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Steve Seater, CN, CNC: Posted on Monday, February 20, 2012 5:16 PM
Women pay attention to these statistics. A Mayo Clinic study demonstrates that any female who is on hormonal birth control for four years or more prior to her first full-term pregnancy has an increased risk of breast cancer of 52%. Since 1975, there has been a 400% increase in breast cancer among pre-menopausal women over these same years which mirrors the increased use of hormonal birth control. Women who use hormonal birth control for more than five years are four times as likely to develop cervical cancer. |
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Steve Seater, CN, CPT: Posted on Saturday, February 11, 2012 12:49 PM
Walnuts have been eaten by humans since the old stoneage and have never been found to be harmful to anyone. Even so, the FDA, which pretends to protect the public recently proclaimed that walnuts are an illegal drug. Moreover, I know of at least 50 published scientific studies that describe the health benefits of walnuts. None of this seems to matter to the bureaucrats at the FDA. You see there is a law on the books that was passed to protect big pharma from any competition from food or supplement manufacturers that says no health claims can be made no matter how much research has been done to prove health benefits of any product that is not a drug the FDA has passed judgement on. |
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Steve Seater, CN, CPT: Posted on Monday, February 06, 2012 4:36 PM
One of the greatest but least recognized benefits of eating lots of fruits and vegetables is their ability to prevent osteoporosis or bone loss which comes as we age. Studies have proven that people who eat the most fruits and vegetables had the strongest bones due to high mineral density. More than 100 studies have confirmed this finding. What seems to be most important, however, is how much calcium you excrete in your urine every day. Diets high in acid containing foods will cause you become acidic which causes greater excretion of calcium and promotes bone loss, so acid-base balance is very important since if you are alkaline calcium is retained not excreted. |
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Steve Seater, CN, CPT: Posted on Monday, February 06, 2012 3:33 PM
40 % of cancers in women and 45% in men could be prevented by healthier lifestyles. Recent research in the UK has revealed that most cancers are caused by just four lifestyle factors- - smoking, poor diet, excessive alcohol consumption, and being overweight. Smoking alone accounts for 23% of all cancers in Britain in men and roughly 16% in women. Cancers of the lungs, bladder, kidney, pancreas, and cervix are attributable to this one activity. In men, 6.1% of cancers were linked to a lack of fresh fruits and non starchy vegetables in the diet. |
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Steve Seater, CN, CPT: Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2012 1:23 PM
My last two blogs talked about the whys and hows of the hunter/gatherer diet. In this blog I want to clear up some misunderstandings. The Paleolithic Diet always is concerned with foods we humans have adapted to through prolonged esposure. There are three distinct metabolic types this diet covers: the Protein/fat type, carbohydrate type, and the mixed or omnivorous type. This diet regardless of your type is centered upon eating foods our ancestors ate and avoiding those foods that recently entered the human diet such as grains, legumes, potatoes, sugar, white flour, artificial sweeteners, transfats, and all prepared foods (modified foods like TV dinners, packaged snacks,etc. |
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Steve Seater, CN, CPT: Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 6:59 PM
In my last blog I talked about the hunter/gatherer diet, sometimes referred to as the Primal Diet or the Paleolithic Diet because it originated during the Paleolithic period of geological time which ended about 10,000 BC when the great ice sheets melted. In general the paleolithic diet consists of the natural foods found in the geographic areas in which our ancestors lived and evolved. Because the foods found in these areas vary considerably, different diets evolved in various parts of the world. |
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Steve Seater, CN, CPT: Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 4:49 PM
The Paleolithic diet, named after the Paleolithic or old Stoneage which ended about 10,000 years ago is recommended by many authorities as the best diet for longevity. The thinking behind this is as follows: Humans have existed in their present form for about 150,000 years in the old Stoneage and up to a million years in other more primative forms. For all these years we subsisted on a hunter/gatherer diet consisting of meat, fish, roots, bark, vegetables, eggs, fruits and nuts. All the archaeological evidence points to humans being omnivores. |
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Posted on Sunday, January 15, 2012 6:30 PM
If I were to ask you what you thought the most significant threat was to your life and health, how would you answer? Is it obesity? Infectious disease? Lack of exercise? Poor diet? Alcohol use? Smoking, Inflammatory reactions, or something else? The answer is aging. Your chances of dying are obviously greater at 90 than at 70 or 50. Degenerative diseases are more liely to occur as you age even if you follow a good diet and exercise regularly. Even Jack LaLane sucummed to death at 96 years of age. |
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Steve Seater CN, CPT: Posted on Sunday, January 01, 2012 5:50 PM
As you undoubtedly discovered from reading my last blog, I am not a fan of the FDA. Not only are the drugs the FDA approves needlesly expensive, but many are unsafe. Often when people are diagnosed with a serious disease they discover that there is no cure simply because the FDA has erected so many roadblocks. Not long ago, a US House of Representatives investigation revealed that the FDA was in need of a comprehensive overhaul, and that it failed to keep abreast of new scientific findings and that it actually could not fulfill its mission. |
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Steve Seater, CN, CPT: Posted on Saturday, December 24, 2011 3:25 PM
Our federal government is already saddled with an enormous unfunded liability for Medicare. The most recent estimate is $24.6 trillion and no one knows where the money to cover these costs will come from, especially since the government collects a mere $2 trillion a year in Medicare premiums. How big is a trillion dollars? To get an idea of its gargantuan size convert that sum to seconds and guess what year it was a trillion seconds ago. No it wasn't 1492, the year Colombus discovered America. It wasn't even 5,000 BC when the Pyramids were built. |
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