Showing posts with label Health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Health. Show all posts

Monday

The Health Supplement Timeline

1970’s - Multivitamins

1980’s - Herbs

1990’s - Antioxidants

2000’s - Immune System Support

Modern Day Life can be Hazardous to our Health

Toxins - Chemicals - Pollution -
Eating Disorders - Stress - New & Mutated microbes


FACT: There are more than 75,000 synthetic chemicals in our environment today
that were not present before 1940.
(U.S. Environment Protection Agency)

FACT: Food is often harvested while still green, leaving out precious nutrients
normally developed in the ripening process.
(Food Composition and Nutrition Tables Edition – CRC Press)

FACT: Vegetable contains herbicides and pesticide.
Our meat, poultry and dairy products are treated with antibiotics,
and growth hormone. Food is highly processed with artificial
colouring, flavouring and preservative. Our air and water are
polluted.


No one is immune to the health threats of 21st century life.

TODAY’S LEADING CAUSES OF DEATH

1. CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES
Heart Disease – Number 1 killer in USA
Nearly 1 Million Deaths Annually (One death in every 33 seconds)
Affects 80 Million people in USA.
American Heart Association (Washington Post – 1st January 2002)

2. CANCER
About 1.3 Million NEW cases diagnosed each year
547,500 people die from cancer each year (1,500 a day)
Amercian Cancer Society

3. MEDICAL ERRORS
Third leading cause of death in USA with 250,000 deaths per year
Drug-prescription, diagnostic and surgical errors, drug reaction
and overdoses
Dr. Barbara Starfield (Journal of American Medical Journal Association)

4. PHARMACEUTICAL DRUGS
The known dangerous side-effects of pharmaceutical drugs have become
the fourth cause of death after heart-attack, cancer and strokes.
Journal of American Medical Association - 15 April, 1998

Friday

MAJOR CAUSE OF SERIOUS CHRONIC DISEASES

1 IN 5 SUFFERS FROM AN AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE

Autoimmune is a condition where your immune system attacks your own body cells. There are over 80 autoimmune diseases:
Lupus
Insulin dependent Diabetes Mellitus
Multiple Sclerosis
Crohn’s Disease
Scleroderma
Rheumatiod Arthritis
Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis
Psoriasis
Allergic Asthma
Chornic Fatigue Syndrome
Fibromyalgia etc.

About 75% on average autoimmune diseases occurs in women