Healthy nuggets of news to keep your motor humming

Welcome to our 5th issue of our newsletter:

Healthy World Digest

In this issue:

* High carbohydrates = liver damage

* Be hip (Exercise, that is.)

* Italians aren't fat

* Arthritis and vitamins

* Want to improve immunity? Take a hike.

* Fibromyalgia doesn't exist

* Reply to eMail

Oh, and we wont harass you with numerous mailings or with articles that are longer than the Bible.

Just a few important, interesting, up to date, super beneficial health items that you could easily apply to you life or pass along to loved ones.

Duke University researchers found that taking in too many carbs can not only make you pack pounds but can also impact your liver. That is because excess blood sugar becomes fat in your liver. Good news is that sticking to a reduced carb diet can correct the related liver condition in 6 months.

* Be hip

Ever think about your hips when working out? Start to. If the spine's health is the best indicator of youth, according to the Yogis, then the hips are 2nd.

For better performance and to head off injury, visit our page on hip exercise

* Italians aren't fat

When I was a little nipper, I asked my Sicilian mom why Italians were so fat. She looked at me in feigned horror and said, "Italians aren't fat. Americans are fat!"

She was referring to Italian-Americans who ate, well, Italian-American stuff. You know, the sort of stuff that's featured at the corner pizzeria.

But that's not the food my family served. Real Italian food features good bread, rich, fresh cheeses, salads with a little olive oil, lots of greens & fresh fruit. Yeah, it's quick food but good for you.

I came to understand that whatever was imperfect on the diet I was raised on was offset by the good stuff: the salads, cooked greens, fresh fruit and fish.

So eat Italian, REAL Italian.

Future newsletters will offer interesting recipes for dishes served in my family that are simple, scrumptious and healthy. If I forget, remind me.

* Arthritis and vitamins

Arthritis is a common, pervasive problem in the West. There are no cures as of yet. But a number of supplements can really be useful.

Think fish oils, magnesium, calcium, Vitamin E & Vitamin C.

Click for much more on arthritis vitamins

* Take a hike in the woods!

Researchers found that a hike in the woods strengthens your immune system. Just the kind of health item that brightens my day.

Researchers opined that, on hikes, we absorb the natural protectants that the trees emit.

Make sense, and I could think of many other features of that hike that contribute to immunity. The exercise, the relaxation, the joining to nature, etc.

* Fibromyalgia doesn't exist

I don't think there is such a thing as fibromyalgia. The pains are real, patients' suffering is real, someTHING(s) is happening.

But that someThing has been given a category that doesn't add to our understanding or our treatment.

I believe that persons diagnosed with fibromyalgia are really suffering from a few or many disorders with changing symptoms. Perhaps, a large part of the distress includes an psychological component, part of the reason why symptoms appear to be shifting and vague.

My advice is for sufferers is to deal with the symptoms as THE disorders.

Then work on getting generally healthy.

Eat right

Work out

Drink lots of filtered water. Visit our sister site for helpful information on water & health.

Use natural herbs

Do one thing that is emotionally fulfilling. Make a friend. Volunteer your time. Take up yoga. See a psychotherapist. Just do one constructive emotional thing.

Then see what happens to your fibromyalgia.

* Reply to eMail

Hope this isn't too self serving. In response to an email I received asking if Healthy World is a front for some company, I replied as follows:

No, Healthy Water & Healthy World Online's other sites are not fronts for any other companies.

We have a few partners we work with, ones I trust, and Google ads pay for some of our bills. Yes, HW makes some money and I am very happy with our direction.

HW is a group of information sites based on my decades of research into health issues. There is no compelling reason for visitors to do anything more than just evaluate the info offered and make their own decisions as to how to best use the info.

I don't hard sell any products or brands. You can purchase a good water filter at your local home store, herbs at any herbal store and there's no shortage of available equipment at sporting goods stores that is not affiliated to the exercise site.

I hope you and Healthy World's other visitors (about 30,000 monthly) find the sites helpful and I genuinely hope that they encourage you to be active vis a vis yourself and others when it comes to health.

That would be satisfaction enough for me.

Anyway, thanks for visiting & good health, Sal

See you next month!

Sal