The Body Mind Connection: The Key to Optimal Health (Part II)

Ten years ago, Marguerite Alston was faced with a major health challenge that would change her life forever. A malignant melanoma diagnosis sent her stress levels off the scale. Her future was suddenly uncertain.

“I vowed at that point in time that I would do all that I can to look after my body, mind and spirit,” she says, now fully recovered. “I wanted to learn all that I could about nutrition and gain a deeper understanding of what I can do to make sure I live a long, vibrant and healthy life and I never wanted to deal with cancer ever again.”

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Why I Don’t Wear Sunscreen (and Never Will)

I don’t wear sunscreen and never will.

I stopped using sunblock the moment I stopped being a beauty editor a few years ago. A combination of gut feeling and research told me what I was being told to “protect” my skin with was little more than a poison (and poisonous it is).

Defining Natural Foods

If you could bite down on a crispy, crunchy potato chip that was “natural”, tasted great and totally good for you, youd probably buy it, right?

Gandhi’s Regret

My copy of Gandhi’s autobiography The Story of My Experiments with Truth arrived a few weeks ago and holy cow! I have a new found appreciation for Mahatma. I knew he was a vegetarian (oh, and that in his spare time he liberated India from British rule and single-handedly established the civil disobedience movement) but I had no idea he was the central figure in pioneering the animal rights crusade in India.

Workplace Wellness in a Box

It’s time to have a word with your boss: looking after your employees through workplace wellness programs improves employee morale, reduces company healthcare costs, and increases productivity.

Young Hollywood Gets its Hands Dirty

Nicole Richie (left), Amy Smart and Anna Getty teamed up in Hollywood recently to bring attention to a new project that is set to take students back to basics, by growing their own organic gardens.

THE INDIANA JONES OF WHOLEFOODS, DON TOLMAN interviewed by Samantha Backman

Why it’s great: Packed with a gold mine of information that will change the way you look at your body and the food you put in it, forever. Tolman also talks about how every wholefood has a signature that corresponds to parts of the body, such as an avocado, which looks like a pregnant woman and takes nine months from blossom to ripened fruit. If a woman eats just one avocado per week, she is helping prevent cervical cancer.

Who’s watching it: Health care professionals, university lecturers and doctors who are realizing the Western way of healing with pharmaceuticals doesn’t work. Also anyone who is interested in honest-to-goodness nutrition and how it greatly improve life through diet and exercise.

What you’ll learn: How your body actually works, why disease is not a mystery and how wholefoods, water, sunshine and clean air can prevent and cure just about any disease.

Want to know more? See www.dontolmaninternational.com

FARMACIST DESK REFERENCE by Don Tolman

Why it’s great: Why do all the research when someone has done it for you? The Indiana Jones of Wholefoods, as Don Tolman is known, has transferred golden nuggets of life-saving and enhancing info into two huge volumes (1600 pages in fact) – information garnered from years of passionate research that draws upon ancient whole food wisdom from the Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Hebrews, Chinese, Native Americans and Incas, among others.

Who’s reading it: Television personality Phil Donohue, who says Tolman will impact social change, is a fan; as are those who want to reverse disease naturally as well as people who are sick of big pharmaceutical companies dictating how they should take care of their health.

What you’ll learn: How easy it is to obtain and maintain abundant health and energy through consuming what the earth naturally provides. You’ll also discover what foods target specific ailments, all without the use of conventional drugs.

Want to know more? See www.farmacistdeskreference.com or www.dontolman.com