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The 12 Essentials Program

At last discover the 12 Essentials to anti-aging, disease prevention and weight management, using only natural tried and tested methods and remedies. The latest findings combined with naturopathic know-how, blending modern research with traditional wisdom.

Part 1 The 12 Essential Secrets Revealed

Natural fiber from whole foods promote good health in many ways -

* provides bulk and holds on to fluid making our stools softer and therefore much easier to pass.

* encourages the correct bacterial balance in our bowels, it’s the perfect food for the ‘friendly bacteria’.

* can help to prevent cancers like breast, prostate and bowel.

* ‘soluble fiber’ helps to lower levels of cholesterol.

* speeds up the transition of waste out of the body, this ensures that auto-intoxication is kept to a minimum. The faster waste matter passes through the body the less toxins are re-absorbed.

BMI (Body Mass Index) this was the ratio of weight–to-height –this was considered the best way to judge your health risk, accessing your risk in general to things like heart disease and diabetes. Getting your BMI within a certain range was seen as a must.

However, today things have changed – it is no longer weight but waist-to-height-ratio that is measured. Recent studies have shown this to be a better indicator than the BMI for accessing your health risks to certain diseases and mortality.

Research has revealed ‘going on’ several low calorie diets and the inevitable ‘coming off’ a diet has these consequences (this list is by no means complete)

1) Loss of self-esteem

2) 40% drop in metabolism

3) Muscles shrink which further lowers metabolism

4) Heart output decreases by 40%

5) Regain weight that was lost after coming off a diet.

Of course we are not addicted to food in the same way as cocaine addict is addicted to their drug, however there are some very big similarities. You may think this doesn’t apply to you but it probably does.

Statistically it is thought that a large amount of people eat compulsively. Food cravings develop and for some people these cravings can be for them as strong as an addiction to alcohol for an alcoholic, or a nicotine addiction. Otherwise everyone would eat sensibly all the time.

The body can fight back against deprivation of nutrients by escalating food cravings until they are strong enough to overwhelm the will, and for some these cravings don’t go away after they have stopped dieting and regained their weight. Most often than not because they still are not getting the nutrients they need.

The meaning and the value people put on health is different for each person. As a practitioner I see many people who would consider themselves healthy, they have not been branded with a particular disease – for instance diabetes. However, they do take some form of medication, have aches and pains, are over-weight, don’t sleep well, and their annual tests are okay-ish.This is not what I would consider health and well-being. I put a very high price on true health and vitality.

What is well-being as opposed to dis-ease?  It is a balance, a harmonious lifestyle that enhances and energizes, as opposed to dragging you down, leaving you more tired and more vulnerable to dis-ease, dis-stress and weight problems.