Living Green – Eco Living By Design

Natural Health - It took thousands of years for the human species to evolve in a natural environment and yet in just a few generations we have changed all the inputs that contribute to our health. Our food, our air, our water and even what comes in contact with our skin has to a large extent changed in the last two hundred years of history. Biologists agree that our species can not adapt to these changes on such a sort time frame. We have created a toxic soup of our own creation and many now believe that our route to cultural health and well being lies on a more our more natural pathways. The growth in the natural health industry reflects this realization. In this section we explore the movement toward natural health principals, techniques and technologies.

Toxins in Dentistry

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Written by Ruth Morrison

There has been a long standing contraversy about Amalgam Fillings used in many dentists offices and yet only one in four people know that these so called “silver fillings” or amalgam fillings contain mostly mercury. This is a concern not only for the general public but it should also be a concern for dental workers that are exposed to this toxic substance every day in thier work environment.

Wikipedia, defines “amalgam” as an alloy containing mercury. This material is most commonlly used by dentists for fillings in ones mouth. The composition of this filling is generally as follows: 50% is mercury, approximately 22-32% is silver, approximately 14% is tin, approximately 8% is copper, and the remainder of the 100% composition is other trace metals. It appears that Dentists use such material because it is reletively inexpensive and, it has qualities of strength and durability. I began to wonder why dentists call a meterial that is primarily mercury a "silver" filling. I thought perhaps it is because of this very contriversy. So I began to look into it. Most people know how toxic mercury can be so it is only logical that if the dental association does not want to alarm its market that the dental association might prefer dentists to call these mercury fillings “silver” fillings.

This tends to be the case in almost every conventional dentistry practices throughout Canada and the United States. It seems that mercury fillings are so cheap and therefore profitable that the industry continues to use them in spite of growing evidence that might suggest that they should not be used at all.

Understanding Disease

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Written by Raymond Francis

The next major advance in health will be determined by what people are willing to do for themselves. However, willingness is only part of the equation-the other is knowing what to do.

In my book Never Be Sick Again, I outlined a new model of health based on the revolutionary concept of one disease. As varied and complex as "diseases" appear to be, all disease is the result of malfunctioning cells. Cellular malfunction is then the one disease. Modern medicine believes there are thousands of diseases, but viewing all diseases as one presents a profound opportunity-the opportunity to take the mystery out of disease and to gain power over it.

The enormous pandemic of chronic and degenerative disease sweeping the world today is characterized by complex neuro-immuno-hormonal-gastrointestinal dysfunction. Complexity aside, all disease occurs at the molecular and cellular level, and we now know that virtually all disease has common causes and common solutions.

There is only one disease and there are only two causes of disease: deficiency and toxicity.

The Environment and Our Health

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Written by Garnet McPherson Thursday, 23 July 2009 00:00

As more and more evidence emerges about the health risks of man made toxins, it is clear that we need to encourage public policies that will bring Canadian environmental health standards up to par with the best international practices.

The David Suzuki Foundation published a report recently called Northern Exposure, which counts the thousands of Canadians that have suffered from acute poisoning from pesticides. The report is a wake-up call to federal and provincial governments to take action to protect Canadians from the dangers of pesticides.

Raw Living Foods and Cancer - Part 1

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Written by Benjamin Stone

In this series of articles we will be exploring the many heath and environmental benifits of a raw and organic diet. Most of our lives have been touched in some way by a wide variety of modern deseases and many of us have had personal or family experiences with cancer. There is hope and it lays in a very natural approach to living. A Living Food Lifestyle has turned the health and well being of thousands from desease to vitality. In this article, we are going to investigate the effects of raw, living foods on cancer.

How much water should you need to drink every day?

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Written by Contributor

Water is essential to our good health, but individual needs do vary considerably.

There are many fallacies about the amount of water we need. The first fallacy has been propagated by many authorities including our own governments, who have over simplified an answer when they suggest eight 8 oz. glasses a day or some other arbitrary amount of water. It may be a simple question but there are no easy or simple answers.

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