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Artificial Sweeteners Can Make You Fat A new study shows rats that ate food sweetened with saccharin ate more, gained more weight and stored more fat over time than rats that ate regular sugar. Dr. Susan Swithers of Purdue University: "What the results suggest is that consuming artificially sweetened products by themselves may not in fact contribute to weight loss - and to the contrary, may sometimes lead to weight gain." What's more, the researchers say the artificial sweetener caused a biological change in the rats, slowing down their metabolism. The study seems to explain why some of the heaviest consumers of artificial sweeteners are some of the heaviest Americans. [Swithers SE PhD and Davidson TL. A role for sweet taste: calorie predictive relations in energy regulation by rats. Behavioral Neuroscience.]

Is A Low Salt Diet Bad for You ??? For years we have all heard that a low salt diet would be good for us and help us avoid chronic illness especially high blood pressure. Wrong!!!! After reading a couple of books on the subject it is clear to me that this is not good advice and actually is damaging to your health. I will summarize key points and refer you to the books so you can be the judge. Salt is crucial for your nerves to work (think fatigue) and to maintain body water in the right places (around your ankles is not the right place). Without adequate salt your cells can be dehydrated not matter how much you drink. Look at the end of this article for a special offer on Body Fluid Analysis. If you don’t have enough salt, your adrenals have to work over time to hang onto the salt it does have. That means that if I ever said, “your adrenals are stressed”, add low salt to one of the reasons it could be stressed. Not all salt is created equal. Sea salt is unrefined and has over 80 trace minerals that are extremely important to how you function. Table salt is refined and only has just sodium, chloride, 2% stuff you don’t want in your body (ferrocyanide, aluminum silicate, ammoniumcitrate) and only .01% Iodine. That means that refined salt is like eating wonder bread, most of the good stuff is gone. If you have been on a low salt diet like me, then you probably are Iodine deficient and headed toward something serious. If you have been using Iodized refined salt then you probably only are getting enough Iodine to keep your thyroid from swelling up but not enough to prevent serious disease. A low salt diet may raise your blood pressure not lower it. Some MD’s are using the right kind of salt to actually lower blood pressure. Not much evidence that a low salt diet prevents high blood pressure. Only those who already have high blood pressure or kidney disease might benefit from a low salt diet. If you have kidney disease you may not be able to pee out the salt and it can build up causing damage so follow your medical doctor on this! The evil refined salt is in lots of food in large quantity. I recommend you continue to buy your food as low sodium and add sea salt approximately ½ tsp daily. Some brands that are good are Celtic sea salt, and Redmond’s. According to a medical expert I spoke with, Morton’s gets its sea salt from the great lakes which is polluted with run off from the farms and industry around it. Avoid that stuff! The primary book on the subject is 'SALT Your Way To Health' by David Brownstein, MD. The other is 'Your Body’s Many Cries for Water' by Dr F. Batmanghelidj. If you want to see if your body water is in the right amounts inside the cells and outside your cells ask the staff for a computerized Body Fluid Analysis. Tell them you saw this special on our website and get $5.00 off the $35 charge.

Self CRP What are you to do if you have a heart attack while you are alone. Let's say it's 6:15 p.m and you're driving home (alone of course), after an unusually hard day on the job. You're really tired, upset and frustrated.. Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to radiate out into your arm and up into your jaw. You are only about five miles from the hospital nearest your home. Unfortunately you don't know if you'll be able to make it that far. What can you do? You've been trained in C.P.R., but the guy that taught the course, didn't tell you what to do if it happened to yourself. Without help, the person whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint, normally has 10 seconds left before losing consciousness. However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest. A breath and a cough must be repeated about every three seconds without let up, until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again, and pain subsides. Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs, and coughing movements squeeze on the heart, and keeps the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can make it to a hospital. (reprint from 'The Mended Hearts' Inc. publication, Heart Response)