What are the 6 Essential Components of “Real” Food?

Real food contributes to health. Junk food contributes to disease. It is denatured and contains little or no health-producing properties. Our bodies are always looking for food that contains usable components. * Glucose - for energy. * Protein - (amino acids) for building and repairing tissue. * Fatty Acids - to construct membranes and move electrical currents. * Ionic, food-form minerals - as catalysts and building components. * Enzymes (vitamins) - as catalysts. * Water - the medium for chemical... Read more »

Is Blind Faith in Conventional Medical Wisdom Risking Our Health?

When we become ill and seek medical treatment, we place our lives in the hands of someone else. Except for unexpected trauma situations, do we really want to give total control to someone else? The medical term used to describe a condition induced in a patient by a treatment given by a health practitioner is “iatrogenic.”A July 2000 article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (jama) presented statistics to show that doctors are the third leading cause of death, after heart... Read more »

15 Ways Microwave Ovens Can Destroy Your Health

Foods that have been subjected to microwave radiation are dangerous to our health. Microwave ovens heat food with high-frequency microwaves that force water molecules to heat up by violently vibrating them. This causes a fracturing of the molecules, and a rearrangement of the chemical composition of the food. Besides irradiating food, electromagnetic fields and invisible microwave emissions can bypass the built-in shielding in microwave ovens, and can leak through aging door seals, allowing them... Read more »

Mobility Scooters - Ten Tips On Choosing The Right One For You

Mobility scooters are a boon for those less able to get around - but how do you know which is the right one for your needs? Below are ten tips to help you choose and to help ensure your safety. 1. If you’ve never driven a car, or ridden a bike or motorcycle - or if it’s a while since you drove anything on the road - it might be a good idea not to choose a model designed for road use. After being a pedestrian for a while, road sense can be difficult to re-acquire - and for those who have... Read more »

How Do Drugs Work in Your Body?

In life-threatening situations, the use of certain drugs may be necessary to save or prolong life. Notwithstanding this caveat, pharmaceutical drugs are manufactured chemicals; they are not natural to the body. They lack living energy and have electrical configurations that are incompatible with those of the body. Drugs are toxic, and cannot be incorporated into the body’s cellular structure to build tissue and promote health. Drugs cause the body to react. It reacts in a protective manner... Read more »

Mobility: Is Getting Around Getting To You?

We tend to think of mobility problems being solely associated with the later years of life - but that’s not entirely true. Many people who are otherwise healthy have trouble getting around, sometimes as a temporary problem - though there are of course those for whom the problem is pretty much permanent. So - what aids are available to those who either find themselves suddenly experiencing mobility issues or for those who are now finding ‘getting around’ a real bind? Before we explore... Read more »

The Changing Face of the Pharmaceutical Industry

Fill prescriptions and hand out pills? If only it were that simple! Those who pursue a pharmacy profession perhaps might have cause to wonder just how so much politics got mixed with their job? Plan B, the “morning after” pill It hovers conveniently between being a contraceptive and an abortion aid. It is one or the other, certainly, but how? And do you have moral grounds to refuse to fill a prescription for it? How about the legal grounds? That’s what pharmacists are asking all... Read more »

How to Conquer Obesity through Balanced Choices

Excess fat storage in the body is the result of consuming a greater quantity of acid and toxic calories than the body can properly metabolize and eliminate. When this occurs, the body has no alternative but to store the toxins, along with the excess calories, as fat. People who have a different genetic makeup, and who eat basically the same diet but do not have a weight problem, tend to burn the excess calories and store the toxins in their organs. Obese people have a greater risk of becoming ill... Read more »

The Essentials of Overcoming Serious Health Conditions

If you want to overcome a serious condition such as cancer, you must be dedicated. First, you must understand fully how your body works and what it must have in the way of food and supplements.You have to know, and you have to believe.Without belief, very little is possible. Second, you must detoxify, detoxify, and detoxify, in order to reduce the acid condition of your body. You must bring the acid-alkaline ratios into balance. Only in this way will cellular oxygenation be maximized. Remember... Read more »

The Story of One Mouth

This one’s for the dental assistants. In your career, do you sometimes wonder what the public perception of the dentist office experience is? Yearning for a subjective insight, but know the patients you see are too polite to tell what they really think? Let’s try an experiment: we’ll pull one random friend of the author who’s getting dental work and ask them to log the diary of their treatment. Herein, the point of view from the chair: Day One: The dentist gives me an examination... Read more »