Ideal Weight |

June 19, 2009

Do Processed Foods Have Any Place In Your Healthy Diet Plan?

What does the term “processed foods” actually mean?

Do visions of t.v. dinners, cookies and chips (or do you call them crisps?) come to mind?

Do you think of canned meats and roasted nuts?

Is bread a processed food, or part of a healthy diet plan?

The term “processed foods”, for all practical purposes, means food that is less wholesome and possibly harmful.

Fruits and veggies become less and less wholesome from the moment they are picked, but are far more wholesome than anything that comes out of a box or can.

Any type of cutting or grinding allows oxidation of the food stuff, and nutrition is lost.

Flour is completely pulverized grains.

Just because your bread is brown, doesn’t mean it is more wholesome!

Eating 100% whole wheat products is a step in the right direction, but you are still eating a grain that has been through a lot since it left the field, and wheat is a common allergen.

Genetic modification takes bread to a new level of processed!

Wheat AND ALL white flour foods are problematic!

Flour Foods

breads/muffins (except those of the sprouted variety)
pastries/doughnuts
cakes
pies
cookies
pasta (GASP!)

The foods that are part of the culture that you grow up in become more than just your favorite foods. They become a connection to the past, comfort foods.

Making healthy diet plan choices is about seeing food from a different perspective!

Process emotional “stuff” and you will eat less junk food!

Unconscious eating (and shopping) isn’t planning for health by any stretch of the imagination.

You don’t want to worry about your food, but planning for health means putting more organic produce in your shopping cart and on your plate.

As The Life Breath Coach I teach that the secret to processing emotions WITHOUT emotional eating is Sacred Breathing.

Discover how your breathing contributes to emotional eating and what you can do about it.

Click on the link below to learn about the benefits of becoming a member of The Life Breath Club.

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Many blessings,

Carrie Tucker, RCP

The Life Breath Coach

Heart Failure Solutions

PS– Remember everyday:

Relax and Release tension
Exhale Slowly
Be active in a way that adds Joy to your life

Plus pure water ~whole foods~sunshine~and laughter

Ideal Weight |

June 3, 2009

| by Carrie Tucker

Are You Nurturing Yourself With Basic Heatlh Related Fitness Components?

If you are NOT covering the basics in health related fitness components, it’s only a matter of time before you suffer the consequences.

Nurture your body, or neglect it and push yourself into an early grave!

Worse yet, your neglect could end up pushing you into a sick bed and your suffering could possibly go on for years and years and years!

Do you have any idea what you need to do to provide yourself with the basics for health building?

Bad habits die hard!

“Hey, I need my vices to get through the week!”

If you aren’t suffering… why worry?

Because, when your suffering begins, you will have no choice but to suffer! Continue reading article →

Social Connection |

May 24, 2009

| by Carrie Tucker

Can Powerful Miracle Prayer Bring You Out of Hiding?

When you are hiding from the world, it will take something earth moving to bring you out into the open.

Constant conversation with God is a lifeline. Whatever your religion, or lack of it, that lifeline is available to you 24/7!

That humble conversation with God is powerful miracle prayer in itself.

If you have a relationship with God, please nurture it! You want to stay connected.

If you are thinking, “I’m not religious”,

I challenge you to keep an open mind.

We are ONE

All of creation is ONE energy.

It really is true.

You Can Feel the Feelings of Another.

It is obvious when someone you love is down.

Next time you are out in public, take a look around you.

Can you tell if someone around you is feeling down? … angry? … happy?

If you love a pet, then you have experienced a strong unspoken connection that is beyond understanding.

In fact, it is the connection to others that evokes emotion within you.

Bring Out All Your Personality Flaws; Fall In Love!

A committed relationship is certain to bring out all your insecurities and test you in new and challenging ways!

What a gift!

Unfortunately, every relationship also contains the potential for powerlessness and pain!

You dump your stuff on those closest to you. Relationships are such hard work because all those personality flaws can be hard to navigate.

Hey, it all hangs out. When you share house and home, there is no hiding anything. (Even from children… they know.)

The real test of character is to stay nice in the face of screaming toddlers, crazed teen agers, mid-life crisis, earth shattering transition, loss of treasures, and betrayal.

We are talking major spiritual work here.

The World Is Your Mirror

Your friends are your mirrors.

When you make a new friend, you get the chance to see what kind of energy you are sending out to the universe.

Like energy attracts. You can’t attract un-like energy.

Don’t be too quick to judge new friends. The lesson is for you.

Judgments that arise in your mind are really just messages about something you can’t see in yourself.

If you run into hostile people or helpful humorous people you will get a sense of what kind of energy lives within you.

Joy has a very high vibration, depression has a very low vibration.

You can re-tune your vibrational frequency by CHOOSING to keep your focus looking up.

However, if you have a suppressed emotion, you will bump into its mirror image somewhere in the world and it will give you the opportunity to release it and be free at last.

Re-focus on your Joyful vibration with a happy memory immediately.

Choose to keep your eyes on the prize. Those suppressed feelings won’t hurt you if you let them out and be done with it at long last!

Don’t feed bad energy! BREATHE it away!

Sacred Breathing Is Powerful Miracle Prayer

Many blessings,

Carrie Tucker, RCP

The Life Breath Coach

Heart Failure Solutions

PS– Remember everyday:

Relax and Release tension
Exhale Slowly
Be active in a way that adds Joy to your life

Plus pure water ~whole foods~sunshine~and laughter

Drug Safety |

April 29, 2009

| by Carrie Tucker

Why Shouldn’t You Get the Swine Flu Vaccine?

The media is scaring the world to death.

Please read what Dr. Mercola has to say about this issue.

YOU and YOUR family need to know this information. It could save your life!

Critical Alert: The Swine Flu Pandemic – Fact or Fiction?

By Dr. Mercola

American health officials declared a public health emergency as cases of swine flu were confirmed in the U.S. Health officials across the world fear this could be the leading edge of a global pandemic emerging from Mexico, where seven people are confirmed dead as a result of the new virus.

On Monday April 27th, the World Health Organization (WHO) raised its pandemic alert level to four on its six-level threat scale,1 which means they’ve determined that the virus is capable of human-to-human transmission.

The initial outbreaks across North America reveal an infection already travelling at higher velocity than did the last official pandemic strain, the 1968 Hong Kong flu.

The number of fatalities, and suspected and confirmed cases across the world change depending on the source, so your best bet — if you want the latest numbers — is to use Google Maps’ Swine Flu Tracker.

Several nations have imposed travel bans, or made plans to quarantine air travelers2 that present symptoms of the swine flu, such as:

* Fever of more than 100
* Coughing
* Runny nose and/or sore throat
* Joint aches
* Severe headache
* Vomiting and/or diarrhea
* Lethargy
* Lack of appetite

Top global flu experts are trying to predict how dangerous the new swine flu strain will be, as it became clear that they had little information about Mexico’s outbreak. It is as yet unclear how many cases occurred in the month or so before the outbreak was detected. It’s also unknown whether the virus was mutating to be more lethal, or less.

Much Fear Mongering Being Promoted

I suspect you have likely been alarmed by the media’s coverage of the swine flu scare.

It has a noticeable subplot – preparing you for draconian measures to combat a future pandemic as well as forcing you to accept the idea of mandatory vaccinations. Continue reading article →

Mind Set |

April 21, 2009

| by Carrie Tucker

Is All This Cleansing Really Going To Help My Emotional Health?

“Help! I’m buried in spring cleaning!”

Are you having trouble finding your way out of the mess you created trying to get your spring cleaning done?

“Guilty as charged!”

When you pass through a transition in your life, sometimes the cleaning is so bitter sweet that it stirs up your world physically, mentally and spiritually.

I want to encourage you to keep on pushing through the mess until you bring your home the harmony that you deserve.

When you pull out all the assorted accumulation from the past, you may find that you can’t just toss it away and move on.

People make a living out of helping others get organized because it is a challenging thing to do for those who aren’t.

If you are highly efficient and organized, then I salute you!

If you aren’t, don’t sweat it! Start from your bedroom and work your way out.

When the first and last thing you see every day is clean and organized, the rest of your life will become more clean and organized.

Why should you care about cleanliness?

I mean you wouldn’t want to smell, so you shower everyday, but the house work just never stops and is always going to be there, right?

Is there really any health benefit to spring cleaning?

How in the world can pulling everything out of the closet and making a bigger mess possibly help?!

For years I felt that spring cleaning was a waste of time. Heck, spring cleaning was a dirty word!

This spring, I am embracing the season with a thorough purging of things un-needed.

At 44, with my daughters giving me teenage challenges and my little 4 year old boy struggling to get a word in edge wise, spring cleaning stirred up the realization that I have passed into a new chapter in my life.

This year I feel a need to pull all that “stuff” out of the boxes and see if I truly need to keep holding on to it.

The process brought up many old memories that I would rather not remember. It made me realize that I still harbor anger over events that happened a long time ago.

My anger is more irritation than rage, but when the “old stuff” reminded me of events from the past, and old anger surfaced, I was very aware that I had just released energy that had been harming me.

My light mood for the past week has reminded of the huge benefits gained from stirring up old feelings and releasing them all over again. It wasn’t the first time, and it probably won’t be the last.

Every time you cause old emotions to surface Continue reading article →

Drug Safety |

April 8, 2009

| by Carrie Tucker

When You Think Colonoscopy Risks, Do You Think Kidney Damage?

Kidney damage has been linked to a class of drugs that is very commonly given before a colonoscopy.

Do you want to risk the health of your kidneys?

What good will it do to verify your colon health if you are harming your kidneys in the process?

There is a “black box warning” on colon-cleansing drugs containing sodium phosphate, because they have been linked to permanent kidney damage resulting in a lifetime of dialysis as well as a host of other complications!

So WHY are these drugs very commonly prescribed as colon cleansers before a colonoscopy?

Are doctors unaware of the dangers? Are they cheaper than other similar drugs?

Why the hell would they risk your kidneys?!

Good question! Though the answer doesn’t really matter. YOU can watch out for yourself on this one!

When you think colonoscopy risks, THINK about your kidneys!

Refuse these drugs:

Visicol

OsmoPrep

These are 2 of the drugs containing sodium phosphate.

A colonoscopy is a relatively safe procedure. Please don’t risk long term injury by taking these drugs!

Of the few dangers associated with colonoscopy risks, kidney failure is BY FAR the most extreme.

Make sure that the nasty tasting beverage they give you to clean your bowel before your colonoscopy is not one that is linked to kidney failure!

Safer Alternative Precoloscopy-Colon-Cleansing Drugs

Miralax

Colyte

TriLyte

Make sure you are given the safe drug to prep with and then learn how your breathing can make you sick and what you can do about it pre op!

Are your lungs ready for colonoscopy risks?

Many blessings,

Carrie Tucker, RCP

The Life Breath Coach

Heart Failure Solution

PS– Remember everyday:

Relax and Release tension
Exhale Slowly
Be active in a way that adds joy to your life

Plus pure water ~whole foods~sunshine~and laughter