Newsletter 6-16-2011

Using Vitamins and Minerals in Foods to Reverse Health Challenges
Acupuncture in the Ranks
Exercise Tip
Alternative Mental Health

Most medical schools in the Unites States offer little or no training in diet and nutrition, or the use of vitamins and minerals to reverse health challenges. As a result doctors most often direct their patients to the use of drugs, medications or operations to handle health problems, problems that could very often be handled with correct nutrition and proper supplements:
"According to the American Heart Association, substituting carbohydrates for fats may raise triglyceride levels and may decrease HDL (‘good’) cholesterol in some people. Yet most doctors persist in telling patients who gain weight easily to cut down on fat and meat. For some, this advice is a recipe for disaster. Why?"

"Decreasing fat and protein in the diet inevitably means increasing carbohydrates. This shifts the metabolism toward fat storage – and higher triglycerides. Not only that, it also leaves the person feeling hungry all the time and subject to blood sugar swings."

"When the situation is reversed, however – when carbs are cut and replaced with dietary fat and protein – the opposite happens. Blood sugar metabolism normalizes, triglycerides go down, HDL cholesterol goes up, and body fat is lost."

"All of these benefits occur without hunger and irritability that are trademarks of low-fat, reduced-calorie diet plans."

"Many of you with evidence of insulin/blood sugar problems already have suffered years of nutritional deficits [shortages]."

"Although it might be possible to overcome this deficit with diet alone, to regain your health as rapidly as possible means supplements are needed."

"A vitamin is an organic substance that your body needs but can’t manufacture. [With few exceptions the body cannot manufacture or synthesize vitamins.] Minerals are inorganic substances such as calcium and magnesium. Some minerals are essential, meaning that you must have them, even if only in very small amounts."

"Vitamins and minerals are crucial for the smooth operation of the thousands of chemical processes that are constantly taking place in your body. You need a constant and adequate supply of them."

excerpted from Atkins Diabetes Solution
by Mary C. Vernon, M.D., C.M.D. & Jacqueline A. Eberstein, R.N.
There are safe ways to reduce neuropathy, lower blood sugar levels, lower triglycerides, lower blood pressure and lower cholesterol.

It all starts with the correct diet and proper nutrition (as our food today has far less nutrients than 50 years ago, proper nutrition also includes supplementing with specific vitamins and minerals).

It also helps to put a little exercise into your life. And, within weeks or a few months, improved health can be yours again.

For a safe and effective to way to address your health conditions, use this link:
http://www.mcvitamins.com/healthcondition_index.htm

Acupuncture in the Ranks

"The expanded use of acupuncture on the battlefield is being met with enthusiasm from physicians and patients because it works," says Dr. Niemtzow, Colonel (Ret), U.S. Air Force, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed journal, Medical Acupuncture.

The Wall Street Journal recently featured a story on Navy doctors utilizing acupuncture, in conjunction with healing music and light therapy, to treat soldiers with traumatic brain injuries in Afghanistan. Cmdr. Stuessi, a Navy physician, used acupuncture on 20 injured marines, and all but 2 reported improvements in reduced anxiety, decreased frequency of headaches and better sleep. Stuessi's first patient with a brain injury couldn't sleep more than 4 hours a night, even after the administration of the medical standard of care, including anxiolytics and sleeping pills. After his initial acupuncture treatment, however, he was able to sleep 10 hours.

The Defense Department's latest clinical guidelines recommends acupuncture as supplementary therapy for PTSD, anxiety, sleeplessness and pain, and now, thanks to docs like Stuessi, it's increasingly being used for brain injuries. Stuessi isn't sure why acupuncture works for concussions or why it seems to speed up the recovery process, but he predicts, "that in a couple of years, it will be the standard of care."

An interesting fact that is not usually understood about exercise is that a person burns very few calories while exercising. However, the delayed fat-burning effects from exercise can be quite a lot.

Most fat burning occurs 14 to 48 hours after, but only under specific conditions.

Burning fat during this time depends on what you are eating during this time, how much stress you are experiencing, whether or not you have pain, how much you sleep and if you are avoiding sugar/carbs.

Eating carbohydrates before, during or after you exercise will prevent fat from burning off. This includes sugar.

Eat protein at least an hour and 15 minutes before exercising but don't fill yourself with protein.

Intense anaerobic exercise triggers fat burning hormones but if the adrenals are fatigued then intense exercise will prevent weight loss because the stress glands are being overused. If the latter is the issue than engage in light aerobic exercise until your energy and sleep improves.

by Dr. Cindy Clayton Read: Exercise - http://www.mcvitamins.com/exercise.htm

ALTERNATIVEMENTALHEALTH.COM is the world's largest website devoted exclusively to alternative mental health treatments. It includes a directory of over 350 physicians, nutritionists, experts, organizations, and facilities around the U.S. that offer or promote safe, alternative treatments for severe mental symptoms. Many of the physicians listed do in-depth examinations to find the physical causes behind mental problems.

AlternativeMentalHealth.com has been created to educate the public, practitioners, and government officials on the medical conditions that create "mental illness" and the many safe resources available for addressing and often curing severe mental symptoms

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