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This month we resume publication of our quarterly health newsletter, Good Health News. Each issue of Good Health News is packed with important and exciting medical information that is designed to "get you healthy and keep you healthy!"

For more than twenty years we worked with other docs treating "Sickness". Starting with this issue of Good Health News, we will shift our focus to managing "Wellness". Our goal is to prevent you from getting sick, by providing you with Health Information, Health Products and Health Services that will allow you to live a long and healthy life.

DR. LAYNE'S CORNER - News you can use:

Welcome back. As most of you know, I recently took some time off to enjoy the family, to work on our web site and to re-format our newsletter. I have missed you all, and have missed the many great conversations that we have had over the years.

The exciting news is that soon we will be able to chat with each other in our "on-line" "chat rooms" at this web site, and now at the E-mail link above or by Fax (+1-404 681-2295). Our goal is to help YOU feel better, look better and live longer. Here are some tips to help you enjoy your summer: (Dr. Layne & staff)

Enjoy your Summer Picnics: Protect food from harmful bacteria

The foods most likely to harbor harmful bacteria at your summer picnic are Cold Cuts, Smoked Fish, Soft Cheese and any food made with Mayonnaise. Keep these foods very cold at all times until you eat them.

Vacations may protect you from Heart Attacks

Maybe the Europeans are smarter! A recent study of men at high risk for heart attacks confirmed that the more vacations they took, the less likely they were to die of heart disease. Maybe we should try that in America

Protect Your Vision: Eat your Carrots & Spinach:

Steamed Carrots have more beta-carotene than raw carrots. Be sure to eat your carrots to protect your vision.
You should also eat your Spinach to prevent loss of vision from "Macular degeneration" as you age

Men: Eat Cooked Tomatoes and protect your Prostate:
The red pigment in cooked tomatoes contains leukopenes, substances that may protect your prostate against cancer. Why take chances with this important gland?

Crohn's Disease linked to low intake of Magnesium and Potassium

A recent Canadian study suggested that the severity of Crohn's Disease might be linked to low levels of certain micronutrients, especially Potassium and Magnesium. Be sure to eat your veggies and to take a high quality nutritional supplement every day.

UPDATE ON OUR NEW OFFICES: PHONE NUMBER - ALL OFFICES: +1-404-681-0000

Thanks for your patience during our recent relocation. We have closed our downtown office and have opened two new offices in more convenient locations with free parking.

START YOUR OWN “WELLNESS” PROGRAM       Return to Top What to Eat: Eat Natural Foods. Eat natural foods including lots of fruits, vegetables, salads, etc. Reduce your intake of refined and highly processed foods (box cereals,cakes, cookies, etc.)

• Avoid Refined Foods. Reduce your intake of meals which contain a high content of white rice, white sugar, white flour, and processed white potato flour (as compressed potato chips, etc.) (Eat brown or wild rice, honey or natural cane sugar, whole-wheat flour and the natural potato instead).
  
• Avoid carbonated sodas. These speed up the loss of Calcium from your bones. Osteoporosis, or thinning of the bones secondary to loss of Calcium is a major cause of disability in elderly women and the problem often begins in the teenage years. This is especially important in women and teenage girls.
  
• Drink 8 glasses water every day. Use filtered water if you can and drink more if you can. Many of the problems associated with “illness” are made worse by dehydration.
  
• Force yourself to exercise every day. Walk for 20 minutes every day, or exercise vigorously for 15 minutes every day. You can learn to build exercise into your normal daily routine if you follow the tips given in Good Health News and on our web site.
  
• Take a high quality daily Multivitamin. Supplement your diet with a high quality complete Nutritional Supplement. See section under “Vitamins & Nutritional Supplements” for suggestions.

YOUR CANCER PREVENTION PROGRAM        Return to Top

• You and every living human being make cancer cells every day.
  
• Anti-oxidants in food help to prevent the growth of cancer cells.
  Fresh fruits and vegetables are loaded with anti-oxidants and help to prevent cancer.
  
• If cancer runs in your family, ask your family doctor how you and your family should be screened.
  
• You and your family should learn the early warning signs of cancer.
  
• Protect you and your family from pesticides, excess sunlight (ultra-violet) and other things in your environment that increase your risk of getting cancer.

More than 61% of the US population is overweight, so you are in good company.   If you want to live a long and healthy life, you will have to follow our suggestions for losing some of your excess weight. Eat your way to a Gorgeous Figure : You don’t have to starve yourself to lose weight and have a great figure. Well, what do you have to do? Learning WHAT to eat and HOW to eat are two keys to successful weight management!

What to eat:

Eat high quality protein – this will allow your body to burn it’s own fat.  There are healthy ways to do this, even if you are a vegetarian. Dr. Layne will be happy show you how to do this. Eat only natural and complex carbohydrates and not synthetic food (fresh fruits, fresh vegetables, whole grains).

Reduce your intake of sugars, starches and highly processed foods that we are all programmed to eat. These are usually made up of fats and carbohydrates.

Take a high quality Nutritional supplement every day: A high quality nutritional supplement will guarantee that you are getting your essential vitamins and minerals.

Drink 6 to 8 glasses of water per day or other fluid that is free of calories, caffeine, dyes and carbonation.

How to Eat

Eat 5 small snacks per day : If you want to develop a great body and keep it, you must get out of the habit of eating 3 big meals per day. Learn to eat 5 small snacks per day instead. Big meals produce severe stress on your heart and on your digestive glands (pancreas, liver, etc.)

In the next issue of Good Health News, Dr. Layne outlines a tasty but healthy approach to rapidly losing your first 10 to 12 pounds of weight.

EXERCISES FOR STAY AT HOME MOMS: So you work out of your home all day and want to have a great body! No problem: You can get the same great exercise at home by going up and down the steps to your basement. You can count the steps going down the stairs as well as the ones going up. The important thing is to double your exercise by remembering to take a deep breath, tuck in your tummy and straighten your back.

Follow the guidelines for sensible eating and exercise which are outlined in this and subsequent copies of “Good Health News”, you will be well on your way to maintaining good health and to developing a gorgeous figure. Look at yourself in the mirror now and see how great you already look! Imagine yourself 10 or 20 pounds lighter! Exciting!

5 STEPS TO A BETTER SEX LIFE       Return to Top

YOUR SEXUAL HEALTH - FOR MEN:

What you can do to protect yourself:

Get a Prostate-Screening exam performed by your doctor and a blood check of your PSA (Prostate Specific Antigen) level.

Take Nutritional supplements: Nutrititonal supplements are now available that can help you maintain your prostate health and your sex drive.

Eat lots of cooked tomatoes. The red pigment in cooked tomatoes contains substances that help to protect your prostate health.

• Imbalance in your Hormonal levels if you are pre-menopausal.
• Imbalance in your Hormonal levels if you are post-menopausal.
• Medications you are taking that may be decreasing your sex drive.
• Excess Anxiety, Fatigue or Mental stress. These definitely decrease your sex drive. Get help quickly in managing these problems.
• Chronic vaginal or pelvic infections Anemia: Get a check for anemia (low blood count), which may be draining your energy).

What is a well-balanced Vitamin Nutritional Supplement? Understanding how to use high quality balanced Nutritional Supplements may be one of the keys to living a long and healthy life. High quality balanced Nutritional supplements will provide you many of the vitamins, minerals and trace elements that are no longer present in your food. A well-balanced Vitamin & Nutritional Supplement should satisfy the following criteria: It should be: Plant-based, (made mainly from plants sources) Free of contaminating pesticides. Easily absorbed in the stomach Formulated to contain a full complement of generally accepted vitamins, minerals and trace elements Taken with meals, not on an empty stomach Formulated for convenient in the dosing - once to twice per day dosing, at most. Formulated to contain no sugars, dyes, additives or preservatives Formulated to contain no significant quantities of lead or other toxic heavy metals