Posts Tagged ‘Health and Wellness’

Ron Paul popularity is growing and his followers are passionate. This news belongs on a health and wellness blog. What he is running on is the ways America is being shaped. We are all beginning to realize the way business grows in this country it is build on many things and one of them may be greed. What he delivers is a message that health minded people understand.

The nutritional benefit of raw dairy is not an option in this country. Having a choice is a fundamental freedom. Ron Paul is someone who is resonating with a large group of independent thinkers. I am tired of compliance when the supply chain makes the rules that fit their agenda. We don’t really have quality assurance, pasteurized and homogenized dairy isn’t a quality product. Milk, which possesses growth hormones and antibiotics, may meet specifications, but will not meet human needs.  

His message of smaller government resonates. I am not sure he has all the solutions, but he has the right views, at least on letting us decide what we want to use. Change matters now more than ever. People take this issue seriously. The line between freedom and an authoritarian country is beginning to blur. The rationalization that our food supply is now safe is for the American people’s protection is wearing thin.

The trend to flood the market with genetically modified, chemically altered, pasteurized, homogenized, and pre-packaged is proving to be detrimental to both our freedom and health. We are kidding ourselves if we believe this is all being done on behalf of the consumer. Giving nature a helping hand isn’t the same as taking it hostage.

What we should hope is no matter what the outcome, the message doesn’t get lost.America’s foot print is too big in the world of nature.

We need to reign in the FDA and EPA so we become a country, which is better for the consumer, and the world. The claims and promises of these agencies aren’t working, in reality they have helped saturate the environment with products that have undermined the health of the American population. All, the so-called innovation has been strategies to increase sales and dominate the market.

Ron Paul brings puts the American public back into the equation.

A raw diet saves lives. This is a diet, which is high in nutrition, and low in calories. It usually is a raw vegetarian diet, heavy on fruits and vegetables. What a raw diet may be doing is supplying the body with micronutrients, while getting rid of accumulated toxins.

The Raw Diet

The raw diet, especially if there is juicing and blending involved makes digestion easy, and leaves energy for the body to work on healing. The diet takes the  burden off the digestion system and provides vitamins, minerals, and enzymes that are in short supply.

The raw food movement is a quiet revolution, which is changing the way we think about food. The emphasis is on high quality nutrition. Raw food provides a way to eat that is more in tune with nature.  The diet is trending upward., because it is the living definition of living food.

This is a stand alone diet, it doesn’t depend on any store bought supplements. The only additions are some supper foods, which the diet naturally contains plenty of. The question is why aren’t more people choosing a more raw diet?

Anti-Aging

Millions of people are looking for anti-aging products and procedures, this diet would be the ultimate way to stay young at heart and reverse human aging. When I say young at heart we are talking about the best way to keep your cardiovascular system in peak working order. What is critically important is that you feed the cells so they are powered to provide your body with cellular energy. The mitochandria are the cellular energy generators, which supple your body with all the energy for a long healthy life.

The combination of a raw foods with nutrient dense sources of cooked items may be the way to implement a mostly raw diet for most people. Physical performance depends on a host of bio-active nutrients. It also depends on what you are capable of absorbing from the food. For centuries we had a diet so different from today’s eating. We are starving our body by feeding it calorie dense, nutritionally sparse foods.

Benefits

The truth is people are unwittingly starving their bodies and have no idea of the extent of the problem. At one time we provided nutrition from raw and cooked foods. What has happened is in the the last 70 plus years we lost control of our food supply. Now our cooked food can’t deliver, and even our raw conventional and even organic produce are growing in poor nutrient depleted soil. What this says in today’s world: we are more vulnerable to the effects of vitamin and mineral deficiencies.

Synthetic vitamins aren’t the answer, only biological active ingredients are bioavailable. The synthesis of these nutrients will depend on all the components of the plant being intact. There aren’t any full spectrum vitamins and minerals except from the source.

In order to maintain mental acuity and physical vigor you have see the fuel you are providing your body with is supporting this. I hope this article gives everyone food for thought.

Remember common sense should prevail. A healthy diet with grass fed beef and some cooked food is still the road to health.

Hear is some brain candy. Breast cancer’s illogical treatment and the untold suffering is part of the culture embracing standard treatment protocols.

Powerhouse Effect of Natural Plant Compounds

Breast cancer cells-even the most aggressive type-succumbed after treatments with peach and plum extracts in lab tests at Texas AgriLife Research. The cancerous cells keeled over, but the normal cells were not harmed.

ArgrlLife Research scientist say two phenolic compounds are responsible for the cancer cell demise in the study. This study was published in the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry. The phenols are organic compounds that occur in fruits. They are slightly acidic and may be associated with the traits such as aroma, taste or color.

“It was a differential effect which is what you’re looking for because in current cancer treatment with chemotherapy, the substance kills all cells, so it is really tough on the body.” said Dr. David Byrne, AgriLife Research plant breeder who studies stone fruit. “Here. There is a five-fold difference in the toxic intensity. You can put at a level where it will kill the cancer cells-the very aggressive ones-and not the normal ones.”

According to the National Cancer Institute, there were 192,370 new cases of breast cancer in females and 1,910 cases in males in 2009. That year, 40,170 women and 440 men died from breast cancer. The World Health Organization reports that breast cancer accounts for 16 percent of the cancer deaths of women globally. Cisneros-Zevallos, an AgriLife Research food scientist, said the team compared normal cells to two types of breast cancer, including the most aggressive type. The cells were treated with an extract from two commercial varieties, the “Rich Lady” peach and the “Black Splendor” plum.

“A closer look at the extracts determined that two specific phenolic acid Components-chlorogenic and neochlorogenic-were responsible for killing the cancer cells while not affecting the normal cells,” Cisneros-Zevallos said.

The two compounds are very common in fruits, the researchers said, but the stone fruits such as plums and peaches have especially high levels. “So this is very, very attractive from the point of view of being an alternative to typical chemotherapy which kills normal cells along with cancerous ones,” Byrne added.

The team said laboratory tests also confirmed that the compounds prevented cancer from growing in animals given the compounds.

Breakthrough

This isn’t a unprecedented breakthrough, nor is it a new way to manage cancer. Antioxidant powerhouse effects of fruits and vegetables have been proven over and over. All approved drugs fail to prevent or treat many conditions satisfactory. This latest discovery was here all along, right under our noses at the grocery produce department.

Plants not only have antioxidant potential, they are unrivalled at defending us from free radicals. The beneficial pigmented plants transport life giving substances for cellular health.

Broad-spectrum benefits of plant food keeps the doctor away. Perhaps, that is why most medical professionals will tell you diet has nothing to do with the condition.

Medical Industry

It could be said that  the medical industry is incompetent, but they are very competent on fiscal matters. The pharmaceutical industry is doing well monetarily.

The medical monopoly increased regulation of our health care system has just about done away with free enterprise in the health and wellness arena. This giant conglomerate outperforms in the cash department, but it shows a deficit in the healing department.

Breast cancers illogical treatment, includes destroying immunity, causing heart problems, lost of hair, throwing up, lost of memory, and fatigue. This is without counting future problems that will not be attributed to the toxic chemicals, and radiation.