Healthy Life For us

I am really amazed by the nonsense littering the web. Take for instance Julie Upton, a registered dietician, who has an article on POPSUGAR telling about food myths.  She lists diet soda as a product that doesn't cause you to get fat, Myth 2: Diet sodas make you gain weight. Fact: While you may have read that diet beverages make you gain weight, a recent clinical trial found just the opposite. In the 12-week study, published in the journal Obesity , dieters who drank diet beverages lost 13 pounds on average — 44 percent more than subjects drinking water only, who lost an average of nine pounds. What's more, the diet-soda drinkers reported feeling more satisfied. This study adds to a substantial body of research demonstrating that low-calorie sweeteners and the diet beverages that contain them do not hinder but can in fact help with weight loss. Two peer-reviewed studies published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition by researchers from the University of Nort...

The Native American Remedy for Low Blood Sugar and Diabetes By Gayle Eversole, DHom, PhD, MH, NP, ND A project I have been working on for quite a few years, I guess going back as far as the early 1990s, is helping educate our people about preventing and assisting in the natural care of diabetes. More than any other group of people American Indians are plagued with this dreadful disease. When I was researching the educational program I designed when I was completing my doctoral coursework I found an interesting fact. Attributed mainly to Plains people, but not absent in tribes from other geographic areas in the Southwest and other regions, diabetes was considered somewhat of a survival mechanism. Many traditional foods and locally found herbs have historically been helpful in the care and treatment of diabetes. The last program I presented was at the Indian Health facility located in the Blackfeet Nation at Browning, Montana. As a gift I was given a book on the Ethnobotany of the Blac...

Travel back to the days when nutrients were the focus of a brave few medical professionals who believed that inflammation was a key factor in mental health, along with nutrient depletion. These were the Orthomolecular Pioneers of the 1950s. " Is depression a kind of allergic reaction? A growing number of scientists are suggesting that depression is a result of inflammation caused by the body’s immune system by Caroline Williams B arely a week goes by without a celebrity “opening up” about their “battle with depression”. This, apparently, is a brave thing to do because, despite all efforts to get rid of the stigma around depression, it is still seen as some kind of mental and emotional weakness. But what if was nothing of the sort? What if it was a physical illness that just happens to make people feel pretty lousy? Would that make it less of a big deal to admit to? Could it even put a final nail in the coffin of the idea that depression is all in the mind? Accordi...

In the traditional sense as a student of natural healing you learned to keep things simple. Dr. John Christopher was always reminding students to hold fast to this philosophy. In my mind it is the reason why the traditional way really did help people recover from health challenges. I don't see it that way today with the new twist on schooling and the new twist on remedies. Keep It Simple Student (KISS) is worth remembering. Remembering is certainly a major concern in health today. All the scare tactics telling you that by 2015 there will be millions living with Alzheimer's scares you into believing this is what to expect. I ask why, so many do not. Fluoridation in the water supply is a major factor. The US is in a huge battle to keep and expand this heinous practice. The people have really become wise to the fluoride scam and are fighting back. Fluoride in drugs and food compounds the issue. Environmental pollution is another way toxic brain altering chemicals are finding...