Health Tips

If you want to see big changes in your health, you must make big changes in your life. Token changes don't work .

Healthful living means taking responsibility for four main areas of your life: Diet--eating the right foods, for the right reason; environment--maintaining a healthy home and workplace; activity--getting enough exercise, rest and sleep; and psychology--engaging in productive activity and developing effective interpersonal skills.

A woman in her 80s stood up and told the group that when whe was in her 40s she was very ill. Because conventional treatments failed her, as a last resort she tried fasting and changing her diet. It worked! But some of her friends were so critical of her new lifestyle that she eventually stopped seeing them. I asked if she felt that it was a great loss, but she said, "Oh, no, dear. They all died years ago."

In parts of the world where unrefined diets are consumed, varicose veins hardly occur at all.

Up to 12 percenet of all American boys aged between six and 14 are being prescribed the amphetamin Ritalin to treat behavioral disorders. But, warns the United Nations' International Narcotics Control Board, behavioral problems are being over-diagnosed, and drugs like Ritalin overprescribed.

Why don't bears have clogged arteries with their high cholestrol? Why don't animals have arthritis? Why don't animals have heart attacks from clogged arteries? They make Vitamin C as needed! EXCEPT for the Guinie Pig...NO VITAMIN C!

Your brain contains chemicals called neurotransmitters that send various messages from one cell to another. Two particular neurotransmitters have been found to be low in people with depression: serotonin and norepinephrine.

Numerous studies show lower levels of vitamins and minerals in depressed people.

About 50 million Americans suffer from high blood pressure and some five million are treated with calcium channel blockers, which have been widely used since the 1980s. A 1996 study by Professor Bruce Psaty of the University of Washington reports that his study of 2,600 patients with high blood pressure revealed that the risk of a heart attack went up 60 percent if a patient was on a calcium channel blocker.