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Save Your Eyesight (Without Surgery)

By admin | Published: April 28, 2011


By Martin Sussman
President and Founder

Cambridge Institute for Better Vision

This is Part 2 of a two-article series on how to naturally maintain good vision without surgery. You can find Part 1 which explains the role of nutrition in preserving eyesight with specific advice for Myopia (nearsightedness) here: Feed Your Eyes… Save Your Sight

eye surgery

Cataract surgery is the most common surgical procedure in the U.S.

In this article I will focus on presbyopia, cataracts and macular degeneration.

Presbyopia

Presbyopia is more commonly known as “middle-aged sight” — the deterioration of near vision as a person ages, with the need for reading glasses beginning at about age forty or fifty.

Presbyopia occurs when the lens loses enough of its plasticity and elasticity so that it can no longer adequately respond to the visual demand to focus at near. The lens has no blood supply of its own, receiving nutrients through the ciliary body. The lens’ cells will break down when they do not receive the proper supply of nutrients. Presbyopia is one symptom of this breakdown. If the breakdown of the lens continues, the stage is set for cataract formation.

Therefore, it would seem logical that the presbyopic eye would respond to the same kind of nutritional approaches that have been shown to prevent cataract formation. In fact, Dr. Gary Price Todd, one of the first nutritional ophthalmologists is finding exactly that. Patients following his nutritional treatment for cataracts are finding that their presbyopia often improves as well.

An Italian study, conducted nearly 50 years ago, found that vitamin E — an anti-oxidant critical in the prevention of cataracts — helped presbyopic people regain their near point vision. Unfortunately, other than this one study, no other nutritional research has been done on presbyopia.

Cataracts

In the United States, approximately four million people have some degree of cataracts, while 40,000 are blinded due to cataracts. One in every five people over 55 are afflicted with cataracts, and as many as half of those over 75 are at risk. Worldwide, cataracts are the leading cause of blindness.

The standard treatment for cataracts is surgery. In fact, cataract surgery is the most common of all surgical procedures practiced in the United States, with more than 500,000 performed each and every year. 94% of cataract surgeries are successful, with lower vision resulting in less than 6 out of every 100 procedures. Though one of the safest operations it still has some degree of risk associated with it.

Even though the surgical treatment for cataracts is highly successful, it is an extremely costly procedure. Each cataract surgery (one eye only) done in the United States costs approximately $5,000. Every year, over 4 billion dollars are spent — just by Medicare alone! — for cataract surgery.

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Cataracts are the leading cause of blindness worldwide

As people live longer and longer, the incidence of cataracts can only increase, if no preventative measures are taken. If the development of cataracts could be delayed by 10 years, the National Eye Institute estimates that half of all cataract surgery could be eliminated, saving billions of dollars every year in medical costs.

There is plenty of evidence that cataracts can be prevented, and their growth arrested, with proper nutrition. “With the right nutritional supplements, prevention could be very close to 100%,” says Dr. Todd.

Most research in the United States has focused on the prevention of cataracts. It is a generally accepted fact that cataracts are a degenerative disease caused by free radical damage and that they can be prevented with anti-oxidant vitamins C and E, beta carotene and some trace minerals, including selenium and chromium.

The eye has the highest concentration of vitamin C of any part of the body. Yet, lenses with cataracts have much lower levels of vitamin C than cataract-free lenses. The eye with a cataract has also been shown to be deficient in selenium, copper, manganese, zinc and glutathione (which the body normally produces on its own, but only if adequate levels of selenium are present). Some of the B vitamins — particularly niacin and riboflavin — have also been deficient in the eye with a cataract, though this deficiency is rare in the United States, where many processed foods are “enriched” with these vitamins. Excesses of mercury and other toxins have also been implicated.

According to a recent study conducted by John Hopkins University, people with the highest levels of vitamin E in their blood were 50% less likely to develop cataracts. A study reported in the Archives of Ophthalmology in 1988 showed that 200 IU a day of vitamin E reduces the incidence of cataracts by 56%. If 250 mgs. of vitamin C are added, their incidence is reduced by 86%.

Dr. Todd has been using nutritional supplements for years to treat patients with cataracts. He finds that if nutritional treatment is started soon enough (when vision is 20/50 or better), he is nearly 100% successful in stopping its progression or reversing the cataract.

In one study conducted by Dr. Todd over a 1-year period, 43% of the people showed improvement in their cataract and the other 57% stabilized the cataract completely and showed absolutely no further deterioration. All of these results held up in a follow-up study conducted 5 years after the original. Cataract surgery was avoided in every case.

As a result of this and earlier studies, Dr. Todd has created a complete vitamin and mineral formula different from others that are available. Known as EYEMAX-plus, Dr. Todd uses it as the basis for his nutritional treatment of cataracts. (See below for where to get this formula at a discounted price.)

Macular Degeneration

The macula is the part of the retina that is responsible for fine, detailed vision. A person with macular degeneration loses central vision and also has a poor recovery from exposure to bright lights.

The loss of central vision is due either to a reduced blood supply to the central portion of the retina or to edema (a swelling and leakage of blood vessels in the retina).

Macular degeneration is the leading cause of severe vision loss in people aged 55 or older in the United States and Europe. At least 3 million Americans suffer irreversible vision loss from macular degeneration.

According to conventional medicine, there is nothing that can be done to treat macular degeneration, although laser surgery is sometimes used to seal any leaking blood vessels. This surgery is successful only between 4 and 15% of the time (over a 5 year period). More importantly, it doesn’t address the underlying conditions that might contribute to macular degeneration. (There is also a 50% possibility that a person’s vision will be worse immediately after laser surgery.)

The primary underlying conditions in macular degeneration appear to be free radical damage and disrupted blood and oxygen supply to the macular region of the retina.

This would indicate that a nutritional approach that emphasized the anti-oxidant vitamins and minerals — vitamin C and E, zinc and selenium — could be helpful.

In fact, one study did show that 200 mg of zinc helped to improve acuity in people with macular degeneration. In another, people who have had higher levels of Vitamin E also had less vision loss than those with lower levels.

However, Dr. Todd believes that the underlying cause of macular degeneration (and also glaucoma) is an under-functioning thyroid. (There is a simple home test that anyone can perform to determine if they have an under-functioning thyroid.

In addition to testing and balancing the functioning of the thyroid, Dr. Todd also suggests the following nutritional supplements on a daily basis, in addition to his EYEMAX-plus formula – which contains 33 vitamins, minerals and anti-oxidants.

Zinc Picolinate 20 mg
Selenium 400 – 600 mcg
Chromium 200 mcg
Vitamin A 20,000 IU
Natural Vitamin D (not synthetic) 15,000 units
Vitamin E 400 – 1600 IU
Vitamin C 500 – 1000 mg

Dr. Todd also recommends bioflavinoids (to reduce swelling of macular region), evening primrose (to re-establish integrity of vessel walls) and lecithin.

Although the anti-oxidant vitamins and minerals are important, the body needs zinc, copper, manganese and selenium to help control the free radicals.

Yet, in his analysis of his patients, Dr. Todd has found that 60% are deficient in zinc, 15% in copper, 80 – 90% in manganese and that virtually everyone is deficient in selenium. These deficiencies greatly reduce the effectiveness of vitamins E and C and beta-carotene.

Dr. Todd will not treat anyone who won’t stop smoking cigarettes, and he also recommends drinking only spring water, eliminating margarine and other hydrogenated fats and avoiding laser surgery, if at all possible. (He has found that people don’t respond to nutritional approaches after having had laser surgery.)

When following his treatment approaches, 88% of Dr. Todd’s patients improved vision significantly over a two-year period.

The herbs bilberry (Anthocyanosides) and Ginkgo biloba have been used extensively in Europe for many years to help eye conditions, including macular degeneration. Clinical studies have shown that both can inhibit progressive vision loss. According to some studies, these two herbs appear to work directly on the eye and are more potent than nutritional anti-oxidants.

Bilberry is also used for poor day and night vision, glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy. It has been shown to support the pigmented epithelium of the retina, reinforce the collagen structures and prevent free radical damage.

Ginkgo biloba increases the blood flow to the brain. European studies demonstrate impressive results in the treatment of macular degeneration and this herb has also been shown to prevent free radical damage to the retina and macula.

Conclusion

The state of eye health is intimately tied to the state of your overall health. Interestingly, many of the nutrients that promote eye health also have benefits for the rest of the body, so anything you do for your eyes will also help you in other ways. Conversely, the steps you take to benefit your body will also promote better eye health.

About Martin Sussman:
Martin Sussman, an internationally known expert in holistic vision care, is the author of five books, audio courses and DVDs, including the #1 best-selling The Program for Better Vision and the Read Without Glasses Method (for middle age sight). He is the founder and president of the Cambridge Institute for Better Vision, which he established in 1977.

The nutritional formula for vision he recommends, EYEMAX-plus, is available at a special discounted price through his website, www.BetterVision.com.

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We’re Hiring… Jobs at the Healthy Back Institute

By admin | Published: April 27, 2011



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Are you a super star? An “A” player? Someone who is great at what they do and get’s things done?

If so, we want to hear from you.

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10 Steps to Pain Free Movement

By admin | Published: April 26, 2011


Ever go to a playground and watch the kids play? Most of the children move around with ease… in every possible position… often at top speed.

kids and easy movement

Remember when movement was
easy... and even fun?

Compare that with the posture and movement of the average back pain sufferer… or even just the average 40 year old.

Normal movement is confined to positions maintained day after day. Any variation in normal routine becomes immediately noticeable as stiff muscles resist unfamiliar movements and joints creak and ache.

Suffice it to say our bodies don’t want to move the way they used to. It’s almost like being caught in Superman’s web… keeping our movement painfully restricted.

That’s because in a sense we are stuck in a web. It’s a super-strong yet elastic web of connective tissue in our bodies called the fascia.

Your fascia covers and connects everything inside you. Muscles, bones, blood vessels, and skin is all connected from the crown of your uninterrupted to the to the tip of your toes thanks to your fascia.

In good condition, fascia acts like a shock absorber and permits your body to move freely without parts of your body becoming disconnected from each other.

But after years of minor and major injuries, stress, poor posture, and inflammation, your fascia loses much of its elasticity. Muscles adhesions, or internal scarring, lock up your muscles and tendons in continued spasm. That’s why you feel soreness from simple stretches.

Try this. Stand up and raise your hands straight up and stretch your arms as far as you can skyward while your feet remain planted on the floor. Do you feel resistance?

How about when you look as far as you can to the left, to the right, and then tilt your head back until you’re looking straight up? That tightness is from internal scar tissue binding your fascia and muscles. It might even be painful just to move your body in what should be normal easy movements.

But the good news is you don’t have to stay stuck in pain like this…

Rolfing Bodywork

When the fascia is released from its stress and containment, your body has room to stretch out. And once again move pain free.

Just like you can get your car a tune up when it starts running rough, you can also give your body a “tune up” to get back the mobility you once had. Free up your fascia from its stress and containment and suddenly your body has room to move… without the pain.

This tune up is called Rolfing.

Rolfing is similar to deep tissue massage as it is a hands-on technique that uses direct deep pressure to release muscle adhesions and break apart the scar tissue binding your fascia.

Unlike most forms of massage which typically focuses on muscle relaxation, Rolfing is more concerned with correcting structural issues in the fascia and soft tissues of your body caused by these adhesions. In just ten sessions, Rolfing can take years off the way your body moves and feels.

The Rolfing Ten-Series

The Rolf Institute recommends going through these ten basic sessions to balance and restructure your body for the best possible results.

Rolfing motions are similar to deep-tissue massage, where the practitioner uses their knuckles, flat palms, or elbows to get the job done. Each session includes some form of neck and back work near the end. This allows the body to balance itself, while integrating the changes made to its alignment in the soft tissue.

Each session works to achieve a certain goal in a specific area of the body.

Sessions 1-3 – The “Sleeve” Sessions

The first few Rolfing sessions focus on loosening and balancing the superficial, or surface, connective tissues of your body.

Session 1 enables better breathing by ‘unsticking’ your chest and pelvis
Works: shoulders, chest, ribcage, sternum, legs, hamstrings, and superficial fascia.

This session works in two ways to help you breathe better. First, it opens up the diaphragm by releasing the ribcage and shoulders. Second, it releases your torso from the pelvis and lengthens it in the opposite direction than we’re used to—hunched over at a computer or desk. When your chest and pelvis are crunched up into your ribs, it forces you to breathe shallowly. Full breathing is a core element to wellness. Upper body pain is often relieved in this relaxing first session.

Session 2 aligns your relationship to the ground
Works: knees, lower legs, ankles, and feet.

Your feet and lower legs provide the foundation for your support and balance. They are the base for the rest of your structural alignment. This session works towards equal weight distribution across both feet, corrects fallen or high arches, knee pain and scar tissue. This relieves pain and improves balance in your lower extremities.

Session 3 creates a lateral line
Works: neck, shoulders, arms, abdomen, thighs, hips, pelvis, and knees.

This session takes an inventory of your posture from a side angle. It works on balance and allows the heavier sections of your body to support each other better.

Sessions 4-7 – The “Core” Sessions

The “core” structures are between the bottom of the pelvis and the crown of the head. These sessions work on deeper tissues and focus on balancing your legs, abdominal muscles, pelvis, and neck as supporting structures.

Session 4 aligns the middle section of the body
Works: ankles, knees, thighs, hips, pelvic floor muscles.

The relationships between your feet and pelvis, knee and hip, and legs and pelvis are examined and re-aligned. This session releases your pelvis for a wider range of motion, while engaging the pelvic floor muscle for core support. This session also addresses torsions (twists) in your knees and hips.

In this session, a mild emotional reaction may occur due to the release of the physiological and psychological tension held in the pelvis.

Session 5 balances abdominal muscles to the curve of the back
Works: legs, hip flexors, abdomen, diaphragm, ribcage, and sternum.

This session works on the frontal vertical line of your body. By releasing the hip flexors, your pelvis is allowed to return to a more natural position. The front of your body will seem to lengthen and tension in your lower back will dissipate. Now that the abdomen is no longer crunched in a confined space, your inner organs have more room to do their duties as well.

This session will also balance your abdominal muscles to the curve of the spine. It activates your abdominal muscles for core strength and support.

Session 6 creates vertical symmetry
Works: posterior ankle, calves, thighs, hamstrings, gluteal muscles, deep rotator muscles, the sacrum, lower and upper spine.

This session is the mirror image of session 5. It works the back vertical line of your body to create symmetry to the front. It releases the backs of your legs and spine from the pelvis. This is going to be the back-pain release for those suffering from scoliosis and sciatica. More support and movement in the legs, pelvis, and lower back is the goal in this session.

Session 7 balances the neck and head
Works: cranium, neck, jaw, shoulders, chest, and arms.

The previous six sessions created a strong structure. The seventh session balances your neck and head at the top of your spine and re-aligns your jaw. This will release tension in your face, neck, throat, and head.

Sessions 8-10 – The “Integration” Sessions

The final three sessions integrate the core and structural work of the first seven sessions to help your body achieve complete physical balance.

Sessions 8 and 9 integrates the upper body to the lower
Works: pelvis, upper or lower body.

These sessions vary depending on your body’s specific balancing needs, but the goal is to integrate the function of your upper and lower body together with your pelvis as the center point. During these two sessions, the Rolfing practitioner will ensure your legs, arms, shoulders, neck head, and other structures function well together.

Session 10 concludes the series with final integration
Works: ankles, knees, hips, diaphragm, neck, and cranium.

The last session concludes the ten series with final integration of your upper and lower body, basically covering anything the last nine sessions didn’t. This session is usually customized to cover your entire body at a superficial level to clear up any remaining issues.

By the end of the Rolfing Ten-Series you will not only move more freely and with less pain, you will also experience a whole new level of wellness thanks to the release of constrictions around your body’s critical organs.

And one last bit of good news: many people start feeling better immediately after the very first session. After a complete Rolfing body tune-up, you’re sure to feel better than you have in years.

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References

Viera L. Rolfing revealed. Chicago Tribune: Health. 2010 Feb 21:18-9.

The Rolfing Ten-Series. Rolf Institute of Structural Integration.

Ward, B. The Ten Series. ActionPotential. 2002.

Evanko, S. The Ten-Series. Performance Rolfing.

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Create Your Own Retirement Windfall with Commercial Real Estate

By admin | Published: April 26, 2011


By Dave Lindahl

commercial real estate investing

Commercial properties offer fast income returns

One of the most flawed rules of thumb you may hear is that you’ll only need 50% of your current income to maintain your lifestyle during retirement.

When did the future ever become 50% less expensive… is a loaf of bread going to cost half what it does today? Will rents drop by 50%?

It’s likely you’re going to need MORE money than you’ve planned for. If you want steady income during retirement, but do not want to face the risk and volatility of the stock market, you could pile your life savings into a CD. However, at 1.59% interest, you need about $600,000 saved to get just $12,000 annual interest income – and that only keeps you a hair above the federal poverty level.

Thousands of retirees and baby boomers are turning to real estate. They are securing massive income by investing in commercial properties including apartment buildings, offices, and retail properties.

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Today’s commercial real estate market is one for the moneymaking history books. It’s possible to become a millionaire on your first property.

It is a misconception that you need vast sums of money in the bank and stellar personal credit to buy commercial properties. Unlike loans for single-family houses, commercial real estate loans are based on the ability of the property to pay back the lender, not on your personal ability. Almost anyone can buy commercial real estate no matter what their age, income, or credit rating.

Two Ways to Profit: Income and Equity

Commercial properties produce steady monthly income from rent, plus they position you for a massive payday when you sell.

Your goal as a commercial real estate investor is to acquire properties that produce an immediate positive cash flow. This means the rental income covers all expenses including taxes, maintenance, mortgage and professional property management, plus gives you surplus cash to spend and invest as you please.

In essence, tenants pay off 100% of your investment and give you extra money. It’s called “passive income” because you don’t work for it, and it comes to you rain or shine, good economy or bad. It’s virtually never-ending until you sell the property. You do not have to wait decades to cash in. Many investors sell within 3 to 5 years and roll their profits into bigger buildings.

Tremendous Opportunity Today

Commercial real estate opens a huge segment of your local market that most individual investors overlook. Less competition leads to better deals.

From small duplex apartment houses, to retail strip malls and major office centers, commercial property allows you to become as big as your imagination, but lets you start as small as you like. You can literally turn a few hundred dollars into a multi-million dollar fortune…

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Coffee: Good or Bad for Your Health?

By admin | Published: April 22, 2011


By Isabel De Los Rios
Author of The Diet Solution Program

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How good... or bad... is your morning cup of coffee?

Is your morning coffee an ok option on your healthy eating plan? Is coffee really bad for you or is it actually good?

I get these questions about coffee and health all the time and as a coffee drinker myself, it is smart to take a look at both the good and the bad.

Now, I’m not here to tell you that coffee is good for you. If I did, I would be telling only the good side of the story and I’m no politician. I am here to give you the good and the bad and tell you how you can incorporate your favorite coffee or tea into your healthy meal plan.

The Ugly Side of Caffeine

Most coffee and tea contains a lot of caffeine. This is usually the primary reason people make coffee their drink of choice in the morning. Caffeine is a drug like any other and comes with a long list of side effects. Have you ever tried not having your coffee in the morning? Yeah, pass the Excedrin, right? The headache that comes on when you try and kick this habit can be brutal (just like with other drugs) and creating a dependency and addiction like this is harmful to the body.

Second, coffee is extremely acidic. Our bodies function at optimum levels when they are slightly more alkaline (the opposite of acidic). It is best for us to greatly reduce any foods that will drive our body’s pH to be more acidic and eat more foods that are alkaline (like fruits and veggies). An acidic body pH is like a magnet for all kinds of illnesses. Also, an alkaline body has a much stronger immune system, making illness much less likely.

Last but not least, the caffeine in coffee and tea is abuse to your adrenal glands. Your adrenals release your “fight or flight” hormones basically giving you a nice “boost” when needed. Unfortunately, people who drink coffee all day long are consistently beating on their adrenals. This is the equivalent of whipping a tired horse even when he is exhausted. Eventually he will not move at all.

The Pretty Side of Caffeine

Coffee tastes oh so yummy and makes me feel great in the morning. (What? Is that not a good enough reason to drink it?)

Many studies have shown that coffee can help in the prevention and treatment of diseases and illnesses as varied as Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, liver disease, skin cancer, Parkinsons’s disease and more. Although, I don’t believe coffee would be the cure all to any of these diseases, many ancient cultures did rely on the coffee bean to cure a long list of ailments. Not to mention, small doses of caffeine can increase performance and mental focus.

Green tea is also a great drink to include with a long list of benefits. If nothing else, green tea is a wonderful source of antioxidants which are important in cancer prevention. Green tea has even been found to raise metabolism and aid in fat burning. Before you go take a green tea bath, its effects are really minor when compared to the effects of sound nutrition and exercise plans. Now that I’ve said that, don’t think you can eat junk food and just wash it down with green tea!

What is a coffee and tea drinker to do?

1. Limit your coffee and tea intake to 2 – 8 oz cups per day. No, not 2 of each, 2 total. Any more than that is considered as a heavy addict. (I know. I’ve been there.)

2. If you are currently dependent on a lot of caffeine each day, replace 1 or 2 cups of coffee with green tea instead. Green tea has much less caffeine than coffee and will help combat the ugly detox symptoms.

3. Do not jack up your coffee with sugar, milk, syrup and whip cream (So I guess that means no Starbucks, huh?). Use stevia or xylitol to sweeten and avoid all the empty, harmful calories. A teaspoon of half and half won’t hurt either. Please oh please, do not use any of those flavored creamers. They are closer to someone’s chemistry experiment than they are to real food.

4. Make sure to make your food choices healthy. Avoiding other acidic foods like sugar, artificial sweeteners and processed foods will lighten the acid load on the body.

5. Make sure the coffee you drink is organic. Conventional coffee is filled with pesticides and chemicals and should be avoided at all costs.

There is no need to give up your morning coffee but it is important to drink the right types of coffee, without the added unhealthy extras and, as with most things, in moderation.

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Police State America: Forced Medicine

By admin | Published: April 21, 2011


What would you do to protect your child?

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Medicine: Whose choice is it?

If you’ve ever questioned the length to which the government will go to force us to medicate our children… against our will if necessary… you don’t have to look far to discover the frightening truth.

Just ask Detroit mother Maryanne Godboldo.

After homeschooling her physically challenged 13-year-old daughter Ariana for some time, Maryanne chose to enroll her daughter in school. This required Ariana to submit to state mandated immunizations.

Like most well-meaning parents, Maryanne dutifully allowed the immunizations. But adverse reactions to the shots led to Ariana, who had never acted up previously, to begin having noticeable behavior problems.

Concerned, Maryanne brought her daughter to a nearby medical center for help. A doctor at the Detroit Children’s Center where she went prescribed Risperdal, an antipsychotic drug. The problem is the Risperdal caused Ariana’s symptoms to get worse – not better.

Realizing that the prescribed drug was harming her daughter, Maryanne sought a second opinion from another doctor. Following the second doctor’s advice to take Ariana off the antipsychotic medicine and try more holistic and natural methods of treating her led to significant improvement.

At this point one would hope that wisdom would prevail and the Godboldo’s could get back to living a relatively normal life thanks to a doctor who wasn’t afraid to buck Big Pharma. But that’s where Maryanne’s bad dream was about to turn into a real nightmare.

As a result of Maryanne’s refusal to continue feeding her daughter the poisonous drugs, Child Protective Services was called. Regardless of the fact that she was acting in her daughter’s best interests… that there was no law requiring her to give the drug to her daughter… and despite the fact the drug itself caused adverse reactions… Maryanne was given an ultimatum: Resume the drug therapy or have her child taken away.

Now let me stop right here and tell you… I don’t care what other parents may or may not do, but if you put me in a situation where I have to choose between my child’s health or what some government bureaucrat thinks is best… I’m going to stand up and fight for my child.

Apparently I must have something in common with Maryanne because that’s what she did too.

When CPS came knocking at her door last month with members of the Detroit Police Department’s Special Response Team to take her child – refusing to even show a warrant – Maryanne rightfully refused to let them in the door.

So the police broke it down.

Now the stories conflict here as they often do, but around the time the officers entered her home a shot rang out inside the house. Realizing they were up against a mother who means business when it comes to protecting her child, the police quickly backed out the door and a 10-hour standoff ensued with a SWAT team, police tank, the whole 9 yards outside her home.

I understand many readers will reflexively say the mother was wrong by grabbing a gun when the police were there… that she endangered her daughter, herself, and others by doing so. This may be true, but there is a line that gets crossed in situations like these when you do whatever it takes to protect your child.

At what point do we say enough is enough? Would you pull out a gun to protect your child from being kidnapped? Should it make any difference that the person attempting to kidnap your child – which is the unlawful taking and/or confinement – is wearing a uniform and on the government payroll?

I guarantee you that no one will want to cross that line with my children and family – in or out of uniform.

That’s all I’m going to say on the matter for now… partly because Mike Adams of NaturalNews.com already wrote an excellent piece on just this subject due to this exact case. I encourage you to read his article, which includes more information on the case on how you can help: The Maryanne Godboldo question: When do parents have the right to shoot back against state-sponsored kidnappers?

In the meanwhile, this outrage still goes on. Maryanne’s daughter was promptly taken from her and placed in state “care” while Maryanne faces a slew of felony charges.

Sadly, since being confined away from her mother, it appears Ariana has been sexually molested as her mother was notified that her daughter has contracted an STD. Her daughter was not sexually active and did not have the STD before being taken by the state – we know this because of a medical exam before she went into their custody.

Now again, let me ask you… what would you do to protect your child?

“The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.”
~ Voltaire

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Negative Ion Therapy

By admin | Published: April 21, 2011


There’s just something about the air after a spring thunderstorm, near a mountain waterfall, or along an ocean beach.

negative ions

Negative ions in the air are why we feel
great right after a thunderstorm

It’s almost impossible to feel depressed when in such an environment… and it turns out it’s more than just the scenery.

In each of these environments, invisible, tasteless, and odorless molecules are released in great abundance.

These molecules are called anions, or negatively charged ions, and they boast a remarkable number of hidden health benefits.

In a minute I’ll tell you how easily you can increase this “vitamin of the air” without waiting for a thunderstorm or taking a vacation. But first, here’s seven ways negative ions can greatly improve your health and life.

Cure for winter depression

Even though we can’t sense them, negative ions clearly have an effect on mood. In controlled clinical studies, they improved the mood of people suffering from seasonal affective disorder (SAD) or winter depression.

Summer air is full of these particles. In winter, they are sparse.

Dr. Michael Terman, Professor of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University and leading researcher in the treatment of depression with ion therapy, uses special machines to supplement negative ions in the winter. These “negative ion machines” act as an antidepressant in patients with SAD.

Research shows that negative ion therapy works almost as well as bright light therapy and naturalistic dawn stimulation to offer relief from the winter blues.

Boosts antioxidant defenses and fights infections

Negative ion therapy boosts our body’s antioxidant defenses and may protect us from bacterial and other infections.

Negative ions are known to increase the activity of a crucial enzyme known as superoxide dismutase (SOD) by 50%.

This enzyme is a very important part of our body’s antioxidant defense mechanism. It chews up superoxide – a dangerous oxidative reactive species – into oxygen and hydrogen peroxide, and protects our cells from its harmful effects.

In recent years, interest in the use of negative air ionizers to control the spread of airborne bacteria and infections has re-emerged. Negative ions may have some benefits in this area, although it is not known how exactly they work.

Protection from positive ion-related stress and exhaustion

Negative ions have a positive effect on health. For one thing, they offer protection from positive ion-related stress and exhaustion disorders.

Positive ionization is caused by an incoming weather front, like a storm or a desert wind. Positive ions cause the levels of a chemical neurotransmitter associated with stress, called serotonin, to rise sharply in our bodies. This makes us irritated and exhausted.

When mice and rats are exposed to positive ions, they become agitated, aggressive and are more likely to get respiratory illnesses.

Dr. Felix Sulman, head of the Applied Pharmacology department at Jerusalem University, conducted some very interesting experiments with positive and negative ions on people.

When volunteers were left for about an hour in a room with an overdose of positive ions, they became irritable and fatigued.

Yet when they were confined for the same period of time in air containing an overdose of negative ions, they became alert and relaxed!

Dr. Sulman carried out another study of “weather sensitive” volunteers. During the Sharav winds – scorching hot, dry desert winds which blow from the Arabian Desert for 2-5 days at a time – their bodies would produce up to 10 times the normal level of serotonin.

He believes they were being poisoned by their own serotonin. They experienced migraines, hot flushes, irritability, pains around the heart, difficulty in breathing and a worsening of bronchial complaints, anxiety and irrational tension.

His research also shows that our body reacts to positive ions by making adrenaline and noradrenaline, the “fight or flight” hormones. Together, they stimulate short-term euphoria but eventually cause exhaustion.

Exposure to positive ions also causes our bodies to overproduce histamine, which aggravates allergies.

Negative ions usually accumulate following a storm.

In an interesting study, German researchers isolated mice and rats in airtight, sealed acrylic cases. They then filtered the air to remove all negative ions.

Surprisingly, this sped up the death rate in these animals. The researchers believe this was probably due to serious disturbances in their hormonal functions, although the exact reasons are unknown.

Protection from physical stress

Negative ions help relieve physical stress too.

In research studies, stressed rats exposed to negatively charged ions were protected from the effects of stress. The problems normally caused by stress simply did not happen.

British researchers at the Centre for Sport and Exercise Sciences in Liverpool exposed male athletes to negative ions. Then they measured their body temperature, heart rate and respiration – both while at rest and during exercise, and found that negative ions significantly improved the physiological state of the athletes, especially during rest.

Enhanced mental performance and concentration

In 1969, Dr. Felix Sulman again carried out some very interesting experiments on the effects of negative ions on people.

He asked groups of people to spend time in a room low in negative ions, and later, in a room with an overdose of negative ions.

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Negative ions improve brain function while a deficiency leads to irritability and fatigue

While in each room, they were given word, figure, and symbol tests. Dr. Sulman found that they scored significantly higher when they were in the negative ion-enriched room. At the same time, their brain waves (via the electroencephalogram or EEG) showed the slower, stronger pulse rate of alpha waves, which are a measure of the brain’s activity and health. Usually, slow, strong alpha wave pulse rates indicate calm and heightened alertness.

On the other hand when the subjects were in the negative ion-deficient room, they showed signs of irritability and fatigue, along with lower test performance.

Enhanced burn healing

In 1959, Dr. Kornbleuh and his medical colleagues at Northeastern General Hospital treated a group of 138 burn victims with negative ionized air.

To their surprise, more than half of them suffered significantly less pain and discomfort. They also healed more quickly and thoroughly than those who were treated by conventional methods.

On the other hand, less than a quarter of the control burn victims experienced similar improvements in the same time frame. Later on, the hospital equipped all of its postoperative wards with negative ion generators.

Negative ion treatment might have worked in this instance by removing pollutants from the air, reducing infection rates and irritation of burn wounds. Again, studies are still being performed to understand the phenomenon better, but it appears to work.

Protection from migraine headaches and pain

Migraines happen when an overload of the chemical brain transmitter serotonin we spoke of earlier causes blood vessels in the brain to dilate. Blood flow increases and pain receptors in the blood vessels get stretched. This is what causes the excruciating pain in a migraine.

In numerous tests and studies, negative ion treatment prevented overproduction of serotonin and effectively cured migraines. And, of course, it has no negative side effects or risks found with migraine medications.

Negative Ion Therapy Without Taking a Trip

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Waterfalls are a great source of negative ions

You can enjoy all of these benefits of negative ion therapy right at home. No need to wait around for a thunderstorm or take a vacation to the beach or mountains – though it couldn’t hurt!

The movement of water creates negative ions… which is why waterfalls are a great destination for negative ion therapy.

Can you think of a waterfall in your home? Look no further than your shower… now you know one of the big reasons why a shower in the morning helps you wake up and may even improve your mood so much you feel like singing.

The problem though is most homes have limited hot water in their hot water tanks, and you’d end up looking like a prune if you tried to stay in the shower all day anyways.

Fortunately there’s a simple device that not only creates an abundance of negative ions, but also delivers deep-penetrating soothing heat with a large list of side benefits of its own: a far infrared heating pad.

Simply sitting or lying on one of these not only helps relieve stress, improve your mood, and produce all the benefits listed above… it also helps eliminate blood clots, relax cramped muscles, improve circulation, and even help your body fight off cancer cells. And it’s fantastic on aching backs.

If you’re looking for a way to feel great and get all the benefits of negative ions at the same time without heading to the beach, a far infrared heating pad makes a great choice. I know because I use mine every night while reading and relaxing in bed. I highly recommend it.

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Feed Your Eyes… Save Your Sight

By admin | Published: April 20, 2011


By Martin Sussman
President and Founder
Cambridge Institute for Better Vision

feed your eyes

Your vision requires 25% of the nutrition
your body absorbs for good eyesight

The visual system — the eyes, muscles, nerves and vision centers of the brain — is one of the most complex and highly demanding systems of the body.

More than 25% of the nutrition your body absorbs goes to feed the visual system. The visual system consumes one third of all the oxygen that you take in. Metabolism in the eyes is faster than anywhere else in the body. The concentration of vitamin C and other important nutrients is higher in the healthy eye than almost anywhere else in the body.

It’s not surprising, then, that proper nutrition plays an extremely important role in preventing and treating all of the common eye problems — myopia, presbyopia, cataract, macular degeneration and glaucoma.

Nutrition’s exact role is becoming more and more clear. Some facts are already well documented and pioneering doctors are uncovering other directions that are very promising.

Before we can discuss each eye problem in greater detail, it’s important to keep in mind some general nutritional information:

1. Proper balance is important. The body does not use each vitamin and mineral in isolation. The absence of one may affect the body’s ability to use another. For example, proper amounts of magnesium and vitamin D are needed in order to absorb calcium efficiently and completely. And, without adequate levels of zinc, the body cannot utilize all the vitamin A it receives.

2. The Recommended Daily Allowances (RDA) suggested for most vitamins and minerals are most often only the minimum levels needed to prevent deficiencies. However, visual health – and total body health – most probably requires supplement levels that are significantly higher than the RDA. Cataract prevention, for example, may require the intake of vitamin C at a level 15 times greater than the RDA.

3. In today’s society, it is probably not realistic to expect to get all of our nutrients from food alone. No matter how wholesome and pure our diet might be, there are other factors that affect the nutrient content of the food we eat. How food is grown, how it is stored and how it is cooked all affect its nutrient value. Besides, the amount of nutrients a particular food is supposed to contain is measured under ideal laboratory conditions, which probably don’t reflect the food you are actually eating. Most of us have long known that carrots and vitamin A are supposed to be good for the eyes. Even so, 68% of the population is deficient in vitamin A.

Over the last 50 years, the carrot has lost 75% of its magnesium content, 48% of its calcium, 46% of its iron and 75% of its copper. Modern farming methods have depleted the soil of trace minerals vital to our health, such as selenium, manganese and vanadium. Even calcium and vitamin C are found in lower levels in fruits and vegetables now than they were 50 years ago.

4. On the other hand, “popping” vitamin pills is no substitute for a wholesome diet. The body loses a significant amount of nutrients depending on the kind of food we consume. For example, we lose the trace mineral chromium as our body tries to absorb white sugar.

And caffeine, refined flour, medication and preservatives also leach trace minerals and vitamins from our system. Also, there may be as yet undiscovered vitamins and minerals in food that someday will prove to be very important to our health.

5. Age, activity level and stress affect what your body needs and how well your body can absorb and use what nutrients it does get.

Keeping these general ideas in mind, let’s look at the role that nutrition may play in myopia. In the next part of this article we’ll look at other eye conditions.

Myopia

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Nearsightedness affects 1 in 3 Americans

Myopia (nearsightedness) is a condition that affects nearly 1 out of every 3 people in the United States. Yet, only 3 out of every 100 myopic people are born that way; for everyone else, myopia is acquired at some point during their life span.

Myopia is the result of a degeneration of some part of the visual system. It’s so common to see someone wearing glasses that we forget that it is not natural. Myopic people are also more prone to develop more serious eye conditions, such as retinal detachment, glaucoma and cataracts.

The search for nutritional answers to myopia has focused on two different parts of the visual system: the shape of the eye and the functioning of the lens.

Let’s look at each of these separately:

One possible explanation for myopia is that it occurs when the eye elongates, stretching from front to back. Distortions as small as 4/100 of an inch are enough to produce extreme degrees of myopia. Exactly what causes this stretching is not clear, though it seems to be due to either increased intraocular pressure or excessive tension in the extra-ocular muscles.

Dr. Gary Price Todd, a North Carolina ophthalmologist, has been using nutritional and metabolic healing for different eye problems for more than 20 years. He is trained to do all the standard surgeries for the eyes, but he prefers to promote the natural healing of the eyes whenever possible.

Dr. Todd believes that most myopia develops in children during growth spurts. If the child is not receiving proper nutrition, the body literally takes minerals from the eye to use in the growth of the body. The resulting mineral depletion in the eye weakens its structure, making it susceptible to the forces and stresses involved in prolonged near work, including reading, studying, watching TV or using a computer — all of which are common activities for most of today’s children.

Dr. Todd has success in arresting the progression of myopia in children that he treats; in some cases, the degree of myopia has decreased. Dr. Todd achieves these results just by recommending that children under his care supplement their diet with a total vitamin and mineral formula which is particularly rich in the minerals selenium, chromium and zinc.

The formula that Dr. Todd originally developed for eye and body health is EYEMAX-plus.

Dr. Ben Lane, New Jersey optometrist and another pioneer in the role of nutrition in myopia and other eye diseases, concurs in the importance of these trace minerals in maintaining the strength of the eye. Dr. Lane has found that chromium levels in myopic children are 1/3 that of children with normal vision. (It is interesting to note that chromium is depleted in the body by white sugar, eaten all too frequently by many children today.)

Calcium levels are also lower in nearsighted children. Dr. Lane found that children increasing in the degree of myopia have diets extremely deficient in calcium. Dr. Lane thinks that in the face of this dietary deficiency, the body takes calcium from the eye to help support bone growth. This calcium lack then makes the eye susceptible to the forces playing on it during prolonged periods of near work and visual stress. Dr. Lane has also found that these children also eat too much meat protein (a poor source of calcium) and too little calcium-rich milk products and stalky vegetables. Caffeine (found in soda as well as in coffee) is known to leach calcium from the body.

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Vitamin C is one of the critical nutrients
needed to maintain good eyesight

Dr. Lane has also found that Vitamin C is important. He has noted that low levels of dietary intake of Vitamin C are associated with increases in pressure in the eye. This increasing pressure also is associated with the visual fatigue that can result from extended periods of near work. The focusing mechanism needs adequate levels of vitamin C and chromium for efficient functioning. Adequate levels of Vitamin C are also needed to ensure the strength and structural integrity of the eyes.

Vitamin C is leached from the body by artificial flavors and ingredients and aspirin. It is generally recommended that an adult take between 500 and 1000 mg. a day, increasing the quantity during periods of high stress (including visual stress and extended periods of near range work).

Another vitamin that Dr. Lane thinks is of critical importance is folic acid, which helps the eyes to maintain near focus for longer periods of time as well as increase the eyes’ ability to absorb nutrition from the body. He thinks that folic acid should come from food sources rather than from vitamins.

Drs. Todd and Lane have focused their studies on the nutritional factors involved in maintaining the structural integrity of the eye. Another explanation for myopia, also incorporated in Dr. Lane’s theory, is that the lens has lost some of its ability to change focus, due to the constant pressure placed on it to maintain near point focus (e.g., when reading, writing, using a computer).

According to this theory, myopia occurs when the lens becomes “stuck” for near point vision and is unable to shift its focus to distant objects. Normally, the lens has the power to change its focus more than enough to compensate for individual differences in the length of the eye.

Dr. David A. Kubicek, a California doctor of chiropractic, explored the role of the lens in a research paper he wrote in 1988. This is a synopsis of his theory and his recommendations:

The ciliary muscle (which controls the focusing of the lens) is itself stimulated by both the sympathetic and the parasympathetic nerve systems of the body. Parasympathetic stimulation increases accommodation — the lens’ ability to focus on near objects. Sympathetic stimulation decreases this ability, allowing the lens to focus on distant objects. Clear vision at all distances requires the nervous system of the body to constantly balance and re-balance these two types of stimulation.

Nearsighted people, Dr. Kubicek reasoned, would lack sufficient sympathetic stimulation to bring distant objects into focus. Farsighted people, on the other hand, would show a weakness in parasympathetic stimulation.

To test his theory, Dr. Kubicek devised a simple muscular test that would tell him which system was weak for an individual. By performing only this simple test, he was able to predict — with 100% accuracy — which subjects were nearsighted and which were farsighted. Dr. Kubicek was then able to use this procedure and his knowledge of biochemistry to devise the right combination of nutrients that could promote proper functioning of the lens and thus help to improve vision at all distances.

Certain nutrients are known to increase sympathetic activity and others are known to increase parasympathetic activity. Nutrients that might be beneficial to nearsighted people would be vitamins B-2 and B-6, folic acid, niacinamide, zinc, magnesium and phosphorus, among others. (On the other hand, Dr. Lane cautions against phosphorus intake. His research indicates that what is most important is maintaining the balance in the body between calcium and phosphorus, a balance which is upset by the intake of too much animal-derived protein.)

The answers aren’t all in yet as to the exact role that various nutrients play, but it is clear that the onset of myopia can be an early indicator of nutritional deficiencies and imbalances in the visual system – and in the entire body.

Don’t miss Part 2 where Martin Sussman talks about three more forms of eyesight degeneration: Presbyopia, Cataracts, and Macular Degeneration, how to prevent the leading cause of blindness, and avoid the most common surgical procedure in the United States.

Part 2: Save Your Eyesight (Without Surgery)

About Martin Sussman:

Martin Sussman, an internationally known expert in holistic vision care, is the author of five books, audio courses and DVDs, including the #1 best-selling The Program for Better Vision and the Read Without Glasses Method (for middle age sight). He is the founder and president of the Cambridge Institute for Better Vision, which he established in 1977.

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How to Naturally Color Easter Eggs

By admin | Published: April 18, 2011


Eggs are great for you… but artificial food colors are not. That’s why if you’re planning on dyeing eggs for your Easter celebration – or any occasion at all – you’ll want to stick with natural food colors.

Easter Eggs

Easter eggs should be as safe to eat
as they are nice to look at

But first, to get the perfect hardboiled egg, you need to know how to cook them. If you want the perfect hardboiled egg – rule #1 is don’t let them boil! Overcooking your eggs results in a rubbery texture and cracks in the eggshells.

Also, when you let your eggs boil, a reaction between sulfur in the egg white and iron in the yolk can cause an ugly green ring around the yolk. It’s safe to eat, but not very appetizing to look at.

Courtesy of the American Egg Board, cooking the perfect hardboiled egg (they call them hard-cooked eggs because you shouldn’t actually let them continue to boil), is as simple as 1, 2, 3…

The Perfect Hardboiled Egg

Step 1

PLACE eggs in saucepan large enough to hold them in single layer. ADD cold water to cover eggs by 1 inch. HEAT over high heat just to boiling.

Step 2

REMOVE from burner. COVER pan. LET EGGS STAND in hot water about 15 minutes for large eggs (12 minutes for medium eggs; 18 minutes for extra large).

Step 3

DRAIN immediately and serve warm. OR, cool completely under cold running water or in bowl of ice water, then REFRIGERATE.

Natural Egg Coloring

Now that you have your perfectly boiled eggs, it’s time to color them naturally. Chef Jeffrey Saad from the Next Food Network Star and national spokesperson for The Incredible Edible Egg shows how you can use safe, natural ingredients like blueberries, turmeric, and coffee to color your eggs below.

Since you’ll be using natural ingredients instead of dangerous artificial colors to dye your eggs, expect your eggs to take a little longer to absorb a deep color than store bought kits. But serving a food you’re comfortable with your family eating is worth the wait.


Have a favorite natural ingredient for dyeing eggs bright colors? A tip for boiling or peeling the perfect egg? Let us know in the comments below!

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Who is John Galt?

By admin | Published: April 16, 2011


Today as I write this it’s April 15th. Traditionally, this is the date that personal income taxes are due in the U.S.

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Should be required reading for all politicians – and every voter

Which makes it very interesting timing for the first theatrical release of a movie based on Ayn Rand’s famous novel Atlas Shrugged.

How so? In this country we have had a long tradition of rewarding the efforts of brilliant thinkers and producers in society.

It’s the engine of capitalism and the principles of liberty which have enabled the “common man” time and again to start and build a successful business, often from scratch, and enjoy the fruits of their labor.

It’s the reason immigrants have come to our shores for centuries to create a new life for themselves and their families.

And it’s the reason we have, by far, the largest economy in the world.

Without capitalism and liberty which provided opportunity and freedom to enjoy the rewards of creating value, many of the great inventions of the 19th and 20th centuries may never have become what they are today. Think of a world without the automobile, the telephone, the television, the computer or even the incandescent light bulb (oh wait, that world’s probably not far off).

The bottom line is free enterprise is responsible for many of the most astounding advances in human history. But our thinking as a country has changed. Now more than ever, a growing segment of our society believes “the rich” have a responsibility to take care of the “less fortunate.”

But what happens when such a large segment of our population believes that it’s someone else’s responsibility to provide for their well being, their material needs, or even their own happiness that it causes a change in government and society so profound that it no longer remains profitable for those few who create value to bother?

That’s the concept explored in Ayn Rand’s book. And I’ve personally found it to be the most profound book I’ve ever read. If you’re wondering what this has to do with back pain or your health, I’ll just say much more than you think.

I don’t want to spoil the storyline of Atlas Shrugged for you if you’ve never read it before because you really should read it.

Or listen to it.

Or, at the very least, go watch the movie.

And discover for yourself: Who is John Galt?





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