If you have any hard plastic bottles from Nalgene, specifically the ‘Outdoor’ series, I may recommend replacing them. You may also want to check out if any other hard plastic drinking bottles you have contain BPA (bisphenol A).
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To most people, eating an occasional fast food meal or drinking a soda once in a while is acceptable. Even eating out regularly would be considered healthy to most.
But how many meals does it take to lead you to good as well as bad health?
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According to new research, breastfed babies typically won’t have to be deceived into eating fruits and veggies like recent popular cookbooks encourage. Instead, if their mom regularly More on Breastfed Babies Don’t Need To Be Tricked
A recent undercover investigative report showed how national chain hotel housekeeping staff clean, or rather don’t clean, the drinking glasses. You have to watch this video below and be prepared to cringe.
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The study noted that on average, children are exposed to 27 chemicals that have not been assessed for safety by the government or industry. More specifically More on Children Exposed To Dangerous Chemicals Daily
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German scientists have found that by giving up sweets and avoiding vitamins, you can extend your life by about 15 years.
In researching the effect of reducing the amount of glucose given to worms, they found that it extended their lives about 25%, or 15 years in human terms.
But it isn’t for the reason you and I would suspect.
When the glucose was reduced, it increased the amount of free radicals (we normally hear this as a bad thing) and in turn, used energy from other sources to build up long lasting defenses against free radicals.
Now, if they were fed anti-oxidants in the form of vitamins, those free radical defenses weren’t built up. So the combination of lowering sugar and letting their system do what is supposed do naturally, they build up long lasting defenses.
This would go against the suggestion of many that anti-oxidant vitamins and supplements are good for you. From this research, it appears it may actually be the opposite.
In my research and experience, I go back to nature, letting your body do what it does best. Feed it as nature intended, avoiding the processed, fortified and modified foods and supplements and concentrate on fresh fruits, vegetables, natural grains, nuts and seeds. This automatically keeps the processed and added sugars and supplements out of your diet and not only could extend your life, but also increase the quality of your life!
Read more at Reuters.
To your best health!
Mark
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In native cultures that were thriving with good health, what he found these things in common:
[The one area that I digress from Dr. Weston’s findings is consuming animals foods. The research I have reviewed (and my personal experience) is that especially with the way animals are raised today (they were raised differently in the early 1900’s, without the factory farming, drugs and automation of today’s farming business), there are more risks than rewards in eating animal foods.]
He also found that in these thriving cultures, their teeth were healthy and strong - no cavities. He thought of the mouth as the window to the body and the health of your teeth normally indicated the health of your body.
In the cultures where health was declining, including poor dental health with rotting and missing teeth he noticed that they all had one major thing in common - the introduction of processed foods into their diet. He noted that it was plain to see that shortly after a culture was introduced to processed foods, their health progressively declined.
Dr. Preston’s finding are documented in his book, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration.
Another doctor, Francis Pottenger is famous for his 10 year nutritional study on the effects of cooking food. He studied hundreds of cats and fed them different ratios of cooked vs. raw foods. What he found was that those cats on a primarily cooked food diet didn’t make it past the third generation. Their health deteriorated and they could no longer reproduce. Those cats feed 100% raw foods thrived. You couldn’t tell the difference between one generation and the other, they were all in great health.
Both doctors research hasn’t been refuted and if you reflect on their findings, you’ll notice the same affects of the diet on our population today. More and more women are unable to conceive and fertility clinics are everywhere using drugs to stimulate what nature can’t. Obesity and related diseases are growing daily. What also has increased is the amount of processed, modified and denatured foods that we eat every day. Children are being introduced to fake, processed foods and grow up believing that is normal and then continue by passing it on to their children. It’s a never ending circle that will continue forever and lead to a very sick society, or worse.
Actually, we’re already there as America is last among developed countries in health with more disease and health problems than any other. Obesity alone is responsible for over $100 billion dollars a year in health care spending. And America is mainly responsible for introducing and exporting most of the processed foods overseas. The statistics show that when fast food was introduced in foreign countries, their health progressively declined, and continues today. Do we want to pass this on to our children?
Let’s think about it this way for a minute.
If you agree that your body is natural (you weren’t created by a machine or some un-natural method) , why would eating something un-natural, processed, modified, created in a laboratory or grown/filled with chemicals or additives be good for your body (most food packaged or served in a restaurant is processed)? Why would you want to eat something that isn’t natural knowing this?
Here’s something that may also shed some light on this. Did you know that your body automatically rejects anything that it doesn’t recognize as natural? One way we found this out is by researchers looking through the waste from portable toilets. In sifting out the waste, they found thousands of almost whole vitamins and pills (among other things) that were passed almost whole through the digestive system without being absorbed. In analyzing these tablets they found them all to have been created (in a laboratory - most vitamins are made this way) and not a whole food vitamin (whole natural foods condensed into a tablet).
Only you can change this declining trend by realizing that the only way to gain optimal health in all areas of your life is by eating fresh, unprocessed, organically grown foods. Eating primarily a diet of foods that are raw and a small percentage dried, steamed or lightly cooked.
The video goes into more detail and is inspiring.
To your best health!
Mark
If you’re looking for a way to add whole foods to your diet, learn about the convenient, delicious and healthy foods available to you, without leaving your home. And read about the life altering changes others have experienced.
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Scientists from the Rowett Research Institute have discovered that those on a low carb diet, a diet normally low on breads, pastas, fruits and vegetables, cause a 4-fold reduction in a cancer fighting fatty acid found in the stomach.
The fatty acid, called butyrate, is created by cancer fighting bacteria in the stomach. In the study, dieters that ate a low carb diet had a four-fold reduction in the bacteria and are at risk for colorectal cancer.
Read more at the BBC.
Low carb diets in general avoid the most important foods in our diet, fruits and vegetables. Not only do they provide the nutrients not found in most other foods, they also contain fiber, not found in meat or animal products, that is essential for good bowel function. It’s no surprise to me that the risk of colorectal cancer increases since it’s quite clear from other studies and good common sense that your body needs fiber to function properly, and that avoiding it will often cause cancer.
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