Food choices, alternative techniques foster healing

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Holistic health practitioner Rosemary Alden offers a comprehensive approach to wellness that incorporates mental, physical and energetic healing.
Alden, 65, focuses on steering senior citizens on the path to health. However, the holistic practices of nutrition, reflexology and Jin Shin Jyutsu, in which she is certified, are useful for any age as a complement [...]

Traditional healers’ remedies for mucus conditions

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We are now experiencing long, hot summer temperatures as well as some amount of wind that is blowing about plant allergens and airborne irritants. These allergens do affect the sinuses and stir up respiratory problems such as sinusitis and asthmatic attacks.
These conditions are usually triggered by allergic attacks possibly from environmental toxins, sudden [...]

Health expert ready to listen

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By Dr. Andrew Weil
July 24, 2007

When Dr. Andrew Weil speaks, more and more people are paying attention.The proponent of “integrative medicine” has written five best-selling books and been called an “extraordinary phenomenon” by the Washington Post.
Starting today, Rocky Mountain News readers can share his insights in his column, “Ask Dr. Weil.” Each week [...]

No safe diet haven

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Soft drinks – even diet ones – may be linked with increased risk factors for heart disease and diabetes, U.S. researchers say.They found that adults who drink one or more soft drinks a day had about a 50-per-cent higher risk of metabolic syndrome – a cluster of risk factors such as excessive fat around [...]

Using Meditation to Manage Relief

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If you are one of the millions of people who suffer from headaches you may have chosen to consider alternative treatments as an addition to medications or perhaps even as a replacement for them. Meditation is one such treatment and its roots are, in fact, very old.
Meditation has been used in cultures around [...]

Childhood Sun Exposure May Lower Risk Of Multiple Sclerosis

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People who spent more time in the sun as children may have a lower risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS) than people who had less sun exposure during childhood, according to a study published in the July 24, 2007, issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
 
For the study, [...]

Alternative Medicine: Simple steps to manage stress

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While most people recognize that stress affects our mental and emotional states, it also is important to note how it affects us physically. Poorly managed stress often is associated with common health complaints such as high blood pressure, diabetes, digestive disorders, headaches and autoimmune diseases. Working to decrease the level of stress we [...]

Alternative Medicine: Detecting food allergies and sensitivities

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Food allergy and sensitivity is on the rise. According the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network and the National Institutes for Health, as many as 30 million people in the U.S. have food sensitivities with 6 million to 7 million having potentially life-threatening allergies.
Just eight foods account for 98 percent of food reactions: milk, [...]

Acupuncture For Migraine Treatment

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Migraine sufferers often turn to alternative forms of treatment for a variety of reasons. It may be that conventional methods aren’t providing satisfactory results or it may simply be to extend the range of treatments being utilized.
Alternative methods such as acupuncture can be part of a treatment plan that does include medications and [...]

New Review Adds More Reasons To Avoid Diabetes Drug Avandia

Little evidence supports using rosiglitazone (Avandia) to improve the quality or length of life among adults with diabetes, according to a systematic review of data by German researchers.Furthermore, data suggest that the drug might worsen complications of the disease such as weight gain, swelling, bone fractures and heart disease. The new review supports findings from [...]