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There is a lot of information in the sections on the left menu. The rabbit hole goes deep with many pages. Select the Site Map for a total overview and quick links. Or Click here to go to the Main Section Menu with a description of each section.

There is a lot here but you must to read these articles below for your own health & well being:

	Donabee Health&Wellness Blog - click here
	Ayurveda - The Science of Life - is one of the world's oldest medical systems. It originated in India and has evolved there over thousands of years. The aim of Ayurveda is to integrate and balance the body, mind, and spirit. This is believed to help prevent illness and promote wellness.
	Aspartame is Poison - people are getting sick from brain tumors to many other diseases. The truth is coming out, Aspartame is the cause. Just because you are not showing any symptoms yet doesn't mean you won't.
	Celica Sprue - An intolerance to gluten could be destroying your health. Researchers have learned that this condition is widespread. Cancer, Epilepsy, Diabetes I, Autoimmune diseases, Anemia, Osteoporosis and many other diseases can be caused by gluten intolerance. You should read this, it might be about you or someone in your family. It is hereditary. Woman are the largest group discovering they have gluten intolerance.
	Treating Cholesterol with Statin Drugs - treating a problem or creating one? - "To date, none of the large trials of secondary prevention with statins has shown a reduction in overall mortality in women. Perhaps more critically, the primary prevention trials have shown neither an overall mortality benefit, nor even a reduction in cardiovascular end points in women. This raises the important question whether women should be prescribed statins at all. I believe that the answer is clearly no." - Malcolm Kendrick MD
	Common Medications Poison The Elderly One third of all emergency room admissions for drug interactions are for three prescription drugs. Coumadin is responsible for over 17% of those admissions. What is Coumadin and what kind of a threat is it to elderly people?
	Dangerous Cosmetics - 60% of what you put on your skin, the largest organ of your body, is absorbed into it. Do you know what all those ingredients are? You better. You are poisoning your body.
	Free Radicals cause many diseases, especially degenerative diseases - read this for your own health
	Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) pages - This is a thing that horror movies are made about. A dangerous experiment being carried out by American companies. Imagine a mutant bacteria that would destroy all plant life on earth. In the early 1990's the project was stopped a mere two weeks before it was to be released. Read this for your own health, the health of your family and the future of life on earth.
	Heart Attacks - The French eat more fat, smoke more cigarettes and drink more wine, yet they have the lowest rates of cardiovascular disease in the western world and one of the longest life expectancy. Homocysteine levels also have a direct relationship to heart attacks. Click here to read more
	Nutritional Supplements - Why and which ones
	Suddenly Sick in Drugs, Inc. - Ever wonder how your doctor comes up with the reasons you need to be taking a new drug? What if I told you he or she gets this information for, guess who, the people selling the drugs. This is a revealing report from the Seattle Times that is a must read. The rabbit hole is deeper than you think.
	Vitamin D Prevents Cancer - According to researchers at the Moore's Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) increased levels of Vitamin D3 could prevent 600,00 cases of breast and colorectal cancers each year. 150,000 in the US alone. This applies especially to countries north of the equator.
	Why medicine is practiced the way it is today - Ever wonder why drugs are such an integral part of the way medicine is practiced today. Well its not an accident.

If all our scientific and medical knowledge is so all powerful, why:

	In 2004, the United States spent 16% (up from 14% in 2000) of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on health care, a greater share than any other developed country for which data are collected.
	In 2004, the United States spent $1.9 trillion on health care, an average of $6,280 per person
	Since 1980, the share of total personal health care expenditures devoted to hospital care has declined by 9 percentage points and the prescription drug expenditure share has doubled.
	The upward trend in overweight since 1980 reflects primarily an increase in the percentage of adults 20–74 years of age who are obese. In 2003–2004, 67% of adults in that age group were overweight with 34% being obese.
	The percentage of children (6–11 years of age) and adolescents (12–19 years of age) who are overweight has risen since 1976–1980. In 2003–2004, 17%–19% of children and adolescents were overweight
	In 2003, almost one-third of adults age 18 years and over and one-half of adults age 65 years and over reported joint pain, aching, or stiffness (excluding the back or neck) during the 30 days.
	Why does the US rank so low at 28th in live child births
	The US ranks 26th in the world for life expectancy?
	Why are obesity and diabetes II epidemics?
	Why are our children the fastest growing group getting cancer and adult on set diabetes II?
	Why are 45% of the adults in the US on prescription drugs?
	Why have we spent 150 billion dollars in the last year on diabetes and it is the leading cause of blindness?
	How can we spend 15 billion dollars a year on drugs to lower cholesterol and see that most of the people dying from heart disease have normal cholesterol?
	Why are there more people in the business of treating cancer than there are people with cancer when there is no effective cure for cancer? Now cancer is the number 2 cause of death.
	This list can go on and on. Something is not right.

Your body is a miracle of nature. It will heal itself. If you take care of and protect it, your body will last you a lifetime. If you don't, you will live too short and die too long. Is that what is happening in this country? Are we doing that poor of a job of taking care of ourselves?

We put this page together to make available the information we have collected over the years. There is much truth among these pages and links where you can learn more. The topics generally are how to be healthy & stay that way. This includes information on all sorts of categories. Hopefully what we have here is laid out so that you can find information relevant to you.

You may find much of this information different than what you have heard before.
This information should not be a secret. We don't understand why it is.

Knowledge is power. Take the power back, become aware. Take responsibility for your own health and that of your loved ones. Know the difference. Learn the truth. Don't accept as truth what you hear, read or watch on TV. Learn to tell the difference.

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Main Sections Menu of What is here:

	Sitemap for this entire Health & Wellness website- List & Links to ALL the pages including sections and sub pages with a description of what is on each
	Nutrition, Food & Supplements- You are what you eat or don't eat. You need to read this section for your own benefit. Most of what we have been told over the years is not exactly correct or worse. This is a large section with information on foods, diet, & supplements.
	Cosmetics - Your medicine cabinet is one of the most dangerous areas of your house, and not for reasons you may think. The growing list of synthetic ingredients manufacturers add to their products is turning the most innocent-looking shampoos and moisturizers into cocktails of toxins that could cause cancer or reproductive damage over years of sustained use. There are safe skin care products but not likely the ones you are using.
	Exercise - It is so important to stay active. Don't use it, you lose it. So how do you get started? What about Yoga, Tai Chi & health clubs? Can you actually lose weight through exercise? Is it true you lose muscle as you age? How important is exercise to health and well being? Is it true that exercise can help you stay young?
	Chemicals in our environment - A silent killer. Over 3,000 new chemicals are introduced to our environment EACH YEAR. There is no guarantee that any of these chemicals or the 100,000's past chemicals being used are safe. In fact there is much evidence to the contrary.
	Home Remedies - We thought we would include this page to provide a resource of things that your grandmother knew but we've lost along the generations. Here are lots of Home Remedies & tips you can do for different things.
	Drug Companies - We should be trying to stay healthy and avoid drugs. That is not what is happening. Almost half of all Americans are taking at least one prescription drug. How did that happen? Are we that sick? How does your doctor know what drugs to prescribe to you? How on earth has it become an fact of life that all of us will eventually be taking a drug or two or three?
	Donabee Health & Wellness Forum - Also as part of this web page is a Health & Wellness Forum. Here you can read posts from us as well as other people. You have to be a registered member to post anything. Got to keep the bad guys and spammers out.

In ancient China people paid their doctor while they were well. If they became sick the doctor was no longer paid him, he wasn't doing his job.

Most of us will live too short and die too long

Pretty powerful statement. Think about that for a minute. "Most of us live too short, then we die too long." Our years of health are far too short and then we can look forward to getting a degenerative disease. Why is this the case in this country? Yet...

Dr. Ladd McNamara wrote an excellent piece on living too short and dying too long called "We Are Living Too Short and Dying Too Long" What would it be worth to you, or a loved one if you could reduce the risk of heart disease, diabetes, stroke, cancer, Alzheimer's disease, osteoporosis, arthritis, or any number of chronic diseases? Well, it just may be possible! Click here to read Dr. McNamara's article.

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Footnotes:

Statistics: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Office of the Actuary, National Health Statistics Group, National Health Accounts - Link to data