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Omega-3 Fatty Acids May Help to Keep Arteries Soft & Supple
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Meal enriched with omega-3 reduces arterial stiffness, says study.If you're concerned about cardiovascular disease, the top killer in the US and many developed countries, then this piece of research may be of interest to you.
A study done in the UK found that increased intakes of omega-3 fatty acids could help to make blood vessels less stiff following a meal, adding to a strong body of research linking long chain omega-3 fats with improved heart health.
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Wee Peng Ho used to be sick and tired most of the time despite his best efforts in following conventional health wisdom. After teaching himself the ancient art of meditation, he realized that an unconscious mind is the root cause of an unhappy and unhealthy life. So he decided to go back to basics, simplify his life and do things that will bring joy to his heart. That's how The Conscious Life is born.
Now, he writes articles to inspire his readers to improve their lives by thinking out of their conditioned mind. He also writes frequently about health issues such as chronic inflammation and related diseases, as well as natural ways to reduce stress, enhance health and restore inner balance. He welcomes you to his website, and looks forward to exchanging views on health, consciousness and more with one and all.
Estrogens and toxins in our soaps and lotions
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Our world is filled with estrogenic & toxic chemicals that fatten us up and give us cancer. Many we are smearing on our skin voluntarily.Okay, everyone. Go into your bathroom and pull out your shampoos, conditioners, soaps, hand sanitizers, body wash, mouth wash, bubble baths, baby wipes, exfoliants, deodorants and/or antiperspirants, any lotions and creams including those for shaving, hair products, sun screens, perfumes and colognes, powders, toothpaste and cosmetics including nail polish and let's see if any of these products might be implicated in stubborn fat on the thighs and hips for women, and man-boobs for men. Too much estrogen is implicated in breast, cervical and uterine cancers not to mention PMS in women, and erectile dysfunction and low sperm counts in men. Even if you don't have these problems, check your products because they might be carcinogenic.
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I have always been interested in what we can do to make ourselves as healthy as possible. We cannot change our genetics, but there is much that is within our control that can have an impact on whether we are healthy or whether we suffer with pain and disease.
I was the top graduating student at the University of Toronto in Physical and Health Education in 1992, where I studied anatomy, physiology, exercise physiology, nutrition and how exercise can improve health. In 1997 moved to Vancouver and started a personal-training business.
I became frustrated by my inability to help my clients through their various aches and pains, and pursued further education through the CHEK Institute in San Diego. I learned an incredible amount, and became far more effective with my clients suffering from low-back pain, but still found some clients did not respond as I felt they should and I didn't understand why.
I began to read and read. I began to appreciate how nutrition and other lifestyle factors can have a huge impact on healing or the lack of healing. It became obvious to me that there is a lot more to orthopeadic problems than simply looking at the physical. I took the CHEK Holistic Lifestyle Consultation course which solidified what I had been learning. Disease is a function of bodily systems being out of balance, and when we do what is necessary to bring the individual back into balance our health is restored.
My hope is that through this site you can travel the wellness journey with me and prevent illness, or if you are ill, you can learn some ways to become well again.
Mobilizatons to get rid of SI joint pain
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Chronic SI joint pain is no fun, so here are some techniques to try to realign the pelvis and get rid of the pain.Before we get to the topic at hand, I want to announce that my long awaited nutrition course entitled "Why the Food Guides are Wrong: How to Find Health and Lose Weight", is now available online. By the end of the roughly two hours it takes to go through the course, your confusion over food and what is healthy to eat will have disappeared because the lens through which you look at food will have changed. Suddenly the conflicting nutrition messages that are everywhere won't be a problem anymore and you won't be pulled from one diet to another depending on what diet guru you happen to be listening to at the time. Everything will seem so obvious that you will wonder how you could have possibly been confused before. I echo Paul Chek's suggestion that food is the drug we take three times a day. Eat poorly and your health will be taken from you. Eat right and your health will be restored.
The feedback I have received from people that have attended the course in the past have included sentiments like "life changing", and "I didn't really expect to learn anything, but found out I didn't know anything at all", and "I don't think I'll bother taking the other nutrition course I signed up for - I now know all I need to know". People have come up to me months after taking the course and thanked me for the presentation and changing their lives.
The introductory offer is $39USD, which includes the slide presentation and lecture, as well as additional reference materials and resources that you can print off to help you get started. Sign up by going to http://WellnessTips.digitalchalk.com.
Now to the topic of SI joint pain. Thursday I was sitting at a coffee shop in a business meeting with a colleague without the "butt lift" that I need (one side of my pelvis is slightly smaller than the other, so I usually sit with a pad under one sit bone to keep my pelvis level), and I felt my SI joint go out of alignment. Instantly I was back to that left-sided low-back pain I had felt on a daily basis many years ago. That night I was lying in bed thinking how ironic it was that the following day I would have no time in my day to fit in a chiro appointment to realign my pelvis and resolve my pain, because it was jammed with people coming to see me to fix their back problems. Aarg! I don't have time for back pain! I decided that surely I knew enough about the SI joint to fix myself, even if I couldn't assess myself properly to determine exactly what had happened. So at three in the morning I was crawling around the floor in the dark with my cat, trying to fix my back.
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I have always been interested in what we can do to make ourselves as healthy as possible. We cannot change our genetics, but there is much that is within our control that can have an impact on whether we are healthy or whether we suffer with pain and disease.
I was the top graduating student at the University of Toronto in Physical and Health Education in 1992, where I studied anatomy, physiology, exercise physiology, nutrition and how exercise can improve health. In 1997 moved to Vancouver and started a personal-training business.
I became frustrated by my inability to help my clients through their various aches and pains, and pursued further education through the CHEK Institute in San Diego. I learned an incredible amount, and became far more effective with my clients suffering from low-back pain, but still found some clients did not respond as I felt they should and I didn't understand why.
I began to read and read. I began to appreciate how nutrition and other lifestyle factors can have a huge impact on healing or the lack of healing. It became obvious to me that there is a lot more to orthopeadic problems than simply looking at the physical. I took the CHEK Holistic Lifestyle Consultation course which solidified what I had been learning. Disease is a function of bodily systems being out of balance, and when we do what is necessary to bring the individual back into balance our health is restored.
My hope is that through this site you can travel the wellness journey with me and prevent illness, or if you are ill, you can learn some ways to become well again.
Canadian Bottled Water Found to Contain High Bacteria Count
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A Canadian study found that more than 70 percent of bottled water samples contained heterotrophic bacteria that exceeded recommended limits.In my previous article, I talked about the benefits of carrying our own water as opposed to buying bottled water off the shelves. Then I saw this study done on several well-known brands of bottled water in Canada.
According to the researchers from Ccrest Laboratories in Montreal, more than 70 percent of the random samples examined contained heterotrophic bacteria that exceeded the levels recommended in the US. In some bottles, the levels of
heterotrophic bacteria were one hundred times more than the permitted limit.
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Wee Peng Ho used to be sick and tired most of the time despite his best efforts in following conventional health wisdom. After teaching himself the ancient art of meditation, he realized that an unconscious mind is the root cause of an unhappy and unhealthy life. So he decided to go back to basics, simplify his life and do things that will bring joy to his heart. That's how The Conscious Life is born.
Now, he writes articles to inspire his readers to improve their lives by thinking out of their conditioned mind. He also writes frequently about health issues such as chronic inflammation and related diseases, as well as natural ways to reduce stress, enhance health and restore inner balance. He welcomes you to his website, and looks forward to exchanging views on health, consciousness and more with one and all.
Meta-analysis shows the food guides have been wrong for 30 years
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There is no significant evidence for concluding that dietary saturated fat is associated with an increased risk of CHD or CVD.Just wanted to make sure nobody missed this very important conclusion published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in March of this year.
"A meta-analysis of prospective epidemiologic studies showed that there is no significant evidence for concluding that dietary saturated fat is associated with an increased risk of CHD or CVD."
Can we please STOP recommending low-fat diets now? A low-fat diet = a high carb diet, which leads to obesity, type 2 diabetes and heart disease. Thank you very much.
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I have always been interested in what we can do to make ourselves as healthy as possible. We cannot change our genetics, but there is much that is within our control that can have an impact on whether we are healthy or whether we suffer with pain and disease.
I was the top graduating student at the University of Toronto in Physical and Health Education in 1992, where I studied anatomy, physiology, exercise physiology, nutrition and how exercise can improve health. In 1997 moved to Vancouver and started a personal-training business.
I became frustrated by my inability to help my clients through their various aches and pains, and pursued further education through the CHEK Institute in San Diego. I learned an incredible amount, and became far more effective with my clients suffering from low-back pain, but still found some clients did not respond as I felt they should and I didn't understand why.
I began to read and read. I began to appreciate how nutrition and other lifestyle factors can have a huge impact on healing or the lack of healing. It became obvious to me that there is a lot more to orthopeadic problems than simply looking at the physical. I took the CHEK Holistic Lifestyle Consultation course which solidified what I had been learning. Disease is a function of bodily systems being out of balance, and when we do what is necessary to bring the individual back into balance our health is restored.
My hope is that through this site you can travel the wellness journey with me and prevent illness, or if you are ill, you can learn some ways to become well again.
How getting up from the floor daily can improve your life
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To enjoy our physical activities throughout life and to keep pain away, we need to be able to get up off the floor 3 different ways.From a physical ability perspective, the toilet was a dastardly invention. We are designed to poop by squatting right down to the ground, so before the toilet, from the time we learned to squat poop as a child until the time we died, we had the flexibility and strength to do so. We pooped often enough to keep ourselves adequately limber to squat low, and strong enough to easily get up from that position. Now a-days many of us stop getting down onto the floor altogether once the kids are past the toddler age. The chair is about as close to the floor as we get. Then some years later we find ourselves on the floor for some reason or another, like looking for something that rolled under the sofa, and we realize that getting up off the floor is suddenly quite hard work.
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I have always been interested in what we can do to make ourselves as healthy as possible. We cannot change our genetics, but there is much that is within our control that can have an impact on whether we are healthy or whether we suffer with pain and disease.
I was the top graduating student at the University of Toronto in Physical and Health Education in 1992, where I studied anatomy, physiology, exercise physiology, nutrition and how exercise can improve health. In 1997 moved to Vancouver and started a personal-training business.
I became frustrated by my inability to help my clients through their various aches and pains, and pursued further education through the CHEK Institute in San Diego. I learned an incredible amount, and became far more effective with my clients suffering from low-back pain, but still found some clients did not respond as I felt they should and I didn't understand why.
I began to read and read. I began to appreciate how nutrition and other lifestyle factors can have a huge impact on healing or the lack of healing. It became obvious to me that there is a lot more to orthopeadic problems than simply looking at the physical. I took the CHEK Holistic Lifestyle Consultation course which solidified what I had been learning. Disease is a function of bodily systems being out of balance, and when we do what is necessary to bring the individual back into balance our health is restored.
My hope is that through this site you can travel the wellness journey with me and prevent illness, or if you are ill, you can learn some ways to become well again.
Serotonin and Dietary Protein May Affect Gestational Diabetes
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Serotonin levels and amount of protein in a mother's diet may influence her risk of developing gestational diabetes, says study.Gestational diabetes is a condition whereby women who do not previously have diabetes found themselves suffering from high blood glucose levels during pregnancy. This condition affects about four percent, or 135,000, of pregnant women in the United States every year. When left uncontrolled, gestational diabetes can cause excess growth of the baby and lead to delivery complications. It can also put the mother, and possibly her offspring, at a higher chance of developing type 2 diabetes after giving birth.
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Wee Peng Ho used to be sick and tired most of the time despite his best efforts in following conventional health wisdom. After teaching himself the ancient art of meditation, he realized that an unconscious mind is the root cause of an unhappy and unhealthy life. So he decided to go back to basics, simplify his life and do things that will bring joy to his heart. That's how The Conscious Life is born.
Now, he writes articles to inspire his readers to improve their lives by thinking out of their conditioned mind. He also writes frequently about health issues such as chronic inflammation and related diseases, as well as natural ways to reduce stress, enhance health and restore inner balance. He welcomes you to his website, and looks forward to exchanging views on health, consciousness and more with one and all.
A Greener Bottled Water?
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What happens if one day, every bottled water disappears from the face of this planet? Will we all die from thirst?Despite the slight fall in sales last year, the profit to be gained from selling bottled water is still lucrative enough to entice new players into the market. A relatively new entrant in North America is redleaf, a bottled water company from Canada. It claims to be ‘the world's most environmentally friendly water' and unlike companies that sell expensive tap water, redleaf says it's selling ultra-purified natural water.
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Wee Peng Ho used to be sick and tired most of the time despite his best efforts in following conventional health wisdom. After teaching himself the ancient art of meditation, he realized that an unconscious mind is the root cause of an unhappy and unhealthy life. So he decided to go back to basics, simplify his life and do things that will bring joy to his heart. That's how The Conscious Life is born.
Now, he writes articles to inspire his readers to improve their lives by thinking out of their conditioned mind. He also writes frequently about health issues such as chronic inflammation and related diseases, as well as natural ways to reduce stress, enhance health and restore inner balance. He welcomes you to his website, and looks forward to exchanging views on health, consciousness and more with one and all.
Forget the food guides
Featured in: Nutrition & Life
The one-size-fits-all food guides do not work for most of us. By listening to our bodies we can figure out the best way to eat for ourselves.The USDA is working towards putting out its 2010 Nutritional Guidelines, and so far based on what I've seen, I'm thinking they are still heading down the wrong path. For the first time the guidelines are going to be geared towards the unhealthy, obese and type 2 diabetes population, and rather than lowering the intake of grains which would make a huge difference for that population, they are lowering fat intakes even further. Surely after 30 years of food guides that have suggested high carb low fat diets along with concurrent increasing rates of obesity and type-two diabetes, it is abundantly obvious that this strategy isn't working? Perhaps the powers that be need to review Albert Einstein's famous quote "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
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I have always been interested in what we can do to make ourselves as healthy as possible. We cannot change our genetics, but there is much that is within our control that can have an impact on whether we are healthy or whether we suffer with pain and disease.
I was the top graduating student at the University of Toronto in Physical and Health Education in 1992, where I studied anatomy, physiology, exercise physiology, nutrition and how exercise can improve health. In 1997 moved to Vancouver and started a personal-training business.
I became frustrated by my inability to help my clients through their various aches and pains, and pursued further education through the CHEK Institute in San Diego. I learned an incredible amount, and became far more effective with my clients suffering from low-back pain, but still found some clients did not respond as I felt they should and I didn't understand why.
I began to read and read. I began to appreciate how nutrition and other lifestyle factors can have a huge impact on healing or the lack of healing. It became obvious to me that there is a lot more to orthopeadic problems than simply looking at the physical. I took the CHEK Holistic Lifestyle Consultation course which solidified what I had been learning. Disease is a function of bodily systems being out of balance, and when we do what is necessary to bring the individual back into balance our health is restored.
My hope is that through this site you can travel the wellness journey with me and prevent illness, or if you are ill, you can learn some ways to become well again.
Probiotics in Cheese Boost Immune Health of the Elderly
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Study found cheese to be a viable source of immune-boosting bacteria.Now there's more reason to include cheese in your healthy eating plan.
According to a recent study in the publication of FEMS Immunology & Medical Microbiology, eating cheese containing probiotic bacteria every day may improve the immune health of the elderly.
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Wee Peng Ho used to be sick and tired most of the time despite his best efforts in following conventional health wisdom. After teaching himself the ancient art of meditation, he realized that an unconscious mind is the root cause of an unhappy and unhealthy life. So he decided to go back to basics, simplify his life and do things that will bring joy to his heart. That's how The Conscious Life is born.
Now, he writes articles to inspire his readers to improve their lives by thinking out of their conditioned mind. He also writes frequently about health issues such as chronic inflammation and related diseases, as well as natural ways to reduce stress, enhance health and restore inner balance. He welcomes you to his website, and looks forward to exchanging views on health, consciousness and more with one and all.
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