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651. Death, Aging, Rejuvenation (Part 4) By Aleksandr Kavokin, MD/PhD
     Biological clockObviously you need biological clock to time and alarm the point when you need to die and when you need to age. Aging is the same death as in those one-day butterflies, but a little bit prolonged one. Not immediate kill but gradual shut down of protection mechanisms - immunological, genetical repair, and just other necessary functions of proliferation. As soon as those functions turned off - an organism starts to deteriorate and wear off.Interesting that our organism is not a st…



652. Are Your Cells Talking To Each Other? By Jan Barosh
     Are Your Cells Talking To Each Other?Communication! It permeates our lives. We communicate for many reasons such as: 1) to get what we want, 2) to get rid of what we don’t want, 3) to let people know how we feel, 4) to show people we care, 5) to work productively with co-workers, etc. As members of the human race we are fortunate to have various ways to communicate our needs and desires. We can talk, use body language, write our requests or key them into the computer.But what would happe…



653. Focus On Fiber: How Much Is Enough? By Monique N. Gilbert
     Looking for an easy and natural way increase your vitality and improve your overall well-being? Try eating more fiber! The average American only gets about half the amount of fiber they need everyday for their body to function optimally. According to the American Heart Association (AHA), fiber helps lower cholesterol and is important for the health of our digestive system. Both the AHA and the National Cancer Institute recommend that we consume 25 to 30 grams of fiber daily.Dietary fiber is…



654. Inflammation Pain Eased with Glyconutrients By Scott Saunders
     Every person on earth has experienced pain at one time or another. Likewise, everyone has also dealt with inflammation in the body, even if they weren’t aware of it. However, only a handful of people know what glyconutrients are and how glyconutrients relate to pain and inflammation.Glyconutrients are just recently coming to the forefront of medical research. In the past, glyconutrients, or monosaccharide sugars, were thought of as nothing more than calories that were consumed in our food. …



655. Why Digestive Enzymes Are Vital To Good Health! By Roger Jirves
     Most digestive disorders develop because of the bodys inability to produce sufficient enzymes for health-enhancing digestion and proper nutrient absorption. Enzyme depletion results in improper digestion and absorption, leading to chronic disorders Malabsorption is the inability of the cells of the body to obtain nutrients from the foods consumed. This inaction causes loss of vitamins, minerals, fiber and the caloric value (energy) of foods, resulting in cellular deprivation. Digestive ma…



656. Nutritional Help for Crohn's Disease By Stewart Hare
     Crohn’s disease is a chronic inflammatory condition that normally affects the end section of the small intestine and the beginning part of the colon.The most common symptoms of Crohn’s disease are malabsorption, chronic diarrhoea, bloody stools, abdominal pain, fever, weight loss, fullness in the abdomen, loss of appetite and anal fissures.The cause of Crohn’s disease is unknown but it is believed that it could be diet, bacterial, viral or parasitic infection that causes the symptoms. Studies …



657. Understanding Cholesterol Levels and Decrease the Risk of Heart Attacks and Strokes By Claire Bowes
     What is Cholesterol?Before we go into how to reduce your cholesterol, let’s take a look at what exactly cholesterol is.Cholesterol is a fatty substance that is produced by the liver and its job is to:-• produce bile acids to help with the digestion of fat • build and repair cells and • produce estrogens and testosterone hormonesTherefore cholesterol is an important function of the body, but too much cholesterol in the body becomes a risk as it can clog up arteries and this can be the cause o…



658. An Apple a Day, Does Keep the Doctor Away By John Rumberger, PhD, MD
     Increasing the fiber in your diet has been shown to: reduce your cholesterol, reduce your hunger, lower your fat absorption, reduce surges in insulin levels, help with weight loss, lower the risk of colon cancer, and lower your risk of heart disease. WOW! Sounds like a miracle cure - where can I get this stuff? The answer: At your grocery store.Old Ben Franklin, citing in Poor Richard's Almanac 250 years ago stated "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." Well he was right. Not only because t…



659. Understanding Nutrition By David Saunders
     With the release of the new dietary guidelines, in the form of the new food pyramid, I still find that many people don't actually understand what nutrition actually means. Because of this, dietary choices can seem overwhelming. Even greater confusion can be generated by prime time news specials which only strive to educate through clever sound-bites and diet fads which lead some to believe that all of their answers are found in one single "magic food." So what is nutrition and how can you unde…



660. Improve Your Health and Fitness- Go Caveman! By Vikki Scovell
     I am going to tell you why you need to behave more like a cave man in order to stay healthier and happier. Read on cave people……Over aeons of time, our bodies have adapted to cope with survival in a harsh environment. Although we achieved civilization thousands of years ago, our bodies have not evolved to adapt to this change. If we imagine ourselves back in the distant past we would have eaten less sugar, salt and fat in a year or more than we now eat in a week or less. We would have eaten…



661. Dietary Guideline USA By Rolf Rasmusson
     Are you sick and tired of the confusion about our dietary guideline? Don't do this, do that, no not this, lose weight this way and on and on. Too much fat, more of this and it goes on and on and on. Frankly, it's enough to drive us all nuts. Turn off the TV, boot up the computer and take a real hard look at the new 2005 dietary guideline released recently.Let's face it… its not easy trying to manage our lives today with so much going on. Learning about food and diet is very time consuming but …



662. The Unbelievable Nutritional Value of Wheatgrass Juice By Amy Orr
     What is wheatgrass? According to the Fall 2000 edition of the Creative Health Institute's newsletter, "Wheatgrass is a plant that is grown from the Red Wheatberry, a special strain of wheat." Wheatgrass is frequently referred to as a "complete" food because it contains significant amounts of vitamins, minerals, amino acids and enzymes--many of the nutritional components needed daily by the human body for good health. Drinking fresh wheatgrass juice is much like taking a multi-vitamin supplemen…



663. One Size Pyramid Doesn't Fit All By Stephanie Shank
     Even if you don't follow a high fiber menu or alot of high fiber recipes, have a half cup of orange juice at breakfast, a pear with lunch, and a salad along with a cooked vegetable at dinner. You've just met some of the standards from the new FDA nutritional guidelines, "MyPyramid".It's all very simple. Eat a minimum of three one-ounce servings of whole grains daily along with at least five servings of fruits and vegetables. For the high fiber challenged, try a whole grain cereal at breakfast…



664. Can Chronic Pain Come From Food Additives? By Jane Oelke
     It is always amazing to me when I find a food substance that when taken in excess can cause pain the body. And sometimes these foods, and food additives that are regulated by the government, are supposed to be safe. When I test clients and their supplements, or ask about their dietary habits, or chemicals in their work environments, we often discover chemicals or foods that are causing their chronic pain symptoms. When these chemicals are removed, much of their pain subsides.When I talk to cli…



665. Vegetarian Diet - 7 Tips to Becoming Vegetarian By Kathy Ferneau
     Why go vegetarian? Your health. Vegetarianism ranks as one the best ways to eat a healthy diet--as simple as eating more salads and another apple every day. Want to follow a trend? For instance, Hollywood stars jumping on the bandwagon. Fanatic devotion, near religious status. Deeply into the animal rights movement, some dedicated vegetarians won't even eat in restaurants that serve animal products. Getting startedA vegetarian diet produces benefits no matter how you approach it, so…



666. Good Nutriton: Five Favorite Breakfasts on the Run By Constance Weygandt
     Studies have shown that people who eat breakfast gain less weight, are more alert and have healthier hearts. After not eating, for eight to ten hours overnight, our bodies need to be refueled. Breakfast jump starts our metabolism. People who skip breakfast often end up in a mid-morning slump and consume more calories throughout the day.Living such a busy lifestyle presents a nutritional challenge. Most often, unless we awaken at the crack of dawn, we are usually running out the door, running …



667. Immunity and the Immune System By Stewart Hare
     Since the 1930’s the western diet has dramatically changed. This change is due to the change in farming from the natural farming process which has developed over 1000’s of years to a modern scientific farming which has changed farming into an industry. This food industry is not interested in producing good quality nutritional food for the nation but food that is easy to store and cheap to produce which in tern will maximise profit. This has changed the western diet to concise of high sugar, fa…



668. Fat Types and Their Importance for Good or Bad Health By Knut Last
     The different fat types and their health effects:High consumption of fat or of the combination fat and carbohydrates causes obesity, heart disease and other health problems.However the different types of fat have very different effects on the health. Here is a survey of the different fat cathegories and their effects:Mono-unsaturated fat - This type of fat prevents heart disease and circulatory disease in moderate amounts.Omega-6-poly-unsaturated fat - This fat type prevents heart disease if y…



669. Reducing Cholesterol Naturally By Stewart Hare
     Abnormities in blood fat level is a contributing factor to coronary heart disease. Cholesterol and triglycerides are the two main fats in the blood. Both fats are consumed in the diet but what is not generally known is that cholesterol is also made up naturally in most of the tissues in the body, the exception being the tissues in the brain. A person’s body naturally produces 2,000 mg of cholesterol per day and the average person normally consumes within their diet between 200 and 800 mg per d…



670. Top 3 Herbs for Cholesterol Management By Ispas Marin
     It is not unusual to have high cholesterol level in your blood. It happens even to the best of us. But if you suddenly find out that you have high cholesterol you must immediately take action. This is called ‘Cholesterol Management’. It may seem a pretentious notion, but it keeps you away from heart problems. Cholesterol management involves few simple rules for lowering your cholesterol level: eat low fat (it doesn’t matter if it is saturated fat or total fat, they are wrong nonetheless) foods…



671. Nutritional Ways to Beat Cystitis By Stewart Hare
     Cystitis is an infection or inflammation of the bladder; it tends to be more common in women than men. A half of women will suffer from cystitis at sometime during their life. Women tend to be more affected by cystitis because the urethra in women is much shorter than in men this makes it easy for infection to pass along the urinary tract. Infections are usually triggered by bacteria.Symptoms of cystitis are an urgency to urinated, a stinging, discomfort or burning whilst urinating, urinating …



672. The Best Protein Powder By John Paul Catanzaro
     What is the best protein powder to buy? I get this question all the time, and really, there is no best protein - many are very good for different reasons! In my opinion, it is futile and possibly detrimental to stick to only one brand for the following reasons:a) I always recommend that you cycle your supplements so that your body does not get used to them thereby decreasing their effect,b) for variety sakes alone, it breaks the monotony and allows you to try different brands,c) to take adv…



673. How to Have Great Sex - Nutrition and Foods That Create Passion By Nick A. James
     Is the thrill gone? Has the thrill gone out of your love life and sex. Do you just spend boring evening after boring evening together watching the prime time TV lineups. On the weekends he watches sports with the guys, she goes shopping with the gals. You eventually wake up one day thinking - "Gee my life and sex life have gotten pretty dull!"Well it doesn't have to be that way. Would you like to put some spice back in your sex life? Well you can. This article focuses on two main aspects of fo…



674. Fluoride Damages Children's Bones, Study Says By Paul Beeber
     White-spotted or yellow splotched teeth may reveal more than needed expensive cosmetic dentistry.Children with fluoride-discolored teeth (dental fluorosis) are more likely to have bone damage, according to a study published in the journal "Fluoride."Despite living in a low-water-fluoride district, 132 Tibetan children, aged 8 to 13-years-old, developed dental fluorosis from dietary fluoride sources such as brick tea, a popular Asian drink, fed to children as young as two years old. (1)Wrist x-…



675. Personal Wellness Program By Libby Gossman
     Having a personal wellness program has become a concern for more and more people. The problem is many people do not know where to begin a wellness program. Here are a few keys to maintaining a personal wellness program:Know and understand your current health situation. Do you have a proper assessment of your current state of health? Do you have a bad cholesterol problem? Or maybe you have good cholesterol? Do you gain weight easily? Or do you have a hard time keeping weight on? Has your overa…



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