Health 08 (Oct 14 - Jun 15)

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The Most Dangerous Drink in Your Diet By Craig Ballantyne

This is probably the worst beverage you can drink for your diet. It’s worse than soda or alcohol. It’s worse than milk. It’s orange juice!

In a recent study, women did 30 minutes of cardio, and immediately after exercise, they drank 600mL of skim milk or 600mL of orange juice.

One hour later they were fed a meal of pasta and allowed to eat as much as they wanted.

When subjects drank the orange juice, they ate nearly 250 extra calories of pasta! That shows you that drinking a protein-beverage, like milk or whey protein, will help you eat less, while drinking orange juice causes you to eat more.

That’s another reason you get fat from an endurance athlete-style diet of orange juice and pasta.

Source: ETR

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The Most Important List You'll Read All Year, Part II By Dr. David Eifrig

As I mentioned yesterday, I spend all year thinking about simple ways to live a healthier, happier life.

It's not as drastic – and it doesn't take as much work – as you might think. I'm not suggesting you start running marathons or drinking kale smoothies. Though even if you start doing just one of these things this year, I'm confident it will improve your life.

Yesterday, I shared six of my top 12 health tips. Today, we'll cover the rest of the list…


6. Air – This year, I'm combining two of last year's categories – clean air (No. 9) and aromas (No. 11) and moving them up in importance.

Polluted air is filled with various particles so small that they can get into your lung tissue and blood stream. They cause cancer, reduce the ef­fectiveness of your immune system, and damage your respiratory system.

Having excessive dust, dirt, or smoke in your home can lead to chronic inflammation… leading to more colds and heart attacks. Breathing clean air is an essential part of having a healthy year. I keep an air purifier in my bed­room, where I spend almost a third of my life.

Good smells in the air around you are also important. Aromas can improve your mood, trigger positive memories, help you sleep, and improve concentration. Some – like the combination of lavender and pumpkin pie – can even increase the male libido.


5. Meditation – People who meditate have lower blood pressure, less heart disease, and better oxygen uptake – and they also report feeling less stressed. Meditation has benefits similar to exercise but without the wear, tear, and stress on your body that happens during training.

Many people are afraid of meditation's religious connotations. And it's true devout religious people use this technique when they pray. But you don't have to be religious to invoke the body's abilities.

Try what I do and sit in a chair (or in bed) with my neck and shoulders balanced and relaxed, feet on the floor and hands interlocking on my lap. I think of just one word, such as "one" or "omm" or "peace." When my mind drifts to other things, I slowly and softly bring it back to that word.

Taking deep, but not forced, breaths, I let my mind and body go where they want to for 15 or 20 minutes. This is my time to relax my mind and focus on my breathing, body, and being in the moment. (No chanting involved.)


4. Sun – Sunlight lowers the risks of several cancers. The vitamin D pro­duced by the body from sunlight may be critical in preventing diseases such as multiple sclerosis and depression.

Some people would rather take a pill to get their vitamin D than go out­side for 20 minutes a day. But there's a catch… The vitamin D we get in our food requires sunlight to chemically activate and become useful. So go spend some time outside, instead of relying on a pill.

The Institute of Medicine, a group with no pills to sell and no ax to grind, recommends people get between 400 and 800 international units (IU) of vitamin D per day, depending on your age. If you live in a northern climate, do what I do and take 800 IU every other day, but still go out and get sun on your face and hands (if it's not too cold).


3. Vegetables – Most Americans only eat about 1.5 servings of vegetables per day. A study published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health in 2014 suggests eating up to seven servings of fruits and vegetables per day lowers your risk of dying from any cause. But it also noted it's likely the vegetables doing the work. I concur.

Vegetables are low-fat, low-calorie, and high in fiber. Green leafy vegetables like spinach and kale are some of the most nutrient dense. Plus, spinach promotes muscle growth. (Popeye had the right idea.) According to re­searchers at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, nitrate – a compound in spinach – strengthens fast-twitch muscles. Fast-twitch muscles are the ones your body uses for high-intensity exercises.

Vegetables are easy to dress up or hide in other foods. I put a little ol­ive oil and lemon on my salads. Or you can hide spinach in a fruit smoothie.


2. Movement – Exercise improves your mood and boosts your immune system. And one excuse people use for not exercising is a lack of time. Well, this year's most fascinating science results are coming in fast, and time can no longer be an excuse.

According to a new study from McMaster University, people who did just one minute of intense exercise as part of 10 total minutes of exercise (the nine other minutes were a slow walk), three days a week for six weeks, lowered their blood pressure and increased their endurance by 12%. Researchers called it sprint interval training (SIT). All it takes is 30 minutes a week to see benefits.

If you're interested in learning more, I recommend reading Body by Science by John Little and Fast Exercise by Michael Mosley.


1. Sleep – Sleep has returned to my No. 1 most important health secret. This past fall, I kept getting sick. Usually, I get through cold and flu season unscathed. However, before winter hit, I had gotten sick twice in eight weeks. The fix was easy.

I had started reading on a backlit tablet in bed that emits blue light. Blue light is just one color of light that electronics like laptops and tablets give off. But (as I briefly mentioned yesterday) it's the one that's the most disruptive to circadian rhythms. Think of the circadian rhythm like a clock that signals our bodies the optimal time to do things, like falling asleep and waking up. Blue light also stops the release of melatonin – the hormone that makes you sleepy.

To give your brain time to get ready to sleep, shut off your electronics an hour before bed. Keep the lights dim and the shades covered.

These tips are the best ways to get started living a healthier life. As I said before, please start using these tips immediately. But just try one (or two) at a time. After a few months, you'll have built them into your life as regular habits.

Source: Daily Wealth

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Stress Control - How to react to stress?

Always accept that nothing can change circumstances as they are happening in your life eg. you can’t never change people with whom you interact at that moment of interaction period.

When an occurrence in your life is not of your liking, it is nonetheless taking place.

You will be wasting energy by resisting; the only result of doing this is stress.

Instead of avoiding what you don’t like face what you feel, accept as part of life the need to process your negative emotions, think!

Each time you work trough your fears and negative emotions you will be better prepare for your future.

Accepting what it feels to go through circumstances or people we don’t like, it is a good thing, it makes us a better person.

You may at a much later time work on a well prepare plan on attempting to change others or your circumstances.


Source: www.wisdomtips.com

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Sleep

Here's a new finding on how to lower your blood pressure, boost your immune system and lower stress.

And the best part: it doesn't involve a treadmill, taking 10,000 steps, or even any exercise at all. Nor is it a flavorless, meatless diet or any other strange food regimen.

Actually, it's as simple as taking a 30-minute nap.

That's right, a nap!

Researchers at the Sorbonne University in Paris were studying what happens when we're deprived of sleep. That affects levels of a stress hormone that increases heart rate, blood pressure and blood sugar.

Their test subjects, 11 healthy men between the ages of 25 and 32, were only allowed two hours of sleep. The next day, they took two 30-minute naps -- and their hormone levels were all normal.

And that wasn't the only result.

The study also found that skimping on your shut-eye lowers levels of an antiviral protein that helps your immune system respond to infection or trauma. But those levels were also back to normal after the subjects took those naps.

While this study was the first of its kind, previous research has shown napping can have other benefits. A 2011 study found that a 45-minute snooze could lower blood pressure in those experiencing stress. And taking such "down time" has also been linked to better productivity, mood and creativity.

So next time you've been up too late, or even need a break from stress and worry, try grabbing a quick nap. And tell your spouse or your boss, you're self-medicating...

Source: HSI

[winston]

Sleep

Here's a new finding on how to lower your blood pressure, boost your immune system and lower stress.

And the best part: it doesn't involve a treadmill, taking 10,000 steps, or even any exercise at all. Nor is it a flavorless, meatless diet or any other strange food regimen.

Actually, it's as simple as taking a 30-minute nap.

That's right, a nap!

Researchers at the Sorbonne University in Paris were studying what happens when we're deprived of sleep. That affects levels of a stress hormone that increases heart rate, blood pressure and blood sugar.

Their test subjects, 11 healthy men between the ages of 25 and 32, were only allowed two hours of sleep. The next day, they took two 30-minute naps -- and their hormone levels were all normal.

And that wasn't the only result.

The study also found that skimping on your shut-eye lowers levels of an antiviral protein that helps your immune system respond to infection or trauma. But those levels were also back to normal after the subjects took those naps.

While this study was the first of its kind, previous research has shown napping can have other benefits. A 2011 study found that a 45-minute snooze could lower blood pressure in those experiencing stress. And taking such "down time" has also been linked to better productivity, mood and creativity.

So next time you've been up too late, or even need a break from stress and worry, try grabbing a quick nap. And tell your spouse or your boss, you're self-medicating...

Source: HSI

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Woman dies 36 times in one year due to rare condition
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/ ... ition.html

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Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins:

1. Every person has cancer cells in the body.. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion.
When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the
cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.

2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's lifetime.

3. When the person's immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors.

4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic but also to environmental, food and lifestyle factors.

5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet to eat more adequately and healthy, 4-5 times/day and by including supplements
will strengthen the immune system.

6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow,
gastrointestinal tract etc., and can
cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.

7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.

8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do
not result in more tumor destruction.

9.. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence
the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.

10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer
cells to spread to other sites.

11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply.


*CANCER CELLS FEED ON:

a. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc. are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be
Manuka honey or molasses, but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in color Better alternative is
Bragg's aminos or sea salt.

b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus.. By cutting off milk and substituting
with unsweetened soy milk cancer cells are being starved.

c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little other meat, like chicken.
Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.

d.. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment.
About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to
cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells.

To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C)..

e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer fighting properties. Water-best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.

12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines becomes putrefied and leads
to more toxic buildup.

13.. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.

14. Some supplements build up the immune system IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the body's own killer cells to destroy cancer cells.. Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.

15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger, unforgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.

16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.

1. No plastic containers in micro.

2. No water bottles in freezer.

3. No plastic wrap in microwave..

Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in its newsletters. This information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as well. Dioxin chemicals cause cancer, especially breast cancer.Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies. Don't freeze your plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the plastic.

Recently, Dr Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Castle Hospital , was on a TV program to explain this health hazard. He talked about dioxins and how bad they are for us. He said that we should not be heating our food in the microwave using plastic containers. This especially applies to foods that contain fat. He said that the combination of fat, high heat, and plastics releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body.

Instead, he recommends using glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food. You get the same results, only without the dioxin. So such things as TV dinners, instant ramen and soups, etc., should be removed from the container and heated in something else.

Paper isn't bad but you don't know what is in the paper. It's just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc. He reminded us that a while ago some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to paper The dioxin problem is one of the reasons.

Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as Saran, is just as dangerous when placed over foods to be cooked in the microwave. As the food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out of the plastic wrap and drip into the food.. Cover food with a paper towel instead.

Source: Johns Hopkins

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This could be the next breakthrough "anti-aging" treatment by Dr. David Eifrig

Length really does matter…

As I wrote last fall, the research science of telomeres is building. Telomeres are the protective caps on the ends of your DNA.

Every time your cell divides to make new cells, a little bit of the telomeres gets clipped off. As the cell ages, the telomeres shorten. When they’re gone, the cell stops dividing or dies.

Telomeres are typically 8,000 to 10,000 base units of DNA (called nucleotides) in length. But researchers at Stanford have found a way to add 1,000 nucleotides to existing telomeres in a cell. By reprogramming an enzyme in our bodies, they were able to add new telomeres to the end of existing chromosomes.

The additional base units allowed the cells to have up to 40 more divisions than the untreated cells. The addition of telomeres only took a few days and was able to reverse about 10 years of telomere shortening. More important, the effect doesn’t last long, meaning the telomeres won’t go on growing forever (which could create the potential for cancer).

Helping our cells stay “younger” means they will work longer and lead to fewer aging diseases, like heart disease. And people with some genetic diseases, like Duchenne muscular dystrophy, could potentially receive this treatment – a huge step forward.

Using this new therapy in everyday practice may still be years away. In the meantime, you can protect (and even lengthen) your telomeres with antioxidants (like blueberries), exercise, and vitamin D.

And cut down on known stressors that speed up telomere shortening, like stress, inflammation, and lack of sleep.


Source: Retirement Millionaire

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Ingredients Causing Health Problems By Dr. Peter Osborne

It's getting trickier and trickier to eat right. You need to read your labels and you need to pay attention to how certain foods make you feel.

Here are a couple of sneaky ingredients that might be causing you problems.

i) Carrageenan is a compound used to thicken foods. It has been shown to cause gluten like symptoms as well. It's even in so-called 'healthy foods' like almond milk.

ii) Many grains, fruits, and vegetables are high in FODMAPS (Fermentable Oligo-Di-Monosaccharides and Polyols). These are difficult to digest carbohydrates that can contribute to gas, bloating, and irritable bowel symptoms. Wheat and corn sugars are especially high in them.

It's not just gluten that is causing you problems, it's lesser known ingredients like those.

Source: ETR