Skip to main content

What A Change In The Weather

 Hello Everyone in Natural Health Nation-

                Well for those folks who don’t like hot weather, this weekend was for you. It looks like we’ve passed the hot weather and headed towards winter. Hopefully the temperatures will come back a little bit because I’m not ready for dealing with cold weather this long until next spring-ha. I even noticed some snow flurries during the weekend and that makes it seem even colder. I’m trying to remind people that since it is colder and the furnaces are running more, to make sure and have their humidifiers running so that the air doesn’t get to dry and irritate the sinuses and lung tissues. If these tissues get inflamed, it sets you up for infections in the sinuses or lungs.

                This month in our health shop, we are talking about Preparing for Winter. This week we are talking about Preparing the Immune System to handle the stresses of the season. Of course, at Natural Health, we are helping patients find the nutritional supplements that work best for their body to help their immune system stay strong over this cold weather season. But what is coming up that throws a monkeywrench into this?-the holidays. We start with Halloween and all the candy and junk people eat, of course were noticing some sicknesses from that already, and then add Thanksgiving, then Christmas, then New Year’s, then Valentine’s Day, and then Easter. These holidays seem to be great opportunities for people to eat junk and sugar which again, burns up the good nutrition in their body and then they wonder why they have colds and flu and even pneumonia at the end of winter. Add to that the lack of sunshine which helps create vitamin D in the body and we have a recipe for a health disaster. It just a matter of making good choices during these holidays and not overdoing the ultra processed foods.

                Speaking of ultra processed foods, the article that I’m sending along looks at why these types of food cause early deaths. It’s a fairly simple principle in that processing foods to the point that they have no good nutrition helps the manufacturer’s and store owners keep the foods longer on the shelf without them going bad. The problem is that all this ultra processing removes the good nutrients our bodies need to be healthy so what good are these foods if they don’t help to provide good nutrition? It’s just important to realize that this goes on all the time and most people don’t even understand what these “foods” are doing to them. At Natural Health, we are always trying to overcome this problem and educate patients to understand what they are doing to themselves. 

Click here to read article 

Get Healthy, Stay Healthy, and Live Well

Dr. Mark

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Most People Don't Reach Micronutrient Requirements Through Food Alone

  STORY AT-A-GLANCE Most adolescents are not getting adequate nutrient intake from diet alone — a finding confirmed from other studies in developed countries such as Spain, France, Portugal and Germany Three-quarters of adolescents consumed less than 54% of the recommended amounts of healthy foods like fruits, vegetables and dairy products Nearly three-quarters of the youth exceeded the recommended limit for sweet and salty snacks — by 453% When nutrient intake was considered from diet alone, adolescents often consumed less than recommended amounts of the fat-soluble vitamins A, D and E along with the water-soluble vitamins folate, biotin and pantothenic acid The use of dietary supplements helped to increase the adolescents’ intake of vitamins and minerals, particularly magnesium and vitamin C, but this isn’t a replacement for a healthy, nutrient-rich diet While it’s possible to get all the vitamins and minerals your body needs by eating a healthy diet, most people fall short. The issu
Post a Comment
Read more

Enjoy The Show

  Hi Natural Health Family! Imagine everyone enjoyed their weekend with some great weather. Did you have a win from last week? Could be something small or a big accomplishment. Whatever it was, I hope it brought you joy in some way. Sometimes life can seem strugglesome, difficult, and overwhelming. We have the ability to reframe the way we see life. Let’s talk about our ability to respond to the way we see the world around us.  Have you ever been watching a tv show or movie and thought “wow there really isn’t anything going on in the show, there are no ups and downs, no twists and turns, it just seems so bland and boring.” Maybe you have thought of that but I would guess that you probably didn’t. The movie with the director, producer, and actors is meant to grab your attention. The director wanted to captivate the audience, of course to sell more movies, but also for the people watching to get lost in the experience of watching the movie. If the movie is really good we almost forget we
Post a Comment
Read more

A Blessing

  Hi Natural Health Family. We got some rain this weekend! It was definitely refreshing and great to see something different. I am sure many of the farmers were happy to see that along with anyone that has grass. Time to mow again haha. Just like waiting for the rain we can be more patient in other aspects of our life.  Have you ever had something happen that you thought was bad or perhaps a mistake by yourself or someone else? However, after perhaps days, weeks, months you look back and realize if that didn’t happen then you would have never realized something that helped you down the road, a blessing in disguise. Many times people get caught up in thinking that this event that happened was so bad or that it should have never happened. When we are quick to judge something then we may keep ourselves from seeing something more clearly. Of course it is okay when we get frustrated from time to time, but then we can redirect ourselves to see whatever happened in a different way we can le
Post a Comment
Read more