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  • A Healthy Food Relationship and Weight Loss
    Weigh loss can only begin with a healthy food relationship, which comprises a good physical and psychological relationship with food. To understand physical food relationship, you need to know the logistics of eating: what to eat, how to eat, and when to eat. Eating is a science, and therefore treat it as such. A healthy physical food relationship is conducive to permanent weight loss.
  • Binge Eating - A Component of All Eating Disorders!
    Binge eating is an eating disorder that begins with dieting, which is often abnormal eating. Feelings of deprivation, despair, and guilt lead to cyclical eating problems, such as purging. Binging is a component of all eating disorders, including anorexia and bulimia. Help an eating-disordered individual to re-establish good judgment and correct perception of self-worth in order to overcome abnormal food relationship.
  • Buddhism and Healthy Longevity
    Buddhism plays a pivotal role in healthy longevity. The Buddhist concept of no "ego-self" or "emptiness" takes away stress, which is one of the major causes of disease and illness. In addition, Buddhism focuses on the expression of compassion and loving kindness as the true meaning of life. This altruistic attitude inspires oneself, in the face of health adversity, to set an example to help others to relieve their own suffering.
  • Bulimia Be Gone! Start Eating Right Again!
    Bulimia is an eating disorder due to distorted perception of one's physical size and shape, resulting from abnormal eating behavior and unhealthy food relationship over time. It is a complex mental illness that requires confrontation or intervention on the part of loved ones or family members to effectuate recovery through appropriate eating disorder programs.
  • 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.
  • Confucianism and Healthy Longevity
    Confucianism and healthy longevity are inter-related. The concepts of "chung" and "yung" of Confucius outlined everyday health practices for healthy living. In addition, Confucianism focus on spiritual wellness, using the human will to control the 'qi' (internal vital energy), enhanced both the physical and spiritual wellness necessary for healthy longevity.
  • 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.
  • Food Addiction and Your Longevity
    Food addiction is binge eating, compulsive eating, food fixation, and eating disorder. It is an unhealthy relationship with food, resulting in abnormal behavior that interferes with health, happiness, relationship, and longevity. Food addiction is a disease of the mind. Food addicts strive to control their eating to compensate for the lack of control they feel in other areas of their lives.
  • Food Toxics and Health Hazards
    Food toxics may be a health concern. Food toxicology due to pesticides, growth-enhancing dietary hormones in beef, and food additives may cause cancer, birth defects, and allergies, among others, especially in children. A wary consumer should read food labels, and go organic whenever and wherever possible.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 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.
  • How To Overcome Your Financial Stress
    Financial stress is inevitable because financial problems, as any other problems in life, are unavoidable. Integrity, one of the most important core values in life, enables you to see the true value of money, instead of the value of the things money can buy. Integrity enables you not only to confront your financial problems but also to seek solutions, thereby eliminating your financial stress.
  • 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.
  • Is Steroid Therapy Right For You?
    Steroid therapy is the use of steroid medications to treat certain types of disease and disorder, including myasthenia gravis. The major adverse side effects are bone loss, high blood pressure, and weight gain, among others, which impair an already weakened immune system. The author relates his own experience of steroid therapy, and how and why he decides to abandon steroid medications.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The Health Potency of Tea
    Tea has been a healthful drink for Asians for many centuries. Recent scientific studies have pointed to the health benefits of green tea in heart health, cancer prevention, and oral health due to its polyphenols, which are antioxidant nutrients to combat damaging of free radicals to overall health.
  • The Spiritual Aspects of Living Debt Free
    The spiritual aspects of living debt free are based on gratitude, sharing, and trusting. These spiritual aspects should be evidenced in your smart money management founded on the principle that God owns it all and that you are but a steward of God's money and therefore the implicit responsibilities of taking care of your money. Stop spending on yourself, share it with others, and start saving for the future.
  • Understanding the Human Side of a Debt Collector May Help You Deal with One (Part One)
    Debt collection is commonplace. Understanding a debt collector may help you deal with one. According to Sun Tsu's "Art of War", knowing your enemy (your debt collector) and knowing yourself will help you deal with debt collectors, especially when you are knowledgeable of the laws and your rights. To deal with creditors, be a smart consumer and use your debt collector to help you resolve your financial problems.
  • Understanding the Human Side of a Debt Collector May Help You Deal with One (Part 2)
    Dealing with debt collectors requires good communication, which can help you ultimately in the form of special repayment arrangements. The worst option, on the other hand, is to ignore your debt collectors or fail to keep your promises made to them. With a repayment plan and documents organized, call your creditor to deal with your credit card debt. Document the conversation to show your sincerity and goodwill to bring your account current.
  • Use the Law to Protect Your Credit and Save You Money
    Be knowledgeable of the laws and regulations that protect your credit and save you money. As a smart consumer, always use these laws and regulations to your own advantage. Always read the fine print before signing any document related to credit and money. If in doubt, always ask. Being smart and knowledgeable is the key to debt free and financial freedom.
  • Why Are You Addicted to Cheese?
    Cheese craving is due to the presence of opiates in dairy products, which make you become addicted. Cheese addiction is bad for your health because cheese is concentrated protein loaded with saturated fat. Overcome your cheese addiction by controlling your blood sugar level and regulating your appetite-controlling hormone through eating a high-fiber and low-fat diet, and exercising daily. The health benefits of not eating cheese are substantial.
  • 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.
  • Why Are You Addicted to Sugar?
    Sugar addiction creates many health hazards, such as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. Carbohydrates do not make you fat, but sugar does. Sugar is hidden in many processed foods and drinks. Beware of sugar traps in your diet. Sugar is addictive, especially with the addition of salt and fat. To stop sugar addiction, consume more healthy carbohydrates for fiber, and eat less fat and salt in your diet.
  • Why Do People Go Into Debt?
    Many people get into debt for various reasons, including deficit spending, unforeseeable circumstances, personal choice, self-denial, and ignorance. To stay debt free, you need to have self-discipline to curb unnecessary spending, keep a healthy body and mind, as well as a healthy marriage. Also. you need to educate yourself on money matters. Stay debt free for the rest of your life.
  • 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.
  • Your Psychological Food Relationship and Your Health
    Psychological food relationship is related to how you think about food and its effect on your weight and body image. Unhealthy psychological food relationship, due to negative emotions or distorted thinking, often results in food addiction or an eating disorder. To improve your psychological relationship with food, you must identify the trigger and deal with it head-on. To ignore it only perpetuates the unhealthy eating behavior.
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