OVERCOMING ACIDOSIS

Many Americans suffer from too much stomach acid. There are many products on the over-the-counter market to alleviate the symptoms, such as Tums etc. But is that the best way to go? There are better ways to deal with this problem, I believe. Below I will suggest some things you can to do.
1) Drink lots of water. Water is a universal solvent. It dilutes the acid so that it can be flushed from the body.
2) Eat more alkaline foods. All meats are acid forming. All dairy products are acid forming. Some fruits are acid. Caffeine drinks (coffee, teas, colas etc.) are acidic. All vegetables are alkaline forming, particularly in their raw state. To overcome an acid problem, make sure your diet is approximately 80% alkaline foods and 20% acid foods.
3) Don't over exercise. Strenuous exercise for long periods of time cause lactic acid to build up in the body. Immediately after exercising drink lots of water to flush the acid out.
4) For immediate help with stomach acid, take one teaspoon of baking soda in about four ounces of water. Stir until it is almost clear and drink it. Depending on how severe the acid or heart burn is, you may need to repeat it in about an hour or so.
5) Examine your thought life. Negative thoughts cause the body to become more acidic. Think on good, positive things and you will be at less risk for stomach acid. Controlling your emotions helps also!

OVERCOMING DONE LAP DISEASE

This condition is a precursor to heart problems, high blood pressure, diabetes and several other illnesses. What is done lap disease? It is when your belly fat "done lapped" over your belt! This morning driving to work I saw a shirtless man who was obese trying to jog. His belly fat was flopping in the wind. Not a pretty sight! But more than that, it was an unhealthy sight!

There is a rule of thumb that says for every 10 pounds of fat in the front around the waist, it causes 50 pounds of pressure in the low back. Have you ever known of a pregnant lady who had low back pain! This is the reason why.

So, how do we overcome it? The following list of things will help you overcome this condition:
1) Take your weight and divide it by two and drink that many ounces of water per day.
2) Start walking every day. Begin by walking 1/4 mile per day and gradually increase it to where you can walk up to 5 miles per day.
3) Quit eating after 6 p.m. or let there be at least 3-4 hours from the last time you eat until you go to bed.
4) Eat a limited amount of good fats. They include flax seed oil, and some fish oils (krill). The good oils are those with omega 3 fats. Animal fats should be excluded.
5) Eat a plant based diet instead of a meat based diet. You will loose the weight, feel better, sleep better and overcome most of your aches and pains.
6) Cut down on your starches and simple carbs.

I challenge you to begin to do these things and watch the Done Lap Condition go away!

LEAVE WELL ENOUGH ALONE

A report by National Physicians Alliance (NPA), published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, advises Americans to get less health care:

• For instance, the group discourages the use of blood and urine tests in healthy people, because they will probably yield few results and end up costing a lot.

• It also cautions against heart tests such as ECGs or CT scans in symptom-free, low-risk individuals, because there is scant evidence that spotting cholesterol buildups provides any benefit in these people.
• The NPA also recommends against imaging tests for lower back pain in the first six months, noting that such tests do not lead to better results.

For kids, the group urges doctors to hold off on antibiotics for a sore throat, unless the strep test comes back positive. Most sore throats are caused by viruses, which don’t respond to antibiotics, and using the drugs unnecessarily may fuel the spread of drug-resistant bacteria and expose patients to side effects, says Reuters.

LIsts of Prescription Meds' Side Effects

Mary Elizabeth Dallas

May 27, 2011

Much of this information has more to do with avoiding lawsuits than toxicity, researcher says

Lists of the side effects for prescription medications on drug labels, packaging and advertisements have mushroomed up to an average of 70 per medication, a new study reports.

Cautions about side effects were designed to inform doctors and consumers of potential hazards, but this expansion may have more to do with worries about litigation rather than actual health concerns, say the study authors, who argue the information could be presented much more efficiently.

"Having a high number of side effects on a drug's label should not suggest that the drug is unsafe. In fact, much of this labeling has less to do with true toxicity than with protecting manufacturers from potential lawsuits," the study's lead author Dr. Jon Duke, Regenstrief Institute investigator and assistant professor of medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine, said in a university news release.

An analysis of more than 5,600 drug labels and more than 500,000 side effects found that prescription drug labels include an average of 70 different potential adverse reactions -- a number that jumps to 100 side effects for some commonly prescribed drugs.

Some drugs in the upper range even listed up to 525 reactions.

Duke pointed out that the large number of side effects listed could overload doctors who must sift through this information in order to make informed decisions about medications on behalf of their patients.

For the study, published in the May 23 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, the researchers compiled a list of the types of prescriptions drugs that were most likely to have a high number of labeled side effects. These drugs included antidepressants, antiviral medications, and newer treatments for restless legs syndrome and Parkinson's disease.

Despite the overwhelming amount of information found in current drug labeling, Duke argued that the data could be useful if presented properly.

"With current technology, drug labels could be transformed from lengthy static documents to dynamic resources, capable of delivering personalized patient information. Such labels could take into account the individual patient's medical conditions and highlight those side effects that could be especially dangerous," he explained.

"We can't stop the growing wave of drug information, but we can do a better job of presenting it efficiently to health care providers," Duke concluded.

FOOD AFFECTS EVERYTHING

Everything that enters your mouth affects your body! The food, water, and supplements are broken down into useable and un-useable parts. The useable parts are digested and the nutrients are carried to the various organs and systems in the body.

The quality of what enters the mouth determines how well the organs and cells in the body function. You may have heard the old computer saying, ‘garbage in, garbage out.’ This is also true about what we put into our bodies, and how it determines whether we live in health or disease.

Eat good, living food and you will promote health. Eat dead food and you will make it more difficult for your body to overcome acidosis, bacteria, viruses etc. What will it be?

Eliminate Dairy? Dr. Rodney Brampton

Eliminate Dairy from Your Diet

I can hear the screams now. How am I supposed to get calcium for my bones?

Do not fear, the calcium in milk is not bio-available; it is hooked to a substance that keeps it from being absorbed by the body. To break this free from the carrier we need eight stomachs. Since we are not cows we do not have the ability to do this. We are the only mammals on earth that drink the milk of another mammal. You may say but what about kittens? Ask a vet and they will be the first to tell you that cow’s milk is bad for cats. It makes them vomit, that’s why they actually have kitten milk. You see Cow’s milk is designed to take a 80lb calf and grow it into a cow in a few short months. When we introduce this to a human it causes all kinds of problems. For instance, in kids it is linked to type one diabetes, allergies, asthma, obesity and bed wetting. As far as maintaining bone density it has little to no available calcium, besides the fact that it is very acidic by nature. When a substance that is acidic, is put into our body, the body has to find away to balance its PH. The most efficient way for the body to do this is to actually leach calcium out if the bones. Eek…. Dairy is really bad for us besides the lack of nutrition it is full of hormones that are at concentrations and strengths far beyond what any human should have not to mention the antibiotics. A couple good alternatives are almond and coconut milks. They have close to the same nutritional and caloric values with none of the other junk. Stay away from Soy milk.

THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS FOR HEALTH

I am often asked what I believe to be the most important thing to do to be healthy. There are so many important things, it is difficult to settle on just one. So, I will give you a few things that are necessary.
1. Drink plenty of water. Take your weight, divide it by two and drink that many ounces per day.
2. Eat a plant based diet. Eat predominately vegetables and alkaline fruits.
3. Deal with your stress levels. Get plenty of sleep and rest.
4. Exercise. You need both resistance and aerobic exercise.
5. Most people need to take a good multi-vitamin. Some need to take larger than normal amounts of vitamins C, D3, E and fish oil.
6. Control your thoughts. Many problems are the outward manifestations of uncontrolled thinking. Zig Ziglar calls it "stinking thinking."
7. Learn to forgive yourself, others and make sure you are right with God! To fail to do this negates most of the benefits of the others.