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  • The Emotional Recovery from a Heart Attack
    Heart-attack survivors have to recover not only from the coronary heart disease itself but also from the emotions associated with their heart attacks, such as anxiety, anger, and fear. Depression is common among heart-attack survivors. Emotions may interfere with rehabilitation and recovery from heart attacks. Dealing with the emotional side of a heart attack is important.
  • What Do You Do When You Have a Heart Attack?
    Heart attack survival depends on what you do before, during, and after a heart attack. Being knowledgeable about heart attack warning signs, and adequate preparation prior to an attack may hold the key to survival from a heart attack.
  • Sharpen Memory Skills to Sharpen the Mind
    Sharpen memory skills to sharpen the mind to improve memory. Basic memory tools include association, visualization, creativitty, and organization. However, there may be obstacles that need to be overcome, and these obstacles, including distraction, lack of focus, inadequate movivation, and stress, can interfere with the process of remembering.
  • Normal Or Abnormal Forgetfulness?
    Normal forgetfulness is different from dementia or Alzheimer's, although they show similar symptoms of slower mental processing as aging continues. The main difference is that benign forgetfulness can be compensated by more effort and devoping new techniques to cope with slower mental processing, while dementia or Alzheimer's cannot.
  • How Overcome Difficulty With Words
    Difficulty with words is difficulty in finding words, such as names and familiar words. You know those words, but they are at the tip of your tongue, and you simply cannot retrieve them instantly. Difficulty with words is common, especially as you age. You can overcome difficulty with words by learning basic memory skills to enhance mental processing, by being well prepared to anticipate the difficulty in word finding in upcoming situations.
  • How Foods May Affect Your Body Organs
    According to the Chinese, eating is an art and a science, because foods affect body organs in different ways, either positively or negatively. The Chinese eat foods for balance and harmony, based on the concept of "yin" and "yang" which originates from the "Five Elements" of Nature. Therefore, they also eat foods based on different colors, representing the "Five Elements."
  • Body-Mind Medicine
    Body-mind medicine is important, because there are close interactions between the body and mind in disease development. Your mind is directly related to your body. Your mental state affects your physical well being. This body-mind medicine is the foundation of Oriental medicine.
  • How To Restore Natural Health
    Ill health is the accumulation of all the wrong things you have done to your health over the years. To restore natural health, you need a vision of good health and wholeness. Repair and recovery from ill health starts at the fundamental body-mind level. Natural health is more than just an absence of illness: it is how you attune yourself to Nature's natural laws of balance, expressed by your body's inner healing intelligence.
  • How To Overcome Time Stress
    Time stress is a major stress factor, detrimental to both physical and mental health. The solution to time stress is deliberate non-doing. Change your perceptions of time to prioritize what is most important in your life, and you will have enough time for everything. Meditation helps you sidestep the flow of time and see the importance of living in the present moment.
  • How To Avoid Or Overcome An Asthma Attack
    An asthma attack can be a frightening experience. You can alleviate asthma symptoms without the use of asthma medication, such as an asthma inhaler. Asthma has to do with breathing right, proper nutrition, and stress relief.
  • Macular Degeneration - Prevention Is Better Than No Cure
    Macular degeneration is aging retinal disease resulting in poor vision or vision loss. There is no cure for macular degeneration. Therefore, the best option is prevention through diet rich in antioxidants to prevent sun damage as well as to keep the retinal blood vessels open. Preventive measures also include giving up tobacco or cutting down caffeine, and protecting the retina with sunglasses to maintain retina health.
  • Why We Get Sick - from the Oriental Perspective
    Why we get sick? Disease begins with the mind, not the body. The mind and the body are two fully integrated features of life. As a result, disease of the mind is reflected as disease in the body. Mindfulness holds the key to health and wellness. A toxic mind breeds toxins in the body and impairs metabolism, leading to obstruction in the body's circulatory channels, and hence the beginning of disease.
  • Flexibility Stretching for Health Longevity
    Flexibility stretching holds the key to health longevity. Flexibility exercises correct poor posture, which may affect correct breathing. Flexibility stretching improves joint strength and flexibility. With better muscle coordination, there is a reduced chance of fall, which is the leading cause of death among the elderly. Flexibility stretching prevents lower back pain, muscle stress, and arthritic conditions.
  • Can Glaucoma Be Healed Naturally?
    Conventional treatments of glaucoma, using surgeries and eye drops, may lead to ultimate blindness. According to Dr. Leslie Salov, glaucoma can be cured naturally. Chronic use of eye drops may have adverse effects on the eye. Visualization uses guided imagery to bring more oxygen and blood supply to the eye for better vision health. Optimal breathing and meditation can also improve eye health. A no-meat diet can avoid chemicals to improve vision.
  • Food Choice and Your Brain Health
    Your food choice has a direct impact on your brain health. The food you consume today is not the same as the food your ancestors consumed. Today, the food is loaded with chemicals and neurotoxic pollutants, which damage brain health. Today's animal products contain excess iron, which is one of the causes of brain disease, such as Parkinson's and dementia.
  • Health Wisdom Is Knowing Your Doctor and Modern Medicine
    Modern medicine is a sickness business. As such, modern medicine is not preventive medicine: it focuses on drug therapy, rather than preventive therapy or nutrition therapy. Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, once said: "Everyone has a doctor in him." Be your own doctor, and use preventive therapy and nutrition therapy to heal yourself, instead of relying solely on modern medicine, which focuses on drug therapy and eradication of symptoms.
  • More About Zen
    Zen is total harmony with yourself and the world around you. Zen is a journey of healthy living, rather than a religion. Zen does not eradicate life's problems, but changes the perspectives of truths through intuition, which is self-awakening. The way of Zen is based on reflection of the Four Noble Truths, which embrace eight spiritual virtues. Zen is the way - not a way out, but a way through life's problems for peace and tranquility.
  • A Simple Diet to Eliminate Arthritis Pain
    Arthritis pain is joint pain due to joint inflammation. Conventional medicine uses arthritis medication to treat arthritis pain or rheumatoid arthritis. However arthritis medication has undesirable side effects on health. According to Chinese medicine, there is a close connection between diet and joint pain. Allergens in foods can cause allergic reactions, resulting in joint pain. The Dong's diet is a simple diet to eliminate joint pain.
  • Is Spiritual Healing for Real?
    Spiritual healing is rejuvenation of the body and mind through intelligent or immaterial part of a human being. Illness may involve not only the physical body, but also the emotions, the mind, and even the soul of an individual. Therefore, healing begins with spirituality, which is a reflection of the spiritual virtues suggested by the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi. It is based on a concept of balance and harmony of energy of the universe.
  • Use Mindfulness to Reduce Everyday Stress
    Mindfulness is a deliberate act of focusing on the present moment. Mindfulness can reduce everyday stress through changing the brain chemistry to heal anxiety and depression. Another healing power of mindfulness is its ability to enhance the immune system. Lao Tzu, the great Chinese philosopher, once said: "To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders." Mindfulness is about the stillness of the mind, which is mindfulness meditation.
  • The Philosophy of Acupuncture Treatmment
    Acupuncture is an ancient Chinese healing method using needles on the surface of the skin. It is based on the philosophy of Tao or Dao, which states that balance and harmony within the human body, specifically in the human organs, represented in the Five Elements, hold the key to human health. The objective of acupuncture treatment is to unblock any obstruction in the smooth flow of "qi" caused by the disharmony between the organs.
  • Gastrointestinal Health Is Longevity Health
    Gastrointestinal health is longevity health. Your gastrointestinal tract is where your food is digested and nutrients are assimilated. A healthy gastrointestinal tract with optimum gastrointestinal function is important for longevity health. Chewing food properly and not drinking any liquid while eating, avoiding processed food and sugar, and fasting for internal cleansing - all ensure your gastrointestinal health for longevity health.
  • The Dangers of Weight Loss
    Weight loss is a complex health problem. Obsession with weight loss has led to many potentially dangerous measures to lose weight, such as low-calorie dieting, using nicotine to lose weight, induced vomiting, compulsive exercise, and obesity surgery for weight loss. There are many potential dangers of weight loss, which may lead to development of eating disorders, and even sudden death syndrome. Overcoming overweight can be dangerous.
  • Are You "Really" Sick? Or Are You Psychosomatic?
    Today, it is not uncommon to be psychosomatic because life is full of problems, and our "experts" and "specialized" sciences only make our problems worse off. Psychosomatic illness is due to disordered body functions caused by disordered living. Disease is somatic, and an imaginary ailment is worse than a disease. The best prevention is to balance the physical, the mental, the moral, the intellectual, and the spiritual aspects.
  • The Differences Between Fasting And A Low-Calorie Diet
    Fasting is different from a low-calorie diet. The former is body detoxification to control body chemistry and optimize metabolism rate; while the latter is starvation, depriving the body of nutrients and impairing the metabolism rate. Fasting and starvation are not the same, but low-calorie diet is starvation to lose weight to overcome obesity problem.
  • How To Turn Into Reality Your Wish To Become Younger and Healthier For Longer
    To be younger and healthier for longer may become a reality, not just a thought, if you will acknowledge your own adequacy and learn everything you need to know about being younger and healthier for longer. The next step is to set goals and commit yourself to achieving them NOW. You may encounter difficulties and disappointments. Just persevere and you will succeed eventually.
  • To Be Younger And Healthier For Longer - A Dream For Many, A Reality For A Few!
    To be younger and healthier for longer is a dream for many but a reality for a few. People want to be younger and healthier for longer for good reasons. Being younger for longer makes you feel good about yourself. Being healthier for longer enables you to accomplish more in life. To be younger and healthier for longer is difficult because the American culture promotes a "quick fix" to any problem, instead of addressing the problem itself.
  • The Major Differences Between Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine
    The major difference between Chinese medicine and Western medicine is that the former focuses on herbal cures, while the latter uses chemical drugs to treat the symptoms of an illness. Chinese medicine is "heal-all" and Western medicine is "cure-all." The best medical system is to use the best of both Chinese and Western medicine to complement each other to keep you younger and healthier for longer.
  • To Become Younger and Healthier for Longer Is A complex Endeavor!
    To be younger and healthier for longer, one needs to have a broader mindset towards the different aspects of the self, which include the physical, the intellectual, the emotional, the mental, and the spiritual elements of the self. One's wellness, which is anti-aging, has to be holistic. Therefore to become younger and healthier for longer, one needs to embrace all the elements of the self, not just the physical aspect alone.
  • You Are Meant To Be Overweight!
    You are meant to be fat, because society and culture make you overweight. In addition, your bad eating habits may lead to binge eating and eating disorders, which may further aggravate your weight problems, leading to obesity. Your genes don't make you overweight: they merely direct where your fat goes in your body. You are meant to be fat because you make yourself overweight.
  • The Frustration and Futility of Weight Loss
    Weight loss is a complex problem involving not just the physical body, but also the mental, the intellectual, the emotional, and the spiritual aspects of the self. Most fad diets only address the physical aspect of eating. This explains why many fail in their struggle against weight gain, and only few succeed in overcoming their weight problems.
  • Avoid Processed Food Obesity
    To control body weight, avoid processed food obesity. Processed food is high-calorie and low-quality food that comes in a box, can, or carton. Because it is overloaded with sugar and carbohydrates, it increases your insulin production, which causes your body to store fat, as well as deprives your brain of glucose, resulting in food cravings - thus forming a vicious cycle of binge eating.
  • Diet and Hair Loss
    Your hair loss and your diet are related. Hair loss is primarily caused by hormone imbalance. Sugar is the culprit: it elevates your testosterone levels. To prevent hair loss, consume a sugar-balanced diet, which is a low-fat or vegetarian diet.
  • Diet and Your Orgasm
    Sex and orgasm are continent on the levels of dopamine, which is a neurotransmitter of pleasure. Fish oil elevates the dopamine level. Serotonin also plays a critical role in sex and orgasm because it improves the mood for sex. But it is not the more the better; serotonin has to be balanced. A diet loaded with soy is not conducive to good sex due to its adverse effect on testosterone, which governs sex.
  • The American Culture Promotes Accelerated Aging
    Accelerated aging is often a reflection of the culture because accelerated aging has to do with your lifestyle, your attitudes towards health and wellness, and your philosophy of life.The American culture, with its emphasis on high-fat diet, pursuit for material comforts, quick-fix mentality, and fast-lane lifestyle, promotes premature aging among its population.
  • Your Yin and Yang Health
    Chinese health is based on the philosophy of "yin" and "yang", which originates from the principles of the Five Elements: fire, wood, metal, water, and earth. These elements control and complement each other for balance and harmony. In addition, these elements relate to different colors in vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds, beans, and grains. A balanced diet requires eating daily all these different colored foods.
  • Is an Herb a True Medication?
    Herbs are Nature's gifts. Many herbs do have their medicinal properties, which can cure many ailments with fewer side effects than pharmaceutical drugs. Indeed, some Western medications do include herbs in their ingredients - a testament to the medicinal potency of herbs. Because there is no regulation of herbal supplements by the FDA, consumers should be knowledgeable of herbs and their medicinal properties.
  • Migraines without Medications
    Migraines can be prevented through eating pain-safe foods and eliminating foods that are migraine triggers. Keep a diary of all the foods that may cause migraines. At the first hint of an impending migraine attack, massage the large blood vessel in the temple area. In addition, use feverfew and ginger, as well as vitamins and minerals, such as calcium, vitamin D, and magnesium, to combat migraines.
  • Myths and Truths about Back Pain
    There are many myths and truths about back pain. Back surgery may cure back pain; the truth is that back surgery may be unnecessary. Back pain may be due to back muscle spasm; the truth is that artery blockage may be the culprit. Back pain may be relieved by bed rest; the truth is that physical activities may accelerate recovery. Back pain may be eliminated by painkillers; the truth is that nutritional supplements may control back pain.
  • Conventional and Unconventional Cancer Treatments (Part Two)
    Unconventional cancer treatments are based on the concept that a healthy body with a healthy mind uses the immune system to combat cancer. Unorthodox cancer treatments include: using the yin and yang diet to create balance and harmony;, metabolic therapy using detoxification and rejuvenation with vitamins and proteolytic enzymes; cancer psychotherapy using mental imagery to overcome cancer stress.
  • Conventional and Unconventional Cancer Treatments - Part One
    There is an array of cancer treatment options - conventional and unconventional. Conventional cancer treatments include cancer surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy. They all have undesirable side effects, ranging from damage to heart muscles, leukemia, to predisposition to second cancer. The multi-dollar cancer industry does not encourage or promote unconventional cancer treatments.
  • Dealing with Pain
    Dealing with pain is not to influence perception of pain through the use of painkillers, but to deal with the source of pain through diet, exercise, and acupuncture, which not only increase pain resistance but also prevent pain from occurring. Pain is often a warning sign of the imminence of a disease, such as chest pain indicating heart disease.
  • Pain Control through Diet
    Pain control is closely connected with diet. Pain control is to fight pain and to reduce pain sensitivity through foods. Choose pain-free foods as your staple foods, and then add foods that contribute to optimum blood flow to prevent inflammation, as well as foods that are rich in fiber to facilitate elimination.
  • Goal-Setting Endeavors to Treat Bipolar Disorder (3)
    Bipolar depression requires medications. Do not give up bipolar medications simply because you have gained weight. Like an Olympic athlete, train yourself to cope with weight gain through exercise, diet, and discipline.
  • Goal-Setting Health Endeavors for Treating Bipolar Disorder (2)
    Treating bipolar disorder requires discipline and training of an Olympic athlete. Using substances, such as alcohol, or junk food to get you out of the disorder is not a long-term solution. Instead, use your diet to manage your mood swings: eating pure protein without carbohydrate; eating complex carbohydrate with no protein.
  • Goal-Setting Health Endeavors for Treating Bipolar Disorder (1)
    Bipolar disorder is a mood disorer, fluctuating between episodes of depression and mania. The mood swing is caused by physical, environmental, and emotional stressors in life. To control and overcome this disorder, the patient needs to be able to identify the stressors and avoid them. This requires rigorous training, like that of an Olympic athlete.
  • Your Anti-Aging Immune System
    Your immune system is anti-aging. Its B-cells and T-cells protect you from disease and degeneration. To protect your immune system, you need to eat right, smother stress, and exercise regularly. To maintain your immunity, you need detoxification for a balanced acid-alkaline level.
  • How to Think Young and Stay Young
    Thinking young is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Your brain does not age easily; in fact, it has unlimited and untapped potential. Learn to fully utilize your brain through synaptic plasticity. Give your brain the appropriate workout to maximize its cognitive functions through brain exercises, a diet rich in antioxidants, and hormone replacement therapies it needs be.
  • Free Radicals and Your Longevity
    Free radicals are byproducts of everyday reactions that produce energy for your body. The energy is produced by reactions between many substances and oxygen in your body. What gives life may also take away life. Free radicals can damage your body cells, the immune system, and your DNA, causing cancers, heart diseases, cataracts, and brain damage. Antioxidants are free radical scavengers.
  • Cancer Cluster and Health Hazards
    A cancer cluster may be investigated into and subsequently identified by authorities when there are frequent outbreaks of a similar type of cancer in a neighborhood or at workplace where there is potential environmental pollution. Given that to prove the existence of a cancer cluster is extremely difficult, you should be vigilant and cautious of the environment you are regularly exposed to.
  • Mercury Contamination of Fish
    Mercury contamination of fish is a health issue. Mercury toxicity is the cause of many health problems and disorders, especially among children and pregnant women. Mercury can never be eliminated from the environment. Most of our exposure to mercury comes from our diet, especially from fish. Bigger fish have more mercury contamination than smaller ones.
  • Food Toxics and Health Hazards
    Food toxics may be a health concern. Food toxicology due to pesticides, growth-enhancing dietary hormones in beef, and food additives may cause cancer, birth defects, and allergies, among others, especially in children. A wary consumer should read food labels, and go organic whenever and wherever possible.
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