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Before applying preparations to your skin how seriously do you consider what harmful chemicals and additives they may contain? We try to avoid eating those foods which are known to be more likely to cause illness and yet we still readily massage moisturizers and other skin preparations into our face and body not realizing the extent to which they are absorbed through our pores.
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Arthritis and Longevity Living
Aging is not a natural process. Contrary to popular belief, aging is not a consequence of time. Aging is a disease, and therefore should be treated as one.
As you add on more years to your life, the symptoms of the disease of aging become more acute, manifested in ailments and problems commonly attributable to aging. One of them is arthritis.
Arthritis is common among the elderly; if you live long enough, you can expect some stiffness in your joints. Wear and tear of your joints is normal. Osteoarthritis may develop in the joints that you work hardest, such as your spine, knees, hips and hands, resulting in inflammation.
In addition to usage and abusage, inflammation in your joints may be aggravated by toxins from the environment, such as pesticides, and from your foods that may contain known cancer-causing agents. The chemicals in the form of food flavorings, coloring, and enhancers may contribute to the elevated toxicity level in your body.
In addition, highly refined and processed foods immobilize your immune system, while tap water loaded with toxic industrial chemicals stress your body cells to the extreme. Believe it or not, you may be ingesting more than one hundred chemicals in your body every day. To make matters worse, DHEA � your body's hormone machine � gradually grinds down, as you grow older.
All these accumulative effects of the symptoms of the disease of aging may ultimately lead to the onslaught of arthritis, immobilizing your longevity living. The first step to control your arthritis begins with your body detoxification. Remove all chemicals from your body. Detoxify your body through fasting and EDTA chelation therapy to remove toxins accumulated over the years.
Fasting is one of the simplest and most effective ways of removing toxins, and may relieve some of the symptoms of arthritis. But fasting alone may not be a long-term solution.
EDTA chelation therapy employs intravenous drips of certain man-made amino acid to bind heavy metals and take them safely out of your body. EDTA chelation therapy is instrumental in removing calcium from your soft tissues, such as arteries, joints, and muscles, but not the calcium in your bones.
You should detoxify your body of toxins on a regular basis. Use herbs � such as dandelion, licorice root, milk thistle, and black walnut hull � and foods � such as burdock and beets � to facilitate the detoxification process.
After your body has been detoxified, a proper diet should help the rejuvenation process. A vegetarian diet or a balanced acid and alkaline diet may help you control some of your arthritis symptoms if you have already developed them. To find out your toxicity level or the pH level, use test strips (obtainable in most drug stores) to determine your body's acid-alkaline level. Avoid all processed foods in the supermarket. Avoid all non-foods, such as sugar, artificial sweeteners, food dyes and colorings, additives.
Reduce all dairy products; especially you may not have adequate lactose enzymes to digest milk proteins, leading to allergy reactions which may aggravate your arthritic symptoms.
Cut down, if not eliminate, meat from your diet: the very process of converting animal proteins into energy is itself a toxic metabolism process, producing an acid that promotes inflammation. Animal fats harbor toxic chemicals in your bones and joints.
Take anti-viral and anti-bacterial supplements, such as Echinacea. Also, take a dose of 25-50 milligrams of DHEA.
Eat healing foods, such as figs, berries (blackberries, blueberries, cranberries, strawberries, and cherries) fresh greens (celery, cucumber, kale, parsley), whole grains, oats, brown rice, seeds and nuts, and beans and sprouts. Sprinkle flaxseed in your soup, salad, or just about anything you eat. Eat at least 30 grams of flaxseed a day.
Include cold water fish in your diet to get your omega-3 fatty acids to fight inflammation in your arthritis.
Use olive or flaxseed oil in your cooking. You already have too much bad oil in fast food, restaurant food. Don't use safflower and sunflower oils, and salad oils.
Drink green chlorophyll juices: barley or wheat grass juices. Drink one glass each day for one week, and then gradually increase to five or six glasses a day. Other juices include aloe vera with cabbage, and raw potato juice, which is especially good for arthritis.
Use common herbs to treat arthritis: Aloe vera (already used medicinally for thousands of years); avocado/soybean oil (for relieving osteoarthritis pain); cayenne or red pepper (blocking osteoarthritis pain of the knee); ginger (a potent anti-inflammatory agent); glucosamine (recommended by most doctors); and green tea (containing anti-inflammation polyphenols).
Drink shitake mushroom (not just any type of mushroom) soup once a week: � cup of shitake mushroom, di-stemmed and sliced; lb. of tofu (firm);1 kelp leaf;1 Tbs. of barley miso;4 green onions, sliced;2 cups of vegetable stock
Boil all ingredients, except miso and green onions, and simmer before adding the rest of the ingredients.
To relieve pain from osteoarthritis, apply cold compresses, an ice bag, or ice cubes in a plastic bag wrapped in a towel will help numb your pain. Or, alternatively, use heat to relieve both pain and stiffness of your joints. Sitting in a warm bath water for 10 minutes will do just that.
The long-term effect of arthritis is not just the pain inflicted but the immobility, which may lead to other far-reaching effects as you continue to age. Mobility is the closest thing to an anti-aging pill.
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Stephen Lau is a writer and researcher, writing synopses of research of doctors and scientists. He has created websites such as �Longevity for You� on health and �Golfing Success Info� on the art of playing golf. His publications include "NO MIRACLE CURES - Only Wholesome Self-Healing," "How To Teach Children To Read" and "Blueprint For Success In Affiliate Business."
http://www.longevityforyou.com
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Stop, Drop & Roll! How Exercise On a Foam Roller Relieves Tight Muscles
My idea of a lucky person is someone, who, after half a lifetime of being physically active, can spring out of bed without a bit of muscular soreness; no moaning, creaking or limping. It is a truly lucky athlete that can work their muscle vigorously for years and not feel the effects of aging, as in inflexibility and tightness. Most of the rest of us get to a point where we just cannot keep up the pace. We cannot keep running the miles we are used to running without a price to pay when the morning alarm goes off. Some of this sensation is typical muscle soreness, just the usual buildup of lactic acid that accumulates a byproduct of exercise. Every jock recognizes the familiar feeling when you hustle up a flight of stairs and you feel that brief burn in your thighs that could kindle a campfire. But I am talking about a different kind of ache; something beyond the brief aching of a little extra activity. If sprinting up a flight of stairs was the only time I ached, I'd be a happy camper.I've even been known to keep on working out, even through this quad burn. But I am talking about a different, more pervasive kind of tightness. The inflexibility to which I refer still lingers at noon. It is felt sometimes when you pivot to fasten your seatbelt or reach down to tie your sneakers. In my case, I tolerated this limitation in my bodily movement for about six months, trying all types of stretching, Pilates and tons of yoga classes. Still, I was limited. I felt flexible, yet tight. I started to do some research on the Internet by Googling a few words that described my symptoms. I discovered a new word. The culprit in my bodily rigidity was something called FASCIA. Fascia is a type of connective tissue that surrounds and usually protects the muscles; bones, joints and even the organs, helping us maintain our upright posture. All people have fascia. Think of it like a wetsuit that surrounds our inner body, just below the surface of the skin. Some people have thicker "wetsuits " than others. The more physically active you are, the thicker your facial "wetsuit" will be. This is a response that your body makes to help support itself during more activity Those lucky jocks that I enviously spoke of earlier feel minimal tightness because their fascia deposits are not thick or layered. Some people just have a tendency to develop more fascia than others. Many experts believe that this heavier layering of fascia is related to dehydration, not the type of" I'm thirsty" dehydration, but a lack of fluid and therefore fluidity in the connective tissues that no amount of daily water drinking can quench. In other words, those lucky, pain-free jocks have more hydration in their connective tissue.
Us unlucky "stiffs" have the opposite tendency. Our body's inclination is to manufacture more fascia because of less hydration in the connective tissues, especially in the areas of powerful workhorse muscle groups, like the lower back and the thighs and buttocks. Also consider that as we age, bodies naturally lose their capacity to maintain hydration. Think of how many middle-aged men that you hear of who have torn their Achilles tendon while jumping for a lay-up in basketball. This type of injury rarely happens in kids and is due in a big way to lack of fluidity in the connective tissue.
So this is where the morning stiffness begins. If you keep exercising the way I did, this facial tightness can become very limiting to your fitness regime. This is where I discovered the wisdom in the phrase "Stop, Drop & Roll", but not just when you are on fire! I got myself a foam roller based on the fitness advice of New York City expert, Susan Hitzmann, owner of Longevity Fitness, Inc in New Yourk City and creator of the M.E.L.T. Method. M.E.L.T. is an acronym for Myofascial Energetic Length Technique. Some experts also refer to this foam roller technique as Myofascial Release. She explained to me that deep compression of these areas of fascial tightness could actually rehydrate these stiff body parts and give an immediate sensation of relief to my aching yet athletic body. Not only was Ms. Hitzmann right about the foam roller. She also lives up to her promise of immediate relief from stiff muscles. She explains that the foam roller rehydrate connective tissues by first compressing the area, which decompresses the tissue, allowing hydration of that area to occur. It is similar to trigger point therapy, only this technique is superior. This is only my opinion but having tried both MFR and trigger point therapy, I believe that the foam roller can and does cover more anatomical territory, so the release is more profound. For more information of foam rolling to relieve your aches and pains, check out Sue Hitzmann at www.bodylanguagenyc.com
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Penny Love Hoff, 20 year fitness professional . is the author of the revolutionary CD workout program"Does My Marriage Make Me Look Fat?", an eight week fitness program for couples to radically change your body and reawaken your relationship.You can find her at
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