I know of so many people who will go to the beach in their clothes, but will not put so much as a foot in the water.  Why you ask?  Because they don’t want to be seen in their bathing suit.  And that’s too bad, that they deprive themselves such enjoyment.  But it is also understandable.

Weight is a HUGE issue in our society.  But weight gain is just the tip of a big iceberg and it is called our toxic load.

When we become toxic our body will dilute the toxins and encapsulate them.  And that is a major reason people we start to swell up.  But as long as we don’t “look too bad” most ignore their toxic load.

Weight Loss Does Not  Detox Your Body

Detoxing Your Body Results In Weight Loss

Simply losing weight does not cause you to detoxify your body.  In fact, losing weight can actually cause you to become more toxic as the toxins are now more concentrated in your tissues!  On the other hand, when you detox, you do lose weight!

How toxic are we as a society? Did you know that nursing mother’s  almost always have toxic milk that they are feeding their babies!

The New York Times article says the following: “When we nurse our babies, we feed them not only the fats, sugars and proteins that fire their immune systems, metabolisms and cerebral synapses. We also feed them, albeit in minuscule amounts, paint thinners, dry-cleaning fluids, wood preservatives, toilet deodorizers, cosmetic additives, gasoline byproducts, rocket fuel, termite poisons, fungicides and flame retardants.”

If you are a nursing mom, realize that switching to formula will not get rid of toxins as the formulas themselves have trace amounts of various toxins.  Detox yourself with something that has been scientifically proven.  It is the only way to go.

And about that last chance before summer, I’m talking about The Ultimate Detox this Sunday May 6/2012 in Ottawa (Kanata).

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Acid Reflux – Heart Burn – Hiatus Hernia

You see, your mouth and throat turn into your esophagus, a tube that takes the food down to the stomach.

But it must pass through a small hole in the diaphragm before it turns into the stomach.  And this is where problems start.

For various reasons, the stomach may get pulled up into that small opening of your diaphragm and it gets stuck there.  Your stomach makes Hydrochloric Acid to break down your foods and that is what gives you your heart burn.

In a hiatus hernia problem, the part of the stomach that is caught above the hole in the diaphragm lets acid start to travel up your esophagus.

A practitioner trained in the technique can reset the twisted ribs, relax the hyper-tonic diaphragm muscle and pull the stomach back into place.  On average, it takes between 1 to 3 sessions to make this permanent.  And the results are almost immediate.

Now you have a choice for chronic heart burn, acid reflux or hiatus hernia.  Keep swallowing your ant-acid remedies like Tums or get a permanent fix.  Ask your chiropractor  if they know how to fix this problem.  If they don’t, then find someone who does, because it is fixable.  And then  you can go back to eating all those delicious foods that you’ve been avoiding.

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While all the vitamin manufactures have been doing their best to come up with an effective vitamin that is actually absorbed by the body, their scientists ignored what are called PHYTONUTRIENTS. These are chemicals that are in foods that cause a blue berry to be blue and that cause that garlic smell in a clove of garlic.  But the scientific world didn’t know what they did.  And so we threw them out and ignored them.

Until recently that is.

PhytoNutrients are the Missing Link

With research, it is being revealed that phytonutrients actually have a use after all.  And it is now estimated that there are over 10,000 different phytonutrients in our foods.  And that these chemicals, these previously ignored and rejected chemicals can have profound effects on such things as your metabolism, even on cancer.

And now we finally have received our first batch of a new multivitamins that are full of these wonderful magical chemicals.  PhtoMulti from Metagenics.  We will get it on our website ASAP, but in the meanwhile, ask to be tested next time you are in the office.  Or call Karen to get your own. 613-592-8100