Nutie Health Blog

I seem to lost reckoning on how many times I’ve read and heard of show biz marriages degenerating almost left and right. Not that I care (and admittedly I don’t), it seems foolhardy that we see movie and TV stars as flawless people, living the fairytale life of affluence and glamor. I suppose we all have to stop sticking our heads in the clouds and face reality some day.There are many ways to lose your feeling of self-esteem despite of how trivial it could get. But whatever happens, we should all try not to lose our own sense of self. There are no perfect lives despite the celebrity we see on the tube everyday.

So what does it take to be a cut above the rest? Here are some of the things you can think and improve on that should be adequate for a week worth of thought and practice.
1. Know Your Purpose.

Are you wandering through life with little direction – hoping that you’ll find happiness, health and prosperity? Identify your life purpose or mission statement and you will have your own unique compass that will lead you to your truth north every time. Without knowing the sense of direction you want to go how will you ever plan on getting there?

This may seem tricky at first when you see yourself to be in a tight or even dead end position in life. But there’s always that little loophole to turn things around and you can make a big difference to yourself. You just have to look, just a little, and you will see it.

2. Know Your Values.

What do you value most? Make a list of your top 5 values. Some examples are security, freedom, family, spiritual development, learning. As you set your goals for 2008 – test your goals against your priorities. Are they close? If the goal doesn’t align with any of your top five values – you may want to reconsider it or revise it otherwise your life seems to go in two different directions. You aren’t gaining anything if that is the case.

3. Know Your Needs.

Unmet needs can keep you from living authentically. Take care of yourself. Do you have a need to be acknowledged, to be right, to be in control, to be loved? There are tons of folks who live their lives without attaining any of their dreams and most of them end up being stressed or depressed and just plain miserable. You’re not going to let that happen, right? List your top five needs and get them met before it’s too late! You have to get out of the rut.

4. Know Your Passions.

You know who you are and what you truly enjoy in life, don’t you? Obstacles like doubt and lack of enthusiasm may hinder you at first, but will not derail your chance to develop into the person you ought to be if you give yourself just half a chance. Begin a plan to develop those things that you are passionate about. Don’t just let them sit on the back burner doing nothing.

5. Live Life From The Inside Out.

Increase your awareness of your inner wisdom by frequently reflecting in silence. Does that sound corny? Well, how about this? Commune with nature. Breathe deeply to quiet your distracted mind. Do you think it only works for people who want to be monks? For most of us in modern day society it’s hard to even find the peace and quiet we want even in our own home. What we are on the outside is a direct reflection of what it is we are on the inside. Think about it.

6. Honor Your Strengths.

What are your positive traits? What distinctive talents do you have? Don’t say you don’t have any! You are unique. That’s talent number one. List three – if you get stuck, ask those closest to you to help identify them. People aren’t seeing you from the fishbowl that you see yourself in. They see your talents everyday even if you aren’t aware of them yourself. Are you imaginative, witty, good with your hands,have a sense of humor, can write, etc.? Find ways to Assert your authentic self through your strengths. You can increase your self-confidence when you can share what you know to others.

7. Serve Others.

When you live realistically, you may find that you develop an interconnected feeling of being. When you are true to who you are, living your purpose and giving of your talents to the world around you, you give back in service what you came to share with others -your spirit – your essence, who it is you really are. The bonuses for sharing your gift with those near to you is genuinely rewarding, much more if it were to be the eyes of a stranger who can appreciate what you have done for them.

Self-improvement is indeed one type of work that is worth it. It shouldn’t always be within the confines of an office building, or conceivably in the four corners of your own room. The difference lies inside ourselves and how much we want to change for the better. Try these tips for a week. See for yourself what you can accomplish with just a little desire. You may be surprised who you find at the end of the week!

Are you looking for tips on how to cure a stutter? Have you had enough of living life with a stuttering problem? These are two questions that I would have certainly answered with a yes when I was a bit younger. I was one of the unfortunate children who grew up with a stutter or as some people call it, a stammer. I really hated having this form of speech impediment and was constantly looking out for a cure to stuttering. Twelve years ago when I was aged twenty-two, after having lived with the stutter for eighteen years, I finally managed to eradicate the problem. Life is so much easier now, yes I do have problems however the fact that I have managed to overcome the stutter makes it quite deal with any issues that arise.
Various people tried to make me believe that there was not a cure for stuttering. I did listen to their thoughts but would never accept what they were telling me. There view point was very defeatist and negative. That may well be their character but certainly is not mine. I had to believe that one day I would be able to speak fluently without the fear of stuttering, without this dream life would not be worth living.

I am not one of those people who are looking for a miracle. I was well aware that fluency would take a lot of hard work and a long time. This was something I was willing to do, after all Rome was not built in a day.

If you have a stutter and are wondering whether there is a cure, ask yourself a few questions. Do you stutter when you are singing? Do you stutter when you are shouting? Do you stutter when you are talking to yourself? For the majority of people who have a stutter or stammer, the answer to these questions will have been no. They were for me and this at least gave me hope.

I now had to turn this and many other ideas that I had into a cure for stuttering. This was not easy, of course, however after around eleven months I managed to succeed.

There seems to be so much confusion out there about the human consumption of cows milk. Some say it is good for you, others say it is bad for you. So what is really the right answer for your health in relation to milk? Who is right?

Both sides of the argument are right. Did that clear it all up for you? No?

Well, lets go into more detail. It really depends on whether you are talking about store bought milk that is pasteurized and homogenized or fresh raw milk. Unfortunately if you are looking for scientific proof one way or the other there isn’t much of it available for fresh raw milk. Most studies done on milk have only used the pasteurized and homogenized milk that we find in most of our grocery stores today.
Once the dairy industry discovered that homogenizing and pasteurizing milk led to longer shelf life and more available sales, they jumped whole heartedly on that band wagon. Having done so they even turned against fresh raw milk. That was mostly because the fresh milk tasted so much better it was cutting into sales. So they tried to vilify raw milk as containing bacteria (which it does). In time they succeeded so well that they even got the sale of raw milk banned in most places. Therefore there are very few milk studies that are done on raw milk.

Milk has many beneficial health promoting substances in it. Protein for building the body, calcium for building bones, vitamins, good forms of saturated fats for building healthy cells and helping to break down unwanted fat, and many others. Hence the slogan, “It does a body good.”

However, in reality that only applies to fresh raw milk. Here is why:

Pasteurization

Pasteurization is the process of heating milk with the intent to kill bacteria. What’s wrong with that?

Well when you heat milk it really takes a turn for the worst. Heat kills all bacteria eventually if you use high enough heat for long enough. The typical pasteurization method kills both good and bad bacteria in the milk. Raw milk contains lots of beneficial bacteria that is very good for digestion as well as enzymes that are healthy for the whole body. Heat kills not only bacteria but also the enzymes and the vitamins. That is why milk sold in your grocery store has to have added vitamins A and D. It is a feeble attempt to make up for what was destroyed using artificial means.

The problem is that the typical pasteurization method kills pretty much all of the good bacteria, but doesn’t kill all of the bad bacteria. The good bacteria in raw milk will actually keep the bad bacteria in check. That is why investigators have found very dirty facilities serving raw milk without any health problems caused for those drinking the milk. On the other hand pasteurized milk with all the good bacteria destroyed has often been the cause of food poisoning. The bad bacteria is allowed to grow unchecked. Now and then you will see in the news stories about raw milk causing food poisoning, but none of them (not one) have every been verified. However there are hundreds of thousands of verified poisonings from pasteurized milk.

There is another problem with heating milk. One of the arguments that anti-milk people make is that milk contains casein (a protein) that is what they make glue out of. I have often wondered if those same people also avoid potatoes and rice and many other grains that you can also make glue out of.

Well, anyway, when you heat milk the casein actually causes a binding effect so that two of the major benefits for which you are drinking milk (protein and calcium) are bound together and become mostly useless to the human body. That’s correct, most of the protein and calcium becomes unusable to the body.

Homogenization

Homogenization is a process where by they force milk through a membrane, sort of a sieve with microscopic holes. This process causes the fat globules to be broken down to a microscopic size so that they no longer separate from the rest of the milk. This keeps the cream from separating.

Unfortunately there is a nasty little side effect of this process. The fat globules are now small enough to actually penetrate the stomach lining as if they were a nutrient and enter the bloodstream. Each little fat globule also carries with it a resin or acid coating. This is perhaps the biggest problem with homogenized milk. There are excess free-radicals in your bloodstream that cause minor scarring and tearing of the sides of the vessels and arteries. The acid from these little fat globules eats away at these little cuts and opens them wider causing more sever damage. These sore spots are then even bigger targets for more free-radical damage. The body reacts to this danger by trying to patch up the wounds. The patching material it uses is what we call cholesterol. As more and more of this patching goes on, the arteries begin to become clogged by this build up of patching material. Stroke or heart attack is the result of this continued build up.

Some doctors even think that pasteurized homogenized milk may well be the major cause of heart problems in our modern world. Heart problems went from being almost nonexistent in the days before homogenization to now being one of the biggest threats to health in our modern world. There are of course other causes for stroke and heart disease, but believe it or not this is a big one.

Raw milk on the other hand avoids all these problems and provides good nutrition. Of course you do need to find a source of milk that is from cattle that are free from artificial hormones and anti-bacterial chemicals. The best source is from free ranging grass fed cows. Of course the grass should be grown organically.

If you can find this kind of milk it is a nearly perfect food. Some doctors have actually used milk as their preferred healing diet for almost any ailment.

One other interesting note. Lactose intolerance is a problem for many people. But generally only with pasteurized milk because the enzymes that break down the lactose have been destroyed. Most lactose intolerant individuals can drink raw milk from good sources without any problem. The raw milk contains the enzymes necessary to digest the lactose. Of course if you are lactose intolerant you should only try raw milk in vary small doses until you are sure it is safe for you.

So if we drink milk as nature made it it can be a great boost to a healthy lifestyle. If you drink milk that has been processed (pasteurized and homogenized) you may be doing more harm than good.

Health really isn’t all that complicated.

Just eat a high quality natural foods diet, exercise, drink plenty of good clean water, make sure you get fiber (whole raw foods), get plenty of sleep, breath deeply and have a gratitude attitude.

Your body will take care of you, if you take care of it.