February 03, 2008
In this mini issue:
- Monthly Maxim Reminder: Additives are yucky!
- Work-it: Purge
- Ingrid's Inspiration
- Business Bite
1. Monthly Maxim Reminder: Additives are yucky!
I have 12 rules of thumb which guide my choices as I walk up and down the aisles in the supermarket, or plan my meals for the week. Every month I feature one of them in this section.Read about all 12 Principles here
This month the maxim is: Choose the product with the least amount of additives
Additives are harmful to the body preventing it from absorbing nutrients. Often the body is unable to flush it out and stores it causing toxins to build up impairing bodily functions. It can cause serious disease including cancer, diabetes and heart disease.
- Eat plainly salted crisps, rather than flavoured crisps,
- Plain yoghurt rather than sweetened fruit yoghurt,
- Home made soups rather than tinned but definitely tinned rather than instant soup powders,
- Compare labels of the same product made by different companies.
Work-it: Purge
Follow this three step process to get rid of bad for you products in your house:1. Chuck it out
Go through your fridge and groceries cupboard and purge everything on the bottom end of the slide regarding additives. Find everything containing the following on the label:
- MSG (monosodiumglutemate)
- Tartrazine
- Hydroginated vegetable oil/fat or partially hydroginated vegetable oil/fat or trans-fat
- Sugar/cane sugar/sucrose/corn syrup
- Ebriched flour
This will be a good start. If you are ready for the next level chuck out:
- Any colourants or flavourants that have numeric codes next to them
- Anything that has a preservative added to it
- Your vanilla essence if it does not specifically say that it is natural vanilla
- Your margarine, any margarine – it is disgusting stuff irrespective of what they tell you about being heart foundation approved. Unless you are violently dairy intolerant, purge, purge, purge! And even then, rather use olive oil on sandwiches and sunflower oil in baked goods.
Do not give the stuff away, throw it away. No one else should get the poison you are throwing out! If you have to purge a family favourite, grieve a little, but don’t look back. Involve your children in the activity and exlain to them what you are doing and why. It is time for something new and exciting. It is an adventure to learn new tastes and new habits.
2. Replace it
Now go to your shopping list and replace the things you threw out with other items Flavour your food with garlic and fresh herbs instead of stock cubes, or find Ina parman’s range of stock powders –at least there are some real food in there. If you can not find a replacement for your item, consider simply doing without it. Replace it with something different and new. Come on stretch yourself and learn to like new things.
3. Don't look back
Never bring the stuff back into your house again.
Too drastic for you? Okay then, choose one product from each category to toss. Heck, just toss a single product altogether even that one replacement will help you walk up the slide!
This can be traumatic and cathartic.
Tell me about your experience.
Others are doing it too, so lets chat about it. It is all about creating a community of healthier feeders and eaters.
Here are more ways to take action
3. Ingrid's Inspiration
Ingrid is a dear friend of mine and local business consultant who is running a huge network marketting opperation. Readers can expect to get to know her better in the next bumper issue.
Ingrid says:
Hi Friends!
Take some inspiration from Lynn Grabhorn's book "Excuse me, your life is waiting" when she writes:
"...if you are sick, I ask you to know from the depths of your being that any illness is reversible. While there is probably no more difficult task in this world than attempting to feel up when you're physically down, it is not only achievable, it has been done many, many times."
Norman Cousins did it, the publisher who was dying of cancer. He declared "No way am I checking out!" and decided to spend his time in a state of laughter. He knew that if he could reverse the frequencies in his body, it would heal itself. So from the hospital bed he watched only funny movies, read funny books, had friends tell him jokes, and cured himself completely of the cancer that had raked his body.
Granted, the most spontaneous thing we do when hit with an illness, especially a serious one, is to fly into action, rush to a doctor and never take our thoughts off the condition. We're frightened, so naturally it's how we react. Yet by this negative focus we're cutting off the most important ingredient available to reverse the condition: THE CURATIVE POWERS OF OUR HIGHER FREQUENCIES!
Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting: The Astonishing Power of Feelings
Ingrid Robberts
5. Business Bite:
We find the 7 Great Lies of Network Marketing very interesting. Here's a link if you want to take a look yourself:Free ebook - the 7 Great Lies of Network Marketing
It exposes all the myths and bad practices that cause the majority of mlmers to fail in their business. But we think it would be insightful reading for anybody in any businesss.
Greetings,
Petro Janse van Vuuren
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