Gout Treated with Natural Medicine

Ronald W. Firquain :

Health Benefits of a Raw Food Diet

Easier Digestion Raw food presents lesser problems to your digestive system. The absence of oil and other harmful cooking ingredients allows your digestive system to quickly and smoothly digest food and eliminate waste from your system without making you experience any acidic reaction. Digesting raw food also does not lead to bile or any other residual effects. If you start with a raw diet, however, be sure not to immediately mix it with cooked food as the instant combination will not react well inside your stomach.

Easier digestion is also caused by the increased content of enzymes in raw food. With more enzymes at work within your body, you get to have lesser toxins which will consequently lead to lower health risks and weight gain.Better Immune System Bacteria as well as other microorganisms found within raw food benefit your health by strengthening your body immune system. Since prevention is always the best cure, strengthening your body defense system will make you tougher against all sorts of disease.

Stabilizing Body Mass Index If you are worried about your weight, taking a raw food diet could help you achieve your weight loss goals. When you want to lose weight, you need to look at the bigger picture of things and know your body mass index. If you already have the right Stabilizing Body Mass, a raw food diet will help you keep your body mass Index stable. Lower Heart Disease Your heart will greatly benefit from a raw food diet since it eliminates most of the ingredients and food types that lead to higher heart risk. With a raw food diet, you can look forward to leading a happier and healthier life.

Speedier Healing Not all of us are like Superman and able to heal bullet wounds in an instant. We are not like other magical creatures either that can regenerate lost limbs. As we are all ordinary humans only, we can simply rely on natural sources to keep our body heal faster and one way of doing that is by increasing intake of omega fatty acids.Omega fatty acids are one of the most important components of a raw food diet. They can be found in certain types of fish and leafy green vegetables. Omega 3 promotes cell growth and you can just imagine what would happen to your body without a healthy supply of Omega 3.

Healthier Skin Skin is the most commonly afflicted part of your body by cancer. With a healthy raw food diet, however, you will be able to give your skin added protection protection that mere skin care products can not really give you with.In spite of the numerous healthy benefits one can derive from raw food diet, it is not a dietary regime that is considered flawless. There are medical experts expressing concern regarding its safety and effectiveness. For one, people must make sure that the raw foods they eat are not greatly exposed to pesticides.

But if you can make sure that all produce you consume are organic then you are in the right track.

Jennifer Kays:

We have always heard that we need to eat our greens, but we are just now discovering how vital the health benefits of green foods are to our living well. Naturopaths have recommended the use of green foods to enhance the treatment of diseases such asthma, candida, lupus, HIV and many others. One pound of wheat grass or one pound of barley grass has more nutritional value than twenty-five pounds of organic vegetables. Blue-green algaes, i.e. spirulina, have high levels of vitamins, minerals, and protein that exceed the equivalent weight of meat or soybeans. Alfalfa contains all known vitamins. The phyto-nutrients in green foods are packed with valuable anti-oxidants. Green foods made from fruit and vegetable extracts that come in capsules, tablets, wafers or powders can be the nutritional equivalent of eating all the fruits and vegetables that we should eat daily but don’t because of our fast paced and processed, fast food lifestyle. These green foods in supplement form have more nutrient density i.e. an ounce of these concentrated green foods in supplement form contain much more of the beneficial phytonutrients found in an ounce of green vegetables. In addition to vitamins, minerals and protein, green foods are also packed full of antioxidants, amino acids, essential fatty acids, enzymes, coenzymes and fibre.

The green color of green foods comes from the phytochemical chlorophyll which is the equivalent, in plants, of the oxygen-carrying red pigment hemoglobin in our red blood cells. Chlorophyll has been shown to have beneficial effects on cholesterol, blood pressure, immune response, and cancer prevention. Chlorophyll inhibits bacteria that cause disease, bad breath and internal odors.

Chlorella is a green food that is a complete food in itself. Chlorella has massive amounts of chlorophyll and protein as well as high levels of all the B vitamins, vitamin C, vitamin E, amino acids and rare trace minerals. Chlorella has more B12 than a equal serving of liver. It’s high RNA and DNA content are believed to fight against the effects of ultraviolet radiation.. Chlorella is a powerful antioxidant that reduces high blood pressure, lowers harmful cholesterol, accelerates wound healing and improves our immune system. Chlorella from green foods, in supplemental form, has been shown to help reduce pain in fibromyalgia, reduce blood pressure and blood fat in hypertension, and help heal and reduce pain in ulcerative colitis. Chlorella has been found to help in the prevention of the growth of tumors because of its glycoproteins that enhance the migration of T cells to tumor sites. Chlorella attaches to heavy metals and dioxin and helps eliminate them from the body.

Spirulina is one of the more well known green foods. Spirulina contains gamma-linolenic acid, linoleic and arachidonic acids, vitamin B 12, essential amino acids, nucleic acids RNA and DNA, chlorophyll and phycocyanin. Spirulina has been found to enhance our immune system, reduce cholesterol and enhance mineral absorption. With it’s high nutrient and protein content, spirulina is especially helpful to people suffering hypoglycemia. Spirulina has been used to assist in the treatment of cancer and HIV because of it ability to aid in nutrient absorption and it’s ability to strengthen the immune system. Sprulina has strong antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects, helps reduce blood pressure, helps control symptoms of ulcerative colitis and aids in digestion, helps protect the liver from toxins e.g. heavy metals, and helps reduce allergies. Spirulina and other blue-green algaes are rich in essential fatty acids, phenolic antioxidants, chlorophyll, B vitamins, carotenoids and minerals such as calcium iron, magnesium maganese, potassium and zinc.

Kelp is also a well known green food. Kelp is a seaweed common in Asian food. It is high in B vitamins and iodine content and therefore has been used to aid in the treatment of certain thyroid diseases. Poor thyroid function has been found to be a major factor in the cause of weight gain and obesity. Kelp is also believed to be beneficial to brain tissues and membranes, sensory nerves, spinal cord tissue and blood vessels. The high iodine content in kelp has lead to the use of kelp to combat the effects of radiation.

Wheatgrass contains a large variety of vitamins, minerals, and trace elements. People have reported experiencing a definite increase in energy after ingesting wheatgrass. It has been used as an important part of treatments for diseases, such as cancer, immunological disorders, and mental health disorders. Before WWII, tablet of wheatgrass and barley grass was used as a common vitamin supplement, especially throughout the midwest section of our country. Barley grass contains all essential amino acids, chlorophyll, flavonoids, vitamin B 12, vitamin C, minerals and enzymes. Barley grass has been used most often to treat stomach and intestinal disorders as well as being used as an anti-inflammarory.

Alfalfa is one of the most mineral-rich foods on the planet. Alfalfa contains all known vitamins, chlorophyll, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus and potassium. It’s mineral content is in naturally balanced form which results in natural maximum absorption. Alfalfa has been used to help treat arthritis, anemia, bleeding gums and even cancer.

Studies have shown that green foods in concentrated supplemental form, eliminates toxins such as heavy metals and increases levels of good bacteria such as lactobacilli that are essential for good digestion and elimination, The oxygen-carrying ability of green foods is extremely effective in digestion of foods for vital nutrients, prevention of fungal growth in intestinal passages that can produce a condition of candida. The oxygen distributing and enhancing quality of green foods is vital for cell function of muscles, organs and brain health.

Green foods contain lutein which is an antioxidant found in high levels in the macula which is an eye tissue. The macula helps tell the brain what the eye is seeing and is responsible for the central vision that enables us to drive, read, and see clearly in general. Lutein also helps reduce macular degeneration and cataract development that occurs with our aging.

Green foods have been found to support cellular metabolism and because of it’s high alkaline content, helps to neutralize excess acidity that leads to acid reflux and general acidity associated with our processed, fast food diets. Green foods with their high enzyme and coenzyme content enhance digestive process and health and the absorption of minerals, vitamins and other nutrients. Green foods provide benefits of enhancing the health and appearance of skin, hair and nails and delay the natural effects of aging.

Green foods consumed in supplement, concentrated form through capsule or tablet is a very convenient and important way that we can insure that we are receiving the health benefits of these nutrient packed natural plants. Green Foods, in powdered form, can be added, mixed or blended into juices, added to cooking or combined with fruit or protein powders for energy, help with weight loss or for enhancing general health in a natural way. Optimum health requires providing our bodies with the best possible nutrients for growing and maintaining cellular well ness and function. Green Foods are a super form of these best possible nutrients that will help us live well and long.

Lisa McDowell:


If you’re like most people, then you’ll no doubt be surprised to hear that controlling your gout, uric acid levels and symptoms can be as simple as drinking orange juice!

A Spanish study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in September of 2003 showed that uric acid levels are lowered by the vitamin C in orange juice.

In the study, six women and six men were required to drink two glasses of orange juice every day for two weeks. They needed to drink a 250ml glass in the morning, and another one in the afternoon, for a total of 500ml per day. This typically meant that they were taking in an additional 250mg of vitamin C each day.

The rest of the diet throughout the two-week period, provided each of the participants with about 136mg of vitamin C a day for the men, and 112mg for the women. This made the daily intake of vitamin C for the male participants 386mg and for the female participants it was 362mg.

After the two-week period had passed, the level of vitamin C in the blood stream of the men had risen by 52 percent, while it had risen in women by 22 percent. However, it should be pointed out that the women had higher levels of vitamin C in their bloodstream to begin with.

But even better was the fact that after two weeks, the male participants had reduced their levels of uric acid by approximately 12.5 percent, while the women had reduced their levels by 6.5 percent. By the end of the vitamin C study every participant had reduced his or her gout uric acid levels.

Researchers consider this to be very important news; especially considering that it was only an increase of 250mg daily (compared to a typical vitamin C supplement, which is 500 to 1000mg) and the study only lasted only two weeks. They believe that drinking twice as much juice over a longer time period, for example a month or six months, or even a lifetime, could help to permanently reduce uric acid levels and prevent gout attacks because even greater reductions in uric acid level could be achieved.

However, keep in mind that this study was performed on healthy individuals’ aged 20 to 32. Also most medications prescribed to reduce uric acid will lower levels more substantially and quickly than relying on vitamin C therapy alone. The upside of the Vitamin C approach is that it’s a lot more pleasant than taking drugs and also cheaper. Plus there are none of the nasty side effects that many of the gout drugs have. But if you’re thinking of using vitamin C to lower your uric acid levels, you should first speak to your doctor.

A substantially larger study performed in 2005 tested vitamin C’s efficacy for reducing uric acid levels. Researchers from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore Maryland and published their study results in the June Arthritis and Rheumatism journal of the same year which used dietary supplements of 500 mg instead of orange juice. The researchers saw similar reductions in uric acid levels.

This is important news, as it is vital for sufferers to reduce gout uric acid levels before permanent damage is done to the various affected joints.