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Here’s how to make your own delicious energy bar for a fraction of the price. They are not only delicious but nutritious. Coffee grinders and food processors do not work well for this type of recipe. The best machine to use is a cheap Black & Decker chopper.

Click on the link for the recipes. They are all delicious! Enjoy.

http://bunnyfoot.blogspot.com/2006/02/homemade-lara-type-bars.html

1) An aspirin does not stop a headache but a body ache. Most drugs are made for the body, not for the brain. When one gets a headache, it is the body sending a nerve message up to the brain that it is hurting.

2) Morphine is just a refined version of heroin that does not take away pain but just makes one feel better.

3) We all heard about the hospital super bug MRSA. But many do not know that MRSA  live inside the noses of some doctors, nurses, surgeons, and other hospital employees. Should these infected doctors or surgeons not wash their hands after blowing out their infected noses, they can easily transfer the bacteria onto their patients. Unlike viruses that need to find a host within seconds to survive, the MRSA bacteria can live in the air for a few days, such as on the doctors’ / surgeons’ white coats.

4) As people age, their connective tissue gets tougher, which makes it more difficult to heal. Younger people have softer connective tissues, so they heal faster.

5) Botox is a milder form of botulism that paralyzes the skin. If someone gets too much botox on the face, he or she will not be able to smile. Botox is now used to enlarge the breasts. Why plastic surgeons want to turn breasts into “statues”, I don’t know.

6) Females have a much shorter urinary tract than males and need to go to the bathroom more often to avoid bladder infections.

7) Thyroid surgery is a dangerous “hit or miss” surgery. A surgeon can only guesstimate as to how much thyroid to take out. If the surgeon takes too much, that patient becomes hypothyroid. And because of the location of thyroid, within close proximity to the nerves, one bad move can cause the nerve to be cut.

When patients take anti-inflammatory drugs, they are not only reducing their inflammation but their overall immunity. A little inflammation is necessary to start the healing process. Inflammation is like a “fire siren”, which notifies the neutrophils (usually the first “ER” cells to arrive to the scene). When inflammation is reduced, less neutrophils will arrive and so the healing process will take longer. On the other hand, too much inflammation can destroy organs and tissues.

9) The blood pressure cuff only measures the ventricle, not the atrium side of the heart. Your heart is divided into 4 chambers. On the top quadrants, there are the left and right atrium. On the bottom quadrants, there are the left and right ventricles. If there is a leak in one of the valves, the blood pressure cuff will not detect this.

10) Not every angle of the heart can be heard with a stethoscope. An electrocardiogram is better for measuring the healthiness of the heart but not part of the physical.

11) Doctors do not heal anymore. Instead drugs are prescribed to stabilize the underlying issue(s). Why doctors prescribe diuretics to reduce blood pressure, I don’t know. Diuretics just make people “pee” more. Why don’t they tell their patients just to drink more water and eat a banana or avocado to prevent electrolyte imbalance? It’s already mind bottling they now want to put 8 year olds on statin.

12) Doctors are not always healthy and do not always know what is best for you. Some have high blood pressure, high cholesterols, diabetes, etc. A few are even alcoholics and/or addicted to morphine, which makes you wonder why get to treat patients when they can’t treat themselves.

13) A general surgeon acts as a mediator and is necessary during a surgery to prevent surgeons and specialists from arguing too much.

14) By the time glucose shows up in the urine test, the kidney is at least 70% damaged.

15) Glucose is normally stored in its insulin and kept by the liver until further use. Too much glucose in the blood (aka. diabetes) can damage the nerve(s), which makes diabetes more prone to infections and amputations. They loose their sense of hurt and sometimes can do more damage to their bodies than good, ie.  bumping into things and getting bruises.

More health facts to come…Note: Originally, I went on a quest wanting to know what it is that doctors know that the average laymen does not. My curiosity grew enormously when I began learning from a pathologist and a surgeon. I was so deeply disturbed what doctors/surgeons had to go through just to get that piece of paper. Not only did many accumulated massive debt and went through sleepless nights, some females were sexually assaulted by their “chief predators”. The bottom line was that I learned that doctors paid too much to become doctors but got very little out of healing. Once an organ was badly damaged, there was very little doctors/surgeons could do “resurrect” life.

So I’m noticing a trend. Of the 5 or 6 times I’ve been at a Trader Joe’s, a local supermarket chain, the store is no longer jammed packed. Lines are SOOOOO much shorter. Farmers tell me that people have really cut back on their produce spending in this economy. They say that the scare of salmonella has made it worst and has cut tomato spending by as much as 40% this year.

This is not good news. People should be eating more produce, NOT less. Produce are low in calories, contain fiber, and rich in antioxidants. Tomatoes, for instance, are rich in lycopene and good for the prostate. If people think that their health insurance and medication will take care of them, good luck. With doctors quitting the field due to low insurance reimbursement and not enough hospital beds to serve the sick, the health care crisis is “brewing”.

Here’s an article worth reading.http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080617142925.htm

If you are having trouble losing weight and have just about resort to all possible remedies, the secret may lie in your leptin. Scientists are not sure why but in a recent study among lean v. obese women, scientists learned that when the levels of a hormone called leptin is raised among lean women, their appetites for food curbed and their eagerness for exercises increases.

In obese women, the results were just the opposite. Scientists learned that the more exercise the obese women did, the more they wanted to eat. Leptin did not curb their appetite.

The news seems almost discouraging but at the same time, the study does not point out how much bad fat these women ate. Without knowing their diets, it may be meaningless to drawn from any conclusion.

So I say, keep on slimming.       You have no idea how lucrative the benefits are to losing weight, ie.  lower cholesterol, lower glucose, better looking thighs, just to name a few.

Here’s another example why exercise is good for you.

http://www.ehow.com/how_2184995_prevent-bedsores.html

When you stop exercising and lose all your muscles, your tissue dies. The lack of blood flow to the area turns the tissue black. Nurses are supposed to turn bedridden patients over each day, but with so much hospital cutbacks these days, I doubt they all do. If you are visiting someone in the hospital who is bedridden, you may want to give them massages or help them move.