A sun of righteousness will shine for you, with healing in its rays. (Malachi 3/20) All nature including humanity is solar-powered. Take away sunlight and all life on earth would soon perish. Doctors and natural healers from ancient times relied on sunlight to mend wounds, treat bone diseases like rickets or lung infections like tuberculosis [...]
Uprooting the Leading Causes of Death Death in America is largely a food-borne illness. Focusing on studies published just over the last year in peer-reviewed scientific medical journals, Dr. Greger delivers a humor filled lecture and offers practical advice on how best to feed ourselves and our families to prevent, treat, and even reverse [...]
CNN Press Room Once considered a more underground activity, cannabis has become increasingly popular over the years, resulting in legalization to grow, sell and smoke it in states like Colorado and Washington. Cannabis has become one of the most controversial topics in America, but just decades ago it was a legitimate medication. No matter the [...]
The Men Who Made Us Fat Around the world, obesity levels are rising. More people are now overweight than undernourished. Two thirds of British adults are overweight and one in four of us is classified as obese. In this three-part BBC documentary series, Jacques Peretti traces those responsible for revolutionizing our eating habits, to find [...]
We've heard about the dangers of eating too much fat or salt. But there has never been a warning about sugar on our food labels - despite emerging research that suggests the sweet stuff is making more of us fat and sick and may be the underlying culprit of many modern diseases. http://youtu.be/xDaYa0AB8TQ [...]
Most people think that obesity and malnutrition are direct opposites. In reality, doctors say they are seeing patients who are both overweight and malnourished and are treating obesity as a disease. Our growing reliance on fast food and the readily available high-fat, sugar-laden snacks, means many are lacking the vitamins and minerals essential for health, [...]
Rambam medical writings abound with cautions against many foods he felt were detrimental to health. Two foods, however, are found in several passages throughout his writings to be what the Rambam felt very healthy and beneficial, figs and almonds. Today through modern science we now know why these foods are so valuable to a healthy [...]
Spring and summer is a wonderful time of year for those who have a garden, yard or even patio with flower pots. Anyone with just a little strip of dirt can enjoy the benefits of planting herbs, vegetables and flowers for all those delicious summer salads If we look at the act of gardening [...]
The Liver is our largest metabolic organ, and has to process everything we put into the body, including drugs, medications, food additives, pollution in the water and air The liver also aids in digestion,assimilation, elimination, detoxification, and filters out unwelcome invaders that can create illness. When the body is over-loaded the liver is one of [...]
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