Posted May 20, 2010 at 2:27 pm
by Tom Rawstorne:
‘A chicken squats in a shed the size of a football pitch somewhere in the outback of Brazil. And it’s not alone. One of tens of thousands, each bird is allowed the floor space equivalent to a sheet of A4 paper and will live for just 40 days before it hits its genetically-engineered slaughter weight. That’s if it doesn’t perish along the way. Five per cent or so will be unable to cope with the conditions and die even before then.
Those that survive will be plucked and butchered in an industrial process the like of which this planet has never before seen. Every year billions of chickens will live and die in this way. Of course, South America is a long way away. But your local McDonald’s is not. And that is where a significant proportion of this intensively reared meat will eventually end up.’
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Posted May 18, 2010 at 10:03 am
Via BusinessWeek.com:
Meet public enemy No. 1 in today’s workplace
If you’re reading this article sitting down—the position we all hold more than any other, for an average of 8.9 hours a day—stop and take stock of how your body feels. Is there an ache in your lower back? A light numbness in your rear and lower thigh? Are you feeling a little down?
These symptoms are all normal, and they’re not good. They may well be caused by doing precisely what you’re doing—sitting. New research in the diverse fields of epidemiology, molecular biology, biomechanics, and physiology is converging toward a startling conclusion: Sitting is a public-health risk. And exercising doesn’t offset it. “People need to understand that the qualitative mechanisms of sitting are completely different from walking or exercising,” says University of Missouri microbiologist Marc Hamilton. “Sitting too much is not the same as exercising too little. They do completely different things to the body.”
In a 2005 article in Science magazine, James A. Levine, an obesity specialist at the Mayo Clinic, pinpointed why, despite similar diets, some people are fat and others aren’t. “We found that people with obesity have a natural predisposition to be attracted to the chair, and that’s true even after obese people lose weight,” he says. “What fascinates me is that humans evolved over 1.5 million years entirely on the ability to walk and move. And literally 150 years ago, 90% of human endeavor was still agricultural. In a tiny speck of time we’ve become chair-sentenced,” Levine says.
Hamilton, like many sitting researchers, doesn’t own an office chair. “If you’re standing around and puttering, you recruit specialized muscles designed for postural support that never tire,” he says. “They’re unique in that the nervous system recruits them for low-intensity activity and they’re very rich in enzymes.” One enzyme, lipoprotein lipase, grabs fat and cholesterol from the blood, burning the fat into energy while shifting the cholesterol from LDL (the bad kind) to HDL (the healthy kind). When you sit, the muscles are relaxed, and enzyme activity drops by 90% to 95%, leaving fat to camp out in the bloodstream. Within a couple hours of sitting, healthy cholesterol plummets by 20%.
The data back him up. Older people who move around have half the mortality rate of their peers. Frequent TV and Web surfers (sitters) have higher rates of hypertension, obesity, high blood triglycerides, low HDL cholesterol, and high blood sugar, regardless of weight. Lean people, on average, stand for two hours longer than their counterparts.
The chair you’re sitting in now is likely contributing to the problem…
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Posted May 11, 2010 at 6:39 am
by Dr. Mercola:
The untold secrets of the ultimate ruse hoisted on Americans – as poisonous as arsenic and lead. Who says you should believe your government, military, industry… or even your dentist?
Animals in southern Iceland are at risk of fluoride poisoning if they inhale or ingest the ash from the recent volcanic eruption. Fluoride poisoning can lead to internal bleeding, long-term bone damage and tooth loss.
According to BBC News:
“The fluoride in the ash creates acid in the animals’ stomachs, corroding the intestines and causing hemorrhages. It also binds with calcium in the bloodstream and after heavy exposure over a period of days makes bones frail, even causing teeth to crumble.”
Click here to read Dr. Mercola’s comments and how this relates to YOUR health…
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Posted May 8, 2010 at 11:43 am
from The Complete Patient:
I’d like to personally thank the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for articulating its food-rights policy.
I know, I don’t usually have nice things to say about the FDA, but I’m feeling appreciative because the agency has made it so much easier to explain the food-rights struggle to large numbers of people.
Just to re-cap, the agency’s position, as articulated in its response to the suit filed by the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund (described in my previous post), is three-fold:
–There’s no absolute right to any raw unprocessed food, unless the FDA says it’s okay;
–There’s no right to good health, except as approved by the FDA.
–There’s no right for citizens to contract privately for their food.
More Americans appear to be getting the message. The outcry in California against SB 201 in 2008 was a first sign. Then, of course, the people’s will was thwarted by Gov. Schwarzenegger’s veto.
Over the past six months, we’ve had the popular push in Wisconsin, a state where the regulators have gone bonkers to eliminate raw milk, to pressure legislators to approve making it available from the farm; the proposed law now sits on the desk of a governor who has indicated he hears the consumer outrage (but is certainly subject to the not-so-gentle whispers from Big Dairy and the FDA).
And now, just within the last few weeks, we see a firestorm building in…
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Posted May 5, 2010 at 12:17 am
An excerpt from Gary Scott’s post titled:
Quantum Wealth – Tax Advantages at Home
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When the elements of air fire and water are in balance… our bodies and mind can be at ease.
When the fire, air and water get out of balance we feel dis-ease.
The yatchak we lived with taught us to sue ancient knowledge about fire, air and water to create rituals of work that would maximize the return from our activity.
The ancients believe that every day consists of two four hour air, water and fire cycles each.
2am to 6am: Air Cycle. This is time to wake up. The mind is light active and this is a good time to think, multi task and learn.
6am to 10am: Water Cycle. Strength is increased. This is a good time to do physical activity.
10am to 2pm: Fire Cycle. This is the time for digestion. High noon is the best time for the main meal of the day.
2pm to 6pm: Air Cycle. The mind is light and active again/ Study and do mental work.
6pm to 10pm: Fire cycle. If you eat a heavy evening meal this cycle will digest it. However if your evening meal is early and light, this second fire cycle acts like an oven cleaner and burns up stresses and toxicities gained during the day.
10pm to 2am Water Cycle: Best time for deepest sleep.
Merri and I were working to hard. Our health was out of balance. The yatchak explained the bodies natural schedule that supports balance, health and well being.
He taught is the importance of having more than a routine. He told us to create ritual that is fortified with the balance of nature!
Those who live extra ordinarily long lives seem to share this common trait… a ritual. Whatever long lived people do, they do in moderation, in a very similar way and with great gusto.
For example, if they drink an ounce of whisky every day, at six o clock, they do not do this at…
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Posted March 12, 2010 at 2:20 pm
by Barry Goss
Founding Editor, Wealth Vault
Many more people these days are exploring worldwide — not just for places to live or places to invest… but places that’ll treat them the best during medical care.
The Bumrungrad Medical Center in Bangkok has established itself as a Mecca in medical tourism, combing quality health care with reasonable costs.
Below the embedded video (which gives you a good 3-minutes overview of one of the top hospitals in the world) is email sent to Simon Black, editor of SovereignMan.com.
Enjoy and keep exploring…
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Posted February 18, 2010 at 12:56 am
by Joseph Mercola:
If you are having sleep problems, whether you are not able to fall asleep, wake up too often, don’t feel well-rested when you wake up in the morning, or simply want to improve the quality and quantity of your sleep, try as many of the following techniques below as possible:
* My current favorite for insomnia is Meridian Tapping Technique (MTT) / Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). Most people can learn this gentle tapping technique in several minutes.
MTT / EFT can help balance your body’s bioenergy system and resolve some of the emotional stresses that are contributing to the insomnia at a very deep level. The results are typically long lasting and the improvement is remarkably rapid.
* Listen to white noise or relaxation CDs. Some people find the sound of white noise or nature sounds, such as the ocean or forest, to be soothing for sleep. An excellent relaxation/meditation option to listen to before bed is the Insight audio CD.
* Avoid before-bed snacks, particularly grains and sugars. This will raise blood sugar and inhibit sleep. Later, when blood sugar drops too low (hypoglycemia), you might wake up and not be able to fall back asleep.
* Sleep in complete darkness or as close as possible. If there is even the tiniest bit of light in the room it can disrupt your circadian rhythm and your pineal gland’s production of melatonin and seratonin. There also should be as little light in the bathroom as possible if you get up in the middle of the night. Please whatever you do, keep the light off when you go to the bathroom at night. As soon as you turn on that light you will for that night immediately cease all production of the important sleep aid melatonin.
* No TV right before bed. Even better, get the TV out of the bedroom or even out of the house, completely. It is too stimulating to the brain and it will take longer to fall asleep. Also disruptive of pineal gland function for the same reason as above.
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Posted January 27, 2010 at 7:46 pm
From Ted.com
To find the path to long life and health, Dan Buettner and team study the world’s “Blue Zones,” communities whose elders live with vim and vigor to record-setting age. At TEDxTC, he shares the 9 common diet and lifestyle habits that keep them spry past age 100.
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Posted January 17, 2010 at 4:31 pm
By Tony Robbins:
Forget the resolutions that you may or may not have broken already; resolutions are nothing but a wish list of what you want to have happen. Instead resolve to make a real change this year.
Here’s a message to get you on the path to momentum, and true lasting change. (Here’s a hint: It’s about making progress happen in your life.)
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Posted January 6, 2010 at 8:00 am
By Glen Matten:
Most of us know that avocado, blueberries and broccoli tick all the health boxes, but there are many other lesser-known superfoods that we should become acquainted with, says nutritionist Glen Matten – and better still, they all taste great
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