Michael Eades provides excellent information about four popular diets – Atkins, Ornish, Zone and LEARN – and provides intelligent commentary on them.

If you are confused by the contradictory advice offered in the press, by books, and by medical advisers; and if you are prepared to spend half an hour taking on board some new information I strongly recommend this post to you.

The truth is, all these diets have some good points. The trick comes in knowing what the good parts are, and at what times they might suit you.

Michael Eades’ post will help you get to the truth underlying these diets. You will then be in a position to judge yourself what you should be eating, and what you should not.

It’s a great piece.

Let me know in the comments what you think.

What Is The Best Healthy diet? is a post from: Alternative HealthZine

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It is claimed that you can knock 10 years off your biological age by walking for 30 minutes a day.

Walking is one of the best of exercise plans, because it is easy to do; is cheap; can be done by virtually anybody, and does not damage the joints – as jogging and running do.

As we age, the muscles lose bulk and this makes it harder for us even to walk upstairs. Many elderly people fall simply because the muscles have become weaker through losing bulk. Walking is a great and simple exercise for the legs to help maintain muscle bulk – and strength.

It’s a great benefit for health if you can walk instead of drive; walk instead of taking the lift; and have a 20-30 minute walk at lunchtime whenever you can.

This simple form of exercise is a great health treatment which will pay dividends as you age.

The Exercise Benefits of Walking is a post from: Alternative HealthZine

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She decided to try to make sure a daughter of hers did not suffer the same. So she had her embryos screened for breast cancer.

Test tube fertilization took place and five embryos which were created were free of the breast cancer gene. Of these, two were implanted. She gave birth to a  breast-cancer-free baby in December 2008.

Can Genetics Methods Always Be Wrong?

Many people object to genetic manipulation; but they are not wrong in every case. This is a persuasive example of when it can be used for good. Can it ever be wrong to ensure a breast-cancer-free baby?

This woman took positive action and had the baby she wanted and avoided terrible worry for her, and very possibly terrible worry for her child at a later stage.

More information:
First Designer Baby Born Free of Breast Cancer risk

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This may be a false economy.

Organic food consistently has lower levels of pesticide residues than does non-organic. The amounts of these residues may be relatively small, but their effects can certainly be damaging when they build up.

Be on the safe side; but keep buying as much organic  food as possible.

Organic Health Food – Sales Down is a post from: Alternative HealthZine

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A list of mistakes has been drawn up and these include;

• being given the wrong operation
• being given the wrong drug
• surgical instruments being left in the body
• allowing patients to fall out of bed

The number of deaths resulting from hospital mistakes is estimated to be around 40,000 a year. YES – that’s 40,000! On top of this, around 5000 a year die from a superbug infections.

The message is clear – stay out of hospital unless you absolutely have to.

Details

Hospitals are Unsafe is a post from: Alternative HealthZine

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Most people who die of cancer die from metastasis – the spreading of cancer from its original site. This metastasis is enabled by the original tumour producing LOX, which find distant sites and prepares them for invasion by the spreading cancer. Different types of tumour produce differing amounts of LOX – coinciding with how aggressive they are. For example, prostate cancer is generally quite un-aggressive and does not spread easily; so it, presumably, produces little LOX.

In health, LOX strengthens our connective tissue – the important tissue which ‘fills in the gaps’ between important organs and body structures. However, it is produced in quantity by many cancer tumours when they exceed a certain size.

How This Will Stop Cancer Spreading

As the mechanism is better understood, methods will be found of inhibiting the LOX production of a tumour and making the tumour’s spread much less likely.

This will not necessarily help catch cancers which have already spread when they are discovered; but, now its mechanism is better understood,  influencing LOX will be a potent weapon in the fight against cancer.

More details of the story.

(The enzyme LOX (lysyl oxidase) is not to be confused with the damaging lipoxygenase inflammatory pathway, also called LOX. )

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At last, embryonic stem cell research will now get federal funding thanks to President Obama’s reversal of Bush’s ridiculous ban. This has put embryonic stem cell research back 5 years – and we are talking here about cures for various cancers and heart disease. Bush has definitely cost lives, many lives.

The correct course was, if he was concerned about stem cell ethics, to permit federal funding, but set parameters. That is what is going to happen now – five years later. Basically, Bush gave in to the Christian lobby. Even now, the Pope opposes Obama’s decision.

Anyway, the research can now proceed, accelerated by the US’s involvement.

UK Stem Cell Lead

The UK are currently at the forefront of stem cell research but this won’t last long with America in the game.

We will see fantastic healthy treatment gains – for cancer, heart disease, and perhaps Alzheimer’s – in 10-20 years thanks to the advances made possible by embryonic stem cell research. Already a US firm has started searching for human candidates for the first trial of stem cell therapy for those paralysed by severe spinal injury – made possible by embryonic stem cell research.

Bush’s Stem Cell Ban Overturned is a post from: Alternative HealthZine

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A coalition of researchers in seven European countries are starting a new clinical trial of techniques to make Warfarin safer.

Genetic Methods Used

Using a mathematical formula based on genetic techniques the researchers carrying out the study will tailor the Warfarin dose to the patient – rather than using a ‘one size fits all’ approach. This should mean fewer side effects – such as internal bleeding caused by the blood becoming ‘too thin’.

The study is reported in the New England Journal of Medicine.

More detail on this story
Warfarin – Wikipedia
Herbs to help the heart and circulation
Better Circulation – AHZ article

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Low-price supermarket Asda – owned by USA’s Walmart – reports that organic veg and fruit sales are up 8% on last year.

A spokesman at Asda said: “We don’t believe that in tough economic times people abandon their beliefs and principles.” (Aah – sweet!)

Anyway, organic sales are up – so that’s good.

Free Range Egg Sales Up Too

Asda are also seeing free range egg sales grow at the expense of ordinary eggs. That’s good too, as the level of beneficial  omega 3 fat in free range eggs is higher.

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