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From Dr Mercola archives | June 26, 2013
The ice in fast food could contain more bacteria than toilet water. And for those with weak immune system, they could fall ill. Other culprits in what Americans eat are HFCS (high fructose corn syrup) which are linked to diabetes and obesity.
Taking sugary drinks are linked to l80,000 deaths: + 44t cancer deaths; 133t diabetes deaths, and 6t cancer deaths.
You can start healthy living by ditching sweetened drinks, HFCS flavored drinks in favor of spring water, tap water,
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Thursday, June 27, 2013
Sunday, June 9, 2013
Loss of this insect could severly threaten our food supply
Live healthy and longDr Mercola archives | June 8, 2013
Many fruit bearing trees are not doing their job because of decreasing population of bees. The afflication is known as CCD (Colony Collapse Disorder). This is true worldwide. This is problem in Taiwan. No human effort can equal the efficiency of pollination by bees.
A lot of factors are being blamed for CCD among them EMF radiation from cellphones. But one being blamed largely as the cause is the toxicity of pesticide known as nicotinoids . GMO is being blamed also.
So what can you do to save the bees?
Many fruit bearing trees are not doing their job because of decreasing population of bees. The afflication is known as CCD (Colony Collapse Disorder). This is true worldwide. This is problem in Taiwan. No human effort can equal the efficiency of pollination by bees.
A lot of factors are being blamed for CCD among them EMF radiation from cellphones. But one being blamed largely as the cause is the toxicity of pesticide known as nicotinoids . GMO is being blamed also.
So what can you do to save the bees?
Monday, May 20, 2013
Three sources of toxins and CVD - pollution from traffic, plastics, and personal care products
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Repost from Dr. Mercola | May 15, 2013
Three sources of toxins in our body are: pollution from traffic, plastics, and personal care products. There are recent studies, as late as Feb 2013, in Euro Prevent conference in Rome which shows links between air pollution and aortic calcification. The study involved 4,238 subjects and which showed:
l. for every increase in volume of PM 2.5, there is a 20.7 increased risk of CVD;
2. for every l00 meters proximity to traffic, there is a 10% increase in risk of getting a CVD
The other risks in plastic and home care products, involving parabens, phthlates, PCB, BPA, heavy metals in cosmetics have been previously discussed in this site.
Avoiding exposure to traffic, plastics, cosmetics, going natural, avoiding highly polluted cities are best way not to get CVD and prolong life
Repost from Dr. Mercola | May 15, 2013
Three sources of toxins in our body are: pollution from traffic, plastics, and personal care products. There are recent studies, as late as Feb 2013, in Euro Prevent conference in Rome which shows links between air pollution and aortic calcification. The study involved 4,238 subjects and which showed:
l. for every increase in volume of PM 2.5, there is a 20.7 increased risk of CVD;
2. for every l00 meters proximity to traffic, there is a 10% increase in risk of getting a CVD
The other risks in plastic and home care products, involving parabens, phthlates, PCB, BPA, heavy metals in cosmetics have been previously discussed in this site.
Avoiding exposure to traffic, plastics, cosmetics, going natural, avoiding highly polluted cities are best way not to get CVD and prolong life
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Anti Allergy Drugs will boom in US this spring
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From Dr. Mercola archives | April 18, 2013
Many Americans will be afflicted with allergies this spring due to pollen. Anti - allergy drug is a $14.7 business by 2015. Most of the allergies will come from air borne allergen from hay causing allergic rhinitis.
How does an allergic reaction occur?
It is a sign that body's immune system is working overtime. The first time your body encounters an allergen, the body plasma releases IgE (immunoglobin E) an antibody specific to the allergen to the mast cells. Mast cells are found on the surface of the body like skin or lining of the nose and help mediate an inflammatory response. They can release chemicals like histamines.
The second time the allergen contacts the mast cells, they release a cocktail of chemicals : prostaglandins, histamines, leukotrines - that trigger inflammatory response like coughing, sneezing, itchy eyes, sore throat, etc. Histamines can cause airways have spasm which lead to asthma or permeable leading to hives. Other things can cause allergies to other people: molds, food, chemicals, insects, insect bites, detergents, cosmetics.
Leaky gut syndrome
Eating nuts and food containing anti nutrients can make your gut permeable in a condition known as leaky gut leading to Crohn's disease or celiac disease. The gap between the cells of the stomach membrane (enterocytes) allow food, waste and metabolic waste that must be in the intestine to leak to the blood stream leading to auto immune system/inflammation. Leaky gut can also lead to allergic reactions. To repair the leak, we avoid grains and nuts, and processed food. "Healing and sealing" food include fermented food to restore proper balance of bacteria in the gut.
Alternative strategies for treatment of allergies:
1. Eat right
2. Acupuncture
3. Eat local honey
4 Flush nasal cavity with Neti pot (I sometimes clean my nose with Hydrogen Peroxide)
5. Take vitamin D
6. Employ acupuncture
Others:
1. Increase intake of Omega 3 fats. (from fish)
2 Decrease intake of Omega 6 fats
3. Avoid pasteurized milk products
4. Take probiotics
5. Get regular exercise
6. Hot peppers
7. Quercetin
8. Eucalyptus oil
From Dr. Mercola archives | April 18, 2013
Many Americans will be afflicted with allergies this spring due to pollen. Anti - allergy drug is a $14.7 business by 2015. Most of the allergies will come from air borne allergen from hay causing allergic rhinitis.
How does an allergic reaction occur?
It is a sign that body's immune system is working overtime. The first time your body encounters an allergen, the body plasma releases IgE (immunoglobin E) an antibody specific to the allergen to the mast cells. Mast cells are found on the surface of the body like skin or lining of the nose and help mediate an inflammatory response. They can release chemicals like histamines.
The second time the allergen contacts the mast cells, they release a cocktail of chemicals : prostaglandins, histamines, leukotrines - that trigger inflammatory response like coughing, sneezing, itchy eyes, sore throat, etc. Histamines can cause airways have spasm which lead to asthma or permeable leading to hives. Other things can cause allergies to other people: molds, food, chemicals, insects, insect bites, detergents, cosmetics.
Leaky gut syndrome
Eating nuts and food containing anti nutrients can make your gut permeable in a condition known as leaky gut leading to Crohn's disease or celiac disease. The gap between the cells of the stomach membrane (enterocytes) allow food, waste and metabolic waste that must be in the intestine to leak to the blood stream leading to auto immune system/inflammation. Leaky gut can also lead to allergic reactions. To repair the leak, we avoid grains and nuts, and processed food. "Healing and sealing" food include fermented food to restore proper balance of bacteria in the gut.
Alternative strategies for treatment of allergies:
1. Eat right
2. Acupuncture
3. Eat local honey
4 Flush nasal cavity with Neti pot (I sometimes clean my nose with Hydrogen Peroxide)
5. Take vitamin D
6. Employ acupuncture
Others:
1. Increase intake of Omega 3 fats. (from fish)
2 Decrease intake of Omega 6 fats
3. Avoid pasteurized milk products
4. Take probiotics
5. Get regular exercise
6. Hot peppers
7. Quercetin
8. Eucalyptus oil
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
From Dr. Mercola - 8 tips to eating and drinking to improve your health
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From Dr. Mercola archives | April 15, 2013
Dr. Mercola suggests/prescribes 8 ways to change our eating and drinking habits for better health and longer life:
1. Eat fermented foods
2. Eat locally grown organic foods;
3. Fast intermittently for optimum health
4. Include sprouts in your diet;
5. Rethink about your breakfast
6. Avoid alcohol
7. Include sprouts in your diet
8. Chew your food well
80% of improvement from your health can come from your diet, the remaining 20% can come from your exercise.
From Dr. Mercola archives | April 15, 2013
Dr. Mercola suggests/prescribes 8 ways to change our eating and drinking habits for better health and longer life:
1. Eat fermented foods
2. Eat locally grown organic foods;
3. Fast intermittently for optimum health
4. Include sprouts in your diet;
5. Rethink about your breakfast
6. Avoid alcohol
7. Include sprouts in your diet
8. Chew your food well
80% of improvement from your health can come from your diet, the remaining 20% can come from your exercise.
Monday, April 15, 2013
Wild Alaskan Salmon may help you live longer, fight CVD
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From Dr. Mercola archives | April 15, 2013
Eating the wild Alaskan salmon once or twice a year, will increase longevity by at least two years and lessen incidence of cardiovascular diseases.
It is better to take the wild variety rather than the farmed salmon. The farmed salmon may even be infected by ISA (Infectious Salmon Anemia Virus) also known as salmon influenza.
Why is omega 3 fat useful for health?
According to Darius Mossafriah, professor of medicine at Harvard, you need omega 3 fatty acids because 95% of body cell membrane are made of fat so you need these fats for cells to function properly.
From Dr. Mercola archives | April 15, 2013
Eating the wild Alaskan salmon once or twice a year, will increase longevity by at least two years and lessen incidence of cardiovascular diseases.
It is better to take the wild variety rather than the farmed salmon. The farmed salmon may even be infected by ISA (Infectious Salmon Anemia Virus) also known as salmon influenza.
Why is omega 3 fat useful for health?
According to Darius Mossafriah, professor of medicine at Harvard, you need omega 3 fatty acids because 95% of body cell membrane are made of fat so you need these fats for cells to function properly.
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Dangers of manicures, body piercings, and tatoos
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From Dr. Mercola archives | January 2012
There is a growing trend in the PHL (probably copied and from USA and popularized by athletes - basketball players and boxers and actresses) for tatoos, and body piercings.
The downside is that in US, there are probably 4 million Americans with a contagious difficult to cure disease - hepatatis B. And for many locals, those with body piercings and tatoos cannot get health certifications that will enable them to work abroad.
What is a hepa B - is a viral infection that affects the liver and may be accompanied by any or all of the symptoms: fever, jaundice, fever, fatigue, joint pain.
On the other hand, manicure can cause any of the following: infections from using of unsterilized tools, hepa v, and toxic chemicals from hair polish.
Suggestions: avoid the tatoo and body piercing cult; and you can just buff your fingernails or just do the usual nail cutting routine.
From Dr. Mercola archives | January 2012
There is a growing trend in the PHL (probably copied and from USA and popularized by athletes - basketball players and boxers and actresses) for tatoos, and body piercings.
The downside is that in US, there are probably 4 million Americans with a contagious difficult to cure disease - hepatatis B. And for many locals, those with body piercings and tatoos cannot get health certifications that will enable them to work abroad.
What is a hepa B - is a viral infection that affects the liver and may be accompanied by any or all of the symptoms: fever, jaundice, fever, fatigue, joint pain.
On the other hand, manicure can cause any of the following: infections from using of unsterilized tools, hepa v, and toxic chemicals from hair polish.
Suggestions: avoid the tatoo and body piercing cult; and you can just buff your fingernails or just do the usual nail cutting routine.
Saturday, March 23, 2013
Benefits of exercise for the brain
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From Dr. Mercola archives on fitness | March 22, 2013
What are the benefits of exercise (say biking) to your brain/mental health?
1. Promotes brain health through the production of BDNF (brain derived neurotropic factor)
2. Creation of new brain cells (neurons) through nuerogenesis.
So the more you exercise, the more you lessen risk of dementia and the more your memory and thinking stay sharp and fresh (aside from removal of toxic waste in your brain).
What happens if you stop exercising? Do you retain benefits of exercising if you stop?
Yes up to 6 weeks and then your brain starts deteriorating. Resume exercising, or start exercising now.!
Exercise is medicine. Not available in your drugstore. No need for prescription !
From Dr. Mercola archives on fitness | March 22, 2013
What are the benefits of exercise (say biking) to your brain/mental health?
1. Promotes brain health through the production of BDNF (brain derived neurotropic factor)
2. Creation of new brain cells (neurons) through nuerogenesis.
So the more you exercise, the more you lessen risk of dementia and the more your memory and thinking stay sharp and fresh (aside from removal of toxic waste in your brain).
What happens if you stop exercising? Do you retain benefits of exercising if you stop?
Yes up to 6 weeks and then your brain starts deteriorating. Resume exercising, or start exercising now.!
Exercise is medicine. Not available in your drugstore. No need for prescription !
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Could anything be more addictive than cigarette? What are carcinogenic foods?
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From Dr. Mercola Archives | March 21, 2013
What is as addictive as cigarette? - the processed food (not sex or shabu) And the three major components: sugar, fat and salt are the major culprit. The processed food is a $l trillion market, and the addiction coming from these taste/addiction enhancer has driven up the sales to this level...
The addiction to the processed food will result in more diabetics, more obese people in USA, resulting in 246,000 deaths.. The stat for diabetes has risen from 17.5 million in 2007 to 22.5 million in 2013 The bill for treating diabetics is $ 245 billion.
Processed food increases risk of cancer from 38% to 67% (for pancreatic cancer)
Something must be done about this addiction.
Mercola suggests that only 10% be budgeted for processed food.
Other suggestion:
l. Plan your meals;
2. Become resourceful
3. Avoid food waste
4. Go for organic raw, organic food: eggs, berries, avocados that are also cheap
From Dr. Mercola Archives | March 21, 2013
What is as addictive as cigarette? - the processed food (not sex or shabu) And the three major components: sugar, fat and salt are the major culprit. The processed food is a $l trillion market, and the addiction coming from these taste/addiction enhancer has driven up the sales to this level...
The addiction to the processed food will result in more diabetics, more obese people in USA, resulting in 246,000 deaths.. The stat for diabetes has risen from 17.5 million in 2007 to 22.5 million in 2013 The bill for treating diabetics is $ 245 billion.
Processed food increases risk of cancer from 38% to 67% (for pancreatic cancer)
Something must be done about this addiction.
Mercola suggests that only 10% be budgeted for processed food.
Other suggestion:
l. Plan your meals;
2. Become resourceful
3. Avoid food waste
4. Go for organic raw, organic food: eggs, berries, avocados that are also cheap
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Unexpected Health Risk by Watching TV ads on statins
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From Dr. Mercola archives | March 20, 2013
USA is only one of the few places in the world where TV ads on statins is allowed. The downsides: those who watch TV ads on statins are 16-20% more likely to be diagnosed with high blood cholesterol (power of thinking). The other is that the millions on the TV ads are borne by drug buyers.
Now it has been analyzed that 99% of those on statin drugs do not need the drugs to be healthy. The forever tips/guidelines of Dr. Mercola:
1. Eat healthy food;
2. Make water your primary beverage;
3. Exercise regularly
4. Eat healthy fat;
5. Get plenty of sunshine and Vitamin D
From Dr. Mercola archives | March 20, 2013
USA is only one of the few places in the world where TV ads on statins is allowed. The downsides: those who watch TV ads on statins are 16-20% more likely to be diagnosed with high blood cholesterol (power of thinking). The other is that the millions on the TV ads are borne by drug buyers.
Now it has been analyzed that 99% of those on statin drugs do not need the drugs to be healthy. The forever tips/guidelines of Dr. Mercola:
1. Eat healthy food;
2. Make water your primary beverage;
3. Exercise regularly
4. Eat healthy fat;
5. Get plenty of sunshine and Vitamin D
Friday, March 15, 2013
Milk Producers Petition FDA to allow sugar substitutes in milk
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From Dr Mercola archives | March 13 2013
Two large association of dairy producers in the US: International Dairy Food Association (IDFA) and National Milk Producers Association have petitioned FDA to allow unlabeled inclusion of sugar substitutes in milk: aspartame and sucrolose (splenda). The idea/objective is to reduce obesity in children (a growing concern in USA) by providing low calorie alternative with sugar/sweetener substitute.
Aspartame, after a series of processes in the body can become methyl alcohol which becomes formalin after absorption in the brain contributing to Alzheimer's, cancer and multiple sclerosis
From Dr Mercola archives | March 13 2013
Two large association of dairy producers in the US: International Dairy Food Association (IDFA) and National Milk Producers Association have petitioned FDA to allow unlabeled inclusion of sugar substitutes in milk: aspartame and sucrolose (splenda). The idea/objective is to reduce obesity in children (a growing concern in USA) by providing low calorie alternative with sugar/sweetener substitute.
Aspartame, after a series of processes in the body can become methyl alcohol which becomes formalin after absorption in the brain contributing to Alzheimer's, cancer and multiple sclerosis
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Two worst ;processed food ingredient
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From Dr. Mercola articles | February 3, 2013
There are two very bad processed food: High Fructose Corn Syrup (which is linked to diabetes and obesity) and partially hydrogenated soy bean oil. Even partially hydrogenated oil is bad for the health
Soybean, in itself is harmful because it contains molecules that are bad for the thyroid. It also contains phytoestrogens that alters hormone level in the body (found to lower libido in men?)
What is is worse is that 90% of soya grown in US is GE and may contain glyphosate. (a herbicide) Round Up. GE soya is engineered to resist glyphosate which destroys all weeds in the soya farm
Read more and view video on hydrogenation
From Dr. Mercola articles | February 3, 2013
There are two very bad processed food: High Fructose Corn Syrup (which is linked to diabetes and obesity) and partially hydrogenated soy bean oil. Even partially hydrogenated oil is bad for the health
Soybean, in itself is harmful because it contains molecules that are bad for the thyroid. It also contains phytoestrogens that alters hormone level in the body (found to lower libido in men?)
What is is worse is that 90% of soya grown in US is GE and may contain glyphosate. (a herbicide) Round Up. GE soya is engineered to resist glyphosate which destroys all weeds in the soya farm
Read more and view video on hydrogenation
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Sunshine Vitamin useful vs many disease
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From Dr. Mercola
The potent combination of the sunshine Vitamin, Vitamin D and exercise can be a potent weapon vs the following diseases:
l. Alzheimer's
2. Diabetes
3. Type 2 diabetes
4. Death from pneumonia and PTB
5. Aids in eye rejuvenation (clearer vision)
So what are you waiting for? Go to the beach, enjoy the sun or Take your vitamin D now.
From Dr. Mercola
The potent combination of the sunshine Vitamin, Vitamin D and exercise can be a potent weapon vs the following diseases:
l. Alzheimer's
2. Diabetes
3. Type 2 diabetes
4. Death from pneumonia and PTB
5. Aids in eye rejuvenation (clearer vision)
So what are you waiting for? Go to the beach, enjoy the sun or Take your vitamin D now.
Monday, August 20, 2012
Mammography is being touted as safe and reliable, is it?
The horizontal compression hurts the breast?
The Mercola article suggests that we take a better look at the benefits of mammography.
The statistics show that: it is not that l00% reliable, and that women would be exposed to many dangers of over and unnecessary treatment.
Sometimes is it better to leave it alone.
Or is the procedure, being used to generate more revenues for the medical and medical technology business.
Read more on mammography, the political issues therein.
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