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Mushrooms  protect your health. This is one of the best keep secrets.Mushrooms are among the many foods thought to play an important role in keeping the immune system healthy. Now, Agricultural Research Service (ARS)-funded scientists have conducted an animal-model and cell-culture study showing that white button mushrooms enhanced the activity of critical cells in the body’s immune system. In the United States, white button mushrooms represent 90 percent of the total mushrooms consumed.

There is higher consumer awareness of the value of some of the more basic plant food. The fuzzy thinking of our health care providers devalue these small gems. Mushrooms trumps open the jar and pop a pill mentality for health.

Healing miracles happen when people shape their own path. Understanding this and being aware of the ability of plant food to flush, protect and eliminate unhealthy accumulated toxins, the magic of mushrooms will make sense.

Study

A study conducted at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA) at Tufts University by center director Simn Meydadi, colleague Dayong Wu, and others. The results may show that white button mushrooms promote immune function by increasing production of antiviral and other proteins that are released while seeking to protect and repair tissue

How many drugs can do this withour side effects. Also, mushrooms are a rich source of riboflavin, niacin, and selenium. Selenium is an antioxidant that works with vitamin E to protect cells from free radicals. The most commonly eaten mushroom is the white button mushroom.

The latest findings show that white button mushrooms can reduce the risk of breast cancer and prostate cancer. An extract of white button mushrooms decrease cell proliferation and decreased tumor size in a dose-dependent way. The chemo-protective effect can be seen with an intake of about 100 grams (3.5 ozs) of mushrooms per day.

Shiitake mushrooms have have been used by the Chinese and Japanese to treat colds and Flu. A beta-glucan isolated from the body of shiitake mushrooms, appears to stimulate the immune system, helps fight infection, and also demonstrates ant-tumor activity.

There are many different organic and wild-harvested mushrooms that work their magic when placed on our dinner plates. The key to vibrant health is to use common foods that have uncommon abilities to build a strong immune system and promote overall health.

Beauty from within means you have to nourish your skin daily to improve skin elasticity. To promote healthy, hydrated and radiant skin you need good nutrition. When they say it’s what’s inside that counts they got it right. Structural support for the skin doesn’t come from pharmaceutical derived creams and lotions.

Age Related Skin Changers

Primarily women who start seeing changes in there skin are 35 plus. Skin care clients range from their late 20s to their 70s, with the biggest portion in their 40s. People are realizing to look good on the outside you have to be healthy on the inside.

What is important to skin health is antioxidants, hydration, good fats, and exercise. Potent antioxidant flavonoids protect the skin from free radicals that cause premature aging. For a natural glow and to reduce wrinkles vitamins, minerals and enzymes are needed. Collagen breaks down when there is chronic stress and a diet high in sugar.

Phytonutrients to the Rescue

When you think of beautiful skin, you have to think of nutrient dense foods. Resveratrol is becoming better known in the health and wellness circles, now it should be the first thing that comes to mind in the quest for beautiful skin. Consumers are searching for the elixir of youth and beauty, without realizing it is conveniently located in their garden. In fruits you will find high levels of skin anti-aging polyphenols, anti-inflammatory agents, elastin and collagen protection. All will neutralize free radicals from sun exposure, protect epidermal cells from sunburn damage, decrease breakdown of elastin, reduce the effects of sunburn and lighten dark pigmentation.

Fruits and vegetables have a good resume. Each one has their own unique ability to add beauty to your years. Tomatoes are rich in powerful antioxidants. Lycopene from tomato supports skin smoothness and helps maintain skin integrity when exposed to the sun. Red chili pepper contains capsaicin that improves circulation, artichoke is high in antioxidants which can protect the skin’s DNA and collagen, and artichoke extract is also a cleanser and detoxifies.

Beautiful Skin Tied To Health

When you think beauty you must think outside the bottle, jar, and tube. Cosmetic brand manufacturers are aware of the power of plants. They are using ingredients such as botanical ones to reposition their products. Skin care remains an important category in the global beauty market. They know you can’t avoid the unavoidable aging process. They search the world over for plants that may provide ways to reverse symptoms of environmental ageing such as fine lines, wrinkles, redness, and brown spots. Changes in the skin’s texture are a component of diet and there is little in those jars that can slow, stop or reverse the look of aging skin.

What skin needs is the right supply of material to repair and slow the loss of collagen. Amino acids, antioxidants, enzymes are what will give the cells what they need.

Type 2 Diabetes facts are quite different from the hype. The new term is “diabesity” and it is reaching epidemic proportions. It is seen in the aging population, young adults, and youngsters. It is a combination of obesity and diabetes.

Type 2 Diabetes        

“Type 2 diabetes is a lifelong disease that develops when the pancreas cannot produce enough insulin or when the body’s tissues become resistant to insulin. Insulin is a hormone that helps the body’s cells use sugar (glucose) for energy. It also helps the body store extra sugar in muscle, fat, and liver cells.”  This is from MSM healthline.

Type 2 diabetes isn’t a disease; it’s the cumulative effect of lifestyle. This is how the body behaves under certain circumstances. If we call diabetes a disease, which it is not, we do untold damage by trying to put a bandage on it. Medication isn’t going to reverse the condition, it covers up the symptoms.

Lifestyle Factors

Type 2 diabetes isn’t a choice. The lifestyle that leads up to the condition is a choice. This is not something that people think about in that way. However, if obesity rates keep rising there will be more cases than ever before.

Drugs have not been successful in preventing and reversing type 2 diabetes. The clinical cause of diabetes isn’t going to be anything other than lifestyle. Type 2 diabetes is not an illness. The condition starts long before the actual diagnosis.

Studies have shown that type 2 diabetes can be prevented. The fact is by preventing and reversing diabetes you will stave off heart disease and cancer while protecting your brain.

Halting Diabetes

Halting diabetes isn’t as difficult as one would assume. Alternative methods work very well. Most people aren’t well informed and continue to have numerous health problems that follow this condition.

Mainstream medicine doesn’t have a clue to what this condition is, and what it takes to turn it around. All the prescriptions in the world haven’t conquered diabetes. Yet, people who changed their diet were able to not only control the condition, but reverse it.

People assume that there body is a workhorse, which goes on under any conditions. Ultimately it boils down to be the lethal effects of sucrose, and excess calories. Diabetes has become an epidemic as our diets have incorporated more fast food, processed foods, and enormous amounts of food.

The higher the glycemic the diet, the more insulin is released, this leads to inflammation. When you elevate your blood sugar, high glycemic foods promote oxygen free radical processes, Free radicals are highly reactive molecules which damage DNA, and cause inflammation.

The standard American diet is a high glycemic one, with pro-inflammatory sugars and refined carbohydrates. High glycemic diets are directly linked to most chronic conditions. The way to halt diabetes is to watch the glycemic load values of your foods. By remembering that refined foods have high values and minimally processed foods such as vegetables have low values. A whole food diet is a way to halt all chronic conditions.

Glucose

Scientists have known that diabetics have a greater incident of heart attacks, strokes, and some types of cancers. In a study released by John Hopkins University scientist, even healthy people with higher normal blood glucose levels were shown to have more cardiac events.

Excess glucose contributes to arthrosclerosis and heart disease. The point here is the people with higher normal blood glucose levels aren’t completely healthy. Our medical experts wouldn’t know healthy if they fell over it. The medical establishment uses poor guidelines to judge health.

They are disease oriented, not health generating. Studies have documented the fact that higher glucose readings put you at risk for vascular disease. Conventional medicines flawed understanding that glucose metabolism affects the whole body.

Inflammation the Real Problem

Diabetes isn’t just a disease with one dimension it is an inflammation marker. There is research that points to inflammation as a cause of diabetes. It is now thought in some scientific circles that low-grade tissue inflammation related to obesity contributes to insulin resistance, the major cause to type 2 diabetes.

Increased body fat that is associated with obesity is not the direct cause. Obesity can cause inflammation and inflammation can cause obesity. Now if we view diabetes this way we realize we need a holistic healing model to follow.

People who are obese, many times suffer from chronic inflammation and are resistant to insulin, the hormone that removes sugar from the blood and stores it as energy. An interesting point is that rheumatoid arthritis, an inflammatory disease, heightens the risk of developing insulin resistance.

So if inflammation is the cause of diabetes, this disease has to be looked at as a whole body disease. Now that changes the dynamics and the treatment plan.

Taking care of glucose levels with medication is a bandage at most, and at worst it can lead to a further decline in health. That is why people on a whole host of medications wind up with the lethal effects of diabetes anyway.

Inflammation is a major reason why people with diabetes get heart, kidney, eye disease, and cancer. Treat the inflammation with low inflammatory foods and watch the improvement.