“The abdominal area, with the internal organs and their internal structures, holds the secrets of a person: things we hide from ourselves. The body holds all kinds of strategies for addressing conflict, personal history, personality, tendencies. Thus the abdominal structure holds the secret of the future, of a person’s life purpose. Any deviation from that [...]
The next time you feel like your brain has been beaned by Oddjob’s bowler, you might want to dispense with traditional self help techniques. According to a report in the journal Cephalalgia, some home-grown modalities are a waste of time in the effort to heal the hurt. Researchers at the University of Padua, Italy, analyzed [...]
If 50 million Americans have high blood pressure, what are your odds of becoming one of them? Even the researchers at the National Mean, Lung, and Blood Institute didn’t know, so they utilized their own Framingham Heart Study to find out, following 1298 subjects ages 55 and older for 22 years. The results, published in [...]
Turmeric, a spice used in Curry may be beneficial for those suffering from inflammatory intestinal diseases, according to a group of researchers at the Hamamatsu University School of Medicine in Japan. Turmeric contains curcurmin an anti-inflammatory agent that has already shown medicinal properties in wound healing and neurological diseases. In animal studies, the investigators found [...]
The Food and Drug Administration is urging stronger warnings on products containing acetaminophen, the main ingredient in nearly 200 over-the-counter cold, headache and pain remedies, including Tylenol. Acetaminophen is considered to be the most widely used pain reliever in the world. The recommended dose is no more than four grams per day, though even that [...]
Persimmon may sound like a lovelorn heroine from a Jane Austen novel, but it’s actually far more auspicious than that. According to Israeli researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, this tasty fruit packs twice the antioxidants and double the amount of fiber of a fresh apple. And it’s fiber that helps lower cholesterol, fights [...]
IF YOUR BOSS is like ours – random mood swings, unprovoked acts of cubicle violence-then there’s a good chance he’s making you fin. A study at the University of California, San Francisco showed that subjects who were chronically subjected to stress had greater central-fat accumulation than subjects in a less stressful environment. If you are [...]
FIRST in tattoo parlors, bad-sitcom production and turning right on red lights, California has now taken the load in reduced tobacco use and lung cancer rates. Studying data from 1988 through 1997, investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that the rate of lung and bronchial cancers fell 14 percent in California, [...]
IF YOU ever wonder whether you’ll be able and willing to pursue an active lifestyle into your later years-enlarged prostate, osteoporosis and muscle atrophy aside-take a look at the documentary Surfing for Life, airing on PBS stations beginning in April and continuing through May and June. With interviews, rare archival surfing footage and some beautiful [...]
IF YOU’RE MIRED in a sense of hopelessness and with the rate at which serotonin reuptake inhibitors fly off the apothecary’s shelf, there’s a good chance you’ve been through that town-you may want to consider exercise as an alternative to expensive therapy or medication. According to a survey of 13,000 adults published in the Canadian [...]