Spring cleaning - Teri Gentes

GOOD SLEEPERS HAVE MORE FUN and are MUCH MORE FUNCTIONAL

11/20/2023

Infographic from Dr. David Jockers

TIPS TO IMPLEMENT FOR A BETTER NIGHT'S SLEEP
It's a brand new week and often a great time to set new intentions so how about improving on your sleep hygiene.

Sleep truly is your rest and repair time and it's integral to your health. Some very basics practices as those suggested here can help you get a great nights sleep.

SYNTHETIC FOOD - REALLY! How crazy are we?

11/9/2023

The best, evidenced based, dietary approach is consumption of well-balanced, plant strong, whole-foods!

And, spoiler alert - There are no miracle foods.
While, many foods are far more nutrient dense than others, consuming a balanced, varied diet is shown to be extremely beneficial to our gut health. ‌ ‌
In addition, eating is meant to be a joyful experience and if we're blessed with access to good quality food, we are extremely fortunate and do well to embrace this. ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌

So what is this talk about synthetic foods?

In a newsletter from the informative Organic Bytes, association with their mission "To protect and advocate for consumers’ right to safe, healthful food and other consumer products, a just food and farming system and an environment rich in biodiversity and free of pollutants." the article below was featured.

"Italy is set to be the first country to ban synthetic food!
Why aren’t U.S. lawmakers talking about this?

New genetically engineered Frankenfoods made with synthetic biology (what the industry calls “precision fermentation”) are already being sold in stores. They’re different from Monsanto’s first GMOs, the Roundup Ready crops that were tweaked with bacterial DNA that made them impervious to the herbicides that would normally kill them.

Roundup Ready GMOs grow from seed like normal crops. They look and taste like regular corn, soy, canola, etc. (even though they contain proteins human beings had never eaten before).
The new GMOs are 100% synthetic. Instead of growing in living plants, they are spit out of genetically engineered yeast or E. coli. Instead of having foreign DNA from another living organism, their molecules and DNA might be totally unique structures not found in nature.

These new synthetic Frankenfoods could be toxic or trigger allergies, but companies like Perfect Day, a maker of “dairy identical” synbio GMOs, say they’re just like real food.
Buyer beware! Back in the 1980s, when a manufacturer of the amino acid tryptophan decided to produce it with genetically engineered bacteria, 37 people died and 1500 were permanently disabled.
This dangerous technology shouldn’t be used in food!"

TAKE ACTION: Tell your lawmakers to ban genetically engineered Frankenfoods made with synthetic biology (so-called “precision fermentation”)!

Read on here.
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Let's band together and speak up against the corruption in industry and constant attack upon essentials such as access to whole-some 'real food' brought to us by 'real farmers' with integrity. They are hero's and they need our help and support from corporate pressures to industrialize and taint food quality.

Teri Gentes

A full-fledged health and wellness nerd, intent on helping you optimize your health and well-being and in turn, fully honor Mother Nature and this planet we share.

CHRONIC INFLAMMATION IS HARMING US ALL!

10/31/2023

INFLAMMATION! It's plaguing most of us and clients are constantly reaching out for information on how to manage this. Below is a brilliant insight on this - a must read from Deepak Chopra.

The email with the link to this article came to my inbox under a name I didn't recognize and I almost ignored it. Thank heaven I didn't for its so profound I just have to share it with you. It's called...

If the World is on Fire, So are we
written by Deepa Chopra, MD, FACP. FRCP

"How do we explain a world that seems to have exploded in violence, war, and populist hatred of “the other,” particularly when the other is part of a flood of refugees and immigrants fleeing intolerable conditions at home?
Before settling on an answer, consider a notion that runs through the world’s spiritual traditions: The source of violence “out there” in the world lies “in here” with ourselves.

This notion is hard to accept in the face of the rationales everyone uses to avoid looking inside. Most of these rationales are some form of blame — violence is social, connected to poverty, a family history of violence, rooted in age-old grudges, or somehow the product of collective insanity. Along with blame goes the usual moral judgments that treat violent behavior as a personal failure of character.

If you can set aside these explanations for a moment, it makes more sense to connect violence holistically to physical and mental health. A step was taken in this direction by an article in the International Journal of General Medicine with the surprising title, “Global Correlations Between Chronic Inflammation and Violent Incidents.” The findings from several studies revealed a strong correlation, up to 80%, between markers of chronic inflammation in a person’s blood and incidents of increased anger, aggression, and hostility."

NEWS TO KNOW ABOUT NOW!

9/27/2023

Apeel and Edible Coatings: Your Questions Answered
Info from www.cornucopia.org
"If you’re one of the many organic consumers with questions or concerns about the food preservation product called Apeel, Cornucopia has answers. We believe consumers have the right to know what they are eating, not only to protect themselves but to support agricultural practices deserving of their investment.
We've done extensive research to cut through misinformation and marketing copy.

Read our guide, which includes some tips on what you can do to demand transparency around an ingredient you may not even know you’re eating."
What is Apeel? What are food coatings?

Read all about it here:
https://www.cornucopia.org/2023/07/apeel-and-edible-coatings-your-questions-answered/

SEPT 2023
BEFORE YOU GO - KNOW THE DETAILS ON THE RESEARCH.
Uniformed decisions are DANGEROUS to your well-being!

"Pfizer’s testing of the reformulated monovalent shot against XBB.1.5., only involved 10 mice. Moderna’s version has been tested on 50 adults, one of whom required medical attention due to an adverse event, giving us a potential serious adverse event ratio of 1 in 50."

At a glance from the article:
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STORY AT-A-GLANCE

September 11, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced it had approved reformulated monovalent COVID shots by Pfizer and Moderna for the fall for use in individuals 12 years of age and older. The agency has also issued emergency use authorization (EUA) for use of the reformulated jabs in children aged 6 months to 11 years
The updated mRNA injections contain a single modified RNA said to correspond to the Omicron variant XBB.1.5., which was the dominant variant in the U.S. for most of 2023, but which has since been replaced by other variants. XBB.1.5 accounted for just 3.1% of the circulating strains as of September 2, 2023
According to authorities, this strain is different enough from the strains in any of the previous shots for them to recommend everyone take it, regardless of your previous COVID jab history
Americans are fed up with the COVID boosters, so federal officials have recast the new booster as an "annual immunization." However, certain groups will require up to three doses of this new shot. So, they’re basically just restarting the whole injection series all over
Pfizer’s testing of the reformulated monovalent shot against XBB.1.5., only involved 10 mice. Moderna’s version has been tested on 50 adults, one of whom required medical attention due to an adverse event, giving us a potential serious adverse event ratio of 1 in 50

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From Teri Gentes:
Your well-being is always at the heart of my work, my intentions. Enabling you to take the best care of yourself as possible is my mission. Embrace your power for self-care and cultivating optimal health with education from sources that show you their research and their funding.

DICK'S SPORTING GOODS has joined a growing group of retailers that have decided per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, are too dangerous to human health and the environment to continue allowing them in their clothing lines.

PFAS are typically added to fabrics to make them water- and oil-repellant and to prevent stains and sticking or wrinkling. PFAS are coined as “forever chemicals” because they don’t break down, and besides polluting the environment, they show up in the blood of people and animals.
“State leaders are excited to see companies like Dick’s Sporting Goods demonstrate leadership,” Sarah Doll, national director of Safer States, an alliance of U.S. environmental health organizations, said in a statement to Environmental Health News. She also stated, “States from California to Colorado to New York have stepped up to protect communities by banning PFAS in textiles. It is gratifying to see companies follow suit.”

SOURCES: Environmental Health News June 15, 2023 | ATSDR November 1, 2022 Click here for article.

One million human deaths linked to factory farming,
set to double by 2050

NEWS PROVIDED BY World Animal Protection 07 Apr, 2023, 12:00 ET SHARE THIS ARTICLE

The true toll of global deaths, sickness, and economic loss caused by antibiotic overuse in meat production is laid bare in study by World Animal Protection

NEW YORK, April 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The excessive use of antibiotics in factory farming is causing the premature deaths of nearly one million people and $400 billion in global economic losses each year, according to a report titled Global Public Health Cost of Antimicrobial Resistance Related to Antibiotic Use on Factory Farms published today by World Animal Protection.
The report calculates the deadly impact of antibiotic overuse specifically by international meat and dairy producers and pinpoints their share of the blame in the global superbug crisis.
Around three-quarters of the world's antibiotics are used in farmed animals, including pigs, chickens, and cows, though it has been unclear what impact antibiotic overuse in factory farming has on human health – until now.

WHAT SELF CARE DOES FOR YOU!

9/22/2023

Whole-Self Lifestyle Wellness is HEALTH PROMOTION
for DISEASE PREVENTION and TREATMENT

It's a self-care focus of tuning in to your own body, listening/assessing and discerning what the many symptoms, (aka messages) it's giving you, relate to.
There is a cause, a source health challenges generate from and addressing this, and dealing with it, allows for true healing.

Merely treating symptoms, is not the path to true healing.

In my experience, clients, family, friends most often head to their health care professional for treatment / answers, before tuning to their own innate wisdom.
Our bodies have amazing healing capacity when we provide the right environment.

This includes aspects such as:

IT'S NOT REALLY A LAUGHING MATTER

9/7/2023

Recently, as I sat with former neighbors I'd not seen for a few years, a playful poke on themselves came about regarding their significant weight gain.

Now, a positive attitude and humor are attributes I truly cherish. That said, in my world/vocation; devoted to whole-self-wellness for life (literally), concerns arose around the health impacts that result with excess weight bordering on obesity.
One of the greatest concerns is the prevalent incidence of metabolic syndrome.

Weight issues are not really a laughing matter and they are so complex.
Dietary choices and eating habits entail many varying aspects and moving parts, with a plethora of influences and outside interference. They are very personal/individual and in addition to being social and cultural, they can be attached to behavioral, emotional, socioeconomic challenges and more... including food industry interference.

The past few years of lock downs have done serious harm with the chronically elevated stress levels, challenges with isolation and loneliness, outdoor restrictions, curfews, church and fitness club closures... It's well known these factors resulted in many gaining excess weight and increasing alcohol consumption. In the case of my lovely, former neighbors - they took solace in regular visits to Tim Horton's and enjoyed donuts with their coffee daily just so they could get out. They weren't alone.

To exacerbate this 'all too familiar dietary crisis', processed foods and common comfort foods such as baked goods are highly addictive and are considered the most legal form of drugs to many. Sugar has been said to be as addictive as cocaine. All those months, 'confined to our homes', saw home-made bread, banana bread and cookie recipes go viral. Over-eating was accepted by so many as a coping mechanism and understandably so. With this came viral weight gain adding to health challenges.

A harsh reality impacting our state of health as reported by Statistics Canada -
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"In Canada, chronic diseases account for 89% of all deaths and more than $80 billion in annual health care costs.
Adopting healthy lifestyle behaviors, such as healthy eating, has the potential to prevent 80% of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, 40% of cancers, and other chronic diseases."
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Yet despite such stats and healthy eating recommendations issued by Health Canada, eating habits continue to deteriorate, and overweight prevalence rates continue to increase. What we can do?...

FALL FAVOURITES FOR FABULOUS IMMUNITY

8/30/2023

OPTIMAL HEALTH, VITALITY, ENERGY, STRENGTH & MORE!

These states of well-being are all my aim, intention and as a result, influence how I live my every day life.

For decades, I've researched expert evidence-based science, studied TCM, Ayurveda, Energy Medicine... and put into practice the lessons learned. Daily self-care practices are a must for me!

I consistently tune into my own, particular state of health, address chronic issues, overcome them and adapt my regime to accommodate my ever-changing body chemistry and life circumstances and rely on holistic practices first and to date - always. As a result I've...

IT'S DREADFULLY TOXIC and ITS IN OUR FOOD KNOWINGLY

6/13/2023

Thank you to the photo contributors.

GLYPHOSATE - you've been mislead on it's safety.
Avoid it at all costs and demand government divorce their long-time relationship with industry and the corruption it comes with. Discover how long the harmful impact has been known and the misrepresentation from Government.

EATING TO BEAT INFLAMMATION

6/9/2023

Thank you Julie Daniluk for your great infographic.

Yes, you really can overcome the excess internal burn of chronic inflammation with food.

Consider, over 70% of our immune systems cells are in the lining of our digestive tract. This means the foods we eat have immense impact upon our immune health. Just as some foods trigger inflammatory responses, others can very affectively abate it. Read on and discover the numerous foods we can eat with wonderful anti-inflammatory powers.

EATING WITH THE SEASON

6/7/2023

Spring and early summer bring us an abundance of luscious and hydrating produce from numerous leafy greens, fiddle heads, asparagus and various herbs. Soon to come, are the berries. With the weather changes, its optimal to switch up your diet and embrace Mother Nature's wisdom of seasonal eating.

In the spring, the dark leafy and somewhat bitter greens are especially supportive in detoxing our body after a long, cold season eating heavier, warming foods. Now its time to lighten up our food intake and enjoy what the harvest offers.

When eating with the seasons, we are enabling ...

A PAINFUL DIET - IS IT WORTH IT?

6/1/2023

When its... so good, yet hurts so bad!

Yes as hard as it may be to accept, it's true, what you eat may be the very reason you are living with chronic inflammation triggering chronic pain.

It's easy to fall under the spell of the food industry's manipulation of food and find yourself addicted. This has been a major focus on their agenda for decades and decades. They are experts and continue to be very successful with their goals.

The very foods you may be consuming everyday may be the cause your inflammatory grief. Even foods you believed to be healthier choices. While inflammation can be an essential part of our body's innate healing process, when it becomes chronic, it's time to take action.

TOP TIPS TO PREVENT and MANAGE CHRONIC INFLAMMATION

5/24/2023

Check into Dr. Jockers - great info inspiring this post.

LIFESTYLE AND DIET ESSENTIALS for PAIN MANANAGEMENT!

In this three part series on inflammation issues we will look at the:

Tip 1 – the basics and definition
Tip 2 – common inflammatory foods and the top food allergens linked to intolerance/inflammation
Tip 3 – anti-inflammatory foods and how you can mitigate, even overcome the chronic symptoms

Read on for tip one

GET YOUR GUT RIGHT - YOUR HEALTH DEPENDS ON IT

4/21/2023

Of course you want to eat fabulous tasting food, I am with you all the way.
Crucial is feeling good after you enjoy your meals. For so many of my clients, as well as family and friends, this is not their reality.

Having dealt with some severe gut issues of my own, let me tell you, being able to enjoy your meals both during and after you eat is something to be ever-so grateful for.
Indigestion, bloating, cramps, lethargy, IBS... takes all the enjoyment out of eating.

Tapping into one of my favorite nutrition resources - dare I say health geek? - Dr Michael Greger of Nutrition Facts offers great suggestions to help you overcome those chronic digestive woes.
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Digestion happens when we are relaxed with our para-sympathetic system
active. This is why its referred to as the rest and digest state.
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Check out any these mini videos below and get your gut right, now!

The Best Diet for Upset Stomach

Cayenne Pepper for Irritable Bowel Syndrome & Chronic Indigestion

Club soda for Stomach Pain

Additional healthy practices are to enjoy a peppermint, ginger or fennel tea 15-20 minutes before you eat and to consciously ingest your meals slowly and in a relaxed state. Digestion happens when we are relaxed with our para-sympathetic system active. This is why its referred to as the rest and digest state.

Put these practices into play and you are sure to notice your digestion improve. This plays a powerful role in your overall health.

For more info on digestive health check out past blogs such as Gut Matters and Food Additives

#selfcareishealthcare #foodmatters #consciousconsumption #lifestylewellness #guthealth

Teri is a health nerd, a lifestyle wellness nerd, a nature nerd and yes a food nerd. She embraces it all.

GUT HEALTH MATTERS

4/13/2023

So you're plagued with digestive issues and eating has lost it's appeal.
This is truly dreadful news for a foodie and healthie such as I. In my world,
food - eating/savoring, sharing, even preparing meals, are great sources of joy.

Most of us love coming together around food and celebrate many occasions 'breaking bread' with one another. However, for some, eating proposes a whole slew of issues from chronic digestive disrupt and heartburn, various side effects including inflammation due to allergies and food intolerances as well as invasive IBS challenges that cultivate constant pain and anxiety.

Read on and discover how you can overcome your chronic gut related challenges without relying on medications.

FOOD ADDITIVES - You'll be shocked!

3/7/2023

I've been an information, research junkie for a long time in my quest to cultivate optimal health and an optimal life. Sure living long is great, yet living with great health is most important!

This post is in the works yet I've decided to share it right away as my focus this week with social media posts is on raising awareness to the hidden ingredients in our food that are wreaking havoc on our health, the health of our kids and the very provider of this essential called food - MOTHER EARTH. The food industry is very, very deceptive. Be informed rather than duped.

Thanks to The Daily infographic for this fabulous infographic.

Teri Gentes - Whole Self Lifestyle Wellness
International Speaker|Self-care Coach|Author|Chef|Trainer|Ambassador
Certified Wellness and Nutritional Consultant, Personal Trainer,
Yoga and Group Fitness Instructor
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