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Sunday, 3 January 2010

While many skeptics believe there is no hope for curing or reversing Alzheimer's Disease, I'm here to tell you there is much hope.

It's believed that approximately 10 million American baby boomers will develop Alzheimer's disease in their lifetime. If this is true, it will place tremendous strain on the U.S. health care system.

At present at least 5.2 million Americans currently suffer from Alzheimer's. By 2010 it's expected there will be 500,000 new cases each year, and nearly one million new cases annually by 2050. This disease is now the seventh deadliest illness in the U.S.

What is Alzheimer's?

The disease is a chronic form of dementia that results in severe memory loss and eventually death. The average life span of someone with Alzheimer's is about eight years. However some may survive up to 20 years with proper care.

The Cause of Alzheimer's

It's not entirely clear what's the cause of Alzheimer's disease, but it is related to thyroid hormone dysfunction, intracellular T3 (immune system cells) deficiency and diabetes.

The risk factors for the disease include generic, environmental and dietary factors. Certain diseases also heighten your risk. Diabetics have up to 65 percent higher risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.

The primary dietary risk factors include fatty acids that are found in so many processed foods. It's also found that homocysteine levels are elevated when you are deficient in vitamin B6, foliate and vitamin B12.

Drugs are not the answer to slow Alzheimer's.

It has been suggested that anti-inflammatory drugs may reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease but a study of two such drugs found that they did not slow the disease's progression. Neither the arthritis drug rofecoxib, sold by Merck as Vioxx, nor the over the counter painkiller naproxedm, sold by Bayer as Aleve, was able to slow mental decline either.

Besides the lack of benefits to slow Alzheimer's, these types of drugs also carry a risk of si! de effec ts. What was found in the study that those participants who took the drugs were more likely to experience high blood pressure, dizziness, fatigue and dry mouth than those who took placebo. Other side effects included stomach upset, ulcers and bleeding.

Alzheimer's disease occurs when deposits known as amyloid plaques accumulate in the brain. These deposits can begin to form years before symptoms appear. So it is thought that inflammatory mechanisms contribute to the buildup of the plaques, although research findings have not been conclusive.

So here's how to prevent Alzheimer's:

* Eat a nutritious meal with plenty of vegetables and avoid sugar.

* Take plenty of fish oil daily. Avoid most fish. The smallest of fish are the healthiest ones.

* Avoid Aluminum, such as antiperspirants, cookware, etc.

* Challenge your mind daily. Mental stimulation in many forms, such as doing crossword puzzles, learning to play an instrument or doing anything challenging can stimulate the mind and help decrease the risk of Alzheimer's.

It is rather disheartening when I see or hear of my relatives and friends who have Alzheimer's disease. They are usually admitted to a nursing home or some kind of senior center and treated with prescription drugs.

Here again is one of my frustrations with the medical community, Big Pharma and even the government. These parties never educate victims of the disease the correct way to prevent, cure or reverse it.

Hopefully if enough of us who encourage people to take personal charge of their health and learn the benefits of natural healing methods, maybe we can change all this.

My website provides the information to implement the correct methods for how to live healthy and ways to stay healthy. This blog contains many articles about health matters. I encourage you to visit both of them.

To your good health,

Sonny Julius

Sonnyj@TheSunnySenior.com

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Sunday, 20 December 2009

Even though there is a good chance the senate health care bill will pass, it will not solve America's healthcare crisis. In fact no healthcare bill of any kind will solve our health care crisis.

The government will never solve this crisis by passing sickness legislation. What needs to be done is to pass health education legislation. In other words establish a health education program throughout the entire United States. That can be done in many ways. But there needs to be a study done to see the most effective way to proceed and establish a workable plan.

But here's an issue that will crop up if this kind of a program is ever proposed. Big Pharma and the medical community will probably object furiously because it could cost each of them massive reduction of their profits.

If government were really serious about solving one of the worst crisis in American history it could dramatically improve every citizen's health. Without any kind of health education legislation America's health will decline even more.

There are several areas that are causing this severe healthcare crisis. Let's start with the medical community. The typical conventional doctor is the one to blame most. It seems their concern is not to cure a patient but to keep them fully dependent on their services.

If you think that is a blunt statement let me clarify why I believe it is true. First of all the typical conventional doctor usually doesn't spend enough time with a patient to really know what is causing their illness.

Secondly medical schools did not teach their students much of anything about nutrition and nutrition is one the keys to wellness. In fact what I have heard is the amount of time spent training medical students about nutrition was so limited it was a joke.

Here's the next issue that needs to be addressed about who is to be blamed for our health care crisis. Big Pharma contributes immensely to this crisis. They do a massive job of indoctrinating people that their products will solve a person's illness or disease.

When in reality their products do more harm than good. It is not highly publicized but their products not only cause serious illnesses for many but they even cause death to hundreds of thousands each year as well. The true fact is no prescription drug company product will even cure illness.

Now let's not forget how our government contributes to this healthcare crisis. First of all they support Big Pharma completely. The FDA and other government agencies do not regulate the pharmaceutical industry like they should.

Many drugs have been manufactured and distributed without proper testing and have only been recalled when people have either been seriously injured by them or even died because of them. Now what does the leaders in government do? They usually do nothing until the problem really gets out of control to cause unlimited proportions of harm.

The blame crowd continues to exist because there isn't enough concern expressed by the general public to make any major changes. So you have doctors continuing with their same old practices; the prescription drug companies continue producing and distributing poison drugs; and the government seems to turn their head and ignore the whole issue.

The only solution I can see to this gigantic mess, as I have indicted many times before, is people must take personal charge of their own health. They cannot depend on the typical doctor anymore; they cannot depend on Big Pharma; and they surely cannot depend on the government to help them learn how to be healthy and ways to stay healthy.

In my many many years of research about health issues I've become highly educated about the subject. Am I an expert? No, by no means but I am more educated about what it takes to be healthy than what the average citizen knows.

However individuals today are becoming more educated about health issues and know that they need to make their own decisions about how to be healthy and the ways to stay healthy. I do my best to spread the word what are the proper methods for being a healthy individual.

For all those really interested in becoming more educated about health issues I encourage them to visit my website and take advantage of the free offers I make and also visit my blog about the many articles I have written on the subject of health.

To your good health,

Sonny Julius

Sonnyj@TheSunnySenior.com

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Sunday, 13 December 2009

Now many people would refuse to believe that there are any advantages to mind control power. But I can tell you for a fact that using it properly can get you some awesome results for whatever you want to accomplish in life.

Of course you must also understand that it's important that you are the only one to direct your mind control power. Do not let anyone else control your mind without your permission.

The subject of mind control power is a subject that was discussed many many years ago. One of the questions asks back then was, "Is it possible to get help from higher power, who will guide you and direct you to success?

Throughout history, many people have gained such guidance. More than 50 years before Christ was born, the philosopher Cicero said, "No man was ever great without divine inspiration"

In the 17th Century playwright William Shakespeare said it like this: "There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will."

Revolutionary War General and our first President George Washington said, "It is impossible to govern the world without God."

Abraham Lincoln, who was President during the civil war and considered by most to be the nation's greatest President, once told a delegation of Southerners, "Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right."

Through history great people have used this theory to accomplish a multitude of successes in their lives. Now the question is, aside from the claims that these people made, is there any kind of scientific evidence that this is really true.

Religion says we must take it on faith. However that was all we had until Jose Silva, while seeking ways to help his children learn to use more of their minds so they would do better in school. Jose found a ways to apply scientific method to the study of the mind and human potential.

Jose explains this when he said that science depends on the repeatable experiment. He said, "If you can replicate your experience - if you can do it again with predictable results - then you have scientific evidence that you are on to something.

There are many stories that Jose Silva told about how his children were not only successful in school but also other friends and people he came in contact with who were also successful in many areas of their life.

After twenty-two years of research, Jose knew that everyone could learn their psyche ability, and if they could achieve a deep level of mind with conscious awareness, and maintain that deep level once they activated their mind, then they could seek and receive guidance from higher intelligence.

Eventually he developed the "Silva Mind Control" seminar, which I was fortunate to graduate from in 1985. Today the course is called "Jose Silva's Ultra Mind ESP System.

I do remember the exciting moments during those classes back then. The most I remembered about them was developing a positive mental attitude to accomplish many successes in my life.

The most memorable was my decision to leave a family business after being associated with it for 29 years and moving on to a successful sales career. After a few years association with this sales company I became one of their sales supervisors with a staff of six salesmen. I managed territories from the midwest to the southwest.

With my Jose Silva training I directed these salesmen in mind control power methods and three of these salesmen became my most successful salesmen.

Mind control power is not fake, it's real and can become awesome to use. I have talked to many successful people who use these techniques to become financially fit in their careers.

I was interviewed one day on Blog Talk Radio by Darlene Siddon about my health website and I mentioned Jose Silva's course, which she questioned me about later.

A week after that interview I had a reason to talk to her once more. I questioned her about a comment she had made about mind control techniques during my interview, I learned she used a similar method to cure her breast cancer.

To your good health,

Sonny Julius

Sonnyj@TheSunnySenior .com

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Saturday, 5 December 2009

For those who don't know what factory farming is, here's what it is in a nutshell. It's the unsanitary and inhuman production of meat products.

For instance all meat-producing animals such as beef cattle, pigs and chickens etc; are subjected to production by horrendous methods. Most beef cattle spend the last few months of their lives at feed lots crowded by the thousands into dusty, manure-laden holding pens. The slaughtering process is even worse and too gross to mention here.

The chicken production process is just as bad and inhumane. Around 95% of the eggs available from these chickens come from egg factories, where the birds are held in battery cages which are very small with slanted wire floors.

Five to eight birds are crammed into 14 inches cages. To prevent aggression (due to the stress) chicks are debeaked. To lift the production up hens live in constant light.

As male chicks are not useful for the broiler industry, and 50% of chicks hatched are males, they need to be disposed and killed at birth. Broiler chickens are selectively selectivity bred and genetically altered to produce bigger thighs and breasts, the parts in most demand.

This breeding creates birds so heavy that their bones cannot support the weight. As they are bred to grown fast they reach market weight of 3 1/2 pounds in seven weeks.

Broilers are raised in overcrowded broiler houses instead of cages to prevent the occurrence of bruised flesh, which would make their meat undesirable. Their beaks and toes are cut off and the broiler houses are usually unfit to prevent fighting among the birds.

A mix of confinement, little moving space, little or no sunshine, too little vitamins and dietary deficiencies can result (and they usually do in factory forms) in a variety of health conditions and diseases.

Darkened rooms and close confinement result in animals being bored, frustrated and fearful. In reaction to this stress animals burn up available energy and nutrients that would otherwise go toward growth, resistance against diseases, lactation and gestation.

In the 1940's it was discovered that chickens grew faster when fed the mash left over from the antibiotic process. To this day no one really knows why antibiotics speed growth, but within years of this discovery they became standard feed additives for poultry, cattle calves and pigs.

In the 50's and 60's animal scientists mapped out the role of hormones in growth and production and started making hormone-effecting products as feed additives and implants.

Now if you believe that any of this shouldn't raise any medical concerns for humans. I guarantee it should. If you are concerned about living a healthy life you do not want to eat any products produced in a factory farm.

The safest food of any kind should be brought in organic supermarkets. Their meat and chicken products and even chicken eggs are not subjected to any factory farm processes.

If you have heard about the e.coli virus the factory farms is usually where this starts. This virus can not only create some horrendous health conditions but it can also cause death too.

In a story recently in the New York Times was the sad story of Stephanie Smith, a children's dance instructor. Stephanie contacted the e.coli virus when she consumed a burger patty her mother grilled for their Sunday dinner.

Stephanie thought she only had a stomach virus. The aches and cramping were tolerable that first day and she finished her classes. Then her diarrhea turned bloody, her kidneys shut down and finally seizures knocked her unconscious.

The convulsions grew so relentless that doctors had to put her in a coma for nine weeks. When she emerged she could no longer walk. The affliction ravaged her nervous system and left her paralyzed.

Because of situations like these you must learn how vital it is to take personal charge of your health. You cannot trust the medical community, government or Big Pharma to care about your health.

After more than five years of researching information on the Internet, reading medical newsletter and special health reports of doctors well-educated in nutrition, this is the criteria I use to manage my health. I'd suggest that you do your own research about your health and even visit my website for infomation on many health matters.

To your good health,

Sonny Julius



The entire contents of this articleare based upon research conducted by the author. This information is presented for educational purposes only. Therefore the reader should be made aware that this information is not intended as medical advice, but rather a sharing of knowledge and information from the research and experience of the author. The author encourages you to make your own health care decisions based upon your research and in partnership with a qualified health care professional. You and only you are responsible if you choose to do anything based on what you read.

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Monday, 30 November 2009

The values you set for yourself in life should be critically important to you and all others in your life. The way you were raised as a child should be a reflection of what those values are like today. I sometimes wonder today if people really care about what kind values they live by. It seems that our society today seems less caring about what kind of life's values they live by.

Just recently I read an article in a senior citizen's newsletter that really concerned me about this particular subject. The article was about a male senior citizen who was now involved in an extramarital relationship and who thought his affair was perfectly legitimate.

Here's the real shame of the whole story. His wife was now in the late stages of Alzheimer's disease and even though he wasn't interested in a divorce he believed this affair was right for him to be in. What is even a bigger shame was his children even endorsed this affair.

As far as I know all marriage vows include the words "for better or for worse until death do we part". Maybe he forgot that pledge and was only interested in his own personal satisfaction. People have to realize when faced with challenges in their lives that the values they set for themselves should create the support they need to survive them.

My wife Alice and I have been married for over 55 years now and we can say we live by some pretty strong values. We believe that is how we kept our relationship for this long.

There's a chart I came cross on the Internet recently that may be of interest to you. See how you stand on all of life's values. Take time to assess your life's values. See if there are areas you would like to improve. If you would like to know more about this subject, click here.

To your good health,

Sonny Julius

http://www.ahealthylifeforsure.com

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Monday, 23 November 2009

Here's an irritation of mine that really concerns me about the medical community and Big Pharma and about children's ADHD treatments. When are parents going to take a stand and boldly resist the practice? Most doctor's decision to treat this ailment is usually to prescribe dangerous drugs such as Ritilan. This drug can cause some very dangerous and possible side effects.

Millions of children have been medicated with this dangerous drug which has pushed some of them into psychosis and even suicide. It is the same type of psychotic drug that caused Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris to carryout the Columbine massacre on April 20,1999 in Jefferson Country, Colorado. Sadly they killed 13 students and wounded another 25.

Dr. Lendon H. Smith earned his MD degree and began the practice of medicine almost 55years ago. He has fought for children's health and nutrition issues for over three decades. He was among the first to caution against sugar, white flower and junk food known to contribute to sickness, hyperactivity, obesity, allergies and many illness in children and adults.

When he came more aware of this type illness he began to treat children with oral doses of 500 mg magnesium and 1000 mg calcium daily. This treatment took about three weeks to show some positive results. What happened was 80% of those on Ritalin or dextromophetamine were able to get off these and any other stimulants they were on. It did not work on all of them. He said eventually he had them take Vitamin B6 if dream recall was poor and also take essential fatty acids if they had dry skin or a history of eczema.
Here are the facts, no prescription drug company medication is going to cure illness of any kind. Natural medicine healing is the answer for solving a medical problem. People need to realize that their medical concerns will only be solved with these kinds of methods.

It has been found that ADHD is actually a syndrome due to the screening devise of the brain. Since it was declared a disease the medical community and Big Pharma have been compensated for treating it. They have reaped huge profits on these drugs and at the same time jeopardized the health of millions of children.

Dr. Smith believes that ADHD is really a disorder and not a bona fide disease. It's a collection of symptoms and signs that seems to get in the way of a child being educated. What is really a shame is a teacher or school administration is usually the one who suggests that the child see a doctor for the behavior problem, whom they know will put a kid on Ritalin or a similar drug.

Dr. Smith goes on to say when he became more familiar with nutrition, he found that if a stimulant had a calming effect like some ADHD drug treatments it meant that the child did not have enough norepinepbrine (a stimulant) in his limbic system. He realized it and knew a child could be helped with a good diet and some healthy nutrients to shore up the enzymes in his brain that make that neurotransmitter.

I am sorry to say that I had an experience in my own family that involved an ADHD diagnosis of my grandson. At this time I tried to convince my daughter that she needed to be aware of an alternative cure for her son instead of what the doctor had prescribed..

I had even put together a folder describing the ADHD disease in detail and the recommended treatment methods to solve it. However she broke down and cried and said it was none of my business. As you might imagine I was emotionally shaken from that experience and never brought it up again.

My grandson is now about two to three years older since that incident. I don't know if he is still being treated for ADHD but when we made a recent visit to their house it seemed his condition had mellowed somewhat. His behavior is not quite as dramatic as it was before.

Today on TV there was a story about a child that had been put in a room they called the "time out room"at school. He was locked in there because of his behavior in the classroom for about four hours by a teacher's aide and they forgot about him until someone else realized he was there and released him.

Now I know nothing else about this incident or whether it was ADHD related but it sure sounds like it might have been. The mother did say she had had disciplinary problems with him before. The boy was visibly distraught because he had another incident in the past that involved a similar encounter.

Here's something else that greatly concerns me too. Government regulations have contributed to incidents like this. The law that has been enforced concerning child abuse is the one I'm referring to. While I don't condone child abuse I believe the law goes too far in what they believe is defined as actual abuse.

Not only do kids take advantage of this law when they believed they are being abused but sometimes even other family members and acquaintances get involved also. Because of the fear parents have about being arrested or accused they refrain from disciplining their children which them creates additional problems. There have been parents who challenge this law and I applaud them for it.

Parents also have the responsibility of seeing that their children have healthy diets too. They need to buy the healthiest of foods that are usually found in organic supermarkets. They must realize that fast food ingredients are also damaging to their health and their children's health too. Learning the nutritional value of food can be a real asset for managing family health conditions.

It could play a huge role in the abilities to cure illness like (so called) diseases such as ADHD and other child and adult diseases. Why not start now giving that some serious thought and begin setting up a healthy regimen every day for all your family functions?
To your good health,
Sonny Julius

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Monday, 16 November 2009

Eating breakfast should be an important event in your life every morning. But make sure you choose the food that is of a healthy nature. There are many health benefits for eating breakfast every morning. It is even more beneficial for children of all ages.

Here is what we know about this claim. Your mother, most likely believed breakfast to be the most important meal of the day. It has been proven that a healthy breakfast is linked to many health benefits. Studies have shown that breakfast provides these valuable health benefits:

* A diet that is high in nutrients, vitamins and minerals

*Improved concentration and performance in school and even at work.

* More strength and endurance to engage in physical activity

* Lower cholesterol levels

Knowing all of this I was greatly disturbed about a recent article I read in a health newsletter I subscribe to. It was about a ridiculous cereal claim that had nothing to do with a healthy breakfast meal. Kellogg's announced that their cereal "Cocoa Krispies" now helps support your child's immunity."

Why is this claim so ridiculous and very disturbing to me? Because no matter how you look at it, this product falls into the class of "sugary foods" and "sugary foods" are not good for children or adults. Not only that, there is no way that any cereal of this type is an immunity booster.

How is it that a company like Kellogg's can make such a claim when sugar is one of the mostly damaging of all foods to your body? Constant use of sugar causes many major diseases, cancer in particular is one of them. But the list also includes many more illnesses and diseases than you might not believe are effected.

Do you realize that in America it's illegal to claim that vitamin D boost immunity function (even though there is many facts to support this)? There have been doctors and clinics that express the merits of these kinds of natural remedies and have been shut down and threatened with arrests.

Why doesn't the FDA send threatening letters to the CEO of Kellogg's threatening them with arrest and prosecution and confiscating their inventory of cereals for "misleading labeling"? This is what they have done when a nutritional company has claimed what their vitamin will do to help someone get well. Usually there is proof to support such a claim. Why doesn't the FDA make Kellogg's supply the same kind of truth?

Think about this for a minute. When you go to your favorite grocery store what grocery store shelves usually have some of the largest inventory? I think you will find the answer to that question to be without a doubt, "cereals." There must be some tremendous profits made by cereal companies and others who sell the product, wouldn't you believe?

As a society we better start getting serious about how to live healthy and how to stay healthy. In particular we should have some serious medical concerns about what our children are eating and drinking. I'm appalled with the food commercials I see on TV or in the press especially directed to kids.

The frosted pop tart for breakfast commercials are among the most disgusting of all ads I see. Not only is this product full of sugar but it also offers no nutritional value whatever. Kids almost certainly can get a real "sugar high" from it, which will eventually deplete their energy before they ever get to school.

Now we also know that adults also are guilty of not eating a healthy breakfast. In fact I have talked to many adults who don't eat any breakfast at all. However some of them have admitted stopping at a fast food restaurant for a cup of coffee and a breakfast sandwich.

For years now the FDA has betrayed the American population by allowing ridiculous claims on packages of processed food that has been chemically treated or enhanced with harmful ingredients.

Meanwhile foods like broccoli, blueberries, citrus foods and a host of other fruits and vegetables cannot make any health claims whatsoever. How many times do you read in the press or hear on TV the benefits of eating healthy foods such as these? You know the answer is, "rarely".

When are we going to finally voice our opinion about how terrible the food industry is misguiding us? Because the pace of the world is running at such a high level I don't believe most people stop long enough to realize what a serious problem this is.

Maybe we also need "tea parties" to start dealing with this "food issue" just like they have done to denounce certain government policies. The problem, so far, is that the awareness of this problem hasn't been enough of a great concern to many people or it hasn't been publicized that much on tv or the regular media yet.

Guess what it might take for the awareness on this issue to finally get people's attention? Here's is what I think it will take, "more will be people dying of all kinds of diseases". However here is my concern. Who is going to educate those people about how to live healthy and how to stay healthy?

I can tell you right now that it won't be the government, Big Pharma or the medical community. This is the "shocking facts" whether you want to believe it or not. Now I have made this statement many times because I'm convinced it's true.

You don't think so? Lets look at it this way. If people learned how to get healthy and fit how would this impact these three organizations and/or individuals? You can make your own judgement about how you feel about it. I have already decided what I believe.

Well here we are into months of discussion and numerous battles between the politicians to try and solve our healthcare problem. I can now tell you this. Whatever is finally decided about a healthcare plan it will never solve our "healthcare crisis"

The reason it won't is because we will only be passing a "sickness plan" and not a "wellness plan". We need a prevention plan and a wellness plan to solve our national health crisis.

The only way that will ever happen by educating people and teach them how to be nutrition smart. People need to know not only about what is "healthy food" but also know what are "healthy nutrients" too. If they are truthfully concerned about having a healthy body they need to adopt a daily wellness management program for themselves.

So here is a good way to get started every day. First make sure you eat a healthy breakfast meal. Then continue to make sure that all your meals are healthy at least most of the time. Add daily exercises, to your daily regimen, find ways to manage stress, make sure you have a lean body weight and finally you will be on your way to living a healthy lifestyle.

To your good health,

Sonny Julius



The entire contents of this article are based upon research conducted by the author. This information is presented for educational purposes only. Therefore the reader should be made aware that this information is not intended as medical advice, but rather a sharing of knowledge and information from the research and experience of the author. The author encourages you to make your own health care decisions based upon your research and in partnership with a qualified health care professional. You and only you are responsible if you choose to do anything based on what you read

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