Can a can of soda pop kill you?

Today the timely message about health is by my great friend and health motivator, Steven Jenkins. Steven is also an incredible health coach, and has affordable life-changing seminars and body "cleanses."

Take it away Steve.....

"Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. " -- 1 Corintheans 10:31.

Would you like to improve your health and save money at the same time? I have a healthy suggestion. Avoid drinking soft drinks! This can be a challenge, because it's easy to drink 4-5 a day without even thinking about it! They are really hard on the bones and the rest of the body.

Phosphoric acid gives drinks the bubbles along with C02. Though it tickles going down, phosphoric acid is no laughing matter. It robs the body of calcium and can contribute to osteoporosis. The lack of calcium causes the bones to be porous and prone to fractures.

A study from Harvard showed athletic teenage girls who drink soft drinks are five times more likely to suffer bone fractures. My 18 year old daughter used to consume soft drinks like I consume water and her weight gain was evident, not to mention the ravenous effects from the acid and sugar. Fortunately, she no longer is "addicted" to them, but she is still dealing with being over weight.

The average cola has 12 teaspoons of sugar in each can. This gives it a sweet taste, but at a high price. The over consumption of sugar can lead to diabetes or hypoglycemia. In children, studies show an increase in both tooth decay and obesity.

In an attempt to be healthy, many people start drinking sugar-free products. Splenda is not a good substitute for sugar. According to Dr. Joseph Mercola, Splenda has been linked to a number of toxic side effects including shrunken thymus glands (up to 40 percent shrinkage), enlarged liver and kidneys, reduced growth rate, aborted pregnancy, and diarrhea.

Aspartame (Nutra-sweet) is another popular substitute. It is an artificial sweetener with bitter affects on the body. Based on the research of Russell Blaylock, MD and H.J. Roberts, MD some possible problems are:

• Muscle aches


• Headaches


• Dizziness


• Numbness


• Depression


• Hyperactivity


• Seizures


• High blood pressure


• Brain tumors

Caffeine stimulates the adrenal glands and gives you a "lift" from drinking a soft drink. The old saying "what goes up must comedown," is absolutely true. Caffeine causes over stimulation and leads to mood swings, fatigue, and other disorders.

You are asking yourself, "What can I drink?" Good question. Here are five suggestions:

1. Purified Water


2. Sparkling Water


3. Herb Tea (Caffeine-free)


4. Green Tea


5. Fresh Fruit or Vegetable Juice

The money you spend on soft drinks really adds up. How many do you drink in one week?

• With a meal


• As a snack


• While driving


• While studying


• Whenever you feel thirsty


• Whenever you feel down


• While watching television


• While on the internet


• While listening to music


• While on the cell phone


• While walking through the mall

Multiply the number of sodas you consume per week times the cost of one drink. Then multiply that expense times 52 weeks per year. You could easily spend $500+ in a year on soft drinks. Save the money and spend it on a relaxing vacation instead!

If you will just eliminate soft drinks from your life style, your health will improve dramatically. If you are someone who has been diagnosed with cancer, or some other illness, PLEASE get off of these deadly drinks!

Until next time....

"The Doctor of the Future will give NO Medicine, but will interest his patients in diet and nutrition, exercise and the care of the human frame. He will teach them about the cause of ALL disease."--Thomas Edison

Steven Jenkins,

Health Motivator and Health Coach

Meadow Springs of America

P.O. Box 5595 Corning, CA 96021

(530) 585-2490

"To follow Jesus requires whole hearted conversion at the start, and a repetition of this conversion every day" -- Bible Commentary, vol. 1, 1113.

"God loves you just the way you are, but He refuses to leave you that way. He wants you to be just like Jesus." -- Max Lucado

Take care and may the good Lord bless you with wonderful health.

A NEW START can be yours today... simply follow the 8 laws of health:

1. Nutrition


2. Exercise


3. Water


4. Sunlight


5. Temperance


6. Air


7. Rest


8. Trust in God.

THANK YOU Steven for that great report.

no more soda pop,

David A. Youngs

http://polybids.com/

Cutting off cancer at the neck!!

Image enhancement (clouds in background) by John Bond of Far Northern California. Thanks John.

My brother-in-law Mike came through the seven hour neck surgery just fine. The day before his neck surgery, I asked him how he felt. His response was, "I feel like I have a noose around my neck--and it is getting tighter every day."

His thyroid glands were enlarged, one much more than the other. The super one was baseball sized. Imagine having a baseball sized tumor in your neck-- no wonder it felt like a noose! Both glands were removed, as well as the lymph nodes on once side.

The surgery was all day Thursday, and Mike actually walked two blocks outside today. (Sabbath) He is feeling kind of tired, but after a major surgery like that, I am not surprised.

The most surprising thing to me is that they did not use external stitches to hold the neck together after surgery. I am assuming the surgeon used internal ones. But all that was used externally were some little metal staples. But before they sent Mike home Friday, the little staples were all removed(!) and replaced with Steri-strips. Just little tiny pieces of tape holding his neck together!! I suppose it heals much better that way and doesn't leave an ugly scar like the running baseball stitch the surgeon used on my right knee over 20 years ago.

I am so glad that Mike is still alive. Now we have to wait for the laboratory reports to see which type of cancer he had. And Mike still has those spots on his lungs that showed up during the CAT scan. I am hoping these will go away with a little radioactive iodine treatment.

Don't get cancer...

David A. Youngs
http://polybids.com/

sunlight prevents cancer!!

Wow was I suprised when I read a major report by Dr. Mercola http://www.mercola.com/2002/apr/3/sun_prevents_cancer.htm
that sunlight does not cause cancer but actually can prevent and fight cancer! Dr. Mercola has been doing some very interesting research for a book that he is writing, and has discovered that the farther you live from the equator, the higher the incidences of cancer in a given population.

Dr. Mercola has decided from looking at all the scientific data available the simple act of exposing oneself to sunlight (without overdoing it) doesn't just feel good, but is actually good for your health on a number of levels--one of which is cancer prevention. He contends that exposing the skin to sunlight allows the ultraviolet rays to hit the skin and penetrate and then an amazing thing happens--the skin turns cholesterol into vitamin D. Vitamin D, as it turns out, is an incredible super anti-oxidant, and actually helps to prevent cancer, as well as doing all sorts of other good things for us. Anti-oxidants are one of the things that go around attaching themselves to free radicals (which are super bad) and neutralizing them.

There is an optimum amount of time to be out in the sun. Don't over do it and get sunburn. Just as soon as your skin starts to turn the least bit pink, cover up and get out of the sun. Sunburn is no fun.

Happy sunning,
David A. Youngs

What "authority" are you going to believe?

It seems that no matter where I look, I am finding some self proclaimed authority making some bold claim about how something I am doing is either good for me, or not. For example, chocolate has been reviled as being something of less than dubious value which should be avoided at all costs and also touted as being an anti-oxidant--a cancer fighting food! There are people who swear that drinking about a quarter cup of vinegar per day (yuck) will cure a wide array of what ever it is that ails us. Others say that is just an old wives tail, and that drinking that much vinegar daily will actually begin to remove the enamel from your teeth, so you better not do it. Who shall we believe?

Another example is that for years doctors said that cigarette smoking was addicting because of the nicotine, and yet studies done by the tobacco industry claimed otherwise. Then it was discovered that the tobacco industry was making sure to maintain a certain level of nicotine in all their cigarettes--so now nearly everybody agrees that smoking is addicting. And yet I found in a book written about 100 years ago in which one of the suggested medical treatments for asthma was smoking cigarettes! No kidding. Supposed to strengthen the lungs and all that.

Some authorities say that eggs are a sort of wonder food just loaded with protein and nutrition--sort of like a whole meal in a neat little ovoid package. Others say no, eggs are really loaded with high levels of cholesterol, and should be avoided. Then there is the debate over whether cholesterol itself is "good" or "bad." My father was a medical doctor and it was his contention that the human body needed some oil just to keep the joints lubricated. Some cholesterol in his opinion was good, a whole lot was bad. Then the question is how much is good, how much is bad.

There are supposedly "good" fats and "bad" fats and it depends on who you listen to which ones are good and which ones are bad.

And if you start looking at food supplements--every one of them claims it is the best one for you, and you absolutely should not even consider going another day without taking that suppliment. They can't all be the best, can they? I mean--isn't at least one suppliment somewhere slightly inferior to another?

And then look at all the advertisements for vitamin pills. Apparently we desperately need a whole slew of vitamins just to keep ourselves alive. And each vitamin company says that their vitamin pill is the ultimate best for you, so you need to take THEIR pill. I once knew an elderly lady named Janet that must have made some companies someplace very happy with her orders for their products. Nearly every day a truck would pull up to her house delivering the latest vitamin or food supplement. Her kitchen cabinet looked like a miniature pharmacy, or health food store. She must have been ingesting 50-60 different pills every day!! She wasn't taking any chances--just taking them ALL.

When I was just a young boy (a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away) I once took a couple of vitamin pills on an empty stomach. Don't do that. I vomited them up shortly. So they didn't do me a whole lot of good that time.

So which "authority" are you going to believe? Some so called authorities seem to have a hidden agenda, like trying to sell you on buying their particular potion or pill. To me these authorities are slightly suspect. I guess the authorities I most believe are the ones that tend to affirm what I already believe. Hmmmm. Does that mean I am biased? Yes it does! I tend to believe that chocolate is GOOD for you because I LIKE chocolate. And I think that deep down, most people are biased this way. So chocolate is good for you and eggs are good, and whatever else I want to eat must be good too. Right? Not necessarily.

The authorities I find most credible are researchers who have done large studies on huge groups of people. I think that their findings tend to be more valid than say a researcher who is sponsored by some pharmaceutical company. The researcher working for and being paid by some company had better find some way to validate the claims of the sponsoring company regarding whatever he is researching, or he likely will be fired. And who wants to be fired! So these researchers tend to hide or overlook data that doesn't support their preconceived (and needed) agenda. They may run the same test a hundred times on a thousand different groups of people and then hand pick the few times where the resulting data seems to indicate whatever they are trying to prove. In other words, they are statistically lying to keep their jobs.

But I think that if you closely examine people, nearly everyone does that. I know people who smoke who totally ignore the warning the surgeon general has compelled the tobacco companies to put on their boxes of cigarettes. That warning is obviously not for them!!

I once entered the house of a lady who was almost blue with lack of oxygen in her blood. She was smoking a cigarette and complaining that she just couldn't get her breath. "It must be the flu or something" she declared. When I asked her about the cigarette in her hand possibly being the cause of her shortness of breath she was adamant. "No, it can't be the cigarette. Why I have smoked them for years. It must be something else." Then she literally passed out and we took her to the hospital where she subsequently died in less than a week. And then she stopped smoking cigarettes.

None are so blind as those who refuse to see.

So what authority are you going to put your faith in?

David

We all have cancer, but what shall we do?

My good friend, personal health coach, and health motivator Steven Jenkins writes:

Cancer is a blessing from God, and we all have cancer when we are born. Cancer is not a virus, bacteria, fungus, parasite, or other animal -- it is simple misguided cells multiplying in an area that is plentifully teeming with carcinogens, free radicals, and most importantly cancer food--which includes dead animal cells. Yes, that is how we grow cancer in a laboratory--we use meat--usually hot dogs seem to work the best. If our cancer cell count is around fifty thousand per petri dish, we are considered healthy, but if our cancer cell count climbs to over one hundred thousand, watch out. What this really means it that our T cells (our immune cells) are over taxed and not able to keep up. Well how can they possibly keep up when we use our body as a laboratory to grow cancer? People actually work very hard at growing their cancers.

"But I eat a healthy diet," you may object. Did you know that the advertising budget (as reported by the United States Office of Statistics) shows a budget of thirty billion dollars for the year 2006 spent on promoting animal foods as being healthy foods, while only twenty nine million dollars were spent on advertising veggies? Isn't it interested to know that ninety five percent of the oats grown in the United States is fed to cows. Did you know that lentils have more protein than beef? Did you know that protein deficiency is unheard of in the human race except where people are actually starving, like in Africa. Did you know that Carl Lewis, world champion for the greatest endurance, is a vegan? Did you know that the iron man race was never won by a meat eater, and in fact it's usually won by a margin of about eight hours ahead of the meat eaters, by vegetarians. Is it any wonder why the three Hebrew boys mentioned in the book of Daniel in the bible (who requested a vegetable only diet,) and well as Daniel himself, were much stronger and wiser than the other Hebrew boys taken into captivity by the Babylon king who ate from the king's table where they were served meat and processed food?

What is even worse is that instead of letting the cancer out of the body with our sweat, we plug up the cancer in our bodies by using antiperspirants to keep the sweat (and the cancer) in. And in addition to that, we treat cancer with caustic cancer causing chemicals called chemotherapy, when the latest statistics from our own United States offices compiling cancer treatment information shows that there is no real evidence at all that any of the cancer treatments such as chemo-therapy and radiation treatments are even really working to cure cancer.

How many thousands of people who have suffered through multiple radiation treatments and the full course of chemotherapy treatments have died anyways--or perhaps because of the treatments. We are warned by doctors not to get too much radiation because radiation can cause cancer, and then we treat cancers with radiation. Does this even make sense? Long years of exposure of the skin to sunlight almost invariably will cause some form of skin cancer, especially in people who eat a lot of meats and processed foods. True vegans who eat mostly raw foods are somehow excluded. The fact is that cancer rates in the United States have increased almost five hundred percent since the chemotherapy and radiation treatments started. Wow!

So how do we cure cancer? Very easy in fact... Stop doing what it is that is causing it, and then turn around and start doing something to get well.

Read the bible and start at the beginning, you will find all the answers there. Genesis 1:29 will give you the cure. Eat God's original diet of fruits, nuts, grains (mostly raw food) and you will be will and live a long healthy life. Vegans only rarely ever get cancer, and then it is usually because of environmental causes. We cannot ever limit God, and so knowing this, we have to accept that cancer is curable. Many people who have CHANGED their lifestyle and especially their diet have seen even advanced cancers go into remission, never to be seen again.

If you have any questions contact me, Steven Jenkins and go through one of my cleanse programs as experienced by my very special friend David Youngs. During the cleanse, you will experience and learn things that will probably blow your mind.

(Note from David: Steve is right. The cleanse was an eye-opening experience for me to say the least, and my very own father was a medical doctor. Steve has this video of a lady doctor who once had extremely serious advanced cancer through out her body, but today is completely healthy. As a physician, she knew that chemotherapy and radiation both compromised the bodies natural defenses--the immune system. Therefore, she refused any and all chemotherapy and radiation treatments, and treated her own virulent and life threatening cancer only with major life style and dietary changes. Not only has she been completely cancer free now for several years, she has helped countless other people to confront their cancers using the same radical and effective natural methods. Yes, it is mind blowing--but truth. And the American Medical Society would probably rather suppress this truth because it doesn't make tons of money like radiation and chemotherapy does!!)

God bless you always,
Steven Jenkins

Note from David: thank you Steve for that challenging and inspiring article. Check the other blogs for information on how to contact Steve. God designed our bodies to be self healing. If we align ourselves with the laws of health, we can be healthy again. But it does take work. But the end result is worth it! Join me in a quest for health.

Let's get healthy NOW!!!
David A. Youngs

skin cancer, age and health

Do you know the signs of skin cancer? One of them is changes in the skin. My landlady Helen, who just turned 91 years of age, six months ago went to the Dermatologist (skin doctor) to check out this funny recurring scab-like thing on her nose that did not seem to heal. Sure enough, it turned out to be skin cancer. Somebody once said that if you get old enough, eventually everyone will get cancer. Hmmmmm.

So the doctor literally cut a piece of skin off Helen's nose about the size of a quarter. Then a week later the surgeon cut a piece of skin off over her collar bone and sewed it onto her nose using the tiniest little stitches around the edges. He simply stitched her missing skin over her collar bone back together. In about a week, the blood vessels had grown into this new skin on her nose, and the stitches could be removed. It took several weeks, but in time the auto skin graft looked almost normal.

Well, here it is 6 months later and it appears that Helen's cancer on her nose is coming back again. So tomorrow I am taking her to see the dermatologist again so he/she can check out Helen's nose. I say he/she because the first doctor she saw was a man, but this time she is scheduled to see a woman.

If you have a place on your skin that doesn't heal, it is best to check it out. It might be skin cancer, and the earlier you find out, the more easily it can be treated successfully. Waiting is very dangerous as cancer only gets worse in time.

Don't get cancer,
David A. Youngs
polybids@yahool.com
http://polybids.blogspot.com

Allegens, Asthma, and Teflon

Dear Reader,

It has now been about 3 days since I triggered my asthma attack by going into the motor home and moving things about. I am hoping that once the motor home is cleaned thoroughly, I won’t have any more allergic reactions inside of it and can continue to get it ready for sale.

Did you know that cooking with Teflon can cause a person to have a flu-like reaction? That is right. Teflon heated to about 425 degrees Fahrenheit (which is easy once you start to actually use the pan to cook something) starts to vaporize a little bit, especially during the initial use of the pan. These invisible vapors will actually kill a pet bird if you have one, and can cause humans to run a fever and have congestion of the lungs. So Teflon is another allergen.

But the use of Teflon may be a whole lot more serious than just causing an allergic reaction. According to Dr. Mercola “In particular, perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS), which cannot be broken down by heat, light, or microbes, have been shown to cause tumors in the pancreas, liver, testicles, thyroid, or mammary glands in animal studies.” http://www.mercola.com/article/teflon

I like Teflon, but is Teflon really worth dying for?
Dr. Mercola advocates eating nearly all raw food anyway. Of course it goes without saying that he is talking about a strictly vegan diet. So it looks like I may have to go raw to get healthy.

Good eating,
David A. Youngs
http://polybids.blogspot.com