Year: 2009

This really makes no sense. Sticking needles into your skin along the “meridians” that allegedly course through your body. But here’s the issue: knowing WHY something works is not a prerequisite to it working. And, if we don’t understand it yet, if it does not fit with any of...

This series of pictures is stunning. It shows both WHAT the people of the world eat, and HOW MUCH they eat in one week. You have GOT to see this. Food QualityPlease note the healthy nature of the foods in ethnic cultures, compared to the traditional fare of the...

  Yields 2 cups   You’ll Need · 2 cups fresh or frozen blueberries (thawed if necessary) · ¼ cup orange juice · ¼ cup water · 2 Tablespoons sugar · 1 Tablespoon cornstarch · 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg · 1/8 teaspoon salt · ¼ teaspoon grated orange peel...

  You’ll Need: · 8 ounces plain yogurt · 1Tablespoon honey · Grated peel of a half an orange Directions In a small bowl, combine yogurt, honey and orange peel. Serve as a dip with fresh sliced fruit of choice. Tips If serving apple or banana slices you can...

Normally your blood pressure shoots up when you answer your phone to hear a campaign ad or sales call for something absurd. But the American Heart Association is now telling us that an automated calling system can help people with hypertension be more aware of the potentially disabling or...

Swine flu. Yes, definitely heard of it. But, what is it, really? Should I be worried, really? Dr. Charles Ericsson gives this primer — everything you needed to know — about the swine flu outbreak. It turns out that we have come a long way since the last incident....

Yields Approximately Ten One Cup Servings You’ll Need 2 ½ Tablespoons dried lavender 1 tray of ice cubes 2 cups boiling water ½ cup sugar The juice from 8 lemons 5 cups cold water (you may want to add more to adjust for personal taste) Directions Place the ice...

Eat less salt, lower your risk of heart failure. We know this, but are often not coached very well on how to achieve it. For example, in this research report, researchers found that patients THINK they are lowering their salt by having a few less shakes on their food...

Yawn. Ho-hum. Here it is again. Another study to confirm that the Mediterranean diet basically rules. Now the Archives of Internal Medicine weighs in to show that the Mediterranean diet “is the only dietary pattern associated with a lower risk for heart disease.” Faux foods, on the other hand,...

We have it on good authority …. The Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) is calling for a new era of beverage formulation. We need less sugar in our drinks. Why didn’t we know this already? Just asking. Harvard has called for beverages to have less than 1 gram...

Plastic containers can leech a chemical called Bisphenol A (BPA) into your foods and drinks. This is particularly true if you warm up your food while it’s still in the plastic. The amount of leeching is proprotional to the temperature it is kept at. Also, foods with some acidity...

If you could bottle laughter, and prescribe it to patients, you would make a gazillion dollars. According to this report, laughing (basically) gets rid bad chemicals and encourages good ones. Dr. Lee Berk, at the Oak Crest Health Research Institute in Loma Linda, assigned 20 adults with type 2...