Saying It With Healthy Flowers

Americans spend around $20 billion on cut flowers every year. Many of these flowers are produced with chemical pesticides.

As an example, there are around 127 different pesticides on the flowers grown in Columbia, same thing for Kenya. Two of these chemicals are highly toxic and are even banned from being used in this country yet they come into this country on the flowers.

You now have an option available. You can now purchase organic flowers. There is a third-party verification program called Veriflora that guarantees that the flowers were grown sustainably. Organic flower sales have grown by as much as 50% per year.

So…if your supermarket or flower shop doesn’t offer organic flowers, ask them to start carrying them.

(Reported in Defenders Spring 2012)
 

Tapeworms, No One Pays Attention But They’re Deadly

While tapeworms are not a major problem in this country as probably only 1,500 to 2,000 people are affected a year, regional prevalence of tapeworms in animals in the US are depicted on the map.

Worldwide, it’s an epidemic with a minimum in just Latin America of 11 to 29 million people infected. Multiply this by the rest of the world and you have disaster.

Tapeworms can cause comas, paralysis, blindness, violent seizures and much more. An adult tape worm can produce up to 50,000 eggs in a human’s intestines. While the parasite can pass from pigs to humans, its eggs can pass from contaminated foods directly to humans.

These eggs can actually get into our brain where they are protected from being detected by our immune system. The eggs form cysts and as they grow the cysts can press upon and damage the part of the brain where they are located.

Preventing tapeworms from getting into the human brain is the place to start. People with tapeworms can be given drugs to kill the parasites and it is also possible to vaccinate the pigs so that the tapeworm is destroyed before they can lay their eggs.

(Reported Discover 2012)
 

Using B Vitamins If You’ve Got Hearing Loss

According to an Australian study, 64% of the people with a high risk of hearing loss had elevated levels of homocysteine. It appears that homocysteine causes oxidative stress and blood vessel leakage.

According to Dr. Julian Whitaker, the B Vitamins can reduce homocysteine levels. If you have high levels of homocysteine, he recommends taking 6,000 mcg folic acid, 2,000 mcg of Vitamin B12 and 125 mg of B6 daily. Divide these quantities in equal doses with each meal.

(Reported Dr. Whitaker, Volume 22, No. 4

 

Intense Bouts Of Exercise Can Help Older Adults

Interval training is where you do high intensity exercises for a very short period of time followed by a few minutes of lighter activity.

Researchers studied a group of healthy sedentary older adults who were 70-plus years old. They trained three times a week for 38 minutes.

After 12 weeks, the group experienced significant weight loss, their cardiac output increased, their resting hear rate decreased by 10 beats per minute and they experienced a 12% drop in systolic blood pressure and a 9% reduction diastolic blood pressure.

So…for not a lot of time invested everyone can get great benefits from doing interval training.

(Reported Dr. Whitaker, Vol 22, No. 4)

 

Feedback From A Client Century 21-Carolinas

Recently I spoke to Century 21 of the Carolinas. Here’s what Dena White, the Event Planner, had to say about my program:

“He was a HUGE hit! I highly recommend Dr. Teplitz for any type of meeting/event where you want your attendees to leave with an informed positive attitude.”
 

For information about having me speak to your group, call Sandra Lee at 800 77-RELAX or email her at Sandy@Teplitz.com.

 

THANKS, THAT'S IT FOR THIS MONTH!