How well you sleep and what kind of bed you sleep on can affect your sciatica or back pain in several important ways: As we’ve already seen, posture affects the spine – and that also applies to the posture you adopt when you’re in bed. It stands to reason that lying for hours on end [...]

In earlier chapters I have provided some guidelines as to how to diagnose your own depression and when it might make sense to involve a doctor in its treatment. In this chapter I go into greater detail about this. Essentially there are five reasons for involving a doctor in the treatment of depression. First, if [...]

If all of the above changes have been made, and the chronic illness still has not been sufficiently improved, the patient should try eating a diet composed entirely of organic foods for two weeks. Preferably this should be the Rotary Diversified Diet described in Chapter 18. It would be ideal if every person could eat [...]

Knowledge of some of the basic facts about food perishability can help one avoid food poisoning on picnics, Indiana Medicine (79:360) reports. Because the bacteria that cause food poisoning cannot flourish or even survive for long in acid surroundings, special precautions are necessary with foods that are low in acid, such as chicken, ham, eggs, [...]

Symptoms: loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, upper abdominal pain, jaundice (yellowed skin and whites of eyes, dark amber urine, and light-colored stools), fever, headache, general discomfort Home care: Isolate the child, and then call the doctor. When a diagnosis has been made the doctor will order a home care program that includes rest, liquids, and [...]

It’s Who You Know You’ve likely heard it before, but we’ll tell you again. If you gather all the homicide statistics and extract drug-related homicides, the vast majority of murders are between people who know each other. Forty-four percent of people who are murdered are killed by someone they know. Obviously, that doesn’t mean that [...]

The extract is a substance taken from the New Zealand Green-Lipped Mussel at a specific part of the yearly development cycle. The mussels are cultivated on marine farms especially for this purpose. The farms are in areas which have a constant flow of unpolluted, highly productive sea water. This feature ensures the supply of first [...]

The main advantage of hormonal treatment is that it is usually a less drastic form of treatment and, unless you are unlucky enough to have severe side effects, it does not cause a major disruption to your life. The main disadvantages are that it cannot treat adhesions, it rarely eradicates endometriomas greater than two centimeters [...]

Of course, our bodies are changing from the moment we are born to the moment we die. We grow, we become ill and get well, we exercise or stop exercising, we age. By definition, adolescence is a difficult time, a period of rapid growth and development. No big revelation there, but a point worth keeping [...]

In 1994, Anita Beattie’s doctor gave her a harsh ultimatum: “Lose weight or don’t come back to see me, because you’re wasting my time and your money.” His words stung, but Anita knew that her doctor was right. She weighed 157 pounds and she also had diabetes—a bad combination, to say the least. “He kicked [...]