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

Planning on Acute Heart Failure This Holiday?

Well that is a stupid question.  No body wants to rush to the emergency room gasping for breath, and then spend a few days dining on hospital fare with your butt hanging out of the most unflattering attire imaginable.

“Ho ho ho?”

“I don’t think so!”

Yet, if you are shopping ‘til you drop, and then having chips and dips and drinks with desert (prescription medication too?), you are asking for a hospitalized holiday!

Lack of sleep, water and good wholesome food will catch up with you quick.  (Yes, YOU!)

You waste SO much energy processing and eliminating stimulants, alcohol and junk food!

Plan on avoiding acute heart failure!

Want to enjoy your holiday? Read more

Is There a Solution For Heart Failure?

Honestly, is there a solution for heart failure?  I mean, if there is, why is there an epidemic of heart failure occurring right now?

Surely if people could avoid this devastating disease, they would, right?

The problem is that heart failure is diagnosed after your weak heart has enlarged in an attempt to meet your needs.  Unfortunately, that is very late in the disease process.

I used to think that you can’t undo the enlarging of your heart.  However, I have had the pleasure of meeting half a dozen people over the past couple years, who have done exactly that.  Through nutritional therapy and detoxification, they regained the quality of their lives.

Until the proverbial “shit hits the fan”, most people live in denial.

You may not even notice symptoms that might alert your doctor to the impending doom.

However, even if you tell your doctor about your symptoms there may be no alarm sounded until it is too late.

Hey, let’s face it, if your doctor can’t drug it or surgically repair it, odds are, he or she can’t help you.

Unfortunately, he can run a bunch of tests and give you a clean bill of health.

If you are eating a diet high in saturated fat with plenty of processed foods, and rarely get off the sofa; that comforting bit of information could be your death sentence.

You may have NO warning of heart failure before your health and quality of life are lost.

Even if your health care provider has told you that your heart “is fine”,

YOU SHOULD BE CONCERNED IF: Read more