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Health and Wellness
Health and wellness refers to the functional quality of a person's body and mind, to be free of physicial and mental illnesses, disabilitites, and pain.

Six Areas: Physical and Financial, Emotional and Intellectual, Spiritual and Environmental.
 * 1) This website has much on the physical aspect of health.
 * 2) For financial read Suzie Orman or Rich Dad, Poor Dad type of books.
 * 3) Emotional is being expanded on this site.
 * 4) Toxic Environments relationships and buildings.
 * 5) Being Happy
 * 6) More topic will be developed.
 * 7) Intellectual: find a hobby or some other activity you like. Hobbies make your brain think.
 * 8) Learn something new. Attend a conference on one of your interest.
 * 9) Spiritual: Find the universe. Higher power.  Etc.  Go to your religious services regularly.  Go to spiritual retreats.  Take up Tai Chi or Karate.
 * 10) Environmental: Toxic Environments A clean, well ordered environment uplifts your demeanor and vise versa.

Healthy implies a quality of life. In examing the major causes of death, not dying is far from being healthy.

Natural Healing refers to non-invasive, non-pharmaceuticals techniques that brings health. Given the correct building blocks, the body heals itself.

Death rate
Age range: followed by main causes.


 * Five basic areas: accidents, heart disease, repiratory disease, cancers, suicide..
 * Child and infant mortality: Worldwide, dehydration and diarrhea are the most common cause. The education level for women directly correlates.  Less education: higher infant mortality.  Higher education: lower infant mortality.  Employment opportunities also is a large factor.  Women with money have more autonomy over their environment.  Prenatal care is the third factor.


 * Under 35 years old: accidents, not illnesses. Followed by suicide. Mental health and accidents are main concern for this age group.


 * From age 35 to 50: cardio-vascular disease.


 * Fifties and above: cancers, bronchitis, emphysema, and asthma

Don't fear the death rates but rather the disability rates.

CDC statistics
Chronic Diseases are the Leading Causes of Death and Disability in the U.S.
 * 70% of deaths in America are from chronic diseases.
 * 50% of deaths in America are from Heart disease, cancer and stroke.

In 2005
 * 50% of the American population had at least one chronic illness.
 * 33% of the American population are obese.
 * 25% of the American population with chronic conditions have one or more daily activity limitations.
 * 12.5% of the American population (50% times 25%)


 * Arthritis:Most common cause of disability, with nearly 19 million Americans reporting activity limitations:
 * Diabetes:Most common cause of kidney failure, nontraumatic lower-extremity amputations, and blindness among adults:

Preventable Deaths:
 * Poor Diet
 * Lack of Exercise and/or physical activities
 * Tobacco
 * Excessive Alcohol consumption
 * Risk taking (accidents)

History: Caveman diet is better
Better than the American Standard Diet.

"1910 Lard, the rendered fat from pigs raised outdoors, was the #1 cooking fat - enjoying 70 percent of the market. Lard was the best source of Vitamin D and a good source of palmitoleic acid, a monounsaturated anti-microbial fatty acid that kills bacteria and viruses. Today highly processed soybean oil has 70 percent of the market; zero vitamin D. Now the same experts who told us not to eat lard are telling us we are deficient in Vitamin D!"

"1910 Butter consumption = 18 pounds per capita. In the year 2000 butter consumption went below 4 pounds. When we were using high quality butter lavishly, mortality from heart disease was below 10 percent. (Infections killed a majority of people; a high percentage of infants and women of child-bearing age died during the birthing process.) Today as we consume our “Country Croak,” the mortality from heart disease is 40 to 45 percent. Both Dr. Andrew Weil and the late Dr. Robert C. Atkins agree:  "Eat butter; not margarine, regardless of the claims the manufacturer is making for it!"

"1951 The Practise of Endocrinology, a textbook published by seven prominent British clinicians. The weight loss recommendations were almost identical to Banting's. Foods to be avoided:  Bread and everything else made with flour; cereals, including breakfast cereals and milk puddings; potatoes and all other root vegetables; foods containing sugar and all sweets."

"1955 John Gofman reported that carbohydrates elevate VLDL - the lipoprotein that transports blood fats (triglycerides) made in the liver from excess carbohydrates. Gofman wrote, "Restricting carbohydrates would lower VLDL." Excess carbs = elevated triglycerides = more VLDL = increased risk of heart disease. John Peters, Yale School of Medicine, using a new analytical centrifuge, was able to quantify the triglyceride concentration in VLDL, confirming the work of Gofman."

1957 Hilde Bruch, the foremost authority on childhood obesity wrote:  "The great progess in dietary control of obesity was the recognition that meat was not fat producing; but that it was bread and sweets which lead to obesity." "1961 Pete Ahrens of Rockefeller University and Margaret Albrink of Yale reported that elevated triglycerides were associated with increased risk of heart disease and that low fat, high carbohydrate diets elevated triglycerides. Carbs - not fat - increased the risk of heart disease."

''1970 Margaret Albrink, Peter Kuo, Lars Carlson, and Joseph Goldstein reported that elevated triglycerides (TG) were more common in heart disease patients than cholesterol. They confirmed that the majority of people with heart disease have what Gofman called "Carbohydrate Induced Lipemia."''

"1978 High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) enters the sweetener market. By 1985, 50 percent of the sweetener consumed by Americans was HFCS. In combination, HFCS and white sugar create a metabolic traffic jam in the liver, resulting in both greater insulin production and insulin resistance at the same time. Not good."

"1982 Disappointing results in the National Institutes of Health MRFIT study. Participants eating the low fat, high carbohydrate vegetable fat diet had more deaths than the “usual care” group left to their own devices. Two years after the passage of low fat Dietary Guidelines, a major study fails to prove that low fat diets were safe or effective."

"1986 The same year the U.S. declared "War on Cholesterol," Japanese physicians warn that low blood cholesterol levels are strongly associated with strokes, the number one cause of death in Japan. As the percentage of fat in the Japanese diet increased, the incidence of deadly strokes declined."

"1988 After 20 years researching carbohydrate metabolism, Gerald Reavan, MD, University of California, announces his discovery of “Syndrome X,” now referred to as Metabolic Syndrome or diabetes-related heart disease. Syndrome X is a cluster of abnormalities, including high blood sugar, high insulin levels, elevated triglycerides, and depressed levels of protective HDL. In his book Syndrome X, Dr. Reaven said the culprit in heart disease is excess sugar and excess easily-digested carbohydrates - not red meat."

"1999 At the 14 year point in the Harvard Nurses Study, 3,000 nurses had developed cancer. According to study leader Walter Willett, the less fat the nurses ate the greater their risk of cancer. Willet said, “Saturated fat seems to be protective…” Even though dietary fat was exonerated, the American Cancer Society continues to blame red meat and fat on cancer – not sugar or excess carbohydrates."

These (above) quotes taken from: History of Heart Disease

See Belly Fat Caveman Diet: eat only what a caveman could eat. Meat, vegetables, fruit, etc. Nothing processed.

See Diabetes If a caveman or cave-woman could not have eaten this item, then don't eat it yourself.

Ramifications
Follow the Big 7:
 * 1) Healthy Diet
 * 2) Strong Immune System
 * 3) Hygiene/Cleanliness
 * 4) Exercise
 * 5) Emotional Balance
 * 6) Restorative Sleep
 * 7) Eliminate Negative Behaviors: excessive alcohol, tobacco, junk foods (starch and sugars), risk taking (dangerous activities).

This entire website deals with these issues. These are preventable diseases.

Read all the pages on this website and try one or two changes at a time.

Good luck to you and your family.

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