Health & Wellness

Just One Thing! Health Habits for the Overwhelmed.

THIS MONTH: Rocket Fuel in Milk and Reusable Water Bottles; Aluminum or Stainless?   Suffering from wellness information overload? Each month we briefly cover one topic that will enhance your health and one topic that can threaten your health. Consider this your Cliff Notes of wellness habits. Just One Thing - Not to Do: Overdo milk and cheese consumption. Q. Can drinking a glass of milk... [Read more]

Just One Thing! Health Habits for the Overwhelmed.

This month we consider the long term impact of antibiotics and the benefits of giving sprouts a chance.   Suffering from wellness information overload? Each month we briefly cover one topic that will enhance your health and one topic that can threaten your health. Consider this your Cliff Notes of wellness habits. Just One Thing - Not To Do Antibiotic overload. While there's no question that... [Read more]

Oprah Opens the Door to Bio-identical Hormones

So has everyone been watching the queen of day time TV these past few weeks? Not one but two days of discussion on bio-identical hormones. And you know that if Oprah touches it then it turns to gold. I am a big fan of Oprah as I feel she has given a voice to millions of people by addressing social problems that she genuinely cares about. So I was delighted to see her address women’s hormones and... [Read more]

Emotional Health Can Lead to Physical Healing

There is a holistic revolution taking place that is significantly influencing how the Western medical community views health and disease. Many practitioners now accept that a healthy emotional balance leads to a healthy body. It creates a beautiful circle of giving and receiving: if the body is not well, one's emotions and mental state are affected accordingly, and if one's emotional and mental states... [Read more]

Prescription Drugs: 4th Leading Cause of Death

If there's one thing the Heath Ledger tragedy proved, it that prescription drugs can be as dangerous as street drugs. The pharmaceutical industry markets, sells and profits greatly from prescription drugs that, at best, mainly work in 30% to 50% of people and, at worst, actually contribute to hospitalization, permanent disability, disease, illness and death. Prescription drugs have killed more Americans... [Read more]

The Best Cancer-Fighting Foods

A doctor with a malignant tumor changes his diet to stave off his disease I was diagnosed with brain cancer about 16 years ago. I received chemotherapy and went into remission, but the cancer came back and I endured two surgeries and 13 months of chemotherapy. I asked my oncologist if I ought to change my diet to avoid another recurrence. His answer was perfectly stereotypical: "Eat what you like.... [Read more]