God’s Vitamin Shoppe
Calcium: Unsalted Almonds, carrots, dandelions, turnips, spinach, oranges, raw goat’s milk (for infants), okra, cauliflower, tomatoes, garlic, parsnips, all berries, all nuts (except peanuts), apples, raw potatoes, apricots.
Chlorine: Beets, cabbage, celery, garlic, horseradish, parsnips, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, avocados, dates, pomegranate, coconut.
Carbon: Olives, avocados, and nuts, especially unsalted almonds, but not peanuts as they are exceedingly acid-forming. Nut butters are good if raw but not when processed (heated). Unsalted butter and cream when NOT pasteurized.
Fats (unsaturated, non-greasy): Avocado, almonds, Brazil nuts, chickpeas, black walnuts, English walnuts, eggs, millet, hickory nuts, olive oil oats, pumpkin seed, pistachio nuts, safflower oil, rice, whole wheat, sunflower oil, Filberts or Hazel nuts, corn meal, olives, sesame seeds, pecans. (Healthy fats grease the joints and support the liver, not the hips!)
Fluorine: Unsalted almonds, carrots, beet tops, turnip tops, dandelion, spinach, celery tops, raw goat’s milk, Swiss cheese, beat up raw egg yolks with honey in orange juice, cauliflower, cabbage, watercress, parsley, cucumber.
Hydrogen: Carrots, celery, spinach, cabbage, lettuce, tomatoes grapes, huckleberries, red raspberries.
Iodine: Kelp, seal lettuce, carrots, Irish moss, pineapple.
Magnesium: Carrots, celery, cucumbers, unsalted almonds, apples, apricots, walnuts.
Nitrogen: Alfalfa and other green leafy vegetables. Breathe deeply & rhythmically.
Oxygen: Drink as much fresh, raw juices of fruit and vegetables as possible to obtain organic oxygen and remember to practice deliberate deep breathing.
Phosphorus: Kale, parsley, large white radishes, asparagus, sorrel, watercress, Brussels sprouts, garlic, Savory cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, squash, cucumbers, leeks, lettuce, turnips, Brazil nuts, walnuts, huckleberries, blackberries, cherries, black Mission figs, oranges, limes.
Potassium: Carrots, celery parsley, spinach, beets, cauliflower, leeks, garlic, raw potatoes, sorrel, squash, tomatoes, turnips, oranges, lemons, apricots, bananas, cherries, dates, grapes, huckleberries, figs, pears, peaches, plums, raspberries, watermelon, pomegranate, olives.
Silicon: Cucumbers, lettuce, parsnips, raw asparagus tips, beet tops, dandelion, horseradish, leeks, okra, parsley, green peppers, radishes, spinach, watercress, strawberries, cherries, apricots, apples, watermelon, figs.
Sodium: Celery, carrots, spinach, tomatoes, strawberries, radishes, squash, lettuce, dandelion, leeks, cucumbers, beets, turnips, apples, apricots, watermelon, huckleberries, pears, oranges, grapefruit, lemons, dates, cherries, grapes.
Sulfur: Brussels sprouts, watercress, kale, horseradish, cauliflower, cabbage, chives, garlic, sorrel, cranberries, raspberries, pineapple, currants, apples, Brazil nuts, filberts.
Reference: Natural Weight Control by Dr. Norman W. Walker, D.Sc., Ph.D.
From Natural Health Clinic Dr. Danise Witherspoon (N.D.) 972-283-0341, Cedar Hill, TX
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
God's Pharmacy - Amazing!
God’s Pharmacy! Amazing!
Avocadoes, Eggplant and Pears target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female - they look just like these organs. Today's research shows that when a woman eats one avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight, and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this? It takes exactly nine (9) months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000 photolytic chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods (modern science has only studied and named about 141 of them).
Broccoli looks like lungs. Broccoli sprouts combats cell damage and inflammation from environmental allergens that may cause asthma or nasal allergies. Herb Andrographis is effective in relieving asthma symptom and also helps prevent bacterial and viral respiratory tract infections.
A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye.. and YES, science now shows carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes.
Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and many more look just like bones. These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don't have enough sodium in your diet, the body pulls it from the bones, thus making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body.
Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs increase the mobility of male sperm and increase the numbers of Sperm as well to overcome male sterility.
Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food.
Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they look exactly like the human kidneys.
Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries.
Onions look like the body's cells. Today's research shows onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes. A working companion, Garlic, also helps eliminate waste materials and dangerous free radicals from the body.
Oranges, Grapefruits, and other Citrus fruits look just like the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.
Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actually balance the glycemic index of diabetics.
A Tomato has four chambers and is red. The heart has four chambers and is red. All o f the research shows tomatoes are loaded with lycopine and are indeed pure heart and blood food.
A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds on the nut are just like the neo-cortex. We now know walnuts help develop more than three (3) dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function.
Avocadoes, Eggplant and Pears target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female - they look just like these organs. Today's research shows that when a woman eats one avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight, and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this? It takes exactly nine (9) months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000 photolytic chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods (modern science has only studied and named about 141 of them).
Broccoli looks like lungs. Broccoli sprouts combats cell damage and inflammation from environmental allergens that may cause asthma or nasal allergies. Herb Andrographis is effective in relieving asthma symptom and also helps prevent bacterial and viral respiratory tract infections.
A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye.. and YES, science now shows carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes.
Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and many more look just like bones. These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don't have enough sodium in your diet, the body pulls it from the bones, thus making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body.
Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs increase the mobility of male sperm and increase the numbers of Sperm as well to overcome male sterility.
Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food.
Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they look exactly like the human kidneys.
Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries.
Onions look like the body's cells. Today's research shows onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes. A working companion, Garlic, also helps eliminate waste materials and dangerous free radicals from the body.
Oranges, Grapefruits, and other Citrus fruits look just like the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.
Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actually balance the glycemic index of diabetics.
A Tomato has four chambers and is red. The heart has four chambers and is red. All o f the research shows tomatoes are loaded with lycopine and are indeed pure heart and blood food.
A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds on the nut are just like the neo-cortex. We now know walnuts help develop more than three (3) dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function.
Alkaline vs Acid - Your Body's Fight for Survival!
Alkaline vs Acid - Your body’s fight for survival!
Building Your Body - If you were to build a house and had to choose between using new bricks and fresh lumber or old bricks and aging lumber, which would you choose? It’s quite an easy choice, isn’t it?
We make a similar choice every day by deciding what foods we are going to use to build and maintain our true home—our body. Our amazing bodies are in a state of constant change, continually being replaced throughout our life—building new bone, making fresh blood—replacing the old with new. This is why the raw materials from our diet impact our health so dramatically. The cells of our body have no choice but to work with the raw materials our diet provides. In this pamphlet, we would like to give you a glimpse of one of the most important aspects of our nutritional knowledge: the concept of acid and alkaline foods and the role they play in determining the health of our bodies.
Alkaline = HEALTH - Acid/alkaline balance is one of our clinic’s fundamental concepts because our bodies, by design, are alkaline. Most bodily fluids—the blood, the lymph, the fluid surrounding the joints, the fluid bathing the cells—must remain alkaline to maintain normal functioning. When our cells work, they produce acid, but our body constantly neutralizes those acids. The foods we eat can also be divided into alkaline and acid. They are placed in one category or the other based upon the by-products they leave in the digestive tract (which are called either alkaline ash or acid ash). Every acid food leaves acids behind that must be neutralized or the overall acid level of the body will increase. Alkaline foods, on the other hand, leave minerals behind that help neutralize acid and build alkaline reserves in the body. Because the American diet is predominately acid, and most Americans do not eat many alkaline foods, the average American’s alkaline mineral reserve is low or depleted. This leads to acid accumulation in the cells, which is a major contributing factor in the development of heart disease, arthritis, osteoporosis, diabetes, and many other widespread chronic, degenerative diseases.
4 of the 6 Food Groups Are Acid! - Acid foods make up 2/3 of the food groups we are instructed to eat according to the USDA’s updated food pyramid. The meat group and the dairy group are entirely acid, and the grains and “Other” group (containing fats and sugars) are mostly acid. The only groups that are alkaline are the fruit group and the vegetable group. The more refining and processing that man does to food, the more likely that food is becoming more acid and less nutritious. For example, white flour is more acid than whole wheat flour and stimulatory foods like soda, coffee, and foods high in sugar and salt (most of which are found in that “Other” group) are all acid. High protein foods like beef, fish, chicken, milk, cheese, and pork contribute the most acid to most people. They are eaten on a daily basis by most people in the US, and their ash, in general, is more acidic than any other type of food.
Two Major Reasons for Widespread Degeneration – The widespread development of chronic, degenerative disease now starts becoming easier to understand. First, the diet of most Americans has been predominately acid foods for their whole lives. Beef, chicken, fish, cheese, dairy processed foods, and stimulants are consumed in large quantities by the great majority of Americans. Second, the average American diet contains few, if any, fresh fruits and vegetables, so the body has not been getting the alkaline minerals it needs to neutralize the acids produced.
The consequences of these two facts are mathematically very predictable. The overabundance of acids that must be neutralized are not countered with enough alkalizing minerals, which leads to an acid environment within our body’s cells. When enough cells in an area become acid, the organ they make up becomes susceptible to infection, malfunction, or chronic degeneration. People may deny that their diet has contributed to a problem they have because, they reason, they have been eating the same way all their life and claim they’ve never been sick. You will now hopefully understand that their diet has slowly depleted the alkaline reserve they were born with, and often, major symptoms only manifest once this reserve is very low, sometimes between ages as low as 35-45 in our society.
According to Dr. D.M. Hegsted, Professor of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health,
“The question to be asked, therefore, is not why should we change our diet, but why not? Ischemic heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and hypertension are the diseases that kill us. They are epidemic in our population. We cannot afford to temporize. We have an obligation to inform the public of the current state of knowledge and assist the public in making correct food choices. To do less is to avoid our responsibility.”
The raw materials you provide your cells on a daily basis, meal after meal, year after year, will determine if you are contributing to your body’s acid accumulation or increase of your alkaline reserve. It is the alkaline foods that provide the quality building materials your cells need. The cells will function more efficiently with an excess of these alkaline minerals that can quickly eliminate acids before they accumulate. You can choose now to be in control of your health and future. Health is truly a choice that brings with it added responsibility. No one but you can play the role of overseeing your return to health. Your health is truly in your hands.
Many thanks to:
Dr. Presten Witherspoon, D.C. of Health Touch Chiropractic in Tigard, Oregon who wrote this and Dr. Michael Einsohn, D.C., who provided the inspiration.
Building Your Body - If you were to build a house and had to choose between using new bricks and fresh lumber or old bricks and aging lumber, which would you choose? It’s quite an easy choice, isn’t it?
We make a similar choice every day by deciding what foods we are going to use to build and maintain our true home—our body. Our amazing bodies are in a state of constant change, continually being replaced throughout our life—building new bone, making fresh blood—replacing the old with new. This is why the raw materials from our diet impact our health so dramatically. The cells of our body have no choice but to work with the raw materials our diet provides. In this pamphlet, we would like to give you a glimpse of one of the most important aspects of our nutritional knowledge: the concept of acid and alkaline foods and the role they play in determining the health of our bodies.
Alkaline = HEALTH - Acid/alkaline balance is one of our clinic’s fundamental concepts because our bodies, by design, are alkaline. Most bodily fluids—the blood, the lymph, the fluid surrounding the joints, the fluid bathing the cells—must remain alkaline to maintain normal functioning. When our cells work, they produce acid, but our body constantly neutralizes those acids. The foods we eat can also be divided into alkaline and acid. They are placed in one category or the other based upon the by-products they leave in the digestive tract (which are called either alkaline ash or acid ash). Every acid food leaves acids behind that must be neutralized or the overall acid level of the body will increase. Alkaline foods, on the other hand, leave minerals behind that help neutralize acid and build alkaline reserves in the body. Because the American diet is predominately acid, and most Americans do not eat many alkaline foods, the average American’s alkaline mineral reserve is low or depleted. This leads to acid accumulation in the cells, which is a major contributing factor in the development of heart disease, arthritis, osteoporosis, diabetes, and many other widespread chronic, degenerative diseases.
4 of the 6 Food Groups Are Acid! - Acid foods make up 2/3 of the food groups we are instructed to eat according to the USDA’s updated food pyramid. The meat group and the dairy group are entirely acid, and the grains and “Other” group (containing fats and sugars) are mostly acid. The only groups that are alkaline are the fruit group and the vegetable group. The more refining and processing that man does to food, the more likely that food is becoming more acid and less nutritious. For example, white flour is more acid than whole wheat flour and stimulatory foods like soda, coffee, and foods high in sugar and salt (most of which are found in that “Other” group) are all acid. High protein foods like beef, fish, chicken, milk, cheese, and pork contribute the most acid to most people. They are eaten on a daily basis by most people in the US, and their ash, in general, is more acidic than any other type of food.
Two Major Reasons for Widespread Degeneration – The widespread development of chronic, degenerative disease now starts becoming easier to understand. First, the diet of most Americans has been predominately acid foods for their whole lives. Beef, chicken, fish, cheese, dairy processed foods, and stimulants are consumed in large quantities by the great majority of Americans. Second, the average American diet contains few, if any, fresh fruits and vegetables, so the body has not been getting the alkaline minerals it needs to neutralize the acids produced.
The consequences of these two facts are mathematically very predictable. The overabundance of acids that must be neutralized are not countered with enough alkalizing minerals, which leads to an acid environment within our body’s cells. When enough cells in an area become acid, the organ they make up becomes susceptible to infection, malfunction, or chronic degeneration. People may deny that their diet has contributed to a problem they have because, they reason, they have been eating the same way all their life and claim they’ve never been sick. You will now hopefully understand that their diet has slowly depleted the alkaline reserve they were born with, and often, major symptoms only manifest once this reserve is very low, sometimes between ages as low as 35-45 in our society.
According to Dr. D.M. Hegsted, Professor of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health,
“The question to be asked, therefore, is not why should we change our diet, but why not? Ischemic heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and hypertension are the diseases that kill us. They are epidemic in our population. We cannot afford to temporize. We have an obligation to inform the public of the current state of knowledge and assist the public in making correct food choices. To do less is to avoid our responsibility.”
The raw materials you provide your cells on a daily basis, meal after meal, year after year, will determine if you are contributing to your body’s acid accumulation or increase of your alkaline reserve. It is the alkaline foods that provide the quality building materials your cells need. The cells will function more efficiently with an excess of these alkaline minerals that can quickly eliminate acids before they accumulate. You can choose now to be in control of your health and future. Health is truly a choice that brings with it added responsibility. No one but you can play the role of overseeing your return to health. Your health is truly in your hands.
Many thanks to:
Dr. Presten Witherspoon, D.C. of Health Touch Chiropractic in Tigard, Oregon who wrote this and Dr. Michael Einsohn, D.C., who provided the inspiration.
Sunday, December 27, 2009
How To Enjoy Living!
How To Enjoy Living
1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight, and height. Let the doctors worry about them. That is why you pay “them”.
2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.
3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle. “An idle mind is the devil’s workshop.”
4. Enjoy the simple things.
5. Laugh often, long, and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.
6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive.
7. Surround yourself with what you love, whether it’s family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.
8. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.
9. Don’t take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county; or to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is.
10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.
AND ALWAYS REMEMBER: Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Eight Ways To Have A Winning Day!
1. Believe that something fantastic will happen today.
2. Practice saying something good about everyone you meet.
3. Take advantage of every honorable opportunity.
4. Practice and believe in prayer-power.
5. Have a positive outlook on life.
6. Remember that you can’t please everybody.
7. Saturate your mind with positive thoughts.
8. Practice giving yourself away: give to others.
1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight, and height. Let the doctors worry about them. That is why you pay “them”.
2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.
3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle. “An idle mind is the devil’s workshop.”
4. Enjoy the simple things.
5. Laugh often, long, and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.
6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive.
7. Surround yourself with what you love, whether it’s family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.
8. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.
9. Don’t take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county; or to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is.
10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.
AND ALWAYS REMEMBER: Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Eight Ways To Have A Winning Day!
1. Believe that something fantastic will happen today.
2. Practice saying something good about everyone you meet.
3. Take advantage of every honorable opportunity.
4. Practice and believe in prayer-power.
5. Have a positive outlook on life.
6. Remember that you can’t please everybody.
7. Saturate your mind with positive thoughts.
8. Practice giving yourself away: give to others.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Why I am creating this blog!
The Foundation of the
Natural Health Clinic
The Natural Health Clinic is founded upon Christian principles. Dr. Danise Witherspoon recognizes God as our Creator and benefactor of life. It is her belief that we are created
with the ability to “Live Well” when we apply:
God’s laws of nutrition (Genesis 1:29),
God’s laws of thought (Philippians 4:8),
God’s laws of Spirituality (Galatians 5:22-23), and
God’s laws of living (1 Corinthians 6:19-20,)
Dr. Witherspoon also believes that God has laws and plans for our life when we depart this
world (Hebrews 5:9) Just as physical health is an individual choice, eternal life is also a choice (Philippians 2:12) Physical health and eternal life are both very personal decisions and require a lifetime of commitment and dedication. At the Natural Health Clinic, I will guide you with your physical journey and strive to serve all patients in a manner that honors God. (Colossians 3:17)
REFERENCES: (NIV) New International Version
Gen 1:29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. (NIV)
Phil 4:8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable-- if anything is excellent or praiseworthy-- think about such things. (NIV)
Gal 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. (NIV)
1 Cor 6:19-20 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body. (NIV)
Heb 5:9 and, once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him (NIV)
Phil 2:12 ……. continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, (NIV)
Col 3:17 And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. (NIV)
Natural Health Clinic
The Natural Health Clinic is founded upon Christian principles. Dr. Danise Witherspoon recognizes God as our Creator and benefactor of life. It is her belief that we are created
with the ability to “Live Well” when we apply:
God’s laws of nutrition (Genesis 1:29),
God’s laws of thought (Philippians 4:8),
God’s laws of Spirituality (Galatians 5:22-23), and
God’s laws of living (1 Corinthians 6:19-20,)
Dr. Witherspoon also believes that God has laws and plans for our life when we depart this
world (Hebrews 5:9) Just as physical health is an individual choice, eternal life is also a choice (Philippians 2:12) Physical health and eternal life are both very personal decisions and require a lifetime of commitment and dedication. At the Natural Health Clinic, I will guide you with your physical journey and strive to serve all patients in a manner that honors God. (Colossians 3:17)
REFERENCES: (NIV) New International Version
Gen 1:29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. (NIV)
Phil 4:8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable-- if anything is excellent or praiseworthy-- think about such things. (NIV)
Gal 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. (NIV)
1 Cor 6:19-20 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body. (NIV)
Heb 5:9 and, once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him (NIV)
Phil 2:12 ……. continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, (NIV)
Col 3:17 And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. (NIV)
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