• pushing the contestants to breaking point emotionally during early training sessions
• then digging into their past to reveal when the weight started going on
• uncovering the emotions at that time
• identifying triggers
• then changing mindset

• Monga Waratah – feelings of emptiness, looking outside for fulfillment
• Crowea – feelings of anxiety
• Mountain Devil – feelings of anger
• Tall Yellow Top – feelings of depression, isolation or lonliness
• Bottlebrush – It’s a habit
• Boab – Your learnt this response from your family
• Boronia – You can’t stop thinking about that food (obsessing)
• Five Corners – low self esteem and/or confidence

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For approximately 2,000 years, Maca has been an important traditional food and medicinal plant in the Andes of Peru and Bolivia, where it is well-known and highly respected for is medicinal qualities. The Peruvians regard it as a highly nutritious, energy enhancing food, and as a medicine that increases strength, endurance. Ancient Inca Imperial Warriors reputably ate Maca before a battle to increase their strength and power.

Maca has been used for centuries to increase energy and fertility, and has a reputation as an aphrodisiac.

It is popular with menopausal women to prevent and treat the unpleasant symptoms of menopause, and can also be used during the child bearing years to regulate the menstrual cycle.

As with all herbs, avoid in pregnancy unless specifically recommended to you by a qualified herbalist.

Maca is a natural super food now available as a dietary supplement. It contains numerous minerals including calcium, phosphorous, zinc, magnesium and iron. Other  nutrients include Vitamins B1, B2, C, E, as well as 18 amino acids, essential fatty acids, and sterols.

Maca is beneficial for:

• Increasing energy and stamina
• An aphrodisiac for both men and women
• Improving general well being
• Menstrual problems
• Menopaual symptoms
• Supporting and nourishing the body

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Dr Lu’s Acidity/Alkalinity List of Common Foods

Avoid acid foods. eat as much alkaline food as possible.

ACID FOODS – AVOID

Strongly acidic food:

Egg yolk, cheese, cake made with white sugar or persimmon, mullet fish roe, dried cod

Mildly acidic food:

Ham, bacon, chicken meat, squid, pork, eel, beef, bread, wheat, butter, horse meat

Weakly but still acidic food:

White rice, peanut, beer, alcohol, oil fried tofu, sea weed, clam, octopus, catfish

ALKALINE FOODS – EAT AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE

Weakly alkaline food:

Red beans, radish, apple, cabbage, onion, tofu

Mildly alkaline food:

Dried radish, soya bean, carrot, tomato, banana, orange, pumpkin, strawberry, egg white, dried plum, lemon, spinach, etc.

Strongly alkaline food:

Grapes, tea leave, kelp sprout, kelp. Especially natural green algae which contains rich quantities of chlorophyll are very good alkaline health food. Barley grass and wheatgrass. Alfalfa. Tea should not be drunk in excess, and it is best to drink it in the morning.

Have a long meaningful life!

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By Dr Lu

The blood of healthy persons is more alkaline in nature, with a pH of about 7.35 to 7.45

Babies’ blood is also more alkaline than acidic

As adults mature their blood becomes usually more acidic

According to a study of 600 cancer patients, of their bodily fluid, 85% of the patients are acidic .

Therefore, how to maintain the a weakly acidic nature of our body is the first step for moving far away from diseases.

Acidic physical conditions manifested as some of the below:

1. Skin without luster
2. Athlete’s foot
3. Feeling tired even with very little exercise
4. Falling sleep the moment one gets on to public buses
5. Easily out of breath going up and down stairs
6. Overweight, and with lower stomach protruding,
7. Physical movement is slow and lethargic

Why does the body physical condition turn acidic?

1. Excessive intake of dairy acidic food

a) meat, dairy products, eggs, beef, ham, etc. are acidic food

b) taking too much acidic food will cause the blood to become acidic and viscous, making it difficult for it to flow to the end of blood vessels, leading to cold feet or knee, stiff shoulders and insomnia..

c) It is more suitable to have a diet which are primarily vegetables with algae.

2) Irregularity in the pace of life will cause the body physical condition to become acidic

a) Irregular pace in life will lead to mental and physical stress

b) According to statistics, people who sleep late are more likely to have cancer than normal persons, by as much as 5 times.

c) Human beings originally lead a life with regular tempo in this world, it is not possible to store up sleep or food and not possible to change the order of living by mixing up days and nights.

d) Human organs are controlled by the autonomic nerves, and during day time it is mainly sympathetic nerves activities, and at night it is mainly the parasympathetic nerves which are functioning. If this order is disturbed and reversed, then diseases will result.

3. Emotion over tensed

a) Civilised society brings stresses

b) Job related or mental stresses

c) A person suffers mental stress, when the stress is removed and the person relaxes, sometimes this may lead to death, referred to as the syndrome of imperfect adrenal cortex function.

4. Physical Stress

a) Before any operation it would be necessary to check to see if the renal cortex does function normally. If the adrenal cortex is lacking, or if the stress imposed by the operation exceeded the ability of adrenal cortex to cope, it could lead to death or other undesirable impacts.

b) If it noted that patient’s face is puffy, it would be necessary to enquire in detail the patient’s medical history and medication status. For patients taking adrenal cortical hormone, extra care should be exercised when administering acupuncture.

c) Stress due to physical labour or exercise in excess, whole night card games, driving etc. should be avoided as much as possible

Lastly, one should take care of oneself but should also be caring about others.

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Get a herbalist onto the topic of the importance of a healthy bowel and colon cleansing and you could quite easily be there all day. Suffice to say, if your lower bowel (colon) is all clogged up, it isnt good for your health. In the simplest terms, your digestive tract is one long tube. The top half (stomach and small intestine) allow you to absorb nutrients from your food. The lower part (the large intestine or colon) reabsorbs water from the undigested mass of food left, ahead of you eliminating the waste products. Food is supposed to pass through our body in eight hours, with a bowel movement after each meal being a sign of ideal bowel health. Even if you go every day, you might be excreting a meal from several days (or weeks) ago. A sign that this may be thecase for you is if your tummy gets quite bloated after you eat.

A good way to find out your transit time – how long food takes to pass through your digestive tract – is to do this: Eat a meal containing corn. Note the time and date of this meal. Dont eat any more corn until the corn you ate reappears at the other end. Count up how long since you ate it. This is your transit time. Eight hours is excellent. If your transit time is more than this your bowel could do with cleanse at least once a year. Anything over 24 hours is worriesome and you need to take actionto get it back on track. A long transit time leaves waste products in your bowel too long, and can lead to toxins being reabsorbed into your bloodstream – with your liver, kidneys, lymphatic system and skin left with the job of getting rid of them.

If your colon is not emptying properly, eventually this will affect the small intestine too. Low grade nausea and indigestion can be a symptom of this. Imagine a long narrow pipe. What happens if the bottom end gets clogged up? Does the top end start backing up too? If your small intestine, where you absorb nutrients, begins to clog up, no matter how much organic food or how many supplements you take, very little of the goodness they contain can be taken up by your body. This can lead to tiredness and lethagy.

In days past we used to eat a lot more wholegrain foods, which moved through our bowel better. We also were in the habit of regular fasting, something quite out of fashion these days, which is a shame because fasting gives your
bowel a rest from digesting food, and gives it an opportunity to clean itself out. Fasting also allows the rest of your body to cleanse itself. It takes a lot of energy to digest food, and while you are fasting this energy can beused for cleansing and healing. Simple practiceslike fasting and cleansing are extremely powerful and we all need to be doing them more often.

Autopsies have shown that theaverage adult in western society has 6kg of undigested meat in their colon. Meat that is not grown organically often contains quite a bit ofsynthetic oestrogen. It goes without saying that this has the potential to disrupt your hormones if it sits in your body for any length of time. I call oestrogen dominance the root of all (hormonal) evil. Irregular, painful, heavy and absent periods can often be traced back to this single cause. As can
a lot of fibrocystic breast lumps, prementrual breast tenderness, PCOS, fibroids, endometriosis, early puberty, bad menopause and infertility. Much of my clinical practice involves reversing oestrogen dominance. A good bowel
cleanse is always part of the solution.

A top of the line cleanse involves some fasting. Believe me when I say, its not as hard as you think it will be (andwell worth the effort). Most of my clients havereportedglowing skin, improved vitality, a tendency to eat less (and more nutritious) food, reduced cellulite, and ongoing weight loss after doing this program.

My favourite bowel cleanse is ‘The Colon Cleansing Kit’ whichcontains Digestive Stimulator herbal capsules (to get your bowelmoving three times a day), Toxin Absorber (to remove mucoid plaque build-up and old hardened faeces from the bowel wall), detailed instructions, a FAQ booklet,and a calender telling you exactly what to do each day. This makes it really easy follow, even if you have never done anything like this before.

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