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Trillions of micro-organisms are supposed to inhabit a healthy digestive system. Unfortunately, due to poor diet and an abuse of antibiotic ingestion, we lack the essential friendly bacteria in our colon that unilaterally provide the greatest defense against many chronic health conditions.

Probiotics as opposed to "antibiotics", are tiny, friendly floras that function to absorb and digest food, increase immune function, detoxify poisons, contribute to the manufacture of essential vitamins and in essence, they play a major role in maintaining your health and well being.

A lack of beneficial flora, caused by the over use of antibiotics or bad diet, creates an overgrowth of unfriendly bacteria; which has been linked to an increase in allergies, heart disease, inflammation, cancer, asthma, obesity, urinary tract infections, digestive bloating and premature aging.

Vitamins and minerals are the organic substances found in the food we eat and when broken down, enter our blood stream to supply vital components that make up enzymes and coenzymes for the health and well being of our cells. While we hope to extract all the necessary vitamins from the food we eat, research shows that due to the way in which food is grown in deficient soil and the way it is processed, even the most healthy eater is lacking in many essential nutrients and so we are advised to supplement our diet with additional intake through tablets or capsules.

In 1999, when I learned that I was pregnant at 46 I suddenly developed a heightened sensitivity to everything around me. Was I eating enough nutritious food, drinking honestly clean water, breathing fresh air? Was my body a clean and safe nesting ground to nurture my new born and was my home a clean and safe resting ground in which to grow?

Our body, as a 2 legged walking homo sapien, is designed with a spine that sustains important curvature in the neck, upper back and lower back to absorb the impact of moving in this vertical position.

In order to maintain these very essential curves we need to have both strong and flexible stabilizing spinal muscles as well as correct spinal curvature and easy going movement mechanics.

Lymphoma is a term for cancer that develops in cells of our immune system or lymphatic system. It seems that there is a dramatic increase in its occurrence, which I suspect is linked to the increase in gluten absorption in our carbohydrate laden diet.

When our body has an infection, the lymphatic system sends out fighter white blood cells to remove the said infection. The lymph nodes in the proximity of the infection become sore and swollen as they perform their amazing job of filtering, removing and overriding the infectious cells. It has been shown that repeated, chronic infection and inflammation can exhaust the lymphatic system causing the DNA of lymphocytes in either the lymph nodes or other lymphoid tissue to mutate or grow abnormally, creating a cancerous lymphoma.

Your intestinal tract or gut has many functions. It produces enzymes that work to digest the food you eat and carries this digested food across the gut lining and into the blood stream. It helps to detoxify your body by removing waste and toxins and it contains antibodies which act as your first line of defense against infection.

There is nothing more important for our respiratory health than to breathe clean, pollutant free air.

While we have little chance of affecting the outside air, we can however control and alter the nature of the air inside our homes.

Obesity is an ever growing problem about which we should all be extremely concerned. Our children are now also suffering from it and the associated high cholesterol and pre-diabetic conditions. Those who are over weight have religiously tried every diet from counting calories to starvation. The only thing that truly makes a difference however, is to eat less. The following article is written by registered dietician, Meredith Luce who specializes in weight control and digestive disorders and has used her years of experience to develop a system of eating that I truly believe can forever change the way we eat.

Research shows, and experts agree, the best way to help prevent disease is to eat a diet loaded with fresh fruits and vegetables.

Frederick Mathius Alexander was born in Australia in 1869. He was an opera singer who, in an attempt to heal an inexplicable hoarseness that left him unable to sing, discovered that misuse of the neck muscles was the cause of his throat constriction.

My entire life I have known that nature always provides a cure. As a young child I was sickly, suffering every malady in the pediatric index even though I ate only natural, unprocessed food and was raised by a mother, who was a nurse, and took great pains...