The Great Skin Cancer Lie
The Great Skin Cancer Lie
I have always known that the medical hysteria about sunlight exposure and skin cancer was a hoax. I mean come on, it just didn’t make any sense. Humans have been around for hundreds of thousands of years, continually exposed to sunshine and until just recently, little or no skin cancer problems. Now all of a sudden literally everyone has got it or is at risk of getting it with virtually any sun exposure.
Turns out that if you check the rates of skin cancer, the countries that have less sun (northern latitudes) or have official “stay out of the sun” medical policies (like the US) have far greater rates. Also turns out that southern climes and areas where people are out in the sun a lot, have much lower rates. And not just skin cancer, but they have lower rates of all cancers and just about any degenerative disease. This is confirmed by study after study. So what gives?
Unless you are living under a rock, most likely you know that sun exposure is the primary way humans get (or were intended to get) sufficient vitamin D. Vitamin D (not really a vitamin, but a hormone) as it turns out is involved, to some degree, in a wide array of bodily functions, including protecting your skin against cancer. Most people are aware of the connection between lack of sunlight and increased rates of depression. The list goes on and on of the many ways vitamin D is essential to good health. There is just no getting around it, if you want to be healthy, you have to get enough vitamin D and the most efficient, inexpensive, safe, and healthy way to accomplish this, is through sun exposure.
Having said that there are a few common sense guidelines to follow. Pick a consistent time to start so that you can gauge and monitor your progress. Initially only stay out until you skin just turns pink, which is right before you would burn. For most this would be 20-30 minutes depending on skin type. Gradually work the time up as you can tolerate, without burning, to at least an hour each session. Expose as much of your body as possible without getting arrested. Get in 4 or more of these sessions per week and your vitamin D levels should be nicely optimized. When you know you have had enough, the best protection is to cover up with clothing as most commercial sun blocks are toxic.
Hopefully this makes sense and is not a big surprise to you. As usual it turns out that what nature provides is best for you, as long as you don’t do weird stuff and mess it up.
So get out there and catch some rays!…
Nutrition & Health
The recent popularity of “Low Carb” diets has generated a lot of interest in manipulating the ratio of carbohydrates, protein, and fat in the diet to make weight control easier. Counting the calories you eat is useful, but tracking where those calories come from can give you another handle on your diet. What I did was add a good whey protein supplement, multi vitamin, creatine, and a natural energy source to my healthy diet. This means, just to maintain his muscle and energy, Man #2 needs to eat more calories, especially in the form of protein.\n\nWhen you cannot seem to think of ‘that word’ to finish your sentence or when you have that “2:30” feeling and all you want to do is Nothing, these experiences could all have been avoided by simply eating foods that are alive with vital nutrients. This is one of the few times that you want a “high-GI” carbohydrate source (high-GI carbohydrates are synonymous to sugary or insulin spiking foods, such as white bread or sugar).\n\nIts all about everything in moderation, if you stop eating anything with even a little fat in it your body will just go into shock the minute it touches your lips again. Fill two sections with plant based foods and the third section with healthy proteins like fish, chicken or turkey.\n\nHowever, raw food dieters from all over the world have said they get relief from the following health conditions with the raw food diet: diabetes, acne, migraines, bodily pain, asthma, arthritis, allergies, depression, menopause, chronic fatigue, and even cancer.\n\nCarbohydrates have the largest intake of all the nutrition in the forms of sugar, grain, fiber, noodles, bread and so on. Carbohydrates constitute a huge part of our daily food because typically for all types of food creation carbohydrates are used as the basic ingredients.…
Nutrition And Cancer
Whole food nutrition helps to fill the gap between what we should eat and what we actually eat. Eating more frequently – Creating a bodybuilding nutrition plan starts by eating a lot of foods that are healthy by nature. Tryglycerides, another kind of lipid, form the fats and oils of the body. Carbohydrates are incredibly important to sustained, healthy energy.\n\nGrasa muscle power is not necessarily from renewable fats, such as the muscles. Low-glycemic diets are for people who want to lose extra weight. On the other hand, because of chemical processing, vitamins differ greatly from whole food nutrition products which are from a select variety of organic fruits and vegetables.\n\nSome people go beyond all that and eat raw animal foods too. In many cases, the vitamins get replaced by fats which in turn can cause depression and stress. Larabar and Organic Food Bars are a couple of really good examples, they are tasty, healthy, include natural ingredients and come in a variety of flavors.\n\nTo fully understand the magnitude of nutrition and eating healthy, I want you to imagine a construction company. The natural build-up of the body means that a lot of vitamins exist in the atmosphere or your body, and need some other elements to help them improve.\n\nYou also try and limit how much acidic foods you eat as well as the amount of coffee and tea because you don’t want your pearly whites to turn yellow. A great lunch or dinner meal would be a healthy salad mix which has added to it freshly prepared protein, like grilled chicken.…
Calton Nutrition
Baby and Me is a 100% whole food prenatal multivitamin containing all of the vitamins and minerals necessary for a healthy reproductive system and support during pregnancy. These health food products are also good for their fiber which reduce constipation, remove toxins from the digestive system and improve ones health. At Balance of Nature, our focus is getting you there with all natural whole food supplements. The most popular vitamin supplements contain ultra high doses of synthetic vitamins, and their consumption can be compare to taking any sort of drug.\n\nIn addition, in our sedentary lifestyle our bodies actually need less food than when we lived and worked each day on the farm, yet we still eat more because of lack of proper nutrients, abundance of easily obtained processed food and other psychological conditions such as stress eating.\n\nWhile it might be a bit of stretch to call it a nutrient, dietary fiber or ‘roughage’ is vital to the health of the digestive system, and thus to the efficacy with which all other nutrients get absorbed. They are not in adequate quantities required to label them as products made from all natural vitamins.\n\nSince the vitamin B12 cannot be produced by vegetable sources, deficiency in this nutrient is of particular concern for vegetarians, who need to get it by consuming supplements or fortified breakfast cereals to avoid possible ill consequences on health.\n\nUnlike processed foods, whole foods are not very easily stored, meaning that to eat according to such a diet, you’ll need to visit a farmer’s market and buy your food fresh every few days. A balanced formula of carotenoids such as found in whole foods and whole food supplements will be better absorbed than individual supplements as too much of any one carotenoids may inhibit the absorption of others.…
Daily Nutrition
Certain proteins called enzymes play an active role in digestion by acting as a catalyst for chemical reactions. Road running is great for toning as the uneven surfaces really work every muscle in the body, but it is more difficult than running on the treadmill so persevere with road running. Undernutrition is characterized by inadequate intake of macro-nutrients (namely: calories and protein).\n\n- Moderation: Use moderation as your guide for everything, including the calories you eat each day, your exercise and other activities, desserts, sweets, and even restriction. Choose a healthy calorie-controlled diet rich in fruit and vegetables, moderate in protein and low in saturated fat or trans fatty acids, with foods from all main food groups.\n\nWhen most people suspect a food is high in fat, they automatically assume it is bad for you. Lower protein diet: 15% of calories from protein, 50% from Carbohydrates, and 35% from fat. One of the simplest ways to plan a healthy varied diet is to use a food pyramid The pyramid shows you the different types of food that children need and the proportions they need them for good health.\n\nFats are the carbon and hydrogen atoms in our food, structuring hydrogenation. These are lower in calories and carbohydrates, so will still provide you with some, but won’t have you overdoing it and not seeing fat loss progress as a result. Fitness & nutrition go hand in hand, pointless doing all that hard work then going home to eat the wrong food.\n\nHeidi Murkoff and Sharon Mazel of Eating Well When You’re Expecting suggest 3 to 4 servings of green leafy and yellow vegetables and yellow fruit. Some people say that if you want to lose weight, you simply need to create a calorie deficit. • Avoid those foods that deplete your body of vitamins.…
Stroke – Recognizing and Responding
Stroke – Recognizing and Responding
According to the American Heart Association, strokes killed 137,119 people in 2006, which ranks behind only heart disease and cancer. Recognizing the signs of a stroke and quickly responding are the most important ways you can help someone experiencing a stroke.
The signs of a stroke are varied and usually occur suddenly. The American Red Cross has a useful acronym for recognizing a stroke: FAST.
1) Face – Ask the person to smile. See if there is drooping on one side of the face.
2) Arm – Ask the person raise their arms. See if they have difficulty raising one of their arms.
3) Speech – Ask the person to say a few words. Listen for slurred speech or difficulty pronouncing words.
4) Time – Note the time you witnessed any of the above symptoms and call 911.
However, sometimes the signs of a stroke can be more difficult to recognize. A sudden searing headache that does not go away could be a stroke. Other possible signs include trouble seeing in one or both eyes, dizziness, and loss of coordination and balance.
If you believe someone is having a stroke they need immediate medical attention. Strokes are so deadly because blood flow is being blocked to a section of the brain – and without blood that section of the brain will literary die. There are now treatments that can decrease the affects of a stroke, but these treatments are very time sensitive. If you think someone is having a stroke call 911 immediately.
To learn more about strokes and how to respond to other medical emergencies, consider taking an American Red Cross or American Heart Association first aid or CPR class.…
The Six Stages Of Nutrition
What goes into your body has a lasting effect on how you will feel and even on the look your body will give. Protein, carbohydrates, and fat are referred to as macronutrients. Low-glycemic foods are more satisfying than high-glycemic foods because they take a longer time to be absorbed, thus making a person feel full for a longer time and lessening his tendency to overeat.\n\nThe only complete, balanced nutrition shake that has the unique ingredient HMB, plus 20g of high-quality protein to help rebuild muscle. Vitamin C is not only known to be an immune system helper, but it also helps you have healthy skin and hair. These people are sometimes called Paleolithic dieters.\n\nA meat portion which is considered healthy would be equivalent to the size of a playing card. Exotic foods like Plantains, Durians, Elderberries, Pomegranates, and Breadfruit are just a few of the amazing and tempting foods we should be eating. Also most vitamins cant’ be manufactured in the body and must be gotten from food you eat and from supplements.\n\nUsing whole foods means getting natural vitamins into your body without any chemical enhancements, being much better for your vitamin nutrition intake. Therefore, going low carb on your fat loss diet doesn’t mean you will automatically start losing body fat at an accelerated pace.\n\nYour meal ratio should always be 40 percent carbohydrates, 40 percent protein, and 20 percent fat. High protein diet: 30% of calories from protein, 50% from Carbohydrates, and 20% from fat. Proper nutrition is the foundation for healthy lives, which is why we at Abbott Nutrition have been developing science-based nutrition products for 113 years.…
Diet Nutrition Supplements
Whole food nutrition helps to fill the gap between what we should eat and what we actually eat. Also even more unhealthy are what is referred to as “trans fats and saturated fats.” Examples of trans fats include hydrogenated oils The good fats that you most definitely want to incorporate into your diet include unsaturated fats which are fats that come from plant sources.\n\nTo fully understand the magnitude of nutrition and eating healthy, I want you to imagine a construction company. The natural build-up of the body means that a lot of vitamins exist in the atmosphere or your body, and need some other elements to help them improve.\n\nBut if you can ignore the hype, you will find that the benefits for a young child of a healthy, varied diet can be huge. Fats provide us energy with fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E and K. Proteins also provides hormone metabolism, healthy skin, prevents excessive loss of heat and protects our internal organs.\n\nThere is considerable controversy about whether or not it’s healthy to consume raw plant foods exclusively. Many vitamins and minerals can be found in foods, especially those that are fresh. Eating nutrient rich foods like whole foods can bring clarity to your mind and you feel energized with a sense of wellbeing.\n\nSubjects were allowed to eat as much as they wanted of the high protein diet. We are fortunate to have such a wonderful advocate for healthy eating here in Australia, far from her native country of Scotland. Every day we participate in a ritualistic demonstration of our connection to all existence by eating.…
Whole Food Supplements Versus Isolated Or Synthetic Supplements
People think that all vitamins are created equally. Eating food that is artificial like processed and fast foods can bring a sense of being dull-witted and a feeling of wanting to just go to sleep. So when naturally grown tomatoes are dehydrated and put in capsule form, you could get the benefits of the vitamins only by swallowing a few capsules of pure goodness.\n\nWhole food supplements will contain not only alpha-tocopherol but also the 7 other alpha, beta, gamma and delta forms of both tocopherol and tocotrienol derived from concentrated food. Healthy meals are often forsaken for the ease of fat-laden fast food and the convenience ingredients found on the shelves of the local supermarket lack many of the essential vitamins and minerals your body needs.\n\nBy consuming whole food vitamins, you can supplement your regular diet with much-needed minerals and nutrients that are missing from many processed foods. Better known as vitamin C, L-ascorbic acid is perhaps the most popular of supplements, and has been used to treat disease ever since the French explorer Jacques Cartier boiled the needles of the arbor vitae tree to treat scurvy in 1536.\n\nStudies have indicated that synthetic Lycopene supplements have inconclusive results when it comes to the prevention of cancer. There is an enormous difference between vitamins found in natural foods unaltered chemically, and those manufactured, drug-like substances that are called vitamins which are in no way beneficial.\n\nIt seems popular culture respects the consumption of processed food and the additional synthetic vitamins to supplement otherwise bad diets. The herbs in some supplements help to control night sweats. Whole foods such as vegetables and fruits contain thousands of components that provide several health benefits that are not found in vitamin supplements.…