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8 Weeks to Optimum Health QUOTES

8 Weeks to Optimum Health QUOTES

1 " Our spiritual selves resonate with others; if the interaction is positive, human connectedness is a most powerful healer, capable of neutralizing many harmful influences on the material plane. "

― Andrew Weil , 8 Weeks to Optimum Health

2 " Buy whole organic flaxseeds at a natural foods store. Keep them in the refrigerator, and grind a half-cup or so at a time, using a blender or coffee grinder. Ground flax has a nutty taste that is quite good added to cereals, salads, potatoes, rice, or cooked vegetables. A tablespoon of the meal once a day will give you a good ration of omega-3s. "

― Andrew Weil , 8 Weeks to Optimum Health

3 " It is recommended that people eat 40 grams of fiber a day, twice what most of us consume. White flour provides very little of it; you would have to eat fifty loaves of white bread to get your recommended daily allowance from that source alone. "

― Andrew Weil , 8 Weeks to Optimum Health

4 " Ginger modulates this system in ways that reduce abnormal inflammation and clotting. It may be as effective as, but much less toxic than, some of the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs that are now in such widespread use, because ginger protects the lining of the stomach instead of damaging it. "

― Andrew Weil , 8 Weeks to Optimum Health

5 " More than one hundred million Americans drink water that contains significant levels of three cancer-causing chemicals: arsenic, radon, and chlorine by-products (trihalomethanes, or THMs). "

― Andrew Weil , 8 Weeks to Optimum Health

6 " One reason for phasing out animal foods in your diet is to avoid the hormones and drugs they contain. Animals high on the food chain tend to concentrate environmental toxins, which accumulate, particularly in fat. Shellfish are risky too because of their feeding habits and because we dump so much waste off our shores. "

― Andrew Weil , 8 Weeks to Optimum Health

7 " Throw out any artificial sweeteners containing saccharin or aspartame and any products made with them. "

― Andrew Weil , 8 Weeks to Optimum Health

8 " unless Siberian-ginseng products specify their eleutheroside content, you are probably not getting the real thing. "

― Andrew Weil , 8 Weeks to Optimum Health

9 " You have no meaningful connections in your life, not to a mate, a lover, friends, your work, a hobby, a pet, or, really, anything beyond yourself and your symptoms. That is not healthy. "

― Andrew Weil , 8 Weeks to Optimum Health

10 " And there are ways in which we can consciously work to develop feelings of love and kindness. For some of us, the most effective way to do so is through religious practice. For others it may be nonreligious practice. What is important is that we each make a sincere effort to take seriously our responsibility for each other. "

― Andrew Weil , 8 Weeks to Optimum Health

11 " Note that the widely prescribed statin drugs inhibit the body’s own production of this compound. Anyone on a statin for management of high cholesterol should be taking supplemental CoQ10. "

― Andrew Weil , 8 Weeks to Optimum Health

12 " Morning: Stimulating Breath, followed immediately by
Relaxing Breath, followed immediately by
Breath Observation (minimum five minutes), followed
immediately by
Reversal of Inhalation and Exhalation Bedtime: Let Yourself Be Breathed (ten breaths), followed immediately by
Relaxing Breath "

― Andrew Weil , 8 Weeks to Optimum Health

13 " Remember that cheese is the major source of saturated fat in the Western diet, and start there. "

― Andrew Weil , 8 Weeks to Optimum Health

14 " ephedra and ephedrine with bitter orange and its main active compound, synephrine, which are much the same as ephedra and ephedrine and carry the same risks for interfering with sleep. "

― Andrew Weil , 8 Weeks to Optimum Health

15 " Garlic has three very important cardiovascular effects: One, it lowers blood pressure and is a key component in any natural approach to treating hypertension. Two, it lowers cholesterol and fats (triglycerides) in the blood, raising the protective (HDL) fraction of total cholesterol while reducing the susceptibility of the harmful (LDL) fraction to oxidation and thereby diminishing its potential to damage artery walls. Three, garlic inhibits blood clotting by reducing the tendency of platelets to clump together. "

― Andrew Weil , 8 Weeks to Optimum Health