Modern medical research is showing that raising the body’s alkalinity can help with cancer, acid reflux, high cholesterol, diabetes, and other conditions. Strengthening the body’s ability to resist can be especially helpful with slow-growing cancers like prostate cancer. Slowing the growth allows more time for treatment and may extend life.

I often hear natural health fans talk about alkalinity. There are many success stories. But most people are not familiar with the importance of controlling alkalinity in the body, how it can improve health, and that researchers are finding new ways to boost your alkalinity.

Many of the things we eat and drink every day affect the body’s natural pH (the level of acidity versus alkalinity). That’s not usually a problem in the short term. But for many people, having a too-acid metabolism over long periods of time can contribute to serious medical conditions.

Knowing the facts and understanding how and why to raise  and maintain a healthy level alkalinity in your body can help you improve your health. It is not a substitute for professional medical care, of course. But it can help improve your overall health and may improve your chances of recovering from or controlling serious medical conditions, including cancer.

A new website called BoostYourAlkalinity.com offers detailed information for cancer patients and their concerned friends or loved ones who are looking for ways to help them. It also offers information on how raising the body’s alkalinity can help other conditions such as acid reflux, high cholesterol, diabetes, and so on.

It is worth taking time to learn the benefits of disease suppression by increasing alkalinity in the body. The site provides access to a wealth of research with a section called Research Resources. The most important link is to a Research Presentation that demonstrates the link between raising alkalinity and suppressing cancer.

The importance of controlling alkalinity in your body is also well explained in an article by the site’s editor, titled “Why Is it Important to Boost Your Alkalinity?” It is very detailed and well worth reading. The author tells his own story of what it meant when medical tests showed he had elevated psa, an indicator for prostate cancer, and what he did about it.

The website explains several methods of increasing alkalinity. its focus is the commercially available alkaline contrate solution developed from patents invented by Ignacio Cisneros.

The main theme during the management of diabetes is mostly to control blood sugar level. Management of diabetes requires awareness on part of patient. In order to lead a long and healthy life one has to keep his blood sugar level within his target range.

4 main methods to manage diabetes effectively are

a. Diet and lifestyle
b. Oral anti-diabetic drugs
c. Insulin
d. Other factors

About 50% of new cases can be controlled adequately by diet alone, 20-30% will need an oral anti-diabetic drug, and 20-30% will require insulin. Read the rest of this entry »

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What you eat and what you do can influence your hormones dramatically. When this happens you can either gain weight or lose weight. Avoid these key areas to make sure you lose weight with your healthy weight loss diet. Don’t take for granted just how powerful hormones like these are in determining your weight loss success.

This one hormone that can cause so many problems is called Cortisol. Excess cortisol will stimulate your appetite and prompt more calories to be stored as fat, so it is very influential in your weight loss plan. These are 2 things you don’t want when trying to follow a healthy weight loss diet.

Cortisol also increases protein breakdown within the muscle, which means a slower metabolism and less calories burned. A key to successful weight loss is keeping your metabolism running at a fast rate so that you are always burning calories.

It decreases glucose utilization and increased insulin resistance, which means the glucose or sugars in your body are not used for energy as much as they should be. Instead they float around and eventually get stored as fat. This is strike two against your healthy weight loss diet and healthy eating plans.

One thing that directly increases cortisol is stress. Stress is the culprit in increasing cortisol levels and resistance to insulin and leptin. Stress can come from work issues, family issues, medical problems and even unhealthy foods. Read the rest of this entry »

Want to know the best new health idea lately? Making healthcare available to everyone.

Oh, wait! That is not a new idea. In fact, it is 100 years old. President Teddy Roosevelt, leader of the Rough Riders, outdoorsman, adventurer, Republican, was the first U.S. President to advocate healthcare for all.

While Canada and most countries of Europe have achieved that goal. the U.S. has been repeatedly prevented from protecting all its citizens from dying for lack of medical care. Nowadays 18,000 people a year die because they cannot afford health care. Some of them have jobs.

In other countries, like Canada and England, everyone gets free healthcare. A young American man I worked with had a sudden heart attack in his 30s while visiting his cousins in Canada. He said his care doctors and hospital care were top notch, and they cost him nothing.

As one British doctor told an American patient, “Call us selfish, but we don’t want you getting us sick.”

Yet Canadian and British doctors are well paid, have nice houses and cars and are happy with the system. When interviewed last year, one young doctor near London mentioned his $million dollar home and could not understand why anyone would think that English doctors are not well paid.

So here is a video of President Obama on Labor Day, explaining once again why we must have healthcare reform, and we cannot afford to wait while insurance costs, which have risen three times as fast as wages, continue to soar.

Notice as he says that while Americans are dying for lack of healthcare and being denied coverage or losing their insurance just when they need it most, some profitable insurance companies are being subsidized by the U.S. government.

Subsidizing the insurance companies? That alone is enough to make me sick. It has got to stop.

Recent medical research on vitamin D has shown amazing results. As we mentioned in an earlier post, vitamin D helps prevent so many serious diseases that some are calling it the “new wonder drug.”

And now it turns out that children actually need twice as much vitamin D as had been previously recommended. Instead of 200 units, they need 400.

Doctors have now found that vitamin D in the higher dosages prevents not only rickets and other diseases in children that have been known for generations. It has now been discovered that high-enough dosages of vitamin D also prevent diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and other deadly conditions. And unlike prescriptions drugs, vitamin D it is cheap and completely safe.

Furthermore, researchers say, the amount of vitamin D that children and teenagers need to be healthy is far too much to get just from food. Children (and adults) need to take vitamin D supplements to stay healthy.

If you are trying to lose weight, or you have high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, or other health conditions that require changing your diet, often it can be tough to find food that you like. And if you are preparing food for a family, you don’t want to have to fix totally separate meals for different family members.

People often complain that low-fat, low-salt food is tasteless, but it doesn’t have to be that way. All it takes is a little creativity and great, fresh ingredients.

Here is a fat-free, salt-free way to make grilled fish that is simply delicious. These instructions make enough grilled fish to serve two adults and a small child, but you can easily increase the quantities to serve more people.

You will use no oil or butter, and no salt. Yet this dish is richly flavorful. It is wonderful served with baked plantains and black beans (the traditional side dishes), or with baked potatoes, salad, and any other vegetables you like.

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