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In a small book, A Practical Guide to Holistic Health, Swami Rama lays out some basic health principles which are unlike those found..
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Reiki (pronounced ray-kee) is a form of holistic energy medicine that dates back to the teachings of Mikao Usui, who was a lay monk in Japan during the 1920's. In Reiki, a trained practitioner transmits energy through their..
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Emphysema or COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) is a name for the scarring of lung tissue caused by smoking, being around smokers, or by repeated exposure to other airborne chemicals like spray pai..
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Coffee and Stress Coffee doesn’t make you alert—it chemically induces stress and the stress keeps you alert. The constant stress of several cups of coffee each day produces a ..
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The HbA1c Test Anyone with diabetes is familiar with the devices that check glucose levels in the blood. This is part of the daily regimen. But there is another test that should be performed perio..
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What is Qi Gong? Ask anyone who practices Qi Gong (pronounced chee kung) and they’ll tell you how they practice it. Ask someone else and ..
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Less Sleep Means More Weight Sleeping less should make you lose weight—right? Unless, of course, you are eating instead of sleeping. Well it turns out that, on average, people who sleep less weigh more than people who sleep the recommended seven ..
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A 2007 study reported in the Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that AMD (age-related macular degeneration) is caused by high-glycemic (sugary) foods.&nb..
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The glycemic index measures how fast the sugar in a food gets into the blood. The higher the glycemic index the harder the pancreas has to work to produce insulin to allow the cells of our bodies to absorb the sugar (glucose) into the cells. Insulin attaches itself to a cell and works li..
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I believe in natural medicine; I always start with an alternative approach to any illness. I'm very suspicious of anything medical. I've seen MDs ridicule ear candling but I thought they were just being negative about something that wasn't pharmaceutical. So I've used ear candles on myself an..
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