The Power of Visualization
The exercise of the visualizing faculty keeps your mind in order, and attracts to you the things you need to make life more enjoyable in an orderly way.
If you train yourself in the practice of deliberately picturing your desire and carefully examining your picture, you will soon find that your thoughts and desires proceed in a more orderly procession than ever before. Read more
Slow Down
Why we should slow down in daily life… Read more
Diet Soft Drinks Contribute to Heart Disease Risk
It’s common knowledge that people who consume sugary soft drinks tend to put on the pounds. But for all you virtuous individuals who stick to diet sodas, surprisingly, it turns out that there’s no such thing as a free lunch when it comes to soft drinks, even diet ones. Drinking more than one soda a day — regular or diet — appears to increase the risk factors for heart disease, warn Framingham Heart Study researchers. Read more
Zinc Bolsters Immunity
Zinc, an essential element, exists in nearly every cell of the body and is critical to proper immune function. The importance of its role in providing immune support is not yet fully understood, though a new observational study sheds more light on its significance, especially in the elderly. Read more
Natural Mood Elevators
Ads for antidepressants make it seem as though the most logical solution for a case of the blues is to seek a prescription. Pharmaceutical drugs may be helpful — even necessary — for people with severe depression, but for others, there are natural solutions that may work even better, with less risk of adverse side effects. Dietary supplements and lifestyle changes can be used to naturally lift your spirits. Read more
Check Hospital’s Quality Ratings Before You Enter
We live in an age of increasing accountability. Safety and “on time” information is available about airports and airlines… public schools are ranked on standardized test performance and other measures… and hospitals now make public all kinds of information on medical errors, safety and infection rates that was once kept behind close doors, if it was recorded at all. The trend toward transparency in health care means consumers can — and should — look at data about a hospital before making a decision to become a patient there. The only problem is it’s hard to know where to look and what to make of the information you find. It’s easier to compare quality and performance data for cars and computers than to weigh the quality and safety of one hospital against another. Read more
Drug-Free Methods for Weight Control
Vibrating Platform May Help Control Weight
Remember those exercise machines from way back when that featured a “vibrating belt” that supposedly jiggled the fat off your backside? They’re back… kind of. A surprise recent research finding showed that simply vibrating a few minutes each day, at barely perceptible magnitudes, actually slows the formation of fat. This unexpected scientific discovery was revealed during the course of other research focused on ways to prevent or slow osteoporosis. Granted, it’s hardly on par with the discovery of penicillin, but it is an intriguing and potentially valuable finding nonetheless. Read more
Natural Support for Liver Function
People sometimes complain of feeling “off,” a sense of being not quite well, if not exactly sick. This is how it was for 51-year-old “Larry,” a business executive in Southern California. Larry had been divorced for several years and whenever his busy work schedule allowed it, he was enjoying the bachelor social life. But now he wasn’t feeling right — at his annual physical his doctor said his tests were fine and maybe he just needed to slow down. That didn’t satisfy Larry, who was sure something was amiss. He decided to schedule an appointment with naturopathic physician Mark Stengler, ND, since NDs can often identify illness that MDs overlook in their symptom/disease-focused paradigm. Read more
One Way to Predict If You’ll Get Cancer
One Way to Predict If You’ll Get Cancer
A question to readers: Do you agree with the following statements? Read more
Natural Anxiety Soothers
The other day I heard from a friend of mine with a new baby — her second in three years. She sounded harried… hardly a surprise. She described her life as an endless round of attending to her two children, caretaking her husband, housekeeping and managing her career. She’s not sleeping well and frequently feels jittery and anxious. Not being one to turn automatically to pharmaceuticals, she called to ask if I knew of any natural remedies for stress and anxiety. Read more
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