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Leslie Morán in
Health & Nutrition on
Apr 28th, 2011 |
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Diet creates either health or illness. Crimson-winged parrots eating properly grown sprouts.
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What ever a bird eats and drinks creates his level of wellness. But why is this so? There are a variety of factors that cause sickness and disease. Here we will focus on diet and nutrition. The food and drink a parrot feeds on either builds healthy, well functioning cells, or contributes to illness and disease.
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More and more professionals in the area of Holistic Healthcare – for people and animals – agree that numerous diseases, degenerative conditions, and even the aging process itself are caused by free-radicals.
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What is a Free-Radical?
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A free-radical is a highly reactive molecule that can bind to and destroy other molecules. This process is also called oxidative damage. The damage done to the body by free-radicals can be irreversible. This damage can injure precious body cells, vital organs and primary bodily processes. Every area in a parrot’s body can be damaged by free-radicals.
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How Free-Radical Damage Occurs
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Although the body’s natural biochemical processes actually produce most of the oxidative free-radicals, when these free-radical levels rise above what the body can control they begin damaging cells. When free-radical damage occurs the free-radical molecule begin altering the way cells decode genetic material. This changes the basic structure of the proteins that make up the DNA molecule in the nucleus of every cell. These changes cause errors to occur during protein synthesis. Protein synthesis is the process where the cells in the body create proteins by using DNA, RNA and various enzymes. When the cells involved in protein synthesis have been damaged by free-radicals the proteins created have been altered in a way that makes the body see them as ‘foreign substances’. When the body identifies these altered proteins the immune system springs into action and tries to destroy them.
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Free-Radicals and Autoimmune Diseases
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Autoimmune diseases occur when the body attacks its own cells. The formation of these altered proteins can damage the immune system. This free-radical damage can cause leukemia, other types of cancers and many other disease to develop.
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Preventing or Healing Free-Radical Damage
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Our Original Sprouting Blend with 3 days growth - ideal for optimum nutrition.
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The best way to cope with free-radical damage is to prevent it from developing in the first place. However, if sickness or disease already exists, the body has amazing healing and regenerative capabilities. The method I have discovered involves eliminating certain foods and drinks from the diet while feeding foods that provide superior nutrition.
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More on Feeding Parrots, Using Diet for Good Health and Healing, in Part 2
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Very important information. Please keep up the good work educating parrot keepers of the best ways to protect their parrots’ health and make for happier birds!
autoimmune diseases are very difficult to treat. the best way to treat them is by way of stem cells. ;`:.’
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Actually in the October, 2012, issue of “Parrots” magazine, in my column ‘The Holistic Parrot’, I discuss how food effects our genes. My research uncovered how foods, pesticides, chemicals and other influences in our environment actually influence whether a disease gene stays turned off, or is switched on. You may want to take a look at that.