Chemicals in Your Cosmetics

What chemicals are in your cosmetics? Are they harmful to you? How can you find out what they are? These are all good questions and now you can get some answers.

The Environmental Working Group has created a website called the Skin Deep Database which helps you identify safe cosmetics. http://www.ewg.org/skindeep

Another website you can check out The Good Guide to find safe, healthy and green products which are based on scientific ratings. http://www.GoodGuide.com
 

A Way To Improve Literacy For Children With ADHD

A study published in Nutrition reported that Omega-3 DHA may be able to improve literacy in children with learning disabilities.

In this study, 90 children some who were ADHD between the ages of 9 to 12 participated in this randomized controlled trial. The children were randomly assigned to receive four 500 mg capsules of either EPA-rich fish oil per day, a DHA-rich fish oil, or safflower oil per day.

After four months, the researchers observed that an increase of DHA in red blood cells which were associated with improved word reading and lower ratings of poor behavior. In children with learning disabilities, the benefits of DHA were even greater with significant improvements recorded for word reading, improved spelling and an improved ability to divide attention.

In addition, parents observed better behavior, lower hyperactivity and overall ADHD symptoms.

So…if you have a child with ADHD, you can experiment by giving the child DHA-rich fish oil with a total of 264 mg of EPA and 1,032 mg of DHA per day.
 

Using Yoga To Increase Your Happiness

A study done by Boston University School of Medicine found that yoga reduced stress, eased aches and boosted energy levels. The end result was the participants were happier and healthier.

To get these results the researchers had participants doing yoga for an hour 3 times a week for 3 months. The yoga folks had higher levels of mood boosting brain chemicals as compared with people who walked for the same amount of time. So…yoga anyone?

(Reported Prevention, December 2012)
 

Tamiflu for flu – Does It Really Work?

You've probably seen the ads for the most popular FLU antiviral – Roche’s Tamiflu. It’s supposed to reduce the duration of flu by around 21 hours if taken in the first 36 to 48 hours of illness.

It is also believed to reduce the risk of pneumonia and other complications.

While Tamiflu generates around $3.5 billion a year in sales, is it really as good as the amount of sales would lead you to believe?

The answer appears to be that we don’t know.

The Cochrane Collaboration, a highly regarded independent organization that analyses medical research, and the British medical BMJ have been attempting to obtain key studies that are supposed to validate these claims.

Roche has not turned over the research materials. BMJ reported that 8 out of 10 clinical studies that supposedly support Tamiflu’s efficacy have never been published and the other two studies, which were funded and authored by Roche, could not be relied on.

Now, the question is a simple one – without seeing all the research, how can we be sure that Tamiflu does what it says it does or is it just a profit center for Roche?

Here are five things that Forbe’s thinks you should know:
The Myth of Tamiflu

Reported Health & Healing, Vol. 23, No. 1

 

Some Facts About Science Fraud

I found this article in Discover Magazine. It listed 20 things you didn’t know about science fraud from the past and the present. I want to share several with you.

1. Chinese scientists were three times more likely to commit fraud as compared to Americans while French scientists were the least likely to commit fraud.

2. Issac Newton fudged numbers in his Principia which is considered the greatest physics text ever written. Even Freud, Darwin and Pasteur seemed to have altered data.

3. In the 1980s, psychologist Stephen Breuning published results from fictitious trials of tranquilizers; his findings affected the clinical practice for treating mentally retarded children.

4. The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Research Integrity estimates that there are 2,300 cases of misconduct among NIH-funded researchers every year.

So…can we really trust studies that are reported in the medical journals? The problem is we don’t know which studies are true and can be relied upon and which have been falsified.

 

Eating Nuts To Stop Disease And Illnesses

A study published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition looked at the diets of 13,000 people.

They found that those who ate nuts decreased body mass and waist circumference, lowered systolic blood pressure, lowered weight and reduced the risk factors for metabolic syndrome.

The researchers said that “nut consumption was associated with a decreased prevalence of selected risk factors for cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome.”

Nuts work because they are composed of healthy fat which your body needs.

By the way, peanuts are not a nut, they are a legume.

So…make sure to eat nuts two or more times per week and see if you can get organic nuts which have not be irradiated or pasteurized.

Reported Dr. Mercola, March 29, 2012
 

The Importance Of Magnesium

Magnesium is a critical co-factor in more than 300 enzymatic reactions in our bodies. It also affects virtually every organ in the body, which makes it an extremely important mineral that is has been underutilized in this country.

Recently docs have been using magnesium to treat patients with acute heart attacks, chronic cardiovascular disease, heart arrhythmias, diabetes, asthma, and chronic fatigue syndrome which are just a few of its positive impacts.

A blood test for magnesium is not the best way to tell if you have enough magnesium in your system since magnesium is found primarily in the cells. This means you could be deficient in magnesium even though your blood levels are normal.

A better test is the magnesium loading test. In this test, you collect a 24 hour urine sample and the total magnesium is measured. Then the person is given an injection of a specified amount of magnesium and another 24 hours urine sample is collected. If the body retains more than a certain amount of magnesium, then it is concluded that the body is deficient in magnesium.

The best forms of magnesium supplements are chelated magnesium, magnesium glycinate, magnesium aspartate and magnesium taurate. The prescription form of magnesium chloride is also useful.

(The Importance of Magnesium to Human Nutrition, by Michael B. Schachter, M.D., F.A.C.A.M.)

 

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