Healthy World Digest, #12, March 2010

"Healthy nuggets of information to keep your motor humming."

Welcome to the 12th issue of our newsletter.

In this issue:

March, 2010

* Enter contest, win terrific exercise equipment

* Scrumptious herbs for cancer & diabetes

* Higher protein breakfast = less belly

* Cholesterol supplements

* Don't take healthy water for granted

* Save our supplements!

Recently received a sweepstakes offer from eFITology

They are offering a brief quiz meant to debunk some of the most commonplace fitness and exercise myths. They will be giving Three great pieces of work out equipment to the 3 winners who take the quiz!

The 3 prizes are:

1st prize - E30R Tunturi Recumbent Bike (Retails for $1,399): Click here

2nd prize - E30 Upright Bike (Retails for $1,299): Click here

3rd prize - Power Blocks Classic 5-45lbs Adjustable Dumbbell Set (Retails for $379): Click here

Winners will be chosen randomly from players who scored a 100% on their quiz. Hurry up because contest expires March 10th, 2010

I just took and found the experience agreeable and informative. Takes only ten minutes.

Click here to participate in exercise quiz for prizes

* Yummy herbs for cancer & diabetes

Oregano prevents cancer and other diseases. This delicious savory herb is good on grilled meats, potatoes, salads and pizza. For more on oregano, visit Herbal Remedies World for a few pages on the medicinal uses of oregano

Tarragon helps treat diabetes. Especially good sprinkled on grilled vegetables.

* Higher protein breakfast = less belly

Diet researchers maintain that many people have lost weight just by including more protein during breakfast.

Pass the eggs, dear.

* Cholesterol supplements

University of Pennsylvania researchers found that taking 1,800 mgs of red yeast rice supplements, 2x {daily|per day for 6 months, leads to a reduction of 21% of bad cholesterol.

That equals what prescription statins do without the side effects of statins which include muscle soreness.

Visit the following helpful pages on cholesterol from Healthy World:

Cholesterol and dehydration

Herbs for high cholesterol

Exercise for cholesterol

* Don't take healthy water for granted

Just read an article on water by Margaret Hartley

Item dealt with how U.S. citizens take for granted and waste this unbelievably valuable but scarce resource.

One upshot of article is to try and conserve water whenever possible.

My take on it is to remind me to value a good glass of water. Enjoy a glass, on an empty stomach, sipping it as if it was a cup of fine tea.

Healthy Water has hundreds of pages on, well, water. Here's a link to our page on healthy hydration that's related to this note: Healthy hydration

Hartley's article genuinely merits the kind of attention I can't pay to it here so here's link to it:

Click here

* Save our supplements!

I just received this news item about our polticos (USA) attempts to further regulate supplements.

Look. I don't spout my opinions on controversial subjects. Healthy World readers don't need to know all of my opinions.

I don't rail against pharmaceuticals, or political positions and I don't try to manipulate your views either.

I just offer health information that I hope you can use.

Lots of other writers can flame, accuse, attack. Some do it well and make good points.

But I just don't want to do that.

But this last item about government's attempts to curtail my, OUR, access to supplements has me totally enraged.

So much so that I don't have my faculties enough to discuss it.

Here's what I want to scream.

Leave us the heck alone. We know what we are doing. We are not children

Curtail supplements? Are you kidding me. You politicos have your hands full with really important stuff and you are not succeeding.

What the heck do you know about supplements? I love cheeseburgers (that's right, I admit it) but they are more dangerous than any supplement.

And don't get me started on drugs.

Hands off my damn supplements!

Okay, I need a drink of water and a nap.

Please visit the following link for more coherent info and to take action on this.

Save our Supplements

And please pass link on to friends and family.

Comments? Ideas? Feedback? I'd love to hear from you. Just reply to Healthy World Digest and tell me what you think.

See you next month!

Sal

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