Healing with Nature

 It seems like the media loves to make us all feel good about doing the wrong thing. They want to take everything that we do wrong and turn it around. If we smoke, they will try to put a positive spin on it or better yet they will try to sell us a product that can be used to quit smoking (made by the pharmaceutical industry in all likelihood). If we eat fast food and low quality food they will say that it is okay as long as we get exercise, or if we eat it in moderation. If we do not exercise that is okay also because there are machines and pills that can replace exercise. Well here is a real doozie, the article below is now taking the real cause of diabetes (type 2) which is a combination of diet and exercise mostly (both are totally voluntary) and turning it into a non-voluntary issue related to sleep. There is a possible link between diabetes and sleep, but if the subjects of the study were healthy in the first place and followed a natural hygiene lifestyle there would be no issue of diabetes whatsoever even if they were in their 60’s, 70’s, 80’s or 90’s. This is a blatant misrepresentation of the truth and is the way the media wants to make us feel like we are doing right even if we are do very very wrong.

The following article is from the AP and was written by Randolph E. Schmid, AP Science Writer.   

 WASHINGTON - When Shakespeare called sleep the “chief nourisher of life’s feast,” he may have been well ahead of his time, medically at least. Researchers at the University of Chicago Medical Center report that disrupting sleep damages the body’s ability to regulate blood sugar levels, potentially raising the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

In a small experiment, researchers led by Dr. Esra Tasali, an assistant professor of medicine, found that disrupting the deepest sleep periods of volunteers rapidly resulted in reduction in their ability to regulate blood-sugar levels.

The findings are reported in Monday’s online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The researchers studied the sleep patterns of nine volunteers, five men and four women, all of normal weight, in good health and aged 20 to 31.

Normal sleep is divided into several stages, with the so-called slow-wave sleep considered the deepest.

Whenever the volunteers went into slow-wave sleep the researchers made noise — enough to disturb the sleep though not to fully awaken them.

After just three days the ability of the volunteers to regulate blood sugar was reduced by 25 percent, the researchers reported.

Earlier studies have indicated that lack of sleep can reduce the ability to regulate sugar, and this report adds evidence that poor sleep quality is also a diabetes risk.

“This decrease in slow-wave sleep resembles the changes in sleep patterns caused by 40 years of aging,” Tasali said in a statement. Young adults spend 80 to 100 minutes per night in slow-wave sleep, while people over age 60 generally have less than 20 minutes. “In this experiment,” she said, “we gave people in their 20s the sleep of those in their 60s.”

“Since reduced amounts of deep sleep are typical of aging and of common obesity-related sleep disorders, such as obstructive sleep apnea, these results suggest that strategies to improve sleep quality, as well as quantity, may help to prevent or delay the onset of type 2 diabetes in populations at risk,” said co-author Dr. Eve Van Cauter, a professor of medicine.

This is sort of off topic for a blog on natural hygiene but I read that Al Gore, the 2000 candidate for president of the US who created the movie “An Inconvenient Truth” which documents global warming has been granted the 2007 Nobel peace prize. Now I have seen everything!

Al Gore was a politician from birth as his father was a politician before him, who lost the US presidential election in 2000 because the supreme court would not allow the recounting of ballots in the state of Florida. I agree that he did expose some of the issues related to global warming and showed some of the scientific explanations of what is happening.

Unfortunately as a politician he is playing politics with this very important issue. For those who have seen his movie, he clearly mentions that his family are farmers and that they raise black Angus cattle. I am glad that he exposes this in the movie because that is why he skirts the number one and number two causes of global warming, instead concentrating on much less harmful causes like transportation (while he also is seen on airplanes throughout the film), industrial and domestic energy usage and other causes.

Besides the fact that Mr. Gore owns a huge property which consumes enormous amounts of energy, he never mentions that the world’s eating habits which are not even compatible with the human body are the number one cause of global warming. Yes, this is a fact, our habits of eating products that have no right to even be in our body are the number one and number two causes of global warming.

What exactly is this number one cause of global warming? The raising of animals for food production is the number one cause of global warming. If you have some time, here are several articles describing this: http://www.ivu.org/vuna/globalwarming/index.html . The second largest cause is the cooking of food. Would Mr. Gore mention this in his documentary?

Of course not because he raises cattle for meat production and obviously he also eats the standard American diet himself and would never consider breaking his addiction to consumption of animal products. Mr. Gore, you are the number one hypocrite in my book and do not deserve any Nobel prize or any other prize except the hypocrite of the year prize.