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The new name for the old product nutrisweet, made from aspartame is now AminoSweet. 

It is a host of products:

6000 foods, soft drinks, chewing gum, diet foods/drinks, breakfast cereals, vitamins, prescription and over the counter drugs, table top sweetners, Diabetic foods, jams/sweets…

Here’s a short list of reported symptoms:

Headache, change in vision, convulsions and seizures, hallucinations, nausea and vomitting, joint pain, depression, brain tumors, stimulate brain mechanisms to over-eat, increased risk of metabolic syndrome (higher blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar)

So you choose ! Do you want to have the same old symptoms from a new name ?

In Health & Service,

Dr. Roland Phillips

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There was a recent article in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology that 47% of women who received the Depo-Provera shot lost significant bone mass in their hips within two years.  It seems it’s not nice to try to fool with  mother nature and medical therapies that seek to control physiology ALWAYS come with dire risk.   The study also found that smoking, never being pregnant and poor calcium consumption heightened the risk.

If you follow the 6 essential choices we monitor in B.E.S.T. and Morter Health System, most of the risk factors are eliminated.  Every choice we make has consequences, either health enhancing or disease promoting.  The problem with our conscious mind is we come up with excuses, rationalizations, projections, denials and justifications, all which seem positive to us, but in reality only legitimize a disease mentality.   For a more natural form of contraception, one could choose the symptothermal method, which has a 95% rate of predictability of fertility, with NO, I repeat NO negative health consequences.

In Health & Service,

Dr. Roland Phillips

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In a recent study from The American Journal of Medicine, it was found that analgesics contributed in a major way to hearing dysfunction.  Aspirin (increased 33%), NSAIDS (61%) and lastly acetaminophen’s (99%).  So if you’re taking Aspirin, Tylenol, or Motrin, at least 2 times a week, you are at grave risk.

However, lets look deeper at this phenomenon of pain, inflammation and hearing loss from a Holistic/Full Person perspective.  Pain- what is it, it is a response to a stimulus or event, yet more likely it is a response to a habit I have developed.  The same is true for inflammation.  So what I’m saying is that at some point in time of my development I learned something improperly, and the result is pain and inflammation.  And many times as males, we’ve been taught to be “good little soldiers” and grin and bear it, not learning the lesson in our 6 essential choices, “not listening”,  until perhaps a big “wake-up call’ occurs.  It’s something to contemplate the next time you go for the painkiller.  You may be slowly killing yourself.  Or you could just listen to wisdom, change and develop a new habit for health!

In Health & Service,

Dr. Phillips

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I recently commented on obesity, BMI, disease and change.  The action steps are simple, yet we are the most obese nation on the planet!  That leads me to conclude we are the most “in denial”, full of excuses (well thought out lies), nation, when it comes to the Truth about health care.

Health is not about a pill, procedure, drug, surgery or vice.  Health is about making self honoring choices and a willingness to move from vice to virtue.  Here are a few well documented steps to follow through on once you have decided in your heart to honor yourself, and no longer believe in the excuses you have been programmed to believe.

1.  Find a picture in your life experience of joy or happiness and journal on this in great detail.

2. Every time you experience physical hunger, or the “urgent” knee jerk desire to eat; focus on your picture and emotion, until you feel different and repeat to yourself ” I am grateful & thankful for joy in my life and I act only on my joy”.

3. Find a naturally flavored, sugar and soy free protein powder ( whey , rice, pea, hemp – i.e. Alka Slim)

4. Add Omega 3-6-9; flax seed, chia seed and antioxidant rich fruits & veggies ( berries, Alka Green powder etc.)

5. For taste & good fat try adding coconut milk to shake.

6. Add Trace Minerals; you won’t taste it.

7. Substitute a shake 2 x a day for meals.

8. Drink Green tea. It is high in antioxidants and can increase metabolism. 2-3 quarts per day. Much hunger is thirst.

9. Walk 20-30-50 minutes per day, 5 days a week.

10. Take chest, hip, and thigh measurements or BMI and remeasure in 6 weeks. You’ll be very pleased with the results.

Email me your results: dr.phillips@desertdove.com

In Health & Service,

Dr. Roland F. Phillips

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According to Vasselsen, Nilsen and Associates from the Norwegian Hunt Study there is an association between physical exercise, body mass index ( % of body far v lean muscle mass) and the risk of Fibromyalgia.  I would add heart disease, stroke, type II diabetes, arthritis, auto immune disease, etc.  The study found that women who are overweight or obese have a much greater risk of Fibromyalgia than women who are not overweight or obese and exercise.

The National Institutes of Health recently published information stating 66% of Americans are overweight and 30% are obese.  Children of 12 years of age are now presenting with type II diabetes and 17% of children 2-19 year old are obese.

The American Association of Clinical Endocrinology states the BMI as the primary indication for disease and death. As BMI increases so does disease and mortality.

I’ve written many blogs on exercise, diet and attitude changes.  My question to you is – If you are in this boat, when will you honor and respect yourself enough to be willing to change, before it’s too late!

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Technically no. There is no natural treatment for any specific disease. There are allopathic- symptom based procedures, even in the natural/wholistic community; however the natural approach is to support the body’s normal functioning, remove obstacles to healing and to coach the client to not repeat the habits that created the need for the symptoms in the first place.

That being said, lets get back to diverticulitis. A diverticuli, a small pouch-like herniation, can occur anywhere in the digestive track( large & small intestine, stomach, esophagus).  They tend to be asymptomatic, except when they get inflamed, which can lead to pain, nausea, fever and IBS.  What is interesting is diverticulitis first started to accelerate in the over 50 population, around the time of processed foods becoming prevalent in American culture (1900′s). Low fiber diets, denatured processed food high in animal products are all major contributing factors.  Emotions such as guilt, unresolved grief, defensive posturing and a strongly dogmatic attitude can also predispose the colon to functional weakness.

A simple format for dis-creating the need for diverticula are as follows:

- increase water in the diet

-increase fiber in the form of veggies/fruits, bran and freshly ground flax seed

-increase dark leafy vegetables

-increase whole grains and nuts

-have a live and let live attitude; be ok releasing what is not in your charge, (basically everything outside your skin), and take charge of your choices with peace and joy

- REMEMBER HOW GOOD YOU ARE

In Health & Service

Dr. Roland F. Phillips

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Without getting into the politics of control, lets look at the real issue. Are we really talking about health care? Can you legislate health care? Whose responsibility is it for health? Who is responsible when we reap natural consequences of violating natural laws?

From my point of view as a practicing physician for over 25 years, with tens of thousands of clients, the answer is YOU as a consumer are responsible for your health, your choices and your consequences. The real issue being debated is should you and I pay for other peoples choices and consequences? Especially when those consequences are meant to be uncomfortable to help us make better choices next time.

The systems of the human body are intelligently designed. Part of that design is negative feedback to choices and habits that are not healthy. What I’m saying; we’re debating and legislating control.

Allopathic care (medicine and any therapies that seeks to regulate, change, control, manipulate body physiology – symptoms) is emergency and disease control. A fantastic tool to save a life, yet fails when it comes to the majority of true health issues – in that for a person to heal they must address the cause of their symptoms, which is never an external agent; it is their habits that affect their physiology, immunity, and regulatory systems. So allopathic care is about controlling people who on their own have poor self control in some area of their life.

As a health care provider I coach, demonstrate, empower and hold accountable my clients and their choices. As their habits improve so does their health – making emergency care, hospital stay and drug dependency drastically reduced. Current scientific literature, Hippocrates (remember Hippocratic Oath?) and philosophic beliefs for millennia support whole health as a viable option to allopathic-emergency care.

Self control and virtue are healing, whereas vice tends to be temporarily gratifying yet in the end self-destructive for an individual, and yes, for a nation.

In Health & Service,

Dr. Roland Phillips

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The Foundation: Wellness Opportunity Workshop

- 6 essential choices for health

- 2 minds

- 3 causes for ill health

- demonstration of care

- bring a friend for $5 Desert Dove Bucks

- new clients receive a discount on care

January 11th, February 9th, April 6th, May 4th, June 8th

Tools for Success: What You Eat/Drink

- acid + alkaline foods

- your pH: potential for health

- alkaline design/acid function = take charge now

- the liver cleanse: 1^st stop to health

- the 4 body types of weight loss

January 26th, April 20th

Goal Setting – The Secret Source of Success

- taught nationwide

- the 5 step process to achieving your dreams

- buzzing

- how to begin & end your day

- Goal Setting exercise

February 2nd, June 1st

Tools for Success: Exercise & Breath – A Formula For Success

- exercise + your hormones: what to eat/drink before during & after

- aerobic & anaerobic – when, where, and when not

- how to design your own training program for fitness & weight loss

- abdominal breathing: brain and body changes in minutes

February 23rd, May 18th

Tools for Success: Thoughts – The Hidden Most Important Choice You Make Daily

- what the ‘bleep’ do you really know?

- M-Power March

- 5 steps of forgiveness

- your word as a lesson

- your word as a living affirmation

March 23rd, June 22nd

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