Many people are convinced they have a healthy diet. Some go as far as thinking if they eat a lettuce leaf, a slice of tomato and a slice of cucumber, they have had enough ‘greens’ for the meal, or even the day. Or choose a boxed granola instead or cornflakes, with low-fat milk and Splenda in their coffee

Well, let’s step away from misinformation and get down to the truth of a healthy diet, in 10 very simple steps:

Eat unprocessed food. This means food as it came out of the ground, preferably organic so you don’t ingest pesticides and incomplete fertilizers that can upset your digestive system
Check for food sensitivites - wheat, sugar or dairy products can cause ongoing problems. There are good alternative grains and flour such as spelt and stone-ground organic flour and xylitol or stevia. Dairy products are not an essential part of your diet. Calcium is found in green leafy vegetables
Drink 8 glasses of pure water a day – not bottled or bore-hole water and preferably distilled rather than filtered
Limit your intake of stimulants such as coffee, tea and alcohol. 1 each per day is more than enough
At all costs do not drink sodas or fizzy drinks
Never touch HFCS, or fructose as it is advertised
Do not eat margarine, no matter what the marketers tell you about ‘the truth of healthy fat’
Don’t eat supermarket vegetable oils – they have been damaged through the heating and bleaching processes and will cause inflammation
Eat good animal protein such as fish and free-range wild game, poultry and eggs
Supplement wisely

This is ‘A Healthy Diet’. If you keep to these simple principles, your health will improve and you will lose unhealthy weight.

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Why Destroy Healthy Organs

In January 2008 the Journal of the American Medical Association argued the case for surgery as the newest breakthrough in treating Type 2 diabetes. This makes no sense at all and merely encourages the quick-fix practice people have come to expect in medicine, without eradicating the cause of the problem. One shudders to think what might happen if this principle were applied when someone got a headache.

So why do surgeons recommend gastric surgery? No doubt its because dieting doesn’t work and people are desperate. Gastric surgery results in a 20% weight loss while ‘dieting’ produced only a 2% weight loss.

Gastric bypass surgery characterizes the first time in medical history that doctors are removing healthy tissue, with 200,000 surgeries performed in 2006, and rising. This is a 1,500% increase in the previous 8 years.

Meantime, there is considerable risk of dying during this type of surgery, a great shock is experienced by the body in these circumstances and increased neurological problems arise after five years. This treatment poses a huge health risk on all counts and cannot be recommended as a ‘breakthrough’ in treating an easily reversed condition such as Type 2 diabetes.

What is not well known, because doctors are not nutritionists, is the report in 1998 on findings that insulin resistance (the real cause of the problem) could be reversed in four days with the right diet. Surely this has to be the route to take; for the immediate benefit of reversing diabetes and the health of the patient in the long-term

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HRT drug Prempro-Cancer Law Suit

Jury Returns Verdict in Prempro-Cancer Case


Mary Claire Dale, Associated Press Writer, writing from Philadelphia on October 26th, 2009, says a Philadelphia jury returned a sealed punitive-damages verdict on Monday against drug maker Wyeth Pharmaceuticals after finding a link between a woman's breast cancer and the hormone-replacement drug she took. Connie Baron’s case is one of a handful of Prempro lawsuits to go to trial out of several thousand filed across the country. About 1,500 are pending in Philadelphia.


At Wyeth's request, the amount of Barton's punitive award was sealed pending the verdict in a second Prempro case underway in the same courthouse. The jury had awarded Barton $3.75 million in compensatory damages on Friday and found the company wilfully hid evidence of a cancer link, prompting the deliberations Monday on punitive damages.


"They knew back in the 1970s that these drugs had the potential to cause breast cancer, so they didn't have the studies done," said Esther Berezofsky, one of Barton's lawyers. "When bad study results came out, Wyeth consistently downplayed the results, tried to discredit the results, tried to neutralize the critics."


Sales of the drug have plummeted since 2002 when a large federal health study, the Women's Health Initiative, was stopped when researchers saw more breast cancers in those on Prempro.
Read the full story on http://abcnews.go.com/Business/WireStory?id=8920959&page=1

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