All Entries in the "Diet and Nutrition" Category
Thousands of Scientific Studies Show Fruits and Vegetables Reduce the Risk of Cancer
I just came across this on another health blog, which ties in well with my last post:
Fifteen of the world’s leading researchers in diet and cancer recently reviewed more than 4,500 studies. Vegetables and fruit came out on top as the food most likely to help reduce the risk of cancer.
Does consuming fruits and vegetables [...]
The Natural Hygiene View of Health and Disease
The current health paradigm proclaims “Sunshine reduces risk of some cancers” or “Vitamin D cures rickets,” or the most commercially popular “X compound in fruits and vegetables reduces risk of cancer.” You are bathed in this paradigm daily through newspapers, magazines, television and radio. Word of mouth and the grapevine solidify this view as “science [...]
Scientific Studies are Unreliable for Improving Your Health
We’ve been brought up on the paradigm of symptom suppression. Have a fever? Take an aspirin. Have a runny nose? Take a decongestant. Asthma? Inhale this. Have arthritic pain? High blood pressure? Depression? Take a pill and carry on your merry (or not so merry) way. Fat? It’s okay. Don’t change a thing. Just take [...]
Health Tip: When Not to Brush Your Teeth
Last summer I was talking with a woman at a fruit stand who told me that acids in fruit soften tooth enamel for up to an hour after eating them. It’s best not to brush teeth in that period because it may harm the enamel. I hadn’t heard that, so I did a few searches on [...]
You’ll Never Need to Step on a Scale Again with TurboTrim!
This is the claim made by an advertisement I received via email for a product called TurboTrim. It promises to be the final solution for those who want to look great, feel great and have more energy than ever imagined. But first, the ad claims, you have to toss out everything everyone is telling you [...]
My Body Continues to Detoxify
Normally on Saturday mornings I like to sit at my laptop in my bathrobe with a cup of hot green tea with lemon and write my blog. It’s a day unpressured by work concerns. But yesterday I was really sick. This began on Wednesday morning with a slightly sore throat, followed by some lung and [...]
Nutrition Experiment Day Seven
All bets are off today (Sunday. I’m late posting this.) I went to the 39th Annual Oregon Country Fair in Veneta. A piece of land normally flooded in winter is converted into a magical forest with over seven hundred artisans offering handcrafts, over fifty booths selling food and numerous musicians, performers and parades to delight your [...]
Nutrition Experiment Day Six
I drove into town today to stock up on produce and spent over one hundred dollars. I can’t believe how expensive organic food is, and I’m getting very discouraged. I would like to buy at the farmers’ market and support my local farmer, but my local farmer doesn’t appear to want to support me. They [...]
Nutrition Experiment Day Five
I woke up around eight o’clock this morning. My back was feeling pretty good, but I felt tightness in my ribcage. The true test is when I get on my stomach and up on my elbows. That puts a lot of pressure on my low back, and this morning it was painful. I have a [...]
Nutrition Experiment Day Four
It was still dark the first time I woke up, and my head was pounding. I went back to sleep and woke again with the sun. I felt miserable, exhausted, my back ached and my head hurt, so I went back to sleep until ten o’clock. My headache continued and I had to force myself [...]
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