The obesity epidemic is on everyone's mind lately, as it should, given that the number of people battling the bulge has doubled in the last 30 years. Unfortunately, most of us are more concerned with how those extra pounds make us look instead of what those extra pounds are doing to the health of our bodies. In fact, scientists are consistently discovering new facts linking obesity to many different health problems.Generally speaking, men whose waist circumference exceeds 40 inches, and women whose waist circumference exceeds 36 inches are at increased risk of getting these diseases:
Heart Disease and Stroke Hypertension (high blood pressure) is a symptom of developing heart disease, and is a risk factor for having a stroke. One-third to one-half of all individuals with high blood pressure are overweight. Your Blood pressure rises as you gain weight, and usually begins to drop as you start losing weight. Once you reach the ideal weight for you height, your blood pressure usually stabilizes at a normal range..
Breast, Endometrial, Gallbladder and Colon Cancer Post menopausal women who are obese have a 50% higher risk of getting breast cancer, and obese men have a 40% higher risk of colon cancer. Men and women have five times the risk of getting endometrial or gallbladder cancer if they are obese. Most recent research is beginning to indicate a higher risk of kidney, pancreas, rectum, esophagus, and liver cancer also.
Type 2 Diabetes Although the exact mechanism behind it is not yet known, it is known that over 80% of patients with type 2 diabetes are overweight. Reduce your risk of this chronic illness, which can cause blindness, amputation, kidney and nerve disease, by walking at least 30 minutes everyday. Daily exercise has been proven to decrease the risk of getting type 2 diabetes.
Osteoarthritis The most common form of joint disease in the United States (with over 21 million people suffering), osteoarthritis is a major cause of disability in people over 55. Obesity is one of the top ten causes of osteoarthritis, and makes healing more difficult should joint replacement surgery be required.
Sleep Apnea and Respiratory Problems Sleep apnea (also known as obstructive sleep apnea) is a diagnosis that within the last 10 years has been link to obesity or being overweight. In the past, many patients who snored loudly and stopped breathing during the night were simply considered to have nasal irregularities. It has been shown that many of these actually have a condition called obstructive sleep apnea and are therefore at a higher risk of stroke, heart disease, insomnia and mood disorders. They also usually have high blood pressure. Most people diagnosed with sleep apnea are overweight, and in many cases, losing weight reverses the condition.
Unfortunately, knowing about the risks of being overweight may give impetus to the decision to lose weight, but it does not make losing weight any easier. There is good news though; research shows that losing just 10% of your body weight reduces the risk of these diseases significantly. So whether you are 20 pounds overweight or 100 pounds, losing just 10% of your total body weight is enough to decrease the risk of these top five diseases. Keep that 10% goal in mind for whenever you begin to feel discouraged about how slowly the pounds are coming off. In the end, it is not what you look like that counts, it is how healthy you are, and it only takes a 10% weight loss to significantly increase the odds your future will be a healthier one.
Every single cell in your body has its own built-in defense system. This defense system is called 'glutathione', and each cell produces it! Your immune system is highly dependent on your cells producing glutathione to aid in the prevention of all illnesses and diseases!
Glutathione protects the cells in your body against free radical damages. As the level of glutathione diminishes, a cell's defense system weakens. It is then that a cell can become 'injured' by free radicals and even 'mutate' and start multiplying out of control.
When this happens, you now have what one calls a 'tumor' or 'growth'. Over a period of time the 'mutated' cells can turn to ?cancer?. When you have low glutathione levels, the immune system can no longer do its job. When your glutathione levels are strong, your immune system recognizes 'injured' and 'mutated' cells and neutralizes them.
What you need to understand!
A mutated cell that has become a 'cancer' cell, takes every bit of nutrition it needs to grow and become stronger by feeding on the glutathione of the healthy cells, hence weakening the healthy cells.
Therefore, this is why when one's cancer cells are introduced to chemotherapy (a means of boosting the immune system), it is the normal cells that have been originally drained of glutathione by the cancer cells that take the beating, and why one feels so sick!
In fact, the chemotherapy which is given to boost your immune system for the purpose of killing these strong ?cancer? cells, puts you at a very high risk of a future 'cancer' originating from one of your healthy cells because they have so severely been drained of glutathione...hence the infamous remission period!
The cancer cells have been destroyed! Now let's wait and see if a healthy, but weakened cell, becomes 'cancerous'...That's your remission period!!!
What doctors don't take the time to explain!
Normal, healthy cells produces glutathione as it needs it, to build-up its defense system daily. It's ongoing on a day-to-day basis, always reproducing.
Here lies the difference between a healthy cell and a cancer cell. A 'cancer' cell will produce and feed itself of glutathione very quickly to become a very strong cancer cell. But the moment they are too full, they 'shut down'. Once it shuts down, it can never, ever turn the clock or mechanism back on to make glutathione again! Normal cells produces it as it needs it, 'cancer' cells can't.
Example: Cell A versus Cell B
Cell A is a normal cell. Cell B is low on glutathione. They both are being attacked every day by free radicals. It is a fact that as we age, glutathione levels start dropping and become low, thereby weakening the immune system and exposing us to all sorts of diseases.
Now, cell B which is already low on glutathione levels, has in effect weakened the immune system. Since the cell is constantly being attacked by free radicals, it is weakened further. Normally a strong immune system would suffice in destroying this cell. But because the immune system is so weak, it doesn't and therefore, the DNA of this cell has changed and the cell has started to 'mutate'. It has started multiplying and is now a 'mass' or a 'tumor'.
Now that cell B has grown into a tumor, it starts 'hogging' all the nutrients it needs to make glutathione to become even stronger than the immune system. As it builds its strength, it grows out of control and becomes 'cancerous'. When it's introduced to chemotherapy, which is an immune system booster, it can withstand the chemotherapy!
Meanwhile cell A, which has been weakened by cell B, is also exposed to the poison and radiation of chemotherapy. Even if you manage to somehow recover from the first cancer, your immune system is so 'beat up' from the radiation of chemotherapy, that it can't do its job.
The once normal cell A, has become so susceptible to free radical damage, that within 1 to 4 years, it to fails and becomes a secondary cancer with even more strength, than the primary.
THE KEY IS TO INCREASE GLUTATHIONE LEVELS!
The key is obviously to increase your glutathione levels in your body so that the cancerous cells, once full, stop making their own glutathione...'shut down' and hence become the weaker cell. The immune system has now strengthened and overpowered the 'mutated cells' and destroys them.
Glutathione is the master antioxidant needed by the immune system to fight off every day free radical damage and DNA mutations. It is necessary not only to your cellular system, but also to your skeletal system. Consequently when it is high and strong, it will ward off any diseases.
Doctors will tell you that you cannot take immune system boosters, such as antioxidant vitamins C & E etc., during chemotherapy treatment. They are correct since the cancer cells are already stronger than the normal cells, and these antioxidants in pill form, only adds to their defense system against treatment by chemotherapy.
Glutathione , which naturally builds up the immune system, has to come from within the cells themselves, and manufactured by the cells.
SO HOW DOES ONE DO THIS? You need to boost your immune system naturally through complementary alternative medicine. Only by making sure your immune system is always at its peak can you avoid cancer.
Furthermore, if you're struggling with cancer, and understand your cells as explained above, then you need to realize that the chemotherapy treatment you received, simply put, is an immune system booster to kill your cancerous cells. The problem, however, is that the good cells have been weakened of their glutathione levels to such an extent, that they too can now become cancerous. That is in fact, the truth behind the remission period. The ?wait and see? ideology!
It's unfortunate that so many people believe, or are led to believe, that they are healed of cancer, or think that the remission period is to see if the cancer will come back. That cancerous cell will never come back, it's been destroyed! You're waiting to see if your good and weakened cells will become another cancer. I wish I would have known this when my wife died of breast cancer in her forties, while in remission.
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