My Next Guest On My Radio Show

My next guest for my internet radio show Healthy Alternatives on http://webtalkradio.net/shows/healthy-alternatives  is on achieving work-life balance. With all the craziness going on today, can you still achieve work-life balance? How do you go about doing it?

Join me and my guest, Jeff Davidson, author of Breathing Space, to learn real techniques that you can apply to your life to achieve work-life balance.
 

Some Confusion About Vitamin D

While a committee of the National Institute of Standards and Technology reviewed the research on Vitamin D and recommended increasing the amount of Vitamin D from 400 IU’s per day to 600 IU’s per day, still there are questions about how they reached that decision and whether the dose increase is high enough.

Well, it turns out the members of this Committee do not include any of the top researchers on Vitamin D. This means that those with the most expertise on the subject were not involved in the decision-making process.

When you look at the recommendations of the Committee, it differs sharply from what the experts recommended because the Committee limited its review only to the impact that Vitamin D has on bone health. The experts have been finding positive effects for Vitamin D3 in many areas and are recommending increasing Vitamin D3 to anywhere from 2500 to 5000 units per day. They have found that optimizing your level of Vitamin D can cut the risk of several cancers by 50% and the risk of developing heart disease or diabetes by 43%.

Finally, while the Committee said that most Americans have adequate levels of Vitamin D, the experts said that about 85% of the US population is Vitamin D deficient.

So who is right? I am going with the real experts. By using supplements coupled with blood tests, I’ve been able to raise my level of Vitamin D from 14 to the optimum level of 50 to 70 units (I’m at 56 units). What decision are you going to make for your self?

 

A New Way To Protect Against Sunburn

What if you could be out in the sun and not use sunscreen and not burn. Well, it seems that you may be able to do just that. There is a carotenoid extracted from algae called astaxanthin that prevents sunburn. Eating this algae is how krill prevent themselves from being damaged by the rays of the sun. Current research shows that 2 mg of astaxanthin a day for 1 month is an appropriate supplementation to prevent sunburn.

There are other benefits of using astaxanthin which include preventing age-related macular degeneration of the eyes and cataracts. It will even reduce the effects of being exposed to EMF when flying and diagnostic x-rays.

Keep in mind that it takes a number of weeks for it to build up in your tissues. So….2 mg of astaxanthin a day, anyone?
 

Text Message Shorthand Has Been Around A Long Time

The notion of using shorthand when typing on Twitter or sending text messages is a lot older than you’d think. An exhibit at the British Library displays a text message in a poem which says “I wrote 2U B 4.” This certainly sounds like a message anyone today might send.

Well, it turns out this was written in 1867! This may help teachers relax knowing that the English language will probably survive even text messages. 
 

Transform Your Experience Of Love

A good friend of mine, Marci Shimoff, is a best selling author and transformational expert. Her latest book, Love for No Reason, draws on current scientific research, ancient wisdom, and proven techniques to show you how to experience that dazzling state of loving yourself, no matter what's going on in your life.

Marci offers a breakthrough approach to experiencing a deep and lasting state of unconditional love for your self and for others. The book contains a holistic 7-step program to open your heart, make you a magnet for love, and transform your life. Whatever your experience of love is right now—whether you're in pain or feeling great—you can learn to love at a higher level starting today.

Go to Amazon.com to order a copy today. 
 

We May Be Misdiagnosing ADHD

It turns out that there may be a tremendous amount of misdiagnosis occurring when identifying children as exhibiting attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). As a matter of fact, it could involve around one million children. What’s the misdiagnosis?

The year that a child starts attending school is based on their birth date. This means you can have kids in a class that are the oldest by almost a year and the youngest by almost a year. This great difference in age may then be reflected in the behavioral development of a child. This difference seems to be a key factor in the diagnosis of ADHD as the behavior of the younger ones is compared to the behavior of the older children in a class. So perhaps for a number of children the symptoms of ADHD, such as fidgeting and inability to concentrate, simply may be a factor of the younger children’s age, especially when compared to the behavior of older children. The researchers who published this study in the Journal of Health Economics put the misdiagnosis figure at 20%.

Maybe the simple solution would be to hold your kids back from starting school if they would be the youngest in the class,or to group kids by their birth date so they are with kids who are expected to be just like them in behavioral development.
 

Honey -A Way To Treat MRSA

MRSA is an infection that is running rampant in hospitals and has been spreading into the community. It is dangerous and can be deadly. At this point there is only one antibiotic, Vancomycin, that still seems to be able to fight and cure MRSA and doctors think that will fail in the near future.

Fortunately, there is a natural option available which is Active Manuka Honey that is collected from the tea tree bush in New Zealand. A substance in the honey called Unique Manuka Factor is able to completely eliminate staph. aureus and MRSA bacteria in the wound. One of the pluses of using this honey is that there are no side effects to be concerned about so you can use it for as long as it takes the infection to clear.

To learn more about this go to www.activemanukahoneyusa.us/
 

A Way To Reduce Global Warming

With all the concern about global warming, a realization has developed that cows produce a lot of methane gas, which contributes to the destruction of ozone and the trapping of heat in the atmosphere. Methane, for example, is 21 times more effective at trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, when compared over a 100-year period.

So how do you stop cows from doing what comes natural – passing gas? It turns out the answer is oregano. Penn State researcher Alexander Hristov found he could reduce the amount of methane produced in the cows’ rumen (a portion of the stomach in grazing animals such as cows, goats and sheep) by using an oregano-based food additive. The additive appears to reduce dairy cows’ methane emissions by about 40 percent, with the bonus of increasing milk production by the not insubstantial amount of three pounds per day. Similar results have been announced by Newcastle University which announced that curry spices had an effect similar to oregano.

According to the data submitted by each nation member of the UN’s Climate Change Convention, the reduction in the amount of greenhouse gas in the US is comparable to the amount of methane produced in 2008 by Switzerland, and about twice the emissions of Norway.

Unfortunately, we don’t have stomach rumen, but it might not hurt to pass the oregano.

 

Another Option For Treating ADHD – Change The Lights

The Summit Charter School in Maitland, Florida is a special school for children who are learning disabled. They have all the diagnostic letters represented at the school - ADD, ADHD, Manic/Depressive, etc.  All the fluorescent lighting in the school uses cool white tubes.

I talked with the head of the school about doing an experiment with the full spectrum tubes that are available from my supplier. The principal agreed and I convinced my supplier to donate a couple of cases of tubes. The principal first had all the teachers involved in the study keep statistics on their kid’s behavior, attention, concentration, etc, for six weeks while they were still under the cool white tubes.

They then swapped the tubes with the full spectrum tubes and had the teachers keep the same stats for the next six weeks. To say that the teachers were blown away by the positive impact of just changing tubes would be an understatement.

The change even had a very positive impact on how the teachers felt and performed in the classroom. The changes were so positive that, when it was time to take the full spectrum tubes out of the initial classrooms and put the cool white tubes back up so the research could be repeated in several other classrooms, one of the teachers wrote the principal.

What she wrote was very powerful.  She said, “If you attempt to take these full spectrum lights out of my classroom I will fight you and I’ll even change the locks on my door!”  Now, that’s commitment!

If you’d like to watch some video testimonials and watch me demonstrating the effects of the different tubes, you can go to http://jtv-energy-lights.com/.

I have a special offer for readers of the Teplitz Email Report.  Until January 20, 2011, whether it’s for your home, a school or work you can order a case of 30, 4-foot fluorescent tubes with an additional 5% off our discounted prices - - for a total discount of 25% off the regular retail price, plus shipping.  Keep in mind that the tubes come with a 60-day money-back guarantee, so you can do your own research to prove to yourself, at no risk, that what I’m saying is true.

Additionally, the tubes have a 2-year burn out warranty and they seem to last for 8 to 10 years.

To order, go to JTV Lighting Sale - Case of 4 Foot Tubes and select your choice of 4 foot fluorescent tube case.   Be sure to enter the 25% off Coupon Code:  25OFFCASE  and apply your extra discount in the shopping cart.

If you’d like to watch video testimonials and demonstrations of the effects of the different tubes, you can go to http://jtv-energy-lights.com/.

 

THAT'S IT FOR THIS MONTH!