One of my biggest frustrations as a health consultant is the reluctance of people to practice prevention instead of treatment. People buy health insurance in order to protect themselves from a critical illness or injury, but they fail to insure themselves the ability of not getting sick. I think it is because they think eating right and supplementing costs too much money, and it does not bring immediate gratification. This is true to a degree, but how much does lost work and productivity cost you. A lot more is my guess, not to mention you feel horrible way too often unnecessarily... Also, when you catch a virus, you tend to pass it on to other people with low immune function, and it effects even more unsuspecting victims. 30 years of research and working with the few people who over the years, see the advantage of prevention, has proved to me the value and benefit of taking action before we get sick and run down. It reminds me of a quote from Albert Einstein, " The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."- There you have it, we need a paradyme shift in our thinking to move from treating disease to preventing disease. I welcome you to read the Blogs I send out and also take action.
If you have followed some advice over the years and changed your eating and or started to supplement and have found your health dramatically improve, I would like to hear from you. I will share your e-mails on my next Blog.
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Enjoy this weeks health news...
cw
High GI diet linked to poor eye health...
08/17/2007 - Eating a diet with a high glycemic index may increase the risk of developing advanced age-related macular degeneration (AMD), says a new study from Tufts University. Men and women who consumed diets with a higher glycemic index than average for their gender and age-group were at greater risk of developing advanced AMD," said corresponding author Allen Taylor. "The severity of AMD increased with increasing dietary glycemic index."AMD affects the central part of the retina called the macula, which controls fine vision, leaving sufferers with only limited sight. AMD affects over 30m people worldwide, and is the leading cause of blindness in people over 50.
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Atkins Fares Best in Study Of Four Weight-Loss Regimens...
A year-long, head-to-head study of four widely used diets found that overweight women who followed the very low-carbohydrate Atkins diet had no adverse health effects and lost slightly more weight than women on the other three.
The study by Stanford University researchers compared the Atkins approach with three others: the standard low-fat, reduced-calorie regimen long recommended by many physicians and weight-loss experts; the Zone, a reduced-carbohydrate approach developed by author Barry Sears; and the very low-fat, high-carbohydrate regimen created by Dean Ornish. The latest findings add to a growing body of evidence that the high-protein Atkins diet does not cause the harmful heart and artery effects long feared by many researchers.
Women who followed the Atkins plan had a significant drop in triglycerides, one of the unhealthful blood fats linked to a higher risk of heart disease. Their blood pressure also dropped the most of the four groups, a finding that the researchers think may relate to their slightly greater weight loss. Those in the Atkins group also experienced the largest increase in high-density lipoprotein (HDL), a protective type of cholesterol.
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Too Clean? Fight Against Germs Fuels Allergy Increase...
A dose of dirt could be the best medicine for preventing allergies in kids who've never had them. While avoiding excessive contact with germs can help prevent the spread of infections, going overboard with cleanliness could be at least partly responsible for an increase in allergies among children, mounting research suggests.
"We’ve developed a cleanlier lifestyle, and our bodies no longer need to fight germs as much as they did in the past," said Marc McMorris, a pediatric allergist at the University of Michigan Health System. "As a result, the immune system has shifted away from fighting infection to developing more allergic tendencies."
More than 50 percent of Americans ages 6 to 59 years are sensitive to at least one allergen, according to a national survey conducted from 1988 to 1994 by the National Institutes of Health. That's two to five times higher than rates found in a previous 1976 to 1980 survey.
Recent research has found evidence for the so-called hygiene hypothesis, which explains how more sterile environments can lead to higher rates of illness. For instance, scientists in Germany recently found children exposed to farm animals (and the associated bacteria and other microbes hiding out there) were about half as likely as other children to develop the autoimmune illness Crohn's disease.
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Christopher Wiechert, C.N.C.
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