Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| A study published by Texas Tech University reports "... regular exercise reduces the risk of developing colon cancer and the risk of death from colon cancer."102
The muscles in the colon benefit from regular exercise as well, and a well-toned digestive tract promotes healthy bowel movements. Lack of exercise causes the muscles surrounding the bowels to weaken and this makes it difficult to fully eliminate waste. Exercise also boosts the immune system which, in turn, helps protect against disease.
Inadequate sleep can also compound the effects of stress and contribute to a toxic colon. |
Ron Garner
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 Wholesome diet. regular exercise.
Health-building supplements that cleanse the body and replenish its workers.
Continual understanding of symptoms and causes.
Whenever we have a physical problem, or symptoms of a malfunction, or disease within the body, we should be asking:
What is causing this?
Why is my body acting this way?
What is it telling me?
What is it trying to correct?
What experience(s) in my past could be contributing to my present condition?
How can I cooperate with my body to assist it in its detoxifying and corrective healing efforts? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 For example, I know that if you switch to a diet of unprocessed foods, get lots of sunlight, engage in regular exercise and take lots of trace minerals, most cravings for carbohydrates and processed foods disappear within 30 days. From that point forward, it's true that a person can essentially eat whatever they want, any time they want, because they're not craving the unhealthful, fat-producing processed foods in the first place. Plus, their metabolism is normalized and they're not getting wild blood sugar swings that cause cravings. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Yet diabetics, heart disease patients and cancer patients and reversing their diseases like never before by turning to a plant-based diet, engaging in regular exercise and avoiding all toxic chemicals (including those in foods, drugs and personal care products).
To those people who still think for themselves, pharmaceuticals are largely irrelevant. |
Jack Challem
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 Short of regular exercise, vitamin D supplements may be one of the best ways to maintain normal muscle mass. Your body needs vitamin D to make protein and to produce muscle cells. Taking vitamin D supplements won't give you the muscles of Arnold Schwarzenegger, but they will help you hold your own against the age-related decline in muscle tissue, which increases your susceptibility to developing prediabetes. Vitamin D will also reduce your risk of falling, which can lead to broken bones. Take 1,000 to 2,000 IU daily.
• Leucine. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 Along with a program of regular exercise and a healthful diet, green tea can play a valuable role in a heart disease prevention plan, since it lowers cholesterol levels, reduces blood pressure, and decreases the risk of heart attack and stroke.
THE CAUSES OF HEART DISEASE
Cardiovascular diseases comprise a large number of conditions affecting the heart and blood vessels, including atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), heart attack, and stroke. |
Jack Challem
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| Only a minority of people engages in any kind of regular exercise. The rest are die-hard couch potatoes who don't have the motivation to walk farther than to their refrigerator.
The situation has gotten even worse in recent years, with jobs in developed countries becoming more sedentary than ever. The average American now watches four and one-half hours of television each day. When you add the time people spend e-mailing, surfing the Internet, and listening to the radio, it amounts to almost ten hours a day of sitting around. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 Regular exercise will start you on the stairway to better health, and will help your body reach its full potential and keep it there. Exercise should be dynamic, varied, accessible and without adverse side effects, and don't forget the all-important factor of choosing one you really enjoy. If you disregard this you won't keep the sport up.
Whatever the activity, always keep your limitations in mind and conscientiously follow the breathing and relaxation techniques described in Chapter 6. |
| Many other factors have a vital bearing on your asthmatic condition, however, and should not be neglected: regular exercise to ensure physical fitness, and a healthy diet to improve and protect your immune system, are extremely important. Also included are many natural remedies which will improve your body's response to outside factors and asthmatic triggers.
We are not claiming that all the ideas in this section are of equal value to people with asthma. Some of the therapies may only result in greater relaxation—but being relaxed really does prevent asthma attacks from becoming severe. |
Jack Challem
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| Some of the women from each group also participated in regular exercise. Although all of the women lost weight, those on the high-protein diet plus exercise lost the most body fat while maintaining the most lean muscle mass. They lost more than 20 percent of their body fat in four months. In contrast, those on the high-carbohydrate diet who didn't exercise lost only 12.8 percent of their body fat.
Overcoming the Top Five Excuses
People come up with a lot of reasons for not being more physically active, and odds are that you have, too. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 It turns out that exercise results in a surge of serotonin, the neurotransmitter that makes us feel good right after working out, as well as in a long-term mood shift once we've started exercising regularly, effects that may be related in part to an increased growth in brain cells. regular exercise also has favorable effects on the immune system, which may promote health, especially in stressed and/or depressed individuals. |
| Research studies show that regular exercise lowers blood pressure in 75% of people with hypertension, with reductions of 11 mm Hg in systolic pressure and 8 mm Hg in diastolic pressure. These figures are clinically significant, as demonstrated by a 25% reduction in heart attacks because of reductions in blood pressure. Aerobic exercise is better for blood pressure than resistance exercise. The beneficial effects of exercise on blood pressure are evident in the first twenty-four hours after exercise, and one to two weeks after the last period of exercise. Furthermore, modest exercise (e.g. |
Tom Bohager
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 Recommendations include a well-balanced diet, stress management, rest, regular exercise, and glandular/hormonal support. Enzyme therapy can support the digestive and immune systems, improve the digestion of fats, improve pH balance, and treat any inflammation that may occur as a side effect. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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| The Bottom Line
If you suffer from depression you should adopt a regular exercise and nutrition regimen, since these have been shown to help relieve depression, and are free of side effects. Give psychotherapy a try. If this doesn't work and you are suffering from mild depression, it is reasonable to try St.-John's-wort. Results of studies done on St.-John's-wort suggest that it may not be that good for severe major depression, but SSRIs might not be that great either.
Beyond that, antidepressant medications are useful in the treatment of depression. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Secondly, you've got to engage in regular exercise. Gee, you've heard that a million times already, right? That's because it's a necessary component of weight loss. Mark my words: There is no way to lose weight without exercise unless you're dying from some disease. Exercise is essential -- it boosts muscle mass, increases metabolism and tells your body to shed fat. Sunlight also helps, too. Get more sunlight and your body will drop even more fat.
Finally, you've simply got to stop eating refined sugars, processed carbs and hydrogenated fats. |
Ron Garner
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| EXERCISE
Our bodies need regular exercise. Many of us shortchange this area of helping the body function properly. We do this partly through ignorance; we do not really understand how important exercise is to the body. And many of us neglect exercise because of laziness. It is hard work, takes effort and discipline, and utilizes time that we may want to devote to other things.
As far as efficient bodily function is concerned, the old saying of "move it or lose it" is very true. |
| A healthy lifestyle includes adequate regular exercise to activate the lymph system and help burn stored calories, as well as a diet that supplies all the required nutrients and live enzymes. Supplements to clean the colon, plus enzymes and complete protein products are very helpful. An overweight body is actually starving for wholesome alkaline nutrition. A person with an acidic body cannot lose weight and keep it off. It doesn't matter what diet is tried, the results will only be temporary unless acid-alkaline balance is restored. |
| To prevent hemorrhoid conditions, one needs to adopt a healthful lifestyle, have regular exercise, and detoxify the bowel. For relief of hemorrhoid pain, a suppository-sized piece of raw white potato can be inserted into the rectum and changed as needed. Fasting for a period of time, until symptoms subside, on fresh fruit and vegetable juices or diluted juices, will relieve the load on the digestive system, and relieve and reduce hemorrhoids.
High Blood Pressure
The purpose of blood circulation is to supply all parts of the body with oxygen and nutrients. |
| Raw fruit and vegetable intake, which provides more fluid and fiber for the colon, should be increased. regular exercise, rest, and the reduction of emotional stress are also important.
A primary key to improving our health is improving our digestion; health begins in the stomach. Good bowel management leads to improved health. of tunnel ion due to I wastes
Figure 7.2 Unhealthy colon
Using High Dosage Vitamin and Mineral Supplements
All fruits and vegetables, if grown in mineral-rich soil and ripe when picked, contain a wide and balanced range of vitamins and minerals. |
| The answers are found in their lifestyles of eating raw and unprocessed foods, drinking good water, getting regular exercise through their work, living in a clean air environment, being exposed to moderate amounts of sunshine, getting adequate rest, and maintaining positive life attitudes.
What Is a Long Life?
Humans are capable of living to between 120 and 170 years. This reasoning is based on the fact that all animals usually live six to eight times their age of maturation. A horse generally matures around three years of age and often lives to twenty-four. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 Most of us talk about how we should be exercising, but far fewer Americans really make regular exercise a priority. But if you identify stress as a problem for you, you really have far more reason—and incentive—to use exercise. Don't worry too much about overtraining, the problem Carol Day experienced; for most of us, the problem is undertraining or not training at all. You may find exercise incredibly rewarding—even addicting—and, in contrast to drugs, the side effects are unusually benign. Exercise combats stress by tuning down the ANS by releasing endorphins, the body's endogenous opiates. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 However, a more recent, controlled study again validated the hypothesis that regular exercise decreases menstrual symptoms in finding that "high exercisers experienced the greatest positive effect and sedentary women the least."39
CONVENTIONAL MEDICINE APPROACH
Two groups of drugs are highly effective against dysmenorrhea: oral contraceptives and prostaglandin synthetase inhibitors, also known as nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). |
| Lifestyle: Get regular exercise, practice good sleep hygiene. Herbal:
Black cohosh extract: 40 mg twice daily Valerian: 1-2 capsules or 1-2 tsp liquid extract before bed
Nutritional supplement: 2 mg melatonin before bed For difficult cases:
Add hormone prescription, with oral micronized progesterone taken right before bed.
Consider adding 5-HTP, higher doses of melatonin, or other herbal combinations of hops, valerian, and passionflower. maintain sleep through the night by regulating nighttime blood glucose levels. |
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Avoid pesticides, chemicals, solvents, and heavy metals.
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Eat organic foods.
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Drink purified water.
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Maintain good digestion and regular bowel habits.
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Avoid alcohol. liver's ability to break down environmental and naturally occurring estrogen, is worthy of consideration.
Certain foods and supplements aid in enhancing the body's ability to mount a natural immune response. Optimal liver function involves enhancing the liver's ability to detoxify hormones, excess medicines, and toxins through two main phases, called phase I and phase II detoxification. |
Tom Bohager
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| Recommendations include a well-balanced, high-fiber diet; stress management; increased water intake; regular exercise; probiotic supplements to colonize the gastrointestinal tract; and nutritional support to optimize digestion and absorption of nutrients. Enzymes can support digestive health, support the balance of healthy intestinal flora, reduce inflammation, help maintain normal pH levels, and help avoid constipation or diarrhea. |
| Recommendations for lowering triglyceride levels include dietary changes to lower fat intake and regular exercise. Enzymes can be used to improve digestion, particularly the digestion of fats; improve the breakdown of fats in the body; and improve cardiovascular health. |
| Therefore, recommendations to increase longevity include a healthy, well-balanced diet, stress management, rest, regular exercise, support of the digestive and immune systems, and enzyme supplementation for overall improved health. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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| Those dealing with type 1 diabetes treat it with insulin therapy, meal planning (carbohydrates need to be carefully balanced), regular exercise (because activity lowers the amount of sugar in the blood), and careful monitoring of overall health. This last because diabetes alters the body's immune system and decreases the body's ability to fight infection. Foot injuries in particular have to be watched, since diabetes causes damage to the blood vessels and nerves that can decrease a person's ability to sense trauma to or pressure on the foot. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The healthiest people, by far, are those who take supplements, who engage in regular exercise, and who avoid taking prescription drugs.
Why conventional medical researchers remain nutritionally illiterate
Western medicine still doesn't "get" nutrition. They think all health effects are achieved by single, isolated chemical constituents. But nutrition doesn't work that way. In nature, for example, Vitamin C is not a single chemical, but rather a symphony of complementary phytonutrients that work in concert. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 That's why regular exercise can reverse and prevent diabetes and why it can reduce the need for medication—both antidiabetes drugs and insulin—among people who already have diabetes.
The relationship between exercise and blood glucose is clear: muscles need energy to move, and glucose is a major source of fuel that makes movement possible.
Muscles use three different types of fuel for energy: high-energy phosphates, glucose (the storage form of glucose is known as glycogen), and free fatty acids. Depending on the intensity and duration of exercise, your muscles use different fuel mixtures. |
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