The Amounts Of Sugar In Our Diets Are A Disaster

The amounts of sugar we are consuming are creating terrible health risks for us. A study published in JAMA Internal Medicine looked at the added sugars in our diets. That’s the sugar that gets added to processed foods and doesn’t even include the sugar that naturally occurs in foods like fruit. Here are some of the things the researchers discovered:
1. Between 1999-2004, American adults got 16.8% of their daily calories from added sugar, while between 2005-2010 this amount decreased a little to 14.9%.
2. 71% of adults got 10 or more of their daily calories from added sugar.
3. For 10% of adults this figure jumped to 25% of their daily calories.

The researchers found that those adults who consumed 21% or more of their daily calories from added sugars were twice as likely to die from heart disease verses those who consumed only 7% or less per day.  For the adults who consumed 25% of their calories from this added sugar, their heart disease risk tripled!

As an example, if you stopped off for a blueberry muffin from Starbucks you’d be getting 29 grams of sugar. This translates to four grams being equal to one teaspoon, which means, if you do the math, that you are having over 7 teaspoons of sugar from one muffin.

In addition, most people are not aware that cancer cells must have sugar to survive it doesn’t matter if the sugar is from prepared foods or from fruits. Also, grains when they are digested are converted to sugar. The cancer cells take the sugar from our system so they can continue to grow and with the amount of sugar we eat, we are giving it a lot of nourishment. There is a special diet called a keytogenic diet that eliminates all sugars and grains. It aims to starve the cancer to death.

So…avoiding sugar or at least reducing the amount you eat can pay major health dividends for you. Finally, the only way you can get a feel for how much sugar you are having is to become an avid label reader.

How Medical Over-Diagnosis And Treatment And What To Do About It

 I just read an article in the New Yorker Magazine written by Doctor Atul Gawande called Overkill on the avalanche of unnecessary medical care occurring in this country and how it’s harming patients physically and financially. He also focuses on several success stories that are happening today. It’s an article that I think is worth reading, so here is the link - http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/11/overkill-atul-gawande.

How Much Exercise Do Men And Woman Need?

Are men and woman the same with the amount and intensity of exercise they need? It turns out that the answer is no. A 2009 study published in Neurology found that men need vigorous exercise to reduce their risk of stroke. This level of exercise helps the man recover from a stroke better and faster as well.

A 2013 study found for women that walking at least three hours per week reduced their stroke risk better than high intensity cardio.

So, for men, get moving and for women, take a walk.

 
The Best Way To Handle A Personal Trauma   

When a trauma happens, you can either talk it out or keep it inside. Which is the best strategy? A study in The Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases begins to answer that question. The researchers looked at US Army veterans who repressed traumas rather than talked about them and they found that these vets who repressed their trauma suffered no additional health problems and lived as long as other vets. These vets were less likely to exhibit symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. Talking about the trauma before they feel ready, can lead to deeper suffering. So, make yourself available to a loved one who has experienced a trauma and wait until that person is ready to share.

(Reported Bottom Line Personal, June 1, 2015)

New Baby Bottle Mimics the Human Breast  

Breast-fed babies have difficulty drinking from a regular baby bottle as the baby can experience pain and digestive issues when the baby gulps air with the formula or milk. In addition, the baby bottle nipple allows the baby to suck milk faster than from a real breast, so the child begins to favor the bottle.

A company, Bittylab, has come up with an answer. They designed the rubber nipple to solve the problem. The Bare bottle causes the baby to latch onto the nipple when the baby sucks on it so the baby controls the amount of milk and the pace at which it normally drinks. The bottle is also designed to deliver the milk air free. The company just won the Edison Gold Award for Innovation.
(Reported Joyce Gioia, The Herman Group, herman.net)

Using Acupuncture For Knee Osteoarthritis Pain And Trouble Sleeping

A study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society looked at using acupuncture on people with painful knee osteoarthritis who also had difficulty sleeping. The researchers thought that the pain from the knee interrupted a person’s sleep. The acupuncture helped to ease the knee pain and improved the patient’s sleep pattern.

(Reported Prevention.com, June 2015)

The Benefits Of High Cholesterol

After years and years of warnings on avoiding cholesterol in our foods, it was recently reported that high cholesterol in your food is nothing to worry about. This raises another question, are their benefits of having a high cholesterol level?

1.      Dr. Harlan Krumholz of the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at Yale University reported in 1994 that old people with low cholesterol died twice as often from a heart attack as did old people with high cholesterol.

2.      A study comparing 19 large studies involving 68,000 deaths conducted by researchers at the University of Minnesota found that low cholesterol predicted an increased risk of dying from gastrointestinal and respiratory diseases.

3.      Another study followed 100,000 healthy individuals in San Francisco for 15 years. They found that those who had low cholesterol had more often been admitted to the hospital because of an infectious disease.

4.      Low cholesterol can increase deaths from chronic heart failure. A study from UCLA Department of Medicine found that of 1,000 patients with severe heart failure, 62% of the patients with cholesterol below 129 mg/l had died but only  31% with cholesterol above 223 mg/l had died.

5.      From the research being done on LDL cholesterol, the LDLs have an anti-bacterial effect.

So, if your cholesterol is above 223 mg/l, you may not need to worry and go on statins for protection.

(Reported westonaprice.org, January 29, 2015)

Dry Skin Brushing: A Way To Help Your Skin 

Except for our face, we tend to ignore the skin on our body, which is your largest organ of elimination. Dry skin brushing is a way to improve your whole body’s health. Here are the benefits of dry skin brushing:
1. It stimulates your lymphatic system which is your cellular waste elimination system. Dry skin brushing stimulates the movement of toxins through and out of your system.
2. It removes dead dry skin while improving appearance, clearing clogged pores and allowing the skin to breathe.
3. It may help soften cellulite and diminish the skins lumpy appearance.
4. It increases circulation to your skin which eliminates metabolic wastes.
5. It can be a meditative experience reducing stress, muscle tension while calming the mind.
6. It may help improve the functioning of kidney and aid digestion.
7. It feels good by your having glowing and tighter skin.

So…Using the saying from an old toothpaste commercial - brusha, brusha, brusha over your whole body and have some fun.

Instant Brain Boosters for On-The-Job Success

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