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April 2000 Vol. 5 No. 4
“If you don’t have a vision for the future, then your future
is threatened to be a repeat of the past.”
A.R. Bernard-Clergyman
Table of Content:
Healing AIDS Naturally - Part 1
Healing AIDS Naturally - Part 2
Brain Basics: Preventing Stroke
Your Health Guide-Genetically Engineered Foods
Freedom of Medicine -How It Should Have Been
What exactly is a ‘reverse lunge’?
To Your Health with Kathy Deane -Why Cleanse?
Hot Stuff
WHEAT-FREE QUESTIONS?
Everything You Need to Know About..The Functions of Fats in Foods
Exercise and MS
Depression in Multiple Sclerosis
Basic Strength Program for Youth Football
Question and Answers
For Lunch?
Food as Medicine: A U.S. Nutritionist’s Perspective
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Healing AIDS Naturally - Part 1
HIV causes AIDS, or does it? New treatments boost the immune system, or do they? Stephen Byrnes works with AIDS patients and has witnessed how destructive medical treatments can be. Instead, he presents a-to some radical -view on the natural approach to healing AIDS. http://medicinecabinet.net/home/pub.asp?aid=2004136
Healing AIDS Naturally - Part 2
In his second article, Stephen Byrnes discusses in more detail why conventional AIDS treatments fail. Instead he presents various natural approaches to treat HIV and AIDS. http://medicinecabinet.net/home/pub.asp?aid=2004218
Brain Basics: Preventing Stroke
Every year 500,000 Americans suffer a stroke. Don’t be the next victim. Discover what a stroke is, what your risk factors are and what you can do to lower your chances of getting a stroke. http://medicinecabinet.net/home/pub.asp?aid=2004223
Your Health Guide - Genetically Engineered Foods
You have heard about genetically engineered foods. But do you really know what it is all about? If you are health conscious it’s important to know what these foods are. Suzan Pretti found some interesting Web sties where you can educate yourself on genetically engineered plants and animals. http://medicinecabinet.net/home/pub.asp?aid=2004262
Freedom of Medicine - How It Should Have Been
Columnist Bob Barefoot discusses the Freedom of Medicine, a freedom that was left out of the constitution, but would impact all of us greatly if it had been included. http://medicinecabinet.net/home/pub.asp?aid=2004251
What Exactly Is A ‘Reverse Lunge’?
Reverse Lunge: Excellent exercise for effectiveness and safety. Start in the same position as if you were going to step forward. Step backwards and down like you are bending down to pick up something. This movement maintains a good low center of gravity, while still loading the glutes, hamstrings and quads, without creating a torque load on the knee.
To Your Health with Kathy Deane - Why Cleanse?
You make sure your body is clean from the outside, but how about the inside? Your colon is your body’s sewage system. When you don’t take care of it, you are putting your health at risk. How? Kathy Deane explains:
http://medicinecabinet.net/home/pub.asp?aid=2004237
Hot Stuff
Cayenne contains a resinous and pungent substance known as capsaicin. The chemical relieves pain and itching by depleting certain neurotransmitters from sensory nerves. A double-blind study showed capsaicin cream relieved both itching and skin lesions in people with psoriasis.
Watch for the “Tip of the Day,” “Daily Bullet,” and “World News Daily,” when you visit Natural Land at “http://www.naturalland.com”
WHEAT-FREE QUESTIONS? - ask our expert! Carol Fenster, PhD answers your questions about Wheat Free Foods
“http://www.naturalland.com/wc/wc.dll?forum~getbb~nl_fenster”
Everything You Need to Know About..The Functions of Fats in Foods
Saturated versus unsaturated, hydrogenated, trans fats, cholesterol. Just a few terms used to describe different types of fat. Discover what they mean, and what kind of fat you should include in your diet.http://medicinecabinet.net/home/pub.asp?aid=2004116
Exercise and MS
As with any MS patient it is important not to overtrain, overheat or exhaust them. Strength training has wonderful psychological as well as physiological benefits, and has been used for years in MS patients.
Diet is the key to helping to keep the symptoms in remission. If she wants to drop more weight, and is hesitant to push herself in training, then the best thing is to cut back on animal fat and animal proteins. [Dairy, poultry, meat], while increasing her water intake [bottled].
Depression in Multiple Sclerosis
People with MS suffer at much higher rates than with other illnesses with similar degrees of disability. [1]
When MS patients brains are studied, a marked reduction of brain fats, especially DHA. Also noted were the marked reduction [extremely low levels of omega 3 fatty acids [virtually zero levels].[2,3]
Several studies have had MS patients supplement their diets with omega 3 fatty acids, with demonstrations of marked improvement in mood and perception of quality of life.[4]
Dr. Roy Swank was one of the first pioneers on the concept of treating MS with essential fatty acids [omega 3’s]. He also found that countries with the highest saturated fat intake also had the highest incidence of MS. [5]
Dr. Yvgeny Gusev, Dept. of Neurology and Neurosurgery at Russian State Medical University in Moscow, have studies children in both Russia and Norway that developed MS and found that the consumption of red meat and chicken and the lack of oily fish [salmon, cod, mackeral, tuna] were key risk factors in the development of the disease. [6]
References:
1. Schubert, DSP, Foliart, RH Increased depression in Multiple Sclerosis paitents; a meta-analysis. Psychosomatics 1993; 34:
124-30.
2. Hibbeln, JR, Salem, N., Dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids and depression: when cholesterol does not satisfy. Am J. Clin Nutr 1995: 62: 1-9.
3. Cross National Collaborative Group. The changing rate of major depression across national comparisons. JAMA 1992: 268: 3098-105.
4. Nightingale, S, Woo, E, Smith, AD, et al. Reed bollod cell and adipose tissue acids in active and inactive multiple sclerosis. Acta Neurol Scand 1990: 82: 43-50
5. Swank, R, Dugan, BB The Multiple Sclerosis Diet Book. Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Co., Inc. 1987.
6. Dr. Yvgeny Gusev, Dept. of Neurology and Neurosurgery at Russian State Medical University in Moscow, personal communications with Dr. Michael Schmidt, Smart Fats, 1998.
Basic Strength Program for Youth Football
Question: I am 15 years old and looking for an exercise program that will help me to get in shape for football season.
Answer: The most important thing is to have someone show you the basics for developing strength-Learning the squat, deadlift, bench press, and several assistance exercises. These include; medicine ball workout for the abdominals, lat pulldown to the front, rowing movements with dumbbells, dumbbell curls and shoulder presses [to the front]. Train 4 days weekly alternating upper and lower body workouts. 3 sets of 8-10 repetitions per set. Avoid straining, and make sure you maintain good form throughout the entire exercise.
Drink plenty of water [1/2 gallon daily minimum].
Question: Increasing Cardiovascular Exercise Routine
I want to increase my cardiovascular exercise routine, but whenever I run or jump rope I get this burning/itching sensation in my legs. Why does this happen and how can I remedy the problem?
Answer: This is a tough question to answer without adequate information about the individual in question. Are they overweight? When does the itching/burning begin in exercise? Is there a particular intensity at which this occurs? Burning/itching topically can be a result of pressure on nerves that respond in a variety of ways; such as those mentioned above, and can include sharp/dull pain, cold to the touch, or numbness.
If the sensation occurs in the leg below the knee, it could be an indication of impingement of the nerves behind the knee. I would consider seeing your doctor to determine why this may be happening. In the meantime, you could try cycling or indoor rowing to maintain your cardiovascular conditioning.
Question: Lower leg Development
I’ve been weight training for a few years and I’ve seen some great gains. However, I just can never seem to beef up my calf muscles. My legs are scrawny and since my upper body is pretty muscular, my body looks out of proportion. What should I do?
Answer: Genetics, Genetics, Genetic. A quick look at family members [parents-grandparents-uncles] gastrocneuius [calf] will tell you if you even have the genetic capability to develop size. While training will certainly make you stronger using heavy weights, unless your muscle bellies [the actual belly of the muscle is long] the changes are you will not develop large muscle mass in this area.
I have found one way to improve the development of this stubborn muscle group the best-walking on beach sand. If that is not an option walking up stairs stepping up on the ball of your foot as high as you can reach each step. Using heavy weight-remember this:
Each time you take a step you must generate muscular force to lift and propel your body forward that is at least 10 percent greater than you weight [per leg]. This would equate to being able to perform heel raise or toe press with twice your body weight for 8-10 repetitions for 3 sets for one to two different exercises. Remember to point toes straight ahead when performing these exercises. Toes in/out to develop inner/outer aspect or head of the gastrocnemius is a fallacy, and a good way to injure the knee.
Seated heel raises do in fact place greater emphasis on the soleus [the muscle that lies below the gastrocnemius]. Standing heel raises or using the leg presses with your legs extended [straight] places greater emphasis on the gastrocnemius. Avoid training the gastrocnemius more than 3 times in any given week.
Question: Do weight training belts really work?
For these safety belts to spare your spine, they have to be heavy-duty.
Answer: Certain experts believe that pret-a-porter weight belts right off the rack do little to bolster your back. “The only way for the belts to work mechanically speaking would be if they were very stiff, custom-made and essentially covered the entire area from the pelvis to the ribs,” says John Chaffin, Ph.D., professor of ergonomics at the Center for Ergonomics at the University of Michigan.
“It’s a great leap of faith to believe that the soft, pliable belts currently on the market will do much to reduce back stress. Lyn Jones, the national coaching director for USA Weightlifting at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, calls the belts “essentially cosmetic” and recommends instead that you develop your own musculature around the waist. That means that if you do have a super-stiff customized weight belt that you use it for heavy lifting, like squats, power cleans and deadlifts and not for the lighter part of your weight routine.
“When you wear a belt during exercises like lat pull-downs, chest presses and leg curls, you’re safeguarding your lumbar spine musculature and your abdominal wall from stresses,” says Mark Occipinti, M.S., president of American Fitness Professionals & Associates (AFPA). “Without the stress, these muscles actually weaken, thereby increasing your risk for injury when you’re not at the gym.”
For Lunch?
By T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D.
Dr. Campbell criticizes the USDA’s dietary guidelines and the affects these guidelines have on the National School Lunch Program. http://www.newcenturynutrition.com/webzine/whatsforlunch.html
Food as Medicine: A U.S. Nutritionist’s Perspective
By Amy Joy Lanou, Ph.D.
Food can be used to treat disease, prevent disease and to promote health and optimal wellness. Dr. Lanou discusses the myriad of ways that our food choices influence our quality of life.
http://www.newcenturynutrition.com/webzine/foodasmedicine.html