How many people do you know that have had cancer? Perhaps you may be a former cancer patient yourself. What is there were some simple steps you could take to decrease your risk of getting one of the many forms of cancer? Would you take responsibility and make some healthy changes for your own well-being?

Cancer is a disease of weakened immunity. When cancer cells are created, which occurs from time to time, strong immune processes will recognize and destroy mutant cells by creating antibodies against them. But the immune system is dealing with more than just cancer — it also has to deal with microorganisms, allergens, sugar, etc. (see list below).

The more invaders the immune system is fighting, the weaker the immune system becomes. It’s less likely now that all of the cancer cells will be caught before they proliferate and become a problem.

There are some simple ways to decrease your risk factors associated with cancer. Sometimes empowering yourself can be as simple as decreasing:

• Altered fats: Trans-fats, hydrogenated fats and oils, rancid fats, and fried foods.
• Refined complex carbohydrates: White flour, white sugar, white rice, white pasta, and white bread.
• Chemicals in food: Additives and preservatives, specifically MSG, artificial flavors, colors, and sweeteners (specifically aspartame and sucralose).
• Excess consumption of animal foods: Excess red meat, saturated animal fats, commercial cheeses, cured meats, and grilled meats.
• Detrimental habits: Coffee, alcohol, smoking, and overeating.

One specific substance to avoid is sugar. Sugar is like candy to cancer. When we eat a meal full of refined sugars or grains, a surge of insulin is released to usher glucose into cells for energy production.  The liver then releases insulin-like growth factors 1 and 2 (IGF-1 and IGF-2), which stimulate cell growth, both in healthy and cancerous cells. By eating complex carbohydrates, lean proteins, and good fats with every meal, we can avoid insulin surges and growth of cancer cells.

One of the best things you can do to support your immune system is to eat a plethora of fruits and vegetables daily. Fruits and vegetables both stimulate and support our immune system. The colorful pigments offer protection against free radical damage, and each color supplies different protection.

By eating at least one food per day from each of the five color groups — red, dark green, yellow and light green, orange, and purple, you will be provided with the variety of phytonutrients needed for whole-body protection.

Take a look at the above list and see how many of the detrimental habits creep in to your daily lifestyle. What’s the state of your immune system health? Are you frequently feeling run down, catching colds and flues, or plagued with allergies? These are all signs of a weakened immune system.

By changing a few of the detrimental habits above to healthy habits, like including a rainbow of fruits and vegetables and switching white bread to whole grain, your immune system will be able to protect you far better from random mutant cancer cells. It’s the least you can do.

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“The MindBody FX Lifestyle: Mastering the Mind-Body Connection for Permanent Weight Loss” is not about dieting! As the title says, it’s about a lifestyle and mastering the mind-body connection for permanent weight loss. It focuses less on what you should or shouldn’t eat, and more on what you should or shouldn’t think.

We’ve all heard the saying that “you are what you eat.” Well, I completely disagree. I believe “you are what you think.”

You attract into your life what you consistently think, feel, and act upon. As the book cover points out, your thoughts create your feelings, your feelings create your actions, and your actions create your quality of life — good or bad!

Here’s how my book is different from all the other weight loss books out there.

1. Create a mindset for success. In order to do this, it’s important for us to understand how your mind works.
2. Take control of your thoughts, beliefs, and habits.
3. Follow the easy, common sense nutrition plan.
4. Get more active in a way that works for you.

The first 10 chapters are dedicated to identifying the primary cause of your weight problem and creating the right mindset. The remaining six chapters are dedicated to creating a healthier lifestyle.

I show you the three levels of denial, which are simple denial, minimization, and transference, and how to move past them. Next, I teach you how to create a new mindset using The Cycle of Creating Your Results.

I discuss how to change negative habits, and create a paradigm shift that will allow you to create the results you’re looking for. The Law of Attraction is discussed and how you can use visualization techniques to lose weight and achieve lasting results.

There’s a section with 14 easy steps to develop positive self-talk and the benefits of affirmations. I discuss overcoming emotional eating and the differences between emotional and physical hunger.

You will learn an easy-to-follow nutrition plan. And you could discover a common metabolic imbalance might be responsible for you gaining weight, and be preventing you from losing weight.

The last part of the book covers the importance of water, getting active, and creating a support system. It ends with a chapter that lets you set your goals and create an action plan to achieve them. That is my lifestyle success plan!

To download the first three chapters for FREE go to www.MindBodyFX.com now.

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You, like me, have no doubt started to settle into the new year now and everything is pretty much back to normal. Some of us have decided to be healthier this year, or decided to lose a certain amount of weight, to fit into that size 12 or 14 or promise ourselves to go to the gym or pool every week. Lots of promises and goals have been set and we are all expecting ourselves to keep to them 100%.

But, sometimes that doesn’t always go according to plan, does it?

Somehow, something and anything gets in the way of all your good intensions. I don’t know about you, but when something gets in the way of what I want to do, I get disheartened very easly. The thing is, you got to look at what you ARE doing more than what you are not doing.

I started out this year really well. I was going to the gym with my husband 4 times a week with no problem. After the second week, I started feeling unwell (but not due to going to the gym!) and I have only been able to get to the gym twice since. I feel so frustrated! I really wanted to go 4 times a week, every week, until I’m the weight I’m meant to be! But I have to realise that it’s not always going to be possible! I have to do what I can and be proud of what I HAVE done instead of get all grumpy and lose my motivation!

Although I’m making slower progress than I want to (and I’m sure many of you can relate to that!) I have noticed a great improvement in my strength and muscle and joint control, which is something I really happy about! Because I have a lot of pain with Fibromyalgia and consiquently a lot of weakness in my muscles, I need to do regular strength and control exercise. Even though I haven’t been able to go to the gym as much as I’d hoped, the time I HAVE been going has made a lot of difference!

The point is, I am getting healthier and more fit by going to the gym when I would normally be sitting at home watching television! I’m making the effort to go, maybe not as many times as I’d hoped, but I AM doing it!

I’m keeping possitive and hoping that next week will be a better week!

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