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Where to Start
Prescription for life: Healthy Diet, Strong Immune System, Hygiene/Cleanliness, Exercise, Emotional Balance, Restorative Sleep, Eliminate Negative Behaviors.

If you are healthy, then you are probably doing these very well.

Kids seem to be able to eat anything, do almost anything, and still appear healthy. But ask any athlete: your life choices impact your wellbeing. As we age, we become less resilient. Our choices become more important. Our old age reflects those choices. It is never too soon nor too late to improve one's lifestyle.

If you have an illness, condition, or symptom: read Kitchen Remedies.

If you Just don't feel well, you can make small changes and get big improvements.

Make the food you eat, the best possible. Animal protein is best when grass fed. Produce is best when organic, locally grown, and fresh. Add tumeric and ginger to your diet. Tumeric is antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, and antitumoral.

Keep a food and activity journal. That is the only way a person can find patterns. Jerry was surprised at how much food he actually ate. Mary discovered allergies to a few common foods (that she regularly ate). Journals can surprise us.

Make one change at a time; evaluate the effects (results): beneficial, neutral, or detrimental. Change is stressful. Too many changes at one time or too quickly can create temporary consequences, like not feeling well. It is easier to change one's religion than to change one's diet. Just as any road to success varies person to person, rebuilding or strengthening health varies from person to person. For each success method: 1/3 does exceptionally well (on that method); 1/3 does OK and improves some; 1/3 has no measurable results and/or may have an adverse, allergic reaction.

When you finish your journey, and you have establish a strong level of health, please email us your health story at remedies@26blue.com.

Step One: healthy diet
1. Eat these foods every day (to build health). Berries, Beans, Green Foods, Mushrooms, Nuts, Onions, and Seeds.

2. Eat ten walnuts or almonds per day.

3. Eat at least thirty (fifty is better) grams of protein when you first awake (in the morning) as soon as possible.

4. Dr. Gundry has an easy formula:
 * a. If it’s "white", keep it out of sight. (Don't eat it.)
 * b. If it ’s "beige" you had better behave. (Eat in moderation.)
 * c. If you eat "dark green", you will become lean. (Eat all you want and then some more.)
 * d. If you eat fake fats, you’ll get heart attacks.
 * e. Weight off fast won't last.
 * f. Weight off slow, you're good to go.

To simplify this, eat lots of Green Foods, some protein foods, and no grains (no bread or pasta) or processed sugars.

Rice is the only grain that does not cause inflammation. Quinoa is not a grain; it is a seed. Rice and quinoa are OK in moderation.

Step Two: don't over-eat
A stretched-out, full stomach: cannot adequately (digest) process its contents. Stop eating just before you hit that full sensation. The stomach needs room to mix and digest food. Undigested food causes digestive problems and over-works the liver. Even nutritious food is harmful when the stomach cannot digest it completely. Eat in moderation. Give your stomach time to empty. Read the leptin diet Belly Fat page.

Larry was an over-weight child. Once he followed the concept of not over-stretching the stomach, his weight normalized. Larry eats anything and everything, but he eats dessert two hours after his meal. He gives his stomach time to empty.

Fred was about fifty years old and had several health issues. He stopped over-stretching his stomach; he chose a bowl that was about the size of his two fists together. He only eats what fits into the bowl in one serving. He waits a couple hours before eating again. His health problems are gone.

Step Three: eat more super foods
Go to the Super foods and start adding them to your diet.

In particular, take digestive enzymes. (The staff at 26Blue likes Nature Plus: Live Plant Food Enzymes; Food-Zymes) Several family members took Food-Zymes by Nature Plus; cleared up digestive problems; normalized bowel movements; worked better than colon cleansers.

Step Four: get physically active
exercise. Foods are important to build health, but you also need to move. Anything that does not move begins to stagnate and decay. See exercise

Step Five: no junk foods
Cut out junk. When you eat junk foods: sugary, starchy, salty, and fatty, the body overworks itself, eliminating the junk. The term junk (snack) foods fits because they are as addicting as heroine; the person has to go through withdrawals to stop. Sugar withdrawals can be severely painful, like headaches. Anything you crave is addicting. Read a book on "getting off sugar." Do an activity to divert your attention. Throw all the junk food away so you won't be tempted to eat it. During withdrawal: Eat more fruit. Chew sugar-free gum. See: http://www.webmd.com/diet/ss/slideshow-sugar-addiction and   http://www.wikihow.com/Get-Through-Sugar-Withdrawal.

[http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S22/88/56G31/index.xml?section=science Direct Quote:''"Sugar withdrawals are real: In experiments, the researchers have been able to induce signs of withdrawal in the lab animals by taking away their sugar supply. The rats' brain levels of dopamine dropped and, as a result, they exhibited anxiety as a sign of withdrawal. The rats' teeth chattered, and the creatures were unwilling to venture forth into the open arm of their maze, preferring to stay in a tunnel area. Normally rats like to explore their environment, but the rats in sugar withdrawal were too anxious to explore." '']

Some people cannot absorb fructose correctly, aka malabsorption. For these people, the more sugars they eat, including fruit, the worse they become: Depression, Dyslexia, Schizophrenia, Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), ADHD. Your doctor can do a hydrogen breath test. These people tend to be deficient in zinc, folic acid, and tryptophan. Since the sugar is not absorbed, the person can suffer from hypoglysemia. The undigested sugars can cause an over-growth of gut bacteria, fungus, and yeast. With low blood sugar, cortisol rises and begins to tear down muscle and store calories as fat. With malabsorption, some people lose the ability to digest grains and vegetables.

Binge eaters should be checked by their doctor to see if they are malabsorbers. People with irritable bowel syndrome may also be fructose malabsorbers. To build health, you must stop eating junk foods and empty calories, including diet colas. People cannot metabolize most fake sugars but the gut bacteria can, causing overgrowth.

See: Saccharine Disese and  fructose malabsorption

Eradicate the Dreaded Four

 * Not yet. If you take on too much at one time, you set yourself up for failure.  This is step six.
 * 26Blue.com covers this topic on the page: Just don't feel well.
 * 1. Parasites, 2. bacteria, 3. Viruses, 4. mold, Yeast Infection, and Fungus mimic illnesses and mental disorders.
 * Eradicating the Dreaded Four is the next step to health and wellness.

The dreaded four cause people to crave the foods that feed them. Doing the five steps starts the eradication process. Once you realize that the dreaded four causes your cravings, it will help you to stay on the five steps. Sugar (especially artificial sugars) and starches feed the dreaded four.

If you are unable to do all five step right away; then take on one thing at a time.

If you fall off the wagon, violate the five steps above, don't worry about it. Just start over. Eventually, you will realize (discover) what to eat. For those who cannot get off bread and pasta right away, switch to rice pasta, rice tortillas, and rice bread (like Udi's). Lessen use over time. Buy pasta sauce that has NO Sugar. Many restaurants offer a lettuce wrapped (protein style) hamburger.

Plan when to break your diet so it won't break you. The staff at 26Blue break their diet on Thanksgiving. We eat bread, sugar, junk foods, etc without regard for the future. The next day, we are sorry and feel terrible, but we love Thanksgiving. One lady allows herself one birthday party per month. For her, it is not the entire day, just the party itself, which is usually two to four hours. She says that she does not take seconds on cake or ice cream because she feels the effects for too many hours afterward. All of us take extra digestive enzymes on our "break our diet" days.

Life Choices

 * Many people never connect their behaviors (and choices) to how they feel (and look).
 * Think about the people you know.
 * The alcoholic looks older than his/her years.

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Before and after drug photos. This is a seven year difference.



Before and after Jack LaLanne photos. This is a sixty-three year difference.



Jack lived to 96 years old. Vibrant to the day he died. Unfortunately, he refused to see a doctor and died of pneumonia.

Your old age is the sum of your daily choices throughout your life. It is never too early nor too late to improve yourself.

Prescription for life: Healthy Diet, Strong Immune System, Hygiene/Cleanliness, Exercise, Emotional Balance, Restorative Sleep, Eliminate Negative Behaviors.

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