Apple cider vinegar has many “folk uses” – from aiding arthritis to promoting weight loss, and many in between – but science-based evidence is somewhat lacking. Now, a small study suggests that taking vinegar at bedtime may help blood sugar levels in patients with type 2 diabetes. Researchers examined the effect of vinegar taken at [...]
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It is no secret that bottled water is a cash cow for big business and industry. Incredibly, it often sells for three times the price of gasoline, and more and more of us are guzzling it at an increasing rate. Already worth over $500 billion, the bottled water industry is 30 percent larger than the [...]
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The following is a list of healthy foods and ideas to meet your nutritional requirements while strapped for money whether that is a chronic or short-term condition: Raw nuts and seeds are packed with nutrition and many of them are very affordable. Walnuts, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds and almonds are all very nutritious and have [...]
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Lifestyle means many things to many people. For me it includes our natural environment, our level of stress, happiness and relaxation. Easier said than done. How about a few tips we can all do to create some purity, nature and rest in our lives: Pure air. For those of us in the Chicago area gets [...]
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Remember the column, “Laughter is the Best Medicine?” Reader’s Digest was on to something! A scientific study has just shown for the first time that laughter is linked to the healthy functioning of blood vessels. The study, conducted at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, showed that laugher causes the tissue that [...]
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(August 7, 2008)—It has been widely accepted that head and neck cancers are best prevented by avoiding alcohol and tobacco, but now there is more evidence that eating a healthy diet can also help. A new study found that people with the highest intake of fruits and vegetables had the lowest risk of head and [...]
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Research indicates that full spectrum light has numerous dramatic health benefits. Full spectrum light has two parts: one visible, one invisible. The visible spectrum consists of all the colors of natural sunlight, as found in a rainbow or light refracted in a prism. Ultraviolet light (UV), although invisible, is present the entire time outdoors during [...]
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You wake up dead tired. You feel like you’ve been hit by a truck. Sleep becomes sporadic, if at all. When sound sleep occurs, the restoration of energy is minimal causing you to meticulously save your energy like a miser hoards gold. If you force yourself into activities beyond the scope of your normal daily [...]
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Every client I see has some health challenge or at least a goal of maintaining good health. I explain over and over that the only way to meet one’s goal is to understand what are the causes of illness and what are the causes of health. In this sense these causes are mirror opposites of [...]
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The mainstream media is ablaze today with talk of an important new discovery that could lead to a “universal vaccine” that ends all colds for a lifetime. This universal vaccine, researchers say, would target a common configuration of proteins that occurs in virtually all cases of influenza, including H5N1 (bird flu), the Spanish flu strain [...]
