Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 Some of the reports of increased cancer risk associated with tea-drinking have been traced to the combined effects of a poor diet and the habit of drinking tea at scaldingly hot temperatures.
Green Tea and Longevity
The key to living a longer life may be another secret brewing in green tea. Researchers investigated this possibility by following the lives of 3,380 Japanese women for nine years. Because these women were practitioners of chanoyu (the Japanese tea ceremony), they were presumed to be greater-than-average green tea drinkers. |
Tom Bohager
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 Factors that can cause the development of hemorrhoids include constipation, poor diet, lack of adequate fluids, lack of exercise, pregnancy, allergies, liver damage, long periods of sitting on hard surfaces, and tumors or cysts in the colon or rectum. Severe hemorrhoids may require surgery.
Recommendations include determining the cause of the condition, increasing fiber and fluids in the diet, establishing bowel regularity, and supplementation with enzymes to treat constipation and aid in the healing process by improving circulation. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 Rating second to tobacco came poor diet and lack of exercise.
Asthma sufferers often say that smoking helps relieve their asthma and that's why they don't want to give it up. Yes, in the short term smoking can relieve asthma. Why? Because smoking helps people relax—the nicotine in the cigarette can relax the bronchi—and smokers breathe in short and breathe out long and slow. Sounds familiar? Of course, for these are the two major concepts of asthma relief contained in this book—relaxation and controlled breathing. |
| Add to this scenario poor diet, hormonal imbalance and stress, and you may find trying to conquer ill health becomes a constant battle. All the stress of fighting asthma can increase the frequency and severity of allergic reactions.
Every asthmatic has individual triggers which they need to clearly identify so they can be eliminated, treated or just avoided. You can track down your own allergies by simply keeping a diary of how substances, environments or activities influence your asthma. Most trigger factors will cause symptoms almost immediately?within 30 minutes or so. |
| An asthmatic's body will find it difficult to heal if it is being continuously abused with poor diet, excessive medication, lack of exercise, negative thoughts and inadequate rest. All of these stress the body, leading to a depressed immune and healing system. The alternative is to cultivate a fortified immune system and active lifestyle, which will help protect you from the rigours of asthma.
Remember that you alone are responsible for your health. So you must take steps to understand your body, its functions and needs, and tread the path to 'wellness'. |
Ron Garner
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 On the other hand, a poor diet, processed foods, cured meats, tobacco smoke, infections, alcohol, stress, air pollution, pesticides, and radiation all promote oxidation in the human body. Even if we are minimizing the effects of the aforementioned free radical developers, given our modern urban, industrialized, and technological lifestyles, we cannot completely avoid them. We therefore need to take active antioxidant steps against them.
HORMONES OF YOUTH
Human Growth Hormone
When we reach middle age, our bodies start to exhibit the telltale signs of aging. |
| Free radicals caused by poor diet, smoke, chemicals, and radiation, assault the body and increase cellular damage. In time, the damage extends to all parts of the cell, including the membrane, fats, protein, and dna. Without antioxidants to counteract this breakdown process, aging results.
Antioxidant Sources
A healthy diet of raw fruits and vegetables contains naturally-occurring antioxidants. Many supplements, such as vitamins A, C, E, selenium, and coenzyme Qio, are antioxidants. More recently, stronger antioxidants have been discovered and developed. |
Tom Bohager
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| Additional causes of periodontitis may include poor diet, chronic illness, blood disease, smoking, drugs, and excessive alcohol consumption.
In general, the symptoms of periodontal disorders or disease can include one or more of the following: infection, abscesses, pain and inflammation in the gums, halitosis (bad breath), and in severe cases, infection of the bone resulting in bone destruction. (See also canker sores. |
| A lack of energy and endurance can be caused by numerous factors, which may include poor diet, stress, malabsorption of nutrients, a lack of enzymes, free radical damage, and hormonal imbalances.
If you have ever wandered through the local health food store's sports supplement or bodybuilding aisle, no doubt you have noticed that there is no shortage of nutritional supplements and powders. All claim to be cutting-edge nutrition for building muscle, reducing fat, decreasing recovery time, or boosting endurance. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 In fact, according to many experts, one of the biggest contributors to PCOS is poor diet, especially a high intake of refined carbohydrates. Because insulin resistance is such a huge contributor to the PCOS, a diet that helps control blood sugar and insulin is the first order of business. Too much sugar, or foods that convert quickly into sugar, like potatoes and starches, causes a rise in insulin, a hormone that not only aggravates PCOS but also contributes to weight gain.
The weight gain-PCOS connection is a classic chicken-and-egg dilemma. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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| Many things increase our free radical load, from stress to environmental toxins to a poor diet. Unfortunately, there is a limit to the body's enzyme production, and our society seems to have pushed the body to that limit. Too often, it seems, the antioxidant defenses of the body are overwhelmed, and free-radical damage accumulates and contributes to degenerative diseases. Just as a general reinforces an army with new troops, we can reinforce our body's defenses with antioxidant nutrients in our diet. |
Andreas Moritz
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 The kidneys are extremely delicate, blood-filtering organs that congest easily because of dehydration, poor diet, weak digestion, stress, and an irregular lifestyle. The main causes of congestion in the kidneys are kidney stones. Most kidney grease/crystals/stones, however, are too small to be detected through modern diagnostic technology, including ultrasounds or X-rays. They are often called "silent" stones and do not seem to bother people much. When they grow larger, though, they can cause considerable distress and damage to the kidneys and the rest of the body. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 Common knowledge may have you believe, for example, that heart disease is largely genetic, or the result of poor diet and lack of exercise. While those do factor into anyone's risk for developing heart disease, toxic metals such as arsenic, lead, and mercury are also strongly implicated in triggering heart disease. Halogens like chloride and fluoride, substances we are all regularly exposed to either in a simple compound or as part of a more complex, synthetic chemical, activate abnormal heart rhythms. |
Andreas Moritz
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 If a woman was able to live an unhealthy lifestyle or have a poor diet without developing major health problems before menopause, she won't be able to afford doing the same during and after this transition. Her "new purpose" in life, whatever that may be, requires a pure and well-functioning physiology.
The ovaries of a woman entering menopause purposely reduce their production of estrogen. |
Bill Sardi
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 While the American Institute for Cancer Research estimates 30 to 40% of all cancers are associated with a poor diet, less than 9% of Americans consume even five servings of fruits and vegetables a day and only 1 to 3% of all government funding for cancer research is devoted to cancer and nutrition.
What should be concluded is that a bad diet, filled with saturated fats, hydrogenated fats, highly absorbable iron in red meat, that is devoid of antioxidants, folic acid and other nutrients, will increase the risk of cancer. |
Bottom Line Health
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| When the ovaries decrease their production of estrogen and progesterone, the adrenals have the ability to produce hormones to compensate for this. poor diet and lifestyle choices put stress on the adrenals, creating an imbalance in body chemistry and contributing to the uncomfortable symptoms that we associate with menopause.
If you are a woman who has menopausal symptoms, adopting healthier habits can help to even out these imbalances.
If you are a man and the woman you love is going through menopause, you can help by understanding that she is experiencing a profound physiological change. |
| Surprisingly, we gain weight when natural weight-control mechanisms are disrupted by low-grade inflammation that is caused by poor diet and environmental toxins.
When people gain weight, the extra fatty tissue produces leptin, a hormone that suppresses appetite and speeds metabolism. In theory, this should cause people to lose the extra weight.
Instead, inflammation in fat tissue and blood vessels stimulates the production of chemicals that disable leptin's ability to suppress appetite and speed metabolism. This is called leptin resistance. |
Bill Sardi
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| Researchers conclude that "low intake of carotenoids, through poor diet and/or lack of vitamin supplementation, may be associated with increased risk of breast cancer." [American Journal Epidemiology 153: 1142-47, 2001]
Other studies confirm that the risk of developing breast cancer is cut in half among women who consume plenty of foods that contain vitamin A, beta carotene and vitamin E, as compared to women who do not eat sufficient amounts of these foods. [Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers Prevention 1 1:451-57, 2002]
Carotenoids are target antioxidants. |
Bottom Line Health
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| However, this turned out to be one of the greatest myths in cardiovascular medicine, as recent studies have affirmed that more than 90% of heart attacks can be accounted for by traditional risk factors, as well as poor diet, sedentary lifestyle and mental stress," Miller says.
"If you exercise, don't smoke, have normal levels of blood pressure, cholesterol and glucose and are not overweight, the likelihood of having a high CRP is only one in 2,000," Miller says. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 In every generation on a universally poor diet," Dr. Cousens says, "there is a successive increasing degeneration in our mental and physical state. This has been shown in animal studies and we are now finding it in human studies. We have at least eight million children on Ritalin. At least 10 percent of our children have hyperactivity. We have 500,000 children on antidepressants, particularly Prozac. One hundred thousand children are active alcoholics. It has to do with the poor nutrition of the parents, which affects the developing brain of the fetus. |
| Number one, there could be problems with the gastrointestinal tract as a result of the repeated courses of antibiotics and poor diet. There could be abnormal digestion, pathological alterations in the bowel flora and, as a result of an upset in the normal bowel flora, increased permeability to antigens, peptides and microbial toxins, which are produced by the abnormal bacteria in the intestinal tract. The gastrointestinal tract is directly related to the brain because the circulatory system connects both areas. |
| Even with that poor diet I felt healthy, but realized I was not at my peak energy level. I could feel my movements were below my potential. I had difficulty at times thinking through and solving daily problems.
Realizing people were reversing illness using various supplements, I began to drink green tea, and to use garlic and onions and a few vitamins. Still I felt sunken within myself. My higher energy level was not actualized. At that point I started listening to Gary on his radio show.
I was determined to give my body the elements it badly required. |
Marshall Editions
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 HOMEOPATHY
The following strategies can be helpful in lifting a recent bout of fatigue that has followed an obvious cause, such as a lack of sleep, a sharp escalation of stress levels, or a poor diet. Chronic symptoms of fatigue that cannot be attributed to a cause are best addressed by a doctor, who will determine whether there is an underlying condition. If there is no underlying disorder, consult a homeopathic practitioner regarding treatment.
Nux vomica: Consider this remedy if you are feeling burnt out. |
Andreas Moritz
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| Elevated LDL cholesterol is not a cause of heart disease; rather, it is a consequence of an unbalanced liver, of a congested, dehydrated circulatory system, and of a poor diet and lifestyle.
If your doctor has told you that lowering your cholesterol with statins will protect you against heart attacks, you have been grossly misled. The number-one prescribed cholesterol-lowering medicine is Lipitor. I suggest that you read the following warning statement, issued on the official Lipitor website:
"LIPITOR?(atorvastatin calcium) is a prescription drug used with diet to lower cholesterol. LIPITOR? |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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| While detoxification is a natural function, our elimination channels can become clogged due to toxic overload and poor diet. To improve their functioning we want to follow a comprehensive detoxification program. Such a practice, while unfamiliar to many, really is quite natural and beneficial. We regularly clean our homes, our cars, and our outer bodies. So why neglect the inner body? We have nothing to lose but our toxins!
MYTH
Our body detoxifies itself and does not need extra help.
Cleansing and detoxification are essential to healing the digestive tract and restoring good liver function. |
Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Acetyl-L-Carnitine Arginate DiHydrochloride) on postprandial oxidative stress in pre-diabetics (Metabolic Syndrome) An 8 week, randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled, intervention trial" will investigate what role ArginoCarn's ability to ameliorate cellular damage attributable to cellular oxidative stress caused by poor diet and lack of exercise may have on pre-diabetics. The hypothesis here is that postprandial oxidative stress will be attenuated in subjects who are either assigned to exercise, eat a high fat diet and take ArginoCarn?alone, as compared to no exercise or placebo. |
| Since the Metabolic Syndrome is actually a group of symptoms attributable to a good part to poor diet, urban stress and genetics, we must work to separately understand each of the symptoms which comprise the syndrome so as to be able to adjust those factors as naturally as possible before we as physicians medicate. My basis for the diagnosis of Metabolic Syndrome is as follows:
?Elevated fasting glucose (>100mg/dl)
?Elevated waist circumference (Men >40", Women >35")
?Elevated triglycerides (>150mg/dl)
?Reduced HDL Cholesterol (Men <40mg/dl , Women <50mg/dl)
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Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 In addition to excessive eating, "poor diet and inactivity cause an additional 15,000 deaths per year." By the year 2020, the authors project the leading actual cause of death in the United States will be obesity.
That smoking and obesity account for more than one in three deaths should redirect the teaching of medicine, the considerable efforts of our health care system, and change the very nature of medical practice, for, as we shall see in chapter 8, physicians still give little attention to what are somewhat dismissively called "lifestyle" problems. |
Andreas Moritz
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| The magic food supplements have become an insurance policy against poor diet, and nobody has to feel guilty anymore over eating junk food. And to top it off, scientific research (financed by the vitamin producers) suggests that taking large doses of supplements may protect you against disease, even though there is no real evidence to support that claim. As seen in the sales figures, the public believes that the more vitamins you take, the healthier you become.
But are vitamins really that good for your health? |
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