ACHES AND PAINS....listen to your body

Have you begun to get those achy legs, tight back, shoulders that feel they just need a little more "oil" to keep you from feeling like the Tin Man? This doesn't come with age...it comes from deficiencies of life saving water, vitamins and minerals.

A nutritionist told me that everyone he sees test out to be dehydrated. It seems that we are unable to "feel" thirst the way we should be able to, so many times we eat instead of drink water. His recommendation was to divide your body weight in half and to drink that many ounces of pure water (not tea, coffee or other liquid) DAILY. So if you weight 180 pounds, you should have 90 ounces of water daily. And for every other drink you have, such as coffee, add the equal amount of water. Well, I tried it. It was VERY DIFFICULT. I found that just in order to get the water I needed, I didn't have stomach room to waste on other beverages. But I felt wonderful. All sorts of little aches and pains completely went away. Weird...but so true.

Next on the list of ridding yourself of aches and pains is VITAMIN D. Turns out that we are deficient, and it is at a record pandemic rate. Life Extension Foundation (www.lef.org) has many articles on the situation, and the most recent can be found at:

http://www.lef.org/newsletter/2009/0703_Vitamin-D-Insufficiency-Global-Issue.htm?source=eNewsLetter2009Wk28-2&key=Article&l=0#article

Since doctors are being educated (after their schooling) by the pharmaceutical companies, many times the diagnosis of a chronic pain disease such as fibromyalgia or polymyalgia rheumatica are incorrect. What sometimes happens is pain from a severe vitamin deficiency. In defense of our medical doctors, the big business of medicine leaves them little time to do the research and stay up to date on everything. The pharmaceutical reps have daily access to educate doctors on the latest of new drugs, the statistics on treatments, and for this we are thankful. However, not every disease needs to be treated with a drug. Often our disease is based on a nutritional deficiency, and our doctors are not specialized in nutrition.

If you are experiencing "old age aches and pains" try researching the Vitamin D connection, and make sure you're covered. That's the cheapest insurance anyone can have...good health is a bargain!

Running to get my water and vitamins! Have a great holiday!

Dianna