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I love this article I found in my Sunday Reporter-Herald: "As of August 2013, the average American's credit card debt totaled $15,263; mortgage debt averaged $147,591; and student loan debt hit $31,646.   And many households have all three!  No wonder you report that you're more stressed than you were 10 years ago.  Twenty percent of you now say you live with extreme stress daily, and we think the real number is even higher than that. "It's not news that financial woes fuel tension, sleepless nights, relationship problems and depression.  But a new report reveals that debt is also linked with higher diastolic blood pressure --- that's the second number in a blood pressure reading that tells you the pressure level BETWEEN beats.  We say you should aim for 115/75. "High diastolic pressure signals high-blood pressure problems. And that can double your risk for heart attack and weaker recovery post-heart-attack; triple the odds for digesti...

"Childhood diets create adult cancers.  When our children eat junk food instead of fruits and vegetables, the groundwork is being laid for cancer and other diseases to occur down the road. "Additionally, many children today are very often recurrently sick with ear infections and allergies,  and then, later in life, may develop autoimmune illnesses such as lupus, ulcerative colitis, and rheumatoid arthritis.  The major contributor to the development of these illness is suboptimal nutrition.  Kids become ill not because they just naturally pass around germs or have bad genes, but because their diets are inadequate.  Medications cannot prevent these problems--only a diet of nutritional excellence can." Joel Fuhrman, M.D. in Disease-Proof Your Child Children need the proper nutrition to fight off the illness that are in and around their bodies.  What we give them to eat for their bodies can affect their lives years later.  More information...