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1. Bone Health
2. What is Cholesterol?
3. Statin Drugs.... Who Needs Them Anyway? 
4. The Best Way to Stop a "Beer Belly"

Bone Health

A common misconception about bone health supplements is that they’re necessarily about getting more calcium into the body. While calcium is a primary component of bone, America generally consumes more calcium than most all other nations, yet also has more osteoporosis. 

A well-rounded bone health supplement plan would also include magnesium, vitamin D3, vitamin K, and boron. One should also have a good multi-nutrient formula that has foundational amounts of phosphorus, manganese, vanadium, zinc, and trace minerals.

The goal of joint health supplements is to provide the raw materials for the body to use to keep, and perhaps even help rebuild cartilage, while also providing lubrication for comfortable movement. Typical joint supplements may include glucosamine, chondroiton, MSM, Injuv, (aka - hyaluronic acid), cetyl myristoleate, (aka – “CM8”), green lipped mussel, sea buckthorn, and others.

(NOTE:  Those suffering with rheumatoid arthritis have a unique challenge in that there is also an immune system component to their condition. In addition to palliative strategies mentioned above, many have also utilized immune modulators such beta glucans in their supplement strategies.)

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What is Cholesterol?
by Alexandra Greely, as seen in The Doctor's Prescription for Healthy Living Magazine May 2005, pp 44-45

Probably every American adult has heard the dire warnings about elevated cholesterol levels and how these can lead to heart disease. Yet more than 104 million of us have high levels, and of these, about 38 million face serious health problems because of dangerously high total cholesterol levels of 240 mg/dL or more, reports the American Heart Association.

Despite its bad reputation, we all need cholesterol-a natural waxy substance-for many normal bodily functions. Produced primarily by the liver, cholesterol helps form cell membranes, aids in producing bile acids to help digest fats, produces some hormones, and works in other important ways. Because cholesterol and other fats can't dissolve in the blood, the cholesterol travels through the body in "packets" called lipoproteins. The body uses only small amounts of cholesterol, and problems arise when the body can't flush out the excess.

Statin Drugs.... Who Needs Them Anyway? 
by Doug Kaufman

Who names pharmaceutical drugs? With creative names like Nicetal (should this pill make you feel nice-at-all?), Enablex (enabling your bladder to stop leaking) and Prozac (as opposed to antizac), one is left to wonder who thinks this stuff up. Who categorized, and then named, antibiotics, for example? In Biology 101 we learned that "bio" meant life and "anti" meant against. So the word antibiotic means against life! Antibiotics were the darlings of Wall Street in the 1950s and 60s and continue to be best sellers today. But a new category of drugs hit the market a few years ago and antibiotics have taken a back seat to cholesterol-lowering drugs called "statins." One expert claims that one-half of the population of America will soon be on these drugs...but why?

The word "statin" means to stop. The first drug to carry the "statin" brand was Nystatin, a drug developed specifically to stop overgrowth of intestinal yeast that accumulated after taking antibiotics. Its developers, Drs. Hazen and Brown, two female researchers from Albany, New York, discovered it in 1950. While vacationing in Virginia, Dr. Hazen isolated the soil that was rich in the organism needed to successfully make Nystatin. The name was actually derived from New York State, where the researchers finally perfected its development.

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The Best Way to Stop a "Beer Belly"

Banning certain sizes of drinks is in no way, shape or form going to solve the problem of obesity. All it will do is increase profits for manufacturers and sellers of sugary drinks, and lead to an increased plastic waste problem

Fructose is 'isocaloric but not isometabolic." This means you can have the same amount of calories from fructose or glucose, fructose and protein, or fructose and fat, but the metabolic effect will be entirely different despite the identical calorie count. Excessive fructose consumption is at the heart of the obesity crisis, but cutting down on fructose consumption will require much more comprehensive changes to the American food industry, as well as dramatic changes to nutritional recommendations issued by the US government

For full article Rising Obesity Rates

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