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Public Enemy #4: Diabetes Over sixteen million North Americans suffer from diabetes, with millions more worldwide.[32] And it's on the rise. The incidence of diabetes has risen over 600% in Tittle more than one generation.[33] One in twenty of us will eventually get it.[34] It's a major threat to our health. The longer you live, the greater the chance that you'll eventually develop diabetes. 40% to 60% of eighty-year-olds have it.[35] Every year, it kills 300,000 people [36] You don't want to come within a mile of diabetes. In this report, I'll tell you about an amazing nutrient that may help you in your fight against the curse of diabetes. Public Enemy #5: Arthritis Thirty million of us have arthritis. You might think it only happens to old people, but the average age at which arthritis strikes is 47 - hardly over the hill.[37] And 80% of Americans develop some degree of arthritis by the age of 60. If you hate pain, then you can take a few simple, inexpensive steps that might lower your chances of arthritis. Public Enemy #6: Osteoporosis Twenty-five million of us suffer from osteoporosis, or brittle bone disease. 80% of these are women over the age of 50. [38] You've heard about older people falling and breaking their hips. In many cases, it's just the reverse. She was walking down the mall, and her hip spontaneously broke and then she fell. Her bones were so brittle that just walking caused them to snap. And it all started in her thirties. After age 35, your bones lose bone mass at the rate of about 1% per year.[39] Menopause accelerates the bone loss so that by age seventy-five, 90% of women have osteoporosis.[40], [41] What does this mean to you? A third of the women over 65 suffer fractured vertebrae or fractured hips. And not to leave the men out, by age 80, a sixth of the men also break a hip.[42] What's so bad about a few broken hones? Well, for 50,000 seniors last year, these fractures were a death sentence.[43] Unable to walk and to be active, they were confined to bed. A quarter of them died within 6 months.[44] That's one death every twenty minutes.[45] However, osteoporosis is not just about broken bones. Have you ever wondered why some older people seem to wrinkle more than others? Osteoporosis actually causes your skull to shrink, too! According to one plastic surgeon, "The result of ... such bone loss ... is skin that sags, like a dress that's a size too big." [46] If you plan on living a long, full life, you'll have to reckon with osteoporosis. The good news is that prevention is simple, costs little, and is available to everyone.[47] And you'll learn what that simple solution is shortly. Public Enemy #7: Alzheimer's Although it was identified in 1907, it wasn't until ex-president Ronald Reagan was diagnosed with it that the public took notice. Now; experts predict that the longer you live, the more likely it is you'll get Alzheimer's. 10% of people over 65 have it. 20% of people over 75 have it. 40% of people over 85 have it.[48] That amounts to about four million of us. The symptoms are loss of memory, mental capacity and disorientation. Death follows diagnosis in seven to ten years.[49] It kills 100,000 people each year - but only after reducing its victims to human vegetables.[50] You don't want to come within one hundred miles of this disease. The good news is that 20-30% of those diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia don't actually have the disease at all. They have, instead, a deficiencv of a single, specific vitamin. When given a tiny amount of this inexpensive vitamin supplement daily they recover their mental capacities and return from the living dead. Have you ever known an older person who was senile? Could it be that they just hadn't taken enough vitamins? According to Dr. Irwin H. Rosenberg of the US Department of Agriculture's Human Nutrition Research Center at Tufts University, "Much mental deterioration associated with aging can be prevented or reversed by vitamins."[51] In this report. I'll share with you which specific vitamin to take to reduce the risk of you or someone you love from being misdiagnosed with Alzheimer's and how to reduce your risk of the real thing. One major cause and one
major Well, that's quite a list! You would think that such completely different diseases would have completely different causes. But pioneering research in the last few decades has shown that all of these diseases may be linked to one common cause - free radicals in the body. You're going to hear a lot about free radicals for the rest of your life ... so let me explain it this way: Compare it to the engine in your car. It burns gasoline for fuel and emits exhaust or pollution into the air. Every cell in your body is like a tiny engine of energy. One of its fuels is oxygen. To power your body about a trillion molecules of oxygen pass through each of your 60 trillion cells each day As this oxygen is burned for fuel, it creates a sort of cellular "exhaust" called free radicals. Huge numbers of these free radical oxidants ricochet around your cells, punching tiny holes in cell walls and damaging the internal machinery. Nasty stuff Now, nature has a solution for this. Your immune system automatically creates natural substances called ANTI-oxidants with strange names like glutathione peroxidase and superoxide dismutase. Think of them as cellular PAC-men gobbling up these free radical terrorists. In addition, many foods you eat also contain antioxidants, like vitamin C and vitamin E. When you eat foods high in antioxidants, you help your cells to neutralize free radical activity your body. |
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