Best food to eat when you have arthritis

ARTHRITIS - FOODS THAT RELIEVE JOINT PAIN

Here's a traditional Chinese treatment for arthritis.  Add 100 dead snakes to 5 liters of red wine and some herbs. Let mellow for three months. Drink the wine three times a day for 6 to 12 weeks.

Admittedly, this concoction is a bit on  the  strange side,  but until recently, most doctors felt  that any food -related remedy for  arthritis  was  only slightly  less bizarre than  this  unappetizing brew.

While there  isn't a  specific food  that will help  relieve  arthritis in  all people, doctors  today recognize  that what  you eat—or,  in  some cases, don't eat—can help ease discomfort and  even slow the  progression of the  disease.

What health benefits do apricots have

APRICOTS A BOUNTY OF BETA - CAROTENE

HEALING POWER CAN HELP:

Protect the eyes

Prevent heart disease

At one time, Chinese brides nibbled on apricots to increase fertility. It sounds funny today, until you realize that these fruits are, in fact, high in a mineral needed for the production of sex hormones. These days, of course, few people are likely to rely on apricots to influence family size. Yet this sweet, velvety fruit contains a variety of compounds that research shows can fight infections, blindness, and heart disease.

Most of apricots' health benefits are due to their copious and exceptionally diverse carotenoid content. Carotenoids are the pigments in plants that paint many of our favorite fruits and vegetables red, orange, and yellow and that in humans have a wide range of health -protecting properties. Researchers have identified at least 600 different carotenoids, with some of the most powerful, including beta -carotene, being found in apricots.

APPLES, THEIR BENEFITS ARE SKIN - DEEP

HEALING POWER FROM APPLE NUTRITION

CAN HELP:

Lower the risk of heart disease

Prevent constipation

Control diabetes

Prevent cancer

  

It's really not surprising that apples have long been considered a symbol of good health and vitality. For one thing, you can keep them handy to eat anywhere, anytime, just by dropping one in your briefcase, backpack, or purse. To complete the package, they come ready - wrapped in their own protective but tasty skin, with all their tart sweetness wrapped within. It's almost as if the head designer said, "Apples are good, so I'll make them easy to eat."

APPENDICITIS, What are we doing wrong?

THE FORCE OF FIBER

Researchers have wondered for years why appendicitis is relatively rare in places like Africa and Asia, while in the United States it's extremely common, affecting between 7 and 12 percent of people at some time in their lives.

What are we doing wrong?

"There's always been speculation that high -fiber diets protect against appendicitis," says David G. Addiss, M.D., medical epidemiologist for the division of parasitic diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. People in Africa and Asia eat tremendous quantities of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and other fiber -rich foods. In this country, however, most of us get only 11 to 12 grams of fiber a day. This is less than half of the Daily Value (DV) of 25 grams.

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BIG THREE  OF ANTIOXIDANT

VITAMIN C

Like Navy SEALs, molecules of vitamin C (also called ascorbic acid) patrol the waters of your body, capturing free radicals in blood and other fluids, such as lung and eye fluids. Getting lots of vitamin C in your diet can help protect against damage in many of your body's fluid -filled areas, such as the heart, arteries, and eyes.

An important attribute of this aquatic antioxidant, which is found in foods like tropical and citrus fruits, red bell peppers, and broccoli, is that it works so quickly. Vitamin C has been shown to block free radicals before other antioxidant compounds even arrive on the scene.

ANTIOXIDANTS, BODYGUARS FOR YOUR CELLS

ANTIOXIDANTS HEALING POWER 

CAN HELP:

Reduce the risk of heart disease

Prevent certain cancers

Reduce the risk of macular degeneration

Prevent muscle soreness

If you want to know how the antioxidant vitamins work, take yourself back to World War II.

ANEMIA. IRONING OUT FATIGUE - Part 3 / End

VEGETARIAN DANGERS

Twice as many vegetarians as meat -eaters get anemia, says Dr. Herbert. In this case, the problem is due not only to a lack of iron but also to a lack of vitamin B12 . This nutrient, which is needed for cells to divide and mature properly, comes mostly from animal foods, he explains. Consequently, strict vegetarians may get little or no B12 in their diets.

The resulting condition, called pernicious anemia, isn't an immediate problem, if only because the body uses vitamin B 12 sparingly. Most of us have enough in storage to last six years or so—"a grace period," says Dr. Fleischman. Because of this, strict vegetarians may not notice symptoms of B12 deficiency, which include fatigue and tingling in the hands and feet, for a very long time.

ANEMIA. IRONING OUT FATIGUE - Part 2

BOOSTING YOUR IRON STORLS

If you suspect that you have anemia, your doctor will probably want to do a complete checkup to make sure that nothing serious is wrong. When the problem is not getting enough iron in the diet, however, it's almost always easy to correct.

If you like clams, you're in business. A bowl of 20 small steamed clams contains an astonishing 25 milligrams of iron. That's more than three times the amount of iron in a serving of chicken livers.

ANEMIA. IRONING OUT FATIGUE

In Greek, the word anemia means "no blood." But that's an exaggeration. People with anemia have plenty of blood. It's just that the red blood cells are not carrying their usual complement of energy -giving oxygen.

There are many forms of anemia, but the most common is iron –deficiency anemia. When you're not getting enough iron in your diet or you are losing blood—as a result of menstruation, for example—the oxygen -carrying capacity of your blood can drop precipitously. Deprived of oxygen, you wilt. Anemia can make you feel sluggish and weak. Your brain feels fuzzy. You're always cold.

ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE, FOODS FOR LIFELONG THOUGHT

We used to call it senility, and we took it for granted, as if it were natural for people to mentally drift away as they got older. Today, doctors know that "senility" is really Alzheimer's disease, and no one takes it for granted any more.

Doctors aren't sure what causes Alzheimer's disease. What is known is that in people who have this condition, there are declines in the production of certain brain chemicals that allow nerves to send messages back and forth. Further, protein deposits from on their brains, possibly causing the death of brain cells.

Since medications haven't proven very effective, some researchers are turning their attention to nutrition. "I think it's worthwhile to consider diet as a potential factor in Alzheimer's," says James G. Penland, Ph.D., research psychologist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center in Grand Forks, North Dakota.

AGING, EATING BACK THE YEARS - Part 2

FUTURE YOUTH

While it’s important to eat to prevent aging, you also need to adjust your eating habits as you age. As the years pass, your nutritional needs can change dramatically.

"We produce less saliva as we age, so food isn't as easy to digest and swallow," says Susan A. Nitzke, R.D., Ph.D., associate professor in the nutritional sciences department at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. "We experience changes in taste and appetite, so we eat less. We also have less stomach acid, which means that we don't digest foods or absorb nutrients as well as we used to."

AGING, EATING BACK THE YEARS

When Jeanne Louise Calment was born, Ulysses S. Grant was still president, and Vincent Van Gogh was buying colored pencils in her father's store in France. Calment, who lived to be 122, holds the record as the oldest person on Earth, having beaten the average life expectancy by 45 years.

Most of us can expect to live about 75 years. While that's just a drop in the bucket for the likes of Calment, it's still almost 20 years longer than the average life span just a few generations ago.

The Primer with Medical Acupuncture, does Acupuncture really work?

The Primer with Medical Acupuncture

Medical Acupuncture. What is it?

Maybe you have had a good uncontrollable urge being pierced by a dozen needles? This would be the image many people get while someone mentions the term “acupuncture”. It comes as no surprise that almost all view this system with suspicions, even downright horror. The truth is, however, that this kind of relatively pain-free ancient Chinese language technique offers helped relieve the signs and symptoms of thousands of people. Properly used, it might help in the actual management of the many medical circumstances including continual pain and fatigue.