Sunday, June 10, 2007

Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Eat Less!

I know you don't want to hear that, but it's worth a try. Many studies on animals have shown that eating slightly less than your body needs to maintain its weight ends up extending your life span (although there is still controversy over this diet works on humans or not).

Eating less reduces the risk of many of the most common diseases and complaints people have in old age, including extra weight, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and heart disease.

At the same time, a restricted-calorie diet should be used with caution, as there are possible negative consequences, including: loss of muscle mass, less bone density, anemia, dizzyness, and depression.

Here is some more information from the Mayo Clinic on restricted-calorie diets:

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/anti-aging/HQ00233

Sunday, June 3, 2007

You Have Permission to Consume More Fat

...the healthy kind of fat, that is. Omega-3 fatty acids reduce the risk of heart disease, lower your triglycerides (your bad cholesterol), help prevent arthritis, and are also important for brain functioning.

A good source of omega-3 is fish, especially fatty fish such as mackerel, herring, sardines, and salmon. You can also get some omega-3 from tofu and other stuff made with soybeans, along with oils made from canola, flaxseed, and walnut.

There are also a variety of organic or all-natural fish oil supplements commercially available at health food stores.

Saturday, June 2, 2007

Have you Tried Goji Berries?

Goji berries grow in remote regions of Tibet, China, and Mongolia. They have been used in Chinese medicine for thousands of years, but it was only recently that scientists have discovered what makes them such a powerful supplement. They used to be known in the U.S. as "wolfberries," but health food stores have made them popular using their current more exotic-sounding name, which is a phonetic spelling of the Chinese pronunciation.

Goji berries are extremely rich in Vitamin C (they have more than oranges!), they are a source of at least 19 different essential amino acids (the only plant in the world with that many), and they contain a wide variety of antioxidants.

They also have Vitamin E, B-complex vitamins, and essential fatty acids. Dried berries taste good on cereal, or they can be made into a juice (often in combination with other fruits and vegetables).

Friday, June 1, 2007

The FDA wants to tell you what vitamins you can take -- or else!

The FDA has a long history of trying to suppress alternative and natural medicines and supplements in the U.S. In the past, they've even used SWAT teams to raid and terrorize alternative clinics because people were taking vitamins there:
http://www.newstarget.com/z021791.html

Now they've really taken the cake -- they're proposing new legal guidelines that will reclassify all vitamins, supplements, herbs, and even vegetable juices as drugs under the regulatory power of the FDA.

Under these proposed guidelines, FDA "experts" (the same corrupt officials who reapproved Vioxx after it killed over 50,000 Americans) will decide whether herbs, supplements, vitamins or simple devices like massage stones are to be regulated as drugs and medical devices. If the FDA experts, in their infinite wisdom, decide that these things are to be reclassified, they will essentially be outlawed, stripped from the shelves, and regulated out of existence. Anyone who dares to manufacture, promote or sell such products may be branded a criminal and rounded up by armed FDA agents who have a well established history of suppressing natural medicine.


Read more here for more information. You can also download and read the entire FDA document as a .pdf file, and there's also a direct link to the FDA's website where you can leave comments.