Medicinal Mushrooms and the Immune System !Written by Joe Ward (naturopath / herbalist)
The polysaccharides and other active compounds in certain medicinal mushrooms may help relieve or possibly remove painful symptoms and/or causes of some cancers and many autoimmune disorders. Are Diet Foods Healthy? Let us hear one major answer, after first asking another question.- How many so-called Diet Foods contain 'aspartame'? 4,000 , maybe 6,000, of food and drink items offered thru-out an average large grocery supermarket. Now, let us keep this little article 'dangerously sweet and low to point'. What is aspartame? Some know it by name of Equal, NutraSweet, Spoonfull, or another dozen or so, made up, safe and healthy sounding diet promoting superlatives. But here is what it really is made up of: 3 chemicals, and they are 'aspartic acid', 'phenylalanine', and 'methanol'. Thus, I would most definitely call it a Chemical Poison. Without great technical detail, it is by far most dangerous food additive placed in our grocery / food supply today. Aspartame causes over 70% of adverse reactions to food additives reported to U.S. FDA,- including headaches, siezures, nausea, numbness, depression, fatigue, hearing and vision loss, anxiety, breathing problems, memory loss, joint pain, and believe it or not, weight gain. Ha! But not funny at all. Some chronic illnesses that can be worsened or triggered by eating aspartame include: epilepsy, brain tumors, chronic fatigue syndrome, M.S., lymphoma, birth defects, fibromyalgia, Sjogren's Syndrome, diabetes, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's.
| | Start focusing on what you really want now.Written by Darryn Aldridge
What has happened to that fun, interesting and exciting life we promised ourselves, and should now be living?We live in a world that is brimming with fantastic opportunities, yet why do we as individuals regularly fail to make most of these plentiful gifts that are available to all of us to enjoy and prosper from? We start at an early age, inocently dreaming of things we desire, fun we want to have, dream job, travel to exotic locations..the list goes on. What happens as we get older though, is that collectivly, we start accepting negative beliefs about our dreams and our abilities to obtain them. We begin to believe that those dreams and desires we once held dear to us, are infact impossible dreams that are only available to others who are luckier than us. We now have this massive empty hole in our lives that we start to fill with emotions, such as dread, envy, helplessness and self pity. Where we were once happy and excited about life, we now started to feel depressed and unmotivated. We develop an uncomfortable nagging feeling that "something is missing in our lives" or that "life should be better than this". We start to accept our current position in life as "about as good as I can expect" , we roll over and let life pass us by. We put our lives on auto-pilot and let whatever happens just happen. What we have now created is a situation where our main focus has turned to what we "don't have" and "what we don't want". By foccusing all our attention on these negative thoughts, we have lost sight of fact that there really is no one but ourselves standing in way of creating perfect world for us. Focus enough on what you don't want and that is exactly what you will get. That is a fact. So where to from here? Luckily, transformation from "don't have" to "I have" isn't a huge leap, though it will be truely life changing. We need to remember that as humans we have this amazing ability to decide what is good or what is bad. We control what we focus on, we just have to sit up, take notice, and throw away old negative views that were once bring us down and preventing us from living life way it should be lived. Here are some easy steps to help you get started. 1) Don't View The World As A Bad Place. We are bombarded daily with news of wars, terrorist threats, murders and unspeakable crimes. By focussing on all negative events that are going on around us, we lose sight of all great things that are happening, but not getting into news. Any news, good or bad is only so depending on how YOU interpret it. We can't, and shouldn't, ignore bad things, but we must learn to put them into perspective and decide how we will focus on them. 2)Start Dreaming Again. Grab yourself a pen and paper, find yourself a quiet corner and let your mind go wild. Really think about what you want to have and do, but do not worry yourself about how you are going to get them. Write them all down as soon as they flash into your mind and keep going until you feel you are done. When you have finshed, put them in order of importance to you, and really start to feel them taking shape. Imagine each and every one of these as being real, feel how it would feel to have them happen and feel how great that feeling is. Look at your list regulary and always imagine how great you will feel when you have accomplished goal.
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