Natural Health BlogThe aim of Natural Health For You.com is to show you a natural way to stay fit and healthy with all the excitement of knowing that you are in control of your own health, naturally. The Natural Health Blog will keep you up to date with all the latest additions and changes to the website. To subscribe to my Natural Health Blog (no e-mail necessary), right-click on the orange RSS button (see bottom buttons to the left) and then paste the URL into your RSS reader. Or click on the Google, My Yahoo! button My MSN button, newsgator, or Bloglnes button if you keep a personalized home page there. Mar 1, 2010, Liver Flush Drink RecipeLiver Flush Drink Recipe. Give your liver a treat. If you drink alcohol, you know it’s your liver that takes the brunt.YOUTUBE Permalink -- click for full blog post "Liver Flush Drink Recipe" Feb 1, 2010, Gluten Free Recipes Made Simple. Easy Ways To Adapt Your Old Recipes.Gluten free recipes from natural, healthy ingredients. Amazing gluten-free grains that you can safely use to make your new diet healthier in many ways. Jan 29, 2010, Hemorrhoids – What Causes Them, How To Avoid Them And How To Heal Them.Hemorrhoids or piles find out what causes them and how to avoid them. Natural and effective treatments quickly relieve the discomfort. Jan 18, 2010, New LookWe’ve changed the look of the website. We hope you like the new look and apologise for any difficulties you might have visiting the site while we sort out the details. We’re working on smartening up the content as well as the appearance, always aiming to bring you practical advice to help you stay healthy. Jan 18, 2010, Prune Juice - Find Out How to Make Nature’s Gentle Laxative.Prune juice is the best natural laxative – gentle, but very effective. You can buy it in bottles but it’s really very easy to make for yourself. Jan 18, 2010, Aim For A Body PH Between 7.4 and 7.5 For Optimum Natural Health.Your body pH could be the most important factor for your health. Find out how to alkalize your blood and avoid illness. Jan 18, 2010, Natural Health For a Long LifeNorwich UK Natural Health Consultant Caroline Osborne provides clear advice and consultations to restore your health and well being Permalink -- click for full blog post "Natural Health For a Long Life" Jan 18, 2010, Tartrazine 30 years of poisoning by the most common food additive.Tartrazine – 30 years of poisoning by the most common food additive, linked to ADHD and migraines, anxiety, depression, hay fever, breathing problems, rashes, blurred vision and more. Jan 18, 2010, High Cholesterol - Why A Low Cholesterol Diet Is Not The Answer.High cholesterol is linked with heart disease – a major killer in western countries. But it’s also vital to health. Is a low cholesterol diet a good idea? Jan 17, 2010, There Are Natural Health Cures For Every Person, Every Illness.If you’re still breathing, there are natural health cures to help you get back to being really alive. Jan 10, 2010, What Is Natural And Organic Food? The Terms Explained.What is natural and organic food? The terms natural and organic explained. Permalink -- click for full blog post "What Is Natural And Organic Food? The Terms Explained." Jan 3, 2010, Contact UsFor an initial consultation Permalink -- click for full blog post "Contact Us" Dec 25, 2009, Happy Christmas, everyone.Whatever your views on Christmas, chances are that Christmas day is the day when you’re most likely to over-indulge. If you’re feeling uncomfortably full after a big Christmas dinner, maybe even a bit sick or headachy, here are some simple remedies for quick relief. A taste of something salty and sour can be an instant antidote to an excess of sweet and fatty foods. The best is Japanese umeboshi plum paste. This is very salty, very sour – the tiniest taste is sometimes enough to stop a headache in it’s tracks, when the headache is because of too much rich food. Any salty, sour food will help – olives are good – or just have a pinch of salt with a drop of lemon juice or vinegar. You only need a small taste. Something I’ve always found helpful after eating too much is a spoonful of live yoghurt. The good bacteria in the yoghurt help to digest the food, acting as reinforcements for the overworked bacteria in your gut. If you often suffer from heartburn after a big meal, try to drink at least two large glasses of plain water in the half hour before eating. If you still have trouble, sip another glassful after the meal. Digestion uses a lot of water, and dehydration is the commonest cause of heartburn. If you're likely to have more alcohol than is good for you, remember to drink lots of water to keep hydrated, dilute the alcohol and help to flush it out of your system. Dec 24, 2009, The Link Between Heart Disease And Gum DiseaseI read recently that people with gum disease are four times as likely to develop heart disease as those without. The orthodox reaction to this is to say that gum disease must somehow cause heart disease – the germs get into the blood and weaken the heart muscles. There might be some truth in that, but when I studied Statistics we were taught that a strong correlation between two factors doesn’t prove that one causes the other. There may be a third factor that causes both. Isn’t it much more likely that both gum disease and heart disease are caused by vitamin C deficiency? I’ve explained before about the link between vitamin C and heart disease – a link that has been proved beyond doubt many times over. (Have a look at the work of Doctors Matthias Rath, Linus Pauling, James Enstrom and G.C. Willis.) As for vitamin C and gum disease, aren’t inflammation and bleeding of gums the most obvious and well-known signs of scurvy? And everyone knows that scurvy is caused by lack of vitamin C. Vitamin C supplements are my health insurance. By taking 2 or 3 grams of vitamin C every day, I plan to avoid heart disease and gum disease. I also don’t get colds and rarely get any infections – a better side effect than most medicines offer! Dec 7, 2009, Gluten Free Diet - Three Ways It Can Improve Your Health.Change to a gluten free diet to discover exciting new foods, while curing symptoms such as IBS, eczema, headaches, chronic fatigue and depression. Learn how much food affects your health. Permalink -- click for full blog post "Gluten Free Diet - Three Ways It Can Improve Your Health." Nov 28, 2009, Healthy Eating Tips – 10 Easy Rules For Better Health.Healthy eating tips - these 10 tips to healthy eating are simple ways of improving your well being and losing weight without calorie counting. Permalink -- click for full blog post "Healthy Eating Tips – 10 Easy Rules For Better Health." Nov 27, 2009, Avoiding Swine Flu - 5 Ways To Boost Your Immune SystemSwine flu - The 1918 Spanish flu pandemic killed 50 million – find natural ways to protect your family and yourself, without the side effects of drugs. Permalink -- click for full blog post "Avoiding Swine Flu - 5 Ways To Boost Your Immune System" Nov 15, 2009, How To Make Soda Bread - Just Mix Everything And Pop It In The Oven.How to make soda bread. Simple, quick recipe. No need to knead, no waiting for dough to rise. Just mix everything and pop it in the oven. Done in half an hour. Oct 23, 2009, Swine Flu - To Vaccinate Or Not?
The swine flu issue just won’t go away. In spite of the fact that so far it’s turned out to be milder than normal flu, authorities still want to vaccinate everyone.
But many people are refusing the vaccine The commonest reason given by doctors for refusing is that the vaccine hasn’t been tested enough. Others say that the swine flu is so mild that it’s not worth vaccinating for. Personally, I don’t think any vaccine is worth having, and I’m not alone. Any vaccine is a cocktail of highly toxic chemicals - used as preservatives or as adjuvants i.e. to stimulate an immune response. (Mercury is still a component of all vaccines except the controversial MMR jab, in spite of the clear link with autism.) Added to this are viruses, either live or dead, and tissue from the culture of the viruses. Viruses are cultivated in animal tissue, or even in tissue from human embryos! Some cells of this inevitably get into the vaccines. Vaccines are definitely not suitable for vegetarians! It’s far more important to develop a healthy immune system so that your body can deal with any illness that comes your way. Eat a healthy balanced diet with lots of fruit and vegetables. Get lots of fresh air and exercise. Get plenty of Vitamin C for general health and a strong immune system. Vitamin D is also very important. In fact, recent research suggests that vitamin D could be the deciding factor in whether or not you get flu. This would explain why flu is a winter illness, as vitamin D is made in the skin in response to sunlight. If you aren’t likely to see much sun in the next few months, cod liver oil is the traditional form of vitamin D supplement. (Nowadays it’s available in capsules for those who don’t like the taste.) Get out in the sunshine when you get the chance, whether it’s sitting in the park during your lunch break, or a long autumn walk on the weekend. Oct 18, 2009, Fastest Way To Lose Weight And Stay Slim Always.Want the fastest way to lose weight? Find out why crash diets don’t work. This diet is much more than a quick way to lose weight. Permalink -- click for full blog post "Fastest Way To Lose Weight And Stay Slim Always." Oct 16, 2009, Healthy Recipes Are The Key To Meal Planning For Healthy Diets.The secret to healthy recipes is good quality ingredients – adapt your recipes - replace white flour with wholemeal, cut down on salt, fat and sugar. Oct 1, 2009, Raw Food Or Cooked?Raw food diets are often in the press. Keen raw foodists tell you how much better you’ll feel when you give up cooked food. For most people this is true – because many people don’t eat any raw food, so changing to raw food has to be good – for a while at least. For some people 100% raw seems a wonderful way of life, giving them boundless energy. Others become ill on only raw food. My acupuncture teacher used to say that eating cold food in cold weather was a leading cause of illness. I think of his words whenever I see someone eating ice cream outdoors on a cold, cloudy day! I’ve said before how important it is to eat plenty of raw fruit and salad everyday. Cooking destroys many vital nutrients and digestive enzymes. On the other hand, some foods become more digestible when they are cooked. While raw food provides plenty of digestive enzymes, hot cooked food adds heat to your metabolism. There are good arguments both for and against raw food. There’s a new book out – ‘Catching Fire’, by Richard Wrangham – that describes the author’s theory that what makes humans different from animals is the ability to cook our food. He believes that we have evolved to eat cooked food. Our small mouths and short guts are adapted to digest food softened by cooking. It’s a fascinating idea. Leslie and Susannah Kenton, authors of ‘Raw Energy’, advocate 70% raw, with the sensible advice to eat more hot food in winter. The right balance between cooked and raw depends on your individual metabolism - and on the weather. Always make vegetables the main part of your meals. In hot weather you can have most of them raw. The cold seasons are the time to enjoy hot soups, roast vegetables, and warming stews. In cold weather, we really need the warmth – and comfort – of hot food. Don’t give up the salads, but have hot food as well. Sep 27, 2009, High Cholesterol Levels Are Unhealthy, But So Are Low Levels.Cholesterol Levels Should Be Between 190 And 210 mg/dl, Or 4.9 And 5.4 mmol/l. Low Cholesterol Levels Lead To Health Problems As Much As High Levels. Sep 25, 2009, Heart Bypass Surgery Is …Frequently Ineffective Says Doctor.Heart bypass surgery ‘is overused, frequently ineffective, and absurdly expensive. The operation does not cure patients’ says heart doctor. Permalink -- click for full blog post "Heart Bypass Surgery Is …Frequently Ineffective Says Doctor."
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