Category: Nutrition (Page 16 of 45)

6 Natural strategies for protecting your vision

November 30, 2010 / Mike Furci

Despite what your eye doctor may say, there are natural, common-sense strategies you can employ to help protect your healthy vision.

1. Quit smoking, if you currently do. Smoking ramps up free radical production throughout your body, and puts you at risk for less-than-optimal health in many ways. If you want healthy vision for your whole life, you cannot afford to risk less-than-optimal eye health with cigarettes.
2. Lose weight. If your over weight you’re going to have all the negative effects associated with being over weight or obese like diabetes and cardiovascular disease, which can harm your eyes.
3. Care for your cardiovascular system. High blood pressure can cause damage to the minuscule blood vessels on your retina, obstructing free blood flow.
4. Normalize your blood sugar. Excessive sugar in your blood can pull fluid from the lens of your eye, affecting your ability to focus. And, it can damage the blood vessels in your retina, also obstructing blood flow.
5. Eat plenty of fresh dark green leafy vegetables. Studies have shown that a diet rich in dark leafy greens helps support eye health. And that those with the highest consumption of carotenoid-rich vegetables, especially ones rich in lutein and zeaxanthin, had increased vision health.
6. Consume omega-3 rich foods. Consume fresh caught salmon, or use a reputable omega – 3 supplement. A study published in the August 2001 issue of Archives of Ophthalmology found that consuming omega-3 fatty acids was protective of your healthy vision.

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Raw milk and allergies

November 18, 2010 / Mike Furci

Children raised on farms have fewer allergies than children raised in cities. 1 in 3 children are currently affected by eczema, hay fever, or asthma, as opposed to 1 in 6 twenty years ago. The number of people needing emergency hospital treatment for severe allergic reactions has tripled over the last 10 years. A new study suggests the boom in allergies is largely due to pasteurized and homogenized milk. The study shows that children raised on farms who drink just 2 glasses of raw milk per week reduce their chances of eczema by 40% and hay fever by 10%. Blood samples revealed the consumption of raw milk decreased the levels of immunoglobulin E by half, which causes allergy symptoms.
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Your Best Life Diet!

November 17, 2010 / Staff

Diet and exercise is a lifestyle choice.

Once you decide to get fit, staying fit becomes your biggest challange.

A few tips from health expert Bob Greene will keep you on track while maintaining your fitness goals.

The best life diet, the creation of physiologist Bob Greene, has an easy-to-follow approach to weight loss and healthy living.
This diet plan calls for lifestyle changes as well as healthy eating habits. This best life diet does not include physical activity and exercise as primary forms of weight loss, instead, promotes nutritious and healthy eating.
Depending on the person’s physical conditions and general fitness, the best life diet suggests a calorie intake of about 1,500 to 2,500 based on the list of recommended foods and their number of servings.
This easy-to-understand weight loss diet is very effective, and Oprah Winfrey is one of its success stories.
There are a wide range of recipes, tips, and tools for the dieters to keep on track and stick to diet regime. The best life diet can be customized further to suit various body types as well as different lifestyles. This may include different food choices and activity levels of the individual.
The main feature of the plan is controlling food choices, portions, and serving sizes and numbers. A lot of liberty regarding food choice is given in the third phase of this diet plan.
The diet also guides an individual about basics of food and about how to replace unhealthy foods with similar-tasting healthy foods. The diet educates individuals about trans fats, soft drinks, high-fat dairy and other foods that they should avoid.
Another interesting fact is that Greene has placed a best life diet seal on various food products so that the dieters may not have any confusion about what food they may or may not eat.

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Don’t fight a fever support it

November 2, 2010 / Mike Furci

A fever is a natural beneficial function of your body to fight off invading organisms when the primary lines of defense, you immune system, fail? So many people misunderstand fever and believe it to be dangerous, which is primarily due to our “take a pill for everything society” created by physicians and big pharma. Your body raises its temperature because most infectious organisms cannot survive this environment; the ideal temperature for fighting infections is between 102 and 103 degrees F. The problem is, just as our bodies our doing what’s needed to eradicate the infection, we self medicate with, or worse yet give our children, anti-pyretic drugs like acetaminophen, ibuprofen, and aspirin by themselves or in combination.

It’s very important to think of a fever as a healing process. And contrary to popular belief, the best action is almost always little or no action. Rather than trying to lower a fever through medication, try to work through it and allow it to run its course. To support a fever Colleen Huber and other naturopathic physicians recommend consuming liquids such as broths and water until the fever breaks. The body slows down the movement of food in the gut (peristalsis), so avoid solid food. Another and perhaps most important recommendation to support a fever is rest. Activity uses the body’s essential energy needed to fight invading organisms, and hinders the immune function.

The benefits of a fever:
• Directly kills invading organisms through heat.
• Stimulates antibody production more specific to the infection than any antibiotic.
• More interferon is produced to block the spread of viruses to healthy cells.
• Stimulates production white blood cells which mobilize and attack invaders.

When to seek medical attention for a fever:
• Anyone with a temperature above 104.5 degrees F.
• Infants <1-month old, with a temperature >100.4 degrees F. Seek care right away.
• Infants from 1-month to 3 months old, with a temperature >100.4 degrees F, if they appear ill.
• Children between 3-months and 36-months, with a temperature above 102.2 degrees F, if they appear ill

For anyone not in the above categories, rest and fluids to support the fever and allow it to do it’s job.

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Raw Milk = Real Milk

October 28, 2010 / Mike Furci

Raw milk has been gaining popularity for years now. The conventional dairy industry, realizing this, has stepped up their efforts to ensure that raw milk does not become mainstream. If the health and economic benefits of raw milk were to ever catch on with the general public, it would threaten the livelihoods of the conventional dairy industry.

If raw dairy did catch on, you would think that the dairy industry would simply follow suit and begin producing raw products to meet the demand. However, this would be virtually impossible. Their business depends on pasteurization in order to be able to mass-produce and ship a product that by nature is meant to be grown and consumed locally. this is why their powerful lobbyists will stop at nothing to persuade government agencies to keep raw milk bans in full force.

There’s a vast difference between the quality and safety of milk from organically raised, grass-fed cows, and conventionally raised, grain-fed livestock. Conventional dairy farms are not set up to produce healthy milk. The very idea of producing mass quantities of milk from huge numbers of cows confined to one area is contrary to the very nature of healthy milk.

Cows that are fed grain and raised under substandard conditions will likely produce milk that is unhealthy to drink raw because grains, antibiotics, growth hormones, and filthy living conditions change the pH balance and the natural bacteria present in a cow’s gut, which in turn affects the natural bacteria and pathogens present in their milk.

In order for conventional dairy farms to safely produce raw milk, they’d be forced to clean up their production practices, raise healthier cows (and likely fewer cows), and give them access to pasture. This would cost them money ? lots of money.

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Unfortunately for consumers, money has been, and is the number one reason why our food supply is so devoid of nutrients. To learn more about the health and economical benefits of local farming and products like raw milk visit The Weston A. Price Foundation or The Campaign for Real Milk or read The Raw Milk Revolution

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