Here’s a guide to clean foods for your next grocery shopping trip. The clean foods will taste better than the process convenience foods and they’ll reduce your grocery bill. 90% of foods in grocery stores do not provide us with balanced nutrients. We change our body chemistry every time we eat. When growing plants, the […]
Here’s something you can do today to make yourself feel better and stronger. Stop drinking soda. Or at least cut way back for a solid start.
It won’t take much time, it will be easy, and you will definitely see the results of your efforts. We have less of a sweet tooth than we think.
Most of us enjoy having […]
Gangster Gardening: “Growing your own food is like printing your own money.” We, the people, need to take charge of feeding ourselves. Until 70 years ago, people, not corporations, were in charge of food supply.
The numbers of obese people is steadily rising in North America. Part of the problem is that people do not know what food is—real food—the kind that has not been processed, but grown and cooked (at home, from scratch).
In the 1600s, Descartes famously drew a boy on one knee, his foot being burned by a fire. On the boy, he drew a line from the foot, up the leg, along the spine, and into the brain. This line was supposed to represent the nerve, or pain, pathway in humans.
Integrative Medicine–the practice of medicine that reaffirms the importance of the relationship between practitioner and patient, focuses on the whole person, is informed by evidence, and makes use of all appropriate therapeutic approaches, healthcare professionals and disciplines to achieve optimal health and healing.
Dry needling, as implied by its name, uses needles with no injection. A different name for dry needling is intramuscular stimulation (IMS), which I find more accurate.
Lets share the healthful benefits of tea. Or should we? There are many studies that attest to the health benefits of tea. Tea drinkers immune systems are more active to protect them, green tea preserves cognitive function and tea contains many antioxidants.
Turmeric is a powerful anti-inflammatory. It is being studied as a pain reliever and for preservation of brain health. It comes from a root and is part of the ginger family. It is used in curries, can be added easily to soups and sautéed vegetables.
The Institute of Medicine reports that more than 100 million people suffer from chronic pain. Sadly, conventional pain relief treatments often don’t improve the condition. In Holistic Pain Relief (New World Library, 2013), Heather Tick, M.D. seeks to help patients get through the ins and outs of pain treatment and management. In this excerpt from “Pain, Nature’s Wake-Up Call,” Tick discusses how chronic pain has become an epidemic of its own and the cost it has on society.
