How Healthy Are You? – Show #4

On a Scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate your health?

As each cell is replaced in your body, what are you replacing the old cells with? More vibrant, healthy cells? Or dead, depleted, junk food cells?

Do you feel like this?

Tired? Depressed? Mental Fog? Overweight or underweight? Emotional disorders, PMS? Digestive Problems?

Would you like to feel like this?

More Energy? Strong? Clear Thinking? Naturally slender? Inner peace, sense of wellbeing? Emotionally Stable? Good Digestion and Elimination?

98% of the atoms that are in our cells were not there a year ago.

  • Every 5 minutes – the cells on the surface of our digestive system is replaced
  • Every 3 to 4 days – the muscular lining of our stomach and our intestines is replaced
  • Every 10 days – the taste buds in our mouth are replaced
  • Every 2 weeks – our gums are replaced
  • Every 4 weeks – we have a new covering of skin
  • Every 5 months – the enzymes and the chemicals that flow through our liver makes a new liver

Listen to Diana Walker’s Cravings Coach Podcast to learn what it takes to have more energy and a feeling of vibrant health!

Global Food Crisis – Rice

I’ve been watching CNN talk about the Global Food Crisis.

This is now hitting North America.

  • Eggs are up 34.8%
  • Milk is up 13.3%
  • White Bread is up 16.3%

(well I never eat white bread, but I eat whole-grain and multi-grain and sprouted grains and I saw the front page of a local newspaper talking about $10 a loaf bread coming. I already pay $4.55 a loaf for some kamut and spelt breads that I love).

    Food prices are the #2 worry behind the worry over Gas prices.

    Did you see that Sam’s Club, a subsidiary of Costco, is restricting the purchase of rice? Only 4 bags are allowed at a time of the following rice:

    • Jasmine rice
    • Basmati rice
    • Long grain rice

    Wow — with rice being the staple food for more than half the world, this is so serious.

    I also learned that in Indonesia, where they are incorporating a hybrid rice, there is controversy. OK – so it yields 50% more rice. But, at such a price to the people who live there…

    Big corporations sell their hybrid rice to the farmers. They plant it. They harvest it. Then the next year they have to purchase new seeds.

    I think this is so sad. When you think that for centuries and centuries the native cultures have grown their rice, and kept some rice kernels aside to plant the following year – that is the natural way, the way nature intended.

    But now big national corporations who are so greedy want to force the people into purchasing their new hybrid rice kernels every year. I know this doesn’t just happen in Indonesia, but it hit me particularly deeply this morning when I was listening to this. The poor rice kernels from the hybrid rice are so altered, they cannot be even considered “real” any more – because nature will not grow new rice from the hybrid seeds the following year. This is “fake food” in my opinion.

    I eat a lot of Quinoa – my favorite grain (seed), and I certainly hope the big greedy corporations don’t do the same with that wonderful favorite of mine. Quinoa is such a super natural food that can be used instead of rice, and is helpful to reduce unhealthy food cravings.

    Diana Walker, Cravings Coach

    What Are Alkaline Foods? – Show #3

    Picking the right foods for alkaline balanceIf your quest is to look and feel years younger, then paying attention to your acid alkaline balance is very important. Among some of the benefits of keeping your body in balance are increased mental clarity, youthful looking skin, and fewer illnesses, just to name a few.

    To continue our discussion about the acid alkaline balance in our bodies, I will explain how you can test your own body’s pH level and give you a list of what types of foods are alkaline and healthier for your body. Mixing alkaline foods with acidic foods throughout the day will help keep your body balanced.

    Click Here to read more about obtaining optimal health with alkaline foods.