Macular Degeneration and Eye Care

October 30th, 2008

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Simple eye care supplements can improve your eye health and reduce the risk of age-related macular degeneration.

Age- related macular degeneration is the most common cause of vision loss in people over 50. A hardening of the arteries which nourish the retina deprive the retinal tissue of the oxygen and nutrients it needs to function. Cataracts and decreasing night vision are also affected by the result of a loss of nourishment to aging eyes.

The 2 nutrients, lutein and zeaxanthin, are carotenoids which play a vital role in the health of our eyes.

Carotenoids are found in plants such as spinach, collard greens, kale, mustard greens, turnip greens broccoli, green beans, cabbage, honeydew, and kiwi. A 1995 study showed that eating spinach and collard greens five or more times a week was found to noticeably reduce the risk of MD. (1)

In a 2004 study, lutein has been shown to not only help prevent, but to actually reverse symptoms of ARMD. Immerse Yourself in the Full Healing Contemplation Here »

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Vaccine – Live Report on Vaccine Contamination

October 1st, 2008

Gary Null, long-time health expert, hosted a radio interview with award winning British journalist, Janine Roberts regarding contamination of many common vaccines. Gary Null has a PhD in human nutrition and public health science. Below is an excerpt from his email about the vaccine broadcast. If you missed hearing Gary’s program live, use this link to his archives and click on the Oct. 1st program. Archive of 10/01/08 program on vaccine contamination.

Gary and Janine will discuss controversies surrounding our need to reassess vaccines and the meaning of viruses entirely. This program will challenge the entire basis of our vaccine program. A selection of alarming documents will be revealed including NIH official transcripts never before reported. In these revealing documents, top named scientists at our leading institutions speak frankly about the methods used to make our licensed vaccines, saying they contain mutagenic DNA fragments that “may cause cancers and autoimmune diseases” as well as possibly “prions and oncogenes”- brain proteins and a protein for encoding cancer. None of these, they say, can be removed. The vaccine manufacturers cannot even meet the new lowered standards of purity for vaccines.

Also present in our vaccines, they add, are many viruses from other species, proteins, enzymes, toxins and RNA fragments. They state that chicken leukosis virus is widely present in the measles vaccine and has not been removed. It is to this already dangerous brew that such neurotoxic chemicals such as mercury and aluminum are added.

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Stress – How to Cope Part 2

September 26th, 2008

Table of contents for Stress

  1. Stress – Its Effects on Your Health
  2. Stress - How to Cope
  3. Stress – How to Cope Part 2

Implementing these 6 daily habits will empower you to better cope with stress.

This is Part 2 of steps for coping with stress. Please read the first 5 steps for coping with stress if you missed them by clicking on the link at the beginning of this post. These steps on how to alleviate stress are condensed from Dr. Don Colbert’s book, “The Seven Pillars of Health.”

Guard Your Mental Intake: What enters into your mind affects your health. Many people begin their day listening to national or world news, soap operas, gossipy morning talk shows, or music with negative lyrics. If your day begins by filling your mind with worries about the economy or other people’s problems and/or dysfunctions, you are bound to be stressed before you even get to work! Wisdom from Prov. 4:23, “Above all else, guard your heart, for out of it spring the issues of life.” What you put into your internal being affects every issue of your life. Does your intake create strength and healing? If not, change to positive input.

Breathe Correctly: Proper breathing is one of the best de-stressing techniques and usually the least used. Dr. Colbert tells of asking a paramedic friend what made the different between a trauma patient living or dying. He answered, “I have seen others with significantly less severe injuries die because they simply quit breathing.” Though we are born breathing correctly, abdominal breathing, most of us end up chest and shoulder breathing using short breaths. Our abdomen should rise and fall when we breathe, not our chest and/or shoulders. Abdominal breathing has a calming effect on the brain and nervous system as well as relieving pain, stress, and muscle tension.

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Dementia and Vitamin B-12 Deficiency

September 24th, 2008

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Various studies have been done linking both average and low Vitamin B-12 levels to brain shrinkage and dementia.

I came across 3 different studies regarding B-12 deficiency and memory problems. I’ll paste abbreviated results below with their references in case you want to read the full articles. Top sources of Vitamin B are listed at the end of the post.

Take note of these main points:

-Though western cultures normally eat enough food with B-12, the absorption of it decreases with age.

-The push for using antacids has also decreased people’s absorption of B-12.

-If you divide a normal range of B-12 absorption into thirds, the elderly people in the lower level of what is still considered normal B-12 blood level range had 6 times more brain shrinkage than those in the upper third. Thus, a normal level could still be risky unless you are at the higher end of the range. Two studies below showed risk in normal ranges.

-Dairy products, fish, and meat are the typical sources of B-12.

-Daily oral doses of B-12 in 1000 mcg were effective in raising B-12 levels in elderly and reducing memory problems.

-Vitamin B-12 helps in the formation of red blood cells and is important for the maintenance of the central nervous system. Deficiency can lead to anemia and neurological damage.

-Vitamin B-12 deficiency is uncommon in developed countries but is an issue among the elderly due to problems in vitamin absorption and among vegetarians whose dietary intake may be low, the researchers said.

Study 1

In the study led by David Smith and Anna Vogiatzoglou of the University of Oxford in Britain, people in the upper third of vitamin

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