The research was conducted by researchers from Auckland University in New Zealand and published in the magazine Intelligence.

Scientists analyzed the nutritional consumption and intelligence results of kids born in the mid-1990s.

“We discovered a number of dietary factors to be considerably associated with intelligence measures, the particular scientists said. “The connection between margarine intake and IQ scores was the most consistent and novel finding.

After adjusting with regard to other reasons which might influence IQ, such as socioeconomic level, the researchers discovered that children who ate margarine daily obtained three points lower on IQ assessments by the age of three-and-a-half compared to kids with reduced margarine consumption.

By the age of seven, the typical IQ scores of some margarine eaters were six points below those of their peers. This happened only in children who had been born underweight, suggesting that disadvantaged brains may be far more vulnerable to diet-induced problems.

Because the study was correlational, scientists have been unable to determine what precisely triggered the IQ difference between the two groupings of children. They suspect, however, that the reason may be transfats, also known as partially hydrogenated fats.

Created by introducing hydrogen atoms to unsaturated vegetable fats, transfats have a lengthier shelf life and are more solid at room temperatures compared to natural vegetable oils. In the mid-1990s, margarines had been produced with up to 17 percent transfats. In recent years, however, researchers discovered that not only do transfats have no dietary value, they additionally significantly boost the danger of coronary heart attack and death in individuals who consume them.

The majority of margarines now comprise around 1 percent transfats.

Sian Porter associated with the British Dietetic Association noted that whilst margarine appears to be more healthy compared to butter, dietary consumption of both should be minimised.
Sources for this story include: www.dailymail.co.uk.

Vitamin D continues to be poorly understood compound. Getting the right form is very important.  This video may well change your life.

Help for Parkinson’s patients

Aasma Day

A daily cocktail of food additives can lead to dramatic improvements for people with Parkinson’s Disease, a retired dentist believes.

Andrew Carmichael, 68, who lives in Ashton, Preston, has been researching the theory that gut health and brain health are connected.

Andrew, who has a broad medical background, has discovered the Parkinson’s Imman of the Preston branch of the Parkinson’s Society between 2003 and 2008, has been trialling the PIP mix on a number of patients.

The father-of-five and grandfather-of-seven said: “There are drugs which do improve Parkinson’s, but a lot of them have side effects so I looked at a non-drug solution to slow down some of the problems.

“The University of Central Lancashire has been extremely helpful in allowing me to use their library and Internet research facilities to carry out my research into this way of dealing with Parkinson’s Disease.”

Andrew has tested the PIP mix on about 50 patients.

He has seen improvements in about 20% of cases and says the changes have been dramatic.

He said: “The patients are effectively taking a mixture of food additives such as palmitoyl ascorbate, which is accepted as a safe food additive, folic acid, trehalose, lemon fish oil and a probiotic drink every day.

“The mix is now available in a single dose.

“The idea is that by improving a person’s digestion, you are improving their absorption of nutrients and this reduces inflammation in the brain which is one of the causes of Parkinson’s.”

Andrew says that while the PIP mix is not a cure for Parkinson’s Disease, it can lead to considerable improvements.

He said: “One of the patients who has taken part in the trial is a music teacher who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s at the age of 42 and had to give up teaching a few years later.

“I met him when he was 52 and he was walking with a stick.

“Since taking part in this programme, he is now back to teaching pupils stringed instruments, can play himself and is back to taking part in competitive sports.

“Another patient who has benefited from the trial is a 75-year-old who three months ago was in a chair and was unable to do almost anything.

“Within two months of taking part in this programme, he was able to go back to indoor bowling.”

Andrew has funded the research himself and with the help of donors. So far it has cost £6,000.

He is now registering the Parkinson’s Improvement Programme as a charity so he can apply for research funding.

Anyone wanting more information can contact Andrew at:
andrew@brainhelp.info

This morning during a discussion a lady asked why she felt hungry when she tried eating a diet that contained raw fruits and raw vegetables. The primary reasons are firstly psychological and the second, and more likely, cause is that the raw vegetables are not making the stomach full because they are low volume and largely water. While thinking about this I wondered if there was a simple test that might help people choose the vegetables that will result in a feeling of fullness. The answer was relatively simple.

Simple test for vegetables that will make you feel full.

If you can crush a fruit or vegetable with relatively light pressure from a rolling pin on the palm of your hand then the chances are that it will not give you that full feeling that you are looking for.

Good examples

Red cabbage and fennel salad

1/4 red cabbage sliced finely

1/2 fennel bulb sliced finely

4 teaspoons extra virgin olive oil

2 teaspoons freshly squeezed lemon juice

Pinch of sea salt

teaspoon trehalose to taste

Instructions

Add the sliced red cabbage and fennel to a bowl. Mix the olive oil and lemon juice with the sea salt and trehalose and shake to mix.

Pour the dressing over the red cabbage and fennel and toss lightly and enjoy.

For an added variation sprinkle some pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds or crushed nuts on-top. Alternatively why not add some very finely sliced carrot sticks

Last week a friend of many years dropped by and was obviously in a bad mood when they arrived – he even admitted it. When asked why he was so grumpy he recounted how his Doctor wanted him to return in a weeks time to be tested for Diabetes. Understandably he is in the high risk group:

• overweight
• over 65 years old
• carrying a large belly
• eating all the wrong foods
• on several drugs already for high blood pressure and other things

To cut a long story short I told him about some results we’d had with a  new programme to help people who were diabetics and so for we’ve seen 100% success with this strategy and to cap it all it’s effectively free. I told him about Caroline, a lady in London, who had blood glucose spikes in the region of 27 (should be 5.5-6.5 normally). After a week on this programme her average readings were down to 12 and 3 weeks later her average blood glucose levels are in the 5.5-6.5 region daily.

This friend suddenly became very attentive and decided to have a look at what I was suggesting.

After just 24 hours he was feeling brighter and more hopeful – his energy levels were up and he was sleeping better. That was Tuesday last week – I’ve just had a message from him that his weight has fallen by 9lbs in just 5 days (way too much normally) which suggests that something is happening. He is sticking to the programme and loving it. I’m absolutely convinced that when he goes for his blood check this week they will find evidence of historically high blood glucose levels but actually levels that are very ‘normal’. This programme is so simple and doesn’t require any money other than a small one-of fee to get some educational material to get going.

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This is one of the most compelling video messages of our time. You may not like Jamie Oliver but what he is saying is what I and a few other pioneers have been saying for the last 12 years. Food is the cause of illness. Poor nutrition will kill more people than any world wars. Obesity is killing us – and telling the truth is not politically correct. I’ve had it with being politically correct.

A review of a brand new Juicing beauty …

The Hurom Slow Juicer

The moment We were first introduced to this juicer, I was smitten! Knowing that this Hurom Slow Juicer came from the same manufacturer as the original gear juicer company in Korea, it immediately grabbed my attention because of their established track record.

This particular juicer is very similar to the actual Omega VERT VRT330 with very slight variation. Both come from the exact same manufacturing plant in Korea but are being promoted under several models.

How does the Hurom Slow Juicer Work?

The Hurom Slow Juicer makes use of a patented Low Speed Technology System. It is labelled a “Slow Juicer” simply because, like a gear juicer, it operates at only 80 RPM, rather of 3000~7000 RPM like a centrifugal juicer. However don’t let the label trick you. It actually extracts liquid quicker compared to a centrifugal juicer and expels significantly drier pulp, along with a much higher yield.

The producer of the Hurom Slow Juicer has enhanced the single-gear juicer and given this juicer an upright build. The auger is fat and roundish (see inset picture), unlike the long auger which all of us are so used to in other gear juicers.

The auger is located nicely in the juicing chamber and really does it’s crushing work efficiently. Before the pulp is being eliminated, it will get a second pressing and further squeezed for maximum juice yield. The fruit juice runs out through the spout in front and the pulp on the side.

The method of extraction is masticating and pressing (using the screw-like auger). The action tears wide open the fruit and vegetable’s cell membranes and releases its deep-seated nutrition and enzymes. It additionally breaks up much more of the phytonutrient from the produce, resulting in a more potent colored juice which is also richer in it’s nutrients and minerals.

The slower RPM ensures that it does not affect the cellular framework of the fruits and vegetables. This reduces oxidation of the juices, therefore, preserving the valuable enzymes and nutrients that are closest to its natural form.

Assembly

At first glance, the Hurom may look like any other centrifugal juicer and might even be mistaken for one. Unlike other gear juicers, the Hurom is built upright consequently it has a more compact footprint and requires very little room on your kitchen worktop.

Design of this machine is impressive and solid. All components are made of non-toxic durable material that are easy to maintain. The producer claims that the auger is so hardy, that it is 8x stronger than the auger of other single gear juicers.

You’ll be surprised with just how noiseless the functioning genuinely is, particularly if you’re so used to those loud centrifugal juicers. What a wonderful change!

The machine is weighty at about 5kg , which makes it very steady. The weight helps prevent the juicer from “running” when in use.

There is a handle on the side that permits easy movement of the heavy unit, making it easily transportable. The large juice strainer has an addition that is exclusive in that there are silicon scraper blades that clean the sides of the juicing bowl. The self-cleaning feature saves you time and make cleaning-up significantly easier, at the same time offering a greater juice yield.

The feed chute opening is about 2.25″ x 1.25″ so you will need to cut up your fruits lengthwise. For example, cut a cucumber or a carrot lengthwise into four pieces. This will save you your prep time. Although a food pusher is provided, most things you put in will go down by gravity and is self-feeding, very easily; so the food pusher is used largely only when you use leafy vegetables that might not go down the chute.

High quality of the fruit juice

It extracts almost each and every drop of juice from everything you place into it. The pulp ejected will be so dry, that many say that it’s actually drier compared to other single-gear juicers. I can imagine that very easily due to the fact of the dual-stage juicing where the pulp is given another squeeze to extract every drop of juice.

It is feasible that the juice yield from the Hurom could be as much as 50% more than that extracted from a centrifugal juicer. That would mean it’s even greater yield when compared to other single-gear juicers. Simply wonderful!

If you have never tasted fruit juice extracted from a gear juicer, you may love how sweet and concentrated the juice is from the Hurom. The liquid is healthy and will not split simply because of the enzymes/nutrients which were removed together with the juice. It could last a couple of hours if stored properly in the fridge, without being oxidized (though I nevertheless usually recommend that you consume your fruit juice immediately). It tastes, so delicious and flavourful that you might never want to drink juice extracted through a centrifugal juicer ever again.

The majority of retailers claim that there is no foaming/frothing, it is not true. There is foaming, therefore if you do not like that you might want to run it through another sieve to remove the foam/froth.

Like all well-made gear juicers, the Hurom may greatly help to minimize pesticides as well as chemicals in your juice. You may save significantly from not having to buy organic.

Easy set up and cleaning up

There are five components for assembling a Hurom. The arrangement comes along with 2 strainers: Use the one with smaller openings if you would like less pulp in your juice (tends to froth more); or the one with larger holes if you want more pulp in your juice.

The following are the system components:

This Hurom has an intelligent self-cleaning functionality that will save you time. Right after juicing a carrot for instance, you can pour in a cup of drinking water and let it run and self-clean. After that proceed on to the subsequent kind of juice, green vegetables for example, so that you don’t mix the color, taste and flavor. Watch how it’s carried out in the video below.

All the components may be very easily taken apart and be rinsed under running water. There are no hard to reach corners. The only part that might require a little more time to clean would be the strainer, with the supplied brush. All in all, cleaning up should take simply about 2-3 minutes when you’re comfortable with it. It is very important when buying a juicer that it is easy to clean-up. If washing up is a hassle, you would soon give up on juicing. With Hurom, cleaning up will be such a breeze, it will surely add joy to your juicing experience!

Specifications

Unlike all the other gear juicer, the Hurom Slow Juicer functions mostly just as a juicer. If you want a multi-purpose machine for a lower price, go for a standard gear juicer instead. There is no fancy 6-in-1 or 9-in-1 as you would like.

The Hurom Slow Juicer is now available throughout the world.

Model: KT-100

Voltage: 240 V Frequency 60Hz

Power Consumption: 150w

Speed: 80 RPM

Motor: Single-Phase induction type

Warranty: 10 year FULL warranty on motor and parts

Includes fine and coarse dual stage screens, pulp extraction plugs, self-cleaning screen holder, two 50 oz. juicing cups, tamper, brush, and instruction manual

Dimensions and Weight:

Product Size: 9.84″L x 6.81″W x 15.83″H

Shipping Box Size: 12″ x 12″ x 16″

Shipping Weight: 20 lbs

Human brain functions best with proper exercise, diet, sleep

Depending upon what technology prevailed supreme at the time, the human mind has been likened to a telegraph, a Television and a personal computer.

But it really is additionally a three-pound, flesh-and-blood human organ, and with One hundred billion neurons, a very demanding one at that. Even though it contains only 2 percent of the body’s weight, it consumes 20 percent of it’s oxygen and a most of its blood sugar.

It makes sense that a biochemical factory that complicated will work best with correct attention and nourishing, even in young and healthy university students.

The human brain begins out having some built-in advantages. Not only is it covered with a sturdy skull, but a set of cells regarded as the blood-brain barrier keeps most bacteria and some other harmful chemicals out of the cerebrospinal fluid that bathes the brain and spinal cord.

The brain also gets first call on a lot of vitamins and nutrients, Evans, a University of Michigan neuroscientist who wrote the book “BrainFit for Life: A User’s Guide to Life-Long Brain Health and Fitness.

Even so, college students however need to pay particular attention to their own diets, exercise and sleep habits, most of which play important roles in fundamental brain wellness, Dr. Evans says.

In reality, taking care of your own brain when you are in your late teens and early 20s will pay lifelong benefits, he and some other experts say.

The human brain continues to form new internal connections throughout youth, adolescence and early adulthood, they say. While the peak demand for brain-boosting nutrition is from 4 to 8 years of age, the process continues into the college years, says Robert Clark, a brain researcher and chief of pediatric critical care medicine at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC.

“There is an idea out there that if you produce a lot of new neurons when you’re young, that once they are there, they are there for good,” adds Henriette Van Praag, a brain researcher with the National Institute on Aging.

Sleep is one particular commodity that college students often shortchange, and that not only can impact their thinking ability, but their memories, their development and even their weight, Dr. Evans says.

Research has proven that sleep is when the day’s memories tend to be consolidated in the brain. It is also when the system secretes most of its growth hormone, which in turn is the reason why kids who don’t get sufficient sleep are likely to be smaller than normal, he says. Sleep is also a time when the body makes use of energy from body fat cells, which is one reason why too little sleep is linked with obesity, Dr. Evans says.

Exercise doesn’t just build muscles, burn off fat and expand heart and lung capacity. It additionally makes the brain smarter.

That’s one result of research done by Dr. Van Praag and other people on mice which use treadmills and carry out learning tasks.

After teaching mice to push their noses against icons on a pc screen to get a sugar pellet, her team separated them into two communities — one which was sedentary and the other which got lots of treadmill workouts.

The mice that exercised were not only much better at pressing the correct icons and learning to negotiate a labyrinth, but were quicker to adapt when researchers altered the image that yielded the reward, she says.

When the researchers examined the mice brains later, they discovered that the ones that exercised had developed brand-new neurons in a key area of the hippocampus, a brain region engaged in memory as well as learning, and that the number of new neurons correlated very well with how well the mice performed on the assessments.

While she is cautious about extrapolating her results to humans, Dr. Van Praag says that the exercise-induced brain development in mice seems to be linked to chemicals that flow into the brain in the bloodstream, particularly one called insulin-like growth factor.

On the dietary front, university students’ bodies are pretty good at supplying energy to the brain. “Anybody who can take an Extra Value Meal at McDonald’s and convert it into something useful has a pretty sophisticated digestive system,” says Dr. Clark.

That does not mean a balanced diet is pointless, though, the experts say.

Like the remainder of the body, the brain benefits when a person’s eating habits offers a proper ratio of Omega-3 and Omega-6 fatty acids. Americans tend to eat too much Omega-6, which is common in vegetable oils and can easily shrink blood vessels and trigger inflammation, Dr. Evans says, while Omega-3, found most famously in fish oil, is anti-inflammatory.

Dr. Clark has found in his own investigation that whenever the brain is deprived of nutrition, it starts to eat itself to survive, a process recognized as autophagy.

The same thing occurs in the course of starvation in the remainder of the body, he says, but the effects are not as serious. If you’re ill and don’t eat, you will lose muscle mass, he says, “but after a couple of weeks you are going to be back to your previous self. But if that happens to the brain it can be kind of catastrophic, and can kill off neurons.

That variety of brain stress doesn’t happen easily with university students, he notes, but it is feasible, especially with students that drink too much.

“It used to be thought that alcohol will kill brain cells simply because of its chemical makeup, Dr. Clark states, “but it’s possible it has more to do with changing alcohol for other eating.

“To increase your academic possibilities, he adds, “you want to have a well balanced diet. In general, it’s pretty tough to be malnourished in The united states, but if you include an additional anxiety — you’re anorexic or most of your energy are coming by alcohol or you get sick — that’s when the brain is very susceptible to nutritional errors.

Physical exercise, diet and sleep are not simply concerning protecting neurons — they additionally boost the wellness of the remainder of the brain, the cells identified as white matter.

They get that title from the fatty myelin sheaths that safeguard neurons linking one brain region to another. Just like the insulation on an electrical cable, myelin can hasten up brain transmissions a hundredfold, says R. Douglas Fields, a senior investigator at the National Institutes of Health and author of a new book, “The Other Brain: From Dementia to Schizophrenia, How New Discoveries About the Brain Are Revolutionizing Medicine and Science.”

White matter in the brain doesn’t just help link together brain areas, he says. Promising research demonstrates it additionally helps the brain battle off infections, regulates the chemicals that the neurons use to function and can also activate the development of brand new neurons and blood vessels in the brain.

One study displaying the significance of white matter was the evaluation of autopsy slices from Albert Einstein’s brain, he says. Much to the scientists’ shock, the famous physicist did not have any more gray matter neurons than other people, but his brain did have a much denser network of white matter.

There is one other thing to keep in mind, says Michigan’s Dr. Evans. Whether it’s gray matter or white matter, all those cells are active all the time.

“The brain is an electrochemical organ, he claims, “and it’s constantly on. Even while you’re sleeping it’s recharging hormones that have been used up throughout the day. The brain is at constant, almost full tilt.”

For years now I’ve been watching the food industry and this US made film is due to be released shortly. It is US focussed but the truth is in there.

As you saw in the previous post, the problems caused by poor nutrition can literally destroy a nation. They reach into every area of society: The economy, education, health care, global competitiveness and even Democracy itself.

And yet, instead of treating these nutrition problems with a sound nutritional program, the United States of America has chosen to ignore the problem and treat people with chemical prescription drugs.

This widespread use of prescription drugs to mask the symptoms of nutritional imbalances causes the following problems that further erode the strength of any nation:

Public Safety: Medicated drivers are unsafe drivers. In the United States today, as much as one-third of all traffic accidents involve medication-impaired drivers. Instead of being alert with the help of healthful foods, our drivers are mentally compromised by meds.

Impaired Cognitive Function: This impaired cognitive function continues at work, too, where medicated workers make mistakes, suffer reduced productivity and ultimately fail to perform to their full potential.

Deterioration of Democracy: Along with impaired cognitive function comes the inability to vote intelligently, causing voters to repeatedly elect disastrously unqualified representatives to Congress (and other offices). This, in turn, erodes the bedrock of Democracy as dishonest or unqualified politicians betray the future of the People for their own personal gain.

More Disease: Medications used to treat one disease today end up causing more diseases in the future (virtually all medications cause some level of liver and kidney damage, and many promote brain and heart damage at the same time). For example, common over-the-counter painkillers cause the deaths of several thousand Americans each year just from gastrointestinal bleeding

Huge Increase in Health Care Costs: During all this, the monopoly pricing of medications causes health care costs to continue skyrocketing, further threatening the financial stability of the nation.

Environmental Destruction: After all those medications pass through the bodies of consumers, they end up in the sewage systems, where they are eventually dumped into rivers and other waterways. (Most drugs, such as HRT drugs, are not filtered out by water treatment systems.) These potent chemicals pose a huge threat to aquatic ecosystems and contribute to the destruction of coral reefs and ocean life.

Do you see where all this is heading? Higher costs and lower productivity. Increased rates of disease and decreased economic productivity. Environmental destruction. It’s not difficult to extrapolate this pattern and see where such a nation might be headed. The accelerating downfall of the United States of America and the UK are textbook examples of how a nation rapidly deteriorates under the influence of excessive medication and disease-promoting processed foods.