"My Mother's Story" - Fibromyalgia and a Negative Mindset (by guest author)

This account is from a eloquently-spoken guest author. It's the story of his mother who has fibromyalgia

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My mother is, was, and always will be, the jealous type, critical of others' successes due to her reluctance to take responsibility for her laziness and lack of action. First, I'll give a few examples of her personality before I discuss her self-induced fibromyalgia ("self-induced" meaning I think she's given herself the disease based on her paranoid mindset and negative attitude about life in general).

My mother cuts and uses coupons a lot. She works as a cashier at a grocery store so this helps her see what's on sale and helps her save more money. She needs to save money because, due to her negative attitute, she refuses to use her people skills--she's a very friendly, and for her age pretty, lady--to find herself a better job. She's been a cashier making $10 an hour for years.

Recently she's been complaining about people who buy several newspapers, use several coupons for products that are on sale, and get, for example, 20 boxes of Cheerios for under $1 each after using 20 coupons. The only reason she hates these people is because they've taken the time to learn how to use a computer and search and buy the coupons online. She doesn't own or know how to use a computer and is too lazy to learn. She's also too lazy to go to 7-11 and buy a few newspapers so that she can just clip the coupons herself. Therefore so she has no access to the coupons. So, she just complains about these people. The other day I found some coupons for some food that I like that, after coupons, is about 75% off (link here for $3.50 off Cascadian Organic: Cascadian Farms Cereal Coupon). I told her I was going to order some and she started complaining about "these people who buy coupons" and "you guys." Then I told her I only needed a few coupons but the pack that I ordered has 20 of the coupons and I could give her some of them. She wasn't complaining because, after that, she would be the one on the inside saving money, and she wouldn't actually have to do anything to get to that point, as I'd done all the work for her.

Here are a couple more examples related to her health problems. She has "fibromyalgia," a fancy name for health problems they can't diagnose; they just classify it as the disease fibromyalgia (FM). What it is is mostly women who think they have a lot of aches and pains, anxiety attacks, in my mom's case "hot flashes," reactions to certain foods and situations, and more. When she eats beans she'll say, "No, beans do something to my stomach and my FM starts acting up and...." I'm like, "Mom! Beans give everyone gas! Just gas! The reason your body hurts is because of the preservative that you ate with the beans and the lack of enzymes due to the beans being highly processed. If you want to eat organic beans with a enzyme-rich salad first--or else just fresh beans--you will not have the problem!" And she also gets constipated so I tell her to take 32 oz of sea salt water in the morning, a laxative tea at night (I bought this and it really works), or a special flower pollen from Turkey will clean everything out.

I know how to cure (yes, completely cure) the "diseases" she has. I mentioned the simple solutions to heartburn and constipation above. Fibromyalgia is reportly cured in a matter of months by full body detox as shown on this site, but not as intense but for a longer period of time. It's supposed to work with cancer too (intense and longer though, but easier as the alternative is death!) and probably even AIDS (if that virus actually even exists. In fact, we ALL have herpes, but it's dormant in people who are healthy).

Do you think she tried any of these things, even the very, very simple saltwater flush colon flush? Did she try the fruits and vegetables for a week just to see how she feels afterwards? Did she stop eating chili from a can and make organic chili? No, she'd rather complain, go to the doctor, and take those deadly drugs they give her.

I look to sites like yours to make myself feel good. There are several with more content, actually, but as you say you're adding more and more daily, so I did bookmark you and will check back often. I just thought I'd write you this since you said you accept articles by guests. If you post this maybe it will help people learn that they can cure themselves based just on how they think.

Thanks,

(Name omitted)

Quick Organic Recipes: Low Gluten Quinoa Recipe (for Start & End of Detox & Fast)

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Quick Organic Recipes: Low Gluten Quinoa Easy Quinoa Recipe

When you start a full-body detox or a juice fast it's often hard to eat regularly one day and go all fresh fruits and vegetables the next. Many people set aside a couple days' transition period. Simple organic recipes such as this low-gluten quinoa recipe is perfect for these occasions.

Similarly, when you're coming off a juice only detox or else a fresh fruits and vegetable diet it's not good for your body to jump right in and eat regularly again. Simple organic recipes with healthy grains like low gluten quinoa is the perfect choice.




Simple Organic Recipes: Easy Quinoa Recipe with Fresh Organic Vegetables

Ingredients (organic when available):

• 1 cup of organic quinoa (all quinoa is low-gluten quinoa)
• 1 small organic tomato (Roma preferred)
• 1 small jalepeno pepper (organic if available)
• 1 single slice of onion (red onion preferred)
• 1/2 garlic clove
• 1/2 avocado
  
• 1 slice of lime
• 2-3 leaves Romaine lettuce
  
• 2-4 cups of water (distilled preferred)
• Sea salt
• Pepper
• Extra virgin olive oil

Cooked Veggie Mix Procedure:

1. Chop jalepeno pepper and onion slice into small pieces
2. Crush or chop garlic clove into as small of pieces as possible.
   
3. Mix garlic, jalepeno, and onion together

Easy Quinoa Recipe Procedure:

1. Dry roast 1 cup of quinoa in sauce pan over medium heat. Stir continuously. Low gluten quinoa shells will "pop" open. This is normal. Roast for 2-3 minutes after the first pop.
2. After dry roast quinoa, add 2-3 cups of water.
3. Boil until water level is low, stirring occasionally
4. Add more water and jalepeno-garlic-onion mix. Cover
5. Simmer 10-15 minutes or until quinoa soft
6. When quinoa is soft, add a little more water and add salt, pepper, and 1-2 teaspoons olive oil. Add basil if desired.
7. Simmer until quinoa soft and mixed with vegetables. Quinoa will take on vegetable, salt, and olive oil taste.

Fresh Vegetable & Serving Procedure

1. Dice tomato and put on plate cold and fresh
2. Smash avacado adding sea salt and pepper. Place on plate as shown picture
3. Place fresh lime slice on plate
4. Cut or tear romaine lettuce and add to place, or put full leaves on separate plate
5. Add quinoa to plate
   
6. Compliment with any desired fresh fruit (grapes, raspberries, and cut up fresh jalepeno peppers shown in photo)

Eating

Squeeze lime over quinoa as desired. Quinoa, avocado, and tomato may be wrapped up in romaine lettuce and eaten like a burrito, or else cut up pieces of lettuce on top will be easier to eat with a spoon or fork.

This recipe serves two.

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Quick organic recipes like this easy quinoa recipes provide a good stepping stone into or out of a fast or detoxification. You're still getting fresh vegetables with the lettuce, tomato, and avacado. You're getting more veggies in the veggie mix. Quinoa provides several nutrients, and while not recommended during a juice fast, is digested fairly easily by the body

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Here is a link with information about the Cascadian Farms Cereal Coupon


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• Cascadian granola bars
• Cascadian cereal
• Cascadian Farm organic fruit
• Cascadian organic jam
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I highly recommend this company for your healthy lifestyle. During detox, no frozen food or grains should be taken. But when you're not detoxing all of this company's products are great!

Good Health by Just Eating a Salad Before Each Meal?

It's hard for many people to eat decently. Many people don't have time on their lunch breaks. Many people can't afford organic food. Organics are expensive! When you eat at restaurants it's almost guaranteed that there will be preservatives, pesticides, and other chemicals in your food. How can eat healthily in our current society?

Well, here's a quick tip. Your body is constantly detoxifying itself, whether you eat healthily or not. If you take chemicals (toxins) into your body faster than your body can detox, then the body stores these toxics in fats and tries to rid itself of the toxins through boils, ulcers, pimples, etc. So, the key is to eat less toxins than you're detoxing--less in than is going out!

Here's a very simple way to decrease the toxins going into your body:

Eat a fresh salad before each and every meal

Preferably this should be organic with only extra-virgin olive-oil as dressing. No cheese or meat is recommended, but I often flavor my salads with a little Roma cheese. Since you're eating a meal afterwards even a little cheese or dressing won't hurt.

How Does a Salad Help?

Eating a salad before each meal does a few things:

• Salads made with fresh fruits and vegetables provide enzymes. If your body has these enzymes it can better digest the lasagna, hamburger, pie, fast food, or any other unhealthy food you plan to eat after it.
• A salad will fill you up a little, so you'll eat less food that isn't good for you. If you skip dessert, you do, if you don't, you don't, however, if you leave half of the deep-fried French fries on your plate in favor of a salad, then you're doing better than you would be without the salad!
  

Full Body Detox Program: Fresh Fruits and Vegetables

This is a simple, easy fast to follow. It could be called a juice fast if you limit yourself to only juice, in which case the fast would actually be more beneficial to you. The purpose of the fast is to rest your digestive system while maintaining nutrition and energy to go about your daily life. You will be eating a substantially reduced calorie diet, however, so no aerobic or cardiovascular exercise can be recommended.

Program #1: Juice Only Detox

Since our goal is making the digestive system work as little as possible, for this diet, the absolute best bet would be to read our fruit juicer reviews (link for juice extractor review here) and select a juicer that best suits you. Then, you buy ONLY raw fruits and raw vegetables and juice them and drink the juice. You can drink as much juice as you like. It takes quite a bit of vegetables to get enough juice for a glass, and you won't be full after it, but if you can do it, this is the best way. Again, the best way for doing this fast is fresh fruits and vegetables only detox program or 3-4 weeks. That said, I myself am unable to do juice only for more than a day or two. I crave something with more substance. So, we'll go on to the next best thing.

Program #2: Fresh Vegetables and Fruits Only Detox

The next best thing to the only juice detoxification program is the fresh fruits and vegetables detox program. This is the same as above, however, instead of only juice, you substitute solid fruits and vegetables in order to feel full. So, instead of juicing the apple (hopefully organic, if you want the detox to work quickly), you eat it whole. You do the same with carrots, celery, lemons, oranges, etc. Some vegetables might be better juiced as opposed to being eaten raw, such as broccoli. In this diet you can make wonderful salads. Romaine lettuces, minced up garlic (you mince it, not the stuff in a jar), organic basil leaves cut into small pieces, organic tomatoes, organic vegetables of any type, organic fruits, etc. Try not to add any seeds or nuts as they don't digest as quickly as the fruits and vegetables.

Digestion and Enzyme Discussion

Before we move on let's discuss digestive enzymes. All fruits and vegetables contain digestive enzymes so that your body barely has to work to digest them. Some of the fibers of the fruits and vegetables take a little to digest, but not much. With juice-only you don't get these fibers but you still get the enzymes, so you can see how that will be better to rest your digestive system.

While your digestives systems rests, it breaks down fat and removes the toxins from it. So, the less work it does, the more it works on fat and removing the toxins within it. You can detox with non-organic fruits and veggies, but organic is best, as there are no further toxins added that your body must rid itself of. Nuts, olive oil, potatoes, avocados, etc., all have enzymes and are pretty easy to digest, not as easy is fruit only or juice only, but easy enough and may be used. Salt, pepper, and pretty much anything that comes in a container when you buy it likely has chemicals added to it. Adding these chemicals, or toxins to your body isn't the best way to detox, because the toxins are what you're trying to get rid of.

Program #3: Fresh Vegetables and Fruits Detox with a Few Extras

Now, if you still need more substance, you can still get a good detox program. Here we'll add a few things that you can by all means use while detoxing, but keep them to a minimum: extra virgin olive oil and organic salt and pepper makes that salad easier to eat. The smaller amount the better. Steamed vegetables are quite filling. Asparagus, Yukon Gold potatoes, sweet potatoes, onions, broccoli, etc. Since steaming too much will kill the enzymes, don't steam too much; or too often. Just a minute or two, or until it's soft enough for you to choke down is the best. You may add RAW (not roasted or salted) seeds, nuts, beans, etc., but keep them to a minimum. We're not talking anything in a can or a package. They should all be fresh. Dried beans in a package aren't recommended, but at a minimum, they should be okay. If you absolutely need organic spices, go ahead and use them sparingly. Actually organic spices won't hurt anything, especially if you're eating them with the enzymes in the salad that you're putting them on. Organic tea is okay, but chamomile, peppermint, or senna (a laxative tea) is the best. If you know for sure that you're only drinking what comes from a dried leaf, then you're okay, especially if you drink it while eating fresh fruit, fresh vegetables, or the fresh juice of either.

Full-Body Detox Programs: Fresh, Living Fruits and Vegetables

All of the above WILL detoxify your body! Juice will be fastest, and so on. Even if you eat nuts all day and use a lot of extra-virgin olive oil as dressing you'll be okay, but the detox will just take longer. Juice-only should only take 2-3 weeks whereas #3 above will take a month. And whichever you do, you must know that if you still have fat on you you will not be fully detoxed! However, since we can't keep on these programs forever without going nuts, we take a few week period when we think we can stick to the program--a 3-week period with no stress or hard work--and detox when we can, a few times per year, for instance.

Cheating on Detox Diet

This is biggie. When people cheat once, they feel they have to give up. CHEATING IS OKAY! If you give up you fail. If you're on your third day of a detox diet and you have a cup of coffee with cream and sugar, sure, you're cheating, but why give up? It won't completely stop your body from detoxing, it will just prolong it a few hours. So, continue!

There's actually another full body detoxification diet I plan to write about how you are able to eat whatever you like for dinner and still detox! I won't get into all the details here, but basically, you follow #1 or #2 above (let's not do #3 here) for breakfast and lunch, and eat a normal dinner of what you want to eat. Heck, cake is fine too! Now to make this work much, much better, you do the eat-anything part for lunch, and juice or fruit and vegetables for dinner. That would be a nice detox, slowly but surely.

In fact, this is how I live my life. I do the occasional water-fast (which is the fastest way to detox but that won't be discussed in this post) for a day or two (that's all I can handle without feeling too dizzy to stand), juice fasts for a few days, and #2 above a few times a year, however, almost all of my meals at home are organic fruits and vegetables. Why do I limit it to meals at home? Well, virtually all restaurants used processed foods with nearly no enzymes that are full of preservatives and other chemicals. I stay away from fast-food as much as possible. Eating a salad before each and every meal on the road does wonders as well--provides enzymes and fills you up a bit and might even keep you from eating dessert!

I know I probably missed a lot here, but I'll answer all questions in the comments below, so fire away!

Reader's Write: Juice and Bentonite Detox Program

Here is a story submitted to us by a friend of mine. He's a vegetarian, so perhaps this fast was easier for him. This is very inspirational and I invite you to read over it

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A few years ago, when I was visiting Australia, I did a juice fast. The program was based on the writings of Dr. Richard Anderson. You needed to buy the things in the Arise & Shine DeLuxe Cleanse 28 Program.

Here's how it goes:
Week One: Eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner and only eat fruits and vegetables. Drink juice-shakes twice a day plus with cleansing herbs and bentonite clay.
Week Two: Meals reduced to lunch and dinner and one juice-shake.
Week Three: Now only lunch and the juice-shake.
Week Four: Only juice shakes and enemas that extract a grayish poop that is nothing but clay, fruit & vegetable fibers and waste from your intention tract and bowels.

There is no non-fruit or vegetable product (herbs are OK), a few types of grain and legume, no artificial sweeteners, of course no chemicals other than what's on the produce, and of course no alcohol, meat, dairy, fish, eggs.

As a mostly vegetarian (no meat, but fish & dairy are OK), adjusting to this type of diet was not so hard for me as it would be for some other people, but it pushed me. I spent long long days playing video games took the focus off my hunger. I was usually in bed by 11 p.m. and woke up wide awake and full of energy.

After a couple of weeks, once I got used to the hunger, I was very energetic. I was doing kung fu, going to the gym (not recommended), and lost no muscle or strength despite losing 10 lbs. The natural protein found in fruits and vegetables sustained me just fine.

It's also possible during these fasts to see body pains disappear, experience deep emotions or clarity, and retrieve gum that you swallowed many years ago.

By the 4th week, I was ready to give in. Food tasted strong and artificial. Before long I was back to living and eating normally.

It was a life-changing experience. I'm thinking of doing it again. It requires A LOT of fruit and vegetables, a planned schedule, and a good juicer.