Archive for August, 2011
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011
…and why a holistic health practitioner should be one of them
A while back, I was under an enormous amount of stress and feeling filled with anxiety, which was undoubtedly causing physical back pains and headaches. I communicated this to my doctor and told her that I wish I could just control the thoughts in my brain and stop worrying so much! A seemingly impossible problem to treat. Almost immediately, she suggested an anti-anxiety drug. No inquiry into the foods I may have been eating, no mention of exercise, not even, “How much coffee or caffeinated beverages have you been drinking lately?” Just, “There’s a great new anti-anxiety medication on the market with your name on it.”
I quickly blurted out that I don’t like drugs. I don’t even take aspirin if I can help it.
She looked at me like I was un-patriotic. Drugs are as American as apple pie. It was then that I realized how radical I must have seemed to her when I asked, “Surely there’s another approach?” (more…)
Tags: acupuncture, allergies, arthritis, autoimmune disorders, Ayurvedic medicine and spiritual healing, body-mind healing, cancer, colds, depression, digestive disorders, doctor, energy healing, flu, healing touch, health, herbal therapies, high cholesterol, holistic, holistic practitioner, homeopathic therapies, hypertension, hypoglycemia, meditation, menopause, natural foods, naturopathy, neurological pain
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Monday, August 22nd, 2011
When I was in my 20s, oh so long ago, the word “prevention” was one of those fuzzy, ambiguous words that was more a concept than an actual concrete idea I could wrap my mind around. In fact, as far as I knew, it was something my mother picked up at the grocery store checkout counter to read on a Saturday afternoon. But as I got older, I began to realize the significance of this little word and how acts of prevention could change my life. For those of you who are anything like me, I’m laying it out here for you like we’re all in grade school. (more…)
Tags: diets, disease prevention, exercise, health, heart disease, longevity, obese, prevention, weight, weight loss
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Tuesday, August 16th, 2011
Diet/Nutrition Facts
What the Heck Is Selenium?
Selenium
Selenium is one of those wonderful trace minerals that we acquire inadvertently through our food supply. It’s in the dirt. So, the amount of selenium in the soil, on which animals graze or plants grow, determines how much selenium can be found in foods. It’s also one of those minerals we need, as it helps make many body processes work efficiently and it even increases the effectiveness of antioxidants. Certain areas of the globe however, like New Zealand, Finland, parts of China and Africa, and spots in the United States (the Great Lakes, New England, and parts of the Atlantic Coast and Pacific Northwest) have very low levels of selenium. (more…)
Tags: arteries, Brazil nuts, cancer, cellpower, foods, immune system, Minerals, multi, prostate, selenium, selenium benefits, super prostate
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Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
What you may not know about bone fractures and prevention
In an in-depth article on women and bone fractures, Good Housekeeping reported that osteoporosis, a disease that involves low bone density, is linked with a lack of calcium and is common in postmenopausal women, was systematically being overlooked when treating women who were at serious risk of bone fracture. The article revealed that drug companies were more focused on selling preventive drugs (like Boniva and Fosamax) to younger women who may not have needed it as much as older woman who were at real risk. “Osteoporosis affects more than 10 million people in the U.S., but osteopenia [the precursor to osteoporosis] occurs in more than three times as many — 34 million,” a much larger market to which a pharmaceutical company wanting to sell its product can target. (more…)
Tags: bone fracture, bone health, calcium, calcium supplements, disease prevention, eating healthy, exercise, moderate exercise, osteopenia, osteoporosis, osteoporosis prevention, oxidative stress, Tai Chi, yoga
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Monday, August 1st, 2011
One of the questions we received the other day in an e-mail was “Why take 4-6 capsules of Res-Q 1250 per day? That number seems pretty high for omega-3s.” The customer admitted she was used to a much smaller dose and 4-6 caps seemed a little intimidating.
Here was our response:
1-3 capsules, daily: (more…)
Tags: DHA, dosage, EPA, omega-3, pharmaceutical grade, res-q, Res-Q 1250, Res-Q 1250 dosage
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A while back, I was under an enormous amount of stress and feeling filled with anxiety, which was undoubtedly causing physical back pains and headaches. I communicated this to my doctor and told her that I wish I could just control the thoughts in my brain and stop worrying so much! A seemingly impossible problem to treat. Almost immediately, she suggested an anti-anxiety drug. No inquiry into the foods I may have been eating, no mention of exercise, not even, “How much coffee or caffeinated beverages have you been drinking lately?” Just, “There’s a great new anti-anxiety medication on the market with your name on it.”
