Healthy World Digest, #5, August 2009

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

Welcome to the 5th issue of our newsletter.

In this issue:

* High carbohydrates = liver damage

* Be hip (Exercise, that is.)

* Italians aren't fat

* Arthritis and vitamins

* Want to improve immunity? Take a hike.

* Fibromyalgia doesn't exist

* Reply to eMail

Duke University researchers found that consuming too many carbohydrates can not only cause you to pack pounds but can also harm your liver. That is because a too much sugar converts to fat in your liver. Good news is that sticking to a lower carb diet can improve the related liver condition in 6 months.

* Be hip (Exercise, that is.)

Ever think about your hips when working out? Start to. If the spine's health is the best indicator of youth, according to the Yogis, then the hips are second.

For greater performance and to avert injury hip exercise

* Italians aren't overweight

When I was a child, I asked my Sicilian mother why Italians were so fat. She looked at me in feigned horror and said, "Italians aren't fat. Americans are fat!"

She was referring to Italian-Americans who ate, well, Italian-American stuff. You know, the sort of stuff that's featured at the nearby pizza place.

But that's not the food my family served. Real Italian food features good bread, rich, fresh cheeses, salads with a little Italian olive oil, lots of greens & fresh fruit. Yeah, it's fast food but good for you.

I came to understand that whatever was imperfect in the diet, I was raised on, was offset by the good stuff: the salads, cooked greens, fresh fruit and fish.

So eat Italian, REAL Italian.

P.S. Future newsletters will offer recipes for dishes served in my family that are simple, delectable and healthy. If I forget, remind me.

* Arthritis and vitamins

Arthritis is a serious, pervasive problem in the West. There are no cures as of yet. But a number of supplements can genuinely be useful.

Think fish oils, magnesium, calcium, Vitamin E & Vitamin C.

Click for much more on arthritis vitamins

* Take a hike and improve your immunity!

Researchers found that a hike in the woods boosts your immune system. Just the kind of health story that brightens my day.

Researchers observed that, on hikes, we absorb the natural protectants that the trees give off.

Yeah, and I could think of many other aspects of that hike that contribute to immunity. The exercise, the relaxation, the connexion to nature, etc.

* No such thing as fibromyalgia

I don't believe there is such a thing as fibromyalgia. The pains are real, patients' suffering is real, someTHING(s) is happening.

But that someThing has been placed in a category that doesn't advance our understanding or our treatment.

I believe that persons diagnosed with fibromyalgia are actually suffering from a few or many health problems with changing symptoms. Perhaps, a large part of the distress includes an emotional component, part of the reason why symptoms appear to be vague & shifting.

My advice is for sufferers is to treat the symptoms as THE disorders.

Then work on getting generally healthy.

Eat right

Exercise

Drink lots of filtered water. Visit our sister site for helpful information on water & health.

Use natural herbs

Do one thing that is emotionally fulfilling. Make a friend. Volunteer your time. Take up yoga. See a psychotherapist. Just do one constructive emotional thing.

Then see what happens to your fibromyalgia.

For more, visit our page on fibromyalgia herbs

* Reply to eMail

Hope this isn't too self serving. In response to an email I received asking if Healthy World is a front for some company, I replied as follows:

No, Healthy Water & Healthy World Online's other sites are not fronts for any other companies.

We have a few partners we work with, ones I trust, and Google ads pay for some of our bills. Yes, HW makes some money and I am very happy with our direction.

But HW is a group of information sites based on my decades of research into health issues. There is no compelling reason for visitors to do anything more than just evaluate the info presented and make their own decisions as to how to best use the info.

I don't hard sell any products or brands. You can buy a good water filter at your local home store, herbs at any herbal store and there's no shortage of available equipment at sporting goods stores that is not connected to the exercise site.

I hope you and Healthy World's other visitors (about 30,000 monthly) find the sites helpful and I genuinely hope that they encourage you to be active vis a vis yourself and others when it comes to health.

That would be satisfaction enough for me.

Anyway, thanks for visiting & good health, Sal

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See you next month!

Sal

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