Comments on: All it takes is a healthy diet http://livingwithmcl.com/2006/06/27/all-it-takes-is-a-healthy-diet/ The ramblings of a mantle cell lymphoma survivor Mon, 21 May 2012 14:12:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Vreni Gurd http://livingwithmcl.com/2006/06/27/all-it-takes-is-a-healthy-diet/comment-page-1/#comment-77 Vreni Gurd Fri, 14 Jul 2006 05:25:56 +0000 http://livingwithmcl.com/index.php/2006/06/27/all-it-takes-is-a-healthy-diet/#comment-77 I completely agree that for the most part, all it takes is a healthy diet, as food comes in packages that our body understands, and when bits and pieces are separated out, we make it impossible for our bodies use the nutrition as it wants because the synergistic factors needed are gone. But it takes a whole lot more than just whole food and avoiding processed food to be healthy, as soils are extremely depleted in North America from all the pesticide, herbicide and fungicide use. Choosing organic food will drastically increase the nutrition, eliminate almost all toxins that might be present, and ensure that you are not consuming genetically modified food, which is an experiment all conventional-food consumers are participating in whether they like it or not. Making sure that the meat, poultry, eggs and dairy consumed are from pasture-fed sources will also greatly increase the nutrition, and alter the omega 3 to 6 ratio favourably, and ensure that the animals are treated in a humane way. I think one of the biggest reasons so many of us are developing chronic diseases is we are not paying close enough attention to the quality of the food we are consuming. We get enough toxins through the air we breathe, the stuff we put on our skin, and any drugs we take, and to ask our poor livers to also deal with all the artificial flavourings, colourings, preservatives etc. let alone bovine growth hormone and antibiotics fed to animals, pesticides on the food (strawberries are sprayed about 19 times with different pesticides!), it is no wonder our systems stop coping. Good luck on your journey - you may want to look into using a CHEK NLC Practitioner (www.chekinstitute.com) or get some testing done at BioHealth in San Diego. Their approach to medicine is completely different, and makes a whole lot more sense in my humble opinion! Vreni Gurd Health and Vitality Coach CHEK Level 3, NLC 2 www.wellnesstips.ca I completely agree that for the most part, all it takes is a healthy diet, as food comes in packages that our body understands, and when bits and pieces are separated out, we make it impossible for our bodies use the nutrition as it wants because the synergistic factors needed are gone. But it takes a whole lot more than just whole food and avoiding processed food to be healthy, as soils are extremely depleted in North America from all the pesticide, herbicide and fungicide use. Choosing organic food will drastically increase the nutrition, eliminate almost all toxins that might be present, and ensure that you are not consuming genetically modified food, which is an experiment all conventional-food consumers are participating in whether they like it or not. Making sure that the meat, poultry, eggs and dairy consumed are from pasture-fed sources will also greatly increase the nutrition, and alter the omega 3 to 6 ratio favourably, and ensure that the animals are treated in a humane way.

I think one of the biggest reasons so many of us are developing chronic diseases is we are not paying close enough attention to the quality of the food we are consuming. We get enough toxins through the air we breathe, the stuff we put on our skin, and any drugs we take, and to ask our poor livers to also deal with all the artificial flavourings, colourings, preservatives etc. let alone bovine growth hormone and antibiotics fed to animals, pesticides on the food (strawberries are sprayed about 19 times with different pesticides!), it is no wonder our systems stop coping.

Good luck on your journey – you may want to look into using a CHEK NLC Practitioner (www.chekinstitute.com) or get some testing done at BioHealth in San Diego. Their approach to medicine is completely different, and makes a whole lot more sense in my humble opinion!

Vreni Gurd
Health and Vitality Coach
CHEK Level 3, NLC 2
http://www.wellnesstips.ca

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