Welcome!..

to  BetterHealthBytes - a free, independent online newsletter that delivers truly integrative health tips directly to your inbox. It will bolster your personal health support system by guiding you in your optimal wellness journey, so you can improve your:

• physical well-being,  
• emotional well-being,  
• spiritual wellbeing, even  
• social well-being (so you can enjoy healthier relationships too)   

This is all within your power to achieve—if you have the right information and then act on it.

Each newsletter provides you with those leading edge facts, truths, principles and ideas that are both practical and that empower you to create a healthier life. You truly can achieve greater wellbeing in every way.

Pamela Levin 

CURRENT ISSUE: 

Twelve Symptoms to Check for This Common Food Intolerance

Are you - or someone you love - suffering from this common food intolerance?

F irst, the twelve symptoms:

     1. Diarrhea,  

     2. Constipation,  

     3. Backache,  

     4. Intestinal cramping,  

     5. Gas,  

     6. Bloating, 

     7. Irritable bowel syndrome,  

     8. Back "going out" of alignment,  

     9. Adjustments not holding,  

   10. Eczema,  

   11. Flu-like symptoms  (sore throat, sore ears, ear infections, achiness, tired and worn out)  

   12. Foul breath 

These symptoms can indicate lactose intolerance (intolerance to milk sugar.) Lactose intolerance is one of the most common - and most missed - food intolerances. According to National Digestive Diseases Information, lactose intolerance affects 33% of all people; 40 million Americans;75% all African-American, Jewish, Mexican-American, and Native American adults and 90% of Asian Americans. The American Medical Association has estimated that fully 40% of Americans are lactose intolerant.   

Intolerance to lactose (milk sugar) arises as a result of heredity and/or age when the body does not produce lactase, the enzyme that breaks down lactose. The human body is thought to be designed to process milk sugar (lactose) approximately as long as it has milk teeth.  As the mature adult teeth appear and the milk teeth are lost, the lactase enzyme also gradually diminishes, and ultimately for many people, disappears entirely. 

But age alone does not produce lactose intolerance

Read the rest of this article here