TAG: health

Garlic Proven 100 Times More Effective Than Antibiotics, Working In A Fraction of The Time

January 29, 2013

April McCarthy, Prevent Disease Waking Times  A significant finding from Washington State University shows that garlic is 100 times more effective than two popular antibiotics at fighting disease causing bacteria commonly responsible for foodborne illness. Their work was published recently in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy a follow-up to the author’s previous research in Applied and Environmental Microbiology which …

How To Prevent Enzyme Deficiency – The Cause Of All Humanity’s Diseases

January 28, 2013

Raluca Schachter, Guest Writer Waking Times “The length of life is inversely proportional to the rate of exhaustion of the enzyme potential of an organism. The increased use of food enzymes promotes a decreased rate of exhaustion of the enzyme potential.” –The Enzyme Nutrition Axiom formulated by Dr. Edward Howell Vitamins, minerals and all kinds of …

Spirit Meets Science Through Yoga

January 26, 2013

Christina Sarich, Contributing Writer Waking Times Yogic saints and sages as diverse as Matsyendranatha, Svatmarama, Patanjali, Sri Aurobindo, Sri Ramakrishna, and the more contemporary Paramahansa Yogananda, as well as others have long pointed to the effects of yoga on consciousness and biology. Is it possible that science is finally catching up to the memory of …

The 3 Foods That Can Be Destroying Your Health

January 25, 2013

Neda Smith, FDN, CMTA, HHC, Guest Writer Waking Times Often addiction, especially to food, occurs during your childhood years. We all remember eating cereal as kids, but over the past three years the amount of cereal consumed by children and adults has increased to an all-time high. In its original form it was designed to …

Modern Wheat Really Isn’t Wheat At All

January 23, 2013

Prevent Disease Waking Times Gluten intolerance is no longer a fringe medical concept. Researchers are fully aware there is a very big problem with modern wheat cultivation. Wheat is far from being a health food. It makes you fat, causes gas and makes your intestinal tract your enemy, or rather vice-versa. High-yielding and now genetically …

Eating Our Way In and Out of Our Symptoms

January 22, 2013

Dr. Colleen Huber, Guest Writer Waking Times  Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food. ~Hippocrates We truly live at a strange crossroads in human history. Over the last few decades, the human species has been hypnotized by the temptations offered by the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. The 1950s ushered in the “better living …

Decayed Meat Treated With Carbon Monoxide To Make It Look Fresh At The Grocery

January 22, 2013

Natasha Longo, Prevent Disease Waking Times  Most meat eaters may be unaware that more than 70% of all beef and chicken in the United States, Canada and other countries is being treated with poisonous carbon monoxide gas. It can make seriously decayed meat look fresh for weeks. The meat industry continues to allow this toxic …

The Health of Trees and The Natural World Is Closely Linked To Our Own State of Health

January 17, 2013

Karen Foster, Prevent Disease Waking Times  As a species, we’re just beginning to recognize that the environment is vital to our health. The need to reduce acid rain emissions, stop dumping hazardous wastes, and slow down deforestation needs be addressed from the perspective of people’s health. Evidence is increasing from multiple scientific fields that exposure …

Are You Taking Too Much Medication? Or Too Many Remedies?

January 15, 2013

The Health Coach, Contributing Writer Waking Times Throughout the field of health, wellness and medicine it is well known that too much is often much worse than too little. Most of us, given our American sensibilities and temperament, are predisposed to taking too much medicine, either on doctor’s orders or through our own self-prescribed treatment …

What Are the Health Benefits of Spirulina?

January 15, 2013

Dr. Edward F. Group, Guest Writer Waking Times Spirulina is cyanobacterium (blue-green algae) that grows in alkaline water. Spirulina is rich in protein and nutrients and been used as a food source in Africa for centuries. Today, spirulina powders and capsules are popular nutritional supplements. And, the rich antioxidant properties and therapeutic benefits are not …

5 Amazing Properties of Sunlight You’ve Never Heard About

January 14, 2013

Sayer Ji, Green Med Info Waking Times  Sunlight is well-known to provide us vitamin D, but did you know that it kills pain, keeps us alert at night, burns fat and more… Our biological connection and dependence to the sun is so profound, that the very variation in human skin color from African, melanin-saturated dark …

Apple Cider Vinegar for Health & Wellness

January 12, 2013

Beth Quist, Guest Writer Waking Times According to Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College in Berkeley, CA, apple cider vinegar has lots of healing benefits. It has been used for hundreds of years by traditional healers.  It’s alkaline property assists your body in restoring proper pH levels and brings health and balance back to your digestive system. Rich …

Top 10 Cannabis Studies the Government Wished it Had Never Funded

January 11, 2013

Liberty Crier Waking Times 10) MARIJUANA USE HAS NO EFFECT ON MORTALITY: A massive study of California HMO members funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) found marijuana use caused no significant increase in mortality. Tobacco use was associated with increased risk of death. Sidney, S et al. Marijuana Use and Mortality. American Journal …

Sugar and Saccharin More Addictive Than Intravenous Cocaine?

January 11, 2013

Sayer Ji, Green Med Info Waking Times Sugar and artificial sweeteners are so accessible, affordable and socially sanctioned, that few consider their habitual consumption to be a problem on the scale of say, addiction to cocaine.  But if recent research is correct their addictive potential could be even worse. Almost 40 years ago, William Duffy …

Why 80 Percent of People Worldwide Will Soon Stop Eating Wheat

January 9, 2013

Natasha Longo, Prevent Disease Waking Times The future of wheat is certain, and it’s toxic. There are as many health risks associated with the consumption of wheat as there are nutritional benefits claimed by the wheat industry. Why is there such a strong emphasis on the development of wheat products all over the world when …

Why The Apple Is One Of The World’s Most Healing Superfoods

January 8, 2013

Sayer Ji, Green Med Info Waking Times This commonly overlooked superfood protects the body from nuclear fallout, kills a wide range of cancers, and keeps the arteries unclogged — to name but a few, experimentally confirmed ways in which the apple awakens your inner physician. “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” This age old …

Wheat Gluten Newly Confirmed To Promote Weight Gain

January 7, 2013

Sayer Ji, Green Med Info Waking Times New research confirms some of the basic tenets of the Wheat Belly, a book by Dr. William Davis, which argues that wheat avoidance results in healthy weight loss. Published in Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry this month, and titled “Gluten-free diet reduces adiposity, inflammation and insulin resistance associated with the induction of …

How to Make Spiders Your Teachers, Trees Your Guides

January 3, 2013

Laura Grace Weldon, Guest Writer Waking Times Pay close attention to anything. In it you’ll find wonders. Consider the spider. We appreciate spiders in our family. A large orb weaver lives just outside the front door. Every night when we take the dogs out before going to bed we pause to appreciate the intricate web …


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