Chemicals in Toys

Tests in 1,200 children's items revealed that more than one-third contained lead and other potentially dangerous chemicals such as mercury, cadmium and arsenic.

The study, directed by the Environmental Health project of the Ecology Center in Michigan, also found that jewlery products were the most likely to contain high levels of lead.

Other items, such as bedroom slippers, bath toys and card-game cases were also tainted, some with as much as five times the standard safety level of lead. One Hannah Montana card-game case, for instance, had lead levels of 3,056 parts per million.

The study was conducted to spur government officials to take action against tainted toys. Millions of toys, most of them made in China, have already been recalled.

Yahoo News December 5, 2007

Cut the Salt

About 13 percent of Americans have chronic kidney disease, but most don't realize it. In a report published in the Journal of the american Medical association, reseachers studied more than 28,000 U.S. adults and found that just 11.6 percent of men and 5.5 percent of women with moderate kidney disease knew about their condition.

"The biggest problem is that kidney disease has no symptoms until you're down to about 30 percent kidney function or less," says National Kidney Foundation spokesperson Leslie Spry, M.D. Since the condition can lead to kidney failure and raise the risk of heart attack and stroke, he urges testing for anyone with risk factors like high blood pressure or a family history of the disease, and anyone over 65.

To keep your kidneys healthy, Spry recomends cutting back on salt, watching your cholesterol, and sticking with the principles of the DASH diet.

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Aspartame (NutraSweet, Equal)

This particularly nasty substance should have never been approved for human use. In fact, had it not been for some fancy footwork by those in power in the FDA, it never would have. Early experiments using low, medium, and high doses with aspartame all found dramatic tumor increases in test animals. These included brain, pancreas, and breast tumors, and tumors ofd the testes, thyroid and prostate. Experiments also demonstrate a direct correlation between intake quantity and tumor incidence.


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Enzymes and You

Enzymes are the spark of life. Without them, life would not exist. They are the workers that make your body function. although the action of enzymes cannot be seen, it is the driving force behind virtually every biochemical process that occurs in the body. There are hundreds of thousands of enzymes active in every organ, tissue, and fluid, and each has its own function. Enzymes activate our muscles, stimulate our nerves, make our hearts beat, keep us breathing, and even help us think. these complex biochemical substances are also able to convert nutrients from food to strong, healthy bodies.

If you eat food that is steamed, boiled, roasted, broiled, fried, stewed, canned, pesteurized, or even microwaved, you need food enzymes. Enzymes are the most heat sensitive nutrients found in food. When food enzymes are missing, the body is forced to produce all the enzymes necessary for digestion. This puts unwarranted stress on the organs of digestion which must rob enzymes from your immune system to digest your food.

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Diet Soda Now Linked to Heart Disease

Eating two or more servings a day of red meat increases your risk of metabolic syndrome by 25 percent, compared to those who have two servings of red meat each week, a new study found.

Drinking diet soda also increased the risk of metabolic syndrome.

Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of risk factors such as excessive fat around your waist, high cholesterol, high blood sugar and high blood pressure, all of which can raise your risk of heart disease and diabetes.

The researchers examined the diets of over 9,500 people between the ages of 45 and 64. They were categorized into two groups: a "western-pattern diet" that included processed meat, fried foods and red meat, or a "prudent-pattern diet" that included more fruits and vegetables, poultry and fish.

They concluded that lots of meat, fried foods and diet soda increase your risk of heart disease.

Reuters January 22, 2008

How MSG Affects Your Body.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) maintains a list of over 3,000 chemicals that are added to the processed food supply. These compounds do various things to food: add color, stabilize, texturize, preserve, sweeten, thicken, and flavor, soften, emulsify and more.

Potential side effects from the additives vary, and are controversial. For just one common food additive, (MSG), for example, the following symptoms have been reported:

• numbness
• burning sensation
• tingling
• facial pressure
• chest pain
• headache
• nausea
• rapid heartbear
• drowsiness
• weakness
• difficulty breathing

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Stress and Your Nervous System

There are 3 major stresses that bombard our Nervous system on a daily basis. They are physical, chemical, and emotional stresses. When our body adapts to these 3 types of stress from our environment, we continue to live, grow and thrive. When our body fails to adapt properly to these 3 types of stress our nervous system reacts in a way that causes a subluxation. A subluxation is like a breaker in your electric panel. When it gets tripped, it saves the house and you can have the opportunity to fix it. When our body gets subluxated, we have the opportunity to fix it with a Chiropractor and then we can go on with our lives to have a happy healthy productive live.