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1. Getting Your Omega-3 to Omega-6 Ratio Right Is Essential
2. Improve Your Health Without Drugs
3. Want to take a health survey?
4. The Basis of Disease: Louis Pasteur vs. Antoine Bechamp: Know the True Causes of Disease
5. How to Make Nutritious, Natural Infant Formula at Home

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Getting Your Omega-3 to Omega-6 Ratio Right Is Essential by Dr. Mercola

While omega-3s have an anti-inflammatory effect, the omega-6 found in seed oils tends to be pro-inflammatory. Maintaining a healthy 3:1 ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 is important, as chronic low-grade inflammation is a hallmark of most chronic diseases, including obesity, diabetes and heart disease

Omega-3 fats are essential polyunsaturated fats your body needs for a wide variety of functions, including proper cell division and function of cell receptors, muscle activity, cognition and heart health.

DHA is particularly important for your brain, as about 90% of your brain is made up of DHA, while EPA appears to be of particular importance for heart health

Compared to placebo, people taking a daily supplement containing 1 gram of marine-based omega-3 and 2,000 IU’s of vitamin D for five years lowered their risk of heart attack by 28%

People with the lowest fish intake had a 19% reduction in major cardiovascular events (the primary endpoint) and a 40% reduction in heart attacks (a secondary endpoint) when they supplemented with 1 gram of marine-based omega-3 and 2,000 IU's of vitamin D

Processed Seed Oils Contribute to Low-Grade Inflammation. To Protect Your Heart and Brain, Normalize Your Omega-3-to-6

Read Essential Fatty Acids - Why your body needs them

Improve Your Health Without Drugs

People today are being put on drugs to handle neuropathy, diabetes, high blood pressure, high triglycerides, and high cholesterol and many other health conditions. Are drugs the answer to these health challenges or do they just make things worse? 

Factually, medical drugs are not the answer to the above health challenges. Doctors and researchers are now realizing that drugs can be destructive by creating nutritional deficiencies. Here is what a medical expert has to say. : 

"A type of therapy used by the majority of physicians in our country for the past fifty years is the administration of drugs at sublethal levels [sublethal: not quite enough to cause death]. Drugs of course, are alien chemicals that are not normally present in the cellular environment of the human body. They radically alter man’s internal environment and often create very severe and dangerous side effects." 

"Drugs do not halt or prevent the disease process, especially degenerative diseases. At best they offer only relief of symptoms, while the basic, underlying disease process continues uninterrupted." 

"Nature’s biological nutrients [gotten from food] have been used as a defense system for millions of years in the battle against all forms of disease. They are far more reliable and more time-proven than the relatively recent drug-therapy fads that have swept the modern world." 

"When our body cells are ailing, as they do in disease, the chances are excellent that it is because they are being given inadequate nutrition. The list of things that these cells may need includes not only all amino acids and all the minerals, plus trace elements [trace elements: simple chemical substances in very tiny amounts], but about fifteen vitamins and probably many other nutrients." 

"Drugs at best are only a palliative [palliative: treating only the symptoms of a disease, alleviating pain and symptoms without providing a cure] form of treatment. The basic fault of drugs is that they have no known connection with the disease process itself. Drugs are wholly unlike nature’s nutrients. They tend to mask the difficulty, not do away with it. They contaminate the body’s internal environment, create dependence on the part of the patient, and often complicate the physician’s job by erasing valuable clues as to the real source of the trouble." 

"Statistics tell us that as much as 5 percent of all hospital admissions – 1.5 million people – are now the result of negative reactions to legally gotten prescription drugs. Once a patient is in the hospital, his chances of getting a drug-created sickness more than doubles. This means that over three and a half million people experience drug-created internal contamination and dependence." 

"Many physicians are beginning to insist that the primary reliance in the battle against infectious disease – all forms of disease – should always be on weapons that are most similar to nature’s own biological weapons." 

"Nutrient therapy [using the vitamin, minerals and herbs found in nature], is a safe, economical, prevention oriented, and effective alternative to our current medical crisis." 

"The simple truth is that our country needs physicians who are interested in curing and preventing the causes of disease rather than merely treating symptoms." 

excerpted from "Brain Allergies"
by William H. Philpott, M.D. and Dwight K. Kalita, Ph.D. 

More people in the medical profession are now realizing that drugs are not the great solution they once thought them to be. In fact, the dangers of taking drugs have become headline news, with drug companies being found to have hidden previously known side effects to many of their "wonder drugs."

There are safe ways to reduce neuropathy, lower blood sugar levels, lower triglycerides, lower blood pressure and lower cholesterol. It all starts with diet, proper nutrition (by supplementing with vitamins and minerals, as our food today has far less of them than 50 years ago), and putting a little exercise into your life. And, within weeks or a few months, health can be yours again. 

See our Site Index for alternatives supplements to help you build health.

Want to take a health survey? We have a page for that – includes Vitamin Advisor and a Health Tracker. HEALTH SURVEYS

The Basis of Disease: Louis Pasteur vs. Antoine Bechamp: Know the True Causes of Disease

Mainstream medicine believes that virtually all illness is caused by germs or genetic hereditary weakness, as well as deformities and trauma injuries.

Their solution and strategy is to have us believe that there are over 10,000 different diseases and that each of these diseases requires outside intervention from drugs and surgery.

The truth is that most illness is due to cellular malfunction caused by cellular toxicities and cellular malnutrition, both of which can be avoided and overcome naturally.

Learn more: Basis of Disease

Read the Book:Bechamp or Pasteur?: A Lost Chapter in the History of Biology

How to Make Nutritious, Natural Infant Formula at Home

From time to time in recent years there has been a shortage of infant formula in the US.

The good news is there are natural homemade infant formulas you can use to provide your child with excellent nutrition. With a homemade formula you won't ever need to worry about not having formula on hand to feed your child.

One natural homemade formula is provided by the Weston A. Price Foundation.

Weston A. Price (September 6, 1870 – January 23, 1948) was a Canadian dentist known primarily for his theories on the relationship between nutrition, dental health, and physical health.

The Weston A. Price Foundation (WAPF) aims to provide accurate information on nutrition and health, always aiming to provide the scientific validation of traditional food ways. You can find more information about the foundation here.

Weston A. Price Homemade Baby Formula Recipe

Note: Here's a suggestion; replace the 2 cups of cow's milk with 2 cups of camel milk.

Ingredients:

- 2 cups whole raw cow’s milk, preferably from pasture-fed cows

- 1/4 cup homemade liquid whey (See recipe for whey on the Weston A. Price page, link below) Note: Do NOT use powdered whey or whey from making cheese (which will cause the formula to curdle). Use only homemade whey made from yoghurt, kefir or separated raw milk

- 4 tablespoons lactose

- 1/4 teaspoon bifidobacterium infantis

- 2 or more tablespoons good quality cream (preferably not ultrapasteurized), more if you are using milk from Holstein cows

- 1/2 teaspoon unflavored high-vitamin or high-vitamin fermented cod liver oil or 1 teaspoon regular cod liver oil

- 1/4 teaspoon high-vitamin butter oil (optional)

- 1 teaspoon expeller-expressed sunflower oil

- 1 teaspoon extra virgin olive oil

- 2 teaspoons coconut oil

- 2 teaspoons Frontier brand nutritional yeast flakes

- 2 teaspoons gelatin

- 1-7/8 cups filtered water

- 1/4 teaspoon acerola powder

Instructions

- Put 2 cups filtered water into a pyrex measuring pitcher and remove 2 tablespoons (that will give you 1-7/8 cups water).

- Pour about half of the water into a pan and place on a medium flame.

- Add the gelatin and lactose to the pan and let dissolve, stirring occasionally.

- When the gelatin and lactose are dissolved, remove from heat and add the remaining water to cool the mixture.

- Stir in the coconut oil and optional high-vitamin butter oil and stir until melted.

- Meanwhile, place remaining ingredients into a blender.

- Add the water mixture and blend about three seconds.

- Place in glass bottles or a glass jar and refrigerate.

- Before giving to baby, warm bottles by placing in hot water or a bottle warmer. NEVER warm bottles in a microwave oven.

You can find more information about the Weston A. Price homemade baby formula here, including where to source the ingredients and how to make liquid whey.

Jill Zavada is a Holistic Health and Wellness Coach. Here's her story about using this homemade formula to feed her own baby using Camelicious camel milk powder.

We hope this information helps some Moms and Dads who are trying to work out how to provide their children with good nutrition.

PLEASE NOTE: Camelicious camel milk powder by itself does not provide enough comprehensive nutrition for an infant under 12 months. It must be used with a formula that provides all the nutrition an infant under 12 months needs. We suggest you consult your child's pediatrician before making any major changes to your child's diet.

Please go to the Weston A. Price Homemade Baby Formula page to see where to source the ingredients.

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