Dietary Enigmas
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Archive for February, 2008
Vitamins – may stave off illness
Oh boy – how long have people being arguing over this one. The Medics and the Pharmaceutical lobby say all you need is drugs for health but the alternative view that good quality food and where necessary vitamin and mineral supplementation is the right approach to take. So which one is right – i know what works for me.- a good Low GI diet first and foremost with minimal processed food
- supplementation of key vitamins and minerals known to be deficient in our diets and lifestyles
- short term use of pharmaceutical drugs only where essential – antibiotics etc. and only for short periods
At last the real research is showing the truth. The pharmaceutical led research into vitamins is always going to be suspect as they ahve a vested interest in proving it doesn’t work and the invariably use synthetics which we know don’t work. See below:
By Steve Connor
Saturday, 16 February 2008A chronic shortage of vitamins and other “micronutrients” in the diet may be responsible for triggering many of the ills of modern life such as cancer, obesity and the degenerative diseases of ageing.
Professor Bruce Ames, of the University of California, Berkeley, who invented one of the standard tests for cancer-causing chemicals, said many people’s diets were deficient in one or more of the 40 micronutrients essential for a healthy life.
Sickle Cell Update
This entry is all about Sickle Cell and in particular the role that diet can have.
There follow a sequence of Audio Recordings which you are welcome to listen to. However, i must emphasize that we are only talking about management not a cure. The cure for sickle cell is many years away and what we have focussed on over the last 2 years is all about how to manage pain and the symptoms without having to resort to Pharmaceutical Drugs. I’m not suggesting that diet can do it all but i am suggesting that a body with all the right nutrients is much better able to cope with the ravages of Sickle Cell and the evidence is clear.
So please listen to the recordings and if you feel you’d like to leave a comment please do so by posting a comment here or on www.squidoo.com/sicklecell
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We all know that ah-ha! moment when a new insight or experience changes everything. But ah-ha’s are the province of the mind, aren’t they? Like a backward beast, the body merely drags around our higher mental functions and our opposable thumbs. Despite its amazing capacity to self-heal, it’s regarded as a mere mechanical marvel, like the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz — to be oiled, excised, and/or flooded with exogenous chemicals, an ingenious contraption incapable of learning, progressing, or manifesting.
But what if the body is smarter than we think? Or understands things we don’t? Perhaps it’s time for a dialogue. For two centuries, homeopaths have engaged in an intimate conversation with the body — regarding it as not just alive, but also capable of learning, acting upon subtle information, and taking hints from nature about how to expel infections, self-regulate, and restore balance. Homeopathic remedies begin with a given natural substance, progressively diluted (and shaken in a process known as “succussion”) until no measurable amount of the material remains. The chosen remedy induces the entire range of symptoms the person suffers and paradoxically prompts the body’s capacity to heal them. According to Dana Ullman, a homeopathic educator and author of The Homeopathic Revolution, homeopaths see symptoms as expressions of the body’s innate healing response. A homeopathic remedy, like aikido, “goes with” the symptoms, subtly amplifying the healing message so that the body “gets it.” Once the body goes “ah-ha,” the symptoms express, lessen, and then pass. Signature
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