September 19th, 2015
We are learning more and more that we are a whole person; body, mind, and spirit. Some of us have known this for a long time but the scientific world is just now catching up.
For example, if you have a toothache it affects all of you. If your foot is throbbing in pain the brain is distracted from other thoughts.
Also positive connections between people are a source of mental and physical well-being.
Even the Scriptures say, don’t let the sun go down upon your wrath.
Psychologists tell married couples not to go to bed angry.
Negative feelings are a source of mental and physical strain. Anger hurts you more than the target of your anger.
Brown Medical School doctors found that people with high levels of hostility were 6 percent more likely to suffer from heart disease.
September 18th, 2015
We know pesticides kill. That’s why we use them. But did you know you are also killing yourself s l o w l y ?
Too much pesticide use is harmful to pets and humans as well as killing insects.
A study conducted at Emory University found that those who frequently used pesticides at home had a 70 percent higher risk of getting Parkinson’s disease.
July 24th, 2015
New research is showing what people who have worked with those with neurological diseases like dementia and Alzheimer’s have known all along. Music is their medicine. Music can boost their cognitive skills, calm them down and in some cases even restore some memory. Often music “wakes up” people with Alzheimer’s according to music therapists. The patient may even begin talking again. Jane Flinn, a behavioral neuroscientist at George Mason University, and graduate student Linda Maguire tested the effects of singing on people with Alzheimer’s disease with familiar songs. Using the Mini Mental State Examination, a cognitive diagnostic test, they showed the mental acuity of people who listened to music often rose sharply. In some cases the need for medication was lessened.
One pioneer in the work of music therapy, Connie Tomaino, showed where people who were catatonic started listening to her play the guitar and became calm and some even started singing along.
There is much we can learn from music.
I recently saw a show about Glenn Campbell where music helped him enjoy people and life again.
Why can’t we bring back music in our schools?
Some of this information was gleaned from AARP.
July 19th, 2015
Sucralose: Also known as Splenda, sucralose is most commonly found in light breads that are meant to be low calorie or low carb. A study in the Journal Of Toxicology And Environmental Health has linked this sugar substitute to a reduction in gut bacteria. We need our gut bacteria to properly break down food, absorb nutrients, and fight disease, just to name a few. Sucralose can also interfere with insulin and blood sugar regulation in the body.
In fact taking good probiotics help the good but bacteria.
July 18th, 2015
Whole grains are made of three layers. The outermost layer has the most fiber, the middle layer has the most nutrients, and the inner layer is mostly starch. White bread is made up only of the inner layer of the grains, and so it lacks the fiber and nutrients that whole grain breads contain.
The grain, stripped of its two outer layers, is then put through a high-speed mill in order to grind it up. These mills produce a lot of heat, which depletes even more nutrients from the already processed grains.
Once the grain is ground into flour, it is bleached. One common chemical used to bleach white flour is chlorine oxide. Chlorine oxide is a powerful irritant that is dangerous to inhale, and yet it is used to make food.
July 17th, 2015
Glycation is a reaction that takes place when simple sugar molecules, such as fructose or glucose, become attached to proteins or lipid fats without the moderation of an enzyme. This results in the formation of rogue molecules known as advanced glycation endproducts (AGEs). This process, also known as non-enzymatic glycosylation, is normally governed by enzymatic activity, which is necessary to regulate the metabolic functioning of molecules. The lack of this catalyst deters the normal glycosylation of sugars to produced needed energy, however, and since it disrupts normal metabolic pathways and advances the circulation of AGEs, it can promote certain health risks.
More on glycation from WiseGEEK
July 15th, 2015
For a long time we have known that heavily cooked foods inflict massive damage to the genes.
A group at the University of Minnesota reported that women who ate overcooked hamburgers had a 50% greater risk of breast cancer than women who ate rare or medium hamburgers. The Women’s Health Study in Iowa found that women who consistently eat well-done steak, hamburgers, and bacon increase their risk of breast cancer four-fold.
The bottom line is that deep-fried foods are dangerous to our health. And, Oh how we love that deep-fried chicken.
It’s your health!
Check out Life Extension Magazine, August 2015.
July 14th, 2015
People do not realize what high temperature does to the food we eat and in the process the harm it causes our bodies.
Food cooked at high temperature increases the rate we age. Scientists discovered that eating foods cooked at high temperatures causes inflammation.
Breast and prostate cancer are greatly increased in people who eat heavily cooked meat such as hamburgers. When any food is heated to a high temperature (over 300 degrees), chemical changes cause damage to our cells.
One study found that men who eat just one and a half servings of processed meat or one or more servings of grilled read meat or well-done meat once a week increased their risk of advanced prostate by 50 percent. (I wish I had known this before 2004 when I had my cancerous prostate removed.) Can you imagine what happens when a person eats high-temperature meat every day?
Maybe this will cause you to look at and maybe change your diet.
(This information is taken from Life Extension Magazine, August 2015)
July 13th, 2015
Here is a new word I just learned from reading Life Extension Magazine. And this is what is does.
Glycation is a process by which proteins, certain fats, and glucose tangle together. It affects all body tissues, and tends to make them stiff and inflexible. Glycation causes most problems for organs where flexibility is most important, such as the heart, kidneys, skin and eyes.
There are ways to get around this and stay younger acting, feeling, and looking. I’ll talk about that later.
June 28th, 2015
Medical insiders are now saying that many of our “health reports” and “good” drugs are not so clean.
Dr. Marcia Angell is a physician and was longtime Editor-in-Chief of the New England Medical Journal (NEMJ), and she says much of the clinical research cannot be trusted because it is paid for by the pharmaceutical companies who want a positive outcome of their drugs.
At the University of British Columbia’s Neural Dynamics Research Group in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Dr Lucija Tomljenovic obtained documents that showed that, “vaccine manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, and health authorities have known about multiple dangers associated with vaccines but chose to withhold them from the public. This is scientific fraud, and their complicity suggests that this practice continues to this day.”
Dr. Richard Horton, Editor-in-chief of the Lancet recently published a statement declaring that a shocking amount of published research is unreliable at best, if not completely false, as in, fraudulent.
This isn’t happy news. But be informed. I have been trying to sort out facts for years now and it’s hard to get to what’s true and what’s in the drug companies best interest. If you want to find out what’s now good for you just check most of the TV ads on drugs. Their disclaimer is usually more harmful than the good of the drug.
Some of the story is taken from NSNBC international