Supplements of Natural Health

Natural health supplements – which nutritional remedies work? Which don’t supplement your health? This Wonder Herb article shares the shocking truth. Natural Health Supplements and the Foods That Are Killing UsThe fact that you’re considering natural health supplements means you want to improve your health naturally. You probably know that cancer rates are higher than ever. That people are getting obscure diseases that didn’t even exist 50 years ago. That conventional medicine isn’t working.Why is this happening?Sure, it’s because the ever-increasing number of chemicals that we put on our skins and breathe in everyday but it also has a lot to do with our diets. More importantly, 50 years ago, even though we lacked education in nutrition, the health foods we did eat were rich in nutrients. We ate real apples that weren’t chemically altered - that were freshly picked - not the 6 month old, genetically modified ones we get in supermarkets today.

IN WHICH REGIONS OF THE WORLD IS HEALTH MOST AFFECTED BY ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS, AND HOW?

Developing regions carry a disproportionately heavy burden for communicable diseases and injuries.
The largest overall difference between WHO regions was in infectious diseases. The total number of healthy life years lost per capita as a result of environmental burden per capita was 15-times higher in developing countries than in developed countries. The environmental burden per capita of diarrhoeal diseases and lower respiratory infections was 120- to 150-times greater in certain WHO developing country subregions as compared to developed country subregions. These differences arise from variations in exposure to environmental risks and in access to health care.
No overall difference between developed and developing countries in the fraction of noncommunicable disease attributable to the environment was observed.
… However, in developed countries, the per capita impact of cardiovascular diseases and cancers is higher.
The number of healthy life years lost from cardiovascular disease, as a result of environmental factors, was 7-times higher, per capita, in certain developed regions than in developing regions, and cancer rates were 4-times higher. Physical inactivity is a risk factor for various noncommunicable diseases including ischaemic heart disease, cancers of the breast, colon and rectum, and diabetes mellitus. It has been estimated that in certain developed regions such as North America, physical inactivity levels could be reduced by 31% through environmental interventions, including pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly urban land use and transport, and leisure and workplace facilities and policies that support more active lifestyles.

… Developing countries, meanwhile, carry a heavier burden of disease from unintentional
injuries and road traffic injuries attributable to environmental factors.
In developing countries, the average number of healthy life years lost, per capita, as a result of injuries associated with environmental factors, was roughly double that of developed countries; the gap was even greater at the subregional level. For road traffic injuries, there was a 15-fold difference between the environmental burden of disease in the best performing and worstperforming subregions, and a 10-fold disparity for 'other' unintentional injuries.
The results suggest that an important transition in environmental risk factors will occur as countries develop. For some diseases, such as malaria, the environmental disease burden is expected to decrease with development, but the burden will increase from other noncommunicable diseases, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), to levels approximate with those seen in more developed regions of the world.

Practice Detachment

Worry, anxiety, behaving compulsively, and being in an unhealthy relationship with a friend, significant other, or coworker are all forms of attachment that cause stress.

It is not easy to stop worrying about the present and the future, to cease feeling obligated to those to whom we really aren’t obligated, and to separate yourself from tasks and responsibilities that really belong to others. The first step toward detachment is to identify the things in your life that do not belong there. This can be done by sitting down and making a list with two headings: “My Life and Responsibilities” and “Other People’s Lives and Responsibilities.” Once you have identified which things in life you are not responsible for, you can start consciously disassociating yourself from them one by one.
Many of us do not realize how addicted we have become to solving other people’s problems and helping them to see how much easier, less stressed, and efficient their lives would be if only they would do things our way. In his book Growing Yourself Back Up: Understanding Emotional Regression, psychotherapist and workshop leader John Lee shows readers that it is arrogant and self-defeating for us to assume that we can solve other people’s problems for them. It uses up our energy reserves, causes us stress, and usually doesn’t help anyone anyway.
One of the most constructive things we can do for others—be they friends, family, or coworkers—is to allow them to make their own decisions, their own choices, their own mistakes, and to experience their own victories. How else can we expect them to learn except by doing for themselves? We can’t control the amount of stress in other people’s lives, but we can surely greatly reduce our own by not assuming responsibility for the stress of others.

Find Your Weak Link

It is not as easy as you think to ascertain your level of fitness because the appearance of health is not always the same as true health. I remember when Frank Warren, then a thirteen-year veteran with the New Orleans Saints, dropped out of football to coach. After a while, Frank decided to get back into the game because he felt that he was better than most of the players he was coaching. When Frank came to me for preseason training, he looked as if he were in decent shape. But the in-depth health evaluation that I recommend for all of my trainees showed that he had developed coronary problems and needed angioplasty. If Frank had stepped onto the playing field without assessing his health profile, there is a strong chance that he would have died on the field.
Your career and your passion might be calling to you to put forth your most energetic effort, but no one should ever jump into the stresses of life’s battles without a clear understanding of whether or not there is a weak link in your health chain—a point at which you could literally break down. Following a recent decision by the office of the commissioner of Major League Baseball to create a division known as Umpire Medical Services to manage the health of their umpires, my PEP program was hired as a consultant. I discovered that one umpire, whose weight had soared to 357 pounds, didn’t know that he had type 2 diabetes.
When this man didn’t want to consider the health ramifications he was facing if he didn’t lose weight and begin eating and exercising right, I appealed to his better judgment. “How can you be calling the balls and the strikes for every player when you won’t look at your own score? Your body already has two strikes against it. The next one could be your last.” I explained how easy—and even likely—it was for him to develop complications such as heart disease that might lead to premature death. Finally he took my suggestions seriously. He lost weight and reduced his waist measurement, thereby getting his blood sugar back to normal. Amazingly, he accomplished all this without taking medication, just by following my nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle management programs.
Many people are walking time bombs and don’t even know it. If you don’t have the internal physical health to deal with the stresses, demands, and performance standards of your personal life and career, then it doesn’t matter if you look as if you are fine or even feel relatively good.

Perform Well to Your Last Breath

There is no overtime in life. Therefore it benefits us to perform with as much gusto as we can until our very last breath.

In a very real sense, the adversary all of us will eventually face is death. For this reason a question you must ask yourself is, How do I want to die? Do you want to end up living in a nursing home for the last decade of your life because you can no longer take care of yourself? Do you want to spend your final years partially paralyzed by a stroke? Would you look forward to the pain and limited mobility of arthritis or the hassle of having to replace a knee or hip because the joint was just worn out by overuse or abuse? Would you enjoy being extremely overweight and suffering from obesity-related illnesses such as type 2 diabetes and heart disease?

Or do you want to enjoy life, playing and working for as many years as possible?

I often ask my clients, “If how you live is determined by how you want to die, what performance strategies must you develop to work and live with gusto?” While the average life span for men is seventyeight and for women is eighty-two, that figure has been steadily increasing. In fact researchers are projecting that by the year 2025, sixty-two million people will be over the age of sixty-five, and by 2040 as many as one million people will celebrate their hundredth birthday. Many of us will live much longer than our parents did.

The choice we face is this: Do we want to spend our later years as a drain on society, suffering from health problems that are largely avoidable? Or do we want to remain a good prospect for as long as possible, performing with energy and a zest for life?

Dr. Christiaan Barnard, the physician who did the first heart transplant, said, “I want to die ‘young’ as late as possible.” I love to share this with my clients. When I repeated this to one woman, she told me, “That reminds me of my Great Aunt Ruth. She always walked everywhere—miles and miles per week, ate right, and kept her joy for living alive by traveling the world with her children and cultivating friends of all ages. She ran her own business, retired, then managed to keep active and live independently all the way up to the age of ninety-one. At that point she had a stroke that partially paralyzed her and put her into a nursing home. The last eight months of her life were hard for all of us, but at least we knew that she had lived the first ninety-one years with good health and gusto.”

There is no overtime in life, no going back onto the field for one last play. The lifestyle choices we make every day truly determine the level of our performance, whether we remain a good prospect or become suspect. It’s up to us to make sure we’re choosing wisely.

Manage Your Performance to Go the Distance

One of the keys to delivering maximum performance is being able to manage your energy so that you can go the distance. Every task takes a certain amount of time, and you must maintain enough energy during that time to effectively exercise your skills, talents, judgment, and teamwork long enough so that you can win. Athletes are great role models for energy management. For example, boxers must be able to control their energy expenditures for twelve rounds. It does not matter if you give your opponent the battle of his life for five rounds if you don’t have the stamina to finish the fight. The workplace is no different. To complete a task or a project, you need to be able to go the distance.
The competitive challenge in life as in sports is to maintain your own energy levels while pushing your opponent into a state of overuse and overreaching. On the other hand, wise energy management involves being smart enough to never allow others to maneuver you into a position where you are being forced to overreach, to attempt a task that you know is beyond what you can realistically do. That could automatically set you up for a failure.

• Always perform with integrity. If you have integrity, you will go the distance with your client, even when the chips are down. You will stand by your people, handle and minimize the damage, cut your losses, analyze what went wrong, and create a better plan to help you make a comeback
  
• Never overreach yourself. Managing your energy system is crucial to going the distance. It does not matter how much sheer talent and experience you have if you are overreaching. Whatever amount of energy you are putting out daily on your job, make sure that it is never so much that you are not able to recover.

The upside of the equation is that once you have learned how to manage your energy system, you are almost always going to be able to go the distance and accomplish whatever performance goals you set for yourself.

Don’t Procrastinate – Improve Your Health

What kind of lifestyle changes are best? Those that instill the health habits we teach with The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle! A low-fat, vegetarian diet is crucial for the free and unimpeded flow of blood through your body. Reducing fat in your diet also stimulates weight loss, which, in turn, contributes to reduced blood pressure. Finally, make exercise a fixed part of your daily routine and learn to breathe deeply and relax, freeing yourself of stress while you fill yourself with ample fresh oxygen. Begin today to make this Bragg Healthy Lifestyle a lifelong happy habit! It is bringing miracles to millions.
Please listen to Dr. Claude Lenfant, Director, National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute. He says Lifestyle changes alone can actually reverse the conditions of heart disease. When it comes to making the kind of changes needed for healthy and happy living, the truly important thing is making those changes happen. However, actually doing it, living it, making it happen – this is what counts! So don’t play procrastinating games with yourself! The moment you think, Do I have time to do this right now? is the moment to stop asking and start doing. The moment you think, I want a big steak for dinner, is the time to open up a vegetarian cookbook with pictures and discover healthy, tasty new recipes. Wepromise you will find recipes more delicious, healthy and satisfying than steak. If you do eat meat, limit it to 1 to 3 times a week and be sure it’s hormone-free and organically fed without harmful chemicals.
Millions of successful Bragg students will tell you the same thing: the beginning is the most difficult. The in-between moment after you decide you want to become healthier and before you begin to act on that decision, is the hardest. Example: the moment before you put one leg in front of the other on the first step of your brisk walk is the hardest moment of the exercise.