At Evan’s Garden, we strongly advocate that people take care of themselves in sensible ways that will increase their health, energy and youthfulness. Using all-natural cosmetic products such as ours is just one component of a healthy lifestyle.

A healthful diet is hugely important. However, what IS a healthful diet?

Famous “diet gurus” have made $millions selling diets that offer opposite advice. Not one of these has ever impressed us enough to embrace or to recommend. Each seemed over-generalized to us and struck us as more fad than sensible science.

Fortunately for all of us, someone has come along to pop the balloon of over-hyped fad diets and bring real sense to a once confusing scene.

Researcher and author William L Wolcott has provided the most brilliant solutions to dietary issues that we have ever encountered. His landmark book, The Metabolic Typing Diet, is an amazing read.

Just looking at this book helped us shake off the effects of false data and generalities about diet that we had been fed for so many years by doctors and the media. We brightened up so much after reading it that we were overjoyed.

The main message of the book is that each person has a unique biochemistry, and that a diet that is “right” for one person may be entirely wrong for another.

And no, this is not a “blood-type” diet book. Those books are oversimplified and there are people for whom the blood type diets simply do not work. While blood type IS a factor, it is about 1/10th of the actual picture.

Here is a good example of how Wolcott’s book helps the individual. Many proponents of natural diets claim that fruits and vegetables move the body from an acidic condition to an alkaline state, which is more healthful. Surprisingly, Wolcott’s research shows that this is not always the case. What alklizes one person may actually acidify another. Again, this shows that trying to make one diet fit everyone is just not workable.

Diet gurus have offered wildly differing advice on the “ideal” diet. Some promote high-protein, low-carb diets, others push pasta, some advocate low fat, others suggest strictly vegetarian. Unfortunately, while some people do well on one or another of these diets, other people “crash and burn”. Many search for years and never find something that works for them.

What makes Wolcott’s work brilliant is the self-testing process that emables the reader to determine his own metabolic type and then customize his own diet to suit him now and also as his biochemistry evolves and changes over time.

The Metabolic Typing Diet is a truly revolutionary book that provides what has long been desperately needed: a systematic, testable, repeatable, verifiable means for each of us to find an answer to the question, “What’s right for me?”

You’ll be truly amazed at the many health and fitness benefits you’ll experience when you consistently eat according to your metabolic type. Here are a few highlights:

* achieve your ideal weight and stay there
* lose weight without deprivation and struggle
* free your self from food cravings and hunger
* enjoy sustained high energy and endurance
* bolster your immunity and resist infections
* conquer indigestion, fatigue, allergies
* overcome depression, anxiety, mood swings that have a physical basis
* prevent and reverse chronic illness

We HIGHLY recommend this book! Go get a copy right now. You will be forever glad you did this!

We hope this information proves as helpful to you has it has to us.

Book Review: Beauty to Die For by Judi Vance

Judi Vance, author of Beauty to Die For – The Cosmetic Consequence has been writing and lecturing on cosmetic safety for over a decade. Some years ago, we purchased her book and were very impressed by her courage in speaking out so openly. Here are a few quotes from the book.

   “Not everything we women do in an attempt to enhance our beauty is necessarily good for us. Years ago, in the Elizabethan times, it was fashionable (and aristocratic) to present a pasty white complexion. Women powdered their faces with a mixture including white lead called ceruse, and colored their lips with a reddener containing fucus-red mercuric sulfide. Even though this beauty regime destroyed the outer layer of skin, they continued using these poison palettes well into the 18th century.”

“Today isn’t much different,” Vance contends. “Thousands of Filipino women expose themselves to the dangers of severe skin disorders and possibly even cancer through their desire to have paler skin. Although the full extent of the dangers of hydroquinone, the active ingredient in the skin bleaching cream are still unknown, U.S. studies have linked it with leukemia, liver damage, and thyroid disorders. Animal studies show that it could cause mutations in developing fetuses.”

“In our quest for beauty we forget that the skin is an organ that serves vital body functions.”

Says Vance, “most women have no idea that cosmetics could cause harm. They tend to think that the new “miracle” ingredients are coming from years of scientific discovery. Wrong! Most of the ingredients have been around for many years. It’s only now that they have moved from an industrial purpose into the world of beauty. The ultimate wrinkle removers (according to cosmetic ads) – alpha hydroxy acids – have been used for years in the processing of textiles, leather, and metal and also used in cleaning, polishing, and soldering compounds, copper pickling, adhesives, and electroplating.”

Vance, who is featured in the four-part Discovery Channel documentary called “Hope and Beauty: the Story of Cosmetics,” says “cosmetic chemicals are not adequately tested. The cosmetics business is a self-regulated industry and, as quoted by a Health Canada toxicologist, compliance is as low as 30 percent.”

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia recently published a study regarding the phthalates found in children’s soft plastic (vinyl) toys. The study showed that other phthalates, such as those used in fingernail polish, were at levels high enough to cause concern about birth defects. CDC issued warnings advising women not to use nail polish during pregnancy.

“Science doesn’t have all the answers,” Vance asserts. “There’s no scientific agreement on what tests can correctly determine whether someone’s immune or nervous system, or genes have been damaged. Nor is there a consensus on what constitutes a safe level of exposure. Reproductive, developmental and genetic damage is a non-threshold event and the only safe dose is zero. Until, science knows the answers to these baffling questions, avoidance of the suspect chemicals is probably our antidote.”

“Some women are becoming wise,” says Vance and calls the increase of natural cosmetic products available in the market as proof that safety is an issue. “Alternatives exist. Education is a must.”

Judi Vance is a speaker, author and publisher of the Cosmetic Health Report. She is an in-demand television and radio talk show guest. Her own hard-fought, emotionally harrowing journey back to health paved the way for the work she finds so fulfilling today — helping others see how our lifestyle choices contribute to ill health. Her philosophy and narrative comes from experience. She is the country’s leading crusader, demanding that cosmetics be brought out of their self-sanctioned immunity and reevaluated by way of long-term human studies. Vance’s book “Beauty to Die For” received much interest from the media in Canada and prompted Health Canada to adopt stricter laws to regulate cosmetic manufacture.

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