
Hi,
I'm Theresa Cook and this is my daughter Katie. I twice survived
acute lymphocytic leukemia, eventually having a bone marrow transplant
in 1997. Several years after I was diagnosed with Leukemia I found
"Whole Food" nutrition as an answer to prayer. Changing
my diet, from my "pre-cancer" days has dramatically changed
both of our lives and health.
The diet commonly provided in hospitals does not
focus on fortifying the body nutritionally, nor detoxifying the
damaging chemicals once they have been used. In looking back, I
was very traumatized by the caustic affects of the chemotherapy
physically and chemically. Unable to eat from the painful and damaging
effects of chemotherapy, I almost died from malnutrition.
Over the next 15-20 months, I had one infection
after another and even developed asthma, as my immune system remained
weak. My body was thrown into full blown menopause overnight. I
did not realize what had happened. For years the losses from the
cancer stayed with me. I finally decided that I had better take
my health into my own hands. “Tuum est” (It is up to
you!)
So I decided to get my Ph.D. in Nutrition and
assist others in their nutritional program full time. I am continually
bombarded with information about new supplements and different brands
of vitamins etc. I used to find it confusing, but rarely so now.
It seems so clear to me that three facts should guide us. And that
if we just stay on track with these three realities, we do get healthier,
day-by-day and year-by-year. And we have healthier children too.
- Fact #1:
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Without any doubt, our bodies absorb
all nutrients best from their original whole food unadulterated
source. Vitamin pills are at best just a minor skeleton
of the whole food.
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Fact #2:
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There is absolutely no exaggeration
in the recommended 5-9 servings of raw fruits and vegetables.
Health over our lifetime demands that. Organic and raw
is best, for reasons we will discuss further.
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Fact #3:
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There really is a diet plan that is
so universally basic, so foundational, and so full of
the required cell level nutrition, that all of us can
use it to maintain and enhance our health. The quantities
can and do change for individual needs, but not the pieces.
Yes, we are all bio-chemically unique, but we are far
more the same than different. For many sound, not-changing-anytime-soon
reasons, every cell in our body needs these substrates
to insure our health at the cell level. We also need to
recognize that when we are sick, stressed, or very heavy,
we need more vitamins, minerals, essential fats, and antioxidants,
so don’t skimp, because that won’t heal you,
just slow down the decline.
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The Daily Plan:
- 5-9 servings of raw (for the enzymes and unadulterated vitamins
and minerals) fruits and vegetables every day in their most fresh
and ripe form. Add additional fruit and vegetable concentrates
to insure the daily intake.
- 30-70 grams of predominantly organic vegetable proteins preferably
including organic soybean protein. Vegetable proteins have some
disease preventive qualities that today’s hormone-laden
and grain-fed meat proteins might not have.
- Consume at least 1-2 tbsp of primarily flax seed oil with some
additional fish oil as needed to give the body the amount of Omega-3
Essential Fatty Acids (EFA’s) required Daily.
- Avoid eating hydrogenated, fried [foods], and Trans fats as
much as possible.
- Eat 25-35 grams of soluble and insoluble fiber.
- Reduce the amount of simple carbohydrates consumed. These are
vastly different than the complex carbohydrates we get from whole
food produce above.
- Drink enough filtered, de-chlorinated water.
- Use natural progesterone if needed to counteract the environmental
estrogens which infiltrate our endocrine system, causing problems
that diet alone can’t completely manage.
This is complete nutrition for many, and the right foundation
for all. This NUTRITION MADE SIMPLE program is more effective and
much less confusing than trying to balance all the needed vitamins,
minerals, enzymes, fiber supplements that one would be inclined
to take if one does not get the “WHOLE FOOD IS BEST”
concept. Even the American Medical Association agrees that the food
in stores and pantries is not enough. So eat well and supplement
daily with the few, but powerful whole food products I have sprinkled
in the program.
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