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776. Male Infertility and Glutathione By Priya Shah
     Are You Half The Man Your Father Was?It is a well-known fact that sperm counts have dropped by half in the last 50 years, and that modern men have 20 percent less semen volume than their fathers (BMJ, 1992, volume 305).A recent report from researchers in Aberdeen presented preliminary data that suggests the sperm concentration of the men seen in their clinic had declined by 29% over the past 14 years. (British Fertility Society; 5 January 2004)Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and endocrine…



777. Did You Start Your Life With Enough Probiotics? By Jeannie Crabtree
     Why does disease begin in the digestive tract? Your digestive tract is your first line of defense when it comes to your health. This is because of the good bacteria that resides there. That is why the use of Probiotics is so importantThink of Probiotics - the good bacteria as guards against incoming invaders. Having a good number of these beneficial bacteria in our digestive tract guards us against a whole range of health problems and disorders. 85% good bacteria to 15% bad bacteria is just ab…



778. Fats You Just Gotta Have By Greg Post
     Despite the way people actually eat, most of us have an idea of how we should eat. Marketers have ingeniously leveraged this concept. For example, a group of women might be talking about what they for dinner the night before. One ate carrot sticks; another had low-fat cottage cheese. But one had a four course meal including dessert. And she did all this without any of the guilt. How outrageous! Dessert without any guilt? Personally I never understood the guilt part. I thought guilt had to do w…



779. Omega-3 and Triglycerides: Could It Really Be That Simple? By Greg Post
     We are wise to be wary of oversimplification. There is nothing that can cure everything. For example, if everyone on the face of the planet stopped smoking it would not wipe out the existence of lung disease. But I wonder how much lung disease would be wiped out if nobody smoked. My unscientific answer to that query is, “a whole heck of a lot.” Lung disease (as well as many other chronic conditions) would see a dramatic decline if smoking ceased. Yet in spite of all the warnings and scientific…



780. Constipation By Stewart Hare
     Constipation is the passing of dry, hard faeces fewer than three times a week. Individuals who have constipation may find it painful and difficult to have a bowel movement, also other symptoms include feeling sluggishness, bloated and uncomfortable. Constipation is a common ailment and everybody will suffer from it at least once within their life. It is more common in women over the age of sixty five and pregnant women; it is common after childbirth and surgery.Constipation occurs when too muc…



781. Fighting Burn-out: Natural Help For Stress, Fatigue and Adrenal Insufficiency By Dr. Rita Louise
     The adrenal or “stress glands” are small, triangular shaped glands located on the top of the kidneys. Their function is to prepare the body’s resources to run or fight through the releasing of specific hormones. When this primitive, instinctive response is activated, blood is diverted from digestive system while our blood pressure, pulse, blood sugar levels increase. At the same time, our pupils dilate and the speed of reflexes increases. All of this happens as a way to ensure our survival…



782. Benefits of Mangosteen Fruit and Juice By P. Mehta
     The mangosteen is a tropical evergreen tree, believed to have originated in Southeast Asia, the Sunda Islands and the Moluccas with tropical fruit with juicy flesh. The mangosteen fruit, known as the queen of fruits is 2-3 inch diameter. The outer purple-black skinned shell of the mangosteen fruit is hard. The snow-white, juicy, soft flesh pulp is segmented like an orange with 4 to 8 triangular segments. The mangosteen fruit is mild acidic, like that of a prune.The mangosteen fruit is high…



783. The Four Cornerstones of Nutrition By David Saunders
     What is nutrition? We hear so many reports today on different foods containing them, but the reporters rarely provide any context in which the informaiton can be understood. To receive the benefits of good nutrition, it is important to understand how the different components fit together. Here's one way to look at nutrition as a whole. In nutrition, we have components called micronutrients. There are different ways to group them, but I like to call the following the Four Cornerstones of Nutrit…



784. Brown Sugar is Not Brown Rice By John Mericle M.D.
     Question from Jack:A question from Jack, one of the subscribers to the MericleDiet newsletter, "Reference your tip regarding diabetes. The only sugar I use is brown and is this a concern in my case?"Answer:The word "brown" has gotten a lot of play lately regarding "healthy eating." Brown rice and brown bread are both "in" while white bread and white rice are known to be "unhealthy." It would be nice if brown sugar was as good for you as brown rice or some brown breads made from whole grains…



785. Seasonings: Add More Than Just Flavor By Meri Raffetto
     Besides providing taste, color, and aroma, certain seasonings can also add health to your meals. Herbs and spices contain phytochemicals which are natural health promoting substances and have been found to protect us against diseases such as cancer and heart disease. So here’s to spicing up your meal and health!Here are 4 herbs you can add for flavor and health.Turmeric- is also called curcumin and may help protect against cancers including prostate, colon, skin, and oral cavity. It also may p…



786. A Look at Lactose Intolerance By Brian Johnston
     Lactose is the primary carbohydrate in milk. Cow’s milk contains 4-5% lactose, whereas human milk contains almost twice that amount. Lactose provides 30-50% of the energy in milk, depending on the fat content (skim vs. homogenized). A number of individuals are affected by lactose in the diet, but there is a difference between intolerance and maldigestion.Lactose maldigestion is "a disorder characterized by reduced digestion of lactose due to the low availability of the enzyme lactase…



787. Nutritional Myths that Just Won't Die: Protein! By Will Brink
     When it comes to the topic of sports nutrition there are many myths and fallacies that float around like some specter in the shadows. They pop up when you least expect them and throw a monkey wrench into the best laid plans of the hard training athlete trying to make some headway.Of all the myths that surface from time to time, the protein myth seems to be the most deep rooted and pervasive. It just won't go away. The problem is, exactly who, or which group, is perpetuating the "myth" cant be …



788. Seafood - the Healthy Alternative By Coleen Panetti
     Most red and white meats are very fatty and are not a healthy way to eat. Seafood on the other hand offers you a great tasting alternative. When cooked correctly you couldn’t ask for a better tasting meal.Seafood can be purchased either fresh or frozen. By freezing the seafood fresh it can be shipped all over the world so everyone can have the opportunity to enjoy fresh seafood that they may not otherwise be able to enjoy.Seafood that has not been kept at or below 39 degrees may not be safe to…



789. Simple Food and Diet Nutrition Remedies for Your Common Health Ailments By Sandra Kim Leong
     You are what you eat is a simple, time tested adage that still holds true today. There are non-medical remedies that can help with many of today’s most common illnesses and conditions. In fact, making simple changes to your food diet to cure your common cold, acne or constipation problems is a much better choice than resorting to drugs. For one, natural food and diet remedies most often do not give you harmful side-effects that western allopathic medicine can bring.Here are some health ailm…



790. Walnuts- Small Portions, Big Health Rewards By Meri Raffetto
     Want to add some significant health benefits to your diet? Try a handful of walnuts each day. Yes, nuts are making a comeback as a powerful category of health foods and walnuts are leading the pack. Even the FDA allows specific health claims for walnuts as part of a heart healthy diet. Research shows that eating 1 ounce of walnuts (about 14 nuts) may reduce the risk of heart disease. This is because walnuts are an excellent source of omega-3 fatty acids which have been shown to help protect pe…



791. Natural Alternative to HRT By Stewart Hare
     HRT stands for hormone replacement therapy. Hormone replacement therapy aim is to restore oestrogen levels to a normal pre-menopausal state for menopausal women suffering from the signs and symptoms of oestrogen deficiency and it also postpones other consequences such as coronary heart disease and osteoporosis.Hot flushes, profuse sweating especially at night, anxiety, feeling of suffocation, hot hands and feet, dizziness and faintness, headaches, backaches, irritability, an increase or lack o…



792. Lingzhi A Miracle Herb For Peak Health By R G Srinivasan
     The secret of success is knowing how to deal with your body to maintain peak health condition. The dictum Health is Wealth hold more truth in the modern context than ever before.While medical science has progressed what one could ever imagine, in treating disorders and disease, the real challenge lies in prevention. Modern medicine has succeeded in treating major disease it has not found a perfect system for prevention of dreaded diseases like cancer and HIV.The answer lies in looking to a s…



793. Beating the Common Cold Naturally By Stewart Hare
     The common cold is an acute viral infection that affects the upper respiratory tract. The common cold is more common in winter and is a viral infection which means it cannot be cured by antibiotics. It is virtually impossible to avoid the common cold virus, it is highly infectious and is spread through the air via coughing and sneezing and being in contact with objects contaminated with the virus. Catching a cold all depends on how strong your immune system is, if your immune system is strong,…



794. Improve Your Eating Habits. By Clare Evans
     1. Water. If you’re thirsty you’re already dehydrated. The majority of us don’t tend to drink enough during the day. If you drink a lot of tea and coffee to keep you going then these have a diuretic effect so you should be drinking water to compensate.Have a glass of water first thing in the morning and last thing at night – your body loses a lot of water while you’re asleep – not only if it’s warm and you sweat a lot but just going 8 hours (if you’re so lucky) without food or drink it’s …



795. Organic Eating - Why Bother? By Heather Dominick
     Originally, all foods were “organic” – grown and prepared without pesticides, herbicides, chemical fertilizers, hormones, irradiation to prevent spoilage, and microwave cooking.Our food these days, whether of vegetable or animal origin, is not only deficient in nutrients but also full of pollutants and farm chemicals. The modern denaturing of foods through massive refining and chemical treatment deeply affects their EnergyRich ™ qualities, making them devoid of the exact boost that we shoul…



796. Salads Take Center Stage By Susan Rutter
     The reason I remember the first time I was served a main-course salad, easily 15 years ago, is that it was such a revelation.It was served to a group of us, six or more, in a large shallow wooden bowl and it was full of all kinds of good things; greens, chickpeas, nuts, seeds, sliced chicken breast and a dressing fragrant with fresh tarragon and basil. I remember my hostess saying how uncomplicated a meal it was to prepare, serve and clean up after.Main-course salads are a terrific opportunit…



797. How to Use Flax Seed By Rudy Silva
     You can eat whole flax seeds but you need to chew them good to break them up. Your stomach will not dissolve whole flax seeds and many of them will come out in your stools. Chew about a tablespoon in the morning. Then drink 8 oz of water. Make sure if you chew flax seeds that you drink water since the seed expand and become gelatinous.There are brown and golden colored flax seeds. The golden cost more but there is not difference in their nutritional value.You can grind them up in a grinder an…



798. Fluoride: A Plot to Dull the American Mind By Charlotte Colby
     During the Second World War, the Germans used fluoride as a tranquilizer in the Russian prison camps. At the same time, American members of the Communist Party met to discuss adding fluoride into the water supply, in order to bring about overall lethargy and thus ease the introduction and eventual dominance of Communism in America.Over time, the cumulative effect of drinking water laced with sodium fluoride is a slow poisoning of a certain portion of the brain. This causes a submission of the …



799. Redeeming Unsaturated Fat By Jim Duffy
     The most dreaded word in many dieter’s vocabulary is ‘fat’. It is not uncommon to hear a dieter discuss their avoidance of eating fat as if it were something thoroughly unwholesome, or even life-threatening, like an allergen, or a contagious disease.In one way, this impassioned hatred of fat is positive. It reflects a generally understood medical truth that overindulging in fat-rich foods often causes unwanted, and unhealthy, weight gain.However, in another way, this fat-phobia is potentiall…



800. REAL Summer Foods By Heather Dominick
     Fire ElementAccording to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) there are five elements that contribute to all activities: TREE / WOOD, FIRE, SOIL / EARTH, METAL and WATER.Fire is the element of summer … so how can this help to put more of YOU in summer? The more you use EnergyRich Seasonal Foods (rather than associational season foods – a-hem like, maybe, ice-cream?), the more energy you have available for fun!Fire Foods – to Keep You Cool1. Grains:• Quinoa - might be considered a super-grain…



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