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Sleep health effects

Sweet dreams!

People who get enough sleep (about 7-9 hours a night) are more likely to have higher productivity, feel more energetic throughout the day, and experience less stress. Sleep is crucial for concentration, memory formation, and repairing and rejuvenating the cells of the body. Both mentally and physically, a good night’s sleep is essential for your health and your energy.

Research has shown that the loss of just 1 1/2 to 2 hours of sleep a night causes a marked decline in alertness, attention span and the ability to process information. This seemly small amount of sleep deprivation affects our reflexes and memory. It can also lead to depression. Our decisions can become irrational. The greater the amount and duration of the sleep deprivation the more devastating can be the results. Research has found another surprising fact. Sleep deprivation promotes obesity. Lack of sleep can lead to hormonal changes that increase appetite and therefore calories. This, of course, can lead to weight gain.

The poll by National sleep foundation:

Will kill for some sleep!

The poll surveyed a random sample of 1,508 Americans between the ages of 13 and 64. A whopping 63 percent of participants claimed that their sleep needs were not met during the week. This dissatisfaction may be connected to the fact that virtually everyone polled — 95 percent — reported that they surfed the net, texted or watched TV at least a few nights a week in the hour before trying to sleep.

The results of a new poll from the National Sleep Foundation, highlighted yesterday in the New York Times poll reveals that roughly one in four Americans who are married or living with a romantic partner regularly feel too exhausted for sex. Read more: http://healthland.time.com/2010/03/09/many-americans-say-theyre-too-tired-for-sex/#ixzz1V9X0D06A

The NSF poll found that the better the health of older adults, the more likely they are to sleep well.

Conversely, the greater the number of diagnosed medical conditions, the more likely they are to report sleep problems. Additionally, among older adults, more positive moods and outlooks as well as having more active and “engaged” lifestyles (having someone to speak with about a problem, exercise, volunteer activity, etc.) are associated with sleeping 7–9 hours and fewer sleep complaints.

The number of reported medical conditions increases with age, but 19% of all respondents reported having four or more conditions. When compared to those who have no medical conditions, those with four or more conditions have a greater likelihood of sleeping less than six hours (22% vs. 10%), are more likely to rate their sleep as fair or poor (40% vs. 10%), are more likely to report a sleep problem (80% vs. 53%) and are more likely to experience daytime sleepiness (27% vs. 5%).

“A person may have several medical conditions that they’re seeing their doctor about and they may be getting treatment, but they don’t feel they’re getting better. What may go unrecognized is a tremendous amount of sleep disturbance and daytime sleepiness. What may go overlooked is a major sleep disorder that may be complicating treatment of the other conditions.”

Mayo clinic. Food and sleep.

Will a bedtime snack help me sleep better?

Answer from Timothy Morgenthaler, M.D.

Eating a small snack a few hours before bedtime may help. There are no specific foods that help you sleep. But, it’s a good idea to avoid certain foods late in the day. Here are a few things to keep in mind:

Don’t go to bed hungry. A light snack before bedtime can keep hunger pangs from waking you up. For example, have a bowl of oatmeal, cereal with low-fat milk or yogurt with granola. If you have diabetes,  discuss nighttime snacks with your doctor.

Avoid large, high-fat meals late in the day. Also avoid garlic-flavored and highly spiced foods. These foods can make you uncomfortable or cause heartburn.

Avoid alcohol and caffeine. Both can interfere with sleep. Keep in mind, it can take up to eight hours for the stimulating effects of caffeine wear off.

Don’t drink too much liquid. Drinking lots of fluids before bed can cause you to wake up repeatedly to use the bathroom.

Go to sleep!

 My advise: The basic rule of happy marriage and healthy life is: no TV or other electronic devices in the bedroom! If there is too much outside light-close the shades before you go to sleep. Some stretching before bed time is beneficial.

Many of my friend use cool herbal lavender eye pillow that help to fall asleep and improves sleep quality.

And the most important is a positive attitude toward life!

Daily Wisdom

Before ordering a test decide what you will do if it is 1. positive, or 2. negative. If both answers are the same don’t do the test.

Highest quality

Recent research has shown that fish oil may be beneficial in supporting cognitive function by helping the body manage stress and enhance mood. It may also promote a healthy complexion. In an article published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, the effects of omega-3 fish oil supplementation was shown to be beneficial for healthy cognitive and cardiac functioning. The study shows that supplementing with fish oil daily can rapidly raise the levels of EPA and DHA in cardiac tissue. This is important because both EPA and DHA have been proven to help maintain normal plasma triglycerides. In addition, DHA has been shown to help maintain blood pressure and blood viscosity. This study also showed an inverse relationship between EPA/DHA and arachidonic acid (AA), an omega-6 fatty acid. As EPA and DHA increased in atrial (heart tissue) phospholipids, AA decreased.1

Omega 3 fish oil supplement for expecting mothers.

Healthy

For good or ill, everything mothers do during pregnancy affects the health of their babies. That includes taking daily supplements, according to a new study that found that children born to mothers who take fish-oil pills while pregnant may benefit from an early boost in immunity.

Researchers randomly assigned about 1,000 pregnant women to take daily supplements of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), a major omega-3 fatty acid in fish oil, or a placebo. The babies’ health was evaluated when they were 1 month, 3 months and 6 months old. At every stage, babies whose mothers took fish-oil pills were healthier than those whose mothers didn’t. At 1 month, they were 24% less likely to have cold symptoms such as coughing, nasal congestion and runny noses. At 3 months, they were 14% less likely to be sick. By 6 months, infants whose mothers had taken DHA developed cold symptoms as often as babies whose moms took the placebo, but their colds didn’t last as long.

In the study, expectant mothers got 400 mg of DHA daily, starting at 18 to 22 weeks, which is significantly more than the 200 mg that the average American woman consumes in a day.

Sources: Pediatrics; Journal of Family Practice; Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine; U.N.

Natural disaster

Here is how we use our food that we are producing by raping the earth:

An average amount of food purchased and wasted per person in the United states annually (National Geographic July 2011)

Fresh fruit purchased 77 lbs wasted 22 lbs

Fresh vegetables purchased 131 lbs wasted 39 lbs

Grain products purchased 173 lbs wasted 36 lbs

Milk purchased 168 lbs wasted 34 lbs

Butter purchased 5 lbs wasted 0.7 lbs

Poultry purchased 70 lbs wasted 27 lbs

Red meat purchased 103 wasted 36 lbs

Sweeteners purchased 121 lbs wasted 24 lbs

So we waste about 20%-30% of our food.

And millions of people on this planet are dying from hunger.

Huber Interview in Acres USA

Filed under: Latest article — son of a farmer @ 6:10 am

In interviews, I’ve compared planting and eating GMOs to “making love to a toxic blow-up doll every night. It’s a poor substitute for the real thing.” That continues to be my best analogy of this dangerous subject. So long as we don’t realize what we are doing, it is difficult to know how severe the problem truly is. Education and awareness are our main sources of winning this fight. As more scientists like Dr. Huber continue to come forward with their studies, I’m confident we’re getting closer to that realization here in America.

The Road Ahead

“As human beings, we should be the fully aware collective conscience – the mind’s eye of this wonderful planet. As farmers, we should be guardian angels protecting the flesh and bone Holy Grail that is our Soil. Instead, we’ve sold out. We’ve exchanged home-grown methods for disparaging schemes because it is easier to do what we’re told rather than adhere to what we feel deep inside us. Now is the time for all of us to realize what must be done, what must change, and to begin that process today. Not tomorrow. Today! The problems existing now were not solely created by inept government and greedy corporations. These problems were also created by a lack of resistance by all people. Yes, the problems exist. No, it is not too late to do something about it. “

- Son of a Farmer, Child of the Earth by Eric Herm

Monsanto Roundup

Feeding the hungry?

Glyphosate’s mode of action is to inhibit an enzyme involved in the synthesis of the aromatic amino acids: tyrosine, tryptophan and phenylalanine. It is absorbed through foliage and translocated to growing points. Because of this mode of action, it is only effective on actively growing plants; it is not effective as a pre-emergence herbicide.

Some crops have been genetically engineered to be resistant to it (i.e. Roundup Ready, also created by Monsanto Company). Such crops allow farmers to use glyphosate as a post-emergence herbicide against both broadleaf and cereal weeds, but the development of similar resistance in some weed species is emerging as a costly problem. Soy was the first Roundup Ready crop.

So what is the solution? Population is growing at the accelerated rate. Food production lags behind. Hunger around the world is getting worse. We need to teach and to help the developing nations to improve the agriculture to have high yield crops with minimal damage to the environment.

We need to work with poor and developing nations to improve their standard of living. This usually reduces the birth rate.

Supplying food to poor nations just deepens their dependency on foreign  help and increases the birth rate.

Daily Wisdom

Whenever I fill out an application, in the part that says, ‘In case of emergency, notify:’ I put ‘DOCTOR.’

Essential oils for fungus treatment

I want to tell you about the product that helps many people to get rid of an embarrassing problem-ugly fungus infected toenail.

Sephorris is an effective organic mix of essential oils for nail fungi treatment.

I use it (shhhhh)

- Sephorris is a totally vegetarian extract to effectively fight nail fungus.

- Sephorris is capable of penetration through infected nail to stop spread of fungus and treat it.

- Treats opaque-looking nail.

- Stops fungi development

This is a great product for nail fungi that has a 95% success rate. Sephorris is made of a mixture of essential oils that are particularly active against fungi in nails. As atop selling product satisfaction is guaranteed for obtaining desired results. One bottle of Sephorris works well for treatment for nail for quite some time.

Sephorris has strong anti-bacterial action.

The best natural solution for nail fungus.

Does not cause side affects.

Does not cause liver damage.

95% success rate.

Here are the ingredients:

Thyme (Thymus vulgaris) Extract In 1725, a German apothecary discovered that the plant’s essential oil

contains a powerful disinfectant called thymol that is effective against bacteria and fungi.

Origanum vulgare leaf Extract-benefit :anti bacteria, anti infection, antioxidant, calming down skin,

Have beautiful nails

Cinnamon extracts Recent studies have shown that cinnamon extracts possess antimicrobial [MSOffice1]

and antioxidant properties. Historically, cinnamon has been used as a stimulant, astringent and antiseptic

agent.

Satureia Hortensis Extract. Methanol extract of Satureja hortensis had both anticandidal and antibacterial

effects. It inhibited the growth of 23 strains of 11 bacterial species and 6 isolates of Candida albicans,

Clove (Eugenia caryophyllus) bud oil is applied to the skin as a counterirritant for pain and for mouth and

throat inflammation.

Melaleuca alternifolia ( Tea Tree) leaf oil is “effective against bacteria, fungi, and viruses and stimulates the

immune system.

ylang-ylang oil. The therapeutic properties of ylang-ylang oil are antidepressant, antiseborrhoeic, antiseptic,

aphrodisiac, hypotensive, nervine and sedative.

Rosemary is a tonic herb with antiseptic and antibacterial properties

I realize that there is a brand name recognition issue. But Kedem products are very popular in Europe and in Israel. Use it. You will not be disappointed.

Daily Wisdom

Behind every successful man is his woman. Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman.

Our good friends and neighbors love Diet Coke. I e-mailed them many articles about the harmful effects of sodas and diet sodas in particular-to no avail. They keep drinking the stuff. When I asked why they said they love it.

And we are talking about high cost of Medicare!

Drink Water!

The main problem-people are uninformed or they don’t care. Here are results of yet another research. Diet soft drinks may have minimal calories, but they can still have a major impact on your waistline, according to two studies presented at a meeting of the American Diabetes Association in San Diego. Researchers at the Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio tracked 474 people, all 65 to 74 years old, for nearly a decade, measuring the subjects’ height, weight, waist circumference, and diet soft drink intake every 3.6 years. The waists of those who drank diet soft drinks grew 70 percent more than those who avoided the artificially sweetened stuff; people who drank two or more servings a day had waist-circumference increases that were five times larger than non-diet-soda consumers.

The findings are in line with those of a 2005 study, also conducted by researchers at the Texas Health Science Center, in which the chance of becoming overweight or obese increased with every diet soda consumed. “On average, for each diet soft drink our participants drank per day, they were 65 percent more likely to become overweight during the next seven to eight years, and 41 percent more likely to become obese,” said Sharon Fowler, who was a faculty associate in the division of clinical epidemiology in the Health Science Center’s department of medicine at the time.

But how does something with no calories cause weight gain? Turns out that even if our taste buds can’t tell the difference between real and fake sugar, our brains can. Another study, also presented at the American Diabetes Association meeting on Sunday, found that after three months of eating food laced with aspartame (which is also found in many diet soft drinks), mice had higher blood sugar levels than rodents who ate regular food. According to Fowler, who worked on all three studies and is now a researcher at UT Health Science Center at San Diego, the aspartame could trigger the appetite but do nothing to satisfy it. That could interfere with your body’s ability to tell when you’re full—and could lead you to eat more in general.

Aside from the health problems that go along with a widening waistline, diet soft drinks have also been linked to an increase in diabetes, heart attack, and stroke. One study of more than 2,500 people found that those “who drank diet soda daily had a 61 percent increased risk of cardiovascular events compared to those who drank no soda, even when accounting for smoking, physical activity, alcohol consumption and calories consumed per day,” ABC News reported in February. And a 2008 University of Minnesota study of nearly 10,000 adults ages 45 to 64 found that drinking a single can of diet soda a day led to a 34 percent higher risk of developing metabolic syndrome, a collection of health problems that includes high blood sugar, high cholesterol, and high levels of belly fat.

My advise: drink water or herbal teas. Forget sodas-diet or not diet. One interesting drink you can try is Celsius ®

The findings, released in the Archives of General Psychiatry, suggest that something in the birth environment — drugs, chemicals or infections — may be triggering autism in children who are already genetically predisposed to develop the disease.

Autism prevention

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Environmental factors may play a greater role in autism than previously thought, tipping the scale away from a strict focus on genetics, two studies released on Monday suggest.
Researchers at health insurer Kaiser Permanente found mothers of children with autism were twice as likely to have been prescribed a common antidepressant during the year before their pregnancy than mothers of healthy children. And the risk was even greater — a threefold increase — when the drug was taken in the first trimester of pregnancy. The findings, released in the Archives of General Psychiatry, suggest that something in the birth environment — drugs, chemicals or infections — may be triggering autism in children who are already genetically predisposed to develop the disease.
“We now have strong evidence that, on top of genetic heritability, a shared prenatal environment may have a greater than previously realized role in the development of autism.”one in every 150 children born today in the United States, or about 1 percent of the population.

“Environmental factors play a bigger role than previously thought,” said Dr. Joachim Hallmayer of Stanford University School of Medicine in California, who led the study. Recent studies have suggested genetics played the biggest role in autism, but his findings suggest something different, he said in a telephone interview.

My advise to expexting mothers: Avoid antidepressants. Detoxify your body with natural antioxidants, drink herbal detox teas, meditate, exerscize, learn about chemicals around you.

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CNN’s In Depth series is focusing on medication nation – and the state of prescription drugs in the United States.

Instant gratification

Some unbelievable numbers to look at this morning. According to the Centers for Disease Control, 74% of doctor visits result in a prescription. Also, 48% of Americans regularly use at least one prescription drug and a whopping 75% of Americans – that’s three out of four people – misuse their prescriptions or don’t take them as directed.
What can be done about this over reliance on medication? This morning, Christine Romans talks with John Abramson, author of “Overdosed America” and a lecturer at Harvard Medical School. She asks him whether things have gotten out of control.
Following his landmark book Talking Back to Prozac, psychiatrist Breggin follows up by arguing against what he calls the “spellbinding” effects of psychiatric medications, and he doesn’t mean “spellbinding” as praise. His point is that all psychiatric drugs are dangerous; he describes how these medications can compromise brain function, resulting in bizarre, even violent behavior. Breggin, a former staffer at the National Institute of Mental Health who has testified in liability suits against pharmaceutical companies, cautions that consumers should thoroughly examine the drug labels for side effects as a precaution for such drugs as stimulants, antidepressants, tranquilizers, antipsychotics and mood stabilizers.

New FDA logo

Breggin joins the growing group of experts who argue that the FDA is “more dedicated to serving the drug companies than consumers,” relying on doctored or incomplete evidence and botched tests. Breggin’s assertion that psychotropic drugs induce rather than treat brain imbalances is controversial, but this book is a reasoned look at these drugs, which have come under increasing scrutiny in the media as well as medical world. (July)
http://www.medicationsense.comIn 2002.

Americans filled 3,340,000,000 outpatient prescriptions.1 That’s 12 prescriptions for every man, women, and child in America. Has the American dream become 2 kids, 2 cars, and a dozen drugs in each person’s medicine chest? Despite a weak economy in which most industries have seen sales drop, U.S. drug sales increased substantially in 2002, reaching $219 billion.

According to NDCHealth, overall drug sales grew 12% 2002, 18% in 2001, and 15% in 2000 (based on wholesale acquisition costs). The trend of doctors writing more and more outpatient prescriptions each year continues without pause.
2002: 3,340,000,000 Rx 2001: 3,200,000,000 Rx 2000: 2,979,000,000 Rx 1999: 2,821,000,000 Rx 1998: 2,523,000,000 Rx
The cost of these drugs has more than doubled in five years. (here are your medicare savings!)

Pills for everything

Many doctors treating high cholesterol and high blood pressure turn to drugs without ever discussing diet and exercise, although many of these disorders are nutritional, not medical. Many patients prefer a pill to changing harmful habits. With drug advertising everywhere, what is the message being drummed into us and our children: that for every symptom and sensation the solution is a pill?

My advise: Forget instant gratification. Remove junk food from your diet. Drink water instead of Diet Coke. Turn off the TV and go to the gym. Use healthy natural supplements. Drink some good wine and enjoy life. And, yes, dump the pills!