There is no doubt that the most important treatment for Celiac Disease and Grain Sensitivity is a gluten-free diet. However, in most cases it takes more than the avoidance of gluten for optimal health to be achieved. There are several Naturopathic treatments available to help restore the health of people with Celiac Disease and Grain Sensitivity. In this week's column we will focus on Intravenous Nutrient Infusions.
The approach used in conventional medicine to treat Celiac Disease is simple and straight forward. In fact, there is only considered to be one treatment for Celiac Disease according to most conventional medical sources. This treatment is the complete avoidance of gluten-containing foods and food products. In the vast majority of cases it is believed that the avoidance of gluten will bring significant improvement in symptoms within a few weeks. However, this diet is not to be followed until a biopsy of the small bowel biopsy confirms the diagnosis of Celiac disease.
It takes on average 10 years for someone to be accurately diagnosed with Celiac Disease. This is in part because many medical practitioners are not looking for Celiac Disease and in part because of the less than perfect testing methods.
Celiac Disease is considered by many to be an extremely rare condition and therefore is not often considered as a possibility. However, in North America, Celiac Disease affects somewhere between 1 in 100 to 1 in 200 people. This means that between 5 to 10 people in a group of 1000 will have Celiac Disease. That's not too rare if you ask me or anyone suffering from the symptoms of Celiac Disease. Unfortunately, most of these people will be unaware for many years if they ever do get an accurate diagnosis.
With the current constant push to reduce the intake of fats
in the diet, it is easy to forget certain fats are essential for
health. Likewise, as pointed out in a previous [April 2012 Food:
Combining and Timing For Health] article on food combining,
fats often are blamed for what are, in fact, the consequences
of the consumption of sugars, especially fructose, and refined
carbohydrates. A number of cultures around the world defy the
American paradigm that eating fat makes one fat.
For instance, the French in general show the diseases of excess and of age both less and at a later point of their lives than do their American counterparts; they are healthier and they live longer despite smoking far more. Why?
People who succeed physically as well as mentally, such as
major league athletes, famous dancers and award winning
entertainers, are imbued with feelings and states of inspiration
that are deeply personal to them. Some successful celebrities
are not aware of what inspires them to excel, while others utilize
the sources of their inspiration to motivate and propel themselves
to enormous feats of achievement. This latter group typically
cites dramatic examples of deep personal inspiration.
Beauty on a SILVER Platter
Written by Sherrill Sellman, ND
When it comes to women’s search for eternal beauty, not much has changed over the last several millennia.
Women have always been on the lookout for potions
and healing secrets that promise to help preserve and restore
their natural youthfulness.
Of all the famous beauties from the legends of world history, the Egyptian queen, Cleopatra, still remains synonymous with alluring and eternal beauty.
One of Cleopatra’s favorite rejuvenating secrets was to regularly slip into a bath of sour goat’s milk. While this Egyptian beautifying practice may not be particularly appealing (or practical) to the 21st century woman, there is good reason to believe that Cleopatra was getting the right advice from her Egyptian beauty advisor.
The month of May is Celiac Awareness Month and the focus of my column on www.totalhealthmagazine.com
will be on the naturopathic approach to diagnosing
and treating celiac disease and grain sensitivities.
Celiac disease is one of the most commonly overlooked medical conditions in North America. In fact, the average celiac has dealt with the disease for up to 10 years before accurate diagnosis is made. Grain sensitivities are even more likely to be neglected and overlooked. The purpose of this series is to raise awareness for celiac disease and grain sensitivities so that people suffering from these conditions can seek appropriate medical support.
When I moved into my current home in Pacific Palisades,
California, nearly 20 years ago, I was searching for nontoxic
resources: paints, carpeting, and other furnishings.
My search was mostly met with odd looks and raised eyebrows
(ah, the olden days!). So I was overjoyed to find Mary Cordaro, just
starting out on her path as a consultant on healthy, green home
building and remodeling. She spoke my language! She became
my non-toxic home guide to whom I referred friends and patients
over the years: those with allergies, or simply, interested in green,
non-toxic living. Mold, volatile chemicals, indoor and outdoor
pollution—you name it, she’d have a resource.
Formaldehyde 101
Formaldehyde is a colorless gas with a pungent, suffocating odor. It is often used in an aqueous solution (formalin). The primary uses for formaldehyde include:
- The production of urea-formaldehyde and phenol-formaldehyde resins;
- Plastics;
- The manufacture of rubber, photographic film, leather, cosmetics, embalming fluids, disinfectants, and fumigants;
- Formaldehyde resins are used as adhesives in the manufacture of particleboard, fiberboard, and plywood as well as for molding, paper treating and coating, textile treating, surface coating, and in insulation foams;
- It is commonly found in as many as 4,000 different building materials and for this reason is one of the most dangerous and common indoor air pollutants.
Americans are getting fatter.
Some have called our creeping obesity a virtual epidemic. They
wouldn’t be far off. The figures are staggering: a 60 percent
increase in the prevalence of obesity in the 1990’s alone says
the October 4, 2000 issue of the Journal of the American Medical
Association. According to 1999 data, the average U.S. man now
weighs 187 pounds and the average U.S. woman weighs 151.
The “obesity boom” has also helped fuel an increase in type
2 diabetes. According to researchers at the CDC (Center for
Disease Control), this increase in diabetes was no accident—
type 2 diabetes is strongly associated with obesity. The CDC
researchers feel that this association demonstrates that
“obesity is not just a cosmetic disorder but a major risk factor
for chronic diseases.” The World Health Organization would
seem to agree: by their figures, over 300,000 Americans die
prematurely from obesity related complications.
