HEALTH FROM THE TEAPOT

Herbs fit for cold days.

Nature is rich in medicinal herbs and each has its own effect. But what herb is grown against which complaints? The National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians has compiled a selection of herbs that help with colds, gastro-intestinal discomfort and stress.



Colds are major challenges for the immune system of the body. Elderflower, meadowsweet and lime flowers to support the body's immune system and stimulate the healthy sweat. Also, currant and mint tea and tea from oregano provide relief for colds. With thyme, primrose, plantain or licorice expectoration is excited. Care for dry cough marshmallow or Iceland moss for a soothing protective layer on the mucous membranes of the respiratory tract. Specifically to combat throat infections helps gargling with sage or chamomile tea.



Even in disorders such as anorexia or bloating which nature provides the right herbs. Yarrow, wormwood, gentian, centaury and dandelion can help here, since their bitter promote the gastric juice production. Anyone suffering from flatulence should put more on the essential oils from anise, peppermint or fennel. Anti-convulsant effect fennel, anise and cumin.



Relaxing and sleep inducing effect of valerian tea, passion flower, hops, lemon balm and lavender. St. John's wort for mild depression and is awarded to soothing effect. Thus the effect of relaxing herbal tea is felt, it is necessary to drink them regularly over a long period of time.



The pleasure of a steaming cup of herbal tea is always a break in the hustle and bustle of everyday life and can provide more comfort. Therefore, make sure whether their symptoms are probably a more serious cause, If symptoms resolve after a few days are not very strong, or regularly recur, you should always consult your doctor.

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AUTUMN BLUES - the gloom SELL

Hamburg (ots) - Between autumn and winter, about 800,000 people in Germany suffer from so-called autumn blues - by experts as "seasonal affective disorder (SAD) called. Common symptoms: a high need for sleep, lack of drive, mood swings, cravings for sweets and concentration difficulties. Here are some tips:


The main reason is lack of light.

On exposure to light, the body produces endorphins increased - also known as endorphins. Moreover, in light of the neurotransmitter serotonin distributed, brightens the mood. In the darkness, melatonin is produced, which makes us weak and tired. So go out every day at least fifteen minutes outside to soak up the sunlight and fresh air. Even on cloudy days of autumn and winter the sun is out three to four times as strong as the room lighting.



Proper nutrition affects our mood.

The mineral magnesium is important for our well-being. Good food sources of magnesium include, for example bananas, lentils, nuts and dried fruits. The mood is mentioned such as serotonin in carbohydrate-rich foods such as pasta and potatoes. Also fatty acids from deep sea fishing, such as herring and mackerel or vegetable oils such as canola and soybean oil lift the mood.



Exercise helps with depression.

Physical activity improves the psychological well-being because it is the body's own endorphins (endorphins, serotonin, dopamine) distributed. Cheap sports that drive the dark clouds around the mind are, for example, jogging, walking, cycling and skiing. The best effect is achieved with regular, moderate endurance training: Ideally, three to five times per week for 30 to 60 minutes - less beginners.

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Moving Animals: Spectacular Animal Films (Part 2)

3. The Animals Film (Beyond the Frame 1981, 137min)

To my knowledge, The Animals Film was the first documentary to me made on the animal protection movement and the first to be aired on public television--an amazing feat given that it was released just 6 years after the publication of Animal Liberation, 1 year after Henry Spira's ad campaign against Revlon, 2 years before The Case for Animal Rights, and 3 years before Unnecessary Fuss. Filmed in the United States by an Israeli and released in England, TAF had been the most comprehensive film on animal welfare up until the release of Earthlings 16 years later. Yet, despite its age, sadly, little has changed since its release except that industry practices and problems have increased in magnitude and extended into other countries. (In 1980, about 5 billion animals were slaughtered in America annually compared to nearly 9 billion by 2000). In fact, it is my opinion that despite the praise for Earthlings and the absence of knowledge about this film, TAF is better. (Whether it is more effective at recruiting vegans--Earthlings supposedly is nicknamed "the Vegan maker"--, that is for empirical studies to determine).

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Moving Animals: Spectacular Animal Films (Part 1)

Eadweard Muybridge's "The Horse in Motion" (1878)

"Animals: The Most Moving Things in the World"
--Jim Mason in An Unnatural Order (2005 [1993])

“The animal look can be seen as a continuation of the photographic look... Animals appeared to merge with technological bodies that replaced them... If the animal cannot die but is nonetheless vanishing, then it must be transferred to another locus, anther continuum in which death plays no role... the cinema developed, indeed embodied, animal traits as a gesture of mourning for the disappearance of [animals]"
--Akira Lippit in Electric Animal (1998)

Moving Animals, Animal Affect, and Effective Movies
Since its inception, the animal movement has relied upon images to evoke sympathy--from William Hogarth's "The Four Stages of Cruelty" (1751) that connected cruelty to animal to cruelty to humans, to the anti-vivisectionist posters that re-figured the medical oppression of women to that of animal others, and PETA's "Holocaust on Your Plate" and "Animal Liberation" exhibits that juxtaposed images of human and nonhuman oppression. Undercover investigation footage of labs, in particular, played a crucial role in the 1980's, especially within the efficacy of the ALF and PETA (videos like Unnecessary Fuss and Inside Biosearch). However, with increased vandalism and exposure, the Animal Industrial Complex has been vigilant to guard its practices from public knowledge. Since the 1990's, these industries have installed hi-tech security systems in addition to lobbying for the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act [AETA], which gained increasing government backing post-9/11. Such footage, has been crucial to educating the public about animal welfare within the age of televisions, computers, and cinema. Over the last decade, activists have even accompanied themselves with video harnesses to literally carry the animals' voices to protests and demos.

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Saturated Fat, Glycemic Index and Insulin Sensitivity: Another Nail in the Coffin

Insulin is a hormone that drives glucose and other nutrients from the bloodstream into cells, among other things. A loss of sensitivity to the insulin signal, called insulin resistance, is a core feature of modern metabolic dysfunction and can lead to type II diabetes and other health problems. Insulin resistance affects a large percentage of people in affluent nations, in fact the majority of people in some places. What causes insulin resistance? Researchers have been trying to figure this out for decades.*

Since saturated fat is blamed for everything from cardiovascular disease to diabetes, it's no surprise that a number of controlled trials have asked if saturated fat feeding causes insulin resistance when compared to other fats. From the way the evidence is sometimes portrayed, you might think it does. However, a careful review of the literature reveals that this position is exaggerated, to put it mildly (1).

The glycemic index, a measure of how much a specific carbohydrate food raises blood sugar, is another darling of the diet-health literature. On the surface, it makes sense: if excess blood sugar is harmful, then foods that increase blood sugar should be harmful. Despite evidence from observational studies, controlled trials as long as 1.5 years have shown that the glycemic index does not influence insulin sensitivity or body fat gain (2, 3, 4). The observational studies may be confounded by the fact that white flour and sugar are the two main high-glycemic foods in most Western diets. Most industrially processed carbohydrate foods also have a high glycemic index, but that doesn't imply that their high glycemic index is the reason they're harmful.

All of this is easy for me to accept, because I'm familiar with examples of traditional cultures eating absurd amounts of saturated fat and/or high-glycemic carbohydrate, and not developing metabolic disease (5, 6, 7). I believe the key is that their food is not industrially processed (along with exercise, sunlight exposure, and probably other factors).

A large new study just published in the American Journal of Clinical nutrition has placed the final nail in the coffin: neither saturated fat nor high glycemic carbohydrate influence insulin sensitivity in humans, at least on the timescale of most controlled trials (8). At 6 months and 720 participants, it was both the largest and one of the longest studies to address the question. Participants were assigned to one of the following diets:

1. High saturated fat, high glycemic index
2. High monounsaturated fat, high glycemic index
3. High monounsaturated fat, low glycemic index
4. Low fat, high glycemic index
5. Low fat, low glycemic index

Compliance to the diets was pretty good. From the nature of the study design, I suspect the authors were expecting participants on diet #1 to fare the worst. They were eating a deadly combination of saturated fat and high glycemic carbohydrate! Well to everyone's dismay except cranks like me, there were no differences in insulin sensitivity between groups at 6 months. Blood pressure also didn't differ between groups, although the low-fat groups lost more weight than the monounsaturated fat groups. The investigators didn't attempt to determine whether the weight loss was fat, lean mass or both. The low-fat groups also saw an increase in the microalbumin:creatinine ratio compared to other groups, indicating a possible deterioration of kidney function.

In my opinion, the literature as a whole consistently shows that if saturated fat or high glycemic carbohydrate influence insulin sensitivity, they do so on a very long timescale, as no effect is detectable in controlled trails of fairly long duration. While it is possible that the controlled trials just didn't last long enough to detect an effect, I think it's more likely that both factors are irrelevant.

Fats were provided by the industrial manufacturer Unilever, and were incorporated into margarines, which I'm sure were just lovely to eat. Carbohydrate was also provided, including "bread, pasta, rice, and cereals." In other words, all participants were eating industrial food. I think these types of investigations often run into problems due to reductionist thinking. I prefer studies like Dr. Staffan Lindeberg's paleolithic diet trials (9, 10, 11). The key difference? They focus mostly on diet quality, not calories or specific nutrients. And they have shown that quality is king!


* Excess body fat is almost certainly a major cause. When fat mass increases beyond a certain point, particularly abdominal fat, the fat tissue typically becomes inflamed. Inflamed fat tissue secretes factors which reduce whole-body insulin sensitivity (12, 13). The big question is: what caused the fat gain?

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EXHAUSTION - CMS

Who is tired and exhausted all the time, the demands of everyday life does not feel equal and loses interest in hobbies and social contacts. In particular, women with family burden are often beyond the point of physical and mental exhaustion. There are often physical side effects such as black before the eyes of standing up, a tendency to sweating and cold hands, sensitivity to the weather and accelerated pulse. Very often there is an increased susceptibility to infectious diseases. Psychiatric side effects are performance and lack of concentration, insomnia, feeling overwhelmed, lack of motivation and anhedonia.



Fatigue occurs most often after serious illness. The body is weakened by the process of the disease, often are deficiencies in front of vitamins, minerals and trace elements. Observed especially in the elderly doctors often that a flu infection lasts for weeks and months on the acute symptoms and also manifests itself in tiredness and listlessness. On the other hand, exhaustion may also be the first symptom at the beginning or before the outbreak of various diseases (eg infectious diseases, tumors) should be. More and more often occurs with the chronic fatigue syndrome, or CMS for short, on,. Leaden fatigue and exhaustion, after only small loads are the main symptoms of this disease. Other physical symptoms may be added: muscle and joint pain, lymph node swelling and almond, increased body temperature, cardiovascular disorders and headaches. The cause is unknown; the involvement of the immune system is likely. At the beginning of the chronic fatigue syndrome is often the flu or flu-like symptoms.

Common causes
* After-effect of serious diseases.
* Blood pressure.
* Stress.
* Syndrome Due to a constant load
(Sleep disturbances and psycho-vegetative symptoms).
* Sleep disorders.
* Iron deficiency, iodine deficiency.
* Hypothyroidism.
* Early symptom of various diseases.
* Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)

What can you do?

* The physical regeneration of vitamin B12 preparations in capsule form or vials in the recovery time and prevent a vitamin deficiency by the administration of multivitamin preparations: Against the aftermath of serious disease.

* Get up slowly, brushing and massage spray shower, invigorating shower or bath use with rosemary, enjoy their morning coffee or black tea: At low blood pressure. Sport and exercise in between. During the day, drink plenty much. Best herbal tea and sodium-rich mineral water.

* For stress: seriously signals of exhaustion. Not everything will always make perfect, make tasks. To admit to do anything once. Sensory overload, for example avoided through radio, television.

* In depressive mood disorders: mild depressive states respond well to treatment with St. John's wort. In the winter, often staying in daylight outside, because on shorter days, many people of the organism on gentle cycle and often results in a low mood.

* For insomnia: Check bedtime and sleeping space, eg not too much alcohol before bedtime and a quiet room for sleeping are important prerequisites. Take warm baths with sleep-inducing herbal supplements.

* Chronic fatigue syndrome: strengthening the immune system with vitamins and nutrients or other preparations for defense increase.

When you need a doctor?

At constant tiredness related to the above symptoms.

What your doctor can do?

* Exclusion of severe organic disease.

* Detection of low blood pressure, iron or iodine deficiency or chronic fatigue syndrome.

* The causes of fatigue treatment.

* Proposals for a therapy to reduce fatigue symptoms do.

Prevention:

Balanced, nutritious diet, sports and exercise, not smoking, low alcohol, adequate sleep, meaningful exchange between stress and relaxation.

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ALSO SUGAR FREE cornet sweeten the START

Protects the teeth healthy for enrollment…

For many children means the end of the summer vacation this year again a simultaneous new begins, because the enrollment is coming. Contend with anticipation small-graders the first day, contrary, and the means for the whole family a special event. In celebration of the day it is next to a family party traditionally a cornet for the first graders. Not without reason, this also often carries the name sugar cone. Partly enough a quick look in the bag to determine that the content is anything but kind to teeth and fails even more, not contributing much sense to enrollment. "Although a few sweets are included, but with a little thought you can quickly find tooth-friendly alternatives that protect children from tooth decay."

With imagination prevent tooth decay besides sweets; there are many things with which to fill cones. Just at the time of the school year shows again and again, do the curious children through life. For pleasure, therefore, also provide sugar-free alternatives to sweeten their way, the upcoming school years. Instead of a surfeit of sweets such as toys offer fun for a much longer period. Pencils and books, skipping ropes or colored chalk for painting the road is only a few of the alternatives for filling the cornet. Also extra for the school presents selected as bread boxes or gym bag with their favorite motifs of the little expand the opportunities to make sense of the bags to pack. Naturally, the kids do not completely give up sweets. "When parents look for when buying gear on the small male on the packages, then they do the teeth of their children a big favor". Because it contains sugars cause tooth decay. In addition, nuts are to feast on delicious cookies or letters, also known as Russian bread. Especially sugar-free chewing gum not only tastes delicious but also the supporting dental health. "However, the caution of not listening to the day of enrollment up again. In the bread box from the cornet of course also includes healthy food for the next break time."

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Help for Angina

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Angina known medically as angina pectoris is a condition that causes pain in the heart muscle. It is usually as a result of poor circulation in the arteries that supply the heart muscle with blood. Warning if you think you have angina please seek medical advice as soon as possible.

There are also alternative ways that may help angina. These include taking regular supplements of antioxidants. The main ones are vitamins A,C, and E, the minerals selenium, zinc and magnesium, the amino acid lysine, the essential fatty acid EPA, from fish oils.

Herbal medicine can also help such as Garlic, Bromelain, Lime blossom, Lilly of the valley, Motherwort and Hawthorn berries.

Homeopathy remedy Aconite 6c can help and control an angina attack.

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Blowing your nose - BUT TRUE!

Scientists point to: pulling is healthier than blowing your nose...


"You finally cleaning the nose!" - A phrase that every child gets to listen to ad nauseam. But not everything that is good nursery is also of health. According to a study of U.S. physicians are in fact the sneezing transported mass excitation in the wrong direction, which can lead to inflammation of the sinuses and middle ear. Professor Dr. Jack Gwaltney and Dr. Birgit Winther from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville have placed volunteers in the fine print probes nose and then the measured when coughing, sneezing or blowing your nose resulting pressure. The result: Each mustache was the pressure in the nose to rise to 8,800 Pascal in the air. This pressure is sufficient to press one milliliter of nasal mucus into the sinuses. That's when sneezing or coughing resulting pressure on the other hand only a tenth as high. The two U.S. scientists therefore recommend to blow one's nose to no more colds, but to blot the dripping nose only.


Blowing your nose into a tissue is common in Europe for 400 years. Handkerchiefs should but a thing of the past. In the moist environment of pocket handkerchief, and can survive pathogen that is a long time and when blowing your nose once again come to the mucosa.


But even when blowing your nose in a disposable paper towel often mistakes are made. Especially unfortunate is the widespread habit of blowing your nose both compress the nose with a handkerchief and then to blow your nose in both holes simultaneously. Those who try freizubekommen his nose in this way, it builds to such a high pressure that the nose is pressed with great content security into the sinuses or eustachian tube through the ear to the middle. The correct brushing can be illustrated by a hunting rifle doppelläufi gene explain: Each run has to be shot separately. If, when blowing your nose one nostril is always open, no high pressure can build up in the nasal cavity.


Blowing your nose is a “Central European rudeness," agrees Professor Dr. Wolfgang Elies, head of the ENT clinic Bielefeld. He recommends: "Anyone who is prone to sinus infections or has undergone surgery so should rather give up the handkerchief." Much more favorable in children is the most popular method of cleaning the nose anyway that is pulling up.

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Tropical Plant Fats: Coconut Oil, Part II

Heart Disease: Animal Studies

Although humans aren't rats, animal studies are useful because they can be tightly controlled and experiments can last for a significant portion of an animal's lifespan. It's essentially impossible to do a tightly controlled 20-year feeding study in humans.

The first paper I'd like to discuss come from the lab of Dr. Thankappan Rajamohan at the university of Kerala (1). Investigators fed three groups of rats different diets:

1. Sunflower oil plus added cholesterol
2. Copra oil, a coconut oil pressed from dried coconuts, plus added cholesterol
3. Freshly pressed virgin coconut oil, plus added cholesterol

Diets 1 and 2 resulted in similar lipids, while diet 3 resulted in lower LDL and higher HDL. A second study also showed that diet 3 resulted in lower oxidized LDL, a dominant heart disease risk factor (2). Overall, these papers showed that freshly pressed virgin coconut oil, with its full complement of "minor constituents"*, partially protects rats against the harmful effects of cholesterol overfeeding. These are the only papers I could find on the cardiovascular effects of unrefined coconut oil in animals!

Although unrefined coconut oil appears to be superior, even refined coconut oil isn't as bad as it's made out to be. For example, compared to refined olive oil, refined coconut oil protects against atherosclerosis (hardening and thickening of the arteries) in a mouse model of coronary heart disease (LDL receptor knockout). In the same paper, coconut oil caused more atherosclerosis in a different mouse model (ApoE knockout) (3). So the vascular effects of coconut oil depend in part on the animals' genetic background.

In general, I've found that the data are extremely variable from one study to the next, with no consistent trend showing refined coconut oil to be protective or harmful relative to refined monounsaturated fats (like olive oil) (4). In some cases, polyunsaturated oils cause less atherosclerosis than coconut oil in the context of an extreme high-cholesterol diet because they sometimes lead to blood lipid levels that are up to 50% lower. However, even this isn't consistent across experiments. Keep in mind that atherosclerosis is only one factor in heart attack risk.

What happens if you feed coconut oil to animals without adding cholesterol, and without giving them genetic mutations that promote atherosclerosis? Again, the data are contradictory. In rabbits, one investigator showed that serum cholesterol increases transiently, returning to baseline after about 6 months, and atherosclerosis does not ensue (5). A different investigator showed that coconut oil feeding results in lower blood lipid oxidation than sunflower oil (6). Yet a study from the 1980s showed that in the context of a terrible diet composition (40% sugar, isolated casein, fat, vitamins and minerals), refined coconut oil causes elevated blood lipids and atherosclerosis (7). This is almost certainly because overall diet quality influences the response to dietary fats in rabbits, as it does in other mammals.

Heart Disease: Human Studies

It's one of the great tragedies of modern biomedical research that most studies focus on nutrients rather than foods. This phenomenon is called "nutritionism". Consequently, most of the studies on coconut oil used a refined version, because the investigators were most interested in the effect of specific fatty acids. The vitamins, polyphenols and other minor constituents of unrefined oils are eliminated because they are known to alter the biological effects of the fats themselves. Unfortunately, any findings that result from these experiments apply only to refined fats. This is the fallacy of the "X fatty acid does this and that" type statements-- they ignore the biological complexity of whole foods. They would probably be correct if you were drinking purified fatty acids from a beaker.

Generally, the short-term feeding studies using refined coconut oil show that it increases both LDL ("bad cholesterol") and HDL ("good cholesterol"), although there is so much variability between studies that it makes firm conclusions difficult to draw (8, 9). As I've written in the past, the ability of saturated fats to elevate LDL appears to be temporary; both human and certain animal studies show that it disappears on timescales of one year or longer (10, 11). That hasn't been shown specifically for coconut oil that I'm aware of, but it could be one of the reasons why traditional cultures eating high-coconut diets don't have elevated serum cholesterol.

Another marker of cardiovascular disease risk is lipoprotein (a), abbreviated Lp(a). This lipoprotein is a carrier for oxidized lipids in the blood, and it correlates with a higher risk of heart attack. Refined coconut oil appears to lower Lp(a), while refined sunflower oil increases it (12).

Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find any particularly informative studies on unrefined coconut oil in humans. The closest I found was a study from Brazil showing that coconut oil reduced abdominal obesity better than soybean oil in conjunction with a low-calorie diet, without increasing LDL (13). It would be nice to have more evidence in humans confirming what has been shown in rats that there's a big difference between unrefined and refined coconut oil.

Coconut Oil and Body Fat

In addition to the study mentioned above, a number of experiments in animals have shown that "medium-chain triglycerides", the predominant type of fat in coconut oil, lead to a lower body fat percentage than most other fats (14). These findings have been replicated numerous times in humans, although the results have not always been consistent (15). It's interesting to me that these very same medium-chain saturated fats that are being researched as a fat loss tool are also considered by mainstream diet-heart researchers to be among the most deadly fatty acids.

Coconut Oil and Cancer

Refined coconut oil produces less cancer than seed oils in experimental animals, probably because it's much lower in omega-6 polyunsaturated fat (16, 17). I haven't seen any data in humans.

The Bottom Line

There's very little known about the effect of unrefined coconut oil on animal and human health, however what is published appears to be positive, and is broadly consistent with the health of traditional cultures eating unrefined coconut foods. The data on refined coconut oil are conflicting and frustrating to sort through. The effects of refined coconut oil seem to depend highly on dietary context and genetic background. In my opinion, virgin coconut oil can be part of a healthy diet, and may even have health benefits in some contexts.


* Substances other than the fat itself, e.g. vitamin E and polyphenols. These are removed during oil refining.

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Tropical Plant Fats: Coconut Oil, Part I

Traditional Uses for Coconut

Coconut palms are used for a variety of purposes throughout the tropics. Here are a few quotes from the book Polynesia in Early Historic Times:

Most palms begin to produce nuts about five years after germination and continue to yield them for forty to sixty years at a continuous (i.e., nonseasonal) rate, producing about fifty nuts a year. The immature nut contains a tangy liquid that in time transforms into a layer of hard, white flesh on the inner surface of the shell and, somewhat later, a spongy mass of embryo in the nut's cavity. The liquid of the immature nut was often drunk, and the spongy embryo of the mature nut often eaten, raw or cooked, but most nuts used for food were harvested after the meat had been deposited and before the embryo had begun to form...

After the nut had been split, the most common method of extracting its hardened flesh was by scraping it out of the shell with a saw-toothed tool of wood, shell, or stone, usually lashed to a three-footed stand. The shredded meat was then eaten either raw or mixed with some starchy food and then cooked, or had its oily cream extracted, by some form of squeezing, for cooking with other foods or for cosmetic or medical uses...

Those Polynesians fortunate enough to have coconut palms utilized their components not only for drink and food-- in some places the most important, indeed life-supporting food-- but also for building-frames, thatch, screens, caulking material, containers, matting, cordage, weapons, armor, cosmetics, medicine, etc.

Mainstream Ire

Coconut fat is roughly 90 percent saturated, making it one of the most highly saturated fats on the planet. For this reason, it has been the subject of grave pronouncements by health authorities over the course of the last half century, resulting in its near elimination from the industrial food system. If the hypothesis that saturated fat causes heart disease and other health problems is correct, eating coconut oil regularly should tuck us in for a very long nap.

Coconut Eaters

As the Polynesians spread throughout the Eastern Pacific islands, they encountered shallow coral atolls that were not able to sustain their traditional starchy staples, taro, yams and breadfruit. Due to its extreme tolerance for poor, salty soils, the coconut palm was nearly the only food crop that would grow on these islands*. Therefore, their inhabitants lived almost exclusively on coconut and seafood for hundreds of years.

One group of islands that falls into this category is Tokelau, which fortunately for us was the subject of a major epidemiological study that spanned the years 1968 to 1982: the Tokelau Island Migrant Study (1). By this time, Tokelauans had managed to grow some starchy foods such as taro and breadfruit (introduced in the 20th century by Europeans), as well as obtaining some white flour and sugar, but their calories still came predominantly from coconut.

Over the time period in question, Tokelauans obtained roughly half their calories from coconut, placing them among the most extreme consumers of saturated fat in the world. Not only was their blood cholesterol lower than the average Westerner, but their hypertension rate was low, and physicians found no trace of previous heart attacks by ECG (age-adjusted rates: 0.0% in Tokelau vs 3.5% in Tecumseh USA). Migrating to New Zealand and cutting saturated fat intake in half was associated with a rise in ECG signs of heart attack (1.0% age-adjusted) (2, 3).

Diabetes was low in men and average in women by modern Western standards, but increased significantly upon migration to New Zealand and reduction of coconut intake (4). Non-migrant Tokelauans gained body fat at a slower rate than migrants, despite higher physical activity in the latter (5). Together, this evidence seriously challenges the idea that coconut is unhealthy.

The Kitavans also eat an amount of coconut fat that would make Dr. Ancel Keys blush. Dr. Staffan Lindeberg found that they got 21% of their 2,200 calories per day from fat, nearly all of which came from coconut. They were getting 17% of their calories from saturated fat; 55% more than the average American. Dr. Lindeberg's detailed series of studies found no trace of coronary heart disease or stroke, nor any obesity, diabetes or senile dementia even in the very old (6, 7).

Of course, the Tokelauans, Kitavans and other traditional cultures were not eating coconut in the form of refined, hydrogenated coconut oil cake icing. That distinction will be important when I discuss what the biomedical literature has to say in the next post.


* Most also had pandanus palms, which are also tolerant of poor soils and whose fruit provided a small amount of starch and sugar.

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WHAT THE COLOR OF URINE MAY REVEAL

What does it mean when the urine different colors?

A temporary discoloration of the urine is usually not a cause for concern and often harmless causes. It may also indicate disease. If in doubt, consult a doctor. Especially when cellular components are separated, ie, the urine which is cloudy.

Urine is 95 percent water. Other components are urea, uric acid, creatinine, salts, acids, dyes, hormones and water-soluble vitamins. It is formed in the kidneys, excreted through the urinary tract and is usually clear and bright to brownish yellow. His color is on among other things, by nitrogen-containing yellow pigments (the so-called urochrome), the degradation of proteins and bilirubin (bile pigment) can be formed. Discolored urine, this is due mostly to the change in solute concentration, we ahrungsmitteln for example, or even take drugs. Of course, pathological changes can also be the cause.

At a high fever and dehydration, for example, is concentrated dark urine excreted. A dark color can also be caused by too much bilirubin in urine, for example, when a closure of the bile ducts of the case.

* Red to red
A red coloration of the urine may indicate an abnormal secretion of blood. Dark urine with slight traces of blood can also occur after strenuous physical exercise and is then no sign of disease, such as inflammation or injury. Even if you have excessive carotene (eg carrots, tomatoes, oranges, peppers, etc.) or Betanin (for example, beetroot) brought to them, can occur in many people to a temporary reddening of the urine.

* White turbid,
A white to creamy color of the urine is an indication that white blood cells are present in the urine, and indicates a kidney or urinary tract infection include the possibility to leave the pus, fibrin, and desquamated cells in the urine.

* Brown, foamy
Brown to greenish-black foamy urine indicates possible dysfunction of the liver.

* Dark brown-orange,
Dark-orange or brown colored urine, an indication of jaundice, for example, be caused by certain infectious agents.

* Light
A very bright and colorless urine may indicate a particular form of diabetes (diabetes insipidus) with an increased thirst and increased drinking. It can also arise simply from the fact that you drank a lot of mineral water or tea.


In fact, the discoloration of the urine in many cases the result of certain harmless food or taking medication. Thus, beetroot (red brown), bearberry leaf tea (green, brown), sulfonamides (blackish), rhubarb (lemon yellow) or vitamins (orange-yellow) to change the urine color. Certain laxatives leave from, for example, red urine and urinary tract infections and medicines against an orange

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Social(ist) Animals: Toward Mutual Aid against the Great Butcher

Sue Coe. 2004. "Ox Pull." From "Bully!: master of the Global Merry-go-round" Source: http://www.graphicwitness.org/coe/bullya.htm

"However, even vegetarianism in your hands, would make a capital article...  its connection with modern socialism, atheism, nihilism, anarchy and other political creeds... Brussels sprouts seem to make people bloodthirsty, and those who live on lentils and artichokes are always calling for the gore of the aristocracy and for the severed heads of kings... in the political sphere a diet of green beans seems dangerous." -Oscar Wilde, The Complete Letters, p. 334, from a letter dated Nov. 12, 1887.

Introduction
Ten months ago, Paul D'Amato's article  "Socialism and 'animal rights'" sparked a small controversy that fizzled out within a month of its release. Unfortunately, out of the dozen responses only two or three were more argument than opinion. My aim here is to provide a more rigorous and comprehensive critique of D'Amato's article absent in the responses in order to better reconcile the perceived tension between socialistm and animal rights.

In "Socialism and 'Animal Rights'," D'Amato's reasoning starts off strong, making critical and important insights on the idea of animal liberation; however, it soon strays into weak, dangerous, and unnecessary territory. D'Amato comes to several conclusions (not presented in this order):

1. "There is a clear connection between how a rapacious capitalism mistreats animals... environment... [and] human[s]"
2. "Non-human animals are helpless… incapable of organizing and fighting for their rights"
3. "To compare the condition of animals to that of... [humans] for freedom and equality is to view the latter through a paternalistic lens, rather than a lens of human liberation"
4. "we need to insist on the essential differences between human beings and other animals, and reject the idea of 'animal liberation.'"
5. "seeking more humane treatment of animals is not the same as calling for 'animal rights'"

In the first conclusion, he displays sympathy for nonhuman animals and their human allies. In the second, D'Amato properly points out the obvious but sometimes overlooked fact that no other (with a possible exception of a few) species can and/or is capable of politically organizing to declare their rights. This point leads into the subtitle and thesis of D'Amato's piece: to compare the animal liberation movement to human liberation movements is paternalistic (and reeking of white, middle-class, male privilege).

I'm totally on board with D'Amato's thesis if we are only discussing movements and not also mental, material, and legal outcomes. But he does not enclose his argument to his thesis; he continues on to argue that humans are essentially different from all other animals (despite being careful to say that humans are only "qualitatively" different"), and that the "liberation" and rights of nonhuman animals be rejected in favor of merely "more humane treatment." It is these last two conclusions, I find objectionable and weakly argued.

In this response, I will critique four positions D'Amato either asserts or  ignores. First, he implicitly argues that one cannot have rights unless one asserts one has them, a contractualist argument that would exclude many humans from possessing rights. Second, he explicitly draws on evolutionary biology to make arguments for an essential difference between humans and other animals that contradict themselves and are analogous to arguments that have been used to rationalize racism. Third, D'Amato misses how worker and animal exploitation are not only  increased by capitalism, but that they are intersecting oppressions that mutually reinforce one another just as socialism and animal rights are ethico-political positions that intersect and mutually reinforce one another. Finally, he is naive to the historical, cultural, and ecological ties between the exploitation and well-being of human and animal.


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CURRENT HEALTH INSURANCE LIST FREE DOWNLOAD

Currently there are 163 statutory health insurance funds. Just since mid-2008 the number of public health insurance has dropped from 217 to 163. In the AOK and BKK, for example, in October 2010 already scheduled the next merger. The market for private health insurance experienced mergers, albeit to a lesser extent.

So you see, it's a lot and there is plenty of reason for consumers to learn about costs and services!

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Deconstructing Veganism: Commodity, Reciprocity, & the Killing Contract

Preface
As I previously mentioned, most of my blogging over the last year has been on Facebook. I do not have the time to write as masterful posts with extensive and precise citations as before, so I cannot promise future posts will be as organized and nuanced as previous ones. That said, although I have not done so in the past here, future posts like this one will be in response to either a provocative blog entry elsewhere on the web or several related news stories. If we are both so lucky, these posts will probably be shorter reads. Well, we'll see!

Insturmentalism: the Logos of Animal Capital
Anastasia  @ Animal Visions, a highly welcomed blog that just hit the cyber-scene, writes in "What’s the deal with animal use?":

From an ecofeminist and indigenous perspective, use of another living being is not inherently bad; in fact, it’s necessary for survival. The use becomes a major problem when it’s one-sided. That is, living beings in the ecosystem are made... into resources in order to serve one species, and members of that species do not give back in response to what they have received. ... What’s missing in this scenario is reciprocity, which is also missing in our conceptualization of exploitation... The act of “use” wouldn’t be a problem because everyone would be used, and the use would simply be an act of life, a way of participating in the biosphere. Alas, as it stands, we do not. Our global civilization exploits many and holds no values for giving back...


Do animal liberation proponents really want to abolish all forms of animal use, thereby disregarding our interdependence in the biosphere and severing any possibility for us to give unto other animals and to be open to our use in return? This animal liberation proponent certainly doesn’t.

I really like this and is kind of what I've been thinking about for several years and why I share Donna Haraway's (2007) criticism of abolitionist views that always cast nonhuman animals as victims, ignoring their agency and affect upon humans. Animal rightists have overlooked that their positioning of nonhuman animals as "voiceless", "defenseless," and "helpless" have only re-instituted their passivity, having presupposed a human-reason-agent vs nonhuman-passive dualism. Writers like Haraway, but especially James Hribal (2003, 2006, 2007, 2010), have repositioned animals not as slaves, a la Marjorie Speigel's Dreaded Comparison (1996), but as "the working class." Reconfigurations of animals as fellow agents on the one hand may affirm their subjectivity and role in society, while on the other risks reinstating their oppression on new terms (as I will argue against reciprocity being a sufficient condition for ethical relations).


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Can a Statin Neutralize the Cardiovascular Risk of Unhealthy Dietary Choices?

The title of this post is the exact title of a recent editorial in the American Journal of Cardiology (1). Investigators calculated the "risk for cardiovascular disease associated with the total fat and trans fat content of fast foods", and compared it to the "risk decrease provided by daily statin consumption". Here's what they found:

The risk reduction associated with the daily consumption of most statins, with the exception of pravastatin, is more powerful than the risk increase caused by the daily extra fat intake associated with a 7-oz hamburger (Quarter Pounder®) with cheese and a small milkshake. In conclusion, statin therapy can neutralize the cardiovascular risk caused by harmful diet choices.

Routine accessibility of statins in establishments providing unhealthy food might be a rational modern means to offset the cardiovascular risk. Fast food outlets already offer free condiments to supplement meals. A free statin-containing accompaniment would offer cardiovascular benefits, opposite to the effects of equally available salt, sugar, and high-fat condiments. Although no substitute for systematic lifestyle improvements, including healthy diet, regular exercise, weight loss, and smoking cessation, complimentary statin packets would add, at little cost, 1 positive choice to a panoply of negative ones.

Wow. Later in the editorial, they recommend "a new and protective packet, “MacStatin,” which could be sprinkled onto a Quarter Pounder or into a milkshake." I'm not making this up!

I can't be sure, but I think there's a pretty good chance the authors were being facetious in this editorial, in which case I think a) it's hilarious, b) most people aren't going to get the joke. If they are joking, the editorial is designed to shine a light on the sad state of mainstream preventive healthcare. Rather than trying to educate people and change the deadly industrial food system, which is at the root of a constellation of health problems, many people think it's acceptable to partially correct one health risk by tinkering with the human metabolism using drugs. To be fair, most people aren't willing to change their diet and lifestyle habits (and perhaps for some it's even too late), so frustrated physicians prescribe drugs to mitigate the risk. I accept that. But if our society is really committed to its own health and well-being, we'll remove the artificial incentives that favor industrial food, and educate children from a young age on how to eat well.

I think one of the main challenges we face is that our current system is immensely lucrative for powerful financial interests. Industrial agriculture lines the pockets of a few large farmers and executives (while smaller farmers go broke and get bought out), industrial food processing concentrates profit among a handful of mega-manufacturers, and then people who are made ill by the resulting food spend an exorbitant amount of money on increasingly sophisticated (and expensive) healthcare. It's a system that effectively milks US citizens for a huge amount of money, and keeps the economy rolling at the expense of the average person's well-being. All of these groups have powerful lobbies that ensure the continuity of the current system. Litigation isn't the main reason our healthcare is so expensive in the US; high levels of chronic disease, expensive new technology, a "kitchen sink" treatment approach, and inefficient private companies are the real reasons.

If the editorial is serious, there are so many things wrong with it I don't even know where to begin. Here are a few problems:

1. They assume the risk of heart attack conveyed by eating fast food is due to its total and trans fat content, which is simplistic. To support that supposition, they cite one study: the Health Professionals Follow-up Study (2). This is one of the best diet-health observational studies conducted to date. The authors of the editorial appear not to have read the study carefully, because it found no association between total or saturated fat intake and heart attack risk, when adjusted for confounding variables. The number they quoted (relative risk = 1.23) was before adjustment for fiber intake (relative risk = 1.02 after adjustment), and in any case, it was not statistically significant even before adjustment. How did that get past peer review? Answer: reviewers aren't critical of hypotheses they like.
   
2. Statins mostly work in middle-aged men, and reduce the risk of heart attack by about one quarter. The authors excluded several recent unsupportive trials from their analysis. Dr. Michel de Lorgeril reviewed these trials recently (3). For these reasons, adding a statin to fast food would probably have a negligible effect on the heart attack risk of the general population.
   
3. "Statins rarely cause negative side effects." BS. Of the half dozen people I know who have gone on statins, all of them have had some kind of negative side effect, two of them unpleasant enough that they discontinued treatment against their doctor's wishes. Several of them who remained on statins are unlikely to benefit because of their demographic, yet they remain on statins on their doctors' advice.
   
4. Industrial food is probably the main contributor to heart attack risk. Cultures that don't eat industrial food are almost totally free of heart attacks, as demonstrated by a variety of high-quality studies (4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9). No drug can replicate that, not even close.
   

I have an alternative proposal. Rather than giving people statins along with their Big Mac, why don't we change the incentive structure that artificially favors the Big Mac, french fries and soft drink? If it weren't for corn, soybean and wheat subsidies, fast food wouldn't be so cheap. Neither would any other processed food. Fresh, whole food would be price competitive with industrial food, particularly if we applied the grain subsidies to more wholesome foods. Grass-fed beef and dairy would cost the same as grain-fed. I'm no economist, so I don't know how realistic this really is. However, my central point still stands: we can change the incentive structure so that it no longer artificially favors industrial food. That will require that the American public get fed up and finally butt heads with special interest groups.

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Sperm Banks & Meat-Markets: The Sexual Economy of Meat

"$uper Cow", $uper Profits: Cyber Chattel, $ex Exchange, and $perm Banks
In a recent National Geographic program on the technoscientific management of "nature," we get a glimpse at a very much neglected element in contemporary animal agribusiness, the sperm banks by which, animals are, according to Jacques Derrida (1997), "exterminated by means of their continued existence or even their overpopulation”:

Selective breeding is the first stop on our tour of how man is using science to control nature... In fact, selective breeding is all about managing sex...Over a hundred years, Farmers have only allowed the cows and bulls with the largest muscle mass to mate

The technoscientific sacrifice of animal heathcare for economic welfare is explained:

There is a gene that regulates the growth of muscles in cattle. These cows have been selectively breed from animals that contain a copy of this gene that doesn't work. As a result their muscles grow far larger than normal. To insure that the effective gene is passed on, sex for the Belgian Blues has been replaced by technology in the form of artificial selection

The men in the video discuss the homoerotic, predatory gaze:

The bulls are shaved to best display their muscles... so you can see where all the meat is...  because when you look at him, you cannot help but think of lunch

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The Best Water Ionizer for Alkaline Electron Rich Water?

As you may know the Japanese, Taiwanese and Koreans have been studying ionized electron rich water for decades. Because of research studies and lab reports not translated into english, most Americans miss out on documented proof validating the efficacy of our pH Miracle Mark I ionizer.

We just received a translated lab report showing we truly have the best water ionizer in the market that creates the wettest water or microclustered water.

All water ionizer brands claim their water is microclustered. Please DO NOT fall for this "teabag demonstration!" It is not anywhere near an acurate way to prove microclustering.

The main way to test microclustering is with an NMRI test which costs upwards of $70,000.00!

We have done this NMRI multiple times!

Our lastest tests have shown the following:

Tap water from Nagasaki, Japan, measured at 105 hertz. Translated this means the molecular structure is approximately 16 -18 water molecules per cluster. This would be the same as ALL bottled waters being sold on the US and International market.

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For those who are new to the term "Microclustering" it is simply a smaller water molecule that can better penetrate and hydrate the cells. Microclustering is easily 1/3 of the power and effectiveness of the pH Miracle Mark I ionized water. Microclustering will help minerals and other alkalizing supplements adsorb and absorb quickly and more efficiently.

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Saturated Fat Consumption Still isn't Associated with Heart Attack Risk

The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition just published the results of a major Japanese study on saturated fat intake and cardiovascular disease (1). Investigators measured dietary habits, then followed 58,453 men and women for 14.1 years. They found that people who ate the most saturated fat had the same heart attack risk as those who ate the least*. Furthermore, people who ate the most saturated fat had a lower risk of stroke than those who ate the least. It's notable that stroke is a larger public health threat in Japan than heart attacks.

This is broadly consistent with the rest of the observational studies examining saturated fat intake and cardiovascular disease risk. A recent review paper by Dr. Ronald Krauss's group summed up what is obvious to any unbiased person who is familiar with the literature, that saturated fat consumption doesn't associate with heart attack risk (2). In a series of editorials, some of his colleagues attempted to discredit and intimidate him after its publication (3, 4). No meta-analysis is perfect, but their criticisms were largely unfounded (5, 6).


*Actually, people who ate the most saturated fat had a lower risk but it wasn't statistically significant.

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Dr. Young's Research Validated - Fruit Sugars Cause Pancreatic Cancer

I have been sharing my research for over 30 years that sugar causes cancer and that high sugar fructose from fruits, including corn causes cancer. Corn and corn sugar is one of my top ten foods never to eat - and corn syrup is in many foods and drinks. Are you listening?

Sugar is an acid and causes cancer! All sugars including agave, stevia, maple syrup, cane sugar, corn syrup, fructose, glucose, destrose, sucrose, and all artificial sweetners as well are acidic and toxic to the human or animal body.

Sugar is a drug. Sugar is an acid. Sugar is a neurotoxin. Sugar is a posion. Sugar is a metabolic waste product. Sugar is a metabolite of cellular degeneration. If you eat sugar in any form it will make you sick, tired and fat and eventually kill you.




Finally my reserach has been validated. Sugar/fructose from fruit causes pancreatic cancer.

There is no such thing as an alkaline sweeter. They are all acidic and toxic to the body.

There is sugar in every food which comes from the fermentation or breakdown of that food. Sugar is the urine of fermentation. Stop eating it now if you are truly in...



WASHINGTON — Pancreatic tumor cells use fructose to divide and proliferate, U.S. researchers said on Monday in a study that challenges the common wisdom that all sugars are the same.
Tumor cells fed both glucose and fructose used the two sugars in two different ways, the team at the University of California Los Angeles found.



They said their finding, published in the journal Cancer Research, may help explain other studies that have linked fructose intake with pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest cancer types.
"These findings show that cancer cells can readily metabolize fructose to increase proliferation," Dr. Anthony Heaney of UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center and colleagues wrote.



"They have major significance for cancer patients given dietary refined fructose consumption, and indicate that efforts to reduce refined fructose intake or inhibit fructose-mediated actions may disrupt cancer growth."



Americans take in large amounts of fructose, mainly in high fructose corn syrup, a mix of fructose and glucose that is used in soft drinks, bread and a range of other foods.



Politicians, regulators, health experts and the industry have debated whether high fructose corn syrup and other ingredients have been helping make Americans fatter and less healthy.



Too much sugar of any kind not only adds pounds, but is also a key culprit in diabetes, heart disease and stroke, according to the American Heart Association.



Several states, including New York and California, have weighed a tax on sweetened soft drinks to defray the cost of treating obesity-related diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer.

The American Beverage Association, whose members include Coca-Cola and Kraft Foods have strongly, and successfully, opposed efforts to tax soda.



The industry has also argued that sugar is sugar.



Heaney said his team found otherwise. They grew pancreatic cancer cells in lab dishes and fed them both glucose and fructose.



Tumor cells thrive on sugar but they used the fructose to proliferate. "Importantly, fructose and glucose metabolism are quite different," Heaney's team wrote.



"I think this paper has a lot of public health implications. Hopefully, at the federal level there will be some effort to step back on the amount of high fructose corn syrup in our diets," Heaney said in a statement.



Now the team hopes to develop a drug that might stop tumor cells from making use of fructose.



U.S. consumption of high fructose corn syrup went up 1,000 percent between 1970 and 1990, researchers reported in 2004 in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

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An Acid Western Diet Linked To ADHD

A new study from Perth's Telethon Institute for Child Health Research shows an association between ADHD and an acidic Western-style' diet in adolescents.

The research findings have just been published online in the international Journal of Attention Disorders.

Leader of Nutrition studies at the Institute, Associate Professor Wendy Oddy, said the study examined the dietary patterns of 1800 adolescents from the long-term Raine Study and classified diets into 'Healthy' or 'Western' or 'Acid' patterns.

“We found a diet high in the Western pattern of foods was associated with more than double the risk of having an ADHD diagnosis compared with a diet low in the Western pattern, after adjusting for numerous other social and family influences,” Dr Oddy said.

“We looked at the dietary patterns amongst the adolescents and compared the diet information against whether or not the adolescent had received a diagnosis of ADHD by the age of 14 years. In our study, 115 adolescents had been diagnosed with ADHD, 91 boys and 24 girls.” A “healthy” pattern is a diet high in fresh fruit and vegetables, whole grains and fish. It tends to be higher in omega-3 fatty acids, folate and fibre. A “Western” pattern is a diet with a trend towards takeaway foods, confectionary, processed, fried and refined foods. These diets tend to be higher in total fat, saturated fat, refined sugar and sodium.

“When we looked at specific foods, having an ADHD diagnosis was associated with a diet high in takeaway foods, processed meats, red meat, high fat dairy products and confectionary,” Dr Oddy said.

“We suggest that a Western dietary pattern may indicate the adolescent has a less optimal fatty acid profile, whereas a diet higher in omega-3 fatty acids is thought to hold benefits for mental health and optimal brain function.

“It also may be that the Western dietary pattern doesn't provide enough essential micronutrients that are needed for brain function, particularly attention and concentration, or that a Western diet might contain more colours, flavours and additives that have been linked to an increase in ADHD symptoms. It may also be that impulsivity, which is a characteristic of ADHD, leads to poor dietary choices such as quick snacks when hungry.”

Dr Oddy said that whilst this study suggests that diet may be implicated in ADHD, more research is needed to determine the nature of the relationship.

“This is a cross-sectional study so we cannot be sure whether a poor diet leads to ADHD or whether ADHD leads to poor dietary choices and cravings,” Dr Oddy said.

ADHD is the most commonly diagnosed childhood mental health disorder and has a prevalence of approximately 5%. ADHD is known to be more common in boys.

According to Dr. Robert O. Young, Director of Research at the pH Miracle Living Center, "ADHD is a classic condition of tissue acidosis, low urine pH and bowel constipation due to the ingestion of highly acidic foods, such as beef, chicken, pork, eggs and dairy."

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