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Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. It is a time I relish because I get to be around family and friends, to cook and eat food made with love, to share in meaningful conversation, and no one has to exchange gifts. Being together with loved ones is the gift, and I am grateful for it. Gratitude is a powerful social emotion; a deep feeling of thankfulness, one that has long reaching…
In 1971, mainstream medicine cast aside a Nobel Prize-winning chemist Linus Pauling’s proof that vitamin C kills cancer cells. Around the same time, Big Pharma was busy developing expensive “cancer fighting” drugs that are now used by the mainstream as their only weapon to combat various forms of the disease. Can this be a coincidence? The good news is, Big Pharma’s big bucks haven’t stopped all research into vitamin C,…
Did you know that most prostate cancers do not spread and are not life-threatening? That’s the good news. The bad news is that the other forms of prostate cancer are aggressive, invade bones and organs, and are fatal. In the new study, published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, lead author Stacey Kenfield of the University of California, San Francisco, and a team of researchers at UCSF and Harvard,…
Advertising and hype is everywhere. So it takes some effort to look behind the claims at the evidence. But as you look further into the claims about coffee’s potential health effects, it’s getting hard to argue the drink’s many benefits. A new review of other clinical trials finds that coffee drinkers live longer than people who don’t drink coffee, and have a lower risks of early death from heart disease…
The symptoms often come at the worst possible time: at night, when you’re trying to sleep. It starts with a throbbing, itching or uncomfortable sensation in the legs and an overwhelming need to move them. Shifting the legs relieves the discomfort temporarily, but the symptoms soon return and sleep is elusive. This is restless legs syndrome (RLS), classified as a sensorimotor disorder that may affect as much as 10% of…
During the Great Recession, the newspaper I worked for cut benefits and then instituted furloughs and then downsized and then … Well, you get the message. I figured I needed to pick a Plan B career, just to be safe. I decided I’d go to law school. But as a first step, I enrolled in a paralegal certificate course at a prestigious college in Atlanta. For six months, I worked…
Low thyroid function is a very prevalent problem that really deserves some explanation. Your thyroid hormones are important for numerous functions in the body, and several chronic health conditions can be improved — which most people have no clue are even related — by treating low thyroid hormone function. Thyroid hormones affect many organs and systems The thyroid gland sits just in front of your windpipe in your lower neck…
If you have a food allergy, sensitivity, or even serious food-related disorder such as Celiac disease, you may already know that family and friends aren’t always the most understanding. My sweet grandmother wouldn’t let anyone leave her home without eating something she’d prepared—and being both southern and Italian, she could be quite insistent. She meant well. But for some of us, certain foods can derail your health in very serious…
Laurent Vidal is a 30-year-old French triathlete. An Olympian in the prime of his athletic career. And he had a heart attack. He suffered cardiac arrest during a training session last year, the kind he had engaged in hundreds of times in the past. Sadly, stopping training and taking it easy wasn’t enough to heal his heart — Vidal died of cardiac arrest in his sleep earlier this month. What…
All the fuss over sugar seems easily solved by just indulging your sweet tooth with a healthier option: fruit. But it turns out, that even though all of us should be eating more fruits and vegetables, research shows that not all fruits are created equal when it comes to health effects. The various fibers, phytochemicals and other substances in fruit determine how your body responds to a piece of fruit.…