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(NaturalNews) If time is a teacher, one thing we know is that apple cider vinegar is good stuff. The Babylonians used it as a tonic in 5000 B.C. so its been around for a while. It was also used in ancient Egypt (3000 B.C.) and by Samurai warriors in Japan (1200 B.C.), so it’s grandfathered in – doesn’t need a double-blind study to prove its effectiveness.

Apple cider vinegar (ACV) has so many uses. It ranks as one of the top natural remedies for healing the body – from whatever ails it! It’s medicinal properties begin with the noble apple, which contains vitamins, minerals, fiber, and antioxidants – and no fat or sodium. If the fermentation process used does not alter its nutrients, all of the goodness of the apple can be extracted and retained, while enzymes and organic acids are added. It’s made by turning apple juice into hard cider, then fermenting a second time, to turn it into apple cider vinegar.

It can be used as an antiseptic, and is rich in highly bio-available minerals such as magnesium (which 80% of Americans are deficient in) and pectin. Look for raw, unfiltered, unpasteurized, organic ACV (at a health food store, probably not most grocery stores) to get the medicinal benefits.

The main way ACV cures what ails you is by restoring homeostasis to the body. Here’s a top 10 list:

1. Balances the inner ecosystem – making the internal pH more alkaline. Disease prefers an acid environment, provided by processed food, among other things.

2. Detoxs the body – cleanse your body and kidneys easily. In this way it cures chronic fatigue.

3. Weight loss – breaks down fat.

4. Cures allergies – pet, food, environmental.

5. Cures sinus infections, headaches, sore throats, and flu.

6. Clears acne, contact dermatitis, warts, varicose veins, and other skin problems.

7. Lowers high cholesterol and high blood pressure, often in a mere 2 weeks.

8. Kills Candida (and yeast infections) and fungus, and populates the gut with friendly microflora (good bacteria and yeast). This usually stops sugar cravings as well.

9. Used to ease arthritis, stiff joints, and gout.

10. Strengthens stomach acid to eliminate acid reflux and heartburn (because contrary to what Big Pharma says, its weak stomach acid that causes acid reflux).

Drink daily for best results. It is often used in salad dressings, or mixed with other juices into a drink. If you can’t get past the taste, you can find it in pill form, but you may miss out on some of the good stuff going that route. Recipes abound online, several dating back more than a century. For example, famous Texan Sam Houston supposedly drank a daily half-cup of a mixture of 5 parts grape juice, 3 parts apple juice and 1 part cider vinegar.

ACV is widely used as a do-it-yourself beauty remedy. It provides a rosy complexion; is used as an aftershave, teeth whitener, facial toner, age-spot lightener, hair rinse (for body and shine); soothes sunburns; and, relieves swelling in hands and feet.

For your home and pets, use it to clean and disinfect most of your home’s surfaces (just like baking soda) and reduce fleas. Apply to pet’s skin for fleas. Add to water to kill internal parasites, or aid with ailments. Organic farmers even use it to treat parasite infestations in livestock. It’s a good addition to your Preparedness Kit.

Any way you look at it, adding pure, organic, simply nutritious raw apple cider vinegar to your diet is a great idea.

Sources for this article include:

http://www.care2.com

http://www.earthclinic.com/Remedies/acvinegar.html

http://bodyecology.com/articles/apple_cider_vinegar.php

http://www.peoplespharmacy.com/2008/10/21/apple-cider-vin/

http://meadowsummers.hubpages.com

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(NaturalNews) Most allopathic medical practitioners would argue that the process of aging is nothing more than a normal process whereby cells deteriorate at a predetermined rate controlled by genetically determined commands and heredity. Standing in stark opposition is a rapidly growing body of research and documented evidence to indicate that aging is a product of many varied lifestyle choices including physical activity, smoking, and most importantly, the type of diet we regularly consume.

In addition to being a potent cellular antioxidant, carnosine exhibits a number of other unique capabilities that help limit glycation (the abnormal linking of proteins with glucose or lipids) to prevent injury to tissues and organ structures. These actions improve cardiovascular performance to protect against stroke, heart disease, dementia, and increased susceptibility to cancer. Researchers publishing in the journal, Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry demonstrates that carnosine from supplements can help protect against a first stroke, and can significantly lower the damage caused by stroke.

Researchers have demonstrated that carnosine is particularly effective in providing multi-targeted protection to the heart and blood vessels through age-inducing processes such as oxidation, glycation, protein cross-linking, mitochondrial dysfunction, telomere shortening, and heavy metal accumulation in tissues. Carnosine protects against ischemia or loss of blood flow to the heart muscle, preventing the devastating effect of reduced blood flow that leads to a heart attack.

A study team from the University of Glasgow in Scotland has released the result of their study in the journal Biochemistry to explain the importance of carnosine in the development and progression of cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s disease in aging adults. They noticed that dementia patients displayed lower levels of carnosine in their brains and spinal fluid than those of other older adults, and found that the condition results from multiple factors, virtually all of which have some connection to carnosine and its function in the brain.

The researchers demonstrated that those parts of the brain that are first affected in early Alzheimer’s disease are the same in which carnosine is normally found in the highest concentrations. As carnosine levels fall with age, those brain areas become the most vulnerable to Alzheimer’s-related damage. Carnosine is known to bind with zinc in the brain, ushering them away from delicate tissues and preventing abnormal accumulation. Supplementation in known to increase blood levels and cellular saturation to halt protein cross-linking and the characteristic neurofibrillary tangles so frequently associated with the disease.

A growing number of forward-thinking scientists refer to carnosine as an “anti-aging dipeptide”, capable of defending against cardiovascular disease, stroke, diabetes, cognitive decline, and dementia. Carnosine is readily available from high protein animal dietary sources including milk, eggs, cheese, beef, poultry, and pork. Most health-minded individuals avoid these food sources for health and ethical reasons, and will want to supplement (500 to 1,000 mg per day) to shield against vascular disease and abnormal cellular aging.

Sources for this article include:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21865855
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10951098
http://www.lef.org

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John Phillip is a Health Researcher and Author who writes regularly on the cutting edge use of diet, lifestyle modifications and targeted supplementation to enhance and improve the quality and length of life. John is the author of ‘Your Healthy Weight Loss Plan’, a comprehensive EBook explaining how to use Diet, Exercise, Mind and Targeted Supplementation to achieve your weight loss goal. Visit My Optimal Health Resource to continue reading the latest health news updates, and to download your Free 48 page copy of ‘Your Healthy Weight Loss Plan’.

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(NaturalNews) U.S. debt is spiraling out of control. The Treasury Department’s printing presses are cranking out hundreds of billions in new money. The U.S. dollar is weak. The stock market is volatile. European countries are imploding financially and the entire European Union is at risk of collapse. The Middle East is an even worse tinderbox than normal, due to all the “Arab Spring” unrest.

Should you put all of your assets – your hard currency, your 401K, your stock portfolio – into gold and silver now, before it’s “too late?” Capital market specialist and entrepreneur Peter Pham thinks so.

Since 2008, when the Great Recession began in the U.S., gold and silver prices have hit the stratosphere. On Oct. 30 of that year, gold closed at $737.20 an ounce; silver closed at $9.785 an ounce. Today, gold and silver respectively are around $1,550 and $28 an ounce. Gold has more than doubled in value; silver has performed better, nearly tripling in value.

That’s all well and good, and there is no question that people who got into the gold and silver markets early-on have done well with their investment. But what about from this point on? What does the future hold for gold and, to a lesser extent, silver?

That’s never an easy question to answer – predicting the future value of something. But there are signs that could at least point you in the right direction.

Historically valuable and a hedge against bad times

First, gold and silver had historically held some value, especially as economic times get tough.

Secondly, governments today seem to be adding gold to their currency reserves, not divesting themselves of gold.

“The latest numbers published by the World Gold Council reveal that there is a sea-change happening in the gold market,” Pham wrote in an assessment of gold and silver recently. “It’s no secret that central banks have been buying, intermittently, gold and adding to their official reserves. The first quarter numbers showed clearly that gold demand is rising in the East faster than it is in the West and this has helped push the price higher. The trend looks to be just beginning.”

Producers of a product watch their markets closely to see if demand for their product is increasing or decreasing. As Pham notes, there has been some recent “weakness” in gold and there has been some decrease in demand in certain sectors of the global economy. But overall, production is up 5 percent, and that’s largely due to acquisitions of gold by governments, especially in Asia.

And that, says Pham, is likely because those governments believe gold is presently undervalued.

Central banks around the world loading up

“In 2011, for the first time, investment demand outstripped jewelry demand by 9 tons,” Pham wrote, noting in one example that Turkey’s central bank added 79.3 tons, raising reserves to 195 tons by the end of 2011, an increase of more than 32 percent over the previous year.

“Efforts by the government to bring some of that private gold into the banking system have seen their reserves rise to 209.6 tons by May, representing more than 12 percent of Turkey’s reserves. Clearly both the people and the government of Turkey are worried about the future,” he wrote.

That trend is growing throughout Asia, “from the Baltic with countries like Russia, Kazakhstan and Turkey all adding to their official reserves, to Southeast Asia where investment demand dominates in places like Vietnam and Thailand.”

He said central banks make these kinds of monetary moves for a variety of reasons, but in this case, he believes it is happening because “they are diversifying away from the U.S. dollar as their primary reserve currency to protect themselves from the stresses in the U.S. and European banking systems.”

‘Something fundamentally wrong’

“The gold flow data clearly shows them reacting to protect themselves,” Pham says.

There are also geopolitical factors driving the demand.

“Let’s not forget the looming U.S. and E.U. sanctions against anyone still trading with Iran, namely Iran, Turkey and Russia, who have been, by far, the biggest buyers of gold in the past fifteen months,” Pham writes.

What does it all mean? What is gold, at least, trying to tell us?

“At this point gold is telling us that the people on my side of the world believe gold to be grossly undervalued in the futures market and will continue to sit back and catch gold bars as they fall into their laps at discount prices,” he said.

“It’s also telling us that there is something fundamentally wrong with the path we’re on.”

Sources for this article include:

http://www.alphavn.com/2012/05/19/gold-is-telling-us-something/

http://silver-and-gold-prices.goldprice.org/2008_10_01_archive.html

http://www.indianexpress.com

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(NaturalNews) Do you remember our recent story (http://www.naturalnews.com) about Coca-Cola getting away with advertising one of its drinks as “Pomegranate Blueberry,” even though it only contained a measly 0.3 percent and 0.2 percent, respectively, of each of those juices? Well, we now learn that the federal government not only sanctions lying about ingredients in drinks, but will punish companies who try to tell the truth about those same products.

To recap:

Beverage company Pom Wonderful which, as its name suggests, manufactures drinks containing lots of pomegranate, lost a federal false advertising suit it launched against Coca-Cola’s subsidiary, Minute Maid, which manufactures the aforementioned Pomegranate Blueberry, because while the ingredients are prominently displayed on the labeling, there is very little of them actually in the drink.

But a federal appeals panel, citing federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rules, disagreed with Pom Wonderful. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled that said federal regulations say a company can name a drink after a “flavoring” that it contains, even if it’s not the primary ingredient.

What makes the ruling even more incredulous, given the second part of this story, is the fact that Minute Maid’s label on Pomegranate Blueberry says, “Help Nourish Your Brain” above a drawing of fruits. That, as you may have deduced, suggests a medical benefit from drinking this pomegranate concoction, even if there isn’t much actual pomegranate in it.

Enter Pom Wonderful, the company that actually puts pomegranate – which research proves can lower harmful LDL cholesterol levels, improve blood flow to the heart for cardiac patients, reduce thickening of arteries that supply blood to the brain, and lower blood pressure – in its drinks.

It seems the same federal court system thinks it’s okay for Coca-Cola to sprinkle a little of the juice in its drinks and call it nourishment for your brain, but Pom Wonderful – whose drinks contain 100 percent pomegranate juice – can’t tout the fruit’s health benefits.

Just days after the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals shot down Pom’s lawsuit against Coca-Cola, a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) judge ruled that health claims made by Pom were deceptive.

The ruling from Administrate Law Judge D. Michael Chappell came after hearing testimony for months, from May through November 2011 – testimony which included appearances by noted diet and coronary expert Dr. Dean Ornish, who – among other foods – recommends eating pomegranates to improve cardiac health.

Note, too, that Pom Wonderful, a Delaware company which is headquartered in Los Angeles, has spent some $35 million over the past 10 years studying the health benefits of pomegranates, and relied on the results of that body of research in advertising its products.

Chappell, however, said Pom’s advertising “would lead reasonable consumers to conclude that drinking Pom’s juice or taking its supplements would treat, prevent, or reduce serious health problems, and that it was clinically proven to do so,” according to Courthouse News Service.

What’s more, Chappell said in his 330-page ruling that while Pom’s research indeed showed a general health benefit in consuming pomegranate, “the weight of the persuasive expert testimony demonstrates that there was insufficient competent and reliable scientific evidence to support” the company’s specific claims.

Huh?

Well, all of this is much easier to understand if you look at it from this perspective. It’s all about the Leviathan telling you what is, and is not, “healthy,” and what you can, and cannot say, about legitimate research if it is not conducted or sanctioned by the high-and-mighty in D.C.

Pom Wonderful spent tens of millions on research that proves consuming its pomegranate beverages improves overall health. But because the federal government didn’t make this discovery, then it’s not legitimate and, therefore, inadmissible.

Now do these conflicting rulings make sense?

For the record, pomegranate is quickly gaining favor in health circles for its nutritional value as an antioxidant-rich fruit. It’s health benefits are well-documented now, even if you don’t read about them in some government agency’s literature.

You might say a company that does its own research is tainting the results, but on the other hand, if the same company is later found to have falsified data, what implications would that discovery have for a business that wants to stay around for the long haul?

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http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/05/23/46760.htm

http://www.ornishspectrum.com/proven-program/nutrition/

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(NaturalNews) Analysts and experts have long maintained that the duration of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are having a detrimental effect on the nation’s military personnel. Nowhere have the problems of high operational tempos and repeated combat deployments manifested themselves more than in the tens of thousands of soldiers and others who are increasingly being medicated in order to deal with the stress.

In fact, according to recent figures released by the Army’s surgeon general, more than 110,000 U.S. Army personnel were taking antidepressants, narcotics, sedatives, antipsychotics and anti-anxiety drugs that were prescribed to them by doctors.

With a renewed focus on individual soldier readiness by the Pentagon after a decade of war, it should trouble Defense Department officials – civilians and top officers alike – that nearly 8 percent of active duty Army troops are on sedatives, and another 6 percent are on antidepressants, figures that are up eightfold since 2005.

So many psychotropic drug prescriptions are having an effect on more than just readiness, but also on legal issues affecting military members.

“In a small but growing number of cases across the nation, lawyers are blaming the U.S. military’s heavy use of psychotropic drugs for their clients’ aberrant behavior and related health problems,” The Los Angeles Times reported in early April.

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Bart Billings, a former military psychologist who hosts an annual conference on combat stress, said the problem is real and it’s growing.

“We have never medicated our troops to the extent we are doing now…. And I don’t believe the current increase in suicides and homicides in the military is a coincidence,” he told the paper.

Indeed, the Army suicide rate fell for the first time in four years in 2011, the result of aggressive service-wide efforts to identify those having problems early-on.

But the rate is still high. It’s about 24 per 100,000 last year, which is higher than a similar demographic among civilians, about 19 per 100,000. Among veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, that rate is even higher – about 38 per 100,000.

Other problems are increasing too. “Sexual assault and domestic violence have increased. The percentage of soldiers committing sex crimes has increased 32 percent since 2006,” USA Today reported. “The number of domestic abusers in the Army grew by almost 50 percent from 4,827 in 2008 to 7,228 last year. During that same, the number of child-abuse offenders is up 62 percent from 3,172 to 5,149.”

Clearly, the up-tempo has had a negative effect on our fighting force. But making excuses or explaining away the phenomenon is denial, and it’s not going to help the Pentagon and Congress solve the problem.

“It’s not that we’re using them more frequently or any differently,” said Col. Carol Labadie, the pharmacy consultant for the Army surgeon general. “As with any medication, you have to look at weighing the risk versus the benefits of somebody going on a medication.”

Experts say the problem isn’t necessarily in the numbers. It’s that you can’t regulate the use of such medications in the military as easily as you can in the civilian world.

Follow-up appointments, for example, are few and far between – especially on the battlefield. And soldiers are often sent out into combat zones with six months’ worth of medications, enough to trade with their buddies or grab a fistful of pills at the end of a particularly stressful day or mission. Soldiers who have been wounded can easily become addicted to painkillers they are given.

“The big difference is these are people who have access to loaded weapons, or have responsibility for protecting other individuals who are in harm’s way,” Grace Jackson, a former Navy staff psychiatrist who resigned her commission in 2002 in part out of concern that military shrinks were handing out too many medications, told the Times.

The problem has begun to show up in court, where, increasingly, lawyers for military members on meds have begun to argue – successfully – that the psychotropic drug made them do it.

James Culp, a former Army paratrooper who has since become a high-profile military defense lawyer, says he’s recently defended an Army private accused of murder. His defense? The soldier’s mental condition was exacerbated by the Zoloft he was prescribed.

“What do you do when 30-80 percent of the people that you have in the military have gone on three or more deployments, and they are mentally worn out? What do you do when they can’t sleep? You make a calculated risk in prescribing these medications,” Culp told the paper.

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http://www.usatoday.com

http://www.naturalnews.com/psychotropic_drugs.html

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