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Tuesday May 19, 2009

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 ASK LENA HEALTH Q & A EDITION!
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Today's question from a gentleman is a question I haven't receive from men in the past and when something new shows up I automatically think some of you might be interested in the answers I gave Bill.

With summer almost here and summer guests already beginning I will do my best to not shortchange you with less than informative helpful information and will continue to answer questions presented!

The answers to questions submitted to me each week come from my 20+ years as a Medical Office Nurse along with many years and ongoing education in nutritional and alternative treatment modes. Add that to many years of friendship with Dr. Wayne Garland, a very knowledgeable naturopath and herbologist, who many years ago, beat his cancer death sentence given by the traditional medical world, has helped along the alternatives path and hopefully help to give hope to those who need it... Also receiving a lot of study reports and try to ascertain if they are good or bad then report them to you, which has increased my knowledge along the way and I pass them on to you to use or not...

I am not a doctor or dentist and you should not think of me as one!! My years observing life and health of the many people/patients around me and the contradictions of the traditional medical world's idea of treating - prescription domino effect - while watching those same schooled methods that aren't relieving illness but creating far more health problems than they help. Those same medical professionals aren't telling people how to get healthy or how to prevent illness, which led me to look for something to change that premise for myself and those around me. In looking outside the Westernized medical profession I found and continue to find alternatives that really work to create health and longevity - when adhered to - beyond anything the traditional medical world can do...

Ask Lena Health Questions and Answers is for your information and education only and in some instances to give you a different perspective on a particular problem! My wish for you, in the use of the information gained here, is that you will apply it in a smart and safe manner in order to enhance your life and not harm it! Not to be used in place of your judgment but in  addition to... Even though I daily watch people become healthy with the information imparted here nothing works 100% of the time for 100% of people...

I have always felt that I had to know all sides to a problem and then make a decision for myself and I hope that will be your attitude as well! 

IF YOU HAVE A HEALTH QUESTION 
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Be sure to give at least your first name, if it is a question you want answered in person feel free to give me a call at 928-636-9425

Thank you for your confidence and inquisitiveness! 
Lena

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> QUESTION OF THE WEEK<
> THOUGHT FOR THE DAY<
> MOTIVATOR STEVE GOODIER<
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QUESTION:

This question may seem frivolous, but if you had acne you wouldn't think so. My doctor told me that what you eat doesn't cause acne break out, but it seems that when I have too much chocolate, I will break out. It's not the sugar because it's usually hot chocolate that has artificial sweetener in it not sugar.  Does chocolate create acne or what? Do you know if chocolate is good or bad for acne sufferers like me?
 
Bill
 
ANSWER:
 
Nothing is petty when it affects your life and/or health!  I am also assuming you are an adult and not a young male and will answer to an adult male as adolescent have some different causes. Your deductions are fairly accurate but you left out some possibilities.
 
99% of doctors wouldn't have a clue to whether your diet affects your health or not so they simply say it doesn't! Doctors are not given nutrition classes or taught proper nutritional healing in medical school, so what do they know? 
 
In 1975 scientists confirmed the link between food and mood. But sadly physicians still see it as not important to keep up on the latest nutritional/food information. Of course the pharmaceutical industry that runs our medical schools can't afford for them to know about it either, therefore they offer no help. If they did it mean a lot of money out of their pockets. I can say that only one of the twenty-plus doctors I assisted over my twenty years in medical offices, thought diet important in treating any health problem! 
 
The adage; "You are what you eat," is absolutely true. So is the adage, "Food is medicine."  But the way food affects you can be different in each of us as we are all different in our upbringing and habits and our body builds up a tolerance from some things others may have a problem with or vice versa.
 
Acne can be a combination of things or one particular cause, but here are the most likely probabilities in adulthood!
 
Scientist's say that "Moods regulate the hormonal system," which in turn trigger good or bad responses in our body, also our immune system responses. Hence, "Thoughts truly are things," or "As you think so are you," makes for our hormones/testosterone reacting or not reacting as they are intended! Hormone and/or testosterone shifts create acne, so look to your stress situation first. Stress is an instigator of hormonal/testosterone shifts, which create a condition for acne. So if you tend to be stressed out a lot then you are going to find that your reproductive system and thyroid not working as it should at times, which can cause adult acne.
 
Before you start snickering about having hormones let me tell you! Yes, men have hormones as well as women just the same as women have testosterone also. True, men do not have as much as women but enough that it can affect your body, or it wouldn't be there! With stress experienced so often these days and the hormonal/testosterone shifts we are seeing much more acne in men than before!
 
But Bill, in your case I'm betting it's most likely the artificial sweetener in your chocolate (generic name aspartame)! Acne is one of the known side effects of artificial sweeteners, along with other more severe health issues such as; MS, Lupus, fibromyalgia and a variety of severe neurological and autoimmune diseases that has been traced to the consistent use of artificial sweeteners and the huge climb in those health issues since artificial sweeteners came on the market.
 
Other possibilities; adding whipped cream to your chocolate, as most people do. Dairy products are a great producer of acne, especially whipped creams as it is the fatty part of the milk. Or it could be the chocolate. Roasted cocoa - which real chocolate comes from - in your chocolate that can contains as much as 50 chemicals created in processing the chocolate. Those chemicals can stimulate changes in body chemistry - hormone/testosterone/thyroid! Chocolate also contains fat as Cocoa butter is a fat and unless you are drinking defatted chocolate you may be getting sufficient quantity of fat from that, especially if you are adding whipped cream. It could be the whole combination of artificial sugar, fat in chocolate and whipped cream and chocolate processing chemicals!
 
Be a detective; try a week of drinking Hot Chocolate with regular table sugar, then a week without whipped cream, then try a week with sweetener, etc. and find out which is the culprit or maybe it's a combination of culprits! Be sure to give it a full week between trial cups or at least 72 hours. I strongly urge you to stay away from artificial sweeteners, AT ALL COSTS!  Too many neurological problems have shown up since aspartame was put on the market and a few smart Neurologists are telling their patients to stay away from anything saying artificial sweetener or aspartame. Stevia is a great natural plant sugar not processed with chemicals. Don't fall for the advertising of the new sweeteners on the market that is trying to mislead you that they are made from the Stevia plant!
 
I also say STAY AWAY FROM Splenda, for at least fifteen or twenty years until the all the facts are in on it, as what we know now it isn't good for neither man nor beast! The potential for health disaster is there! Read "Is Splenda As Splendid As The Manufacturer Wants You To Believe?"
 
Nothing in health and/or medicine is absolute, for the majority of people but by being a good health detective can determine for sure what is creating your problem.
 
If you find its not food then you most certainly can say it's hormone/testosterone related. Dr. Garland has a Male Ching Formula that is helping men in the testosterone department but to achieve the ultimate production it will require taking the Ionic Liquid Minerals.
 
For any woman with acne reading this Dr. Garland's ultimate hormonal/testosterone formula is Balanced Woman Herbal Formula and Ionic liquid minerals. Works great for my 40+ daughter!
 
If those links aren't working for you go to www.antibiotic-alternatives.com/herbal_pharmacy.htm
 
Good luck in your detective work and controlling your acne!
Lena
 

Dr. Scott H. Sicherer, an associate professor of pediatrics at the Jaffe Food Allergy Institute at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and his team tested nearly 400 products without any food allergy labels. Nineteen products contained food allergens. Of those 19 products, 50 percent of them contained enough of a specific allergen to prompt a reaction in sensitive people. The labeling of food products for potential allergens falls under the Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act of 2004 (FALCPA). This law mandates that products containing the following "major" food allergens must be labeled: eggs, milk, tree nuts, peanuts, fish, crustacean shellfish, soybeans, and any product derived from these.

Another excellent reason to leave prepackaged junk food on the shelf—right where it belongs.

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WHAT DO YOU EXPECT?

"Well, what do you expect?" Has anybody ever asked you that?

Sometimes, my greatest disappointments have come because I expected something that was simply not realistic.

You may know that Robert Lucas won the 1995 Nobel Memorial Prize in economics. His ex-wife received half of his $1 million award. Yes, his EX-wife. As it happened, when they were divorcing in 1988, she had her lawyer add one tiny clause to the property settlement: "Wife shall receive 50 percent of any Nobel prize." And her clause had an expiration date: October 31, 1995. He won the prize on October 10.

One would think that her expectation of him winning a Nobel Prize might be irrational. How many people do that? It's something like my winning the Iron Man Marathon by the year 3000. That just won't happen.

But the difference is that I don't train, and she seemed to be sure that it was only a matter of time before his outstanding work would be recognized in such a way. Within seven years, she thought. So it turned out her expectation was entirely rational. (Ironically, Lucas was honored for an economic theory he called, "Rational Expectations.")

I admittedly know nothing about Lucas' Theory of Rational Expectations in economics. But I do know something about irrational expectations among people. And I know that irrational expectations can cause untold disappointment.

Like the expectation that someone else will make me happy. This is irrational. Nobody can make me happy. That is my job. If I expect others to make me happy or to keep me happy, I know I will be disappointed again and again.

Or the expectation that life should be, for the most part, relatively easy and problem free. This, too, is irrational. Bad things happen. Living can be difficult. If I expect things to be easy, if I expect NOT to have problems, if I expect to avoid pain and heartache, I know I will be in for serious disappointment. Problems are here to stay.

I don't mean to paint a picture of life as bleak and miserable. It isn't. In fact, I think it is amazingly wonderful. And all the more wonderful when I don't expect too much out of it. I expect problems, but I also expect to find joy. I do not expect others to always please me, but I do expect to be responsible for my own well-being.

So...what did you expect? I think if you can answer that question well, you can expect to be much happier.

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Steve Goodier Publisher@LifeSupportSystem.com  is a professional speaker, consultant and author of numerous books. Visit his site for more information, or to sign up for his FREE newsletter of Life, Love and Laughter at http://LifeSupportSystem.com

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