Many people believe that they will be healthier, and live a longer life if they can get their cholesterol as low as possible. Drug companies would have us believe that the lower we can get our cholesterol levels the better. This is false and is no more than a plot to sell more cholesterol lowering [...]
Hormonal Harmony
Nature has designed your reproductive system to work in harmony, each hormone dependent on the other and all working together as a whole system. Any imbalance in any part of this delicate process will affect the production of hormones and with it the chances of conceiving or staying pregnant once fertilisation has occurred. It [...]
Mountain climbing in Nepal. Scuba diving in Honduras. Gorilla watching in Rwanda. If you don’t travel, you’re reading only one page in the book of life.
But if you do travel, you’re at risk for diseases virtually unheard of in the good old United States. “Of the 20 million Americans who leave the country each year, [...]
Although self-starvation in men is rare, it does occur. In fact, a paper published in 1694 by the physician Richard Morton-generally recognized as the first unequivocal description of anorexia- describes two cases, one of whom was a sixteen-year-old boy. As the author stated:
[The boy] fell gradually into a total want of appetite, occasioned by his [...]
For most of her life, Cindy Arvayo was an active person. Then, she started climbing the corporate ladder at an electronics firm in pressure-packed Silicon Valley. “With that came all the stress,” says Cindy, age 45. “I got into the habit of numbing out with food.”
After about 13 years, her weight had crept up to [...]