In this Issue

For July – let’s take a closer look at detoxifying your body of excess estrogens.  We must work on detoxifying our body’s estrogen.  Eating vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, brussel sprouts, kale or collards help because they are excellent detoxifiers.  Of course, fresh fruit and vegetables of all kinds are extremely important.  I am a great proponent of trying to eat 85 % raw – with only 15 % cooked food.  And I promote daily juicing if possible.  Eating this way also helps keep our bodies alkaline. 

I found this book very enlightening and I have been trying to eat more raw food.  This is especially easy in the summer months.

12 Steps to Raw Foods by Victoria Boutenko

Chapter 3 – The Law of Vital Adjustment – pages 20 –

  “…How does the body adjust to cooked food?  The body creates mucus and uses this mucus as a filter.  All the surfaces of the digestive tract that are designed to absorb the nutrients from the food become covered with mucus film that protects blood from toxins.  The mucus film begins at the tongue and continues all the way through the intestines.  Many people can see this mucus on their tongue.  People who have a thick mucus coating on their intestines usually have white tongues as if they just ate sour cream.  The body creates a little mucus, to begin with, to filter out the toxins from the cooked food.  The more cooked food we consume, the more mucus the body produces as protection.  The more harmful the food substances are to the body, the more this mucous film builds up.  As the years go by it becomes thicker and harder.

 Our body initially creates mucus when we eat our first cooked food as a baby.  The next time we eat cooked food the toxins in the food do not penetrate the body completely because of the mucus protection.  You may ask:  what is the mucus made of?  The human body, brilliant as always, creates the mucus from the cooked food itself!  This mucus covers our entire digestive tract, to prevent us from absorbing the toxins in cooked food that would make the body sick. 

We are afraid of e-coli, salmonella or other bacteria, so we cook, pasteurize and irradiate everything.  Food is now highly processed and prepackaged.  We eat a lot of cooked food and, therefore, our body creates a lot of mucus.

 Naturopaths call this mucus in the intestine by the name of mucoid plaque.  Mucoid plaque looks like a green, rubbery hose about twenty-five yards long.  Because of the mucoid plaque, our nutrient assimilation becomes low.  The mucoid plaque protects us from absorbing toxins, but at the same time we cannot absorb nutrients.  The more mucus we have, the fewer nutrients we can receive.  After a number of years of eating cooked food, we develop severe nutritional deficiencies, become hungry and malnourished….”

Excess Estrogen and the Bowel

A Great Place to Get Answers

 If you want to be more proactive in enhancing your health – please join my new yahoo group!  It’s FREE!  It’s called Women for Balance – I will be adding information on a regular basis.  This form will be very informal

Just between us women.  I really want it to be very interactive with questions, comments, advise, ideas from members as they feel comfortable. 

 This group is for those interested in balancing their hormones. Causes of hormonal balances will be a main theme for our group. We will discuss the various diseases caused by imbalanced hormones and exchange ideas on how to live a healthy, balanced, vibrant life no matter what age we find ourselves.  You can post any question you want in this group.  Someone always has some good answers for you.

 Go to:  http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/womenforbalance/   And click to join this group!  (You will want to set up a FREE yahoo email account at this same time) 

Are you ready for mosquito season?

Spring 2003Many people's response to fears about West Nile Virus (WNV) and the normal annoyance of mosquito bites is to slather on the insect repellent, especially on their children. The most common choice is a DEET based repellent. A study released last summer showed some DEET based products to be the most effective, in that they lasted longer than other products. But DEET based repellents aren't just hazardous to mosquitoes. From a human health point of view, when mosquito bites are more of a nuisance than a serious health threat, choosing a botanical based repellent makes more sense.

DEET is a registered pesticide. DEET is short for N,N-diethyl-m-toluamide (also known as N,N-diethyl-3-methylbenzamide). It is a member of the toluene chemical family. Toluene is an organic solvent used in rubber and plastic cements and paint removers. DEET is absorbed through the skin and passes into the blood. The Medical Sciences Bulletin, published by Pharmaceutical Information Associates Ltd. reports, "Up to 56% of DEET applied topically penetrates intact human skin and 17% is absorbed into the bloodstream." Blood concentrations of about 3 mg per litre have been reported several hours after DEET repellent was applied to skin in the prescribed fashion. DEET is also absorbed by the gut.

The most serious concerns about DEET are its effects on the central nervous system. Dr. Mohammed Abou-Donia of Duke University studied lab animals' performance of neuro-behavioural tasks requiring muscle co-ordination. He found that lab animals exposed to the equivalent of average human doses of DEET performed far worse than untreated animals. Abou-Donia also found that combined exposure to DEET and permethrin, a mosquito spray ingredient, can lead to motor deficits and learning and memory dysfunction.

An emergency medicine bulletin notes that DEET may have significantly greater toxicity when combined with ethyl and isopropyl alcohols and freon which are components of some DEET repellents.  In 1998, the US EPA made it illegal for any product containing DEET to make any child safety claims.  Products with DEET are required to carry instructions that they should not be used at all for children under 6 months.  Additional required warnings state that for children 6 months to 2 years, only concentrations of less than 10% DEET should be used, and only once a day. For children from 2 -12 years old, only concentrations under 10% should be used, and repellents should not be applied more than 3 times a day.

For adults, Health Canada has now banned products with DEET concentrations
over 30%, citing health risks and evidence that increasing the percentage does not do much more to repel insects. Health Canada has also banned two in one products which combine sunscreen and DEET, saying they create the potential for people to be exposed to too much DEET. The ban does not take effect until December 2004, so consumers may want to be careful not to pick up combination products still on store shelves.

Products containing DEET are now required to carry labels which specify:

-Do not apply over cuts, wounds, or irritated skin.
-Do not apply to hands or near eyes and mouth of young children.
-Do not allow young children to apply this product.
-After returning indoors, wash treated skin with soap and water.
-Do not use under clothing.
-Do not spray in enclosed areas.

Experts recommend that if using DEET, its best to wear long sleeves and long pants, when possible, and apply repellent to clothing rather than skin to reduce exposure. They state DEET based products should only be applied sparingly; saturation does not increase efficiency. DEET repellents should not be inhaled.  Repellent-treated clothes should be washed, or kept outside living areas to reduce exposure. Following all these precautions reduces risk, but does not eliminate it.

Back yard mosquito control tips: Mosquito coil smoke contains about 70 different volatile organic compounds including allethrin, phenol, benzene, toluene and xylene, all quite toxic especially when burned and inhaled. Using yellow outdoor light bulbs which do not attract insects can help reduce mosquito populations at night.  Another option is to use a fan when there is little wind since mosquitoes are not strong flyers. Planting mosquito repelling plants like lemon balm, catnip, basil and lemon geraniums around outdoor sitting areas and encouraging mosquito predators like bats and dragonflies can help reduce mosquito populations.

This article can be found at http://www.environmentalhealth.ca/spring03hazards.html

I have some GOOD NEWS!  Our family along with many of my customers has found a safe and very pleasant, yet effective way to take care of our mosquito problem – using Neways Essential Oils.

Shoo-Fly Insect Repellent

(Increase amounts proportionately for larger supply)

Geranium – 10 drops

Cypress – 5 drops

Cedarwood – 10 drops

Eucalyptus – 5 drops

¼ teaspoon of Exuberance Hair Conditioner

¼ cup of distilled water

Mix oils in conditioner, then add to the water and shake well.  May then be used in a sprayer and thus applied to hair, skin, and clothing.  As this utilizes Neways Essential Oils and Neways products, it is safe for infants over one month of age.  Naturally, do not get into eyes nor ingest.

Geranium Bug Spray

(Increase amounts proportionately for larger supply)

Geranium Essential Oils – 30 drops

¼ teaspoon of Exuberance Hair Conditioner

¼ cup of distilled water

Mix Geranium drops in conditioner then add to the water and shake well.  May then be used in a sprayer and thus applied to hair, skin, and clothing.  As this utilizes Neways Essential Oils and Neways products, it is safe for infants over one month of age.  Naturally, do not get into eyes nor ingest.

 Both of these recipes are extremely effective.  I tend to use the Shoo-fly recipe more myself.  I love the smell of the combined essential oils.  It is so good to know that I have a healthy alternative spray for my family, including my grandchildren.

 You can order the ingredients to make these recipes (for my cost) http://antiaginchoices.com

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 Healthy Summer Recipes

 Beauty Tips

Want a tan without the sun?

 Here it is! - 3 steps to a perfect glowing tan with Neways’ Great Tan

Now - let’s exfoliate!

• Next - apply the warmed lotion over your entire body.

• Next – rub the Great Tan in according to the directions.  Be sure to wash the palms of your hands thoroughly.

There you have it!  Perfect – no streaking – glowing tan!  And no toxins in your blood stream!

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Call 800-998-7232.  You will be asked for my name: Judith Tovey and my Distributor ID# 888883334.  The operator will make you a preferred customer of mine and you will then be allowed to order any product Neways offers at my cost. I strongly urge all of my established preferred customers to shop on my Neways website http://antiagingchoices.com and do some price comparing. Many of my customers that understand the powerful benefits of supplementing with nutritionals have found they were able to save a GREAT deal of money by purchasing the supplements from Neways at my cost.

Congratulations to our June WINNER! -  
Marilyn Smith

In Augusts’ newsletter we will announce July’s winner of a free tube of Endau Progesterone Cream.  If you have signed up for this newsletter – your name is in the drawing!  Invite your friends to do the same.

 If you haven’t already done so, I’d like to invite you to visit my site http://www.women4balance.com/judytovey   and register to receive our monthly newsletter. Each month I will hold a drawing for a new winner! It could be YOU!!

While you are at my website, take a moment or two for yourself and enjoy a couple of the many articles.

Inspirational Moments:

“Finally, brothers (and sisters), whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable – if anything is excellent or praiseworthy – think about such things.  Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me – put it into practice.  And the God of peace will be with you.    Philippians 4:8 & 9