While it may be ok to work up a sweat during exercise or physical activity, night sweats are something completely different, and diagnosing it as just a symptom of menopause can do more harm than good.
The truth is that there are several things that can be causing your night sweats, and it’s important, for each reason, to see a holistic doctor and get it checked out, so that it isn’t just cast aside as a menopausal symptom. Continue reading “Ever thought about nature of Night Sweats?” »
When you don’t know who to believe anymore, what can you do? How much can you take into your own hands? More than you think!
While Federal inspectors have reopened a review of complaints by FDA scientists who say that they were being coerced into approving devices that may not have been safe for patients, that leaves us wondering then who is really on our side.
Continue reading “Who’s Watching The Big Guys?” »
Where do we stop when it comes to getting skinny? That’s often the question we ask when looking at a picture of a gaunt supermodel that we will never know, whose look we will never achieve. Or, we ask it when we hear about Hollywood and eating disorders.
But recently, the government is jumping in on trying to cure the obesity problem in the United States, not with methods to improve our diets, healthier and safer options, and guidelines, but instead, by looking into approving lap band procedure for millions more Americans.
Continue reading “FDA tries to cure obesity with dangerous weight loss surgery. Is surgery the only option?” »
If you knew that cancer has been around since the beginning of time, doesn’t the thought of a cure seem impossible? But what if you were told that cancer is actually not only on the rise, but didn’t exist in ancient history. That knowledge can lead to amazing breakthroughs in science, as well as hope for all of us that a change in our lifestyle may be a way to prevent the disease.
We see articles about it all the time. This medication now found to cause cancer, this activity now thought to lower the risk of cancer, this food linked to cancer or cancer prevention. It’s impossible to keep up. Even as a doctor, you’re recommendations to patients would constantly be changing, based on this study or that. Continue reading “Mummies Don’t Get Cancer” »
There is no doubt that stomach-reducing surgeries can make you look and feel better. A guaranteed quick fix, it has become more and more common in the United States. Singer Carnie Wilson had a bigger career surrounding her weight loss surgery, health campaign, and eventual weight gain, than she did as the singer in the 90s pop band Wilson Phillips.
We have come to depend on these stomach surgeries when we feel that we have no other options. But the truth is, that once you have this surgery, you are forever altering your body, forever changing the way that your body takes in nutrients and micro elements. You will never be normal again.
Continue reading “Weight Reduction Surgery Can Cause Permanent Damage” »
Several years back a local elected official in order to prove a point to government, set himself on a poor man’s diet. What he did was basically put his whole family on welfare for a month, to show how a poor family survives on little money. He took a $200 check and used it to buy a month’s supply of groceries.
What do you think happened to him at the end of 30 days? What do you spend per month on food?
I’ll tell you what would happen to the average family ( not this particular one ), if it has to eat cheap food: the whole family would end up unhealthy, feeling bloated and tired. They also would gain weight. It’s interesting that there is a nationally known term as “fat poor.” We used to assume that people who are poor would be skinny, because they couldn’t afford to eat, but instead, the horrible truth is that they eat unhealthy, cheaper food, filled with sugar and starch that fills them up longer. A nice dinner out for a family who can’t afford a sit down restaurant is usually fast food, which is loaded in fat, but quick and cheap.
Continue reading “Recession Vs. Health” »
When a food recall is announced, the United States media jumps on the story. Words like “poisoned,” “contaminated,” “deadly” have become a part of our vocabulary in recent years, thanks to food recalls. It tears the industry apart and no doubt, has lasting effects on people.
Mad cow disease, tomatoes, kids peanut butter crackers, and now eggs, we are faced with a myriad of information that we have to filter through every time. What’s truly dangerous, is it in our area, what can we do to protect ourselves, is it ever safe to buy the product again, what’s next?
The truth is, that even with FDA controls, we can never truly protect the quality of our foods. There is always an opening for poisons, contamination, and deadly consequences.
Continue reading “OTC Acid Reducers And Grain-Fed Beef Can Decrease Chances To Fight Bacteria” »
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Not long ago, a young man in his early 30s who was a patient of mine came back from a long international flight and noticed soon after that his left leg was swelling. In the long run, turned out he had a blood clot in his leg. He went to the hospital in time, his life was saved and we all thought he was lucky. Until he developed a clot again while on the plane, and this one he didn’t recover from. He was rushed from the airport to the emergency room when he died in the hospital.
So, how did this happen? This young man, like so many of us, took too many chances on his flight.
So, how can we stay healthy in flight?
It can become just as harmful for someone living with a spouse who is suffering from depression, as it is for the sufferer. You can feel just as alone and lonely, you can be stuck doing the work of two, also trying to keep the relationship while repairing your spouse. You can choose to be unhealthy and eat unhealthy because your surroundings are sad and depressing. From the physical to the emotional, living with a spouse with depression can be detrimental and bordering on abusive.
So how do you help your spouse get the help they need?
Continue reading “Your Spouse’s Depression Can Take A Toll On You” »
The “whole grains” you may be paying for, may actually not make a difference in your health! Even though the recent study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, says that in combination with other healthy behavior, whole grain cereal may lower your risk for heart failure, it still does not sound convincing. And here is why.
This article, as well as other articles about using whole grain cereals ( like JAMA article about whole grains and risk of stroke ), was done on the group of people, who are adherent to a healthy life style, which includes not only eating whole grain cereals, but also exercising, refraining from smoking, maintaining low body mass index, etc.. So it is not really clear from these articles, what the benefit is coming from: whole grains or something else.
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We are happy to announce audio version availability for the Longetivity Secrets workshop. Continue reading “Longetivity Secrets workshop audio version is available now” »
Taking proper care of your mouth and teeth can save your life, and save you from a lifetime of chronic illnesses. Many of our illnesses have to do with inflammation, from arthritis to heart attack. Inflammation occurs when our bodies try to separate the illness from the rest of the body and is our body’s natural defense mechanism. But with the advent of the modern western lifestyle it may be working against us instead of protecting us.
Your body can be filled with high levels of toxins, but you may not know about it because heavy metal levels are not routinely checked. Moreover, it takes a lot of time to get the toxicology profile, because without it we do not know what to look for. Obviously, it is not the routine part of your routine checkup.
But there is another method to help you find out what can be causing your illness, so that you might be able to grab the bull by the horns and get rid of the illness, instead of taming the symptoms for short periods of time.
Continue reading “When Did They Check You For Heavy Metal Toxicity Last Time?” »
Kidney stones are one of the most painful urologic conditions. And they are one of the most common problems of urinary tract. Kidney stones are bothering people since ancient times: they were found in an Egyptian mummy. But it does not mean that you have to suffer from kidney stones. Because the formation of new kidney stones can be prevented.
Think about it: kidney stones are salts most likely calcium oxalate, that our body cannot prevent form making crystals in the kidneys. So what happened to your body? Is it at fault? Or may be you are not giving your body what it needs for proper functioning? Or may be we are giving our body too much junk it cannot get rid of? Probably both.
Everybody wants to have a perfect body. And it is not for vanity reasons only. Because a perfect body means not only pleasure but good health. Usually we believe that only young people can have it and with aging it is bound to deteriorate.
But that’s not always the case anymore. With the advent of modern treatments even miracles become the reality. Take a look yourself. Here are some images of Sharon Stone at the age of 50. Does she look like a mature woman? I don’t think so. She looks much younger than she actually is. And it is not only her face, but her whole body. So how does she have such a perfect body at her age?
Continue reading “How To Keep a Great-Looking Body After Menopause” »