We Should Be Growing Vegetables In The Ocean

Many of the fruits and vegetables we eat today contain only a fraction of the nutrients they contained nearly 100 years ago, making it harder than ever to fully benefit from the nine servings recommended per day. Dr. David Friedman, health expert on Lifetime Television's popular morning show, "The Balancing Act, recently described this problem and offered a simple solution from an unexpected source.

"The fruits and vegetables of today are really different than the ones our grandparents ate," explained Friedman on the July 20 episode of the show. "For instance, you would have to eat 26 apples today to equal the nutritional content of one apple from the year 1914, and eat 10 tomatoes to equal the nutritional content of one tomato from 1940."

To find food that has not lost its nutritional content over time, Friedman recommends looking to the ocean.

"Sea vegetables contain over 70 whole food vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients, and have the same nutritional value as they did 100 years ago. Plus, sea vegetables do not contain the pesticides and chemicals often used in the cultivation of land-based fruits and vegetables," he said.

Sea vegetables also contain the only natural vegetable source of Vitamin D on the planet, and are an excellent source of calcium. But how can we add these nutrient-rich sea vegetables to our daily diets?

"If you live in Asia these vegetables can be found in grocery stores, markets and restaurants nearly everywhere," Friedman explained. "But for Americans, you primarily have to find them in supplements. This is why the supplement I formulated, Chews-4-Health (www.chews4health.com), contains four mineral-rich sea vegetables--dulse, kelp, bladderwrack and nori. My research indicates they help nourish, strengthen and revitalize the body."

Friedman is a renowned chiropractic physician and doctor of naturopathy, author of three books and creator of the best-selling CD, "America's Unbalanced Diet." The product he formulated is a delicious, natural, chewable dietary supplement derived from 16 of the world's most nutrient-rich sources from land and sea.

Daily Sex May Boost Sperm Count

Here is a story we first saw discussed on the local television channel, amidst much smirking and winking, but for any man who has been trying to father a child without success, having a too low sperm count is no laughing matter. Here are more details...

New research reported at this week's meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction found that men with a history of fertility problems can improve their sperm count by having sex every day. The problem is that recent surveys show that a startling number of Americans are NOT having sex: 40 million live in no-sex, low-sex relationships and 43 percent of men report some form of sexual inadequacy. Think that statistics refer to men past their prime? Think again. This downhill trend in sexual desire, performance and pleasure is increasingly occurring in younger 20-something and 30-something men. According to Genie James, M.M.Sc., Executive Director of The Natural Hormone Institute, "Environmental hormones are a very real culprit sabotaging both a man's sex life and his sperm count."

"Environmental estrogens, or xenoestrogens, are prolific in our everyday lives," says James. "They can be found in certain pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, plastics, fuels, car exhausts, dry cleaning chemicals, industrial waste, meat from livestock fed estrogenic drugs to fatten them up, lawn care solutions and hair products. Even that "healthy" bottle of water you carry around can leach xenoestrogens from the plastic into the water depositing them into your system upon drinking. Multiple research studies in this country and Europe show a link between xenoestrogens, particularly estrogenic steroids used to fatten livestock, as the culprit contributing to increased incidence of testicular cancer, decreased sperm counts, volume of sperm ejaculated, unhealthy sperm and reproductive abnormalities.

So what's a guy to do who is concerned about his sperm count or wants a baby but for some reason doesn't want to have sex? First and foremost, James advises having your hormone levels tested by a knowledgeable physician who is expert in diagnosing hormone level deficiencies. Low testosterone levels (the hormone of desire and pleasure) can be safely treated with bioidentical testosterone replacement. "In addition to boosting a lagging libido, recent medical research released by Harvard Medical School indicate that keeping testosterone levels at a healthy-high level can reduce a man's risk of prostate cancer," says James. "Simultaneously, clean up your diet. Choose organic meats and poultry when at all possible and do all that you can to eliminate lurking xenohormones from your environment."

For more information on how men can get natural help for erectile dysfunction or impotence as well as increasing penis size, check out Real Good For Men.

Cute Japanese Erasers are Hot

I only just found out about Japanese Erasers today. I guess I must have been living under a rock or something, because this hot trend had totally escaped my attention until now. In case you also are unaware of Japanese Erasers, let me give you the facts.

They are like Cabbage Patch Kids, or Beanie Babies, or Webkinz, in that they are the latest fad that children cannot live without and will be ostracized by their friends unless their parents, or doting grandparents, buy them dozens and dozens of them.

Or did you want to know what they are? Basically, they are cute as all get out, and as useless as... Well, this is a kids-oriented column, so I am not going to use any inappropriate language, but you follow my drift. They are not useful erasers, but who writes with pencils anymore anyway. We only send text messages now, and therefore, having a real eraser is unnecessary.

They come in shapes and colors that look like penguins, adorable babies, cheeseburgers, pineapples, pumpkins, ears of corn, but my favorites are hamsters, pandas and fugu blow fish.

Cuddly, cute as a wheelbarrow full of baby bunnies, and surprisingly inexpensive. Here is an online shop where you can get Japanese Erasers.