Are Showers Harmful to Your Health?

Written by Ed Bishop


The last thing you would think about when you are taking a nice, refreshing shower is, "Am I jeopardizing my health"?

Chlorine is used by many municipalities to disinfect their water supply.

Unfortunalely, according to many health experts, chlorine has been linked to breast, bladder and colon cancer.

When I first read about this, my first thought was, "I don't drinkrepparttar water inrepparttar 114088 shower, so what is there to worry about"?

What I didin't know was, our skin can absorb 7 - 10 times more chlorine than from drinking water that contains chlorine.

When showering, chlorine can vaporize and form chloroform gas, which is inhaled, affecting those with respiratory problems such as asthma and bronchitus.

Revealed! The Secrets of Mangosteen.

Written by Barry Dench


Do you spend at least some time in your day thinking about your health or that of a loved one? Do you also findrepparttar subject is frustrating, mainly because there is a lot of confusing and sometimes contradictory information out there?

You are not alone!

My wife and I have been involved with complimentary health care for 10 years and we are sometimes confused too! So are many of our friends and clients.

So, I want to share with you, a very pleasant surprise I received a few months ago. I was chatting to an acquaintance who is a homeopathic doctor andrepparttar 114087 subject got on to food supplements. I believe strongly that "you are what you eat" and Hippocrates centuries ago said "Let food be your medicine.."

My friend had been reading some laboratory research onrepparttar 114088 powerful benefits of a fruit calledrepparttar 114089 Mangosteen. (No, I had not heard of it either!) Calledrepparttar 114090 "Queen of Fruits" where it originally grew in Southeast Asia, it is prized and valued above all others.

Mangosteen juice is rich inrepparttar 114091 super anti-oxidant called 'xanthones'. This juice has beenrepparttar 114092 subject of extensive scientific research for over 30 years and inrepparttar 114093 last 15 years there have been more than 50 scientific journal articles published onrepparttar 114094 subject. Why?

Because xanthones have been shown to kill or stoprepparttar 114095 spreading of viruses fungi, bacteria, and free radicals which are strongly associated with cancer. Another area of research has shown how xanthones inhibitrepparttar 114096 oxidation of low density lipoprotein (LDL) one ofrepparttar 114097 causes of atherosclerosis (furring up ofrepparttar 114098 arteries) and heart attacks.

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