Biochemical Balance & Sufficiency

Vitamin D deficiency (and the negative health consequences of such deficiency) has been much in the news lately. Indeed, Vitamin D itself has been the most talked about nutrient of the past year. Increasingly, the scientific/nutritional/medical communities are recognizing the ill effects of deficiency and the therapeutic/healing effects of correcting that deficiency. Since Vitamin D deficiency is common, the standard American diet is low in Vitamin D, and most people avoid the sun, supplementation can be crucial. An upcoming seminar will address these issues and the details are below.

From the announcement:

Dear Colleague:
What public health action could you take today that could possibly stop breast cancer and colon cancer, prevent type 1 diabetes and multiple sclerosis, and reduce the incidence of infectious diseases? What would be the economic impact of this action?

A group of physicians and researchers in the vitamin D field are presenting information at this conference to look at the current research and practice with vitamin D to enable everyone to take action today based on what’s known to solve the deficiency epidemic, and, to start the prevention of many diseases.

Find out whether testing is necessary, why, what to do about the levels and learn more about how vitamin D works for our health.

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Real health and all it entails — including strong immunity, vibrant energy, good sleep, a positive, happy countenance and so much more — begins in your gut.  What you eat affects the health and functioning of your digestive tract. In turn, gut health affects your ability to digest and assimilate what you eat, i.e. the process of transforming food into energy, blood, hormones, tissues and muscles. You literally are what you eat. But for too many people, what you eat is “eating” you, causing all manor of distress and disease. Today, we explain how and why this is as we explore the drama that takes place inside you as you eat! The first step on the road to real health is understanding the critical role digestion plays.

People blessed with robust health typically have good digestion. In fact, it seems they can eat almost anything and still be fairly healthy. Most of the rest of us must eat with care and even then face digestive problems. And as we get older our digestion just gets worse. This was illustrated by a clever and humorous cartoon I saw recently showing the three stages of a man’s life: as a baby and child his biggest need and desire is food; at adolescence and into adulthood this morphs into food and sex; at the end of his life his biggest need is a good bowel movement. Clever and cute, but the latter is sadly all too true (and can often be true at any age).  Read more...

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The war against cancer is now nearly 4 decades old. And for all the billions of dollars spent on research and treatment over that long period one would think that a cancer diagnosis would be less scary today than it was when the “war” began. Unfortunately, that is not the case.

Cancer remains the dreaded “big C.” It is still feared more than any other diagnosis. And the “cure” is still worse than the disease. “Success” is still defined in terms of a 5 year survival rate regardless of whether or not the patient drops dead at five years plus one day AND regardless of quality of life during those five years. In the future the world will look back at this medical war on cancer and shake its collective head in disbelief much as we do today on, oh say, the use of bloodletting in medieval times. The war on cancer might be said to be going through its own medieval period at present.  Read more...

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Want to enjoy summer treats without the guilt?  We’ve found some great ones that are made with REAL FOOD.  Taste tested and enjoyed by the health-conscious (and hungry) team at Campaign for Real Health.

Have you been craving something “bad” this summer?  Ice cream, cookies, yummy treats that you wish could satisfy your sweet tooth but wouldn’t make you compromise your healthy and holistic lifestyle?  Here’s some ideas to curb those cravings without compromising your health and well-being.  There can even be actual nourishing qualities this food provides because of the wholesome “real” ingredients used – with a healthy dose of enjoyment to go along with it!

Of course, what would summer be without ice cream?  We were on a mission to find some healthy and tasty alternatives to the standards that are filled with chemicals and high in sugars and empty calories.  Of course, our first foray into this exploration last summer lead us to the raw, organic goodness of Tomberlies (see the original article at Rheo H. Blair: The Book).  The first ingredient is young thai coconut, which gives it some excellent high-quality fats, nutrition, and anti-microbial and -fungal properties.  The company also asserts that their product is hand-made in their own raw, organic kitchen, which is certainly a plus.  It’s an excellent product, even though the carb and sugar content is a bit higher than we would normally want to go (organic raw agave syrup is the sweetner as the third ingredient, but we can almost forgive the high numbers there with 18 grams of high quality fat and 5 grams of fiber).  It’s a nice occasional treat, but at almost $7 for a small (8 oz.) portion, we wanted to find other options.  Read more...

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In the first of two important updates on the Swine Flu Vaccine being hurried into production, Bill Lindner looks into what the government is doing to protect both itself and the manufacturers in case YOU are injured — or worse — by the vaccine.

At Campaign for Real Health, we believe that real immunity is conferred by a robust and balanced immune system. That is NOT exactly how the pharmaceutical giants and the government authorities see it. In the rush to produce a swine flu vaccine, several disturbing issues are coming to the fore. While we do not necessarily agree 100 percent with Bill Lindner’s views of the U.S. Government or his conclusions, we feel that the issues are serious enough and his documentation is thorough enough that what he has written deserves to be read, considered and discussed:

A new document, signed by Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, reportedly immunizes Swine Flu vaccine manufacturers from lawsuits (many sources are reporting this) that result from any new swine flu vaccine — just in time for protecting Pharmaceutical companies, including one that patented a Swine Flu vaccine a year ago, rushing to make billions of dollars in profits from a suspiciously questionable Swine Flu Pandemic manufactured by the World Health Organization (WHO) when the Swine Flu appeared during President Obama’s visit to Mexico this past April.  Read more...

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So says WFM boss John Mackey. “Basically, we used to think it was enough just to sell healthy food, but we know it is not enough. We sell all kinds of candy. We sell a bunch of junk.” But change is coming.

We spend a lot of both time and money at Whole Foods and we readily concur with John Mackey that WFM does, indeed, sell a lot of junk. That’s not why we go. They have a plethora of good with the bad and this is what keeps us going back. But we have remarked on several occasions how it is necessary to shop carefully at WFM and NOT assume that just because they carry it, it must be any combination of, healthy, organic, whole, or  nutrient dense. That’s the danger. Especially given the atmosphere which is typically woodsy and wholesome feeling. You walk in and immediately feel as though you are nutritionally “safe” as it were. Surely such a place as this, you want to think, wouldn’t sell anything that isn’t safe or good for me. Think again. WFM’s boss called a spade a spade – “junk” – and junk does not belong in the human body.  Read more...

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