Ulterior Health

Sea Salt vs Table Salt, which is better for health?

The difference is apples and oranges.

Although both have the same nutritional values, the differences start there.

Sea Salt
Comes from the sea, evaporated from sea water. If it is not refined, it will taste different than table salt due to the different minerals within. It does not have additives or added iodine. However, like sea food, it naturally contains iodine.

Some websites suggest 80 minerals are present in sea salt.

Table Salt

Table salt is made from rock salt mined from mineral deposits. It is usually refined into a form closer to pure sodium chloride. It also comes in an iodized form. The refining process removes most of the minerals.

Most medical studies use table salt which poses a unique problem. What effect does the absence of trace elements and minerals have on our body?

Table salt is usually associated with the feeling of being bloated.

Which is better?

Sounds like the sea salt.

One thing…none of the studies or web sites showed the associated need to hydrate the body along with the salt. This is an essential aspect of our health.

In the book The Water Cure it is suggested that we drink much more water than you would think, only adding salt to our diet.

The result, you can lose weight by just drinking water.

I came across a truly weird and yet wonderful way to energize yourself and lose weight in the process.

Without getting geeky on you as to how or why it works, just ask this question of yourself.

What do I have to lose? Besides the weight, which is a secondary benefit, do this and you will feel more energized.

Ready….

First the disclaimer…

Do not do this if you have any medical conditions where this would be contraindicated. Do not do this if you have just had a lot to drink, especially the alcoholic kind of drink. Do not do this if common sense says you should not. And do not do this unless your doctor says it is ok to do.

Simply hold your arms out horizontal and as you look straight ahead, hold one to the left and one arm to the right. Palms facing the floor.

Now, spin in a circle the same way a clock does.

It will make you dizzy. If you feel nauseous, you will need to start slower.

By the way, if you ever feel dizzy and nauseous and you have not spun in a circle, you need to go to an ER. Not to your doctor, to an ER. You may have a life threatening condition. Ticking time bomb life threatening. Go, now.

Otherwise, start slow. Rest a minute in between each set. Work up to twenty revolutions and work up to about 4-5 sets.

I will be out of town for a few days. More when I come back.

Let me know what becomes.

Good health to you.

Many years ago I read of the Readers Digest Diet.

It consisted of eating nothing white. No milk, no sugar, no white bread, no refined pasta, and nothing that was white and refined in any way.

Well, in studying up on weight loss, this is one of the first things to get rid of.

I actually have a diet plan formulating. I am shooting for 90 lbs in six months.

It started on the first of July, 2008. How is it going so far? Today, we are down from 290 to 282.5.

How is it being done.

1) Boosting my glutathione both by diet and supplements.
2) Never skip meals.
3) Eat balance of 1/4th protein, 1/4th carbohydrates and 1/2 vegetables.
4) Replacing all foods with organic.
5) Drinking 2 spoons of cherry juice mixed in water every evening.

So even if I have a bowl of cereal and milk (I have to use up what we have then no more) I will eat two slices of bacon.

Interesting side effect. Eating less, never hungry, and the weight is dropping.

And I have not even started exercise yet.

Try it for yourself.

Good Health to you.

Is your weight challenge or disease the result of your diet? More specifically, allergies to food in your diet.

It is possible there is a pandemic of food allergies.

This is because when we eat the same food over and over, our body will no longer be able to deal with it an we become allergic.

Our allergic reaction may not be as overt as hives, a rash or other immediate signs.

When the immune system is weakened, the white blood cells will sometimes attack healthy organs. These are called auto-immune diseases.

Some of the diseases attributed to this process are…

Rheumatoid arthritis
diabetes
colitis
dermatitis
cancer
kidney diseases
lung diseases

One lady found she was allergic to certain foods she ate all the time. On totally eliminating the offending foods she was able to shed 40 pounds.

Her diet success came from eliminating the foods she ate all the time and eating a balanced diet.

So balanced diet is not limited to 1/3 protein, 1/3 carbs, 1/3 fiber. Balance also includes rotating the foods we eat on a daily basis and not eating the same foods every day.

Sounds daunting doesn’t it. It is not as hard as you think. Weight loss may be as easy as just changing your diet.

We will have some diet plans and some recipes in the future.

Have you noticed all the ads about all the medications you can take for just about everything. More importantly, have you noticed you cannot take some medications if you have certain underlying conditions or problems. Almost all refer to life threatening side effects.

A well known fact in health care: when you take 10 or more medicines, there is a 100% chance of all of them having an interaction of some sort with each other. In gambling terms, this means it is a sure bet.

This is not advocating that you should stop taking pills. On the contrary, you should see you doctor before making any changes or dietary modifications.

The other kinds of pills are the all natural, herbal or vitamin and mineral type.

Listening to an informercial one day a simple fact occurred to me. Trying to take all the pills for all the potential ailments we would want to protect ourselves from would bankrupt most millionaires.

Think of it, if you take one pill for your eyes, one for you stomach, one for your liver, one for your kidneys, one for your lower left ear lobe, one for your toe, how many more, I do not know.

Then to make matters worse, some of the so called natural pills that are advocated by the “what doctors don’t want you to know group” are in fact dangerous to you.

An independent lab found that calcium claiming to have come from coral actually is no better than lime stone. The problem, it has a higher level of dangerous heavy metals like Lead than other forms of calcium you can buy.

They make it sound like you will be preserved alive even though you die if you just take this all natural pill. The only problem, there are a total of 27 different pills you have to take to live forever. They all cost $35 per month. This means for under $1000 per month or less than $31.79 a day you can live forever with out health problems.

In addition to the cost, the number of vitamins and supplements you will need and the ones that are actually harmful…there is another problem.

This problem has to do with overdosing. Have you ever heard of someone overdosing on Black Strap Molasses? This food has one of the highest forms of absorbable iron and a side effect of being a stool softener. It is a great food and a wonderful nutriceutical. So what is the problem?

The pill form, on the other hand has some really bad side effects. The supplement iron pills are one of the leading causes of poisoning of children. For adults, they have a different side effect related to not being able to do what our bodies normally do with poo.

The thing is, very little iron is actually absorbed to do what it is taken for. In investing terms, the ROI or return on investment is very little.

So there is a problem with pills. Both medical and natural.

The Third Problem

There is a third problem. Since we do not eat enough of the right foods or the right foods are depleted of the proper nourishment or we face health challenges, there may be times we need supplementation.

In the hospital when a patient has lost a lot of blood from surgery or cancer, they need a rapid infusion of the building blocks of blood. Vitamins B6, B9, B12 and C along with iron are essential for the production of red blood cells. The only way to get these in sufficient quantity is by taking a vitamin pill.

So there may be times when supplementation is necessary. The reasons may be varied.

But wait, there are other poisons in our diet. Do you know what the biggest offenders are?

What if there was a different way to lose weight? A way involving no drugs, surgery, or money. What if, however, it required time? What if to see success took months and not days and weeks?

What if we even felt bad initially? But what if in time the results were astounding?

This is to propose just such a dietary change. This is not suggesting we abolish vitamins or drugs. This is proposing that a proper diet could be the first step to weight management and ultimately aging management. This is proposing that you start investing in your health.

An immune boosting diet will further help manage disease challenges people face.

To even consider such a change will require a dietary paradigm shift.

A paradigm shift is the changing the approach or underlying assumptions related to our thoughts. It means a radically different way of doing things.

Just eating health would be a radically different change in our society.

What if there was a diet that changed the way we approach weight loss. What if the underlying assumptions of weight loss were eliminated. What if weight loss was only our ulterior motive. What if our motive was better health with a side effect of weight loss.

This is what Ulterior Health is all about. The underlying ways to improve health and weight management. It requires thinking like an investor. Instead of investing money, you will invest time.

It took years to damage our body. It will take time and depending on the level of damage, it could take years to return it to health.

Changing the underlying assumptions starts with the toxins we put in our body. The most insidious type of toxins are a form called medicine.

Related to medicine is vitamins and minerals. Although good, they can never be complete as real food. As such, they can end up being toxins. Find out why in Pills: Two Types, Two Problems. This will be posted tomorrow.

Would you like to slow down the aging process.

Most will say yes. Yet most are not willing to do what it takes. Believe it or not, what it takes is not fad diets and overexercising. It is quite simple. The challenge is most are not willing to wait for the lifestyle changes that will bring about optimal health.

Optimal health can come from some ulterior lifestyle changes.

This is a list of ulterior diseases. Their underlying cause is not genetic, it is acquired.

Abnormal Cholesterol levels
Cancer
Dementia (numerous types)
Degenerative Joint Disease
Depression
Early Menopause
GERD
Heart Disease
High Blood Pressure
Obesity
Osteoarthritis
Osteoporosis
Stroke
Type II Diabetes

These result from overeating, eating the wrong way and chemical ingestion.

Chemicals like MSG in many meats, seasonings soups. Chemicals like milk enhancing drugs given to cows that end up in the milk we drink. Artificial sweeteners and modified sweeteners. All are chemicals that potentially hinder our body and the mechanism that it uses to rebuild its self.

What if there was a way to improve health but it was not a quick fix?

What if there was a way to decrease illness and health problems requiring an investment of time?

What if there was a way to slow down aging but it took time?

What if instead of taking medicines to treat diseases it was possible to prevent disease?

What if it required an investment of time and money?

What would it be worth to you? What would be the dividends of having good health even into old age?

Boosting Your Glutathione Is the First Step

One of the simplest things we can do to lose weight is so simple, you probably will not do it. As a matter of fact, it is so simple and we are so busy we will often forget it.

It does not cost any more. It requires no special foods. It will not only help you lose weight, it will possible cut your food bill (because you will eat less and enjoy food more).

What is it.

It starts with putting your fork down. Or putting your food down. Every time you take a bite, put down what ever your eating. Then chew your food. Chew it until it is not there.

Some will advocate chewing 30 times. Go ahead and count but do not limit the chewing to 30 times. Rather, chew until the food no longer will stay in your mouth. Some foods may take 50 chews to fully masticate.

Think what happens when you have water in your mouth. It is hard to hold it there and have a chewing action going on. Likewise once the food is chewed so sufficiently that you can no-longer hold it, it will go down naturally.

Food naturally has chemical reactions to when chewed. The less chewing, the less nutrients we get from the food. Evidence has shown that taking a supplement cannot always provide all the benefit of real food.

An excellent example is the melatonin found in Montmorency Cherry Concentrate which is used to help people who cannot sleep. As a supplement, once your body recognizes the increase, it de-compensates. However, when taken in cherry juice, it does not seem to have the problem.

So chew your food, lose weight, enjoy.