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Use Garlic Instead of Antibiotics

Wednesday, July 07, 2010 by: Kim Evans, citizen journalist
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(NaturalNews) Too often when people are sick, they just don't know what to do. More and more people are starting to distrust doctors and their drugs, but in a time of illness or infection they're unsure where to turn. Unfortunately, this uncertainty leads many people to doctors' offices for drugs that ultimately do more harm than good. So, here's some simple advice: if you need something that functions like an antibiotic, turn to garlic instead. Garlic is a powerful, natural antibiotic - and it doesn't kill off our healthy bacteria like drug antibiotics do. Unlike chemical antibiotics, garlic is also an effective antiviral and antifungal - and taking just a few cloves of garlic each day can really speed infections away.

In one small trial, seven AIDS patients all had normal T-cell activity after three months of taking the equivalent of two or four garlic cloves each day - and T-cell activity is a key indicator of the AIDS infection. While AIDS may not be your infliction, as one of the most dreaded conditions around, it's helpful to use it to demonstrate the powerful effects of garlic. The patients also showed improvement with other problems like chronic diarrhea, candida overgrowth, genital herpes and a chronic sinus infection. Garlic has also been found to be helpful for conditions including diabetes, high blood pressure, allergies, infections, toothaches, cancer, impotence, colds, heart disease, MRSA, and high cholesterol. And a one month supply is a few bucks at your local organic market.

The fact that garlic is able to help with so many seemingly unrelated problems also demonstrates how connected different diseases are. The medical establishment likes to isolate diseases and target each with different drugs - just because they produce different symptoms and occur in different areas of the body. But the root causes of diseases that can appear very different are often the same. It's all far more intertwined than you might think.

For garlic to be effective as a healing agent and general antibiotic, it needs to be raw. It should also be crushed and exposed to air for ten minutes before it's consumed to fully activate its key germ-killing compound. And don't worry; raw garlic doesn't have to taste awful. A simple recipe is to juice four cloves of garlic, two tomatoes, and a lemon to make a delicious antibacterial and antiviral drink. If you don't have a juicer, simply toss the ingredients into a blender and make a tomato and garlic soup. To either, just add some sea salt; it'll be delicious. If you have an infection, you can enjoy several of these drinks or soups each day to battle it away without the use of chemical antibiotics that are known to destroy our protective healthy bacteria - often in one fell swoop.

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Brown rice and other whole grains can prevent type 2 diabetes Tuesday, July 06, 2010 by: S. L. Baker, features writer

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(NaturalNews) Natural health advocates have long advocated nutrient-dense whole grains over the bleached and processed kinds, like white rice and white bread. Brown rice, for example, is loaded with fiber, B vitamins, phytochemicals and other nutrients. Scientists are now documenting that it has specific disease-fighting properties, too. For example, NaturalNews recently reported on Temple University research that found a compound in brown rice which lowers blood pressure and may prevent heart attacks (http://www.naturalnews.com/028705_b...). Now Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) investigators have discovered eating two or more servings of brown rice per week slashes the risk of type 2 diabetes.

"Rice consumption in the U.S. has dramatically increased in recent decades. We believe replacing white rice and other refined grains with whole grains, including brown rice, would help lower the risk of type 2 diabetes," Qi Sun, who headed the research while at HSPH and is now an instructor of medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, said in a statement to the media.

This is important news because a natural, self-help strategy of simply eating more brown rice and other whole grains -- along with exercise and weight management -- could potentially prevent and even reverse countless cases of type 2 diabetes, a condition which has reached epidemic proportions. According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), about 6 million people in the U.S. have type 2 diabetes and another 57 million Americans have a pre-diabetic condition marked by higher than normal blood glucose levels. Type 2 diabetes can lead to heart and blood vessel disease, nerve damage, hearing problems, kidney damage, and more.

For the new study, which is the first to specifically investigate white rice and brown rice in relation to diabetes risk among Americans, HSPH researchers looked at white and brown rice consumption and a possible association with type 2 diabetes risk in 157,463 women and 39,765 men participating in the Brigham and Women's Hospital-based Nurses' Health Study I and II and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study. The researchers analyzed answers to a detailed survey about diet, lifestyle, and health conditions which the study participants completed every four years.

The results, recently published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, showed that simply replacing about 50 grams of white rice (equal to about one third of a typical daily serving) with the same amount of brown rice lowers the risk of type 2 diabetes by 16 percent. What's more, if you replace that same amount of white rice with other whole grains like whole wheat and barley, the risk of type 2 diabetes drops by a whopping 36 percent.

The study also came up with a reason to forego white rice altogether -- five or more servings of white rice per week were associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes. So why is brown rice so much healthier than the white kind? The Harvard researchers pointed out that brown rice is not only superior nutritionally and has far more fiber, but it doesn't spark a large increase in blood sugar levels after a meal. On the other hand, white rice is not only stripped of most of its vitamins and minerals through milling and polishing, but it is also wiped clean of most of its fiber, and it is fiber which appears to keep diabetes at bay by slowing the rush of sugar (glucose) into the bloodstream.

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