Best Fish Oil – Find the Right Information About the Best Fish Oil Available Online
In order to find the best fish oil online, you have to keep a few points in mind. There are now hundreds of sources available where you can go to purchase all kinds of fish oil supplements. It is pointless to say that not all these sources are authentic. Since it’s your health that is at stake in this issue, you need to be very careful in choosing your fish oil product. Let’s find out more.
The first thing to remember is to choose a reputable manufacturer. If the company is certified or licensed with the food standards organization you can be assured that their products are high quality products. But to find the best fish oil you also need to consider some other factors. The most important of these factors is the concentration of omega 3 fatty acids in the supplement product and the percentage of any other ingredient if present.
Normally some low-grade fish oil supplements also contain additives like food coloring or preservatives. These substances only contribute to make it less effective and diminish the usefulness of essential fatty acids. The best fish oil is pure and free from any additives, impurities, and unnecessary coatings. In this context the idea of pharmaceutical grade fish oil can also be introduced. The best companies are the ones that use clinical testing to ensure a high quality refined fish oil. This oil is sometimes also termed as pharmaceutical grade fish oil.
Natural fish oil in its raw form is not only difficult to consume because of its horrible taste, but it also contains impurities in the form of certain heavy metals like mercury, lead, and arsenic. Reputable fish oil supplement manufacturers use a process called molecular distillation to clean and refine their oil. The best fish oil is tasteless, odorless and free from any kind of impurities including toxic substances and PCB’s.
The source of fish oil is another important point to remember. Some companies do mention their oil source. Usually sardines, mackerel and salmon are considered to be good fatty fish. In addition to this, also find fish oil products made in either New Zealand or Norway. This is because the waters of both these regions are clean and less polluted than other regions of the world. So, the best fish oil is the one that is extracted from Hoki or other fish found in deep cold waters of New Zealand or Norway.
Keep these points in mind before shopping for any kind of fish oil supplements online. Also, don’t fall for catchy marketing slogans. Always check the authenticity of the manufacturer before choosing their fish oil product.
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The Dangers Of Using Laxatives For Weight Loss
The following article is one of a series of articles which focus on Self Improvement, Motivation and Empowerment. It is based on research done over twenty years as a personal and business coach. This self improvement article was written in response to questions which have been asked on losing weight and long term weight loss as well as address common challenges that people have with this subject. I sincerely hope that you find the following
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The Dangers Of Using Laxatives For Weight Loss
One popular weight loss supplements available in the market today take the form of tea. Stores all over sell slimming tea, dieter’s tea and others but all of them are actually the same. They may appear to be effective, but what is not seen may actually harm you.
One of the effects of drinking dieter’s tea is frequent bowel movement. This gives people the feeling of body cleansing. These people may get toxins out of their body but it isn’t exactly the only thing that slimming tea actually does to the body.
Slimming tea contains herbs which are natural laxatives. These include aloe, senna, rhubarb root, cascara, buckthorn and castor oil. These are products which are derived from plants and are used since the ancient times because of their potency in treating constipation and to inducing bowel movement.
Cascara, castor oil and senna are substances which are recognized as laxatives available over the counter and are also regulated as drugs. Scientific studies show that diarrhea induced by laxatives does not absorb significant amounts of calories taken in the body.
The reason for this is that laxatives do not act on the small intestines where most of the calories are absorbed. Instead, they work on the large intestines. If taken in large amounts for prolonged periods, it can affect fat absorption of the body. This may lead to greasy diarrhea and loss of weight. Abuse of laxatives is common practice among people who suffer from bulimia and anorexia nervosa.
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While weight loss can be guaranteed by overdosing on laxatives, it may also cause permanent damage to the gastrointesitinal tract and the weakening and softening of the bones, a condition known as osteomalacia.
Drinkers of slimming teas may actually patronize the product because they are less axpensive and taste better than other laxatives sold in the market. Other people, such as those with eating disorders like bulimia and anorexia nervosa drink dieter’s tea because they work fast and produce watery stool and having loose consistency.
Women may even be more susceptible to the effects of slimming teas. Although they may are not known to interfere directly with the woman’s menstrual cycle and fertility, they should watch out if drinking them causes them to rapidly shed off weight.
It is also not safe for pregnant women to be taking in laxatives of any kind. Wise and reponsible herbalists also discourage the use of senna and other herbal products with laxative properties for pregnant women and women who are trying to conceive.
One should be wary about these findings because the labeling of slimming teas in the market today can be absolutely misleading. For instance, they commonly refer to the laxative qualities as “natural bowel cleansing properties” and not specifically use the word “laxative”.
Some even use the term “low-calorie” on their labelling. These products in fact, contain essentially no calories nor nutrients whatsoever; unless of course, if they are sweetened.
Adverse effects of misusing laxatives in the form of slimming tea generally occur when taken in more than or longer than recommended. These include nausea, stomach cramps, vomiting, diarrhea, fainting, rectal bleeding,electrolyte disorder and dehydration as well as injury and worse, death.
It was also reported that excess use of stimulant laxatives cause severe constipation and pain for long periods (as much as for decades) due to the colon losing its function. It eventually led to surgery removing the colon altogether.
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Why We Are Sick
If there is a common theme amongst all illnesses, then it will be easy to look at the root cause of disease and apply the healing at that root level. I believe that the truth about sicknesses and health care is kept from the masses as another means of control and profit. So we have to come up with our own theories and conclusions.
Based on my personal experiences, reading hundreds of pages of documents, and hearing the firsthand accounts of people and experts in various natural healing practices from around the world, I have come up with some basic conclusions.
1. You ‘catch’ something. This means an invasive organism such as a virus or bacteria infected you. As a result you have a disease such as common cold, flu, malaria or AIDS.
2. You ‘develop’ a disease. This means that your body is suffering from some imbalances. The imbalance may occur in parts of the body such as the kidney, pancreas, heart, liver and others. This gives rise to diseases such as diabetes, cancer, high blood pressure and heart disease.
This classification helps in our ultimate search for the root cause of disease. In doing so, we can find the cures for all disease. Bearing this in mind, let us look at diseases where you catch something.
If you fall ill and go to the doctor, he diagnosis you and says you have malaria. In other words you where bitten by a mosquito fly. This mosquito infected you. That is fine because you now know why you have those feverish conditions. However, that is as far as modern medical science goes. The real question should have been why was your immune system not strong enough to combat the bacteria.
Developing drugs and vaccines to combat ‘germs’ is grossly inadequate and in many cases downright dangerous. In the world today we are exposed to various bacteria and viruses on a daily basis. For example, if someone in your work place develops cold and sneezes, in days to come other people in the office will also fall with the cold. Others will be totally unaffected.
Why is that? Is this because of luck, genetics, or divine providence? That I believe is the right question to address. It simply means that some people’s immune systems are stronger than others. Their immune system did exactly what it should do which is to combat virus and bacteria that they come across on a daily basis. If you catch a disease it means your immune system is out of balance and is weak. You develop something in your body either because it is out of balance or toxins are causing you to be sick.
Toxins are poisonous substances that if taken in large doses will cause serious illness or death. If you have no or very little toxins in your body then disease and illness will not affect you because bacteria and viruses cannot thrive in a non-toxic environment.
Your immune system also becomes weak when it does not take enough nutrients. This is intuitive because we all have a feeling that we are sick when we don’t eat adequate food.
Having said this let me state what the root causes of disease and illnesses are. When you are sick this is where your attention should be. Ready?
1. Your body is over loaded with toxins.
2. Your body is nutritionally deficient
3. You have trapped mental and emotional stress.
4. You are negatively affected by electromagnetic chaos.
So there you are. These are the four reasons why your immune system is weak and break down with sickness and illnesses.
Bolaji Alli is the founder and CEO of Holistic Miracles, an international organisation committed to empowering the physical well being of humanity. He has spent the last twenty years researching into various areas of alternative healing methods such as herbalism, nutrition, acupuncture etc. He is also a distributor for Tianshi products.
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Fasting – Is It Really Dangerous For Your Health?
Fasting involves restricting your dietary intake to a liquid and liquid only. The liquid can be either water, tea, or fruit juice. Proponents of fasting recommend occasional regular short fasts, lasting from two to five days, as part of a general health-maintenance regimen. Advocates recommend that longer fasts for health maintenance or the healing of illness, lasting a month or more, be conducted under medical supervision.
For fasts lasting more than one week, fruit juices are given to supply the nutrients needed to maintain health. Some add enemas as part of the detoxification fasting regimen. Proponents claim that because the body is relieved of its usual chore of breaking food down into its elemental nutrients, fasting allows the body’s inner resources to focus on cleansing and healing. Cleansing is said to be accomplished through the elimination of existing toxins.
Fasting claims to enhance the immune system and reduces the demands placed on it. In addition to its role as part of health maintenance, some believe that fasting is an effective way to treat illnesses, including arthritis, ulcers, heart disease, asthma, and other problems.
The ancient belief that fasting purifies the soul has been extended to the current view that fasting also can purify the body. Fasting maintains and restores health through physiological mechanisms. Included in these mechanisms are shifting physiological effort from food conversion to the elimination of toxins, reducing the immune system’s workload, releasing pesticides and other chemicals from body fat, and eliminating the body of nonessential tissue.
It is helpful to look at these beliefs in terms of scientific information about the well-studied sequence of events that occurs when people start fasting. When body weight declines, water and fat, but not toxins, are lost from cells. Toxins therefore are left behind. Nutrients are needed to sustain immune competence, the ability of the body’s disease-fighting immune system to make antibodies and other proteins and cells. Immune system failure, not enhancement, occurs when people do not eat enough to provide the nutrients that sustain proper immune function. Instead of reducing its workload, fasting impedes the immune system.
Advocates explain that people feel sick when fasting because toxins are leaving the body. Actually, fasting decreases the immune system’s ability to destroy and eliminate toxins. Fasting also causes a drop in blood sugar levels, which causes a breakdown of tissues needed for energy. This leads people to feel sick because the brain and other tissues fail to receive needed sugars, and the body’s metabolism is forced to remove the needed nutrients from muscle and liver tissue. At the same time, the liver and kidneys are not able to do their work of handling the by-products of protein breakdown.
Fasting can harm all organs. It is extremely dangerous to health, especially for those who are malnourished by chronic illness, yet some proponents recommend fasting to treat chronic illnesses. The slimmer the individual, the more dangerous a fast will be. The longer the fast, the more life-threatening it becomes. Studies show that when people reach 56% of their appropriate body weight, death occurs. The body cannot distinguish between intentional fasting and starvation.
Solid scientific research does not support the claims of fasting advocates. To the contrary, it contradicts those claims and indicates the dangers of fasting, even with water or juices. Reducing the number of calories you eat while maintaining a normal, balanced diet will reduce your weight. But consuming only water, tea, or juice is harmful, not helpful, to health and should be avoided especially by those who are ill.
Advocates believe that fasting can produce fatigue, anemia, irregular heartbeat, body aches, nausea, dizziness, and other negative effects. They refer to these as temporary problems that precede feelings of well-being, mental clarity, internal cleanliness, and other benefits.
Contrary to advocacy claims, fasting does not and cannot heal medical conditions, assist immune or other physiological function, or play a role in health maintenance. The decreased supply of blood glucose leads the body to break down muscle for energy, causing weakness, depression, fatigue, and sick feelings.
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