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Beverage that is Even Worse than High Fructose Corn Syrup Soda
2. Nutritional Tip: B12 - Pins & Needles
3. Free radicals can cause Hypertension
4. Neuropathy & Statin Drugs
The Beverage that is Even Worse than High Fructose
Corn Syrup Soda
Pepsi
Next claims to have 60 percent less sugar without sacrificing taste. The
secret to keeping its sweet taste comes from the use of THREE artificial
sweeteners: aspartame, acesulfame potassium, and sucralose.
Read: Artificial
Sweeteners have No Place in a Healthful Diet
Nutritional Tip: B12 - Pins & Needles
There's a medical name of the tingling, "pins and needles"
sensation that sometimes occurs when you move after sitting in one place
for too long. It's called paresthesia, and a wide range of things
can cause it. One cause of paresthesia is nerve damage due to
nutritional deficiencies, especially in vitamin B-12.
Read article: Pins
& Needles
Free radicals can cause Hypertension
Working with potent antioxidants they soon started to get reports of
people with primary hypertension noting their blood pressure had reduced
and/or stabilized.
There were only two possible mechanisms for antioxidants to help
lower blood pressure. It was either the ability to neutralize free
radicals that were damaging blood vessels, or their anti-inflammatory
properties.
For Article on Free
Radicals and Hypertension
Neuropathy & Statin Drugs by Duane Graveline, M.D., M.P.H.
Neuropathy is well known to be associated with statin drug use. David
Gaist was one of the first physician researchers to report this to the
medical community in the journal, Neurology, in the year, 2002.
In his original paper he expressed concern for the increased
susceptibility to neuropathy among diabetics placed on statin drugs. He
estimated that diabetics had as much as a sixteen fold increase in risk
of neuropathy when statin drugs are used but stressed that non-diabetics
also are susceptible.
The symptoms of numbness, tingling, burning and pain are now known to
thousands of statins users. Any peripheral nerve can be involved.
Read: Neuropathy
& Statins by Duane Graveline, M.D., M.P.H.
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