One Bowl of Rice is Equivalent to Two Cans of Soda

If you’re diabetic, have prediabetes, or are simply worried about your sugar intake, you may be overlooking a certain mainstay in your cupboards

White rice is a food typically considered a staple in most diets. With this in mind, it may come as a surprise hat white ice in large doses can increase the risk for diabetes.

This understanding explains why diabetic rates are higher in Asians than other populations. Contrary to previous theories, it’s not a matter of genetics, but the levels of starch found in white rice. In such large amounts, starch can flood the body with blood sugar, thereby increasing diabetic risk. How much of a risk are we talking? Well, according to Zee Yoon Kang, chief executive of the Health Promotion Board, when white rice is eaten daily, it can increase the risk of developing diabetes by up to 11%.

On average, one bowl of rice has about double the level of carbohydrates of a can of soda.All of this excess sugar can put a strain on the pancreas; this is because the pancreas, by means of insulin production, converts the sugar in our blood into usable energy. Certain foods, white rice among them, cause problems then by dumping too much sugar into the blood at one time. When there is too much sugar in the blood, the event is referred to as a ‘sugar spike’. Sugar spikes are bad for the body because they overtax the pancreas, which makes it less effective in the future. What this means is over time, the pancreas gets weaker and weaker, which limits its ability to generate insulin. This means sugar levels in the body steadily rise as a result. 

Fortunately, the solution is simple: eat brown rice!Studies show that even replacing as little as 20% of the white rice you consume with brown rice can cut diabetic risk. Furthermore, brown rice, as well as other varieties of rice, simply packs more of a nutritional punch than typical white rice anyway. 

Medication Headaches

British neurologist Dr. Simon Ellis²thinks he has figured out why daily chronic headaches have become epidemic in many industrialized countries. The reason, he says, is overuse of pain medication.

Writing in the British Medical Associations Postgraduate Medical Journal,³Dr. Ellis says that painkillers can turn acute headaches into chronic ones. One way to get rid of headaches that go on for months, he says, is to simply discontinue the pain medication. He thinks that pharmaceutical companies should put a warning on the label that overuse can lead to chronic headache pain.⁴

^{2. Dr. Simon Ellis, Department of Neurology, North Staffordshite Royal Infirmary}

^{3. PMJ, April 1997}

^{4. Associated Press, April 14, 1997}

FACTS ABOUT LIPITOR

- Lipitor is manufactured by Pfizer. It is the world’s largest selling drug and was the first drug to reach $10 billion in worldwide sales. It has earned Pfizer close to $50 billion in revenue since 2000

- 60 known side effects include stomach pains, abnormal heartbeat, back pain, chest pain, constipation, decreased sex drive, diarrhea, distorted facial muscles, fatigue, headaches, joint pain, lack of coordination, leg cramps/spasms, muscle aching/weakness/wasting away, tingling. Numbness of hands, arms, legs and feet (known as “neuropathy,” and unstable emotions.

- New guidelines issued recently come from 9 “cholesterol experts,” six of which received consulting or speaking fees/income, research 

money or other support from the makers of widely used anti-cholesterol drugs. 

- Elevated cholesterol is a sign of hypothyroidism. Low thyroid inhabits the absorption of B Vitamins. Instead of putting Lipitor in your body to lower Natural Cholesterols, why not deal with thyroid function and see if that is the answer? (Get to the cause of the problem,now there’s and idea. 

-Drug companies now want cholesterol drugs to be used with children as young as 8 years old. If only 10% of those children were prescribed Lipitor, it would generate an extra$2.5 billion in sales per year! (Do you think the drug company might push this for an extra $2 billion per year?!!)

Can Chiropractic Adjustments Help Your Arthritis?

Got a quick question for you. Is arthritis affecting your quality of life? Chiropractic is a healthy alternative.

I feel that getting regular chiropractic care does help, so the answer to that question is a resounding YES! Let’s take a look and see WHY and HOW.

            There are TWO different conditions known as “arthritis”. By definition, “arthritis” is inflammationof the joints. (If you have any kind of inflammation, I strongly recommend a product called “INFLAMMATION”, which you can get here at the office.) But, there are actually two kinds of “arthritis”.

            First, there’s osteoarthritis, sometimes referred to as “wear and tear” arthritis. This includes DJD r Degenerative Joint Disease. Then, there are several variations of rheumatoid arthritis. 

            Osteoarthritis or “wear and tear arthritis” is just that, a sort of wearing a way of your join(s) which over time will take its toll on how you act, feel, and move. It typically shows up as you age (only because you’re NOT doing the right things, or you did the wrong things when you were younger and now they’re showing up later in life) OR after years of excessive use, say from a job, or you do something respectively that causes a wear on your joint. 

             Many people tell me “The orthopedist told me the disc in my neck and low back worn down because of my age.” My response is “Well, how old are the other discs in your spine? I think they’re all the same age, so why did one of them wear out faster than the other ones?” 

            DJD or osteoarthritis of the spine, is usually caused by bones in the spine that are NOT in alignment and/or postural distortions. If the front end of your car is misaligned, it’s going to wear out the tires, no matter how careful you drive. 

            The discs (like the tires on that care I just mentioned) wear away and your body tries to stabilize the area. On x-ray this reaction looks like little bone spurs. It’s actually the body trying to “fuse” these vertebrae in order to protect you. Usually the problem is not noticed until the disc is about gone and the spurs (or osteophytes) start to press on nerves, causing pain.

            The standard medical approach to “wear and tear “arthritis is self-medication with over-the-counter painkillers and NSAIDS, or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs like Tylenol, Advil, etc. If not resolved the right way, you can end up on steroids or prescription painkillers that can lead to addiction.

            The eventual medical solution is surgery, sometimes very risky surgery with long-term consequences. The other type of arthritis, called Rheumatoid arthritis, is am inflammatory autoimmune condition that causes pain, swelling and disfiguration, usually easily seen in the hands.As with most autoimmune conditions, the cause is unknown, so no one really KNOWS for sure what causes this.

            Yet, medical treatments start with over-the-counter painkillers and anti-inflammatory drugs, then prescription painkillers, then immunosuppressant drugs. The mandatory warnings on these drugs warn you of infection, disease and even death

Aspartame Is Dangerous for Everyone (AKA NurtaSweet)

“I know that the average consumer has a devil-may-care-something-is-gonna-to-kill-me… but they don’t realize that before THIS stuff kills they are going to have a miserable declining existence with LOTS of pain and other problems (not to mention cancer, tumors, and maybe even Alzheimer or similar things) before death solves the problem.”

-      An Aspartame Victim

Long-Term Damage

It appears to cause slow, silent damage in those unfortunate enough to not have immediate reactions and a reason to avoid it. It may take one year, five years, 10 years, or 40 years, but it seems to cause some reversible and some irreversible changes in health over long-term use. 

Brain Cancer

Aspartame caused large brain tumors in life-long animal experiments at a dose that could be considered within the “Acceptable Daily Intake” limit after adjusting for differences in metabolism of aspartames breakdown products between humans and rodents. 

Uterine Polyps

Pre-approval experiments showed that an aspartame breakdown product caused uterine polyps in experimental animals.