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Health And Wellness: The Shift From Managing Illness To Promoting Health

Wellness is a concept that has become popular in the last couple of years. It involves a complete sense of wellbeing, not just physically but mentally and emotionally as well.

Wellness is a voluntary seeking out of ways to give one a higher quality of life and focuses on staying well and not waiting for disease to manifest before you make lifestyle changes. If you do have health problems, wellness care focuses on finding and eliminating the cause of disease and not just treating disease symptoms alone.

We can sum it up like this. Wellness is:

•    not having or being at risk of disease
•    an active process of becoming aware of and… Continue reading

Juicing for Health and Cancer Prevention

jjuicingIt’s fairly common knowledge now that eating vegetables is important to your overall health. Vegetables are the cleansers, energizers, detoxifiers and rejuvenators of the human system.

But the truth is most of us struggle to get the 2-3 cups required each day…especially the variety recommended.

It’s no secret that the best way to eat vegetables and get the most out of them is to eat them raw. Eating large quantities of raw vegetables can be a challenge but drinking one or two glasses of vegetable juice daily is relatively easy. You will quickly notice the benefits.

Making your own vegetable juices will supply easily absorbed nutrients, enzymes, vitamins, minerals, protein and fats critical to cancer-proofing your body along with increased… Continue reading

Why Does Cancer Continue to Kill?

lady walkingCancer, the word strikes fear into hearts everywhere. Almost everyone is affected in one way or another –whether it’s a family member, a friend, a co-worker or maybe even you. Each one of us could tell a personal story about how it has changed the course of our lives in some manner.

What’s really frightening about this villainous disease is that by the age 65 the average person has a one-in-two chance of getting cancer and a one-in-three chance of dying from it. And those are the statistics after billions have been spent on research!

The fact remains: cancer is just as deadly now as it was 20, 30, or even 50 years ago. Continue reading