Healthnotes Newswire (September 6, 2007)—Oatmeal in the morning and brown rice for dinner—this could be the recipe for healthy blood pressure. A new study found that women who eat whole grains are less likely to develop high blood pressure (hypertension) than those who don’t.
Healthnotes Newswire (August 9, 2007)—Nearly 10,000 children under age 15 are diagnosed with cancer every year in the United States, according to the National Cancer Institute. But a new study published in Clinical Pharmacology&Therapeutics suggests that taking multivitamins containing folic acid during pregnancy may help prevent the most common childhood cancers including leukemia (cancer of the blood stream and/or bone marrow), brain tumors, and neuroblastoma (tumors that grow in the nervous system).
Q: I have heard mixed reviews about juice cleansing as a form of detoxification, and I am thinking about trying a cleanse. What do you think about this?
A: I am a big fan of detoxification. Even if we stop polluting our world right now, we will be dealing with the past damage for decades to come. I believe that the healthiest people in this millennium will be those who are the best detoxifiers. This is why I am totally against juice fasting and fasting in general for detoxification. The body detoxifies in two phases. In the first phase the body releases the toxins from the tissues where they are stored. In the second phase the body eliminates these toxins through the sweat, feces and urine.
Healthnotes Newswire (July 5, 2007)—The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that, rather than being regulated by the standards used in the food industry, manufacturers of vitamins, minerals, and herbs will now be held to standards more in step with the pharmaceutical industry. Many supplement manufacturers have created and kept high standards for their products and welcome the new FDA regulations, since they ensure that other companies that have been slow to adopt such practices will be held to equal standards.
If you think that your diet is giving you all that you need in the arena of nutrition, think again. Even if you eat your 9 fruits and vegetables per day as suggested by the American Cancer Group, and you drink clean filtered water and hormone free meats you still aren't quite making the grade.
Our lands have been over processed for decades. Which translates to reduce vitamin and mineral content going into the foods grown in them. The average depth of top soil in 1950's was 6 feet. Today it is 6 inches. 6 inches. Talk about the angry inch! I think my tomatoes are screaming mad. In 1948 when you bought spinach it contained on average 158 milligrams of iron, today that same amount will give you around 27 milligrams.
"I think there’s a few things we can do, very simple steps, that we can take to have healthier lives.
“One is having a good foundation of nutrition, so take a good multivitamin, multi-mineral, along with a fish oil, and a probiotic everyday.
“Drink fresh, clean water. It’s a very simple thing to do, but just increasing your water intake can increase your health.
“And exercising half an hour. Just walking 3 or 4 times a week for half an hour can really dramatically increase one's health overall."
