News for April 21st 2009
MELDING MIND AND BODY: NOW IT’S UP TO YOU
When the examination is complete and all the impressions and data have been collected and evaluated, I sit down with a patient to begin summing up. The patient is given copies of my findings and impressions, test results and other information. We review the material, and I explain the various options or programs I have worked out to enhance their health. We meet again to review their progress and fine-tune their health program, if necessary. My friends, you’re at the same point as my patients: you’re at a crucial turning point in your life. You’ve learned about your “doctor within,” the immune system, Super Foods, affirmations, stress handling, “wogging” and more. You’ve digested the ins and outs of the Immune For Life program. I’ve given you the information: the rest is up to you.
I could write a library of books on the immune system and the “doctor within.” But all the words, arguments, principles, lists and diagrams in the world won’t do a bit of good until you decide to take the steps necessary to protect and strengthen your “doctor within.” I’ve given you the pieces; it’s up to you to assemble them into a beautiful picture of lifelong health and happiness.
Yes, you may have to make many changes in your diet, your outlook on life, your exercise habits and so on, and that can be intimidating. I tell my patients to take it one day at a time. For example, every time you sit down to eat, think about how food helps or hurts you. Are there Super Foods on your plate? Which items should be removed from your diet? Which healthy foods can you eat instead? When you feel yourself becoming angry, ask yourself if this blowup is absolutely necessary for your safety and well-being. Review your progress before going to bed at night. Have you improved your diet? Are you becoming more of a stress handler? Did you exercise vigorously today? If you’ve made strides today, pat yourself on the back. If not, don’t get upset. Remind yourself that the changes I’m advising you to make are vital, and think of ways to make tomorrow a positive day for your health and happiness.
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Edited: April 21st, 2009
EXERCISING YOUR IMMUNE: FROM GRUMBLER TO ENTHUSIAST
Mr. Green learned how beneficial walking can be when he flew in from Georgia for evaluation and treatment. He was suffering from heart trouble, weakness, fatigue, depression and general aches and pains. Since it would take about two weeks to give him a very thorough examination and design and implement a program for him, he and his wife checked into the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, a few blocks away from my office.
The first time he came to my office he leaned heavily on his cane, grumbling about having to “walk so far from the parking lot” next door. I examined him and determined that walking would be safe and beneficial. He laughed. “Walk? I can’t walk from my bed to the bathroom!”
I put my foot down, figuratively speaking, and insisted that he walk from my office to the corner and back before he got in his car—a distance of about 50 yards. It took five minutes and a great deal of effort to cover the short distance, but he finally made it.
“I’ll do it again tomorrow,” he grumbled to me as he and his wife got into their rented car and drove off.
I don’t know why he walked to the corner and back again the next day; he seemed to hate making the effort. But he did it, twice. The following day he insisted I join him for a walk around the block during lunch. “I practiced last night,” he said with a grin. As we walked, I noticed he was leaning on his cane only lightly.
Mr. Green became quite enthusiastic about his walking. He wound up staying a full month at the Beverly Wilshire, coming to my office every day so I could monitor his progress and we could walk together. Soon he was taking four walks a day. As he shifted away from the Standard American Diet to one based on Super Foods, and continued to exercise, he began to feel increasingly better.
The Super Foods were very important, of course, but I think that exercise was the most important part of his treatment program; not because exercise is more important than diet, but because he was a businessman who liked to deal with things he could measure, and walking was a measureable and tangible achievement for him. Every day he told me proudly how many blocks he had walked the day before and what the running total was. By the end of the month he was able to walk 20 minutes without stopping, and without his cane. Before he left, he told me that learning that he could walk again had convinced him that he wasn’t a helpless old man.
I hear from Mr. Green occasionally. He now walks briskly for 25 minutes every morning. “Just like the doctor ordered,” he says.
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Edited: April 21st, 2009
IMMUNE FOR HEALTH: SALADS
A salad is anything you want it to be. I’ve been served salads that consisted of 10 or 12 different sliced and chopped vegetables on a bed of spinach and lettuce. I’ve also eaten salads that were nothing more than a few slices of cucumber, one cherry tomato and a piece of iceberg lettuce.
I tell my patients to include at least four or five different kinds of vegetables in their salads. Which? My favorites are carrots, broccoli, cabbage, parsley, tomatoes, spinach, kale, collards, beet greens and onions. There’s also lettuce, cauliflower, jicama, mushrooms, cucumbers, celery, red and green peppers, okra, squash, radishes, sprouted peas, sprouted beans and sprouted lentils.
You can prepare the vegetables any way you like, from chopping them into big pieces to shredding them in a food processor. What do you top a salad with? Raisins, a few sunflower seeds or nuts, lemon juice or other fruit juice. But don’t ruin a healthy salad by covering it with fatty, sugary or oily dressings—that defeats the purpose. Special low-fat, low-sugar dressings are OK. Vinegar is also fine, if it’s not mixed with oil.
Fruit salads are mixtures of fresh fruits. You can eat a fruit salad as is, or with raisins or perhaps a few sunflower seeds. I like to chop up the fruit and mix it with low-fat cottage cheese, nonfat, plain yogurt, or Fairfax Hoop Dressing (see page 83).
With these notes on salads in mind, here are some salad recipes:
DR. FOX’S SUPER SALAD
1 2-inch wide slice of cabbage
2 leaves collards, large 1/3 cucumber, medium size
10 string beans 1/3 sweet red pepper
2 carrots, medium size 1/4 onion, white or purple, medium size
1 clove garlic
2 tsps. sunflower seeds
white pepper cumin
2 ozs. tuna, packed in water vinegar
This recipe requires a food processor. Wash all vegetables. Slice the ends off string beans. Crush garlic clove. Using shredding blade, shred all vegetables and garlic in food processor. Add sunflower seeds and toss. Add cumin and white pepper to taste. Break tuna into small flakes and sprinkle over the salad. Add vinegar to taste, and serve.
Try making this salad in different ways. Sometimes I use pineapple chunks instead of tuna and pineapple juice instead of vinegar. Or, try it with a tablespoon of low-fat cottage cheese instead of tuna.
Serves 2.
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Edited: April 21st, 2009
ANTIAGING WITH IMMUNE FOR LIFE
According to the Scriptures, “Moses was 120 years. His vision was undimmed, and his natural powers were unabated. And Moses died.”
Moses lived young and strong to a very old age. He didn’t have a heart attack in his 50’s, nor did he suffer a stroke or any of the other problems that afflict and kill us so early in life. His supercharged “doctor within” kept him going strong until the end. That’s the way it should be for all of us. And that’s the way it can be!
In many ways, the Immune For Life program is an antiaging blueprint. It helps delay some of the ravages of aging, such as loss of eyesight and hearing, bent posture, arthritis and other ills associated with growing old. One of the most common causes of blindness is arteriosclerosis, a condition in which the tiny blood vessels feeding the eyes are blocked. And by the age of 50, most Americans have some type of demonstrable hearing loss, due to the clogging of tiny arteries in the ears. Adopting the Immune For Life program will help keep your arteries wide open, thus preventing this type of vision and hearing loss. Depression, arthritis and other signs and symptoms of aging can be slowed or prevented.
The Roman orator Cicero said: “Old age must be resisted and its deficiencies supplied.” The Immune For Life program is a big step in the direction of supplying the deficiencies and resisting the ravages of aging.
As far as we know, humans can live to a maximum of 115 or 120 years. The average American, however, lives for only about 70 years, and many of those years are miserable, filled with discomfort, disease, depression and fear. My goal is for us to live not only as long as possible but, even more importantly, as healthy as possible.
Our medical system tells us that it can cure many diseases, and it can. But I say it’s better not to get sick in the first place. Prevention is the real cure! It’s about time the medical establishment realized that there is no better therapy than staying healthy. Don’t let yourself get to the point where you need coronary artery bypass surgery, chemotherapy, kidney dialysis and all the rest. Concentrate on strengthening your “doctor within,” and health, happiness and longevity can really be yours.
Moses said: “I set before you blessing and curse, life and death. Therefore, choose life.” My friends, the choice is yours. I want all of you to choose life, good health and happiness. Be Immune For Life.
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Edited: April 21st, 2009