The Great Physician's Rx for Health and Wellness: Seven Keys to Unlock Your Health Potential - Softcover

Rubin, Jordan

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ISBN 10: 0785288848 ISBN 13: 9780785288848

Verlag: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2008

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At 19 years old, Jordan Rubin was a healthy 6'1" and 180 pounds. Shockingly, his weight fell to just 104 lbs. in a matter of months. His immune system was at an all-time low, as he suffered from Crohn's disease, food allergies, anemia, fibromyalgia, intestinal parasites, and a host of other conditions. After seeing over 70 health professionals, using both conventional and alternative medicines, Rubin was sent home in a wheelchair to die.

But his story didn't end there. Through determination and a powerful faith in God, Rubin refused to give in to disease. Instead, he educated himself on natural health, and applied its principles. Now, ten years later, Rubin is fully recovered-and he desires to share the keys to his own good health. These keys aren't just for the disease-ridden; they are for anyone desiring to live an abundant life of health and wellness.

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Known as America's Biblical Health Coach, Jordan Rubin is a New York Times best-selling author of The Maker's Diet, TV personality, motivational speaker, organic farmer and founder of Garden of Life, Beyond Organic, and Get REAL Nutrition. Jordan has spent nearly 20 years studying naturopathic medicine, nutrition, and permaculture science. Jordan and his wife, Nicki, have six amazing children.

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THE GREAT PHYSICIAN'S Rx for HEALTH & WELLNESS

Seven Keys to Unlocking Your Health PotentialBy Jordan Rubin David Remedios

Thomas Nelson

Copyright © 2007 Jordan Rubin
All right reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-7852-8884-8

Contents

Introduction: Offer Your Body as a Living Sacrifice..............................................................viiKey # 1: Eat to Live.............................................................................................1Key # 2: Supplement Your Diet with Whole Food Nutritionals, Living Nutrients, and Superfoods.....................75Key # 3: Practice Advanced Hygiene...............................................................................107Key # 4: Condition Your Body with Exercise and Body Therapies....................................................133Key # 5: Reduce Toxins in Your Environment.......................................................................173Key # 6: Avoid Deadly Emotions...................................................................................203Key # 7: Live a Life of Prayer and Purpose.......................................................................229Appendix A: Recipes..............................................................................................265Appendix B: A Refresher on Practicing Advance Hygiene............................................................325The GPRx Resource Guide..........................................................................................327Notes............................................................................................................357Index............................................................................................................361About the Authors................................................................................................367Acknowledgments..................................................................................................369

Chapter One

Key #1

Eat to Live

The Lord alone led him, and there was no foreign god with him. He made him ride in the heights of the earth, that he might eat the produce of the fields; He made him draw honey from the rock, and oil from the flinty rock; curds from the cattle, and milk of the flock, with fat of lambs; and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the choicest wheat; and you drank wine, the blood of the grapes. -Deuteronomy 32:12-14 (NKJV)

After our first child, Joshua, was born on Memorial Day weekend in 2004, my wife, Nicki, bore the brunt of the feeding duties. It was up to her to nurse Joshua with the best nutrients that God in His wisdom devised-a mother's breast milk.

Whenever Joshua cried during the night, Nicki rubbed her tired eyes and dutifully got out of bed to feed our infant. I often joined her to show my support and love, and when I say often, I mean it. Okay, maybe it wasn't as often as Nicki wanted, but I woke up most of the time. I was just as excited as she was about this new life God had given and entrusted us with.

Sometime before his first birthday, an interesting thing happened: it was becoming apparent to both of us that Nicki was not producing enough milk to satisfy our big, bouncing boy. A nursing mother normally produces between twenty-three and twenty-seven ounces of milk per day, but that wasn't enough for Joshua, who communicated his desire for more milk through wailing tears. We needed to supplement his diet of mother's milk with his first solid foods.

Uppermost in our minds was introducing his little stomach to foods healthy and easily digestible. I decided that his first solid food should be a cooked egg yolk from a soft-boiled or coddled egg. To prepare this nutritional powerhouse, I began by boiling water-yes, I know how to do that-and carefully placing an egg, which is high in omega-3 fatty acids, vitamins A and D, and lutein, into the water. I let the solitary egg boil for three or four minutes, or until the yoke was soft and warm.

When the egg was finished cooking, I rinsed it with cool water. Then I cracked the shell and removed the yolk from the egg white, which I didn't plan to serve to Joshua because egg whites can be highly allergenic to infants.

Like any proud pop, I'm happy to report that Joshua loved his first bites of solid food-and showed us his bright orange cheeks to prove it. A week later, I introduced him to mashed pieces of fresh, organic Florida avocado, which has an abundance of enzymes, healthy fats, vitamin E, and fiber. He was all over that avocado, although he asked me several times where the tortilla chips were. (Just joking.)

I believe more than ever that one of the best things Nicki and I can give Joshua is a healthy start in life as he weans himself from breast milk and begins eating solid foods. We want to raise Joshua to "eat to live"-the first key to unlocking your health potential-not to "live to eat." To help him understand what that means, Nicki and I will be teaching our son these important concepts: eat what God created for food, and eat food in a form that is healthy for the body.

Scripture suggests three boundaries that we can use to identify what God intended for us to eat, according to my friend Rex Russell, M. D., author of What the Bible Says About Healthy Living, and they are noted here.

1. When God calls an item food: God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food." (Gen. 1:29) "You will eat the plants of the field." (Gen. 3:18) "These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep." (Deut. 14:4-5) 2. When God brings items to His people as a gift: "Also the food I provided for you-the fine flour, olive oil and honey I gave you to eat." (Ezek. 16:19) 3. If Jesus ate or served an item: "He took the seven loaves and the fish, and when he had given thanks, he broke them and gave them to the disciples, and they in turn to the people." (Matt. 15:36)

Dr. Russell has made a list of foods that Scripture tells us are designed for health and that may be enjoyed. They were created for food, as opposed to foods that are changed or converted into something that humans think is better. If any of the following foods are altered, they lose many of their health benefits. Here is Dr. Russell's list, followed by where each item is mentioned in Scripture:

almonds (Gen. 43:11) barley (Judg. 7:13) beans (Ezek. 4:9) bread (1 Sam. 17:17) broth (Judg. 6:19) cakes (2 Sam. 13:8 [NKJV], and probably not the kind with frosting) cheese (Job 10:10) cucumbers, onions, leeks, melons, and garlic (Num. 11:5) curds of cow's milk (Deut. 32:14) figs (Num. 13:23) fish (Matt. 7:10) fowl (1 Kings 4:23) fruit (2 Sam. 16:2) game (Gen. 25:28) goat's milk (Prov. 27:27) grain (Ruth 2:14) grapes (Deut. 23:24) grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets (Lev. 11:22) herbs (Exod. 12:8) honey (Isa. 7:15) and wild honey (Ps. 19:10) lentils (Gen. 25:34) meal (Matt. 13:33 KJV) pistachio nuts (Gen. 43:11) oil (Prov. 21:17) olives (Deut. 28:40) pomegranates (Num....

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Thomas Nelson Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0785288848
• ISBN 13: 9780785288848
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416
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