Cooling Heat Flashes

Here are some Natural Solutions to hot flashes.  Many women have found relief in as quickly as two days from taking 800 i.u. of vitamin E.  Flashes have been reported to disappear completely when vitamin E is accompanied by 1,000-2,000mg of vitamin C and 1,000mg of of calcium.  Usually after a week its normally ok for you to reduce your dosage down to 400 i.u. This is believed to be due to vitamin E's antioxidant and circulatory supporting role in the human body.  Vitamin E can also be used in conjunction with vitamin C to cure cramps, headaches, lower cholesterol, reverse scars and prevent sunburn and skin cancer.

Breast Cancer and Diet

Florida  has one of the highest Breast Cancer rates in the United States, coincidentally it also the lowest soil levels of Selenium as well!  Selenium has been reported to decrease the occurrence of tumors in mice with great success, but a lack of this trace mineral may just cause your body to go crazy for it.
Foods, such as polyunsaturated fats found in corn and other vegetable oils increase the formation of DNA damaging free radicals (free radicals are starved for electrons and thrive in mineral deficient environments).  Women who eat 5 grams of these polyunsaturated fats daily increased their breast cancer risk by 69%! 

But wait there is hope ladies don't be discouraged.  A study released in 1998 involving 61,000 women from all ages found that the daily ingestion of at least 10 grams of  monounsaturated fat (the good kind found in olive oil and canola) about three-fourths of a tablespoon, cuts the risk of breast cancer in half.  Links to large amounts of vitamin C and a diet rich in Selenium have been reported to reduce or possibly reverse the formation of tumors. If your thinking of taking extra measures against breast cancer and you are considering Selenium, make sure you accompany it with the helper vitamins A and E to bolster extra protection.

Food Processing and Prep: the Vitamin Massacre

A whole healthy food is a different animal when its caged in a can, freezer packed or in a box.  Potatoes, for instance are potentially a regular, reliable source of vitamin C.  But today, many people eat potatoes reconstituted from instant mixes, not realizing that these potato products contain no vitamin C whatsoever.  Figures for citrus fruits(a staple source of vitamin C) are not much better.  Orange juice from a cardboard carton has up to 30% less vitamin C than fresh squeezed juice.  That wouldn't be so bad, but 40% of whats left of the vitamin C is biologically inactive(of no use at all). 

For years the USDA believed that a 6 oz pork loin delivered 5.4 mg of iron a substantial amount.  But recently the USDA has discovered that pork contains only 1.62 mg, 70% less than thought.  Beef the most popular meat in America contains 20% less iron than originally thought. 

Today there are more than 3,000 chemicals used in the commercial food we eat.  And in one way or another many of them are nutrient and immune system antagonist.  The plants we grow are deficient, so in turn we take them a boil the crap out of them, or steam them or even worse microwave those bad boys.  And as a result they contain 20% the original nutritional content after molecular destabilization by cooking.

Natural Allergy Relief: Take some Vitamin C

The symptoms of allergies..the runny nose, the hacking coughs and sneezes are produced when histamine (natural chemical produced in the body) reacts to allergens: dust, pet hair, pollen, etc..... and BANG! Your day officially sucks now.  But relief can be found with Vitamin C, because its a natural antihistamine.  Researchers had 17 volunteers inhale histamine and measured the levels of airway constriction.  The next day the study was repeated with 500 mg of Vitamin C, and the degree of constriction was almost 30% with more solid results being obtained after a week of use.  Breath Easy my friends.

Vitamin Deficiencies: USDA Stats

The following list highlights the principle vitamins and minerals that were found to be deficient in a recent study conducted with 40,000 Americans.

Calcium: 68% very unsatisfactory results EAT YOUR DAIRY.  This is why levels of osteoporosis and arthritis are so high. 

Iron:  57% this is a weird phenomenon considering our meat consumption is high but our iron is low this could be contributed to the fact that roughly 55% of Americans consume Aspirin regularly which leads to an iron deficiency.

Magnesium:  75% reasons being the body excretes magnesium when stressed i.e. most of America lol

Vitamin A:  50% if you don't know someone with it you have it.  Increase your spinach intake.

Vitamin B12:  34% essential for energy and healthy mental function.  Eat your peanuts.

Vitamin C:  45% If there is any vitamin you do not want to be deficient in it is Vitamin C.  RDA is       listed at 60mg but research proves that levels of 500-1000mg a day are optimum levels.

Niacin: 33%  Niacin shortages lead to depression and large amounts can cure Alcoholism.

Vitamin B6:  80%  Essential for energy and mental clarity shortages have been linked to schizophrenia.

Now these are only the Vitamins and minerals, these statistics are unsatisfactory for the level of luxury that we live in these times.  If we can create ipods and robot dogs and crap we can learn to give our bodies what it needs to survive properly.

Nutritional Myths and Misinformations

Common medical myths and lack of clear understanding number on the thousands when discussing modern preventative medicine, but what about modern nutrition?  I mean lets face it, the Nutrition book we had in elementary, middle, and high school were the same book lol. 

Myth 1: "Don't eat butter"-  yeah ok so lets avoid the natural nutrients in butter and substitute that out for some synthetic margarine that has enough trans fats to dramatically increase your bad cholesterol levels (LDL).  Think smart people when in doubt get natural first.

Myth 2: "Don't eat too much salt"- so we've all heard that one, too much salt causes high blood pressure.  However a recent 4 year study at Cornell University showed that in 1,900 men with high blood pressure, those who ate less than 5 grams of salt a day had more than 4 times as many heart attacks as those who consumed more than 10 grams.  Many Americans need to double their "healthy" salt intake.

Myth 3:  "Don't use Vitamin and Mineral Supplements"- This one is a personal pet peeve of mine.  We as humans have been taking supplements for nutrition since the beginning of time and now it seems to be an issue.  Currently 50% of Americans consume vitamin supplements on a regular basis.  A 24 year study of 11,384 people found that taking vitamins and supplements cuts the death rate in half.  Also included was that Cancer and heart disease rates were less than 10% lower than those who did not take anything.  Taking daily Vitamin C supplements could reduce your chance of cancer by 30%  and increase longevity in recovering cancer patients by 4 fold.

Myth 4:  "Your body should not rise above 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit."-  The fever as I'm sure we all know can be a very debilitating condition.  Hot sweats, chills, never fun for anyone.  Now the reason for a fever is that most bacteria and viruses cannot survive above the body's normal temperature so fever is associated with the fighting of infection.  The doctor on the other hand will give you some Aspirin or Tylenol to reduce your fever so as too allow the bacterial infection to thrive and allow him to prescribe antibiotics to fight the illness.  Note this is not the doctors fault as if it is intentional, many doctors are just not trained in nutrition and the way the body reacts to danger.

Myth 5: "Genes cause degenerative disease."-  Acidosis causes degenerative disease not your Uncle Franks drinking problem.  This goes along with the notion that the Sun is bad for you.  Mineral deficiency induced acidosis causes your body to become more prone to disease and illness. Your genes are then forced to choose what illness to succumb too.  When cells live in a acidic environment the cell well then mutate and cancer is born.  Cancer though cannot survive in a Alkaline environment.  If you make the body alkaline you beat the cancer.