Archive for July, 2006
Boost your body defense
Eat lot of vegetables, both green and leafy, and fruits ! This is what many suggest. But why ? Because they are good sources of antioxidants. Antioxidants help your body from numerous infections and possibly diseases like cancer. They protect against f…
Healthier Alternatives
In response to a growing demand on the part of consumers, more and more organic foods are flooding the market. However, many shoppers only seem to have an abstract understanding of the benefits of organic foods on the environment and their health. Orga…
Organic Research and Harmful Pesticides
Throughout this history, the focus of agricultural research, and the majority of publicized scientific findings, has been on chemical, not organic farming. Surprisingly, few empirical analyses studies have addressed the question of pesticide residue on…
What’s Missing from Western Medicine: The Power of the Mind – Part I
In this four part series, I will describe what’s missing from Western Medicine that can get us well or keep us sick, and offer practical tools for harnessing this power.
Part I: What Western Medicine can Learn from the Scientists and the Myst…
What’s Missing from Western Medicine: The Power of the Mind – Part II
Part II: In Part II, I continue to describe the dichotomy within Western Medicine, and the concept of inherent connectedness of mind and body.
Not so long ago, before the advent of the pharmaceutical machine, with its vast offerings of new fixes for …