How To Lower Cholesterol Without Prescription DrugsWritten by Frank Mangano
Don't accept that prescription just yet. In most cases it's possible to take control of your cholesterol naturally, without use of prescription drugs. First, you need to understand some facts on cholesterol.When word "cholesterol" comes to mind some of us may think of it as deadly. The truth about cholesterol is that it isn't deadly at all, it's a vital substance. Cholesterol is actually a very important part of our bodies because it's used to form cell membranes and is needed for other functions in our bodies. However, it's when there are excessive levels of cholesterol in blood that cholesterol can become dangerous. This is known as hypercholesterolemia or "high cholesterol." There are many risk factors involved in having high cholesterol. These risks shouldn't be taken lightly as high levels of cholesterol greatly increase risk of stroke, atherosclerosis, and coronary heart disease. There are different ways you can develop high cholesterol. Your body, mainly liver, can produce too much cholesterol and a poor diet will almost always do it. You MUST take on permanent, healthy lifestyle changes to take control of your cholesterol. This includes:
| | Fluoridation and its DangersWritten by Alfred Jones
A number of Local Goverment Councils in Australia have been unable to supply free fluoride supplements to public due to an Australia wide shortage, so residents should be heartened by knowledge that they are not dosing their children daily with an established equivocal carcinogen which is as poisonous as lead and only slightly less so than arsenic.The US Food and Drug Administration has never approved fluoride supplements and World Health Organisation list of Essential Medicines is being reviewed in 2005 with sodium fluoride listed for removal. The Australian dental researchers Amfield and Spencer reported no significant difference in decay rates of permanent teeth of children drinking fluoridated compared to unfluoridated water (Arnfreld JM & Spencer AJ (2004) Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, 32 (4) 283). Silico fluorides used as fluoridating agents contain lead and carcinogenic arsenic and studies by Masters and Coplan, (1999) show an association between use of fluorosilicic acid (and its sodium salt) in fluoridated water and an increase uptake of lead into children's blood. In fact Roger D Masters (research professor of Government Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA) reported: The specific chemical compounds most frequently used to fluoridate water in USA, fluorosilicic acid and sodium silicofluoride have never been adequately tested. Epidemiological studies show that, where these silicofluorides are added to public water, children are significantly more likely to absorb lead in their environment from lead paint in old houses, lead levels in water, etc. (Masters etal, Neurotoxicology (200)23: 101 +Int.i. Env Stud. (1999) 56:435).
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