How Much Vitamin D Do You Really Need to Take?

When it comes to the benefits of optimizing your vitamin D levels, the evidence is simply overwhelming. Research shows you can drastically reduce your risk of cancer and countless other chronic diseases by getting safe sun exposure, using a safe tanning bed, or taking a high-quality supplement.

Yet, a great deal of people around the world have heard nothing of this great “discovery.” It’s even likely that your doctor is among them, which is why it’s so important to educate yourself.

As a result of flawed assumptions about sun exposure, and the subsequent recommendations, a vast majority of people are deficient in vitamin D. It’s thought that over 95 percent of U.S. senior citizens may be deficient, along with 85 percent of the American public.

Clearly, the word needs to get out but the mainstream media is slow to react. Plus, there’s no money to be made on selling vitamin D (it’s one of the most inexpensive supplements around) and sun exposure is free! So don’t count on any major corporations or drug companies to help get the message out (rather, count on them to try and suppress this lifesaving information).

Read the full article by Joseph Mercola here.

Manuka Honey - The Ultimate Natural Healer

A premium type of mono-floral honey that is produced in New Zealand is being used as an alternative to traditional forms of medicine.

If you are one of the many people who don't like to use medicine and would prefer to utilize a more natural remedy, you will find the following information very valuable. It has been discovered that Manuka Honey can cure and/or provide relief to a number of different health disorders including but not limited to the following:

• Diarrhea
• Ulcers
• Infections
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
• Gastrointestinal Disorders
• MRSA/Staph Infections
• Acid Reflux Disease
• Sore/Strep Throat
• Cold/Flu Symptoms
• Acne
• Eczema
• Ringworm

Infectious diseases that can be effectively treated with Manuka Honey include the following:

• Anthrax
• Diphtheria
• Urinary Tract Infections
• Ear Infections
• Meningitis
• Respiratory Infections
• Sinusitis
• Pneumonia
• Tuberculosis
• Typhoid
• Dysentery
• Abscesses
• Boils
• Carbuncles
• Impetigo
• Tooth Decay
• Gum Disease
• Puerperal Fever
• Rheumatic Fever
• Scarlet Fever
• Cholera

Manuka Honey is also very well-known for its wound healing capabilities. The types of wounds that have been successfully treated with Manuka Honey are:

• Abrasions
• Amputations
• Abscesses
• Bed Sores
• Burns
• Burst Abdominal Wounds
• Cancrum
• Cervical Ulcers
• Chilblains
• Diabetic Ulcers
• Septic Wounds
• Surgical Wounds
• Varicose Ulcers
• MRSA/VRE

The medical benefits of Manuka Honey are primarily due to its ability to retain moisture and its antibacterial properties. Since Manuka Honey is all-natural, it has been found to have no negative side effects when used for medicinal purposes.

Article from Honeymark.
I purchase mine from Swanson's.

What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You . . . In Fact, It Already Is

Dr. Samuel Epstein's Newest Book, Toxic Beauty

Toxic Beauty is a fully documented exposé which reveals the wide range of avoidable health risks, some even life threatening, that Americans are unknowingly exposed to in their everyday cosmetic and personal-care products. “But there is also good news. These toxic exposures are 100 percent avoidable by taking just a few basic precautions,” says Epstein.

Toxic Beauty is written by Dr. Samuel S. Epstein, an internationally recognized expert on avoidable causes of cancer, besides other toxic-related diseases, and investigative reporter Randall Fitzgerald. And besides chronicling the pervasive marketing of dangerous products, Toxic Beauty also informs readers on the growing availability of safe products. In the pages of Toxic Beauty, you’ll find:

 The five categories of common toxic ingredients in cosmetics and personal-care products.

 Toxic ingredients in these products have been incriminated in a wide range of diseases, particularly cancers. These include malignant melanoma of the skin, and lethal ovarian cancer.

They also include birth defects in male infants.

 Safe synthetic and certified organic products as alternative to dangerous products.

 Dangerous exposures to employees from prolonged exposures to toxic ingredients in unlabeled products in poorly ventilated and unregulated beauty and nail salons.

 Tear-out sheets listing all major categories of toxic ingredients; also tables on five major classes

of toxic ingredients that can be downloaded from the Cancer Prevention Coalition Web site, www.preventcancer.com.

Epstein warns, “Unbelievably, the FDA has recklessly failed to protect us from toxic ingredients in cosmetics and personal-care products for the last six decades. What’s more, the mainstream industry has remained criminally indifferent to the dangers of their products. In sharp contrast, European regulations ban all products containing toxic ingredients.”

So, the reality is that protecting yourself and your family unfortunately is still entirely up to you.

Toxic Beauty shows you just how.

From Healthy Communication.