Is Your Doctor Any Good?

April 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Your fish is sick. What will you do?

  • Treat the fish, or
  • Change the water

Ask your doctor this question. Your quality of life depends upon his/her answer.  If he chooses to treat the fish, then he works for big pharma whether he will admit it or not.  He chooses the path of least resistance over the path of efficacy.  And all the baby fish that come along will grow up to be dependent upon the medication.

Doctors of the future will prescribe no medication.  They will understand disease and the mechanisms of illness and they will put you on the path to wellness.  Specialized ‘mechanics’ will put your broken bones back together or stitch  up tears in your skin or even replace defective parts – but doctors will not be able to  ignore ‘the condition of the water’.

Nearly all men die from their medications – NOT their diseases.

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The pH Miracle Diet

April 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment

The pH Miracle Diet 

The pH approach to dieting is so appealing to individuals because it’s radically different to your high-protein, low carbohydrate diets of the past few years.

“The pH Miracle Diet”, comes from the work and experience of Dr. Robert O. Young. It’s referred to as the ‘alkaline diet’ or the ‘Young Diet’, obviously after its creator Robert O. Young. Many holistic doctors and nutritionists describe it as providing a more balanced method of nutrition that takes the body’s true needs and function into consideration.

Essentially, the human body has a pH that is marginally alkaline (7.365). The main principles behind ‘The pH Miracle” is that since the human body is designed to maintain pH 7.365, then what we eat ought to be composed of mainly alkaline foods – that is foods that are above pH 7 on the pH scale.

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Sugar – A Death Trap

April 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Dr. Mercola
April 20, 2010

Is sugar a sweet old friend that is secretly plotting your demise?

There is a vast sea of research suggesting that it is. Science has now shown us, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that sugar in your food, in all its myriad of forms, is taking a devastating toll on your health.

The single largest source of calories for Americans comes from sugar—specifically high fructose corn syrup. Just take a look at the sugar consumption trends of the past 300 years:

  • In 1700, the average person consumed about 4 pounds of sugar per year.
  • In 1800, the average person consumed about 18 pounds of sugar per year.
  • In 1900, individual consumption had risen to 90 pounds of sugar per year.
  • In 2009, more than 50 percent of all Americans consume one-half pound of sugar PER DAY—translating to a whopping 180 pounds of sugar per year!

Sugar is loaded into your soft drinks, fruit juices, sports drinks, and hidden in almost all processed foods—from bologna to pretzels to Worcestershire sauce to cheese spread. And now most infant formula has the sugar equivalent of one can of Coca-Cola, so babies are being metabolically poisoned from day one if taking formula.

No wonder there is an obesity epidemic in this country.

Today, 32 percent of Americans are obese and an additional one-third are overweight. Compare that to 1890, when a survey of white males in their fifties revealed an obesity rate of just 3.4 percent. In 1975, the obesity rate in America had reached 15 percent, and since then it has doubled.

Carrying excess weight increases your risk for deadly conditions such as heart disease, kidney disease and diabetes.

In 1893, there were fewer than three cases of diabetes per 100,000 people in the United States. Today, diabetes strikes almost 8,000 out of every 100,000 people.

You don’t have to be a physician or a scientist to notice America’s expanding waistline. All you have to do is stroll through a shopping mall or a schoolyard, or perhaps glance in the mirror.

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The Importance of An Alkaline Diet

April 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment

The internal environment of our bodies is maintained at a pH of just about 7.0. This means our internal environment is alkaline. Maintenance of this state is a dynamic, not static, process mediated moment to moment by numerous reactions that produce acid products. Our internal chemical equilibrium is primarily controlled by our lungs, kidneys, intestines, and skin. For necessary reactions and functions to occur, our body must maintain a proper pH. Adequate alkaline reserves are necessary for optimal pH adjustment. The body needs oxygen, water, and acid-buffering minerals to accomplish the pH buffering while also briskly eliminating waste products.

When an alkaline environment is maintained in the body, metabolic, enzymatic, immunologic, and repair mechanisms function at their best. The acid-forming metabolics of stress and inflammation and of high fat and high protein foods are adequately and effectively neutralized only when sufficient mineral-buffering reserves are present. Mineral buffering reserves are the gift that alkaline forming foods give to our body. A diet that is predominantly alkaline forming is essential to the maintenance of sustained health.

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Inflammation Linked to Cancer

April 5, 2010 By Leave a Comment

A team led by biochemists at the University of California, San Diego has found what could be a long-elusive mechanism through which inflammation can promote cancer. The findings may provide a new approach for developing cancer therapies.

The study, published in the Jan. 26 issue of the journal “Cell”, shows that what scientists thought were two distinct processes in cells — the cells’ normal development and the cells’ response to dangers such as invading organisms — are actually linked. The researchers, who were also from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, say that the linkage of these two processes may explain why cancer, which is normal growth and development gone awry, can result from chronic inflammation, which is an out-of-control response to danger.

“Although there is plenty of evidence that chronic inflammation can promote cancer, the cause of this relationship is not understood,” said Alexander Hoffmann, an assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry at U.C. San Diego, who led the study. “We have identified a basic cellular mechanism that we think may be linking chronic inflammation and cancer.”

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Welcome to Boomer’s Nest

April 5, 2010 By

Boomer’s nest was completely rebuilt in April 2010. Responding to the growing questions about health and wellness, Boomer’s Nest offers a collection of the most significant research in the field of “Health and Wellness” that you can find anywhere. With a 30 year background in health science research, Boomer’s Nest has the insight to spot trends as well as health issues worthy of study.

At Boomer’s Nest, we do the digging so that you can read from a wide variety of material on any given subject. As experienced researchers, our goal is to give you the information you need to make informed decisions.

As pressure mounts on your food chain, issues of supply, packaging and transport become vitally important to your health. If there are issues that we think you need to know, you will very likely find them here at Boomer’s Nest first.

Join our “Newsletter” or RSS feed and stay informed on a weekly basis.

Staff Researcher – Nick Walsh
Field Operations – Don Fergusson

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Welcome to Boomer’s Nest!

April 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Boomer’s nest was completely rebuilt in 2010.  Responding to the growing questions about health and wellness, Boomer’s Nest offers a collection of the most significant research in the field of “Health and Wellness” that you can find anywhere.  With a 30 year background in health science research, Boomer’s Nest has the insight to spot trends as well as health issues worthy of study.

At Boomer’s Nest, we do the digging so that you can read from a wide variety of material on any given subject.  As experienced researchers, our goal is to give you the information you need to make informed decisions.

As pressure mounts on your food chain, issues of supply, packaging and transport become vitally important to your health.  If there are issues that we think you need to know, you will very likely find them here at Boomer’s Nest first.

Join our “Newsletter” or RSS feed and stay informed on a weekly basis.

Staff Researcher – Nick Walsh
Field Operations – Don Fergusson

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