- Your Yin and Yang Health
Chinese health is based on the philosophy of "yin" and "yang", which originates from the principles of the Five Elements: fire, wood, metal, water, and earth. These elements control and complement each other for balance and harmony. In addition, these elements relate to different colors in vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds, beans, and grains. A balanced diet requires eating daily all these different colored foods. - Your Anti-Aging Immune System
Your immune system is anti-aging. Its B-cells and T-cells protect you from disease and degeneration. To protect your immune system, you need to eat right, smother stress, and exercise regularly. To maintain your immunity, you need detoxification for a balanced acid-alkaline level. - Why are you addicted to chocolate?
Eating chocolate is addictive because it is an addicting drug due to its various chemicals which have a marijuana-like effect on the brain. Chocolate may not be as healthy as the industry has suggested because it is packed with calories, fats, and sugar. It is important that you become aware of how it affects your mood so that chocolate seduction will not develop into an eating disorder down the road. - The American Culture Promotes Accelerated Aging
Accelerated aging is often a reflection of the culture because accelerated aging has to do with your lifestyle, your attitudes towards health and wellness, and your philosophy of life.The American culture, with its emphasis on high-fat diet, pursuit for material comforts, quick-fix mentality, and fast-lane lifestyle, promotes premature aging among its population. - Pain Control through Diet
Pain control is closely connected with diet. Pain control is to fight pain and to reduce pain sensitivity through foods. Choose pain-free foods as your staple foods, and then add foods that contribute to optimum blood flow to prevent inflammation, as well as foods that are rich in fiber to facilitate elimination. - Myths and Truths about Back Pain
There are many myths and truths about back pain. Back surgery may cure back pain; the truth is that back surgery may be unnecessary. Back pain may be due to back muscle spasm; the truth is that artery blockage may be the culprit. Back pain may be relieved by bed rest; the truth is that physical activities may accelerate recovery. Back pain may be eliminated by painkillers; the truth is that nutritional supplements may control back pain. - Migraines without Medications
Migraines can be prevented through eating pain-safe foods and eliminating foods that are migraine triggers. Keep a diary of all the foods that may cause migraines. At the first hint of an impending migraine attack, massage the large blood vessel in the temple area. In addition, use feverfew and ginger, as well as vitamins and minerals, such as calcium, vitamin D, and magnesium, to combat migraines. - Mercury Contamination of Fish
Mercury contamination of fish is a health issue. Mercury toxicity is the cause of many health problems and disorders, especially among children and pregnant women. Mercury can never be eliminated from the environment. Most of our exposure to mercury comes from our diet, especially from fish. Bigger fish have more mercury contamination than smaller ones. - Is an Herb a True Medication?
Herbs are Nature's gifts. Many herbs do have their medicinal properties, which can cure many ailments with fewer side effects than pharmaceutical drugs. Indeed, some Western medications do include herbs in their ingredients - a testament to the medicinal potency of herbs. Because there is no regulation of herbal supplements by the FDA, consumers should be knowledgeable of herbs and their medicinal properties. - How to Think Young and Stay Young
Thinking young is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Your brain does not age easily; in fact, it has unlimited and untapped potential. Learn to fully utilize your brain through synaptic plasticity. Give your brain the appropriate workout to maximize its cognitive functions through brain exercises, a diet rich in antioxidants, and hormone replacement therapies it needs be. - Goal-Setting Health Endeavors for Treating Bipolar Disorder (2)
Treating bipolar disorder requires discipline and training of an Olympic athlete. Using substances, such as alcohol, or junk food to get you out of the disorder is not a long-term solution. Instead, use your diet to manage your mood swings: eating pure protein without carbohydrate; eating complex carbohydrate with no protein. - Goal-Setting Health Endeavors for Treating Bipolar Disorder (1)
Bipolar disorder is a mood disorer, fluctuating between episodes of depression and mania. The mood swing is caused by physical, environmental, and emotional stressors in life. To control and overcome this disorder, the patient needs to be able to identify the stressors and avoid them. This requires rigorous training, like that of an Olympic athlete. - Goal-Setting Endeavors to Treat Bipolar Disorder (3)
Bipolar depression requires medications. Do not give up bipolar medications simply because you have gained weight. Like an Olympic athlete, train yourself to cope with weight gain through exercise, diet, and discipline. - Free Radicals and Your Longevity
Free radicals are byproducts of everyday reactions that produce energy for your body. The energy is produced by reactions between many substances and oxygen in your body. What gives life may also take away life. Free radicals can damage your body cells, the immune system, and your DNA, causing cancers, heart diseases, cataracts, and brain damage. Antioxidants are free radical scavengers. - Fad Diets and Eating Disorders
Fad diets are only temporary solutions to weight loss. They may adversely affect your body's metabolism such that your body will learn to maintain its weight despite your calorie restriction. Stopping a fad diet often leads to ultimate weight gain, not weight loss. Worse, switching from one fad diet to another often leads to eating disorders, such as food addiction, anorexia and bulimia. - Dealing with Pain
Dealing with pain is not to influence perception of pain through the use of painkillers, but to deal with the source of pain through diet, exercise, and acupuncture, which not only increase pain resistance but also prevent pain from occurring. Pain is often a warning sign of the imminence of a disease, such as chest pain indicating heart disease. - Conventional and Unconventional Cancer Treatments - Part One
There is an array of cancer treatment options - conventional and unconventional. Conventional cancer treatments include cancer surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy. They all have undesirable side effects, ranging from damage to heart muscles, leukemia, to predisposition to second cancer. The multi-dollar cancer industry does not encourage or promote unconventional cancer treatments. - Conventional and Unconventional Cancer Treatments (Part Two)
Unconventional cancer treatments are based on the concept that a healthy body with a healthy mind uses the immune system to combat cancer. Unorthodox cancer treatments include: using the yin and yang diet to create balance and harmony;, metabolic therapy using detoxification and rejuvenation with vitamins and proteolytic enzymes; cancer psychotherapy using mental imagery to overcome cancer stress. - Cancer Cluster and Health Hazards
A cancer cluster may be investigated into and subsequently identified by authorities when there are frequent outbreaks of a similar type of cancer in a neighborhood or at workplace where there is potential environmental pollution. Given that to prove the existence of a cancer cluster is extremely difficult, you should be vigilant and cautious of the environment you are regularly exposed to.
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