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		<title>Essential, Natural Elixer is Finally Revealed</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you were shown a substance that: aids in weight loss, reduces puffiness, clears complexion, improves circulation, improves breathing, improves digestion, improves endurance and fights constipation, would you be interested?</p>
<h3>This could be the wonder product of the century!</h3>
<p> I’ll bet you are you asking yourself:  <strong><em>“How much does it cost?” </em></strong>and <strong><em>“Where can I get it?”</em></strong></p>
<h3> Here’s how you can get your supply today:</h3>
<p> Go to your kitchen sink, fill a glass with water and drink it. That’s right – it’s WATER</p>
<p>Incredible as it may seem, water is the most important component of good health known to man.</p>
<p>In fact, 60% &#8211; 70% of the body’s weight is water.  Water is the body’s solvent:  it thins blood, carries away toxins, helps metabolize fat, liquefies consumed food, rinses out organs, balances electrolytes to support nerve function, carries hormones for endocrine function – in short it is the body’s magic potion.</p>
<p>However, when the body gets less water than it needs, it perceives the situation as a threat to its survival and begins to conserve every drop. Many of the cleansing functions of water are affected as it reuses and reuses and reuses the conserved, filthy water.</p>
<p><strong>Drinking enough water is the best treatment</strong> for a whole litany of things – headache, constipation, digestion, sluggishness, clarity of mind, water retention, weight gain – all symptoms of dehydration.</p>
<p><strong>There is a good rule of thumb for drinking enough water:</strong>  divide your body weight by two. The result is the number or ounces of water to consume every day.</p>
<p>Caffeinated beverages such as coffee, soda, energy drinks and certain teas are diuretics, which force the body to expel water. If you consume caffeinated beverages, compensate for their effect by drinking two ounces of water for each one ounce of these beverages</p>
<p><strong>If you are trying to lose weight or are not healthy</strong>, increase the amount by 20%. Contrary to popular opinion, juices, soups and other liquids that require digestion do not count! Water is water!</p>
<p>Follow this schedule to utilize water effectively:</p>
<ul>
<li>Morning (right after rising):  consume one quart of water during a 30-minute period.</li>
<li>Noon:  consume one quart of water during a 30-minute period.</li>
<li>Evening:  consume one quart of water during a 30-minute period.</li>
<li>Drink the remainder of your requirement throughout the day.</li>
</ul>
<p> <strong>The body’s signal for hunger and thirst are similar and are often confused.</strong> Try drinking a glass of water instead of eating something. Your body just might need hydrating instead of a snack!</p>
<p>When the body gets all the water it needs to function efficiently, its fluids are perfectly balanced. Glands, nerves, and bowel begin to function efficiently. Skin begins to glow, water retention subsides, weight normalizes, endurance increases, concentration improves, and on … and on … and on!</p>
<p><strong>P.S.</strong>  Chlorine isn’t good for your body but it kills the stuff that gets in your water pipes that can make you sick. Chlorine is normally a gas … so if you put a one gallon, open topped container full of tap water in your refrigerator before you go to bed, the chlorine will dissipate and your fresh water (without chlorine) will be waiting for you in the morning.</p>
<p><strong>P.P.S.</strong>  Most people are deficient in trace minerals because they aren’t eating enough fresh vegetables (5 to 7 baseball size servings &#8211; daily).  Add an ounce of a <a href="http://www.nupro.net/store/proddetail.asp?prod=34" target="_self">trace mineral supplement </a>to your daily water to fill the gap in your diet.</p>
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		<title>Body Infestation &#8211; Human Intestinal Parasites</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Parasites are a topic most people do not want to consider. People believe that intestinal parasites are are limited to Third World countries and that they are uncommon in the U.S. Nothing could be further from the truth ! Recent studies it has been estimate that 85% of the North American adult population has at [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Parasites are a topic most people do not want to consider.</strong></p>
<p><img src="http://nupro.net/store/images/parasitecollage.jpg" alt="150 different human parasites" hspace="10" vspace="5" width="244" height="125" align="left" />People believe that intestinal parasites are are limited to Third World countries and that they are uncommon in the U.S.</p>
<p><strong>Nothing could be further from the truth <em>!</em> </strong>Recent studies it has been estimate that <span style="background-color: yellow;">85% of the North American adult population has at least one form of intestinal parasite or organ parasite living in their bodies.</span> Some authorities feel this figure may be as high as 95%.</p>
<p><strong>How can we possibly get infected in the United States?</strong></p>
<p>Here are just a few of the ways:</p>
<ul>
<li>increased international business and tourist travel,</li>
<li>armed forces returning home,</li>
<li>immigration,</li>
<li>contaminated water supplies,</li>
<li>swimming in contaminated lakes and streams,</li>
<li>your pets or other peoples pets,</li>
<li>food supplies, such as pork, processed meats, uncooked meats, chicken, lamb, and even fish may contain human intestinal parasites and organ parasites &#8211; to name a few.</li>
</ul>
<p>The lack of treatment for intestinal and organ parasites is the #1 contributing factor in the prevalence of colon parasites, intestinal parasites and organ parasites in people -  and it is solely responsible for infesting other people with the same unwelcome guests.</p>
<p><strong>Like it or not, everyone is affected by parasites</strong>.</p>
<p>Parasites are organisms that derive nutrition and shelter by living in or on another organism – living and dying in the host (your body), reproducing, along the way, to assure that there are future generations to live and die in their host – producing others to be passed on to another unsuspecting host.  Just about any part of your body is vulnerable to infestation: the lungs, liver, esophagus, brain, blood, muscles, joints, skin&#8230;and even your eyes!</p>
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· Bloated<br />
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· Allergies<br />
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Over 150 different types of colon parasites,<br />
intestinal parasites and organ parasites affect Human wellbeing.</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Parasites <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>are not limited</strong></span> to 3rd World Countries or poor people,</li>
<li>they are found in all climates.</li>
<li>Besides the probability of local parasitic contamination, natural disasters, flooding, accidents at up-stream treatment plants, increased mobility, international air travel, immigration and Armed Forces personnel returning home significantly increases the likelihood of a parasitic contamination delivered from some other place.</li>
<li><span style="background-color: yellow;"><strong>The issue is not whether you have parasites &#8211; because you do! The question is &#8211; &#8220;How many do you have!&#8221;</strong></span></li>
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<p><strong>Parasites may do any or all of six things</strong>:</p>
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<li><strong>Intestinal parasites and organ parasites cause physical damage</strong> to the body by perforating the intestines, circulatory system, lungs, liver, other organs and tissue essentially making Swiss cheese of them. Food allergies, for example, may be one of the indications of a parasitic condition of the intestine which allows food to leak into the lymph system, causing an immune response to the leaked material.</li>
<li><strong>Weaken, damage or block certain organs</strong> just with their presence.</li>
<li><strong>Lump together into a mass.</strong> Parasites may exist in the brain, heart, lungs, other organs, structures and tissue of your body.</li>
<li><strong>Weaken the host by robbing the host of essential nutrients</strong>, taking a portion of the nutrients on which the host depends.</li>
<li><strong>Poison the host with their wastes.</strong> In the best case, the host does double duty disposing of its waste and that of the parasites. Worse, when the host has difficulty disposing of the parasite&#8217;s wastes, a poisoning occurs called verminous intoxication.</li>
<li><strong>Fool the host&#8217;s immune system</strong> into believing the parasite is part of its body.  The parasitic population is allowed grow unaffected by any of the body&#8217;s normal defense mechanisms.</li>
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<p><strong>Symptoms of intestinal parasites, colon parasites and organ parasites may include:</strong></p>
<p><span style="background-color: #ffff00;">Constipation</span>: due to worms actually blocking the intestine.<br />
<span style="background-color:#ffff00;">Diarrhea</span>: certain parasites release a hormone like substances that can lead to a watery stool.<br />
<span style="background-color: #ffff00;">Gas and Bloating</span>: Some human parasites that live in the small intestine causing inflammation that produces gas and bloating.<br />
<span style="background-color: #ffff00;">Irritable Bowel Syndrome</span>: Human parasites can irritate, inflame and coat the lining of the intestines causing symptoms of this disease.<br />
<span style="background-color: #ffff00;">Joint and Muscle Aches and Pains:</span> Parasites can migrate and become enclosed in a sac in joint fluids, worms can do this in muscles as well.<br />
<span style="background-color: #ffff00;">Anemia:</span> Some intestinal worms attach themselves to the lining of the intestines;  feeding on the vital nutrients of the host.<br />
<span style="background-color: #ffff00;">Allergies:</span> Parasites can penetrate the intestinal lining allowing large undigested food particles into the body which can create the immune system response that is often assumed to be an allergy.<br />
<span style="background-color: #ffff00;">Skin Conditions:</span> Intestinal worms can cause hives, rashes, weeping eczema and a whole host of other skin conditions.<br />
<span style="background-color: #ffff00;">Nervousness:</span> Human parasites create wastes and toxic substances that can be severe irritants to the central nervous system. Restlessness or anxiety are often the symptoms associated with these parasitic wastes.<br />
<span style="background-color: #ffff00;">Sleep Disturbances:</span> Multiple awakenings at night between the hours of 2 and 3 AM are possibly caused by the liver attempts to flush toxic wastes, produced by parasitic infestations, out of the body.<br />
<span style="background-color: #ffff00;">Tooth Grinding and Clenching:</span> This has been observed in patients with known cases of human parasitic infestations.<br />
<span style="background-color: #ffff00;">Chronic  Tiredness:<strong> </strong></span><strong></strong>fatigue, flu like complaints, apathy, impaired concentration, depression, and memory problems. The human parasites are simply stealing your food and nutrients and overwhelming your body with their wastes.<br />
<span style="background-color: #ffff00;">Immune System Dysfunctions:</span> Human parasites depress the immune system by the continued stimulation of the immune system which over time exhausts your defense system.<br />
<span style="background-color: #ffff00;">Excess Weight, Acne and Others:</span> These can be telltale signs of parasitic invasion including, excessive hunger, asthma, bad taste in the mouth and bad breath, epilepsy, migraines and even heart disease and other degenerative disease.</p>
<p><strong>Everyone can be affected </strong>by intestinal parasites, colon parasites and even organ parasites;<strong> </strong>robbing you of essential nutrition, living, reproducing, dying, weakening and damaging your body, creating wastes that burden or even poison your body, repeating the cycle over and over with each new generation, in increasingly larger numbers.</p>
<p><strong>Nothing New</strong><br />
Humans have been using natural means to treat parasites since the beginning of recorded history.</p>
<ul>
<li>They dealt with parasites <strong>in the spring</strong>, after a long winter of close contact with other humans,</li>
<li><strong>in the fall</strong>, after a summer of contamination from the environment, water, food and soil or</li>
<li><strong>anytime they felt their energy and vitality slipping away</strong>.</li>
</ul>
<p>Classic herbal methods for managing intestinal parasites, colon parasites and organ parasites include: Wormwood, Clove and Black Walnut.  More modern Nutraceutical formulations have given rise to even more efficient natural means for dealing with parasites.</p>
<p>Why wait? The benefits of dealing with parasites, interrupting their life cycles and protecting yourself from further invasion are obvious.   <a href="http://nupro.net/store/proddetail.asp?prod=14">Learn how you can deal with parasites.</a></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Except, to be totally accurate, the statement should be You are what you can absorb from the food you eat. The digestive tract converts the food you eat into nutrition to sustain the body. The processes involved in the conversion of food to nutrition are fully dependent on the interplay of enzymes (both from your [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Except, to  						be totally accurate, the statement should be <strong>You are  						what you can absorb from the food you eat</strong>. The  						digestive tract converts the food you eat into nutrition  						to sustain the body.</p>
<p>The processes involved in the conversion of food to  						nutrition are fully dependent on the interplay of  						enzymes (both from your food and digestive enzymes  						produced by the body), stomach acids and microbes.</p>
<p><strong>Enzymes Are the Currency of Life</strong>.</p>
<p>Dr. Edward Howell, (<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Enzyme Nutrition</span>, Avery  						Publishing, WaWe NJ., 1985) identifies three types of  						enzymes:</p>
<ol>
<li>metabolic enzymes,</li>
<li>digestive enzymes and</li>
<li>food enzymes which exist in raw, unprocessed,  							uncooked food.</li>
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<p>Dr. Howell writes: “Enzymes are protein molecules  						that catalyze chemical reactions. All living things  						depend on the swift completion of thousands of  						biochemical, enzyme reactions every hour.”  						 						We are completely dependent on these metabolic  						enzymes for virtually every body function:</p>
<ul>
<li>energy,</li>
<li>alertness,</li>
<li>memory,</li>
<li>thought and</li>
<li>hundreds of other activities are totally  							dependent on enzymes.</li>
</ul>
<p>“Organs, in the body, secrete digestive enzymes to  						break down the food we eat, but many of these enzymes  						are damaged or excreted during the process of digestion,  						absorption and elimination and are not recycled.”</p>
<p>We depend on food enzymes to replace these damaged  						and lost enzymes. Enzymes, while very powerful, are  						fragile. Cooking and processing foods destroys the raw  						food enzymes.</p>
<p><img src="http://nupro.net/store/images/bowelman.gif" alt="Four simple truths for health and healing" hspace="10" vspace="10" width="101" height="125" align="left" />Dr.  						Howell writes “ … a diet composed of cooked and  						processed food, in which the natural enzymes are  						destroyed, leads to enzymes insufficiency and stresses  						the organs which secrete enzymes. A lifetime of eating  						“dead foods” is a contributing factor …” in the decline  						from radiant health.<br />
Digestion is more complex  						than it may seem since more than 80 million Americans  						are paying the price for failures along the digestive  						tract.</p>
<p>Most people would rather not think or talk about  						matters of digestion:  the pain, gas, bloating,  						indigestion, constipation, diarrhea.   They choose to suffer the consequences of neglecting  						this aspect of their health – quietly.  <strong>Too  						bad – doing nothing only compounds the situation</strong>.</p>
<p>The short version is: if your diet consists of  						cooked, packaged, processed and preserved foods, Dr.  						Howell advocates supplementing your diet with 						<a href="http://nupro.net/store/proddetail.asp?prod=10">enzymes</a>.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Healthy Digestion is the Highway to Health - Bad Digestion can be the Road to Ruin Di·ges·tion: the process of making food absorbable by breaking it down into simpler chemical compounds. Estimates are that more than 80 million Americans are paying the price for bad digestion - heartburn, indigestion, IBS, diarrhea, constipation, food intolerance, frequent [...]


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Bad Digestion can be the Road to Ruin</span> </span></td>
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<td><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Di·ges·tion: the process of making food absorbable<br />
by breaking it down into simpler chemical compounds.</span></td>
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<p>Estimates are that more than 80 million Americans are paying the price for  						bad digestion  						- heartburn, indigestion, IBS, diarrhea, constipation,  						food intolerance, frequent illness, gas, bloating and more.</p>
<p>Most people do not think or talk about bad digestion. They choose to deal with the consequences of neglecting this aspect of their health instead of choosing to manage digestion.</p>
<p>Managing digestion is easier than you might think.  It requires 3 things:</p>
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<li>A basic understanding of healthy digestion.</li>
<li>A few minor changes in your diet.</li>
<li>Supplements to restore digestive function  							(including digestive enzymes and a probiotic of  							friendly intestinal microbes) and then, maintain healthy digestion afterwards.</li>
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<p><strong>Healthy Digestion</strong><br />
Digestion is an intricate dance between enzymes, stomach acids and microbes. One partner preparing the food for the next with one goal &#8211; a strong, healthy body.</p>
<p>It is the process that keeps you alive, breaking down the food you eat, converting it into different nutrition components that are absorbed carrying the nutrition in the blood stream to nourish and sustain your body.</p>
<p>In truth, everyone benefits from a healthy digestive system.  But, they  							<em><strong>pay a terrible price when it goes astray</strong></em> -   they learn how much pain these powerful, caustic substances can create.</p>
<p><strong>The Process of Healthy Digestion</strong><br />
There are three parts of digestion: Enzymatic, Gastric and Microbial. The process is an elegant interplay of these functions which occur along a tube called the digestive tract.</p>
<li>Teeth grind the food, mixing it with saliva (containing an enzyme called Amylase) passing the ground food on to the top half of the stomach (the pyloric stomach).</li>
<li>Muscles mix the ground food with its resident enzymes (food enzymes) with the body&#8217;s enzymes (digestive enzymes), which turns the food into a liquid.</li>
<li>After a brief resting period, the liquid is passed through an acid bath in the lower half of the stomach (the gastric stomach).</li>
<li>The acid rinsed liquid is delivered to the intestines, for final processing accomplished by an extensive and diverse number of microbes.</li>
<li>The processed nutrients and microbial byproducts pass through the intestinal wall, water and recyclables are recovered, wastes wait to be expelled from the body.<br />
<strong>Enzymes, Acids &amp; Microbes</strong><br />
The process is fully dependent on the interplay between enzymes (both food and digestive enzymes), stomach acids and intestinal microbes. It is these microbes, in the final analysis, that are responsible for the final conversion of food to absorbable nutrients..</p>
<p><strong>Enzymatic Action</strong><br />
The first part of the process (enzymatic) is pretty simple, but it can go astray.</p>
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<li>Inadequate chewing affects the size of the food particles contributing to inadequate liquidization.</li>
<li>Inadequate food enzymes (which are destroyed by processing and cooking) can create inadequate liquidization.</li>
<li>Diminished reserves of digestive enzymes can create inadequate liquidization.</li>
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<p><strong>Gastric Action</strong><br />
Each of these situations place more demands on the gastric stomach which responds by producing more stomach acid.</p>
<p><strong>Friendly Intestinal Microbes Perform a Microbrial Action</strong><br />
The final part of the process, Microbial, while simple, is delicate. Intestinal microbes (micro flora) finalize the conversion of the liquid into absorbable nutrients and, along the way, create byproducts on which the body depends.</p>
<p><strong>These Micro Flora are Vulnerable.</strong>They are especially vulnerable to antibiotics. Prescriptive antibiotics are the most obvious culprit, but, agricultural antibiotics, which are used extensively for production of meat and dairy products, find their way into our bodies in the foods we are eating.</p>
<p>Changes in the acidity in the intestines due to dietary choices, alcohol, stress and excess stomach acids impact the extensive intestinal micro flora colonies.</p>
<p>Decreasing numbers and diversity of intestinal microbes (probiotics) affect nutrient absorption, specifically and health, generally, since our bodies rely on the byproducts produced by these microbes.</p>
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<td width="80" valign="middle">•  Energy<br />
•  Moods<br />
•  Skin<br />
•  Gas<br />
•  Bloating<br />
•  Immunity</td>
<td width="120" valign="middle">•  Food Tolerance<br />
•  Regularity<br />
•  Diarrhea<br />
•  Constipation<br />
•  Heartburn<br />
•  Allergies</td>
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<p>It is clear that 80 million Americans, who are experiencing declining health, could benefit from  							managing their digestive system.</p>
<p>For most of us, an <a href="http://nupro.net/store/proddetail.asp?prod=10">enzymes supplement</a> , to  							promote enzymatic action and <a href="http://nupro.net/store/proddetail.asp?prod=11">a probiotics supplement</a>, to reinforce the army of friendly intestinal microbes, should be the cornerstone of a supplementation regimen; otherwise, we could be wasting a perfectly good nutritional strategy.</p>
<p>The relationship between health and this delicate process is quite clear.<em><strong> </strong> You cannot use nutrition, enjoy good health, or life &#8211; without good digestion.</em></p>
<p><strong>Stop paying the price</strong>.  <a href="http://nupro.net/store/proddetail.asp?prod=12">Choose a nutraceutical  system</a> can help stop the pain and embarrassment of bad digestion and help  						restore this important, delicate process.</li>
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