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Design
Your Ideal Baby Through Prenatal Bonding: By Sue Lester
Master Practitioner NLP, Hypnosis, Result Coaching!
Gender
aside, if you could design the ideal baby what characteristics
would you give it? Healthy, contented, slept well, ate
well, responded positively to the world, was able to
self-comfort, connected easily with others and learnt
quickly? It's not pot-luck. From conception the baby
is responding to its environment, that is, its mother's
body. So the key is to be, do and have all the characteristics
you want in your baby, and that includes happily eating
vegetables!
What your baby learns in the womb sets up its expectations
of what's normal and creates set behavioural patterns
which can carry on throughout childhood and perhaps
its whole life. Here are 7 easy ways to make a positive
difference:
Eat a wide variety healthy food regularly Eating
irregularly impacts on your blood sugar levels. Baby
adapts by developing her metabolism for lean times,
causing problems when she is fed a richer diet after
birth, increasing her risk of obesity, heart disease,
diabetes later. Babies whose mothers' diets are high
in sugar, salt or fat and bland in variety will show
a preference for those and be 'fussy' eaters.
Hydrate
Keeping well hydrated enables our brain to function
well, our body to flush toxins, and keep blood pressure
steady.
Exercise Exercising regularly within your limits
improves your emotional and physical health, and can
alleviate leg cramps, backaches, constipation, breathlessness
and stress. The hormones you release during exercise
pass through to your baby so he receives an emotional
lift from your adrenaline and all the feel good endorphins.
Give and receive Love If the mother is feeling loved,
secure and happy, so will her unborn baby. Anger tenses
his world, happiness relaxes it. Baby learns its parents'
voices and responds to the tones. Loving physical contact
between mother and father sends feel-good hormones through
to baby too.
Communicate
From the moment you know you are pregnant welcome your
baby and let him know he is loved. Talk with your unborn
baby, stroke and massage her, sing, play music, keep
a diary of your thoughts to give to her later. Encourage
your partner and other children to do the same.
Sleep Well Allow yourself to rest, to have quiet
times to allow your blood pressure to lower, and teach
your baby to relax as well.
De-stress A mother's anxiety produces the stress
hormone, cortisol, which passes through to the baby,
impacting on development. These early experiences set
the pattern for how the baby responds to stressful situations
throughout life. By eating, resting, exercising and
loving well mothers are better placed to counteract
some of the effects of unavoidable stress. Take time
to consider your priorities in the work-life balance,
and to resolve any relationship issues, preferably before
conception.
For more detailed information, and the research studies
behind these points, please refer to "Bonding Before
Birth: prenatal nurturing for your baby" by Dr Miriam
Stoppard (2008 DK Publishing).
For assistance with conception and pregnancy support,
including resolving relationship, anxiety, self-esteem
and healthy-choice issues, Sue Lester of Growing Content
offers individual consultations in person and by telephone,
and runs Conception Coaching programs, and Emotion Detox
workshops.
www.growingcontent.com.au
Sue
Lester B.A. Dip Teach. Master Practitioner NLP, Hypnosis,
Results Coaching. Facilitator of Conception Coaching
and Emotion Detox Workshops. Ph 0428 128679
Diet
More Effective Than Exercise for Weight Loss: By Great
Ideas in Nutrition!
Researchers recently found increasing physical activity
may not be the key to shedding unwanted kilos and diet
plays a much greater role in determining body weight.
Australian dietitian and author of Portion Perfection
Amanda Clark said this makes sense because we can eat
so much faster than we can burn off calories.
"A brisk walk burns about seven calories a minute, but
we can swallow 60 calories every 20 seconds," said Mrs
Clark.
The recent study by Loyola University Health System
in Chicago found weight loss is not likely to happen
without dietary restraint.
Dietitian Amanda Clark agrees exercise is not a strategy
on its own for weight loss, but it is very important
for health and for keeping weight off. Amanda's new
book Portion Perfection - A visual weight control plan
explains how you can achieve your optimum weight by
readjusting portion sizes.
"By gradually trimming off 100 to 200 calories a day,
you can accumulate meaningful weight loss over time
without feeling any diet deprivation," said Mrs Clark.
"Anyone can learn how to estimate portion sizes and
use sensory perception to eat less. You can reprogram
your expectations and habits when it comes to the amount
of food you serve yourself."
Studies show people can eat up to 20 percent more or
less without realising it.
Portion
Perfection is a visual weight control plan that
shows you exactly the right amount to eat if you want
to lose or maintain weight. It includes everyday and
occasional foods (such as treats like chocolate or wine)
and spells out just how much to eat for various age
groups. It has hundreds of pictures showing popular
packaged foods, including almost every brand of yoghurt,
cereal, muesli bar and crisps available in Australia,
as well as common take-away foods. There's also a Portion
Perfection plate and bowl to help you serve up the right
amount. All the Portion Perfection products are available
at www.greatideas.net.au
About the Author Amanda Clark is an Advanced Accredited
Practising Dietitian who received one of the highest
accolades in her profession when she won the Dietitians
Association of Australia's President's Award for Innovation.
Amanda has spent the past 15 years reviewing other nutrition
authors' work for listing of the best on her online
bookshop at www.greatideas.net.au
Iridology and Hemaview Live Blood Analysis : By
Robert Mascali ND!
Iridology
Iridology enhances our ability to visualize and understand
our inner world. Iridology is also a pathway to transformation
as it transforms the way we feel about our bodies. When
you consult a trained iridologist like myself, you are
shown your strengths and weaknesses and given an understanding
of your consitutional type. Therapy can then be given
to treat the underlying cause of your condition or ill
health. Early signs of disease can be treated before
manifestation of more entrenched disease sets in.
The foundation level of treatment should activate all
the eliminative channels (bowel, lymph, skin, lungs,
and kidneys) so that toxins, acids, chemicals and inorganics
can leave the body without creating a strong healing
crisis. This should be done together with constitutional
treatment to strengthen any weak systems or organs,
supporting your body until it reaches a healthy state.
Then your body's inherent vitality and power will overcome
disease. Once you have undergone a course of treatment,
you develop a greater independence and the knowledge
gained through constitutional understanding allows you
to better look after yourself.
Hemaview Live Blood Analysis
Hemaview is a form of live blood analysis that helps
me to identify and treat your health problems faster
and better than ever before. Using only one or two drops
of blood taken from your finger and placed under a dark
field microscope, I am able to observe size, shape and
structure of red cells, white cells and platelets as
well as phenomena within the plasma. This scientific
method of analysis allows me to identify and demonstrate
to you indications of nutritional deficiencies, organ/system
dysfunctions, certain biochemical imbalances, and immune
system imbalances, which can greatly help in addressing
your health needs. It also allows me to monitor your
progress and show you the changes taking place as therapy
progresses. One of the advantages of this scientific
method of analysis is that the results are immediate
and sensitive allowing me to develop effective treatment
protocols tailor-made to your particular condition(s).
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Healthy
Inspirations:Women's Only Healthy Weight Loss
Solution!
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In fact there is a successful and unique weight loss
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via a program that is female friendly, utilising up
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putting this together in an affordable, systemised fashion
all under the one roof.
Four essential components to healthy, long term and
successful weight loss include:-
Nutritional Program
Did you know that 80% of successful weight loss is learning
how to eat in a healthy way that sustains an energy
deficit? At Healthy Inspirations, members learn how
to select and eat foods that they buy from the supermarket,
and this is put into dietician supported eating plans
that are sensible, filling and tasty. The bonus is the
whole family benefits and everyone can now incorporate
this eating plan into their lifestyle and which can
be maintained daily.
One-on-One Coaching
The National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
state that people wanting to lose weight, need regular
contact and support from health professionals so at
Healthy Inspirations, members meet with our trained
Lifestyle Consultants up to three times per week during
the Healthy Weight Loss stage. These quick but crucial
visits help the member stay focused, while ensuring
that they are accountable for their eating and exercise
habits.
Simple to follow Resistance Based Exercise Circuit
Healthy Inspirations incorporates a 30 minute fitness
circuit into the healthy weight loss and exercise program.
This Australian made equipment is fully adjustable and
allows the members to exercise in an easy, non-intimidating
circuit which is monitored and adjusted to suit the
members needs. Outcomes include improved weight management,
improved muscle tone, improved confidence and the development
of new friends. All of this is done in a friendly, relaxed
and fun environment.
Relaxation Therapy
Although
less recognised, weight gain and successful weight loss
is influenced by life stresses and pressures. Many women
would appreciate that a feeling of hunger can be triggered
by stress induced hormonal imbalances. So, at Healthy
Inspirations members can enjoy a weekly relaxation session
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Healthy Inspirations has been in Australia and New Zealand
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Sustainable Design:At
Dental Wellness!
A
deep appreciation for sustainability principals, coupled
with an increasing public demand for a health model
that incorporates the best of natural and modern medicine
have resulted in Dr David Cowhig moving his established
surgery from Brisbane city to the leafy suburb of The
Gap. Originally known as Queensland Holistic Dental,
David's new practice - Dental Wellness™ - represents
a whole body approach to oral health achieved through
the integration of dental excellence and the philosophies
of complementary and progressive general medicine.
One of Australia's first 'holistic' dentists, Dr Cowhig
has long been the dentist of choice for natural health
care professionals and their clients. With patients
travelling from interstate and overseas, it had become
obvious that moving out of the city to a cleaner environment
was an essential next step.
"It was a big leap for us to take," Dr Cowhig said "because
we weren't really sure how our patients would respond.
But at the end of the day, this move is as much about
a better and more relaxed life for my family, as it
is creating a better environ- ment for my practice.
"We've lived in this area for 11 years and it's a great
environment. Now I can walk to work and go home and
have lunch with the kids during school holidays."
Designing and building a modern dental practice according
to a more comprehensive health model is no simple task.
From air and water filtration, mercury disposal, full
spec- trum lighting, VOC-free paint and building materials,
through to furniture, floor coverings and interior design,
Dental Wellness is a model of what dental surgeries
in the future will need to look like if they are to
meet the requirements of an ever better- informed and
more demanding public.
"Increasingly we find our patients are curious about
more than the dental pro cess. They are as concerned
about climate change as they are about health, and they
want to know what we are doing to protect the environment
as well," Dr Cowhig said. Rather than creating a brand
new practice, Dr Cowhig and his team have repurposed
and redesigned an existing pre- war home, making use
of the established building and hence minimising the
carbon footprint associated with the project - as well
as retaining some of its unique architectural features.
A rainwater fed Australian native and edible garden
surrounds the building, providing a more natural environment
for patients to relax pre or post surgery.
The process of creating this new space fell to a project
team consisting of three separate parties - sustainability
marketing strategists uncompromise™, branding and design
studio visure™ and the project man- agement team at
Elite Projects. "We didn't just want to move our existing
surgery to a new location," Dr Cowhig said. "We wanted
to completely revitalise our business and to do that,
we needed to look at how the market had moved in terms
of its understandings of 'holistic'. "Over the last
ten years we have seen the rise of the LOHAS [an acronym
for Lifestyles Of Health And Sustainability] demographic,
who are educated, but extremely discerning. They are
looking for a unique, integral boutique experience -
and their primary interest is in quality service and
their overall wellbeing. Having said that, you can't
just pay lip-service to sustainability - these people
are extremely vocal and critical of any hint of green-wash."
From start to finish, Dental Wellness is focused on
providing a specific and consistent brand experience
and from the moment you walk through the entrance, there
is no doubting the efficacy and integrity of its approach.
Once inside, the usual interface between the waiting
room and reception is conspicuously absent. An overwhelming
feeling of calm meets your senses with meditative images,
music and non- clinical aroma.
"Surgery waiting rooms are usually pretty formulaic
in their layout and can be too often like a typing pool
- phones ringing, keyboards clacking - our experience
has been that this is as uncomfortable for staff as
it is for patients. We want them to relax, read a magazine,
drink a cup of tea while they wait for their den- tist
to collect them for their appointment. If they need
to discuss accounts, we have a side entrance to the
office behind the main surgery doors where they can
step through and chat in private. HICAPS machines are
appointed in each surgery. It's much more serene and
patient-oriented than any other surgery I've been to."
This design rationale extends to staff facilities as
well with a private and secure area for staff to store
their belongings, and a staff room for lunches and tea-breaks
looking out across the gardens to Mt Nebo.
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3511 13991056
Waterworks Rd, The Gap Brisbane Qld
http://www.dentalwellness.com.au/
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Short
and Sweet:Vegan Nutty Banana Muffins!
Ingredients
2
c. white flour 1c. brown sugar 1 1/2 t. baking soda
1/2 t. salt 1/3 c. olive oil or applesauce to lower
fat 4 very ripe bananas 1/2 c. water 1c. chopped walnuts
or almonds
Method
Mix flour, baking soda, salt,nuts in large bowl. Beat
sugar and oil in another bowl. Add bananas and mash
them. Stir in water. Add to flour mixture and mix til
just combined. Do not over mix or will turn out tough.
Pour mix in 12 cup muffin tin sprayed with oil and Bake
350 F for 20 -25 min or til toothpick inserted in a
muffin comes out clean.
Brought
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Laughter
is the best medicine!
Here
are a few reasons why guys like girls:
1.They will always smell good even if its just shampoo
2. The way their heads always find the right spot on
our shoulder
3. How cute they look when they sleep
4. The ease in which they fit into our arms
5. The way they kiss you and all of a sudden everything
is right in the world
6. How cute they are when they eat
7. The way they take hours to get dressed but in the
end it makes it all worth while
8.Because they are always warm even when its minus 30
outside
9. The way they look good no matter what they wear
10. The way they fish for compliments even though you
both know that you think she's the most beautiful thing
on this earth
11. How cute they are when they argue
12. The way her hand always finds yours
13.The way they smile
14. The way you feel when you see their name on the
call ID after you just had a big fight
15. The way she says 'lets not fight anymore' even though
you know that an hour later....
16. The way they kiss when you do something nice for
them
17.The way they kiss you when you say 'I love you'
18. Actually ... just the way they kiss you...
19. The way they fall into your arms when they cry
20. Then the way they apologize for crying over something
that silly
21. The way they hit you and expect it to hurt
22. Then the way they apologize when it does hurt. (even
though we don't admit it)!
23. The way they say 'I miss you'
24. The way you miss them
25. The way their tears make you want to change the
world so that it doesn't hurt her anymore..... Yet regardless
if you love them, hate them, wish they would die or
know that you would die without them ... it matters
not. Because once in your life, whatever they were to
the world they become everything to you. When you look
them in the eyes, traveling to the depths of their souls
and you say a million things without trace of a sound,
you know that your own life is inevitable consumed within
the rhythmic beatings of her very heart. We love them
for a million reasons, No paper would do it justice.
It is a thing not of the mind but of the heart. A feeling.
Only felt.
.Quote
of the week!
"Three billion people on the face of
the earth go to bed hungry every night, but four billion
people go to bed every night hungry for a simple word
of encouragement and recognition." Cavett
Robert
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