Your Path to Healthy Living and a Healthy Life

Volume 2 Issue 6

In this issue:

• Self Care Worshop
• A Healing Lesson from The Healing Kitchen
• Product Offer
• Soy: Friend or Foe?

Workshop-7 Day Detox Miracle

            What if you could learn a technique that could start a cleansing, healing, revitalizing process that purged your body of the toxins that set you up for fatigue, weight gain, accelerated aging, and a host of deadly diseases?  Would you be interested in using this technique?

            Every day our bodies are assaulted by of thousands of toxins.  These include industrial chemicals that find their way into the air, water, and food that we eat.  Fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides, and chemicals use in the raising and processing of food add to the toxic burden.  Cars pump out tons of air pollutants annually.  Our homes can expose us to chemicals from cleaning products, carpets, particle board, and chlorine in tap water.  Even the metabolism of food and the microbes that live inside of us produce toxins that must be removed.

            With this constant onslaught of toxins that we face daily, our organs of elimination must work that their peak efficiency to keep these toxins from building up.  As toxins build up in the body, symptoms might begin to appear that include: fatigue, body odour, acne, weight gain, recurrent colds and flus, headaches, foggy thinking, poor concentration, depression, and many others.

            By request, the last Self-care lecture before the summer will discuss how to design a detoxification program.  You will learn:

• Why any program to regain health, prevent disease, or lose weight must begin with a detox.
• How to design a 7 day to a one month detox.
• Which foods, teas, herbs, and supplements are most helpful.
• A fantastic juice recipe for a short fast.

By doing regular detoxing on a semi-annual or quarterly basis, you can expect the following benefits:

• Increased energy and vitality
• Better concentration, clarity, and mental performance
• Clearer skin
• Weight loss
• Stronger immune function
• Reduction of  allergies
• Better digestive and bowel function
• And much, much more

Date:  June 29th, 2005

Time:  7:00 – 8:30 p.m.

Location:  #2 – 1551 Estevan Road, Nanaimo, B.C.

Cost:  Free!!!

Please call Brenda at (250) 755-1930 to reserve your seats.

A Healing Lesson
     This issue of The Healing Kitchen's healing lesson is about creating more time away from the kitchen by organizing your time in the kitchen.

Check it out for:

• Healthy Yimbits
• Self Care Ideas
• Recipes and more

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Soy: Friend or Foe?

            Recently I have had a number of patients ask me about the safety of using soy products in their diet.  Apparently there is some controversy regarding this food.

            Soy products in the form of tofu, miso, tempeh, soy milk, and so on, have been part of the Asian diet for centuries.  Here in North America, these products are becoming more and more popular with folks looking for non-meat sources of protein and dairy substitutes.

            Numerous studies have shown that soy foods can help lower cholesterol, strengthen bones, protect against certain cancers, and help with hormonal problems such as PMS and menopause. 

            Soy helps hormonal problems because it contains substances called isoflavones which are similar in structure to the hormone estrogen.  Because of these phytoestrogens, soy foods have been vilified for their alleged potential to cause early puberty in young girls and to raise the risk of breast cancer.

            The real villains in the above problem are all the xenoestrogens (foreign estrogens) in the diet and from the environment.  Medicines like birth control pills and hormone replacement therapy deliberately add estrogen into one’s body.  Chemicals from pesticides, plastics, household cleaning products, to cosmetic and beauty products are sources of xenoestrogens.  Even the chlorine in our tap water has an estrogen effect.  Finally, commercial meats and dairy products may have traces of estrogen in them.

            All these xenoestrogens have a far stronger estrogenic effect in the body than the phytoestrogens found in soy.  I fact, the phytoestrogens only have about one sixth the effect of natural estrogen.  The phytoestrogens can actually block the strong, cumulative effect of the xenoestrogens to prevent early puberty and estrogen sensitive cancers.

            Some critics of soy say that the unfermented soy foods are unhealthy because they contain substances that block certain enzymes needed to digest the soy protein.  The “bad” substances in soy is said to cause pancreatic enlargement, cancer, and stunted growth in animals.  The unfermented soy is also suppose to block the absorption of minerals in the digestive tract. 

            Tofu, which is a staple in Asian countries, is an unfermented soy product.  Asians, especially the Japanese, have one of the highest life expectancies in the world.  They have no greater incidence of mineral deficiencies, pancreas problems, nor cancer than North Americans. 

            One criticism that is true, is that soy foods can worsen hypothyroidism.  Soy, like the cruciferous vegetables (cabbage, Brussel sprouts, cauliflower, broccoli, etc.), contain substances that can interfere with the thyroid’s production of hormones.

            In spite of this one problem, I think it is very safe to eat one or two servings of soy each day.  We must all take our own health situation into consideration when deciding how much soy to eat.  Some folks like myself have to avoid soy as much as possible only because we are allergic to it.  Otherwise, use soy foods as part of a healthy diet.  One caveat, buy soy foods that use nongenetically modified beans (this can take a whole article to explain).