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Ancient Yoga Can Help Relieve the Modern Malady of Back Pain Core stability, the buzz word that has been echoing around Pilates studios and gyms in recent years, sounds highly contemporary. --Fairfax Digital Scientists Probe Anti-aging Gene Scientists in the United States have discovered a gene that can keep mice alive for 30% longer than normal. --BBC News Forget Atkins -- False Memories Fight Flab, Study Says The potential treatment relies not on diets, medications, or workouts but on tricks played on the mind. --National Geographic News Can Mind, Body Workouts Hold Off Memory Loss? As scientists left the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association in Washington this weekend, they took with them the hopeful news that researchers may be on the verge of finding a way to treat memory loss. --BBC News The human race learned long ago that cooking meat before eating it would protect them from certain diseases. Since then this practice of cooking has grown to include all types of foods and is now considered an art. Very few meals are eaten which include raw elements, except for the leafy green salad... --Vegetarians in Paradise It is important to realize that all healing techniques whether they be physical, energetic, mental, or emotional are an attempt to reestablish proper flow. --Inner Self Deal With PMS the Ayurvedic Way Ayurvedic medicine is arguably the oldest medical system in the world. Originating around 3500 BC in India, the methodology approaches health in a holistic sense, treating the mind, body and spirit in order to establish an entire balance of being... --Conscious Living Positive Thinking, A Pain Reliever US experts say they have strong scientific proof that mind over matter works for relieving pain. --BBC News The Times nutritionist suggests 12 foods that may keep us healthier for longer.--The TimesReshape Your Body With Raw Foods A Raw Foods Diet will allow you to eat as much raw food as you want, and still lose weight. Imagine, enjoying an endless variety of raw cookies, candy, ice cream, pizza and at the same time, you are reshaping your body to a healthy, lean weight. --Raw Food Guru Sock Your Quads with this Intense Leg Workout Add these exercises to your routine and you'll feel the effects after just eight sessions." --Muscle & Fitness Strengthen your upper back and shoulders for a significant improvement in how you look and feel --Natural Health Millennia ago, the people of ancient China and India developed methods of exercise with exceptional healing effects. Although they evolved continents apart, Qigong, t'ai chi, and yoga have certain similarities. --Inner Self While I know it’s important to be an active member of my community, to stay informed on global issues, and to be involved for the greater good of humanity, I often find that the very surest way to induce depression is to watch the news or read the daily paper... --New Life Journal How Magnetism Can Restore Energy and Health Some time ago, I was running a Research and Development lab in electronics and was called in to consult on a study being done by a doctoral candidate at the University of Alberta on the effects of magnetism on patients with asthma... --Consumer Health New Study is Boost to Homeopathy A study at Bristol Homoeopathic Hospital shows over 70% of patients with chronic diseases reported positive health changes after treatment. --BBC News Genes Can Be "Changed" By Foods What we eat may influence our health by changing specific genes, researchers believe. --BBC News Wheatgrass: the New Age Super Food Wheatgrass is a healthy super food that has been used traditionally in cultures around the world. This article offers the many uses for wheatgrass, especially for its juice. --Authors Den Fasting as it is called, is the oldest and most effective way to lose weight and regain our health. --River Canyon Retreat A newlywed with supermodel looks, Kristi lives in Los Angeles and is a partner and co-owner of Juliano’s Raw restaurant in Santa Monica. Interview by Judy Pokras --Raw Food News Business Woman Takes Raw Approach to Recovery Shelley Abegg turned to a raw food diet after being diagnosed with cancer. --Living & Raw Foods Pain can be mysterious, untreatable and debilitating, and its causes can be unknown. But if you could see the pain -- or, at least, your brain's reaction to it -- you might be able to master it. --Wired News The Healing Benefits of Tea Tree Oil The essential oil of the tea tree is renowned for its antifungal and antiseptic qualities, and has enjoyed worldwide popularity since the 1980s. But, the people of its homeland have appreciated the health-giving benefits of tea tree for many centuries... --Look Smart The natural diet would consist of foods we could eat and enjoy-whole, unprocessed and uncooked, just the way nature gives them to us... --Positive Health Gerontologists are now reasonably convinced that no disease or degenerative process occurs solely by the passage of time... --Positive Health Acupuncture works by deactivating the area of the brain governing pain, a TV show will claim. --BBC News Aloe Vera called Nature's Miracle has been associated with myth, magic, and medicine since pre-biblical times. --Inner Self Yogurt Bacteria May Soon Fight HIV Brown University scientists say they've genetically modified some of the 'friendly bacteria' found in yogurt to release a drug that blocks HIV infection. --PhysOrg What can we do to lessen the stress and help us cope? One avenue is utilizing aromatherapy. --Holistic Health News Flower Essences Aid in Emotional Balancing Addressing the emotions, stress, and mental attitudes regarding spiritual values and purpose in life, flower essences deal with core issues of wellness on the spirit side of the body-mind-spirit connection. --Marian Brown Nutritionist Lindsey Berkson, M.A., D.C., of Santa Fe, New Mexico, sees today's typical American diet as containing too few foods. "Unfortunately, most Americans tend to avoid variety and commit the dietary sin of monotony," she says, "eating the same foods meal after meal, only disguised by different names..." --Natural Health Retirement Age 'Should Reach 85' The age of retirement should be raised to 85 by 2050 because of trends in life expectancy, a US biologist has said. --BBC News NHS Takes Up Cherie's Magic Magnets Cure NHS accountants are so impressed by the cost-effectiveness of a “magnetic leg wrap” called 4UlcerCare that from Wednesday doctors will be allowed to prescribe it to patients. --Times Online This extract is almost the entire text from the book Raw Food Treatment of Cancer by Dr Kristine Nolfi. --Raw Food Diet for Health Candida albicans is a yeast that lives in the mouth, throat, intestines and genitourinary tract of most humans and is usually considered to be a normal part of the bowel flora (the organisms that coexist with us in our lower digestive tract). It is actually a member of a broader classification of organisms known as fungi... --World Wide Health Center Report Raises Flag on Fluoride Government limits on fluoride in drinking water aren't protecting the public from possible tooth and bone damage, a prestigious advisory panel says. --USA Today The Joy of Not Cooking: Raw is All the Rage Tired of slaving over the stove? A raw food diet not only means less cleaning time in the kitchen, but possibly a healthier lifestyle, providing a person with a lot more energy and putting less strain on the digestive system and all the other muscles and organs within the body.--Montclair Times Probiotics Are Crucial Critters Scientists predict that PRO-biotics will be as important in this century as ANTI-biotics were in the last. Healthy by Nature believes that they are correct. –Marti Whittigan Looking younger and living longer has become something of a modern mantra. The Times nutritionist suggests 12 foods that may keep us healthier for longer. --Times Online Music 'Can Reduce Chronic Pain Research has confirmed listening to music can have a significant positive impact on perception of chronic pain. --BBC News It's been said that a man dies simply because he doesn't know how to live longer. Well, thank goodness for progress... --Wired News Spring Cleaning - Detoxifying our Bodies “Americans have learned to live not feeling at their optimum,” said Joyce Vopni, Certified Herbalist. Vopni explained spring is an ideal time to do a spring cleaning of our own body – internally and experience rejuvenation... --Holistic Health News Refresh, Revitalize, Rejuvenate, & Rejoice! The belief that we can do little or nothing to arrest aging and reverse its effects is profoundly pessimistic and — fortunately — wrong. --Llewellyn Some Air Purifiers Create Smog-Like Conditions Those using ozonolysis were found to contribute to ozone levels that can in some cases exceed air quality standards. --Live Science What Green Tea Can and Cannot Do For Your Skin Numerous studies have shown tea polyphenols to have protective effects against free radicals, cardiovascular damage, some cancers, infections, toxins and so forth. --Smart Skin Care Ancient Martial Art of Thai Boxing Jim Karas tries Muay Thai, an intense workout derived from battlefield training. --ABC News Pink Grapefruit is known to stop your food cravings, especially for sweets. --Holistic Health News Aromatherapy Travel Insurance - Essential Oils For Your Journeys How can we include a little 'Trip Insurance' to our already overstuffed carry-ons or mini-vans? Aromatherapy has an answer with some readily-available essential oils. --Holistic Health news |