Zinc is Essential for Good Health

(NaturalNews) Most of us are familiar with the use of zinc as an aid to combating common colds and sore throats; however, many of us are unaware of just how vital zinc is in maintaining overall good health. Zinc is an essential trace element found in every cell in our bodies. While studies have indicated that about 12% of Americans are deficient in zinc, our ability to absorb zinc declines with age and it is estimated that this percentage increases to 45% in older Americans.

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How GrassFed Cows Could Save the Planet

Of all the animals that humans eat, none are held more responsible for climate change than cows. Cows not only consume more energy-intensive feed than other livestock, they also produce more methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.

But grass-fed cows may have the opposite effect.

Grass is a perennial. If cattle and other ruminants are rotated across pastures full of it, the animals’ grazing will cut the blades, spurring new growth, while their trampling helps work manure and other decaying organic matter into the soil, turning it into rich humus. And healthy soil keeps carbon dioxide underground and out of the atmosphere.

Currently, 99 percent of U.S. beef cattle live out their last months on feedlots, where they are stuffed with corn and soybeans. Much of the carbon footprint of beef comes from growing grain to feed the animals, which requires fossil-fuel-based fertilizers, pesticides, and transportation.

Even though grass-fed cattle produce more methane than conventional ones (high-fiber plants are harder to digest than cereals), their net emissions are lower because they help the soil sequester carbon.

Sources:

  Time Magazine January 25, 2010

How GrassFed Cows Could Save the Planet.

How Much Do You Need to Sleep Every Night to Prevent Weight Gain?

Researchers found that among adults younger than 40, those who typically slept for five hours or less each night had a greater accumulation of belly fat over the next five years.

But those who logged eight hours or more in bed each night also showed a bigger fat gain, although it was less substantial than that seen in “short sleepers.”

On average, short sleepers showed a 32 percent gain in visceral fat, versus a 13 percent gain among those who slept six or seven hours per night, and a 22 percent increase among men and women who got at least eight hours of sleep each night.

A similar pattern was seen with superficial abdominal fat. Even when the researchers considered factors like calorie intake, exercise habits, education and smoking, sleep duration itself remained linked to abdominal-fat gain.

The study does not prove that too little or too much sleep directly leads to excess fat gain. But the findings support and extend those of other studies linking sleep duration — particularly a lack of sleep — to weight gain and even to higher risks of diabetes and heart disease.

Sources:

  Reuters March 1, 2010

  Sleep March 1, 2010

How Much Do You Need to Sleep Every Night to Prevent Weight Gain?.

Read This Shocking Vitamin D Report or You’ll Kick Yourself for the Next Decade

The British Medical Journal has published a remarkable paper confirming that low vitamin D levels obtained in the past are a risk factor for developing colon cancer in the future.

But the study contained an even more significant finding — as Dr. Cannell’s site has reported before, vitamin A, even in relatively low amounts, can thwart vitamin D’s association with reduced rates of colon cancer.

This is the largest study to date showing vitamin A blocks vitamin D’s effect.

Hidden on page eight of the paper was one sentence and a small table, showing that the benefits of vitamin D are almost entirely negated in those with the highest vitamin A (retinol) intake.

And the retinol intake did not have to be that high — only about 3,000 IU/day. Young autistic children often take 3,500 IU of retinol a day in their powdered multivitamins, which doesn’t count any additional vitamin A given in high single doses.

The finding explains some of the anomalies in other papers on vitamin D and cancer — similar studies sometimes have widely different results. This may be because the effect of vitamin A was not taken into account. In some countries, cod liver oil, which contains vitamin A, is commonly used as a vitamin D supplement, and in others it is used more rarely, causing differences in the results.

Sources:

  The Natural Advocate February 28, 2010

  Vitamin D Council

  British Medical Journal, BMJ 2010;340:b5500

Read This Shocking Vitamin D Report or You’ll Kick Yourself for the Next Decade.

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The Power of Suggestion

The most powerful influence on our action and behaviors in life is the power of love. Everything that we do in life is either to get love or to compensate for a lack of love.

The most powerful single influence on the people that we become is the power of suggestion. The power of the suggestion influences the environment that surrounds us.

We are influenced by everything that we see, hear, read, watch on television, hear on the radio, read in newspapers and magazines. We are surrounded by a suggestive environment that dramatically effects how we think and feel about ourselves.

Out of all the elements in our suggestive environment, the single most influential part are the human beings with whom we habitually associate with.

Dr. David Mc Clelland of Harvard after 25 year of research into achievement found that you could take people and give them the finest training in achievement qualities and characteristics, train them in overcoming negative emotions, and developing positive attitudes, train then in mental programming in goal setting, creativity, problem solving and everything else.

However, if they went away from the training and back into an association with their previous reference group, if they began hanging out with old negative go nowhere crowd that that alone would be enough to prevent all possibility of them ever developing and reaching their full potential as a human being.

The discovery and the understanding of the importance of our reference group, the people with whom we habitually associate and identify. The people whom our role models are derived.

The reference groups are:
The family, grade school, church, sports organization we belong to, people we work with, friends and associates.

If we do not consciously deliberately select and associate with a positive reference group of achievement oriented individuals – if we continuously stay with people who are going nowhere…. That alone is enough to cut off all possibility of our ever becoming high achieving men and women.

The importance of the reference group can not be stressed enough.

We must seriously consider what we want to accomplish with our lives and remember that “birds of a feather flock together.”

If we associate on an ongoing basis with negative, pessimistic, cynical people who are going nowhere with their lives— that alone is enough to assure that we go nowhere with our lives.

It’s very important if we are seriously concerned about becoming high achievers that we make a conscious effort to begin to form newest association with positive men and women.

Make your life a total affirmation. From the time you get up in the morning remember that everything that you think about is having an effect on the person you are becoming.

Remember that you are continually evolving and growing toward the realization of your ideal self. And that the more clear and vivid that ideal self is in your imagination the more rapidly you become that person.

The more you talk about and think about visualize affirm and act the part of the person you want to be the more rapidly it comes into your reality.

The more you talk to yourself on a systematic purposeful positive basis the more likely it is that you will override all previous negative habit patterns and establish new positive habit patters of thought and begin to act like the new person.

The key to all of this is SELF DESCIPLINE… If you repeat these exercises over and over again you MUST BECOME THE NEW PERSON.

That is the way we have become the people we are today through repetition. We become the people we want to be tomorrow through repetition also.

If we develop positive expectations and always look for the good in every situation that also accelerates our program. Refuse to accept any negatives about yourself of any case.

If you make a mistake or if you fall back occasionally don’t worry about it. Throw it off. Live in the NOW… don’t worry about tomorrow. Don’t worry about the past. Just concentrate on living in the now one day at a time. Keeping your mind focused on where you want to go and who you want to be today this minute and don’t worry about anything else. Everything else will take care of itself.

Finally, continually feed your mind with books, tapes, seminars, and course, feed your mind with rich mental nutrition. Read, study, listen associate with positive people, program your mind continuously.

Imagine that you are in training for a mental marathon, starting in the morning and straight through the day you must continuously be thinking about and talking about the person you want to be with the qualities you want to have.

And finally, remember all causation is mental. Everything that ever happens to you, today, tomorrow, and the future for the rest of your life, will be determined by the content of your conscious mind. And since the only thing in the world which you have complete control is your thoughts. If you just keep your thoughts consistent with what you want to be have and do, that alone is enough to enable you to control your destiny.

Memory Loss Can be Reversed — Just Do THIS

Moderate physical activity performed in midlife or later appears to be associated with a reduced risk of mild cognitive impairment — and a six-month high-intensity aerobic exercise program can improve cognitive function in individuals who already have the condition.

Each year, 10 percent to 15 percent of individuals with mild cognitive impairment will develop dementia, as compared with 1 percent to 2 percent of the general population.

Physical exercise may protect against mild cognitive impairment by means of the production of nerve-protecting compounds, greater blood flow to the brain, improved development and survival of neurons and the decreased risk of heart and blood vessel diseases.

Sources:

  Archives of Neurology January 2010;67(1):80-6

  Archives of Neurology January 2010;67(1):71-9

  Eurekalert January 11, 2010

Memory Loss Can be Reversed — Just Do THIS.

What You Eat After Exercise Matters

Many of the health benefits of aerobic exercise are due to the most recent exercise session. The nature of these benefits can be greatly affected by the food you eat afterwards.

Differences in what you eat after exercise produce different effects on your body’s metabolism.

Specifically, the study found that exercise enhanced insulin sensitivity, particularly when meals eaten after the exercise session contained relatively low carbohydrate content.

Interestingly, when the research subjects in this study ate relatively low-calorie meals after exercise, this did not improve insulin sensitivity any more than when they ate enough calories to match what they expended during exercise.

This suggests that you don’t have to starve yourself after exercise to still reap some of the important health benefits.

Enhanced insulin sensitivity means that it is easier for your body to take up sugar from your bloodstream into tissues like muscles, where it can be stored or used as fuel. Impaired insulin sensitivity, also known as insulin resistance is a hallmark of Type II diabetes, as well as being a major risk factor for other chronic diseases.

Sources:

  Eurekalert January 28, 2010

  Journal of Applied Physiology December 31, 2009

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