During the past 20 years, we have heard a lot about controlling disease through diet, exercise and food supplements, but not much is being said as to how to prevent disease before it occurs. We are all are born with both inherent strengths and weaknesses as part of our genetic inheritance. All of the tissues in our bodies, whether of bone, muscle, gland or organ, have a unique balance of chemical elements that are designed to work in harmony with one another. It is now believed, that all chronic diseases are accompanied by nutritional deficiencies and imbalances in the essential chemical elements that make up the body.

"A place for everything, and everything in its place." That may be a fine idea if you're eyeing the clutter on the living room floor, or a pile or two of old magazines and catalogs collecting dust in a corner. But what has it got to do with chronic illness? A lot.

As our population ages, we are facing more chronic illnesses than ever before. Our nutrition impacts the quality of our lives and can impact the quantity of our years. What food we put into our bodies markedly determines how we feel and function. Functional foods - foods which promote health and fight disease need to be consumed in order to battle this rising epidemic of chronic illnesses. This article will help you understand how chronic illnesses occur and the process by which the body tries to limit the damage.

The breast cancer industry is now run by corporations that profit from women with disease. With nearly all breast cancer nonprofits being subjugated by drug companies, the FDA censoring alternative cancer solutions, and the mainstream media wildly exaggerating the benefits of near-useless cancer drugs like Herceptin, there's hardly a message heard about breast cancer today that doesn't have a profit motive behind it.

Actual cancer is caused by a combination of hereditary and environmental factors. There are other kinds of cancers that affect human beings. These cancers remain unseen. They won't prove themselves in a lump or a growth, but that doesn't mean that they don't exist.

It was once widely believed that attention deficit disorder (ADD) afflicted only little boys.  As more and more kids were brought to clinics for ADD evaluation, fathers began to talk about the similar problems they had ever since their childhood, and their continuing significant difficulties at work and home.  Experts now believe that about fifty percent of boys who have ADD  will continue to have significant difficulties as adults.  Well, what about girls?  The professional consensus was that the ratio between boys and girls was 6 - 10 ADD boys to 1 ADD girl.

Treatment and management of ADD involves more than taking medication; it requires commitment to the three R's.  The three R's are Redefining oneself, Restructuring one's world (home, work, school, etc.), and Renegotiating one's relationship.  Suggestions offered in this article apply to people with ADD problems and to anyone who has problems in focusing attention and organizing oneself. 

ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) characteristcs are evident by the time a child reaches age seven, which for most children is by 2nd grade.  Academic tasks demand more attention and discipline in the classroom which highlight the problems of an ADD child.  Therefore a woman with ADD must have evidenced some difficulties in her early childhood.

In the eighties, a few women on the east coast formed a self-help group which they described as a self-help group for "self-confessed slobs."  The word "slob" in the Webster's dictionary is defined as "a sloppy, stupid, clumsy person."  They were acutely aware that they were more disorganized than other women around them and they judged themselves as slobs. They were none of that.  What they had was "Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)," but in those days nobody thought women had ADD.