| Why are we as sick as we are? | | | | evident in teenage girls. Typical sources of |
| | | | calcium are yogurts, dairy products and green |
| There is no simple straight forward answer | | | | leafy vegetables. You may think you feed your |
| but one thing you must know to put it simply; | | | | kids well and I've no doubt you do but |
| | | | there's no way she's getting what she should |
| A diet low in essential vitamins, minerals | | | | be to keep bones strong while going through |
| and antioxidants | | | | the growing teenage years. |
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| + Free Radical Damage to our Cells | | | | You've heard the term 'RDA's'? It means |
| | | | Recommended Daily Allowances? They came about |
| = Serious Disease that Degenerates and Ages | | | | over 50 years ago. Even back then, they were |
| Us Quickly. | | | | considered the absolute minimum that the |
| | | | human body needed to prevent diseases like |
| OK, so what does that mean in every day | | | | Ricketts and Scurvy. These RDA's have not |
| speak?? What do I mean by Degenerative | | | | been updated all this time. We now live in an |
| Disease? Disease that degenerates (or | | | | age where the toxic overload is greater than |
| literally breaks down the body) are the | | | | it's ever been while at the same time the |
| modern day illnesses that everyone of us are | | | | nutrient level in our soils have all but been |
| touched by in one form or another such as | | | | harvested and sprayed out completely. |
| cancer, heart disease, alzheimers, parkinsons | | | | |
| disease, diabetes, stroke, hypertension, | | | | No other generation but this one, throughout |
| arthritis, osteoporosis, endometriosis, | | | | all of history, has ever had to deal with |
| mononucleosis, irritable bowel and the list | | | | more toxins, pesticides, depleted soils, |
| goes on are typical examples of Degenerative | | | | contamination, processed foods, transfats, |
| Disease. This means the body is "not at ease, | | | | stress and other environmental pollutants. |
| it's dis-eased" and it's organs are suffering | | | | There's little wonder that free radical |
| damage and breaking down. | | | | damage is out there creating the havoc that |
| | | | it is. We need to start thinking now about |
| And before you go thinking they're just 'old | | | | our health and our kids health. |
| age' diseases, think again. | | | | |
| | | | So couldn't I just go take a pill? |
| Medical evidence sourced from the journals | | | | |
| listed above is rife that many of these | | | | Drugs treat the symptom. They have one |
| illnesses are creeping into our younger | | | | direction to treat one thing. They do not |
| generations. Cancer and Diabetes are now | | | | cure. Most have side effects. The next step |
| evidenced as childrens diseases. Osteoporosis | | | | would be to take another pill to treat the |
| is a teenage disease. No longer 'looked | | | | side effect. And before you know it, you're |
| forward to' as an 'old lady' condition. There | | | | taking a cocktail of pills that are making |
| are 20 year olds with Osteoporosis. | | | | you feel worse. One of the major causes of |
| | | | death in the United States is death by |
| In young teenage girls the body must have | | | | prescription drugs. There's a fabulously |
| high doses of calcium and magnesiumfor bone | | | | informative (albeit a little depressing) book |
| and muscle formation. With the takeaway junk | | | | by Dr Ray Strand that's well worth reading. |
| foods that most of the kids are eating today, | | | | It's entitled 'Death By Prescription' and is |
| there's little chance that the average 16 | | | | readily available. It's so well worth knowing |
| year old is getting her appropriate levels of | | | | what our drug cocktails are doing to us and |
| calcium. And NO, a McDonalds thickshake is SO | | | | to take your health into your own hands. This |
| not a source of calcium nor is the milk | | | | is where our future must be - to take our |
| poured on her sugar filled breakfast cereal. | | | | health into our hands and not leave it |
| If the muscles aren't getting the right doses | | | | completely up to drugs and doctors. I love Dr |
| of calcium, they literally 'steal' from the | | | | Strands books as he lets us know what |
| bones - hence Osteoporosis is becoming very | | | | alternatives are available to us. |