Welcome All! It’s Arlene here.
My start-up business is called Hayden’s House Food and Produce – With Health in Mind.
My mission is to significantly contribute to making people in our community live longer, happier lives by making nutritiously delicious food, supplying some produce and contributing in educating ourselves how to be healthy.
We all want to live, right? Now this is a horrible thing to say but here it goes. We’re all going to die. One day. A cardiology college president Kim Williams once said
Lifestyle and bad diet are the leading cause of early death. It killed more people than our past wars put together. We all know people who have passed away from heart decease, stroke, lung decease, brain decease, digestive cancer, infections, diabetes, high blood pressure, liver decease, blood cancer, kidney decease, breast cancer, suicidal depression and prostate cancer.
And a few years or decade before it killed them, they suffer from a lot of pain. Is that a way to live? Really?
My son, when he was 10, while dropping him off to school asked me. ‘Mom, why are there so many people I know at school know someone they love dying of cancer?
My Answer – Genetics. It turned out that my answer was an OLD answer.
It turns out that men in Nigeria has the highest number of genes for Alzheimer’s But they have a lowest rate of Alzheimer’s. And Japanese men did have the lowest rates high blood pressure until they started eating differently.
The new answer to my son should have been – EPIGENETICS!
New science states that epigenetics gives YOU the power to Turn ON and OFF your genes. Now, how do you freaking do that? New science states that the biggest factors are our lifestyle, what we perceive and what we stuff our mouths with.
A few years ago, I was diagnosed with an autoimmune decease. I was in so much pain that it took me about 7 mins just going down the stairs. I was typing with 2 fingers and it was terribly painful to drive. After about a month, I could hardly get out of bed and could hardly walk.
My specialist told me that there is no cure for it. I will be on strong medication for life. Most likely, I will become deformed and eventually disabled. Then my sister who recently moved to the US, came across a clinical evidenced based study that could help me reduce or eliminate my pain. It turned out that a wholefood plant-based diet has been helping people in the US.
I tried it for 4 weeks, extended it to 8 weeks. By week 12, I no longer take any anti-inflammatory or any pain reliever. Four months later, I felt so FREE. I found myself on top of the Auckland Harbour Bridge participating in the Auckland Marathon.
I am now medication FREE and FREE from pain.
Now, I’m not asking you to give up your meat. We all know how much you love meat. But I only dare you to be open minded and see the healing power of plants. I dare you that when you put food on your plate, that you make fruit and vegetables the star of the show.
Why? Because it can heal you. Why? Because Popeye the Sailor Man turned out to be right about spinach. Why? Because our cousin gorilla who is so strong eats 85% of green leaves included in their diet. Why? Because wholefood plant-based diet is the ONLY diet that has been SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN to reverse Heart disease, our number one killer in the world. Why? As a company called Vitality Life Force said,
And the last why – as I’ve learned from Dr Michael Greger’s book ‘How Not to Die’, that an early breast cancer detection, in reality, is actually a late detection. That the cancer is already brewing from a woman’s body over the last 20 years.
Now, you, you, you and the other you, may think, I don’t have the time, the energy, it’s too expensive, I do not like veges.
Well, that’s where my mission and my business come in. In my journal on 28 April 2018, I wrote:
Most of the ingredients that I used is based mainly from NutritionFacts.org. An organisation that is so transparent and authentic all its profits goes back to the community. NutritionFacts.org digs out and analyse hundreds of thousands of research including the ones that governments tried to hide from you. I also use information from Australian and internationally well renowned Nutritional Biochemist, Dr Libby Weaver.
My mission starts at home, literally in my kitchen and in my garden, where food and produce can be picked up or delivered. My goal and focus at the moment is to connect my business and mission with my new town Cobblebank, then over to the next town.
In about 2 years my goal is to expand and convert my double garage to a second kitchen.
My long-term goal is to stay connected with my customers whom I hope will pass the ripple effects of living a healthy happy life to others.
My vision of old age is to climb Mt Kilimanjaro with my son and eventually with my grandchildren.
I will leave you with one of my Mum’s favourite song by Connie Francis, it goes,
The photo on this page was taken by me on September 2012 at Auckland Botanical Gardens in New Zealand.
