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Are You Starving on a Full Stomach?

Sue sighed with pleasure as she surveyed her dinner plate.  The pungent cheese sauce on tender-crisp broccoli… magnificent.  Turkey – cooked to perfection – moist, bursting with flavor.  Sweet potatoes to die for.  And last but not least, a salad that could have won first prize at any County Fair.  Perfection.  Colorful.  

All of it not only tastefully cooked and served but so good for you, she could almost see the vitamins and minerals marching in-step across her plate.  No doubt about it – meals like this made healthy, strong bodies – providing a boat load of vitamins, minerals and enzymes.

But do they really?

Healthy Meals – Healthy Bodies?

According to the U.S. Senate Document 264 published in 1936, “Laboratory tests prove that the fruits, the vegetables, the grain, the eggs and even the milk and meat of today are not what they were a few generations ago.”  Sound familiar

There’s conclusive evidence that our farm and range soils are almost devoid of the necessary minerals we need.  The World Health Organization reported that studies have shown that our soils have 95% less of the same minerals they had a hundred years ago. If these minerals are not in our soil, they can’t be in our food.  If they’re not in our food – no matter how good the meal, our body’s requirement for vitamins and minerals will not be met.

Minerals – Just How Important Are They?

Dr. Linus Pauling, winner of two Nobel Prizes stated, “You can trace every sickness, every disease, and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.” 

U.S. Senate Document 264 seems to agree – according to them … ‘mineral intake is more important to our health than vitamins.’

Vitamins, as well as many other nutrients, play a part in our health, but minerals provide the foundation by stabilizing vitamins so they can do their work.  Without vitamins our bodies can still use the minerals, but without minerals vitamins are useless.  Minerals are responsible for creating and maintaining a healthy environment within our bodies which will allow the other nutrients, such as vitamins, to do their job.

Your Body – Your Home…

Your body requires good quality proteins and minerals as it rebuilds itself cell by cell every eleven months.  What kind of tools and nutrition are you giving your body so it can rebuild strong, healthy cells, for a strong, healthy you?

Think of your body as a beautiful home you’ve been given.  It’s your responsibility to keep everything up-to-date and in good working order in this home. 

One day you decide you want to add an extension to your master bedroom.  You hire a contractor and give him all the details of your new addition.  You can’t wait for the project to start – you’ve already planned out exactly what you’re going to do with the extra space.

Next day the contractor’s crew show up and start building the outer walls of your new room.  You can’t help yourself but peek out the window every half hour just to see how it’s coming along.

Somewhere around the third hour you notice they’re ready to raise the first outer wall.  You lean forward to get a better look.  Your eyes open wide, you blink, you rub them, and look again.  Surely you’re not seeing things right.   You decide to step outside and take a better look.

It looks even worse on closer inspection.  Every single two by four in that wall is riddled full of holes. 

“Looks like a drunken woodpecker made these two by fours,” you mutter under your breath. 

You stare at them in dismay.  There’s just no way this extension is going to be able to withstand the demands you’ll be making of it.  First good storm and the stupid thing would topple like a stack of cards.

What kind of contractor would use such poor building materials?  Only an idiot would dream of building anything with such structurally unsound building materials.  You fire the contractor right on the spot. 

Building home additions from riddled two by fours is no different than asking your body to perform its functions and rebuild healthy cells without the proper nutrients. 

Starving on a Full Stomach?  You May Need Minerals…

When thinking of restoring and maintaining health – building a structurally sound body – your mineral intake should be the first thing you look at.  In fact, minerals play an extremely important role in all biological and psychological processes in our bodies.  Without proper levels of minerals, our bodies and minds will have trouble functioning. 

A good mineral supplement will supply your body with the nutrients it needs to create health as it rebuilds itself cell by cell. 

Are You a Sleep Statistic?

Sleeplessness Can Be Deadly

Everyone experiences some form of insomnia or sleep disturbance every now and then.  One or two good nights and we're back to normal. 


But for some of us sleep deprivation has become a way of life.  Fatigue dogs our every footstep.  But life marches on and so must we.  Sleeplessness isn't a good enough reason to call in sick. 


But maybe it should be.

Will You Be Counted Among These Statistics?         


• 60% of adult drivers say they have driven a vehicle while feeling drowsy    

         
• 37% say they have actually fallen asleep at the wheel


• The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration conservatively estimates that 100,000 police-reported crashes are the direct result of driver fatigue each year


• An estimated 1,550 deaths, 71,000 injuries, and $12.5 billion in monetary losses happen each year as a direct result of driver fatigue

Who knew that lack of sleep could have such devastating effects?  If we can't perform well behind the wheel of our cars how well will we do at work?


Do You Recognize This Picture?

You lie awake in bed – tossing and turning, staring at the clock and worrying about how you’re going to perform tomorrow if you don’t fall asleep soon. 
You wake up groggy after only a few fitful hours of sleep.  You’re head hurts, hang-over style.  You feel tired, unfocused, and lack the energy you need to do your work properly. 


You reach for the coffee pot in a desperate energy-rescue attempt. 
The whole day drags by in a fit of yawns, sighs, energy-seeking stretches and more coffee.  Has it really only been ten hours since you got out of bed?  Feels more like forty-eight.


If you’re one of the lucky ones you’ll sleep like a log tonight and wake up tomorrow feeling refreshed and ready to go.  But if you’re like 74% of most Americans* you’ll likely see a repeat performance tonight and the next night and the next... 


According to a report from the Mayo Clinic almost all adults don’t get enough sleep and most struggle to get up in the morning.


*An annual survey done by National Sleep Foundation in 2002 stated that as much as 74% of all Americans are sleep deprived.


Tried Them All & Still Sleepless

If you’re anything like me you’ve tried the common “treatments” for your sleeping problem – prescribed, over the counter and natural.  And like me you’ve probably discovered that none of them really fix your problem with insomnia.  Some helped you fall and stay asleep, sure – but the price for that sleep was feeling like someone had exchanged your brains for cotton wool, making it hard to concentrate or think. 


You know you slept last night but some how you just don’t feel refreshed.


The Forgotten One

Most of us have forgotten what it feels like to be fully rested and energetic.  Forgotten how good it feels to laugh and feel spontaneous joy.  For us life has become a grim affair filled with grumpiness, irritability and gloom. 

Sleeplessness is taking its toll on our life - on our joy in living.


Did You Know?

• Those with sleep problems are twice as likely to feel stressed and tired


• Lack of sleep also leads to health problems – fatigue, obesity, high blood pressure, heart disease, shortened lifespan, suppressed immune systems and depression


• Recent studies implicate sleep deprivation in diabetes

 

 

Good Health Demands Good Sleep

The human body requires sleep as much as it does food and water.  During sleep our body repairs itself and revitalizes organs and muscles.  Some experts believe that sleep helps the brain recharge its energy and store memories for the long term. 

 
Sleep is also important for proper functioning of the immune and nervous systems.


Have You Become a Fat Storer?

Too little sleep can lead to increased cortisol levels in the body.  This hormone, normally released as part of the 'fight or flight' response to danger stimulates the breakdown of muscle and bone to supply the body with the minerals that are needed for flight. 


Too much cortisol in the bloodstream can be a precursor to health problems, both biological and psychological.


Lack of sleep also contributes to a reduced glucose tolerance, diminished thyroid hormones - which in turn can contribute to insulin resistance and a sluggish metabolism.  A slow or sluggish metabolism can mean poor or almost no fat burning. 


Too little sleep or poor quality sleep means we can become fat storers rather than calorie burners.


Quality Wins Over Quantity Every Time


Most of us need seven to eight hours of sound sleep each night to function properly.  Surprisingly though, it’s not a matter of how many hours of sleep you get but the quality of that sleep that restores body and mind.


Quality means getting enough of these two crucial phases of sleep:
 
1. NREM – non-rapid eye movement – during this time your body experiences a general relaxation of muscles that leads to the deepest sleep level during which protein synthesis, growth hormones, immune function, and the mind are all given a boost


2. REM – rapid eye movement – most of our dreaming is done in this phase
Aging Affects Your Ability to Sleep


As we age, our bodies secrete smaller amounts of the growth hormone – which promotes the much-needed deep sleep – and melatonin – which helps your body decide when to sleep and when to wake up.  Because of this our sleep changes in quality, not necessarily quantity.  The phase of “deep” or restorative sleep, (the level that NREM sleep leads us into), is diminished.


Although sleep cycles change as we age it doesn’t mean we have to resign ourselves to poor sleep.  Insomnia doesn’t have to be the result.