Archive for December 2007
Proper nutrition is vital to your health and good dental care is as important as good personal care. This article discusses why dental health is important.
As we mentioned in some of our other posts on Natural Remedies Products, your teeth may be adversely affected by mineral deficiencies. Poor hydration may also reduce your body’s ability to adequately produce saliva which is the beginning of the digestive process.
Your mouth and your teeth are very important in you getting the nutrients you need to not only survive but to thrive. To get the maximum nutritional value out of the foods you eat, you should chew each bite of food until it has been liquefied. This will be very difficult if you haven’t practiced good dental hygiene and incorporated that into your overall dental care program.
Bad breath may be a signal that you have other health issues but you may not recognize the sign if you have rotting teeth.
Your oral hygiene will let you quickly notice signs of oral herpes, oral cancer, oral thrush, oral warts or an oral yeast infection should they show up. If you include a dental care professional with your medical professional, they may see medical problems you may miss because you don’t have their viewpoint, equipment or training.
We recommend natural remedies whenever they are available but it is important to always work with the appropriate medical professional when possible. There are some good natural alternatives for cancer treatment, yeast infections, thrush, herpes and warts but you may have times when these aren’t enough.
A chipped tooth, a cavity or a problem with your jaw or tooth alignment may fall outside the capabilities of natural remedies or home treatment. A good dental professional is a necessity at times like these.
All medical professionals carry with them an expense as they should. I recommend you look for a quality dental professional in your area that can and will work with you to ensure you are receiving the quality and affordable dental care.
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The medical community has been debating the need for colon cleansers for quite some time. This article is to inform you so you can make an informed decision.
The human body was designed with a diet high in fiber and water consumption in mind PLUS a lot of exercise.
Proper hydration according to an article I recently read can be figured out by taking your body weight and dividing it by 2 and this will give you the number of ounces of pure water you should drink each day. IF you are doing strenuous exercise or are in extreme weather conditions, your water needs may vary.
A high fiber diet, according to a couple of different sources, is 20-30 grams of soluble fiber for women and 30-40 grams of soluble fiber for men with the best sources being fruits, vegetables and whole grain cereals.
Daily exercise such as walking, strength training, aerobics or physical labor are also necessary to help promote colon health.
If you fall short in any of the 3 areas mentioned above, you may have hard stools, irritable bowel syndrome, constipation or diverticular disease and need a colon cleanser to help you clean out your system.
When your body was designed, many of the toxins you are exposed to almost daily weren’t part of life. The air is polluted by automobiles and businesses and you inhale some of these poisons every time you breathe. Processed foods may contain man made preservatives that don’t naturally occur in nature. White sugar and white flour do not help your body. Many people include fried foods, large portions of red meat and artificial sweeteners with very few vegetables or fruits in their diets.
If you fit this group, you may need to help your body get rid of these toxins and the extra waste once or twice a year by using a colon cleanser.
I invite you to check out the Colon Cure to see if the information helps you decide if you would benefit from a colon cleanser.
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The cold, flu, allergy and misery season is upon many of us. This article discusses why and how to protect yourself and your loved ones.
The best defense is a good lifestyle that includes proper nutrition, hydration and rest. I know this is easier said than done with your hurried and hectic life but each of the above is not only vital to your overall health but in your ability to fight off naturally occurring viruses and irritants.
Viruses cannot reproduce on their own like cells can so they need to attack weak cells and use them for duplication. Once the virus has sufficiently reproduced within that weak cell, it ruptures the cell wall and spreads throughout the body looking for more weak cells to attack so it can begin reproduction again. Every infected cell dies as the virus ruptures its walls to leave.
Every time you give your body the nutrition it needs to build strong cells and a healthy immune system you are helping fight off illness. The water you drink helps deliver the nutrients to your cells and to carry the waste away from them.
Getting enough REM level sleep lets your body rest and repair so it stays healthy and energized.
Since you may not be eating correctly, drinking enough water, exercising enough or resting enough, you may need help in getting the nutrition you need or in reducing the number of viruses and allergens you are exposed to.
I KNOW I’m not getting enough exercise, sleep and nutrition since I am in bed all day every day so I rely on liquid mineral supplements and vitamins to help with nutrition and an air purification system to help reduce the allergens and viruses available to attack me. My methods have reduced my number of colds to about one a year and I can’t remember the last time I had the flu. I’ve found that my allergy attacks are less severe, of shorter duration and easier to live with than they were prior to the implementation of my current regimen.
I invite you to check out the PurePro air filtration system to see if it will fit your needs and desire to win the battle of cold, flu and allergy prevention.
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Reuters recently had an article titled ‘Red meat unfriendly to cancer’ which was reporting on a study of colon cancer patients with stage III cancer and how their diets affected their survival and the recurrence of the disease after treatment. The study followed 1,009 colon cancer patients for 5.3 years and they found that those that ate a western diet were 3.3 times more likely to either die or have their colon cancer return.
A western diet was defined as a diet with high intakes of meat, refined grains and desserts. The prudent diet was the other variant and it is defined as a diet with high intakes of fruits, vegetables, fish and poultry.
The prudent diet is high in fiber, nutrients in forms the body can readily use and helps the body flush toxins out of the body. Whereas the western diet provides fewer natural nutrients or fiber and it adds toxins to the body.
Our Opinion
We’ve believed for a long time that your health is determined by your diet and activity level. When our society was mostly agricultural, people did a lot of physical labor and there was much less obesity and home gardens provided foods that were both good and good for you. The industrial age brought many people a more sedentary lifestyle and obesity started to appear in larger numbers. As our cities grew and the food supply was further removed from the consumer, preservatives were added to the food to extend the time it was still good to eat. Population growth has also put more pressure on the farmer to produce large crops on less land which has led to over farming the land. This over farming depletes the natural nutrients, the commercial fertilizers are geared at quantity and not quality.
The change in our lifestyle, added preservatives, fewer nutrients in our food supply because of a combination of factors and added stress have all conspired to make you less healthy than the generation before you.
Switching as much of your diet to locally grown organic fruits, vegetables and meat is best. Your budget, location and schedule may not always make this easy. Read the labels in the store and get foods with the fewest preservatives, whole grains instead of processed, reduce the fatty foods from fast food restaurants, etc. and you can add more nutrition to your life. Did you know most dietitians consider a serving of meat to be about 3 ounces instead of the 8 to 16 ounces many of us eat?
Green tea supplements have been shown to help protect against some cancer causing agents and liquid vitamin and mineral supplements made from whole food sources provide the nutrients your body craves and your diet may not be providing.
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If you are like most people I know, you grew up eating 3 meals a day. These meals were often large and you still ended up snacking between meals.
Your body is a living machine and the food you eat is its fuel. Only so much of the food you eat at any given time can be used immediately. The rest of that fuel is stored as fat or passed out of your body as waste. If this is true, then part of EVERY large meal you eat is stored as fat and part of the food passes through you without doing anything more than giving you the pleasure of eating it.
If you divided your 3 large meals into 5 smaller meals, you’d be eating every two or three hours but your body wouldn’t get hungry for a snack and you would waste less energy because your body couldn’t handle the input.
A whole grain cereal for breakfast is nutritious and gives your body fuel it needs. Eat some fruit and cheese or another side 2-3 hours later to add protein and a fruit. Add a complex carbohydrate like a baked potato at midday and maybe a vegetable and protein. For a small meal 2-3 hours later you could add more fruit or a vegetable. The evening meal could be a variety of things with another snack 2-3 hours later.
Depending on your activity level and your exercise routine, you may find you will actually eat more and be getting in better shape just by altering what you eat and when.
Calories are fuel that your body burns, stores as fat or wastes. You determine the quality of the fuel you feed your body, when you feed it and how much you feed it.
Think of your frequent mini meals as a pipeline with quality fuel that stokes your engine when it needs it so fuel isn’t wasted.
You can use these mini meals plus plenty of water and an exercise program as your fat loss plan because you will NOT be hungry. Your body will not go into starvation mode if you don’t start out by reducing your calorie intake by more than 20 percent.
Cut your intake back too drastically and your body thinks it is starving regardless of how much you are eating. Reduce the intake by no more than 20 percent and space the meals out to every 2-3 hours and your body never gets hungry. You may reduce the intake again in 2-3 weeks which is what it will take your metabolism to accept the new food level as the norm.
It is up to you to decide whether you think 3 big meals or several smaller meals spaced every few hours makes more sense.
If you liked this article, I suggest you get Eating For Excellent Health Now! and I Love Exercising Now! to put yourself in the proper mindset for a permanent lifestyle change and Tom Venuto’s Burn Fat Gain Muscle book to learn the proper exercises and eating habits to maximize your control of both your nutrition and weight.
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