Your Life-Your Choice May, 1998 issue 10A Question & Answer Supplement There's another terrific series of questions for you this month. Just a reminder that you can also call Dr. Abrams' toll free line and ask him your question personally 1-800-777-1328. Keep your eye on the Your Life-Your Choice Headquarters. Soon you'll have a chance to vote for your favorite issue AND your favorite article. Watch for this in the Library of Archives. We're always anxious to hear YOUR story. Many Your Life-Your Choice readers share the same or similar health issues. By sharing your experiences with us you help thousands of others. Tell us what helped you through a particular situation. Help others find relief the way you did. Send in your testimonials and encourage your friends to send in theirs. Send your testimony to mailto:testimony@life-choices.com with "Testimony Your Life-Your Choice" in the subject heading. Size limitations prevent us from publishing all the questions & answers. If your question is time sensitive, Dr. Abrams is extending an offer for you to call him on his toll free number to ensure a timely response. This is a toll free call from anywhere in the U.S.A and Canada; 1-800-777-1328. Brigitte Synesael Your Life-Your Choice Editor Traditional Medicine Needs Our Help! Your life is your choice-don't make it the doctor's choice! http://www.Life-Choices.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This newsletter is meant to educate and inform. It is not intended to diagnose or prescribe. As the editor of Your Life-Your Choice, I encourage you to consult with a reliable professional in your area in regards to any specific health issue. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To subscribe to Your Life Your Choice put SUBSCRIBE in the BODY of an email to: mailto:life-choices@oaknetpub.com. 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Increase your ability to learn, read and retain. Create powerful, success recordings that are irresistible to your subconscious mind! http://www.icemall.com/picto_super_deal.html ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Your Life-Your Choice's Questions & Answers Hosted by Dr. Norman R. Abrams (Read his portfolio at http://www.Life-Choice.com/DrAbrams.html) 1. Why is Lifestyle Always Connected to the Diseases of Today? That's a great question! But, before it can be answered, you have to understand what lifestyle consists of, then and only then can you understand how it relates to disease today. The way you choose to take care of yourself - or not take care of yourself, as the case may be - does make a difference! The choices you make, hour-by-hour, day- after-day, what you eat, whether you exercise, how you work, drive, drink, live, and yes how you love - all YOUR CHOICES become your lifestyle. These choices over the years eventually determine the quality of your life and overall level of health and well-being. You are responsible. You make the choices. You can make a positive or negative difference for yourself. That's how and why lifestyle plays a role in the process of dis-ease today. Remember, 60 - 80% of the health problems that plague our society today are self inflicted, due to: poor diet, low levels of fitness, improper stress management, and our lifestyle with its habitual and excessive tendencies. We are in an era of lifestyle dis-ease. That's why wellness is your best health insurance.Make sure your health span matches your Life span. That's the real key to a healthy life. 2. What has the greatest effect on our health? If you don't smoke, diet is likely to be the single most significant contributing factor in whether you get sick or stay healthy. This is especially so when it comes to cancer. Diet is linked to 40% of all cancers in men and about 60% in women; as many as 70% of all cancers are believed to be preventable through diet and lifestyle changes. Diet has the distinction of being the only major determinant of health that is all most completely under your control. You have the final say over what does and does not go into your mouth andstomach. You can't always control other health factors, such as the quality of the air you breathe, the noise you are subject to, or the emotional climate of your surroundings, but you can control what you eat. It's a shame to squander such a good opportunity toinfluence your health. Remember, what you eat today walks and talks tomorrow. If you wear out your body where are you going to live? 3. Is Food Really a Miracle Medicine? Until recently, modern medicine neglected the medicine in everyday foods, viewing it as folklore, lacking proven scientific validity. But now mainstream scientists are increasingly reaching back to the truths of ancient food folk medicine and dietary practices for clues to remedies and antidotes for our modern diseases. Research on nature's medicine is fast-paced. Why is all this attention to the medicinal aspects of food accelerating now? Why are prestigious research institutions like Johns Hopkins and Harvard telling us with great fanfire that broccoli is full of powerful anticancer agents and that eating more carrots seems to dramatically prevent strokes and heart disease? The reason: For the first time in history, science is vigorously validating that what we eat is of urgent importance in determining events at the basic cellular level, where the real mystery and drama take place-- where battles are continuously won or lost, affirming health and longevity or dooming us to illness and death. That is where life begins and ends--in those seas of cellular fluids and genetic and structural material, where destiny may hang on the presence of a particular enzyme or a fatty acid metabolized from a molecule of food. If you know what is going on in your cells, you know what is happening to your health. About 60 trillion cells make up your body. Each cell is a complex universe that experiences billions of chemical reactions every minute of your life. And, what dictates the chemical reactions within these cells? Their sole source of energy is the food you give them. For the first time science can now probe how food promotes health or disease at the cellular level, documenting the long-held human wisdom that food does have medicinal powers. Unquestionably early physicians used food as the mainstay prescription against disease. In a recent medical journal, of the University of Minnesota, it was recounted that: "In ancient Egypt, Pliny declared that consumption of cabbage would cure as many as eighty-seven diseases and that consumption of onions would cure twenty-eight. Garlic was considered a holy plant. Cruciferous vegetables (cabbage and broccoli) were cultivated primarily for medicinal purposes and were used therapeutically against headache, deafness, diarrhea, gout, and stomach disorders. The ancient Romans believed that lentils were a cure for diarrhea and conducive to an even temper. Raisins and grapes had many medicinal uses and were incorporated into oral preparations, enemas, inhalations, and topical applications." Since the dawn of civilization, we have relied on the forests, fields and gardens for our medicines. About 75 percent of the world's population still does. Such a body of human wisdom should not be discounted. If a food has a wide folklore reputation as a remedy for specific diseases, this constitutes some proof of its potential validity. After all, such folk usage has often led scientists to discover strong medicines in plants. At least 25 percent of our prescription drugs are derived from plants. 4. What Are The Most Likely Allergic Food Triggers? According to tests done in England the foods most likely to provoke a variety of disease symptoms include: Cereals based on wheat and corn, dairy products, caffeine, yeast, and citrus fruit. An important thing to keep in mind is that the food may not be the problem, in many cases the allergy to a specific food is the result of inability of the digestive system to break down that particular food substance, not the food itself. So, if you have food allergies, look at your digestive processes first before you blame a specific food. The problem may be solved by simply using digestive enzymes. 5. What's the Healthiest Bottled Water? It depends what you're looking for. To be sure you're getting bottled water from a pure source (not tap water) buy water certified by the International Bottled Water Association. IBWA-certified manufactures are subject to unannounced inspections and must meet hygiene and purity standards beyond those set by the U.S. government. Certification is often listed on the label; if you're unsure about your favorite brand , call 800-Water-11 in the U.S.A.. If you're having trouble meeting your calcium or magnesium requirements and don't like or can't drink milk, consider mineral water. Many of them have about 80 milligrams of calcium per eight-ounce serving. Depending on the brand, four glasses of mineral water will contribute one-fifth to one-third of the calcium women need per day. 6. I'm Trying To Lose Weight, But I Don't Want To Give Up Chocolate. Do I Have To? You should for the HEALTH OF IT. But, in reality you don't have to just to lose weight. You can fit any food into a healthy eating plan, as long as you don't eat a ton of it. If you're moderately active and under 50, you require about 2,200 calories a day to maintain your weight. By limiting yourself to 1,600 calories a day you'll lose a little more than a pound per week. Spend about 1,400 calories on nutritious, well balanced meals and the remaining 200 on a treat. On that basis, as they say, "you can have your cake and eat it too." Good Luck!!!!! *************************************** If I haven't answered your question, call me on my personal 800 HOTLINE, it's a toll free call and I'll be happy to answer your question. The HOTLINE is 1-800-777-1328. It's good in the U.S.A. and Canada. I'll be looking forward to talking with you, just for the health of it. Dr. Norman R. Abrams /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// To subscribe to Your Life Your Choice put SUBSCRIBE in the BODY of an email to: mailto:life-choices@oaknetpub.com. 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