This BODY section is centered around keeping the physical body...
Balanced, healthy, and WHOLE
I've been dieting and exercising for years, trying to lose weight. Inadvertently, in all of my research and reading up on diets, diet pills, supplements, holistic remedies and so forth I stumbled upon the recent show on TLC called "I Can Make You Thin". One of the things I learned from watching that show was to "eat consciously". In all of my weight / health reading I had never heard of that concept!
Beginning to eat consciously opened my mind up to another question. Am I living consciously? Enter Conscious Living - of which, now I am a member.
I am like you, working on my body everyday. As I learn, I will add links to this page of information I've found helpful, as well as list books that I own and have read, in an effort to help you on your quest for better health.
One of the things I hope you can open your mind to, and find the common sense in, is the use of herbs as medicine. In fact, I'd like to focus on something here for a moment that most people are not aware of.
Everyone seems to be a on a diet these days, and either not using sweeteners at all, like me, or using chemical sweeteners, that in many cases cause headaches, migranes and other ailments. Few seem to be aware of a natural sweet low calorie herb called Stevia.
Stevia's been used for hundreds of years as a natural medicine and cleanser but the FDA has not permitted Stevia to be listed and marketed as a 'sweetener.' Often the FDA makes it difficult, if not impossible for herbs or other natural cures to be approved due to long approval processes. The process to get natural products marketed as sweeteners is expensive and arbitrary.
So far, only chemical-based 'sweeteners' (such as aspartame), which are are manufactued and marketed by corporate giants, have won approval. Now a small Arizona company is close to gaining approval for what will be the first herb-based sweetener.
Optimal Health Systems, has been promoting Stevia as the best alternative for a sweetener and therapeutic aid for well over a decade. Their liquid Stevia is sold under the name SugarLeaf. Optimal SugarLeaf is specifically formulated to be in an alkaline state, while all other stevia products are slightly on the acidic side. It is amazing that the FDA is finally taking a look at Stevia.
