H1N1 Hysteria

After a long campaign to garner public interest for the H1N1 vaccination, public health and the media have succeeded in creating a panicked and fearful public. Our recent poll below has confirmed that many people are completely confused about H1N1, and that some of the hysteria is directly media influenced: H1N1 is a mild influenza [...]

Your Daily Detox, Vol1 Number2

In our western culture, we eat primarily sweet and salty foods.  For millenia, Chinese medicine has recommended balancing all of the tastes – sweet, salty, pungent, sour and bitter.   Eating bitter or sour foods causes a completely different digestive enzyme response than does eating sweet or salty foods.   In particular, bitter foods  cause a digestive [...]

New poll – Antibiotics and kids

As we head into the cold and flu season, we’d like to ask how often your kids receive courses of antibiotics.   As always, your responses are anonymous.   Do you think it’s been an especially bad year for bacterial bugs?  Let us know. Tweet

New poll – what do you think about H1N1?

Given all of the news surrounding the H1N1 virus as of late, we thought we’d ask you how you feel about it.   Let us know by voting in the poll below, and feel free to leave comments if you wish.  Select all that apply.   We’ll collate the responses at some point in the future, [...]

Your Daily Detox

We’re launching a series of health tips that will teach you how to promote detoxification on a daily basis. Click on the Daily Detox tag at “What’s Inside the Website” on the main page for the link to the Daily Detox articles. Here’s the first one: Drink 1 cup of  hot water mixed with the [...]

Infrared Sauna therapy shown to improve pain and stiffness due to Arthritis

A new study published in the Journal of Clinical Rheumatology has determined that therapeutic use of a far-infrared sauna leads to reduced pain and stiffness that is associated with Rheumatoid Arthritis.  In addition, the study found that the therapy was well tolerated by the patients, and did not lead to any exacerbation of disease symptoms. [...]

What you need to know about Vitamin D

Vitamin D is in the headlines frequently these days. Research over the last few decades has uncovered the critical role this vitamin plays in the prevention and treatment of many illnesses. From autism to depression, osteoporosis to cancer, vitamin D has created more interest in the scientific world than any vitamin in recent history. “The [...]