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Rx: Change your unhealthy lifestyle

By Christine S. Dayrit
Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Change your unhealthy lifestyle,” admonished Jeannie Goulbourn, as she magnani-mously shared her noble advocacies with our group of weekend wellness seekers at the Detox and Digestive Clean Up activity last Sept. 22-23 held at the luxurious Discovery Suites in Ortigas.
I was invited to join this special event by our dear family friends Milette and Miguel Belmonte. My close pal since childhood, it was a real treat to spend quality time with Milette. The gracious couple are the favorite godchildren of my late parents.

I remember the last words to us children of our parents, who both died of lung cancer 10 years ago, 20 days apart. At ages 59 and 60 respectively, Mom and Dad were completely driven workaholics, who worked long hours, skipped meals, consumed a lot of canned food, and didn’t acquire a taste for healthy cuisine.
When Mom started to have successive headaches, 27 doctors from our local hospitals misdiagnosed her and prescribed unnecessary medication that aggravated her suffering. It was at Stanford Hospital in California where the doctors told us that Mom had terminal lung cancer and had only 12 weeks to live. They told us there was nothing more they could do for her and suggested we resort to natural medicine like herbal, natural or alternative types. Six months later, Dad’s cancer was diagnosed, also in the fourth stage but spreading faster than Mom’s. My parents may have accomplished their goals, but the quality of their health deteriorated beyond repair. They relied on western medicine, which in the end told them to resort to natural medicine. Why did they have to wait too long to find this out? Perhaps, if they had lived healthier and given more value to a better quality of life, they would still be around today. Just like Natasha, Jeannie’s precocious and vivacious daughter whose severe depression could have been avoided if not for the wrong medication she took.

Moving forward, Jeannie revealed that she once had fever for 60 days. Lethargic, short of breath, weak from unceasing fever and depressed from the steroids she was prescribed, she sought remedies to cure her ailments and found the answer in holistic healing methods that involved detoxification of the mind, body, and soul.
At the next Wellness Workshop slated Oct. 27-28, guests learned the history of cleansing in different cultures, emotion and how it affects health, the importance of cleansing and detoxification, and beauty: inside and out. Lectures like nutritional therapy by Dale Flores, practical approach to healing by Dr. Ricky Soler, integrative medicine by Dr. Madeleine Valera, and breathing and meditation with Jeannie Javelosa were truly enlightening. For me, the results were magical.

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