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Does your wrist hurt?

There are quite a lot of symptoms common to us all when it comes to wrist joint pain.  Knowing its causes is the first step to finding relief.  With wrist pain, the first thing you’ll experience is a shooting or burning pain in the areas close to or inside your wrist. Often you’ll also have a sense of numbness which will grow worse as the day goes on.  It starts as an annoying tingling sensation that is uncomfortable at first and excruciating later on. 

There are a number of causes for wrist joint pain.  Pain is subject to hand-wrist orientation.  It can occur in specific hand-wrist positions while not at all in other positions.  Either way this pain can cause the loss of strength making the grasping of everyday objects a major chore. Some but not all sufferers will experience wrist joint swelling as well.  When that happens you’ll really want to have access to a quick acting relief solution, such as a pain cream that also treats the inflammation which is causing the swelling. Taking an anti-inflammatory such as curcumin or holy basil can help reduce the swelling (http://www.foreveryoungcooperative.com). 

There are many common repetitive activities that are known to affect the wrist and cause wrist damage and its joint pain. The number one cause is our many hours of typing on a computer keyboard.  Doing that for long periods of time, without a break, exacerbates this condition.  Other known work related causes happen in the construction industry because workers who regularly handle and use vibrating tools. Athletic activities such as playing handball and tennis will also bring about wrist suffering and its related painful conditions. Doctors call this condition Carpal tunnel syndrome. This condition can happen to anyone regardless of your general health, life style, gender, origins, ethnic derivation or your age. 

Chronic wrist joint pain could be caused by other connective tissue diseases to.  Many times it comes about from predisposition towards arthritis or rheumatism.  Other times wrist joint pain results months or years later after suffering from a hand and wrist injury.  Work or play related physical trauma often leaves deep-seated, yet not easily visible bruising on your wrist often from just a minor injury. You cannot risk sustaining any painful injury without proper medical care because you’re never sure of the extent of the injury by just the pain you feel.  It’s always a good idea and very important practice, that you see a doctor after any trauma to the delicate bones in your wrist. 

Simple quick ways to deal with and treating wrist joint pain is easily found in your kitchen or medicine cabinet.  Using either an ice-cube pack or pain relief gel can offer a quick and temporary answer until you can look into better ways to make yourself well. Applying a topical cream with cetyl-myristoleate, glucosamine, chondroitin and MSM will give relief in many cases (http://www.jointmedic.com).

List of fruit and vegetables with highest pesticide levels.

The non-profit organization Environmental Working Group (EWG) just released its 2012 Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce that reveals the total pesticide load for 46 popular fruits and   vegetables. The guide also includes new information on pesticides in   baby food and drinking water.

The   EWG guide is famous for listing the worst offenders, dubbed the “Dirty   Dozen,” as well as the produce with the least pesticide residue, called   the “Clean Fifteen.”

It’s   important to note that these lists are based on data from the USDA   pesticide testing program. The produce is washed and/or peeled prior to   testing so the amount of chemicals detected represents what would be   consumed.

Dirty Dozen Plus

These fruits and vegetables are best to buy organic.

  1. Apples – 98% of conventionally grown apples had pesticides

  2. Celery – Highly contaminated, celery tested positive for 57 different pesticides

  3. Sweet Bell Peppers – Up to 15 pesticides were found on a single sample

  4. Peaches

  5. Strawberries — Thirteen different pesticides were measured on a single sample of strawberries.

  6. Nectarines (imported) — Every single nectarine tested had measurable pesticide residues

  7. Grapes — As a category, grapes have more types of pesticides than any other fruit, with 64 different chemicals

  8. Spinach

  9. Lettuce — Seventy-eight different pesticides were found on lettuce samples

  10. Cucumbers

  11. Blueberries — Domestic blueberries tested positive for 42 different pesticide residues

  12. Potatoes

Plus: Green Beans and Leafy Greens (including Kale and Collard Greens)

Planting your garden with GMO seeds?

How do you know if you are planting your garden with GMO seeds? There is a great website that lists those companies that do not use this disastrous technology.

http://farmwars.info/?p=8158

Which protein shake is best.

Traditionally, drinking a protein shake was assigned to athletes and dieters. Not any more!  

People on the “go” want an easy to prepare a meal or snack.  Drinking your nutrients without exerting the energy of digestion will reduce overall stress.  I frequently tell my clients:  if you are stressed don’t eat until you can savor every bite.  You can’t assimilate nutrients if you are experiencing a “flight or flight” adrenaline rush. A daily liquid meal does not need much blood to process it.   This is less stress on the body.

When picking a protein shake, it should be from a raw source with a high ph, organic and not dairy based.   Raw hemp is packed with nutrients and live enzymes that improve digestion and absorption.  It has a high quality of branched amino acids. The branched amino acids are leucine, isoleucine and valine.   Muscle tissue is high in branched chain amino acids. Strength training and endurance activity uses up greater amounts of branched chain amino acids than regular daily activities.  Branched chain amino acid are  in animal food including dairy products and hemp.

A lot of people like whey protein! Whey is controversial.  It is from milk. Milk protein allergy affects a lot of people  I know because I test for food sensitivities.  Food sensitivities might be derived from the pasteurization process. Pasteurization denatures fragile milk proteins and renders them allergenic.  It also destroys lactase, the enzyme necessary for digesting lactose, the naturally occurring sugar in milk.  A simple switch to fresh from the farm raw milk solves both of these problems.  Hemp protein has a good quality branched chain amino acid plus the added benefit of essential fatty acids.   Both whey and hemp improve the immune system.  The disturbing issue with milk is exposure to high levels of radioactivity due to the nuclear power explosions. The world’s supply of milk is affected more than a plant-based food because of the fat stores of a live animal.  Check your iodine levels periodically to ensure the safety of your thyroid gland from over-exposure.

More about the components of a good quality shake coming soon on this blog

Reasons to make veggies, blueberries and green tea part of your diet.

Green veggies are the source of a chemical signal that is important to a fully functioning immune system. They do this by making sure intra-epithelial lymphocytes (IELs), which are special immune cells in the gut, function properly. In experiments, researchers fed mice a vegetable-poor diet for several weeks and found that 70-80% of these IELs disappeared! They equated what they saw in mice to people with inflammatory bowel disease. So its important to eat your vegetables to reduce your risk of this ailment. In addition, blueberries are great for their antioxidant qualities which help fight free radicals that can cause cancer and heart disease. Green tea is another antioxidant that boosts the immune system with its polyphenols which have been shown to prevent the formation of tumors.

-excerpted from the Del-Immune Difference winter 2011 newsletter.

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Great book for a winter read.

A friend of mine grew up in Bermuda in the 1940s… this is her story told through her 9-year-old plus eyes… before Bermuda got busy.. here is the link to the book:

The Story of a Bermudian Child in the Early 1940s

What this blog is for…

Welcome to my blog where we all want to stay young! I will post tidbits on things that I find that can keep our bodies, faces and minds young even as those birthdays keep piling up. I welcome your input. We all can learn from each other about products, and techniques that keep a sixty something always forty something!