Children eating organic fruits and vegetables had concentration of esticide metabolites six times lower, than children eating conventaional produce, a University of Washington study found when they analyzed pesticide breakdown products (metabolites) in pre-school aged children. The study compared metabolite concentrations of organophosphorus (OP) pesticides (a class of insecticides that disrupt the nervous system) in the urine of 39 urban and suburban children aged 2 to 4 years. The researchers` findings point to a relatively simple way for parents to reduce their children`s chemical loads--serve organic produce.
There is an increased risk in certain cancers just from having 1 or 2 alcoholic drinks a week. This was found by Sue Nelson, a BBC Radio reporter, went behind the headlines to find out how alcohol really affects our health based on the Million Women Study. She found there was an increased risk in certain cancers just from having 1 or 2 alcoholic drinks a week. Age, gender and genetic makeup influence our risk, but nobody really knows their personal risk.
An old patient has been coming to see me with Multiple Sclerosis. She has been ill for more than 10 years, but we have managed to slow the process and it has been relatively stable for some time. During a routine MRI of her spine a mass was noted in her lungs and a diagnosis was made of lung cancer. Perhaps because she already had an incurable disease she felt immune to any other serious disease. Despite my plea to stop smoking, she never did. In my story the susceptibility to becoming a smoking addict is a gift of God, but the lesson and gift is only available after the addiction kicks in and one finds the willpower to give up the smoking. It is in giving up that the gifts are recognized. Like all things in life, our real lessons learnt are when the conditions are most difficult. Giving up smoking is one of the most serious addictions and lessons on our journey. It is a serious problem on many levels.
An old patient has been coming to see me with Multiple Sclerosis. She has been ill for more than 10 years, but we have managed to slow the process and it has been relatively stable for some time. During a routine MRI of her spine a mass was noted in her lungs and a diagnosis was made of lung cancer. Perhaps because she already had an incurable disease she felt immune to any other serious disease. Despite my plea to stop smoking, she never did. In my story the susceptibility to becoming a smoking addict is a gift of God, but the lesson and gift is only available after the addiction kicks in and one finds the willpower to give up the smoking. It is in giving up that the gifts are recognized. Like all things in life, our real lessons learnt are when the conditions are most difficult. Giving up smoking is one of the most serious addictions and lessons on our journey. It is a serious problem on many levels.
Sitting in the sun, one can sometimes feel it's warm fingers caressing even your bones. I believe this is what it feels like to experience the production of Vitamin D. Laser therapy may contribute to the production of vitamin D in a similar way, strengthening the body right into the bones.
The hype around swine flu seems to have been a false alarm. It is likely that other very powerful forces have been involved, driven more by the desire to sell products than by concern for public safety.
The swine flu vaccine won't be available for months, and it is still not clear whether the companies involved with making the vaccine will change direction. At the moment they are preparing to make the usual infl uenza vaccine based on what is going around currently. Making swine flu vaccines was not on the programme and because of the large number of vaccines required companies must decide whether to produce the swine flu vaccine or the normal influenza vaccine.
This year's flu epidemic is spreading. There is not much difference between this one and any other which has occurred over the last 20 or 30 years. In general influenza spreads rapidly around the world as a pandemic. It is its nature and so far nothing special has happened with this one. A pandemic is simply a new infectious disease spreading throughout the world. The fear is that this could be a similar pandemic to the Spanish 'flu of 1918, which killed an estimated 20 million people worldwide.
Wrinkles, memory loss and degenerative disease don't have to happen. By making healthy changes to your diet and lifestyle you reduce the unnecessary stress on your body and slow the ageing process - whether you're in your 20s or 80s.
