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YOUR BODY
What Thermography Can Tell You About Your Body
how digital infrared imaging can help you make changes for the better
Pictures are thought to say a thousand words, more often we think of them in regards to family and friends, but they are often used in health care settings. Most often these medically derived pictures are obtained by the use of imaging techniques that emit radiation with x-rays, or CT scans. Another technology MRI , is helpful in that there is no radiation. Digital Infrared Imaging, also known as Thermography is yet another tool to be used medically to take various pictures of the body. One particular use in which it has received FDA approval, is that of breast imaging (in addition to other tests and examinations).
Breast cancer will affect about 12% of American women, or 1 in 8. [1] Cancer is similar to a parasite, it uses the hosts body to stay alive and replicate. A blood supply is crucial to cancer's existence, this enables nutrients to help the tumor grow. This increased circulation brings more heat to the surrounding tissue and thus can be detected in this thermal style pictures. Many women are taught to perform monthly self breast exams, get yearly check ups, and mammograms every 1-2 years starting at the age of 40. [2] All of these are attempts to find a tumor, however all are retrospect to the growth already being there. Wouldn't it be great to detect the storm before it comes? Breast Thermography has that ability, to detect changes in the blood vessels and small tumors what may be missed with physical exams and mammograms, which statistically miss approximately 20% of cancers. [3]
Thermography can also give other valuable insight, to visualize inflammation in the body, which is the start of most disease processes. An entire body can be imaged in about one hour to evaluate you head to toes! This can be a great tool to for headaches, sinus problems, pain in the neck or back, joint problems and more. Have you suspected any thyroid problems, an immune system dysfunction, or digestive problems? This technology may be a good adjunct tool in helping you and your doctor see into your body. Knowledge is power and perhaps a picture can provide a reflection that will help you make a plan to prevent and or help correct problems.
In Good Health & Beauty,
Dr. Alisha Moadab, N.D.
Dr. Alisha N.D.
[1] http://www.breastcancer.org/symptoms/understand_bc/statistics.jsp
[2] http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/detection/mammograms
[3] http://www.breastthermography.com/breast_thermography_mf.htm
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YOUR SPIRIT
Healing with Hurt
Using Your Pain to Help Others
You can channel your pain into helping others and spreading a tide of curative energy throughout the world.
Pain is a fact of being and one that permeates all of our lives to some degree. Since the hurt we feel may be a part of the experiences that have touched us most deeply, we are often loathe to let it go. It is frequently easier to keep our pain at our sides, where it acts as a shield that shelters us from others and gives us an identity—that of victim—from which we can draw bitter strength. However, pain’s universality can also empower us to use our hurt to help others heal. Since no pain is any greater or more profound than any other, what you feel can give you the ability to help bring about the recovery of individuals whose hurts are both similar to and vastly different from your own. You can channel your pain into transformative and healing love that aids you in helping individuals on a one-to-one basis and spreading a tide of curative energy throughout the world.
The capacity to heal others evolves naturally within those who are ready to disassociate themselves from their identity as victims. In fact, the simple decision to put aside the pain we have carried is what grants us the strength to redeem that pain through service. There are many ways to use the hurt you feel to help others. Your pain gives you a unique insight into the minds of people who have experienced trauma and heartache. You can draw from the wellspring of strength that allowed you to emerge on the other side of a painful experience and pass that strength to individuals still suffering from their wounds. You may be able to council individuals in need by showing them the coping methods that have helped you survive or simply by offering sympathy. A kinship can develop that allows you to relate more closely with those you are trying to aid and comfort.
Helping others can be a restorative experience that makes your own heart grow stronger. In channeling your pain into compassionate service and watching others successfully recover, you may feel a sense of euphoria that leads to increased feelings of self-worth and optimism. Your courageous decision to reach out to others can be the best way to declare to yourself and the world that your pain didn’t defeat you, and in fact it helped you heal
YOUR RECIPE
No Added Sugar Roasted Chicken with Sweet Plum Sauce
Total Servings 4
Serving Size 1 quarter chicken
Carbs Per Serving: 1 g
Prep Time:<60 minutes
Skill Level: Moderate
Sweet plum sauce can be found in the Asian section of your supermarket. It’s the same sweet, slightly tart, jam-like sauce that some Chinese restaurants give you to dip your fried egg rolls in. This sauce is wonderful paired with pork chops, chicken seared duck breast or a simple grilled fish. The only problem with Plum Sauce is all the sugar it contains. Up to twice as much as soda pop. Here is an awesome and east to make recipe with Plum Sauce that is exotic and delicious but, without all the added sugar.
Ingredients:
1 whole chicken
1/4 cup sweet plum sauce (see below)
1 head of garlic, halved
1 lemon, quartered
salt
pepper
3 tablespoons butter, softened
kitchen twine
1/4 cup sweet plum sauce to serve at table
Instructions:
Prepare plum sauce (see below) and set aside.
Rinse chicken and cut away extra fat.
Pat dry with paper towels inside and out.
Place in shallow baking dish and rub softened butter all over chicken, tucking just a bit under the skin of breast.
Season generously with salt and pepper outside and inside cavity.
Stuff with garlic and lemon.
Tie legs of the chicken together, slather sweet plum sauce all over chicken.
Set breast side down.
Let sit 30 minutes at room temperature.
Preheat oven to 450F.
Roast chicken 20 minutes.
Turn breast side up, lower temperature to 375F and return to oven.
Continue to roast another 45-60 minutes, brushing with additional sweet plum sauce towards the end.
You may have to loosely tent with tin foil if skin is approaching maximum crispiness (i.e. don’t burn the skin.)
Chicken is done when juices run clear as knife tip is inserted into chicken thigh. Thickest part of thigh without touching bone should register 170F.
Let chicken rest 10 minutes before carving.
Serve with a side of sweet plum sauce for dipping.
Sweet Plum Sauce Recipe
Ingredients:
4 garlic cloves, minced fine
1/2 ounce fresh ginger, minced
1 small onion, minced
2 tablespoons black strap molasses
1/2 cup Fructevia, Steviva Blend or a dash of Steviva Brands Pure Stevia Powder
2 cups water
1/8 cup Trinity Hill Farms No Added Sugar Teriyaki Sauce
1 teaspoon sesame oil
1/8 cup soy sauce
1/2 teaspoon crushed dried chilies
3 lbs plums, pitted & chopped
1 lemons, juice of, fresh
1 teaspoon Guar Gum or Xanthan Gum
1 tablespoon water
Directions:
Place first 11 ingredients into pot.
Bring to a boil then simmer 30 minutes.
Mix water and gum.
Blend in a blender the solids from the pot with the gum mixture and put back with the liquid simmering all the while.
Continue to simmer till thickened.
Let cool and use liberally.
Garnish with sesame seeds and sliced scallions (green onions)