These are the two options available in a world where cure for incurable lifestyle diseases is sought after instead of prevention. In a world without preventive health education and motivation for lifestyle change to prevent diseases like cancer, hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, chronic obstructive lung disease, degenerative joint diseases and other diseases of civilization, the only people that would escape the above-mentioned sufferings are those that die early before disease strikes.

None of us would choose to die early or commit suicide for the sake of escaping disease or its attendant sufferings and neither would any of us want to end our long lives like many who worked so hard only to suffer heart, kidney and organ failures, paralysis from stroke and degenerative diseases affecting the spine, cancer and other preventable but incurable diseases.

If it turns out that I’m right, then it means nobody wants to die young and nobody wants to live a sadly- ending long life. For those of you that belong to this category, I’ve got good news for you: “You can remain young even in old age by slowing the ageing process and staying disease-free. In other words, even though you can’t reduce  your calendar age, you can do something about your biological age such that you can have the anatomical, physiological and biochemical systems of a 30-year old in a 90-year old.

Did I hear you say impossible? Then you must not have seen the 90-year old woman climbing trees the other day on CNN because you needn’t be a mathematical genius like Einstein to figure out that her muscles, tendons, ligaments, and joints could not be functionally older than yours when you were 30 provided you could climb trees then.

Experts now know that our health would benefit more from a slowing down of the ageing process by a new approach that teaches prevention instead of traditional medical approaches that passively address prevention and target individual disease. The people in developed nations who get the best curative management are increasingly experiencing more than one age-related disease and now, co-morbidity, the term used to describe the presence of more than one disease in an individual, has become a big health problem in these parts.

Recent advances in the study biological mechanisms responsible for ageing, which give rise to most diseases and other age-related health problems show that aging can be slowed down and disease can be prevented when we adopt healthy lifestyles as preached by medical professionals genuinely interested in prevention instead of cure. Embracing this new model of health promotion and disease prevention will not only guarantee a longer healthy lifespan but also a longer calendar lifespan and independence of invasive medical and surgical management. We must therefore be wise and embrace health promotion and disease prevention.

Here are a few rules you must follow to slow down aging and prevent disease:

Always seek preventive health knowledge from experts: By attending seminars and trainings organized by orthodox medical professionals like physiotherapists and doctors in preventive health, you will understand how your body works and you will acquire lifestyle change skills necessary to change your lifestyle from a disease-promoting to a disease-preventing lifestyle. Disease and its medical and surgical management make you age fast while a positive lifestyle change helps you slow down aging and prevent disease.

Do not lose your muscle strength:  Muscle strength declines with age and the faster you lose muscle strength, the older you become. Strengthen all muscles in all parts of the body as advised by your physiotherapists and certified trainers. Note that exercise in the hands of people who don’t understand your anatomy and physiology is dangerous. Many orthopedic patients referred to me damaged their backs, necks and joints while exercising.

Do not lose your balance and co-ordination: Balance refers to your ability to remain stable especially when in the upright position. Coordination refers to your ability to use the right muscles at the right time and in the right sequence of steps that make up an activity and at the right intensity. The faster you lose them, the faster you age. When balance is lost, people begin to rely on walking sticks and frames and loss of coordination makes simple tasks like taking a spoon from a plate of food to the mouth impossible such that the individual has to be fed.

Do not lose your muscular endurance: Muscular endurance refers to the ability of a particular muscle group to perform repeated contractions or work over a period of time. The faster you lose your muscular endurance, the faster you age. The more your muscular endurance, the more your ability to work for prolonged periods before fatigue sets in.

Do not lose your cardiopulmonary endurance: This refers to the ability of your heart and lungs to supply your tissues with the amounts of blood and oxygen required in long periods of activity involving large muscle groups. These activities include, brisk walking, running, swimming, biking for long periods. The faster the rate at which the time you can safely spend on these activities diminishes, the faster you age. Your preventive health physiotherapist can safely help you increase the amount of time you can safely spend on these aerobic activities.

Do not lose your flexibility: flexibility refers to the ability to move your joints, knees, hips, ankles, elbows, shoulders, the joints in your neck and back and other joints in the body through an unrestricted, pain-free range of motion. This depends primarily on the ability of the muscles to lengthen and this depends on how often these muscles get stretched through the maximum possible range. Muscles that don’t get stretched regularly become permanently shortened and lose the ability to lengthen to allow full movement.

The old woman climbing the tree on CNN could because she never stopped flexing her hips to climb trees and so the muscles which allow flexion, the hamstrings did not get shortened. Many people half her age will hurt their hamstrings if they attempt to climb and so, even though younger in calendar age, their hamstrings are biologically older than hers. I’m not advising you to start climbing trees so I will not be responsible for any fractures or deaths through falls from trees. Your physiotherapist can design a programme that will help improve your flexibility.

There are many other determinants of aging and your preventive health physiotherapists and doctors will teach you to improve them and stay young and disease-free.

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Diagnosis and treatment of lupus(http://www.mitamins.com/disease/Lupus.html) is made more complicated by the fact that currently, there is no one single test that can positively identify the disease. In fact, lupus is often mistaken for other diseases with some similar symptoms, such as multiple sclerosis or arthritis. In fact, lupus is an auto-immune disease in which the body essentially “turns” on itself. When this happens the body creates antibodies that attack the body rather than protect it.

Lupus(http://www.mitamins.com/disease/Lupus.html) sometimes only affects a single area of the body. Some of the most common areas to be affected are:

# Lungs: lupus can cause inflammation of the lungs’ lining, which can lead to pneumonia or pleuritis

# Kidneys: Inflammation of the kidneys can be caused by lupus, and this inflammation can lead to nephritis. The onset of nephritis is usually not accompanied by pain, so the lupus may not be detected.

# Heart: Chest pains, and subsequent hardening of the arteries, may be caused by lupus

# Blood: Anemia and inflamed blood vessels can result from lupus.

Lupus can often be identified by a rash on the body, most often on the face. Sunscreen can help to treat this rash. Some medications for other illnesses can trigger attacks, so this should be kept in mind in the treatment of lupus. Flu shots are recommended for lupus treatment, as they can prevent secondary infections which commonly occur in those with lupus. Other suspected triggers of lupus are dental fillings and hair dye, though there is no conclusive evidence of this. Because fear and anxiety may be triggers of lupus attacks, discontinuing use of certain products believed by patients to trigger attacks may be beneficial, even if these substances do not truly affect the body physiologically.

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A healthy diet containing necessary vitamins and nutrients, as well as regular exercise, are most effective in the prevention and treatment of lupus. Other kinds of meditative or calming activities, such as breathing exercises, can be effective in lupus treatment and can prevent skin flare-ups.

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Think of the more common risk factors for coronary heart disease:

* Cigarette smoking – a lifestyle choice

* Elevated cholesterol – in part, a lifestyle choice

* High blood pressure – affected by life choices

* Obesity – resulting from lifestyle choices

* Prolonged periods of inactivity – a lifestyle choice

You probably know that changes to your lifestyle can readily reduce the risk for heart disease. Such changes do not require a physician’s help, although you will want to seek your physician’s advice. Nor do actions to reduce the risks of heart disease require participation in a program.

A report in the “American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine” for March/April 2007; 1(2): 79-90 called for practical steps doctors could take to help you change your lifestyle. That report states that most individuals who change lifestyle do it without any program, and gives these examples:

* “…more than 90% of individuals who have stopped smoking have done this without a formal smoking cessation program.”

* “The majority of individuals who lose weight also do this on their own.”

You can make lifestyle changes that will reduce heart disease risks.

Reduce Heart Disease Risks with These Steps

You can reduce the risk for heart disease by making a few changes in your current lifestyle.

1. Chocolate First

Can eating chocolate reduce the risk for heart disease? You have heard reports of it on television. You may have heard it discussed at the office. Is it true?

In 1996, University of California-Davis researcher Andrew Waterhouse found that chocolate contains phenols, chemicals that might reduce heart disease risks. Waterhouse wrote about his findings in the British medical journal Lancet, telling how he had used laboratory experiments to measure the amount of phenols in such products as baker’s chocolate, cocoa powder, and milk chocolate. He found that it took less than 2 ounces of milk chocolate to provide the same amount of phenols as a 5-ounce glass of red wine, which was already known for reducing heart disease risks. He reasoned that not only can eating chocolate reduce the risk for heart disease, but that more research would show that it actually does.

In 2003, Dirk Taubert, MD, PhD, and his colleagues at the University of Cologne, Germany published a further report on chocolate in the Aug. 27 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association. Dark chocolate, they found, lowers high blood pressure and reduces that risk associated with heart disease. They had done clinical research to show the effects in humans. Milk chocolate and white chocolate did not have this effect. Milk, whether blended into the chocolate or used to wash down the chocolate, diluted the effect.

Why dark chocolate? The answer is the phenols that Waterhouse discovered in chocolate back in 1996. Cocoa phenols are known to lower blood pressure.

In addition, phenols lower the risk of heart disease by keeping fat-like substances from oxidizing in the bloodstream and clogging the arteries.

So can eating chocolate reduce the risk for heart disease?

It can reduce some risks – if it is dark chocolate – the darker the better – and is not washed down with milk. European made chocolates appear to be better than American made, since they contain more cocoa phenols.

2. Smoking

Another lifestyle change that can reduce the risk of heart disease is to stop smoking. Those who say they can’t stop smoking have not been determined or committed enough. As quoted above from the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine, ” more than 90% of individuals who have stopped smoking have done this without a formal smoking cessation program.”

If you are serious about reducing heart disease risks, stop smoking.

3. Obesity

Overweight sounds nicer than obesity, but whichever way you look at it in the mirror, it is a lifestyle change you can make to reduce heart disease risks. You don’t need to join one of the many programs advertised on television, or ask your doctor for prescription medication. You need to change your way of eating and get exercise.

4. Exercise

While the industrial age, followed by the information age, brought us many benefits, they also took away the benefits of farm work. A great number of us have developed a sedentary lifestyle that increases heart disease risks. To reverse that, and reduce the risks of heart disease, we need to follow a regular exercise program.

5. Cholesterol

Your genetic makeup may predispose you to higher levels of cholesterol. To reduce this risk of heart disease, you can change your diet to one of the many that reduce cholesterol intake.

Conclusion

There are other risks for heart disease, but these are examples of those that can be reduced by making simple changes in the way you live. Can they be eradicated without medication? Sometimes they can. Can they become less of a risk for heart disease without medication? Yes. It certainly is worth making the necessary changes.

CAUTION: The author is not a medical professional, and offers the information in this article for educational purposes only. Please discuss it with your health care provider before relying on it in any way.

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If you are a celiac, your miracle cure is under way – being trialed in Melbourne Australia from April 2009! It could conceivably desensitize people with celiac disease to the point that the villi in their small intestine are not damaged by the gluten protein. However with the need for extensive testing in this three phase trial, the vaccine may not be ready for release for several years.

Before we go into the details of such a cure it should be noted that this vaccine might not be a â??magic bullet’ that makes people permanently immune to the gluten protein, it might ‘only’ desensitize them. Also be aware that if you choose to undertake the â??therapy’ there are no guarantees of how you will react, and the only way to regularly check to see if you have been â??cured’ would be regular intestine biopsies. As it is known that some people take over two years to heal their intestines from gluten damage, how risky will this strategy be? It is expected that testing will be extensive so these questions may all sit under the â??devil’s advocate’ category, and all may be well.

An even more philosophical question is what effect covering up the cause of your disease will have on your body. Books have been written that suggest that it is the increased gluten potency in wheat and other gluten grains as well as increased use in manufactured foods that has led to an overdose of gluten. Our bodies then pass a â??tipping point’ where our genetic predisposition to CD turns into an active disease. If this is true, how wise would it be to continue ingesting unnaturally high levels of gluten, once â??cured’ just because we can? Sure it would make life simpler not following a gluten free diet, however maybe we should wait for gluten to be decreased at the source, the growing fields, before we return to a gluten filled diet.

Different types of celiac disease identified

With all these issues under consideration, I am sure that every celiac would still be interested in a â??cure’. A July 2007 article based on research conducted in Victoria, Australia, showed that “Celiac disease – is strongly associated with human leukocyte antigen (HLA) DQ2 and to a lesser extent with HLA DQ8.”

“HLA genes are part of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), which plays a pivotal role in the immune system. HLA-DQ2 mediated celiac disease is common in people of European ancestry, with about 90 per cent of sufferers positive for DQ2. Another five per cent possess HLA DQ8. In China and East Asia, DQ2 genes are rare while DQ8 genes are as common as in Europe.”

So it appears that this preliminary research has been able to isolate two main versions of celiac disease. However the molecular workings of the immune response in the two antigens appear to be very different. The researchers discovered that T-cells in people with DQ8-associated celiac disease reacted quite differently to the small proteins in gluten than the T-cells in people with the DQ2 form of the disease.

“At the moment a gluten-free diet is the only treatment for celiac disease but nearly half the people on the diet still have damage to their small intestine. Consequently other therapies, including a vaccine and three different drugs, are in various stages of development. The research team believes celiac disease might be the first example of an immune disease where treatments are customized according to the genetic make-up of the patient.”

The celiac vaccine discovery

The discovery that lead to the creation of the vaccine was that the one critical part of wheat gluten protein that was toxic was the common genetic version (HLA DQ2) of celiac disease. “As much as the identity of the toxic component of gluten was important, it was the way in which it was found that has proven to be even more important. By eating gluten in wheat, rye, or barley for three days (even a single meal will suffice in some people), immune cells (T cells) that damage the small intestine are mobilized into blood for a few short days. The T cells in blood can be monitored and analyzed to define what part of gluten they recognize. The parts of gluten recognized by the vast majority of T cells involved in celiac disease can be condensed to a few “short” fragments of gluten that remain after its digestion in the gut. These gluten fragments can be synthesized using fairly standard chemistry and are the basis for the celiac vaccine.”

The Celiac Vaccine Trials

The original research began at Oxford England in 1997. The work continued in Australia in 2002 and by April 2009 Bob Anderson from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical research (Melbourne, Australia) will commence the first world trials of a celiac vaccine that could reduce or eradicate the need for being gluten free. In fact Bob Anderson calls the vaccine a “next-generation desensitization therapy” that has been successful in mice and is soon to be tested on celiacs.

“The vaccine will be tested on 40 volunteers with celiac disease over 11 months to establish that it does not harm them. In a subsequent phase 2 trial, which is designed to find out if the treatment is effective, volunteers will receive the treatment and then be challenged with foods containing gluten. Their immune response and intestines will then be examined to see if a tolerance to gluten has developed. The therapy involves repeatedly injecting solutions of gluten at increasing concentrations. The aim is to desensitize the subjects slowly, in a similar way to hay fever and dust allergy desensitization treatments.”

Testing process

“For a new drug to be accepted for use in people in Australia, Europe, or North America it must have progressed successfully from Phase 1 (safety) studies usually involving up to about 30 volunteers, to Phase 2 (efficacy) studies to show that “it works” in people with the medical condition of interest (typically about 200 volunteers in several locations around the world), and to Phase 3 (similar to Phase 2 but involving several thousand volunteers in many sites around the world).”

The celiac vaccine future

Due to difficulties in funding, Bob Anderson (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute) co-founded a commercial company called Nexpep to develop the vaccine. Nucleus Network, Centre for Clinical Studies (CCS) in the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, will be conducting the Phase 1 clinical trial.

The difficulty he has faced, besides the technical issues, is the low diagnosis level of celiac disease and the mass of associated symptoms has made a vaccine cure unattractive to traditional pharmaceutical companies. These companies always prefer well defined markets to accurately forecast payback periods for their R&D and marketing expenses.

The facts are that for this vaccine to prove financially viable, The US will need to approve the drug and doctors and celiacs will need to accept the treatment. One report estimates that only 600,000 people are diagnosed with celiac disease (out of the 5 million with celiac disease in North America and Europe). Â

Compounded to the funding challenges is that previously, globally, there have only been three “randomized, controlled” studies of the gluten free diet – one in children and two in adults – the largest with 57 participants.”

The assessment of the vaccine treatment will require repeated endoscopy and collection of small intestine biopsies which are expensive and un-enjoyable for volunteers. However a recent trial in Italy has shown that biopsies are still the only â??almost’ guaranteed method of assessing gluten damage. The study findings showed that “two years after adopting a gluten free diet, about half those people diagnosed with celiac disease continued to have villous atrophy as severe as when they were first diagnosed. Only about one in five of those with severe intestinal damage (villous atrophy) on a gluten free diet had raised (abnormal) blood levels of transglutaminase antibody, meaning that standard blood tests to monitor disease activity were relatively ineffective.”

So while the development of this vaccine is an important step in potentially eradicating celiac disease, philosophical questions still remain as issues for the long term efficacy of the vaccines. As an Australian first, this research is applauded by the gluten free community. We wish the researchers and medical staff all of the best in demystifying this illusive disease.

Article references are available on the gluten free pages website.Â

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Health Warning: Belief happens when someone makes you believe something. But What if they were wrong? And even worse, what if they know they were wrong?

“When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied.” Herophilus

“If you eat all your greens up you will grow up big and strong.”

Does that sound familiar?

It should! It is what I heard when I was younger and it is most likely what you heard at some point too.

But long gone are the lessons that we learnt from our mothers and fathers. We now have a new mother and father and they are called:

THE MEDIA

The Media has consistently groomed us since we were little kids and we have unwisely followed every one of their steps and lessons by the book!

But is what they told us right?

That all depends upon whom it is right for! It is definitely not right for us, so it must be for the people who are making all of the money. Any guesses who?

For years we have followed fad diet after fad diet in the attempt to get healthy.

“Just go on this diet and you will feel better than ever” rings out from every advertisement.

You have heard it all before and fallen for it time after time.

So many lies infest our minds that we do not know which ones are true or false. That is why I am here to help you find your way through the myriad of lies and find the truth that is going to help you defeat your illness.

Just take a look at some of the lies that we are stupid enough to fall for:

“Prescription drugs will make you healthier.”

They do not make you better. Get this simple lesson into your head: they suppress the symptoms and only make illness worse in the long run.

“The U.S. health care system is the best in the world.”

The health of U.S. citizens is declining rapidly. U.S Citizens pay double, triple, and even quadruple the price for prescription drugs than any other country.

“You can get all the nutrition you need from three balanced meals a day.”

Again, believe it if you want to. In fact, today’s foods are nutrient depleted, and they come from depleted soils. They are also processed and manufactured which kills almost all the nutrients. Which in turn is absolutely no good for the body.

Not to say that all is wrong, they do have the right ideas about the balancing of the food we eat. The human body needs food that indeed balances, but unfortunately the food we are eating today certainly does not provide the necessary ingredients for a balanced life. The human race is in for a rude awakening very soon, but that won’t save the people who don’t get off their butts and do something about it.

We Have Used the Wrong Ingredients and this has unbalanced our health scales.

Which side of the scales are you on? I needn’t be a psychic to find this one out.

For as far back as I can remember, people have been saying:

“You need to have a healthy Balance”.

Listen up; this could be one of the most important things you will ever hear. You are living out of balance, hell so many people today are living out of balance, and as I do hope you can figure, this is not the best way to live.

What you don’t know about your health is hugely affecting how your life is and what it will eventually become.

? Our Body functions are a mystery to us, we are not told a thing!
? We are not told what we need to live and have a vibrantly healthy life, even a normal life!
? And we are not taught about the little intricacies that are within us, which we should be looking after.

Your Body has to perform millions of complex functions every moment in order for it to survive.

The Clock & You

Try to imagine that your body is a clock. Everything within the Clock needs to work in harmony for it to run smoothly and for it to tell the correct time. That is exactly the same for the Human Body. If things are not running smoothly, this is when the trouble starts.

Your body operates on an electro magnetic current. A fine balance that exists in your biochemistry creates electrical power in your body.

This electrical power within your body depends on your blood stream to make it function properly. So, you can imagine what happens when your blood is out of balance.

Our blood stream relies on the balance of its pH Level.

When we have imbalance in our bodies we start to show signs of disease, which could include the following symptoms:

Low energy,
Fatigue,
Poor digestion,
Excess weight,
Foggy thinking,
Aches and pains,
As well as major disorders.

What you have to do is bring all the good things back into your life, and with my help & The Health Warrior Way we certainly will.

Say goodbye to disease, and hello to:

Health
Energy,
Clear thinking,
Smooth operation of all body systems,
Clear, bright eyes and skin,
And a lean, trim body.

Everywhere I look I can see that people are out of balance. I for one was tired, fat, ill, feeling old before my time, and I always told myself, that was my life. That was what nature had intended. But nature didn’t, and I learnt that. I got off my lazy ass and did something about it. I wasn’t always The Health Warrior.

I can almost guarantee, that you know at least one person who is suffering from one of the top three Killers in the United States-Heart Disease, Cancer, or Diabetes.

Just look at the shocking statistics, this will be you, this will be your kids and this will be the whole planet if we don’t get off our lazy fat guzzling asses and do something about it.

1/2 of the population will die from Heart Disease or Diabetes &
1/3 will die from Cancer.

Do you want this? Hell, do you want your kids to have this?

Well this is it, but the absolutely mammoth news to get into your head is that….

…..These 3 KILLERS are Preventable and Reversible, each one of them being a direct result of poor diet and nutrition. So Simple, But yet so far away from most sufferers.

If you eat the proper foods and get the best nutrients, in balance, this will help you avoid illness, together with the pain and horrific quality of life that so often we are stuck with before our demise, sometimes by decades.

You don’t want that, I don’t want that for you, that’s why I’m trying to get this simple but powerful message across.

Even mainstream medicine agrees:

“Foods contain nutrients essential for normal metabolic function, and when problems arise, they result from imbalances in nutrient intake and from harmful interaction with other factors.”

According to the 1988 Surgeon General’s Report on Health and Nutrition, this is related to:
“What we EAT”

Since this report, people have stupidly made attempts to follow one diet craze after another. They are killing themselves. This is not only an attempt to drop excess weight, but also as a way to find their way back to good health. However,

“We (as a country) are now fatter than ever. And we’re certainly no healthier.”

The problem is that while diet and nutrition is the key to a healthy weight, overall health and well being, it simply must be a diet that properly balances our body chemistry.

The diet trends and crazes that have swept over the nation in recent years only cause more damage to us by making our bodies more out of balance than ever. Get this into your head… These useless diets Are Killing You!

Diets, which are hugely popular, including the “Popular Celeb” diets, Health regimes, low-fat diets, the food pyramid, and vegetarianism all create wildly imbalanced body chemistry. And this is completely messing up the human body.

Even if one way of eating does get rid of extra pounds (usually temporarily), lower cholesterol levels and lessen digestive trouble for some people, it does not fulfil the promise of simple good health.

A good thing for you to do is to FORGET what you have heard in the doctors’ office and diet books about your health! Forget it all, start from new, can’t you see that what you thought you knew is a load of rubbish.

Have YOU ever heard your doctor talk about YOUR pH when you have gone for a check-up?

The single most important measurement to your health is the pH of your blood and tissues. By keeping this in BALANCE, you will keep yourself HEALTHY!!!

It’s not that simple when we live in a toxic world and the food we eat has been all but destroyed.

Disclaimer

The author of this material believes in a natural, no drug approach to creating vibrant health, energy and vitality throughout life. A main part of his views are placed on promoting and maintaining the perfect balance within the human body. The author realizes that within medical and scientific fields there are widely differing opinions and attitudes. This material is written for the sole purpose of sharing educational information and scientific research gathered from the studies and experiences of healthcare professionals, scientists, nutritionists, informed health advocates and the author. The information contained in this eBook is for informational and educational purposes only. It is not intended to constitute medical practice nor medical advice. It is not intended to diagnose, prevent, treat, or cure any disease, nor is it intended to prescribe any of the techniques, materials or concepts presented as a form of treatment for any illness or medical condition. Please, before beginning any practice relating to health, diet or exercise consult a suitably licensed & qualified physician, medical practitioner or healthcare provider about the appropriateness of any opinions or recommendations in regard to what symptoms you have or your own medical state. Should you choose to make use of the information contained herein without first consulting a health care professional, you are prescribing for yourself, which is your natural right. However, the author assumes no responsibility for which choices you choose to make after your review of the information contained herein and your consultation with a licensed healthcare professional.

None of the statements in this article or in the book have been evaluated by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA), or the American Medical Association (AMA).

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Everyone is aware that sugar causes cavities, makes their children hyper, induces cravings and will eventually make you crash. Unfortunately, sugar is so pervasive in our food supply that most of the time we don’t realize that we are eating it. And for that reason we are relatively unaware of the degree to which sugar can affect our health. Sugar has been linked in studies posted in well-known medical journals to everything from depression to arthritis. There is even empirical evidence that sugar may be a contributing factor to the growth of cancerous tumors.

The following case studies represent the effects of sugar on our lives and our health:

Case Study #1

Patient: Female in her mid-forties.

Symptoms: Complains of aching joints during movement or exercise.

What she tried: Anti-inflammatory drugs.

What resulted: Minimal decrease in joint pain.

Alternative approach: A Naturopathic physician had the client eliminate sugar and grains from her diet; supplementation of fish oil.

What resulted: Complete alleviation of presented symptoms; elimination of abdominal bloating.

Case Study #2

Patient: 10 year old boy

Symptoms: Hyperactivity/ADD/ADHD traits

What they tried: Ritalin

What resulted: Temporary decrease in symptoms; dependency on drug to maintain behavior

Alternative approach: A Naturopathic physician had the patient eliminate sugar and white flour to balance blood sugar; supplementation of magnesium and calcium to correct deficiencies; introduction of healthy bacteria to correct intestinal dysbiosis from previous use of antibiotics

What resulted: Behavior showed improvements immediately and continued to improve with diligent attention to diet and loving care.

That has sugar in it?

To reiterate the point, the number of processed foods that food manufacturers manage to stick some form of sugar in is astounding. Take a look at this list of commonly consumed foods and their % of sugar content:

Wrigley’s Spearmint Chewing Gum

•62.8% sugar

Pillsbury Instant Breakfast

•47.5% sugar

Heinz Sweet Gherkins

•21.9% sugar

St. Joseph Cough Syrup

•40.6% sugar

Heinz Tomato Ketchup

•28.9% sugar

Hamburger Helper

•23% sugar

Shake n Bake Barbecue

•50.9% sugar

Mostly due to lack of awareness many people don’t pay attention to the ingredients in their foods. And also due to lack of awareness people don’t notice the immediate physical effects of sugar in their food. The immediate effects of sugar on the body are noticeable and your body does send you signals but it’s difficult to read them when the body is flooded with food additives, trans fatty acids and other unrecognizable chemical compounds. For instance, that headache that you had last night may very well have been a signal from your body that the Weight Watcher’s® Boston Crème Pie was not the right thing to eat.  It is very important to start to listen to these signals from your body in order to get your health on track. The long-term effects may be much more alarming and eye opening than the short-term signals. The following diseases have been linked to the consumption of sugar:

·       Diabetes

·       Kidney Disease

·       Liver Disease

·       Atherosclerosis

·       ADD

·       Candida Albicans

·       Osteoporosis

·       Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

·       Colon Cancer

·       Diseases of malnutrition

It should be clear at this point that sugar’s negative effects are much more far reaching than most believe it to be. It’s not just about the fact that you might get a cavity or you might need a nap after the bowl of ice cream. It is about your health and your family’s health. The short term satisfaction of eating something sweet seems insignificant when you realize that ten or twenty years from now you could suffer from a serious medical condition that could have been prevented by better choices. And since you always do have a choice, the following are some choices that you can make to dramatically influence your health tomorrow and years beyond.

Instead of CHOCOLATE

•Raw Nuts

•Seeds and Fruits

Instead of WHITE BREAD or WHITE RICE

•Sprouted grain breads

•Wild or Brown Rice

Instead of Processed CEREAL

•Raw Steel-cut Oats

Instead of MANGOS or PAPAYAS

•Green Apple

Instead of CANDY or DESSERT

•Sweet Potato

•Butternut Squash

(Choose organic meats and produce when possible because nutrient deficiencies often contribute to sweet cravings; organic produce contains far greater quantities of important nutrients such as Magnesium and Calcium)

*Disclaimer: The preceding is intended to inform as to the effects of sugar in a persons diet. Always consult a physician if you have a medical condition or if you want to make any changes to your diet. This information does not necessarily represent the opinion of Own Health and is not intended to be medical advice.

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How can you expect a child to recover from disease, become and stay vibrantly well by just taking a course of antibiotics or medicines? Often, relief from the symptoms is seen but this is followed by substandard health, which is the opposite of vitality, and many times the disease will re-occur again. I commonly see children that have had three, four and more repeat prescriptions of antibiotics for the same condition in the same season.

This is not only unhealthy for the child and a statement as to the effectiveness of ‘the method’ of modern medicine in this application, but is also really a reflection that the parent is out of control of their child’s health. It reveals a deficiency in the method of medical disease care in the modern society. It also reveals that ‘preventative medicine’, which I call ‘lifestyle education’, is not being practiced by the parents in relation to their children. In my experience I have seen very little evidence of parents being educated as to how to create healthy robust children.

Very often I see children after they have been treated by many courses of medicines designed to remove symptoms and not causes. The result is these children are, without exception, run down and unhealthy. And this is not because of their original condition. It is because of all the strong drugs used to ‘fight the disease.’ No wonder the problem keeps coming back! Often the symptoms may change and become more deep-seated and chronic and then taking on a new name with different but related symptoms.

According to the press, in southeast Queensland, more medications such as antibiotics are prescribed than any other place on the earth. Antibiotics are in most cases routinely prescribed for most ear, nose, throat and bronchial problems. The prescriptions are often written so that they can be repeated many times. This is not only unsuccessful, it’s also unhealthy and thus is not a wise choice of the method of treatment. The effects of strong medications are harmful to the body. Particularly new, young, developing bodies and minds, as you will shortly see.

“Australians are prescribed more antibiotics per head than any other western nation. Their widespread over-use may also contribute to the growing problem of bacteria developing resistance to the drugs,” reports Dr Christopher Del Mar, in his research paper published in the Australian Medical Journal 1992: “We are at the top of the league in prescribing, yet there is no demonstrated benefit.”

“Side effects of antibiotics include rashes, thrush, and possible allergic and fatal reactions. Antibiotic sales have doubled since the mid 80S.” (The Bulletin with Newsweek, April 1994.)

There are more adverse side effects of antibiotics than these cited in Newsweek. One significant side effect of allowing you child to have repeated courses of antibiotics is that of slowing down the development of your child. This is a very serious side effect and warns against their value of this form of treatment for your child.

“The difference in the occurrence of developmental delays between children who take high doses of antibiotics and those who don’t is outstanding,” says a co-founder of the US Developmental Delay Registry.

In a survey including children aged between 1 and 12 years of age, it was found that those who had taken more than 20 courses of antibiotics are over 50% more likely to suffer developmental delays. Children who had three or fewer courses of antibiotics were half as likely to become developmentally delayed. A nutritionist with the Registry cautions:

“Parents should be put on notice that utilizing antibiotics as a prophylactic could jeopardize their children’s development. We believe alternative approaches to treating ear infections should be considered.” (The New Vegetarian and Natural Health, Autumn 2000.)

It is an unhealthy and serious problem. More and more medicines are being prescribed every year and to what effect? According to the reports, this form of wide spread over-prescribing is doing no good at all. A common example of prescribing medicines to treat the symptoms of disease and not the cause is in the case of the condition known as asthma.

What is the result if this method of treatment and ‘medicine mentality’ continues? The child has a very good chance of remaining on this medication for the rest of its restricted life. This is an example of the tragic situation of what is happening to our children in this and most modern countries. This is not only because the medicines are not removing the cause, but also because parents are not taught to consider the cause of the disease and take an active role of prevention and building health in their children. Permanent medication is a danger to the long-term health of the individual taking it.

Taking permanent medication has four main dangers:
• The body is adaptive and can become ‘more reliant’ on the medication.

• The body becomes more encumbered, unhealthy and reactive to new chemicals in foods and the environment because the cause has not been removed.

• The toxic side effects of the medicine over years of consuming it have a negative effect on the liver, kidneys other internal organs including the brain and its function!

Lastly and very importantly, taking medicines on a permanent basis will give a ‘false sense of security’ because it removes or, at least reduces and to an extent controls the annoying symptoms (which are the body’s warning signs that something is wrong). This is extremely dangerous as the following story reveals.

I have a newspaper report of a 29-year-old nurse. She had suffered from asthma all her life and was on medication for it. One weekend she went to Brisbane (72 km away from the Gold Coast) for the weekend and forgot to take her medication. While there she went to a party and had some foods and drink that brought on an asthma attack. With no medication handy, she suffocated and died because she could not breathe!

My question is this: Was the medical ‘drug’ treatment she had followed all her life successful? NO! The treatment all those years was only suppressing (hiding) the symptoms and the underlying cause was never considered exposed and removed! Because of this, it was only a matter of the combination of the wrong conditions to be present for the person get into trouble.

This is what is happening all over Australia and the modern world because people are brought up not to think but to foilov along what everybody else does and not asking the golden questions, “it is causing this condition?” and” How can we remove the cause and overcome it completely!” And if you are not satisfied with the anwers. Seek out another opinion from an alternate source!

That’s what you need. That’s what you’re paying for your children’s! And that’s what you demand!

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Now, after researchers have successfully factored discover much variables, the Academy of Period ontology reports that grouping with deontology (gum) disease are almost twice as likely to have thrombosis arteria disease, also famous as hunch disease.

Heart Disease and Plaque

Atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries, develops when fats and other substances in the murder stick to the sides of our arteries, specifically the arteries that supply murder and oxygen directly to the heart.

These deposits, or “plaques,” crapper physique up along the arteria walls, narrowing or clogging the murder flow that is so essential to some living tissue. If they country the flow completely, or if one of the plaques dislodges, a hunch attack or stroke (if the closure occurs in the arteries that take the brain) crapper occur.

It is essential to note that these plaques are not related to the monument that a dentist or hygienist scrapes off your teeth. Dental monument is a complex, sticky residue comprised mainly of bacteria, polysaccharides, or Byzantine sugars, and matter debris. It is the anorectic agent in cavities and medicates disease.

The Gums-Heart Connection

One theory to explain the correlation between deontology disease and thrombosis arteria disease holds that bacteria indigenous to the mouth crapper enter via the gums and locate or plunk in and around the plaques or greasy deposits on the arteries, directly contributing to the narrowing, blockage, or clot.

Another more popular theory is unmoving in the body’s possess self-defence mechanism—inflammation or swelling. The inflammatory response is triggered by mediators, much as C-reactive protein. Bacteria originating from the oral decay and travelling through the bloodstream are thought to trigger the release of mediators, causing murder cells to swell, thus contributing to narrowing of the arteries and crescendo the risk of blockage.

Researchers have been clear about the role of inflammation in many diseases including deontology disease, hunch disease, and arthritis. Considering how kindred the inflammatory process is throughout the body, it is not arduous to imagine one disease process having an impact on another. Many doctors routinely screen for C-reactive proteins in murder tests to diagnose patients at risk.

Though there seems little controversy over the connection between deontology disease and hunch disease, it is not clear if one is directly responsible for the other.

It is essential to remember, though, that the connection could still be significant because early spotting of cardiovascular disease is ofttimes impeded by the demand of symptoms. We can’t feel our arteries hardening, or an disequilibrium in our murder chemistry, but we just might notice our gums bleeding.

Clearly, anyone at risk or concerned about cardiovascular disease should still be convergent on the obvious style parameters: take healthy, exercise most days of the week, don’t smoke, retrograde weight if you’re overweight, etc.

Your oral health should be considered an essential part of this itemize and should be presented the same reverence. So brush, floss, and you’ll be one step closer to a long, flourishing life!

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