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1. How to Avoid Colds and Flu
2. What Kind of Vitamin C Should You Use?
3. More Reasons to Avoid Diabetic Drugs
4. Taking Cymbalta for Neuropathy?
5. Can this Simple Activity Actually Eliminate Acid Reflux

How to Avoid Colds and Flu

As we enter the fall, this change of season often sees the increase of colds and flu. Now is the time to start building up your body’s defenses and nutritionally enhancing your immune system.

"The position with vitamin C and the common cold is becoming clear. Frequent, large nutritional doses can reduce the incidence of colds, their severity and duration. Once a cold has taken hold, treatment is much more demanding."

Excerpted from ASCORBATE The Science of Vitamin C
by Dr. Steve Hickey & Dr. Hillary Roberts

What Kind of Vitamin C Should You Use?

Real fresh-squeezed orange juice (not the “fresh squeezed” in a carton) is an awesome source of vitamin C. It is a whole food source of vitamin C, which is why it works so well at fighting off colds, flu and at the same time boosting your immune system.

If you tested fresh-squeezed orange juice you would see that it does not contain ascorbic acid, calcium ascorbate, Ester-C, or Buffered-C. These are man-made chemicals not found anywhere in nature. They do not nourish the cells of your body the way vitamin C from food does.

A problem with fresh-squeezed orange juice, is that glass for glass, it contains more sugar than Coca-Cola.

Wellness Support Network provides absolutely the finest and most effective whole food vitamin C available anywhere at any price!

WSN® Vitamin C is a concentrated whole food that your body recognizes and uses

Use the link below to find out more:  http://www.mcvitamins.com/Vitamins/Vitamin-C.htm 

More Reasons to Avoid Diabetic Drugs

Two more studies published in the prominent Journal of the American Medical Association have raised questions about the safety of both Avandia and Actos, two popular diabetes medications.

Earlier this year, a combined analysis of more than 40 studies, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that Avandia, made by GlaxoSmithKline, doubled the risks of heart failure and raised the risks of heart attack by 42 percent.

This finding was confirmed by yet another combined analysis by researchers from Wake Forest University. This time they limited the analysis to four long-term studies. Their findings were almost identical, and Dr. Sonal Singh, co-author of the study, said the Food and Drug Administration should consider withdrawing Avandia from the market.

“If you use Avandia to treat patients with type 2 diabetes,” said Singh, “their chance of getting heart failure due to Avandia is one in 30, and their risk of having a heart attack is one in 220. All due to the drug.”

Additionally, a second study by researchers at the Cleveland Clinic, found that Actos, a similar drug made by Takeda, actually lowered the risks of heart attacks, strokes, and death by about 20 percent but, like Avandia, also raised the risks of heart failure.

There is a safe and natural way that will assist you in lowering and maintaining normal blood sugar levels and reversing the diabetic condition.

For more information about Diabetes and what to do to get normal blood sugar go to http://www.mcvitamins.com/diabetes.htm 

Taking Cymbalta for Neuropathy?

The drug Cymbalta is manufactured by the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly. Here is what author and investigative writer Martha Rosenberg found out about this drug:

“The first antidepressant to be introduced since FDA investigations into suicide/antidepressant links, Cymbalta itself was marred with suicides before it was approved. Five (deaths) occurred during Cymbalta clinical trials.

"Including previously healthy volunteer, Traci Johnson who hung herself in Lilly's Indiana University Medical School lab in 2004.”

“Last May, the FDA ordered Lilly to add a black box to Cymbalta warning about suicides and antidepressants in young adults.”

Here is a quote from Lilly’s Cymbalta web site:

“Patients on antidepressants and their families or caregivers should watch for worsening depression symptoms, unusual changes in behavior, thoughts of suicide, anxiety, agitation, panic attacks, difficulty sleeping, irritability, hostility, aggressiveness, impulsivity, restlessness, or extreme hyperactivity. Call your healthcare provider right away if you have thoughts of suicide or if any of these symptoms are severe or occur suddenly. Be especially observant within the first few months of antidepressant treatment or whenever there is a change in dose.”

And here is a quote from the FDA’s web site and what it has to say about Cymbalta:

”Suicidal thoughts or actions:  Persons taking Cymbalta may be more likely to think about killing themselves or actually try to do so, especially when Cymbalta is first started or the dose is changed.  People close to persons taking Cymbalta can help by paying attention to changes in user’s moods or actions.   Contact your healthcare professional right away if someone using Cymbalta talks about or shows signs of killing him or herself.  If you are taking Cymbalta yourself and you start thinking about killing yourself, tell your healthcare professional about this side effect right away.”

The investigative writer then went on to state:

“And in October Lilly was told [by the FDA] to "immediately cease" its Cymbalta campaign for diabetic nerve pain --an approved use-- which promises "significantly less pain interference with overall functioning." In a letter, the FDA says the claim "has not been demonstrated by substantial evidence or ... clinical experience" nor do the Cymbalta marketing pieces give precautions about liver toxicity or reveal risks for patients with certain conditions.”

Martha Rosenberg is an author and investigative writer that has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, L.A. Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, Providence Journal, Arizona Republic, New Orleans Times-Picayune and other newspapers.

(If you know of friends or relatives taking Cymbalta, forward this article to them. You just might save a life!)

There is a natural and safe way to address and help reverse neuropathy as can be seen At www.mcvitamins.com/wsn/nerve-support-formula.htm 

Can this Simple Activity Actually Eliminate Acid Reflux

This specific exercise – combined with 6 other top-notch strategies – can make your miserable heartburn retreat for good. 

http://fitness.mercola.com/sites/fitness/archive/2010/08/12/wrong-type-of-exercise-can-worsen-chronic-heartburn.aspx 

SideBar:

A Sinus Relief Success - Keeps My Sinuses Clear

I've been working as a consultant at Wellness Support Network for over 5 years now and have assisted hundreds of people over these years with neuropathy, high blood pressure, diabetes, etc. I take many of our products myself. 

About eight months ago I started using the Sinus Relief Formula because I always had a bit of a stuffy nose. So I started taking the Sinus Relief Formula on a daily basis and my congestion went away after a couple weeks. 

Since then, I've just been taking 4 tiny tablets once a day and it's done an incredibly good job of keeping my sinuses clear on a daily basis. I've also been told that I don't snore at night anymore like I used to. 

If you or anyone that you know would like to clear their sinuses or relieve their morning stuffy nose or even reduce or get rid of snoring, I would definitely suggest the Sinus Relief Formula.

Best regards,

Larry McCormick
Consultant

You can find out more about the WSN Sinus Relief Formula http://www.mcvitamins.com/sinuses.htm#R 

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