The Fresh Network Blog

Turn Down The Heat of Inflammation!

by Kirsten Flowers

Chronic inflammation is linked to many diseases including, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, IBS, heart disease and even some cancers.  We don't have to resign ourselves to thinking its a natural part of our life cycle.  Its not normal, in fact, it is most often caused by poor food choices and stressful lifestyles which are accelerating the ageing process and the onset of many health concerns associated with it.  

When we experience physical symptoms associated with inflammation, eg. swollen joints, psoriasis etc there is also an internal reaction taking place. The bodies immune system is in overdrive and this can cause tiredness, aches and pains, amongst other symptoms.

The Story in Your Blood

Live blood analysis may provide significant insights into your health, says Gareth Edwards. So what is it, and how do you find a practitioner?

As someone interested in health and vitality, you may have heard about live blood analysis, but you may think that it is expensive, painful(!) or that you have to travel abroad to have it done. There are, in fact, many practitioners in many countries, including the uK, who use this observation technique. As someone aiming to optimise their health, you might find that live and dry blood analysis is an effective way to see if the path you are following and the choices you are making are really delivering the results that you are seeking.

Hippocrates Living Foods Programme

Hippocrates Living Foods Programme

A Day of Practical Preparation Demos 

with Nadia Brydon & Jill Swyers, Hippocrates Health Educators

Sunday June 30th , 10-30am - 4.30pm. lunch provided, London SW6.

£70 early booking.

Go here to reserve your seat www.allaboutnaturalmedicine.com. Or call 020 8350 4607 / 07984 592626

Spend A Day with Dr. Brian Clement and The Fresh Network

 

VENUE: Camden Centre, Camden Town Hall, Judd Street, London, WC1H 9JE 
(Opposite King's Cross & St Pancras station.)


DATE: Sunday 23rd June 2013 

TIME: 11.30am-3.30pm  

Go here to book your early bird tickets for just £22.00 before 31st March 2013.

 

Seminar with Dr. Brian Clement

After a sold out event last year, we are proud and honored to be hosting this world-renowned leader in the living foods diet and one of the most sought after speakers in the fields of optimum nutrition and holistic health today.

We invite you to join us at The Fresh Network's Inspirational and Informative event with Dr. Brian Clement PhD, Director of the Hippocrates Institute in Florida.

 

 Power of Living Foods to Heal Disease & Conquer Ageing 

'A Day with Dr Brian Clement' will be held in the Camden Centre, London on the 23rd June where he will be discussing the 'Power of Living Foods to Heal Disease & Conquer Ageing.'


 

Dr Clement will address the basic and extraordinary mechanisms that bring about heightened and balanced immunity.

 

The Effects of Overeating on Childbirth in Different Cultures

by Marco Ranzi and Karen Ranzi

Problems in childbirth worldwide are intricately connected to overeating during pregnancy. I have researched women’s diets and lifestyles during pregnancy to determine a prime cause of the rising rate of surgical delivery through Cesarean section. We can see clearly that success in childbirth differs between the more Westernized countries and the traditional cultures.

The practices of industrialized societies versus those of cultures following their natural traditional values are covered in the various resources examining “The Effects of Overeating on Childbirth.”

Difficulties that women experience in pregnancy and during childbirth are caused by poor health. Women who gain 30 to 40 pounds or more, especially through eating a significant amount of animal flesh and other animal products that stress the digestive organs, have problems in pregnancy and childbirth. This has been observed in cultures that emphasize “eating for two.” An intake of excessive fat, cholesterol, protein and calories cause these problems.

10 Reasons To Add Bee Pollen To Your Diet

Bee pollen is a holistic remedy used throughout the world. Unfortunately the vast amount of uses that pollen can be used for are often overlooked.

Dr. Gabriel Cousens MD, has listed bee pollen as one of his 22 most recommended food energies.

Bee Pollen is made by honeybees, it is loaded with antioxidants and is nature's most complete nourishing foods.

Pollen contains nearly all nutrients required by humans, free amino acids, rutin, vitamins, including B-complex, and folic acid and is rich in protein. Bee Pollen can be used medicinally for a wide range of conditions from prostate health to skin conditions and can help correct specific nutritional imbalances within the body.

Magic Magnesium

It’s an essential nutrient, but many of us don’t even know we need it. Dr Philip Weeks shares his tricks and tips to ensure we get at least our RDA

In my clinic, most patients are short of nutrients. The UK’s recommended daily allowance (RDA) is the basic nutritional requirement the body needs to function. However those of 
us who work in the field of nutrition know that for many, the basic nutritional intake is often not enough to prevent illness and manage pre-existing conditions. Our bodies are under increasing demands in the form of pollution, stress, or ongoing infections and imbalances. To tackle these stressors, it is understandable that we may need more than the RDA to be in healthy equilibrium. Let’s explore the most common mineral deficiency I encounter in my clinic: magnesium.

 

Celery - from hate to love

by Helen Kirby Roach

Myself and celery have always had a hate/hate relationship going on. It started early in life as I had a Mum who was a bit ahead of the times and 'into' health foods when not many other people were. I was not impressed. We had a salad every single day come rain or shine, Winter or Summer.

Of course I thank her now and have in fact turned into more of a nut about health than she was. Those genes always get you in the end! I did a fair bit of rebelling first though.

I was given an apple a day to take to school, these got flung away as soon as I was out of sight of the house. I was given garlic pearls which I did try to swallow but more often than not I couldn't and they burst in my mouth and, well, it was not pleasant! So I used to push them down the kitchen plug hole. I was under 10 at this time but then as I grew older the juicer came to stay. This hateful machine that spewed out beetroot juice...I tried my hardest to object but in the end it was simpler to pretend to knock it back and send it the same way as the garlic pearls. My Mum was very trusting ; )

Yet the one thing I hated the most was that smelly stick of celery. I loathed the smell that clung to the kitchen and the fridge, and whilst I grew up (eventually) to be able to face beetroot (love it raw in a soup) and can eat raw garlic most happily, the celery revulsion never abated. Once I was 19 and left home it never entered across my threshold for 30 years. I am not fickle!

The raw world's top 5 most dangerous myths

Avoid some common pitfalls and you can really ramp up the results you get on your raw regime. Full of information on just that is Get Fresh! magazine editor Sarah Best's article "The raw world's top 5 most dangerous myths", posted on her new website a few days ago.

Here's an excerpt:

"Heat damages the delicate macronutrients, micronutrients and enzymes in food, as well as its subtle yet all-important energy field.

It begins its demolition job on all of these – and in many cases finishes it – at a fraction of the temperature at which most food is cooked.

In addition, heat causes the formation of substances which can damage our cells when they come into contact with them – and as these substances are not naturally occurring they add to our toxic load.

These are just some of the reasons it makes sense to eat as much of our food raw as possible.

But unfortunately there are a number of dangerous myths circulating in the raw food world. Get taken in by any of these and they can really diminish the results you get on your raw or high-raw regime.

At Get Fresh! magazine and its parent company, The Fresh Network, we've been well aware of these myths for many years and we resolutely keep them out of the magazine. We're the folks people call when it all goes wrong, so we witness first-hand the consequences of bad dietary advice. We're committed to ensuring that our readers get only the very best and most effective health information, and we're grateful there are so many ethical, knowledgeable raw food experts out there to join us in delivering it.

But back to those myths that are doing the rounds... Today I want to share with you the five I consider most dangerous, and why."

Go here to continue reading "The raw world's top 5 most dangerous myths"

Natural health - protecting YOUR right to choose

This week the US House of Representatives passed a 'food safety' bill that looks likely to force many small organic farmers out of business and thereby massively restrict the availability of local, organic produce. This is just one of an ongoing series of legislative measures worldwide that has been presented as being in the public interest but that, in reality, protects only the interests of the world's largest food, biotech and/or pharma companies.

The Winter issue of Get Fresh! magazine (which mailed out to subscribers this Wednesday, incidentally) carries an in-depth round-up of the most pressing issues affecting our health freedom, and what we can do about them. To ensure the most accurate and up-to-date information on this topic we went straight to one of the world's most vocal and respected health freedom campaigners - Dr Robert Verkerk, founder and executive director of Alliance for Natural Health International. Here is an excerpt from editor Sarah Best's interview with him.

Sarah Best: Let’s start with the big-picture view. What are the biggest threats to our health freedom right now? If 'the powers that be' are successful in all they are currently trying to achieve, what health freedoms that we take for granted now will we no longer have, say, five years down the line?

Dr Robert Verkerk: Unfortunately, it’s not scaremongering to say that our ability to care for our own health as we see fit is under the greatest threat in our history. The screws are being tightened in every direction.

We hear all the time from regulators – whether trading blocs like the EU or supranational organisations like Codex Alimentarius – that “the public must be protected” through comprehensive new legislation. However, when you actually look at the proposed or existing laws, it’s frighteningly obvious that the only people being protected are those in the big corporations. Their power and ability to reap enormous profits from our healthcare will be very safe indeed if they achieve their aims!

In short, the main problems in the EU come from EU-based legislation that will, amongst other things, (a) ban many thousands of herbal medicinal products from May 2011, (b) set unscientifically low limits on doses of vitamins and minerals in food supplements, and (c) ban any claim about the benefits of foods or food ingredients, unless pre-approved by EU authorities according to very narrow criteria that are often impossible to achieve.

These laws are already in place, but their provisions are in a ‘sleeping’ or transitional phase to give manufacturers and suppliers time to adjust to the radical changes. They will come fully into force after preset time periods – for example, the three legislative catastrophes I've just outlined are expected to become fully operational EU-wide in the narrow window between May 2011 and December 2012. We refer to this as “boiling the frog slowly” – the changes are made gradually and incrementally, so that people don’t notice what’s going on until it’s too late. We’re pretty much at that point now.