Free to choose

You have a choice!

You could choose to take action or not take action, to live a sedentary life or an active life.

You can choose to seek after that which you desire, for example, success, or simply hope it will magically come to you someday.

You can choose to use the power of attraction by creating a movie in your mind of you succeeding and believing that the success you are visualizing is already yours!

You could choose to imagine your life as a pathway to success or believe that success will never come your way.

You could choose to believe in something when all those around you say you should not believe in it.

You can choose to have a healthy body by choosing what you put in it and what you do with it.

You could choose to gain knowledge by reading books that will empower you with life changing information, or you could choose to watch more TV.

You see, it is "YOU" that choose.

YOU have the power to choose the direction of your life.

It is "YOU" who must choose, no one else can choose for you. Even if you choose NOT to choose, you have still made a choice, you have chosen a direction for your life.

You know there are areas of your life "RIGHT NOW" where you have failed to make a choice....to choose one way or another.

One thing that you have no choice: 2013 is coming. And so decide to choose your direction today.

Dream BIG and make BIG choices.

Enjoy Holidays! Enjoy Life!

 

Spice for Life

In the U.K. a woman named Vicky Sewart who was beating breast cancer four years ago, refused to take a cancer recovery drug, Tamoxifen, after undergoing chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery. Instead, she chose to depend on a spicy organic vegan diet and take moderate exercise.

Now, after four years, there is no sign that the cancer has come back.

Her diet cut out all dairy products, added plenty of “super-foods” such as fresh fruit, vegetables and juices with turmeric, garlic and ginger.

'Turmeric makes cancer cells commit suicide. Ginger and garlic are great to cook with,' she said.

In fact, turmeric has been used for over 2500 years in India, as a spice used when making curry dishes.The active ingredient in turmeric is curcumin. It has powerful anti-inflammatory properties and can inhibit cell mutation.

Overall, turmeric has the following properties:

• Anti-inflammatory properties
• A natural antiseptic and antibacterial agent, useful in disinfecting cuts and burns
• When combined with cauliflower, it has shown to prevent prostate cancer and stop the growth of existing prostate cancer. Besides, it also has effects on other cancers including breast, pancreatic and can prevent melanoma
• Reduce the risk of childhood leukemia
• A natural liver detoxifier
• Prevent and slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease
• Because of its anti-inflammatory properties, it is a natural treatment for arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.

Even if you have doubt on the effect of turmeric on cancers, a healthy diet and regular exercise are good for your health. As Dr Steve Kelly, who specialises in breast cancer at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth, said, ‘There are three things patients can do to help themselves. The first is to exercise for 30 minutes, three days a week. The second is to not gain any weight and the third is to reduce fat intake.'

‘These things help to reduce the chance of cancer coming back.’ 

 

Why fruits and vegetables help prevent cancers?

Fruit and vegetables are rich in flavonoids, which can protect against some cancers.

A research study found that amongst female respondents, those who had eaten flavonoids more than 580 milligrams daily can reduce the chance of suffering from gastric cancer by half compared with those who consumed less amount. This is because flavonoids contain quercetin which helps suppress chemical reaction of carcinogen (a substance that is capable of causing cancers) .

Flavonoids are a powerful antioxidant. Their antioxidant effect is two times as that of vitamin C, five times of vitamin E. They have smaller molecular structure, are water soluble and so they can easily be absorbed by the body.

In addition to the prevention of cancers, flavonoids have a lot of other benefits:

They reduce, promote healthy arteries and help fight aging by preventing and repairing cellular damage. And so they can reduce the formation of atherosclerosis, help prevent other cardiovascular diseases and reduce inflammation.

As they are also an important element in maintaining the health of brain cells, flavonoids may also protect against dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.

The list below is the foods rich in flavonoids:

• Apples (in the skin)
• Blueberries
• Broccoli
• Cabbage
• Capers
• Chocolate (dark, not milk) and cocoa
• Onions
• Strawberries
• Red grapes
• Red wine
• Tea (all kinds)

Besides, flavonoids also exist in nuts, legumes and seeds (such as sunflower seed, flax seed).

In addition, we should eat more foods containing vitamin E as well because these can help flavonoids fight free radicals, reducing probability of suffering from cancers.

And if eat together with foods rich in vitamin C, such as citrus fruit , kiwi and strawberry, it can effectively improve the elasticity of blood vessels. inhibit platelet from clotting, reduce the risk of infarction, hypertension, diabetes, stroke, elderly degradation, etc. Another study found that a combination of vitamin C and flavonoids (100 mg each) can help speed up the healing of herpes virus such as lip rash.

How to achieve your goal?

Take personal responsibility for your life!

For example, if you want to be healthy, you have to move and keep on moving. If you stay still, you will be doomed to live a life filled with health problems. You have to live with the consequences of not taking positive steps to prevent sickness and disease in your life. And it is you that can take the steps to bring wellness back to your life.

To do so, firstly, define your goal. The more specific the better. For example, to lose 30 pounds in one year.

Write it down.

Then take massive action. As Tony Robbins said, "The path to success is to take massive, determined action." This includes:

• Find someone who has already reached your goal and find out how they did it and copy their model.
• Go to the libraries and look for as many books that are specific to your goal and all the problems on the way to your goal.
• Read all success stories.
• Consult all experts in the field.
• Go to your local health food stores and ask them what foods burn the most fat and which weight loss techniques work the best.
• Ask professional sports physiotherapist how to lose weight and he might advise you to do more resistance training as it not only sculpts the body but it also burns more body fat over the long-term than cardio exercise.

Now, you have massive amounts of knowledge from which you are going to distill information that can be turning into activities, habits, lifestyle changes and so on.

However, this is not the end of story. From time to time, you have to review your progress and adjust any action taken if necessary until you achieve your goal.