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9
Oct

Love - Hate Relationship Natural Supplements and the FDA

Author: Webmaster

How many of you think the FDA is corrupt, controlled by the pharmaceutical industry, or just plain intoxicated by its own supreme power? Yet, who do we trust if we can’t trust the FDA to tell us what we can trust to be safe, effective and truthful?

In this era of self-promoted opinions, products and research, doing your own search isn?t always the most reliable source either, as master advertisers and promoters can convinces us of almost anything. —and testimonials can you bank on personal testimonials of what works or what doesn’t? Is anyone going to publicize the negative, this didn’t work for me kind of testimonials?

Where does the honest, average hard-working citizen turn to make sure they are not being taken advantage or mid-lead? Especially in the nutritional world.

I am a 58 yr old male with arthritis. My dad has it, my mom had it. I have it.

One thing all of my doctors (and there are a number of them involved with my treatment) have encouraged me to do, is: ?Do everything you can for yourself.? And, all of them agreed that nutrition is an important part of the overall treatment?. But then I was on my own.

So now what? The U.S. Department of Agriculture states that our foods today contain 20% to 30% fewer vitamins and minerals than the same foods did just 10 years ago! And the media has exposed the non-ethical practice of most non-prescriptioned nutritional supplements as inaccurately labeling their vitamins. It is reported that most vitamins on the market contain 17% of what is actually on the label. Besides that, there?s been other research that?s shown that 60% of vitamins never even dissolve,(so even a 2nd bottle for a penny is still expensive when you are spending money for nothing).

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Does this sound little disheartening? Yah, that?s how I thought.

So, what did I do? I found there are a few (a handful) of nutritional companies that do voluntarily conform and submit to pharmaceutical standards (standards set by the FDA to assure that strict specifications have been met for the strength, purity and quality of the nutritional products.) I choose one of those.

And I must say, the nutrition I added to my arthritis treatment is helping a lot. If you have arthritis, or any other major or minor illness or disease, I encourage you to find a pharmaceutical-grade nutritional company and add them to the list of specialists you enlist for help with your treatment. I am off all the anti-inflammatories and blood pressure pills with their awful side effects. I still go to the medical doctors for help and I ride my bike for physical exercise. And I am doing what I can to help myself stay nutritionally healthy, which helps everything else I am doing be more effective.

It’s worth looking into at the least.

If you want to contact me, I?ll give you my website. But please if you are a spammer or marketing kook please don?t bother me. I’ve found what I like and I don’t trust you.

Dr. Jeffery Bland, Ph.D. in nutrition, decided to research vitamin E by going to different health food stores and he found ½ of them did not have any vitamin activity, and a couple were only vegetable oil. That is criminal.

If you have arthritis, two published studies in the Journal of Rheumatology: Regarding Cetyl Myristoleate-Celadrin April 2003, and Effect of a Cetylated Fatty Acid Topical Cream on Functional Mobility and Quality of Life of Patients with Osteoarthritis April, 2004 show the amazing results CM gives. There was a clinical trial done by an independent research group on this combination that found 96% of the trial patients found relief in 60 days of treatment!

Nikken’s nutritional products are manufactured to pharmaceutical industry standards and are more correctly identified as “Nutraceuticals”.

According to Dr. Ernest M. Vandeweghe, Jr., MD., (one of the nutritional experts hired by Nikken), Nikken is one of only five nutrition companies in America that meets or exceeds the rigid quality standards of the American Nutraceutical Association (ANA), aka American Pharmaco-Nutraceutical Association. It’s estimated that there are almost 400 companies producing nutritional products.

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9
Oct

Why Is Healthy Eating So Hard?

Author: Webmaster

Many people complain that eating healthy is really, really difficult. They just don’t know why it has to take so much time to provide healthy meals for themselves and their family.

Truth be told, it’s about as difficult as you make it. And it can be much more affordable than eating out all the time or eating convenience foods.

Your cooking techniques matter, for example. Just about everyone these days knows that frying foods is unhealthy. Yet we eat them all the time at fast food restaurants. After all, it tastes so good!

If you like the taste, it’s far better to stir fry foods at home. You only need a tablespoon or so of oil for most recipes, so you aren’t adding so much fat. Plus you can add fresh vegetables to really make your stir fry delicious. And it’s easy.

A basic stir fry takes some chopped meat, vegetables, a bit of oil and some seasonings. A lot of people use soy sauce in stir fry, and if you’re using a nonstick pan you may be able to get away with using only cooking spray and no oil at all, or even skipping it entirely. Season it up with some herbs, garlic or whatever you like, maybe throw in a handful of cashews or other nuts, and you have a healthy meal that didn’t take too much time to make.

Switching to whole grains helps as well. Stop buying white bread and go for wheat. Switch from white rice to brown. Whole grain pasta. These don’t take any extra time and are much better for you.

If you’re constantly pressed for time, get a crockpot or make extra portions when you cook. The crockpot can be started in the morning, so that when you come home you have a healthy meal waiting for you. Extra portions of many recipes can be frozen so that you have quick dinners or an easy lunch to take to work.

Changing your shopping habits also helps. If you keep chips, soda, ice cream and so forth out of the house, it’s much harder to snack on them. Simple avoidance can work wonders.

You can still eat meat when you want to eat healthy. Just buy the leaner cuts. Most Americans eat more meat than they need to, so consider cooking less of it. This is another area where I’ve found stir frying to be helpful. You feel like you’re getting more meat if it’s cut into small pieces by the time it makes it onto your plate. Mixing it up with a lot of vegetables also gives the illusion that there’s a good amount of meat there.

It takes time to change poor eating habits. It’s a lot of fun eating foods that aren’t so good for you. But you can develop a preference for healthier eating and still not find yourself crunched for time.

Stephanie Foster runs http://www.makehealthymeals.com/ as a place for people to learn to take the time to eat a little healthier. She offers a variety of crockpot recipes on her website.

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9
Oct

Stop The Fast Food Madness

Author: Webmaster

McDonald’s, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and Pizza Hut. Do the lyrics of this song sound familiar to you? Do you eat fast food four, five, six or even seven or more times a week?

I once fell into this habit. Hectic schedules, traffic and too many places to be at one time are just some of the reasons why we often find ourselves enslaved to the fast food grind.

It’s not your fault. Blame your fast food habit on the big slick corporate marketing machine for poisoning your mind and those of your family members. Have you ever driven down the road with your one- or two-year-old child in the back seat of the car while passing a McDonald’s rest stop with the Golden Arches some 150 feet in the air? It is amazing how your child can?t see out the window but those arches in the sky are always visible and bring a smile to a child?s face. While you?re trying to be more health conscious, you?re being sabotaged at every corner! You can’t control the marketing. You have to control yourself!

The negative effects of excessive fast food intake are numerous and include symptoms like the development of cellulite in all those icky places, loss of energy, increased bad cholesterol levels in your body, weight gain from excessive calories, and even insulin resistance that could lead to diabetes. These bad effects are just the tip of the iceberg. I think the inner physical effects of eating too much fast food are probably worse than the ones we see.

People are motivated to make changes in many different ways. What will motivate you to get off the fast food bandwagon? I just had to strip naked, look in the mirror, and let my loving husband whisper sweet nothings in my ear like, “I thought you are what you eat. Why don?t I see you eat cottage cheese?” Or my personal favorite when we share breakfast together, “Hey woman, do you need some mayonnaise with those Wheaties?”

The biggest problem from my excessive fast food intake was cellulite. It affected the bottom of my butt cheeks, my knees, and my triceps, making them ugly. Fortunately, my husband helped me kick the habit with plain old will power. We simply avoided the fast food heroin and did not succumb to our child’s tantrums for Happy Meals anymore. It?s not easy but it can be done.

So now, my husband cooks while I clean and take out the garbage. It?s a long walk down our driveway but the exercise is good for me. I also have to walk the same long driveway to get the mail before dinner so that?s two walks for me a day.. Don’t worry ladies, he still mows the lawn.

About three weeks ago, I received a “we delivered you were not home” tag from the US Postal Service. The next day, the mailman arrived and brought my package. The mystery package was a special delivery from the cellulite busters at www.celluthin.com At first I was skeptical that this popular fat-burning cream would help but after three weeks of using the stuff, I became a believer.

Now I have a great body that I can be proud of. Even better, I don?t have to take out the trash anymore.

Sharon Bell is an avid health and fitness enthusiast and published author. Many of her insightful articles can be found at the premiere online news magazine http://www.healthnfitnesszone.com

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9
Oct

Herbal Therapy for Diabetes

Author: Webmaster

Diet plays a major role in life of diabetes patients. They always should try to follow healthy and fiber food diet plan. They must avoid fried and oily or spicy food, and keep far their selves from junk food. Diabetes patients must take green vegetables and fruits in their dinner or lunch more than other foods. Some of vegetables like celery, bitter melon, onion, garlic, artichoke, and spinach are useful to decrease the severity of diabetes.

There are some herbal drugs, which is really effected in diabetes. After research on some herbal plants, research centre make some drugs for diabetes. They include Neem, Pann, Amla, Haldi and other inter gradient, which is help to controlling blood sugar level in the body. Some herbal drugs can be very effective in any types of diabetes without any side effects. There are some herbal treatments for diabetes patients.

? Juice of bitter gourd = patients should take a glass of bitter guard juice minimum three to six months. It proves that bitter guard is very effective in diabetes patients.

? Sudha Silajit = Sudha Shilajit has long been used for the treatment of diabetes in Ayurvedic medicines. Shilajit is called as ?Asphaltum? (Latin name). it is counteracts diabetes and regulated the blood sugar level.Shilajit has been also used for physical strengthening, anti-aging, libido, injury healing, urinary tract rejuvenation, bone healing etc.

? Fenugreek = Fenugreek is also an effective herbs for diabetes. Take five grams from the powder of Fenugreek seeds twice a day with curds and you will get positive result.

? Karvellak = Karvellak is for definite action on the pancreas that stimulates production of insulin in the body.

? Guduchi Satva = it is used for treatment of diabetes in ayurveda. It maintains balance of Vata, Pitta and Kapha in our body.

? Chopchini = common name of Chopchini is ?Sarasapilla?, which stimulates production of insulin.

? Vijaya Saar = its common name is ?Malabar Kinotree?.Vijaya Saar stimulates the cells to utilize glucose from the blood stream.

? Haridra = we know it as ?Turmeric? and it?s well known and the best medicine for diabetes because it controlling Kapha dosha in the body.

? Other effective herbs in diabetes are Jamun and its seeds, Coriander seeds, Lettuce, Red rose flower, Fennel seeds and Gulair. Mixture of the powder from these all herbs, taken twice a day. It is also found to be effective in diabetes problems.

At last, it is very important know for diabetes patients that diabetes is a silent killer and if you want to keel this killer you must follow your diet plan and keep your self away from sugar, oil and fatty foods and must keep in touch with exercises daily in your whole life.

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9
Oct

Diabetes Causes and Prevention

Author: Webmaster

Diabetes is a disease that affects the body natural ability to change carbohydrates and sugars into energy. There is no known cause for the onset of diabetes. However, there are certain factors that place a person at higher risk of contracting diabetes.

The risk factors of diabetes can include:

  • A family history of diabetes
  • Obesity
  • Poor diet
  • Physical inactivity

Different Types/Different Causes of Diabetes

There are three main types of diabetes -type-1, type-2, and gestational. Type-1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease and most often affects children and young adults. An autoimmune disease is one in which the body ability to fight infections is decreased causing the body to attack its own cells. In type-1 diabetes, the body often attacks the beta cells in the pancreas -the cells that produce insulin in the body. The main diabetes causes of type-1 diabetes are:

  • Infections with specific bacteria or viruses
  • Food-borne chemical toxins
  • Cows milk -an unidentified component in cow milk can trigger an autoimmune reaction in the body. Young infants who are given cow milk have a higher risk of contracting type-1 diabetes.

The main diabetes causes of type-2 diabetes are:

  • Increasing age
  • Obesity
  • Physical inactivity
  • Poor diet
  • The main diabetes causes of gestational diabetes are:
  • Hormones produced during pregnancy blocking actions of insulin
  • Mother body can?t produce enough insulin

Common Causes of Diabetes

There are some common diabetes causes that include genetic causes as well as environmental causes. The risk of diabetes is higher if there is a family history of diabetes. Environmental factors that can lead to the onset of diabetes include poor diet, lack of exercise, obesity, and stress. Diabetes is a disease that can be prevented -or controlled once a diagnosis has been made.

Prevention and Control in Diabetes

While the symptoms of diabetes are not life threatening, diabetes can lead to other more serious diseases and illnesses. People who have been diagnosed with diabetes are at a higher risk of diseases and illnesses such as heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, neuropathy and nerve damage, foot conditions, and blindness. It is extremely important to control your diabetes in order to avoid the onset of these more serious and sometimes life-threatening illnesses.

There are medications that can be used in the control of diabetes, as well as many natural remedies. However, the single most important aspect of a diabetic management plan is a healthy diet and exercise. A healthy diet should consist of fresh fruits, fresh vegetables, carbohydrates in healthy portions, Omega-3 fatty acids, proteins in healthy portions, and fiber. A healthy diet not only helps your overall health, but also can be a major factor in offsetting the symptoms of diabetes. The longer you can prevent the symptoms of diabetes, the longer you can decrease the risks of more serious illnesses associated with diabetes.

A regular exercise routine is also an important factor in the prevention and management of diabetes. All parts of your body are designed to work together in order to sustain life. By keeping your muscles toned and your blood flowing correctly, you can help your body to fight off infections and your body will be able to help in managing the symptoms of many illnesses. Strong muscles in the abdomen are essential for helping your digestive system work normally.

A Long, Healthy Life

It is possible to live a long, healthy life. You can help ensure that your body will work properly for a long time by beginning a healthy diet and routing exercise program early in life. The old saying, ?An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure? has real meaning. By choosing to live a healthy lifestyle, you are choosing to consciously help your body fight of the symptoms of many illnesses and diseases. And, while some diseases are hereditary, such as diabetes, and you may still be at risk, by choosing to maintain a healthy lifestyle, you are helping your body become prepared to delay the onset of symptoms and to control the symptoms once they appear.

Dr John Anne is an herbal specialist with years of experience and extensive research on herbs and alternative health. If you are looking for more information, read about Diabetes Causes at http://www.ayurvediccure.com/diabetes-prevention.htm. AyurvedicCure.com is the World?s Largest Alternative Health Portal. If you are worried about your pets health, read about Diabetes in Dogs

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