tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54595432012-01-23T21:07:46.741-08:00Random thoughts, quotes and articles on alternative health.Sandynoreply@blogger.comBlogger301100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5459543.post-86291421242922414502010-07-01T00:07:00.000-07:002010-07-01T00:16:06.148-07:00

When diet is wrong medicine is of no use. When diet is correct medicine is of no need. - Ayurvedic ProverbI first became interested in Ayurvedic medicine when one of my sons developed a bad case of night sweats. He was so hot at night he could not get to sleep, and then was so tired in the morning he couldn't go to school. He had to be home schooled for a few weeks. During this time we took him

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My husband is currently recovering from a nasty case of poison oak. He got it at the local archery range when he went into the brush looking for his arrows that missed the target. The rash started a few days after the archery outing. At first he thought the itching was caused by a bug bite, but after a few days it turned into a pretty bad, bright red rash. He went to see the doctor who seemed

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I've added updated my pages to my Connective Tissue Disorder Site on irritable bowel syndrome and the links to diet and fungal infections. In general, the tips I personally found helpful are to: 1) eat mainly cooked foods; 2) cut out sugar; 3) cut out most dairy except for yogurt with active cultures; 4) eat a lot of soup with nonstarchy vegetables, beans and meat; 5) cut buck on grains; 6)

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One of my sons had the beginnings of Tourette Syndrome when he was little - eye blinking, facial twitching, eye tics, etc. Our regular doctor didn't have any advice for us, so I researched my son's condition using the book library at the local health food store. The indications were that he was low in magnesium, so we changed his diet to get more magnesium rich foods and give him magnesium

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In a study published in the The Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry, researchers found that the level of one flavonoid in organically grown tomatoes was almost twice as high as that in tomatoes that were conventionally grown. This may give people who choose organic vegetables and fruits in order to avoid pesticides yet one more reason reason to spend the extra money on organic produce.

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The common ingredients of health and long life are: Great temp'rance, open air, Easy labor, little care. - Sir P. Sidney

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We are what we repeatedly do. - Aristotle

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Back pain is one of the most common reasons why people visit the doctor. It is especially challenging to keep your back in shape when you sit at a desk all day long. Our bodies were designed to be outside picking berries, fishing, and walking miles to look for shelter, not sitting stationary and reading email for hours on end.Yoga can help to get all of your major muscles groups moving and

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A study published in the journal Thorax found that women who ate the most tomatoes, carrots and leafy green vegetables had lower asthma rates. It is important to note that this study showed association, and not cause and effect. Women who eat a lot of veggies may have other healthy habits that lower their asthma rates. However, since no other fruits or vegetables were significantly associated

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This article from Yahoo News notes that people who are "slow caffeine metabolizers" are more likely to have a nonfatal heart attack if they drink two cups of coffee or more a day. In this study the researchers believed the ability to metabolize coffee is a genetic trait. The authors stated that there is no commercially available test to see if your body metabolizes caffeine well. This is

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Yet, another urban myth of modern medicine bites the dust. Many alternative health experts have questioned the wisdom of women automatically taking calcium supplements for years, only to be dismissed by conventional medical doctors. Now a recent study validates that there may be a only very limited benefit for women's bone health from taking calcium and vitamin D supplements.

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If you can't beat them, file a patent to use against them. Multinational drug companies are now beginning to see the value in herbal and nutritional medicine. That part is good. The bad news is that they are trying to patent centuries old traditional herbal cures to prevent other companies from marketing them.

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A study from 2004 shows that eating some fat with salads actually increases vitamin absorption, while eating vegetables without any fat reduces absorption rates of nutrients.I've suspected this for years from trial and error because of my diet changes. If I eat a very low fat diet, I get edgy and my fibromyalgia returns, so I thought this was because I just wasn't getting enough nutrition from

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A new report from The Mental Health charity of the U.K. along with Sustain, the alliance for better farming and food, highlights the impact of nutrition poor diets on mental health. Basically, it goes back to we are what we eat, and this include the human brain. The human brain is made fromthe foods you eat. Is you brain made from carrots, asparagus, cashews and salmon, or lattes, Doritos,

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I think this just proves what many people interested in alternative health have known for a long time - that exercise is good for both your body and mind. While I'm not against mental health counseling, I think all too often people are given drugs and talk therapy, when their basic problem is they may not be getting enough healthy food, sunshine and exercise in the fresh air. Anyone is going to

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A number of people who come to my connective tissue disorder site also have symptoms of multiple sclerosis. A few years ago one of my neighbors was telling me about her MS symptoms, and there seemed to be a lot of overlap with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.So I did some research on Pubmed and found many nutritional deficiencies linked to MS, and interestingly many of the symptoms of MS are also linked

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I just added a new page to my Connective Tissue Disorder site on tics. My sons have mentioned kids at school with odd tics, eye blinking and assorted involuntary movements. So it prompted me to write about my own experiences with one of my children and facial tics. For a while, when one of my sons was around four years old, he had facial tics and weird eye blinking that was getting worse and

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In my experience, acupuncture didn't help any of my headhache or other pain problems at all. As such, I found the above link interesting. In my main web site I made a list of alternative treatments I found helpful for all of my connective tissue disorder issues, including headaches.The helpful treatments included diet changes, yoga, and Ayurvedic medicine. Treatments I personally did not find

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A recent paper published in the Lancet cliams that homeopathy works no better than placebos at treating illness. I would tend to agree with those conclusions. I've never been a fan of homeopathy so I can't say I was sorry to see these headlines today. I find it unfortunate that homeopathy gets thrown along with proven therapies such as nutrition and exercise when people talk about alternative

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"Scientific studies have found that Teflon's key chemical, linked to cancer and organ damage in laboratory animals, is in the blood of almost all Americans."It is interesting to note that most alternative health experts have been recommending people avoid cooking with Teflon for years. At our house we try to use only stainless steal or glass for cooking foods.

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I had an appointment at Kaiser today for some small skin imperfections I wanted checked out. We only switched to Kaiser in the past few years after my health had improved from adopting many of the diet and exercise changes outlined in my www.ctds.info site. My Kaiser doctor didn't know me at the time I was having severe bleeding issues, fibromyalgia, TMJ and many of the other issues listed in my

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Pfizer Suspends Bextra, Agrees to Warning on Celebrex - another drug solution bites the dust. Or as the famous quotes goes, "Some remedies are worse than the disease." ~ Publilius Syrus

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I read an article in the paper the other day about a disorder called Morgellons and it just blew me away. My son and I had many of the same symptoms, though nothing as extreme. The part I found especially interesting was that people with the disorder all had weird fibers growing out of lesions on their bodies, yet most of them were being diagnosed with "delusional parasitis (DP)". It's the

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Recent research show a link between infant multivitamin use and asthma. Researchers do not understand the reason for the link, but I have some thoughts....Mutlivitamins generally don't have any appreciable magnesium because it requires too much space to fit inside the pill or tablet. So they just leave the magnesium out. Yet this leaves the multivitamins with little or no magnesium, yet

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Click here to read Death by MedicineAn interesting and well referenced article on the failings of modern health care in the U.S. and the conflicts of interest in health resarch. Written by By Gary Null, PhD; Carolyn Dean MD, ND; Martin Feldman, MD; Debora Rasio, MD; and Dorothy Smith, PhD.Do you think you are safe and in good hands when you enter a hospital these days? If so, this article may

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I think it pays to be skeptical of what a lot of nutrition authors write about, especially when they don't have any studies to back up their claims. In many of my health books the authors warn people to avoid both honey and sugar and claim that neither one has any health benefits. Recent research shows this may not be true. Study subject who ate honey everyday were found to have higher levels

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Some food for thought about health issue and real versus perceived risks -I've been reading a lot about the risks of mad cow disease lately, and it seems like it is more of a media event that a true risk. How many people have actually died from mad cow disease compared to the number of people who have died from smoking? Oddly, there are bans on beef imports from countries where mad cow disease

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The Food and Drug Administration today proposed a new format for prescription drug labeling that will help reduce medical errors, which according to the National Academy of Sciences may be responsible for as many as 98,000 U.S. deaths annually. 98,000 deaths a year from medical errors - that statistic sure makes a statement. I think it pays to be cautious whenever one receives medical care.

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Another cute quote I came across recently:Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of which they know nothing. VoltaireOkay, so it's not a totally fair quote. There are a lot of great doctors out there. I'm happy with the doctors we have right now. But we had to go through a lot of old school doctors like the

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Hello and Welcome to My Blog!Please visit my main web site at The Connective Tissue Disorder Site Here are some of my favorite quotes about health - When diet is wrong medicine is of no use. When diet is correct medicine is of no need. Ancient Ayurvedic Proverb He that takes medicine and neglects diet, wastes the skill of the physician.Chinese Proverb Those who do not find time for exercise will

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