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Healthy Living/Diet & Lifestyle
When we try to restore your health with nutrition and other natural therapies, we are working with body’s biochemistry. The most basic, and sometimes most effective therapy is your diet. Many people don’t make the connection between their...
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Healthy Living/Diet & Lifestyle
To a large extent, the amount of suffering you do with pain is a function of what you eat. Just as you can take a pill to suppress inflammation, you can make a different kind of chemical change by wisely choosing what you eat.
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Healthy Living/Diet & Lifestyle
Eat your vegetables and protect yourself from dementia. Vegetables are high in folic acid; the word “folic’ comes from the word “foliage”. Adequate folic acid levels may protect you from dementia. The most common form of dementia is...
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Healthy Living/Diet & Lifestyle
NET is a mind-body approach. Practitioners use NeuroEmotional Technique (NET) to normalize unresolved physical or behavioral patterns by making a physiological correction.
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Healthy Living/Diet & Lifestyle
For more articles on this and other health topics, click on the link to go to our practitioners' directory and link to a web site that is loaded with information: Practitioners' Directory The sun is dangerous—its rays can give you...
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Healthy Living/Diet & Lifestyle
For more articles on this and other health topics, click on the link to go to our practitioners' directory and link to a web site that is loaded with information: Practitioners' Directory Flavonoids are a class of water-soluble plant pigments...
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Healthy Living/Diet & Lifestyle
By John Rosenbaum Click here to see John Rosenbaum's web site Practitioners' Directory Why supplement? Isn't whole food better? Background: For the last 50-60 years, there is ample evidence that often times crop soil is depleted of...
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Healthy Living/Diet & Lifestyle
Click here to connect to other sites loaded with information about this and other topics Prebiotics are substances that are not normally digestible, but nourish the bacteria in the colon. Prebiotics are usually carbohydrates (such as...
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Healthy Living/Diet & Lifestyle
Click here to link to websites that are loaded with more health information about this and other topics Perhaps green tea can help you to keep the weight off. The research appearing in the Journal of Nutrition (February 2008, Volume...
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Healthy Living/Diet & Lifestyle
The cost of health care in the United States is $2 trillion—a figure that represents about 1/6 of our GDP. If it were its own economy, it would be the 4th largest economy in the world. Americans spend more on health care than the entire economies...
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Healthy Living/Diet & Lifestyle
According to research appearing in the August, 2006 issue of the journal, Radiology, more Americans are too fat to have x-rays, CAT scans, MRIs or diagnostic ultrasounds than in the past. Just under 2/3 of the American population is classified as...
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Healthy Living/Diet & Lifestyle
If yo
u look at what happens to people who are newly "civilized" and recently exposed to the modern Western diet, you can get an idea of the problems caused by eating a refined, processed diet. Consider Eskimos in Northern Canada, who, prior to...
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Healthy Living/Diet & Lifestyle
Alcohol is a toxin that damages every organ in your body. It damages the lining of the gastrointestinal tract. It can cause a condition known as leaky gut, which causes things that were never intended to get into the bloodstream to be absorbed...
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Healthy Living/Diet & Lifestyle
Platelets in the blood are responsible for clotting. When we speak of platelet aggregation we mean the tendency of the platelets to clump together. Increased platelet aggregation can be a problem because clotting occurs too easily and it can create...
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Healthy Living/Diet & Lifestyle
Thyroid: The thyroid is the thermostat of the body. It regulates how fast you burn calories. Symptoms of hypothyroidism include:
Low body temperature; the patient feels cold even when others do not
Inability to lose weight...
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Healthy Living/Diet & Lifestyle
A study appearing in JAMA (2004;292:1433-1439) looked at the Mediterranean diet and its effect on longevity. The subjects were 1507 men and 832 women, with no known health problems, between the ages of 70 and 90. The health of the participants was...
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Healthy Living/Diet & Lifestyle
Consuming sugar and refined carbohydrates can lead to high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity and a host of other health problems. Dr. Weston Price documented the degeneration caused by high sugar diets in his book, “Nutrition...
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Healthy Living/Diet & Lifestyle
Research appearing in the Annals of Oncology (2006; 17(2): 341-5) looked at the diets of 2,569 women with breast cancer and compared them to the diets of 2,588 women admitted to the hospital without cancer or any hormone-related conditions. The...
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Healthy Living/Diet & Lifestyle
There are no miraculous weight-loss products. But paying attention to insulin production will produce weight-loss miracles. Insulin has a lot to do with weight gain and so many other common health problems. Sugar and insulin are involved with high...
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Healthy Living/Diet & Lifestyle
A study appearing in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition (2009; 63, 405-412) found an association between skipping breakfast and becoming overweight or obese. Information was gathered about breakfast, physical inactivity and alcohol...
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Healthy Living/Diet & Lifestyle
The term "postprandial glycemia" refers to the increase in blood sugar after a meal. It is quite a problem for people who have insulin insensitivity. A small study appearing in the journal of the American Dietetic Association (2005; 105(12):...
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Healthy Living/Diet & Lifestyle
The risk for developing dementia may have something to do with the type of fats and oils in the diet. Research appearing in the Archives of Neurology (2006; 63(11)" 1545-50) looked at 899 elderly subjects who were free of dementia (76 years median...
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Healthy Living/Diet & Lifestyle
Higher levels of micronutrients (vitamins and minerals) in an elderly individual means less of a chance of becoming frail. Frailty is defined by having at least two of the following criteria: low muscle strength, feeling of exhaustion, low walking...
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Healthy Living/Diet & Lifestyle
A number of studies show that diet can improve asthma symptoms. Research appearing in the journal, Thorax (2006; 61(12): 1048-53) looked at the diets of 598 Dutch children between the ages of 8 and 13. It found that a diet high in fish and whole...
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Healthy Living/Diet & Lifestyle
Stress can literally kill you, the damage it does to your body is well-researched. It lowers the response of your immune system. It can lead to high blood pressure, high cholesterol and heart disease. It is linked to colitis and irritable bowel...
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