Are Bidi Cigarettes A Safe-Smoking Alternative?

Bidis are legally imported from India and are thin unfiltered
cigarettes hand-wrapped in Brown leaves and tied with short pieces of thread
and are popular with school kids under 18 because they are cheaper than the
cost of cigarettes and come in a variety of flavors including root beer,
orange, lemon-lime and strawberry.
Bidis deliver twice the amount of tar and seven times the amount of nicotine
of regular cigarettes.
Like regular cigarettes, bidis can cause cancer and lead to heart disease,
heigh blood pressure, and a host of other serious health problems.
Because bidis deliver greater doses of nicotine to the bloodstream, they are
far more addictive than cigarettes.
70 percent of Bidis sold in the US do not have the Surgeon General’s warning
about the health risks of smoking.
44 percent of kids who smoke bidis do so because they believe that bidis are
not addictive and are less dangerous to one’s health than cigarettes.
From the best selling book, Eat
This Lose That! Written by well-known Cardiologist, Dr.
Kota J. Reddy, from the Reddy Wellness Center, says, “Bidis are more
detrimental to your health than your traditional cigarettes and smoking hookah
(sheesha), they are also flavored to make them attractive to the younger
generation. That’s a deadly combination.”

An Egg A Day Keeps The Doctor Away

Why should I eat eggs with the yolk?

Eggs could actually protect against heart disease, breast cancer and
eye problems and even help you to lose weight.
For years people assumed eggs were bad for cholesterol levels. But a review
just published in the British Nutrition Foundation’s Nutrition Bulletin found
they ‘have no clinically significant impact’ on heart disease or cholesterol
levels.
“Egg is a ‘Life Force’ that gives life and sustains life. It is
the only complete food that is ‘of life,’ ‘for life,’ ‘with life’ and ‘in
life.’ “ From Best seller, Eat
This Lose That! Cardiologist Dr. Kota Reddy explains
straight from his book why you should eat whole eggs daily.
Eggs are rich in nutrients. One egg provides 13 essential
nutrients, all in the yolk (egg whites contain albumen, an important source of
protein, and no fat).

Eggs are an excellent source of B vitamins, which are
needed for vital functions in the body, and also provide good quantities of
vitamin A, essential for normal growth and development.

An egg’s vitamin E content protects against heart disease
and some cancers; there’s also vitamin D, which promotes mineral absorption and
good bone health. Eggs are rich in iodine, for making thyroid hormones, and
phosphorus, essential for healthy bones and teeth. Teenage girls who eat an egg
a day may give themselves additional protection against breast cancer in later
life, according to a study in the journal Breast Cancer Research.

Egg yolks contain the nutrients lutein and zeaxanthin,
which could help to prevent or even reverse the age-related eye problem macular
degeneration (MD). This is one of the leading causes of blindness and occurs as
a consequence of getting older – however, low lutein intake is implicated as a
risk factor.

Eggs are also low in calories – a large egg contains only
75 calories and 5 grams of fat – and other research suggests they can help you
lose weight. A study published last year in the Journal of the American College
of Nutrition looked at the breakfast habits of obese women.

How many eggs will you eat today?

An Avocado A Day Keeps The Doctor Away?

“Avocado is the only fruit I recommend. It can easily incorporated in your daily diet. Avocado contains a significant amout of monounsaturated fats (the food fats!). People who eat avocados regularly had an average of 17% drop in their total blood cholesterol. They’ve also been shown to inhibit the growth of prostate cancer. If you want to avoid visiting me in my clinic, I suggest you start eating!” From the best selling book, Eat This Lose That! Written by well-known Cardiologist, Dr. Kota J. Reddy, from the Reddy Wellness Center explains his thoughts on this amazing fruit.

The Power Of The Avocado:

Oral Cancer Defense
Research has shown that certain compounds in avocados are able to seek out pre-cancerous and cancerous oral cancer cells and destroy them without harming healthy cells.
Breast Cancer Protection
Avocado, like olive oil, is high in oleic acid, which has been shown to prevent breast cancer in numerous studies.

Eye Health
Avocados have more of the carotenoid lutein than any other commonly consumed fruit. Lutein protects against macular degeneration and cataracts, two disabling age-related eye diseases.

Lower Cholesterol
Avocados are high in beta-sitosterol, a compound that has been shown to lower cholesterol levels. In one study, 45 volunteers experienced an average drop in cholesterol of 17% after eating avocados for only one week.

Heart Health
One cup of avocado has 23% of the recommended daily value of folate. Studies show that people who eat diets rich in folate have a much lower incidence of heart disease than those who don’t. The vitamin E, monounsaturated fats, and glutathione in avocado are also great for your heart.

Stroke Prevention
The high levels of folate in avocado are also protective against strokes. People who eat diets rich in folate have a much lower risk of stroke than those who don’t.
Better Nutrient Absorption Research has found that certain nutrients are absorbed better when eaten with avocado. In one study, when participants ate a salad containing avocados, they absorbed five times the amount of carotenoids (a group of nutrients that includes lycopene and beta carotene) than those who didn’t include avocados.

Glutathione Source
Avocados are an excellent source of glutathione, an important antioxidant that researchers say is important in preventing aging, cancer, and heart disease.

Vitamin E Powerhouse
Avocados are the best fruit source of vitamin E, an essential vitamin that protects against many diseases and helps maintains overall health.

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15 Reasons Why You’re NOT Losing Weight

When it comes to marketing and selling products, the food companies have never let the facts get in the way of a good story. A lot of the information we find on the front of food packaging is not so much information, as it is a somewhat misleading and deceptive sales pitch.
For example, the reduced- fat peanut butter we find on our supermarket shelves has less fat when we compare it to the regular product, but it is by no means a low-fat product. It’s still a high-fat, high-salt, high-calorie product that should be avoided. It’s still complete crap. Complete crap with slightly less fat than it’s full-fat brother. So instead of having 52 grams of fat per 100 grams, the new reduced-fat option has about 43 grams of fat per 100 grams (and a little extra sugar). Amazingly, some people will actually eat twice as much of the reduced-fat version because it’s healthier. Not.
Oh well.
Too Much of a Good Thing
Even foods which are genuinely healthy can lead to an unhealthy you and me if we consume too much of them. We have an incredible ‘skill’ for putting food in our mouth that our body doesn’t need. Our want over-rides our need and the net result is… obesity.
Here’s a few common food options that trip plenty of people up:
1. Seeds and Nuts. Yep, healthy. Except of course when you’re eating a bucket of cashews before lunch. Nuts are a quality natural food, but they are also very high in fat (good fat) and calories.
2. Fruit Juice. Not all juice is juice. Some fruit juices are in fact fruit ‘drinks’ with as little as five percent fruit juice in them. Read those labels carefully. Apparently it’s great. Interestingly, a glass of fruit juice has about the same amount of sugar and calories as a glass of soft drink (soda). A healthier type of sugar (fructose) of course, but sugar nonetheless.
3. Fruit Smoothies. The term ‘healthy smoothie’ can be an oxymoron with some smoothies (from well-known outlets here in Oz) having as many as 600 calories and 70 grams (14 teaspoons) of sugar. Wanna get fat? Throw down a couple of those bad boys each day.
4. Dried fruit. We take out the water, we leave the sugar and the calories and we’re left with dried fruit. A very energy-dense food. Fresh fruit is a much (much, much) better option. Compare 100 grams of fresh apricot (40 calories) with 100 grams of dried apricot (over 250 calories). Same weight, very different calories. If you’re going to eat dried fruit, do it sparingly.
5. Muffins. Somehow (not sure why), some people consider a muffin to be a healthy snack. Let’s be clear… it’s not healthy; it’s cake. It’s (typically) white flour, sugar, egg and some form of fat. Parents who (constantly) feed their kids muffins are irresponsible and pushing their offspring towards obesity.
6. Salads. Just the word ‘salad’ wreaks of health, vitality and goodness, doesn’t it? If only it were true. Not all, but many salads that you buy when eating out are laced with high-fat dressings and high-sugar sauces. A Caesar salad can easily contain 50-60 grams of fat (the same as two Big Macs).
7. Muesli bars. The majority are high fat, high-sugar, high-calorie crap. Avoid them.
8. Toasted muesli. Like raw muesli but more calories, more fat and not as good for you. Go the raw option.
9. Sports drinks. A.K.A coloured water with sugar. Unless you’re an athlete who needs to replenish your depleted glycogen stores because you’ve just completed a massive training session, drink some water instead.
10. Protein bars. Some are okay but not many. Most are high in preservatives, interesting chemicals, calories and fat. Some are laced with artificial sweeteners and who knows what the long-term consequences of those will be.
11. Cereal. In Australia, the vast majority of supermarket cereals are high-sugar, processed crap. Most of the popular cereals (in terms of sales) live somewhere in the twenty to thirty five percent sugar range. Great for the dentists, not so good for our kids. Or you.
12. Flavoured rice cakes. Some people live on these things. Unfortunately they have about as much nutritional value as eating your toenails. There’s a thought. Very processed and very high in sodium (salt).
13. Low-fat ice-cream. As with many other low-fat products, the lack of fat is usually compensated for with additional sugar. Won’t kill you but keep it to a minimum.
14. Low-fat frozen dinners. Apart from the fact that they’re tiny, expensive and taste like cardboard (in my opinion), they’re also jammed with preservatives and sodium. Apart from that, they’re fantastic.
15. Vegetarian meals. Some people assume that if a meal is vegetarian, it’s automatically healthy. Erroneous assumption. Some vegetarian meals are fantastic. Some are high in fat. Some are healthy. Some are not.
Well-known Cardiologist, Dr. Kota J. Reddy, from the Reddy Wellness Center From the best selling book, Eat This Lose That! explains in his book how eating healthy is as simple as 5 steps: Cut the salt, sugar, starch, trans fats, and caffeine, and you got yourself a healthier you! You will see a huge difference in just days. Begin to read the nutritional information labels on the products you intend to buy. Keep in mind that with many healthy products, we’re buying a concept more than we are a reality

Alcohol Is Good For You? Or Is It Just A Myth?

By now, it is a familiar litany. Study after study suggests that alcohol in moderation may promote heart health and even ward off diabetes and dementia. The evidence is so plentiful that some experts consider moderate drinking — about one drink a day for women, about two for men — a central component of a healthy lifestyle.
But what if it’s all a big mistake?
For some scientists, the question will not go away. No study, these critics say, has ever proved a causal relationship between moderate drinking and lower risk of death — only that the two often go together.
Government guidelines state that men and women should not consume more than 21 or 14 alcoholic drinks each week. Yet the Million Women study reported that just one drink a week increases your risk of breast, pharynx and liver cancer.
This means that drinkers, no matter how moderate their consumption, are not fully aware of the risks or damage, as the science is not there.
In fact, many drinkers believe they are improving their health.
Myth
“It’s an absolute myth that red wine is good for you,” says Professor Valerie Beral from the University of Oxford and lead author of the Million Women study.
From the Reddy Wellness Center, Cardiologist, Dr. Kota J. Reddy, says, “Moderate drinkers of alcohol can sometimes develop an increase in appetite, but for people who drink more than what is considered a ‘safe’ intake of alcohol, the opposite occurs. In fact, alcohol causes damage to every single bodily organ and increases this risk of developing several diseases.”
It may be that moderate drinking is just something healthy people tend to do, not something that makes people healthy.

Do You Have Sleep Apnea??

Ask Yourself These Questions:

If the answer is YES for one or several of the above questions, Chances are, you have Sleep Apnea! And a sleep study can confirm if you are at risk. In sleep apnea, your breathing stops or gets very shallow and your lungs don't get enough air. When this happens, the amount of oxygen in your blood may drop which leads to several complications:

Apnea is a Greek word which means "without breath". In sleep apnea, your breathing stops or gets very shallow and your lungs don't get enough air. When this happens, the amount of oxygen in your blood may drop which leads to several consequences.

Sleep apnea interrupts your sleep resulting to poor sleep quality which can make you very sleepy during the day. Sleep apnea is very common, as common as adult diabetes. Ask your doctor if you are at risk!

How heart disease became natural?

Question: Is heart disease a natural process for humans?

Answer: No. It is an unnatural disease created by eating unnatural foods.

By work of an angiogram, it has been proven that Hunters and Gatherers had clean arteries at the age of 80. Meanwhile, Modern Man develops plaque by the age of 50. It has been shown that even modern newborns have early fatty streaks. If hunters/ gatherers had no heart disease at a ripe old age and their kids, who evolved into modern man, start to develop plaque buildup by the age of 50, it suggests that it is more of an unnatural disease created by man eating the wrong kind of foods. We have evolved and created heart disease by eating an unnatural diet loaded with sugar, starch, and saturated fats, not to mention salt, smoking, and a sedentary lifestyle. Today, we think these are necessary for survival and cannot sacrifice them. The secret is to sacrifice the Seven S's that are sugar, starch, saturated fats, salt, smoking, a sedentary lifestyle, and stress.

 

Question: How did an unnatural diet become natural?

Answer: Nature gives food to us which are both addictive and non-addictive.

Both kinds are scarcely available. We, by help of intellect, have exploited the addicting foods by growing more grains and processing these grains to create sugar, starches, and saturated fats. In creating the full spectra of an unnatural diet and adapting to it, we have evolved to a point of accepting heart disease as a natural disease, and at this rate it is bound to affect everyone after a certain period of time.

Question: What should the goal be?

Answer: To live long and healthy lives without medication and to prevent and reverse heart disease. The secret to a long life is calories: the lack of them.

The total cholesterol levels for hunter-gatherers, wild primates, and wild animals, generally range from about 70 to 140mg/dl (corresponding to low-density lipoprotein levels of about 35 to 70mg/dl).
The mean cholesterol levels of modern Westernized humans are almost twice these normal values
(LDL of 130mg/dl). In modern human, atherosclerosis is present in up to 50% by age 50. In contrast, hunter-gatherer population showed no evidence for atherosclerosis even in the 8th decade of life.

 

Hunters and gatherers usually had average cholesterol of 110 and a calorie intake of less than 1400 calories a day. They were physically active with low stress levels, and their diet did not constitute any sugar, starch, saturated fat, or salt.

Question: Can we live to be 100 and lead a normal, healthy life without medication?

Answer: Yes. Look around. We do not see anyone over 40 who are not on any medication. How did this happen? How can one live without medication? By giving up the seven sins: the Seven S's (sugar, starch, saturated fats, salt, smoking, a sedentary lifestyle, and stress). By comparison, a modern man has blocked arteries by the age of 50, newborn kids have fatty streaks as early as day #1, and the normal modern adult consumes more than 3000 calories, most of which are empty calories predominantly coming from sugars, starches, and saturated fats. In addition, he tends to spice up these empty calories with salt and also enjoys smoking and leading a very sedentary lifestyle. The problem is that we have hundreds of different choices of bad foods. We go to dieticians and they put us on a diet by narrowing those hundreds of choices down to ten. But how can you expect to do well when your initial choices are already unhealthy?

 

Which one will you choose?

Most people have the impression that foods like fruit, cereal, skim milk, rice, whole wheat pasta, whole wheat bread, brown rice, and moderate meat and alcohol consumption are all good for you. But if you look closely, most of those give you high levels of sugar, starch, and saturated fat.

Fruits? Nature gives us fruit. How can they be bad? Well, ask yourself, "What do fruits give us?"