Some Proof that Marijuana is a Powerful Medicine

Marijuana contains an amazing chemical, beta-caryophyllene, and scientists have thoroughly proven that it could be used to treat pain, inflammation, atherosclerosis, and osteoporosis.
Jürg Gertsch, of ETH Zürich, and his collaborators from three other universities learned that the natural molecule can activate a protein called cannabinoid receptor type 2. When that biological button is pushed, it soothes the immune system, increases bone mass, and blocks pain signals -- without causing euphoria or interfering with the central nervous system. READ ON

Inside Medicine: Dangerous drug, do-nothing FDA

Research has shown that Darvocet (and its first cousin Darvon) is no more effective than acetaminophen (Tylenol) or aspirin, and perhaps it is no more effective than even a sugar pill. Experts suggest that to treat serious pain, ibuprofen is far more effective than Darvocet.
The active ingredient in Darvocet is propoxyphene (also found in Darvon and Wygesic), which is dangerous and ineffective. Specifically, propoxyphene can cause serious cardiac problems, including issues with the heart pumping blood. Propoxyphene also causes harmful effects on the brain (sedation and confusion) that can lead to the type of problems many people experience – difficulty standing, loss of balance and difficulty thinking clearly. READ ON

Health Freedom Warning: Drug Company Seeks to Outlaw Vitamin B6 to Protect Pharma Profits.

Big Pharma is constantly finding new ways to destroy the natural supplements market, in much the same way that the American Medical Association once sought to destroy the chiropractic industry (for which it was later found guilty of conspiracy in U.S. courts, by the way).
The latest attack against vitamins comes from an FDA petition filed by Medicure Pharma, Inc., which has astonishingly asked the FDA to ban the sale of Vitamin B6!Vitamin B6, of course, is a naturally-occurring nutrient found in numerous vegetables, nuts and whole grains. Its natural form is called pyridoxal 5'-phosphate or P5P for short. It's an essential nutrient for expectant mothers, growing children and anyone who wishes to be healthy. It's absolutely crucial for healthy blood cell function, and it's used in over 100 enzymatic reactions involving protein metabolism. READ ON

Gay Brains Are Wired Differently Say Scientists

Using scanning technology, researchers in Sweden found that the brains of gay men and women were wired differently to the brains of heterosexual people of the same sex, but were similar to the brains of heterosexual people that were of the opposite sex to them.
Thus a gay man's brain was in some ways more like the brain of a heterosexual woman than a heterosexual man, and the brain of a gay or lesbian woman was more like that of a heterosexual man than a heterosexual woman.The study was the work of Drs Ivanka Savic and Per Lindström from the Stockholm Brain Institute at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute and is published online in the June 16 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). READ ON

Primate expert Jane Goodall appeals for EU ban on animal testing in research

"We need to recognize at the outset that what we do to animals from their perspective certainly, and probably from ours, is morally wrong and unacceptable," Goodall said.
Goodall, the world's best-known observer of the behaviour of chimpanzees, is a longtime campaigner for animal rights.
She presented a petition bearing 150,000 names to legislators from the European Parliament. It called on both the parliament and the EU's executive office to find methods of testing that do not involve animals.
Goodall joined with animal rights groups to pressure European Union governments to revise EU rules from 1986 by expanding expand a ban on the use of animals in testing - and to promote alternative

technologies for medical research.

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Ex-surgeon Caldwell Esselstyn espouses a noninvasive cure for heart disease

What a great man! Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn Jr. has no qualms about stepping inside the nation's No. 1 heart hospital and dishing on angioplasty.
Invasive treatment is a mainstay of cardiac care, and it pays the bills. It's also what's wrong with medicine, says the retired Cleveland Clinic surgeon who has been affiliated with the hospital for 40 years.
Esselstyn has turned his life's work to demonstrating that heart disease doesn't need to exist in the first place. And if it does, it can be reversed. The remedy is a plant-based diet, he says.

Learn to live with no meat, no fish, no dairy or oils of any kind, and make yourself "heart-attack proof."
Most doctors would agree a strict vegetarian diet is good for the heart. But the idea that a diet free of animal products and fat can cure the No. 1 killer in America is a point of debate among doctors.
Drug companies are in fierce competition to find a cholesterol drug that does what Esselstyn argues can be done better through diet. The call to attack artery-clogging plaque naturally is a challenge to the medical profession and an unspoken threat to the bottom line of the medical industry.

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Hey Therapists. Want to earn £10000 NOW!

Well this guy says he will. Edzard Ernst, who researches complementary medicine at Exeter University, is offering a cash prize to anyone who can prove that homeopathy can be successful.Prof Ernst says the £10,000 reward will go the first person who can prove that the treatment works better than a placebo in scientific trials.The professor claims to have carried out 200 strictly-controlled trials and says he is yet to find any firm evidence of successful homeopathy. Quick go and earn yourself a quck 1000 at http://www.vitalisnews.com/

Top Psychiatric Researcher Dr. Biederman Caught Lying about $1.6 Million in Drug Money;

Wow! I was reading this story and was horrified to discover that top Psychiatric Researcher Dr. Biederman Caught Lying about $1.6 Million in Drug Money and Performed Medical Experiments on Children.

He was a highly-influential researcher at Harvard University, Dr. Biederman spearheaded a 4000% increase in the diagnosis of pediatric bipolar disorder from 1994 to 2003, resulting in billions of dollars in revenues for drug companies and millions of children being put on mind-altering medications. Now, thanks to an investigation by the office of Sen. Charles Grassley and a damning report published in the New York Times, it has been revealed that Dr. Biederman lied about the amount of money he received from drug companies -- a figure that may exceed $1.6 million.

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WOW! Parents, you must get a load of this article

Who knows what else they are putting kids drink these days, no wonder teenagers are buzzing around and are hyperactive. Red Bull gives you wings.....Now I know why. Check out the archive page on the cocaine drink that is being marketed towards kids. I mean really, where is going to stop.

Please pass this blog on to all parents, more importantly let the kids know exactly what they are drinking, I'm sure like my kids, they'll thank you for it.

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MSG

We have spoke before about MSG, so I will not go into the harm
that this substance causes.
The last edition on smoking and it’s ingredients has encouraged readers to to ask me more about MSG and how to recognise it. Should you want to know more about MSG, please email me and I’ll send you a copy of the story we ran awhile back.Hidden Sources
Kombu, a seaweed, was first used in Japan as a flavor enhancer. A Japanese doctor isolated the main ingredient -- MSG, or monosodium glutamate -- and started what has become a million-dollar industry.
MSG is now the most widely used flavor enhancer in the world. MSG and MSG-containing substances are used in processed food, in fast foods, and in Chinese food. They're also found in nearly all canned and frozen foods.
While some people can use MSG with no adverse effects, many others have severe reactions to it, some of them life-threatening. MSG has been linked to asthma, headaches, and heart irrTerms that frequently indicate hidden MSG additives Malt extract Bouillon Broth Stock Flavoring Natural Flavoring Natural Beef or Chicken Flavoring Seasoning Spices

Additives that may contain MSG or excitotoxins
Carrageenan Enzymes Soy Protein Concentrate Soy Protein Isolate Whey Protein Concentrate Protease enzymes of various sources can release excitotoxin amino acids from food proteins. And there you have it, try eating foods without this and you’ll enjoy a whole new experience.Guaranteed!egularities. Behavioral and physical problems of children, such as incontinence and seizures, as well as attention deficit disorder (ADD), have been diagnosed and successfully treated as MSG disorders.
Those wishing to eliminate MSG from their diets are faced with an almost impossible task. Food preparers are often unaware that they're even using MSG. Labels can be misleading. A label that says "No MSG added" doesn't necessarily mean that the food is free of MSG, it simply means that the manufacturer didn't put in additional MSG. MSG goes under many aliases, one of the most common being "hydrolyzed vegetable protein," an additive used to increase the protein content of a wide variety of foods.
Manufacturers also hide MSG as part of "natural flavorings," because it is a natural product. But being natural is not the same as being harmless.
Below is a partial list of the most common names for disguised MSG. Remember also that the powerful excitotoxins aspartate and L-cysteine are frequently added to foods and, according to

FDA rules, require no labeling at all.
Additives that always contain MSG
Monosodium Glutamate Hydrolyzed Vegetable ProteinHydrolyzed ProteinHydrolyzed Plant ProteinPlant Protein ExtractSodium CaseinateCalcium CaseinateYeast ExtractTextured Protein Autolyzed YeastHydrolyzed Oat Flour

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The dangers of Sugar and Refined Carbohydrates

In this edition it seems appropriate, since we have an articles on coffee to talk about sugar and carbohydrates.
Sugar is, by far, the greatest addiction in the United States. It is far more excessive than all other forms of substance abuse combined. Yet little attention is given to this insidious condition and the slow but surely destructive consequences of its abuse.
At the turn of the last century, a mere 100 years ago, diabetes was number 100 on the list of frequency of illnesses. That meant that there were 99 other diseases that you could get more readily than diabetes. Today diabetes is number three on that same list. What could possibly change so dramatically to cause diabetes to become an epidemic?Consider that in 1895 the average American consumed 3 to 4 pounds of sugar per year. It was a treat to ride into town and pick up a nickel bag of candy from the general store - and it would last a week! Maybe on Sunday, mama would bake a pie for the family's sit-down dinner. Today, the average American (not the chocoholic) consumes his or her own bodyweight in sugar every year!!! All of this highly refined "rocket fuel" must be metabolized rapidly by the pancreas. The pancreas must produce insulin, the hormone responsible for converting blood glucose into the stored form glycogen and eventually triglycerides.

When we pack high amounts of sugar into the bodies of small children it makes them run like a jet engine. When the sugar is converted by insulin, as it must be, the blood sugar often drops below optimal levels. This produces a temporary state of hypoglycemia, resulting in a loss of energy, frequently producing lethargy. Does that sound like your child?
The number one cause for mood swings, characterized by hyperactivity one minute and lethargy and moodiness the next, is the over-consumption of sugar-laden foods. Everything has sugar in it. It is the cheapest preservative the food industry uses to increase the shelf life of processed foods When children start off their day with a glass of concentrated fruit juice, a bowl of sugar-filled cereal to which they have added more sugar, white toast with jam or jelly, and a glass of chocolate-syrup milk, is it a surprise when a roller coaster ride of moods and emotions soon follows?
Monitoring the child's diet is frequently a neglected factor in an ADD/ADHD management program because it takes attention and constancy. Parents frequently have similar unhealthy eating habits and are not willing to alter them for the sake of their children. There are several things we can do to offset the detrimental effects of sugar. The minerals, chromium & vanadium, have been shown to assist the body in the metabolizing of glucose.

The effectiveness of these elements destructive habits and then complain afterwards that "it didn't work." Perhaps what is needed is a little reality check? Yes?
Prinz and his associates found that hyperactivity and destructive behavior are positively correlated with the amount of sugar consumed. Langseth and Dowd conducted a study on 261 hyperactive children. They found that after 5 hours of oral glucose tolerance tests, 74% displayed abnormal glucose tolerance levels. These studies prove that hypoglycemia promotes hyperkinesis and that refined carboydrates appear to be the major factor in promoting reactive hypoglycemia. [Sanders L, Hofeldt F, Kirk M, Levin J. Refined carbohydrate as a contributing factor in reactive hypoglycemia. Southern Med J 1982; 75: 1972-1975]
Taking an active interest in your child's diet is so important to his or her health. Knowing about allergies and other sensitivities to food is critical in solving the problem of hyperactivity. Before prescriptive drugs are used to help ADD, nutritional factors and basic nutrition programs should be considered.

The dangers of eating white bread

A very big welcome to you all and may I take the opportunity of wishing a peaceful, prosperous and a healthy new year.
I guess on a scale of 1 to 10 in terms of what is bad for you, white bride might score around 5, depending of course which white bread you eat. Needles to say, the more economical pre cut and packed breads are going to be be the worst, Brown bread included!
I’m looking at the ingredients of Nimble white Bread, all seems ok until you come to Ascorbic Acid. It seems hardly likely that taking high doses of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) can cause thickening or hardening of the arteries since so many people have taken high doses for a long time and indeed Vitamin c treatment is used in clinics to cure Cancer.
Researchers from the University of California reported just that on March 2, 2000. People who took 500 mgs of ascorbic acid had a 2.5 times faster progression of thickening of the carotid artery (hardening of the arteries) than people who took no supplement.although tghis product contains E472e, a stabilzer, has no reported side effects, however you are eating something that has altered the natural condition of the bread which in turn gives it an un natural shelf life.

Don't be fooled by the word "wheat" (as labelled on this product) when it comes to flour. All flour derived from wheat can be called "wheat flour," even if it is processed, bleached and stripped of its nutrition. Only "whole grain wheat flour" is a healthful form of wheat flour. Many consumers mistakenly believe that "wheat flour"products are whole grain products. In fact, this is not true. Food manufacturers fool consumers with this trick.
This product also has salt included, again innocent enough, however the question is, is this sea or rock salt, or regular“table salt” If they are using table salt, then it is not salt at all it is Sodium Nitrite, A chemical and a known carceogenic, incidently, natural salt has 84 essential minerals that our body actually needs, table salt has only two, what's left is dangerous junk!
And of course white bread is bleached, Studies show that alloxan, the chemical that makes white flour look "clean" and "beautiful," destroys the beta cells of the pancreas. That's right; you may be devastating your pancreas and putting yourself at risk for diabetes, all for the sake of eating "beautiful" flour. Is it worth it?
The other day I was reading the book Asthma free naturally by Patrick Mackeown (Harris Thorsons ISBN 978 0 00 721036 7)

and I quote, “White flour contains little nutrition & increases mucus mucus production. modern white flour has had approximatley four fiths of phosphorous and nearly all of the vitamins removed by processing, in order to produce a flour that can be shipped without becoming infested with insect life. The tests show white bread was unable to sustain insect life, while half a slice of Rye bread was totaly consumed by bugs.An finally, remember as a kid when you wanted to make wallpaper paste, what did we do! Exactly, water and white flour, now imagine digesting that lot!
Rye Bread is best in my opinion, organic, naturally, and this is worth passing on, Spelt Bread, an excellent choice if you are recovering from chemo............check it out.

The Healing power of Basil

Say the word "basil," and most people will think of the tasty green sauce known as pesto, which like the word pestle (as in mortar and pestle) comes from the Italian word pestare meaning to "pound" or "stamp on." This refers to the traditional way in which pesto was made, by grinding the fresh leaves in a mortar along with garlic, salt, pine nuts, cheese, and olive oil. Although we tend to associate basil with Italy and other Mediterranean countries, it actually originated in India and was brought to the Mediterranean via the spice routes in ancient times.
The whole herb, both fresh and dried, is used medicinally. Basil has been used for mild nervous disorders and for the alleviation of rheumatic pains, and, although the mechanism isn't yet understood, preliminary studies have shown that the leaf and seed may help people with type 2 diabetes control their blood sugar levels. In addition, the seed has been found to relieve constipation.
The volatile oil of basil has shown antibacterial, antifungal, and antiviral activity in test tube studies. It's also believed to act as a carminative, relieving intestinal gas, and as a mild diuretic.
As a natural tranquilizer, basil is said to be a tonic and calms the nervous system. It aids the digestion and also eases stomach cramps, relieves nausea, and arrests vomiting.
Basil is an important herb to detoxify an over-indulged body, where eating patterns have been erratic. It'll quickly restore the blood to its natural balance and help eliminate toxins formed by incorrect eating and environmental pollution.
Most remarkable of all, basil is the herb that lifts the spirit. It helps with heavy-heartedness and anxiety and has the ability to soothe tension, yet helps you to remain attentive and alert. A pleasant tea can be made by steeping a teaspoon of basil leaves in a cup of water for 10 minutes.
Cultivated for more than 2,000 years, basil symbolizes love. At one time, young girls would place some on their windowsill to indicate they were looking for a suitor. In Tudor times, farmer's wives gave small pots of this to visitors as parting gifts. It's also reputed that any man will fall in love with a woman from whom he accepts some basil as a gift. In present-day Romania, if a young lady offers a young man a sprig of basil and he accepts, they are officially engaged.
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In ancient Rome, the name for the herb, Basilescus, referred to Basilisk, the fire-breathing dragon. Taking the herb was thought to be a charm against the beast. With this in mind, it's interesting that up until recent times, basil has been used as an antidote to venom. The Greeks also had great respect for basil, their word for it meaning "royal" or "kingly." It was believed that only the king himself should harvest basil, and then only with the use of a golden sickle. Meanwhile, in India, basil was held to be sacred; it was believed that if a leaf of basil was buried with a person, it would guarantee their passage to heaven.
In marked contrast, however, other ideas prevailed among the ancient Greeks that basil represented hate and misfortune; many believed that scorpions would breed under pots of basil. They painted poverty as a ragged woman with a basil at her side and thought the plant would not grow unless railing and abuse were poured forth at the time of sowing. The Romans similarly believed that the more it was abused, the better it would prosper. These may represent ways to "fool the gods" so as not to bring bad luck by too much obsequy.
The physicians of old were quite unable to agree as to its medicinal value, some declaring that it was a poison, and others a precious simple. Culpeper tells us:
"Galen and Dioscorides hold it is not fitting to be taken inwardly and Chrysippus rails at it. Pliny and the Arabians defend it. Something is the matter, this herb and rue will not grow together, no, nor near one another, and we know rue is as great an enemy to poison as any that grows."
However, basil was said to create sympathy between human beings. A tradition still exists in Moldavia that a youth will love any maiden from whose hand he accepts a sprig of this plant. In Crete it symbolizes "love washed with tears," and in some parts of Italy, basil is a love token. Boccaccio's story of Isabella and the Pot of Basil, immortalized by Keats, keeps the plant in our memory. Tusser includes it among the Strewing herbs and Drayton places it first in his poem Polyolbion:
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"With Basil then I will begin Whose scent is wondrous pleasing."
John Parkinson wrote in his Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris, in 1629:
"The ordinary basill is in a manner wholly spent to make sweete or washing waters among other sweet herbs, yet sometimes it is put into nosegays. The Physicall properties are to procure a cheerfull and merry hearte whereunto the seeds is chiefly used in powder."
In Malaysia and Iran, basil is planted on graves, and in Egypt women scatter the flowers on the resting-places of those belonging to them. Some people believe if you put some basil in your wallet, you will attract money, success, and prosperity. (Nothing to lose, surely?)
Basil contains a strong-scented volatile oil composed primarily of terpenoids, particularly eugenol, thymol, and estragol. This volatile oil has shown antibacterial, antifungal, and antiviral activity in test tube studies, while the terpenoids in basil are important anti-cancer phytochemicals – naturally occurring substances that work in conjunction with vitamins and other nutrients to stimulate protective enzymes and block metabolic pathways associated with the development of cancer and heart disease. Terpenoids have been shown to suppress the growth of tumors and decrease the number of tumors produced.

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Benefits of Water

Salt and Water To Enhance Our Health
Dr. Jeffrey R. Cutler - "Many people believe that salt is harmful to the human body. The truth is we cannot live without salt (sodium chloride)"
An eight-year study of a New York City hypertensive population stratified for sodium intake levels found those on low-salt diets had more than four times as many heart attacks as those on normal-sodium diets – the exact opposite of what the “salt hypothesis” would have predicted.
Refined Salt: White Poison The problem with salt is not the salt itself but the condition of the salt we eat! Our regular table salt no longer has anything in common with the original crystal salt Salt now a day is mainly sodium chloride and not salt. With the advent of industrial development, our natural salt was "chemically cleaned" and reduced only to sodium and chloride. Major producing companies dry their salt in huge kilns with temperatures reaching 1200 degrees F, changing he salt's chemical structure, which in turn adversely affects the human body.
An abundance of the ingredients in unrefined, unheated, real salt are as synonymous with life today as they were a billion years ago before single cells appeared here. Lack of them is synonymous with birth defects, organ failure, decay, diseases, premature aging and death at a young age.
According to Herman Aihara, the father of modern Macrobiotics, we still carry our own inner sea within each of us in the form of a saline interstitial fluid. This is the fluid that carries nutrient, messages, energy and even toxins to every part of our body, and that carries away the same toxic elements and more, as a result of daily metabolic process. It is very different to the water we drink, yet without even that, grossly contaminated and deconstructed form of H2O that we call tap water, we soon lose life force. Four days without food is tolerable. Four days without water is fatal. Not only is our body 75% water, our brain is 80% water and our blood 90%. Water is more than a carrier of other materials. It is a solvent, an infiltrator of cells, a digestion aid, a dilutor, a dilator, a nutrient transport system, a waste disposal system, an electrical message system, a chemical conduit, an energy combustor, a lubricant, a coolant and a latent heat bank. Some people even believe that water is the repository of emotion. And we thought all it did was quench our thirst.
The Healing Power of Sole (so-lay) The mixture of water and crystal salt, called "sole" (so-lay), is the primordial soup of life, and the most flexible physical representation of pure solar and light energy.When water and this salt come together they create this new dimension, Sole. In German, the word sole, which is derived from the Latin word "sol", which means sun. Sole is nothing but the fluid materialization of sunlight. Sole means fluid sunlight or fluid light energy.
When water combines with salt the positive ions of the salt surround the negative ions of the water molecules and the negative ions of the salt surround the positive ions of the water molecules. The ions become hydrolyzed. In this process the geometrical structure of the salt and the water is changed and a totally new structure is formed, a third dimension. Water is no longer water and salt is not salt anymore. The crystalline structure of the sole is so profound that its vibration pattern lasts over 24 hours in our bodies. With the sole, you can have exactly that vibration pattern that the body is lacking when it is sick. But again, the quality of the salt is paramount for quality sole.
Every morning, take one teaspoon of sole mixed in a glass of good quality artesian or spring water. Drink this on an empty stomach before taking breakfast. The amount of water is up to you, but you only need one teaspoon of sole for your daily intake. The regularity is important. From a bio-chemical viewpoint, within minutes, the whole stomach and intestines are being stimulated. And this again stimulates the digestion and metabolism. The overall availability of electrolytes is built up and thus the conductivity in the body is increased, which in turn affects the circulation. The salt allows the current to flow once again.
All life started in this sea of water and salt, the primal sea. Every vital process in our universe, from the microcosms to the macrocosm are directly connected with the energy potential which comes about when water and this salt combine.
Benefits of Drinking Sole
The sole supplies the body with the natural energy stored in the crystals and the body can hold this up to 24 hours.
Can harmonize the alkaline/acidity balance in the body and normalize blood pressure.
Can dissolve and eliminate sediments which lead to stones and various forms of rheumatism like arthritis and kidney and gall bladder stones.
Can lower the craving for addictive desires.
Can help with skin diseases by cleaning from inside out. click here for step by step how to make Sole

Research links bacon consumption with 59 percent increase in bladder cancer

People who eat bacon at least five times a week are at a 59 percent increased risk of bladder cancer over those who never eat the food, say Harvard scientists.
The team researched data on nearly 136,000 people, who were followed for up to 22 years. During that time, 808 of the subjects developed bladder cancer, a condition that afflicts more than 10,000 people in the U.K. every year. Bacon and other processed meats contain the known carcinogens nitrosamines and heterocyclic amines, the latter of which form when meat is cooked at high temperatures.
Chicken cooked with the skin on actually contains a smaller amount of heterocyclic amines than skinless chicken, and people who frequently consumed skinless chicken were at a 52 percent increased risk of bladder cancer. The researchers suggested that the heterocyclic amines may be to blame.
The report -- recently published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition -- also found that subjects who consumed bacon and other processed meats were more likely to smoke, consume more fat, take in fewer vitamins, and spend less time exercising.
The researchers pointed out that their work was not definitive, and more work needed to be done.
"The link between diet and cancer is complex and difficult to unravel but we know that eating lots of red and processed meat can increase our risk of some types of cancer," said Dr. Emma Knight, science information manager at Cancer Research U.K. "More research is needed before we can say for sure whether or not eating bacon in particular affects bladder cancer risk.
"For now, our advice remains to eat a balanced diet that is low in fat, processed and red meat, and rich in vegetables, fruit and fiber."

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How to unclog your Arteries without surgery or drugs

Q&A: How to unclog your arteries without surgery or drugs A reader asks,
"How can I unclog my arteries or clean my arteries without surgery?" And, "What are some good heart foods?"
First, stop doing the things that gave you atherosclerosis in the first place. In other words, your arteries didn't become clogged just by luck or chance, and hopefully you are already aware of this. They became clogged through a series of choices. These choices cover the foods you have chosen to eat over your lifetime and the level of exercise in which you have chosen to participate. So, before we get into the strategies and therapies that can reverse atherosclerosis and unclog arteries, let's talk about stopping the clogging process in the first place.
There is a huge myth out there about what causes clogged arteries and heart disease. And the myth is a carryover from the 1980s when the big dietary enemy was fat. The entire nation, it seemed, was fleeing from fat, and at the same time running toward foods made with ridiculously large amounts of sugar. Fat was a big disease causer, doctors told us, and everybody was told to go on an extremely low-fat diet. Even the American Heart Association recommended that people at risk of heart disease or those who had already suffered a heart attack avoid practically all fat in their diet. Some people were told to go on 10 grams of fat a day or even less.
And here's the big mistake of it: all fats were lumped into the same group. So whether it was fat from fish oils or fat from beef lard, it was all considered to be the same fat, and it was all considered to be the enemy of human health. Of course today we know that the hysteria surrounding fat was just that -- nothing but poorly justified fear resulting from major mistakes by medical researchers, combined with a huge marketing push on the part of food producers who discovered that selling people sugar was a lot easier, and a lot more profitable, than selling fat.
So what does all of this have to do with stopping the clogging of your arteries? It's simple, actually. There are healthy, good fats that you must get into your diet if you wish to unclog your arteries. And today it is well known that those fats include omega-3 fatty acids, fish oils, and monounsaturated fats. Basically, the kind of fats you find in oily fish, nuts, seeds, and fruits like avocados (which is, yes, technically a fruit, not a vegetable).
The first practical thing, then, that you can do is switch from all the unhealthy fats in your diet to healthy fats. That means giving up all fried foods, because all fried fats are unhealthy fats containing alarming quantities of trans fatty acids. So give up your fried foods and switch to raw foods or baked foods. You should also give up cheap fats such as the low-cost vegetable oils found in the grocery store, and move to the more expensive fats, such as cold-pressed extra virgin olive oil. This is one of the cases where extra money goes a long way in protecting your health. Getting healthy fats from fish oils is also quite expensive.
But let's talk now about a strategy that’s absolutely free and that will protect you from plaque buildup in your arteries. And this is perhaps even more important than getting good fats into your diet. It is avoiding hydrogenated oils and any foods made with hydrogenated oils. That's because hydrogenated oils are the number one cause of heart disease and a major contributor to neurological disorders in the United States and around the world. Hydrogenated oils are, simply put, poison in the human body. They accelerate the buildup of plaque in the arteries. And as a result, they bring on heart disease far more quickly than would happen normally.
Hydrogenated oils are artificially processed oils that never appear in nature. They are created by food producers for the convenience of food producers – primarily to add shelf life and consistency to foods so that those foods not only taste great, but can sit on the shelf for months at a time without going bad.
A lot of people think they know that hydrogenated oils are bad for them and they think they avoid those oils by not eating fried foods or other more obvious items. But here is where most people go wrong on this: hydrogenated oils are found in virtually every baked or fried and sometimes even frozen food product in the grocery store. Consider this: in every grocery store there is one aisle that has all the snack crackers. You know, it has the vegetable crackers and the wheat crackers, it also has the cookies. This entire aisle is so contaminated with hydrogenated oils that it should really be called the hydrogenated oil aisle.
There is virtually no food product in this entire aisle that does not contain hydrogenated oils. You have to go way down the aisle to the unpopular section -- often it's located near the kosher foods -- to find crackers such as Wasa Crackers, which are made without hydrogenated oils and are baked, not fried (at least in the U.S.). But practically everything else on that aisle contains hydrogenated oils. That means every snack chip, every cookie, every cracker, every pastry, and every baked good, whether it's sweet or not, is made with this dietary poison.
The thing is, then, most Americans are consuming massive quantities of hydrogenated oils without even really recognizing it because they're eating potato chips, nacho chips, and all sorts of other snack foods found in the hydrogenated oil aisle. As a result, they are getting atherosclerosis, or a built up of plaque in their arteries. And over time, of course, it leads to widespread cardiovascular disease. But more importantly, it can lead to strokes, heart attacks, and the need for heart bypass surgery, which will set you back at least six figures, if not more.
This is, then, perhaps the single most important thing you can do to prevent the buildup of plaque in your arteries. Avoid eating any food product made with hydrogenated oils.
Now how do you do that? It's simple. You start reading labels. It is impossible to be healthy in modern society if you don't make a habit of reading the food labels of every food you purchase and consume. Personally, I don't touch a food unless I've read the label and it meets my criteria of not containing a certain list of ingredients known as metabolic disruptors.
You must start reading ingredient labels, and what you're looking for here is either hydrogenated vegetable oil or partially hydrogenated vegetable oil. It can also be called partially hydrogenated soybean oil or safflower oil. The name of the oil doesn't matter. What you're looking for is the word “hydrogenated” or “partially hydrogenated.” If it has either one of those words, that food is poison. It will give you cardiovascular disease. It will harm your nervous system. It will shorten your lifespan, quite frankly. You need to put it back on the shelf, and in doing that, let these food manufacturers know that they can no longer sell you poison in a pretty box and call it food.
So those are the basic strategies of what you can do to avoid increasing the buildup of plaque in your arteries.


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cigarette Replacement Therapy

Cigarette Replacement Therapy
QUITTING SMOKING WITH A GEL: New cigarette replacement therapy in the fight to quit smoking unveiled

Health-Effects.net (Panama City) – Today, http://www.health-effects.net/, a leading online pharmacy that specializes in the distribution of “quit smoking” aids, announced a distribution deal with Nicogel UK to promote and sell their revolutionary new Nicotine Replacement Therapy product, NICOGEL (Nicotine Gel).

Nicogel is a water soluble gel containing an aqueous extract of Nicotiana spp at 1.5mg/ml.

Dr. George Apple of http://www.health-effects.net/ explained the delivery mechanism for this useful quitting aid, “It is for external use only and we suggest 2 presses (3mls) per application or just one press if you are a light smoker. In essence Nicogel® is a cosmetic.”

Unlike other quit smoking aids such as Zyban (bupropion hydrochloride), approved by FDA, it has one thing that sets it apart. It is not a pill, a patch or an injection. It is a simple gel with a convenient delivery mechanism that fits in the palm of your hand.

Dr. Apple further elaborated on the usage of the quit smoking product: “It couldn’t be simpler: move the pack’s head to the unlocked position, and dispense two presses of the head into your palm. Next rub the gel onto your arm, leg or bottom. Wash your hands and you are done.”

The convenience of carrying it into your purse or pocket helps because there are fewer and fewer place to smoke these days. More often than not, smoking is not permitted in the work place, cinemas, bars, restaurants and in-flight. Nicogel® offers a great alternative to bridge those gaps without the slow release of patches that can fall off or the terrible taste of gums.

Nicogel® has many advantage over patches and gums, explained Dr. Apple. Unlike patches, Nicogel® does not offer slow release; “its delivery is quicker and more closely mimics the smoking experience”. http://www.health-effects.net/ recommends you apply Nicogel® on an as you need it basis. This gives you complete control over when you should apply it i.e. how much or how little, as well as reinforcing your abstinence as you begin to wean yourself off smoking and finally quit.

Most people experience the satisfaction they have from cigarettes within 60 seconds of applying Nicogel®, without the now, in many jurisdictions, unlawful smoke. For example, in New York City, smoking is forbidden in almost all workplaces, although not enforced in some small neighborhood bars. In the USA, it is becoming a nationwide trend to ban cigarettes in restaurants and bars, with states from California to Delaware adopting such a ban, causing much controversy between smokers, non-smokers, workers, and owners.

Tobacco smoking, of which cigarettes are the most popular method, is one of the major causes of preventable death. Specifically, cigarette smoking causes an increased risk of lung cancer. It is estimated that 80-90% of all lung cancers are attributable to cigarette smoking.

Nicotine, the stimulant and active ingredient in cigarettes, is also quite addictive. It is an effective appetite suppressant, and former smokers often develop junk food habits as they attempt to satisfy their tobacco cravings with snacks. One-third of those who stop smoking experience a weight gain. Nicogel helps you prevent all those side-effects of quitting smoking, according to http://www.health-effects.net/’s Dr. Apple.

Quit Smoking Plan with Nicogel

If your are a heavy smoker (>15 cigarettes a day) it is suggested you apply 2 presses of Nicogel® as and when the urge to smoke strikes you. Over a period of 14 days work at increasing the period between applications by 15 minute intervals to 30 minutes. After between 15 to 30 days you should be able to move to the light smoker regime outlined below.

If you are a light smoker (<15 cigarettes a day) it is suggested applying 1 press of Nicogel® as and when the urge to smoke strikes you. Over a period of 14 days work at increasing the period between applications by 15 minute intervals to 60 minutes. After between 15 to 30 days you should be able to move only two applications per day for 14 days and then 1 application per day for a final 14 days. After this you should be free!

About http://www.health-effects.net/

South Sea Pharmaceuticals, S.A. dba http://www.health-effects.net/ is an international pharmaceutical company that arranges the supply of high quality pharmaceutical products at very competitive prices by mail order.

The principals of South Sea Pharmaceuticals, S.A. began business in 1996 and provide a convenient affordable means of purchasing your prescription medicines. In 2003 with Panamanian Government approval it set up a Panamanian based company to facilitate the requirements of Central & South America, and have opened an office in the Colon Free Zone, Republic of Panama which allows for speedy delivery of products across the globe.

Nicogel is available in several presentations to suit your budget and lifestyle:

1, 3 and 6-packs available at http://www.health-effects.net/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=HE&Product_Code=nicogel001&Category_Code=QS

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