I have been a vegetarian on and off for a number of years now mainly for health reasons. I also have a tremendous interest in the raw vegan lifestyle and value the impact it has made on my being asthma free today. I know that my body prefers the raw vegan diet. However I don’t place any restrictions on myself any more since I was able to reverse my asthmatic conditions. For some people adopting such a diet has proved to be instant with no turning back. Changing my diet and lifestyle has been a slow process for me. When I am out with friends at a restaurant or visiting certain family members my standards do drop. However I continue to move towards making better choices each day as a rule to my daily dietary choices. I am slowly transitioning to a plant based only diet.
I have been studying food and diets now for a number of years. From all of my studies I am impressed to say that a plant based diet is the best way to get all your necessary nutrients and phytochemicals and preventing diseases and aiding your body to stay healthy. I love the testimonials I come across and enjoy following the stories of people who have reversed their disease with a plant based diet.
My journey has impressed me to set up a project called The Eden Sanitarium for diet and lifestyle educational in order to raise awareness about the health benefits of diet and lifestyle changes, and to encourage individuals to take responsibility for their health and reverse diet and lifestyle related diseases. Follow us on http://www.edensanitarium.co.uk
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I threw my inhalers away and I have not been back to my GP for a repeat prescription ever since
I spent well over 25 years of my life on asthmatic medication which served me well when it came to stopping me from having an asthma attack. So it was not suprising to find it difficult to let go of my inhalers. I continued to carry them in my bag for 7 years after becoming asthma free. Not having my inhalers with me made me feel stressed and anxious. Those conditions alone would have given me an asthma attack in the past. So I started by traveling down to the local shops without it and eventually taking a car journey without it. I did this enough times to travel further and further away from home without the inhaler.
I eventually decided to put myself in a very challenging position in order to be sure if my asthma would appear under extreme pressure. A good friend of mine had a birthday and I decided to buy her a long week-end away to Portugal. I booked us a holiday with spa and swimming pool. As the plane was taking off I turned to her and shared that I had not packed my inhalers. She has know me for years and understood how serious not having my inhaler was. However she also knew that I had been asthma free for years and that this was another one of my experiments on myself.
This was a very active week-end away. Walking, swimming and using the steam and sauna room. I returned from the holiday without experiencing any asthma symptoms. So I threw my inhalers away and I have not been back to my GP for a repeat prescription ever since.
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I eventually decided to put myself in a very challenging position in order to be sure if my asthma would appear under extreme pressure. A good friend of mine had a birthday and I decided to buy her a long week-end away to Portugal. I booked us a holiday with spa and swimming pool. As the plane was taking off I turned to her and shared that I had not packed my inhalers. She has know me for years and understood how serious not having my inhaler was. However she also knew that I had been asthma free for years and that this was another one of my experiments on myself.
This was a very active week-end away. Walking, swimming and using the steam and sauna room. I returned from the holiday without experiencing any asthma symptoms. So I threw my inhalers away and I have not been back to my GP for a repeat prescription ever since.
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Why not give wheatgrass a go I thought......
By this time I appeared to many people to be an extremist with my diet and lifestyle. I also embraced the NEWSTART Diet and Lifestyle programme from Weimar. NEWSTART is an acronym for N-utrition, E-ercise,W-ater,S-unlight,T-emperance,A-ir,R-est,T-rust in Divine Power.
I researched so much on diet and lifestyle that I started to share my knowledge with family and friends. I quite naturally became a speaker for health topics.
My experience with ‘CHEATING DEATH’ came with a price. I started to find that not everyone liked the health message. Not every one wanted to find a solution to over come sickness and disease. Not every one believed in natural healing. Not every one liked you for sharing. And a few had major issues with my diet and lifestyle choices. The majority of people however made sharing worth while.
By the time I discovered wheatgrass and started to grow and juice it. I was swimming my full lap with long rest periods between the next lap. Not expecting to get the result that I did with wheatgrass. I discovered a level of energy that I never knew I could have.
Ann Wigmore diagnosed with breast cancer in 1940 treated herself with an exclusively raw food diet. On regaining her health, she opened a health center called Humlegaarden where she treated many patients with cancer and other diseases. Ann Wigmore used wheatgrass as a key dietary component and began a revolution in the world of nutrition. From my own personal research wheatgrass was practically a cure all.
Why not give wheatgrass a go I thought......
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I researched so much on diet and lifestyle that I started to share my knowledge with family and friends. I quite naturally became a speaker for health topics.
My experience with ‘CHEATING DEATH’ came with a price. I started to find that not everyone liked the health message. Not every one wanted to find a solution to over come sickness and disease. Not every one believed in natural healing. Not every one liked you for sharing. And a few had major issues with my diet and lifestyle choices. The majority of people however made sharing worth while.
By the time I discovered wheatgrass and started to grow and juice it. I was swimming my full lap with long rest periods between the next lap. Not expecting to get the result that I did with wheatgrass. I discovered a level of energy that I never knew I could have.
Ann Wigmore diagnosed with breast cancer in 1940 treated herself with an exclusively raw food diet. On regaining her health, she opened a health center called Humlegaarden where she treated many patients with cancer and other diseases. Ann Wigmore used wheatgrass as a key dietary component and began a revolution in the world of nutrition. From my own personal research wheatgrass was practically a cure all.
Why not give wheatgrass a go I thought......
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Was herbs the missing link to becoming asthma free
Was herbs the missing link to becoming asthma free? I read a lot on it. However, my favourite book to date has to be Back To Eden by Jethro Kloss. This is the only book on herbal medicine that I have. I have not come across a better book on natural healing anywhere. Packed with information on herbs and healing formulas, health, food and drink, life-choices, diseases and illnesses and much more. Although some of his work is considered to be outdated. Much of what the author has to say is still practiced to date. It is often read that his work deserves respect.
Mean while back at the swimming pool the elderly lady had become my role model. She too had made an impact on my life at the time. I loved watching her. I made an effort to turn up on the day she swam and the time she swam. I had to see this woman, every stroke she took made me more determined to swim further. More weeks went by and I could very nearly swim one lap of the pool, although still gasping for air. I noticed the difference with my lungs.
Although I wasn’t using the inhalers anymore with the diet change. I found that exercise proved that my asthmatic conditions was still a cause for concern. Exercise was the trigger that caused the symptoms of my asthma. I continued to research and eventually came across something called wheatgrass.
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Mean while back at the swimming pool the elderly lady had become my role model. She too had made an impact on my life at the time. I loved watching her. I made an effort to turn up on the day she swam and the time she swam. I had to see this woman, every stroke she took made me more determined to swim further. More weeks went by and I could very nearly swim one lap of the pool, although still gasping for air. I noticed the difference with my lungs.
Although I wasn’t using the inhalers anymore with the diet change. I found that exercise proved that my asthmatic conditions was still a cause for concern. Exercise was the trigger that caused the symptoms of my asthma. I continued to research and eventually came across something called wheatgrass.
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I was even more determined to become asthma free
I watched every one swimming like a fish, young and old, and here I was gasping for air. My lungs were in pretty bad shape. A few strokes and I had to stop and gasp for air. While wiping the water away from my face, I saw an elderly lady walking along the side of the pool. She was heading for the deep end to do the lane swim. I watched her for ages, she walked down the steps into the pool. Took her position, pulled down her goggles and off she went. Strong but gentle strokes, I watched this elderly women swim 6 laps. It took me that long to recover between a few strokes. Here I was, years younger than her with lungs of what I considered to be for someone more senior to me, and their she was an elderly lady with the lungs of what I would consider of some one years younger than her.
Thanks to this amazing elderly lady I was even more determined to become asthma free. I needed to do something else, but what? I went back to the books. Reading and searching for an answer. I became very serious with the diet change and very serious about exercising my lungs. Swimming, steam and sauna, power walking, running for the bus, I got rid of the car for financial reasons and found myself walking every where. I used the stairs instead of the escalators. Raising my awareness on reading books on asthma, on diet and lifestyle changes, on the latest research findings, I eventually started to explore the use of herbs for asthma.
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Thanks to this amazing elderly lady I was even more determined to become asthma free. I needed to do something else, but what? I went back to the books. Reading and searching for an answer. I became very serious with the diet change and very serious about exercising my lungs. Swimming, steam and sauna, power walking, running for the bus, I got rid of the car for financial reasons and found myself walking every where. I used the stairs instead of the escalators. Raising my awareness on reading books on asthma, on diet and lifestyle changes, on the latest research findings, I eventually started to explore the use of herbs for asthma.
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Four weeks on 75% raw vegetarian meals I found that I stopped having asthma attacks
By the time I was out of the hospital and well. Like all creatures of habit. I forgot about being a vegetarian for quite a while. However I knew that I had to get serious about my diet and lifestyle changes. I never want to be admitted to hospital for asthma again.
I increased fruit and vegetables in my diet in abundance. Avoiding the over cooking. Steam and stir fry veggies with plenty salad. Variety, abundance, juicing, smoothies and sprouting. For each meal 75% was raw, live, vegetarian with some cooked.
Four weeks into eating 75% raw vegetarian meals, eating flesh foods on rare occasions and eventually I found that I stopped having asthma attacks. Wow! I’m cured. Well, that’s what I thought.
Research shows eating a large amount of antioxidants flavonoids, and vitamins allows for lower rates of asthma. Antioxidants are a major factor in reducing asthma rates as they neutralize free radicals and protect cells from damage. Studies also show that children and teenagers that eat a lot of fruits and omega-3 fatty acids, beta-carotene, show a tendency to have strong lungs and few asthma-like symptoms.
Furthermore people who eat a low amount of nutrients like vitamin C and E and omega-3s are known to have poor lung function. The vegetarian,vegan diet shows promise for the prevention and management of asthma, as the diet is high in antioxidant and vitamins.
I could not believe the results I was having with my 75% raw vegetarian daily diet with the occasional few and far between, flesh foods. I stopped using all medication from my GP for asthma including the inhalers. However I was not prepared to take any risk, the relationship I had with my inhaler was too close. We were inseparable, we were never out of each others company for very long.
A friend of mine invited me swimming one day. Great, I had not been swimming in years due to my asthma. I though that would no longer be a problem.
As soon as I got into the water and attempted to swim, I discovered the challenge on my lungs and the difficulty breathing each time I did a few strokes.
Noooooooooooo!......No......I thought the asthma was gone. Every breast stroke told me other wise. So I decided to come back the next day by myself. I needed to be sure.
Weeks went by and I could not quite do the full lap, without stopping and gasping for air. My chest felt tight and I sensed that if I did not wait to recover from the exercise, before doing another stroke, I could have an attack. Some where far away, the potential for an asthma attack was still their although I did not actually have an attack. How annoying, I really thought the asthma was completely gone. It was their, but I only experienced it when ever I exercised.
I decided to take up swimming to strengthen my lungs, I didn't know how long it’s going to take but I was determined to beat this disease. I swam once, sometimes twice a week.
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I increased fruit and vegetables in my diet in abundance. Avoiding the over cooking. Steam and stir fry veggies with plenty salad. Variety, abundance, juicing, smoothies and sprouting. For each meal 75% was raw, live, vegetarian with some cooked.
Four weeks into eating 75% raw vegetarian meals, eating flesh foods on rare occasions and eventually I found that I stopped having asthma attacks. Wow! I’m cured. Well, that’s what I thought.
Research shows eating a large amount of antioxidants flavonoids, and vitamins allows for lower rates of asthma. Antioxidants are a major factor in reducing asthma rates as they neutralize free radicals and protect cells from damage. Studies also show that children and teenagers that eat a lot of fruits and omega-3 fatty acids, beta-carotene, show a tendency to have strong lungs and few asthma-like symptoms.
Furthermore people who eat a low amount of nutrients like vitamin C and E and omega-3s are known to have poor lung function. The vegetarian,vegan diet shows promise for the prevention and management of asthma, as the diet is high in antioxidant and vitamins.
I could not believe the results I was having with my 75% raw vegetarian daily diet with the occasional few and far between, flesh foods. I stopped using all medication from my GP for asthma including the inhalers. However I was not prepared to take any risk, the relationship I had with my inhaler was too close. We were inseparable, we were never out of each others company for very long.
A friend of mine invited me swimming one day. Great, I had not been swimming in years due to my asthma. I though that would no longer be a problem.
As soon as I got into the water and attempted to swim, I discovered the challenge on my lungs and the difficulty breathing each time I did a few strokes.
Noooooooooooo!......No......I thought the asthma was gone. Every breast stroke told me other wise. So I decided to come back the next day by myself. I needed to be sure.
Weeks went by and I could not quite do the full lap, without stopping and gasping for air. My chest felt tight and I sensed that if I did not wait to recover from the exercise, before doing another stroke, I could have an attack. Some where far away, the potential for an asthma attack was still their although I did not actually have an attack. How annoying, I really thought the asthma was completely gone. It was their, but I only experienced it when ever I exercised.
I decided to take up swimming to strengthen my lungs, I didn't know how long it’s going to take but I was determined to beat this disease. I swam once, sometimes twice a week.
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I spent days researching all I could about wheatgrass. I eventually concluded that growing my own would be the best way forward for me. I followed all the relevant instructions shared through books, internet and utube clips. So the day came when I harvested my wheatgrass and juiced it. I had to share the experience with someone and so mum and I took our first sip of the green juice.
Well if you could have seen the facial expressions you would never dream of trying it yourself. I managed to keep it down but my poor mother....I will leave it to your imagination. However I was determined to take it regardless of what my taste buds were telling me. I had read far too many testimonials to give up now. Although drinking the juice on an empty stomach on it’s own is considered to be the best way forward. I thought that getting this green juice into my body was all that mattered. So I tried it several times on its own each day and gave up. Then I began to experiment. I did not like it in water either. Eventually I discovered that I could take my wheatgrass shot in a fruit smoothie each day.
So three weeks went by and I was very busy with my wheatgrass regime. Planting, harvesting, juicing and drinking. I found I could freeze any excess and add the green cubes to my smoothie the next day.
It wasn’t until I went to another swimming session that I discovered what the wheatgrass was doing to my body. I swam that day, laps after laps after laps. Breaststroke, backstroke, doggy paddle, diving and seeing how long I could stay under water. I remember coming up from been under water so long, bouncing up and down while removing my hair from my face. Praising God....Praising God.....Praising God.
I can not explain the level of energy. I was not tired, not as breathless as I have always known myself to be. My lungs were healed. I knew at that moment that I had been healed. Although this experience was happening to my body, I could not believe my swimming session. I stayed for hours in the pool. I kept doing the laps and keeping my face under water for as long as I could.
Regardless of all of my experiences, my inhalers stayed close by my side. Too afraid to let it go. Too many near death experiences were associated with not having this inhaler in my hand bag. I knew that my inhaler had to go and this would prove to be the hardest thing that I had to do in my life at the time. I will share that experience with you soon.
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