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How to develop a tapered waistline
July 31, 2005 EST | Weight Loss
WARNING!! Always seek the advice of a Medical Doctor before starting, or making changes in your diet or exercise program. Did you know that over 90% of all women and over 80% of all men are dissatisfied with some aspect... [More...]
Alternative medicine
July 31, 2005 EST | Alternative Medicines | Comments (0)
Alternative medicine is the use of natural therapy and medicines to restore and maintain health. Dating back to 420 B.C., around the time of Hippocrates, alternative medicine is also considered a practice beyond the realm of conventional modern medicine -... [More...]
Does food effect your pain?
July 28, 2005 EST | General
According to researchers at Johns Hopkins, "There's no denying that there is a strong connection between what you eat and how you feel, and the difference is likely to become more and more apparent the older you get." (Johns Hopkins... [More...]
Back pain: A new therapy
July 28, 2005 EST | Chronic Pain
A non-surgical treatment for back pain had been given clinical trials at several teaching hospitals 2 and half years ago. These trials were done on people who had been referred to a neuro-surgical department because other, non-surgical, treatment had been... [More...]
How to overcome anxiety and take repossession of your life
July 26, 2005 EST | Stress/Anxiety
Katie came as close as is possible to having it all. Great job, loving family, boyfriend, social life… That was until she developed anxiety… “There were rumours of redundancy in our department. Just rumours. But that was enough to start... [More...]
7 tips to help you sleep
July 24, 2005 EST | General
Do you keep your partner awake at night with your snoring? Are you often tired during the day? Do you sometimes find yourself suffering from morning headaches, being a bit forgetful, unable to concentrate and irritable? If so, you may... [More...]
Prevent premature aging with nutrition science
July 24, 2005 EST | Skin Conditions
Aging occurs when the body’s cells die at faster rates than new cells are generated. People age prematurely because inadequate nutrition resulting from poor diet stimulates cellular destruction and increases the potential for obesity, diabetes, cancer and other chronic diseases.... [More...]
FTC takes action against marketers of top-selling Xenadrine EFX
July 21, 2005 EST | Weight Loss
The Federal Trade Commission has filed a federal district court complaint charging Robert Chinery, Jr., Tracy Chinery, and their company, RTC Research & Development, LLC (the Chinery defendants) with making misleading weight loss claims for the popular dietary supplement Xenadrine... [More...]
New online continuing education series on complementary & alternative medicine
July 21, 2005 EST | Alternative Medicines
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is offering a new online Continuing Education Series on complementary and alternative medicine. This lecture series offers health care professionals and the public the... [More...]
Mineral makeup a natural acne cure?
July 19, 2005 EST | Skin Conditions | Comments (0)
Mineral makeup may offer new hope for acne sufferers. Because mineral makeup has several unique qualities not offered in any other makeup product that make it ideal for helping cure acne. To understand how mineral makeup can cure your acne... [More...]
Get more out of life while managing your diabetes
July 19, 2005 EST | Diabetes
When I was first diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes at the age of 21, I had not given the first thought to living a healthy diabetic lifestyle. As far as I was concerned, a healthy lifestyle was reserved only for... [More...]
TsuNoni - Tsu Noni East meets West weight loss
July 15, 2005 EST | Weight Loss
Asian cultures have realized the medical benefits of green tea for centuries. Those who drank it lived longer, healthier lives. Now science has discovered the reason behind the green tea phenomenon. Polyphenols, the antioxidants in green tea, can actually help... [More...]
Control diabetes
July 14, 2005 EST | Diabetes
Salacia oblonga: Proven anti diabetic and anti obesity Ayurvedic herb To get this herb please visit www.salaciaoblongacapsules.com Salacia oblonga (Celastaceae), "Ponkoranti", is a woody plant found in the forests of Sri Lanka and India. The roots and stems of Salacia... [More...]
Fast acting wrinkle reducer
July 14, 2005 EST | Skin Conditions
What the Wrinkle Reducer Does While many factors help keep skin young, soft and radiant, one of the most crucial involves collagen. More collagen is contained within the skin than any other protein, but collagen is constantly changing and adapting,... [More...]
Combat high blood pressure and cholesterol with soybeans
July 12, 2005 EST | Heart Conditions
You may have heard of the “Portfolio Diet” wherein it has been clinically accepted that increasing the intake of soy based foods can reduce levels of LDL cholesterol as much as some statin drugs. Well, now it seems that soybeans... [More...]
Eating multiple meals a day
July 10, 2005 EST | Diet & Nutrition
Did you know that eating more meals a day is actually good for you? It's true. Most people eat the standard three meals a day: morning, noon, and evening. That's convenient I know, but how often have you been hungry... [More...]
Cholesterol and your health
July 07, 2005 EST | General
Just what is this matter we call cholesterol, anyway? Webster's College Dictionary, 1995 edition, states: "a sterol, abundant in animal fats, brain and nerve tissue, meat and eggs, that functions in the body as a membrane constituent and as a... [More...]
Misconceptions about dietary fats
July 07, 2005 EST | Diet & Nutrition
For decades, the media has been preaching how fats are associated with obesity, cancer, arteriosclerosis, and heart disease. Back in the late 1980's, the U.S. Surgeon General recommended that Americans decrease their consumption of dietary fats. Marketing savvy food manufacturers... [More...]
Acne and adolescents
July 05, 2005 EST | Skin Conditions
It’s hard enough to be a teenager but if your teen is suffering from acne and adolescence at the same time you may have some questions. Acne and adolescence may go hand-in-hand but there are ways to improve the situation.... [More...]
Facts about vitamin B
July 05, 2005 EST | Vitamin Supplements
Perhaps you first read riboflavin at the back of a cereal box. Perhaps you first encountered folic acid from your first grade science teacher. Perhaps you first heard balanced diet from your mom. All that and more compose Vitamin B,... [More...]
Migraines causes and cures
July 03, 2005 EST | Chronic Pain
A migraine is a splitting headache that just seems to set in apparently due to no reason at all. The reasons for a migraine are mainly vascular. That means that certain changes in the blood vessels that supply blood to... [More...]
US Federal judge reverses ban on deadly diet supplement
July 03, 2005 EST | Consumer Info , Vitamin Supplements
Money Talks Yet Once Again. With 2003 estimated sales in excess of $1.2 Billion US Dollars, a dietary supplement purported to be responsible for numerous deaths, is now back on the market. The FDA, following concerns raised by the medical... [More...]
Five steps to safer health care
July 02, 2005 EST | Consumer Info
Patient safety is one of the Nation's most pressing health care challenges. A 1999 report by the Institute of Medicine estimates that as many as 44,000 to 98,000 people die in U.S. hospitals each year as the result of lapses... [More...]
