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Use essential oils for clean air blends and to prevent and treat colds
Tuesday, May 03, 2011 by: Fleur Hupston
NaturalNews.com
(NaturalNews) Natural therapies using essential oils treat a wide range of conditions through various applications. The healing properties of plants in essential oils can be harnessed by inhalation, topical application and sometimes via ingestion. Essential oils can be very useful in order to counter the effects of colds and flu.
Experimenting with essential oils needs to be carried out cautiously, since some essential oils are contraindicated in some circumstances, such as pregnancy or hypertension. Certain oils need to be balanced with other oils or diluted with a carrier oil. Essential oils should never be ingested without consulting with a qualified practitioner.
Resveratrol and grape seed polyphenols combine to prevent diabetes
Friday, April 29, 2011 by: John Phillip
NaturalNews.com
(NaturalNews) Researchers publishing the results of two independent studies in the British Journal of Nutrition have demonstrated that polyphenol antioxidants found naturally in red grapes can prevent the buildup of fat in muscle tissue that is a precursor to metabolic disorder and diabetes. Resveratrol and grape seed extracts influence how the body responds to insulin, the hormone that controls critical mechanisms of dietary sugar and fat metabolism. The grape-derived compounds have been shown to improve cardiovascular and Alzheimer`s disease risk factors in the past. Information gleaned from these studies explains how daily consumption of the fresh fruit can be invaluable as it prevents muscular fat accumulation leading to metabolic instability and diabetes.
Do healing foods work better than Big Pharma's drugs? The results speak for themselves
Friday, May 14, 2010
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com
(NaturalNews) The drug industry is constantly trying to convince you that drugs are good for your health while nutritional supplements and healthy foods are somehow bad for you. This same line of nonsense is also repeated by the FDA, which goes out of its way to censor the truth about the healing properties of natural foods like walnuts, cherries and berries.
The drug industry and the FDA are, of course, just plain wrong about all this. Although their advertisements show happy, healthy people taking pharmaceuticals, in the real world, people who take their drugs are extremely unhealthy, depressed and highly toxic.
Vitamin D Deficiency in Pregnant Women and Newborns
Date: 5/3/2010Source: Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism
Related Monographs: Vitamin D
Vitamin D is known as the "sunshine" vitamin because it is formed in the body by the action of the sun's ultraviolet rays on the skin. The fat-soluble vitamin is converted in the kidneys to the hormone calcitrol, which is actually the most active form of vitamin D. The effects of this hormone are targeted at the intestines and bones. Decreased vitamin D intake along with not enough sunlight exposure can cause a vitamin D deficiency. Other causes could be inadequate absorption and impaired conversion of vitamin D into its active form. When vitamin D deficiency occurs, bone mineralization is impaired which leads to bone loss.
Zinc Supplementation for Ear Infections
Otitis media is a nonspecific term describing inflammation of the middle ear, and is classified according to its clinical presentation. Otitis media is more commonly referred to as an ear infection. As most parents know, ear infections demand attention. Otitis media can be classified as acute otitis media or as otitis media with effusion meaning that there is an accumulation of fluids. Acute otitis media is characterized by rapid onset of symptoms, and episodes are more frequent in the first 3 years of life. Acute otitis media is the most frequent diagnosis in infants and children who visit physicians because of illness. Acute otitis media occurs in adults, but with much less frequency. Otitis media with effusion differs from acute otitis media in that signs and symptoms of acute infection are absent. Several risk factors contribute to the higher incidence and frequency of otitis media. These include the season of the year, certain malformations, environmental factors, and the age of the child when the first episode occurred.
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