Published on The Health Gazette
Natural Antivirals
Research suggests certain natural foods may be as effective against virus H5N1 as commercial antivirals.
A Biology teacher from Australia, Stephen Jones, has done extensive research into the H5N1 virus and has compiled a list of natural foods that are effective against it and others that are detrimental.
Researchers from two Australian dental schools reviewed a variety of research projects that investigated the effects of alcohol on oral health. One of those sources included more than 3,200 subjects in a trial that indicated daily mouthwash use might be a significant risk factor for head and neck cancer.
The Australian study concluded: “There is now sufficient evidence to accept the proposition that alcohol-containing mouthwashes contribute to the increased risk of development of oral cancer.”
The only two approved prescription obesity drugs in the U.S. haven’t delivered results.
Xenical
6 pounds per year
Meridia
10 pounds per year
By comparison :
Diet & exercise
15 pounds per year
Sound familiar ?
Source : Forbes Magazine
Important Cod Liver Oil Update
For years, cod liver oil as been forced on us as children and touted as a dietary supplement to support healthy vitamin D levels. Recent findings could be interpreted that it may not serve you as well as previously believed.
Cod liver oil contains vitamins D and A in addition to healthy omega-3 fats. These vitamins are essential for most everyone who cannot get regular sun exposure year-round.
But more recent research has discovered that the ratios of these two vitamins may be of paramount importance in order to extract optimal health benefits, and unfortunately, modern cod liver oil does not supply these vitamins in healthy ratios to each other.
More government involvement doesn’t hold the answer to the health care crisis. What is needed is more personal involvement — your personal involvement — in the form of a commitment to your own health.
If you carefully follow some basic health principles — simple things like exercising, eating whole foods, sleeping enough, getting sun exposure, reducing stress in your life, and nurturing personal relationships — you will drastically reduce your need for conventional medical care.
You could also carefully analyze newer health insurance options such as HRAs and HSAs if you live in the United States. The basic concept here is to provide protection against medical catastrophes, but to have a high deductible to lower your costs. If you stay healthy, the premium savings would more than pay for the higher deductible — IF you ever need it.
And that is really the bottom line.
As drug sales are now dwindling due to a depressed economy, you and your children are likely to be bombarded with increasingly aggressive pharmaceutical direct-to-consumer advertising, and lobbying for more forced drugging and mandatory vaccinations.
Don’t fall for the scare tactics and disease mongering! And don’t believe the fairy tale that taking a pill with a laundry list of side effects will somehow make you feel as glowing and wonderful as the well-paid actors in the commercial.
The more you take responsibility for your own health — in the form of nurturing your body to prevent disease — the less you need to rely on the “disease care” that passes for health care in the United States in the first place.
Source: mercola.com
New reasons to avoid grapefruit and other juices when taking certain drugs.
Over the past three years succeedingly more specific studies have come out that basically saying certain drugs should not be taken with grapefruit juice.
New research shows that it’s probably best to avoid washing down drugs with ANY type of fruit juice.
If you search the Internet on this subject, the consensus would suggest these additives to your food should be closely watched and limited. If you hear it enough from different sources, there’s the strong possibility that the warnings should be heeded. Read ingredient labels closely and do your own due diligence.
Electromagnetic fields (EMF) exist all around us, emanating from power lines and transformers, antennas, televisions and microwaves. Wi-Fi is a type of radio wave, operating at either 2.4 or 5 gigahertz which is higher than the radio waves on which appliances like cellular phones or televisions operate. This allows for the transmission of large amounts of data, e.g. for laptop computers, but as a result Wi-Fi radio waves emit greater electromagnetic fields than appliances like televisions and microwaves.
Experts argue back and forth on whether these waves are harmful or not. Studies on cell phone use over time have not far proved a connection between electromagnetic radiation (EMR) and cancer or brain tumors for instance, but it is suggested that it often takes much longer, as much as twenty years for results to show up in clinical studies.
EMF and EMR have been pointed to in connection with Alzheimers, autism, the disappearance of bees, brain tumors, and disrupting bird migrations, among many other things. We have yet to understand our own human electromagnetic condition and energy fields, so an awareness of potential disruptions to our health from a variety of EMF and EMR sources is something to be aware of, and not just have our collective heads in the sand.
The number of mobile phone users worldwide soared to over 3.3 billion by the end of 2007, a total penetration rate of 49 percent. That’s half the world’s population !
Africa showed the greatest increase, and more than two-thirds of all cell phone subscribers now come from developing countries. Cell phones account for nearly 90 percent of all telephone use in Africa. India and China added 154 million and 143 million new subscribers respectively.
The global annual average growth rate for cell phone subscribers currently stands at 22 percent. However, subscriptions to mobile phone plans increased at a rate of 39 percent annually in Africa between 2005 and 2007, and the rate of increase in Asia over the same period was 28 percent.
For a real eye opener, go to http://antennasearch.com for locations of antennas and towers in your neighborhood. This poster found 119 antennas and 53 towers within a four mile radius of my home in Jacksonville, Florida, a community that is surburban bordering on rural.
If you were going to be stranded on a deserted island and could only have one food, what would it be? If you’re thinking of pizza, hamburgers or fried chicken, let me give you some advice: pick salba instead. This deceptively miniscule grain is one of nature’s truly perfect foods, and its health properties have been recognized for centuries.
Salba is also known as Chia Seed.
The Aztecs gave salba to their runners. Remember, they didn’t have email or the postal service 500 years ago. The empire’s runners had to cover great distances to deliver messages, which meant packing light. Salba was the perfect food — filling due to its fiber content, empowering due to its protein, and with a liberal amount of calcium and magnesium thrown in for good measure. Salba is also renowned for its antioxidant capacity—important to combat the oxidative stress that those runners were creating from all of that physical activity.
In some ways, salba is even more relevant today. The Aztecs didn’t have to deal with an onslaught of environmental stressors like traffic jams, ringing phones and a slew of nasty chemicals. Let’s face it—we need all of the nutritional help we can get, and salba is one of the easiest ways to do it. Sprinkle it on anything, add to shakes or in any recipe—and you’re packing a wallop of health into your day.
The Romans Did Themselves In With Lead ~ 2000 Years Later We’re Doing It With Aluminum
July 11th, 2008Lead in the water distribution pipes of ancient Rome has been found to be a major contributor to the downfall of that civilizations health.
Today, aluminum is thought to play a major role in most of the neurodegenerative diseases and has been a suspect in Alzheimer’s for many years as well as in the development of dementia, Parkinson’s, Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS) and other degenerative diseases.
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