Just and FYI- Hydrogen Peroxide is an antiviral, anti fungal and antibacterial solution. The other day a pimple was rearing its nasty head on my forehead and I decided to dab it with Hydrogen Peroxide. I did this for two days in a row and I ended up winning the battle. I was amazed because, though I do not get pimples and zits often, when they do show up they're incredibly annoying and difficult to beat and this stuff worked!
I looked up some facts about the H to the P and found that it can be used as a mouthwash as well as a bleaching agent due to it's highly oxidative nature. You do have to be weary therefore not to overuse it on your face because it could lead to whitening of the skin.
Friday, May 11, 2012
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Food; The Miracle Medicine
"If someone is depressed the first thing you can do is say that it's
okay to be depressed, if you're malnourished you should be depressed. So
don't do that any more. Go eat good food."
~Professor Ian Brighthope, M.D., M.B.B.S Professor of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine
There are thousands of chemical reactions that occur in the body every day in order to keep a person alive. These chemical reactions are fueled by macro-nutrients such as proteins, fats, carbohydrates as well as micro-nutrients such as vitamins and minerals, all of which come from the food that we eat.
A deficiency in any one of these components, will result in deficient chemical reactions associated with said component, which over time results in disease. It is easy to incorporate the macro-nutrients into our diets especially fats! But it is not so easy to get the micro-nutrients.
Even if you think you are eating healthily, by avoiding the processed junk in the middle isles of the grocery store and spending most of your time and money on the produce section, here's a very unpleasant wake-up call.
Not only are those shinny apples and vibrant green spinach leaves traveling thousands of miles to your grocery store (especially when they are out of season) they are also being preserved in the process. Then by the time they reach your shopping bag, they may have been sitting in the store for several days. More importantly, if the produce is not organic it has been exposed to pesticides. Pesticides that cause the two headed toad in our local streams and other mutant critters. And we are eating this stuff!Now on top of this, we bring it home and store it in our fridge for possibly another couple of days. Then when are ready to eat it we throw it in a pan and cook it. The minute a fruit or vegetable is picked the vitamins, minerals and enzymes start loosing their potency. Light destroys vitamin A and heat denatures proteins. 50% of protein in meat is lost during the cooking process. In other words, by the time produce reaches your plate, it is nutritionally deficient.
Organic produce, on the other hand is pesticide free and is grown in good soil. The only draw back is that it is basically twice as much as non organic produce. But think of it as preventative healthcare. Think of it this way, if you want your car to run the best you put high octane fuel in it and high efficiency oil, otherwise it breaks down quicker.
Conventional medicine is great when it comes to the emergency room, plastic surgery, bionic limbs, but when it comes to disease it has failed miserably. It believes that there is a "pill for every ill." The problem with prescription drugs is that they bandaid symptoms they do not fix the root of the problem, thus causing more problems in the process.
If you listen to the medication commercials on TV notice that there is always a list of adverse side affects. These commercials mid as well say, "take this pill and it will reduce pain in your joints but cause skin lesions, blistering, impotency, and heart failure!" My favorite is the one for Cymbalta.
If you nourish the body it will heal itself because it has it's own healing mechanism.
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food”
― Hippocrates
~Professor Ian Brighthope, M.D., M.B.B.S Professor of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine
There are thousands of chemical reactions that occur in the body every day in order to keep a person alive. These chemical reactions are fueled by macro-nutrients such as proteins, fats, carbohydrates as well as micro-nutrients such as vitamins and minerals, all of which come from the food that we eat.
A deficiency in any one of these components, will result in deficient chemical reactions associated with said component, which over time results in disease. It is easy to incorporate the macro-nutrients into our diets especially fats! But it is not so easy to get the micro-nutrients.
Even if you think you are eating healthily, by avoiding the processed junk in the middle isles of the grocery store and spending most of your time and money on the produce section, here's a very unpleasant wake-up call.
Not only are those shinny apples and vibrant green spinach leaves traveling thousands of miles to your grocery store (especially when they are out of season) they are also being preserved in the process. Then by the time they reach your shopping bag, they may have been sitting in the store for several days. More importantly, if the produce is not organic it has been exposed to pesticides. Pesticides that cause the two headed toad in our local streams and other mutant critters. And we are eating this stuff!Now on top of this, we bring it home and store it in our fridge for possibly another couple of days. Then when are ready to eat it we throw it in a pan and cook it. The minute a fruit or vegetable is picked the vitamins, minerals and enzymes start loosing their potency. Light destroys vitamin A and heat denatures proteins. 50% of protein in meat is lost during the cooking process. In other words, by the time produce reaches your plate, it is nutritionally deficient.
Organic produce, on the other hand is pesticide free and is grown in good soil. The only draw back is that it is basically twice as much as non organic produce. But think of it as preventative healthcare. Think of it this way, if you want your car to run the best you put high octane fuel in it and high efficiency oil, otherwise it breaks down quicker.
Conventional medicine is great when it comes to the emergency room, plastic surgery, bionic limbs, but when it comes to disease it has failed miserably. It believes that there is a "pill for every ill." The problem with prescription drugs is that they bandaid symptoms they do not fix the root of the problem, thus causing more problems in the process.
If you listen to the medication commercials on TV notice that there is always a list of adverse side affects. These commercials mid as well say, "take this pill and it will reduce pain in your joints but cause skin lesions, blistering, impotency, and heart failure!" My favorite is the one for Cymbalta.
If you nourish the body it will heal itself because it has it's own healing mechanism.
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food”
― Hippocrates
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Self Injurious Skin Picking (SISP)
SISP-Self Injurious Skin Picking is an actual condition, which I am currently trying to beat. According to www.stoppicking.com, "SISP is a repetative behavior characterized by recurrent mutilation of the skin via picking, scratching, or biting." "People who engage in these behaviors can spend large amounts of time doing them and cause serious scarring or other deformity."
Hello, my name is Jill. I have been involved with SISP for...well let's see...when did this begin? I think it was back when I was about eight years old when my grandmother was beginning to introduce me to womanhood. "This is how you push your cuticles back, she said and she demoed with the nail of her index finger how to gently recede the persistent skin that is constantly growing towards the tip of the nail. She said that if you don't push the skin back it will cause your nail to stop growing, so it should be done frequently.
Well I took this to the extreme and began removing the cuticle all together in this terrible act of picking away until sometimes they would bleed. Thus began a viscous cycle. I pick because there are things to pick and there are things to pick because I pick.
I can think of three reasons to stop this barbaric habit:
1. It's hideous
2. It promotes infection
3. It would make my mom happy
It was actually my mom, three years ago, who furrowing her brows behind thick rimmed glasses, called from her lap-top, "you have a case of SISP!" Apparently there is a support group which you can join; you share your story and get help from other self-skin-mutilators.
So today is day three of the 30 day challenge. I read online that one of the steps you can take to shake a bad habit is by giving a friend $100 dollars which you will get back at the end of 30 days. I don't know how I feel about that...
Now that I am more conscious of the urge to pick I catch myself about to pick through-out the day, whenever my hands are not occupied. So I decided that every time I have the urge to pick, I make a fist. It's been working.
Hello, my name is Jill. I have been involved with SISP for...well let's see...when did this begin? I think it was back when I was about eight years old when my grandmother was beginning to introduce me to womanhood. "This is how you push your cuticles back, she said and she demoed with the nail of her index finger how to gently recede the persistent skin that is constantly growing towards the tip of the nail. She said that if you don't push the skin back it will cause your nail to stop growing, so it should be done frequently.
Well I took this to the extreme and began removing the cuticle all together in this terrible act of picking away until sometimes they would bleed. Thus began a viscous cycle. I pick because there are things to pick and there are things to pick because I pick.
I can think of three reasons to stop this barbaric habit:
1. It's hideous
2. It promotes infection
3. It would make my mom happy
It was actually my mom, three years ago, who furrowing her brows behind thick rimmed glasses, called from her lap-top, "you have a case of SISP!" Apparently there is a support group which you can join; you share your story and get help from other self-skin-mutilators.
So today is day three of the 30 day challenge. I read online that one of the steps you can take to shake a bad habit is by giving a friend $100 dollars which you will get back at the end of 30 days. I don't know how I feel about that...
Now that I am more conscious of the urge to pick I catch myself about to pick through-out the day, whenever my hands are not occupied. So I decided that every time I have the urge to pick, I make a fist. It's been working.
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