The Tragedy of Manufacturing Foods
Written by lsmithersWe’ve been eating Frankenstein foods for 5 decades. It began as far back as Crisco that was hailed much better for you than lard. Then in the 60’s, we were assaulted with chemically treated soybean oils, packaged and wrapped foods designed for a very long shelf life with your health secondary–if it was thought of at all.
This is a very common sense question we must all ask. What is your body to do with chemicals? When ingredients are added to foods you eat, ingredients you cannot name, pronounce or recognize, how do you think your body will respond?
Foods stripped of nutrition by processing, a dash of chemicals to preserve and vitamin fortified is a recipe for illness. Oh, it all gets quite confusing. Flowing headlines on packages that sounds so good, labels with ingredients you can’t read; ingredients that hide thanks to an FDA ruling allowing it; commercials assaulting our senses of the latest new food ready in less than 60 seconds accommodating our non-stop lives. Continue reading The Tragedy of Manufacturing Foods
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Interesterification a New Processing Omega 3 and Omega 6 Oils
Written by lsmithersThis is a great article on a new food processing method courtesy of Frank Cooper, a Naturopathic Nutritionist based in Australia. http://www.frankcooper.com.au
Due to the terrible health problems associated with trans fats, the food industry has been busily perfecting another ‘man-made’ replacement to ensure that company sales and profits are kept at a high level. The new solution is a process called interesterification, a technique for making butter-like products from liquid vegetable oils. Interesterification can be used to make margarines, shortenings, baked goods, and confectionary that requires the texture, mouth feel, and smoothness similar to saturated fats.
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Omega-3 and Inflammation
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We are all familiar with inflammation from a cut or bruise. We see it with our eyes and feel pain associated in healing. What about inflammation we can neither see nor feel aptly referred to as “the silent killer?”
Inflammation is neither complicated nor mysterious. It is your body’s protective response to a germ, bacteria or foreign invader threatening your life. We cannot see the internal process but we see it externally in bruising, swelling and finally healing. We feel all the stages of a cold or flu until miraculously symptoms abate and we feel well again. This is inflammation responding as it was intended to protect you. Continue reading Omega-3 and Inflammation
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Inflammation and Heart Disease
Written by lsmithersFor the past 7 months, I’ve been on an amazing journey that sadly left little time for this wonderful blog. My post of last September said I’m off to start another blog, Inflammation Awareness Now omitting what else was going on–a new book. I spent those months writing, The Great Cholesterol Lie, with thoracic surgeon, Dr. Dwight Lundell.
Dr. Lundell wrote and published a previous ground-breaking book, The Cure For Heart Disease, about inflammation and heart disease. The Great Cholesterol Lie is an adaption in a different format that expands upon the history and tragedy of the cholesterol theory of heart disease.
It seemed to me before we could sink our teeth into the very known scientific fact that inflammation causes heart disease, we had a rather large problem. Continue reading Inflammation and Heart Disease
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Chronic Inflammation and Chronic Illness Statistics
Written by lsmithersWhen we see statistics such as those cited from Medco Health, it’s hardly a leap connecting the dots to chronic inflammation when illnesses cited in the study are depression, diabetes, asthma.
The statistics state that for the first time ever over half the population, 51% of American children and adults were taking one or more prescription drugs for a chronic condition up from 50% the previous four years, and 47% in 2001.
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New Book, “The Great Cholesterol Lie” Unravels Cholesterol Theory of Heart Disease
Written by lsmithersStatin medications aren’t solving soaring heart disease rates and internationally renowned thoracic surgeon Dr. Dwight Lundell reveals why - as well as the solution - in the new book, “The Great Cholesterol Lie”.
Miami, FL (PRWEB) March 20, 2009 — With over 25% of the population taking statin medications - and with many being urged to do so preventatively - thoracic surgeon Dr. Dwight Lundell’s new book, “The Great Cholesterol Lie” could not be released at a more important time.
The Great Cholesterol Lie
 Most of the surgeries could have been easily prevented had the patients been given the right information about what causes heart disease.  |
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