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Eating Out Healthy

Posted on June 13, 2014 by admin

Healthy people don’t eat out frequently. Portions are huge, the food is often not fresh, and it generally contains too much salt, sugar, chemicals, etc., even when it’s vegan.

If you must go out, here are a few tips:

Go vegetarian or vegan (animal foods have more bacteria, fat, chemicals, etc., even salmon)
Go asian, especially Vietnamese, Thai or Japanese (Chinese and Indian are not good)
Ask for no whole grain and no sauce, or white wine sauce, when you order pasta, etc.
Get light dressing on your salad, and no croutons (white, butter, yeast)
Skip the ice in your drink (the ice maker is generally filled with dust, bugs, germs)
Don’t touch the menus, or wear gloves, or wash your hands after ordering
Avoid nightshade vegetables, particularly raw (peppers, tomatoes, eggplant, spinach)
Ask for a doggy bag when you order your meal, and save half for later
Take your dessert home instead, or skip it and take a nice walk
Have a pickle after your meal (preferably a real one, without vinegar, sugar and chemicals)

Here’s another tip: if you must have coffee after your meal, bring a small jar of almond or rice milk for it, and have your pickle afterwards.

Have a healthy weekend!!

Thanks For Making Me Look Super Healthy

Posted on June 10, 2014 by admin

My friend is fun to hang out with. He loves to live in the moment, meet people, and try new things. Unfortunately, he pays a price for his vices.

Here is a partial list of the health problems he has, at age 50:

Bone Spur Requiring Hip Resurfacing
Allergies
Headaches
Sleep Apnea
Snoring
Anxiety/Depression
Obesity

He eats animal foods every day, including cheese, milk, turkey, chicken, beef, etc., and he consumes a lot of alcohol, and medications for allergies, pain, and mood.

He has an occasional healthy meal, but two thirds of his meals have too much animal protein, salt, sugar, and lack whole grains and nutrients.

Are you in a similar situation? It’s a slippery slope. At 60, imagine where he will be. Certainly not where his parents or grandparents were at that age. They were more active, less stressed, and the food and environment were a whole lot better. So how can he expect to live to 85 as they did?

If you want to make real changes to your diet and lifestyle, you can add 5-20 years to your life, and possibly become super healthy. You can also avoid health tests, procedures, medications, bills, uncertainty, days off, and missed opportunities.

I would like to support you in that effort. For $249, I will put you on a six month program to become more healthy, learn how to know what your body needs, and get it, for less money than you are paying to live your current way. Call me at 508-333-4153 or email me at david@kagan.co.

Foods For High Blood Pressure Control

Posted on June 4, 2014 by admin

Say you are 50, and you’ve got mild Crohn’s Disease, but it’s being treated, and you are otherwise in decent health. Maybe 10 pounds overweight, don’t exercise enough, too much work stress, etc. Pretty common situation in today’s world.

Now you go for your physical, and the doctor informs you that your blood pressure is a bit high. You may have a choice to make.

He’d like you to go on meds, but that is certainly the wrong move. Here are three reasons why:

All medications weaken your liver
If you are already on medication, there is a chance for interactions (happens a LOT)
You may have been stressed today, but not have blood pressure (was it taken lying down?)

So you tell the doctor you will make some diet and lifestyle changes. Here are the changes you need to make:

Eat brown rice (cook with sea salt, or sea veg.) and boiled organic veggies 4-7x per week
Eat fermented foods (miso, tempeh, homemade pickles w/ salt vs. vinegar, no sugar, no colors)
Reduce sodium: eat out less, avoid foods over 200mg of sodium per serving, switch to sea salt
Take a :15-30 walk in the woods morning and evening. Choose yoga or meditation vs. lift/run
Do a daily body rub before you shower. It exfoliates, improves circulation, and relaxes you

Do that for 60 days, and go back for another pressure check. Also take pressure lying down. It will be lower, significantly lower.

Next step? Read my blog more often and try new foods such as umeboshi plums, shiitake mushrooms, and sea vegetables.

Fantastic Health Quiz

Posted on May 29, 2014 by admin

Fantastic health means you feel great, look great, and live great, without technological intervention. Take this short test:

Are you on any daily medication?
Do you have any chronic health problems?
Do you have more than one symptom?
Are you over 40?
Do you eat non-organic produce, fruit or animal foods daily?

If you answered YES to any of the above, you are a candidate for my Summer Health Coaching Class. If you answered YES to all of them, you need it badly, and NOW.

The class is worth $1,000. Frankly, it will change your life. But it will only cost you $149, and it will be very enjoyable.

Cow’s Milk…Bad For Moms, Kids, Everyone

Posted on May 21, 2014 by admin

Sure, ice cream is delicious. Same for cheese, butter, and whipped cream. But at a high price. Not just at the grocery store, but at home, at school, at the doctor, in the hospital, and sadly, in the funeral home.

There are THOUSANDS of articles, studies, statements by famous geniuses and well-known people, and I have done my own research also, confirming…

Cow’s milk is dangerous to our health. Here is why:

Bioidentical hormones in vast quantities, causing weight gain, and tumor growth
Billions of bacteria, and viruses, as well as feces, iodine, and now added sugar!
Dairy cows are mistreated, plain and simple; when they suffer, we all suffer
The damage to our environment from dairy farms is well documented

A new study of breast-fed babies in Thailand links cow’s milk to infant eczema and other skin allergies, confirming an earlier study done in Great Britain. Learn more

In addition to skin problems and allergies, milk (aka cow pus) has been linked to:

Leukemia and other blood cancers
Osteoporosis
Asthma
Influenza
e-coli, strep, listeria, etc.
Tooth decay, and other dental problems
Obesity
Diabetes
Heart disease
Colds and sinus infections

If you’ve never experienced being milk-free, I suggest you try it for a week. It will change you life!

Pizza and Beer…

Posted on May 16, 2014 by admin

Who doesn’t like pizza?

If you are over 40, you may find that eating traditional pizza, with tomato sauce, cheese, and white flour makes you feel a little sick, or low energy, or angry, or slows your digestion. With meat, the effect is sometimes pronounced. Why?

It’s because pizza is not a healthy food. But, if you don’t eat it more than once per week, and you don’t eat too much of it at one sitting (1.5 slices max for a man, 1 slice for a woman or child), you may be okay.

Here are another few tricks:

Have soda or beer with your pizza (yin to balance the yang)
Have raw salad
Have an umeboshi plum afterwards (helps neutralize the blood)
Take a brisk walk afterwards
Make a pact so you don’t get into an argument
The day after pizza, have an Asian meals such as Thai, Vietnamese, or sushi (not chinese!)
Order a whole wheat crust
Go cheeseless!
Order veggies only, light cheese, or both
Make your own pizza with no tomato sauce

Mangia!

Don’t Be Afraid of the Rain

Posted on May 9, 2014 by admin

April showers bring May flowers, but also some more rain.

Don’t let that stop you from going outside! I just took a nice walk in the misty rain, and not only was it beautiful, and comfortable, but it made a cool wind-swept rain design on my jacket!

I even lied down in the grass as I try to do every day, to let the Earth recharge my body for health.

Do I worry about acid rain? Sometimes. But there’s not a whole lot I can do other than be a good consumer, and vote carefully. After all, worrying is probably the biggest detractor from our health!

Enjoy May,

Good Vegetables, Bad Vegetables

Posted on April 30, 2014 by admin

You want to be healthy, right? So you eat a lot of vegetables. How wonderful!

But there are certain veggies, that do more harm than good. Would you like to know which ones?

It’s not quite black and white, but nightshade vegetables for instance, such as Potatoes, Eggplant, Peppers, and tomatoes, are very acidic to the body, and should be avoided, especially, raw, and especially in the fall and winter months, if you live in a colder climate.

Unfortunately, these four vegetables are extremely common in restaurant foods. Italian, Irish and even Indian Foods are high in most or all of these. Perhaps that is why so many of us have arthritis, knee and hip replacements, and heart problems.

Here are four vegetables that may bring health benefits:

Winter Squash (butternut, buttercup, spaghetti, kabocha, etc.)
Onions, scallions, leeks, chives, etc.
Green Cabbage, Chinese Cabbage, Bok Choy, etc.
Kale, Collards, Radish Greens, Turnip Greens, etc.

Soups, stirfries, salads, casseroles, even pizza can be made more healthy with these foods.

If you want a special treat, try my Sweet Vegetable Drink! Send me an email at david@kagan.co for a free pint (delivery charge and bottle deposit may apply).

If you enjoy this blog, please tell people about it! Thanks!!

Priorities and Peace

Posted on April 21, 2014 by admin

Today my 15-year-old left for London for a week, her first time away from the family. She is with 30 school friends, and chasing her dream of a career in theater. We are so proud.

We are also a bit nervous. Let her come back to us safely, with memories to last a lifetime, and an even stronger resolve to create a great life.

Later today my iPhone lost all it’s contacts and calendar, and I have yet to solve the problem. But I feel that I must only ask for one divine intervention today, and my daughter is infinitely more important. So I smile and work on reconnecting the dots of my work and social life, with no complaining.

I also read today the story of a poor woman with cervical cancer in the Netherlands, who blindly followed Macrobiotics (imperfectly, alas), while her husband grew angry and finally abandoned her as he could see her need for modern medicine in order to save the mother of his children.

Regardless of whether Macrobiotics is right or wrong, I feel it’s most important for people to feel free and peaceful in life. This woman was a prisoner of fear, and indoctrinated in a practice that she did not understand. That lack of control, and widening gap in relations with her husband certainly contributed greatly to her demise.

Peace then…

Someone Saved My Life Tonight

Posted on April 9, 2014 by admin

In Macrobiotics, it is said that once you see the error of your ways, and commit to getting back in balance with nature, you are considered healed. That is a beautiful concept, when you realize that stress reduction plays a major role in healing.

Weekend Binging Repaired

The other day, I had only two meals, and they were both bad for me. The first was a late breakfast of bagels and cream cheese, and coffee. Sure the bagels were whole grain, and the milk was soy. But on that Sunday, I knew it was too much for me. Typically I would follow it up with a very healthy dinner, something like brown rice, veggies and miso soup. Unfortunately, the partying continued. We had a restaurant dinner of pizza, and steak salad. I even had a bite or two of chicken, and ice water to drink.

If this is confusing to read, know this: I grew up eating meat, my wife and kids eat meat, and after losing my sister, sometimes I have moments of weakness. Anyway, after the second bad meal, I fell into a pit:

Depression
Heart palpitations
Mouth sore
Fever
Quick Temper

I am so thankful that I know what to do. So thankful I am not inclined to reach for an Advil, or call the doctor. I just cooked some brown rice, miso soup, steamed veggies, and sweet vegetable drink, and plenty of nature walks, rest and relaxation. I’ve been on the wagon for two and half days now. My depression and fever are gone, and I’m working on the others. I lifted weights after a day off, and I can see that by the end of the week I’ll back to normal.

Maybe I learned something this time. Weekend binging is not a good idea. Not at 49 and a half.

If I can be a help to you, please comment below or contact me at david@kagan.co

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