Forget cholesterol counts. Forget calories and fat grams. Forget blood pressure, blood sugar, hormone levels or any other markers of health you're used to hearing about. If you want to lose weight and prevent or reverse diseases like diabetes, heart disease and even cancer, you can follow the guidelines in The pH Miracle. Dr Robert Young and his wife, Shelley, reveal a revolutionary diet and lifestyle program that unlocks the secrets of pH balance and of food as a healer, restorer, balancer and life-giver. They illustrate that the single most important measurement of your health is the pH of your blood and tissues - how acidic or alkaline they are. In fact, the entire metabolic process depends on an alkaline environment and chronic over-acidity corrodes body tissue. The pH miracle shows readers simply and clearly how to get a balanced system with a proven program that explains how to eat optimally for health and weight loss. You'll learn which foods to eat, which foods can be combined safely, which should be eaten alone, which should be avoided altogether and which supplements can help. In just weeks, you'll have more energy, a stronger immune system and will shed pounds and inches. At the other end of the health spectrum, the yeast and fungus produced within an overly acidic body can feed on your nutrients and reduce the chemical and mechanical absorption of everything you eat by as much as 50%. This causes many people to become excessively thin, which is no healthier than becoming overweight. Without protein, your body cannot rebuild new tissues or produce enzymes, hormones, or hundreds of other chemical components necessary for cell energy and organ activity. Fatigue, illness, and body weight changes are the results. An underweight person may loose a little more weight as their body chemistry stabilises. As their body normalises, they will begin to gain towards their ideal weight.

Healthy bodies are not overweight or underweight. A healthy body naturally maintains its own ideal weight. You can begin to restore health, balance, and harmony to your body with Innerlight Brand products. As alkalising and oxygenation begins to take place, the body naturally begins to seek its own ideal weight.

Dr. Young has found that when the body is in a healthy alkaline balance, germs are unable to get a foothold.

Think of your body as a fish tank. Think of the importance of maintaining the internal fluids of the body that we “swim” in daily. Imagine the fish in this tank are your cells and organ systems bathed in fluids, which transport food and remove wastes.

Now imagine we back up a car and put the tailpipe up against the air intake filter that supplies the oxygen for the water in the tank. The water becomes filled with carbon monoxide, lowering the alkaline pH, creating an acidic pH environment, and threatening the health of the “fish”, your cells and organs.

What if we throw in too much food or the wrong kind of food (acid-producing food like dairy, sugar, and animal protein) and the fish are unable to consume or digest it all, and it starts to decompose and putrefy? Toxic acid waste and chemicals build up as the food breaks down, creating more acidic by products, altering the optimum alkaline pH.

Basically, this is a small example of what we may be doing to our internal fluids every day. We are fouling them with pollution, smoking, drugs, excessive intake of food, over-consumption of acid-forming foods, and any number of transgressions which compromise the delicate balance of our internal alkaline fluids.

A chronically over-acidic pH corrodes body tissue. If left unchecked, it will interrupt all cellular activities and functions, from the beating of your heart to the neural firing of your brain. In summary, over-acidification interferes with life itself leading to all sickness and disease!

By drinking alkalising green drinks and following an alkaline diet, you may start to notice a difference in your energy levels. The nutrient and fibre rich formula helps to gently pull the body from an acid state to an increasingly healthy alkaline state.

"Your Foundation For Life". Contains larger packs of green powder and pH highly alkalising drops. Also contains sprouted soya powder which is nutrient rich, high in protein, antioxidant, anti-fungal and immune enhancing; and other drops, made up of Co-Enzyme Q1, a strong antioxidant which does the scavenging of free radicals better than any other biological substance known to the body, Silica, which has the unique ability to transmutate into calcium, strengthening nails, healing fractures faster and re-calcifying bones and teeth, as well as Silver, which covers a broad spectrum, shown to be necessary for cellular regeneration and accelerating healing.

Dr. Young’s book, The pH Miracle, is also available from us at £8.99.

Do you know any health orientated, business-minded people who may be interested in becoming a distributor? They would be able to purchase at wholesale prices and be “in at the start” here in the UK! A great opportunity! For more information, contact Juliet at Herbs, Gardens & Health on 01843 600201 or log on to our website at www.herbsgardenshealth.com.

There is a link “Alkalise Your Body For Optimum Health”, from the home page to take you to the “Alkalise for Health” page. Read through the information, then click on the link at the bottom to go to my Alkalising Product website to find out more.

Why not try some yourself, now?

Children back to school? Are they concentrating? Need a little help? Efamol’s best selling formula, Efalex™ provides fatty acids for brain and eye function. Scientific research has shown that good nutrition is important for all aspects of brain function. A diet that includes a combination of certain fatty acids can play a vital role in the development of vision, learning ability and co-ordination.
Essential fatty acids, like vitamins, cannot be made in the body and so must be included in the diet. They play a part in energy production, metabolism, nerve cell and eye membranes, transmission of messages along nerves and the development of memory.
Efalex is suitable for adults and children from the age of two and costs £18.49 for 240 capsules. 2-4 daily.

We are one of only four stores in Kent who are stocking it at the moment. It has only recently arrived from America. It is unique in that it is “thinner”, having smaller molecules, offering better hydration for the body.
TeamPenta, the UK suppliers, say, “Penta is specially designed to deliver and sustain hydration to your cells; then toxic inflammatory fluids are exchanged for the new, clean water. When your physiology moves towards normalisation, pain often is relieved and healing takes place. We have received a significant amount of testimonial evidence from our customers that suggests Penta helps:

Enhance athletic performance, Increase blood oxygen, Reduce/eliminate oedema, Increase circulation, Neutralise free radicals, Improve digestion, Augment the taste of food and other beverages, Enable fast recovery after exercise, Constipation relief, Acute Rheumatoid Arthritis relief, Improve weight loss, Reduce uric acid crystals, Jet lag reduction or elimination, Relieve Psoriasis and Eczema, Enable oral ingestion of 40,000mg of Vitamin C - normally limited to 8,000 mg, Fast recovery after surgery, Reduce/eliminate plaque and tartar, Reverse periodontal disease,
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome relief, Allergy relief, Fibromyalgia relief, Reduce/eliminate Asthma, Reduce/eliminate yeast and bladder infections, Reduce/eliminate heart medication, Rejuvenate skin and Relieve some symptoms of MS. Disclaimer: The US Food & Drug Administration has not evaluated these claims. This product is not intended for the prevention, cure or treatment of any disease.”
Penta Water is not cheap, at £1.50 for only 500ml, but most customers who have tried it have returned for more. For further information, we have free leaflets and CD’s, or log on at www.teampenta.co.uk.

Triphala 60 caps-£6.45:
Triphala is standardised for its Tannin content.
Trifala helps maintain overall health by harmonising digestive functions and cleanses the stomach. Triphala is a combination of three well known myrobalans - Amla , Harad and Bahera. These three fruits help in smooth functioning of bowel and relieve the condition of constipation.
Usage: Internal cleansing and rejuvenation of the body. Known as a safe and mild laxative. Improves the digestive system, regulates bowel movements and supports the nutritional status of the body.
Health Benefits:
Clinical studies confirm the efficacy of Trifala as rasayana (imparting longevity, immunity and body resistance)
Useful for treating chronic constipation
Regulating digestion
Bowel regulation
Rejuvenator
Antioxidant actions
Hepatoprotective
Helps circulation
Adapotogenic
Immunomodulator
Trifala water is recommended in Ayurveda as an eye wash to relieve eye diseases.

Fireworks seem to start earlier each year and carry on till well after 5th November. They can cause much anguish for many pets and their owners.
Dorwest Herbs, known for their stalls at dog shows, recommend their Scullcap & Valerian tablets, which can be used on a daily basis or when required for specific occasions or situations. 1-2 tablets should be given daily, per 5kgs of bodyweight. They cost £6.60 for 100 tablets. They also do Valerian Compound drops, “To Calm & Relax”, with Vervain and Mistletoe, also to be used for those occasions when “over the top” behaviour may be a problem. The drops can be added to feed or dropped directly into the mouth. A few drops may be placed directly onto cat’s bedding to help relaxation. They cost £8.10 for 30ml. Lavender oil can help pets to relax and sleep, too, the same as it can for humans.
Also, don’t forget a few drops of Bach Rescue Remedy in the drinking water.

Do you know that we stock the full range of all 38 Bach Flower Remedies? They no longer come in 10ml bottles, they are all 20ml. They cost £5.65 each, which is better value in the long run. Rescue Remedy, however, still comes in 10ml bottles at £3.95 each, or 20ml at £5.95. There is also a 20ml Rescue Remedy spray at £6.49, convenient to keep in your handbag or pocket, to spray in your mouth when required, for it’s calming, comforting and reassuring effect. Rescue Remedy Cream is available in a 30ml tube at £4.15.

And, for an extra special Christmas present idea, available to order is the Full Professional Boxed Set, containing one 20ml bottle of each of the 38 individual remedies, two 10ml Rescue Remedies and two treatment bottles for £240.00. Get those orders in now!

 Artisan Bread is back on the menu, now that the bakers are back from holiday. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the range, it is yeast-free, most varieties are wheat-free and it’s only baked to order. We have to order it a week in advance; Wednesday for the following Wednesday. Please ask us for a price list.
Bread Machine’s: We have a list of the wide range of different types of flour available to us, including those for special diets. Please ask. Our suppliers change their stock lists every month or so, so let us know what you are looking for, and we’ll see if we can get it. That goes for ALL our product ranges.
Winter Protection
Don’t forget to start boosting your immunity ready for Winter: Vitamin C and Echinacea are on the menu, and we now stock Sambucol, from Elderberries, for adults and children.