EXERCISE

All exercise is good. The key however is consistancy.  What type of exercise motivates you ?  Does it help to be doing yourexercise to music?  Find the environment  that keeps you looking forward to the  special energy surge that exercise will give you. Would you feel best going for a long walk out of doors?  If this is the case how about eventually moving that walk up to a walk/run.  Maybe you like the comradery of other people .  How about joining a Jazzersize class where you work out at an easy pace with other folks and eventually make some new friends.  Or just maybe you would prefer to exercise alone in the privacy of your home using a treadmill  while watching your favorite  TV show . Your body temple is similar in a sense to the car you drive.  It is only going to carry you for as long as you keep it in shape.  We are not talking having perfect figures,  we are talking about  staying alive.

Have you ever thought of getting a Pilate Ball ?  This is a large ball available in sizes according to your height. There are many exercises that can be done with this ball but the one I recommend is incredibly easy yet incredibly  good for your health. If you sit on the ball [as you would sit on a chair] and begin to bounce up and down [similar to posting on a horse] for 4 minutes you will have flushed your entire lymphatic system………However for it to be fully effective  you must do it on a daily basis.  Again bounce once a day watching your favorite TY show.

Impossible healings

In the course of my career I owned a heath and fitness club.  It was a full service club with 400 pounds of free weights, a full set of universal equipment, a whirl pool, sauna, tanning beds, aerobic and weight loss classes. Living in a university town with thousands of students I fully expected to be successful. However the Small Business association with whom I counseled on a regular basis insisted the town could not support a fitness club. Enthusiastically I ignored their advice.

The first several months ran relatively well until the students went home for Christmas vacation. There were no new memberships and not enough money to pay the rent. One of my aerobic instructors who was a Christian said “Polly you must be out of God’s will or you would have the rent money you need.” I told her she could be right and together we prayed about the matter. within approximately two hours a man came into the club carrying a briefcase. I knew immediately he must be a salesman and  told him  that I could not afford any new advertising . He ignored my statement and looking me squarely in the eye said ” My name is Grady and I am here with a word from the Lord. ”  Then without pausing he asked if I had any oil. “You see”, he said,” This is a house of healing . People will be healed in your doorways. I want to anoint all the lentils. It so happened that I did have a bottle of oil. 

He then proceeded to walk through the club taking the oil and making the sign of  the cross over each doorway. The men lifting weights asked me if I was running a church or a gym. In the aerobic room he asked if  there were any sick in the class. The embarrassed instructor  immediately  turned up the music as loud  as loud as possible. Then as quickly as he had arrived Grady was out the door and gone. The following day the Bicycle  Club of  Newark  joined and I was able to pay the rent.

Unfortunately it wasn’t long before I found myself  again without enough income to pay the rent. Now my employees all of whom were students at the university and had witnessed the miraculous  appearance of Grady began to chant “Lets call on Grady.  Grady we need you!”  I must confess it was done in jest they never fully expected him to show up.                     

Since my budget was limited I was forced to use as my electrician the young brother of  my hairdresser who having had his right leg crushed in a motorcycle accident was forced to walk dragging his leg in a heavy metal brace. I had called him to do a minor electrical  job and as only God could have orchestrated it no sooner did he arrive than in walked Grady. As a registered nurse I was quite aware that the condition of this young electrician was beyond medical repair.  Yet as I heard Grady call out to him , “Son this is the day of your healing.”  I had that indescrible  feeling one gets when something impossible is about to happen. Grady took the young man into my office for what seemed like an eternity.   Although it could not have been more than 10 to 15 minutes, when they finally came out Grady handed me the metal brace and told me to hang it with the bar bells on the wall as the electrician  would have no more use for it.  I watched in amazement as the electrician picked up his tool box and walked with a normal gait to the area that required his electrical skill.

Three years after this event I was in the office of a young human resources consultant in preparing for a lecture I was to give.  I happened to look up at her bulletin board and commented to her that the man in one of her snapshots looked familiar………..”Oh my gosh ” she exclaimed. “Your Polly!…………..Do you realize that was on this very day three years ago my husbands was completely healed at you gym and he walks perfectly to this day.”

RIGHT WAY CHOCOLATE PIE

One package of semi sweet chocolate chips

2 Tbs. honey

One block firm tofu

Melt chocolate chips.  Add the honeyand tofu. { Pour off the water around the tofu before mixing}. Whip in a blender or food processor. Pour into a graham cracker crust.  Refrigerate for 4 to 6 hours. Serve with a whipped topping.

This recipe is not only delicious but extremely nutritious and low in calories and fat gams!

THE MIRACLE BEAN

Miracles can come in very small packages.  Today’s miracle is a tiny bean…….the soy bean.  I wrote a book entitled Soy and Me {available on my web site.} The reason for writing the book was because I represented the soy bean board of Delaware at their promotional events and had to be able to answer  any questions the public had………and I had to give out delicious samples of foods made from soy beans. The recipes I created were so scrumptious that children at the state fair came  back for second and third helpings.

Now the reason I consider this tiny bean a miracle is because of its many many talents. Not only can it transform itself into endless forms {tofu, tempeh, miso, edamame, soy cheese, soy milk, soy oil} it is the only bean that is a complete protein and filled with vitamins and minerals. One half cup of  cooked soy beans contains:

Calories 14

Protein {Gms}    14;3

Total Fat [GmS) 1.1

Saturated fat(gms) 1

Unsaturated fat{gms} 6′6

Carbohydrates {gms} 8.5

Crude Fiber {gms} 1.8

Calc1um {gns}  88.o    

Iron {mg} 4.4

Zinc {mg.} 1.0

Thiamine {mg} 0.1

Riboflavin {mg} 0.3

Niacin {mg} 0.3

Vitamin B6{mg} 0.3

Folic Acid {mg} 46.2

 Notice this one half cup of soybeans has as much complete  protein as a large serving of chicken!

The health benefits of this little  bean are endless . For folks who are not able to digest milk well soy milk is the answer. The people who want to eat fewer meat products that all contain saturated fats, soy is the answer. People on weight loss programs will find endless soy substitutes for meat. Studies have shown soy to  reduce the symptoms of menopause, help prevent osteoporosis ,cancer, diabetes and  heart disease……….But you tell me soy looks uninviting  and what in the wor;ld do I do with it?Lets visit my healthy recipe web site and you will find miraculous ways to transform an innocuous bean into delicious delicasies.

                                                                                        A SOY BEAN THOUGHT

If all that soy could think or dream

was  just to be a tiny bean

Then where would all the mystery be to  push through earth and grow

to see

If somewhere up ahead that light and sunshine would emerge

And so embrace their tiny bed.

In fact this mystery is the key

that  causes them to reach ………..to be

And I just like this tiny bean,

Still reach for heights I only dream,

That still remains the mystery t

That makes alike the soy and me.

          Quote from Polly’s  book  “SOY and ME”

Syndrome x

Jane’s miracle is an interesting sequel to Charles. Charles came to see me as a patient suffering from high cholesterol, (high LDL) levels and hypertension. Both were being controlled by medication. However Charles was very concerned about possible liver damage from the medications. He also wanted to find a more natural method of managing his condition….could I help?

“Well I told him’ We shall see. I  studied his diet and exercise habits. He ate very much the way Jane had eaten before she developed hypoglycemia….simple carbohydrates for breakfast {cereal,or a sweet bun, coffee with cream and sugar.} Usually a sweet snack in the mid morning ,and lunch was pizza, or anything he could grab quickly in his one half hour lunch break. Charles had several sodas during the day. Dinner consistedof pasta more often than meat or poultry with a sweet snack (usually ice cream for dessert.}

Charles exercise routine consisted of a sporadic walk with his wife or occasionally using the family treadmill. Having studied Charles lifestyleI determined that he suffered from syndrome X. His obvious symptoms of elevated cholesterol, and hypertension had been medically managed by medication. His physician was satisfied with his success. Unfortunately although everything appeared under control a dangerous scenario was being played out in his body.Charles high carbohydrate diet was causing the pancreas tobe overworked. The constant rapid need for the pancreas to secrete insulin was stressing the Islets of Langerhan {the glands that open and close the doors of the pancreas to allow th flow of insulin into the blood stream were becoming weary. At the same time the cells of the body were becoming more and more reluctant to open their doors to a constant bombardment of insulin. Eventually over time the inevitable occurred. Charles developed type two diabetes.

Fortunately for Charles we began to work together to change his diet and his exercise habits. We followed the same general meal plan I had given Jane  and within forr months his blood sugar was normal and remained so. It is unfortunate that many physicians donot realize that the critical role food plays in the ultimate development of illness. Medication stopped Charles high blood pressure and elevated cholesterol but no attention was payed to the underlying cause…………….Never forget only fuel that sustains all your body functions is the food you eat and the air you breath.