tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58462886275214773252011-11-27T20:25:21.860-05:00A discussion of the facts about vitamins and minerals necessary for health. How does diet and exercise affect your health; why is nutrition important; low glycemic index foods and diabetes; foods high in antioxidants,symptoms of folic acid deficiency,how can you prevent diabetes; early symptoms of diabetes; what's in your drinking water; home based business ideasElaine Dovenoreply@blogger.comBlogger131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5846288627521477325.post-8003034454215056882009-09-04T15:33:00.001-04:002009-09-04T15:52:02.345-04:00

A Close Call and Horror Story for 2 Parents...You need to know this! This is a safety health tip every parent and grandparent MUST read!! Family Friends too! Yesterday, my youngest daughter, Halle who is just 4 years old, was rushed to the ER by her father for being severely lethargic and incoherent in her classroom. He was called to her school by the school secretary who said that she was '

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Did you know that sweetners, natural or artificial, can cause Diabetics to store sugar in the bloodstream and store more belly fat?Since the beginning of time, we have been eating foods that taste sweet, such as sugar cane, honey and molasses. The brain has a conditional response to eating something sweet.As the tongue senses sweetness, no matter whether it is natural or artificial, the human

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How Does Exercise Affect Diabetes? The 2 types of diabetes are type I and type II. Type I diabetes is characterized by the pancreas making too little or no insulin. An individual with diabetes type I will have to inject insulin throughout the day in order to control glucose levels. Type II diabetes, also known as adult-onset diabetes, is characterized by the pancreas not producing enough insulin

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Did you ever ask yourself what's in the water that you drink? If you ever found out, it could make you sick. Maintaining your ignorance could make you sicker. We always assumed our drinking water is safe. We were wrong.The coming water crisis Across the country, long-neglected mains and pipes, many more than a century old, are reaching the end of their life span. When pipes fail, pressure drops

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The ORAC score, short for Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity, is a test tube analysis that measures the total antioxidant power of foods and other chemical substances. Antioxidants vacuum up free radicals, the cell-damaging chemicals resulting from oxidation.Certain foods, chemicals and even air can trigger oxidative stress. This type of cell damage is a major culprit in many chronic diseases

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The glycemic index of food is a ranking of foods based on their immediate effect on blood glucose (blood sugar) levels. Carbohydrate foods that breakdown quickly during digestion have the highest glycemic indexes. Their blood sugar response is fast and high. Carbohydrates that breakdown slowly, releasing glucose gradually into the blood stream, have low glycemic indexes.What is the significance

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Glutathione, or GSH, is a naturally occurring protein that protects every cell, tissue, and organ from toxic free radicals and disease. It is a tripeptide of three amino acids - glycine, glutamate (glutamic acid), and cysteine. These precursors are necessary for the manufacture of glutathione within the cells. Glutathione is a substance, the levels of which in our cells are predictive of how long

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Folic acid is known by a number of names. More commonly today, it is called folacin; but, as far as anemia is concerned, the two most popular names still used are “folic acid deficiency anemia” and “folate deficiency anemia.”This type of anemia is a common, slowly progressive, megaloblastic anemia characterized by red blood cells that are larger than normal. The red blood cells are also deformed,

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How Does Diet and Exercise Affect Your Health and Aging?We cannot possibly stop the aging process. Certain decisions will help us stay healthy as we age: Keep Yourself MovingStaying physically fit is probably the single most important thing you can do. Find an activity you enjoy and will do daily. Walking, swimming, dancing are all activities that help keep you physically fit.Raise your heart

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Why is nutrition important?Nutritional deficiency in people is more serious than we realize, as many as 2 out of every 3 deaths can be traced to nutritional and dietary deficiencies and/or overweight conditions.The leading causes of death in Western countries are heart attack, stroke and cancer. Diabetes, osteoporosis, fatigue, digestive problems, stress, headaches, obesity, and other health

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Our diet more than ever before contains fatty processed foods and less natural plant based foods. The effects of this growing trend can be seen in the awful statistics on Alzheimer's Disease, cancer, Atherosclerosis, Diabetes, Parkinson's Disease, heart disease, stroke and many other degenerative diseases.Consumption of high fat foods obviously brings with it many problems, but the high intake

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Immune system boosting techniques can contribute enormously in keeping you healthy. People with poor immunity levels often tend to contract many illnesses and often suffer for a longer duration than healthy individuals.More than 187 million consumers in the year 2005 depended on daily nutritional health supplements to obtain the nutrients missing from their daily diet... nutrients that are needed

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Bad Nutrition has become sadly common in our modern fast paced lives. This health crisis has been growing at a rapid rate since the early 1900's. Of particular concern are people on weight loss diets.Chronic diseases caused by bad nutrition have reached epidemic proportions. Most people over 40 will suffer from one or more of these chronic diseases by the time they reach retirement. Diseases such

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