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5 Tips For Stopping Toxic Thoughts

As promised in the last post, I want to share with you five simple tips that can bring you freedom from toxic thoughts and stinking thinking.  These might seem overly simplistic, but it’s the simple things in life, when added together, that bring about profound changes. (1) Keep a Gratitude Journal Research shows that those [...]

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Toxic Thoughts?

I spend a lot of time helping people understand the need to support their body’s detoxification capabilities.  There is no question that we are exposed to a plethora of cancer-causing, disease-promoting, and health-stealing toxins.  Whether it’s the bisphenol-A in the can lining, the antibiotic residue in our sirloin steak, the mercury-laden coal dust, or the [...]

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7 Tips for A Better Foundation to Health

Remember your days as a child?  I have three children ranging in ages from 13 months to 6 years and I have noticed something about them as I observe them play.  When my 6-year-old started building blocks he would take his “ABC” blocks and stack them on the unstable surface of the carpet one on [...]

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Magnificent Seven: In Conclusion

Well, we have shared quite a few posts regarding the Magnificent Seven: Eat Right, Drink Right, Move Right, Sleep Right, Talk Right, Think Right, & Poop Right.  I truly hope this provided some beneficial lifestyle applications that will help improve your health.  Become an advocate for you! Take charge of your health.  To have good [...]

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Magnificent Seven: Poop Right – Listen When Nature Calls

Nothing profound, long, or drawn out about today’s post.  It’s really simple.  When nature calls…listen.  Chronic constipation can be a negative consequence of too often ignoring the urge to have a bowel movement.  ’Nuff said.

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Magnificent Seven: Poop Right – Decrease Cancer Risk

Physicians Nicholas Petrakis and Eileen King published their findings in Lancet that women who had two or fewer bowel movements per week have 4 times the risk of breast disease (malignant or benign) as women who have one or more bowel movements every day.  Constipation has a profound increased risk of colon cancer associated with [...]

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Magnificent Seven: Poop Right – Food Sensitivities

If you have any gastrointestinal dysfunction or distress at all, then you should strongly consider following a modified elimination diet for thirty days.  The gastric mucosa (the lining of the gastrointestinal system) can be damaged when we eat foods that we are sensitive to or when inflammatory immune responses are initiated because of what we [...]

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Magnificent Seven: Poop Right – Proper Frequency and Consistency

We have mentioned it in passing (yes, pun intended) in previous blogs, and that is the fact that poop is toxic.  Normal bowel frequency is 1-3 bowel movements each day.  A normal bowel transit time, which is the total amount of time it takes for the things you ingest to be eliminated, should be 18-22 [...]

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Magnificent Seven: Poop Right – You Are What You Don’t Eliminate

The last of the Magnificent Seven is here and what an important component of health it is!  Proper elimination is absolutely vital to good health.  1 in 7 Americans are chronically constipated.  Chronic constipation has been directly correlated with gastrointestinal disease, colon cancer, breast cancer and many other conditions. Yes, you are what you eat, [...]

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Magnificent Seven: Think Right – Take Time to Say Thanks

Today is the day we have set aside to honor those brave men and women that have so nobly served this great country.  We enjoy freedoms that were not free.  What a fitting way to finish up the Magnificent Seven portion of “Think Right” by incorporating a daily tool that will help you to think [...]

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