By Lisa Baertlein and Charles Abbott (Reuters) – The House of Representatives dealt a blow to childhood obesity warriors on Thursday by passing a bill that abandons proposals that threatened to end the reign of pizza and French fries on federally funded school lunch menus. The scuttled changes, which would have stripped pizza’s status as a vegetable and limited how often French fries could be served, stemmed from a 2010 child nutrition law calling on schools to improve the nutritional quality of lunches served to almost 32 million U.S. school children. The action [...]
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Soda and Aggression?
Soda and Aggression? Are your teenagers getting out of control? What do you do? Who do you blame? Yourself? Violent video games? How about the culprit that is hiding in your fridge! Before you point fingers at anyone or anything, I want you to consider how much soda your teenager drinks. A new study shows that high school kids who drink more than 5 cans of soft drinks per week are 15% more likely to act violently when compared to their non-soda drinking counterparts. The study included over 1,800 students. [...]
Continue Reading“Why is it I get every “bug” that comes along and some people don’t seem to ever get colds or flu?”
What Challenges Your Immune System? “Why is it I get every “bug” that comes along and some people don’t seem to ever get colds or flu?” You Need to Know this… There are fundamental reasons why one person stays well and another person does not. A strong immune system is one answer. For many people, cold and flu season never comes. For those same people, allergy season does not come either, because they have a strong immune system to handle those challenges. This issue of The Nutritional Essentials will give [...]
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Fight sluggishness and boost your energy level with these 6 easy tips: 1. Find some downtime every day-Even if it means getting up a few minutes earlier than everyone else in your house, take some time to really relax. Don’t read email, don’t write to-do lists. Do something that truly feels like downtime. 2.Make sure that you’re getting enough iron- Eat lots of leafy greens (especially spinach), pumpkin seeds, soy and other beans, tofu, tempeh, lentils, hemp seeds, blackstrap molasses, and sesame seeds. To increase iron absorption, include foods that [...]
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A credit card-sized magnet can energize your energy field and protect you from electromagnetic radiation. Includes one magnet. Even though we can’t and wouldn’t want to do away with all our electric appliances, we can protect ourselves. A simple Multi‐Polar Magnet, no bigger than a credit card, can energize your cellular electrical field and protect you. This small multi‐polar magnet can be placed in a shirt pocket, inside a woman’s bra or in a wallet carried on the body. We use very specific magnets that change from north to south [...]
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Total Shield Certain equipment has been developed to protect our magnetic field, thus helping neutralize harmful electromagnetic fields of radiation. The sluggishness, fatigue, nausea, dizziness, irritability, eye strain, rashes and other health problems associated with continuous exposure to high electromagnetic fields (above 30 Hz) can be counteracted with a device designed to blanket an area of about 20,000 square feet. This larger unit was designed to protect a home or office environment against harmful grid lines, geomagnetic disturbances, artificially generated electromagnetic standing waves, extremely low frequencies (ELF frequencies) and other [...]
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The Cancer-Sugar Connection Sugar Feeds Cancer The simple concept that “sugar feeds cancer” is often overlooked as part of a comprehensive support plan for cancer sufferers. Of over 4 million cancer patients being treated in the U.S. today, few are offered specific advice or guidelines for using optimum nutrition, beyond being told to “just eat good foods.” Most cancer sufferers lack knowledge of what an optimal nutritional program is or how to implement it. Many cancer sufferers could have a major improvement in the outcome of their disease if cancer’s [...]
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Breast Cancer, Alcohol and Tobacco Comments from Bandolier: Evidence-Based Thinking about Health Care (www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/band109/b109-4.html) One of the most important developments in recent years has been collaboration between research groups to pool information on individual patients better to understand disease development and treatment. One such is investigating breast cancer [1]. Study The influence of alcohol and tobacco on breast cancer was examined in 65 studies contributing individual patient data on over 66,000 women with breast cancer and nearly 130,000 controls. Of these, 53 had information on both alcohol and tobacco in [...]
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Parkinson’s Disease A Brief Overview: Causes and Effective Solutions What is Parkinson’s Disease (PD)? PD is a slowly progressive, neurodegenerative disease caused when brain cells that produce dopamine, an important neurotransmitter (message-carrying chemical) which helps control body movement, are destroyed in the part of the brain known as the substantia nigra. Symptoms Symptoms generally include tremors in arms and legs, rigid muscles, slowness of movements and impaired balance. PD currently affects more than 500,000 Americans. Solvents Increase Risk of Parkinson’s Brief summary of medical research article published in Neurology, [...]
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Alzheimer’s Disease (AD): Key Recommendations Antioxidants Can Prevent AD But They Must Be Food-Source Journal of the American Medical Association, June 26, 2002; 287:3223-3237, 3261-3263 Diets rich in vitamin C and E may delay the onset of memory-robbing Alzheimer’s disease. Free radicals that are released during normal cellular processes can be harmful to body tissues, leading to oxidative damage or stress. Experts have linked oxidative damage to many illnesses, including cancer, heart disease and Alzheimer’s disease. Since antioxidants — including vitamins C and E — can neutralize free radicals, some [...]
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