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High-fructose corn syrup first appeared in the American market in 1966, and now the average American takes in 62.6 pounds per year. High-fructose corn syrup is made from altered corn starch. It is a 50-50 blend of free glucose and fructose molecules. The only difference between them is that sucrose has to be partially digested (in the small intestine) before it is absorbed into the bloodstream.
High-fructose corn syrup being made up of about 50 percent fructose and 50 percent glucose, is interesting because this is the ratio which the Corn Refiners Association says is about the same composition of table sugar or sucrose.
High-fructose corn syrup is found in most sodas and many other processed foods.
Fructose is much more readily metabolized to fat in the liver than glucose, and in the process can lead to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. This then leads to hepatic insulin resistance and eventually type II diabetes.
High-Fructose Corn Syrup And Diabetes
The most recent studies and latest statistics, reveal that over the past decade new cases of diabetes have increased by a whopping 90%, and more than that…1 in 4 Americans is pre-diabetic or diabetic!
“There’s no doubt in my mind that one of the primary fuels for this epidemic is the excess consumption of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). Several studies over the past few years have also come to this conclusion, including this latest study in Cell Metabolism” notes Dr. Joseph Mercola.
Products such as candy bars, bread, pizza sauce, and fruit drinks just to name a few contain HFCS. Products include baked goods, cereals, fast food, candy, dairy products like chocolate milk, jelly, salad dressings like ranch, juice etc. Nearly every processed food item on the shelf and fast food item on the menu, and in the vending machines in our schools contain high fructose corn syrup…
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Keith M Henry is the Director of phase 3ministries, based in Orlando FL. He is medical missionary herbalist, and Naturopathic doctor candidate. Download your free copy of his report, Emergency Herbal Medicine, HERE.It may very well save your life.
These statements have not been approved by the Federal Drug Administration and are not intended to diagnose, prevent, treat or cure any disease. Always consult a competent health professional if you are having problems.
In this post I have reprinted an article from Sang Lee, M.D., an allergy specialist who has worked with the NEWSTART LIFESTYLE Health Center at Weimar Institute, in California. This article originally appeared in Natural Lifestyle and Your Health.
Allergies are a very common health problem for babies, as well as for older family members today. TV commercials offer dozens of medications to stop sneezing, wheezing, and itching. However, having an allergy means much more than having sneezing, wheezing, and itching. And protecting your baby means much more than finding the right medications.
WHAT IS AN ALLERGY?
Simply, an allergy is an abnormal reaction occurring in the body. The reaction occurs because the body’s immune system is weakened. When the immune system is strong, the body will not panic when foreign elements invade its domain. For example, particles of dust, viruses, and bacteria are always in the air. We breathe them all the time. If the immune system is strong, it will handle them; the body is secure and will not overreact. However, when the immune system is weak, the body reacts to one or many of the foreign substances in the environment to protect itself.
An allergic reaction, then, is simply the body’s overreaction to the
Environment, to what you ate, or came in contact with. The reaction does not occur because of what is in the environment, but because the immune system is weakened.
There are many people today concerned with their health and the health of their children. They spend lots of time lifting weights or playing sports so they can look big and powerful on the outside, but inside their immune systems are very weak.
Many a big 250 pound, muscular football player is sneezing and wheezing because of his allergies. He is physically strong, but he has a weak immune system. Similarly, there are many people trying to keep their babies and children strong, but only on the outside. It is not outward show but inner strength that counts.
Allergies indicate inner weakness in the immune system. To understand allergies, we must understand the immune system and how it work
BLOOD CELLS AND IMMUNITY
Resistance or immunity originates in the blood. The solid component of blood basically consists of red and white blood cells. Red blood cells give blood its color, are round in shape, and carry oxygen, which is very important to the immune system. White blood cells, however, make up the immune system.
There are three main kinds of white blood cells involved in the immunity process. First, there are polymorphonucleo leukocytes, or polys for short, which are one of the most common white blood cells. Poly means many, and morpho means shape, simply meaning that these cells come in many shapes to fit the many different places where they have to travel.
The other two kinds of white blood cells are called lymphocytes, and are simply designated B-lymphocytes and T-lymphocytes.
The Polys: The polys are the immune system’s first line of resistance. Let’s say that you cut your finger. There are always many germs on your skin and in the air, and when you cut your skin, these try to invade your body through the opening in the skin. The polys, rather than trying to kick the invaders out, simply surround or engulf them. Usually the polys can thus kill the germs. But sometimes there are germs which won’t die so easily. This is where the B-lymphocytes come in.
B-Lymphocytes: The B-lymphocyte cells produce a special kind of Y-shaped protein called gamma globulin, which is a strong toxin to the invading substances. Like the polys, the B-lymphocytes engulf the germs, and, with their gamma globulin proteins, poison the germs, so that they die. Doctors refer to these blood cells as “antibodies.”
T-Lymphocytes: The T-lymphocytes are the most important part of the immune system. They regulate the entire immune system by regulating the other white blood cells. The T-lymphocytes produce special chemicals called lymphokines which either attract more polys to inflamed areas or stimulate the B-lymphocytes to produce more gamma globulin. Other T-lymphocytes suppress B-cell activity.
However, the whole immune system depends entirely on the brain, which controls the T-lymphocytes’ ability to manage the affairs of the whole immune system. How? By producing endorphins, chemicals produced in the brain when you are happy, which then travel through the blood to the T-lymphocytes and strengthen them.
In addition, the T-lymphocytes take care of any germs which the other white blood cells have been unable to destroy. By producing lymphotoxins, strong poisons which destroy germs, they act powerfully against such diseases as cancer and AIDS. When the immune system is weakened, the T-lymphocytes cannot produce lymphotoxins, allowing cancer viruses and similar cells to enter the body and take over.
Much of modern medicine focuses on developing weapons to kill invaders. Such an approach is usually unsuccessful. Rather than benefiting the body, such medications only further weaken the immune system. What is needed is not some high-powered medication, but rather a means of strengthening the immune system so it can wage its own warfare.
Cancer, AIDS, and allergies occur when the T-lymphocytes are weak. Allergy symptoms such as sneezing, wheezing, or itching are simply indicators that the T-lymphocytes are unable to do their proper work.
Just as our eyes, which are very sensitive, hurt, water, and swell when a little speck of dust gets in, so the whole body reacts with allergy symptoms when the immune system becomes weak and sensitive. The eye waters because it is trying to wash the dust out that is irritating it. So, likewise, the body reacts with allergy symptoms when it is trying to rid itself of the dust, pollen, or food that is aggravating it. Because the immune system is weak and very sensitive, it is trying to overprotect itself from the environment. The allergic reaction, then, is a warning signal that your immune system is getting weak and something must be done soon to strengthen it.
STRENGTHEN YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM
When we are happy, the brain produces endorphins which strengthen the immune system. When we have fear, anxiety, or other negative emotions, the brain produces chemicals such as adrenaline. Instead of strengthening the T-lymphocytes, as endorphins do, these chemicals weaken and destroy the T-lymphocytes.
Coming from family lines which have histories of diseases, we are born with somewhat weakened immune systems. Allergies are our first indicators that we are entering a danger zone. Our bodies are warning us to take notice and start doing something to strengthen our immune systems before we get something severe, like cancer or AIDS. Allergies, thought of from this angle, are beneficial to us; for they cause us to notice and change the lifestyle factors which will eventually bring us into serious illnesses. Changes in both lifestyle and mental attitude rebuild the injured system.
Suppose you go to the doctor with symptoms of asthma, wheezing and shortness of breath. Asthma symptoms are caused by a histamine reaction.
The bronchial tube is lined with mucous membranes like those in the eye or the nose or mouth. Under the mucous membrane there is a Mast cell which has granules containing histamine. When the T-cells become weakened, they call on the B-cells to produce emergency gamma globulin. Unfortunately, they are not able to properly regulate the immune system, giving a wrong signal to the B-cells. and stimulating over-production of emergency gamma globulin. This triggers the emergency reactions we recognize as allergies. Asthma symptoms- wheezing and shortness of breath, are simply warnings that the immune system is weakened.
How does it work? If you get asthma when olive trees bloom, your weak T-cells will call on the B-cells to produce this emergency gamma globulin against the olive pollen. When produced, these Y-shaped cells lodge on the Mast cells in the bronchial tube and trap the olive pollen as it enters the body Then the Mast cells release their histamine, causing your bronchial tubes to become swollen and narrowed. You can’t breathe and end up wheezing. We call this reaction asthma.
Allergies are our bodies’ way of warning us to take notice and start strengthening our immune system before we get something severe like cancer or AIDS.
WHY MEDICATIONS DON’T WORK
Today’s medicine, rather than strengthening the weak T-cells, prescribe something to get rid of your wheezing and shortness of breath. The most common treatments for allergies are cortisone pills or allergy shots. Both will get rid of the allergy symptoms.
Cortisone, an anti-T-cell medication, kills the T-lymphocytes. This silences the T-cells’ cry for help from the B-cells and stops them from producing the emergency gamma globulin which causes the symptoms. The allergy symptoms are gone for the present, but the immune system’s ability to handle cancer or the AIDS virus is also diminished.
Allergy shots consist of a small amount of whatever substance you might be allergic , such as the olive tree pollen mentioned before. When the T-cells see more olive pollen coming into the body, they are weary and do not respond. This is called immune tolerance. The immune system is so fed up that it just gives up. You no longer react to olive pollen, but after six months you may have an allergy to something else. Why? Because your T-lymphocytes were disabled, rather than strengthened. Weakened T-lymphocytes always become allergic to new things.
Attacking the enemy never works. The only answer is a health program that strengthens the T-cells.
We can strengthen our immune systems only by adopting a balanced natural lifestyle. All of modern medicine’s ways of treating allergy make the T-lymphocytes weaker, temporarily paralyze them, or kill them. This approach to allergy problems will never work. Life and strength are lost.
A balanced lifestyle that will strengthen the immune system always includes these basic factors:
SIMPLE STEPS TO REBUILD YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM:
1. Keep the body warm-including the hands arms, feet, and legs—so that the blood circulation will be even.
2. Drink plenty of pure (distilled) water. We need at least about 10 glasses a day. We will need more when recovering from chronic dehydration. You will be surprised to find out that HISTAMINE is the body’s main water regulator, and any time there is a shortage of needed water it takes over the rationing of it to promote survival of the body through caring for the needs of the most vital organs. Thus the choking and wheezing of asthma and the stuffiness of hay-fever and allergies can be an effort to prevent further water loss through the breathing system.
I have seen it proven that a couple glasses of warm water can ease off an asthma attack. These facts also make an intelligent person greatly question the wisdom of using any anti-histamine drugs!
All drinks, such as tea, coffee, alcohol, sugared drinks, Nutra-sweet or Aspartame drinks and pop, take more water out of the body than they put in! as the body must use water to flush out the chemicals. Therefore they are dehydrating agents. One of the best things anyone can do for the health of himself and family, is to dispense with all other drinks and drink 2 to 2 1/2 quarts of distilled water daily- following the schedule of drinking half-hour before meals and 2 1/2 hour after and on rising and before bed. You may need to drink much more than this if you already have a serious disease– you may be years behind in your water drinking!
3. Get plenty of fresh air and sunshine every day. Some outdoor exercise each day is recommended.
4. Enjoy simple, whole, natural foods at regular meal time. Gradually increase raw fruits and vegetables until 70-80% of diet is raw.
5. Get enough rest.
6. Do useful activities daily.
7. Trust God to help and care for you in all situations.
8. Keep body and home very clean, without the use of aerosols, strong smelling cleaners, air fresheners or poisonous cleaners or personal care items.
According to a team of European scientist “Going gray is caused by a massive build up of hydrogen peroxide due to wear and tear of our hair follicles. The peroxide winds up blocking the normal synthesis of melanin, our hair’s natural pigment.”
Gerald Weissmann, MD, Editor-in-Chief of The FASEB Journal pointed out “Not only blondes change their hair color with hydrogen peroxide, all of our hair cells make a tiny bit of hydrogen peroxide, but as we get older, this little bit becomes a lot. We bleach our hair pigment from within, and our hair turns gray and then white.”
The researchers, by examining cell cultures of human hair follicles found that the buildup of hydrogen peroxide was caused by a reduction of a particular enzyme that breaks up hydrogen peroxide into water and oxygen (catalase).
They discovered further that hair follicles are unable to repair the damage caused by the hydrogen peroxide due to low levels of enzymes that normally serve this function–namely (MSR A and B).
Adding to the situation, the high levels of hydrogen peroxide and low levels of MSR A and B, disrupt the formation of the enzyme tyrosinase that leads to the production of melanin in hair follicles.
Melanin is the pigment responsible for hair color, skin color, and eye color. The researchers speculate that a similar breakdown in the skin could be the root cause of vitiligo.
Commenting on this study Dr Joseph Mercola says…” This recent study found that the increased production and build up of hydrogen peroxide in your hair follicles as you age blocks this natural synthesis of melanin, and hence you start going gray.
But although they’ve seemingly been able to pinpoint the enzymes responsible for this chain of events, they have not necessarily discovered the real underlying cause.
Heredity likely plays a part, as some studies have shown.”
Citing a New York Times article Dr. Mercola points out that ” whites tend to gray the earliest, often as early as in their mid-30s, followed by Asians and then Africans. About half of all people over the age of 50 are at least 50 percent gray….
Work done by scientists from the Harvard Medical School and the Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine in Japan has revealed that stem cells may be a major player involved in the process…”
Adult Stem Cell Therapy
Dr. Mercola writes further “I believe adult stem cell therapy maybe the wave of the future as there seems to be no limit to their applications, whether it be something as complex as regrowing organs or using them for the more mundane purpose of keeping a full head of healthy hair in its original color….
As it turns out, melanocytes — those special cells that make melanin — come from stem cells. Halfway up your hair follicle, above the bulb, there is a pocket that houses melanocyte stem cells. These stem cells turn into melanocytes when old melanocytes die off.
However, as you get older, your stem cells diminish in quality and quantity. Likewise, the stem cells in your hair follicles decrease over time, and eventually no new melanocytes are produced and hence melanin synthesis stops, and your hair turns gray.” So the idea is that by stimulating the stem cells with special polypeptide signals you may be able to reverse this process and keep both your hair color, and your hair. I’m actually beta testing one of these polypeptide signal topical therapies right now, and my hair is slowly starting to come back in, so it’s pretty exciting stuff and most of the gray is disappearing…
Vitamin E & Black Strap Molasses
Some have seen the reversal of the great majority of their grey hair by taking a daily supplement of Vitamin E for 12- 18 months.
Many people also take a 1-3 tablespoons of Black Strap Molasses and have seen a marked reduction in the amount of grey hair.
Exercise
Evidence has even emerged that from recent animal studies indicating that physical exercise can reverse the age-related decline in the production of neural stem cells by restoring a brain chemical that promotes the production and maturation of new stem cells. Yet another reason to start or stick to a regular exercise routine!
Spiritual Healing Thought– “Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye”. Proverbs 7:2
Keith M Henry is the Director of phase 3ministries, based in Orlando FL. He is medical missionary herbalist, and Naturopathic doctor candidate. Download your free copy of his report, Emergency Herbal Medicine, HERE. It may very well save your life.
These statements have not been approved by the Federal Drug Administration and are not intended to diagnose, prevent, treat or cure any disease. Always consult a competent health professional if you are having problems.
Stress is a normal reaction for people of all ages. It’s caused by your body’s instinct to protect itself from emotional or physical pressure or, in extreme situations, from danger. Stress is your body’s way of responding to any kind of demand. It can be caused by both good and bad experiences
It is when the body gets into a state of “distress” that negative consequences can set in.
Physical and chemical factors that can cause stress include trauma, infections, toxins, illnesses, and injuries of any sort.
Emotional causes of stress and tension are numerous and varied. Physical arousal includes increased activity, heart rate, and blood pressure; faster breathing rate; perspiration; and heightened muscle tension. Cognitive arousal includes restricting focus to the immediate crisis as well as disorganized thinking. Physically it can damage the bodily functioning causing illness, mentally it can confuse and frustrate, and emotionally it can be draining.
It has been said that stress is to the human condition what tension is to the violin string: too little and the music is dull and raspy; too much and the music is shrill or the string snaps.
Distress And Its Effects
Research has shown that when an adult animal is under chronic stress, stress hormones called glucocorticoids can attack nerve cells in the hippocampus area of the brain, causing dendrites to shrivel and cells to shrink. Stress can also halt neurogenesis (growth of new brain cells).
“It has long been known that stress has a direct immuno-suppressive effect” says health writer Byron Richards. He continues– ”New research is demonstrating another angle on this issue – stress can turn on gene switches in bacteria that turns them from harmless to hostile.
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center, have discovered the specific gene signal on E coli that causes it to activate into a hostile organism. It turns out that this gene signal is turned on by human adrenaline… This information is likely to apply to many more organisms than E coli, as stress is a common theme related to survival….
I have seen Candida albicans flare up from stress in many people – even when they are doing their best to keep sugar and junk food in check. It now appears that our own stress chemicals can activate gene switches that lead to a hostile situation.”
Stress Busters
Exercise improves blood flow, and muscle tone throughout your body, plus, it helps normalize blood sugar and hormone levels. Eat healthy, lots of fresh fruit and vegetables, and avoid excessive levels of sugar, caffeine and junk foods.
Exercises, especially the ones with repetitive motions (like running, swimming, biking and cycling), have been found to be very effective in detoxifying the body of these harmful byproducts of stress response. Exercise moderately at least 5 times a week.
Laughter has been prescribed as another medicine to bust stress—In fact even king Solomon of Bible times recognized this… writing—”A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.” Proverbs 17:22
Keith M Henry is the Director of phase 3ministries, based in Orlando FL. He is medical missionary herbalist, and Naturopathic doctor. Download your free copy of his report, Emergency Herbal Medicine, HERE. It may very well save your life.
These statements have not been approved by the Federal Drug Administration and are not intended to diagnose, prevent, treat or cure any disease. Always consult a competent health professional if you are having problems.
New evidence that flu viruses are becoming more resistant to the drug Tamiflu has doctors worried about what is probably their best flu treatment…
Tamiflu (oseltamivir phosphate) is an antiviral drug marketed by the Swiss pharmaceutical company, Roche. It belongs to a group of drugs called neuraminidase inhibitors.
USA Today reported that “The first in-depth analysis of Tamiflu resistance during last year’s flu season found that about 12% of people with one of the three strains that caused the most illness, influenza A/H1N1, were infected with resistant viruses. One in five of last year’s patients caught the strain…This year, Tamiflu resistance in that class of viruses has reached almost 100%, turning the tables on a drug designed to defeat resistance. “They’re the most common viruses circulating this year,” says flu expert William Schaffner of Vanderbilt University. “There are calls coming in from all over the country to infectious-disease doctors and public health specialists asking them how to proceed.”
These are troubling finding seeing as how Tamiflu is currently the frontrunner antiviral drug worldwide around the world.
In fact the drug Tamiflu is not even a vaccine, it is not a preventative at all but rather works to lessen symptoms and to shorten the duration of the illness.
It should be understood that the very nature of trying to treat viruses with drugs is doomed because drugs are incapable of killing the virus totally…some of the virus survives mutates and becomes resistant!
Health writer Jon Barron points out rather eloquently “Because of their complex structure, natural agents can attack pathogens on multiple fronts at once. For instance, garlic, a natural antiviral, has 100 biologically active compounds that can pair up in thousands and thousands of different combinations, which by their very complexity provide an impenetrable barrier to the genetic mutation of simple organisms.
Garlic is just one of a group of natural pathogenic agents highly effective against viruses and bacterial infections. Other effective viral agents include:Onion (Ocillocoxinum),Olive-leaf extract,Oregano Oil,HabaneroHorseradish,Liquid ionic zinc,Grapefruit seed extract,Apple cider vinegar, Black elderberry, Colloidal Silver, Vitamin C etc.
Each of these compounds, on its own, works well to combat pathogens, and when used in combination, they can create a solid defense against disease. The bottom line is that drug-resistance to pharmaceutical drugs can, and does, develop easily; pathogens cannot possibly develop resistance to the billions of combinations that the thousands of biologically active compounds in natural antivirals can produce when used in combination.”
Keith M Henry, N.D. is the Director of phase 3ministries, based in Orlando FL. He is medical missionary herbalist, and Naturopathic doctor candidate. Download your free copy of his report, Emergency Herbal Medicine, HERE. It may very well save your life.
These statements have not been approved by the Federal Drug Administration and are not intended to diagnose, prevent, treat or cure any disease. Always consult a competent health professional if you are having problems.
High-fructose corn syrup first appeared in the American market in 1966, and now the average American takes in 62.6 pounds per year. High-fructose corn syrup is made from altered corn starch. It is a 50-50 blend of free glucose and fructose molecules. The only difference between them is that sucrose has to be partially digested (in the small intestine) before it is absorbed into the bloodstream.
