tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10461919Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:24:53 +0000Natures bounty and common sense can work wonders.http://www.answersforyourhealth.com/blog/noreply@blogger.com (sharono)Blogger207125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10461919.post-1429868243983313432Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:58:00 +00002008-09-28T12:14:57.514-07:00losing weightnutritionHealth and DietIf you are a fan of western movies you know that phrase. If not you may be under the impression that anything labeled good is actually good without any reservations. I was just sort of watching TV yesterday, you know when you are doing housework and stuff and the TV is on. A commercial caught my eye. Two teenage brothers are sitting at the breakfast table and the younger (nerd) is eating http://www.answersforyourhealth.com/blog/2008/09/hfcs-good-bad-ugly.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (sharono)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10461919.post-8069959205826705245Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:06:00 +00002008-09-24T11:14:17.211-07:00supplementsWe have talked about sorting your supplements and prescriptions into groups with and without food, once a day and multiple times a day. You now have all those bottles sitting in their own little box marked with or without food. Or maybe you have several boxes - with or without food, morning or multiple times a day. May I suggest a simple system to easily identify what is which. It is a color http://www.answersforyourhealth.com/blog/2008/09/managing-your-health-supplements.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (sharono)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10461919.post-163032503855547697Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:21:00 +00002008-09-03T10:37:38.808-07:00Just because "it" is natural doesn't mean "it" can't kill or cripple you. Homeopathic remedies work because they are strong medicines that impact the body. Problems can occur when natural remedies are combined without consideration for the interaction of all those individual herbs. Most everyone already knows that you must be careful when combining a prescription drug and an over-the-counter http://www.answersforyourhealth.com/blog/2008/09/natural-safe-or-deadly.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (sharono)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10461919.post-1063210370112029607Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:49:00 +00002008-07-09T09:14:31.794-07:00I received an invitation to join a group that is pushing a miracle cure. The web site does not proclaim a miracle cure - that would be against the law. But it does encourage the individual sellers to use the words from their own experience with the product. On the whole is is as good a product as you can find in any health food store only more expensive. After all they have to pay a http://www.answersforyourhealth.com/blog/2008/07/marketing-miracle-cure.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (sharono)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10461919.post-8831875192262976081Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:39:00 +00002008-06-26T15:00:35.479-07:00Health ScaresWanted to pass on a new report about swimming in the ocean. Seems there is more to be afraid of than sharks and jellyfish. Beach Bacteria: A Deadly Threat for Some Rare But Potentially Deadly Bacteria May Be Carried in Ocean Surf In the most recent e-publication of the Journal of Microbiology, Karen Blackwell and James Oliver of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte review the presence http://www.answersforyourhealth.com/blog/2008/06/planning-on-swimming-in-ocean.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (sharono)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10461919.post-256240142528486656Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:27:00 +00002008-06-25T07:56:56.956-07:00The rising cost of health care may not be what you would think. According to several articles on my desk at the moment are indications that the cost is due to over care -- or you could call it over kill. From one point of view the more visits, the more prescriptions, the more hospital time, the more tests ---- result in more death. Add together the incidents of wrong diagnosis, wrong http://www.answersforyourhealth.com/blog/2008/06/rising-cost-of-health-care.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (sharono)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10461919.post-5476366072026455678Sun, 25 May 2008 19:39:00 +00002008-05-25T12:46:05.163-07:00herbal healingI have been busy for several days now trying to get my web site back into perfect working condition. Another example of letting something go until it is a major job. I feel like I am barely making a dent, but each dent must be made to reshape the whole. Anyway, I found a couple of articles that I had been working on but never published so thought I would give you some links. Bringing herbal http://www.answersforyourhealth.com/blog/2008/05/healing-herbs.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (sharono)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10461919.post-8222697688121314980Sat, 24 May 2008 13:10:00 +00002008-05-24T06:21:45.272-07:00Self Helplosing weightHealth and DietWe have all been there. The new project, the fear and anticipation, the excitement of something new. We have all been there. Trying to breathe life into an old project, the boredom, the failures, knowing in your heart that it is just no good. Knowing that you are just not good enough to do it. These words bring to mind all the diets, exercise programs, eating healthy resolutions and promises http://www.answersforyourhealth.com/blog/2008/05/what-is-harder-starting-over-or.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (sharono)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10461919.post-3078207271880699353Fri, 16 May 2008 13:48:00 +00002008-05-16T07:07:26.822-07:00Eating natural foods in a natural state and living green. One would think this is a new concept instead of an ages old concept. Once it was just a necessity. There was very little in the way of processed food - just canned goods and smoked meat. Everything was recycled and everyone did the recycling. Automation and factories took the canning out of the home kitchen. In fact, it took the cookinghttp://www.answersforyourhealth.com/blog/2008/05/natural-is-not-easy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (sharono)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10461919.post-6351582602035651952Wed, 14 May 2008 22:35:00 +00002008-05-14T16:27:44.283-07:00Self Helpself sabotageAs you may have noticed I have not been posting very much lately. I have the worst possible excuse -- fear. A couple of months ago I received a letter from someone who had read one of my articles on the web site. She took great exception to it and was very verbally abusive. I do not expect that everyone will agree with what I write or publish. I have had letters in the past that questioned http://www.answersforyourhealth.com/blog/2008/05/fear-inertia-what-stops-you.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (sharono)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10461919.post-7960127069365795553Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:12:00 +00002008-09-28T12:21:49.620-07:00GoalsHave you read the Daffodil Principle? It is a real garden open to the public although it will close in 2009. The links to the story and some pictures of the garden are at the end of this article. It is now 50 years since the beginning of the daffodil garden on the mountain. It got me to thinking about all the things that could have been done in 50 years. If you saved a dime a day for 50 yearshttp://www.answersforyourhealth.com/blog/2008/04/what-is-your-daffodil-principal.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (sharono)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10461919.post-2155281031648016559Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:59:00 +00002008-04-02T04:07:28.844-07:00CPRWould you be willing to save a life? For a lot of people, the risks associated with giving CPR out weigh the benefits. Just the idea of breathing into someone else's mouth, particularly a stranger, is enough to stop them from helping. Over the years that I have been CPR "certified", I have seen many changes in the counts. Now simplicity is the key and the odds just jumped for any victim. http://www.answersforyourhealth.com/blog/2008/04/changes-to-cpr.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (sharono)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10461919.post-1275055611870331656Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:59:00 +00002008-03-05T14:03:15.039-08:00The usual interesting day in the world of health news. According to the Journal of American Medical Assoc a study was conducted (wonder who sponsored this one) to find out if a placebo pill marked as price reduced and made in China would give pain relief as well as a placebo pill marked as expensive. I understand the concept of the actual medication versus a placebo but what does this study http://www.answersforyourhealth.com/blog/2008/03/placebo-versus-advertising.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (sharono)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10461919.post-7762877071320951871Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:54:00 +00002008-02-20T07:01:12.483-08:00vitamin Cvitamin DAnd yet another reason to lose weight. Good old vitamin D - Most doctors and researchers now agree that vitamin D is the key to strong bones and prevention of many of the diseases now associated with aging. The best sources of vitamin D are sunlight and fish oils. Now the bad news. Vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin and is stored in -- what else -- fat. But if you are storing too much fat youhttp://www.answersforyourhealth.com/blog/2008/02/vitamins-what-is-old-is-new.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (sharono)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10461919.post-5364817189717710673Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:43:00 +00002008-02-16T06:53:32.074-08:00health and agingWe all know of the overnight success -- the one who worked his or her whole life to achieve that goal. And though we may acknowledge that work, we still tend to think of it as just one "break" that got that person the prize. If you think about it, everyone is on that same path. At least in terms of aging and health. You work your whole life on your health. No you say, I didn't work at http://www.answersforyourhealth.com/blog/2008/02/overnight-success-or-failure.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (sharono)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10461919.post-8553876656205221898Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:17:00 +00002008-02-08T10:30:25.576-08:00food safetyjokesI am still catching up and clearing out a ton of emails. Like everyone else, I get more spam than real emails but it does take some sorting. The emails that really upset me are the ones that look like I sent them. It is just out and out fraud that someone can use my name and address to send out their junk. Oh well Wanted to pass this cute little thing on to you. I got it from my daughter. http://www.answersforyourhealth.com/blog/2008/02/just-for-fun.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (sharono)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10461919.post-8821333532319288122Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:29:00 +00002008-02-05T05:48:09.588-08:00I feel like I have been missing since just before Christmas. It started when I hurt my elbow at work. I had to go to the med clinic that the store uses. My blood pressure was 195/120. Since the blood pressure had nothing to do with the elbow injury, the doctor would not treat it and suggested I see my own doctor. At the time I did not have a doctor so I made an appointment with my husband's http://www.answersforyourhealth.com/blog/2008/02/twisted-toe-nails-and-blood-pressure.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (sharono)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10461919.post-4777452798146142139Sat, 15 Dec 2007 15:04:00 +00002007-12-15T07:08:30.045-08:00Christmas HumorFound this at Jumbo Joke From my files dated Christmas ...1996. We sure haven't come a long way. - - - And Joseph went up from Galilee to Bethlehem with Mary, his espoused wife, who was great with child. And she brought forth a son and wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger because there was no room for them in the inn. And the angel of the Lord spoke to the shepherds and http://www.answersforyourhealth.com/blog/2007/12/politically-correct-christmas.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (sharono)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10461919.post-8817063230972189976Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:20:00 +00002007-12-14T12:28:02.265-08:00reverse mental declineIt's never too late to be what you might have been. George Eliot If you want a memory upgrade for your brain, you might want to think about what you are snacking on during the day and evening. Put away those chips and cookies and think blue and crunchy. How about a handful of blueberries? Follow that up with the satisfying crunch of some walnuts. This information from House Calls --- New http://www.answersforyourhealth.com/blog/2007/12/give-your-brain-memory-upgrade.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (sharono)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10461919.post-392569969363813866Sun, 09 Dec 2007 14:29:00 +00002007-12-09T06:41:18.601-08:00holiday safetypet holiday safetyIn your cell phone do you have these #'s insurance company emergency road service especially when traveling during the holidays - house sitter or a neighbor, car rental company, airline, hotel front desk, As the busy shopping season is upon us, and the longer you wait to shop, the more you become unaware of your surrounding because of stress. We have already had some purse snatching http://www.answersforyourhealth.com/blog/2007/12/holiday-tips-for-safety.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (sharono)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10461919.post-2310329662772403598Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:25:00 +00002007-11-20T08:29:15.227-08:00losing weightnutritionEaten by millions loved by few and usually thickly covered in sugar with a cherry on top. Still the grapefruit carries on in the quest for good health especially a healthy liver. It is one of those habits you need to make that introduce grapefruit as the breakfast item you always eat or at least eat 4 times a week. Yes I know, it makes the coffee taste funny. Grapefruit has a low GI of 48 andhttp://www.answersforyourhealth.com/blog/2007/11/grapefruit-super-food.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (sharono)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10461919.post-9220271451248119402Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:48:00 +00002007-11-09T04:56:01.572-08:00Health and Dietwhat if you knew there were only 2 things that made you sick or fat? What if that number was 3? Would you be able to give up those 2 or 3 things? Sure you say -- without a second thought. Now what if those 2 or 3 things had you addicted? Your body is so dependent on getting those things that it will cause you pain and suffering when you are going through detox. Irritation and anger and http://www.answersforyourhealth.com/blog/2007/11/what-if-you-knew.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (sharono)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10461919.post-8307583799020222127Mon, 05 Nov 2007 00:56:00 +00002007-11-04T14:27:41.660-08:00losing weightEFT for overeating and panic attacks – and interesting similarities between the two issues You may or may not have put over eating problems together with a fear of not enough money or not enough love or any other not enough ------ that you have. The issue of holding on to tightly to what you fear losing is very much related to being over weight. Our brains have been compared to a computer and http://www.answersforyourhealth.com/blog/2007/11/overeating-and-fear-of-loss.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (sharono)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10461919.post-5922582780308735025Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:26:00 +00002007-10-26T07:55:34.620-07:00cervical cancersupplementsAnother must have to reduce the effects of aging. -- Women need more choline (a nutrient that is needed for cell membrane formation and to make the neurotransmitter acetylcholine necessary for brain function) after menopause or are at risk of liver and muscle damage. from the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition May 2007 Disturbing news on the cervical cancer front. Pre-cancerous http://www.answersforyourhealth.com/blog/2007/10/women-need-more-choline.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (sharono)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10461919.post-505030049638675139Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:26:00 +00002007-10-19T08:43:20.741-07:00fastingsupplementsIn the beginning people fasted because they couldn't find any food that day. All of the world's religions have a tradition or commandment to fast one day a week. Our enlightened society here in the US and in other more "advanced" cultures, we have given up this practice. Perhaps we need to rethink this. In a report from Dr Blaylock one of the tips to remaining young was fasting. 12. Once a http://www.answersforyourhealth.com/blog/2007/10/fasting-secret-to-brain-health.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (sharono)