How to stay healthy, C-19, Meg and Harry

MagellanTimes.com; Dr. Steven Gundry, Lewis Howes; Ashley Wells, Ananda, Wisdom Quarterly

The truth behind coronavirus: How to stay healthy

The Plant Paradox

Dr. Gundry, MD tackles the mystery of novel coronavirus COVID-19 (SARS-2), after the riddle was already solved by Dr. Joel Wallach (criticalhealthnews.com). Gluten (and other lectins) in the diet play a major role.

It is the "plant paradox." Co-morbidities (other simultaneous sicknesses) are the key to getting very sick. Otherwise, we wouldn't even know the plandemic were affecting us.

Dr. Steven Gundry is a renowned cardiologist, bestselling author, surgeon, and medical device inventor. He has performed thousands of heart surgeries in his 40-year career, but he learned to focus on prevention and natural healing, empowering people through diet to reverse and prevent ailments.

It's the gut. It's the gut. It's all in the gut.

He’s the director and founder of the International Heart & Lung Institute as well as the Center for Restorative Medicine in Palm Springs and Santa Barbara, California. Dr. Gundry helps patients learn how to take control of their weight to become thin, healthy, and energetic by using his simple diet advice.

He’s the New York Times best-selling author of The Plant Paradox series, the latest being The Longevity Paradox all about how we can live long and healthy lives and overcome the diseases of aging.

He hosts his own health podcast, The Dr. Gundry Podcast, which gives tools and information needed to hack vitality, avoid dangerous “health” foods, and balance our all-important gut.

Interviewer Lewis Howes has had Dr. Gundry on The School of Greatness twice before, and each time he inspires with his knowledge and motivation to help others learn the truth about good food, gut health, and mental clarity. Check out past episodes 772 and 521 together to learn more about Dr. Gundry’s practices and health advice. In times like these it’s important to make sure we’re healthy with strong immune systems. Let’s learn how to take control of our health, strengthen our defenses, and protect ourselves from COVID-19 on Episode 935 with Dr. Gundry.

What are ex-royals Megs and Hairy up to?

The royal family was hit by scandal when Prince Harry Windsor announced that he and his wife, Los Angeles actor Meghan Markle, would both be stepping down as senior royals. The couple also reportedly revealed that they wanted a more private life with their baby son, Archie, basing themselves between the United Kingdom and Canada. So remaining in the spotlight as royals wasn’t an option. And although Harry seems determined to make the new arrangements work as they become famous Hollywood types, his decision has apparently cost him a lot of privileges. More

Some "healthy" foods are killing us (video)

Dr. Gundry, MD, Host Lewis Howes, 8/8/17; Crystal Q., Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The "healthy" foods that are killing us

This is audio podcast Number 521 with Dr. Steven Gundry, MD (gundrymd.com/gundry-md). Show notes are available here: lewishowes.com/521.

Lewis Howes (lewishowes.com) posts interviews and inspirational videos Mondays and Wednesdays. Twitter, instagram, snapchat. Howes is a NY Times bestselling author (lewishowes.com/book), entrepreneur, and former pro arena league football player, who hosts The School of Greatness, a talk show distributed as a podcast. Hear stories from various successful people around the world, become inspired, motivated, and educated.

Chocolate Meditation: craving, FREE (Sept. 7)

Ananda M. (Dharma Meditation Initiative), Dhr. Seven, Jen B., Eliza Darcey, Wisdom Quarterly

Our meditation instructor is a great vegan chef and chocolatier, so we've asked him to bring in FREE SAMPLES as we talk about meditation and "craving," the alleged number one cause of suffering.

They say death is terrible EXCEPT for the fully enlightened (who do not die but gain liberation from the hamster Wheel of Life and Death) and anyone who dies salivating because of Death by Chocolate.

Chocolate (Aztec and Mayan chocolatl) is bad, no? In fact, it is the "food of the gods" (Theobroma cacao of the devas) with anandamides ("bliss molecules"), euphoric compounds that elevate mood and provide raw antioxidants.

Carob is great but lacks the high added-sugar and bitter roasted-coffee edge that makes cocoa so famous. RSVP FREE

• Dharma Meditation Initiative
• Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018, 7:00-8:30 PM
• Neighborhood Church: 301 N. Orange Grove, Pasadena, #23
• (TheVegan8, Paleo Vegan Ice Cream, Choco-Cheesecake)

This is what "chocolate" really looks like -- the seed of a Mexican fruit: Theobroma cacao

Dharma Meditation Initiative: PasaDharma, UCLA, Disclosure Project, Punx

Wise Eating (Weston A. Price Foundation)

WestonAPrice.org; Kelly Ani, Crystal Quintero, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

We eat traditional foods the wise way.

The Weston A. Price Foundation (WAPF) is a great source for accurate information on nutrition and health.

WAPF is always aiming to provide the scientific validation of traditional foodways.

People seeking health today often condemn certain food groups -- such as grains, dairy foods, meat, salt, fat, sauces, sweets, and nightshade vegetables -- but the Wise Traditions Diet is inclusive, not exclusive.

 

WAPF includes nourishing traditional foods in our diet through wise choices and proper preparation techniques. The result is vibrant health in every age of life, including the next generation. More

• WISE TRADITIONS: 18th Annual Conference of The Weston A. Price Foundation (November 10-13, Minneapolis, MN (order conference recordings) 
• Help us make raw milk legal in the last seven states: We need legal access to natural raw milk in all 50 states. We're getting closer! More

Yoga Fest lights up high desert (video)

Eds., Wisdom Quarterly; BhaktiFest.com (Bhakti Fest); TheHookup.Flavorpill.com

Yogini Maty Ezraty makes adjustments to Down Dog against the wall (lansingyoga.com)

Joshua Tree Nat'l Park is awesome (WQ)

JOSHUA TREE, California - Kick off National Yoga Month this weekend, September 4-7, 2014, the Joshua Tree Retreat Center hosts Bhakti Fest. Combining yoga, dance, and music, the festival is a celebration of devotion. With its roots in yoga, kirtan (singing and chanting), and meditation, it embraces ancient and modern sacred wisdom and traditional and non-traditional spiritual practices. Bhakti Fest West is the largest yoga and music festival in the country.
 

Yoga by day, dancing by night along with continuous devotional chanting for the divine.

 

And after six years it has built a devotional, prayerful, loving, healthful, and respectful family from all parts of the world.
 
Immerse yourself in over 100 hours of world renown kirtan, 47 innovative workshops with leading teachers in health and wellness, and 76 unique yoga classes taking place in indoor and outdoor yoga halls among the breathtaking desert views! Tickets and passes available at door. (408) 460-0504

Yoga in a Museum?

(RSVP: Yoga at the Getty Center)

This month, Flavorpill and the 2015 Honda Fit are teaming up to make our Downward Dogs true works of art. With Art of Yoga, renowned Yogini Sara Ivanhoe will lead an all-levels class at the Getty Center on Saturday, Sept. 6 (8:00 am), soundtracked by KCRW's Jason Bentley.

Free yoga mats will be given away. Remember to dress comfortably and bring a water bottle. Then hit Warrior II alongside world-class art and architecture, plus works by Van Gogh, Manet, and Seurat.

Following the class, join Minor White on his photographic journey of spiritual transcendence in "Minor White: Manifestations of the Spirit," which highlights one of the masters of photographic modernism, and check out "Yvonne Rainer: Dances and Films," to see how one of the most influential artistic figures of the last 50 years made bodies move. More

"Sugar is TOXIC...like alcohol"

LiveScience.com; The Herald Deccan; Wisdom Quarterly

"Sugar is toxic, needs to be regulated like alcohol"

WASHINGTON, DC (PTI) - Sugar is so toxic to the human body that their sale should be regulated as strictly as alcohol by governments worldwide, researchers have suggested.

In a commentary published in the journal Nature, a team led by Robert Lustig of the University of California claimed that sugar intake is responsible for a host of illnesses including obesity, heart disease, cancer, and liver problems.

Thus, it should be taxed and slapped with regulations like alcohol and tobacco products, the researchers argue.

"We recognize that societal intervention to reduce the supply and demand for sugar faces an uphill political battle against a powerful sugar lobby," the authors wrote.

Measures such as smoking bans in public places, the use of designated drivers, and the addition of condom dispensers in public washrooms were also battlegrounds that are now taken for granted for public health, they pointed out.

They also cited a number of studies and statistics to make their case that added sugar -- or specifically, sucrose, an even mix of glucose and fructose found in [the horribly processed artificial toxin known as] high-fructose corn syrup and in table sugar made from sugar cane and sugar beets -- has been as detrimental to society as alcohol and tobacco, LiveScience reported.

In the US more than two-thirds of the population is overweight, and half is obese. About 80 percent of those who are obese will have diabetes or metabolic disorders and will have shortened lives, according to the authors of the commentary, led by Robert Lustig.

And about 75 percent of US health care dollars are spent on diet-related diseases, the authors added.

According to the World Health Organization, the obese now greatly outnumber the undernourished worldwide. And chronic diseases related to diet such as heart disease, diabetes, and cancer -- for the first time in human history -- kill more people than infectious diseases. More

Snorting Sugar
Wisdom Quarterly (COMMENTARY)
We have said it for years. Processed sugar is poisonous. It complicates many degenerative diseases, destabilizes mood, and wreaks havoc with metabolism. It CAUSES hunger.

Carbs are almost as bad and should never be eaten without (unadulterated) fats. But sugar is hidden throughout many foods. Just four grams (4 g) equals one teaspoon. So a can of soda or bottle of processed pasteurized juice can easily have more than 10 teaspoons of sugar.

The solution is worse than the disease if one replaces cane sugar (which usually contains cow bones) with Aspartame or other artificial sweeteners. But a sweet tooth is soothed by the herb stevia (green, dried, and powdered) or annihilated with the Ayurvedic herbs guggul, gymnena silvestre, and bitter melon.

Blood sugar can be stabilized with other herbal combinations without resorting to synthetic pharmaceuticals. It is many times sweeter than sugar without containing toxic sugar or synthetic chemicals.

But sugar is added to processed foods precisely to make them more addictive and profitable as well as serving as a harmful preservative the body needs a great deal of water to deal with. So it will be an uphill climb to get the processed food industry to remove it without replacing it with more processed salt, empty calories, adulterated oils, MSG and other excitotoxins, or other addictive substances.

Sadly, what emotional void are we trying to fill with sugar, food, food-porn, and guilty pleasures? Connection, love, acceptance... all of which are accessible without poisoning our bodies with toxic sugar and its byproducts (alcohol...).

• What makes alcohol so addictive
• Sugarcane take center stage
• China again hit by another milk scandal
• Milk causes cancer (2012)
  
• Milk related to cancerous tumor (2007)
  

BREAKUP: "Be Gentle With Me" (comedy)

Wisdom Quarterly

"Be gentle with me, oh oh, be gentle with me...please be gentle with me, handle with care, be gentle with me...or I shall kick your teeth in."

Breaking up is hard to do, they say. But it depends. It certainly is if one repeatedly reflects on the appealing qualities of the lost person.

However, if one were to from to time consider and reflect on the unappealing aspects, that clinging and pining would vanish.

One would become disenchanted, disillusioned, dispassionate. And then it would be possible to be freed. There is, of course, a trap. If one pushes away from the pain, that is just as dangerous as clinging to the pleasant in the first place. Aversion is as hard to deal with as undue attraction.

"Garden of Love" (Benny Hill)

Hate quickly replaces love -- without displacing it. One is then attached and angry, hurt and seeking some way of ridding oneself of the pain, the memory, the intrusive thoughts.



Wise reflection (yoniso manasikara) sees things as they truly are -- neither ignoring the bad nor exaggerating the good.

With freedom comes laughter again. Everything is funny. Everything is light. Everything is fine just as it is, because fine/not-fine is all in the mind that judges it so. With a different decision, the world seems to change. There is no out there without an in here.

Laugh, and the whole world laughs with you. Cry, and you can cry alone. (Misery loves company, but the company soon wearies of les contagious miserable).

Be sure to have the number to cancel.

A natural solution without harmful chemical pharmaceuticals? (welltabs.com)

American Diet and Health (listen)

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Travel, Sasquatch, Tantrums, Mood, and Jobs

Breakfast around the Buddha's Eyes Stupa
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- Visiting Boudhanath at dawn is an opportunity to witness a surreal view of Buddhists and Tibetans clad in maroon robes, walking clockwise, spinning prayer wheels, repeating mantras, and counting prayer beads. Om Mani Padme

Most original places in the world to vacation
Travelers are trading beach vacations for unforgettable experiences in faraway lands. How to get to Tiger's Lair, a Buddhist monastery

Sasquatch in the news; cat catches swine flu
A cat who contracted swine flu from its owner and new alleged Bigfoot evidence stir up the Web. What else this week? - Bigfoot evidence


Reasons why kids have temper tantrums
Knowing these six common triggers is the first step in preventing another meltdown. Threats to self-esteem

Foods that put you in a good mood
These snacks have nutrients that fight stress and increase happy feelings. Mood-boosting ingredients - Depression symptoms


Unemployment is harder than it used to be
People faced fewer financial perils the last time the jobless rate hit 10 percent, a generation ago. Recession of 1982 - Surviving unemployment

• Dalai Lama visits town near Tibet, angering China
• Chinese premier pledges funds, aid to Africa
• Gold above $1,100 an ounce pushed by weak dollar
• Earthquake measuring 6.7 reported near Indonesia
• Germany celebrates memory of Berlin Wall falling
• Clinton: Berlin Wall festivities not just a party

Meditating; Food-Mood Connection

If you're trying to meditate or feel better, SUGAR is your enemy.

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Introduction to meditation with Jack Kornfield (Spirit Rock)

"Snacks Overpower Our Best Intentions"
LiveScience.com (9/16/08)

Despite our best intentions to eat something healthy, we often choose sugary snacks. Dutch researchers asked 585 participants to pick between four snacks: an apple, a banana, a candy bar, and a molasses waffle. About half of the participants indicated they would choose the apple or banana. But when presented with the actual snacks a week later, 27% of those who had said they'd pick a healthy one switched to the candy bar or waffle. And more than 90% of those who had initially made an unhealthy choice stuck with it.

Researchers figure that while we are in control of our intentions, our actual choices are often made impulsively, even unconsciously. "A substantial gap between healthy snack choice intentions and actual behavior was demonstrated," said study leader Pascalle Weijzen of Wageningen University in the Netherlands. "Despite that gap, the results suggest that individuals who plan to make a healthful choice are more likely to do so than those who plan to make unhealthful choices.

Because more than 50% of the population seems to have no intention at all of making a healthful choice, identifying tools by which this group can be motivated to choose a healthful snack is strongly needed." The study is detailed in the September/October issue of the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior.

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