Nancy Deville's Blog

How To Quit Caffeine and Other Bad Things

ns — Sun, 13 May 2012 18:30:36 +0000

Every addiction has similarities, as they are all stimulants. Stimulants rev your adrenals and speed up the messages between your brain and body. At first it’s fun to live with the high of stimulants. But eventually you find yourself needing your fix more often to get the same effect. That’s why people can rarely drink one caffeinated beverage a day. READ MORE

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Express Gratitude and Your Life Will Flourish

ns — Sun, 13 May 2012 15:29:30 +0000

It’s so neat that we live in a time when simple healing methods like gratitude are actually being studied in major universities by brainiacs (UC Davis, for example). This type of attention is necessary to bring awareness to what the ancient sages and swamis already knew. Self love, appreciation and gratitude are key components to living a happy, quality life.

One study required participants to write week journals for two months expressing their gratitude. It turns out that these people exercised more, suffered fewer physical ailments, were in better moods about life in general, and were more optimistic about their futures. But in fact, they actually progressed toward significant personal goals in their careers, relationships, and health.

Another group was asked to just write down the mundane—what they did lists—including all the hassles. They did not experience any sort of positive uplift, nor did they make any positive progress in their lives.

In another study, people were instructed in exercises to express gratitude. Soon they were reporting increased alertness, enthusiasm, determination, attentiveness, and energy. They were inspired and happy to help someone else with a personal problem, and offer emotional support to another.

The group that was instructed to focus on hassles and comparing themselves as being superior socially to others, felt zip. They had no interest in helping other people.

There is even research done with people suffering from neuromuscular disease, in which a three week “gratitude intervention” left them with energetic and positive moods, an increased sense of feeling connected to others, more optimistic, and with improvements in sleep. The control group experienced none of these benefits.

Begin today to express gratitude. Stand in front of the mirror and tell yourself how much you appreciate yourself, your life, your partner, your family, and everything else you can think of. Say it WHILE SMILING at yourself.

Peace, Fun, Love.

Your girlfriend in health,

Shattering the Herbivore Myth

ns — Fri, 11 May 2012 16:53:24 +0000

Olga asked me to comment on this Huff Post, “Shattering the Meat Myth.” Oh Gosh, I’m so done with these vegetarian arguments. If people want to listen to “scientific evidence” that we have hands that can grab fruits and that we are like apes (FYI apes eat insects, and chimpanzees occasionally eat each other) then that’s their choice. We’re not like herbivores (they have an enzyme that turns brush, grasses and other plants into protein, humans do not have that enzyme). Plants and fruits do not make things (cells, tissues, hormones, and so on) and so if you eat vegan/vegetarian when you’re young, you’ll do okay as long as you have enough lean body mass for your body to cannibalize for a while. In other words, your body, in desperation, is going to break down your bones and muscle mass to get the proteins (amino acids) it needs for ongoing metabolic repair and rebuilding.

Can you get healthier if you stop eating factory food and switch to real plant foods? Yes, definitely. Dean Ornish the big plant-eating proponent has lots of success with helping former factory food gobbling people get healthier. That’s because he switches them from an utterly toxic diet of factory poisons to real veggies. Without the toxic spill every day, of course they are going to improve. But the big thing is that he also gets people to stop smoking, exercise, lower stress, yoga, breathing, positive imagery, quit caffeine, and meditate. Then they can stop the onslaught of all their drugs. There, you’ve got a big improvement.

But what’s going to happen to all these people in the long run when they are depriving their bodies of proteins and fats?

The big goal is to build up more than you break down. Your metabolic processes are going all the time. At one point, without having building supplies (the biochemicals human beings are made out of) you’re going to break down way too much and you’re going to have major health problems. Every single clinical nutritionist I’ve spoken with has told me horror stories about vegetarians and vegans, and their often intractable health problems.

The big concern is that we are torturing animals to eat them, and that’s not right. There are people like Temple Granlin who are trying to change this. And we can all do our part in changing the ranching system in this country by being aware of our sources of animal foods.

You have ONE body and ONE chance to make it through this life in good health. You owe it to yourself to give your body what it needs. Seriously consider whom you’re listening to. Because these celebrities who are spouting all this vegan nonsense are the same people who are talking about saving the earth while they’re shopping their hearts out on mega carbon footprint items day in and day out. Our world is a mess and part of that mess is that the animals we are eating are not left to roam. That doesn’t change human physiology. If you have ANY doubt read THE VEGETARIAN MYTH by Lierre Keith. You owe it to yourself.

In the meantime, I wish vegans and vegetarians well. I’m not in the business of zealotry with the accompanying lashing out, hatred and vitriol. I’m in the business of helping people lead balanced, quality lives so they can make it all the way to a peaceful end.

Peace, Fun, Love.

Your girlfriend in health,

Foods to Eat and Other Ways To Improve Your Skin

ns — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:37:28 +0000

There are a bunch of things you can do to keep your skin pretty and to reverse free radical, sun, smoking, and nutritional damage to your skin. READ MORE

When a Sex Slave Turns Up at Your Front Door

ns — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:34:14 +0000

When I was 18 years old in 1968, I hitchhiked from Europe across the Middle East to the subcontinent of India. Of course I stopped at The Pudding Shop in Istanbul, which was what the hippies called Lale Restaurant. It was across the street from the Byzantine Hippodrome, where politics met sport for 500 years of brutal and barbaric games. At The Pudding Shop, while eating my rice pudding, I met an American girl who was on her way back from Katmandu. “Be careful about white slavery on the road,” she told me solemnly. I really didn’t know what white slavery meant but it sounded like harems and incarceration and being raped by old, fat men wearing caftans. “I’ll be careful,” I promised. READ MORE

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Weight Loss Made Easy – Listen to the interview

ns — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:42:02 +0000

Nancy Deville with Stacey Powells on KMMT Radio
Exhausted Parent
January 26, 2012
Weight Loss Made Easy

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Fourteen Weight Loss Do’s

ns — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:23:23 +0000

Rather than try and fail at another diet this new year, why not take a more strategic approach by making your goal optimal health? I believe that the human body desires to be well — and that includes being at a healthy weight. Let’s consider fourteen do’s to pave the way for you to be successful in your quest to burn that fat. READ MORE

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Celebrate a Little Victory Every Day

ns — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:02:22 +0000

We all have slumps, which can actually be a good thing if we take advantage of our down time. My recent slump started when I injured my back doing yoga — which turned into five weeks of back spasms. During that time, I got two colds in a row. It was six weeks of a pared-down social life and way too much alone time, sniffling with a heating pad. I recovered and got back on my bike and into yoga class. But while I was slowed down I had had a lot of time to think. READ MORE

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Questioning The Calorie In/Calorie Out Theory of Weight Loss!

ns — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:43:04 +0000

The basic premise of the New York Times magazine New Year’s cover story “Fat Trap” by Tara Parker-Pope is, “once we become fat, most of us, despite our best efforts, will probably stay fat.”

Tara Parker-Pope came to this conclusion after exploring numerous clinical findings that dieting causes metabolic and hormonal changes, and that genetic variants tend to run in fat families. (She admits that these genetic predispositions are not always found in overweight people.) READ MORE

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Do Women Need Girlfriends?

ns — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:43:25 +0000

There’s nothing that makes you feel more warm and fuzzy than a girlfriend who will do anything for you. Girlfriends offer consolation and advice on subjects ranging from straightening frizzy hair to dealing with family, falling in love to finding a career, managing weight to boosting self-esteem and so on ad infinitum. Inside jokes, secret languages, romantic comedies, fashion, home decorating, makeup, stain removal, relationship recovery — it’s all more fun with girlfriends. READ MORE

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