The other day I was giving an acupuncture treatment to a woman in her mid 40’s and as we talked she mentioned that she was experiencing a lot of stress with her marriage and that she was seriously considering divorce. I inquired further as to why she wanted a divorce and her reasons did not …
The practice of entomophagy (en-toh-MOFF-uh-jee) or eating bugs is done in at least 113 countries. The species most commonly eaten were ants, termites and a species of mondo cricket. Surprisingly, or maybe not, insects are more nutritious than beef or pork. For example, crickets contain more than 1,550 milligrams of iron, 25 milligrams of zinc …
While diabetes is the leading cause of kidney failure, blindness and lower limb amputations not caused by accidents or trauma, the most serious threat facing diabetic patients is death from heart attack or stroke. Eighty percent of hospitalizations for patients with diabetes are for macrovascular disorders, such as coronary disease, cerebrovascular disease and peripheral vascular …
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Sometimes with prescription medication the side effects can be worse than the cure. For Susan Chantix was her hope of stopping smoking. But the side effects of this medication even after stopping it were unsettling. As soon as she started the medication she began having terrifying dreams and anxieties during the day. The anxieties had …
The June 2nd Time magazine ran a cover story titled The truth about vaccines. With the subtitle Worried about autism, many parents are opting out of immunizations. How they’re putting the rest of us at risk. Just a month earlier I read another article in a medical journal titled, Most Mumps Cases Occurred in Immunized …
Just recently a close family member suffered a stroke that significantly affected her memory. She had gotten into her car one day leaving the house unlocked and the garage door open and headed off to the mountain to meet a close friend. The only problem was she thought it was 1936 and that she was …
These were the first words out of Jonathan’s mouth when I asked how did the last acupuncture treatment go. He went on to say, “It was unbelievably soothing and refreshing. I felt this burst of energy half way through the treatment and it has not stopped (5 days later) It made me feel really, really …
When the Soviet empire began to unravel in 1989, Cubans were hit with serious food shortages. From 1991 to 1995, people were getting only about 1800 calories a day and had to walk or cycle wherever they needed to go. The result was halving of the obesity rate to just 7%. In the following years, …
Teenagers with TVs in their bedrooms become slobbier, according to a survey of 780 17-year-olds in US schools. The study published in Pediatrics found teens with a set in their rooms watched more TV than those who didn’t, ate fewer vegetables, drank more sugary drinks, spent less time exercising and achieved worse grades at school. …
Almost half of the all Americans and Europeans died of coronary artery disease in the last half of the 1990’s. The pharmaceutical industry literally makes billions of dollars a year promoting and selling their statin drugs as the solution to this heart disease. However, researchers and doctors are just beginning to realized that statins are …