When you visit a fruit stand or a vegetable stall and see all the healthy looking produce, it’s hard to imagine that they actually contain insecticides, pesticides and fumigants. Unfortunately, not all of them are organically grown. When you take a bite into a traditionally grown fruit which is loaded with toxic substances, your body has to deal with removing all that unwelcome stuff. If you consume foods that contain these same poisons everyday, the repeated work of detoxifying can take its toll on your liver and kidneys. Your body should be able to handle this if it is fed with organic food, for most Americans however, this is not the case.
It is estimated that majority of Americans consume 13 to 20 different pesticides, insecticides or fumigants daily. Particularly at risk are children and pregnant women. The following is a list of some of the pesticides used on fresh produce and their side effects:
1. Insecticides such as orthene, dursban and thiodan can cause headaches, excessive tearing and salivation, muscle twitching, nausea, diarrhea, possible seizures
2. Fungicides such as captan, azoxystrobin and mancozeb can irritate the eyes, skin and respiratory tract.
3. Herbicides such as mecoprop and 2,4 ?D Barrage can increase bizarre or aggressive behavior, irritate mucous membranes and skin, can cause headaches, confusion, vomiting and diarrhea.
4. Iprodione can cause cancer in both humans and animals.
5. Phosmet, a carcinogen, can damage the reproductive system and also interferes with hormones.
6. Benomyl and carbaryl, known carcinogens, can cause birth defects; it can damage the nervous system and the brain; can cause vomiting and diarrhea.
7. Hexchlorocyclohexane high exposure can cause blood disorders, dizziness, headaches, seizures and can affect hormones.
8. Paraquat can cause headaches, cracked hands, and burning sensations in the mouth, throat and chest; can make one feel giddy or lethargic, feverish
9. Azinphos can interfere with hormones.
The above is just a partial list of the toxic substances used in farms all over America. Continuous exposure to these through the regular consumption of traditionally grown foods, can cause great harm to your health.
Unfortunately poultry and meat products also contain toxic substances. In some farms, cattle, pigs and chicken are given antibiotics. Being confined in a building makes these animals more prone to diseases thus the necessity for such medication. When people who eat products from these farms take antibiotics to fight infection, they will find that they have become resistant to these medications themselves.
Aside from antibiotics, cattle are also given hormones to fatten them up. The problem with this is that when humans consume meat from hormone fattened cows, they also fatten up. In Europe, cattle is not allowed to be given the hormone rBGH. The bad news is that in the US hormones are used in approximately 90% of livestock.
There is also the debate about how the presence of hormones in food may be responsible for occurrence of early puberty in young girls. Dr.Samuel Epstein, professor of occupational and environmental medicine at the university of Illinois Medical Center and founder of Cancer Prevention Coalition, explains that because children normally have low sex hormones, even a small increase can produce harmful effects.
We are constantly exposed to toxins. These substances are present in the water we drink, the food we eat, and the water we drink. We need to do something to reduce the level of toxins that enter our bodies and going organic is the answer. Just imagine how much healthier you would feel without all that poison circulating in your system.
It is your responsibility to educate yourself when it comes to matters that affect your health and your family’s health. If you are armed with the right knowledge, you can make informed decisions and you can start get started by eating only organic foods from now on.
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Charles Volcolatte is a health and weight loss researcher for www.skinnyasap.com. He writes and researches actively on Lose Weight Information and shares his knowledge at www.skinnyasap.com where he works as a staff writer.
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Passages from The Bible flood in automatically to fill the void left by all the questions and half answers left in my heart as a result of the sudden passing of Michael Jackson.
I never got the chance to meet this cat, nor the opportunity to get to know him personally and as a musician, this legend was a great inspiration in his performances, to a whole generation of pop musicians. He was huge then and may be more in his death: but that is not the focus of this essay.
Am I My Brother’s Keeper Even When There Is A Lot of Money to Be Made? This is not a question for only the health care providers but for everybody in business. Let us agree that It is a challenge when your whole career as a health care giver is suddenly shoved under the spotlights. Your whole future is suddenly basking under the glory of a mega star.Great.
Michael Jackson’s sudden death raises a common question that concerns all of us. Will a Doctor Client Relationship be able to be scrutinised publicly for suspicion of ethic violations? Clients are getting more notorious for manipulating the medical system especially the ones who can fire their doctors because they can afford it. Rich Patients can now hire or fire “professional medical help”just at the snap of a finger.These types of patients have got to a place where they can choose and even organise medical teams, and orchestrate medical procedures with doctors coming from different jurisdictions and countries .They adhere to professional advice when it suits them.
How can we apply “I am my brother’s keeper” when you risk to lose a patient who thinks he or she knows what they want? That is a question that should be reserved for the doctor’s conscience. Is it OK to see American Health care as a commercial commodity?
I believe the passage i chose from the Bible is addressing both our human and physical intellectual wares and should remind us of a few fundamental truths about ourselves.We have become smart and arrogant and have found all kinds of ways at outsmarting the laws protecting the integrity of our “medical help” systems in place. This is for both Buyers and Sellers of health services.
In Isaiah 64:6,the Bible says “But we are all like an unclean thing, And all our righteousness are like filthy rags; We all fade as a leaf, And our iniquities, like the wind, Have taken us away.”
Time to ponder about these things.
Abuse of prescription drugs, doctor client privacy privileges and you in the middle.Do you really feel protected even if it were you who kept ordering the drugs against your doctor’s wishes? In all Client and Vendor relationships we all know the things we do to keep our high ticket customers don’t we? Most of the times ethic issues are ignored so far as we think we got the situation covered and after all we don’t or cannot lose clientele.
Last time I blinked, it was Quincy Jones who was in charge of Michael’s music. Right? Bruce Sweden was the one in charge of the sweet sounds in the mixes then what happened?
Suddenly all the songs became drum machine ridden with yelps and all kinds of whacked up moves and stuff. If you doubt go listen to the Quincy era.Greed? Pressure? What if the monkey wrench in the whole equation was a mega star himself having too much power to the point that suddenly, he/she could out manoeuvre around everybody and end up hurting himself?Who knows if too much power and influence did this mega star a disservice.
Ethics?
Yeah right. Someone who has a $100,000 pharmacy bill should be very sick?
$100,000 a month Hotel Suites without a single stinking defibrillator? The one thing that mattered most.
Not the Limos, nor the Business Deals, nor the Beatles Catalogue, nor the smooth media and press image, but just being healthy.
OK you would think a $300 an hour doctor on call should seal the deal and Mr Jackson still could not make it through the night to read his newspaper in the morning? Come on American Business.
OK, he should have sang “The Girls from Ipanema”, did Opera, challenged the late Pavarotti, taught music at Berklee School of Music and even did Smooth Jazz. Nope. This guy was very focused and probably had bigger fish to fry.
So far as his plastic surgery thing went, it was not only him who was guilty if you think that was a crime. Almost all Americans and people who could afford a nip and a tuck creepingly went under the knives.
Personally, I think he really looked terrific in his new facials with dimples in the right places and all. What’s amazing is how courageous and pure he was. He is a guy who was not afraid of taking risks.
To me he donated his body to fulfill our thirst and love for perfection desired for the perpetual human circus?
Filed under Health by on Sep 24th, 2009. 2 Comments.
The need for metabolism boosters has become more obvious with an apparently paradoxical discovery. People who start crash diets and drastically reduce the number of calories, lose a few pounds in the beginning of the diet, and then, the scales suddenly stops moving in the direction you’d like. The problem with crash diets is that they force the metabolism to slow down, adjusting to a low energy production because you don’t give enough fuel to the body.
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The solution therefore may be not that of reducing calories to the minimum, but rather finding the right metabolism boosters. The benefits here are twofold: on the one hand you’ll have plenty of nutrients, lots of energy and a radiant health, and on the other hand, you’ll be able to enjoy good food and still lose weight. There are natural metabolism boosters that should not be overlooked or ignored, and they are a lot safer and more efficient than any of the weight loss supplements available on the market.
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Oxygen, water and physical exercises represent the most powerful enemies of the extra pounds and the metabolism boosters you need to be in good shape. Physical activities demand a higher consume of energy, therefore, your body will burn food more rapidly to get to the optimal vitality level. Oxygen and water enhance metabolic reactions even more than physical effort, because where there is oxygen, there is energy burning.
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You can optimize the level of oxygen in the system by transforming breathing into one of the most efficient metabolism boosters. Most of us breathe shallowly, which prevents the full oxygenation of the system although we are not aware of the problem. The normal breathing is the one you can notice in the diaphragm, but very few people know how to inhale and exhale like that. If you’ll watch a sleeping baby, you’ll see what breathing should be like.
Metabolism boosters are also part of the daily diet if you know how to choose them carefully. This is the case with fruits and vegetables, that besides vitamins and minerals, also contain all sorts of enzymes, natural sugar and fibers. Such active principles have an incredible impact on how the body processes food and how metabolism remains at a balanced level for the best of health conditions. For those people interested in metabolism boosters it is probably a good idea to read as many materials as possible and build some solid living habits in time.
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Everyone loves to have comfortable sneakers, and you can get {them-these} from various companies. However, when it comes to getting shoes that are manufactured in the USA, the {number-list} of shoe companies to choose from narrows considerably. One of the choices that you do have for this is New Balance {sneakers-shoes}.
If you buy New Balance boots, you will get great sneakers as well as support a company that does its manufacturing in the US, which is getting rarer and rarer. New Balance kicks come in all sorts of styles for all types of uses. They make shoes that are meant for walking, running, football, baseball, basketball, cheerleading, tennis, cross training, coaching, and also for umpires. They also developed shoes just for everyday use. Whichever type of activity you need sneakers for, New Balance develops them. They make shoes for men, women, and kids (including babies as well as those in preschool and grade school), so you can outfit the whole family with New Balance shoes.
One of the options for kids that is really cool are their sneakers with Sesame Street characters on them. These include two options with Elmo, two styles with the Cookie Monster, and one each with the Count and Oscar the Grouch. Infants and preschoolers will love these shoes since they have a few of their favorite characters on them.
Older kids will love the junior versions which are available of some of the more popular styles of shoes for adults. Those who want something a bit different than your normal sneaker can check out the options for retro running shoes or the backless, slip on sneakers that are also available from this company. New Balance brand shoes also make quick drying water shoes that you can wear when you are hiking and have to goIn some water.
New Balance also makes shoes with extra cushion for those with pronation issues, so you can be sure of finding something that will keep you stable while you exercise and minimize any chances of injury. You can also find shoes with added arch support or extra cushioning to be sure everyone can find a comfortable shoe.
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It has been found that the Candida parasite can affect various parts of a person’s body from the intestine, to the colon, to the liver, the mouth, the genitalia, the hands as well as the skin.But there remain a key question by many on whether cleansing can really cure Candida?Below we hope to give some good answers to the question.
Certainly an intestinal cleanse is very valuable especially if you are suffering from candida.The primary objective of this method of cleansing is that it removes the debris, putrefied food and feces as well as the solidified mucus from a person’s intestine.
Another way of cleansing in order to cure Candida is by taking some sort of anti-fungal treatment.Some of the natural remedy includes Grapefruit Seed Extract, Oregano Oil, Caprylic Acid or Colloidal Silver.It is important that you give the cleasning treatment 1 to 2 months before you can fully see the effects.
However when taking grapefruit seed extract it should be taken between meals and if you find that irritates your digestive tract then you can take it with meals or use the capsule versions instead.For the first 3 days you should be taking 10 drops diluted 50/50 with either vegetable or fruit juice.Then you should increase the drops dose to 15, 2 times a day for the next 4 to 10 days.Now from days 11 to 28 you keep close to the 15 drops dosage but now 3 times daily.Many found that they recover well from the lower dosage and thus need not move on to the higher dosage.The grapefruit seed extract dosage can gradually be reduced once they notice some improvement to their condition.But, if the symptoms appear again then you need to move back to high dosage treatment.A 4 week course of such treatment is usually enough to cure Candida. More about this at Colon Liver Cleanse
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