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Urgent: Is Your Indoor Environment Making You Sick?

By David Ramsey

You probably know how important clean air is for us to breath. But what you may not know is just because you can’t smell them, doesn’t mean that toxins are not there.
I wanted to branch away from nutrition for the moment and talk about the quality of our indoor environments. Our indoor environments include our homes, our offices, and our cars. These are the three places we spend most of our time and are very important to think about.
You may not realize it yet but the EPA states, “Our indoor environments are 2-5x more toxic than outside.” Skull and Crossbones(www.epa.gov/iaq/inexold.html) Just as important to our health as the food we eat is the air we breathe!  What we breathe goes into our lungs and directly into our blood. Our blood is how we feed our bodies. I know this sounds simple but it is the simplicity that makes us overlook how important it is.
Here are the top 10 indoor environmental toxins as listed by the EPA.

1.    Dishwashing Detergent (Chlorine, Fluoride, Petrochemicals, Benzene, Phosphates)
2.    Oven Cleaners (Lye, Ammonia)
3.    Laundry Detergent (Benzene – Leukemia)
4.    Floor & Furniture Polish (Petroleum Distillates)
5.    Air Fresheners (6 highest priority neurotoxins watched by government)
6.    Hard Surface Cleaners (Petroleum Surfactants – Cancer)
7.    Antibacterial Soaps (Triclosan – Liver Damage)
8.    Dry Cleaning (Perc. – known carcinogen)
9.    Carpet & Upholstery Cleaners (Perc.)
10.    Toilet bowl cleaners (Hydrochloric Acid – Liver & Kidney Damage)

There are many environmentally friendly and non-toxic cleaners on the market today; some of which work effectively and some of which don’t. I will give my recommendations at the end of this article.
First though, I want to make a call to action. I am calling you to act today to do something for your and your family’s immediate and long-term health. Just think about it! (more)

Better Health is Yours, Discover How to Begin!

By David Ramsey

By the time you read this you will have the knowledge to empowering yourself to better health and vitality. Discovering these simple tools has changed my life and many others that I know. Our health is something we shouldn’t take lightly. To many of us leave the care of our health or “Health Care” up to our doctors. This is a scary thought!
It is fascinating; did you know that in 1990 the Surgeon General declared that 80% of American illnesses were due to diet? Did you know that in medical school, nutrition classes are considered an elective? Most doctors that I have talked to know nothing more that to tell you to eat more vegetables, less sugar and stay away from saturated fat. Is it any wonder that Diabetes has become and epidemic? With Obesity inflicting over 60% of our nation, I find that absurd.
Listen; here are a few more facts.

  • One in three Americans will develop cancer in their lifetime
  • One in four Americans will die from heart disease
  • One in nine school aged children have nutrition related learning difficulties

Will your current health insurance work to keep you healthy or only pay for treatment of a disease once you have it? Don’t get me wrong; we have a wonderful “Crisis Care” system in this country! For acute infections and diseases you couldn’t live in a better place. But I don’t want to wait until I have been diagnosed with heart disease, cancer, arthritis or some other preventable illness before I get involved in my health.
There are many things you can do to help prevent these lifestyle diseases! (more)

Fatigued?

By David Ramsey

Did you know the number one complaint in the doctor’s office is Fatigue? Yes fatigue, not pain, not an upset stomach but fatigue. This may not be the reason a person goes to the doctor, but is the most common complaint when they are there.tired-woman1

The causes for fatigue vary amongst Americans. Some causes but not all might be; lack of sleep, heart disorders, lung disorders or electrolyte imbalances. But, when it comes down to it, there is one main reason for fatigue in our country nationwide. That reason is malnutrition. Many of us don’t think about malnutrition, but it is a big factor.

Nine out of ten people in America are malnourished. The reason for this malnourishment is the Standard American Diet. (Also known as S.A.D.) The Standard American Diet consists mainly of processed, bagged, boxed, and drive through food. We as a culture take better care of our cars than we do our bodies. We live for the now right! We say to ourselves, “I don’t have the time, I’ll grab something on the way.” Then we go to the drive through or the gas station convienent store and grab what we can find. But what we find is food devoid of any true nutritional value. Most of the “vitamins” you see in the drive trough menus have been added to the food in there making and are difficult for our body to process.

So, with limited time and space I want to make some very simple recommendations that could save our lives, or at least add years to it. (more)