If you are considering a 5 day “spring cleanse” here is a shopping list and recipes for 5 days of fresh juice — which, along with water, will be all you “eat” for those 5 wonderful days. [Read more →]
Aging
fresh juice recipes
April 17th, 2008
Tags: Health Care · Weight Management · Healthy Diet · Aging · Addiction
Are You Toxic?
April 15th, 2008
Would you benefit from cleansing?
Yes, if you:
Smoke
Are regularly exposed to environmental toxins
Drink less than a litre of water daily
Drink soda pop, coffee or alcohol
Eat processed foods such as white flour baked goods and candy
Crave junk food
Are tired, constipated, bloated and lack focus
Have sticky or malodorous bowel movements
Have pasty skin or dark circles under your eyes
Have blood sugar problems
Have unstable emotions
Have unsatisfactory libido or sleep
Are over or under-weight
Use prescription or recreational drugs regularly
If you peruse natural health news, you certainly have read the word “detox” lately. You may have heard about how “body burden” of unnatural chemicals is higher than ever before. Industrial run-off into our rivers, pharmaceutical pollution flushed down toilets, burning fossil fuels belching into the air, fake food, plastic everywhere — all of this and more comprises an enormous burden for our internal self-cleansing systems.
The amazing human body has several mechanisms by which to rid itself of non-nutrients which come in daily through our nose and mouth. [Read more →]
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Milk Thistle (Silybum marianum)
April 15th, 2008
Milk thistle (Silybum marianum), particularly the seeds, has been used medicinally for over 2000 years. Ancient writings recommend milk thistle not only for liver and gall bladder disorders, but for poisoning of all kinds including from toxic mushrooms and snakebites. [Read more →]
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Industrial Chemicals in our Blood
November 29th, 2007
There’s a new wave in testing people for a so-called “body burden” of industrial chemicals in their blood stream. The results are shocking. A family with two young children in Oakland, CA
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Flu Shot Don’t Reduce Flu Deaths
November 24th, 2007
A new study published in the October 2007 Lancet (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science) by researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, concludes that influenza vaccinations in the US have prevented fewer deaths
Tags: Cold & Flu · News & Info · Head Space · Infection · Respiratory · Aging · Articles
New Scientific Focus on Ginseng
November 5th, 2007
New Research on Ginseng: Pharmacogenomics and the Yin/Yang actions of ginseng: anti-tumor, angiomodulating and steroid-like activities of ginsenosides. Chinese Medicine 2007
Long known as a whole-body tonic (the root plant, precious for centuries in Asian countries, is shaped like a person)
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New Info for Women on Testing Triglycerides
October 23rd, 2007
Abnormal lipids (fats) in the blood are considered one of the major risk factors for cardiovascular disease, a leading cause of premature death. Conventional wisdom has been to evaluate blood lipids after abstaining from food for 12 hours.
Tags: Blood Pressure · Women's Health · News & Info · Health Care · Heart Disease · Aging · Healthy Diet · Articles
Menopause
September 22nd, 2001
Q: I’m 50 and starting the “change of life.” I’m very upset that I can’t make a decision about whether or not to take hormones. If I don’t take hormones maybe my bones will all shatter. But if I do take hormones maybe I’ll get uterine cancer. So maybe I should get a hysterectomy. But I could still get breast cancer. Help!
Tags: FAQ · Women's Health · Bone Loss · Aging
Anti-Aging: Let Food Be Thy Medicine
September 22nd, 2001
Old age is a consequence of civilization; it is seen seldom in primitive societies and very rarely seen in wild animals. Although in this century the average lifespan of women and men has increased by 30% since the onset of industrialization and by over 300% since Neolithic times, we don’t exactly know how or why aging occurs. We do know that aging is a function of cells ceasing to divide. Some scientists speculate that any given differentiated cell can only divide a fixed number of times (as opposed to a cancer cell, which is undifferentiated, and theoretically immortal in that it continues, unchecked, to divide). The human body has more than 10 million, million (that’s 13 zeroes) cells, all of which are differentiated into nerve, muscle, adipose, etc., and are thus mortal. Given that we all die at some point, the objective now is to maximize the QUALITY of our lives and avoid controllable causes for pre-mature death.
Tags: Exercise · Healthy Diet · Aging
