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This website contains publications, health education resources, data and statistics, guidelines. Also within this site you will find reviews on and links to health related products and services.
Checkout our section on vitamins, minerals and supplements where we show you what to look for in a supplement and also what a supplement should not contain. Seven Doctors of nutritional medicine test over five hundred different supplements, the winner for five years in a row here. New Section - Drinking Water The healthy adult human is 60 to 65 percent water by weight. Only when you understand how this precious substance is used by the body can you fully appreciate the concepts of health and disease.
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The shocking truth about your health
The cell - elegant, resourceful, marvellously intricate. The fundamental unit of life.
Poison it, injure it, or starve it, and the resulting damage causes degeneration and disease. Nurture it, protect it. and feed it with the nutrients it needs, and it repairs itself, providing health and longevity.
All of us begin as a single cell. That one cell divides into two, two into four, and so on, with the newly generated cells programmed to perform specific missions throughout our lives. The trillions of cells work in synergy within the universe we call our body.
Every day, billions of new cells are produced to replace those that have served before them. This natural process is constantly under attack by the environment - toxins in the soil and water, pollutants in the air, radiation from the sun, preservatives in our processed food, and oxidative stress in our daily lives and lifestyle choices.
"True health is not just the absence of disease. It is a feeling of total well-being on the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual realms of a person’s life."
When talking about health it is hard to know where to begin as it is such a large scope. But lets break it down, without good health nothing else matters, it doesn't matter how much wealth you if you are stuck in bed dying of a degenerative disease.
What Your Doctor Doesn't Know about Nutritional Medicine May Be Killing You
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This year one in three of us will die of cancer, one in three of coronary disease and one person in five of a stroke. Not only are the rates increasing but what's worse is that these degenerative diseases are now occurring in an increasingly younger age group. type 2 diabetes -- once called "adult-onset diabetes " -- is becoming increasingly common among children and teenagers, to the point where it now accounts for almost half of new diabetes cases. Heart disease is now increasing at an alarming rate in school children.
"we are the first generation that will out live our children" (New England Journal of Medicine)
with NEWS headlines like:
"Countries are urged to stockpile anti-viral drugs as a strain of potentially deadly bird flu (Avian influenza) spreads" ... "Lung cancer mortality rates among men have risen since 1980 by about 20%" ... "CHILDHOOD cancer has increased by more than a fifth in the past 25 years" ... "HIV/AIDS epidemic" ... "The mortality rate of SARS is believed to be about 15% of people known to be infected"...
and health statistics like:
A diabetes epidemic is under way. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), an estimated 30 million people worldwide had some form of diabetes in 1985; by 2000, the number had increased to 177 million. WHO projections suggest that the number of people suffering from the disease will increase to some 370m by 2030.
In the early 1900s, the world’s leading causes of premature death were infectious diseases:
Diphtheria Influenza Tuberculosis Pneumonia Today, the world’s leading causes of premature death are degenerative diseases:
Heart Disease (7.5 million) Cancer (7.1 million) Stroke (5.5 million) Diabetes (770,000)
(Numbers are according to the World Health Report 2000)
and yet with these alarming statistics we continue to do very little in the way of disease prevention, or at least put it off till tomorrow...
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Find out how you can promote general health and well-being, such as aid digestion, anti-aging, antioxidant benefits, boost energy, improve memory, reduce stress, and vision improvement.
Learn about how you can naturally treat illnesses and conditions such as acne, ADD, ADHD, anxiety, arthritis, depression, thyroid disorders, weight loss and other specific health conditions and disorders.
We also have a section on important vitamins, minerals and nutrients often found in many dietary and nutritional supplements such as bee pollen benefits, best calcium supplements, facts about Vitamin E, fish oil benefits, multivitamin review, multivitamins with minerals, safe herbal supplements, vitamins for teenagers and benefits of Vitamin E.
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