Archive for October, 2010

Health care in America doesn’t support health. Health care has adopted a very clear way of delivering wellness. It bypasses Mother Nature and goes to work interfering with natural healing.

Scary Health Care

There is an updated joint guideline by the American Society of Hematology (ASH) and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) about the appropriate use of erythropiesis- stimulating agents (ESAs), a class of drugs that stimulate the bone marrow to produce more red blood cells, to treat cancer patients with chemotherapy-induced anemia. While the guideline cautions that ESAs are associated with shorter survival and increased risk of thromboembolism-blood clots-and tumor progression, it also recognizes their major benefit of reducing the need for red blood cell transfusions, which can potentially cause serious infections and adverse reactions in the immune system.

Enough said lets try something different, which will make a substantial impact on the condition. It is becoming increasingly clear that the battle is being fought on the wrong front, with the wrong weapons, and the wrong idea of what the enemy looks like.

What medicine does is try to reinvent the wheel. They are engaging a battle with a condition they don’t even understand. Without the answers to a few basic questions you can’t actually expect to come up with productive solutions. Healing is not a matter of going to war, but identifying and rectifying a condition. You have to support the immune system not destroy it.

It seems like the health care industry is on autopilot, they aren’t transformers of health, but Kamikazes. They are bent on destruction of a tumor at any costs, to the point of putting the patient in great jeopardy.

Healing is an Amazing Journey

What you do right now makes tomorrow. Most health problems are what you did before. Understanding this simple concept eludes the medical community.

To feel better now you have to be and act better now. Instead of trying to kill the messenger, you balance your body back to health.

What the medical profession doesn’t strive for is giving you the best quality and quantity of life. They don’t know how to. What you inhale, ingest, and absorb are every bit a part of the picture.

The common co-defendants are what is on your dinner plate, prescriptions, air pollution, stress level, and chemical exposure. So chemo isn’t detoxification it is a powerful response to a weaken condition. Now it will add discomfort, constipation, depression, memory loss, nausea, hair loss, and a host of other problems. Long lasting health, vitality and stamina are not a chemo formula away.       

A sexually active life is tied to health. The life expectancy of your sex life can be estimated by your general overall condition. This means open arteries so the blood flow can reach all your organs. This includes your reproduction system.

The amount of energy and stamina also influences your sexual escapades. If we learned that at an early age we might make some concessions to conserve that function. Health affects just about every aspect of our lives. What we have done is replaced sexual expression with habitual eating. Eating is a necessity that has gone beyond a need to a pastime. There are other activities that are also pleasurable that we neglect. We eat to live; now we live to eat. The price is high for disregarding this.

The problem is that we have lost sight of the fact that sex is dependent on our overall health.

Study     

“If you want good sex, you better get down to the gym and tuck into your fruit and veg,” says the Daily Mirror, The newspaper reports. A link has been found between sexual activity and general health. This shouldn’t surprise anyone it seems obvious.

This is based on two US surveys that looked at more than 6,000 people aged 25 to 85. It found that a satisfactory sex life is positively associated with health in middle age and later life. It also noted that between the ages of 75 to 85, 39% of men were sexually active compared to just 17% of women. That again shouldn’t be a surprise.

The study introduces a new health measure, called “sexually active life expectancy”, which denotes the average remaining years of sexually active life. From the age of 55 men could expect another 15 years of sexual activity, women another 11 years.

Is This True ?

Without a doubt health contributes to the way we function. Having diabetes is known to change sexual functioning. Any chronic condition will impact our sexual lives.

What is surprising is the way we accept this as natural. A declining sex life seems so natural as if it should occur with age. In fact when we teach sex education this isn’t a topic that is discussed. To most people it is a mysterious occurrence, which is blamed on age, hormones, and stress.

Result of the Study

The result of the study is really not going to bring about change. Our lifestyle hasn’t changed even with the knowledge that our health is dependent on our waist size.

Men and women reported in very good or excellent health were about twice as likely to be sexually active compared with similarly aged people in poor or fair health. So in today’s world the corollary damage to our sex life can be due to the lack of a holistic whole food life style. The question is what price you are willing to pay for the chance to eat a load of junk food.

Obesity has a connection to the English language. They have found that the countries with the highest obesity rates are the USA, Mexico, New Zealand, Australia, United Kingdom, Canada and Ireland. This list is from the highest to lowest, America is number one. Goes to show America is first in something even if it is only fatness.

The one thing that all these countries have in common is that they are English-speaking nations with the exception of Mexico. The latest Organization for Economic Co-Operating and Development (OECD) report on obesity rates of 33 countries 6 English-speaking ones are in the top 7 of the list.

Among the ten slimmest countries in the OECD are Japan, Korea, Switzerland, Italy, Norway, Sweden and Austria.

The implications for American’s are loud and clear learn a new language, and stop trying to teach everyone English. The real problem is the exposure to the material that you can read, view, and understand when you speak the language of the country that can fill, pasteurize, put in pouches, blister  pack, and vacuum pack, shrink wrapped, genetically modify, color, preserve, and chemically imitate flavors to bring it to market as food.

We need fresh ideas to help stem the tide, so we don’t become the biggest exporters of lard. America is flexible like a rock when it comes to taking responsibility on solutions to the 21^st century need to change food packaging and manufacturing.

Currently America can crush competition on high shelf life products. We can win the battle on the economy front because we have the technical resources for thermoform packaging, production, delivery, and the means to gauge global viability and vulnerability. We may stand tall in the market, but we also stand wide, with waist sizes growing by the day.

Obesity is connected to the English language, because it may well be the language of greed in the food packing and manufacturing industry.