Heal & Live Younger

By Nhu-Ha Le

Perhaps youve come to a point in your life where enough is enough. Youve taken more medicines than you ever thought possible, you feel tired and sluggish or you are fed up with your fluctuating weight. No matter what your story is, this book is for you. Heal and Live Younger will give you the tools you need to break free of your pharmaceutical chains that hold you from feeling healthy and alive. It will enable you to take a more natural approach to your weight and health issues, while turning back the clock of time to look younger and feel great. Why take my word for it? Get started and learn to Heal and Live Younger!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Sep 10, 2008
• ISBN: 9781469103389

Nhu-Ha Le

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Nhu-Ha Le was born on June 17, 1954 in Viet-Nam, graduated from North Carolina State University and hold degrees in Biochemistry and Chemical Engineering. She had worked as a chemical engineer and consultant for over 23 years. Currently, she is a realtor with Premier Realty and Financial Service Representative with MetLife. Although her life was a roller coaster, she has always been optimistic. As she is advanced in age, she has been more productive, more focus and most of all she is more concerned about what she can do to best share her experiences with others. She has been teaching her “Four Steps to Optimal Health” classes to the seniors at Cornerstone Church in Bear, and Newark Seniors Center in Delaware.

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Contents

INTRODUCTION

WORDS FROM THE AUTHOR

CHAPTER 1

OUR EXISTING WORLD

CHAPTER 2

STEP 1: MIND—WHAT TO THINK?

CHAPTER 3

STEP1: REST—A GOOD NIGHT OF SLEEP

CHAPTER 4

STEP 2: WHAT TO FEED YOUR

BODY & MIND

CHAPTER 5

STEP 2: CLEANSING YOUR SYSTEMS

CHAPTER 6

STEP 3—FEED YOUR BODY GOOD STUFFS ONLY!

CHAPTER 7

COLOR CODED FOOD

CHAPTER 8

VITAMINS & MINERALS

CHAPTER 9

MEAL PREPARATION

CHAPTER 10

DAILY FOODS & JUICES FOR

OPTIMAL HEALTH

CHAPTER 11

SUMMARY ON CALORIC INTAKE

CHAPTER 12

STEP #4: TONING YOUR BODY

CHAPTER 13

NATURAL HEALINGS

CHAPTER 14

IMPROVE YOUR VISION

CHAPTER 15

CONCLUSIONS

APPENDIX-A

GUIDE TO HEALING MEDITATION

APPENDIX-B

HERBAL MEDICINE

To my nieces and nephews who inspire me to search for the meaning of my life, to my little Charlie who inspires me to ask the right questions as I’ve watched him who constantly asks why for anything, and to my students who have offered me the gift of their trust.

To Larry Wilder, the photographer author of the photos on the cover.

To Vicky Lyons, Director of Cornerstone Church Seniors Center, who has given me an opportunity to successfully conduct the Healthy Living Classes for the seniors. To the seniors that used my lessons to improve their lives and encouraged me to share mine.

To Joe Pfister, my table tennis coach, one of special friends, who read my draft version of the book and has encouraged me to publish it.

To David Johnston who spent hours to commenting my book.

And last but not the least to my mother, who gave me treasures and knowledge and love that cannot be described in books and words.

INTRODUCTION

WORDS FROM THE AUTHOR

WHY READ THIS BOOK?

Because this book is a good-news book that will show you how to:

•   Heal your pain and prevent chronic illnesses

•   Have a positive outlook in life

•   Lose 10 to 30 pounds around your belly in 60 days

•   Look sexy, feel gorgeous and up to 10 years younger than your biological age

•   Stay healthy for life

My name is Nhu-Ha Le. I promise you that reading my book will teach you the four simple steps to achieving the above objectives and much more, such as:

1.   How to use your mind to heal your pain and illnesses

2.   How to tune up your sluggish systems

3.   What to feed your body and mind

4.   How to tone your muscles

In this book you will learn to:

•   Recognize our world and its problems (Chapter 1—Our World)

•   Deal with stress and heal your pain by using your mind to communicate with your body, organs and cells (Chapter 2—What to Think Talk to Your Cells.)

•   Quick tips for better sleep to produce melatonin, the healer of the night (Chapter 3—Getting a Good Night Sleep)

•   Prevent diseases and disorders linked to inflammation (including cancer, diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis) by simply changing to healthy foods. (Chapter 4—What are Foods?)

•   Cleanse your sluggish system (Chapter 5—Cleansing)

•   Shop for phytonutrient rich foods and how much you have to eat (Chapter 6—Good Foods vs. Bad Foods)

•   Color code foods and what their health benefits are. (Chapter 7—Color coded Foods)

•   Learn about Vitamins and Minerals and their important role in our bodies (Chapter 8—Vitamins and Minerals)

•   Cook healthy meals and use herbal medicine in cooking (Chapter 9—Meal Preparation)

•   Learn about daily needs of the body (Chapter 10—Daily Consumption)

•   Learn simple ways to tone your muscles (Chapter 11—Toning Your Muscles)

•   Learn the natural ways to heal and prevent diseases (Chapter 12—Natural Healing) including ways to:

•   Recover from shoulder, joint and arthritis pain

•   Protect your liver

•   Reduce pain and hot flashes

•   Deal with stress

•   Prevent bone loss

•   Maintain a healthy mind

•   Heal minor aches and pain

•   Prevent lower back pain

•   Prevent the common cold

•   Improve your skin and look younger

•   Control your blood sugar

•   Prevent colon cancer

•   Prevent breast cancer

•   Lower your bad cholesterol and increase good cholesterol

•   Lower your high blood pressure

•   My secret way to improve your vision, eliminating the need

for glasses

•   Lastly, you can lose weight and keep it off for life

HEAL AND LIVE YOUNGER make this your lifestyle!

AUTHOR’S LIFE EXPERIENCES:

I’m the seventh of the eleven children of my mother. In Vietnamese, every name has some meaning. My mother named me Nhu-Ha; it means ‘why.’ I guess she questioned ‘Why’ the Catholic birth control method failed again and again. Ever since I learned to talk, I constantly asked why for any matter of life. I came to studying about health and diets at 48 when chronic illnesses touched me in an up close and personal way. All the solutions you find in this book were from my own experiences. They worked for me and I believe they will for you.

I was the seven of the eleven children of my mother. From birth until I was seven, I lived with both parents. I had a loving early childhood. My parents had promised to be there for each other, for ‘better and for worse.’ But when I was seven, they separated. I guessed my mother couldn’t get any worse, and my father couldn’t get any better, so six girls came and lived with my mother and the five older ones lived with my father. As I recalled my parents’ relationship . . . . it wasn’t all bad when they were together. It was only half bad because my father was only home half of the time.

I left my country as one of the people airlifted by the US C130 airplanes when the North Vietnamese Communists took over the South in 1975. I left behind my parents and all of my siblings; it took another fifteen years until I was able to reunite with them. I went to St. Gregory College at Shawnee Oklahoma for my Associates Degree in Pre-med. Then, I transferred to North Carolina State University (NCSU) to earn both my bachelors degrees in biochemistry and chemical engineering. Looking at my mother’s life, I decided to practice the Confucius Birth Control Method. Confucianism: You do not get pregnant if you do not screw with others. But I discovered that it’s not much fun sometimes.

To feel high, I loaded myself with 21 credit hours per semester when most of my friends were using LSD. I lived in a dormitory with an American roommate, but she barely knew I lived there because I left at 7:00 am while she was still in bed and came back after midnight when she was already asleep. When I would come back to my room, she would open her eyes and see me at my worst. I came from a different continent than my roommate, but for years she thought I came from a different planet. We never reconciled our differences. After three and a half years, I graduated with two degrees, one in biochemistry and another in chemical engineering.

I joined DuPont to dedicate my life to Uncle DuPy. I thought I found the job that I would love and would be there until retirement. I felt I was important. DuPont needed me and I was irreplaceable. Then I learned about corporate profit through one down size after another. I realized I was wrong when I was out of DuPont.

I took my experience and joined Monsanto, a DuPont competitor who hired me for what I knew about DuPont. Then, for next five years there they picked my brain for DuPont’s secrets. The working environment there was polluted from management to facility. There are many high hazardous substances (Chlorine, Benzyl Chloride, Toluene, PCl3, and Hydrochloric Acid etc) in that particular work place. Now I have come to realize how lucky I was to have left that hazardous environment before my brain was totally intoxicated. After leaving Monsanto, I decided to become an independent consultant as a planner in project management. My clients were Alcoa, Pfizer, and Federal Reserve Bank, to name a few.

I found consulting to be a challenging job because the clients hired me to make their unbelievable ideas a reality. Many were dreamers who called themselves leaders. I was a planner who drew them the road map to get to their destination. We accomplished great things. While the leaders dreamed, I acted on their behalf. I planned while they believed. When the unbelievable idea became everyone’s miracle, the leaders got all the credits. My name was never mentioned, but I was glad I did what I did.

This consulting job hurt my marriage in some ways. My first husband said I was too smart for him. I wasted another year of my life in therapy to get over this breakup. I learned that we all live alone in many ways, even when we’re intimate with someone else. For example, married couples talk on the average only 20 minutes per day (often much less). My therapy, costing $7500+, was only 100 hours or so; but life is over 600,000 hours. No scientist studies my life. No one knows as much about my life as I do. Thus, I’m not only my own therapist, but also my own researcher.

I thought I was more assertive and independent when I married my second husband. But my assertiveness and independence created some stress between us and also caused some loneliness. Growing up in a large family, I had never been alone until I got married the second time. I experienced many days and nights of being alone. We were in the same house, but we stopped talking with each other. He was like my college roommate. We decided to break the silence by divorcing.

I believe that there is a guy out there who is just right for me, a guy who doesn’t prefer reading the whole Sunday newspaper or searching the whole World Wide Web rather than sharing his time with me. Someone who is comfortable about his life, whose garlic breath doesn’t take away his charm, who doesn’t keep me awake by his thunderous snore, who can laugh with me at my silly jokes without a lot of explanations, and who loves his life and wants to share his with mine. Is it too much to ask for a millionaire with that kind of personality?

I was a mess after many years working over 60 hours per week absorbing high level of toxic chemicals in addition to the traumatic divorces. I was 15% overweight. At night I was tired and wired. I had trouble falling asleep. I felt groggy when I woke up. I had trouble concentrating and had frequent headaches. I often felt weak and shaky. I experienced numbness in both legs. My family doctor told me I had PMS and he gave me a hormone replacement. After several more visits I found myself taking many different drugs. Most of my life I have tried to say no to drugs on the street, but at forty-eight years old, I became a prescription drug user.

Our doctors have drugs for any symptom, but offer no real cure for the illness. Every drug has potential to cure one illness, but has a long list of side effects.

Not to minimize the advanced diagnostic equipments and great surgical procedures, I believe there is an alternative approach on how to achieve optimal health. Our advanced medicine is diagnosing and treating diseases but not offering a cure nor restoring our health. The percentage for mushrooms, herbs or plant that can hurt you is small, but the percentage for drugs to hurt you is significant. With all this in mind it made me determined to find a way to deal with my cholesterol level, numbness, mood swings and energy issues without prescription drugs.

I began to read and search for solutions to my illnesses. Finally, I found a simple way to lose weight, keep it off, get rid of illnesses and stay fit for life. I can’t wait to tell you how I did it because you can do it too. This book is my life experience of how I was suffering and recovering from chronic fatigue syndrome and other illnesses. My experience has given me more compassion for those who struggle with weight and chronic illnesses.

This book is my gift to you—I hope you will use it for your healing and health. You may not agree with all of my interpretations—But I belief it all to be truthful and honest. I have not written it for profit—All proceeds from the book are designed for donation.

Always consult your doctor for medical advice and treatment before starting any program.

CHAPTER 1

OUR EXISTING WORLD

NO ONE WANTS TO BE FAT!

I used to think that the formula for weight is simple: Eat less plus exercise more equals weight loss. I thought the only reason people couldn’t lose weight were:

—   They ate more than their body needed.

—   They are not motivated to exercise.

For many overweight and obese individuals, these explanations are overly simplistic. The truth is that nobody wants to be fat. Our bodies are genetically wired to make us gain weight and keep it on. My second husband grew up in a fat family except for his mother. If you look around, most obese people stick together and emotionally support each other as they are getting fatter. I guessed he was kind of accepting the way he was. His mother is an Italian woman who has the special genes which did not make her fat no matter what she ate or drank. She used a lot of butter and animal fats in looking and everyone loved her tasty foods. We are the creatures of habits and we are addicted to foods we used to eat. Sometimes we knew the foods were bad for our health, but we ate them any way. I grew up eating a lot of white flour such as white rice, rice noodles (PHO and BUNG) and I still have a craving for a bowl of rice noodle soup now and then.

First, I did not know which foods were good or bad for my metabolism, which foods raised my blood sugar level, which foods caused high cholesterol and which foods caused chronic illnesses. I used to think all foods prepared in the restaurants (including fast foods), and everything sold in the super market must be good. I was wrong. Not all foods prepared in the restaurants are good for your health. Most restaurants use butters, animal fats, and vegetable oils (Hydrogenated vegetable oil) in their cooking. In Asian cooking, sugars and MSG are used to enhance our tastes. The MSG (Monosodium glutamate) is a neuron stimulator. Your body has to get rid of this substance (as a toxin) and many people are allergic to it.

The food industry is spending a lot of advertising money to sell their products so they always say their products are good—with high sugars, sweeteners and transfats. All the while, we are getting fatter and sicker. Then I learned that not all fats are bad fats, and not all carbohydrates are good. The key to weight loss and staying healthy for life is to understand how your body and mind work and to know what foods are good for your body and what foods are not.

We need a certain amount of caloric intake just to keep the basic functions of our body operating. And then we need some additional calories to do things such as get out of bed and go to work. If you eat more calories then you burn, you will gain weight. This seems perfectly logical. But it is not true. Your body’s metabolism has a different burning rate for different types of food. For example, the sugar from a soda enters your blood very rapidly while the same amount of sugar from an apple enters your blood slowly. If you drink a soda and all the sugar in it goes into your bloodstream at once, the calories you are not using at that moment will be stored as fat. On the other hand, if you eat the apple and the sugar in them is absorbed over time, your body has the ability to make use of those calories. From 1970 to now, high fructose corn syrup has been added into most sodas, juices, cookies, cakes and candies. Fructose is not consumed by the cells and becomes a free radical and causes more health problems (see Carbohydrate).

The type of foods you eat has a big impact on what your genes tell your metabolism to do.

MOST DIETS FAIL

Most diets restrict our calorie intake and put us into starvation. The Atkins diets starve our body of green vegetables and fruits (the sources of our antioxidants). In the short term, you lose water and weight, but in the long term, this diet damages your kidneys and weakens your immune system. The basic amount of calories we need to get out of bed and move to our kitchen is equal to 10 times our weight in pounds. For example if you weight 150 pounds, you need 1500 calories.

I used to skip breakfast, work through lunch and return home in the evening only to eat everything I could find. Then I felt stuffed, sick and regretted ever entering the kitchen in the first place. The truth is that our body is built to put on weight and our body does not do well when we starve it. Each time we lose weight, only a half of what we lose is fats; the rest is our valuable active muscle because muscle cells burn 7 times more calories than fat cells. When we gain back the weight we gain more fat than muscle. With my new ways of eating, you will never starve your body and minimize the loss of your muscles.

OUR U.S. GOVERNMENT DOES NOT PROTECT OUR INTEREST

Since 1970, the U.S. government along with big corporations have promoted and added high fructose corn syrup to over 6,000 food products. Then the USDA has approved many sweeteners that are harmful to our health.

In 2005, the USDA encouraged Americans to adopt a balanced diet and designed a food pyramid showing that it’s healthy to eat 6 cups of grains (cereal, rice, crackers, bread and pasta), 5.5 cups of meat (beans), but only eating 2 cups of vegetables and 1 cup of fruit. This pattern of low fat and high