"Five feet nine, 109 pounds or less," snaps a receptionists at the Ford modeling agency in New York City when asked for the average female fashion model’s height and weight. That’s 27 pounds under the lowest weight for a woman of the same height on the 1959 Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (MetLife) table, which from its publication has been the American Standard followed by doctors, weight loss programs and even internation airlines.
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 […]
Those white mustaches on the smiling faces of celebrities may be a clever way to promote the “milk does a body good” idea. But there’s nothing amusing about increasing evidence of much higher rates of breast and prostate cancers in people who have elevated levels of Insulin-Like Growth-Factor 1 (IGF-1), the hormone that increases milk […]
Imagine stretching out on the couch, a World Series game on the tube and a large bowl of chips sitting invitingly on the cushion next to you. It doesn’t get any better than that, right? Well, what if those chips tasted just like the real thing but were low in calories and had no fat?
