I hope that reading the title of this article got your attention. We are going to talk about energy management. You heard it right: I have used the big word ENERGY. I know you are probably thinking to yourself right now: “Here we go. She’s going to start talking about some esoteric concepts that don’t mean anything to me.”

Let me tell you that isn’t going to be the case. My intention here is to demystify the esoteric concept of energy from a simple and practical standpoint.

Here is what we will touch upon:

• What does it mean to be an energetic being?
• How to manage your energy in the way that works for you.
• How to recognize an “energy drain.”
• What is the difference between spending versus investing your energy.
• How to protect yourself from energy vampires.
• How food affects your energy.
• What to do to feel more energized and alive in your life.
• Tools and resources you can use to affect your energy levels and also to protect yourself.

Since this would be too much information to cover in one article, and I also don’t want you to go to sleep while reading this, I’m dividing it into two parts. The first part we will talk about managing your energy. The second part will cover how to protect your energy and tools you can use, and will be discussed in the next issue of Live Your Life.

Let’s start from the beginning. Why am I the person you should listen to? I don’t think you SHOULD do anything in your life. Yes you heard me right. However, if what I’m saying is making sense to you and you feel attracted to it, then by all means read and draw your own conclusions about what I’m sharing with you. I always believe in questioning and trying things for yourself. Otherwise, how will you find your own way in life? This is my platform to share my own experiences with you and what I have learned through those experiences.

So if you are still with me, here we go:

The first time that I was introduced to the concept of energy was when I was 20 years old. Coming from a conventional medicine background you can imagine my response to the energy concept. (Too bad you can’t see my face, because it would be so much easier to show you than to describe what that looked like back in the day.) It was kind of the same thing as talking about UFOs. Not something I ever knew about, had no tangible experience with, and on top of everything, I was coming from a very rigid place, which was, “If I can’t see it, smell it, or touch it, then it must not exist.” Does that sound at all familiar to you? I had 1,000 questions and I wanted to understand it NOW! I was functioning from my intellect and that is where I stayed most of the time. Why? Because that is where I was comfortable.

Here is the reason: There were events in my childhood so painful and overwhelming that at one point in my life I disconnected from my emotions.

The result was me disowning a very essential and important part of myself–my sense of knowing. Call it intuition. I found out years later emotions are your essential connector to your intuition.

Pointer #1: It is usually challenging to believe in something that you never had a tangible experience with (and know that it exists).

Pointer #2: If at some point in your life (due to overwhelming events) you disconnected from your emotions (which by the way most of us do), your sense of knowing (intuition) is greatly diminished or masked.

That is why lots of folks are having a hard time relating to the concept of energy. We don’t operate in those terms in our lives, on a day-to-day basis. However, that doesn’t mean energy doesn’t exist and it doesn’t affect our lives just because we don’t believe in it.

Nowadays, it has been scientifically proven at the base of everything is energy. We are energetic beings that vibrate at certain speeds. The sooner you’ll get this concept, the better off you’ll be.

Pointer #3: You are in charge of your vibration.

However, if you don’t know that, aren’t aware of the energy concept and the practical application of it in your life, you most likely are the victim of your environment and people around you. What do I mean?

Everything you interact with on a day-to-day basis (be it people, things you do, or behavioral patterns you engage in) influences your energy levels and how you function in the world. So how do you recognize an energy drain?

Here are some things to look for:

1. People you talk to or interact with (in person or on the phone), afterwards you feel tired and drained (people who complain a lot, people you look at and don’t feel right about, people who always just want to talk about themselves and their tragedies, etc.).
2. Places and circumstances that leave you feeling tired (places with a lot of people like subways at rush hour, movie theaters or shopping malls, places where violent things have happened–like the Twin Towers, etc.).
3. The food you eat–especially processed foods (those that come prepared in a boxes and cans, pizzas, hamburgers, chips, things you put into the microwave, sugar in any form, eating lots of red meat, and potatoes, overeating, etc.), after you eat them your energy greatly decreases.
4. Doing more than you can handle physically and emotionally, going to extremes.
5. Always taking care of others and not having time for yourself.
6. Mostly “doing” instead of “being.”
7. Having unresolved emotional residue from the past (like childhood trauma, things you had a hard time dealing with, etc.). These things create energetic weight you carry around and make it harder to deal with things on a day-to-day basis. Basically you expend twice as much energy.
8. Excessive use of alcohol, coffee, or other substances including medications and recreational drugs. Energetically they create a gunk in your system and put you out of your body, so the more you use them, it becomes increasingly harder to function in life and be present with what’s going on. They decrease your vibration.
9. EMF (electro magnetic frequency). This is a low vibration frequency that most of us are exposed to on a day-to-day basis from TV, microwave, computers, cell phones, fluorescent lighting, energy plants (nuclear or hydroelectric), airplanes, anything you plug into an electric socket (hairdryers, toasters, etc.).

In closing our talk about energy management, let me tell you how a combination of some of these or all of these things can result in your life.

• Loss of physical energy
• Being tired a lot
• Feeling overwhelmed in life
• Feeling depressed
• Low sex drive
• Reoccurring physical symptoms like eye strain, headaches, backaches
• What’s the point attitude
• Having hard time focusing
• Sleeping disturbances
• Inability to relax
• Inability to fully enjoy life
• Various physical and emotional ailments

Stay tuned for part two, where we will talk about ways to protect your energy and tools that have helped me that you can use to help yourself and take charge of your life.

Enjoy and don’t forget to have fun!

Click here to read Have More Energy - Part two

If you would like to use this article for your own e-zine, not a problem; however, you MUST include the following for the attribution block: Copyright © 2006 Erika Gombosova, Emotional Healing and Self-Discovery Coach, and LiveYourLife.us. Erika helps people process their emotional trauma in a safe environment, helping them to develop more energy, clarity, confidence, improve relationships with themselves and others, improve physical appearance, and help them to live life more fully. Learn more about Erika and Live Your Life, visit www.liveyourlife.us.

About the Author:
Erika Gombosova is an Emotional and Self-Discovery Coach. Based on her own business and life experiences, Erika has discovered there are certain elements (what she calls the inner game) that get in the way of succeeding and moving forward in business and in life. She designed the Self Reclaiming System, which helps women entrepreneurs to move past their old programming and internal limitations to create the successful businesses and live

Purchase the book: Why Am I So Grumpy, Dopey and Sleepy?

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I’ve just been to visit my grandma. She’s ninety two years old and is a remarkable woman. I aspire to be like her but there’s no doubt in my mind I never will.

I’m usually an optimist but I know my constitution is not as strong as hers and over the years I’ve abused my body in a way she never has.

Now don’t misunderstand here. I’ve never smoked or taken non prescription drugs. I rarely ever drink; have never had a tattoo and only my ear lobes have been pierced. I’ve not slept around or had unprotected sex so what makes me so sure I won’t live to be the same age as my predecessor?

Toxic chemicals and EMF - the legacy of progress and the chemical revolution since the 1940’s.

Since my grandmother was born the world has seen many changes. Advancements have been made in all areas and life is, or should be, so much easier. However, for every positive there is a negative and for every up there is a down.

The down is the pollution which invades our lives both inside and out and the irreversible effects it has on all of us. Our immune systems get weaker with every generation.

Let me explain.

When my grandmother was young, particularly during and after the First and Second World Wars food was very scarce. If you were lucky enough to have food on the table it was fresh, seasonal, full of natural vitamins and minerals and actually tasted the way it was supposed to.

You ate everything that was put on your plate, sitting at a table with the rest of your family. Meals were taken at a set time with no snacks in-between. Eating was a social occasion and if you weren’t there you went hungry.

People were rarely overweight. They walked or used a bicycle to get where they needed to go.

Fast forward to 2006 where even sitting down to a meal is a rare event. Most people eat snacks sitting at their desks, in the car, bus or train and family meals seem to be reserved for special occasions. Exercise is something to be scheduled in.

Food is mostly frozen, prepacked and microwavable. It contains fertilizers, insecticides, pesticides, growth hormones, antibiotics, preservatives, flavorings and colorings as well as the chemicals which leak from the packaging.

What it rarely contains unless organic is sufficient vitamins, minerals and nutrients to keep us healthy, and it is now almost mandatory to take an effective daily multi-vitamin supplement.

However, that doesn’t appear to worry the majority of us. We seem more concerned with the size and appearance of the food rather than the actual taste or nutritional value. No-one considers we now need to eat several oranges to get the same amount of Vitamin C as my grandmother got from just one.

We ship produce thousands of miles around the world using up our natural resources, causing all sorts of pollution and global warming to satisfy our lust for year round availability. Just as our extended Christmas has lost its magic so has the novelty of strawberries and cream for Wimbledon and lettuce in the summer. Nothing is seasonal any more.

Legally our grocery stores have to check their sell by and use by dates but how many of us are conscientious about it at home? While the food may taste okay, who knows what lurks within? Sometimes I think food must have been embalmed rather than preserved as it has such a long expiration date.

Since the 1940’s and the so called ‘Chemical Revolution’ over 100,000 synthetic chemicals have been produced which simply did not exist prior to that date. Worryingly, very few have ever been tested for long term health effects either individually or in combination.

There are over 200 different types of cancer now and scientists agree that 80% of them are caused by harmful toxic synthetic chemicals.

Most of these come from our food but they are all around us and we cannot escape them. Many are in the products we use on our skin so the phrase “dying to be beautiful” could be taken quite literally.

My grandmother has never followed the cleanse, tone, moisturize routine, worn makeup, nail polish and perfume, or colored her hair. I, on the other hand have been guilty of all of the above.

Unlike me she’s never consciously sunbathed or spent hours on sunbeds. Having almost drowned as a toddler she never learned to swim so hasn’t spent time in chlorine filled swimming pools. Computers, mobile phones and until very recently, microwave ovens, have played no part in her life.

My grandmother never learned to drive and rode her bicycle until she was in her late eighties. I, on the other hand jump into the car and use it far more than I should.

I have a vacuum cleaner and central heating. My grandma is used to a hand brush and until relatively recently, coal fires.

All in all, my life is easy but I wish I could turn back the clock. If I knew then what I know now I think I’d have more chance of being like my grandmother. As it is, although forty years my senior, her memory is far better than mine.

She is a diabetic and takes medication but has never felt compelled to take vitamins and supplements. She has a home cooked meal every day, using meat and fresh vegetables.

To keep her brain active she does crossword puzzles and word searches and her hands are kept supple with knitting.

I take vitamins and minerals, probiotics and various other supplements every day just so my immune system can cope with the daily barrage of toxic chemicals to which I am unwillingly and often unwittingly being exposed.

I use certified organic skincare and personal products as that’s the only way to ensure I’m not absorbing toxins through my skin. I always assumed any product on the supermarket shelf would be safe but apparently not.

Out of the 10,500 plus synthetic chemicals used in the personal and skin care industry only about 11% have ever been assessed. Cosmetic manufacturers can use any ingredient apart from ten prohibited substances in their products and they are not required to undergo approval before they are sold.

That’s a bit worrying as your skin absorbs 60% of whatever you put on it.

Further, independent research has found that more than one third of personal care products contain at least one ingredient linked to cancer, and 70% of all products contain ingredients that may contain harmful impurities such as known carcinogens.

It seems my great grandfather was wise when he told my grandma if she was meant to have red lips she would have been born with them.

Technology has moved on and I keep my brain active working on the computer. The keyboard keeps my hands supple. However, it’s taking its toll.

My eyes are deteriorating faster than I wish and I dread the regular trips to the optician as I know they’ll be expensive. I get little exercise and certainly don’t feel as well as I should.

Daily I expose myself to radiation and wear a personal bio shield in the hope it will help reduce the harmful effects of EMFs - the electro magnetic fields around computers, cell phones, electric clocks, fluorescent lights, telephones, answering machines, hair dryers, microwaves and various other common devices.

Even with my best efforts I fear I’m fighting a losing battle. I can’t turn back the clock and undo the advances which we all now take for granted, but I know my generation is paying the price of progress.

That’s why I’ll never be like my grandma.

by Jean Shaw
About the Author: For details of the World’s First cosmetic, skin and personal care products certified to Food Grade Standards free of toxins and harmful synthetic chemicals see www.bestorganicsforhealth.com Jean Shaw is the author of I’m Not Naughty - I’m Autistic and Autism, Amalgam and Me www.jeanshaw.com

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The all too familiar story: no time to cook, kids are late for soccer practice and McDonald’s is on the way. Since it won’t take more than a few minutes to shoot through the drive through we’ll do the fast food stop. Or all too familiar story number 2: lunch hour at work and I need to pick up my dry cleaning, fill a prescription, and take the car to get gas and find time to eat. Sure enough Taco Bell is on the way and they have a drive through as well. These real life situations play out for all of us, millions of us, everyday. Since time has become one of our most precious commodities the sacrifice we make is often in our diet.

And yet it does not need to be this way. By following a few healthful practices you can still go to your favorite fast food chain and 30 years from now, live to tell about it. The key is knowing what to select from the menu and balancing that meal with the rest of the day’s food intake.

Choose Your Menu Items With Care
Choose a main dish item that is low in fat. As an example, when faced with the choice of a bacon cheeseburger or a regular hamburger, the regular hamburger wins every time. In the battle of the regular hamburger or the grilled chicken breast sandwich the chicken wins hands down. Why? Here’s an example:

Wendy’s Ultimate Chicken Grill Sandwich has 360 calories, 7 grams of fat, and 0 trans fat. Compare that to the Wendy’s Big Bacon Classic which has 580 calories, 29 grams of fat and 1.5
grams of trans fat. Put either choice with a medium fry and you have added another 440 calories and another 21 grams of fat. Choose, instead, the Baked Potato with Sour Cream and Chive and you add 320 calories and 4 grams of fat - a better choice indeed.

Choose side salads and salad bar vegetables as these provide extra vitamins and add dietary fiber. In addition they fill you up without adding lots of extra calories. Be sure to use low fat or non-fat dressing or, better still, a simple vinaigrette dressing. More dietary fiber can be found in the choice of whole wheat or whole grain buns and rolls.

If your sweet tooth kicks in have fresh fruit or frozen yogurt. Or go for the reduced fat ice cream versus the shake. Again an example, this time from McDonald’s: 16 oz. Triple Thick Vanilla Shake has 550 calories and 13 grams of fat. The Vanilla Reduced Fat Ice Cream Cone has 150 calories and only 3.5 grams of fat. Granted the lower calories alternative is not as decadent but it also will not clog your arteries by increasing your cholesterol intake and it will satisfy the sugar craving.

Watch Your Portion Size
Portion control is also a key element to successful fast food dining. Although many restaurants have discontinued the super size trend, most portions are simply more than we need to consume. These large portions look like real value when viewed in the monetary sense but when measured by way of their contribution to weight gain and its complications they are simply not worth it.

Choose the smallest size possible especially if you are having hamburgers or fried foods.

Share large or high fat items with someone else.

Eat half your order and take the rest home. Yes, I know we are supposed to clean our plates because there are children starving in China. At least that’s what many mothers over the years have been heard to say. The fact is being a member of the Clean Plate Club will also get you entry into the Fat Club, the High Cholesterol Club, and if your really fortunate the Heart Disease
Club.

Remember These 3 Key Points:

1. Reduce total fat, saturated fat, trans fat, cholesterol, and sodium.
2. Increase intake of whole grains
3. Eat more fruits and vegetables

Fast food is one of the great innovations of the 20th century. Here in the 21st century we need to manage how we take advantage of its limitless access. To do so will maintain a balance between food as satisfying fuel that keeps our human engine running and toxic waste that will eventually lead to shortened life spans.

Here is another option. Just don’t eat there. You don’t have to be a snob about it, as in “I don’t eat that crap” although you certainly can if you want to. The hardest part is having family and friends who frequently visit Burger and Fries land. It is like trying to quit smoking and working in a bar. I’m not saying to fire your friends and family but you could try to limit the time you spend with them to non-eating hours. It may help to try to hook up with some like minded friends which will make your life incredibly easier since Americans who don’t eat fast food are often considered unpatriotic.

Author: R. Adam Shore
About the author: R. Adam Shore writes about Physical Fitness along with Health and Fitness. For additional information and over 5000 articles about Healthy Lifestyles and other topics be sure to visit Physical Fitness Articles at www.physicalfitnessarticles.net

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These problems were largely overcome after the publication in the Journal of Advancement in Medicine in 1993 of a study by L.T. Chappell et all, who looked at the effects of chelation therapy on nearly 23,000 patients. Of them, more than 85% showed an objective benefit from chelation therapy. Since that time, the number of success stories has continued to increase.

Unfortunately, the problem of toxins such as heavy metals accumulating in our bodies has also been increasing. We are repeatedly told by environmentalists that planet earth is getting more and more poisoned from the build up of toxins including lead, mercury, aluminum, cadmium, arsenic and others. The adverse effect on human health of these heavy and light metal poisons has become so great that a name has been assigned: Toxic Metal Syndrome. It has been estimated that more than 90% of all the people living in the industrialized world have at least one of the health problems associated with living in a toxic environment.

Listed below are only a few of the behavioral, structural and functional abnormalities linked to three of the most problematic toxic heavy metals:

Mercury
Depression, hallucinations, obsessive-compulsive behavior, chronic fatigue, suicidal and aggressive behavior, anxiety and attention deficit disorder.

Lead
Spinal cord alterations, kidney damage, increased heart rate, suppression of the immune system, birth defects.

Copper
Skin problems such as eczema and rashes, headaches, muscle pain, decreased red blood cell count, cirrhosis of the liver, hepatitis, convulsions and seizures.

Detoxamin EDTA works differently from traditional chelation therapies, in that it does not have to be administered as an intravenous drip in an outpatient environment by trained nurses or other medical personnel. Instead, Detoxamin EDTA is available in a suppository form that can be used in the privacy of one’s own home. In severe cases, it is recommended that one suppository be taken every night for 90 days.

For less severe cases, such as individuals who are interested in chelation therapy for prevention or anti-aging, Detoxamin should be taken every other night for 180 days. In addition, supplementation with vitamins, minerals and trace minerals should also be taken on a daily basis.

Author: Robert Scheer
About the author: Robert Scheer works as a free lance writer as well as consulting for the Detoxamin EDTA Info web site.

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Dr. Janet Hull, PhD, reveals the scientific evidence which strongly suggests the chemical sweetener sucralose, also known as Splenda®, may harm the body.

(PRWEB)– In her published book, Splenda®: Is It Safe Or Not?, Dr. Janet Hull, PhD, reveals the scientific evidence which strongly suggests the chemical sweetener sucralose, also known as Splenda®, may harm the body.

Consumers are not being told the whole truth about the long-term dangers of using artificial chemical sweeteners. No one has considered the fact that chemical sweeteners may be at the root of many unexplained disease symptoms that puzzle your doctor.

Dr. Hull’s new book reveals that Splenda® research documents numbness of the hind legs in male rats and has negative effects on the livers, spleens and kidneys of laboratory animals.

In addition, other research cites recurring laboratory results of infertility in male rats and gastrointestinal problems in pregnant rats fed Splenda®.

Dr. Hull says, “Consumers are not being told the whole truth about the long-term dangers of using artificial chemical sweeteners. No one has considered the fact that chemical sweeteners may be at the root of many unexplained disease symptoms that puzzle your doctor.”

According to the research, Dr. Hull states, “Giving sugar-free chemicals to your children or using them during pregnancy may be harmful to a child’s emotional and physical maturation and to the normal development of a fetus.”

Source: www.PRWeb.comDr. Janet Hull is an artificial sweetener expert and is also the author of Sweet Poison: How The World’s Most Popular Artificial Sweetener Is Killing Us – My Story, chronicling her gripping battle with a near- fatal disease allegedly caused by aspartame found in NutraSweet/Equal®.

Dr. Hull is an OSHA certified engineer and has degrees in nutrition, environmental toxicology and geology. Dr. Hull has completed several television and radio interviews. The book is available nationwide and on Amazon.com. Please visit http://www.issplendasafe.com for more information.

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This classic PETA video shows graphically why a vegan or vegetarian diet is the only ethical choice. You will be shocked and horrified when you witness the horrific treatment of factory farmed animals.

A New Paradigm for Dental Health
Here is the problem. The recipe does not work. Virtually 100% of people in modern society have some form of tooth decay or gum disease. Tooth loss, dentures and bridges are considered a normal and inevitable part of growing up and aging. Is is possible that tooth decay and gum disease have a different cause than we always believed and therefore a different approach to treatment?

According to a growing group of natural health advocates, everything you have always been taught about dental health is wrong. They believe that your teeth and gums are an excellent reflection of your overall nutrition levels and overall state of health. Your teeth are not an island, simply reacting to sugar, brushing and fluoridated water.

Your teeth and gums are living body parts that respond to vitamins, minerals and fatty acids just as your skin, hair, muscles and organs do. Sugar harms your teeth by displacing vital nutrients rather than only having an exterior effect on your dental enamel as is commonly believed. True dental health comes from within your body and teeth via your nutrition levels and enamel hardness comes from the nutrients in your diet.

The majority of followers and researchers that subscribe to this line of thinking, are using the work of Dr. Weston Price as a starting point. Dr. Price made the observation that certain groups of people who lived primitive rather than modern lifestyles and never brushed or flossed, had perfectly healthy teeth with no gum disease or tooth decay. The common denominator he found in those with perfect teeth, was a primarily raw food diet high in quality fats, specific nutrients and the absence of processed foods.

“The world became his laboratory. As he traveled, his findings led him to the belief that dental caries and deformed dental arches resulting in crowded, crooked teeth and unattractive appearance were a sign of physical degeneration, resulting from what he had suspected —nutritional deficiencies.” Realmilk.com

While the primary cause of poor oral health is nutrient deficiencies, some other causes and risk factors for modern tooth decay and gum disease include stress, pacifier use, chewing aspirin, prescription drugs, sports drinks, low fat diets and other similar unnatural behaviors and dietary choices. Oral health is also caused by or a symptom of certain diseases and conditions, such as poor circulation, digestive ailments, allergies, diabetes and hypoglycemia.

Nutritional deficiencies have been proven to cause a number of dental problems. Periodontal disease for example, is linked to a zinc, iron, copper, potassium, magnesium or maganese deficiency. Sugar, alcohol and caffeine all make it impossible for your body’s nutrients to be in balance and therefore have no part in a regime for oral health.

Nutrition for Dental Health
Dr. Price discovered that all of the primitive societies he studied ate similar foods with a similar nutritional makeup. They received huge quantities of vitamins A and D from shellfish, fish eggs and the organ meats and butter from grass fed cows. It is interesting to note that these societies also used the exact same foods in very large quantities for optimal preconception, pregnancy and breastfeeding health. The same societies experienced tremendous increases in tooth decay and deformed dental arches when they adopted a “modern” diet.

Fats are crucial for oral health. If you want optimal health and oral health in particular, then you must eat lots of good, high quality fats such as cod liver oil, butter from grass fed cows and ghee. Skim milk will not work even if it is raw. Neither will low-fat butter even if it is organic. The best choice is organic, raw, full fat, non-homogenized, grass fed animal products such as dairy, cultured dairy and eggs if you can get them.

You cannot be afraid of animal products, animal protein or fat to subscribe to the research of Dr. Price. More than one non-sugar eating vegetarian with inexplicable cavities has switched sides much to their delight and continually improving dental health. Eating raw is very important for both overall health and dental health, but without high quality animal fats that contain A, D and K, your dental health will suffer tremendously. This should only be a problem for hard core vegans, because many vegetarians will still consume dairy and eggs.

One additive your body does not need however, is fluoridated water. Pharmaceutical grade fluoride does have some benefit in cavity protection when applied directly to the surface of the tooth (topically). Ingested fluoride does not provide any benefits to your teeth and is incredibly toxic to your body in a myriad of ways. The fluoride dripped in our water supply (without our consent) is a toxic, industrial waste product that has been scraped from the inside of smokestacks, that is too toxic to “dump” anywhere else so they drip it indiscriminately in our water supply and only those who can afford to buy filtered water can afford to “opt out” of this mandatory drugging. Have you ever wondered why “they” aren’t placing vitamins and minerals in our water supply if they care so much about our health?

Additional nutrients that natural dental health experts recommend are large doses of C0Q10 (300-500 mg daily) and Vitamin C. Other people take Vitamin E, calcium phosphates, monosodium phosphate, B complex (for stress), cranberries and fermented foods. Supplements are fine to take but the results will never match that of whole foods. You can spend time in the sun for your Vitamin D, but that will also not replicate the benefit of high quality animal fat. The company Standard Process makes products specifically designed on the principles of Dr. Price for dental health. You should also take colloidal minerals daily for both your overall health and your dental health.

Topical care for Dental health
Nutrition and dietary choices will keep your teeth healthy from the inside out, but what about keeping them clean on the outside? It is still important to keep your teeth clean even if you have an excellent diet. Avoid traditional toothpastes however. They are loaded with chemicals, sugar, additives and other no-nos. Stick with water, baking soda, salt or bar soap . Advocates of brushing with bar soap recommend Ivory, pure olive oil soap or any other bar soap from your health food store that does not contain sodium silicate or fragrance. Commercial toothpastes will leave a glycerin film on your teeth that will prevent remineralization, so even if you are eating the right minerals in your diet, they cannot help rebuild your teeth and using bar soap keeps your teeth really clean and film free.

Some other topical treatments people use for oral health are Tea tree, Neem, oil of oregano and Magnolia tree bark. You can also try increasing gum circulation with Bayberry root bark, Echinacea root, Peppermint oil or Cayenne pepper. Other dental care options include oil pulling and using a magnetic pulser.

• Use un-waxed floss and rub it back and forth across your teeth like you are shining shoes to really clean the surface and leave it ready for remineralization.
• Brush first thing in the morning before you eat anything.
• Always drink fluids while eating. Water is ideal but milk or coffee will work fine as well.
• Be sure to stay hydrated. Adequate saliva production is imperative for dental health. Avoid prescription drugs for the same reason. Over 600 have been proven to reduce saliva which in turn will lead to tooth decay.
• Try Xylitol gum. Xylitol has been proven to halt and even reverse tooth decay. An important caveat; Please never, ever chew gum if you have any amalgam fillings. It will increase the rate at which your fillings leak mercury to dangerous levels. This is even more important during pregnancy.
• Gum massage Massage your gums 3-4 times a day. This is required for excellent gum circulation and health. Raw vegetables and other foods that stimulate the gums are also excellent (as opposed to soft,chewy processed foods like cereals or breads).
• Try using a Sonicare toothbrush with your bar soap and add some hydrogen peroxide in your Waterpik.

Bottom line: Keep your teeth clean and ready for remineralization. Eat lots of good fats so you can absorb the minerals you eat. Avoid processed foods that will displace minerals you eat. Eat high quality animal protein and colloidal minerals which will give you strong healthy teeth from the inside and also allow your teeth to remineralize and pinpoint cavities up to 2millimeters can reverse and remineralize.


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Additional Resources:
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Dental Supplement Chart
Purchase Standard Process Dental Supplements
3 Part video series; Cure Tooth Decay and Cavities
Good Teeth, Birth to Death

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]]> http://health.amuchbetterway.com/natural-dental-health/feed/ http://health.amuchbetterway.com/detox-diet/ http://health.amuchbetterway.com/detox-diet/#comments Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:00:51 +0000 Natural Health http://health.amuchbetterway.com/2008/04/detox-diet.html Your body is programmed to constantly detox itself by neutralizing and eliminating toxins through your organs. If that is the case is a detox diet really necessary? You bet!

We are now living in a polluted and “chemicalized” world. The truth is that we are actually destroying our planet with artificial chemicals, toxins and materials that will never biodegrade. Don’t do the same with your body.

A Detox Diet will help rid your body of toxins found in the air. There are a multitude of toxins in the air and you are struggling under multiple environmental toxins with each breath you take. In 2002, US facilities released 4.7 billion pounds of toxins into the atmosphere. Whats worse is that 72 million pounds were known carcinogenss.

We also need to worry about global air pollution. Studies show an alarming amount of made-in-China pollution rides to America on the jet stream and ends up in our lungs. It seems that absolutely clean air is impossible to find anywhere on planet earth today.

Gasoline and diesel fuels contain toxic substances that can cause adverse health effects in people. Diesel exhaust is particularly concerning as it contains over 40 different substances identified as toxic air contaminants that have been linked to lung cancer. Air pollution is associated with more than just cardiovascular disease. It is also implicated in cancer, arthritis, asthma and premature death.

Our water also contributes to our chemical body burden. “Chemicalized” water is one of the factors that causes toxic overload. Here are some of the substances you may be drinking on a daily basis: chlorine, fluoride, pesticides, chemicals and heavy metals used by industry and agriculture, in addition to the second hand pharmaceuticals recently confirmed in many municipal drinking water sources.

Unless you eat strictly organic, the food you eat is also contributing to your toxic burden. Chemicals released by coal-burning power plants find their way into the food chain. Once released into the atmosphere, mercury, a highly toxic metal, settles in lakes and rivers, where it readily moves up the food chain to humans.

10 percent of American women carry mercury concentrations that can put a fetus at risk for neurological damage. Exposure to high levels of mercury can also harm our brains, hearts, kidneys, lungs and immune systems.

On top of that, commercially grown food is loaded with pesticides and synthetic fertilizers. With developing immune and nervous systems, children are the most susceptible victims. Research found that 84 percent of fruits and vegetables given to children at school contain one pesticide and 65 percent of the samples contain two or more pesticides. Every day an estimated 1 million children eat or drink unsafe levels of chemicals from food.

These poisons used in modern farming are known to cause cancer, birth defects, infertility and nervous system damage.

Although we have banned a few chemicals here in America such as DDT, chlorobenzilate, hexachloro, and aldrin, they are still making their way here through commercially grown foods from developing countries like Mexico and imported right back here. Know that more than half of winter produce comes from Mexico.

There was a point in time, as recently as fifty or so years ago when our bodies were capable of clearing daily exposure of toxins. That is no longer the case because we are inundated with unregulated, toxic chemicals in our air, water, food, cosmetics and personal care products. When our toxic load reaches a certain point, damage to the immune, neurological, and endocrine systems is inevitable.

While this all seems overwhelming, there are ways to approach the problem. A Detox Diet two to four times a year will make a huge difference not only for your health and the quality of your life, but also for the future of your children.

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Capitalism and industrial agriculture have brought us food that is not only inexpensive but in some cases can last almost forever. While this may seem convenient for many, we have to question the safety and sanity of putting stuff in our mouths that our bodies no longer recognize as food thanks to genetic modifications, pesticides, irradiation and more. We are also putting in our mouths and bodies the fear, stress and pain of every animal that suffered and died so we could eat cheap meat. Modern food may be cheap and convenient, but what is the real cost?

By: Stewart Hare

The modern food industry rears its animals, grows its crops, manufactures and markets its foods with the impetus to cut costs, produce and sell more products.

To make profit they disregard animal welfare, promote unhealthy eating and advice, contaminate the land and livestock with pesticides, herbicides and antibiotics and go against laws of Mother Nature with genetic engineering and irradiated foods. While the companies involved within the food industry are making fat profits, the majority of western societies are also getting fatter and unhealthier. Rich western countries such as the Unites States and Britain are spending billions of dollars treating diseases such as cancer, yet the cure rate has not gone down and nobody seems to be trying to figure out why people are getting sick in the first place. Such research would no doubt bring up questions about the food we eat and modern day food industry practices.

Animal welfare is the price to pay by intensive methods that the modern factory food industry uses to increase rates of production. Every day 100,000 broiler chickens die prematurely in UK farms due to factory farming methods. In the UK 70% of the 29 million egg-laying birds are housed in battery cages, 35 million British Turkeys are fattened in cramped sheds that contain up to 25,000 birds which results in many ailments caused by overcrowding and 500,000 sows are kept indoors in cramped conditions throughout their lives which causes them to suffer from muscle weakness and lameness. Modern day dairy cows are bred to produce as much milk as possible and when either infertility or ill health set in (partly due by their welfare conditions) they are no longer of use and are culled. This is normally after only 5 short years.

“Industrially produced food appears to be inexpensive, but the pricetag doesn’t reflect the actual costs that we taxpayers bear. Factory farms pollute communities and adversely affect public health, thereby increasing medical costs for those living near such farms—costs that are often shouldered by public budgets.” Sustainabletable.org

For nearly 50 years, antibiotics have been used in farming as disease prevention since the cramped conditions of factory farming are exceptionally conductive to disease. The negative effects that antibiotic use in our food has on human health is now coming to light In the UK most intensively reared animals are given antibiotics on a daily basis. This is mainly as a preventive measure or to treat illness but some are given as growth promoters. The bacteria that live in these animals quickly become resistant to antibiotics. The antibiotics used for animals are similar to those used to combat human health problems and it is becoming more evident that there is a cross-over effect with the bacteria that cause illness in humans. Human bacteria are becoming more resistant to the antibiotics that we use, thus reducing effective treatments.

The genetic modification (GM) of food involves the artificial insertion of a foreign gene into the genetic material of an organism to create a food substance which is more economical to product. There are presently two types of GM crops, one to be resistant to herbicides in order to kill weeds and the other has been engineered to produce toxins to kill pests. In 1996 the first GM crop was grown in the US, now three quarters of the worlds GM crops are grown in North America. Soy and maize are the main GM crops grown in the US and oilseed rape is the main GM crop grown in Canada.

“If you recently ate soy sauce in a Chinese restaurant, munched popcorn in a movie theater, or indulged in an occasional candy bar - you’ve undoubtedly ingested this new type of food. You may have, at the time, known exactly how much salt, fat and carbohydrates were in each of these foods because regulations mandates their labeling for dietary purposes. But you would not know if the bulk of these foods, and literally every cell had been genetically altered!” 50 Harmful Effects Of Genetically Modified Foods

Advocates of GM crops claim that GM crops can provide a solution to world hunger with higher yields and are better for the environment because of their need for less herbicides and pesticides. Unfortunately, the benefits claimed by GM crops owners have not happened but many problems have. The facts are that GM crops do not increase yields and do not reduce the use of herbicides. GM and organic crops can not co-exist, in Saskatchewan Canada GM contamination wiped out the whole organic rape seed sector. In the US many people reported allergic reaction to GM Starlink maize which then had to be recalled with the estimated cost of $1 billion.

Pesticides are chemical substances that are used in modern farming to kill or control pests. Although there are some naturally based pesticides used in modern farming, the majority are made from synthetic chemicals. The usage of pesticides increased after the Second World War to increase food production. Pesticides have a very harmful effect on the environment and on people’s health. Pesticides have a major adverse effect on wildlife and are not only toxic to the pests that they target but also beneficial species, the whole food chain, the entire ecosystem and of course, human beings. Pesticides can adversely affect fertility and human health. Farmers and farm workers are especially venerable to short term poisoning and long term chronic illnesses. Some pesticides are non-toxic when used on their own but combined with other pesticides they can become extremely toxic. Organophosphates are probably the most dangerous pesticides that are used in modern farming and they have been linked to cancer, Parkinson’s disease, decreased male fertility, chronic fatigue syndrome in children and fetal abnormalities.

Food irradiation is the process of food being exposed to doses of ionising energy or radiation to extend shelf life and to kill insects, bacteria, molds and other harmful organisms. Advocates of food irradiation claim that it is safe but the real problem arises with how fresh and safe the food is, as food inspectors have no way of telling if the food is old or contaminated with food poisoning causing bacteria. Irradiation destroys Vitamin C, Vitamin E and the B complex of vitamins. It can cause unpleasant changes in texture, color and taste and not enough is known about its long term affects on human health.”

“Irradiated fruits and vegetables benefit the packer and grocer, not the farmer or consumer. The consumer receives an inferior product that appears fresh, but has depleted vitamins and enzymes.” Organicconsumers.org


In conclusion, the modern day food industry is motivated by profit and greed and as a result animals, the environment and humans are suffering. If a check on the way that the food industry produces its products is not implemented then further damage will be done to the environment and we will also see further increases in degenerative diseases such as cancer as well as an increase in both animal and human suffering.

If you truly understand the extent that the food industry controls what shows up on grocery store shelves and you are ready to stand up and take proactive steps to deciding what is actually in the food you eat, here is what you can do:

Buy Local
Join a Food Co-op
Grow Your Own Food
Buy sustainable, cruelty free, free range organic foods

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