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Are you bothered by aches and pains?

You may be surprised to know a common ingredient in your food may be the culprit…

I’m talking about gluten.

A surprising number of people walk around each day, unaware that gluten is the cause of their joint pain.

In one study, researchers followed a group of people with rheumatoid arthritis. They were put on a gluten-free diet.

After just 14 weeks, most of the patients reported dramatic improvements in their symptoms.1

Gluten is found in wheat, barley, and rye. It’s also found in nearly all processed foods, since it’s often used as a texture enhancer and a thickening agent. You’ll also find it in places you may not even expect, like:

• Salad dressings
• Deli meats
• Beer
• Potato chips
• Soy sauce
• Envelope glue

People who are gluten-sensitive normally don’t produce the enzyme that breaks down wheat protein. That’s why, when they eat anything with gluten in it, their body sees it as a foreign substance.

To deal with it, the body produces cytokines and other inflammatory agents. This can then inflame the joints and make them sore.

Consider this: One study found that up to 66% of folks with celiac disease (a severe form of gluten-sensitivity) displayed symptoms of joint inflammation.2

The best way to know if your join pain is caused by gluten sensitivity is to avoid foods that contain it.

That means avoiding grains, wheat, and most processed foods.

Instead, get your carbs from natural sources like fruits, veggies, and legumes like kidney beans and chick peas.

If your symptoms do improve, you should consult your doctor and find out how severe your allergic reaction to gluten is. In severe cases, you may have celiac disease. (As many as 3 million Americans suffer from this disease, but many go by undiagnosed.)

Either way, avoiding grains, wheat, and anything else containing gluten may be one more step you can take to cooling the fire in your joints naturally.

This is just one of the great tips you’ll find in a plan from my good friend Dr. Stephen Sinatra. I’ve known him personally for years. In “The Arthritis Interrupted Plan,” Dr. Sinatra reveals dozens of natural remedies that work to eliminate arthritis pain – without drugs or surgery.

We’re most familiar with olive oil in relation to cooking, but there’s so many other ways it can be used; often avoiding the need to use chemicals, compounds and substances that aren’t very environmentally friendly. For these tips, you don’t need to use the best grade of olive oil.

- After polishing copper or brass, rub it with a little olive oil to slow down the reocurrence of tarnish

- Can be used as a stainless steel cleaner; apply sparingly

- Rub olive oil into wooden cutting boards to help prevent cracking, repel staining and marking

- Remove paint from hair or skin by dabbing a cotton ball dipped in olive to the affected area

- Use it as an alternative for de-squeaking hinges

- Olive oil can help unjam zippers - use a cotton bud to apply

- Apply a little olive oil to your shoes to restore their shine

- Old leather can be made more supple by rubbing in olive oil (spot test first)

- Coat garden tool blades with a thin layer of olive oil to prevent dirt sticking to them and to help prevent rusting. This works really well!

- Mix one part lemon juice with 3 parts olive oil to make a wooden furniture polish

- Rub into to fingernails before and after manicuring

- A small amount of olive oil applied after shampooing can substitute hair conditioner.

- Extra light olive oil can be used as a massage oil

- Olive oil can replace shaving cream or shaving oil

- Dip a razor into olive oil after use to prevent the blade rusting

- Can be applied to chapped lips to to relieve the dryness

- Use as a makeup remover

A teaspoon of olive oil can help soothe a tickling or sore throat (I’ve just tried that out and it has provided some relief) and in some cases if taken just before bed, can alleviate snoring :).

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By Dr. Mercola. http://bit.ly/NaturalPainReliever

One of the most common traditional uses of ginger, a medicinal tuber, is for nausea, including the morning sickness experienced by about 80 percent of pregnant women.

Ginger has been proven to be more effective in reducing nausea and vomiting in pregnant women than a placebo, and it also works just as well as vitamin B6, which can also improve morning sickness symptoms in pregnant women.

I believe it’s one of the absolute best therapies for nausea of any kind, and can even work on motion sickness as well.

However, last year NutraIngredients reported that the Finnish food safety agency, Evira, “recommended warning labels for ginger supplements, after its Risk Assessment Unit highlighted dangers for consuming them for pregnant women.”

“The assessment found that ginger food supplements, teas and drinking powders should be limited in pregnant women because elements in ginger may be harmful to fetal development if consumed in great enough quantities.” [Emphasis mine]

The warning label issued in Finland was not necessarily due to scientific evidence of harm, but rather implemented as a precaution.

I’ve previously stated that ginger is safe for consumption during pregnancy, and I still believe it is safe in moderation.

It’s worth considering that whole ginger root contains a variety of synergistic compounds. This natural synergy typically ensures that one compound in the food doesn’t “overtake” the others to inflict harm. It is rare for any type of whole food to be dangerous enough to not eat during pregnancy.

That is typically only a concern that arises when you extract individual ingredients or compounds from a food or plant source, which is done in drug development, and to a more limited extent for certain supplements.

That said, whole ginger can be consumed in a variety of ways, including:

• My favorite way of using it is to cut off about a teaspoon worth, dicing it very fine and swallowing it with water. This is far more potent, inexpensive and effective than any other way I know of.
• Cooking with it: Ginger tastes great lightly sautéed with other vegetables, meat, sesame oil, and a pinch of natural, unprocessed salt.
• As a tea: Simply put a couple of thin slices into hot water. A little bit of raw honey can sweeten the otherwise “hot and spicy” flavor of the tea.

I’ve previously also recommended ginger syrup, which you can easily make on your own or purchase in most health food stores. However, knowing what we now know about the massively negative health ramifications of fructose consumption, I’d recommend avoiding this alternative and just stick to eating or drinking the ginger without loading up on unnecessary sugar.

Using a ginger syrup, which consists of about twice the amount of sugar to ginger, doesn’t make much sense in terms of overall health – especially if you’re drinking it regularly.

Added Boon: Ginger May Also Help Prevent Heart Disease

In the past decade, researchers have also discovered that ginger may benefit your cardiovascular health, including:

• Preventing atherosclerosis
• Lowering cholesterol levels
• Preventing oxidation of low density lipoprotein (LDL)

One animal study found that mice who received 250 micrograms of ginger extract daily experienced:

• 44 percent reduction in aortic atherosclerotic lesion
• 27 percent reduction in triglycerides
• 29 percent reduction in cholesterol
• 53 percent reduction in VLDL cholesterol
• 33 percent reductions in LDL (bad) cholesterol, and
• Reduced LDL oxidation and aggregation

As you can see, there are plenty of reasons to make sure you’re eating (or drinking) fresh herbs and spices such as ginger on a regular basis.

Want even more tips on how to use ginger in your cooking?

Check out About.com’s Home Cooking section for a long list of recipes that include ginger.

An exercise regime is as effective as surgery for people with a chronic pain in the front part of their knee, known as chronic patellofemoral syndrome (PFPS).

PFPS is often treated with arthroscopic surgery, in which equipment is inserted through small incisions in your knee to diagnose and fix the problem. However, there is little evidence that this treatment is the best option.

The study, conducted by researchers at The ORTON Research Institute in Helsinki, Finland, compared arthroscopy with exercise in 56 patients with PFPS.

One group of participants was treated with knee arthroscopy and an eight-week home exercise program, while a second group received only the exercise program.

After nine months, patients in both groups experienced similar reductions in pain and improvements in knee mobility. A follow-up conducted two years later still found no differences in outcomes between the two groups.

The only difference discovered was in cost: those who had received the surgery had to pay over $1,300 more than the exercise-only group.

The researchers concluded that arthroscopy is not a cost-effective treatment for PFPS.

There are two distinct methods to increase calorie consumption through exercise. The one method that is known by most people is to engage in long duration repetitive motion work. The other method is to increase muscle metabolism. A pound of muscle can metabolize an average of about 55 calories per 24 hours but it will not do that unless stimulated to do so. The muscles can be stimulated to metabolize by stretching them under resistance. The larger the range of motion of the exercise, the larger the amount of muscle cells stimulated. That is exactly what happens during Yoga or Pilates exercise, stretching under resistance through long ranges of motion. People who practice yoga on a regular basis will always be lean. If you find a fat person who professes to do yoga on a regular basis, you found a liar who is talking yoga and who does not practice it. Most yoga practitioners are also vegetarians, but that is not the reason why they are lean. There are many fat vegetarians, but those fat vegetarians do not practice yoga. Practicing yoga or Pilates requires many hours per week and therefore it is as impractical for the average public as 30 to 90 minute exercise routines. The ROM is the 4 minute solution to stretch all your muscles through long ranges of motion and in addition it increases muscle strength and it yields significant cardio benefits. Below is a comparison of calories burned during and after exercise from a 60 minute treadmill workout and from a 4 minute ROM workout:

A 180 pound person burns about 415 calories during a typical treadmill workout of 60 minutes. They burn 350 calories during the 60 minutes on the treadmill (walking at 3 to 4 miles per hour). During the treadmill workout you use 25% of the body’s muscles and you use them through only 15% of their range of motion. This means that only 15% of 25% or only 3.75% of the body’s muscle cells are stretched and stimulated during the exercise. These 3.75% of muscle cells that have been stimulated during a treadmill workout provide for an additional 25 calories of metabolism during the 2 hours immediately after the treadmill workout and another 40 calories for the remainder of a 24 hour period. Total calories from 60 minutes walking on a treadmill then are 350 plus 25 plus 40 calories for a total of 415 calories burned as a result of 60 minutes of walking on a treadmill.

The same 180 pound person will burn 465 calories as a result of 4 minutes on the ROM machine. How is it possible that more calories are burned as a result of 4 minutes on the ROM than from 60 minutes on a treadmill? During the 4 minutes on the ROM you use 55% of your muscles and you use them through an average of 80% of their range of motion (ROM stands for Range of Motion). The total percentage of muscle cells involved in the ROM exercise are 12 times as many as the 3.75% used on a treadmill because 80% of 55% of your muscles is 44% of all your muscle cells that are stimulated to an increased metabolism. During the 4 minute ROM workout the 180 pound person burns only 40 calories. But those 44% of the body’s muscle cells that have been stimulated to increased metabolism will burn another 150 calories in the 2 hours after the 4 minute ROM exercise and they will burn another 275 calories in the remaining time of a 24 hour period.

Note: Because of the long duration 60 minutes on a treadmill those 3.75% of muscles are stimulated to about their maximum capacity to metabolize. During the much shorter 4 minute ROM workout the 44% of muscle cells that are stimulated to a higher metabolism are stimulated to only about 50% to 75% of their maximum ability to metabolize. But since about 12 times as many muscle cells are stimulated on the ROM, the total calories burned from the 4 minute ROM exercise is higher than from an average 60 minute treadmill workout.

You can get the same health and fitness benefits from doing various kinds of exercise with equipment costing less than $200. The only difference between the ROM and other methods of exercise is TIME. The ROM workout costs 4 minutes and at the end of the workout you get a score that tells you what shape you are in. The other methods of exercise that can deliver the same benefits as a ROM 4 minute workout require from 45 to 90 minutes of time. The big difference is that only 8% of people have the discipline to do 45 to 90 minutes of exercise per day and with the ROM more than 85% of people have enough discipline to do the ROM 4 minute exercise. Believe it or not, there are still 10% to 15% of ROM owners that do not have the discipline to do 4 minutes of exercise per day. But for many of these less disciplined ROM owners it is easy to get back on the 4 minute per day ROM exercise program because it does not take a lot of resolve to do a 4 minute workout.

In my opinion this is evidence of Obama sleeping with the drug company that is helping fund his health care agenda. You would think the first lady would be jealous. QG

Superstar CBS Reporter Blows the Lid Off the Swine Flu Media Hype and Hysteria

Of those presumed likely swine flu cases out of approximately every hundred of what was tested, only a small fraction were actually swine flu. In every instance, perhaps the biggest number of cases that were swine flu was something like 30%. The smallest number was something like 2% or 3%.

Maybe there’s one state where it was just 1%.

The point is, of the vast majority of the presumed swine flu cases recognized by trained physicians, the vast majority were not flu at all. They weren’t swine flu or regular flu; they were some other sort of upper respiratory infection.”

And here is the clincher that it seems the CDC just doesn’t want the American public to know …

“The CDC explained that one of the reasons they quit counting was because of all the flu that’s out there, most are swine flu. Well, that’s true. Most of the flu that was out there was indeed swine flu, but they failed to say that most of the suspected flu was nothing at all. And I think that’s the caveat the public just didn’t know,” Attkisson explains.

She gives even more striking examples of the numbers the investigative report revealed. For instance:

* In Florida, 83 percent of specimens that were presumed to be swine flu were negative for all flu when tested!
* In California, 86 percent of suspected H1N1 specimens were not swine flu or any flu; only 2 percent were confirmed swine flu.
* In Alaska, 93 percent of suspected swine flu specimens were negative for all flu types; only 1 percent was H1N1 flu.

Read more at the link below.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/11/24/Superstar-CBS-Reporter-Blows-the-Lid-Off-the-Swine-Flu-Media-Hype-and-Hysteria.aspx