How to recognize a STROKE VICTIM!!!

2007-10-16T15:43:00.000-07:00

A friend sent this to me and encouraged me to spread the word. I agree. If everyone can remember something this simple, we could save some folks.

STROKE IDENTIFICATION:During a BBQ, a friend stumbled and took a little fall - she assured everyone that she was fine (they offered to call paramedics) and just tripped over a brick because of her new shoes. They got her cleaned up and got her a new plate of food - while she appeared a bit shaken up, Ingrid went about enjoying herself the rest of the evening. Ingrid's husband called later telling everyone that his wife had been taken to the! hospital - (at 6:00pm, Ingrid passed away.) She had suffered a stroke at the BBQ. Had they known how to identify the signs of a stroke, perhaps Ingrid would be with us today. Some don't die. They end up in a helpless, hopeless condition instead.

It only takes a minute to read this...A neurologist says that if he can get to a stroke victim within 3 hours he can totally reverse the effects of a stroke...totally. He said the trick was getting a stroke recognized, diagnosed, and then getting the patient medically cared for within 3 hours, which is tough.

RECOGNIZING A STROKE

Thank God for the sense to remember the "3" steps, STR . Read and Learn!Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify. Unfortunately, the lack of awareness spells disaster. The stroke victim may suffer severe brain damage when people nearby fail to recognize the symptoms of a stroke.Now doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by asking three simple questions:

S*Ask the individual to SMILE.
T*Ask the person to TALK . to SPEAK A SIMPLE SENTENCE(Coherently) (i.e. . . It is sunny out today)
R*Ask him or her to RAISE BOTH ARMS.

NOTE: Another 'sign' of a stroke is this: Ask the person to 'stick' out their tongue! ... if the tongue is 'crooked', if it goes to one side or the other that is also an indication of a stroke - Also give the individual 2 Aspirins as they will help to thin out there blood...

If he or she has trouble with ANY ONE of these tasks, call 9-1-1 immediately and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher.

What Should You Know About Cancer

2007-10-02T15:23:00.000-07:00

This is just a forwarded email from my group and now I am sharing in this blog because I believe this may help you understand more of the killer disease called CANCER.

What Should You Know About Cancer
Dr. Arthur M. Echano, MD, ND, MACNEM, MATMS, D.HOM.I.

This information on cancer was sent to me by a concerned health seeker from the Philippines. I don’t know who compiled these points. All I know is that the information makes a lot of sense. I remember a radio interview that I had in May 2005 when I was in Caloocan City, Metro Manila, Philippines. The contents of that interview are basically the same as these points.

1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just mean that the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.

Don’t wait for cancer cells number to reach the billion mark. By then, it might be too late. The best approach is to nip it in the bud. The earlier it is recognized, the better. Relying on conventional tests does not guarantee anything. We might have it already and yet our lab values could still turn out normal. It could give us a false sense of security.

2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's lifetime. Or even more. So vigilance is a must. We can not lower our guard in our fight to prevent becoming cancer victims. We might win the first few battles against cancer but we might not do well in the next few rounds.

3. When the person's immune system is strong, cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors.
Freedom from cancer is one of the jobs of our white blood cells, particularly lymphocytes. Killer T cells are lymphocytes that destroy germs and viruses. These killer cells have another important assignment- to seek and destroy cancerous cells.
Even if we develop cancer then, if our immune system is in tip top shape, we can still take these cancer cells out. It is interesting to note that they can gobble up tumor cells without any adverse effects. It just shows that we are truly wonderfully made.
We can therefore choose to let our body do the fighting against cancer. If we make sure that our immune system is strong, the chance of cancer manifesting itself is going to be slim to none.

4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors. Scientists know that 95% of cancer can be traced to our diet and environment. That means that we can significantly lower our odds of getting cancer just by addressing these two factors. Is there any basis for this belief that diet has anything to do with cancer prevention and treatment? In the book, The Dries Cancer Diet: A Practical Guide to the Use of Fresh Fruit and Raw Vegetables in the Treatment of Cancer, Jan Dries made a list of foodstuff that may increase cancer resistance.
According to the author, foods have bio-energetic values. The higher these values are the higher is our resistance to cancer formation. Top on the list of foods with high bio-energetic values are pineapple, honeydew melon, raspberries, cactus fruits, avocado, pollen, comb honey, papaya, mango, kiwi, bilberries, cherries, persimmon, apricot, yellow Spanish melon, and Galea melon.
Today, the use of food enzymes in the management of cancer has caught the attention even of some open minded medical practitioners. Plant-based, enzyme-rich foods are first line foods in cancer prevention and treatment.

5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.
Fresh fruits and vegetables and specialized nutritional supplements can tilt the balance in favor of the immune system and make it rarin’ to go in its job of hunting for malignant cells.

6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastro-intestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.
Chemotherapeutic agents don’t discriminate. They just destroy anything in its path, including normal, healthy cells. It is just like a group of soldiers entering a village. Instead of selectively killing soldiers on the opposite side, they kill everybody in the area. Civilians, women, children, and the elderly are not spared.

7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.
Although supposed to have localized effect, radiation has its own share of side effects. Osteoporosis needs to be added to this negative list.

8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor destruction.

9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.
You’ve heard it many times wherein a cancer victim died not from cancer but from something else (infections, complications, radiation overdose, etc.). It is also ironical that the immune system which is the body’s defense system against tumor growth is one of the systems severely affected by chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.
This is a dilemma faced by cancer sufferers. Should they undergo chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy to get rid of cancer, knowing that if some cancer cells survive the therapy, these survivors will be resistant to further treatments?

11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not feeding them with foods they need to multiply.

CANCER CELLS FEED ON:

a. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to makeit white in colour. Celtic sea salt is a better alternative.

b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk, cancer cells are being starved.

c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.

d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).

e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer-fighting properties.
Water-best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.

12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines become putrefied and leads to more toxic buildup.
The toxic by-products of putrefaction could be the starting point of tumor formation. Our hydrochloric acid is simply not strong enough to digest animal protein. In contrast, a lion may swallow a chunk of meat without any problem.

13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.
One more reason for taking enzyme-rich foods like papaya and pineapple, the
Enzymes can dissolve the tough protein camouflaging these cancer cells, stripping them naked and exposing them to the killer T cell lymphocytes.

14. Some supplements build up the immune system (Transfer Factor, Amla, Hawaiian Spirulina, Fermented Coenzyme Q10, virgin coconut oil, IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs, FitLine range, etc.) to enable the body's own killer cells to destroy cancer cells. Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.

15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger, unforgiving attitude and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.

16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Daily exercise and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.

Kindly share this basic cancer information with everyone that you care for. Would you like to wake up one day being diagnosed with cancer? Do you want anyone in your family or any close friend to fall victim to this killer disease? Cancer is preventable. If caught in time, it is not a death sentence. And since diet and environment are major factors in cancer development, we have to consider what in our diet and environment needs to be changed to make us cancer-free.

Dr. Arthur M. Echano is a medical doctor Down Under with almost 30 years experience in nutritional medicine. He is a member of the Australian Medical Association (AMA), Australasian College of Nutritional & Environmental Medicine (ACNEM) and Australian Traditional Medicine Society (ATMS). Contact details: email: http://us.f533.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=amechano@acay.com.au; website: http://www.rxpinoy.com/drarthurechano; ph: 02 9834 4154.

2007-09-29T21:24:00.000-07:00

Hi, I am just new in this blogging industry.

First, I titled my blog to be 'Good Health is Your Greatest Wealth' for this is the fact of our life. This is a fact for how can we gain other worldly wealth if we are unable to work because of sickness or pains and unhealthy conditions of our body. Now, how can we also be wealthy in our spiritual life if we are not able to do our share in praising GOD for we are always sick and may even condemn GOD for what you may think that He's giving us these different kinds of sickness.

So, in this blog I have started, I shall be giving out some pointers and other important health reminders for us not to be binded with the high medical costs for us to be healthy. To be healthy, one does not need to spend so many dollars (in my case here in the Philippines - peso) . I would like to promote WELLNESS and HEALTH to gain WEALTH for all of us.

Happy reading and please be Healthy to reap the Richess in this world.