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Welcome to the 29th issue of our newsletter:

Healthy World Digest

In this issue:

* Controversy regarding dehydration symptoms

* Excellent anti-aging supplement

* Exercise and insomnia

* Sugar problems? Cinnamon & chromium

* Herb for lower back pain

* Foods to aid heart health

* Master supplement

Let's start with...

* Controversy regarding dehydration symptoms

There is still a great amount of debate around how much water we need. I ran across an article that you could read here

Unfortunately, the article featured several quotes from "experts" which are simply not true.

Let's examine one.

Stanley Goldfarb (Professor of medicine, University of Pennsylvania) states, "Since we have a perfectly good system to alert us if we need water, why would you need to subvert that by drinking in a prophylactic way?"

What Dr. Goldfarb does not seem to understand is that our thirst sensation is not perfect. We often don't feel thirsty even as we lose vast amounts of water. A perfect example of this is seniors who progressively lose thirst sensation leading to serious dehydration.

Stories surrounding symptoms of dehydration are quite common.

Close to home, a baseball player for the N.Y. Mets was feeling excessive fatigue over several weeks. This alarmed the Met coaching staf who ordered rest and a full medical workup. What was the Met player found to suffer from? Dehydration.

* Excellent anti-aging supplement

What if I told you that there is a common supplement that burns fat, fights cancer, heart disease and hypertension? What if I told you that you don’t even have to get it via supplement? That you can find it in certain foods? Exciting, no?

Well the substance is conjugated linoleic acid, or CLA. It is being seen as an amazing anti-aging supplement which addresses issues we all confront as we age.

It is a fatty acid, in other words, a fat that works with other natural body processes to ward off weight gain, heart disease and cancer.

You can take it in supplemental form but, better yet, get it in beef and dairy. One problem, you must eat grass fed beef and organic dairy to get sufficient CLA.

* Exercise and insomnia

We all agree that physical activity, or exercise, supports our health in various ways.

We probably also agree that physical activity can help us ward off insomnia or manage it. I'm sure we've all experienced deep sleep after a hard day of physical work.

No doubt. We all know and research shows, exercise improves sleep.

A few tips. Exercise should be somewhat challenging, not too late in the day, and mental/stressful work does not qualify.

Healthy Exercise World has added a couple of new, more comprehensive pages on exercise and insomnia so feel free to visit section at Exercise & insomnia

* Sugar problems? Cinnamon & chromium to the rescue

The supplement, GTF Chromium helps your body burn sugar. It’s good for prediabetics, diabetics and sugar-holics.

Cinnamon is also good for stabilizing blood sugar. I just sprinkle into my morning pot (yes, pot) of morning coffee. I also put half a cinnamon stick in for good measure.

* Herb for lower back pain

For the millions of back pain sufferers, including yours truly, a quick way to manage pain.

Devil’s claw blocks the inflammation that leads to lower back pain.

For more on topic, visit our helpful page on herbal remedies for back pain

* Foods to aid heart health

Just a quick list of food stuffs that keep or make your heart healthier in different ways. Ready? Okay.

In quick order, read rapidly...

Black tea, spinach, avocado, soybeans and oatmeal.

Now, anyone could incorporate at least a few of those foods into their day, right?

* Master supplement

Hope I’m not beating you over the head with this one but you may have guessed or already know, that the master supplement is vitamin D. I still suggest vitamin C as the Master Vitamin, or King of Vitamins.

But vitamin C does not have to compete against vitamin D because “vitamin” D is actually a hormone. As a hormone, it seems to influence the health of all vital systems and appears to be the single greatest weapon against the most serious diseases.

Dr. Oz recently outlined the number of conditions that are linked to low vitamin D levels.

Essentially, it seems to be linked to every major disease process. For example, low vitamin D levels are linked to heart disease and a variety of cancers and much more.

Its importance cannot be stressed enough.

But the optimal way to get vitamin D is through sunshine, at least 20 minutes a day, wearing as little clothing as possible. On days you can’t get any rays, take a supplement, at least 1,000 IUs but preferably 2 - 4,000 units.

In non tanning seasons, take a supplement daily. It's easy. It's cheap.

But for persons of African descent, taking a supplement is especially important because dark skin does not readily convert the sun rays into vitamin D.

So, people of African descent should still get vitamin D by staying out in the sun longer than non-Africans. However supplementation is even more important for persons of African descent.

Come to think of it, you can only wonder how much of the disparity between the health of persons of African descent and non Africans might be due to this one factor.

Taking vitamin D supplements is the best insurance at the best rate that you could invest in so get to it.

Well that's all for now. But note that we had too much material for you this month. Putting it all in one issue would mean this is not really a "Digest."

So, you should be receiving a bonus issue of Healthy World Digest in mid-month.

The topics in the bonus issue will include:

* The low carb diet issue

* Colorful foods

* Great tasting herbs for osteoarthritis

* Dehydration & dry eyes

* Recipe: Chicken & rice casserole

* Why we stress supplements, exercise & lifestyle choices over meds

Stay tuned and be well until then.

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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.

See you next month!

Sal

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