Do Natural Alternative Health Products Really Work?

By Ken Barnes

As society turns away from the days of white bread and greasy McDonald's french fries and launches a new era of conscientious living (minus the greasy fries) more and more people are beginning to recognize the virtues of natural alternative health products.

In fact, these organic cures and supplements are beginning to carve out a considerable corner of the health care market. The question is, are they for real? Or is this just another example of the retail industry trying to take advantage of an "ignorant" consumer?

Consider this. Two hundred years ago our ancestors didn't have access to 99% of the medicine and technology that we have now. They existed using alternative health products they were able to dig up in the forest and boil, bake, fry or simmer to cure their ailments.

Granted, the mortality rate was higher than it is now, but they survived. That means that somehow, somewhere, those alternative health products were doing their job.

Fast forward to the 21st century. Did you know that many doctors actually prescribe natural alternative health products for their patients instead of pharmaceuticals?

This used to be restricted primarily to pediatricians who couldn't prescribe said pharmaceuticals to children under the age of two and doctor who "had some crazy ideas", but that circle is rapidly widening as physicians have learned to recognize the potential value of replacing narcotics and other artificial substances will all natural alternatives.

Natural alternative health products have a number of advantages over traditional pharmaceuticals, not the least of which being a noteworthy lack of side effects. The human body is a complex system, and it takes very little change in one system to throw another completely out of balance.

That's why antibiotics can cause nausea and excessive amounts of supplements cause arrhythmia and other abnormalities. Natural alternative health products work strictly with natural products, most of which are actually a part of the diet of many native cultures around the world.

Whether you were aware of it or not, you've been using alternative health products to treat your ailments for most of your life. Every time you reached for a ginger ale to settle your stomach (ginger cures nausea), used aloe vera lotion on your sunburn (aloe draws heat out of a burn), ate cayenne pepper to help your digestion (cayenne is great for reducing inflammation and irritation in the digestive system) or took a vitamin C drop to stave off a cold, you were using an all natural therapy.

Natural alternative health products have been an unwitting part of the medical community for years, and it won't be long before they become even more widely used than they are today.

Natural Health Products are proving to be of major health benefit throughout the world, try Natural Alternative Products for a huge range of natural products.

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MILK - THE DEADLY POISON --- FRIGHTENING

Yummy Raw Fudge Cake Recipe! It Made A Believer Out Of Non-Vegans!

I've made vegan desserts for my husband and I all the time but not for anyone else. We had my parents over this past weekend and I ended up making a fudge raspberry cake. Totally vegan and raw (depending on how you look at agave). It was so good and everyone seemed to be in agreement that it was satisfactory. Oh man, if you haven't tried raw dessert than you are not living. Instead of empty calories it's a nourishing sweet dish. I took pictures of the process but not the actual finished project. Anyhow here's the recipe if you are interested.

Raspberry Ganache Fudge Cake

My cake didn't quite look this perfectly formed but it was still in a cake shape and it looked like this when the pieces were cut.

Makes about 6 servings (One serving is sooooo sweet and filling - so if your cake is not huge then don't worry because it will be enough to satisfy 6 people!)

Fudge Cake

3 cups dry walnuts
2/3 cup unsweetened cacao powder or carob powder
1/4 teaspoon sea salt
1 cup pitted Medjool Dates (I find the fresher the better they taste and softer they are)

Frosting

1/3 cups semi-soft Medjool Dates
1/4 cup agave
1/2 cup ripe avocado flesh (from about 1 medium avocado)
1/3 cup cacao powder

Filling

1/2 cup raspberries

To make the cake, combine the walnuts, cacao powder, and salt in the food processor and pulse until coarsely mixed. Avoid over-processing. Add the dates and pulse until mixed well. Shape into 2 stackable cakes of desired shape and set aside.

To make the frosting, combine the dates and agave syrup in the food processor and process until smooth. Add the avocado and process until smooth. Add the cacao powder and process until smooth.

To serve, frost the top of one of the cakes with half the frosting and top with the raspberries. Stack the second cake on top and frost the top and side. Serve immediately, or place in the fridge for a couple hours to firm up. (I suggest the latter because it's easier to cut and serve.)

The cake on it's own will keep in the fridge for many weeks. The frosting will keep separately in the fridge for 1 week. The assembled cake with the raspberries will keep in in the fridge for up to 3 days.

I hope you enjoy it as much as we did! It was gone by the next morning. I got the recipe from Ani's Raw Food. The book is on the left. It's too die for and so worth the buy.

Positive Thinking and Outlook Equals Better Health

I've know some very sick people in my time, I guess I should specify that they were and are physically sick.

But they all have one thing in common. Their outlook on life sucked.

I've of course seen some sick people who seemed very positive and nice. But I worked in a nursing home for a while so those people were mostly older people who may have surpassed any negativity and were just finally living and enjoying.

There's no doubt in my mind that negativity makes us sick. I think that if people could realize this there would be miracles happening all over like diseases disappearing and our world becoming healthier. But I'll slow it down here because you need to feel what it's like to be positive to have that outlook.


Think about the last time you were miserable - Do you remember how you felt? Did you get a headache or a stomachache? Did you become tired or restless? Possibly panicked and your heart got going a bit?

Now think about the last time you felt pure joy. How did you feel then compared to when you were miserable.

It's so obvious that feeling bad makes us 'feel' bad and feeling good makes us 'feel' good.

If you are into the law of attraction you already know that what you concentrate on you attract. But even if you are not into it you should realize it on some level. Whether you knew you would be late, you knew that the person you were counting on wouldn't come through for you, or you knew that your car was going to break down. Thinking bad things attracts bad things to you. The universe takes it as a sign that that's what you want to have whether you do or not. So being negative attracts more things to be negative about.

We all know that stress causes all sorts of problems in our body. Are you stressed when you feel joy or are thinking positively? Nope. You are just living in the moment. Taking life as it comes at that point.

Also, when you are happy and positive you attract a better lifestyle to you. You take care of yourself more and make better choices with your nutrition and habits. Sorry, but I've never seen a truly positive smoker, drug addict, or alcoholic.

Watch joyful people and you will see they are naturally more healthy than miserable people. I guarantee you will see it everywhere you go. Is that not proof enough that you need to keep a positive and joyful outlook on life? It should be.

So watch those funny movies. Keep laughing. Look for the positive side of everything. Surround yourself with positive people. Don't waste your time on being negative and grumpy. It gets you nowhere but sick.

I found video after I wrote this post and I love it. Like I said you can't take care of your health unless you are a positive healthy person. So picturing herself in perfect health forced her life to become 'perfect health'. It attracted perfect health. Therefore her diet changed etc. Law of attraction and positive thinking at it's best. 

Plant Based Diet - The China Study Tells All

The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health

If you have never heard of The China Study and you are interested in health awareness and how nutrition plays a part in it then you need to read this.

We first saw this guy on a health cruise we attended and he had us captivated from the beginning of his lecture to the end. His is the only book we bought, which was the china study, and we were glad we did in the end.

I think he was in his middle 70's at that time and he was amazingly healthy and young looking. Everything he said just made sense.

He's one of those guys where your head is constantly nodding up and down in agreement.

Our health cruise was full of vegan people and while I'm vegetarian and do eat and drink some milk products I know the implications of doing so which is why I'm striving to a vegan lifestyle.

His book is made up of researched facts and statistics that you and no one else will be able to argue.

He talks about cancer, obesity, diabetes, autoimmune diseases, and a whole host of other diseases and how nutrition plays the biggest part.

He talks about the right way to eat and what to eat and why a plant based diet is so good for you.

You need to read his book even if you are questionable about it because it provides many answers and solutions that are invaluable.

If you are concerned about your health or the health of someone else you will be in awe of The China Study.