Are You Mourning the Loss Of Your Loved One Before Their Death?

Death is a part of life.  When someone you love dies, your life  goes on without them.

Alzheimer’s Disease and dementia can effectively take your loved one from you.  Though your lives go on, the person you loved is gone.  They are no longer who they were.  Someone else is living with you.

Grieving for the loss of a loved one that is not dead is a heart wrenching kind of pain.

Do you feel angry and sad? Read more

Why Is Physical Fitness So Important? Is Exercise About Sweating?

Do you believe in the no pain, no gain” approach to exercise?

Recently I noticed that a couple of my neighbors have taken to the road in clothing that resembles a garbage bag.  I am assuming that this attire is about causing increased sweating and increased weight loss.

It amazes me that the ladies are so willing to put themselves through such torture in the name of fitness.

Is exercise about sweating?

Is shedding fat and toning muscle all about sweat?

Why is physical fitness so important anyway?

Sedentary Death Syndrome (dying because you don’t move your body) will rob you of your quality of life and kill you prematurely.

Life without activity is not a pretty choice.

When you choose inactivity, you choose to suffer.

Do YOU have to sweat to feel better?

There are three sides to the fitness triangle.  Not all of them involve sweat.

In fact you can achieve fitness without any significant sweating.

Feeling strong, confident and sassy is nothing to shake a stick at!

Life is really worth living when you have a spring in your step and a twinkle in your eye!

What 3 areas need attention in order to achieve fitness? Read more

Stiff Neck?

Do you literally have a pain in the neck most of the time?

Are you often tense?

You are in good company.

It seems to be going around.

If you have had head, neck, shoulder, or back pain lately answer the following questions:

1. Have you had any water to drink today?
2. Do you work up a light sweat with activity regularly?
3. Do you eat your foods mostly processed, or whole?
4. Do you eat your foods mostly cooked, or raw?
5. Are you a habitual user of stimulants?
6. How easy is it for you to express your emotions?
7. Are you harboring any grudges?

Now ask yourself one more question.  Are you ready to take action to reduce your pain?  Sick of that stiff neck? Read more

Will Community Resources Make Your Life Happier?

Are you feeling isolated and alone?

Would you like to feel connected to the world outside your door?

It doesn’t matter if you are young or old, building a support system can be challenging.

If you have reached the point of feeling isolated, you need to take quick action to plug yourself in and get the support you need.

Community Resources may be the answer.

Online communities like this one, can offer great resources and contacts that will enrich your life.

The inter-net has the amazing ability to connect you with people all over the world.  There is, however, no substitute for real, flesh and blood, people in your life.

This blog offers education and resources to help you make positive change in your diet and life style.

Has your health care practitioner encouraged you to make changes?

Do you know what diet and lifestyle changes look like?

You know that you should be eating less junk food and more fruits and vegetables.  The couch potato lifestyle is certainly not health building.

So how do you get from the couch to activity, and McDonald’s to the produce isle? Read more

If You Wheeze, Do You Have Asthma?

Does wheezing mean that you have asthma?  Good question.

Your doctor will diagnose you with asthma when you have wheezing that reoccurs over an extended period of time.

You just have “reactive airways” when you wheeze with a cold, and it goes away.  When you return to your doctor complaining of ongoing wheezing, you are eventually considered “asthmatic”.

Asthma is considered to be a disease that “inflames and narrows the airways”.

It is commonly accepted that asthma is not curable, and it lies dormant waiting to flare up at anytime.

The treatment for asthma is a combination of oral and inhaled medication to make your airways less inflamed.

Recently advisors to the FDA recommended that the drugs, salmeterol (Serevent) and formoterol (Foradil), not be used for young children and there is concern for young adults.

They want the drugs used for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), but not asthma.

These drugs are considered to carry too high a risk for asthma-related complications and death!

These drugs have been used routinely to TREAT asthma and COPD for years.  Now they are saying that they are just too dangerous when used without steroids.

Steroids are used to reduce inflammation.

Does any of that make sense to you?

Heck, doesn’t make any sense to me, and I have been taking care of asthma patients for well over 20 years.

So if you wheeze, DO you have asthma?

Do you have a disease you will have to medicate the rest of your life?

Maybe you do, and maybe you don’t.

You certainly DO have the power to reduce inflammation, and you can do it without dangerous drugs!

Less inflammation is always a good thing.

However,

There is a bigger issue here that we need to talk about.

1. Wheezing can also be caused by fluid in the lungs.
2. There are a variety of reasons that you might have fluid in your lungs.
3. Fluid in your lungs is a cause for major concern.  The cause of your fluid imbalance should be identified as soon as possible!

Heart Failure is often diagnosed as asthma!

Low oxygen levels are a huge concern!

Oxygen and other essential nutrients can not be transported where they need to go when you have excess fluid interfering with the process!

Even if you don’t have heart failure, fluid retention robs your health.

So if you are wheezing, you are definitely experiencing inflammation and narrowing of your airways.

Whether you actually have asthma or not, how do you reduce the inflammation and your wheezing?

I’ll tell you how!

You reduce wheezing and inflammation by helping your body to become more alkaline and less acidic.

There are many schools of thought on how you do this.

Keep the basics in mind and you will go a long way to reducing inflammation.

To Reduce Inflammation:

• Remember that only fresh fruits and vegetables and fresh fruit and vegetable juices become alkaline in your body.  Everything else is acid forming.
• Drink plenty of water and/or fresh fruit juice.
• Avoid prepared fruit juice and soda.
• Eat nuts raw, not roasted.
• Keep your meat and dairy consumption to a minimum.
• Sit for a few minutes in quiet stillness daily.
• Breathe deeply 30–40 times everyday.
• Get plenty of sustained activity.
• Choose peace and happiness.

If you reduce inflammation, you will reduce the incidence and severity of your wheezing and shortness of breath.

Your joint pain will diminish.

You will sleep better.

Your mental irritability will decrease, and your attitude will improve.

If you wheeze, do you have asthma?

Reduce your inflammation and find out if your wheezing goes away.

If you have severe swelling at your ankles, and you have just been diagnosed with asthma, get a second opinion!

Many blessings,

Carrie

PS– Please enter your email address in the box at the right, because I’d love to keep in touch.

PPS– Remember everyday:

1. Relax and Release tension

2. Take deeep breaths

3. Be active in a way that adds joy to your life

Plus pure water ~whole foods~sunshine~and laughter.

Related articles by Zemanta

• The FDA’s new restrictions on some asthma medications.

Does Validation Matter?

Are you in constant pain, emotionally or physically?

Have you lost your independence?

Have you lost a loved one?

Sometimes life dumps you upside down and you feel very disconnected from the world.

When you can acknowledge your struggle AND your progress, you can move past isolation and reconnect with your family and your community.

Do you keep a stiff upper lip?

It’s time you relax and give yourself a break.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.  But sometimes,  Read more

Next Page »