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Are you as Honest about your Diet as you are about your Medicines?

December 13, 2012

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Fresh vegetables are important components of a healthy diet. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

People always feel that they will someday eat better & healthier but can’t seem to start it. The same people religiously take their medicines and believe they will help them. Truth is medicines do have side effects, some devastating. Most people with chronic illness die from them. Healthy diet has no side effects and does prevent most illnesses.

Plant-based diets can remedy chronic diseases (esciencenews.com)
GreenBeanCleaning Enumerates the Top Three Chronic Illnesses Vegan Diet Could Help Prevent (prweb.com)
Chronic Diseases May Be Avoided By Plant-Based Diets (medicalnewstoday.com)
Top stories in health and medicine, December 12, 2012 (kevinmd.com)
Chronic Counsel (fibromodem.wordpress.com)
What Is The Mediterranean Diet? (answers.com)
Just Food is Not Enough for Prostate Problems to be Resolved, while Dr. Allen’s Device Helps Naturally, Highlights Fine Treatment (prweb.com)
My Story: Waging a War Against Self-Pity (theadventuresofarthritisnfibromyalgia.wordpress.com)
Plant-based diets can remedy chronic diseases (sciencedaily.com)

Extensive Disease/Nutrient lookup Guide

November 9, 2011

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Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) has a website that lists health problems and illnesses that gives survivorship rates, treatments, causes and what diet changes will help you. This is extensive and should be your first reference if you are diagnosed with an illness. Better yet why not scan the diseases that worry you and look at what nutritional and dietary changes you can make to minimize each disease. Being informed will keep you healthier.

Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) (georgefebish.wordpress.com)
What are Physicisns saying about Diet & Health (georgefebish.wordpress.com)
Healthy eating (bupa.com.au)
Idocracy of the American Diet (paleomomontherun.wordpress.com)
New study – Whole food vegetarian diets reverse and eliminate many serious illnesses (talesfromthelou.wordpress.com)
Raw Foods for Healthier You (the-healthy-bite.com)
Obesity, Cancer, Heart Disease, And Diabetes Frequency And Costs Can Be Considerably Reduced By Switching To A Diet Free Of Meat And Dairy Products (medicalnewstoday.com)

Psychiatric Illnesses are Linked to Epigenetics

April 19, 2011

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This video is a classroom presentation on new findings that link the environment through epigenetics to psychiatric illnesses. This type of illness accounts for the leading causes of disability in the world. Although how these mechanisms work is still a mystery, scientists now know they are epigenetic related. Stress is one of the major epigenetic triggers that have been linked to these illnesses. This video brings together pioneers in this emerging field of science. These leaders are looking to do a major population study on epigenetic triggers and their relationships to drug abuse and psychiatric disorders.