September 30, 2008

How Sugar Robs Your Children of Good Health

Based on current research, sugar harms your children’s health in many ways. Besides contributing to diabetes and tooth decay, sugar also can suppress your child’s immune system and impair his or her defenses against infectious disease.Once school starts, many factors contribute to the colds and flus that often contribute to our children missing school: being exposed to lots of germs, lack of fresh air and sunshine, and the stresses that go along with school are just a few. One often-overlooked factor is the amount of sugar in our children’s diets. Since sugar suppresses our immune systems, it is the last thing you want to give your sick child, and limiting it for your healthy child wil help keep his or her immune system working more effectively.Sugar also sabotages your child’s health and happiness by contributing to reduced learning capacity, drowsiness and decreased activity, learning disorders, eczema, depression, worsening symptoms of ADHD, and it plays a factor in heart disease and cancer.Sugar sneaks into your child’s diet in many different forms. Food makers often use several types of sugar so that it appears on the ingredient list under different names in hopes that you won’t recognize it.Here are some of the […]

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September 29, 2008

Miracle of the Mineral Baths

As far back as 73 B.C., hot springs or mineral baths have served as places for health and rejuvenation. King Herod, Roman King of Judea, created one of the world’s first health resorts on the Dead Sea. Queen Cleopatra built a cosmetics and pharmaceutical factory there. During the Roman Empire, nearly every city had access to mineral baths which were used for public bathing, exercise and socializing. From the United Kingdom to Germany to Algeria, bath houses could be found.
The world famous Baden-Baden hot springs in Germany have drawn visitors for centuries. Situated along the Oos River, Baden-Baden has welcomed the ancient Romans, England’s Queen Victoria, and contemporary visitors of all means. Considered some of the most elegant bathing houses in Europe, Baden-Baden is created by some 29 hot springs, which are transferred through pipes to various baths in the city. Patients still come today to seek relief from gout, paralysis, skin diseases and more.
Native Americans recognized the healing powers of the mineral baths, believing that they were a special gift to the people from a Great Spirit. All of these early spa-goers of the day found the mineral essential baths were effective for treating a range of ailments, including […]

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September 23, 2008

Are the Colors On Your Child’s Plate Talking Health or Illness?

Yes, you read that right; it does say ‘talking’. You have probably heard or read about how important it is to eat a variety of Real Foods and to make sure to have foods of different colors. Well, as it turns out, that’s even more important than you may realize. Sure, when you eat lots of different colored foods, naturally colored that is, you are getting a variety of vitamins and minerals. Most recently, however, scientists have discovered that equally as important to those vitamins and minerals, and maybe even more important, are the phytonutrients in Real Foods. All of those natural colors in fruits, vegetables, beans and whole grains are key to great health.”If on a daily basis you incorporate at least seven different colors, you are much more likely to get a wide variety of these nutrients that are healing, that prevent degenerative disease, and that will go to work on every tissue, cell and organ of the body,” says nutritionist Ann Louise Gittleman, PhD, coauthor of The Fat Flush Plan (McGraw-Hill, 2002). You see, the crazy thing is that those colors or phytonutrients actually talk to our cells. That’s right, they […]

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