Dr. Mark and Dr. Chip's Healthy Blogs

Hello Everyone in Natural Health Nation-             Another great weekend and hope you enjoyed the sunshine! Don’t forget to use coconut oil on the skin for those sunny days and sunburns. This oil is great for keeping the skin soft and warding off peeling. We seem to be catching enough rain so that everything is staying green and looks great. We’ve caught some nice breezes over the weekend and being outside wasn’t too bad, as long as you wasn’t working or in direct sunshine all the time. Enjoy the heat and don’t forget to stay hydrated and eating good sea salt or mineral salt.             One of our themes for July is Summer Fun and we will be talking about that on Monday evening during our health shop. It’s a strange summer without all the fairs and usual events that we go to and we’ll see how that affects our health in the long term. I think people will definitely m...

STORY AT-A-GLANCE Ophthalmologist Dr. Chris Knobbe says most chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, high blood pressure, stroke, diabetes, obesity, metabolic syndrome, Alzheimer's disease and macular degeneration are linked to the consumption of processed seed oils Knobbe says the large consumption of omega-6 seed oil in everyday Western diets is so dangerous it is "a global human experiment ... without informed consent" Polyunsaturated fatty acids, also called PUFAs, found in vegetable oils, edible oils, seed oils, trans fat and plant oils, owe their existence to "roller mill technology," which replaced stone mill technology and removed their nutrients Many people now consume 80 grams of PUFAs a day, which amounts to 720 calories and one-third of their caloric intake Results from studies of tribal peoples and animals have demonstrated the deleterious effects of PUFAs in the diet What do heart disease, cancer, high blood pressure, str...