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Health
Health is a process. You cannot buy it in the supermarket or anywhere else for that
matter. Statistics have shown that millionaires rarely (if ever) live to be over
a 100 years old, whereas many poor people have and still do. So what is the secret
of the centenarians?
There is of course a point where poverty leads to malnutrition, a state where there
is a lack of nutrients that are necessary to maintain a state of health. This is
one of the biggest problems for the developing countries, but most of the population
of the developed countries or otherwise called the western world would have enough
money to buy an adequate amount of food to maintain health or to guarantee survival.
So are we in the western world the healthiest people in the world? We have conquered
lethal infectious diseases such as typhoid and tuberculosis. The number of mothers
and babies who die in childbirth has decreased thanks to the increase in hygiene
and technical advances. As a result the average age in the west has increased dramatically,
but are we healthier? What about the quality of life?
Chronic diseases such as cancer, cardio-vascular disease, obesity, diabetes, strokes,
chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and fibromyalgia, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s
disease and auto-immune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis are very common in
the west. Even though most of these diseases or conditions are not as lethal as
some of the infectious diseases (except a fatal heart attack or stroke), they cause
a gradual decline of health, decreasing the quality of life sometimes over a 40
to 50 years period!
There are also some conditions that were rare before, but that have increased dramatically
over the last 50 years. The sharpest increase is found in the conditions known as
the 5 As:
1. Autism
Spectrum Disorders or ASD
(including Asperger's syndrome, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, speech
and language
disorders and many cases of learning difficulties and developmental
delay)
2. Attention Deficit (Hyperactivity) Disorder or AD(H)D
3. Allergies
4. Asthma
5. Alzheimer disease or AD
(some people argue that AD is just a later manifestation
of the same underlying
processes that lead to brain degeneration as the ASD
group).
These are the 21st Century conditions. Autism occurred in about
only 3 in every 10,000 children in the 1960s in the USA. The latest
figures are 1 in 165 in the USA, 1 in 150 in the UK and 1 in 120 in Australia. You
cannot really call the above conditions a disease and they are not contagious either,
but they do cause a decline in the quality of life varying from mild to severe.
Data from India show that these conditions are less prevalent in the poorer classes
compared with the more effluent parts of society.
What causes these chronic diseases and conditions?
The fact that we can afford food doesn’t mean that the food we choose has enough
nutrients in it to maintain health. Packaged and processed foods are usually low
in nutrients and high in calories, sugar, carbohydrates, bad fats, artificial, colourings,
flavourings and preservatives. Vegetables may have been grown with pesticides, herbicides
and in a soil that may be nutrient poor, so they may not contain the amount of nutrients
they used to.
There are other factors that can act as stressors to the body:
* environmental pollution, ie. Mercury from Amalgam fillings and vaccinations,
Aluminium from vaccinations, pans, cutlery, aluminium foil and soft
drink and beer cans, herbicides and pesticides.
* the consumption of too many acid-forming foods such as coffee
has been
associated with conditions such as gout and other inflammatory conditions.
* a lifestyle that is too sedentary often results in eating more calories than the
body digests. The surplus will be turned into fat.
* stress such as deadlines, unhappy relationships or financial
worries lowers our
resilience and our immune resistance.
* pharmaceutical drugs such as vaccinations, antibiotics, steroids
suppress the
immune system and often contain dangerous additives such as Thimerosol
(a very toxic Mercury compound) in infant vaccinations until recently and still in
all flu vaccinations.
Almost every health problem is caused by an accumulation of a variety of stressors
to a person's system. As soon as there is a stressor that acts as the "straw that
breaks the camel's back", illness may develop.
What can we do about these chronic diseases
and conditions?
Herbal and
Homoeopathic medicine can make a dramatic difference to a person's emotional
and physical health. Homoeopathy also offers a safe and valuable alternative for
vaccinations through its homoeoprophylaxis programme.
Our diet plays a major role in our state of health. The kind of food we eat can
make the difference between health and illness. Diet can also play a significant
role in the development of allergies, depression as well as learning and behaviour
problems (see the information booklets about
Health and Nutrition).
Nutrition Medicine is an excellent
tool to determine what diet is best suited to your needs and what nutritional supplements
may be needed to replenish any nutrients that were lacking in the body.
Illness may appear after an emotional trauma, injury, accident, operation, change
of diet, use of a certain drug, food poisoning or any other severe trauma in a person's
life. However that trauma could merely be the famous straw that broke the camel’s
back, so for the system to return to health, all the stressors need to be identified
and dealt with. Kinesiology is an excellent technique to determine what the causes
are and Kinesiology also offers many different ways of dealing with these causes.
If stressors are still stressing the system (such as food that upsets the person's
digestive system on a daily basis) they need to be eliminated. If the stressors
originate from emotional traumas from the past a
Kinesiology balance, Australian Bush Flower Essences,
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) or
Homoeopathy are excellent tools to remove the negative emotional
responses from the system. As Kinesiology is developing rapidly, new techniques
become available every day to more precisely identify the cause or causes of a health
- or learning problem, as well as techniques to rectify the problem in faster and
more effective ways.
Fortunately when using a holistic approach directed at identifying all the causes
and treating all levels of the human being it is often possible to achieve a state
of improved physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health and wellbeing.
Make an Appointment
If you live in Australia and you would like to make an appointment to see
Drs. Anke Koelman for an assessment or consultation, please click here.
If you would like ask Drs. Koelman a question via Email or if you would
like to make an appointment for a telephone or internet appointment
with Drs. Anke Koelman, please click here.
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click here.
Can we
help ourselves?
Yes we can. We can help ourselves first and foremost by looking after ourselves.
This means selecting the optimum diet, listening to our body, rest when tired, having regular Kinesiology balances, managing
stress levels and take supplements for any nutrient deficiencies. If you would like to
know how to select the right supplements, Brain Gym® or the best diet yourself,
you can learn how to do this at the following courses:
In the Introduction to Kinesiology course
(for dates see: Course
brochures) you will be able to learn how to Muscle Check yourself
and others, to determine what the cause of ill health is and which foods, supplements
and techniques will be most successful in assisting you and others in your/their
healing process.
In the Brainfood course (for dates see: Course brochures)
you will learn what foods are beneficial and what foods and substances are harmful
for brain development, memory, behaviour and learning.
In the Quantum Learning Improvement
course (for dates see Course brochures) you will learn:
* Brain Gym®
* The Integration process of Educational Kinesiology (see the
How to Improve Learning? booklet for writing examples of “Before” and “After”
Brain Gym® and the Integration Process)
* Accelerated Learning techniques for Mental Mathematics, Spelling and Reading
Comprehension
* The SureReading
programme – the amazing reading programme that teaches
anyone how to read especially
designed for children with Dyslexia and
other reading difficulties
In the Gut Feelings course you will
learn how to do a Kinesiology balance for stressors that influence gut function
in a negative way, such as negative feelings and thoughts, attitude, wrong gut flora,
fungi, parasites, toxins, wrong diet for the person’s genetic make-up, sedentary
lifestyle (for dates see:
Course brochures).
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