By Mary Beth Gonzalez, iVillage.com
Do you ever try to put a particularly tough day in perspective and calm yourself by saying "hey, it isn't like I'm curing cancer". As if curing cancer is commonly known to be the toughest task in the world and the act of doing so would justify all extraordinary and self-less efforts. What if you could help prevent cancer in you and your family partially through simple green living? What if this seemingly difficult task was made easier by adopting the principles of adopting an organic and eco-friendly lifestyle? What if you could help prevent cancer by changing the choices you make everyday?
Sound too good to be true? I know. I hear it everyday. People are immediately skeptical. My husband, Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez, has been treating cancer patients for over 20 years with his own medical protocol based on personalized diets, nutritional supplements and a non-toxic, green lifestyle. He can best explain his treatment and results so I'll provide a link to his website where you can find case studies, press, testimonials and details on his protocol.
What you won't find on his website is what you can do yourself to create the safest, least toxic environment possible for you and your family.
Do you ever try to put a particularly tough day in perspective and calm yourself by saying "hey, it isn't like I'm curing cancer". As if curing cancer is commonly known to be the toughest task in the world and the act of doing so would justify all extraordinary and self-less efforts. What if you could help prevent cancer in you and your family partially through simple green living? What if this seemingly difficult task was made easier by adopting the principles of adopting an organic and eco-friendly lifestyle? What if you could help prevent cancer by changing the choices you make everyday?
Sound too good to be true? I know. I hear it everyday. People are immediately skeptical. My husband, Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez, has been treating cancer patients for over 20 years with his own medical protocol based on personalized diets, nutritional supplements and a non-toxic, green lifestyle. He can best explain his treatment and results so I'll provide a link to his website where you can find case studies, press, testimonials and details on his protocol.
What you won't find on his website is what you can do yourself to create the safest, least toxic environment possible for you and your family.
This is the best protection you have against disease, and you don't need fancy doctors or health insurance. We live in an increasingly toxic world with chemicals in everything from the rugs we walk barefoot on to the home cleaning products we pour on the home surfaces we touch to the personal care products we put on our skin to the food we use to fuel our bodies. When you rid yourself of the toxins around you and your family, you enable your body to focus on healing itself rather than fighting off the chemicals and your body can live in a purer, more natural state.
Here are seven things you can to do today to get started on a path to a greener, healthier lifestyle for you and your family. While going green can be more expensive, I've noted the best values I've found in green type below.
1) Toss out all the chemical cleaning products in your home and purchase safe, non-toxic cleaning supplies from companies like Shaklee (my favorite after 8 years of trying various brands)
2) Buy organic food that hasn't been treated with pesticides or chemical preservatives (good for you and tastes better too)
3) Eat dark leafy greens and vegetables (e.g.: broccoli, kale, carrots)
4) Buy lots of house plants (especially spider plants that can remove 96% of carbon monoxide, and 99% of nitric oxide, both noxious gases, after only 24 hours)
5) Drink home purified water (not soda or sugary juices or alcohol) in a safe, re-useable, chemical-free water bottle (no #3, 6 or 7 on the bottom of the water bottle)
6) Use natural, organic, non-toxic personal care products ( I like to use an entire line of products that are developed to work together such as Nature's Gate Organics, Pangea Organics, Dr. Hauschka)
7) Sleep on organic bedding and in organic sleepwear (try wonderful and luxurious organic cotton and bamboo products from Under the Canopy and Dreamsacks) and now even Target has organic sheets!
Adopting this green lifestyle alone doesn't cure cancer. I'll leave that tough stuff to my husband. His treatment is more complicated but living a non-toxic lifestyle is an important step in the healing process. I just know that it works and even though I'm a biased wife, I think you deserve to know too.
Mary Beth Gonzalez
iVillage.com
Please join my Going Green group and read my Green Blog
Here are seven things you can to do today to get started on a path to a greener, healthier lifestyle for you and your family. While going green can be more expensive, I've noted the best values I've found in green type below.
1) Toss out all the chemical cleaning products in your home and purchase safe, non-toxic cleaning supplies from companies like Shaklee (my favorite after 8 years of trying various brands)
2) Buy organic food that hasn't been treated with pesticides or chemical preservatives (good for you and tastes better too)
3) Eat dark leafy greens and vegetables (e.g.: broccoli, kale, carrots)
4) Buy lots of house plants (especially spider plants that can remove 96% of carbon monoxide, and 99% of nitric oxide, both noxious gases, after only 24 hours)
5) Drink home purified water (not soda or sugary juices or alcohol) in a safe, re-useable, chemical-free water bottle (no #3, 6 or 7 on the bottom of the water bottle)
6) Use natural, organic, non-toxic personal care products ( I like to use an entire line of products that are developed to work together such as Nature's Gate Organics, Pangea Organics, Dr. Hauschka)
7) Sleep on organic bedding and in organic sleepwear (try wonderful and luxurious organic cotton and bamboo products from Under the Canopy and Dreamsacks) and now even Target has organic sheets!
Adopting this green lifestyle alone doesn't cure cancer. I'll leave that tough stuff to my husband. His treatment is more complicated but living a non-toxic lifestyle is an important step in the healing process. I just know that it works and even though I'm a biased wife, I think you deserve to know too.
Mary Beth Gonzalez
iVillage.com
Please join my Going Green group and read my Green Blog
I am suffering from Cancer in the lung and really need you assistance.
Regards,
Katrina
Thank you so much with this information. I use products all the time to keep my home fresh. I recently was dx with left breast cancer and actually going through chemo now. Thank God I have my faith, my family, co-workers and friends to sustain me.
Pamela
this a good simple and easy to use technique that is also good for all.
cancer cells eat into the body so why not eat right to eat it out of your system.
prevention is better than cure and maintaining the same is even better so why not do it the natural way?
GOD has given everything to take care of self- we just have to do it.
thanks for this knowledge!
We eat off ceramic plates and use little to no plastic. When we heat up things in the microwave, we use ceramic bowls/plates--not plastic.