Search results matching tag 'obesity'

Re: Lung Cancer - Drink Kangen Water!

hdolgin — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:05:08 GMT

Hello!

I recommend that you look at my site www.WatersofHealth.com for information on a Japanese technology which changes the chemical structure of tap water, giving it properties that are very beneficial for health. It had been in use in hospitals there for the last 35 years. Dr. Otto Warburg, who won the Nobel prize in 1931 and 1944, found that cancer can only grow in tissues that are overly acidic and lacking in oxygen. This water has an alkaline pH, so it helps to reduce over-acidity and is oxygen rich. In addition, it fights free-radical damage, as it is rich in electrons (free radicals are unstable molecules which lack electrons, and steal them from healthy tissue, creating a chain of damage.) It is also better absorbed by the body than ordinary bottled or tap water.

This water should give your friend more energy, and perhaps help him to recover. There have been cases of people drinking this water in large amounts, whose tumors have shrunk. People are experiencing major benefits with all illnesses, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, asthma, arthritis, ulcers, acid reflux, and more.

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Hydration Consultant

Re: Crohns Disease

hdolgin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:31:39 GMT

There is a special kind of water produced using a counter-top medical device from Japan, that can be ordered in Europe or the US, in fact anywhere in the world. You can read about it on my website http://www.WatersofHealth.com. I recently met someone who has been drinking this water and has gotten great relief from Crohn's disease. He said he can now eat fruits and salads, whereas in the past, that would have sent him to the hospital.

This water is truly beneficial for everyone, and is being used now by professional athletes in the US, as well, as it enhances energy levels, and quicker recovery from exertion.

Feel free to contact me for more info.

All the best,

Hana Dolgin

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Re: Foot ulcers - see video on my website www.WatersofHealth.com

hdolgin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:37:36 GMT

Hello!

There is an amazing technology from Japan which changes ordinary tap water through electrolysis, to create water with different pH levels. There is a kind of water which is used there to soak the feet and another kind of water which is for drinking, to help improve the condition you describe. Please go to my website, and on the second page of videos, you will find one on the uses of the water in Japanese hospitals. You will see in the video how they soak the foot of someone with diabetes in this water and he drinks the other kind of water, as well. His foot is saved from amputation!

Please contact me for further information on how you can get this miraculous water!

Best wishes,

Hana Dolgin

917 509-3256

Beyond the blueprint

bshubbard — Tue, 05 May 2009 09:47:00 GMT

More than 50 years before Darwin wrote On the Origin of Species, French zoologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck wrote Les Recherches sur L’Organisation des Corps Vivants, the first book to set out a coherent and well-developed theory of evolution.

Where Lamarck differed from Darwin was in his belief that the environment, rather than genetic coding, was responsible for changes in animals, and that these changes could be inherited.

Lamarck—who has been ridiculed for generations—has now been vindicated by recent studies showing that environmental influences cause changes in organisms that may even persist through generations. Scientists are only now beginning to understand that it is outside influences filtering through the cellular membrane that control the expression of most genes and, in turn, affects the chemical coating (methylation) of the DNA double helix, which is exquisitely sensitive to the environment, particularly during the early stages of life. In our cover story this month (May 2009), WDDTY Deputy Editor Joanna Evans has uncovered a wealth of evidence showing that environmental exposure to pollutants—pesticides, plastics, even tobacco smoke—may be responsible for widespread obesity. The most extraordinary revelation is that the damage mostly occurs through prenatal exposure.

This is especially worrying as many ‘epigenetic’ changes persist through many generations. In times of famine, for example, populations exposed to famine prenatally have lower birth weights and higher-than-normal rates of degenerative diseases such as diabetes, coronary heart disease and cancer. Yet, even when they received adequate nutrition, those whose mothers had been starved produced smaller-than-normal children and grandchildren.

The environmental conditions affected at least two generations down the line (Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol, 1992; 6: 240–5 3). This suggests that those who are overweight due to chemical overload as babies will produce several generations of fat offspring.

The only note of optimism is the evidence that a good environment can also correct illness.
A mouse study by La r ry Feig and his colleagues at Tufts University looked at whether or not a stimulating environment could override knocked-out genes (Ras-GRF), without which the animals can neither learn nor remember. Put these mice in an unpleasant situation they’ve already experienced, provide the stimulus that should trigger the unhappy memory— and they won’t have the foggiest recollection of it.

But, when the researchers exposed such 15-day-old mice to the equivalent of a indoor theme park—a large cage with play tubes, cardboard boxes, a running wheel, and toys and nesting material—that was changed or rearranged every other day. After two weeks, the mice developed a compensatory new protein pathway that helped their long-term memory and learning. Even though they were still missing the gene, a stimulating environment, in effect, turned it back on. The mice showed normal memory and fear conditioning.

Feig then took this one stage further and examined what happened to their offspring, which were given the usual environment rather than the theme park. Astonishingly, these offspring showed every evidence of normal memory and learning ability even though they had inherited the knocked-out gene and had experienced no additional stimulation.

In fact, the environmental effect of their ancestors again overrode their genetic destiny—this time to positive effect.

This means that perhaps it’s not too late for us to begin cleaning up our environment.
Certainly, we owe it to our great-grandchildren.

Lynne McTaggart

This latest blog introduces the main story in the May 2009 issue of 'What Doctors Don't Tell You'. It is available only to subscribers. To subscribe, please follow this link:

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You are your world

bshubbard — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:00:00 GMT

One of the central messages of our site is that you have to take responsibility for your own health. There's no such thing as the free lunch when it comes to your health (and, if you happen to be a 'free lunch' believer, you probably also cling to the notion of the 'magic bullet' antidote, which keeps the drug company coffers full).

While taking responsibility includes all the usual suspects of diet, nutrition and general lifestyle, there's a real possibility that it has an even deeper significance.

A while back I had the very great fortune to meet Dr Bruce Lipton, who came to speak at one of our 'Living The Field' conferences. Bruce has been one of the earliest pioneers of a branch of biology known as epigenetics, which studies the impact of the enviornment on our genetic make-up.

Bruce lost a very lucrative position as professor at a prestigious American university for even suggesting that our DNA is not a set code, but instead can be influenced and changed by the environment. At the time the science of epigenetics was dismissed as a heresy, and those who pronounced it were banished from academia.

But, of late, the tide has been turning. Researchers who studied obese families found that parents and children weren't necessarily genetically predisposed to be obese but rather that their immediate environment played a more significant role. This is not so astonishing to those who haven't swallowed the DNA argument whole; if you're in a family that eats processed foods in front of the television and drives to the corner shop, then you're more likely to get fat yourself, irrespective of your gene pool.

It goes deeper. What makes up your environment? It's not just your lifestyle choices, it's your thoughts and beliefs, and your perceptions of the world beyond your body. This complex mix all adds to the rich subtleties of your immediate environment.

And, if your environment can change your coding, where does 'you' end and the 'world' begin?

Epigenetics is an exciting new branch of science that suggests a feed-back loop system where we are constantly influenced by that which we influence.

So, now, who needs pills?

How to Get Fat - Not!

Annemarie Colbin — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:12:00 GMT

So many people are worried about their weight! It’s either the look, or the health, or the concern about what other people may say about them, or the bullies in school – all the messages from society are that being chubby, overweight, zaftig, or plump is not OK. At the same time, the common foods we find in cheap restaurants, fast food outlets, snack bars and the like all contribute to that extra weight.

Not everybody is overweight; some bodies have a fast metabolism that burns everything. But others are not so lucky, and need to be more attentive. Here are some of the foods or aspects of food that are likely to put weight on susceptible bodies:

Sweeteners: sugar (including “organic evaporated cane juice”), high fructose corn syrup, “natural sweeteners,” as well as artificial sweeteners (it’s not the calories, it’s what they do to the insulin system).
White flour, which is refined and stripped of its nutrients.
Milk, cheese, ice cream.

While each one of these may have an effect, it is the combination of the three that is the worst. The sweetener, the flour, and the high-protein cow’s milk products all together seem to produce the most noticeable weight – so, having a meal of pizza, ice cream, and soda is a superfast way to put on weight. Also, the consumption of soft drinks, both regular and diet, is part of this problem.

How to make changes?

Replace all soft drinks with a combination of bubbly water (seltzer or mineral water) and natural juices (apple, cranberry, orange, etc), in a 50-50 proportion, or just the bubbly water with lemon or lime slices.
Eat as many fresh vegetables and salads as possible.
Replace cow’s milk with coconut milk
Replace bread with rye crackers
Replace ice cream with frozen bananas, sherbet with frozen grapes.
Finally, whatever you eat, CHEW IT WELL. Chewing will perforce make you cut down on calories without counting them, as you will be satisfied sooner. It will also help with digestion, and more than anything, it will get you in touch with what you are really eating, so changes may come much more easily.

While getting rid of excess weight is a good thing, it should, however, not be an obsession. Sometimes the body wants to be at the weight it wants to be, and fighting with it is counterproductive. So chew, enjoy your meals, and live your life!

Annemarie Colbin, Ph.D.

ANNEMARIE COLBIN, Ph.D., CHES, is an award-winning leader in the field of natural health She founded Natural Gourmet Institute for Health and Culinary Arts (TM) in New York City in 1977, and is adjunct professor of nutrition at the city’s Empire State College. She is the author of four books, including The Book of Whole Meals (Autumn Press, 1979; Ballantine Books, 1983), The Natural Gourmet (Ballantine Books, 1989, 1991), and Food and Healing (Ballantine Books, 1986, 1996). Her website is: www.foodandhealing.com

The slimmer's first resort

bshubbard — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:49:00 GMT

Most diseases have something to do with lifestyle and the environment, but the experts in our community, the doctors, know very little about such things. As they only get about one hour's teaching on nutrition in their five years of medical training, this is probably not so surprising.

So when overweight and obese people come to them for advice, the doctor is instead likely to revert to pill-pushing type and reach for the prescription pad. As a result the anti-obesity drugs orlistat (Xenical) and sibutramine (Reductil) have recently become the most prescribed drugs on the UK's National Health Service, with more than 1 million prescriptions written every year.

The drugs are supposed to be used only when dieting and exercise have failed, but, as Alan Maryon-Davis, president of the Faculty of Public Health, has said: "My fear is that these drugs of last resort are actually used quite early on. It is too easy to turn to the prescription pad."

But is this really helping the patient? Despite the enormous commercial success of orlistat, it doesn't seem to. The drug has lived off early glories for the longest time. One of the very first trials found that a third of participants lost 10 per cent of their initial weight, a result that had newspapers such as the Daily Mail claiming this was the magic bullet cure for obesity.

Since then, researchers have conducted 30 further trials on the drug, and have never been able to replicate that early result. A review of 30 trials into orlistat and other weight-loss drugs found that it achieves an average weight loss of just 2.9 kg a year.

The drugs can also increase the risk of heart disease, and orlistat is especially likely to cause gastro-intestinal problems and faecal incontinence, which the manufacturer has delicately described as "the ooops factor."

The World Health Authority says that "eating less and exercising more must remain the cornerstones of managing obesity."

Just don't go to the doctor if you want to find out how.

Popular,Damaging, dietry advice...

dgtucker — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:20:48 GMT

Having researched available dietry/nutritional advice extensively I can say that it is of no wonder whatsoever, that we have an ever increasing, obesity, diabetes, cancer, etc....NHS crippling, health problem!..whilst accepting other contributary factors also, such as life-style choices, emotional problems, man-made toxins, stress, etc.

The simple fact is that if we were to consume real, fresh, unprocessed foods....as we did for most of man's history....we would not have our current levels of looming disaster...

I trust that at least here on WDDTY and other enlightened sites, we have informed opinion which understands the metabolic processes involved in the digestion of various food groups, lipids, sugars, etc.Those who do, will understand why the 'official' damaging advice from such luminaries as the FSA, Diabetes UK and many others, needs changing.Much of this could be coming from the vested interests of 'food' manufacturers I suspect....via many back doors.

I have tried and been either treated as an idiot, crazy, or misinformed by 'bad ' sources such as here, Mercola.com, Weston Price Foundation, Mary Enig, etc!!

If....there are those of you out there who really would like to make a difference and think as I do on the damage being caused by such perverse advice as...... "eat more starchy carbs", "use vegetable oils", instead of 'good' saturated fats, "every meal should be based around starchy carbs such as bread, rice, pasta etc." ...then can we have a collective influence perhaps? If not, it is a sure fired certainty that the NHS will be over-burdened with the outcomes... some time soon.

Any ideas appreciated and a list of places to take a look at for those who have a logical, enquiring nature!

http://www.health-report.co.uk/saturated_fats_health_benefits.htm

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2007/07/10/how-high-fructose-corn-syrup-damages-your-body.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage

http://www.thincs.org/

http://www.mercola.com/2003/mar/26/pasteurized_milk.htm

http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/80/3/550

http://www.mercola.com/article/statins.htm

http://www.mercola.com/2004/sep/8/saturated_fat.htm

http://www.mercola.com/1997/archive/dietary_fat_linked_to_heart_disease.htm

http://www.mercola.com/2004/jan/3/carbohydrates_age.htm

http://www.mercola.com/article/carbohydrates/scientific_evidence_low_grains.htm

http://www.westonaprice.org/knowyourfats/index.html

http://www.ravnskov.nu/cholesterol.htm

OBESITY...

dgtucker — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:02:10 GMT

The catastrophic rise of obesity and associated diseases of diabetes,cancers, etc. will cripple the NHS....sooner, rather than later, I fear!

Whilst appreciating the emotional content of the problem, it is mostly an issue of too much of the wrong food/drink being ingested....and sedentary life-style choices.

The on-going official dietry advice from such organisations as Diabetes UK, British Nutritional Foundation, hospital nutrional departments, etc.etc., all filters down from the Food Standards Agency......whose proud boast that their advice hasn't changed in the last fifteen years.......must be considered as part of the problem....or they are being totally ignored!

Feel free to check out their 'expert' advice on 'good' lipids.....and the insulin/leptin response problems of, "a third of our diet should consist of starchy carbohydrates such as bread, pasta, rice, potatoes", freely available on their healthy eating pages....

.......Little wonder we have a major obesity crisis!

For those of you who have an interest...and logical thinking processes rather than 'follow the herd' instincts, I recommend that you read the information at the following links ....and then make your own mind up!:

http://www.health-report.co.uk/saturated_fats_health_benefits.htm
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2007/07/10/how-high-fructose-corn-syrup-damages-your-body.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage
http://www.thincs.org/
http://www.mercola.com/2003/mar/26/pasteurized_milk.htm
http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/80/3/550
http://www.mercola.com/article/statins.htm
http://www.mercola.com/2004/sep/8/saturated_fat.htm
http://www.mercola.com/1997/archive/dietary_fat_linked_to_heart_disease.htm
http://www.mercola.com/2004/jan/3/carbohydrates_age.htm
http://www.mercola.com/article/carbohydrates/scientific_evidence_low_grains.htm
http://www.westonaprice.org/knowyourfats/index.html
http://www.ravnskov.nu/cholesterol.htm