"The Doctor of the future will give no medicine,
but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame.
In Diet and in the prevention of Disease."
In Diet and in the prevention of Disease."
Vitamin D is in fact more like a powerful hormone than a vitamin. It controls the activity of over 2000 of our genes and receptor sites for vitamin Dare to be found in virtually every cell in the human body.
I had been practicing medicine for over twenty years before I first heard the term “cellular nutrition”. It instantly caught my attention and I immediately began to apply the principle to myself and to share it with my patients and friends. It not only dramatically changed my health but I believe that it probably saved my life as well. Let me share this principle with you.
My warmest congratulations to Dr. Henry Lowe and his team on their research and development of Jamaican herbs that have cancer fighting properties. Here are two other local herbs that are useful and safe to consider using.
ANAMU: What Jamaicans call Guinea Hen Weed or garlic weed is known in South America as Anamu. This is a herb that is indigenous to the Amazon rainforest and the tropical areas of the Caribbean, Central and South America and Africa. Its botanical name is Petiveria alliacea and has a long history of use in herbal medicine in all the countries where it grows. Natural health practitioners have traditionally used anamu for various conditions including cancer, arthritis, digestive disorders, infections, diabetes, pain relief and even to induce abortions.
FOR OVER 15 years I have enjoyed a vegetarian diet and found it to be a powerful way to promote good health. The vegetarian eating pattern is based on a wide variety of foods that are satisfying, delicious, and healthful.
Vegetarians avoid meat, fish, and poultry. Those who include dairy products and eggs in their diets are called lacto-ovo vegetarians. Vegans (pure vegetarians) eat no meat, fish, poultry, eggs, or dairy products.
I often eat nuts and recommend them as healthy additions to our daily diet. Interestingly, not all nuts are really nuts.
Contrary to popular belief, peanuts are not true nuts, but legumes, and soy nuts are not nuts, but beans. Nonetheless, they possess many of the same health benefits as the true tree nuts.
Nuts have good nutritional value as the table below demonstrates.
Tea is the most widely consumed beverage on earth and has an over 4000-year history as a health promoting drink. The tea plant (Camellia sinensis) produces green tea, black tea and oolong tea.
The difference in these types of tea is a result of the different ways the tea leaves are processed after harvesting. Eighty percent of the tea currently available in Jamaica and around the world is black tea.
