Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 A good doctor or physical therapist can help a lot here, so be sure to work with a qualified health professional to design a physical exercise program that works for you.
You may also consider joining a local gym and signing up with their training coaches. These people can offer you a wealth of information on what really works for weight loss, strength improvement and enhanced fitness. Or, if you don't want to go to a gym, hire a personal trainer, buy some books, or just figure it out for yourself. This isn't rocket science: just get your heart pumping by moving your body. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 While it doesn't work 100 percent of the time, if a patient comes in complaining of fatigue and depression that is linked with the physical findings of foods not digesting well, and cold extremities, then an underactive thyroid may be the root cause. People come and say, 'Oh, my husband says, Don't touch me with your feet at night because they're just ice cold.' These are the same people who are comfortable in a room when everybody else is boiling and they're freezing in a room when everybody else is comfortable. |
| Christopher Calapai details some of the sources of exposure to heavy metal contamination and how the problem can be so damaging to mental and physical health: "We are exposed to metals from a wide variety of places. They are in our drinking water, in some of our foods, even in our work environment where we breathe in certain toxins. Lead, for example, can come into the body through exposure to metals in paints. We get cadmium from our food, air, and water; mercury from dental fillings and shellfish; and aluminum and excess iron from pots and pans. |
| The ranges are individually different and depend on the result of the physical exam."
Chelation therapy is an easily administered alternative to drugs and surgery that involves the infusion into the bloodstream of the amino acid EDTA, which moves through blood vessels and removes toxic metals. "Chelation therapy is a treatment that has been around for many years," says Dr. Calapai. "It involves using an intravenous application or induction of a protein substance that helps to bind heavy metals, to drag them out and throw them out of the body through the urine. |
| I have found that one of the best approaches to this problem is a systematic cleansing program, through which people actually break all physical addictions, not just to sugar, but to every other thing to which they could be allergic. Their energy comes back. Any form of addiction withdrawal creates a lack of energy, so when you substitute the energy they would be getting from the drug, and you give it to them naturally through the body's own process of metabolism, they feel better. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Health isn't merely a physical phenomenon. It's emotional, energetic, even spiritual! The physical form is just the simplest and most obvious part of human existence. It is not, however, the place from which disease begins.
If we allow ourselves to get stuck examining only the physical level, and we assign all causes of disease or health to the physical structure of the body, we'll never get to the really powerful wisdom found in the emotional and energetic realms of human experience. |
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| A good doctor or physical therapist can help a lot here, so be sure to work with a qualified health professional to design a physical exercise program that works for you.
You may also consider joining a local gym and signing up with their training coaches. These people can offer you a wealth of information on what really works for weight loss, strength improvement and enhanced fitness. Or, if you don't want to go to a gym, hire a personal trainer, buy some books, or just figure it out for yourself. This isn't rocket science: just get your heart pumping by moving your body. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| It's emotional, energetic, even spiritual! The physical form is just the simplest and most obvious part of human existence. It is not, however, the place from which disease begins.
If we allow ourselves to get stuck examining only the physical level, and we assign all causes of disease or health to the physical structure of the body, we'll never get to the really powerful wisdom found in the emotional and energetic realms of human experience.
The BodyWorlds exhibit offered a very thorough examination of the physical human body, but nothing beyond that. Is it still worth seeing? Sure it is. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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| Joan Matthews Larson realized the need to "shift our focus from alcoholism as a psychological disorder to alcoholism as a physical disease that creates cravings, depression and unstable brain functioning. Otherwise, the alcohol is removed and people take the full brunt of the damage that has been done. No matter how much they talk about their resolve, 80 percent or more have relapsed by the end of the first year. One in four deaths of alcoholics who have had formal treatment is from suicide, usually within the first year after treatment."
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Beyond recess, parents would do well to get their kids involved in additional physical education programs, like after-school programs or organized sports -- anything that involves moving the body, whether it's running track, playing soccer, playing basketball, practicing gymnastics... you name it. These are all excellent for children.
Healthy body, healthy mind
Why are these activities so beneficial? |
| You need to get off your own butt and start engaging in physical activity if you want to encourage your child to do the same thing.
Many obese adults have obese children; it's not genes, it's called parental modeling
Some misinformed doctors say obesity is genetic because they look at parents and their children, and they draw the incorrect conclusion that, because both are obese, it must be genetic. The truth is, they're both obese because the parent refuses to exercise, and the child mimics the parent. Plus, they both follow the same obesity-promoting diet. |
| If you want your child to have strong bones, then he or she needs to get some sunshine and physical activity, along with decent nutrition that includes calcium and magnesium. Organized sports are a great way to expose your child to these elements so that he or she can develop strong bones. (And that's why sports involvement actually reduces the risk of injury overall.)
Don't poison your children with fluoride
Speaking of strong bones, when I was in grade school, I had a friend who broke at least one bone every year. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Kevala: First of all, most people are very uncomfortable in their physical bodies, and that's why you can see the buoyancy of something like yoga, for example, or palates or any addiction to sports. If we didn't have that ability to create those endorphins and other feel-good chemicals that the body secretes when we engage in physical exercise, people would feel extremely uncomfortable in their physical bodies. These physical technologies allow us to maintain the status quo, and certainly in some cases, to expand. |
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| Remember, one of the greatest gifts you can give to your children is getting them involved in sports programs or physical exercise programs. Just remember to keep it fun, keep it safe and set the best example yourself.
And what about academics? Obviously academics are important, but health must be the higher priority in my opinion. What good is a brain stuffed full of math and science facts if the heart can't pump oxygen to it? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| In fact, physical exercise is absolutely essential for being healthy, and without it, you'll never be truly happy, even if you follow other health strategies mentioned on this site.
What can you do for 5-10 minutes a day that gets your heart pumping? Just about anything: walking, jumping rope, swimming, cycling, dancing, climbing stairs, roller blading, aerobics, fast-paced Pilates, and so on. There are even things you can do if you can't use your legs, or if you're obese or suffering from joint pain. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Don't send a short kid to the high jump
Finally, I have one last bit of advice for parents looking at getting their children involved in physical exercise or sports programs: Look at your child's body, and take a minute to assess what he or she might be good at. If you have a son who is short and stocky, he's built to be good at wrestling, not the high jump. If he's tall and lanky, he might be much better as a distance runner on the track team. |
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| REPPED: We know from a vast library of research that physical exercise prevents heart disease, lowers high blood pressure, reduces LDL cholesterol, improves digestion, speeds food transit through your large intestine, oxygenates internal organs, improves joint flexibility, enhances mental function, prevents cancer, prevents diabetes, enhances bone density, prevents osteoporosis, reverses depression and has many other beneficial effects. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 To view mental illness as having a physical origin is a classic misconception still held by these people. All disease is treatable is they could just find the physical culprits and remove them from the body, they mistakenly believe.
Of course, it's all a monumental, tragic error. There's more to the human body (and human health) than the physical body. A human being is more than the sum of her parts. Health exists at many levels: physical, chemical, and energetic. And the origin of disease can be traced to one or more of these levels as well. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Silly parents
Amazingly, I've heard some parents come up with the most unbelievable excuses for not involving their children in physical activities or organized sports programs. One parent told me she didn't want her daughter, a seventh-grader, to play soccer because she thought all women who played soccer end up with bulky-looking legs, and she didn't want her daughter to have ugly, bulky legs. Unbelievable, huh? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 First, of course, there's physical exercise. With physical exercise there's a lot of oxygen that gets moved around your body, and your brain needs oxygen to function well. Without adequate oxygen, you're not going to have good brain function no matter what your nutrition. So, get some regular physical exercise, you will improve the oxygen-carrying ability of your red blood cells, and thereby improve your brain function at the same time. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 After 12 weeks, both groups showed significant improvements on scores measuring pain and physical function. At 24 weeks, researchers found that the improvements had been sustained, with the greatest improvement measured in the hydrotherapy group.
"Hydrotherapy classes appeared to be more acceptable (higher attendance), appeared to provide greater relief of joint pain, and resulted in larger improvements in objective measurements of physical performance," wrote Fransen. |
Michael Pollan
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 Price made some remarkable discoveries, which he wrote up in articles for medical journals (with titles like "New Light on Modern physical Degeneration from Field Studies Among Primitive Races") and ultimately summarized in his 510-page tome, Nutrition and physical Degeneration, published in 1939.
Although his research was taken seriously during his lifetime, Weston Price has been all but written out of the history of twentieth-century science. |
Patricia Bragg and Paul C. Bragg
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 The abuse of the physical machine of the modern child is started at birth. Under these tragic circumstances, sooner or later premature breakdown is inevitable.
If you seek enlightenment on the subject of health, look at people around you. Every day, there are 25 million Americans critically ill in thousands of hospitals from coast to coast. Three hundred thousand doctors are kept frantically busy trying to patch up the desperately sick people in our country! Over one hundred fifty thousand dentists can't do even 10% of the dental work Americans need! |
| I am also a physical therapist which helped in my health and healing practice.
This man's sad story is one of millions in our country. He had never been educated to know how to care for his wonderful body, but he had been conditioned to eat 3 meals per day and eat anything that pleased him. Now, I have told you several times in this book that "Human Flesh is Dumb." You can put anything in your stomach at any hour that you wish. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Some people are so violent that they will risk physical harm and imprisonment in order to rape or murder or physically harm another human being.
It is local law enforcement that keeps these people in line, and if the pressure of local law enforcement were removed, we would see a rapid expansion of the criminal element in our local communities. Criminals would seem to come out of the woodwork, and they would pursue all sorts of activities that would cause both physical harm and damage to private property. So that, in a nutshell, is why I strongly support local law enforcement. |
David R. Montgomery
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 Hired by the federal government to assess cotton production for the 1880 census, he produced two volumes that divided regional soils into distinct classes based on their physical and chemical differences. Hilgard stressed understanding the physical character of a soil, as well as its thickness and the depth to water, before judging its agricultural potential. He thought that phosphorus and potassium in minerals and nitrogen in soil organic matter controlled soil fertility. Hilgard's census report noted that aggressive fertilizer use was starting to revive agriculture in the Carolinas. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| All disease is treatable is they could just find the physical culprits and remove them from the body, they mistakenly believe.
Of course, it's all a monumental, tragic error. There's more to the human body (and human health) than the physical body. A human being is more than the sum of her parts. Health exists at many levels: physical, chemical, and energetic. And the origin of disease can be traced to one or more of these levels as well. |
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