Stop the Signs of Aging Naturally With a Healthful Approach to Food

The search for the fountain of youth goes on… like something new will be discovered. Maybe it will, but the truth is that several very effective fountains of youth have been discovered. These really do not stop aging, but they turn a train wreck (typical aging) into an elegant work of art that improves each year, adding grace and beauty with the brush strokes of time. Read more

The Cost-Effectiveness of Hypnosis and Sedation

I have written many articles about studies that have been performed using hypnosis. Most studies focus on the success of the hypnosis and how it helped participants in a different way compared to more traditional approaches and treatments. Many studies mention that hypnosis is more cost effective in comparison to alternative methods, but details are not always discussed in the study.

 

In the journal Radiology, an article was published in 2002 about a study that focused on the cost-effectiveness of hypnosis and sedation. Harvard Medical School performed this cost analysis study in 1999. The purpose of the study was to compare the cost of sedation used during an outpatient procedure with that of the cost of sedation plus the use of hypnosis. Read more

Are You Giving Your Child a Daily Dose of Toxins?

Every day you’re exposed to more than 123 chemicals through your skin and mouth — the vast majority of which have never been screened for safety by the FDA! They’re even in your children’s personal care products.

 

The Environmental Working Group (EWG), a non-profit research based, consumer advocacy organization based in Washington DC, reports that personal care products expose children to an average of 60 chemicals every day that they can breathe in or absorb through their skin. Read more

Product Review: Bragg Foods – Vinegar, Olive Oil, Liquid Aminos

After writing a series of articles on fasting, titled “The Miracle of Fasting”, the author remembered that Paul C. Bragg (1895 – 1976) published a book by the same title. While he’d like to say he never heard of the book, the truth is the author read the book in 1998 and in fact Bragg was one of the key influences in his conversion to naturopathy. Read more

Illusions: The Eyes Have It

 Eye gaze is critically important to humans, as social primates. Maybe that’s why illusions involving eyes are so compelling.

The eyes are the windows to the soul. This fact is why we ask people to look us in the eye and tell us the truth. Or why we get worried when someone gives us the evil eye or has a wandering eye. Our everyday language is full of expressions that refer to where people around us are looking. Particularly if they happen to be looking in our direction.  Read more

The Mind-Body Connection: Our Thoughts Can Heal Us (PT 2)

The "new biology" is challenging many long-held beliefs that affect us in the areas of psychology, physiology, and spirituality. As the quote below indicates, mind-over-matter was an idea advocated by Kabbalists of the 18th century, but it came to be regarded as a fantasy, a theory that received very negative reviews in "modern" times. Once DNA was discovered, genetic paradigms gained influence over every phase of our lives. When a large number of illnesses and disorders were blamed on genes inherited from parents, it provided an excuse for our distress. Read more

Increase Your Happiness … by Limiting Your Choices

 This headline certainly sounds paradoxical. But while all the choices available to you nowadays may offer more freedom than ever before, they may also exact quite a cost on your psyche, according to psychologist Barry Schwartz in this compelling video.

 

Schwartz, the author of The Paradox of Choice, believes, rightly, that the "freedom of choice" provided by limitless options escalates expectations, and therefore introduces indecision and unhappiness into the equation. Read more

Mobile Phone Radiation to Unleash Epidemic of Brain Tumors

A new review of more than 100 studies on the safety of mobile phones has concluded that cellular devices are poised to cause an epidemic of brain tumors that will kill more people than smoking or asbestos. Read more

The Medicinal Building Blocks of Plant Life

While most have heard of vitamins and minerals, there are 14 other categories of active plant components and they also offer medicinal benefits. Becoming familiar with all of these elements is essential for understanding their benefits and combinatorial effects. This article summarizes the 16 active constituents found in plants. Read more

Acupuncture Boosts Fertility by 65 Percent in Women

The use of acupuncture raises the odds of a successful in vitro fertilization by 65 percent, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Maryland Medical School and published in the British Medical Journal.

 

In vitro fertilization involves inserting a needle into a woman’s ovaries to retrieve her eggs, fertilizing them in a laboratory and then reimplanting them into her uterus. It is an intensive and costly process that does not always result in successful pregnancy. Read more

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