Happy New Year! Today, we embark on a new year and a fresh
start in our continued journey toward better health and happier
lives. But before we leave 2013 behind, let’s revisit the top 10
articles of the past year, based on number of page views.
These are the articles that captivated you most, and they
cover some of the most cutting-edge advances in natural health
-- like how to use intermittent fasting to live longer and a
ketogenic diet for cancer recovery.
There are some classics in there, too, including how to gain
insights into your health by looking in the toilet and the top
foods you should avoid eating, plus much more.
If you haven’t yet read these top 10 articles, you’re in for
a treat. And be sure to stay tuned to the newsletter for more
empowering health wisdom as 2014 unfolds.
Urine can reveal important information about your body’s
waste elimination process, providing clues about your
overall health status.
Your urine changes color depending on what foods you eat,
what medications and supplements you take, how much water
you drink, how active you are, and the time of the day.
But some diseases can also change the color and other
characteristics of your urine, so it’s important to be alert
and informed.
With so many variables, you can’t always be sure of what’s
causing any particular urine characteristic, short of
laboratory testing. However, urine’s character gives you
some clues to potential problems that may be developing,
giving you time to do something about it.
Over the past couple of years, we’ve learned the unsavory
truth about “pink slime,” reconstituted meat, and how the
use of meat glue cheats you out of your hard-earned money at
the grocery store and threatens your health.
We’ve also learned that fast-food fare, such as
McDonald’s hamburgers, contain so many chemicals and so few
real food ingredients that a burger fails to show signs of
decomposition after more than a decade...
The famous McDonald’s McRib also came under closer
scrutiny, and turned out to be something less than
mouthwatering. Meanwhile, Russia banned US meat supplies
after discovering it contains ractopamine.
This is a beta-agonist drug that increases protein
synthesis, thereby making the animal more muscular and,
consequently, reducing the fat content of the meat.
Over the last 100 years, a number of natural cancer
treatments have been developed and used successfully to
treat patients in the US and other countries.
All have been vehemently discounted, silenced, and pushed
under the rug by the medical monopoly, with physicians and
researchers attacked, smeared, sent to prison, and
professionally ruined for daring to defy the medical
establishment.
A fascinating documentary exposes the corruption of the
cancer industry and the extreme measures they will undertake
to discredit, imprison, and professionally destroy any
physician who treats cancer patients naturally.
Dr. Thomas Seyfried is one of the leading pioneer
academic researchers in promoting how to treat cancer
nutritionally. His work confirms that sugar is the primary
fuel for cancer, and that by restricting sugar and providing
an alternate fuel, namely fat, you can dramatically reduce
the rate of growth of cancer.
A ketogenic diet, which calls for minimizing sugar and
other carbohydrates and replacing them with healthy fats and
moderate amounts of high-quality protein, can offer hope
against cancer, both for prevention and treatment. When
combined with calorie restriction, the end result will put
your body in a metabolic state that is inhospitable to
cancer cells.
Americans are slowly waking up to the sad fact that much
of the food sold in the US is far inferior to the same foods
sold in other nations. In fact, many of the foods you eat
are BANNED in other countries. This includes farm-raised
salmon, Hawaiian (GMO) papaya, artificial food dyes,
arsenic-laced chicken, ractopamine-tainted meat,
bromate-containing drinks and bread, olestra, carcinogenic
preservatives, and rBGH-laced milk. Seeing how the overall
health of Americans is so much lower than that of
populations in other industrialized countries, you can’t
help but wonder whether toxic foods such as these might play
a role in our skyrocketing disease rates.
Two health books released in 2013 revealed how
intermittent fasting can help you normalize your weight,
prevent many chronic diseases, and increase longevity. The
“8-hour diet” is a type of scheduled eating plan where you
simply restrict your normal daily eating to an eight-hour
window of time, without cutting calories. Research has shown
that this simple lifestyle tweak can significantly modify
body composition, including reduce fat mass. Research has
also shown that intermittent fasting quickly improves
insulin’s ability to manage blood sugar and that
fluctuations in food consumption appear to be required for
optimal metabolic function.
Avocados, which are actually classified as a fruit, are
rich in monounsaturated fat that is easily burned for
energy. They also provide close to 20 essential
health-boosting nutrients, including potassium, vitamin E,
B-vitamins, and folic acid. Previous research has found
avocado can help optimize cholesterol levels within as
little as one week, and contains compounds that appear to
inhibit and destroy oral cancer cells along with those that
protect against liver damage.
Interestingly, the way you peel an avocado matters, as
the greatest concentration of antioxidants is in the dark
green fruit closest to the peel. To preserve the most
nutrients, you basically want to peel the avocado with your
hands, as you would a banana.
Current conventional cancer treatment typically involves
chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Chemotherapy is a
cytotoxic poison, and radiation is devastating to the human
body. More often than not, the treatment is what
eventually kills the patient. Even more astounding, in terms
of treatment, is that natural strategies may be
effective. For instance, cancer may respond to diet alone.
The ketogenic diet can have a dramatic (and rapid) effect
on cancer. All of your body’s cells are fueled by glucose.
This includes cancer cells. However, cancer cells have one
built-in fatal flaw – they do not have the metabolic
flexibility of your regular cells and cannot adapt
to use ketone bodies for fuel as all your other cells
can. So, when you alter your diet and become what’s
known as “fat-adapted,” your body starts using fat for fuel
rather than carbs. When you switch out the carbs for healthy
fats, you starve the cancer out, as you’re no longer
supplying the necessary fuel – glucose – for their growth.
The shape, size, color, and other fecal features can tell
you a great deal about your overall health, how your
gastrointestinal tract is functioning, and even give you
clues about serious disease processes that could be
occurring, like infections, digestive problems, and even
cancer.
If you know what to look for, you may be able to detect
health problems early enough to stop them in their tracks,
including serious diseases like celiac disease, hepatitis,
urinary tract infections and stones, malabsorption
disorders, inflammatory bowel disease, pancreatitis, cancer,
and others. So if you’re one to poop and scoot quickly out
of the bathroom without looking in the toilet, then you
might want to slow down and look down.
Many foods have been heavily promoted as being healthy
when they are nothing more than pernicious junk foods. In
the featured article are nine staple foods that are far less
“good for you” than you’ve been led to believe. These
include some surprises – like canned tomatoes, vegetable
oil, and non-organic potatoes – as well as a section on how
to identify truly healthy food to nourish your body.