Christmas is the time of the year when we are most likely to experience depression. Christmas also has the highest level of suicides on the calendar. The psychological aspects of seasonal depression are well known. But does it have to be this way? What role does nutrient depletion play in increasing ones susceptibility to depression at this time or at any time of year?
There are two important things to make note of here; 1. Lack of either a single nutrient — or several — can lead to depression. Hence, proper diet and supplementation can help to guard against depression at any time of year and at Christmas can presumably help moderate seasonal depression for those so affected; i.e. one may experience Christmas depression but not as severely. 2. The Christmas holidays are a time of consuming too much sugar and alcohol — both of which are known to deplete the body of key nutrients, hence either setting off or worsening depression. In other words, what you eat can mean the difference between no depression and major depression — depending on your particular situation. Read more...
It has been a GREAT first year here at Campaign for Real Health! We want to celebrate our success by presenting our top five most read posts. Provocative, informative and fact-filled, there is something for everyone interested in learning about and achieving real health. We hope YOU have had a wonderful 2009 and that the blessings of health and wellness will be yours in 2010!
1. Fat 3.0: Healthy, Nutritious and Oh-So Satisfying!Once upon a time dietary fat was healthy and good people everywhere ate the good foods that nature provided and they loved. Then, government dictocrats labeled it unhealthy and an obesity epidemic ensued. But now …it is healthy again and there is a ton of science from all over the world to back it up! It’s time to start ENJOYING HEALTHY FAT AGAIN! If you have been waiting for good news about dietary fat you need wait no longer. Ode Magazine has published in the June/July 2009 issue the ultimate article, well researched, detailed and highly readeable packed with good news for those of you who love your fat! Of course if you know anything about Weston Price then this will be old news to you; but what’s exciting about this article is that it shows how the tide of opinion, both popular and scientific, has turned dramatically in favor of dietary fat. READ THE REST OF THIS POST! Read more...
Everyone “knows” Vitamin C can prevent or cure colds and other illness. However, very few people have an informed strategy for using Vitamin C effectively. Our post today is a brief yet detailed overview of using ascorbic therapeutically.
(OMNS, December 15, 2009)* What is it about a little left-handed molecule of six carbons, six oxygens, and eight hydrogens that ticks off so many in the medical community?
Maybe it’s cases like this one: Ray, a health professional I know, had an 11-month old son who was very sick for over a week. No one, and I mean no one, in their family had had any sleep in a long time. They were up night after night with this child, who had a high fever, glazed watery eyes, tons of thick watery mucus and labored breathing. The child would not sleep, and did little else but cry. The baby was under the care of a pediatrician, who, in the infant’s eleven months on earth, had already prescribed twelve rounds of some very serious antibiotics. That they clearly were not working was all too apparent to Ray, who out of desperation decided to try something he previously had been taught to not try: bowel tolerance quantities of oral ascorbate. Ray and his wife gave their baby vitamin C about every 15 minutes. As a result, the baby was noticeably improved in a matter of hours, and slept through the night. With frequent doses continuing, the child was completely well in less than 48 hours. Ray calculated that the child had received just over 2,000 mg vitamin C per kilogram body weight per day. This is even more than what vitamin C expert Dr. Frederick Robert Klenner customarily ordered for sick patients. Remarkably, at 20,000 milligrams of vitamin C/day, that baby never had bowel-tolerance loose stools. (1) Read more...
You walk in your supermarket and everything looks clean, appetizing, and of course “fresh.” It seems everything is sold on the basis of “fresh” these days. But aside from the obvious, that term is rather meaningless. “Yes I’d like a pound of your freshest rat poison Hors’ Dourves, plesase.” Seriously, unless you are constantly educating yourself, what do you really know about what you are eating half the time? To give you a head start on this subject, we found a list of foods to stay away from.
Weight loss: it may not be isn’t just caloric restriction that reduces weight. It’s the ratio of the macronutrients – carbs, proteins and fats — to one another. And it’s the latter, fat, we are concerned with today as a new online experiment tries out the “eat fat to lose fat” theory (based on the book of that title by Mary Enig and Sally Fallon). “The Fat Experiment” is about a 21 year old woman who weighs 296 pounds at 5’8″. Her goal is to lose 40-50% of her current body weight and she will do this on a Weston Price diet consisting of roughly 60 percent fat. Specifically, on her “Principles” page she lists the features of healthy, traditional diets she will be following. Spot-on. I look forward to following her progress. She begins the experiment by posting the following YouTube video. She obviously takes her goal very seriously. We take her at her word and wish her the utmost success. We will follow this and publish updates along the way. In the meantime please become a regular visitor to her blog and offer your support http://thefatexperiment.wordpress.com/ She rocks — let’s let her know we are out here!
Raw milk enthusiasts take note:
These videos are brand new; online as of this writing for less than a week.
For those who may be interested in how a physician used raw milk to heal people of serious illness, visit our previous post on this subject via this link.
And while we are on the topic of raw milk, I ran across a blog with an interesting take on it. The author writes: I don’t think the milk of Biblical times was pasteurized. If God doesn’t have a problem with raw milk, why do we? Check out his post entitled “Raw Milk Wars.”
With a name like Campaign for Real Health, you can be certain we are interested only in real causes and real solutions without which “real health” is only a wish. In this regard, Doug Kaufmann of “Know the Cause” fame is a kindred spirit. We are pleased to introduce you to Doug and his work.
But first, we at this site are deeply skeptical of what might be considered dubious, or false causes and false solutions, such as the cholesterol myth, the vaccine “is always safe and is always the key to disease prevention” myth and the “sugar is OK but red meat is always bad” myth of conventional thinking, among many others This last one was driven home to me by an older lady friend of mine who had just completed standard medical breast cancer treatment. Her physician told her to stay away from red meat but that there would be no problem with her eating sugar. Such advice is truly ignorant of the benefits of properly raised, grass-finished beef, and the devastating consequences of introducing refined sugars into the body. Here’s a hint: the one — grass fed beef — is an omega 3-rich food that is good for inflammation while helping to boost the immune system and – as you will read below — can even kill fungi, while the other — sugar — helps cancer grow, increases arterial plaque, and dampens the immune system for hours after its ingestion. It also feeds fungus. Perfect segue, so let’s get on to Doug Kaufmann of “Know the Cause” his fungal theory of disease — and I believe, a genuine REAL step in the direction of REAL health. Read more...
The Raw Milk Diet Cure
The pharmaceutical industry gets rich making drugs that “manage” rather than “heal” disease. But a licensed M.D. had astounding success with real healing using a simple food substance from nature: Grass-fed Raw Milk. Click Here to Continue Reading
How To Choose Real Foods
In a recent post, "Want Real Health? Real Food Is the Key", we defined “real health” and made the connection between real health and real food. Today we offer you some specific guidelines on how to choose real foods, not fake foods. Click Here to Continue Reading
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Christmas is the time of the year when we are most likely to experience depression. Christmas also has the highest level of suicides on the calendar. The psychological aspects of seasonal depression are well known. But does it have to be this way? What role does nutrient depletion play in increasing ones susceptibility to depression at this time or at any time of year? 
presenting our top five most read posts. Provocative, informative and fact-filled, there is something for everyone interested in learning about and achieving real health. We hope YOU have had a wonderful 2009 and that the blessings of health and wellness will be yours in 2010!
