Kids and Exercise

With today's current trend of "sit-down" activities, America's facing a grim reality-our youth population is not as physically fit as we thought it was. In tests done to determine strength, endurance and physical ability today's youth scored very poorly. It is not uncommon to read about a teenager succumbing to a heart attack while performing intense physical training. Passivity has a strong foothold on the youth of today. With the availability of video games, television, computers and all the other leisure devices, our children are gradually becoming less and less capable of sustaining any substantial physical activity.
Many children who dwell in the large industrialized cities throughout the U.S.A. (and elsewhere) are being deprived of experiencing the "real" outdoors. They have no working knowledge of nature-no connection whatsoever with wildlife and many could not even tell you where the food they consume came from.
It is very disturbing to think that the vast majority of our youth are daily ingesting pseudo-foods and would rather die before they sample some wholesome foods. The parents in today's fast-paced, make-a-quick-buck society are relinquishing their obligation of protecting and taking care of their children and are oftentimes leaving their children's dietary needs to the whims of the junk food manufacturers and physicians who are less informed about nutrition than even they are. It is no big surprise when ou_r children are constantly placed on the treadmill of visiting doctors to having no stamina at all in accomplishing the simplest physical task.
Parents, your children are being victimized and so are you. It is time you grab the reins and take control! Don't allow the manufacturers of trash foods to pollute your children's .bodies, nor their minds. You need to pay close attention to the types of foods you buy, the types of influences that your children receive and last but not least you the parents should be setting the prime examples for your young ones. This includes a rigorous exercise program that you can include your children in. What do you think? 

Toothpaste with Fluoride. Real DANGER to you and your kids.. Learn why

Since you brush your teeth twice a day, shouldn't you think about what you're putting in your mouth? 
Normal tube of toothpaste today comes with many chemicals, additives, detergents and sweeteners. One very dangerous poison chemical found in 95% of toothpaste tubes sold today is Fluoride. It is usually found in ratio of 1mg Fluoride / 1gram toothpaste. The use of fluoride toothpaste especially in the early childhood could be dangerous health hazard and explains the reason behind FDA requiring poison warning on every sold toothpaste tube containing Fluoride.  
THE WARNING READS : “Keep out of reach of children under 6 years of age. If you accidentally swallow more than used for brushing, seek professional help or contact a poison control center immediately.”

The FDA requires this warning because children who swallow too much fluoride toothpaste can suffer acute poisoning, even death. In fact, a single tube of bubble-gum flavored Colgate-for-Kids toothpaste contains enough fluoride (143 mg) to kill a child weighing less than 30 kg. (Whitford 1987a).

Risks from ingesting fluoride toothpaste include permanent tooth discoloration (dental fluorosis), stomach ailments, acute toxicity, skin rashes (perioral dermatitis), and impairment in glucose metabolism. All of these risks have been unnecessarily increased by the marketing practices of toothpaste manufacturers, who use cartoon packaging and candy-flavors to target *adult-strength* fluoride toothpaste to young *children.*  The dental community’s failure to educate the public about the dangers of swallowing too much fluoride toothpaste has further exacerbated the problem.

EDUCATE YOUR SELF AND ONES AROUND YOU. IT STARTS WITH EACH ONE OF US !!!

The Need For Daily Exercise. 20 minutes of right exercise can prolong your health/life

Exercise strengthens not only our muscles, but our entire organism, including our minds.

Specific Benefits of Exercise
As humans age and vitality is lessened and when they are ill, exercise is very much needed, even though this idea may be contrary to popular thinking. Exercise is essential to keep the heart and lungs in good condition, to keep the blood and other fluids replenished and their movements active. Exercise is needed to improve the digestion and to encourage elimination of the toxins. 

There must always be at least a fifteen- to thirty-minute period of vigorous conditioning, aerobic activity. This would include such exercises as jogging, brisk walking, intense swimming, fast bicycling, even repeated stair climbing or hill hiking. Whatever the exercise may be, it must make the heart beat faster, the pulse increase, the breathing deepen, and the entire metabolism quicken. This pace should be maintained as long as comfortable, with an eventual goal of twenty to thirty minutes or longer. In the beginning, work up to such intense activity gradually. Increase your speed and time as your body responds favorably.People who choose to run or walk as their primary exercise should also include a sequence of exercises to work the upper portion of the body, such as weight-lifting or a racquet sport. 


The Three Rules o f Exercise

To insure health and well-being, exercise must be
1) Progressive ---  means that you progress from easy to more vigorous activity as your strength and capabilities increase.
2) Systematic --- simply an activity that conditions all areas of the body.

3)Habitual --- Perhaps that most important of these three for an insured successful exercise regimen is that it be habitual


Fortunately, there is an easy way of introducing exercise and vigorous activity into everyone's normal lifestyle. It's something that most people start doing after the first few months of life: walking.

For walking to be an effective form of exercise, generally an hour or more each day is required. This hour may be worked up to by splitting the time into two thirty- minute periods, three twenty-minute sessions, or even four fifteen-minute outings if the person is old or out of shape.  

DID YOU KNOW !!
When walking is neglected and is no longer part of your daily lifestyle, the posture is the first to go. As a person sits more and walks less, the head droops forward and pulls the spine with it. This slumping is then accelerated by gravity, and you become round-shouldered, hunched over-much like the primitive caveman who once scampered on all fours.

 

The Protein Confusion of Today

WHAT ARE PROTEINS? 

Proteins are highly complex compounds of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen and small amounts of sulphur or iodine. They are present in the protoplasm of every living cell and are involved in every organic activity of an organism.

There are many different types of proteins within the bodies of animals and plants. For example, all plants have at least two different types of protein, and within the human body there are over I00,000 different kinds of proteins. Although all of these proteins differ in their molecular structure, they all have approximately the same chemical composition of 53% carbon. 22% oxygen. 17% nitrogen. 7% hydrogen and 1% sulphur iodine. etc.

All of these proteins are composed of amino acids. An amino acid is simply a substructure of a protein compound. You can think of protein as being chains of amino acids that are linked together to form one structure. 

Proteins are the primary substance of life; the building materials of organisms. They can be synthesized or created only by plant and animal life and are formed in animals from amino acids which were broken down from ingested proteins. The amino acids may be utilized directly in the formation of proteins or de mineralized and re mineralized to form the needed amino acids that are, in turn, used to create the proteins needed.

Functions o f Amino Acids

We can say that generally, the amino acids serve five functions in the body:
I) They furnish the material from which proteins are synthesized by various cells.
2) They are used by the cells in manufacturing enzymes. Hormones and other nitrogenous products.
3) They are used in constructing blood protein.
4)  They may furnish a source of energy,with some of the amino acids being transformed into glucose and glycogen.
5)  They aid the body in performing many functions as described in their individual descriptions. 

When protein-is eaten in greater amounts than the body is capable of utilizing, the organism-is subjected to the toxic byproducts of protein metabolism, which it has been unable to eliminate-and the inevitable result is degenerative disease.

The tremendous amounts of protein frequently recommended-75 to 100 grams daily (or more)-are far in excess of the body's needs, and are the source of much trouble. Various Studies indicate the the protein need for an average adult should not exceed 30 grams of protein daily. 

We must not feel compelled to eat protein foods as such in order to achieve protein adequacy. Almost every food natural to humans has about 4 % protein dry weight, an ample amount to supply our needs. Further, most of our natural foods contain the amino acids we need.

Wisdom and Precision o f Body Processes

Protein is used as fuel only when there is either an excess of proteins or a lack of carbo- hydrates. When this occurs, the body splits off the nitrogenous matter from the protein molecule and uses the remaining carbon contents to produce fuel. This process not only involves a net loss of energy, but it also places an unnecessary strain on the liver, kidneys and other organs to

eliminate the unusable nitrogenous wastes. 

An adequate supply of protein in the overall diet is in- dispensable for normal health and well-being. But such an adequate supply of protein is not dependent on killing animals for food, nor upon using a calculator to add up the amino acids at each meal.

Some 95 percent of the body's protein needs are met by recycling. Certain other of the body's needs are met by recycling as well. This will give you some idea as to the immense providence aud wisdom of the body in meeting its needs. 

Fruits and vegetables, though containing relatively smaller amounts of protein in their natural state, are excellent sources of supplementary amino acids for complete and optimal nutrition.

The protein in raw nuts and seeds, and in uncooked fruits and vegetables, are readily available to the body, and are therefore said to be of high biological value. During the process of digestion, the long chains of amino acids (the building blocks of protein) are gradually broken up for the body's use in synthesizing its own protein (as any species must do).

It must be reiterated and re-emphasized: when proteins have been cooked or preserved, they are coagulated. Enzyme resistant linkages are formed which resist cleavage, and the amino acids may not be released for body use. In this case, the protein is useless and/or poisonous to the body, becoming soil for bacteria and poisonous decomposition byproducts. 

Many foods from the plant kingdom contain so-called "complete" proteins; that is, humans may obtain from them all of the essential amino acids which they cannot synthesize, but from which other amino acids may be synthesized as needed. 

Animal proteins are often not reduced to their constituent amino acids, but are absorbed in more complex form. Absorption by the body of such partially digested proteins poisons the organism, and so-called "allergic symptoms" may be the result, or gout, arthritis, cancer, or any one or more of a host of degenerative diseases. 

No human can use the protein in the form in which it is consumed. It must always be disassembled into its constituents and reassembled or synthesized into the particular protein re- quired by the cells and tissues of the new host. 

The Obsolete Amino Acid Theory
One of the favorite arguments of flesh eaters is that proteins from the plant kingdom are "incomplete," because no one plant food contains all of the twenty-three identifiable amino acids (although the carrot, with twenty-two amino acids, comes quite close). Studies of man's physiology, and the effects of his consumption of foods from the plant kingdom, have shown conclusively that it is not necessary to consume all of the amino acids at one sitting, not even the eight (some references say ten) "essential" amino acids that are not fabricated within the body.

The foods we eat are processed by the body, and the amino acids, vitamins and minerals, and other nutrients are reserved in a pool for later use as needed. When we eat, we replenish the reserves in this pool, to be drawn upon by the cell as required. We do not live upon one protein food, but upon the protein content of our varied diet, which supplies all of the protein needs of the body.

Morbid Results of Eating Flesh Foods
Meat is the most putrefactive of all foods. Flesh, when eaten by humans tends to undergo a process of decay in the stomach, causing a poisoning of the blood. Putrefaction in meat eaters is evidenced by bad breath, heartburn, eructations, and the foul stool and odorous emissions-absent in vegetarians and it is probable that the attempts of the body to eliminate these wastes has a profound influence on the shortening of man's life span.
If the body fluid that bathes our cells is overloaded with waste, causing an excessive secretion of bile-fatigue, weakening and aging are the inevitable results. The accumulation of toxic substances in the body causes the deterioration of the intestinal flora, and the blood vessels gradually lose their natural elasticity, their walls become hardened and thickened. Irreversible damage to the organism proliferates.