THE ESSENCE OF LIFE: MIND - BODY - SOUL

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Scary Ingredient : Partially Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil
A semi-solid fat created when food processors force hydrogen into unsaturated fatty acids.

Scary Ingredient #6: Partially Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil
A semi-solid fat created when food processors force hydrogen into unsaturated fatty acids.

Why it's scary: Partially hydrogenated fats are the principle sources of trans fat in the American diet, and a Harvard study estimated that trans fat causes 70,000 heart attacks every year. The good news: Partially hydrogenated oils are beginning to slowly retreat from our food. Progressive jurisdictions like New York City are starting to restrict the allowable amounts in restaurants, and many chains are switching to healthier frying oil. Still, the battle isn’t over. At Long John Silver’s, for example, there are still 17 menu items with more than 2 grams of the stuff. According to the American Heart Association, that's about the maximum you should consume in a single day.

Where you'll find it: McDonald’s McChicken, Long John Silver’s Broccoli Cheese Soup

Insanity? New Statin Guidelines

Uffe Ravnskov M.D.

Guidelines on the prevention of cardiovascular disease are published again and again from various expert committees. 

Recently new ones were published by the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA). They call them “The New Guidelines on the Treatment of Cholesterol to Reduce Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Risk in Adults”.

Treatment of cholesterol???

Is cholesterol a disease?

Don´t these so-called experts know that cholesterol is one of the most important molecules in our body?

Don´t they know that we use that molecule for producing cell walls, nerve fibres, sex and stress hormones, bile and vitamin D?

Don´t they know that it is so important that all cells are able to produce it themselves?

Don´t they know that we produce 3-5 times more cholesterol than we eat?

Don´t they know that our brain is unable to function probably without its steady production of this molecule? 

We have known that from the very beginning. There is not only a lack of an association between cholesterol and atherosclerosis; there is no association either between the degree of cholesterol lowering and the outcome.

The small benefit of statin treatment is the same whether cholesterol is lowered a little or very much. No trial has ever shown anything else.

But obviously the experts haven´t understood it themselves, or have they? It is difficult for researchers who receive large amounts of money from the drug companies, and several of the authors do that, to admit that what they have told their colleagues and the population for many years is wrong. I am confident that if they dare to do that, their names are taken away from the industry payrolls immediately. 

Instead they present a calculator with which it is able to see who should be recommended statin treatment. They claim that any person with a risk of achieving cardiovascular disease that is higher than 7.5% during the next ten years should be prescribed a statin drug. 

With the calculator you can for instance see what is considered necessary for a woman age 65 without heart disease to avoid statin treatment. She must have a cholesterol below 150 mg/dl, an HDL-cholesterol of at least 40 mg/dl, her systolic blood pressure must not be higher than 150 without treatment, and she must be a non-smoker without diabetes.

How many women of that age do you think belong to that category? 

For a man of that age it is even more difficult because his cholesterol must not be higher than 130 mg/dl and his systolic blood pressure must be lower than 105.

I think that only a Masai warrior is able to satisfy such demands.

The consequence is of course that most of adult mankind should take a statin every day for the rest of their life. 

Also diabetics are recommended statin treatment, even those who develop that disease during  the treatment. The evidence for that advice is the small benefit achieved in a few statin trials.

Statin treatment causes diabetes, because they block the synthesis of insulin. Diabetes has been recorded in 3-4 % of statin-treated individuals after a few years.

The question is how many have diabetes after ten or twenty years of treatment? 

Luckily several researchers have warned the population. Read for instance an article by John Abramson and his coworkers in New York Times. Click Here

Others have criticized the risk calculator for overestimating the risk by 75-150%; read for instance the article in New York Times by Gina Kolata. Click Here

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The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.Horace Bushnell

THE ESSENCE OF LIFE: MIND - BODY - SOUL: Try not to become a man...

Remember your thoughts create your reality. Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny. Gandhi

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
Albert Einstein

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.
Horace Bushnell

So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains
And we never even know we have the key.
Lyrics from the Eagles 1974

Learn to become still .. and take your attention away from what you
don't want, and place your attention on what you wish to experience.

Are your thoughts worthy of you? If not - NOW is the time to change them. You can begin right were you are. Be about the now.

You are the only one that creates your reality
No one else can think or feel for you .. its YOU .. ONLY YOU.

What can you do right now to turn your life around?? Gratitude!!
Gratitude will bring more of what we want into our lives immediately

Release and Live

By stepping into what we fear begins with what seems like a risk, but then life releases us from the struggle of a powerful inner debate and fills our void with trust…it then reveals a foundation that was there all along…a foundation that breathes life into our existence and allows us to be free to live the life we desire….but this foundation only seemed invisible by our fear….which prevents us to take the risk to trust our steps and see life in new ways….Trust your steps into what you fear and start living!!

When the voice and vision on the inside become more profound and
clear than the opinions on the outside, then you have mastered your life friend.

“Walk away from anything or anyone who takes away from your joy. Life is too short to put up with fools.” -Stacey Kerger

Words of Rumi- "Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who's there.

"Trust in the LORD with all your hearth and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight." Proverbs 3:5-6

A skillful man reads his dreams for self-knowledge, yet not the details but the quality.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
Pamela Vaull Starr

”If what YOU Dream wasn’t already inside of YOU, how could you even dream it!' -Paul Hoffman

It is better to hold out a hand than to point a finger.

From this moment on, we need to SEE everything in our life RIGHT. Not what if or if it doesn't...When you have done everything to make things right, then its time to SEE IT RIGHT! We are all our own product. Our thoughts of today become tomorrows sunshine.

"Happiness is a form of courage". -Holbrook Jackson

Love First From Within

When attending to loving yourself first…the love you were seeking from another will seek you…..don’t reinvent yourself to attract who you are not…..this attempt to be more desirable or more deserving to attract another is disconnecting yourself from the love that really counts…the Love with your true self…the tending of your own soul invites the natural process of love to initiate…rooting yourself deep in loving who you are…..connects to you the experience of love that is genuine and unmatched…for connecting with your soul…you attract others to the inner light that is released from your being…..Advice: Give up the desperate want of another and be who you are, at this moment the reality of a desired love will come seeking you at the precise moment you are simply connected and wholly loving yourself…

Worry pulls tomorrow's cloud over today's bright sunshine.

"Be at war with your vices; at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man."--Benjamin Franklin

Fear of becoming a has-been keeps some people from becoming anything.

You become what you think about.- Earl Nightingale

"Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult. On the contrary, repay evil with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.; Peter 3:9

"What we are today comes from thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is the creation of our mind." - Buddha

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Paul Valery

Don't force anything, just go with the flow...If its meant to be, then it will be, at the perfect time. Its all apart of Gods plan!

Insufficient Sleep Can Make Our Genes Less Active

Insufficient sleep and circadian rhythm disruption are associated with negative health outcomes, including obesity, cardiovascular disease, and cognitive impairment. It has been revealed that insufficient sleep is less than six hours a night - it affects the activity of over 700 of our genes. Words to the wise - get in your required amount of sleep in per night - its one of the most vital preventive medicinal therapies.

Happiness is a state of mind.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.-Vince Lombardi

Laughter is the best  medicine... so laugh has much has you can friend.

"Do or do not, there is no try". Yoda

Health is the Greatest Possession

“Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.”
by Lao Tzu

If God shuts one door, he opens another.

Our truest life

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Henry David Thoreau

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Lanston Hughes

You can accomplish virtually anything if you’re willing to pay the price.

You can accomplish virtually anything if you’re willing to pay the price.

Make no small plans, they have no magic to stir your blood to action. Make big plans, aim high in work and in hope.  Daniel Burnham

Go confidently

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. Harriet Tubman

Focusing on one task at a time equals a HAPPY LIFE.

Nutronics Labs IGF-1 Plus Formulas can help Increase Libido in Both Men & Women

 

Increasing and Maintaining normal IGF-1 levels by using Deer Antler Velvet, can help Men Safely & Naturally raise their own testosterone levels. Maintaining normal IGF-1 levels has helped many men enjoy the Benefits of Increased libido! Interestingly, Nutronics Labs Deer Antler Velvet can also help the Hormonal Balance in Females. By increasing their IGF-1 levels into the normal range, many women have also enjoyed the Benefits of Increased libido.

In addition to helping Increase Libido in Men & Women, having Normal IGF-1 Levels seems to have a Positive Effect on the Heart (and heart related issues). According to an article published by ABC News in April of 2012, "Lower IGF-1 levels have been shown to be an independent risk factor for worse outcomes among men and women with heart failure. Low IGF-1 levels have been associated with decreased survival for men with coronary artery disease. And, IGF-1 supplementation has been associated with better cholesterol levels among men with heart disease", as stated by the director of the Heart Function Clinic at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.

 

To your health and happiness,

Dr. Rick Lentini, Ph.D.

CEO, Nutronics Labs

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Be grateful friend, give thanks for all gifts and situations of life bestowed upon you. Welcome your tests and challenges for they are the reason we become stronger and wiser.

Truth is the expression of your pure thought as you know it to be, no more, no less. In other words, there would not be any deviation from your genuine thought patterns. Stay blessed friend...

Never hesitate or ponder upon the truth. As you grow wiser, the changes in your life will be steady, always climbing upward.

When one truly lives in reality of the soul, the mind directs the soul to the sincere desires, for reality is life without exaggerated thoughts.

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure."

- Hellen Keller