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Healthy Halloween Tips

Healthy Halloween Tips

By Dr. Mary Starr Carter

Healthy Halloween Tips:

1)    Frame your kids for how much candy they can eat during Halloween and each day afterwards.
2)    If you have will power go through the candy and freeze candy bars and treats in small portion size snack bags.
3)    Choose lower calorie treats like lollipops. Dum Dums or Organic Lollipops
4)    Be the Geek who gives out apples
5)    Play-Doh makes a Halloween Trick or Treat size you can give out.
6)    Family Video sells Video Rental Cards for a $1 each (great if you get a dozen or so trick or treaters)
7)    Make sure you kids have enzymes if they are going to eat all those carbohydrates like Essentialzyme-4   by Young Living
8)    Have Young Living's Peppermint oil on hand to rub on belly's that overeat
9)    Have your children drink lots of water during treat season
10)    THROW IT AWAY…. do you really need all that sugar poison… (of course this is my vote)

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Dr. Mary Starr Carter is known as the Total Wellness Doc. She has been training individuals about Natural Health Solutions for over 13 years. She is trained as a Chiropractor and has studied under the world’s foremost leaders in natural medicine. She is a mother and a wife and has created a balanced and total wellness life for herself and thousands of her clients using her simple wholistic approach to health and wellness. Her coaching, classes and ebooks help clients with Fibromyalgia, Hormone and Adrenal issues, Asthma, Diabetes, Weight problems, Thyroid and Chronic pain find resources and solutions to better health.

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Foundations of your Health Success

by Jay Carter 2 Comments

Foundations of Success

By Dr. Mary Starr Carter

Foundations of Success in our health come from small steps toward a future goal. Once we have reached that goal we must take daily actions to maintain our success.

Sounds simple enough right?! Success in most things can be simple but not easy. If it were easy we would have a majority population of fit, healthy and wealthy individuals.

When it comes to Health Success Foundations, the best examples come from the world's top Athletes. The top three foundations of their success are Habits, Routines and Self Discipline.

Let's be real and ask ourselves the following questions:

What Habits do I have that are good for my health?

What Habits do I have or don't have that are destructive to my health?

What Routines are health promoting for me?

What Routines are healthy for my family?

What areas of my life am I disciplined in a positive way?

What areas of my life do I need self discipline?

No one is perfect, that is not what this is about. It is about looking at ourselves honestly and giving ourself praise for what we do do good and get real with what we aren't.

Some of may be feeling like you don't even know the answers to these questions. You may need another set of eyes to help you see the positive in your life and areas you need to improve.

Let me suggest a 30 minute Wellness Coaching Session to help you Begin on the Road to Health. Click here for more info: http://www.thetotalwellnessdoc.com/wellness-coaching

Routine: Every person and family will have a different routine, but routines are a foundation of success. What time do you wake up, go to bed, when do you study, when do you eat, how often do you eat….. and the list goes on.

When it comes to your health having a routine of food and fitness is important. But so is having some weekly or even daily me time, fun time, family time, couple time, and God time.

I learned having a routine for my children is extremely important to their health. Starting when they are an infant.

What routines are best for you? What routine do you think you might want to test out for the next few weeks to see if it is a fit for you? What routines are you ready to implement?

Habits: In Stephen Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People his 7th Habit includes Sharpening the Saw. This means preserving and enhancing the best asset you have YOU.

There are many Health Habits we can adopt including:

Drinking 1/2 our body weight in oz of water per day

Exercising daily

Speaking Kindness and Love over our body and about ourselves

What are some Healthy habits you can adopt to Sharpen your Saw?

They say it takes 21 days to set a habit. I agree and suggest to my clients to start with a 30 day goal. This leaves room for rest days and other things that might come up in our lives.

Habits and Routines all have 1 thing in common….. they all need

Self Discipline otherwise known as Self Control.

Self Control: Self Discipline and Self Control may be hard words to hear. When we think of the word discipline some of us might cringe or want to run away because of harsh upbringing or perfection standards.

I see clients who lack these foundations most of the time and then I also see clients who take this concept to the extreme thinking that perfection will come from strick standards on self. Both of these concepts can cause Physical and Emotional issues.

I want to leave you with a different picture of Self Control. This belief is my belief and although you don't have to agree I hope you will be open enough to just think about it.

In the Bible it clearly states that Self Control is a gift of the Holy Spirit to us. A gift to overcome our fleshy unmotivated and sometimes gluttonous bodies. Did you ever think about praying to God to help you overcome Food Addictions, the lack of motivation to exercise, even to help you to wake up at 5am and feel rested.

Really Dr. Mary? Yes I have seen it in my own life and many others. Simple things like feeling fully rested on a few hours sleep to miraculous things where clients have radically been delivered from addiction of alcohol, drugs or even sugar. It is real. God can do all things we just have to ASK and BELIEVE!

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Dr. Mary Starr Carter has worked with thousands of clients from terminally ill and chronic diseases to those who are healthy and want vibrant health. She has counseled hundreds of families who had given up hope find simple safe solutions. Known as the Total Wellness Doc she looks at all aspects of health to help someone overcome disease. She specializes in difficult cases like Fibromyalgia, Hormone and Adrenal issues, Asthma, Diabetes and Chronic pain.

Sugar Addiction: My Story

by Claudi 2 Comments

I am a sugar addict!

I come from an Italian family where food and desserts are just part of your culture. Every birthday, holiday, get together is centered around food and desserts. I also grew up where dessert was an every night thing instead of a occasional treat.

My sugar addiction really grew when I was 9 years old and candy, cookies and ice cream were my weekly reward for having a good piano class. I grew to associate sugary treats with a job well done.

When I got my license and a job OHHH Boy did we run wild. Ice Cream Flurry's, getting food here and there, celebrating with food, using food as a filler when we were bored, or if were upset. Later when more stress came into my life sugar seemed to help that too.

I never looked at food for it's purpose FUEL. Although I never had an eating disorder I definitely had some food dysfunction.

In college I had my first wake up call to what I was doing to my body. I suffered from allergies, insomnia, and headaches all of which my sugar addiction contributed to.

It was about my 4^th trimester in Chiropractic School after spending over a year intimately understanding the human body and physiology I learned that sugar could be just as harmful as cigarettes or alcohol. YIKES. Tooth decay, pancreas, liver, and even brain damage, digestive stress, heart disease, obesity and the list goes on..

In 2009 the Journal of Nutrition published research showing sugar is addictive. It also showed that bingeing on sugar can cause withdrawal symptoms and cravings. The behavioral effects are similar to the neurochemical changes in the brain that also occur with addictive drugs like heroine and morphine.

Bingeing on sugar literally can increase your endorphins or happy hormones…. but it is short lived. Just like many drugs sugar will bring you high and then you quickly fall low and stay in a blood sugar low until spiked back up again by feeding the sugar monster. This process of up and down is extremely damaging to the body and actually makes you age faster than if you did not have these constant highs and lows. It is also a major cause of depression or what I like to call the Sugar Blues.

Once I understood what sugar was doing to my body I started to use Nutritional Supplements and Therapeutic Essential oils to break my sugar habit. One product that totally helped me get through the afternoon cravings was NingXia Red . I would take one or two ounces of NingXia Red and I had no desire for a cookie or candy bar. NingXia Red is a fruit juice that is fortified with natural vitamins and minerals plus it has 18 amino acids. Those amino acids helped me to maintain my blood sugar and not crave the sweets. Interestingly that today if I don't do my NingXia Red I will start to crave the sugar's again.

As I believe that Total Wellness is Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual I also addressed the emotional reasons for eating sugar, and had an amazing spiritual deliverance experience that helped me break the sugar addiction. Today even when I fall off the wagon for weeks or even months it no longer has the hold on me it once did.

My clients especially Fibromyalgia and pain clients do exceptionally well with a very low sugar diet. Spiking blood sugar also causes inflammation and pain in the body.

Today I know when I fall off my nutritional regimen and am not getting all the vitamins and minerals I need I will start craving sugar. Or if I let myself have sugar day after day it will weaken my body to the point I will want it every day again.

Right now, May 31^st 2011 I am in that sugar cycle again but I have committed to release sugar for 90 days. Not an easy task. We will talk about in another blog all the hidden places sugar hides in your diet.

I am committed to quit. Now I will do natural sugars but I will limit those too. I know I will be successful because I have done it in the past. I have more ambition right now because there is a little life growing in my belly. It has been proven in women who eat a lot of sugar during their pregnancies their children will grow up to have sugar preferences too. I am not going to set my child up for a life of bad health. I am ready to take control of my health how about you?

If you are serious about releasing sugar or other food addictions I encourage you to visit Dr. Starr's website Wellness Coaching

and enroll in our Web Coaching program.