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Evaluate Your Quality of Life
Every new year provides us an opportunity to evaluate our quality of life and consider making some positive changes for our Life Journey. In this period of evaluation the subject of health is bound to come up. If it doesn't, then it is time to set some new priorities. What good is wealth in our lives if we have poor health. Good health is one of those things that we don't appreciate until it is gone.
Walt Edwards, Ph.D. - Dr. Health
Immediate gratification seems to control our society and we do what we want, when we want with little thought of the consequences. Billions of dollars are spent each year on enhancing our appearance with cosmetics, the latest style of clothing, face lifts, tummy tucks, lipo-suctions, weight loss diets, anti-aging drugs, and the list goes on and on. Drugs, both legal and illegal, are the solution for many who seek the fast fix, which includes one of the most addicting drugs, alcohol. If you feel low... take a pill, got a head ache... take a pill, stomach reacting to that big meal... take a pill to neutralize the acid (should have taken a digestive enzyme to aide the digestive process), have high blood pressure... take one or more pills, feeling depressed... take an antidepressant (be careful some tend to cause suicide), etc. Rather than deal with the cause to solve the problem, we seek immediate gratification by covering up the problem or being reluctant to face the problem of making positive changes.
For those readers who are interested in making changes and are seeking some helpful direction, there is a viable solution to get started. A helpful day-by-day guide to help you get started is available in my book, 60 Day Journey To Optimal Health. It contains many helpful recommendations for diet and lifestyle changes as well as helpful supplements to consider, along with general information on achieving good health.
Rheumatoid Arthritis Flares: Why It's Worse in Winter
At least in the northern hemisphere, the holidays come at the coldest time of year, which can cause more problems for people with rheumatoid arthritis. While cold weather doesn't cause arthritis, studies have found links between cold weather and increased joint pain.
"People with inflammatory diseases like arthritis tend to do better in warm weather," says Elinor Mody, MD, director of the Women's Orthopedic and Joint Disease Center at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. "The fluid in your joints is like the oil in your car. It doesn't move as well in cold weather." For those with rheumatoid arthritis, depression and pain go hand in hand; up to 20 percent of those with the disease report depression - and people with rheumatoid arthritis who are depressed report more pain than their non-depressed peers and continue to feel pain even after medication has controlled their disease. "If you're more depressed, you're less able to cope with the pain, with everything," Dr. White says.
Rheumatoid Arthritis Flares: Eat Right
For many of us, the holidays are an excuse to put aside healthy eating and enjoy yet another holiday cookie or cocktail. For people with rheumatoid arthritis, an indulgent, unhealthy holiday diet may end up causing a painful rheumatoid arthritis flare. In addition, poor food choices may increase the risk for long-term health issues like osteoporosis and cardiovascular disease. Remember to include: Healthy fats. "Omega-3 fatty acids clearly have an anti-inflammatory role, and high doses can help rheumatoid arthritis," Dr. Mody explains. Cookies and eggnog tend to be high in saturated fat, the wrong kind for RA. Make sure you get enough fish, walnuts, soy, and other food containing omega-3 year-round.
Vitamin D and Calcium:
"To prevent osteoporosis, you need calcium and vitamin D," says Mody. Cold weather, specifically the decreased exposure to sunlight, affects your body's vitamin D production, so it's good to increase your intake of both during this time of year.
Digestive Problems
Most digestion remedies don't work because they only treat your symptoms, not the root cause. So your problems keep coming back. It's like trying to cure a cavity with a shot of Novocain. The pain goes away (temporarily), but the cavity is still eating away at your tooth. In no branch of medicine is treating symptoms rather than root causes more common than when it comes to digestive problems. For example:
Taking antacids may temporarily soothe your painful stomach. But antacids don't balance your acid production, which is what keeps your stomach calm. When there's food in your stomach, your body needs to produce enough acid to digest it and make sure it's broken down efficiently and completely. That's what eliminates gas and bloating. (Most people, as they get older, actually produce too little acid. This causes an acid "imbalance" and acid gets produced when there's no food in your stomach - eating away at your stomach lining.)
Ingesting enzymes if you're low on them is a good temporary solution. But you have to take them all the time, with every meal, and make sure you're getting the right ones for the foods you eat. Wouldn't it be better if your digestive system was healthy and strong enough to produce the enzymes it needs on its own? Ask us for more information on good enzymes.
Relying on laxatives can make you more regular. But why isn't your digestive system strong enough to push what you consume through more speedily on its own? You want food to get through quickly and be broken down efficiently and completely - so it doesn't sit around and "putrefy," and so you can get the maximum benefit from it. Until you strengthen and balance your entire digestive system, your problems are likely to continue to worsen. And unfortunately, the rest of your health is likely to deteriorate right along with your digestive health!
More About Tea Tree Oil
Tea tree oil is a powerful disinfectant and useful herbal remedy. Extracted from the leaves of Melaleuca alternifolia, a native tree of New South Wales, it is a clear liquid, strongly aromatic with an odor similar to that of eucalyptus. Tea tree oil is a good treatment for fungal infections of the skin (athlete's foot, ringworm, jock itch), toenails or fingernails - conditions notoriously resistant to treatment, even by strong systemic antibiotics. Just paint the oil on affected areas two or three times a day. You can also apply it full strength to boils and other localized infections. A ten-percent solution (about one and a half tablespoons to a cup of warm water) can be used as a mouthwash and on skin to rinse and clean infected wounds. Tea tree oil is nontoxic and available at the Health Gallery.
What Is Killing Our Honeybees?
Over the years, there's been a lot of speculation about the causes of colony collapse disorder (CCD), ranging from a virus that interferes with the bee's abilities to navigate to cell phones causing bees to literally become lost on their way back home to the hive. Most researchers agree that it's a complex problem and that most likely there's no single cause. According to a recent story on Grist.com, a memo reveals that, in 2003, despite the serious warnings from its own scientists about the possible threat to the bee population, the EPA reversed a decision to not allow the giant agrichemical company Bayer to move forward with selling its pesticide known as clothianidin, a decision that Bayer is no doubt incredibly grateful for, since it racked up about $262 million dollars in clothianidin sales in 2009 alone.
Under the "conditional registration," Bayer was allowed to provide suppliers with seeds that are pretreated with the pesticide, which is admittedly, toxic to common crop pests but unfortunately, it turns out, is very likely to be to honeybees as well. Other countries, including Germany, France, Italy, and Slovenia, have already recognized the threat that clothianidin poses to honeybees and our entire ecosystem and have banned this dangerous pesticide.
Take Care Of Your Liver
Your liver is under siege every minute of the day from alcohol use, prescription drugs, food additives, environmental pollution, water chlorination, household chemicals, herbicides, pesticides and ingesting too much animal protein. By age 50, this constant attack can lead to a liver clogged up with fatty deposits and years worth of dangerous toxins, which impairs its ability to cleanse and detoxify your body. And if your liver is not functioning properly, you're setting yourself up for a host of health problems. You may experience skin problems such as rashes, eczema and even psoriasis; allergies; memory problems; high blood pressure; autoimmune disorders such as joint pain and chronic fatigue syndrome; digestive problems; food allergies; gallstones and kidney stones; headaches; high blood pressure; and unstable blood sugar levels.
However, you can turn your condition around with healthy lifestyle choices. According to Elson M. Haas, M.D., founder and medical director of the Preventive Medical Center of Marin, "... the cleansing/detoxification process is the missing link in Western nutrition and one of the keys to real healing." You can help rejuvenate your sluggish and overworked liver for optimum performance with nutrients such as milk thistle, phosphatidylcholine, burdock root, artichoke leaf, N-acetyl-L-cysteine (NAC), alpha lipoic acid, olive leaf extract and dandelion root. Many of these are included in Natures Secret Ultimate Cleanse. Check it out at the Health Gallery.
Chakra Energy Candles
Chakra energy candles combine metaphysics with aromatherapy and can facilitate psychic and physical healing. They are enhanced with essential oil blends selected for their aromatherapy benefits relative to balancing each chakra. As the chakra energy candles burn they release beneficial, therapeutic vapors.
Thought For The Day
When thoughts are properly nourished and internalized, they will become a reality in your world of form. Your thoughts are extremely powerful and can directly affect your health and well-being! Negative thoughts are just as powerful as positive thoughts. Think of life as a journey and remember that it is important to enjoy the journey and not the destination. The purpose of why we are here is to learn and experience our life's lessons. How we perceive these lessons can be important to our health and well-being.
Contact Dr. Health:
Walt Edwards, Ph.D.
29820 Ellensburg Avenue
PO Box 283
Gold Beach, OR 97444
541-247-7077
walt4health@gmail.com
MEDICAL HERBALISM:
The Science Principles and Practices of Herbal Medicine
Medical Herbalism contains comprehensive information concerning the identification and use of medicinal plants by chemical structure and physiological effect, the art and science of making herbal medicine, the limitations and potential of viewing herbs chemically, and the challenge to current research paradigms posed by complex plant medicines. It also includes information on toxicology and contraindications, the issues involved in determining dosage and formulation types for an individual, guides to the different measurement systems and conversion tables, and the pros and cons of both industrial and traditional techniques.
With additional sections devoted to the principles of green medicine, the history of Western Herbalism, the variety of other medical modalities using medicinal plants, an extensive resource directory, and a discussion of treatments organized by body system, Medical Herbalism is the comprehensive textbook all students and practitioners of clinical herbalism need to develop their healing practices.
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