathe, focus, pray, or in some positive way send out an energy that will help dissolve the fear.
It’s your way of making a difference in the face of disaster, even if you can’t send lots of money or travel to the scene to help.
Check out the book Unconditional Bliss by Howard Cushnir. He says you can find happiness in the face of hardship.
And in the words of Joe Vitale, “… be happy, right now. Smile. Send that loving energy out, in the direction of Texas.
Intend for all to be well, for, in reality, all is well.”
Tags: anxiety, belly fat, brain fog, burnout, cortisol, fatigue, fear, HeartMath, hormones, Joe Vitale, stress, weightloss
Posted in Adrenal Fatigue, Brain Fog, Chronic Stress, Events, Exhaustion, Fatigue Treatment, Health Coach, Reduce Belly Fat, Vibrant Health
Healthy Meals in a Hurry: A 3-Step Guide for Busy People
- by Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo
“What can I eat that supports my health, tastes great, and is quick and easy to get on the table?”
I get asked this question all the time. People wonder how I manage to eat so healthfully when I am so busy. This is an actual comment, taken from a recent consultation form:
“One of my challenges is making food for myself – I would love to have someone else do it. I don’t want to be taking time at lunchtime to do that – so I tend to nibble and then get hungry in the afternoon – then work too late, so I’m really hungry at dinner time – and need to eat right away.”
I have hundreds more just like it!
My friend and colleague, Chef Karen Osborne, is one of the busiest people I know, besides me of course. As a home schooling Mom, choir member, volunteer at church, personal chef, instructor and Fresh ‘n Fun co-op manager she’s constantly juggling this activity and that. Yet she always manages to eat high green, delicious, nutrient-dense meals.
How does she do it?
She’ll be sharing her secrets in our One Dish Meals raw food class, but I thought I would give you a few hints and tips today to help you put healthy meals on the table in less than the time it takes to order pizza.
Step 1: Stock Your Brain with Purpose
Consistently choosing healthy foods to consume, despite time pressures requires a mindset shift. It starts by focusing on what’s most important to you–making the connection between what you value most and healthy meal choices. Then, you must simply act from that place of knowing what you value most.
It sounds simple, and it is. Implementation takes dedication and truly connecting to your core values. One thing Karen and I have in common is a framework of reference that we get what we most want in life when we feel strong and energetic. We feel strong and energetic when we eat lots of green foods and avoid the energy zappers like gluten, dairy, sugar and processed foods.
If we’re rushed or out and the food choices don’t support our ultimate goal, we hold true to our values and don’t eat the foods that will tire or weaken us.
Step 2: Stock Your Kitchen with Essentials
The next step is more practical. Make sure to keep your house stocked with lots of whole foods. With a little forethought and careful shopping, you can have foods around that you can prepare in a hurry.
Here’s a list of recommended food items to always have around:
- Tomatoes
- Avocados
- Sprouts
- Lemons
- A variety of dried herbs and spices
- Seeds, like sunflower, pumpkin, chia or hemp
- Raw nuts
- Greens
- Sea vegetables
- Powdered sea veggies, like kelp.
- A variety of vegetables like cucumber, celery, carrots, and peppers
Step 3: Stock Your Meals with Creativity
I was in a hurry to get something to eat for dinner tonight, so here’s an example of throwing a healthy meal together in only 5 steps:
- I went down to the kitchen and found an avocado, a tomato and a jar of sauerkraut.
- I sliced the tomato in rounds and placed them on a plate.
- I sliced the avocado and placed the slices on top of the tomato (sometimes instead of avocado, I spoon nut or seed cheese on top).
- I put a dollop of sauerkraut on each tomato slice.
- I sprinkled the works with Italian seasoning and kelp powder
I had a delicious meal in less than 5 minutes!
In our One Dish Meals class we’ll be sharing how to whip up a one dish meal using whatever you have around. Again, the key to quick and easy meals is having an open mind, having the ingredients on hand, and tuning in to your creativity. Think outside the box. Learn from people who have been there, done that.
Use your imagination.
Join us for Delicious One Dish Raw Food Meals! It’s guaranteed to be a winner!
Tags: energy, healthy meals, raw food, raw food classes, raw food recipes
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