Nurture Your Own

Each year on May 31, the World Health Organization celebrates “World No Tobacco Day,” a day that WHO uses to highlight the risks of smoking and to advocate for effective policies to reduce tobacco consumption. This year, the theme is TOBACCO-FREE YOUTH.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), “Young people are aggressively targeted by the tobacco industry which spends billions of dollars each year marketing its products.” To protect the world’s youth from experimenting with tobacco and becoming regular users, this year’s campaign calls for a ban on all forms of tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship.”

Even if you are a smoker, stub it out just for 31 May 2008. After all, I’m sure you know all the harmful effects of tars and nicotine. Anyway, stopping one day won’t kill you, in fact it will help you to lower these risks in 24 hours.

• Risk of a heart attack reduces
• The lungs start to be cleared of mucous and toxins

If you want to know more about benefit of quit smoking, click here as this article listed the goodness from 20 minutes to 5 years.

It is with great pleasure that I introduce our newest writer, Dr. Bob Koh. He is the first medical doctor who has agreed to share his experience regularly at NurtureYourOwn.

Dr Bob Koh has been in health education and wellness consultation for more than 30 years. His original focus was on healthy diet and proper food preparations, as many people do eat their way into hospitals, unintentionally, of course.

In 1989, Bob was diagnosed for severe liver problems and his doctor told his family that he had only 6 months to live!

Refusing to give up, he retired for rehabilitation and started studying alternative healing methodologies and modalities. From 1989 till 1995, he devoted his time to studying all methods of restoring the body’s self-healing functions. He not only succeeded in curing himself but today, 19 years later, he is in the pink of health and his liver is in a better condition than most people.

To find out if his methodologies will be effective for other diseases and conditions, in 1996, he offered to treat patients free of charge. For 2 years, he treated many kinds of diseases and conditions successfully using his own unique methodologies, and proved that his methods are effective over a wide spectrum of diseases and conditions.

Now he treat patients for conditions such as

• colon cancer, breast cancer
• stroke prevention and stroke rehabilitation
• migraine
• insomnia
• poor sleep quality
• neck/shoulder pain
• hypertension and
• prevention of heart diseases, etc

ALL are treated, without surgery and/or chemotherapy, that is, purely non-surgical solutions. He also treats

• all abnormal growths (such as tumors)
• poor functions of liver, kidneys, pancreas etc
• digestive disorders, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) etc

Dr Bob Koh also specializes in non-surgical solutions for slipped discs, nerve compression, sciatica, numbness in limbs, and paralysis. This may sound incredible but many patient who see Bob regain mobility without surgery in 90% of the cases of paralysis with no fractures to the spine. I’m sure he will share more through his blog posts.

Bob believes that his greatest service to mankind is his ability to find out the root cause of the disease and conditions, and in his ability to treat the root causes. His patients say that Bob offers them long-term, permanent solutions by not just treating the symptoms; but the root causes. Bob treats many patients in Asia, and even has patients from North America as well as Europe.

He is currently treating a 3rd Stage Colon cancer patient in Singapore. He will be sharing the progress with us soon. He believes that treating cancer with surgery and chemotherapy is not the best solution. The patient’s cancer specialist was frank enough to mention that after surgery and chemotherapy, 80% of patients will relapse within 2 years, and the remaining 20% will get cancer again within 5 years.

We’d like to welcome Bob to NurtureYourOwn as he shares with us his vast experience in treating patients over a wide spectrum of disease and conditions.

Read related post from/about Dr Bob Koh:
Alternative Treatment Stopped Cancer Cells from Growing Under 2 Weeks!

An Open Letter to Doctors from Dr Bob Koh

Toronto, Ontario (January 20, 2008)

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Our team has expanded! Let’s welcome our latest member, Betty Vong.

Betty confessed that she had been leading an unhealthy lifestyle about 3 years ago. Her health was poor and she didn’t like the look of herself. Today, she is fit and healthy and is a fully certified personal trainer as well as a sports massage therapist! Some of the award-winning sportsmen and sportswomen from Singapore have gone under her care. Quite a big change!

We are certain we shall gain from Betty’s knowledge and experience.

Our team of contributors have expanded yet again!

Diane is a practitioner of various forms of energy psychology, and has her own web site at eftdiane.com that talks about Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). She has an interest in all aspects of health and healing, whether physical, mental, emotional or spiritual.

In today’s high stress world, we are sure that Diane’s contributions will help us all to enjoy a stress free and healthy lifestyle!

NurtureYourOwn has grown steadily over the past few months, since it was conceptualized on 22 June 2007. Still, the recent development has been very encouraging. We were

1. included in the Top 20 Blogs of Checkup Today
2. listed in Matt Wolfe’s “to read” blog
3. enjoying 2000 hits every day after mid September 2007
4. attracting new writers like Bokjae and Victor Connor who write exclusively on stroke and stop smoking respectively

And this week, we are pleasantly surprise to discover NurtureYourOwn enjoys

1. an Alexa ranking of 399,865 and
2. a Google Page Rank 2

We like to say a big “thank you” to our readers and our NutureYourOwn writers. It wouldn’t be possible without your support.

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Matt Wolfe wrote in his How I Will Be Rich blog that

I’ve decided to compile a list of blogs that I like. This is a list of sites that if read and followed may make you wealthier, healthier and happier.

We are very honored that our Nurture Your Life blog is within his reading recommendation list.

Matt include our blog at his “Healthy” catagory:

Nurture Your Life - Another great site with tips on healthy living

Recently, we also celebrated these successes … …

More than 8000 visits to our post 6 Steps to Flatten Your Abs

Included in Checkup Today’s Top 20 Blog

We would not have achieved all these without the support of our writers and reader.

We started Nurture Your Own with a few of us writing about our interests in healthy living and growing sprouts. Then we invited writers to join us. We were happy to get a few good posts going. So, imagine my surprise when I saw this:

Then I realised that this was due to just two excellent articles! One was Facts of Strokes and the Warning Signs by our new writer Bokjae and the other was 6 Steps to Flatten Your Abs by Vivienne. For those who wonder if this is for real, click on the image above to see the full page including the url address bar.

Well, this came at the same time as we found out that we were graciously ranked #7 over at Check Up Today’s Top 20 Blogs. Christmas sure came early this year!

We are not some web business gurus. We are just sprouting and healthy lifestyle enthusiasts. We are really happy to have to many views, that’s all. Just to share our joy and crow a little. Then we shall go back to writing nice posts about healthy foods, care for stroke and other good stuff.

We first conceptualized a “green” blog because we believe in the importance of healthy eating and healthy living. We have been talking quite a lot about sprouting because we have on board a real live sprout enthusiast - Taarak had been sharing with us quite a lot about sprouts. And from him, we learned of the importance of enzymes in sprouts. That spurred us to find out more on the benefits of eating “living food”, that is consuming food and juice raw or minimal cooking with heat.

We shared what we know from our own experience or information gathered by others. We believe everyone should know how healthy eating and healthy living can make a big difference to their lives, and to their loved ones. We are deeply honored when Checkup Today recognized our efforts by listing us at number 7 of it’s Top 20 Blogs. I’m sure this will encourage all the writers here to write even more conscientiously.

With Bokjae as our newest writer, we believe we have even more to offer our readers. We like to invite people who believe in healthy eating and healthy living to join us as a writer so that we can spread the healthy message faster and wider.

We are pleased to welcome Bokjae as our newest writer! Bokjae has his own web site at “Listening … Learning … Living”.

Bokjae is a happy retiree and a dedicated full-time home care-giver to his wife, Rock, a stroke survivor. Bokjae was a graduate in Electrical & Electronics Engineering, working as Project Manager; and was in Senior Management (Executive Director) with a local Telecommunications Company in Malaysia for 22 years till retirement. Upon retirement, he devoted his time to social/community work at old folks homes, drug rehab centres and orphanages. 9 months ago, he added blogging to his daily routine. Bokjae is an avid writer who shares his views honestly with a wonderful sense of humor.

He has uses his blog as a personal space to share life experiences with the ultimate goal of encouraging other caregivers, strokees and family members. Now he has joined NurtureYourOwn’s pool of writers to contribute articles especially on stroke, stroke-rehab, care-giving and some health tips, tools and utensils, equipment etc all pertaining to stroke!

In Bokjae’s own words, “I’ll do my level best so as to spread the word around about stroke prevention!” I’m sure we will benefit from his knowledge and experience.

We are pleased to welcome Celia as our newest writer! Celia has her own web site “Eat Yourself Younger” and has a Masters in Cell Biology.  But that is not the reason we are happy to have her here. The real reason is because Celia loves good food, just like we do! Look out for Celia’s articles on how food can enhance your wellness, your health and your youthfulness!