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Imagine How Aspirin Can Save Lives

2009-10-11T06:12:00.001-07:00

If You take an Aspirin or a baby aspirin once a day, take it at night. The reason is aspirin has a 24-hour "half-life". Therefore, if most heart attacks happen in the wee hours of the morning, the Aspirin would be strongest in your system. Aspirin lasts a really long time in your medicine chest.. Years.(when it Gets old, it smells like Vinegar.)

Please read on.

Why Aspirin by your bed save lives ....

It is important to always have Aspirin in the home.

Why have Aspirin by your bedside?

About heart attacks, there are other symptoms of an heart attack besides the pain on the left arm.

One must also be aware of an intense pain on the chin, as well as nausea and lots of sweating,however these symptoms may also occur less frequently.

There may be no pain in the chest during an heart attack.

The majority of people (about 60%) who had an heart attack during their sleep, did not wake up. However, if it occurs, the chest pain may wake you
up from your deep sleep.

If that happens, mimmeidately dissolve two Aspirin in your mouth and swallow them with a bit of water. Afterwards, phone a neighbor or a family member who lives very close by and state "Heart attack" and that you have taken 2 Aspirins take a seat on a chair or sofa and wait for their arrival and do not lie down. A Cardiologist has stated that, if each person, after knowing this information, tell it to his family members and friends, probably a life can be saved! I have already shared the information.

What about you? It may save lives.

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass... it's about learning to dance in the rain.

Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins

2009-02-28T06:02:00.000-08:00

1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.

2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's lifetime.

3. When the person's immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumours.

4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors.

5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.

6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastro-intestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.

7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.

8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor destruction.

9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.

10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.

11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply.

WHAT CANCER CELLS FEED ON:

a. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal,Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses but only in very sma ll amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in colour. Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea salt.

b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soy milk, cancer cells are being starved.

c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.

d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to no urish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).

e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer-fighting properties. Water-best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.

12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines become putrified and leads to more toxic buildup.

13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.

14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the body's own killer cells to destroy cancer cells. Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.

15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger, unforgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.

16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.

Do Not Re-use Mineral Water Bottles

2008-09-04T08:53:00.000-07:00

Many are unaware of poisoning caused by re-using plastic bottles.

Some of you may be in the habit of using and re-using your disposable mineral water bottles, keeping them in your car or at work.

Not good idea.

It happened in Dubai, when a 12 year old girl died after a long usage (16 months) of SAFA mineral water bottle, as she used to carry the same fancy (painted by herself) bottle to her school daily.

In a nutshell, the plastic (called polyethylene terephthalate or PET) used in these bottles contains a potentially carcinogenic element(something called diethylhyroxylamine or DEHA). The bottles are safe for one-time use only, If you must keep them longer, it should be or no more than a few days, week max, and keep them away from heat as well.

Repeated washing and rinsing can cause the plastic to break down and the carcinogens (canser-causing chemical agents) can leak into the water that your are drinking.

Better to invest water bottles that are really meant for multiple uses.

This is not something that we should scrimping on. Those of you with family, do please advice them, especially children. Please forward this information.

Prevention is better than cure.

Eating Fruits

2008-07-22T04:07:00.000-07:00

We all think eating fruits means just buying fruits, cutting it and just popping it into our mouths. It's not so easy as you think. It's important to know how and when to eat.

What is the correct way of eating fruits?

* IT MEANS NOT EATING FRUITS AFTER YOUR MEALS!

* FRUITS SHOULD BE EATEN ON AN EMPTY STOMACH.

If you eat fruit like that, it will play a major role to detoxify your system, supplying you with a great deal of energy for weight loss and other life activities.

Fruit is the most important foods.

Let's say y ou eat two slices of bread and then a slice of fruit. The slice of fruit is ready to go straight through the stomach into the intestines, but it is prevented from doing so.
In the meantime the whole meal rots and ferments and turns to acid. The minute the fruit comes into contact

with the food in the stomach and digestive juices, the entire mass of food begins to spoil.

So please eat your fruits on an empty stomach or before your meals! You have heard people complaining - every time I eat water-melon I burp, when I eat durian my stomach bloats up, when I eat banana I feel like running to the toilet etc - actually all this will not arise if you eat the fruit on an empty stomach. The fruit mixes with the putrefying other food and produces gas and hence you will bloat!

Graying hair, balding, nervous outburst, and dark circles under the eyes all these will not happen if you take fruits on an empty stomach.

There is no such thing as some fruits like orange and lemon are acidic because all fruits become alkaline in our body, according to Dr. Herbert Shelton who did a research on this matter.

If you have mastered the correct way of eating fruits, you have the Secret of beauty, longevity, health, energy,
happiness and normal weight.

When you need to drink fruit juice - drink only fresh fruit juice, NOT From the cans. Don't even drink juice that has been heated up. Don't eat Cooked fruits because you don't get the nutrients at all. You only get to taste.

Your Heart Needs a Lot of Loving

2008-06-02T03:22:00.000-07:00

“The heart has always been associated with love.
We give love with our heart.
We feel love in our heart.
Heart is love.
But we often forget that heart is life”.

Life begins at the first beat of the heart and ends when the heart stops. The human heart works tirelessly to sustain life.

Love your heart, save your life.
If you love life, you must love your heart.

There are many things you can do to take care of your heart and reduce the risk of heart disease.

Eat a heart-healthy diet low in fat and cholesterol. The risk for heart disease increases as your total cholesterol increases.

Control high blood pressure and cholesterol the two most common heart disease risk factors. If treatment is warranted, today’s medications are effective, safe and easy to take.

Get active. Even leisure-time activities, like gardening or walking, can lower your risk of heart disease.

Achieve and maintain a healthy weight. Excess weight puts significant strain on your heart and worsens several other heart disease risk factors such as diabetes.

Manage stress. Poorly controlled stress and anger can lead to heart attacks and strokes.

Quit smoking. Smokers have more than twice the risk for heart attack as nonsmokers.

Take your medication! Many treatment or maintenance regimens fail due to patients not strictly complying with medication schedule.

Heart disease belongs to the deadly killer diseases and they come in many deadly forms.

Love your heart…

Heart Attacks and drinking warm water....

2008-05-18T22:08:00.000-07:00

This is a very good article.

Not only about the warm water after your meal, but about heart attacks. This makes sense.. the Chinese and Japanese drink hot tea with their meals...not cold water...maybe it is time we adopt their drinking habit while eating!!!

Nothing to lose, everything to gain...

For those who like to drink cold water, this article is applicable to you.

It is nice to have a cup of cold drink after a meal. However, the cold water will solidify the oily stuff that you have just consumed.

It will slow down the digestion. Once this "sludge" reacts with the acid, it willbreak down and be absorbed by the intestine faster than the solid food.

It will line the intestine.

Very soon, this will turn into fats and lead to cancer. It is best to drink hot soup or warm water after a meal.

A serious note about heart attacks:

You should know that not every heart attack symptom is going to be the left arm hurting. Be aware of intense pain in the jaw line.

You may never have the first chest pain during the course of a heart attack. Nausea and intense sweating are also common symptoms. 60% of people who have a heart attack while they are asleep do not wake up.Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep. Let's be careful and be aware. The more we know, the better chance we could survive...

How to become energetic for the whole day?

2007-12-31T21:24:00.000-08:00

Lack of energy and stamina of a person at the end of the day may also be felt up to the morning of the following day which in turn may result to another health problem.

Some of the tips that may help a person to be energetic for the whole day may help cope with the lack of stamina and energy.

Eat the right food

Have a breakfast every morning because it will decrease the risk of over fatigue, due to working, up to 75%.

During lunchtime do not eat foods with high carbohydrates such as rice, pasta or bread because it will lower the insulin level of a person thus may possibly result on lack of energy for the whole day, it is better to eat foods that are insulin stabilizing proteins such as egg, meat or cheese.

Consume an energy drink

A person consumes coffee and soda to feel not sleepy and to stay alert, however drinking soda or coffee can increase the production of stress hormones, because of its caffeine content that may take a longer time before it will be remove to a persons system, doctors always recommends to limit a persons consumption of caffeine for a day, it is better to drink two glass of water when a person feels the lack of energy.

Have a break

Headache often starts from home prior to going for work and up to coming back from work that is why it’s hard for some person to open their eyes every morning, experts recommend to have at least a 10 minutes break from working to take a rest. Simple exercise such as jumping may be done to help the circulation of blood on the body, it will double the oxygen intake that a person need and also increase the metabolic rate up to 25%, which make a person to take a depth breath thus help prevent the lack of energy.

Know Your Level of Anxiety

2007-12-19T22:09:00.000-08:00

Whether we like it or not, anxiety is part of life. This is not to say that anxiety is negative. In fact anxiety is beneficial to a certain extent. It is when our anxiety level reaches a point where we are held captive by fear that we should take notice.
With these questions, try to gauge your level of anxiety. More importantly, do something about it.

Are you always rushing racing against time to get things done?

Do you always have unpleasant thoughts that something horrible will happen to your loved ones?

Do you feel nervous and afraid of accident every time you travel?

Do you have compulsive thoughts of death whenever you get sick, and even if your sickness is not serious?

Do you feel confused and rattled every time you have problems?

Do you feel fidgety while waiting for your turn to talk to your boss to discuss a report?

Think Positive!!

2007-12-16T01:19:00.000-08:00

This is nice - finding positive out of every negative - which we don't always manage to do.

Be thankful...

For the husband who snores all night, because he is at home asleep with you and not with someone else.
For your teenage daughter who is complaining about doing dishes, because that means she is at home & not on the streets.
For the taxes that we pay because it means that we are employed.
For the mess to clean after a party because it means that we have been surrounded by friends.
For the clothes that fit a little too snug because it means we have enough to eat.
For the shadow that watches us work because it means we are out in the sunshine.
For a floor that needs mopping and windows that need cleaning because it means we have a home.
For all the complaining we hear about the government because it means that we have freedom of speech.
For the parking spot you find at the far end of the parking lot because it means we are capable of walking and that we have been blessed with transportation.
For the noise we have to bear from our neighbors because it means that we can hear.
For the pile of laundry and ironing because it means we have clothes to wear.
For weariness and aching muscles at the end of the day because it means we have been capable of working hard.
For the alarm that goes off in the early morning hours because it means that we are still alive.

AND FINALLY ....... for received e-mails because it means we have friends who are thinking of us, at least.

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2007-12-16T00:06:00.001-08:00

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STROKE: Remember The 1st Three Letters...

2007-12-13T04:59:00.000-08:00

My friend sent this to me and encouraged me to post it and spread the word. I agree. If everyone can remember something this simple, we could save some folks. Seriously.. Please read:

STROKE IDENTIFICATION:

During a BBQ, a friend stumbled and took a little fall - she assured everyone that she was fine (they offered to call paramedics) and just tripped over a brick because of her new shoes. They got her cleaned up and got her a new plate of food - while she appeared a bit shaken up, Ingrid went about enjoying herself the rest of the evening. Ingrid's husband called later telling everyone that his wife had been taken to the hospital - (at 6:00pm, Ingrid passed away.) She had suffered a stroke at the BBQ. Had they known how to identify the signs of a stroke, perhaps Ingrid would be with us today. Some don't die. They end up in a helpless, hopeless condition instead.

It only takes a minute to read this...

A neurologist says that if he can get to a stroke victim within 3 hours he can totally reverse the effects of a stroke...totally. He said the trick was getting a stroke recognized, diagnosed, and then getting the patient medically cared for within 3 hours, which is tough.

RECOGNIZING A STROKE

Thank God for the sense to remember the "3" steps, STR. Read and Learn!

Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify. Unfortunately, the lack of awareness spells disaster. The stroke victim may suffer severe brain damage when people nearby fail to recognize the symptoms of a stroke.

Now doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by asking three simple
questions:

S

*Ask the individual to SMILE.

T

*Ask the person to TALK.. to SPEAK A SIMPLE SENTENCE
(Coherently) (i.e. . . It is sunny out today)

R

*Ask him or her to RAISE BOTH ARMS.

{NOTE: Another 'sign' of a stroke is this: Ask the person to 'stick' out their tongue... if the tongue is 'crooked', if it goes to one side or the other that is also an indication of a stroke}

If he or she has trouble with ANY ONE of these tasks, call 9-1-1 immediately and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher.

A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this e-mail sends it to 10 people; you can bet that at least one life will be saved.

Heart Attack: What To Do When You're Alone?

2007-12-13T04:57:00.001-08:00

Let’s say its 6:15 pm and you’re driving home alone after an unusually hard day on the job. You’re really tried 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 five miles from the hospital nearest your home, unfortunately you don’t know if you’ll be able to make it that far…. What to do???

You have been trained in CPR, but the guy that conducted the course did not tell you how to perform it in your self…

How to survive heart attack when alone?

Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, without help, the person whose heart is beating improperly and begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness… What to do?

Do not panic, but start coughing repeatedly and vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before each cough, the cough must be deep and prolong, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest.

A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let-up until helps arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again.

Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can get to a hospital.