Illness - Food Effect
Headaches - Fish Eat plenty of fish - fish oil helps prevent headaches. So does ginger, which reduces inflammation and pain.
Hay Fever Yogurt - Eat lots of yogurt before pollen season
Stroke - Tea - Prevent buildup of fatty deposits on artery wall with regular doses of tea.
Insomnia - Honey - Use honey as a tranquilizer and sedative.
Asthma - Onions - Eating onions helps ease constriction of bronchial tubes.
Arthritis - Fish - Salmon, tuna, mackeral and sardines actually prevent arthritis.
Upset Stomach - Bananas, Ginger - Bananas will settle an upset stomach. Ginger will cure morning sickness and nausea.
Bladder Infections - Cranberry Juice - High-acid cranberry juice controls harmful bacteria.
Bone Problems - Pineapple - Bone fractures and osteoporosis can be prevented by the manganese in pineapple.
Memory Problems - Oysters - Oysters help improve your mental functioning by supplying much-needed zinc.
Colds - Garlic - Clear up that stuffy head with garlic.
Cough - Red Pepper - A substance similar to that found in the cough syrups is found in hot red pepper.
Breast Cancer - Wheat, Bran, Cabbage - Wheat, bran and cabbage help maintain estrogen at healthy levels.
Lung Cancer - Orange & Green Veggies - A good antidote is beta carotene, a form of Vitamin A found in dark green and orange vegetables.
Ulcers - Cabbage - Cabbage contains chemicals that help heal both gastic and duodenal ulcers.
Diarrhea - Apples - Grate an apple with its skin, let it turn brown and eat it to cure this condition.
Clogged Arteries - Avocados - Monounsaturated fat in avocados lowers cholesterol.
High Blood Pressure - Olive Oil, Celery- Olive oil has been shown to lower blood pressure. Celery contains a chemical that lowers pressure, too.
Blood Sugar Imbalance - Broccoli, Peanuts -The chromium in broccoli and peanuts helps regulate insulin and blood sugar.
Saturday, July 29, 2006
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Curry and herbal tea 'aid weight loss'
Eating spicy curry and drinking plenty of herbal tea could be an effective way to lose weight, a recent study has found. Researchers based at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands found that the spice and herbs commonly used in herbal teas and Indian cooking have natural properties that increase the rate at which the body burns fat.
They tested the effects of various ingredients on the weight loss and food intake of rats, with certain foods found to be especially conducive to weight loss.
Ingredients such as ginger, turmeric, cumin and red chilli were found to be particularly effective, with combinations better than consuming them individually.
Curry is also thought to be a useful addition to the diet of those hoping to lose weight because it makes people feel full sooner, as well as being an aid to digestion.
Herbal teas were also found to decrease the food intake in the rats, as well as causing some loss of weight.
However, Writing in the journal Physiology and Behaviour the researchers warn that increasing intake of herbs and spices is only likely to aid weight loss as part of an over all healthy lifestyle, including plenty of exercise as well as diet changes.
They tested the effects of various ingredients on the weight loss and food intake of rats, with certain foods found to be especially conducive to weight loss.
Ingredients such as ginger, turmeric, cumin and red chilli were found to be particularly effective, with combinations better than consuming them individually.
Curry is also thought to be a useful addition to the diet of those hoping to lose weight because it makes people feel full sooner, as well as being an aid to digestion.
Herbal teas were also found to decrease the food intake in the rats, as well as causing some loss of weight.
However, Writing in the journal Physiology and Behaviour the researchers warn that increasing intake of herbs and spices is only likely to aid weight loss as part of an over all healthy lifestyle, including plenty of exercise as well as diet changes.
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Cancer Info sent to me via email
1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.
2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's lifetime.
3. When the person's immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumours.
4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors.
5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.
6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastro-intestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.
7. Radiation, while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.
8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor destruction.
9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation, the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.
10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.
11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply.
CANCER CELLS FEED ON:
a. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in colour. Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea salt.
b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soya milk cancer cells are being starved.
c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.
d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts)and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).
e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer-fighting properties. Water-best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.
12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines become putrefied and leads to more toxic buildup.
13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or eating less meat, it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.
14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor-ssence,Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the body's own killer cells to destroy cancer cells. Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.
15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger, unforgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.
16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.
2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's lifetime.
3. When the person's immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumours.
4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors.
5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.
6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastro-intestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.
7. Radiation, while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.
8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor destruction.
9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation, the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.
10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.
11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply.
CANCER CELLS FEED ON:
a. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in colour. Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea salt.
b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soya milk cancer cells are being starved.
c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.
d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts)and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).
e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer-fighting properties. Water-best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.
12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines become putrefied and leads to more toxic buildup.
13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or eating less meat, it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.
14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor-ssence,Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the body's own killer cells to destroy cancer cells. Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.
15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger, unforgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.
16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.
Friday, July 07, 2006
New impotence treatment promised
A drugs company is beginning clinical trials for a rub-on gel that could become the world's first over-the-counter treatment for impotence.
The new product, being developed by Futura Medical in conjunction with GlaxoSmithKline, contains a chemical known to dilate blood vessels and increase blood flow, potentially helping the thousands of men suffering from impotence in the UK.
The chemical – called glyceryl trinitrate (GTN) – is known to be an effective treatment of angina, with no adverse side effects reported, making it suitable for use without prescription.
Currently, only pill-form anti-impotence treatments are available, including Pfizer's lucrative Viagra drug. However, doctors and pharmaceutical companies believe that the need for a face-to-face consultation and prescription is putting many men off requesting the drug, making an over-the-counter treatment a more attractive option.
It is estimated that less than 20 per cent of men suffering some form of sexual dysfunction will consult a doctor about the problem.
However, extensive trials of the treatment will first be required before the gel can go on sale, with around 1,500 men already recruited.
The new product, being developed by Futura Medical in conjunction with GlaxoSmithKline, contains a chemical known to dilate blood vessels and increase blood flow, potentially helping the thousands of men suffering from impotence in the UK.
The chemical – called glyceryl trinitrate (GTN) – is known to be an effective treatment of angina, with no adverse side effects reported, making it suitable for use without prescription.
Currently, only pill-form anti-impotence treatments are available, including Pfizer's lucrative Viagra drug. However, doctors and pharmaceutical companies believe that the need for a face-to-face consultation and prescription is putting many men off requesting the drug, making an over-the-counter treatment a more attractive option.
It is estimated that less than 20 per cent of men suffering some form of sexual dysfunction will consult a doctor about the problem.
However, extensive trials of the treatment will first be required before the gel can go on sale, with around 1,500 men already recruited.
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
Pomegranates 'effective against prostate cancer
Pomegranate juice could help slow down the development of prostate cancer, extending the life expectancy of many cancer sufferers, new research suggests.
In a study conducted by scientists at the University of California in Los Angeles, drinking pomegranate juice was found to affect the blood levels of PSA – a protein produced by prostate cancer growth.
Consuming one glass of pomegranate juice a day was found to significantly slow the rate at which PSA levels increased, with the doubling time extended from an average of 15 months to 54 months. As an indicator of a rapidly growing tumour, short PSA doubling times are known to be linked with high mortality rates among prostate cancer sufferers, leading researchers to suggest that drinking the juice could prolong life expectancy.
A much larger study is now underway in order to confirm the effectiveness of pomegranate juice as a cancer-fighting agent, with lead researcher Dr Allan Pantuck admitting that it was too early to start recommending the juice, although no adverse side effects were reported in the study.
Source;Net Doctor
In a study conducted by scientists at the University of California in Los Angeles, drinking pomegranate juice was found to affect the blood levels of PSA – a protein produced by prostate cancer growth.
Consuming one glass of pomegranate juice a day was found to significantly slow the rate at which PSA levels increased, with the doubling time extended from an average of 15 months to 54 months. As an indicator of a rapidly growing tumour, short PSA doubling times are known to be linked with high mortality rates among prostate cancer sufferers, leading researchers to suggest that drinking the juice could prolong life expectancy.
A much larger study is now underway in order to confirm the effectiveness of pomegranate juice as a cancer-fighting agent, with lead researcher Dr Allan Pantuck admitting that it was too early to start recommending the juice, although no adverse side effects were reported in the study.
Source;Net Doctor
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