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Carbohydrates and Reading Labels!

Carbohydrates and Reading Labels!

by Elizabeth Corbin

It is scientifically proven that vegetarian items (plant based) detoxify the body, and animal based foods feed the cells.  So, I believe in a good quality regimen of all the basic food groups; I had been a vegetarian in the past and came up with the complications that fruits and veggies by themselves just couldn’t handle.  My point is all bodies are different and have different needs depending on you genetic make-up, so some of us can handle more carbohydrates than others for example.

Meats:

It is best to buy organic when possible.  Meat products that are at least 95 percent organic may be labeled "organic." If entirely organic, the product may be labeled "100% organic." Products with more than 70 percent organic ingredients may be labeled "Made with organic ingredients."

Look for all of the following you can get:  Get grass-fed, pastured, free farmed, cage free, free range, local.

Labels:

Your goal when you go to the grocery store is to look at the list of ingredients; don’t worry about all the other information at that time.  Manufacturers must list food ingredients in order of predominance, meaning what is in the item the most is listed at the top.  So, you are going to look at the top 4 items. 

Do buy items with “God made” ingredients

·                    If it is a grain product you want it to say “whole” as one of the top 4 words; watch out for the next 5 bullets

·                    When it has 20 ingredients of difficult words, just put it back on the shelf; it has no nutritional value at all

·                    Fructose, dextrose, Sucrose, or any other word ending in “ose” it’s nothing but refined sugar (bad for you)

·                    Artificial, sarcalose, saccharin, aspartame… don’t even go there, it kills rats and will shorten your life too

·                    Sodium Nitrite or Nitrate is a preservative that is very bad for our bodies

·                    Monosodium Glutamate (MSG) causes all kinds of issues when ingested by humans.

At Home:

When you get your food home and are thinking of serving sizes and what that consists of, do look at the Nutritional information.

The main two things to look for are the portion size and the carbohydrate amount… look at other information if you are having particular issues and your doctor said to stay under a certain amount of sodium for example.

As I stated before, Carbohydrates pose a problem if you are consuming too many for you body.  They break down into sugar, causing more insulin to secrete and a wide rage of problems could come happen. 

Labels are based on 2000 cal diet, which is an average, so keep that in mind; you may not be eating that many calories.  The ADA says eat no more than half your calories in carbohydrates. 

Focusing on Carbohydrates: 

·                    Determine your calorie need (example 1800 calories)

·                    Divide that number in half = number of calories from carbs (example 1800 divide by 2 = 900)

·                    Each gram of Carb has 4 calories, so divide your number of calories by 4 (example 900 divide by 4 = 225)

·                    This equals how many grams you may have per day; should not go over this amount.

If you are having a specific issue and are off balance, I suggest going as low as you can on carbohydrates each day; not under 40… because then you have gone way to the extreme.

Sex is not the right answer!

Sex is not the right answer!

Elizabeth Corbin

Intimacy is what all relationships really need and is the driving force for women to feel fulfilled in a relationship.  What is intimacy?

I’ve been dating and it is interesting what some men think about intimacy.  Many single men over forty (that I have talked to) think women their age are damaged goods; not seeing or realizing (as men) their own flaws, damage, or baggage.  If you think about it, isn’t it a miracle to have managed to get to 40 without some sort of damage from life experiences? 

Basically it sounds like most men I interviewed think intimacy is sex, which floored me because I thought as men aged they would be more mature in those experiences.  However, those men were either never married or had been divorced so maybe they had never learned the concept yet and that may be why they were in that position (that may be another article).

I believe in all things there must be a balance.  Respect and intimacy is the foundation that holds the balance together in any relationship… and that is what you build your trust on as a couple. 

Here is a mental image of the hierarchy or levels in your life for well-balanced relationships: 

Most important is on top

(1) Spirit, being Creator/God, or your higher power and which you are directly connected to.

(2) You are the second level, and as you and your spouse are connected, 2 becomes one unit as joined with the God head.  You can hold the same respect to her as you do yourself (providing you are truly connected in a trusting intimate relationship).  You make loving decisions together and in true love you always stand-up for your spouse first (above all else), respecting her as you respect yourself under God.

(3) The third level consist of children under 12 as they need you to provide basic survival needs, and love to them as their character traits are still forming.

(4) The people you choose as your family unit, the ones you trust, the ones that have good values or are like minded with you… might be adopted family best friends, parents, or children over 12; depending on your love and respect for them and their love and respect for you. 

(5) All others; keep in mind this level could interchange with the 4^th level as you become close to people and let them into your life more fully with trust.  Can consist of the following: cousins, uncles, friends, work relations, neighbors, and acquaintances

If number 2 does not happen, this is where marriages fail and I am not just talking about divorce here; there are many failed relationships that never divorce they just stay together and settle for being miserable for whatever reason (usually until the kids get a certain age; then they feel to old to move on).    

I feel it's like seeing and experiencing the beauty that is there and being a helpmate in working out the repairs that need to be made... That damage is part of who they have become and there may be beauty and wisdom in that.

Look at society: We honor nonsense like being tough mentally even though we know that kind of toughness breeds addictions and mental instability.  Sadly we encourage behavior such as not mourning at a funeral.  It’s kind of a sad prison, society has built and most people don't have the loving foundation to break-free; it is not easy.

Our elders teach us being gentle is stronger than being physically tough.  Really being strong is forcing your heart and mind to deal openly with subjects that one would rather bury, to open the door to expressing feelings and being the type of partner who openly accepts someone as they are… a much harder road.  What a gift that would be, indeed, to have a partner like that!

I know very few relationships; even the ones that have been together for many years that can say they have that experience with their partner.  Most just say, we stayed together for the kids or we stayed together because in those days that is what you did. 

The main benefit of marriage is intimacy, the greater the intimacy the vastly more fulfilling marriage is and without intimacy I don’t really see the point of marriage and one is probably better off single.

Some men I have talked to and will not be dating again have a hard time seeing intimacy as anything but sex, and there are so many intimate situations they miss out on because of not understanding this.

·                    Intimacy is a private closeness that forms a bond or attachment. 

·                    Intimacy is emotional support and personal support, standing up for your partner, period. 

·                    Intimacy is confiding in one mate to the point of being vulnerable and for them to reciprocate the same. 

·                    Intimacy is being able to share hidden information that you would not share with others, confidentially. 

·                    Intimacy is actually involving yourself with each other, having someone “know you” inside and out and loving you for who you are. There is nothing in this world better than that!  It means you have to pay attention to her/him, and get to know each other on a deeper level, which takes time, communication, and effort in spending time together…

·                    and yes, Intimacy is also a physical relationship involving sex; it is the smaller part.  This is why for a woman if a man deceives her by lying, withholding the truth, or confiding in another woman, the intimacy is broken.  So, it is not okay to take another woman on dates and spend your hard earned money on someone else… even if you think oral sex is not really sex (inside comment for Doug and Clinton)… It is still breaking the intimacy you had with your partner!

This is why relationships today don’t last; no one wants to take the time or energy to really know someone or make the commitment to do that over the years with steadfast support.  Most people want a quick fix, just like everything else in society (Fast, quick, now, convience).

Going back to the damage I mentioned earlier:  In a communicative and trusting relationship, it may be good to "explore the damage", when everything is out in the open and the person is still accepted for being who they are, it allows for greater intimacy (if you as a couple are to that level).  After being together for years a couple can delve into their sexual past which quite frankly might be a struggle but with forgiveness and openness will find more closeness than before, even some liberation to the fact that the secrets of the past can no longer condemn them or make barriers in the current relationship. 

It is my hope to someday find a partnership that loving and liberating as well in a helpmate.  I know you have to build a relationship in the first place before trying this and then there is the fact that so few people reach levels of connectedness to get to that point.

So, blurting out that kind of information in the beginning of a new relationship can lead to the destruction of the relationship since there is no trust for the openness to work through it (which is one mistake I have made in the past, thinking an open book was better than secrets… and men would run away thinking I wanted them to marry me right away.  I have to laugh at that now; I didn’t know any better at the time. Openness needs trust so fear and rejection can’t rear its ugly head.

For those that have been married, realizing that your partner is not the same person s/he was five or ten years ago (due to life experiences) this will help you support him/her in being the person they are now.  That support is part of intimacy.  Remember, always put your partner first, right up there with yourself… and all other people are below you (even your children) on the next level down…this is intimacy.  I know some of you will bulk at the children being on the next level down, but if you and your partner have a like mind and concern for your children that is the way it is supposed to be.    

The rewards are great with a much more loving relationship than you ever thought possible!

First Signs in a Relationship

Meeting people on-line is no different than meeting them any where else.  The problem of all venues is that people lie, withhold the truth or believe they are someone they are not (in which case they don’t know they are lying to you).  Many people just don’t think they are a certain way. 

The best thing you can do is know what you want in a mate, think about it, and write those qualities down if you think they are important.  Listen to that voice in your head, and those that want good for you if they have concerns.                                                             

Then, wait and watch to see if the person you met has a good walk in life: their deeds, if they follow-through with their words, how they respect you and others, are there addictions, control issues, if they blame others for their troubles and what drama is there…

If they want to move too quick that is a sign to be cautious because they might be hiding some things from you, running from something, or just be desperate/lonely.                                   

Those few things will give you a world of evidence to decide if s/he might be right/good; then continue to move forward with them…but if it is not don’t waste your time and move in a different direction.

                                                                                                           

It would have been nice if I would have followed my own advice here as stated above, before meeting and marrying.  I jumped in way to quick and did not have the wisdom to use my time, observations, and intuition wisely; which led to me being in a world of deception and hurt by a con artist. I had to learn a very hard lesson in a rough way.

My hope (in learning this hard lesson) is to help myself and others from this type of mayhem in the future.

~Elizabeth Corbin

Regimen for Healing

Regimen for healing Candida in the body, by Elizabeth Corbin

In its most simple form it is called jock itch for men and yeast infection for women; and you should not have sex because it will transfer to others.  So, when you talk about the diagnosis to your friends, many of them will just think of the simple forms as if it no big deal, because they don’t have a clue.  You must get a handle on this because it can lead to many other issues such as holes in the digestive tract, and breaking down the immune system… that cause death. 

Here is how I won my battle!  If you are suffering from this you know you cannot be on antibiotics or eat sugar, because the yeast is like a fungus/parasite that feeds off of those things… therefore you must follow a low carbohydrate diet.  The Good Flora is gone so you need to replace it by eating good bacteria daily.  The best I have found, you can order from Amazon is called Five Lac.  Take 4 times a day, mix with a couple ounces of water and drink.  

Exercise to keep metabolizing to rejuvenate the cells; I do the following, but what exercise you can do is the best for you:
-Walking 30 minutes a day
-Yoga 1-2 times weekly

Virgin Coconut Oil: as barrier after each restroom use, use as skin/hair moisturizing to reduce itching, and eat 2-3 heaping tablespoons a day because it is the only plant based oil that has animal based properties that feed the healthy cells, science still does not know why, but the lauric acid in it acts as an antibiotic without the body fighting it like an antibiotic.  You can eat it straight or put it in yogurt.

Eat Greek yogurt, and drink Kefir drink every morning with a multi-vitamin

Snack on Greek yogurt/1t coconut oil for snack

Drink Coconut milk as your milk source

Drink an ACV cocktail every night before bed:  1C Hot Water, 2TBS Apple Cider Vinegar (with the mother), can put 1 teaspoon of local honey or black strap molasses if you need

Silver Shield to build immunity (see label), this also acts as an antibiotic without upsetting your system and is natural (this is only in the beginning stages. 

As you know scar tissue in the form of hemorrhoids develop from the fungus… after you wipe:  Take hypoallergenic baby wipes and add half a bottle of Thayer’s Witch Hazel with Rose to the baby wipe box…use these to wipe with (Thayers is the only I have found that does not contain alcohol… then, Dilute Tea Tree oil (half and half) with water and put on your genitals.

Eat organic foods, never processed!

Drink 3 quarts of filtered sea salt water per day.  Silver shield must not be taken too close to drinking the water or it will cancel out the silver shield.  It is ¼ teaspoon of sea salt per each quart of water.

Spiritual Belief:  This is the most important part here because our health is a gift.  Turn to Creator in gratefulness for complete health; thank him for it, as if it is there now in prayer daily and at your regular Inipi ceremony or church ceremony (whatever your belief system is).  Ask him to guide your words, thoughts, and feelings to be only POSITIVE… In order to hold those thoughts captive, get rid of the bad and accept the good: it may mean staying away from unhealthy/negative people and family until you are cured. Meditation 30-60 minutes daily: Thanking Creator for divine health, Visualization your body being scanned and the bad leaving replaced by good, and/or hypnosis will help your brain re-wire your body.  The mind is the computer chip that controls the rest of your body so use it; it is the most powerful tool you possess.

Supplements to use daily for this particular issue: Multi-vitamin, zinc, selenium