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Can Your Cookware Make You Healthier?

Written by Dr. Houston Vetter - DocResults: Holistic Health Editor on April 18, · Leave a Comment

You may be like me and never considered can your cookware make you healthier but then again I could be totally you may have already considered it just like Dr. Isaac Eliaz did over at the Huffington Post.

Can Your Cookware Make You Healthier?

As an integrative physician, some of the most important recommendations I make for my patients include advice on diet and healthy eating habits. But what about healthy cooking? Cooking techniques that can increase nutrient availability are certainly an important part of a health-promoting diet. However, many people don’t consider the fact that some cooking methods can also increase the presence of toxins in their meal.

A significant number of consumer reports and scientific studies have revealed the presence of harmful, carcinogenic chemicals and heavy metals in aluminum and other nonstick cookware products. Peer-reviewed research suggests that certain nonstick chemicals can contribute to cancer, birth defects, flulike symptoms, elevated cholesterol, abnormal thyroid hormone levels, liver inflammation, weakened immunity, and other health problems. These chemicals also pollute the environment, including public drinking water, and pose numerous health hazards during the manufacturing process. Such staggering reports are encouraging many to look twice at the cookware they use.

Safe Cookware Alternatives
So what can you do to protect your body potential exposure to these harmful and elusive toxins? The first step is to replace your aluminum or other nonstick cookware. Here are some recommended alternatives:

Cast Iron: Cast-iron cookware is a safe alternative that is well known for its durability and even heat distribution. Cooking with cast iron also saves energy, as it retains heat even after the heating element is turned off.

Ceramic: Ceramic or porcelain coated cookware also offers even heat distribution, and is nonreactive, meaning it won’t release compounds into food.

Glass: Glass cookware is the most inert, meaning it will not leach chemicals, metals, or other harmful ingredients into your food. Tempered glass cookware can be used at high temperatures for baking and stove-top cooking.

Clay: Unglazed clay cookware was once a kitchen staple throughout much of history, and today serves as a more natural cooking alternative. Clay is inert and does not leach into food, it holds heat and moisture, and it helps retain nutrient content. However, clay cookware is less durable and needs extra care to protect the life span of the product.

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It makes good common sense that whatever you cook with will somehow become a part of what gets absorbed in the food itself. So becoming aware of what you are cooking with can contribute to your health or lack thereof.

So the answer to can your cookware make you healthier is a valuable thing to be aware of.

Is your cookware healthy or could it be healthier?

Honey The Bees Knees

Written by Robert Dickens on April 7, · Leave a Comment

If food manufacturers could find out how the bees do it they could manufacture food that wouldn’t spoil and as my grandma would say, “That would make honey the bees knees.” Here is an article from one of our contributing authors Robert Dickens.

Honey Truly Is Your Honey

We have been enjoying honey ever since we began walking upright and likely before. The first time we find mention of it in history is from Sumerian literature. 2100 B.C.

The only food that will not spoil, a jar was found in an Egyptian tomb, King Tut, and it was still as the bees made it. Honey will crystallize but a little warmth and it comes right back to normal.

There are several different types depending on the pollen collected by the bees. I believe I see clover and orange the most.

Here in my area we have a large fruit industry and bees play an important role. I find it fresh from the bee keeper. There are also different grades. Get the best. Look for the A rating in your market and 100% pure.

We also have the wax. Of course mainly used by the bees we use it in many ways. Besides candles you will find bees wax in skin care products, petroleum jelly, hair products and the good old mustache wax. The wax is non-allergenic and has a mild anti-inflammatory and antioxidant quality. Used as a coating on cheese and other food for protection during ageing. If you see E901 as an ingredient it contains bees-wax.

Sweeter than sugar it takes less to sweeten. Exchange it for sugar is some of your favorite recipes, especially when baking, and see what you think. Generally 1 cup honey will replace 1 1/4 cups of sugar. Also containing water you may want to adjust the liquid. Sugar also converts to fat easier. Sugar is a little lower in calories but because you use less this equalizes out.

Honey has also been used as an anti-bacterial ointment through out history. Placed over wounds and burns to stop infection and promote healing. There have been several clinical studies done and it has been determined honey works better than our modern creams and ointments. Amazing. (100% pure)

The properties of a bee sting have also been shown to help with pain.

A serious wound should be looked at by your doctor. It is not recommended to give to babies under one year of age.

Bees are in trouble today. The planet would be a sad place without them. There are already places where the bees have disappeared because of pesticides and pollution. We would lose our fruit and vegetables. How else would the plants be pollinated? Be Nice to the bees!

To our health,

Robert Dickens
www.forgetthepain.net

Doughnuts and Depression

Written by Dr. Houston Vetter - DocResults: Holistic Health Editor on April 5, · Leave a Comment

You gotta watch out for those dangerous doughnuts. You may not be aware that doughnuts and depression can go hand in hand. Actually, sweets and fast food have strong ties to the state of depression. In fact Jennifer Welsh a staff writer over at livescience.com had this to say…

Doughnuts and Depression

Diet and mental state seem to be tightly entwined, with new research showing an increased risk of depression in junk-food eaters.

Consumers of fast food and sweets, compared with those who eat little or none, were 51 percent more likely to develop depression, the new study showed. The researchers saw that as depression levels increased, so did the amount of junk food eaten.

Study researcher Almudena Sánchez-Villegas, of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in Spain, said in a statement that “although more studies are necessary, the intake of this type of food should be controlled because of its implications on both health (obesity, cardiovascular diseases) and mental well-being.”

Sánchez-Villegas and colleagues found similar results in a past study, showing that people who ate the most trans fats had a 48 percent higher risk of depression than those who didn’t eat trans fats. Another study, by a different group of researchers, found a 42 percent increase in risk of depression with a fast-food diet. That study was published in Jan 26, 2011 in the journal PLoS ONE.

Dangerous doughnuts

The researchers can’t say the depression causes the high levels of junk food eating or if the fatty diet and other factors lead to depression. All they can say is the two usually come hand in hand.

To read the full article go here.

I totally understand where Jennifer is coming from. However she is only reporting on the different studies in her article and she comes to conclusions that give no one a useful way out of the cycle that causes the doughnuts and depression dance. The solutions like eat more fruit, don’t smoke and exercise are not new and most people trapped in the doughnuts and depression dance have heard all that and they still have not been able to get off the dance floor of disaster.

From and quantum or energy point of view and even a psychological view, the focus on food is a less than useful place to put your attention. It’s like betting on a horse race after the horses are out of the gate and halfway around the track. You get put the horses back in the starting gates after the race has already started.

Prom a psychological view it is all about how you think, not what you eat because what your think will determine what you eat. From the psychological point of view the trick is to change your thinking and that can be done pretty effectively with hypnosis with a good hypnotist.

From a quantum or energy view it is about simply removing the blocks, resistance and constrictions in the flow of energy.

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Canned Soup Interferes With Reproductive Development

Written by Dr. Houston Vetter - DocResults: Holistic Health Editor on December 7, · Leave a Comment

It is amazing what happens when your immune system is compromised from not getting the required nutrition to the cells. Headlines like canned soup interferes with reproductive development begin to show up and we start to go down rabbit holes attempting to correct the forest and miss the trees.

Here is part of an article from the Ottawa Citizen that shows how chasing rabbits can get you worried and looking in the wrong direction.

WASHINGTON – People who ate canned soup for five days straight saw their urinary levels of the chemical bisphenol A spike 1,200 per cent compared to those who ate fresh soup, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.

The randomized study, described as “one of the first to quantify BPA levels in humans after ingestion of canned foods,” was done by Harvard University researchers and appears in the Journal of the American Medical Association’s November 23 issue.

”We’ve known for a while that drinking beverages that have been stored in certain hard plastics can increase the amount of BPA in your body,” said lead author Jenny Carwile, a doctoral student in the Department of Epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health.

”This study suggests that canned foods may be an even greater concern, especially given their wide use.”

The chemical BPA is an endocrine disruptor that has been shown to interfere with reproductive development in animal studies at levels of 50 micrograms per kilogram of body weight and higher, though it remains uncertain if the same effects cross over to humans, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

The writer does write this study SUGGESTS and that it remains uncertain as to the effects on humans, but the whole article reads as if we need to do something about it now instead of studying further.

However, previous studies have linked BPA at lower levels than those found in the Harvard study to cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity in humans, Carwile told AFP in an email.

BPA is found in the lining of canned foods, cash register receipts, dental fillings, some plastics and polycarbonate bottles marked with the number 7.

France’s Agency for Food Health Safety (Anses) in September called for tougher preventive measures, warning that even “low doses” of the chemical had had a “confirmed” effect on lab animals and a “suspected” effect on humans.

Preventing exposure to BPA among infants, pregnant or nursing women was a “priority goal,” Anses said

I am sure canned soup interferes with reproductive development especially if the immune system is weak already. Want a strong immune system? What would it be like if you could get all the nutrition your cells needed to your cells in less than 15 minutes? This may be your answer.

Growing Your Own Food Without A Garden

Written by Dr. Houston Vetter - DocResults: Holistic Health Editor on October 19, · Leave a Comment

If you have ever wanted to grown your own food but you where stopped because everyone knows you can’t be growing your own food without a garden you want to read this article by Rachel Cernansky.

She says in the Veritas Magazine

Growing your own food is exciting, not only because you get to see things grow from nothing into ready-to-eat fruits and veggies, but you also don’t have to worry about the pesticides they might contain, and you definitely cut down on the miles they—and you—have to travel.

As it turns out, with pretty minimal effort, anyone can be a gardener. My boyfriend and I are essentially first-timers this season and so far have the beginnings of strawberries peeking out, tomatoes are on their way, the basil’s about ready for a big batch of pesto, and once the last frost hits, the peppers, kale, spinach, chard, and mesclun will be on their way, too. All on a tiiiny little terrace (with the help of a little DIY carpentry).

If you’re up to the challenge—and it really isn’t much of one—growing your own food can be so rewarding. And so much cheaper! Just be sure to choose the right planter or container, learn how to maintain it properly, and go find yourself some seeds! (Or starter plants.) Like this idea? Be sure to check out these 6 Crazy Concepts for Micro Gardens That Actually Work to get inspiration for designing your own garden in a small space. While you’re at it, check in with our Organic Gardening feature for tons more info on making your garden grow.

She goes on to list 66 foods you can grow without a garden.

To read the full article click here.

I didn’t realize that growing your own food without a garden was even possible and now I know different. Where you aware that you can grow your own food indoors and that you don’t need a garden?

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Hope For The Raw Milk Industry

Written by Dr. Houston Vetter - DocResults: Holistic Health Editor on September 29, · Leave a Comment

With all the problems associated with pasteurized milk many people are seeking alternatives and yet the alternative of raw milk is not always as nice as it seems. Originally the government had a reason for pasteurizing raw milk. However in doing so most of the nutritional value of the milk declined substantially. Because of such wide possibilities of problems with raw milk it would be useful to have some sort of standard for which to determine if the raw milk you are getting avoids the problems and encourages the solutions. Thus the idea of a Raw Milk Institute, not government regulations raw milk farmers focused on producing the best and safest product they can.

As FoodSatfeyNews.com reports

The much-anticipated Raw Milk Institute has gone live.

The brainchild of Mark McAfee, co-owner of Organic Pastures near Fresno, CA, the institute introduced its website — www.rawmilkinstitute.org — on Tuesday.

Simply put, the goal of the institute is to use science-based food-safety principles to shore up a strong foundation for the growing raw-milk movement.

Raw milk is milk that hasn’t been pasteurized to kill bacteria, some of which can make people sick or even kill them. These harmful organisms can be in milk from healthy animals as the result of contamination from fecal matter or unclean milking equipment.

“Raw milk isn’t going to go away even though the federal government would like it to,” said McAfee, who owns the largest raw-milk dairy in the nation.

He knows the strength of the raw-milk movement first hand. Demand for his dairy’s raw milk is so strong that he hasn’t been able to make any raw-milk butter or cheese — products that his customers often request. He thought he’d solve that problem by bringing 80 new cows into his herd, boosting the total number to 420, but demand keeps rising, so much so that he still doesn’t have enough milk to make butter or cheese.

For those wanting to consume natural food raw milk is possible one of the best forms of natural food. Even though the CDC seems to be against the consumption of raw milk more and more people are choosing to go natural in their food choices.

As the article goes on to say…

A win-win

McAfee said the institute will benefit raw-milk producers and consumers alike, in large part through education. Farmers who become certified through the institute will be able to use the institute’s label on their milk. And as time goes by, he hopes consumers will come to know that the label signifies that food-safety practices are being followed and will seek out raw milk bearing the label.

As it is now, said McAfee, raw-milk consumers don’t really have a good way to judge a farmer’s practices.

“If they go to a farm and see some pretty roses planted near the house and a nice barn with a fresh coat of paint, they assume things are being done right,” he said. “Most consumers don’t have a clue about food-safety practices. We want them to be able to see their farmers from an expert’s perspective. They’ll be able to see the farmer’s score sheet (for cleanliness of the milk) and the farm’s food-safety plan. This will give them a high level of confidence about the raw milk they’re buying.”

From a raw-milk farmer’s perspective this is also a good step forward, said McAffee, pointing out that it allows the farmer to display his or her hard work and food-safety plan. “The world will see that and recognize the farmer’s hard work in producing safe raw milk,” he said.

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What are your thoughts on raw milk and would you drink it if you knew it would improve your health?

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If Eggs Are Healthy Enough For Dr. Mercola Then…

Written by Dr. Houston Vetter - DocResults: Holistic Health Editor on September 20, · 1 Comment

Eggs are healthy. Most people whoa re interested in holistic health and natural health have come to the conclusion that Dr. Mercola has their best interest at heart.

I agree with Dr. Mercola and what Vital Frams have to say in regards to the value of eggs as a good nutritional food and pasture-raised eggs are in the super-food category because eggs are healthy.

Vital Farms reports:

Dr. Joseph Mercola, founder of Mercola.com, an extremely popular website for natural health news, recently endorsed pasture-raised, organic eggs as full of health benefits. As the nation’s leading producer, we are really pleased to see the natural health community acknowledge the many benefits of our favorite superfood!

The idea that eggs, as a source of saturated fats, are unhealthy and promote heart disease is a complete myth…On the contrary, the evidence clearly shows that eggs are one of the most healthful foods you can eat, and can actually help prevent disease, including heart disease.”

“Although egg yolks are relatively high in cholesterol, numerous studies have confirmed that eggs have virtually nothing to do with raising your cholesterol. For instance, research published in the International Journal of Cardiology showed that, in healthy adults, eating eggs every day did not produce a negative effect on endothelial function (an aggregate measure of cardiac risk); nor did it increase cholesterol levels.”

“In a recent study, researchers determined that the yolks from conventional chickens contain Tryptophan and Tyrosine, two amino acids with potent antioxidant properties, which is important for the prevention of cardiovascular disease and cancer. Additionally, as a side note, the amino acid tryptophan is also an important precursor to the brain chemical serotonin, which helps regulate your mood, and tyrosine synthesizes two key neurotransmitters, dopamine and norepinephrine, which promote alertness and mental activity. I mention this to remind you that the potential health benefits of eggs certainly go far beyond heart health…”

Vital Farms

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So if you eat eggs you can continue to enjoy the taste because eggs are healthy and you can enjoy them all you want. I think I’ll go fix my self an egg sandwich.

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Holistic Nutrition Knows How to Lose Weight. Really?

Written by Dr. Houston Vetter - DocResults: Holistic Health Editor on August 15, · Leave a Comment

Holistic Nutrition Knows How to Lose Weight. Really? Doing so using the concept of being holistic about it is a fantastic way not to through the baby out with the bath water. And when applied to nutrition it can be a very natural and healthy way to get rid of those unwanted pounds.

Here is what Helticstar had to say over at Merchant Circle

People who are unhappy with their weight turn to all sorts of different quick remedies that work for about six weeks and the weight starts reappearing. Losing weight naturally may take a little longer, but the benefits are well worth that wait. Using a great change in eating habits, a person can lose weight and keep the weight off.

It’s holistic weight loss, not starvation. The eating habits of someone using holistic means to lose weight should eat fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains and unprocessed food.

Do a little research. Go online or into the library and look up which foods naturally aid metabolism. Finding a list of “good” foods and “bad” foods is not difficult.

Prepare meals differently. Eating whole foods, whole grains, fruits and vegetables makes the preparation of meals so much quicker and a lot easier. The less time it takes to make a meal while standing in the kitchen looking at that cheesecake the better.

Not everyone is ready for P90X or Billy Blanks’ Boot camp on the first day of dieting. Looking for and finding the exercise that is comfortable and at a pace for individuality is much better than throwing the throttle back and exercising at warp speed no matter who the person might be. Exercising is an important aspect of weight loss.

Cleanse away. The body that isn’t used to great eating habits might take some time to adjust. It is good to consider a whole body cleansing for the exercise and holistic nutrition to have a greater effect.

A holistic nutritionist can help a person decide whether or not taking on this type of diet is ideal or not. It is best to find out if it’s a good fit before buying all those whole grains and unprocessed foods. Water is a great stimulation for losing weight. It helps the body in so many ways as to be beneficial in everything and not just losing weight.

experts.merchantcircle.com/articles/How-to-Lose…/1022195

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Holistic Nutrition knows how to lose weight because it is part of your natural body make up to be healthy flexible and at the perfect weight for you.

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