More great advice from Dr. Mercola

When I was a younger and heard people who hadn't had a drop of alcohol to drink all their life dying of cirrhosis of the liver I used to wonder how come???? Well Dr. Oz on his programme this morning told all of us it's too much sugar that destroys your liver, not necessarily too much alcohol...... that's why you have women dying from this all the time....now isn't that interesting!
I was kinda off Dr. Oz because I saw him giving people ice water to lose weight and he loved over-the-counter drugs too much, although I forgive him as he's a mainstream doctor, but yesterday when I saw him bring on Dr Mercola and admitted there is so much he doesn't know and wants to learn and expressing a desire for them to work together - he is back up in my good book!
Dr Mercola has the best website I think that helps us cut through all the fake information that the major drug companies want us to believe.
Sometimes when I read his newsletters, which always have the source of the information right there, I just shudder.
He was telling us for months not to be caught up with the swine flu hoax while President Obama ( one of my favourite people ) had his entire family being vaccinated! He really cuts through the bull and today what I learnt about fluoride is giving me hives.
Not to scare you just to let you be aware, I am sharing his great advice on aging gracefully - he tells you here that all the anti wrinkle creams not going to work as anti aging starts at the cellular level.

Feeding Your Skin from the Outside-In
You may not realize this, but a large portion of the toxins you're exposed to on a daily basis comes through your skin, not just through what you put in your mouth. Your skin is actually the largest organ of your body, and it's highly absorbent. Women absorb an estimated five pounds of chemicals a year just from the makeup they use!
Therefore, you want to give your skin the same thoughtful care you give your internal organs. Having a great diet while slathering toxins on your skin is counterproductive, to say the least.

Personally, if I'm not willing to eat it, I won't put it on my skin.

For example, my organic body butter contains the following eight extraordinary food-based ingredients that are both safe and effective:

1.Organic Shea Butter
2.Cocoa Butter
3.Virgin Coconut Oil
4.Jojoba Oil
5.Murumuru Butter
6.Rice Bran Extract (Oryza Sativa)
7.Palm Oil
8.Aloe Vera Juice
These ingredients individually and synergistically contribute to softer, smoother, moister skin, without taxing your body with potential toxins. Along with a nutrient-dense diet and pure water, a truly all-natural, organic moisturizer can help you achieve a clear and radiant complexion.

The food debate!

The debate rages on about what is good for you to eat and what is not..like how some people insist that a cooked sweet potato is better for you than a baked white potato the reality is - they’re both healthy!
Sweet potatoes have more fiber and vitamin A, but white potatoes are higher in essential minerals such as iron, magnesium, and potassium. As for the glycemic index, sweet potatoes are lower on the scale, but baked white potatoes typically aren't eaten without cheese, sour cream, or butter—all toppings that contain fat, which lowers the glycemic index of a meal.
Put the Truth to Work for You - the form in which you consume a potato—for instance, a whole baked potato versus a processed potato that's used to make chips—is more important than the type of spud. So people it's the process that our foods go through, and nowadays it's hard to find food that hasn't gone through one process or another, so sweet potato chips just as bad as white potato chips depending on what it went through before it reached your mouth....plus we might be having the baked potato and filling it with bacon and "plastic" cheese therefore not getting anything from it.....
Then as I sat down to write this someone asked me about drinking raw milk.....the thing is when the milk man used to deliver the milk to our mothers and they would take it in and scald it and it had that thick cream on top - that's the way we are supposed to drink milk, but we can't do that now - cows not feeding on grass.....they are feeding on all sorts of feed made from corn and God knows what else, do we know what antibiotics or supplements are in the feed to go and have unpasteurized milk ?
We want to go back to eating and drinking the healthy way before fake sugar and margarine were the norm, but unless we put in our little gardens, grow our chickens and cows or eat organically, it wont be possible......as I keep telling you it's not necessarily whether food is raw or cooked - it's the process the foods we eat go through because if we are eating raw and eating vegetables and fruit filled with insecticide and pesticide, it will make us just as sick, maybe sicker, because at least cooking it kills the poisons, it's just that if we cook everything we are just not getting any nutrients to do anything for our bodies.
But as we hear organic I hear you all saying "but that's so expensive".
Really? I think the doctor and the tests costs far more!

New strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria

Animals in factory farms are given doses of antibiotics -- both to keep them alive in stressful, unsanitary conditions, and to make them grow faster. The practice leads to new strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, such as the now-widespread form of staph (MRSA) known as ST398.
Federal regulators have in the past refused to release estimates of just how much antibiotics the livestock industry uses. But recently the FDA released its first-ever report on the topic. And the amount? Twenty-nine million pounds of antibiotics in 2009 alone.
According to Grist:"[T]he Animal Health Institute, a veterinary-drug trade group, estimated total use in livestock at 17.8 million pounds. The industry has been clinging to that number ever since ... [T]he industry figure is woefully off -- about 40 percent lower than the real one."
I can just hear some of you after reading this saying to yourself "Pat start depress me so early in the new year?"
But people forewarned is to be forearmed!
Remember we might have gotten away last year but this year is another 12 months we are doing these things and it adds up...once in a while fine - meat 7 days per week not so fine........a close friend of mine eats chicken twice a day from he has been at school, chicken for lunch and chicken for dinner....TALK ABOUT ANTIBIOTICS in his blood,come on!Remember its not the good old days..............
Wait till that catches up with him!

BEVERAGES THAT CAUSE FAT

For 2011 you have to be conscious of what you put into your body........we say we are not drinking soda yet we drink grape juice which has even more sugar....we fill ourselves with energy drinks and all kinds of fancy coffee and wonder why we all look like balls and we women, our belly-fat stick out further than our breasts.....as to the men, those are not beer-bellies, those bellies are full of sh__! Check out the following from Coach Josh on Beverages that Cause Fat:

If you’re looking to pack on a lot of belly fat, these products will help you do it. Make sure when you are looking at the supplement facts panel you look at servings per container because the labels are very tricky to read.
Vitamin Water says it only has 13 grams (g) of sugar. However, there are 2.5 servings per container. So there are 32g of sugar in one 20 oz. bottle of Vitamin Water.
Welch’s 100% Grape Juice says there is no added sugar but when you look on the label—just 8 oz., only about half of what somebody will drink in a glass of juice—has a whopping 39 g of sugar. Even worse, it is fructose, which is a kind of sugar that is easily converted to belly fat.
Coca Cola’s second ingredient is high fructose corn syrup and just 8 oz. has 27 g. of sugar. Now I don’t mean to pick on Coke, most other soft drink brands are just as bad. Don’t forget that most soft drinks also contain a hefty amount of caffeine so you keep drinking more and more.
Amp Energy Elevate contains 29 g of sugar per 8 oz and there are two servings in the 16 oz can . That means that you are getting nearly 60 g. of sugar in just one can.
Sobe Cranberry Grapefruit flavored beverage has 26 g of sugar per 8 oz., and the bottle is 2.5 servings, meaning that you are getting over 60 g of sugar if you were to sit down and drink this product. Keep in mind that 4 g of sugar equals one teaspoon. Would you dump 15 teaspoons of sugar into a glass of water and drink it?
If you drink Rockstar Energy Drink, you are certainly not going to look like a chiseled rock star, you are going to look like an overweight couch potato. Each can of Rockstar Energy Drink contains 62 g of sugar.
I was shocked to find out that Gatorade contains high fructose corn syrup as its second ingredient and to think that they market this product towards athletes. What athletes really need is an abundance of fresh water and healthy high nutrient foods to replenish their bodies.
What’s more, Tropicana’s cranberry juice beverage contains high fructose corn syrup and 32 g of sugar per 8 fluid ounces.
Starbucks Doubleshot Energy plus Coffee has two servings per container with each serving containing 14 g of sugar. This means that a can of this “coffee” drink contains 28 g of sugar.
Jose Cuervo Margarita Mix is loaded with high fructose corn syrup. Keep in mind, the average “small” margarita weighs in at a huge 400 calories!
Mr. and Mrs. T Sweet and Sour Mix has high fructose corn syrup as the second ingredient. Yet another reason why mixed drinks are hazardous to your waistline.

Well I`ve been told that one of the ingredients in Lucozade is lethal yellowing, and recently a friend ended up in hospital with caffeine poisoning from drinking too much of that very popular caffeine drink - the same one that Beenie Man's number 1 hit song talks about mixing with rum !!.......another friend told me she doesn't know how more doctors don't get caffeine poisoning because they drink these caffeine-laced energy drinks to keep going........
Take note that 2 energy drinks are on the list in Coach Josh's article above so if you must use an energy drink use XS which is caffeine-free and has 0 carbs and gives you all the energy you are looking for.
One thing I must tell you is that the safest, healthiest way is to eat 80% raw and you will have all the energy in the world without resorting to these things. Too much processed food is the main thing that makes us sluggish!