The Real Truth About Coconut Oil

Mother Nature is incredibly generous in the way she provides - offering a bounty of fruits and vegetables rich in vitamins, minerals and nutrients to nourish your body so you can enjoy a long healthy life.

One fruit in particular - the coconut - is so abundant in its healing properties it's referred to as "the tree of life." And before World War II, people living in island countries, like the Philippines, consumed a diet that consisted mainly of rice, root crops, vegetables and an abundance of the ultra-healing superfood, the coconut.

The coconut is a "functional food" rich in vitamins, minerals and fiber - the essential nutritional building blocks for perfect health.

For generations, island people considered it "The Cure for All Illness" and consumed the meat, milk and coconut oil daily. Although this diet was high in saturated fat, Western conditions like diabetes, cancer and heart disease were virtually unheard of.

Filipinos and islanders were instead rewarded with a lovely youthful complexion, soft wrinkle-free skin, almost no skin cancer - even with excessive exposure to year round sun - and abundant good health.

Coconut oil in particular has been shown to protect you from viruses, bacteria, infection, cancer, thyroid, brain and heart problems... plus beautifies your skin - and even burns fat!

Coconut oil - a saturated fat - is chock-full of health-promoting properties - and is in no way responsible for high cholesterol, obesity, heart disease and the bad effects you've been led to believe.

Finally, modern medicine and science are starting to realize this fundamental truth... and it's been a long time coming. But sadly not before heart disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity and a whole host of other catastrophic diseases have reached epidemic proportions!

Before World War II, the miracle-healing coconut had been used to help alleviate:

• Coughs
• Constipation
• Malnutrition
• Skin infections
• Toothaches
• Earaches
• Flus
• And more!


But that all changed when the war ended and the United States proclaimed hydrogenated oils to be the "healthier oils." By the 1960s, a weak scientific theory claimed that saturated fats-like those found in butter, eggs, milk, red meat and coconuts - increased "bad" LDL cholesterol and were dangerous to consume.

Nothing was further from the truth! But this “health scare” was enough to push the public away from saturated fats and instead to refined vegetable oils. This was perfect for food manufacturers because they were far cheaper to produce.
It wasn’t long before Western-style diets made their way to the islands and the old ways were forgotten.

Cheaper, mass-produced hydrogenated foods replaced traditional foods, like the versatile and all-healing coconut oil that had kept the islanders healthy for generations.

And for the first time ever, diseases that had become prevalent among Americans… heart disease, diabetes, cancer and obesity started to plague the island nations.
 
The 4 worst oils –

Cannola
Cottonseed
Safflower
Soybean
 
It's no secret breast feeding is about the best thing a mother can do to boost her child's immune system. What makes mother's milk so healthy is that it contains high amounts of lauric acid.

Outside of mother's milk there are only three dietary sources of lauric acid - and coconut oil is the most concentrated of the three!
 
Top Benefits of Coconut Oil
 

• Boosting metabolism and fat loss
• Improving Thyroid Function
• Best natural healer for skin and hair
• Brain health and memory
• Improve heart health and cholesterol levels
• Cancer fighter
• Super food and super detox

Have you enrolled?  The ' Body Cleanse 12 ' Program . It's changing lives worldwide.

My 24 hour Water Fast experience

A few months ago, I would do this one day fast every Monday. Somewhere down the line, I got out of that habit, and my body gave me indicators about a week ago that it was time for a body over haul. I love how the body gives you indicators of what can be going wrong or right for you, I guess we just have to be aware of how we feel, and that by itself can be quite a challenge.

Over the last week I was waking up tired despite 7-8 hours of deep sleep. I was sluggish thru the day. The things that motivated me and that I loved doing seemed to suddenly transform into something boring and monotonous. I was getting angry quicker, more irritable and in general just feeling low for no reason I could actually pin point. I even missed a couple or work outs and I kept battling with sugar and outside food cravings. So I loaded up on my favorite foods, right from fully loaded caramel frappes to chocolate pastries, burgers and yeah, even a samosa..the last option kinda shocked me too……..and then there was Easter eggs and chocolate bunnies,,,and my body started slowing down.

I decided to get back on the water fast at exactly 8pm on Sunday. I broke the fast this morning at 7:30am.

I slept by midnight on Sunday, woke up to a liter of warm water. My activity on Monday morning included a bit of training and then a drive to office. Hunger pangs hit me by noon, I sipped on water and kept my mind engaged in my work.

By 2pm I should admit I felt a little cold ( natural on a water fast), but my hunger pangs had disappeared. I drove home around 5pm, I was feeling light headed, but I was focused. Keeping your mind engaged in some work really helps. What I noticed was my clarity of thought.

On reaching home, I had some warm water and sat down to mediate for a bit. I think that was the best part of my day.

By 7pm I definitely felt a little weak and decided to retire to sleep by 9pm and break the fast in the morning. Over the day I noticed a change in the color of my tongue, from a light white to a pink, which is an indicator of how clean your stomach may be.

Slept fitfully, no disturbance, no hunger pangs. Woke up by 6:30, absolutely fine, not hungry, high on energy levels. Consumed a liter of water , practiced some light yoga and meditation and broke my fast with 3 bananas and an apple.

That kinda stuffed me and 2 hours later I consumed a handful of almonds.

I'm not hungry right now. I'm super high on energy levels. I have not craved my morning coffee which I feel I have gotten addicted to over the last few months, the thought of chocolate or anything unhealthy is actually not appealing in any little way right now. I want fruits, nuts, vegetables, lentils

It’s true that a clean body craves clean food and an unhealthy body craves junk. I’m feeling that now…the overhaul was definitely necessary, and I plan to do this once a week.

What could go better the next time is selecting a day when I’m more free and relaxed with little or no driving involved, especially in Mumbai traffic.

I recommend this to everyone. If you can’t do 24 hours start of with 16 and then build it up as you get better.

The more difficult you find it to do, it means your body has a lot of toxins to clean out and you may even get a headache.

Good luck !!!!  Use nature and natural ways as your best medicine.

Luke Coutinho talks about GOQii life and Healthy Lifestyle

The Magical Caraluma Fat Loss Plant

I continuously get asked questions on different weight loss or fat loss products, pills, treatments etc. The answer is, they don’t work. 100% plant based supplements can work in conjunction with a balanced lifestyle, but there is no ‘ ONE” pill that can fix it all, or else we wouldn’t have millions of people struggling with their weight.

Caraluma particularly interests me.

Wouldn’t really say this is new, it’s been doing amazing and successful rounds in the U.S and Europe. As usual, the very foods that grow in India , that are beneficial and super healthy somehow find a larger market in western countries,  and in India, we resort to the junk that the west is trying to move out and away from.

What is Caraluma ?

Caralluma fimbriata is a succulent plant in the family Apocynaceae. It has been eaten in rural India for centuries, raw, as a vegetable with spices, or preserved in chutneys and pickles, and is often found as a roadside shrub or boundary marker.

It has been used as a portable food and thirst quencher for hunting. It is also used for its purported ability to suppress hunger and appetite and enhance stamina. It is believed to have an effect on the appetite control centre of the brain. Tribesmen on a day's hunt will often only pack some Caralluma fimbriata to sustain themselves and hence it is commonly known as "famine food" in India.

This natural plant has been ingeniously mixed with green tea and orange pekoe to produce a blend that can -

Work directly on the appetite control center of your brain, specifically the hypothalamus, to suppress your appetite. In short, it reduces sugar and junk food cravings, allowing you to burn fat more effectively and lose inches.

It also seems that Caralluma fimbriata's ability to promote lean muscle mass is actually connected to its fat-burning benefits. Caralluma fimbriata not only blocks fat production, it also helps to burn fat, thanks to pregnane glycosides

Caralluma Fimbriata burns unwanted fat and prevents more from being stored. It also suppresses the appetite and stops cravings in their tracks.

IS CARATRIM A WEIGHT LOSS PILL OR PRODUCT?

Far from it. Weight loss products and pills DON”T WORK. What works is a lifestyle change and a balanced approach to food, sleep, exercise and mental health.

Caratrim can help you lose fat if you use it mindfully and continue to make an attempt to eat right, exercise and sleep well. You cannot just take this and expect it to work. It won’t !!!

It will surely help you with your cravings though and fat metabolism and inch loss. That’s what gets you and your health on track.

Best source to order:  www.purenutrition.co.in

More About My Experience With Cancer

So it's been around 17 days into the year already, and I've been swamped with calls as usual. January is always the busiest time for me. People are keen to start off the new year with their resolutions to be fit and healthy. Most of the calls i get revolve around weight loss and many around those striving to make a lifestyle change. This year has been different. over the last 17 days, I've got over 19 people with cancer reach out for support.What i see out there is confusion, a lot of confusion, a lot of fear, of course, a lot of families destroyed emotionally, financial distress that this deadly disease brings along with it.

A large number of people are waking up to the reality of this disease now, some making massive changes in their lifestyles and many simply consoling themselves with the fact that they have massive insurance and contacts with top oncologists around the world.

We need to realize that we are bringing on disease and suffering on ourselves and really, the only solution is prevention through a lifestyle change.

I met a 77 year old woman last evening, healthy, great medical reports, but with this looming fear in her mind that she has cancer, because a few years ago she visited a dentist for a routine check up and was told that she could have gum cancer due to some white mucous he saw between her gums.Since then she has lived with the fear of having the cancer ,and any cough or cold she gets pushes her deeper into misery.

The question i get asked almost everyday is can cancer be prevented? What is the right cure? Do you have to die if you have cancer?

It just reminds me of one phrase that we grew up with, ' Prevention is BETTER, than cure' . Cancer can be the product of over 200 things going wrong in your body at the same time, does this mean 200 different treatments? That's what makes it complicated, so yes, prevention is better than cure, but how to prevent ?

There is so much information out there, and sometime too much of information causes more confusion.

Many people believe that getting cancer is purely down to genes, fate or bad luck. But through scientific research, we know that our risk actually depends on a combination of our genes, our environment and aspects of our lives, many of which we can control.

I don't want to talk about telomers, twisted DNA's etc,,,,in my experience, keeping it simple has always provided the best and most inexpensive results.

I have put together some lifestyle changes that i rate as the most important to make, when it comes to a prevention.

Experts estimate that more than four in 10 cancer cases could be prevented by lifestyle changes, such as:

Not smoking

keeping a healthy body weight

cutting back on alcohol

eating a healthy, balanced diet

keeping active

avoiding certain infections (like HPV)

staying safe in the sun

occupation 

Some people are more at risk of cancer as a result of chemicals or practices used in their occupation. Improved safety in the workplace means fewer people will be at risk now than in the past.

Making lifestyle changes can be difficult, but there are so many benefits. Try to find tricks that make it easier to get into healthy habits, like being active with a friend, keeping track of what you eat or drink, or letting your friends and family know about what you're doing.

Preventing cancer doesn't work in the same way as preventing infectious diseases by injecting vaccines.

‘Healthy living’ is not a cast-iron guarantee against cancer. Instead, it "reduces the risk" of the disease - it heavily stacks the odds of avoiding it in our favour.

For example, we know that it’s possible for a heavy smoker to live a cancer-free life, while someone who never touches cigarettes could develop lung cancer. But if we look at this as a whole, we can clearly see that non-smokers are far less likely to develop cancer than smokers.

In the same way, careful drivers cannot guarantee that they will never get into an accident due to events beyond their control, but they are much less likely to do so than reckless ones.

Can lifestyle changes really make a difference?

Yes, and not just for cancer. In 2008, a large study worked out how a combination of four healthy behaviors would affect your health

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These were: not smoking; keeping active; moderating how much alcohol you drink; and eating five daily portions of fruit and vegetables.

People who ticked all four healthy boxes gained an average of 14 years of life compared to people who did not do any of them. By the end of the study, they were less likely to have died from cancer or heart disease.

In short, a lifestyle change is one of the best ways to prevent cancer and other diseases and more I see people making these changes, the more I observe their improvement in their recovery or ability to handle their cancers.

A Herbal Infusion That Can Help You Sleep At Night ?

With the numerous health downsides of less or poor quality sleep at night, i am constantly exploring and researching natural foods or techniques that can help people sleep better and encourage them to throw away their sleeping pills ( which cause massive damage to the brain and liver in the long run).

In my search i have found that ' Ashwagandha ' a plant that grows in India, helps reduce anxiety and induce sleep at a cellular level. I have found that this plant works for many and for some, it doesn't.No one though, has ever reported side effects of this natural plant.

Recently, i came across a Herbal Infusion, designed by a company in India called ' Herbs India'. They design a variety of healthy infusions that consist of delicate combinations of spices, high quality green and black tea and flowers and some of their infusions are sweetened with natural licorice.

What caught my eye was a blend that was named the ' Deep Sleep Infusion '. I tried this blend and not that i have a sleep problem, but i definitely feel i had a better quality sleep that night.

Having a large client base that struggles to sleep, i sent out a couple of bags to many of them and i was astounded with their feedback. Some of them who struggled to sleep had such a restful night, that they continued to ingest this blend every night for a week, and they just slept better and better. Hard to believe that a mix of spices and teas could do that.

I think I'm convinced in the power of this blend now. Ive got really good feedback from almost about everyone who has tried this ' Deep Sleep Infusion' 

Many asked me if this was completely herbal, and i studied the blend in detail only to learn it's a combination of spices and green tea in a ratio that the master blender for all the right reasons politely refused to share.

Ginger, licorice, cinnamon, nutmeg, green tea, clove, black pepper, star anise and fennel is what this magic elixir contains.

For all those struggling with sleep, trying this blend is surely a natural and inexpensive way to promote better sleep.

I find it calms my nerves in a pleasant way, and i enjoy a cup every night before bedtime.

This company ships it free across India. Surely worth a try.

http://purenutrition.co.in/product/80#d

The Body Cleanse ' 12' Program

‘The Body Cleanse 12’ - Program .

Why a Cleanse:

We are exposed to toxins every day and a build-up can affect our neurological, immune and endocrine (hormone) systems. It can be an obstacle to weight loss and healing. The most common offenders are air pollution, food additives, pesticides, alcohol, cigarette and heavy metals. 

When large amounts of toxins are consumed over a long period of time, health issues arise, like cancer, arthritis, skin and hair problems, digestive issues, sleep, mental issues and obesity related diseases.

Your fat loss efforts are more successful in a body that is regularly cleansed of toxins.

Keeping your liver clean is mandatory for excellent health, weight balance and for graceful ageing.

Your liver's main job is to expel these toxins from your bloodstream so you can continue to live. But if your body is overloaded with these harmful substances, your liver is going to need a boost from your food intake and lifestyle

By following a ‘cleanse plan’ you reduce the toxic load and enable the body to function more efficiently. ‘Cleansing’ simply requires a little discipline and a fridge full of nourishing foods.

What Is ‘The Body Cleanse 12’ Program?

12 specially designed ‘cleanse’ menus spread over 3 months.

That’s 4 days a month.

That’s the first Monday of every week.

Why Monday –

The weekends are for you to relax, unwind and enjoy yourself after a long week. You want to socialize, eat out with friends or family, travel, party or keep a day to’ cheat’ on your favorite foods and then the Monday blues set in.

We make wrong food choices and the effects of a great weekend make us sluggish, and we struggle to get back to our exercise regime.

Many of us crawl through Monday, low on energy and enthusiasm.

Toxins slow us down. They make us age faster. They rob our body of energy, nutrients and vitality. They slow down our ability to think and concentrate.

Imagine starting off your Monday with an easy to follow cleanse program, that cleans your insides, digestive system and energizes your body, preparing you for the week ahead.

The plan hits your mailbox on a Saturday, giving you sufficient time to get prepared.

The Body Cleanse 12 – Program is simple.

You get a new cleanse plan for every Monday, for the next 3 months. That’s 12 Mondays and 12 cleanse plans.

What’s in a cleanse plan:

Is this a juice diet or a fruit diet? Absolutely NOT!!!

You have a breakfast, lunch dinner and snacks. Carefully planned food mixes to ensure a complete cleanse of body organs, blood, your lungs, digestive system, skin and hair.

Foods range from vegetables, lean meats, nuts, seeds, spices, oils, natural sweeteners and herbal infusions.

Each Monday plan gives you variety and options and the plan does not work on the concept of restriction. In fact, you will find yourself eating more of the right or ‘clean’ foods.

Doing this plan on a Monday, will jump start your body metabolism, clean out your system and propel you forward in the remainder of the week.

You also get tools and ways that can help you use a Monday to plan your week ahead, in a smart manner, balancing your food, exercise, sleep and mental health.

Are these ‘cleansing’ foods easily available?

All meal options are simple foods, inexpensive yet powerful, and easily available, worldwide.

Why 3 months?

4 Mondays across 3 months makes 12 cleanse days.

Very clearly, it is to build HABIT. To build discipline and turn this into something that becomes part of your lifestyle.

For an effective plan to work, more than just the results it gives, is the ability to sustain it and the ability to build it into your lifestyle and continue doing it as a healthy habit for the rest of your life.

When you do this every Monday for 3 months you will realize –

-         How easy it is to do.

-         The benefits you get out of doing it.

-         You will not feel guilty enjoying your weekends, because you know you can compensate for it by doing a cleanse on Monday.

-         It’s a great way to start the week. It builds discipline, and for anything successful, discipline is a key ingredient.

-         Look at it as ‘giving back to your body’.

-         It becomes a great habit. It becomes ingrained in your lifestyle.

What are some of the benefits you get from doing this?

-         Stronger immunity (immunity is your line of defense against all diseases.)

-         Cleaner liver which means better fat metabolism

-         Stronger hair and better quality skin

-         Reduced inflammation ( back/joint pain, arthritis, heart disease)

-         Help your body fight off diseases, repair, heal and prevent ( immunity)

-         More energy

-         Improved sex life

-         Clear thinking

-         Graceful ageing

-         Reduce food cravings and emotional eating over time.

Vision of this program:

After 3 months, you will find this so easy, you will be looking forward to a Monday cleanse. It will be part of your lifestyle. You will find yourself doing a ‘cleanse’ for more than just once a week at times, because you feel so good.

The vision is to ‘prevent’, ‘heal’, ‘cure’ and ‘feel good’.

Will I lose weight with this?

A cleaner body burns fat much more effectively than a toxic body. The answer is, you enable your body to become a fat burning machine when you cleanse it regularly.

What If I can’t do it on a Monday?

Aim to keep it for a Monday, so that it becomes a lifestyle and habit. If you really have to miss out, then you can do it on any other day.

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How much does this program cost?

INR 3000/- for 3 months, that’s INR 1000/- per month to build a new healthy lifestyle and make one of the best investments, your health and well being.

Payments will be taken upfront for 3 months, so that you discipline yourself into going through this whole journey.

How to enroll:

The plan starts on the first Monday of January 2014.

Please enroll for the program by sending a mail to ‘ luke.coutinho@gmail.com’

All instructions will be sent via email, including the payment details.

Can anybody do this plan?

Always check with your Doctor before starting any new plan.

Humble request:

If you sign up for this, you can use this for your whole family. It’s a humble request that you do not forward plans to people who do not enroll. If you feel someone really needs it and cannot pay for it due to various reasons, by all means, you can and you should share it. In all other cases, I request you to encourage others to join the program, as it’s not just a plan they get, it’s the coaching and guidance, as well as the motivation to succeed. They get a whole new lifestyle.

This could be the best start to your new year, body and health.