Physicians have stooped to dangerous new lows: recommending regular cholesterol screenings for growing children as young as 9 years of age. The new guidelines are supported and endorsed by the National Blood and Lung Institute and the American Academy of Pediatrics. Children as young as 9 years old may be prescribed dangerous cholesterol-lowering medications known
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I would estimate that 50% of the people who contact me about my nutritional consulting services are interested in weight loss as a primary goal. I am not opposed to helping a person to lose weight when it may be necessary, but here’s the catch: losing weight is NOT of primary importance. What is of
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Hardly anyone tells the elderly they need to drink water. Yet the sad part is that so many health problems could be prevented by simply having adequate water intake. Renal dysfunction is so common among the elderly I seem to address this every time I work with anyone in their 70’s and beyond. The sad
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One of the most essential electrolyte minerals is one that is increasingly deficient among people today. Magnesium deficiency is so common, one could write several volumes of books about it. Magnesium is essential for initiating more than 300 enzymatic reactions in the body. Magnesium deficiency has been cited in numerous diseases, as either being a
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At once point in history, salt was one of the highest traded commodities on earth. In addition to being used as a natural flavor-enhancer, salt was used as a natural preservative prior to refrigeration. Many people today have avoided the consumption of salt because of fear of it causing an elevation in blood pressure. Yet,
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Adrenal fatigue is thrown around a lot these days even though conventional medicine fails to acknowledge it as a legitimate health issues. Perhaps conventional medicine isn’t interested in things in cannot treat with drugs. Another major problem is that conventional medicine does not know how to adequately test for adrenal fatigue. In the blood, sometimes
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Elevated blood pressure affects one out of three Americans. The #1 cause of death that is associated with elevated blood pressure is Hypertensive Heart Disease. There can be many causes to hypertension. Chronic elevation of blood pressure results in a shortened life expectancy as well as the quality of one’s life. There is an intrinsic
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You are living in a time where more people are paying more attention to their health and well being than perhaps at any other point in history. Ironically the incidence of degenerative diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and cancer have reached epidemic proportions. It is a dichotomy such as this which tends to indicate
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Guest post By Craig Lane, NC, CMT, Planetary Herbalist I first discovered this plant 15-20 years ago. A teacher of mine spoke of how the establishment (the FDA) had given warnings against this plant. Yet he said that in all his years, no one had ever had a bad outcome of use with the plant, even
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Toxic, heavy metals: you are exposed to them, I guarantee it. Not one person living in modern civilization is not exposed to toxic, heavy metals. The question to ask is: “how efficiently does your body eliminate toxic metals like aluminum, mercury and lead?” Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA) is an outstanding laboratory biopsy to use to monitor
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