The Best Time to Quit Smoking Is Now

The Best Time to Quit Smoking Is Now I am compelled to write this article to remind people of the dangers of smoking. Cigarette smoking is known to cause lung cancer and is also linked to bladder, larynx and esophageal cancers, as well as heart disease. Smoking is not glamorous as the billboards and magazine ads depict. Smoking is not cool; it is the very opposite and so very harmful to your health. You are playing Russian roulette with your life if you continue to smoke. The chemicals that ...
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Is Your Health Optimal?

Is Your Focus on Disease, or Wellness? Both Western and Chinese medicine could be accused of focusing too much on disease treatment, rather than wellness. Practitioners from both medicines are taught to be problem-solvers and disease-curers instead of wellness promoters. You can't blame Western medical docs - most of their preventive advice is to avoid negative things. They don't really have a deep and powerful system of prevention. No wonder they don't see prevention as paramount. We can't ...
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Atkins Diet Yes or No

As of now, January 2005, more than half of all north Americans are struggling with obesity. The 'quick fix' for 'fat' for the last 40+ years, becoming ever more popular, has become the Atkins Diet. The Atkins Diet was first popularized in the U. S. Air Force during the 1960's. The Atkins Diet is very simple --- restrict your carbohydrate intake. And guess what? It actually works. But Dr. Atkins, after the initial few years of his popularized diet, began to make modifications and refinements to ...
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Drug Companies Hijack Clinton's Heart News

When Bill Clinton was scheduled for heart surgery, reporters spoke of how he had been a junk food addict, loving burgers, fries, and shakes, even eating a whole pie at one sitting. After his quadruple bypass surgery, the major TV news shows talked about how Bill had stopped taking his statin drugs, and showed many of the pricey brands of pills. Naughty, naughty, bad Bill. Whoa! Stop! Time out! Bad eating habits can clog arteries, despite any medications taken. Good eating habits can reduce ...
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Finding a Diet Plan That Works for You

There are many reasons for people to be following a diet. Perhaps it is a special, doctor-advised regimen meant to control or prevent certain illnesses such as high blood pressure or diabetes. Maybe a diet is required due to particular food allergies like a gluten-free diet or for people who are lactose intolerant. The option of a diet such as vegetarian or macrobiotic might simply be a personal lifestyle choice. However, most people who are dieting are doing so because they are ...
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"THE 3RD BIGGEST CAUSE OF DEATH!"

It will surprise you! Did you know that if you become ill and you put yourself in the hands of 'mainstream' medical care and need to be admitted to a hospital that the chances of you dying from an unrelated problem are high? In fact, in the USA, deaths from 'iatrogenic' cause rank # 3 after Heart Diseases and Cancer! Let me explain what 'iatrogenic' means. This is a term used when a patient dies as a direct result of treatments by a physician, whether it is from misdiagnosis of the ailment ...
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South Beach Diet Overview

Developed by Dr. Arthur Agatston, The South Beach Diet touts itself as teaching dieters to eat the right carbs and the right fats. The diet has three phases. In the first dieter's banish their bad carb cravings and induce rapid weight loss. In the second phase, some types of carbs are reintroduced and weight loss is slower. The final phase is the 'Diet for Life' phase. This is the maintenance diet and will be followed for the rest of the dieter's life. If at any time the dieter begins to ...
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Proper Nutrition

Life, these days, is at such a fast pace, many people do not take the time to eat properly, thereby shortening their lives. When people do not eat right, their body cells cannot repair themselves. It is increasingly difficult to supply the family with the proper nutrition, because of the depletion of minerals and nutrients in farmland. One would benefit greatly by using a nutritional supplement to enhance health, to empower the immune system. Barley grass was discovered to be one of the most ...
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The 3 Keys to Changing Your Health

Motivation, Discipline, & Persistence This book is meant to be primarily practical. It contains theory and philosophy as well, but its main function is to be a tool to improve your life. But most of the solutions in this book are not one-time magic bullets. You must continue to apply many of these frequently in order to bring yourself back into balance, and to maintain that balance. NEW HABITS, NEW LIFESTYLE But, as imperfect humans in a very demanding and distracting society, we have ...
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Nutrition and Wellness

What We Eat Affects How We Feel. Disease and nutrition go hand in hand. Nutritional deficiencies causes two things. Disease and aging. The other things that also cause disease and aging are poor life style choices, mainly tobacco and alcohol. We have an obvious choice with tobacco and alcohol but we have a much harder choice with nutrition. The reason for this is mainly because it's very difficult to get the right kind of nutrition, i.e. fresh fruits and vegetables. These are seasonal and when ...
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