How Soon Will COPD Stages Damage Your Quality of Life?

If you know what COPD stands for, you probably heard it from your doctor, or someone you know who has COPD.

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, or COPD, is code word for can’t exhale.

If you can’t get the stale air out, you can’t reload with fresh air.

Lung disease is progressive.  It sneaks up on ya.

COPD stages happen a little at a time.

Pam called me when she came home from her doctors office with a “mild copd” diagnosis.

“How can I have copd?” she asked.

“I don’t smoke.”

“They said it might be all the years I lived with a wood stove as my heat source.”

I told Pam that I could hear her upset, and just wanted to encourage her to make the most of her lung health.

“After all, mild copd means that you have time to optimize your lung function and minimize damage.”

“How in the world do I do that?” she asked. Read more

Can a List of Foods High in Magnesium Help You Live Your Purpose?

• Feeling restless?
• Do you sometimes get irritable without knowing why?
• Does silence make you nervous?
• Do you dislike down time?

If your purpose is calling you, the best thing to do is get still and listen.

Are Water Pills Harmful?

I’ve seen articles on the internet stating that water pills are safe when taken as directed.  That statement is hard for me to swallow, so I have a better question …

Are water pills harmful?

The answer to that question is a profound yes!

Water pills are very harmful!  In fact your doctor really doesn’t even want to put you on them until he/she sees your fluid retention as a bigger danger than the side effects of those “water pills”.

Recently, I was approached by a woman who wanted my advice about a procedure she was considering to treat her irregular heart beat.  I’ll call her Jane.

I encouraged Jane to address three issues and see if her symptoms would subside.  After all, if simple will solve the problem, you are good to go.

What 3 problems needed Jane’s attention? Read more

What Do Stiff Necks and Asthma Have To Do With Heart Failure?

Are asthma and stiff necks related?

What the heck do either of them have to do with heart failure?

Asthma is considered to be a disease that inflames and narrows the airways.  When your airways are inflamed and narrow, you usually wheeze.

However, it is good to know that some people don’t really “wheeze”, they just stop moving air through their lungs.

When your health care provider listens to your lungs they may assume that your lungs are “clear” (or “good to go”), when in fact they are hearing an absence of air flow.

NO AIR FLOW IS MUCH WORSE THAN NOISY AIR FLOW!

Your lungs must move air or you are sunk!

Are you aware that your stiff neck is caused by the same type of inflammatory process that causes wheezing? Read more

What Do You Plan To Do About the Heart Failure Epidemic?

Heart failure is increasing at an alarming rate in the US and around the world.

You should be MUCH more concerned about heart disease than any other health issue, because you are more likely to die of heart disease than any other health concern you may have!

Having said that, I want to STRESS the following FACTS:

• diabetes and sugar intake significantly increase your chance of succumbing to heart disease and heart failure!
• high blood pressure is a paved road to heart failure!
• highly processed foods lead to heart failure through weight gain, mal-nutrition, and water retention.
• inactivity will drain the strength of your muscles, including your HEART MUSCLE.  (So will Statins!)
• your inability to process your emotions in a healthy way contributes to heart failure as much as every point listed above.
• sometimes the first sign of heart disease is a HEART ATTACK!
• most women who have a heart attack succumb to heart failure within one year.
• heart failure is very difficult to diagnose, so you may not even hear the term until you are fighting for your life in intensive care.
• the CDC says that 20% of patients die within one year of a heart failure diagnosis, and 50% die within five years.
• young people are also succumbing to heart disease, including heart failure.

Are you going to wait for your doctor to sound the alarm about heart disease and heart failure? Read more

Do You Have A Healthy Diet Plan?

Is what you eat healthy?

Are you a junk food junkie, or do you try to eat a healthy, well-balanced diet?

How do you know that what you are eating is actually healthy for you?

Go into your kitchen and look in your refrigerator and pantry.

Do you know what types of things should NOT be there?

Contrary to the lovely television commercials reassuring you that corn syrup is safe….. that is the first thing I recommend that you search for and illuminate from your kitchen.

When you begin searching, you will see that it is in everything!

Insulin resistance is definitely a contributing factor to heart failure, and diabetes, as well as a laundry list of dis-ease.

When you are eating “just a little” of a very concentrated, chemicalized sweetener, IN EVERYTHING…. it adds up to TOO MUCH!~

If you eat enough high fructose corn syrup, you will crave it.

Get it out of your kitchen.

The encouraging thing is that since it is in SO many foods, by watching for that one ingredient, and searching for healthier sweeteners in alternative products, you can make a noticeable difference in your health.

Look, nature made sugar in Her own way.  She is pretty good at it too.  Eat plenty of her sweet fruits and vegetables.  You will enjoy her goodies, and they will nourish you and build vitality.

If you eat a diet of highly processed and chemicalized foods, odds are your palate is coated with yeasty build up so that you aren’t enjoying how wonderful Mother Nature’s goodies taste!

Disgusting but true!

Increase your intake of fresh fruits and vegetables and your palate will be washed clean so that you can actually taste the wonderful subtle flavors of natural foods. (Organic foods are much more tasty than genetically modified foods as well!)

Carbonated beverages are another thing that you really should keep out of your kitchen.  Even if they are sweetened with concentrated fruit juice, the carbonation is not healthy.

Want more energy?

Remove carbonated beverages and all white flour foods from your kitchen.

Your energy level will increase quickly! Prove it to yourself!

White flour foods do not provide you with nourishing calories!

They can not contribute to your health. Remove white flour foods and carbonated beverages and you will transform your energy level.

The twinkle in your eye and the spring in your step will be worth the sacrifice!

Replacing undesirable foods with wholesome foods will play a big role in your healthy diet plan.

Every time you resist health robbing foods, and choose fruits and vegetables instead, you improve your health instead of add to your distress.

If you remove from your kitchen all of the junk foods that tempt you, and only eat them when you are not at your home…. you will eat far less of these unhealthy foods.

It will be soooo much easier to choose healthy snacks when they aren’t hidden behind the potato chips and candy.

What food to you need to stock in your kitchen in order to support a healthy diet plan?

The good news here is that there are many choices to choose from when stocking healthy foods in your kitchen.

A healthy diet plan is only possible if you plan ahead.

Healthy Foods That Should Be On Your Grocery List Read more

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