To Cook or not to Cook…

Posted on October 20, 2013 by challenyee

This is the question when you are seeking to preserve the anticancer components found in your nutrition-packed fresh fruits and vegetables.

In “Natural Strategies for Cancer Patients,” by Dr Russell Blaylock (2003), I found two lists of common foods. One is of foods that lose a considerable amount of their “anticancer (antimutagenic) activity… [when] heated” and the other list is of foods that maintain their their power “when cooked”.

Those losing their anti-cancer power:
Apples
Apricots
Kiwi
Pineapple
Beets
Cabbage
Cauliflower
Leafy Lettuce
Cucumber
Onions
Radishes
Rhubard

Those Maintaining their anti-cancer power:
Blackberries
Blueberries
Sweet and Sour Cherries
Honeydew Melons
Plums
Strawberries
Brussel Sprouts
Chicory Greens
Eggplant
Garden Cress
Pumpkin
Spinach

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GO RAW or NOT too RAW
You may be considering the benefits of going all raw or not.
Dr. Blaylock discusses this earlier in his book. In summary, he believes a combination of raw and cooked vegetables is good.

The advantage of raw food is all the inherent nutritional substances are preserved, however, they must be unlocked for the human body to be able to absorb them.

Therefore, ultra patient chewing of food is necessary unless the food in prepared by some mashing, low-heat cooking, or liquifying.

I would add that some foods, like tomatoes, deliver significantly greater advantages for men’s prostate health if they are are cooked.

Blaylock goes on to explain that only chewing raw foods, based on some studies, allows only 30% of the raw food nutrients to be absorbed, whereas using a blender allows for 90% absorption.

CY

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10 TIPS TO KICK A BAD HABIT

Posted on October 13, 2013 by challenyee

What  bad habit is toxifying your life?

What better way to detoxify your life and your health than by getting rid of a bad habit and replacing it with a good one!

In Dr. Michael Murray’s book “How to Prevent and Treat Cancer with Natural Medicine” he writes about developing the “Anti-Cancer” Personality.

In that chapter he goes into the importance of having a positive mental attitude, being optimistic, asking yourself better questions (not being so down on yourself), setting positive goals, dealing with stress, and the importance of a healthy lifestyle which involves not smoking, regular exercise, and adequate sleep.

Overall he outlines an outstanding strategy on how to be a better person while improving your health.

He also goes into “Ten Tips to Stop Smoking” which I believe can be used as an template to kick most bad habits.

I am going take his list and make it generic for whatever bad habit you need to kick.

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TEN TIPS TO KICK A BAD HABIT

1) List all the reason you want to quit and review them daily.

2) Set a specific day to quit, tell at least ten friends that you are going to quit, and then DO IT!

3) Find a safe substitute for your vice and go to it rather than what you are trying to quit.

4) Avoid situations where you associate your bad habit with.

5) When you need to relax, perform deep-breathing exercises instead.

6) Realize probably millions of other people have quit the habit you have. If they can of it, so can you!

7) Visualize yourself as successfully kicking your habit and imagine the increase in available money (if your habit costs money).

8) Join a support group. Make yourself part of a supportive team. Be accountable to a others, especially if they have already kicked their bad habit.

9) Each day, reward yourself in a positive way. Buy yourself something with the money you’ve saved, plan a special reward as a celebration for quitting.

10) Take one day at a time.

BONUS TIP: Learn to laugh!

Life is serious enough without you having to disrespect yourself. A simple technique I just thought of is to imagine the situation in question  with enormous time and distance between you and the problem. You might even give yourself some timely advice when you see the circumstances from the eyes of an extraterrestrial time traveller.

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I am about to launch my new blog at http://www.ChallenYee.com, Liberating the Cubically Oppressed.

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New Personal Development Blog Coming

Posted on October 13, 2013 by challenyee

http://www.ChallenYee.com 

It’s almost time,  I’m almost ready to launch my first post within the next 48 hours.

For those of you who are still reading my posts who were the personal and leadership development crowd, this will be good news.

Prepare for the launch of my new wordpress.org home-spun blog at http://www.ChallenYee.com, Liberating the Cubically Oppressed, where personal development with a focus on more satisfaction is the name of the game.

Meanwhile…

I will continue to feed http://www.BestBuckBuck.com with ideas for daily detoxification with an upcoming regular weekly post in the morning.

In the future, I plan to present is an interview with my sister who is recovering from  thymus cancer. So far she is beating it and the malignant turmor is receding without any indication of having metastasized. A big part of her recovery is related to changing her diet.

She has recently returned from a fun self-guided three week trip to Europe and so I hope to get some health and travel tips from her world for your reading fulfillment.

CY

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Aroma-Toxic Co-workers

Posted on October 6, 2013 by challenyee

The toxic battlefield at the office

Have you ever had to face the unexpected challenge of dealing with a co-worker over-dousing on body scents?

If you’re like me, you’re tired of recognizing people when they come into the building, by smelling their over-the-top application of cologne or perfume. Even though you are on the other side of the building you know precisely when they arrive as they get intimate with the whole office.

Personally I stopped using deodorant many years ago and have never had the habit of using scented products like cologne and after shave. It’s another good reason to be on the detox lifestyle, you just tend not to stink as much.

After reviewing the data found on http://www.ewg.org, I was impressed by the dangerously high levels of toxic substances measured in the fragrance of many body care products. On a scale of 0 through 9, 9 being this most dangerous, many scents are in the 7 through 9 range of a majority of the lesser-than-health-minded products.

So if you have an allergic reaction to someone heavy-ladened with chemically enhanced body scents, you are not out of line being a bit annoyed by the proclivities of others’ aroma-toxic habits, rather, you can muster a certain amount of righteous indignation due to the possibility of toxic molecules mingling with your brain as your immune system does battle in a microbiochemical dance.

CY

Do you have any horrific stories of workplace aroma-violence?
Please leave a comment, I’d love to read it.

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Simple Diet Strategies: The 80-20

Posted on September 29, 2013 by challenyee

More simple diet strategies for your better health.

Let’s see how your current eating habits stack up against this recommendation from Alejandro Junger’s book “Clean Gut” (2013).

Basic Principle – The 80-20 Diet

Fill 80 percent of your plate with greens and vegetables (raw, steamed, baked, cooked) and 20 percent with protein and good fats (meat, fish, avocado, etc).

There is no need to count calories.

Simple so far? No comedians now, don’t you get this thing backwards.

One way to picture 80%-20% is 12 minutes on a clock (let’s round it down to 10 minutes). Fill 50 minutes up with the greens and veggies and the remaining 10 minutes with the meat and good fats.

Follow up this with important rule:
“Stop eating when your are 80% full.”

The basic reason to not overeat is so your body doesn’t start producing toxins due to food rotting inside you instead of being digested properly. Yeast and fungus infections are more apt to be created with chronic overeaters.

Yes, and every time we start dilly dallying with chronic  toxin, irritation, and inflammation, we’re talking about precursors to a pro cancer scenario. So following this bit of advice can help avoid the danger in this regard.

One of the key focuses of “Clean Gut” is to improve the performance of your digestive tract. While there are many details for an advanced dieter, I want you to get started into a simple discipline, something you can maintain, sustain and be free-of-pain.

Stop treating your billion dollar sports car like a dump truck.

That’s right, if some rich dude had to pay some genius to make you, he would not have enough money to create something so beautifully created as you are. Yes, you, a masterfully created being with or without the bad eating habits. Start treating yourself like you were meant to be.

Please review my other posts for simple concepts that you can employ now to get started on your own revolution of positive change.

And have you started your 2 cups of fresh clean delicious water first thing in the morning? And, by the way, the basic rule for daily water consumption is half your weight in ounces daily.

Please leave a comment if you’ve got one. I would enjoy hearing from you.

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Anti-Cancer Diet Kick Start: 3 simple tips

Posted on September 22, 2013 by challenyee

Simple approaches to design a detoxifying and anti-cancer diet.

Do you find getting started on a daily detoxification diet is difficult? Maybe you just need to keep on reading different ways of approaching the problem until you find one that clicks with you. You can get on the right pathway to a body that is toxic to cancer.

You heard me right, you can design a diet (and way of living) that is hostile to those little cancer cells that threaten to establish themselves and ruin your health and your life.

The best news is two-fold! Building an anti-cancer diet is not just a way to kick the ass of those little buggers, but will also yield improved energy and general health.

Here’s a suggested approach which I learned from Dr. David Servan-Schreiber in his book, “Anti-Cancer A New Way of Life”(2009). In it he suggests this simple approach to begin detoxifying (emphasis in bold added):

“1) Eat Sugar and white flour sparingly.
Replace them with agave nectar, acacia honey, or coconut sugar for sweetening and multigrain flour for pastas and breads (or sourdough bread made with traditional leaven).”

“2) Reduce consumption of red meat and avoid processed pork products.
The World Cancer Research Fund recommends limiting consumption to no more than 18 ounces (500 grams) of red meat and pork products every week – in other words, at most 4-5 steaks. Their ideal recommended goal is 11 ounces (300 grams) or less.”

“3) Avoid ALL hydrogenated vegetable fats – “trans fats”– (found in croissants and pastries that are not made with butter) and all animal fats loaded with omega-6s.
Olive oil and canola oil are excellent vegetable fats that do not promote inflammation. Butter (not margarine) and cheese that are well balanced in omega-3 may not contribute to inflammation either.”

OK, Have you started already?

If not, you can get started now. Write it down, you are getting started (or restarted)! Tell a friend, have them help you on you and cheer you along!

One more simple tip is to drink a couple of cups of nice fresh water first thing in the morning to get your day off to an awesome start! Wow, that’s easy. Keep those bowels moving!

As Jim Rohn, taught, “Things that are simple to do, are simple not to do… start the simple disciplines that will change your life for the better… start now.”

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Is the Rainbow killing you? Six Points about Synthetic Food Coloring

Posted on September 15, 2013 by challenyee

Selected points from “The Way of the Skeptical Nutritionist” (1981) by Michael A. Weiner.*

Are you stepping up your daily routine of detoxifying your body?

Here are six simple but interesting facts about synthetic food coloring to help justify your discipline.

1) Did you know that consumer fears about about harmful food coloring first began in 1906?

2) The first synthetic dye was mauve, adapted from a dye originally used to color fabrics. The purpose? You got it, to cut costs.

3) About 90% of all colors used in foods are synthetic.

4) Color certification by the government is not a guarantee of safety. A high percentage of synthetic colors used in the 1950’s were later banned from further use in foods. Who can be certain that the current lot of synthetic colors will not one day be banned?

5) Food coloring is often used to conceal damage or inferior products. A customer who bites into a shiny red apple whose skin has absorbed a dose of red dye may consume a pulp bruised and laden with bacteria.

6) “Man, in certain cases, is engineering his own demise in the name of frivolity. Nowhere is this more apparent than with the food colors, some of which are potent carcinogens, painted on a rainbow of foods” (Weiner).

Action:
If you want to take your detoxification disciplines to a higher level, be sure to read labels, do your best to avoid any foods with artificial (synthetic) colors.

CY

Did something about this article reach out to you? Please leave a comment.

*About the author’s style: Weiner’s writing has depth, filled with evidence from scientific research, historical anecdote, psychology, and various ethnic perspectives on nutrition. So it is with significant personal license that I revised a portion of his work to reiterate some points to heighten your awareness of the dangerous “frivolity” in the use of synthetic colors in food.

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Cancer Prevent Diet: Seven Essential Tips

Posted on September 8, 2013 by challenyee

Natural Detoxfication Guidelines

According to Dr. Michael Murray, the author of “How to Prevent and Treat Cancer with Natural Medicine” the key dietary goals in helping you achieve your anti-cancer goals are as follows:

1. Eat a rainbow assortment of fruits and vegetables
2. Reduce exposure to pesticides
3. Reduce the intake of meat and other animal foods
4. Eat the right type of fats by increasing the intake of Omega-3 fatty acids.
5. Avoid high-calorie, low nutrient foods such as junk foods, candy and soft drinks.
6. Keep salt intake low, potassium intake high.
7. Choose foods that help your body detoxify and eliminate waste.

For those of you with a new found will to establish a new diet, following all of these steps at once will benefit you. However, if you are like many others and have difficulty making changes without the proverbial gun to your head, making gradual but disciplined changes on a weekly basis will also be beneficial.

One strategy to change your diet is to simply take one “bad” thing out and replace it with one “better” thing. For example, replace a soda with a piece of fruit and water. That in itself and little changes like that will bring you and your body great benefits.

CY

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“BuckBuck” Redefined

Posted on September 5, 2013 by challenyee

The definition of “BuckBuck” grows!

When I started this blog a couple of months ago, my first post had to do with the ideal bowel movement and I explained how “buck-buck” is a pet term our family has used since forever to refer to a bowel movement or the resulting fecal matter.

In the process of developing this blog and posting on a somewhat diverse array of topics, I started thinking of “buck-buck” in broader terms, associating it with toxic matter that ought to be excreted or otherwise released from the body in many realms: physical, mental, and spiritual.

Now I’ve further transformed the meaning to include bad influences in our lives that most of us would do better without.

Here are some suggested applications for using “BuckBuck” in your everyday life:

Go buckbuck regularly for a healthy body.

Positive thoughts are necessary to overcome buckbuck of the mind.

Pursue your dreams by rising above the buckbuck of life.

Alternately, perhaps your best friend just completed an outstanding research paper on the warp drive and its effect on the intergalactic proliferation of Big Macs and Lawn Bowling, you could remark, “Wow dude, that’s some really good buckbuck.”

Lastly, if that last batch of beer spirited chili you just made really hit the spot, you could always say, “Man, that is some of the best buckbuck I have ever tasted!”

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As my concept of “buckbuck” has changed, so has my understanding of how I ought to be blogging. I realize each blog needs to be focused in order to provide value for a specific interested group.

When I decide which theme to go with to launch my next blog and how I’ll need to use this blog, I’ll let you know . Whichever theme I choose for the next one, I believe it will have a strong emphasis on career, leadership and personal development.

In the meantime, I should let you know I am going to go reduce the frequency of my posts to weekly.  While the next blog will likely be daily.

I appreciate your readership of this little blog. Whether you clicked “follow” or “like” on one of my posts or have just remained anonymous and picked up something you believe is useful or entertaining, thanks.

CY

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Einstein the Application Checker

Posted on August 30, 2013 by challenyee

Assistant Examiner

That title doesn’t sound too glorious, but Albert Einstein spent several years of his life working as a clerk in the Swiss Patent Office after the frustration of failing to find a job as a teacher.

However, during this time as an Assistant, Einstein began to form his “radical conclusions about the nature of light and the fundamental connection between space and time” (Wikipedia).

Take a cue from Albert Einstein, even if your ambitions have encountered some speed bumps, you can still find your greatness.

CY

I was inspired to write about Einstein’s experience after listening to “The Lotus Code” by Mark Yarnell, who mentions Einstein’s detour in his career before his ultimate fame.

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