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What is in a Chicken Nugget?
submitted by: admin on 10/10/2013
Two scientists from Mississippi examined two chicken nuggets from two undisclosed national fast food restaurants and reported their findings in the October 2013 issue of the American Journal of Medicine. The nuggets contained 40-50% muscle, fat, blood vessels, cartilage, skin, and 38 additives that we don't need in our bodies that included trans fats, sugar,...
What is Love?
submitted by: admin on 09/20/2014
Love is wanting another person to be happy. It is unconditional. Most of what we call love is meeting our own needs and is a form of self love. Love is not just a personal emotional experience. Generally, we appreciate somone when they make us feel good. However, this is not loving them, we're loving their satisfaction of our needs.
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What is Meditation?
submitted by: admin on 10/17/2013
There is a great distinction about meditation as it is taught in our culture as a relaxation technique, as another form of therapy or an "upper class Valium." It is a path of inquiry, self understanding, and a method by which we return to the center of our being to discover the essence of the truth in our life and the essence of the beauty of existence...
What is Socialized Medicine
submitted by: admin on 11/22/2024
Socialized medicine means that the government pays for health care. Universal health care means the everyone gets health care, but does not require it be paid for by the government. Obama’s health care plan is discussed.
What is Sufficient Treatment for Cancer?
submitted by: admin on 10/17/2013
When do you know you're getting the right cancer treatment? How do patients get reliable information for treatment? How far should mainstream physicians go when recommending treatments? We need doctors that are knowledgeable in both mainstream and alternative therapies so patients can get the best of both worlds. FDA off-label usage is discussed.
What is Well-Being with Jimmy Parker
submitted by: admin on 10/17/2013
Well being includes physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual perspectives. The example of how a tennis player addresses a tennis match is discussed in this regard. What we think can be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
What You Should Know About Acid Blockers and Heart Attacks
submitted by: admin on 06/16/2015
A clinical study published in the June 2015 issue of PLoS on three million patients conducted from 1994-2012 on people with GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease or hiatal hernia) showed a 16% increased risk for heart attacks in the general population. In people with a history of heart disease the risk of dying doubled! Still think the purple pill is a good...
Who Says There's no Money in Making Vaccines?
submitted by: admin on 10/12/2013
Vaccine manufacturers get billions of dollars in government contracts every year. In 2011 the top six vaccine makers received $5.7 billion from these contracts. Children who cannot afford the cost of vaccines are given free immunizations through the Vaccines for Children Program (VFC). This is often considered to be indisputable proof of kindness on...
Who Should Take Your Blood Pressure?
submitted by: admin on 10/12/2013
The best way to take your blood pressure is yourself at home, not in the doctor's office. White coat hypertension is very common and leads to false elevations that are often treated with medications that are not needed. Automatic blood pressure machines are the best.
Why Belly Fat is not All Bad
submitted by: admin on 11/27/2013
When I was in medical school the omentum, that fatty membrane in the abdomen that covers the abdominal cavity and its organs, was believed to be no more than a repository for fat. Today researchers have discovered that it is a organ that regulates immune T cells and is a rich repository of stem cells that are necessary for organ repair and regeneration. It may...
Why Children are Depressed
submitted by: admin on 10/17/2013
10% of kids are depressed and far too many are treated with drug therapies. The causes of this depression are explored and approaches to treatment considered. Kids need healthy role models.
Why Doctors Over-diagnose and Over-Treat Blood Pressure
submitted by: admin on 01/05/2015
The United States Preventive Task Force reviewed 27 studies in February of 2014 to determine the benefits and harms of screening for high blood pressure and concluded that office blood pressure readings are not accurate about half of the time. This leads to over-diagnosis and over-treatment of blood pressure. For this reason they recommended ambulatory blood...
Why it is Time to End Routine Mammograms
submitted by: admin on 06/01/2015
In a commentary by Eric Topol, MD, in May of 2015 in WebMD, he stated that there is more harm than good for screening mammography...and Vicki and I agree! He reported that all evidence from 1960-2014 for 10,000 women screened annually for 10 years, there are only 5 deaths. However, there were more than 6100 false positive tests that led to additional imaging...
Why Mainstream Medicine Resists CAM
submitted by: admin on 12/17/2014
An article published in the December 2014 supplement of Medical Care presented 14 original studies promoting the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in the military to manage PTSD. They reported that CAM programs are now offered in 90% of VA hospitals today for chronic pain, anxiety, PTSD, and depression. They can do this because they are...
Why Mental Illness is on the Rise
submitted by: admin on 01/25/2023
There is an epidemic of mental illness that has emerged since the onset of Covid19. Dr. Diane Hennesy Powell is an exceptionally well trained and experienced psychiatrist who discusses with Dr. Len factors such as environmental exposures, certain illnesses, certain pharmaceutical drugs, and the way Covid 19 was managed how this has happened. The role of spirit...
Why People with the Same Level of Hypertension Need Different Treatments
submitted by: admin on 04/14/2015
Treating blood pressure strictly by the numbers is short-sighted because it does not take into account a person's overall health issues. Certainly it is far more important to aggressively treat someone who has advanced arteriosclerotic disease than someone who is otherwise healthy. Doesn't it make sense to be more aggressive in a person with a history...
Why Poorer Children Tend to be Less Intelligent
submitted by: admin on 11/12/2013
Research out of Washington University School of Medicine that was published in the journal Pediatrics in October of 2013 looked at the effect of poverty on the brain development of 145 kids using MRIs. They did a study measuring the stress level of a mother and her child and then correlated this with MRI changes that revealed less white and gray matter in...
Why Practice Mindful Meditation
submitted by: admin on 07/13/2014
We are all looking for ways to de-stress and relax, and there are many ways to do this. Mindfullness Meditation promotes relaxation by encouraging being present with our challenges and accept them, rather than try to escape them. The Buddha taught that we should practice being with our problems and that when we do this we show up for life. The idea is to become...
Why Premonitions are Important with Larry Dossey, MD
submitted by: admin on 11/22/2024
Premonitions are related to survival. They often occur in our dreams and emerge into our waking awareness and frequently relate to the maternal child bond. Science and intuition are interrelated but generally discarded because we don't understand what is happening. We need to listen to our patients.
Why You and Your Family are Likely Malnourished
submitted by: admin on 11/06/2014
There have been several USDA studies published as the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys over the pasts 50 years and all of them demonstrate widespread nutritional deficiencies in the US. Our food is calorie dense, but nutritionally deficient in a wide range of vitamins, minerals, and nutrients that include vitamins A, C, and D and minerals such...
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