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Archive for July, 2010

Because you clicked on the title of this article, and are reading it now, you likely have a weight problem of some sort. Well, welcome to the most popular club in America today. Two thirds of American adults are overweight, or clinically obese.

Being overweight doesn’t come by itself. It brings along all kinds of other health problems with it. Of course, without the extra weight, many of these problems will vanish.

Is there a reason for this? Were we always so fat? The simple answer is no. A hundred years ago, even fifty years ago, most people were thin and healthy. So what happened?

In the old days, most people weren’t lucky enough to sit at a desk all day. Work meant physical labor. Eight hours a day, five days a week.

And even those among us that can find the motivation to hit the gym once or twice a week, the workout is not nearly as strenuous as people’s eight hour a day jobs of a hundred years ago.

And secondly, the food we eat is not nearly as healthy as it was before. Before, most of the food people ate was fresh, and grown somewhere near to where they lived. It wasn’t trucked in from across the country, or shipped in from a different country altogether.

Today, most of the food is processed, chemically altered to make it last longer, and filled with preservatives. It might make it last longer on the shelf of a store, but is it healthy?

The biggest problem with this is that it can be darn near impossible to find something to eat that isn’t laced with chemicals. Even if you do find a natural grocer with locally grown, preservative free food, you’d have to take out a loan to afford it.

Restaurant food, fast food, and even most of the foods you buy at your local supermarket are filled with chemicals and junk that is just not healthy. And this can cause all kinds of problems to your digestive system.

So it’s no wonder that more of us aren’t even fatter than we already are. With little or no exercise, virtually no choice in the food that is available to us, we are left with little hope of becoming thin and healthy without a heroic effort on our part.

The biggest scam is that there are corporations and companies that make billions of dollars every year selling you food that makes you fat and unhealthy.

Only when you can discover how to eat the right foods, that are free from preservatives and chemicals, can you quickly lose weight and stop paying your hard earned money to those big companies that want to keep you fat.

The world’s gas and oil production has historically culminated in major emissions and waste issues, but now Purestream Technology holds the effective, viable solution. We are still currently plagued with emissions of harmful air contaminants, and previous efforts to reduce these have proven environmentally and economically inefficient, irresponsible, and destructive. Just like with the produced wastewater that is mixed with the gas and oil when it surfaces-highly ineffective, hugely expensive, and environmentally destructive methods of coping with it are still being used today. Also at issue in the industry are: the lack of accountability, the potential for fraudulent and mistaken reporting, and the waste of heat generated by gas and oil production.

Trilogy is a product that solves all of the aforementioned issues-affordably. It was developed by Purestream Technology’s innovators, in collaboration with Energy Dynamics Lab (EDL) and the Utah State University’s Research Foundation (USURF), which has recognition worldwide as a leader in thermal-management technology. Purestream had a conviction, from the beginning, that the only effective future option was a well-head solution. They searched and examined all existing world technologies for an economical, viable, and sustainable solution. It didn’t yet exist. With the assistance of USURF and Specialized Analysis Engineering (SAE), Purestream assessed what worked and what didn’t with all existing technologies and put in years of development on the Trilogy System. The first Trilogy version was deployed in 2007 and the fourth is now into worldwide deployment.

The Trilogy System is the combining of innovations. It is a patented wastewater disposal system that removes contaminates until the water is purer than natural drinking water, thus making it usable for some purpose or safe to put back into the ecosystem; a state-of-the-art air-emissions process that destroys and removes 99% of air pollutants, giving Hepa-quality air filtration; and a revolutionary system, called Combined Heat and Power (CHP), that recycles waste heat, reusing it in the air emissions and water disposal processes, and also converting it into clean power that can be loaded onto a community power grid for commercial consumption.

Trilogy is also a comprehensive and cutting-edge remote data-tracking system for verifying and monitoring condensate, oil, and produced wastewater levels right from the point of origin to the final point of sale or disposal. This remote data-tracking capability uses technology from Vital Vu. It renders all manual data-tracking processes obsolete because they’re inefficient, prone to human error, subject to fraud, and impossible to verify.

Trilogy is the world’s first comprehensive economically viable and environmentally responsible well-head waste and emissions system. This extensive system resolves every major waste and emissions issue of our current gas and oil production. It has the support of both national and local politicians, as well as EPA constituents, for immediate deployment in the gas and oil production fields of the world. As the global community actively looks toward a future filled with renewable energy sources, Purestream’s contribution to an improved fossil-fueled present is welcomed respite for the environmentally conscious people of today.

Individuals usually overlook the disorder of sleep apnea thinking the snoring that’s often associated with the condition is merely an annoyance and will eventually disappear completely. The facts of the matter is that it is really a situation that causes a person to stop breathing for seconds to minutes at a time; this deep down at its core is recognized as a sleep disorder and so requires severe attention.

Often times though, if left with no treatment, Sleep apnea will not just go away or cure itself. It is a situation that will cause an individual to lose sleep and can ultimately cause more serious medical problems, including such life threading difficulties as Congestive Heart Failure. The best way to treat it’s to understand some of the dangers that are associated with it. With this knowledge, you’re able to make much better choices about a proper treatment plan with your Doctor and have more of a sense of urgency to be compliant with the prescribed therapy.

One of the most important dangers of sleep apnea is more of an irritation than a danger in that it disturbs rest at night. During a sleep apnea event the individual will wake up many times throughout the night and experience bouts of paused breathing. Consequently, in the morning the individual will awaken tired and annoyed and experience throughout their day excessive daytime drowsiness. For this reason, people who suffer from sleep apnea are frequently times advised not to drive until they can be treated efficiently.

It has also been noted in people that there is really a severe lack of concentration among people who suffer from apnea episodes in the course of sleep. This could affect either performance at their job or at work as a end result. It is also worth mentioning that people who suffer from sleep apnea also suffer from psychological problems as well. This can also result in weight gain as this is brought on by an increase in appetite because of a lack of rest.

Estimates show that over Eighteen million people in the United States are affected by sleep apnea and only 10% of those are correctly diagnosed. If you sense that you are having issues during the night time, don’t hesitate to make contact with your physician about being tested for sleep apnea. It’s very easily treatable in most cases as long as a person is compliant with their care.

There are several authentic courses offered by renowned institutes on hypnosis in general and particularly its therapeutic branch, hypnotherapy. Mastering the art of hypnotherapy and using it in everyday life can be realised through these training modules.

In hypnosis training, you are taught the art of delving deep into an individual’s mind and discovering the problems and their roots that might be plaguing a patient. Personality development of the self as well as of individuals around you can be attained if you make use of the knowledge and skills acquired from such training.

It takes more than just participating in a course to undertake effective hypnosis training. Repeated practice and strong will power are needed to master this activity, as is the case with any other high skill discipline. A person possessing a healthy and unbound mind is in a more fitting position to assimilate and internalize the lessons imparted in hypnosis training. Having such a mind is so crucial because it acts as a reservoir of other important qualities like concentration, fearlessness, and determination.

Hypnotherapy is an extremely powerful science that has several advantages. Hypnotherapy training helps in ushering in a sea change in an individual’s personality by helping him relate to his subconscious self. Uplifting ideas can be implanted in a person’s subconscious through this method, which can bring about vital behavioural changes, therefore helping him get rid of his deficiencies.

One can do hypnosis on his own self, which is known as self hypnosis, or make another person the subject. Self hypnosis is a great means towards self-realization and self-enhancement that helps the person become more self-assured, a good communicator, great manager in public relations, and hence more successful in his professional life. A slight scraping of the subconscious to peel off the layers of negative thoughts can work wonders in raising enthusiasm and determination in the subject’s mind.

Hypnotherapy training can be used as an occupation too by helping individuals who are suffering from something or the other. An able hypnotherapist can cure all types of psychological disorders. From anxiety to irrational fears and from obsessive compulsions to childhood problems, hypnosis can offer a cure for all, if practiced correctly. Hypnotherapy can also be performed on the streets just to create awareness about the subject and to teach the society about the capabilities of the subconscious mind.

Through hypnosis training, one can attain skills for occupational use and also develop an ability to deal with hostile situations and tough people, and therefore it is a perfect tool for self-improvement for people from all professions and of all ages.

In 3,300 B.C., a tribal elder from Val Venosta, Italy, trekked across an Alpine glacier in an attempted getaway from enemies. But his foes got the better of him and with a well-aimed arrow pierced his subclavian artery, leaving him to bleed to death in a glacial cave where his mummified remains were discovered in 1991. Among the belongings of Oetzi the Iceman were two medicinal mushrooms, the earliest evidence in existence of mushrooms used as remedies.

One of the mushrooms he carried was a traditional de-wormer known as Birch polypore (Piptoporus betulinus), which makes sense because whipworm eggs were found in Oetzi’s intestines. The other mushroom was a species frequently used to cauterize wounds, Tinder fungus (Fomes fomentarius). The Iceman’s right hand had been injured days earlier and was in the process of healing when he was killed.

Both of these are polypores, so named because they have pores instead of gills underneath. No species of polypore is known to be poisonous. They usually grow on trees, dead or alive.

Polypores are usually considered inedible due to the fact that they are hard and wood-like. But for ancient peoples all across the globe – from China and India to Europe and the Americas – polypore teas and poultices have none-the-less been indispensible allies to human health at least for as long as written and oral traditions can recount.

Oral traditions of Native Americans bear tale of many types of polypores being used to help against the diseases brought by the Europeans, including Birch polypore but also Reishi (Ganoderma resinaceum), Turkey Tail (Trametes versicolor), Chaga (Inonotus obliquus) and the now almost vanished species Agarikon (Fomitopsis officinalis).

Although nearly extinct today, Agarikon was once common in the old-growth forests of ancient Europe. Greek physician Dioscorides referred to Agarikon as a remedy for tuberculosis in Materia Medica, 65 B.C. It’s the earliest record of a medicinal mushroom in European literature. Two millennia later, the historic use of Agarikon in Poland was put down in writing in the article Medicinal mushrooms in Polish Folk Medicine by K. Grzywnowics. Again, it included lung conditions, as well as rheumatoid arthritis and infected wounds.

So far, we’ve only covered the history of medicinal mushrooms in Europe and America and have barely even touch upon their use in Asia, where their use has been even more exhaustive. At least three Asian species must be included in any article on the history of mushrooms.

First is the polypore Reishi (Ganoderma lucidum), which has been used in China and Japan as a health bestowing mushroom of immortality for at least two millennia. It was first mentioned in the 2,000 year old book Shen Nong’s Herbal Classic. Many ancient wood-carvings and temple engravings in the Orient bear testament to the homage paid to this acclaimed cure-all mushroom.

Another Chinese medicinal mushroom known as Cordyceps was first described in the 200 A.D. book The Classic Herbal of the Divine Plowman. Cordyceps was, and still is, largely used as an aphrodisiac and to improve physical prowess in athletes, although modern research also indicates many other areas of potential usefulness.

Finally there is the Shiitake mushroom, which today is a common household name even in the West. In Asia, however, it is known to have been cultivated as a gourmet mushroom for at least a thousand years. What may surprise is that Shiitake is also one of the most researched medicinal mushrooms in the world. Its potential uses range from energizing tonic to immune-booster and antibiotic with anti-tumor properties.

Medical research on mushrooms appears to have begun in the late 1960’s in Japan. It gained attention in the West through the research by Dr. Ikekawa, who found that families growing mushrooms had lower cancer-rates than other people in their communities. Since those early days, medical research into mushrooms has grown exponentially and is still increasing. Medicinal mushrooms are continuing to make history.