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March 31, 2011  In This Issue... - Perfect Painkillers...
- Mind-Body Diet Tricks That Work --
- Prescription Drugs to Avoid Like the Plague
- A New Way to Fight Gum Disease
- Blast Away High Cholesterol. Lose 67 Points in Just 28 Days
Perfect Painkillers... Work in seconds, cost 23 cents and heal your gut! We're all trying alternatives now that painkilling drugs are proving so deadly. There's got to be a better way! And now there is, thanks to a brilliant physician named Dr. Mark Stengler. In a famous case that's making fellow doctors gasp in admiration, Dr. Stengler's patient, Todd, could barely believe how fast his arthritis agony disappeared after all those drugs had failed him. Read on for more details...
Mind-Body Diet Tricks That Work Let’s be honest -- counting calories is not the most joyous way to eat, and neither is weighing every morsel or following a watermelon or cabbage soup diet. So what’s a plump person to do to slim down and still really enjoy one of life’s greatest pleasures? Well, you could try thinking yourself thinner. Okay, it’s not quite so simple -- but one new study found that it’s surprisingly close to that easy! The "imaginary diet" is one of several intriguing new mind-body approaches to weight loss. Which of these might work for you? The honest answer is, who knows, since different techniques work for different people. You’d have to give them a try to find out. Some possibilities that caught our eye here at Daily Health News... Go on an "Imaginary" Diet Imagine yourself eating, one at a time, 30 pieces of cheese... now look at some real cheese. Hungry for it? Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University say it’s unlikely. People who repeatedly imagine consuming a food, one piece or serving at a time again and again, subsequently eat less of that food because they "habituate" to it -- which means that their appetite for the food diminishes, explains Carey K. Morewedge, PhD, the Carnegie Mellon psychologist who led the study. Familiarity kills cravings: Dr. Morewedge and his colleagues had study participants imagine eating two different foods -- M&Ms and cheese cubes -- either three or 30 times while viewing a slide show featuring images of the foods with each picture onscreen for three to five seconds. Afterward, people who had imagined eating a food 30 times ate less of it than those who had imagined consuming it just three times. Next steps: Dr. Morewedge hopes that this technique can be adapted into a strategy that any of us could use to gain better control of our eating. For instance, say you’re going to a barbecue -- shortly before you go, spend some time vividly imagining yourself biting into, chewing and swallowing 30 chicken wings, 30 ribs, 30 hot dogs or 30 hamburgers... and see whether you then eat less at the barbecue than you normally would have. Chew... Pay Attention... Chew... Pay Attention The practice called "mindful eating" is not a diet -- it’s simply the act of paying close attention to your body, says Jan Chozen Bays, MD, author of the book Mindful Eating: A Guide to Rediscovering a Healthy and Joyful Relationship with Food. This involves focusing intently on the color, aroma, texture, flavor and temperature of every bite of everything you eat. As you do this, you also pay attention to how your body feels as you eat or drink something. When are you half full? Three-quarters full? And when you reach three-quarters full or a little more, are you really still hungry -- or just eating to eat? Avoid unconscious eating. Mindful eating isn’t hard to do, but it does require you to stop doing other things while you eat. So instead of mindlessly munching while you check your e-mail or watch TV, bring your full awareness to what is going on inside and outside your body. The truth is, if you don’t pay attention to what you’re eating, it’s almost as if you didn’t eat it. Suddenly your plate is empty -- but you don’t feel satisfied. The reason is that you ate without thinking. Your mindful eating homework. To get started, try taking the first four sips of your tea with full attention... eat one meal a week mindfully, alone and in silence... or, if you enjoy, say, reading during meals, alternate these activities. Read a page, put the book down, take a bite of food and savor it, then read another page. This will get you started toward more frequent mindful eating. Eat Less Automatically with Yoga Dr. Chozen Bays also told me about research suggesting that people who practice yoga eat less. According to a 2009 study at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, middle-aged people who regularly do yoga gain fewer unwanted pounds than those who do not, independent of individual dietary habits and other physical activity. Why yoga makes you eat less: Doing yoga is a natural way to bring greater awareness of your body, Dr. Chozen Bays explains. As you learn how to maintain calm and to be nonjudgmentally observant during challenging yoga poses, it teaches you to "be more present," and it also happens that you begin to eat only when you are hungry and stop eating when you are not hungry. This is a form of "body wisdom" that very young children naturally possess -- they eat just to fullness and stop. But many of us were taught to clean our plates and as we’ve grown older, we’ve kept that habit. Yoga can help you reclaim your innate wisdom and tune into your body’s natural signals about when and how much to eat. So try a class or two and see what you think. Trick Your Mind into Eating Less Have you heard of the infamous KFC Double Down sandwich? It’s a gluttonous offering that features two slices of bacon, two slices of cheese and a sauce that contains chicken fat all placed in between two large deep-fried pieces of chicken. (You can have the chicken grilled instead of fried, which reduces the fat content to "only" 23 grams.) From Whoppers to supersized sodas to humongous cookies, portion sizes have grown by leaps and bounds in recent years... and so have American waistlines. Bigger is not always better. In a series of experiments at Cornell University, scientists have verified that being given bigger portions leads people to eat more. In one test, investigators served moviegoers popcorn in containers of different sizes -- large buckets or medium-sized ones. All of the popcorn was stale, but even so, those given the larger portions ate 34% more. In another trial, people who ate tomato soup from "bottomless soup bowls" (which kept refilling from hidden tubes) consumed 73% more soup than those who ate from normal bowls -- and rated themselves no fuller than those who ate from normal bowls. A little bit is better: Smaller plates make portions look larger, Dr. Morewedge notes -- and you can make some very easy changes to take advantage of this fact. For example, at home, eat from salad plates and drink from smaller-sized juice glasses. If you are having a snack, put out a single portion rather than eat from the full bag. If you buy economy-sized packages of foods, repackage them into single portions in small bags or containers. At restaurants, order one entrée and split it with a dining companion, asking the waiter to have it served to you on a smaller-than-normal plate. With today’s giant portions at most restaurants, you won’t go hungry. The next time you’re feeling ravenous, picture a tower of 30 hotdogs, take a good look, a deep breath -- and say to yourself, "I’m in charge here!"
Carey K. Morewedge, PhD, assistant professor of social and decision sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.
Prescription Drugs to Avoid Like the Plague Some drugs are just so bad, you should avoid them at all costs. If your physician won't prescribe a safer alternative -- or let you use a natural remedy -- then run (do not walk) to one who will. What kinds of drugs? - Widely used antibiotic so dangerous to your kidneys that up to 28% of those who use it develop some impairment.
- This former rat poison is now touted as a cure-all for everything from dental problems to bone loss. Banned in Japan and Europe, it's unavoidable here in the US -- unless the proper precautions are taken.
- Widely prescribed drug for high blood pressure that is so dangerous, it should be used only as a last-ditch effort if nothing else works for you.
- Popular osteoporosis drug is just a rehashed version of an older one that built bone of such poor quality, breaks actually increased. Not to mention side effects such as permanent damage to the esophagus and kidneys, stress, diarrhea, constipation, fever, calcium and vitamin D deficiencies, rashes, headaches, and muscle pain.
Read on...
A New Way to Fight Gum Disease There’s a one in two chance that you have gingivitis, the gum disease characterized by puffy, soft -- and sometimes bleeding -- gums. Believe it or not, about half of American adults have it... and it’s no small problem. Not only does this disease affect your smile, it’s also a warning that you are at higher risk for more dire things -- starting with periodontitis, a serious condition that can loosen teeth and may allow the passage of bacteria into circulation. This can increase your risk for heart disease and stroke (though, in truth, this is rare) and can make diabetes worse. That’s the bad news -- but the good news is that probiotics, those good-guy bacteria, can be helpful in reducing both gingivitis and plaque. Research from around the world, including from New Zealand and Sweden, has documented how "friendly" bacteria in the mouth (just as in the digestive tract) impede the growth of harmful bacteria, such as those that cause tooth decay, gingivitis and plaque. In one two-week study, done at Malmö University in Sweden, 59 people with moderate-to-severe gingivitis were given either probiotics or a placebo to swish in their mouths -- at the study’s end, those who had used the probiotics had far less plaque accumulation and significantly improved gingivitis while the placebo group showed no change at all. I called our contributing medical editor, Andrew L. Rubman, ND, to learn more about how this works. Good vs. Evil It is important to realize that potentially harmful bacteria live in all parts of the body and are held in balance by beneficial bacteria. In the mouth, these beneficial bacteria (including the Lactobacillus species) and the particular critters used in the studies, Streptococcus salivarius and B. coagulans, produce hydrogen peroxide and proteins called bacteriocins, which are particularly important because they attack mold and yeast organisms in the gingival pocket, between the gum line and the tooth, lessening the activity of the harmful bacteria. How to Use Probiotics for a Beautiful Smile Of course, it’s not helpful to be told just to "take probiotics" -- it’s important to take them in the right way. Start by seeing a naturopathic physician or other health-care professional trained in the use of natural products to optimize health. Your doctor will offer expert guidance in choosing the right products and helping you learn to use them correctly. Meanwhile, Dr. Rubman says, at home you should consider using a WaterPik or another type of irrigation tool to help deliver a therapeutic mouthwash below the gum line into the gingival pocket where the "root" of the problem lies. The recipe, to be made fresh for each usage: Mix one part tea tree oil with five parts Lavoris (which contains clove essential oil, or use another mouthwash made of alcohol and essential oil) and five parts hot water. Shake this preparation and pour it into the well of the irrigation device and then turn it on, aiming it into the affected gingival pocket. One final note: If you take multiple medications, have any type of chronic disease or are immune-compromised in any way, this oral hygiene regimen may be inappropriate, cautions Dr. Rubman. "Any time you are trying to alter the body’s environment, it is serious business, so be sure you are working with an expert." Source(s): Andrew L. Rubman, ND, founder and director, Southbury Clinic for Traditional Medicines, Southbury, Connecticut. www.SouthburyClinic.com.
Blast Away High Cholesterol. Lose 67 Points in Just 28 Days The big drug companies don't want you to know about the alternative cures that can make their drugs obsolete. The alternative medicine believers think drugs and surgery are bad ideas. Guess what? They're both dead wrong. Finally, a maverick M.D. has dared to identify the world's best cures from both sides of the medical aisle. These are the real forbidden cures you want... Read on...
Be well, 
Carole Jackson
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