Patrick Holford is a British nutritionist, author, and the founder and director of the Institute for Optimum Nutrition in London. He is the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder (with Professor André Tylee of the Institute of Psychiatry) of the special interest group that developed into Food for the Brain Foundation, a registered charity which has the stated aim of promoting mental health through nutrition. He is also director of the Brain Bio Centre, which specializes in a nutrition-based approach to mental health problems. He appears regularly on television and radio in the UK.

You will find below a list of good titles on Nutrition:

If you’re like a lot of people who have been posting lately, arthritis pain is really bugging you. It’s the worst, isn’t it? Arthritis is a disease that keeps you from doing most of the things you want to do and pretty much sucks the pleasure out of even the things you can do.

I don’t just think of arthritis as a disease; it’s a thief. Arthritis has robbed the world of some of its greatest geniuses.

The painter Renoir had rheumatoid arthritis! As the disease progressed, however, he was unable to hold the brush without tying it to his wrist. And Dr. Christian Barnard, the world’s first successful heart transplant surgeon, was forced to retire in 1983 because of the arthritis pain in his hands.

Imagine how many masterpieces or how many lives could have been saved if these geniuses hadn’t been crippled by pain.

And I wonder what YOU could would be doing to make our world better (and your life better) if you didn’t have to spend your days in pain, wishing there was something you could do to make it stop.

Sadly, traditional arthritis treatments have focused on ‘curing’ arthritis. And as you probably already know, this is a disease that can’t be cured. But you may not realize that even if you have arthritis, the pain of arthritis CAN be stopped.

How do I know this? Because of Chris Callahan. He’s an anti-arthritis crusader and a new ‘friend’ of this blog. I’ll tell you more about him in a minute.

They say that misery loves company, and if you suffer from arthritis, you’re in very good company. Actresses Kathleen Turner and Aida Tuturro (from the Sopranos) and basketball great Shaquille O’Neal and Olympic skating princess Dorothy Hamill all suffer from arthritis pain.

I guess when Hollywood and sports superstars start complaining; the news media sits up and take notice. And perhaps that’s why I’ve been seeing a lot more about arthritis pain in the news, lately.

What I find strange is this: the one thing I haven’t seen in the media is any ‘good news’ about arthritis pain. And that’s a pity, because there are dozens of things you can do to fight back against the ouches, twinges, and discomfort of arthritis. These are safe, natural treatments being used worldwide, but (in my opinion) the profit motive of the big pharmaceutical industries has made it difficult for this information to be shared.

That’s where Chris comes in. Chris started out in the field of medical sales, but his real passion is good health through lifestyle management. When a friend was diagnosed with arthritis, Chris went on a ‘mission question’ to find whether better, safer options for pain management existed.

What he found was something better. After extensive research into worldwide clinical trials and research studies, Chris found more than two dozen ways to address arthritis pain…and banish it.

These alternative cures may not get a lot of media coverage, but they’re helping people all over the globe stop their arthritis suffering.

One of the things I like best about having a blog is that it lets ME let YOU know about important advancements in health and wellness that can improve your life. So here’s the ‘good news’ I want to share with you today on this blog:

No matter what type of arthritis you have, you CAN find lasting relief from your pain.

Click the link below to share Chris’ discoveries and find out how you can conquer your arthritis now:

=> Conquer Arthritis

Related Content Blogs

• All Natural Joint Pain and Arthritis Relief | Treatments For Ulcerative Colitis
• Expensive Biological Treatments for RA – Am I Worth It? « Living with Rheumatoid Arthritis

Many of the signs of ageing just make us feel old – greying hair, deepening ‘laughter lines,’ mild forgetfulness. But without question, one of the most debilitating – and daunting – conditions we face as we get older is age-related macular degeneration or AMD, the leading cause of vision loss and blindness for those 65 and older.

The fear and helplessness associated with deteriorating vision is something that too many of us have had to face. Now a recent study is providing some hope, along with a protocol that may halt or slow AMD’s progression.

The disease is just as the name suggests: the degeneration of the macula, which is the centre part of the retina. The macula is responsible for fine, detailed vision, and as it deteriorates, your field of vision narrows until you can’t see anything at all. This usually happens gradually, maybe taking many years before reaching total blindness. But for those who have it, it can be a frightening path to follow – particularly since mainstream medicine offers virtually no way to halt it.

Needing glasses or bifocals doesn’t mean that you have AMD, or that you’re at a greater risk of developing it. In some ways, however, it may actually help you, because a regular check up with your optician will include an AMD screening. Up until now, early detection hasn’t helped much, since doctors had little to recommend. But research is revealing some hope for those who have been diagnosed with AMD.

The study, which was published in the Archives of Ophthalmology, showed that a regular supplement programme that includes antioxidants and zinc can reduce the progression of AMD by as much as 25 per cent. The study specifically monitored people who already showed signs of AMD, and found evidence that this combination of supplements can stop or slow the path of this disease.This is not exactly a ‘discovery’ in alternative medicine circles. Forward-thinking doctors have been talking about the relationship between nutrition and vision for years. But this is the first time that a large scale, randomised, placebo-controlled clinical trial in a mainstream medical journal has supported the theory. It’s a big step in support of supplements – and a big step forward in ophthalmology.

Here are the details: the Age-Related Eye Disease Study (called AREDS for short) began enrolling participants in November of 1992, and continued recruiting until January of 1998.

The resulting 3,597 participants were tracked until the study ended in April 2001. On average, the participants were studied for 6.3 years, with vision exams every six months while they participated in the study. All of the participants were between the ages of 55 and 80, and were equally divided between men and women.

The group was divided into categories depending on the state of their vision at baseline (for example, Category 4 patients already had AMD at the beginning of the study, while Category 2 patients showed only borderline AMD characteristics).

All categories were randomly assigned one of the following regimens: daily supplementation with antioxidants (500 mg vitamin C, 400 IUs of vitamin E, 15 mg beta carotene); daily supplementation with zinc (80 mg of zinc oxide and 2 mg of cupric oxide); a combination of both antioxidants and zinc at the prescribed dosages; or placebo.

To measure the effects of the supplements, the researchers compared AMD progression among each of the four groups. When compared with people in the placebo group, the antioxidant group had a 17 per cent lower incidence of AMD progression. Folks in the zinc group reduced their risk an impressive 21 per cent. But those who took antioxidants AND zinc lowered their risk a full 25 per cent.

The study didn’t assess the supplements ability to prevent the development of AMD in the first place. But there’s reason to believe that it could help, and for most people, there’s little risk in following the study’s supplement plan.

All of these supplements are very safe at the dosages used in the study; you may even already be taking some of them to address other issues. You should talk to your doctor before starting any supplementation programme, but for most people, this combination of antioxidants and zinc is an easy, relatively inexpensive way to fight off AMD and retain your sight.

At HSI, we’ve been telling you about the healing benefits of supplements for years. I’m glad that mainstream medicine is finally starting to catch up – but they’ve still got a long way to go. And regardless of this research, I doubt that many ophthalmologists will be recommending supplements to their patients any time soon.

Often, it takes time for change to trickle down to individual doctors – and if you’re at risk of AMD, time is not something you have to waste.

This article has been published by HSI -Daily Health which can be contacted at dailyhealth@electricmessage.co.uk

Related Content Blogs

• Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) | Technology
• Macular Degeneration News » Blog Archive » Judge who toppled a government dies – Sydney Morning Herald
• Thinking And Social Events» Blog Archive » Early Stages of Dry Macular Degeneration
• March is Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) Month