Give Your Immune System a Boost!
What is Colostrum?
Colostrum is the pre-milk fluid produced from the mother's mammary glands during the first 72 hours after birth. It provides life-supporting immune and growth factors that insure the health and vitality of the newborn.
Why do we need Colostrum?
As we age, we notice it takes us a little longer to fight off a cold or flu, we become more vulnerable to disease, our energy and enthusiasm lessen, our skin loses its elasticity, we gain unwanted weight and lose muscle tone. After maturity, we gradually lose the immune and growth factors in our body. This impacts us to search for anti-aging and health products and knowledge. We've looked to plants and minerals for an answer, isolating and mega-dosing on vitamins and minerals. Aging, illness and death occur with the loss of immune and growth factors in our bodies. Medical science has shown in many published reports worldwide that these can possibly be replaced in the human body....with bovine colostrum.
Bovine colostrum is not new. In India, for thousands of years, Ayurvedic physicians and the spiritual leaders have documented the physical and spiritual health benefits from colostrum. It is dried and delivered by the milkman and is known for its healing and therapeutic ability. Scandinavian countries have been making a delicious colostrum pudding and dessert topped with honey, for hundreds of years, to celebrate the birth of calves and good health. It was used in the US as an early antibiotic that was in much favor until the discovery of penicillin and other antibiotics.
In the late 18th Century, Western scientists began to study colostrum and document its benefits for survival, growth and development for the newborn. Today, there are thousands of published scientific and clinical studies of major health benefits associated with colostrum.
What is Lactoferrin?
Lactoferrin helps increase natural iron bio-availability, is a powerful antioxidant, and helps support a healthy immune system.
• Lactoferrin is an iron-binding glycoprotein found in human secretions like tears, saliva, milk and mucous
• Helps enhance iron transport and absorption
• Helps promote a healthy balance of natural intestinal flora
• Helps increase bioavailability and absorption of nutrients in the body and helps decrease the bioavailability of iron to pathogens
• May have anti-aging properties by helping prevent the formation of free radicals that trigger oxidation
• Helps contribute to host defense against pathogens by protecting lymphocytes against free iron
What are plant sterols?
Plant sterols are extracts of certain plants that, when ingested, inhibit the absorption of cholesterol in the small intestine. Thus, dietary cholesterol never gets into the system.
Plant sterols are present naturally in small quantities in many fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, cereals, legumes, vegetable oils, and other plant sources. Plant stanols occur in even smaller quantities in many of the same sources. Both stanols and sterols are essential components of plant cell membranes and structurally resemble cholesterol. Foods supplemented with plant sterols may reduce cholesterol and are a promising addition to interventions aimed at lowering heart disease risk.
Chester is a health nutrition consultant and is the owner of www.AstroNutrition.com - a provider of premium health nutrition and sports supplements.
How to Prevent Child Obesity
In America today, it is estimated that over 65% of the population is overweight with around 30% being at least clinically obese. Even more alarming is the estimation that 15% to 20% of the country's children are overweight with nearly one third being at least clinically obese.
Now more than ever, something needs to be done to reverse this growing trend and prevent it from becoming an even bigger epidemic than it already is. By sitting back and allowing our children to become overweight and eventually obese, we are in effect severely shorting their lives.
The main ingredient in helping to eliminate child obesity is recognition. As parents, we can not take the stand that it is healthy for our children to be round and plump. Yes they need to eat enough to be healthy and to grow properly, but we must know where to draw the line between what is a healthy weight and what is excessive weight.
Often, parents will push food on their children with the idea that they need more food because they are growing. The fact is however, the energy expenditure required for growth accounts for only around 2% of their daily energy expenditure. With this in mind, a child's appetite should be taken into account when determining how much they need to eat.
Over eating is more of a learned thing than one that just develops on its own. Children, much like adults, if given a well balanced diet with limited access to junk food and fast food, will eat all they need and stop when they are done. Forcing them to eat beyond that point, as well as giving them as much junk food and fast food as they want, only teaches them to over eat from an early age. This habit then usually carries over into their adult lives.
Sometimes when a parent does notice that their child is overweight, they will try to push diets on them that are too low in calories. This is not good for them either. They still need a certain amount of calories for their growth and restricting their calories too much can interfere with the normal growth process. It is better here to simply bring them back to the proper amount of calories they should be getting. Since they were over eating before, going to a normal amount of food will make them lose the extra weight just fine.
Last but certainly not least, lack of exercise is part of the reason that so many children get fat. The average school kid today spends more time watching TV and playing video games than they spend in school. Even when they are in school, most kids only get around 60 to 90 minutes maximum of physical education per week.
The bottom line here is, if we don't stop over feeding our kids, and we don't limit their intake of junk food and fast food, and we don't limit their TV and video game time and get them more active, we will be creating an epidemic of obesity for our children that will reach truly epic proportions.
About The Author:
Jim O'Neill gives you tons of valuable information on the subjects of weight loss, fitness, and nutrition to make it easy for you to live a healthy lifestyle. Sign up now for his free newsletter at: http://www.mrgymhealth.com
Lasik Surgery - What Exactly Is It?
There are a number of methods used to surgically correct eyesight nowadays but the most popular choice is Lasik (Laser-Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis). However before the use of modern technology such as laser beams and computers, the original technique was Radial Keratotomy (RK). This involved an Ophthalmic surgeon with a steady hand and a sharp scalpel to make a series of radial cuts in the cornea (the front 'window' of the eye), which when healed, would flatten and therefore reshape the cornea. This would theoretically correct short sightedness. The problems occurred mainly due to the fact that the depth of the incisions could cause weakening and progressive flattening of the cornea, after the procedure. This could lead to a number of defects such as progressively blurring vision and starburst patterns around lights.
With the advent of the laser, a more modern method became the norm, called Photorefractive Keratectomy (PRK). This procedure involved the removal of the outer cells of the cornea (epithelium), and then reshaping the corneal surface with an excimer laser, a procedure known as ablation. The epithelial cells were then allowed to grow back normally. Because epithelial cells on the eye regenerate exceptionally quickly the cornea would generally heal completely within a few days. This technique was certainly more successful than RK but did have its own complications. Side effects such as halos round lights and reduced contrast vision were experienced by almost everyone, along with some corneal 'hazing'. Although serious complications were rare there was always the risk of infection due to the lack of epithelium protection during the healing phase.
Then in 1990 LASIK surgery was developed by a Dr.Lucio Buratto of Italy and Dr. Ioannis Pallikaris of Greece, and it quickly became popular because of fewer complications and was certainly more accurate. The procedure involves cutting a corneal 'flap' with a special high precision blade called a microkeratome. This flap was then folded back with the front surface epithelium still intact. The cornea can then be reshaped with the laser and the flap is laid back down. The epithelial cells that were cut with the microkeratome quickly heal and therefore the outer surface is a nice continuous layer that securely holds the flap in place permanently. Although quite uncommon, some complications such as dry eyes, debris under the flap, ghosting or poor vision to name a few, do occur from time to time.
Another technique that is also used nowadays is LASEK or Laser-Assisted Sub-Epithelial Keratectomy (as opposed to LASIK). It can be used if the cornea is too thin to undergo lasik surgery where the microkeratome cuts deeper than the epithelium. In LASEK, the epithelium is peeled off as a layer to allow laser ablation underneath. During the procedure the epithelial layer is preserved with a special chemical solution and then replaced afterwards, so as to allow natural healing. There is generally more pain and slower visual recovery with this technique.
PRK and LASEK allow the epithelial layer to heal entirely and therefore don't run the risks of a dislocated corneal flap which can occur due to trauma, even after many years with LASIK. However, the latter is still the most commonly used procedure.
There is still a lot of fear amongst many about the long term effects of laser surgery, but it has been around for quite a while now in its different forms. It seems that more and more people are opting for this surgery, due to a number of reasons whether they be for convenience or cosmetic. With the information technology of the internet, increased knowledge on the subject is much more widespread, so barring any major negative eventualities this trend will almost certainly continue.
Article by James Oliver
James Oliver is an Optician in the UK. He writes for
http://www.about-lasik-surgery.com and also http://www.buy-contact-lenses-online.info
Colostrum is the pre-milk fluid produced from the mother's mammary glands during the first 72 hours after birth. It provides life-supporting immune and growth factors that insure the health and vitality of the newborn.
Why do we need Colostrum?
As we age, we notice it takes us a little longer to fight off a cold or flu, we become more vulnerable to disease, our energy and enthusiasm lessen, our skin loses its elasticity, we gain unwanted weight and lose muscle tone. After maturity, we gradually lose the immune and growth factors in our body. This impacts us to search for anti-aging and health products and knowledge. We've looked to plants and minerals for an answer, isolating and mega-dosing on vitamins and minerals. Aging, illness and death occur with the loss of immune and growth factors in our bodies. Medical science has shown in many published reports worldwide that these can possibly be replaced in the human body....with bovine colostrum.
Bovine colostrum is not new. In India, for thousands of years, Ayurvedic physicians and the spiritual leaders have documented the physical and spiritual health benefits from colostrum. It is dried and delivered by the milkman and is known for its healing and therapeutic ability. Scandinavian countries have been making a delicious colostrum pudding and dessert topped with honey, for hundreds of years, to celebrate the birth of calves and good health. It was used in the US as an early antibiotic that was in much favor until the discovery of penicillin and other antibiotics.
In the late 18th Century, Western scientists began to study colostrum and document its benefits for survival, growth and development for the newborn. Today, there are thousands of published scientific and clinical studies of major health benefits associated with colostrum.
What is Lactoferrin?
Lactoferrin helps increase natural iron bio-availability, is a powerful antioxidant, and helps support a healthy immune system.
• Lactoferrin is an iron-binding glycoprotein found in human secretions like tears, saliva, milk and mucous
• Helps enhance iron transport and absorption
• Helps promote a healthy balance of natural intestinal flora
• Helps increase bioavailability and absorption of nutrients in the body and helps decrease the bioavailability of iron to pathogens
• May have anti-aging properties by helping prevent the formation of free radicals that trigger oxidation
• Helps contribute to host defense against pathogens by protecting lymphocytes against free iron
What are plant sterols?
Plant sterols are extracts of certain plants that, when ingested, inhibit the absorption of cholesterol in the small intestine. Thus, dietary cholesterol never gets into the system.
Plant sterols are present naturally in small quantities in many fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, cereals, legumes, vegetable oils, and other plant sources. Plant stanols occur in even smaller quantities in many of the same sources. Both stanols and sterols are essential components of plant cell membranes and structurally resemble cholesterol. Foods supplemented with plant sterols may reduce cholesterol and are a promising addition to interventions aimed at lowering heart disease risk.
Chester is a health nutrition consultant and is the owner of www.AstroNutrition.com - a provider of premium health nutrition and sports supplements.
How to Prevent Child Obesity
In America today, it is estimated that over 65% of the population is overweight with around 30% being at least clinically obese. Even more alarming is the estimation that 15% to 20% of the country's children are overweight with nearly one third being at least clinically obese.
Now more than ever, something needs to be done to reverse this growing trend and prevent it from becoming an even bigger epidemic than it already is. By sitting back and allowing our children to become overweight and eventually obese, we are in effect severely shorting their lives.
The main ingredient in helping to eliminate child obesity is recognition. As parents, we can not take the stand that it is healthy for our children to be round and plump. Yes they need to eat enough to be healthy and to grow properly, but we must know where to draw the line between what is a healthy weight and what is excessive weight.
Often, parents will push food on their children with the idea that they need more food because they are growing. The fact is however, the energy expenditure required for growth accounts for only around 2% of their daily energy expenditure. With this in mind, a child's appetite should be taken into account when determining how much they need to eat.
Over eating is more of a learned thing than one that just develops on its own. Children, much like adults, if given a well balanced diet with limited access to junk food and fast food, will eat all they need and stop when they are done. Forcing them to eat beyond that point, as well as giving them as much junk food and fast food as they want, only teaches them to over eat from an early age. This habit then usually carries over into their adult lives.
Sometimes when a parent does notice that their child is overweight, they will try to push diets on them that are too low in calories. This is not good for them either. They still need a certain amount of calories for their growth and restricting their calories too much can interfere with the normal growth process. It is better here to simply bring them back to the proper amount of calories they should be getting. Since they were over eating before, going to a normal amount of food will make them lose the extra weight just fine.
Last but certainly not least, lack of exercise is part of the reason that so many children get fat. The average school kid today spends more time watching TV and playing video games than they spend in school. Even when they are in school, most kids only get around 60 to 90 minutes maximum of physical education per week.
The bottom line here is, if we don't stop over feeding our kids, and we don't limit their intake of junk food and fast food, and we don't limit their TV and video game time and get them more active, we will be creating an epidemic of obesity for our children that will reach truly epic proportions.
About The Author:
Jim O'Neill gives you tons of valuable information on the subjects of weight loss, fitness, and nutrition to make it easy for you to live a healthy lifestyle. Sign up now for his free newsletter at: http://www.mrgymhealth.com
Lasik Surgery - What Exactly Is It?
There are a number of methods used to surgically correct eyesight nowadays but the most popular choice is Lasik (Laser-Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis). However before the use of modern technology such as laser beams and computers, the original technique was Radial Keratotomy (RK). This involved an Ophthalmic surgeon with a steady hand and a sharp scalpel to make a series of radial cuts in the cornea (the front 'window' of the eye), which when healed, would flatten and therefore reshape the cornea. This would theoretically correct short sightedness. The problems occurred mainly due to the fact that the depth of the incisions could cause weakening and progressive flattening of the cornea, after the procedure. This could lead to a number of defects such as progressively blurring vision and starburst patterns around lights.
With the advent of the laser, a more modern method became the norm, called Photorefractive Keratectomy (PRK). This procedure involved the removal of the outer cells of the cornea (epithelium), and then reshaping the corneal surface with an excimer laser, a procedure known as ablation. The epithelial cells were then allowed to grow back normally. Because epithelial cells on the eye regenerate exceptionally quickly the cornea would generally heal completely within a few days. This technique was certainly more successful than RK but did have its own complications. Side effects such as halos round lights and reduced contrast vision were experienced by almost everyone, along with some corneal 'hazing'. Although serious complications were rare there was always the risk of infection due to the lack of epithelium protection during the healing phase.
Then in 1990 LASIK surgery was developed by a Dr.Lucio Buratto of Italy and Dr. Ioannis Pallikaris of Greece, and it quickly became popular because of fewer complications and was certainly more accurate. The procedure involves cutting a corneal 'flap' with a special high precision blade called a microkeratome. This flap was then folded back with the front surface epithelium still intact. The cornea can then be reshaped with the laser and the flap is laid back down. The epithelial cells that were cut with the microkeratome quickly heal and therefore the outer surface is a nice continuous layer that securely holds the flap in place permanently. Although quite uncommon, some complications such as dry eyes, debris under the flap, ghosting or poor vision to name a few, do occur from time to time.
Another technique that is also used nowadays is LASEK or Laser-Assisted Sub-Epithelial Keratectomy (as opposed to LASIK). It can be used if the cornea is too thin to undergo lasik surgery where the microkeratome cuts deeper than the epithelium. In LASEK, the epithelium is peeled off as a layer to allow laser ablation underneath. During the procedure the epithelial layer is preserved with a special chemical solution and then replaced afterwards, so as to allow natural healing. There is generally more pain and slower visual recovery with this technique.
PRK and LASEK allow the epithelial layer to heal entirely and therefore don't run the risks of a dislocated corneal flap which can occur due to trauma, even after many years with LASIK. However, the latter is still the most commonly used procedure.
There is still a lot of fear amongst many about the long term effects of laser surgery, but it has been around for quite a while now in its different forms. It seems that more and more people are opting for this surgery, due to a number of reasons whether they be for convenience or cosmetic. With the information technology of the internet, increased knowledge on the subject is much more widespread, so barring any major negative eventualities this trend will almost certainly continue.
Article by James Oliver
James Oliver is an Optician in the UK. He writes for
http://www.about-lasik-surgery.com and also http://www.buy-contact-lenses-online.info
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