Americans spend billions of dollars a year on holistic healers, for both the services they provide and the remedies they prescribe. There’s clearly a cultural shift in the way we perceive healthcare and medicine. While more medical doctors are educating themselves regarding natural methods, it is still often the patient who must request these types of treatment.
Food and Pain: Making the Connection
Mother’s Milk is a Unique Blend of All Thats Best for the Baby, But Its Also Full of Toxic Chemicals
Be Comforted: You’re not the only literate person who has never heard of echinacea. If you feel guilty because you ran out of antioxidants two months ago and still haven’t replenished your supply, or you keep forgetting to take your chromium picolinate, relax.
In natural health circles, many people are tossing aluminum pans and using holistic underarm crystals instead of conventional antiperspirant. Their choices are fueled by a possible link between aluminum and Alzheimer’s disease.
Expectant mothers are notorious worriers. As the nesting instinct kicks in, they will lower their bellies down to the floor to scrub every corner with a toothbrush. In some cases, it makes them ban all solvents, bleached paper products and imported grapes from the premises. Considering all of the health threats children face today, clearing away environmental hazards should be a parental priority.
The Natural Alternative to Prescription Pain Relief Severe pain—caused by everything from lower back problems and migraines to a common toothache—sends most of us running to the doctor for a quick fix. Often, that relief comes in the form of a potent pain pill, such as OxyContin or Percocet. But those drugs work their magic […]
A treasure trove of baby teeth are just what resaerchers were looking for to see how the human body stores radiation from nuclear tests.
Even though most people won’t get sick from West Nile virus, we owe it to our families, neighbors, pets and wildlife to reduce the incidence of this mosquito-borne disease. It’s not too early to begin thinking about next year’s mosquito season. One of the most effective, cheapest and environmentally benign ways to reduce the chance of infection is to eliminate mosquito-breeding grounds around your home. The West Nile virus has been found in 36 different varieties of mosquito, but the CDC still considers the Culex variety to be its primary vector. The Culex mosquito lays its eggs in murky, standing water such as in puddles, birdbaths and discarded tires.
Natural Remedies to Make Allergy Season a Little Easier It’s springtime, and a young plant’s thoughts turn to pollination. This shouldn’t be a problem, since pollen isn’t actually bad for you. But it can certainly make you miserable. The American Academy of Asthma, Allergy and Immunology (AAAAI) estimates that nearly 36 million people in the […]
