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  • Do You Want To Be Healthy? Then stop eating rocks and dirt!

    rocksLately there have been “big” news articles about the downside of taking supplements. I previously wrote about one study regarding older women.

    The latest news is that taking calcium supplements may lead to a higher incidence of heart attacks. So it is now suggested that one get calcium through food sources.

    My issue with all these studies is that they do not tell you what “supplements” the people were taking. This is important because there are “supplements” and there are supplements!

    And the problem with the “food” solution is that food is not food anymore – it’s pink slime, fillers and genetically modified yuk! [yup – my bias is showing]

    What can we do to get better nutrition?

    Try these tips

    Tip 1

    For starters, bake your current supplements in the oven for 10 minutes at 350 degrees. Do the results look like baked food or do your supplements now look black and oozy?

    Black and oozy suggests they are made from rocks, petroleum and coal tar. And yes – that is allowed – and is what 95% of supplements in North America are made from!

    Tip 2

    Read the supplement labels and try pronouncing the words out loud. Do they sound like food words or chemical words?

    Tip 3

    If the results of Tips 1 and 2 scare you – then try Tip 3
    NutriVerus
    Buy vitamins that are food based! Bodies are made to process foods, not chemicals like the product to your right.

     

    And you always contact me about this product via my Mannatech business site….

    And the disclaimer – if you buy any products I mention on my sites or in my blog posts, I am an affiliate, and if you buy from my link – I do make some money. 

    And so can you!!

     

  • Vitamins and Older Women: Some Thoughts

    There was recent news that taking multivitamins was bad for the health of "older" women.

    I read the research summary and nowhere did it tell me what vitamins were studied other than "popular" ones. The conclusions were that we are wasting our money and harming our health.

    Not surprising as 95% of all vitamin/mineral supplements are synthetic!! And those synthetic ones are made of rocks, petroleum and other "natural" ingredients.

    Yes legally they can be called "natural" but they aren't foods. So the next time you read the label and it says natural vitamins and minerals – think again!

    Better yet – take the vitamins you have at home and do a "bake test." 

    Put them in an oven at 350 degrees [F] for 10 minutes and see what happens.

    Here is one such "bake test" result:

    The ones turning black or with black spots? [well that's the tar coming out]

    The ones that lack black spots? [well they are made from food]

    Food bakes; tar ? I don't want to know!

    I can't say for sure but I wonder if the women who were in the study were eating tar!

    And I'd bet that eating tar is not good for your health!

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    Disclaimer: I eat and market products that are food-based and are mentioned in the above photo. And yes I make $ if you buy any from my associate site – and yes that is my link below [I bet you figured that out from my name ]

    http://mymannapages.com/lynndorman

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    Comments? Thoughts? Thank you.

  • Supplements That Can Help You Immensely As You Age

    Lynn at 70I personally do not believe in the concept of anti-aging because we cannot really go backwards or stop our aging process. 

    But anti-aging has become a popular term most often used to sell all matter of products to those who are called “boomers” or “baby boomers.”

     

    [An aside – I am so glad I am older so I don’t have that label.]

    While we cannot stop the aging process – we can certainly slow it down and in some cases reverse some, but not all, ongoing damage to our bodies.  And – while slowing it down, we can also be doing things to look and feel good as we continue to age. 

    The phrase “you don’t look your age” is, to me, a sign of age bias since I actually do look my age.  We all look our ages – because we ARE those ages. 

    Bias aside, we seem to love being told we don’t look our ages.  So with all that said – yes – there are supplements that can help you immensely as you age. 

    In fact, these same supplements can help persons of all ages to age well.  And – as one with expertise in human development – please believe me when I say it’s never too early or too late to start taking care of your body [including your skin,] as well as your mind and spirit. 

    We live in a toxic world and that toxicity affects our food, water and our bodies.  We do need to take supplements to make up for what is, and is not, there in our food, soil and water.

    We need to learn about supplements that can help us and then we need to choose those supplements intelligently so that we feel and look as good as we can as we progress through life.

    What are these supplements?

    [Hint: the ones I take and I think at 70 – I still look great]

    you can read the rest of this article  at: http://ow.ly/1YxbQ

    Or – you can go to http:/graywolfproductions.com/beinghealthy/

    and read about the supplements / or do both


  • An Alarming Trend

    A tripling of strokes in middle aged women!

    And why is this happening?

    From the research by Dr. Amytis Towfighi, a neurology specialist at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles:

    Nearly 2 percent of women ages 35 to 54 reported suffering a stroke in the most recent federal health survey, from 1999 to 2004. Only about half a percent did in the previous survey, from 1988 to 1994…..Belly fat stood out, Towfighi said. The portion of women with abdominal obesity rose from 47 percent in the earlier survey to 59 percent in the recent one. The change in men was smaller, and previous studies have shown that “abdominal obesity is a stronger risk factor for women than men,” she said.

    Fuller article here

    I know I sound like a broken record on weight issues – but your weight is critical to good health and being overweight is bad for most everything…

    I”m thinking about doing a series of videos on optimizing health – taking supplements [food based; not synthetic], managing your weight [not dieting], eating well and exercising. I’ll post them here as they happen.. If you have a topic you’d like to see – post a comment and let me know what…and I’ll do my best to accommodate requests.

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  • Information about medical schools and drug companies

    Disclaimer – I take vitamins and supplements. I also market vitamins and supplements.

    But did you ever stop to wonder why the big pharmas and your docs tell you vitamins are a waste of money? And why certain meds are seemingly pushed at you? Read on…..

    Medical School Department Heads Financially Connected to Drug Companies
    Breaking News
    By VRP Staff

    A new survey indicates that almost two thirds of department heads at U.S. medical schools have financial ties to drug companies.

    The survey, conducted by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, was distributed to all 125 accredited medical schools and the nation’s largest teaching hospitals. A total of 459 of 688 eligible department chairs completed the survey.

    The results indicated that many of the academic leaders at these institutions served as paid consultants to the pharmaceutical industry or accepted free meals and drinks from drug company representatives. Overall, 60 percent of the department heads had a personal financial relationship with the drug companies. Twenty-seven percent reported serving as a paid consultant to the pharmaceutical industry and an equivalent amount of respondents also reported serving on a drug company scientific advisory board. Furthermore, 21 percent of these academic leaders reported serving on speakers’ bureaus for the drug industry. Eleven percent of respondents were on the board of directors of companies involved in the medical industry. In short, the survey found that pharmaceutical companies are involved in every aspect of medical care.

    The lead author of the study, Eric Campbell, pointed out that drug companies and makers of medical devices often take advantage of these academic connections to convince physicians to widely prescribe the companies’ products to patients, even if the products aren’t necessarily in the patients’ best interest. Campbell also co-authored a study last year, which found that these same links to drug companies occur on hospital review boards that oversee experiments on patients.

    Reference:

    Campbell EG, Weissman JS, Ehringhaus S, Rao SR, Moy B, Feibelmann S, Goold SD. Institutional academic industry relationships. JAMA. 2007 Oct 17;298(15):1779-86.

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