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A few thoughts on lifestyle
Canada’s organic food system is a nightmare DNA isn't what its cracked up to be! Painkiller Sales Skyrocket Frequent dental X-rays linked to type of brain tumour The dose makes the poison Eating berries may prevent Parkinson’s disease Healthy Additives ------------------------------------------------------ A few thoughts on lifestyle I don't like the idea of drastic sudden changes. It is so counter to nature. Every living organism evolves slowly. So should lifestyle (diets, especially). IMHO, this is why most fads don't last. When I was 60, I knew I had to change. I set out a program for every aspect of change that I contemplated. I tackled red meat first as I considered that the most destructive to my health. It unfortunately is the one food, I like the best. I gave myself five years to reduce my weekly consumption from 5 plus pounds down to 8 oz. While I was at it, I also scaled my chicken back as well. I filled up on veggies, and then rewarded myself with an ever diminishing portion of meat at the end of the meal. That was my substitute for desert. As a further reward, we would go out for supper ounce a month, and I would order a one inch prime rib steak. Surprisingly, after about 2 1/2 years, I could no longer eat a full steak, even if I wanted to! I also got more picky and was not happy with the varying quality of steak, I would be served. So now, ounce a month, I pick out the most marbled, highest quality prime rib roast I can buy and roast it to perfection. The first nite I will pig out. The rest goes in the freezer and Char serves it in one-ounce portions till it's gone. I am now 76. I've never ounce had a desire to break my plan. In fact, my health has improved so much; I've been motivated to adopt other changes as well. Like a daily 20-minute hike up the mountain behind our house. Today I am totally without medication. Totally without pain. Both a first in my adult lifestyle. And can do things I couldn't do when I was 50. DNA isn't what its cracked up to be! How things have changed. At one time, genetics was understood to determine your future. Not anymore. A huge body of science is emerging that suggests that the DNA in life forms (yes, humans included) change from the moment of conception to death. The 'expressions' of genes are constantly turned on or of, determined by many things depending on the environment, both within and outside the body. Recall that height is ~90 percent heritable on the population level. However, it turns out that the standard deviation of identical twin height differences is still ~35-40 percent that of random siblings! An article and links to get you started are here: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/04/dna-aint-destiny-no-kidding/ Painkiller Sales Skyrocket "Drug Enforcement Administration figures show dramatic rises between 2000 and 2010 in the distribution of oxycodone, the key ingredient in OxyContin, Percocet and Percodan. Some places saw sales increase sixteenfold." "Across the U.S., pharmacies received and ultimately dispensed the equivalent of 69 tons of pure oxycodone and 42 tons of pure hydrocodone in 2010." Unfortunately, I have been unable to find the equivalent Canadian stats. I'm sure the figures are hidden somewhere. For whatever reasons (I'll let you guess) our legislators and regulators have failed to make these figures easily available, if at all. However, from what I have been able to obtain, the trend is as bad or worse in Canada, as it is in the US. Where is the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada on the matter? What are they doing to control the over prescription? http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/painkiller-sales-soar-us-fuel-addiction-16077041 Eating berries may prevent Parkinson’s disease Eating berries may prevent Parkinson’s disease By Sharon Kirkey, Postmedia News February 13, 2011 7:02 PM Two or more cups of berries a week may protect against Parkinson’s, according to a study of more than 130,000 American men and women. It’s the first prospective study in humans — meaning it looked at people initially without Parkinson’s disease and followed them over time — to explore the association between flavonoids and the risk of developing the debilitating brain disorder. Flavonoids are natural compounds that have an antioxidant effect. Blueberries and strawberries are high in flavonoids, as are tea, apples, oranges, orange juice and red wine. Other studies have suggested flavonoids may account for lower rates of stroke and other vascular diseases among wine drinkers. U.S. Health Professionals Follow-up Study - study author Xiang Gao, of the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. |
Harvard study: Eating nuts may make you live longer Compared with people who never ate nuts, those who had them less than once a week reduced their risk of death 7 percent; once a week, 11 percent; two to four times a week, 13 percent; and seven or more times a week, 20 percent. Read more here. The dose makes the poison
Paracelsus, the Swiss physician and alchemist, the “father” of modern toxicology (1493-1541) said, “The dose makes the poison.” – http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/factsheets/riskassess.htm “All things are poison and nothing is without poison, only the dose permits something not to be poisonous.” Canada’s organic food system is a nightmare
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The honesty of the applicants is not verified. When staff at the CFIA finally carried out some secret tests on organic products, they were so taken aback by the results that they actually tried to suppress them. Read more here Frequent dental X-rays linked to type of brain tumour
A new study has found a link between frequent dental X-rays and one of the most common brain tumours. http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Health/20120409/Frequent-dental-X-rays-linked-to-type-of-brain-tumour-120410/ Healthy Additives
Food processors find the latest craze among the 'health nut' rants or wherever and then add token amounts just for marketing purposes. If in fact there are any intrinsic benefits in these additives they are so processed as to render them useless. And/or they are in such minute amounts to be insignificant in effecting any benefit. Another trick is to use the waste product of a "healthy food" (the skin or pit, etc.) instead of the food itself that everybody thinks they are getting. Many expensive 'health foods' sold in health-food stores, grocery stores and pyramid schemes fall into this category. Eat fruit -
Don't drink it! A study published by the BMJ this week affirms one piece of conventional wisdom — that eating fruit is highly beneficial to your health — while refuting another — that fruit juice is just as good as the unprocessed stuff. Analysing the dietary habits of 187,382 subjects over multiple decades, the research team concluded that "greater consumption of specific whole fruits ... was significantly associated with a lower risk of type 2 diabetes, whereas greater fruit juice consumption was associated with a higher risk." More here |
Embrace Life
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