(Health Secrets Newsletter) No matter how healthy a person is, eventually he/she will succumb to the rhinovirus which causes the common cold. While one cold per year is about the most a healthy adult should get, children tend to get colds more frequently as their immune systems are not as developed yet. Fortunately there are many…
(Health Secrets Newsletter) Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a condition in which the body fails to utilize insulin produced by the pancreas. Insulin is necessary to carry glucose into body cells where it is used as fuel. When there is not enough insulin or when there is insulin resistance, glucose stays in the blood, causing blood sugar to rise. In…
(Health Secrets Newsletter) Anemia is a blood condition in which the number and/or size of the red blood cells is reduced. Because red blood cells move oxygen from your lungs to the tissues and organs, any decrease in size or amount limits how much oxygen is transported and can open the door to severe fatigue…
(Health Secrets Newsletter) Are eggs healthy natural sources of high quality nutrients that form an essential part of a balanced diet, or are they evil cholesterol stuffed spheres which are guaranteed to destroy our health and cause disease? It seems that almost every day there is a new medical report into eggs, either singing their praises or…
(Health Secrets Newsletter) Cancer cells have a particular liking for refined fructose says researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (OCLA). In their recently conducted study, pancreatic cancer cells quickly fed on refined fructose and used it to divide and proliferate rapidly within the body. “These findings show that cancer cells can readily metabolize fructose…
(Health Secrets) Whether you call it the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or simply Obamacare one thing remains indisputable. If Americans were healthy the costs of insuring them would be a whole lot less, and health care coverage could easily be provided for all without a government mandate. Healthy people don’t need hospitals, drugs or expensive medical…
(Health Secrets Newsletter) Everyone knows about blood sugar problems and most people are mildly to moderately worried about them because blood sugar issues lead to problems with every system of the body. Blood sugar that is too high can exhaust the pancreas, damage all tissues including neurological and cardiovascular, throw the endocrine system out of balance and…
(Health Secrets Newsletter) After many years of being prescribed broad spectrum antibiotics, supposed wonder drugs that were seen to get rid of inconvenient ailments of any type, most of us are now aware that taking antibiotics for every cough and sniffle is not great for our health. However, the rate at which bacteria are becoming…
(Health Secrets Newsletter) Spices do a whole lot more than liven up food. Research has found that the active ingredients in several common spices can help keep you alive by preventing platelet aggregation and blood clot formation up to 29 times better than aspirin, offering a much safer alternative to anti-clotting drugs such as Plavix.…
(Health Secrets Newsletter) Just about everybody who harks back a few decades is familiar with Popeye, the famed cartoon character who downed a can of spinach to produce bulging muscles whenever he needed to get out of trouble. Researchers at the Karolinska Institutet in Swedenfound have discovered, it that Popeye was right – spinach really can…