http://www.a1articles.com en-us editorial@a1articles.com Struvite Crystals, FLUTD, Canine Struvite Urolithiasis, Bladder Stones, understanding the causes. Struvite crystals, bladder stones and urinary disease syndromes are examples of nutritionally influenced disease conditions. As is the case with many dome... http://www.a1articles.com/article_586026_54.html 23rd July 2008 The goal of achieving optimal fatty acid nutrition must be approached by altering the fatty acid composition of the day-to-day meal pattern. If the diet is high in saturated fats, more of the positions on the glycerol backbones will be taken up by saturat... http://www.a1articles.com/article_195311_42.html 01st August 2007 THE ESKIMO EVIDENCE There is a variety of persuading evidence that the fatty acid content of modern human and domesticated animal diets should be altered. The ability of fish oils to affect cardiovascular disease has recently become widely known. However... http://www.a1articles.com/article_195309_23.html 01st August 2007 Alteration of the fatty acid content of the diet has much potential beyond just cardiovascular and inflammatory effects. The scientific literature is unveiling new diseases that may be altered, cured, or prevented with fatty acid therapy. The list include... http://www.a1articles.com/article_195307_23.html 01st August 2007 The putative ability of fish oils to affect cardiovascular health has focused considerable attention on lipid nutriture. Investigations of societies consuming high levels of omega-3 and -9 oils as well as both prospective and retrospective scientific stud... http://www.a1articles.com/article_195306_23.html 01st August 2007 LIPOPROTEINS Once lipids are disassembled in the intestinal lumen and mucosal cell (enterocyte) they are reassembled in the mucosal cell as chylomicrons (CM's) and very low density lipoproteins (VLDL's). These vehicles contain primarily nonpolar choleste... http://www.a1articles.com/article_195305_23.html 01st August 2007 Inflammation is a broad term describing the body's reaction to injury. It is a necessary process enabling defense against toxins and pathogens, protection against further damage, and repair of tissue. However, if the inflammatory process proceeds beyond t... http://www.a1articles.com/article_195304_23.html 01st August 2007 Fatty acids exist in the body primarily as triglycerides and phospholipids. Phospholipids make up the bilipid membrane of cells and the membranes of organelles within the cytoplasm. Fatty acids are split from the triglyceride glycerol backbone and broken ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_195303_23.html 01st August 2007 For the most part, organisms can satisfy their own fatty acid needs. In mammals, however, those enzymes which insert double bonds into the chains of fatty acids cannot insert them into the omega-3 and omega-6 positions. Linoleic and linolenic acid contain... http://www.a1articles.com/article_195301_23.html 01st August 2007 Most natural whole foods have inherent enzymes capable of completely or partially digesting lipids if the enzymes are not destroyed through heat and processing. This widely underestimated value of whole, raw, fresh foods has been by and large ignored. ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_195299_23.html 01st August 2007 FATTY ACIDS Fatty acids are long-chain "carboxylic" acids, that is, hydrocarbon (alkyl) chains containing the terminal -COOH chemical group. (Fig. 2) [ Fatty Acid Structure Image ] http://www.wysong.net/articles/lipid/figures/figure2.jpg Fatty aci... http://www.a1articles.com/article_195297_23.html 01st August 2007 It can be argued that lipids may be the most important of all dietary constituents since they are required in the highest levels, aside from water, in every living cell. Lipids are a concentrated source of energy providing more than double the amount on a... http://www.a1articles.com/article_195295_23.html 01st August 2007 Over eons of time, long before modern food fractionating and synthetic food capabilities, people ate foods exactly as they were found in nature. That is the model we should aspire to if we understand the obvious truth that health is best served by living ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_195294_26.html 01st August 2007 We once had an in-office day care. It was complete with a classroom, an area sectioned off for indoor play, kitchen and outside playground equipment. There was a full-time monitor/teacher and lots of little munchkins around the office interrupting us du... http://www.a1articles.com/article_195282_23.html 01st August 2007 The loss of loved ones is inevitable. The tragedy is not so much for the one who has passed as it is for those who remain and suffer guilt, regrets and loneliness. There is no adequate way to prepare for and no way to escape tragedy other than to die ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_195281_24.html 01st August 2007 I previously cited the eye as an example of an organ that demonstrates irreducible complexity. It's an old argument in the creation-evolution debate but has never been properly defeated. That is not to say materialists don’t give it a shot. They will... http://www.a1articles.com/article_195280_22.html 01st August 2007 Americans now spend over $1.5 trillion annually on medical care. There is no end in sight to rising costs. From the medical community’s standpoint, why should there be? If you have a cash cow you milk it for all it is worth. The public’s and t... http://www.a1articles.com/article_195279_17.html 01st August 2007 The advent of agriculture about 10,000 years ago and the subsequent scale-up to mass feeding made possible by the Industrial Revolution solved problems of quantity but not quality. Average life span has increased paralleling these changes, due in large pa... http://www.a1articles.com/article_195278_26.html 01st August 2007 There is little doubt that x-ray technology (x-rays, CT scans, fluoroscopy) in medicine has done much good and is an invaluable diagnostic tool. Although I seriously question its usefulness as a therapeutic tool (e.g. cancer radiation therapy), that will ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_194316_17.html 30th July 2007 Legislation is getting legs to further curtail your use of nutritional supplements. Not too long ago, prior to passage of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) – which was accomplished by millions of letters to legislators by people l... http://www.a1articles.com/article_194309_17.html 30th July 2007 There is the underlying assumption that modernity translates into better health. A corollary of this logic is that we can live our lives pretty much as we want because we can always buy a repair. You know, the car won't start, the TV is broken, the tel... http://www.a1articles.com/article_194298_17.html 30th July 2007 I can’t get too excited about victimless crimes, that is to say crimes in which the only victim is the person committing it. Those who want to self-destruct – provided the consequences are not shouldered by others – have the right to do it. Everyone... http://www.a1articles.com/article_194260_18.html 30th July 2007 When I was a child my parents told me what was right and wrong, school had its rules and church had its sins. To be a good boy, all I needed to do was obey all the do’s and don’ts. If I did, I was led to believe I was following my conscience. This ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_194259_24.html 30th July 2007 It is common for young adults to look for greener pastures. With the whole world open to them, they think that surely they can do better than their parents. I was no exception. After graduating from college, I gathered up the family and went west. Colo... http://www.a1articles.com/article_98022_17.html 09th November 2006 History is experience with theory and practice. It cuts to the chase. Looking back on our own individual history gives us better savvy to face what lies ahead. Experience brings us to know in a very personal and definitive way what works and what does ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_98021_17.html 09th November 2006 Murphy's Law is: If anything can go wrong, it will. Then there is Otoole's Commentary on Murphy's Law: Murphy was an optimist. A related law is the Law of Selective Gravity: An object will fall so as to do the most damage. Corollaries to these laws ar... http://www.a1articles.com/article_84506_24.html 29th August 2006 It is a well-known fact that young children go through predictable stages. The times at which they potty train, walk, cut teeth, speak words, smile, read, write and then get pubescent cocky are all pretty precisely worked out. Parents need only pick up ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_84503_24.html 29th August 2006 When I was a young boy, emerging muscles were the coolest thing. If a vein popped out a little, that was even more awesome. There were no fitness centers or body-building gyms to amount to anything back then (Stone Age). If you aspired to brawn, Charles... http://www.a1articles.com/article_84494_23.html 29th August 2006 Specious reasoning and clever crafting of definitions can make about anything appear to come true. As John Mackay (1852) observed, "When men wish to construct or support a theory, how they torture facts into their service!" Mackay, J. (1852). Extraordin... http://www.a1articles.com/article_84475_22.html 29th August 2006 The expectations we place upon life in our early years go a long way in determining our happiness. Certainly setting lofty goals and working hard to achieve them is important. But that is not the ethic promoted in the modern commercial world. We are le... http://www.a1articles.com/article_69935_24.html 05th July 2006 Much of life is spent busily moving toward a goal of less work, less burden, fewer problems and more peace and freedom. We assume that school, raising a family and succeeding in a career will bring the reward of leisure, fun and a more carefree life. ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_69934_24.html 05th July 2006 Even if the chance that all the events coming together perfectly to create life on Earth is virtually an impossible probability with staggering odds (which it is), we are told by evolutionists that it should not matter. As the physicist Stenger says, "Wh... http://www.a1articles.com/article_68108_22.html 29th June 2006 Learning can take on two forms. We can put information into our head and we can put it into our character. School puts things in our head. It teaches fundamentals and gives us tools to begin the real learning that goes on out in the arena of life. Eng... http://www.a1articles.com/article_68107_24.html 29th June 2006 Traditional school coursework does not usually make smarter or better people. Everyone needs the basic three R skills, but to a young person detail beyond that is pretty much a waste of student's and teacher's time as well as tax dollars. School serves ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_68105_24.html 29th June 2006 Originally money was just a medium to replace barter. It represented hard work pretty much on a one-to-one basis. The blacksmith toiled for a day shoeing horses and received five dollars. The farmer harvested for a day and received five dollars. Each o... http://www.a1articles.com/article_68104_63.html 29th June 2006 On its face, judging from what we get in the media, it would seem our world is spiraling into the abyss. Putting aside that "doom and gloom" is a profit center for the media, there is reason for concern but also reason for hope. That hope resides in ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_68103_24.html 29th June 2006 A primary reason evolution is believed by many is because what is thought to be the alternative, religion, is feared, dreaded and unthinkable. And it is true that scientific advances only occurred because knowledge was wrested from the autocratic clutche... http://www.a1articles.com/article_68101_51.html 29th June 2006 I can't get too excited about victimless crimes, that is to say crimes in which the only victim is the person committing it. Those who want to self-destruct � provided the consequences are not shouldered by others � have the right to do it. Everyone has t... http://www.a1articles.com/article_68099_18.html 29th June 2006 We once had an in-office day care. It was complete with a classroom, an area sectioned off for indoor play, kitchen and outside playground equipment. There was a full-time monitor/teacher and lots of little munchkins around the office interrupting us du... http://www.a1articles.com/article_62629_40.html 12th June 2006 Materialists believe that all the energy and matter in the universe is governed by physical laws. A planet circles a star at a precise distance from it, electrical impulses travel along neurons in the brain and blood circulates in arteries--all according... http://www.a1articles.com/article_62622_22.html 12th June 2006 Estrogen is one of the most powerful of female hormones. It binds to tissue in the uterus and breasts by attaching to estrogen receptor sites. It is then transported into the cytoplasm of the cell and on to genetic material to work its estrogenic effect b... http://www.a1articles.com/article_62621_17.html 12th June 2006 Belief in the theory (it is a theory, not a fact, incidentally) of evolution is not without health consequences. Materialists embrace the concept as the ultimate explanation of life. As an evolutionist sees it, the trillions of interactions that... http://www.a1articles.com/article_62620_17.html 12th June 2006 With increasing population pressure and modern independent lifestyles, procreation has become an option that is declined, or at least significantly restricted. But with these decisions women remove themselves from a natural biological role. Additionally... http://www.a1articles.com/article_62619_17.html 12th June 2006 At the recent meeting of the American Association of Clinical Oncologists (ASCO), some 25,000 doctors met to discuss advances in cancer therapy. Over 10,000 scientific abstracts were presented. Surely now, after countless billions have been spent on re... http://www.a1articles.com/article_62614_17.html 12th June 2006 Everyone eats so everyone has an opinion about food. But if health is the objective, mere opinion doesn't count nor does fad or majority rule. Most people think the average cooked diet based upon official food pyramids is just fine. Some eat predomin... http://www.a1articles.com/article_62611_42.html 12th June 2006 The benefits of exercise are myriad. It makes you feel good about yourself, burns excess body fat, grows and maintains muscle, strengthens bones and joints, helps flexibility, deepens sleep, improves appearance, creates a high, provides goals to achieve,... http://www.a1articles.com/article_62605_23.html 12th June 2006 Over eons of time, long before modern food fractionating and synthetic food capabilities, people ate foods exactly as they were found in nature. That is the model we should aspire to if we understand the obvious truth that health is best served by living ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_62603_26.html 12th June 2006 Dollars Don't Make Health Americans now spend over $1.5 trillion annually on medical care. There is no end in sight to rising costs. From the medical community's standpoint, why should there be? If you have a cash cow you milk it for all it is worth... http://www.a1articles.com/article_61440_17.html 08th June 2006 What Does The Eye Tell Us About Evolution I previously cited the eye as an example of an organ that demonstrates irreducible complexity. It's an old argument in the creation-evolution debate but has never been properly defeated. That is not to say mate... http://www.a1articles.com/article_61439_23.html 08th June 2006 Surviving Tragedy The loss of loved ones is inevitable. The tragedy is not so much for the one who has passed as it is for those who remain and suffer guilt, regrets and loneliness. There is no adequate way to prepare for and no way to escape trage... http://www.a1articles.com/article_61438_24.html 08th June 2006