Share a Delicious Evening with Me!

B'SD

13 Av, 5775

I enjoyed a remarkable experience last night. I met and interacted with Victoria Barayev, a macrobiotic chef. Victoria taught the basics of macrobiotic cooking to a crowd of interested Israelis. She is visiting Israel and based in the USA.

I was struck by the fact that she spoke to us as intelligent people, not as ignoramuses in need of an education. Instructors who do that quickly lose my attention span.

A skeptic of macrobiotic "dining," I had long believed it to be a system of food and pleasure deprivation. But my mind has opened to other possibilities after meeting people healed by, or experiencing vastly improved health due to, macrobiotic diets. I sought out information about the healing properties and flavors of macrobiotic guidelines. That led to learning of US-based Victoria and her guest appearance in Israel last night.

I enjoyed a thoroughly delicious meal that I helped to prepare under Victoria's guidance. I'd be happy to serve it to anyone! 

I'm favorably impressed with the nutritional richness of the fresh and cooked food that we enjoyed:

Mung Bean Basil Soup

Quinoa/Buckwheat Salad with Cilantro Pesto

and Tempeh Croutons

Chickpea-Hiziki Omelet

Cashew Cream Cheese

No-Cook Peach-Chia Pudding Pie

I enjoyed seconds of each item, so I could savor the flavors and remember them for my solo preparation efforts.

You can visit
Victoria's website 
at http://www.victoriabarayev.com/

One of the lessons that caught my attention last night was the fact that macrobiotic dining includes Principal foods necessary for optimal health, Complementary foods that add pleasure to the dining experience, and Special foods for occasional treats - not regular ingestion. It's as normal as life should be: No excess, simple goodness. No deprivation involved.

Here are candid photos of Victoria and the diners, some of whom met for the first time.

By the way, I have a motive for macrobiotic dining. Stay tuned to my healing story.  My friends and I are praying for an imminent miracle.





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Fill your plate with health-promoting pleasure.

A Can-do Message Far Beyond the Medical Sphere

B'SD

17 Kislev, 5775

Kislev is reputed to be a month of miracles. The life-saving Hanuka miracle of the Maccabees took place, then.

Maybe you can make a miracle, too,
no matter which holiday you celebrate. 

Want to be a hero as you do your best to save someone's quality of life, despite their diagnosis?

Here are some thoughts on that topic by mental health professionals:

"It's MY Crisis and I'll Cry if I Need To can be of enormous help
both to people with an illness and to those near to them.
Yocheved Golani's sharing of hope, courage and faith
will bring relief to many sufferers."

Rabbi Dr Abraham J. Twerski, MD, PhD, Psychiatrist, Director of Gateways Rehabilitation Center

http://www.booklocker.com/books/3067.html

"… This book is lifesaving, emotionally rewarding, spiritual, funny and helpful…" 
 Judith Guedalia, PhD. Director, Neuropsychology Unit and Chief Medical Psychologist ER Trauma  (MCE)Team at Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

"… a powerful 'can-do' message to those most in need of it… It could save your life or the life of your loved one. This combination of positive attitude and positive action makes this guide useful and complete. Its lessons extend far beyond the medical sphere to life challenges whatever they may be: lessons we can't afford to ignore." 
 Life Coach Y. Ives, England

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How a Calming Conversation Can Improve Your Health

B'SD

14 Elul, 5774

What a conversation! Someone called me this afternoon, my time. 

The caller related her several severe medical issues and that a friend in another country calmed her with the words "You need to get a book written by this Israeli lady, Golani is her name. It motivates you to take the actions you need and even tells you how to take those actions! I know someone who has it. It changed their life."

So, the counseled caller looks up my contact info and asks, "How do I get the book?"

"Easily," I told her. "Go online and order it from the publisher, Booklocker, which sends it faster than any book shop, even faster than the online book outlets."

She breathed a sigh of relief and mentioned that she felt better already.

I'm always impressed at how far word travels, and so grateful that my efforts help people. I have no idea who the people mentioned above may be. It's an exciting feeling to know that I've helped people I might never meet.

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Find out how to help yourself as your friends might recommend.

 

Are there only 3 Options for Taking Advantage of the ICD10 Delay? Or 4?

B'SD

17 Nisan, 5774

Within the medical industry, there's an enduring debate about the merits and upside of the i10 delay. This one is entitled 3 ways providers can take advantage of the ICD-10 delay.

Dontcha just LUV this quote: 

"From a hospital perspective, enough already," Linda Reed, vice president and chief information officer at Morristown, N.J.-based Atlantic Health, told FierceHealthIT. "We've spent the money, done the work and started all the training. From a physician practice perspective, I'm not sure giving another year would make any difference in readiness. The extension from 2013 to 2014 didn't."

Those words made me think of two very different scenarios and the motivations behind them:

  1) Doomsday preppers who shuddered as the clock struck midnight on the last day of 1999... 

  2) The purpose of procrastination, and its inevitable result...

Neither scenario relates to productive results.

People tend to find out that they can cope with reality once they decide to deal with it. That tends to lead to better and better consequences.

Read the rest of the 3 Options story, 

http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/special-reports/3-ways-providers-can-take-advantage-icd-10-delay, 

then ask your legislators what they're doing to redress the ICD10 implementation delay.

By the way, I've identified a fourth option for taking advantage of the ICD10 delay: Learning from the mistake.

There's more good reading in 

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Find answers you need. Do your homework.

 

Ladies Lighten Your Health and Healing Loads. Laughter, too!

B'SD

18 Cheshvan, 5774

Scared of having a female doctor? No need to be. A University of Montreal study found that "... female doctors provided higher quality care than their male counterparts."

More news good for your health coming up:

Check out Natural Healing for Psoriasis, Diabetes and other Autoimmune Conditions at the Dead Sea.

Scared of becoming one of those stooped over older people? Read Ladies, Take 5 Steps to Avoid Osteoporosis. (psst! Men can take necessary action to prevent osteoporosis, too)

The EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge book advocates a good sense of humor for healing and helping purposes. Get your giggle on with Comedian Dave Barry.



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Femininity and laughter are BIG Pluses for reaching your healing and coping goals!

 

Putting YOUR Best Foot - and SHOES - Forward!

B'SD

26 Elul, 5773

I'm still trying to figure out how women who wore banana-nosed shoes made it though one particular fashion season. I suspect that many foot doctors, and plastic surgeons who repair broken noses, made a lot of money that year.

Two years or so later, I found something to illustrate the lack of good sense in wearing some types of shoes.

Click on

Foot Damage from High Heels and Excessive Slopes

Ow. 
It hurts just to think about that damage. 

Avoid it with sensible footwear.

Your entire body is at risk for suffering enduring paid from damage caused by poorly fitting, foot-crippling shoes. 

Diabetics are at worse risk for health complications due to the foot damage.




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Feet need sensible soles. You do, too ;^D

 

It's Not Just You

B'SD

19 Tamuz, 5773

Sometimes you wonder if you're ill, inconvenienced or vulnerable, and seriously in need of medical solutions - but that rich, famous and powerful people are not.

The truth is, we're all fragile humans. Take a look at the reality with

Celebrities battling illnesses

Sigh if you need to, and stop punishing yourself with your mind. 

Take life, including your diagnosis, emotions and more, one step at a time.

Ready to feel better? Read EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge today.. 

Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity. Face Your Future with Optimism. 

Face reality. It's not just you who needs a medical miracle.


 

Something Special in American Food

B'SD

1 Adar, 5773

[Feb 13 2012 - I'm pleased to let you know that this blogpost was shared at http://paper.li/GoodBlogPosts46/1318465543]

Sorry for my silence last week. This blog was hit by several hacking efforts and it took a while to clean things up. I had not intended to abandon you or to leave you wondering "What's going on?"

Let's get back to health.

This lesson in this TEDTalk video can probably save your life and/or the quality of your life. I recommend that you watch it to the end, then watch it again.


 

Want to learn another lesson on what pure foods can do for human health?  

The food chain has been sullied around the world. Even if we move to a different country, we take the effects of those health-compromising chemicals along.

Read all about how becoming an organic vegetarian restored my sight after I'd been blinded and doctors lost hope of helping me to ever see again after a benign brain tumor had crushed my optic nerves. 

They thought I was nuts. Then the doctors began to realize that that something was helping me to recover sight. GOD was certainly among those details ;^ D

I've been invited to interact with students at a neuro-rehab ophthalmology clinic next semester. My eyewear prescription has fallen many times in the past 7.5 years! Future doctors want to know why, and how they can help other people with the problems I'm overcoming.

The EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge book clues in readers how to help themselves physically, spiritually, emotionally and financially. Read it today!

Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity. Face Your Future with Optimism.

Start your own healing team! 


 

Eat Food, not FAKERY or Fat

B'SD

10 Shvat, 5773

The sweet, colorful new year for trees called Tu B'Shvat (an acronym for the 15th of Hebrew month Shvat) happens this coming weekend. See Tu B'Shvat Shabbat.

It's a wonderful time to improve your health with pure, nutritious foods that support your health. Pesticides, additives and other fakery undermine human health.

Wondering what I mean by that? Watch:

and 

How much can a menu minus synthetic chemicals, sugar and fat do for a person?

I went from blind to sighted that way. 

Imagine what can improve for YOU!

Read all about it in cost-cutting, stress-busting

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You'll learn how to make positive changes in your life, how to access medical care that can help you, and how to save money on your medical needs as you read.

Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity. Face Your Future with Optimism.

Eat food, not fakery.

Inside Out: Plant-based Nutrition Supports Your Health

B'SD

5 Shvat, 5773


This video is making its way across the Internet and I want to share it with you. 

Lots of worthwhile lessons are packed into this presentation, and it didn't even address the cancer-causing nitrates in commercial meat and meat "products."

Listen with your mind wide open. The video can turn your concept of good nutrition inside out. 

Plants, not products, support human health.

Need proof that pure food can turn medical nightmares into enviable dreams?

READ

and learn how I began to see again by becoming a vegetarian. Medical experts didn't believe it was possible.

The book is full of humor, information and step-by-step encouragement. It can help you to deal with many  heath-related issues, not just nutrition.



Buy the E-book or print edition today for a brighter holiday season: Click on the words EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. 

Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity. Face Your Future with Optimism. 

Feed yourself nourishing food. It's empowering. Fireman Rip Esselstyn just told you so!

 

Does Your Doctor Know the Facts about Your Medication?

B'SD

19 Elul, 5772

I listened to this TEDTalk video and found it troubling. I'm aware of several horrific side-effects and after-affects upon defenseless people harmed by legally approved drugs. It's one of the reasons I'd developed my interest in natural healing techniques. 

I still believe in surgery as necessary, medicine when warranted. But here is a clarion call for vastly improved drug investigations before the "medicines" are brought to market:



I welcome your thoughts on the presentation.




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Celebrate the Anniversary of Coping with Medical Crises and Challenges!

B'SD

13 Elul 5772

America's Labor Day Weekend is 
the anniversary of the

first edition for

It used to have a coverful of colorful arms 
reaching for each other in a symbol

of hope, help and increased happiness:

Readers around the world have benefited from the information inside (updated in the newer editions). They're saving money, time and their sanity with the helpful content.

The E-book and print edition of EMPOWER Yourself are filled with soothing content, can-do exercises and tips for organizing a hectic medical or disability life. 

There's even an entire Global Resources section to clue you in to charitable organizations willing to pay part or all of your specific medical bills or your loved one's.

Look who's liked the book all this time when you click on Sneak Peek!

Make your long weekend a healthier one, inside and out. Buy the E-book or print edition today for a brighter, more functional look at your medical or disability future: Click on the words EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. 

Buy it today and enjoy your reading time!

Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity.
Face Your Future with Optimism.

A Prescription for Doctors and Their Patients: How to Lower the Cost of Medical Care!

B'SD


18 Tamuz, 5772


One of my favorite looks at expensive medical care prescribes sensible, can-do solutions appears at

Is rationing necessary to reduce health care costs?

Now click on How to Speed Up Patient Appointments.

Need more stress-reducing, 

cost-cutting ideas? 

Doctors recommend

Buy the E-book or print edition 
from Booklocker TODAY! 


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Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity.
Face Your Future with Optimism.

Flashmob for World Diabetes Day!

B'SD


17 Cheshvan 5772



 It's World Diabetes Day, and yesterday I joined friends to increase global awareness of the prevalence of Juvenile and adult-onset diabetes - plus the need for a cure. Look for me (the only redhead in the group) in the white lab jacket, dancing in the back row, in this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrUWCMT5L1E.

If that link doesn't work see

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrUWCMT5L1E&feature=share

By the way, I recently communicated with someone struggling to feed her child, a toddler with Celiac disease. Celiacs can't digest gluten. They - or their parents - must monitor their diets to avoid serious lifelong complications. I let the mom know that, due to the organic vegetarian diet and other healing modalities I use, I've LOST my celiac problems and my life-threatening allergies!


My lifestyle and dining habits are sound practices for diabetics, too. I also lost borderline diabetic status some time ago, due to the changes I made.


Eating doesn't have to be torture. Learn the user-friendly, delicious and delightful techniques described in

PS - My eyesight continues to improve, thank GOD.





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Face Your Future with Optimism.