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The Benefits of Antioxidants and Vitamins – A Personal Experience

Article by Tony Luck

A few years ago I had never heard of antioxidants, and vitamins were something that were supposed to be good for you but were only to be found in vegetables – ugh! Today I am a relatively healthy 62 years old and I probably owe my life to antioxidants!

Two days before Christmas 1999 I suffered an attack of pancreatitis. I was rushed to hospital on Christmas eve and stayed in for 3 weeks, after which I was sent home with the doctors telling me that I had suffered a life-threatening illness which would probably occur again. Whereas most pancreatitis cases suffer because of excess drink or gallstones, I was a non-drinker and my gallbladder was fine, so I was classified as idiosyncratic; which basically means the doctors didn’t have any idea why I experienced the attack.

Two months later, as forecast I had another attack. This time I was in hospital for a month (it’s so boring!), hooked up to various tubes and unable to eat for the first 3 weeks, and once again I was told there was no cure.

When I got home I thought there must be some sort of treatment so I did some research on the Internet (thank God for the Internet!), and found a hospital that for 20 years had been successfully treating pancreatitis with antioxidants. That hospital was too far away, but the articles mentioned another that followed the same treatment and was nearer. So I went there and, to cut a long story short, I started on the course of antioxidants – vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E, selenium, and methionine (which is actually an amino acid).

Thankfully the pancreatitis attacks have stopped. I have to be careful with my diet and drink is banned – which is not a problem. I now take so many vitamins that if you shook me I would rattle, but these wonderful antioxidants are fighting those free radicals or whatever caused my pancreatitis and I have been healthy for six years.

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Uncovered – The Foods That Can Create A Winning Mood And Increase Alertness.

Article by Max Webster-Dowsing

For hundreds of years throughout the ages people have stated that consuming certain drinks and food will make you feel better, is there any truth in this? I hear you ask, well in fact there certainly is.

Modern science have discovered how our emotions are directly linked to the use of certain brain chemicals thus identifying the abundance of natural chemicals in food that change how our body feels, this is done by the influence of neurotransmitters in the brain also changing the ways how our brain cells behave in relation to our body and releasing mood-altering chemicals throughout the body.

One of the biggest myths out there today is the fact that most of us believe alcohol relaxes us, this is the exact opposite it is a depressant not a mood lifter. The reason this is so commonly believed is that as you may know when you have a couple glasses of wine you feel looser and more exuberant. This is because alcohol relaxes the body’s controls, these are the brain signals that usually stop you from doing something daft such as singing at the top of your voice down your street at 2am or doing a striptease in public.

Caffeine is a very popular food that is a stimulant, hence the abundance on the market now of fizzy drinks with caffeine in. What this does to the body is raise your blood pressure, burns calories faster and is a mood elevator. It is also reported that caffeine improves performance in fitness as it hooks up a receptor in the brain called adenosine which when caffeine latches onto this receptor makes your brain cells react more such as talking faster and your brain working harder and your body has more energy.

PEA – Phenylethylalanine

This is an amino acid that your body releases when you experience lone making you feel good. The most famous food to contain this amino acid is chocolate, hence all the advertising over the years stating how good it is for your mood.But the thing with chocolate it also contains caffeine so in terms of mood food chocolate is right up there at the top.

There is not a food known to man that can change your personality or cure a mood disorder however by consuming certain foods at certain times can make a difference.But you have to get the balance right I am sure it would be great to think we could all eat chocolate as it tastes great and makes us feel good but of we did that we would all be vastly overweight and feel sick, so I repeat balance is key.

To give you an example of what I do if I need to be extra alert and on my toes I will have a cup of coffee for breakfast then have a grilled chicken breast. With the protein content in this it will make you super alert for the morning. For the remainder of the day I would have pasta for lunch with tomatoes and fresh basil, you need the right carbs without high fat food as this slows your brain and makes you feel sleepy. So avoid fats and oils in the day. Again repeat this for dinner (but have a different meal such as grilled fish and cous cous) and to finish off have a bar of chocolate with a glass of chianti. This will give me the feel-good amino acids and by having one glass of wine to be fair is a safe way to relax, but anymore could be a disaster.

The point is to keep in mind that it is a good idea to influence your body in the correct manner to make you feel as healthy and well as possible but of course to exercise the above in moderation.

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