Volume 2 Issue 2





		Your Path to Healthy Living and a Healthy Life

Volume 2 Issue 2

Fresh Start: A Healthy Living Bulletin from Dr. John Yim, ND

Upcoming Lectures & Workshops-Check out the impressive line up of workshops and classes Dr. Yim and his wife Beth have coming up.

INFLUENCING YOUR GENETICS by Dr. John Yim, ND

When it comes to health, what do you think is more important, genetics or lifestyle and nutrition? I believe that our genetic inheritance is the template upon which we build life and our health. Our diet, lifestyle, and even our environment all have a tremendous influence on how our genes are expressed.

In my immediate family, there are three boys; none of us are over 5 foot 9 inches. My three male cousins (our moms are sisters) who were born in Canada, are all over 6 feet tall. Although we are all Chinese and genetically we have a certain potential for how tall we could be, because they grew up drinking cow’s milk and receiving a different diet than my family, they are all taller than us.

It is very important to grasp the idea that our genetic inheritance plays a vital role in defining our risk for certain diseases, but our health is more controlled by how we communicate with our genes through our diet and lifestyle.

Beginning from the time you are an infant and extending to adulthood, what you eat, drink, inhale, surround yourself with in your environment, stresses that you endure, activities in which you participate, injuries, infections, and so on, are all factors that can affect the expression of your genes and have a substantial impact on your health.

Of all the factors that can influence our health, nutrition is one that we can most control. Over the course of many years our dietary choices, such as drinking plenty of pure water, eating organic fruits and vegetables in great variety and abundance, a variety of whole grain products, healthy oils, and “clean” protein sources, will determine our health and quality and quantity of life.

Healthy Yimbits from thehealingkitchen.ca

Splenda: Sweet Alternative or Deadly Poison

Is this new sugar alternative as good as the ads say it is? Or is it another additive that we need to watch out for!

Activate Your Kale

There are ways to make your kale even healthier. Find out in the healing kitchen.

Recipes from the healing kithcen

Check out some new recipes, especially the Asian Pineapple and Sui Choy Salad!

BABY BABY: From First Foods to Optimum Health

Beth Yim has written an informative E-Book on the best foods for baby and mom. She explains how to introduce first foods to minimize food allergies and sensitiviites and maximize their future wellness, and how mom can best care for her own body. This is a well-researched book on taking your baby from first foods to optimum health.

For a sample of the book go to link above.

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