To Your Health!

[Phoenix7]

Phoenix, Unfortunately we don't have a Costco near. How much per capsule are those 2000 units? Many of the stores really rip you off if you don't check. One trick is a big bottle with fewer capsules. The 2 pack bottles of 1000 unit D-3 are about .04 each. Also the fish oil capsules are healthy. My cousin is my doctor . He says the D-3 is very important even if you can't feel a difference also he tells me to take 1000mg. fish oil per day, for heart health.

----------------billy

Billie I purchase supplements from Swanson , Puritans Pride and Amazon .All 3 good prices and great service!

[billyjoe]

Phoenix, Unfortunately we don't have a Costco near. How much per capsule are those 2000 units? Many of the stores really rip you off if you don't check. One trick is a big bottle with fewer capsules. The 2 pack bottles of 1000 unit D-3 are about .04 each. Also the fish oil capsules are healthy. My cousin is my doctor . He says the D-3 is very important even if you can't feel a difference also he tells me to take 1000mg. fish oil per day, for heart health.

----------------billy

[Phoenix7]

River Thanx

Make sure you're not overdosing. I get mine checked once a year and so far right on target. http://www.webmd.com/osteoporosis/fe...much-vitamin-d

River Thanx ......Great information ! One pundit on the radio said up to 5,000 Units of Vitamin D3 is safe .....I use the Costco Kirkland brand of D3 , which is 2,000 units per small capsule!

[riverbabe]

Vitamin D

Make sure you're not overdosing. I get mine checked once a year and so far right on target. http://www.webmd.com/osteoporosis/fe...much-vitamin-d

[Phoenix7]

Eat those berries!

Harvard’s School of Public Health recently released a study on compounds called anthocyanins and the heart-healthy benefits they carry. These compounds are found in the highest quantities in blueberries and strawberries.

The study looked at participants for more than 20 years and found that the people eating strawberries and blueberries were 32% less likely to suffer from heart disease than people who didn’t eat berries.

[Phoenix7]

Phoenix, I had a "D" level less than half of normal and it took me over 6 months of taking D3 to get it normal. Don't feel any better or worse , but I haven't croaked yet.

--------------billy

Billie a friend of mine never knew he was low in Vitamin D until his urologist informed him of his low score after a blood test.
Billie bottom line it is cheap insurance .......why take chances?

[billyjoe]

Phoenix, I had a "D" level less than half of normal and it took me over 6 months of taking D3 to get it normal. Don't feel any better or worse , but I haven't croaked yet.

--------------billy

[Phoenix7]

The small capsule that may save your life!

Folks many physicians are now checking your blood level for vitamin D . One important study of 13,000 initially healthy men and women , conducted by John Hopkins, found that Vitamin D deficiency was associated with a 26% increase in DEATH from any cause during a median period of nine years!
Your Dr can determine , with a special blood test , if your are deficient in vitamin D!
More people are prone to suffer Vitamin shortage during the winter months.
When you look to buy a Vitamin D supplement make sure you look for Vitamin D3 which is twice as potent as Vitamin D2.
I myself use the Costco Kirkland brand of Vitamin D3 which is sold in a bottle which contains 600 very small capsules . Each capsule contains 2000 I.U. of Vitamin D3.
I usually take one or 2 of these per day!

The Bottom line here is that it is more prudent to lay out a few bucks for some Vitamin D3 soft gels than it is to be laid out at a wake!

[Phoenix7]

Another health tip

I just subscribed to "Prevention magazine" and according to their promotional literature , "Eating just one serving of pink grapefruit or watermelon per day can cut a man's risk of developing prostate cancer by 82%!" , and they said "yes you read it right 82%"

[Phoenix7]

Jiesen

Still, I think freezing and grating the lemons is a great idea. I have a lemon tree and tons of lemons, but most go to waste, and I've never eaten the whole thing, only the juice once in a while... now I have something new to try!

My dad had some citrus trees down in FL .........absolute best oranges and best grapefruit I had ever eaten . I used to box up 50 lbs to take with me on my way back home.
My dad eventually sold and bought a condo ......the upkeep was just too labor intensive, and expensive.
Good luck with your lemons ......the vitamin C is natural and all good!

[jiesen]

awesome thread!!!

MIMO ,
Thanx for your input ......I guess all we can say is that citrus fruits may be beneficial in yiour quest for better health!

Still, I think freezing and grating the lemons is a great idea. I have a lemon tree and tons of lemons, but most go to waste, and I've never eaten the whole thing, only the juice once in a while... now I have something new to try!

[Phoenix7]

5 herbs for alzheimer's disease

Interesting article on herbs for alzheimer's Disease!

http://www.globalhealingcenter.com/natural-health/5-herbs-for-alzheimers-disease/

[Phoenix7]

Tomato Juice May Be Helpful?

Here is another interesting health tip garnered form the internet!

" Tomato juice helps prevent heart disease - especially for type 2
diabetes (who have high risk of heart attack). This is a result
of a study published in Journal of the American Medical
Association. Group of people were given 250ml of tomato juice
daily. The amount of platelet aggregation (a great indicator of
heart attack risk) decreased whooping 27% in only three weeks."
V8 does make a "Low Salt" vegetable JUICE that is quite tasty !

[Phoenix7]

The Dr Says , "Lose Weight"

Many have heard those words after a recent physical, namely , "Lose Weight" What should your ideal weight be? The BMI or Body Mass Index is a number which suggests what your ideal weight should be .
The calculation is not complex , but the simple math involved does scare off many from the calculation. Here is a link to a site which will compute the number for you automatically.
I checked my BMI which was 25.4 , and slightly overweight.
Here is the link .....how do you , "weigh in?"

http://nhlbisupport.com/bmi/

[Phoenix7]

Oh Well

Phoenix, I know many cancer survivors, so I took an above average interest in this post. I first went to Snopes.com and checked it out:

http://www.snopes.com/medical/disease/lemons.asp

Your friend basically emailed you some of the information that has been making the rounds of the internet since 2011. Snopes rates this a “Mixture Of True And False Information.”

The jury is out on the claims made in your friend's email. Here is the last paragraph of the Snopes article.

“However, the best that can be said at this point is that citrus fruits may potentially harbor anti-cancer properties that could help ward off cancer. No reputable scientific or medical studies have reported that lemons have been found to be a "proven remedy against cancers of all types," nor has any of the (conveniently unnamed) "world's largest drug manufacturers" reported discovering that lemons are "10,000 times stronger than chemotherapy" and that their ingestion can "destroy malignant [cancer] cells." All of those claims are hyperbole and exaggeration not supported by facts.”

MIMO ,
Thanx for your input ......I guess all we can say is that citrus fruits may be beneficial in yiour quest for better health!