The health menace coming to your backyard this summer
Posted on: May 1, 2015 Posted by: Michele Lee Comments: 0

The health menace coming to your backyard this summer

Summertime is the right time for picnics, mowing the lawn, ballgames and… watching out for ticks. Tick-borne diseases aren’t going away. Matter of fact, they are diversifying and become more and more of a problem in suburbia. Part of the threat arises from invasive plant species that are encouraging larger deer populations to make their homes in crowded neighborhoods. The honeysuckle shrub is particularly attractive to deer that convey ticks…

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More aspirin, more often, less cancer?
Posted on: May 1, 2015 Posted by: Michele Lee Comments: 0

More aspirin, more often, less cancer?

Standard medicine is really after you to take as many of their drugs as you can handle for as long as you can possibly take them. And they’ll play on your fears to get the job done. Take the newest analysis claiming aspirin prevents cancer that’s all over the news. Researchers looked at data on 82,600 women enrolled in the famous Nurses’ Health Study in 1980 and 47,650 men from…

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More on the cancer in your water
Posted on: May 1, 2015 Posted by: Michele Lee Comments: 0

More on the cancer in your water

If you use chlorine to keep your swimming pool clean, you are exposing yourself to massive amounts of government-approved cancer-causing agents. I told you last week that the government is mandating your drinking/bathing water be contaminated with fluoride and chlorine, and that one shower exposes you to the same amount of carcinogens as drinking a week’s worth of tap water. Just think what a long dip in your pool will…

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Get strong and flexible with yoga’s “Upward Dog, Downward Dog”
Posted on: May 1, 2015 Posted by: Michele Lee Comments: 0

Get strong and flexible with yoga’s “Upward Dog, Downward Dog”

Time is always a big factor when selecting a fitness or exercise program. For me, the best exercises are the ones that do more than one thing for me. So in today’s video article my friend Alan Orr of Gym 101 in New Zealand, will show you how to do yoga’s “upward dog, downward dog.” This two-movement routine both strengthens and stretches the body, and doesn’t take long, either. The…

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Are you treating your acid indigestion the right way?
Posted on: April 30, 2015 Posted by: Michele Lee Comments: 0

Are you treating your acid indigestion the right way?

Bloating and heartburn are big problems … so big that drugs to control acid reflux and indigestion are huge moneymakers for Big Pharma. In fact just one of these, Nexium, the best-selling indigestion drug, pulls in more than $16 million a day. Fortunately, you don’t really need to waste money on these drugs because you can take some simple and natural precautions. As Dr. Michael Cutler notes, perhaps the most…

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Give your body the anti-cancer, anti-heart disease signal
Posted on: April 30, 2015 Posted by: Michele Lee Comments: 0

Give your body the anti-cancer, anti-heart disease signal

Deep in the recesses of your body, you may be releasing proteins that can do you harm. Two simple foods you should eat today can alter these proteins and slash your chances for cancer and heart disease. In the search for why fruits and vegetables lower the risk for serious disease, researchers at the Institute for Food Research in England have analyzed compounds in apples and green tea called polyphenols.…

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No energy? Low sex drive? You need “L”-Therapy not T-Therapy
Posted on: April 30, 2015 Posted by: Michele Lee Comments: 0

No energy? Low sex drive? You need “L”-Therapy not T-Therapy

Open any men’s magazine or visit a website that targets men or men’s health and you probably will see them – ads promoting testosterone hormone therapy. Mainstream medicine really wants you to take their synthetic testosterone drugs to improve muscle mass, lose weight, improve sex drive, and boost your mood. But is testosterone therapy the answer to these and other issues that commonly affect men as they approach and surpass…

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“Safe” painkiller warps your mind and suppresses joy
Posted on: April 30, 2015 Posted by: Michele Lee Comments: 0

“Safe” painkiller warps your mind and suppresses joy

Every year, one of America’s favorite pain pills causes about 56,000 visits to hospital emergency rooms, leads to nearly 100,000 calls to poison control centers and kills about 450 people. As if that weren’t bad enough, now we know that it also depresses you emotionally. Acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol for example, has been used to control pain for 70 years. Studies have shown that it not only blunts…

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Two ways to trump the calories that cause deadly disease
Posted on: April 29, 2015 Posted by: Michele Lee Comments: 0

Two ways to trump the calories that cause deadly disease

Immune system misbehavior threatens your body, making you more likely to develop diabetes and heart problems. But you can take a big step toward reining in this destructive immune inflammation at dinner tonight. Just eat less. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found that our penchant for packing in way too much food at just about every meal – and in-between meals – is not just adding pounds around…

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Do you have enough of your brain’s “emergency” nutrient?
Posted on: April 29, 2015 Posted by: Michele Lee Comments: 0

Do you have enough of your brain’s “emergency” nutrient?

If your heart stops and you suffer cardiac arrest at home, you only have about a 10 percent chance of survival. But even if you live, if you are low in one particular vitamin, your brain may never function normally again. The vitamin that can save your brain: vitamin D. People who survive cardiac arrest are at serious risk of suffering catastrophic neurological damage and often die within six months…

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