If you are suffering these and other symptoms it is likely to be that your body is too acidic.

 The type of complaints you may be experiencing if you have even mild acidosis are:

• Low energy and fatigue
• Kidney stones or other bladder and kidney infections
• Diabetes
• Weight gain/obesity
• Premature aging
• Osteoporosis
• Aching muscles, joint pain

 Our body pH is normally 7.365 and so more alkaline than acidic in nature. To keep this pH maintained, we need to eat more alkaline food than acidic food.  Alkaline food will prevent the body from feeling fatigue and stress causing greater vitality and vigor.

 Symptoms of illnesses occur when the level of acidity goes lower or higher than this range. An imbalance will affect the effectiveness of your cells and there will be negative effects on your body like heart failures, obesity, weight problems, allergies and many more. Being over acidic weakens your body, making it susceptible to disease.

 When your body is in balance it is able to assimilate minerals and nutrients well.  You may well be throwing the money you spend on good food and supplements down the drain if your body is out of balance!

 When you are acidic the body take minerals from your vital organs and bones to neutralize the acid and remove it from the body.  Your body will go to any lengths to maintain your body’s ideal pH of 7.365.

 The type of complaints you may be experiencing if you have even mild acidosis are:

• Low energy and fatigue
• Kidney stones or other bladder and kidney infections
• Diabetes
• Weight gain/obesity
• Premature aging
• Osteoporosis
• Aching muscles, joint pain 

“The countless names of illnesses do not really matter. What does matter is that they all come from the same root cause…too much tissue acid waste in the body!”

Theodore A. Baroody, N.D., D.C., Ph.D.

Cancer, the biggest killer in the USA today, would not take hold in an alkaline environment. There are some alkaline ways that you can reduce your risks from cancer and the other symptoms mentioned above..

• Don’t smoke
• Exercise 5- 7 times a week, sweat out those acids! Moving your body gets your lymphatic system working.
• Dry heat infra red saunas activate the lymphatic system to help get rid of the acidic waste through your skin
• A lymphatic massage will help to remove cancerous acids out of the tissues ready to be eliminated though urination
• Skin brush every day to open up the pores to allow waste to pass through.
• Use Epsom salts in your bath to open the pores and draw out acids.
• Drink 3-4liters of water a day. The best water has a pH of 9.5+ and an ORP of -250mV
• Most acidic foods are sugar, trans-fats, yeasts, dairy, simple carbs, alcohol, refined foods etc. These acids manifest in our diets as sodas/ fizzy drinks, pizza, chips/fries, cakes, biscuits, microwave meals, crisps, breads, caffeine, cheese, fatty meats, ice cream, smoking, beers, wines, condiments, milky drinks, cream etc. all the foods you already know are not good for you.
• I’m sure you can guess that the foods that are alkaline to the body are therefore…wait for it…fresh vegetables, salads, leafy greens, omega oils, nuts, seeds, pulses, whole grains. These are fresh foods, raw foods, whole foods, foods with a high-water content and nutritional value.
• Drink chlorophyll rich green drinks every day.  Juice green vegetables, add greens powder to your fruit juices or water. You can add lemon and other fruits initially to ease yourself into green juice slowly!
• It’s always easier to add things into your diet so try a greens powder first – my favorite Dr Udos’ Beyond Green. I add mine to my morning smoothie and put a spoonful in my drinking water throughout the day.  This brand tastes fine in water but not all of them do – so experiment with different brands.
• Add in a tomato salad to your lunch or dinner. Or some green leaves and avocado.
• Drink 3-4 ounces of cold pressed poly-unsaturated oil like avocado, olive hemp or flax oil each day.  (You will normally find these in the chiller cabinet in the health food store)
• Get 30 minutes of sunshine every day when the weather allows and also take 50,000 IU of Vitamin D every day
• Whilst you are transitioning to being more alkaline, test the alkalinity of your body by using PH strips? Buy here.

 Even emotions, stress and a lack of exercise contribute to acidity in the body. Dr Robert Young, an expert on alkalinity has actually seen, in his analysis of live blood, that emotions can have twice as much of an effect on our blood and health as any food can. So you could be eating perfectly healthily but be stressed to the eyeballs and highly acidic and open to disease!

 To learn more, read The PH Miracle by Dr Robert O Young for a brilliant overview and recipes for living an alkaline lifestyle.

 What alkaline tips do you have?

 If you would like help to avoid stress and to improve your diet, email me at tracey@traceyburnett.com and let’s talk! Or click here http://traceyburnett.com/less-stress-discovery-session-squeeze/

If so, a lack of sleep may be the culprit! A recent survey found that more people are sleeping less than six hours a night, and sleep difficulties visit 75% of us at least a few nights per week. A short-lived bout of insomnia is generally nothing to worry about. The bigger concern is chronic sleep loss, which can contribute to health problems such as weight gain, high blood pressure, and a decrease in the immune system’s power, reports the Harvard Women’s Health Watch.

While more research is needed to explore the links between chronic sleep loss and health, it’s safe to say that sleep is too important to short change.

The Harvard Women’s Health Watch suggests six reasons to get enough sleep:

1. Learning and memory: Sleep helps the brain commit new information to memory through a process called memory consolidation. In studies, people who’d slept after learning a task did better on tests later.

2. Metabolism and weight: Chronic sleep deprivation may cause weight gain by affecting the way our bodies process and store carbohydrates, and by altering levels of hormones that affect our appetite.

3. Safety: Sleep debt contributes to a greater tendency to fall asleep during the daytime. These lapses may cause falls and mistakes such as medical errors, air traffic mishaps, and road accidents.

4. Mood: Sleep loss may result in irritability, impatience, inability to concentrate, and moodiness. Too little sleep can also leave you too tired to do the things you like to do.

5. Cardiovascular health: Serious sleep disorders have been linked to hypertension, increased stress hormone levels, and irregular heartbeat.

6. Disease: Sleep deprivation alters immune function, including the activity of the body’s killer cells. Keeping up with sleep may also help fight cancer.

It is critical to get into a regular sleep pattern. The healing and restorative patterns of sleep are always underestimated!

- Keep your room cooler at night

- Limit TV watching, computer and tablet use before bedtime

- Reduce noise and light where you sleep for at least 30 minutes before you get to bed.

- Sleep in complete darkness

- Go to bed and wake at the same time every night

- Go to sleep around 9/10pm to get the best quality sleep

- Omega 3′s are a critical part of both sleep hygiene and skin health since they are the building blocks of the hormone secreting cells and contribute to neuro- transmitters that help you sleep as well. Most of us have a deficiency in Omega 3 even if your diet is good. Either add in lots of foods with omega 3’s such as Chia seeds, edamame beans, flax, walnuts, kidney beans and salmon or go for a krill oil supplement.

Sweet dreams!

To learn more, watch this -

The Importance of Sleep – The Gabriel Method http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s5dtnHG9FM

If you would like help to get more quality sleep and improve your overall health,

email me at tracey@traceyburnett.com and let’s talk!

There is a lot of debate about dairy foods and raw milk.  There are many passionate people with strong beliefs about whether dairy is a food we should incorporate into our diet at all. So is it good for our bodies?  Or is it only pasteurized milk that our bodies can’t cope with?  Is raw milk, (a wholefood which pasteurized milk is not) a better option?

Jordan Rubin (http://www.jordanrubin.com/) and Sally Fallon (http://www.westonaprice.org/) strongly support the raw milk argument.

Robert Cohen of www.Notmilk.com, believes that any “Milk is a deadly poison. Each sip contains growth hormones, fat, cholesterol, allergenic proteins, blood, pus, antibiotic, bacteria and virus’ irrespective of where it comes from and how it is treated.” Sounds delightful!

When you think about it, drinking milk is a very odd thing to do. Drinking milk from an animal that is meant to feed its young.  How do you feel about drinking breast milk? People think you are crazy if you breastfeed your child past the age of 6 months let alone drink it in adulthood!  How about drinking the milk, intended for their young, from any other animal? (With, maybe, the exception of goats and ewes). You would turn your nose up at it!

We have all been told by government health practitioners, and not to mention the advertisements, that milk is good for us, that it builds strong bones and teeth and it is especially good for our children. But T. Colin Campbell in his book ‘The China Study’ says:

‘ Cows milk may cause one of the most devastating diseases that can befall a child.’

Type 1 diabetes is initiated by cow’s milk protein.  It is thought that this process occurs when a baby is introduced to cows milk too early in life and it is not fully digested, leaving the incompletely digested milk protein fragments to be absorbed into the blood stream.  Unfortunately these fragments look exactly the same as the cells of the pancreas that produces insulin, and the immune system, not knowing the difference, goes about destroying them.  The child then loses the ability to produce insulin.

If you look at studies across a number of countries the level of type 1 diabetes is in direct correlation to milk consumption.  Genes have a role to play but genes do not act in isolation and the increase in the levels of diabetes is so high that there are obviously other factors involved, namely diet. Added to this, your genes are not written in stone. Recent science suggests that we can control the expression of our genes with the foods we eat, thereby taking greater control over our own health.

In the film, Simply Raw Dr Gabriel Cousens proved that if diabetics stripped out all animal foods and switched to a plant based diet, they can be free of the disease or at least drastically cut their requirement for drugs to manage it – and he did that in just 30 days!

So if you are going to drink milk should it be raw from grass fed cows or pasteurized and homogenised? Or should you switch to kefir (fermented milk), goats milk or soymilk?

Pasteurized and homogenised milk. Regular milk is taken from cows that are likely to have been pumped with antibiotics and growth hormones. The pasteurization kills any beneficial organisms and homogenisation modifies the fats that harm the cardiovascular system when you drink it. There have been studies done on rats that reveal a dramatic contrast between healthy, happy rats fed with unprocessed (raw) milk and anemic, ill-tempered rats fed pasteurized milk. Rat studies also show decline in fertility of those fed heat processed milk.

Soy milk. So much of the soy grown today in genetically modified, they often contain sweeteners of some description and not of much nutritional value.  Not really a good choice.

Raw Goats milk has a lot to recommend it.  Mike Adams of www.naturalnews.com sums it up well by saying:

‘Goat’s milk is the most highly consumed milk in many other parts of the world and it is delicious as well as extremely nutritious. Goat’s milk has vitamins, minerals, trace elements, electrolytes, enzymes, proteins, and fatty acids that are easily assimilated by the body. It is interesting to note that goat’s milk is digested in 20 minutes; whereas, it can take up to 24 hours to digest cow’s milk.’

Raw cows milk. Over to Mike Adams of www.naturalnews.com again!

‘The nutritional content of raw milk is broad and highly bioavailable. Raw milk is a complete package of proteins, natural carbohydrates, natural fats, vitamins, and minerals complete with the enzymes necessary to completely digest and assimilate all of these valuable nutrients. It is rich in minerals like calcium, magnesium, chloride, zinc, selenium, manganese, iodide, phosphorus and many others. Its range of vitamins includes A, C, D, E, K, B1, B2, B6, B12, niacin, pantothenic acid, biotin and folic acid. All of these vital nutrients remain intact only when milk is raw.’

Fermented raw milk (kefir) This repopulates the digestive tract with good organisms. If you have got digestive problems it could be that you are depleted of digestive enzymes.  Kefir will replenish your enzymes and help you to digest you food better. You can make this at home.  You can buy the starter needed on line.

I do hope that this article has given you food for thought.  If you have any further questions or digestive problems, just give me a call or send me an email.

My milk of choice is almond milk, which I make myself in the blender.

What’s your favorite milk?

Further information:
http://www.naturalnews.com/031586_raw_goats_milk_health.html#ixzz1loIxypl0

http://www.naturalnews.com/027325_milk_raw_health.html#ixzz1loNoLqHV

http://www.naturalnews.com/031586_raw_goats_milk_health.html

TRACEY BURNETT

As The Stress Less Success Coach, Tracey specializes in helping professional women, so often struggling with overwhelm, low energy and high stress, attain optimal wellbeing, creating the perfectly imperfect life!

Using her signature system, The Stress Less Successful Life Blueprint: 12 Pillars to Ecstatic Wellbeing for High Achieving Women, she enables women who are committed to success in life supercharge their wellbeing and put them right back in charge of their life with their own personal game plan.

Her approach to optimum health, decades of knowledge gained from her deep immersion in food, wellbeing and health, assists her clients on a practical level to free up time, eat for energy and lead them gently from pressure for perfection and fatigue to fabulous! It’s her number one passion which clients find infectious, energizing and inspiring!

Tracey works with clients worldwide from Australia to the UK – in person or via Skype/phone. She works on a one to one basis, conducts group coaching courses corporate wellness programmes for individuals and companies.

Request an application form to apply for a free Stress Less Discovery session, email tracey@traceyburnett.com

Act now to avoid wrinkles!

Reduce your wrinkles and increase your energy EASILY!!
I know what it’s like – you not only WANT more energy but you NEED more energy to get everything done everyday. And you know that your sweet tooth is probably having an effect on your waistline. Ohh, and yes it makes your face saggy and wrinkled!

A lifetime of overeating sugar can make your skin dull and wrinkled AND it saps your energy. If you are anything like my clients and me you certainly do not want to accelerate the process of ageing!

Most vulnerable to damage are collagen and elastin, the protein fibres that keep your skin firm and elastic. In fact, collagen is the most prevalent protein in the body. Once damaged, springy and resilient collagen and elastin become dry and brittle, leading to wrinkles and sagging. These aging effects start at about age 35 and increase rapidly after that, according to a study published in the British Journal of Dermatology. People with diabetes often show early signs of skin ageing.

Your body’s natural antioxidant enzymes will also be deactivated, leaving you more vulnerable to sun damage that is still the main cause of skin aging.

However, you will be glad to hear that it’s never too late to turn back the clock.

To keep your skin looking great, heed these simple 12 tips……………..

1. Cut back on all sugar products including fruit.
2. Watch for hidden sugars – barley malt, corn syrup, dextrose, fruit juice concentrate, maltose, maple syrup, molasses. When looking at packets roughly 4g of sugar equates to 1 teaspoon of sugar.
3. Supplement your diet with 1mg+ of B1 and B6
4. Eat foods rich in Vitamin C
5. Exercise daily to build collagen
6. Give up smoking and cut your alcohol consumption.
7. Eat plenty of foods high in antioxidants like fruits, nuts and vegetables to keep sugar from attaching to proteins and doing damage. Red peppers, tomatoes and beetroot are good.
8. Get plenty of beauty sleep. This helps produce human growth hormones which in turn builds collagen. Try to sleep by 10/11pm at night.
9. Always use a sunscreen or better still stay out of the sun. If you chose the sunscreen route use a natural one without chemicals . Check out Environmental Working Group’s annual Sunscreen Guide
10. If you add fermented foods into your diet you will find that you lose the desire and cravings for sweet foods.
11. If you do want to sweeten your foods then use a product like stevia that is a sweet herb nearly 300 times sweeter than sugar. It is great because it doesn’t have any calories and you not get any hike in your blood sugar levels when you ingest it. Raw honey is also a favorite of mine. Find the real thing at road stalls and your local wholefoods shop.
12. Use good skin care products such as Juliette Scarfe’s Bareskin Beauty brand, which are organic, raw, and vegan. Good enough to eat. Try the Papaya and Honey Resurfacing Balm http://bit.ly/15u2uIT and the Elemi Overnight Repair Crème http://bit.ly/Vwjb4t both of which are favourites of mine. You will not be disappointed with any of her products – even my teenagers use them!

“If only a small fraction of what is already known about the effects of sugar were to be revealed in relation to any other material used as a food additive, that material would promptly be banned.” John Yudkin MD, Ph.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.S.C., F.I. Biol., Prof of Nutrition at London University

What’s is your favourite beauty tip?

If you would like help to kick your sugar habit and feel great, email me at tracey@traceyburnett.com and let’s talk!

About Tracey

Tracey is an International Transformation Expert for Women Seeking Well-Being & Wealth. As a coach and mentor she coaches women to a level of wellbeing where they are happy with the way they look and feel everyday allowing them to achieve levels of satisfaction in all areas of their life.

Tracey’s approach goes far beyond the mainstream media and viewpoints on health. It is based on a mix of centuries old ways of achieving wellbeing as well as cutting edge research, views and methods.

Her signature system, The Abundance, Health & Happiness Blueprint: 12 Pillars to Ecstatic Wellbeing for Women over 40 is a proven holistic system that ensures that the road to health and happiness is effective, pleasurable, satisfying and indulgent wherever possible!

Tracey believes that you can live the life you truly want for yourself if you have optimum health; that you can have all the wealth (in all senses of the word) that you want by making a few, simple lifestyle changes.

Her areas of specialism are energy and stress, menopause, anti-aging and weight loss.

If you are interested in working with Tracey, email her at tracey@traceyburnett.com

Chocolate is a food that so many women crave and that includes me!
The ‘cleaner’ you eat the less likely you are to crave sugar and chocolate so look at ways to add in more vegetable, salad and fruit to your diet.

Everyone deserves a treat now and again – In fact, I was caught by Mrs Baker at the local Farmers Market in Bath last Saturday buying some lovely homemade macaroons! (I always have a treat on Saturday nights!)

This is a great recipe that is very simple to make. Find the ingredients at your local wholefoods store. The chocolate moulds can be found in a kitchenware shop. (I like the bendy ones as its easier to get the chocolates out.)

This recipe will take you minutes to make! It’s so healthy but so delicious.

Raw Chocolate and Almond Truffles

40g raw organic cacao powder
100g raw organic cacao butter
20g coconut palm sugar or equivalent of Stevia (You can use powder or drops)
150g ground almonds/almond flour
Couple of grinds of Himalayan Salt

1. Melt the cacao butter in a bowl over a pan of hot water
2. Sieve cacao powder
3. Add all ingredients to the cacao butter and mix well
4. Spoon into chocolate moulds
5. Refrigerate for a couple of hours
6. Remove from moulds
7. Enjoy!

You can ring the changes by adding a couple of drops of essential oil, for example peppermint, ginger, lavender

You could also substitute the almonds for mesquite powder, which is a super food high in mineral and tastes chocolately/spicey.

I sometimes add raspberries that I have liquidized. Yum!

Enjoy!

What are your favorite ingredients that you would like to see in a recipe from me?

Where do you struggle when it comes to eating healthily?

Let me know and I will help out.

About Tracey

Tracey is an International Transformation Expert for Women Seeking Well-Being & Wealth. As a coach and mentor she coaches women to a level of wellbeing where they are happy with the way they look and feel everyday allowing them to achieve levels of satisfaction in all areas of their life.
Tracey’s approach goes far beyond the mainstream media and viewpoints on health. It is based on a mix of centuries old ways of achieving wellbeing as well as cutting edge research, views and methods.
Her signature system, The Abundance, Health & Happiness Blueprint: 12 Pillars to Ecstatic Wellbeing for Women over 40 is a proven holistic system that ensures that the road to health and happiness is effective, pleasurable, satisfying and indulgent wherever possible!
Tracey believes that you can live the life you truly want for yourself if you have optimum health; that you can have all the wealth (in all senses of the word) that you want by making a few, simple lifestyle changes.
Her areas of specialism are energy and stress, menopause, anti-aging and weight loss.

If you are interested in working with Tracey, email her at tracey@traceyburnett.com

Are you always looking for quick, simple meals
that are nutritious and delicious?

I know I am and certainly my clients are too!
I always try to eat foods that give you energy
rather than sap it! With plenty of energy you
feel that you can conquer the world.
When you have limitless energy you can go
after exactly what you want in life to bring
a wealth and richness to your life that most
people only dream of ……

Mushroom and Noodle Soup

This should take about 15 minutes to make and
about 15 minutes to cook, depending how quick you are!

Serves 4

2 tablespoons miso paste
3 tablespoons tamari or reduced salt soy sauce
1.5 liters water
500g mixed mushrooms such as chestnut, button and wild mushrooms
such as shitake or oyster, thinly sliced
175g mange tout or snow peas, sliced lengthways
6 spring onions, thinly sliced
2 sheets of nori seaweed cut into small pieces
250g noodles – udon or rice noodles or anything that you like to eat

• Cook the noodles according to the instructions on the pack. If they are ready before you have finished the soup, drain and turn them over gently with some olive or sesame seed oil.
• Put the water in a large pan, add the miso and soy/tamari and bring to the boil.
• Turn the heat to low, add the mushrooms and simmer for 5 minutes
• Add the mange tout/snow peas, seaweed and spring onions and turn off the heat. You want these ingredients to have some crunch.
• Divide the noodles between some warm bowls and ladle in the soup.
• Eat immediately!

You can add more noodles, sprinkle over some coriander or parsley. You can add some peas or edamame (soy) beans – just ring the changes and use whatever you have in the fridge – within reason of course!!

Enjoy!

What are your favorite ingredients that you would
like to see in a recipe from me?

Where do you struggle when it comes to eating healthily?
Let me know and I will help out.

About Tracey

Tracey is an International Transformation Expert for Women Seeking Well-Being & Wealth. As a coach and mentor she coaches women to a level of wellbeing where they are happy with the way they look and feel everyday allowing them to achieve levels of satisfaction in all areas of their life.

Tracey’s approach goes far beyond the mainstream media and viewpoints on health. It is based on a mix of centuries old ways of achieving wellbeing as well as cutting edge research, views and methods.

Her signature system, The Abundance, Health & Happiness Blueprint: 12 Pillars to Ecstatic Wellbeing for Women over 40 is a proven holistic system that ensures that the road to health and happiness is effective, pleasurable, satisfying and indulgent wherever possible!

Tracey believes that you can live the life you truly want for yourself if you have optimum health; that you can have all the wealth (in all senses of the word) that you want by making a few, simple lifestyle changes.

Her areas of specialism are energy and stress, menopause, anti-aging and weight loss.

If you are interested in working with Tracey, email her at tracey@traceyburnett.com

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