Substance Abuse Prevention: Saving Lives in Your CommunityWritten by Carmellita M. Brown
Want to know what you can do about drug abuse or drug related crimes in your community? The answer may be here on internet.Over past 15 years, we have watched illicit drug use and abuse destroy communities all over world. We have watch parents sit by helplessly as they lose their children to drugs. We have watched lives of youth be destroyed because of their parents’ addiction to drugs. So how can we take a stand against such ills in our community? A Community-based program for substance abuse prevention is answer. In order to rid communities of drug abuse and crimes related to drugs, we must put drug dealers out of business. Since drug trafficking and sale of drugs are so profitable, it has become big business. The only way to put any business out of business is to decrease demand for product or service. To accomplish this, each community must provide preventive interventions in their small part of world. Collectively, we can have a long-term impact on ridding world of illicit drug use and drug abuse. Creating a substance abuse prevention program will change lives of residents in your community. Drugs and crimes related to drugs are in every community. It does not matter if it is a wealthy community or poorest of poor. This is why it is so important that every community creates a program for substance abuse prevention. Accordingly, a powerful program for substance abuse prevention incorporates drug education with community mobilization, youth development, and community action. Yes, community must get involved.*
| | Overcoming Obesity -- Balanced Body ChemistryWritten by Pauline Robinson
Dr. Paul C. Eck and Dr. Larry Wilson suggested idea that obesity is related to an energy deficit brought about by imbalanced body chemistry. This energy deficit is believed to impair fat metabolism, lead to excess water retention or fat deposition, and cause cravings for foods that perpetuate obesity problem. They feel that to treat obesity effectively, rate at which one oxidizes or burns food must be carefully considered. How efficiently one burns food depends largely on optimal thyroid and adrenal gland activity. The importance of specific nutrients, based on oxidation types, cannot be overemphasized. Just how does a person find out what rate that they oxidize foods is? Determination of a persons oxidative rate is first step in overcoming obesity. Metabolic bio typing helps balance body chemistry. It is a technique that determines where imbalances are and sets out simple steps to correct them. By balancing a persons body chemistry with nutrition and proper vitamin/mineral combinations metabolism of fat is improved,water retention is decreased, and food cravings stop. For example: It has been determined that slow oxidizers are prone to chronically low blood sugar levels. Low levels of glucocorticoid hormones due to low adrenal gland activity results in inadequate conversion of glycogen to glucose. The resulting low blood sugar causes cravings for sweets. By having a HealthSmart Nutrition's Metabolic Bio Typing evaluation done these areas can be addressed. When a person's weaknesses have been determined, health of adrenal gland can be addressed with proper supplementation since one of signs of a weak adrenal function are overeating and weight gain. HealthSmart Nutrition (www.air-water-nutrition-healthsmart.com) offers a Metabolic Bio Typing evaluation that also includes a hair analysis. Copper toxicity, by causing a zinc deficiency, commonly results in a loss of normal appetite. Copper toxic individuals often eat out
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