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3 things I've learned through Nutrition Response Testing

Both my husband and I have been seeing Dr. Blanchard for over and year and a half and there are three really important lessons I've learned on our journey:

1. Every day people choose to eat foods loaded with pesticides, processed sugars and preservatives, clean with harsh chemicals, bathe themselves in toxins found in shampoos and soap, and coat their skin with toxic creams, lotions, and makeup, they choose to slowly poison themselves.

2. Slow poisoning of the body is not, in most cases, immediately noticeable. It may take months or years, maybe decades for everything to accumulate enough to cause major health issues. But note, that there are subtle signs of health issues accumulating through the appearance of skin, hair, and the body not working properly (for example: no menstrual cycle, severe acne or other skin problems, headaches, acid reflux, bloating, weight gain, rapid heart beat, etc ...). When the body is not working like it was created to, it lets you know.

3. Undoing 30 (or even 10, 20, 40, ...) years of what I mentioned in point number one is not easy and it takes a long time. If I would've known the long-term effects of all that stuff, I would have taken better care of myself. I am really grateful, though, for Nutrition Response Testing because it gives me the chance to undo what I've done and have a fresh, clean start. And I'm hoping the next 50 years, with all that I know about nutrition and health, that they will be healthy and full of life.

It's the reason I blog—to educate people and give people an opportunity to take back their health.  If we, CNHC, can help you add some life and good health to your years through Nutrition Response Testing, and you're in the Tri-State area (Indiana, Cincinnati, Kentucky), call and schedule a consultation today. We would love to help you get started on your journey to good health!

Health News Roundup

Reading these articles is a great way to inform yourself with what's going on in both natural and traditional healthcare. The more educated you are about these topics, the better you'll be able to make informed decisions regarding your health and the health of your family.

• Market Lighting Affects Nutrients in Salad Greens, Researchers Find: Many people reach toward the back of the fresh-produce shelf to find the freshest salad greens with the latest expiration dates. But a study led by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists may prompt consumers to instead look for packages that receive the greatest exposure to light--usually those found closest to the front.

• Is This Common Activity Poisoning You?: Widely used fragranced products, including those that claim to be "green", can give off chemicals not listed on the label. Some of these chemicals have been classified as toxic.

• South Korean Study Suggests Rate of Autism May Be Underestimated: In the first large-scale study of its kind, U.S. and South Korean researchers report that the rate of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) may be significantly higher than previously thought, affecting as many as 1 in 38 children. The findings suggest that many youngsters may be going undiagnosed and untreated for the developmental disorder.

• Conventional farmers won't eat their own food: In this interview with organic vegetable farmed "Brad," he explains why conventional farmers won't eat their own products. Why? Because "they know what's in them!"
 

• Many types of organic compost are really packaged human sewage: Do you want everything that goes down your drain winding up on your backyard produce? Well that's what happens to those who use organic compost made with municipal sewage.

• New study: Nations requiring the most vaccines tend to have the worst infant mortality rates: For example, the United States requires infants to receive 26 vaccines -- the most in the world -- yet more than six U.S. infants die per every 1000 live births. In contrast, Sweden and Japan administer 12 vaccines to infants, the least amount, and report less than three deaths per 1000 live births.

• Plastics chemical in packaged foods linked to asthma in babies: BPA, also known as bisphenol-A, is a chemical compound often used in the production of a large variety of plastics. The widespread use of BPA has come under public scrutiny due to known connection to a host of health problems, including heart complications, cancer, neurological issues, diabetes and fertility and sexual issues.

• My New Warning: Avoid THESE Medical Treatments Whenever Possible: Americans' overall (declining) health and their access to state-of-the-art medical facilities factor into these exorbitant yearly health care expenditures. But a majority of these costs, when put under the microscope, clearly have more to do with promoting ever increasing corporate profits than with making Americans healthier. From government agencies like the FDA to the insurance empire, to health care providers and big pharma, the new primary goal of health care industry in the US has transformed into making money off of sick people.

• If You Can Never Seem to Get Truly Well, This Could Be Why...: This environmental medicine expert uncovers a frequent underlying cause of many persistent AND serious health issues - not only allergies, but cancer, diabetes, and thyroid disease, too. Know what symptoms to watch out for in you or a family member, how to detect the presence of this insidious culprit in your home, and what you must do to save your health - and possibly your life.
 

Read last weeks Health News Roundup here.

Health News Roundup

This weeks Health News Roundup is full of great information that I hope you will take time to read:

• Calorie counting has become unhelpful.: Kirchoff and Weight Watchers have eliminated the company's popular "Points" system, which encouraged dieters to lose weight by eating any foods as long as they kept the portions small. The new system tries to encourage dieters to consume more natural, less processed food.

• U.S. dietary guidelines: toss calorie counter: After more than a half century of counting calories, experts are advising dieters to ditch the numbers game and take a more holistic approach to losing weight.

• Cereal box health warning after recycled cardboard study: Breakfast cereal manufacturers are to stop using recycled cardboard in packaging after a study indicated that current boxes could pose a cancer risk.

• Japanese officials admit partial nuclear meltdown now underway at nuke power plants: Contradicting earlier reports that claimed the Fukushima nuclear power plant suffered no reactor core damage, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano today admitted that a "partial core meltdown" is now underway.

• Maine gets break in federal health care overhaul: The federal government Tuesday granted Maine a waiver of a key provision in President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, citing the likelihood that enforcement could destabilize the state's market for individual health insurance.

• What NOT to Do Before Your Next Dental Appointment…: many dentists still widely prescribe antibiotics for routine dental procedures, and are simply not following the updated AHA and ADA recommendations.

• Study: Secondhand Smoke Increases Risk of Stillbirth, Birth Defects: A new review paper by University of Nottingham researchers found that secondhand-smoke exposure increased the risk of stillbirth by 23% in nonsmoking pregnant women, compared with women who were not exposed to smoke at work or at home. Passive smoking also increased the risk of congenital birth defects by 13%.

• Multiple studies link autism to mercury, which is still present in most flu vaccines: Despite recommendations made by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 1999 that Thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative, be removed from vaccines, the toxic chemical is still added to the majority of flu vaccines administered to women, children, and the elderly, according to the Coalition for Mercury-Free Drugs (CoMeD), a Maryland-based non-profit organization. And according to three recent studies, the symptoms of mercury poisoning are nearly identical to those of autism symptoms, which strongly suggests that mercury in vaccines is responsible for causing autism.

• Exercise-induced cell regrowth critical to reducing stress, improving health: For many years, the medical community denied the possibility that adult brain cells could regrow. But researchers now know that neurogenesis, the process of brain cell regeneration, does occur, and it plays a very important role in mitigating stress and improving sexual and reproductive function -- but it all hinges on getting plenty of regular exercise.

• FDA Requires Federal Oversight of J&J Plants After String of Drug Recalls: Federal regulators have put an injunction in place against Johnson &  Johnson’s over-the-counter (OTC) drug division following a seemingly endless string of quality control problems and drug recalls. 

• Watch out for toxic ingredients in sunscreen: The majority of sunscreens are toxic, environmental groups have warned.

• Radiation Exposure: Fast Facts About Thyroid Cancer and Other Health Risks: There's growing alarm worldwide about radiation poisoning, with an explosion Monday morning at the No. 3 reactor of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex. A similar blast at the No. 1 reactor in the same complex released radiation into the environment on Saturday, and while officials in Japan and the World Health Organization have since described the public health risk as "quite low," concern about the potential of serious health problems abound.

List of hormone disrupters that we may come in contact with daily

There are many, many things in our home and environment that we come in contact with on a daily basis that may have a negative effect on our hormones. We may typically think that when we refer to the word hormones, that we're excluding men—this is not the case as men have hormones, too.

Hormone disrupters include chemicals, metals, pesticides, some foods (soy), phthalates, hormones and antibiotics fed to animals, etc. They may be in products like cosmetics, pesticides, plastics, processed foods, fresh non-organic foods, cleaning products, vaccines, animal protein, etc. Read about 10 toxic everyday things in your home and check out this list of hormone disrupters.

I realize that it is almost impossible to avoid every single one of these things, but you can limit your exposure and become educated on the subject—especially if you're experiencing hormone-related side effects.

If you'd like more information on hormones and how you can restore your hormone balance naturally, join us for a one-hour, informative workshop on Thursday, November 18, from 7pm-8pm. We'd love to see you there!

Health News Roundup

There's a lot in the news about health this week, so pull up a comfy chair and read on ...

• New Proof that This Common Medical Treatment is Unnecessary and Ineffective: Last year's flu mortality estimates turned out to be only one-third that of an average year, in spite of the emergence of the new human-bird-pig influenza virus you have come to know as swine flu.
... Health officials have leapt ahead with recommendations of "flu shots for all" without  safety studies—so by getting a flu shot, you are effectively offering yourself up as a laboratory rat. In other words, YOU are the safety study!

On a related note, Fewer may get flu shots this year, surveys find.

• New Warning About Olive Oil: However, it's important to realize it is NOT good for cooking. It should really only be used cold, typically drizzled on salads and other food. Due to its chemical structure and a large amount of unsaturated fats, cooking makes extra-virgin olive oil very susceptible to oxidative damage.

This next article probably won't surprise you after reading the one above ...

• Potato chips, fries linked to cancer: When potato products are fried in oil at high temperatures, they produce a chemical called acrylamide that can cause cancer. And a new study in the British Journal of Cancer adds to the mounting evidence against the chemical, showing that acrylamide is associated with a 20 percent increased risk of breast cancer in pre-menopausal women.

• Pancreatic cancer takes 20 years to grow into detectable tumors - here's how to halt it today: Here's what the scientists at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute found (and here's why this matters in a huge way to people interested in healthy living) ...

• Weight Loss Drug Yanked from Market: The company voluntarily withdrew the drug in the wake of findings showing an increased risk of heart attacks and strokes in people who used the drug. Meridia is taken by about 8 million people worldwide.

• How to Kill a Cold, Starve a Fever -- and When You Absolutely MUST See a Doctor: It's important to realize that fever is your body's backup defense mechanism when your primary ones – mainly your immune system -- fail. Your first line of defense is your macrophages, which gobble up any invading microbes.
   
• Girls now reaching puberty at age nine, thanks to chemicals in the food supply (milk and plastics): The study was conducted in 2006 by researchers from the world-renowned Department of Growth and Reproduction at University Hospital in Copenhagen, Denmark. The researchers found that among 1,000 girls, the average age of breast development was nine years and 10 months, a full year earlier than when a similar study was conducted in 1991.

On a related note, High BPA levels don't swim well with sperm.
   
• Extending daylight could boost health, help planet: Putting the clocks back in winter is bad for health, wastes energy and increases pollution, scientists say, and putting an end to the practice in northern areas could bring major health and environmental benefits.

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