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Eating Safely in a Polluted World: Part II – Maintain a Safe Supply of Food...
Following these guidelines will significantly reduce your exposure to disease provoking microbes in food and drink. (a) Always wash your hands carefully with soap and water when returning home from...
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Dangers of Iron Supplements
Iron is unique among essential minerals, because there is no mechanism for its excretion once absorbed into the body. Whatever iron is absorbed must either be used or stored and excessive storage of...
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Five Steps to a Happier and Healthier Holiday Season
Step One: Tame the Munch Monster The holidays are coming! You know what that means: family gatherings, office parties, the sharing of gifts, joyful celebrations…and the most stressful time of the...
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Friendly Bacteria
A large body of research over the past ninety years has demonstrated the preventive value of eating foods fermented with Lactobacilli or their cousins, Bifidobacteria. Eating these friendly bacteria...
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What is Integrated Medicine?
Integrated Medicine is a new way of understanding health and sickness. It embraces the best of conventional and alternative therapies, but is more than just a mixture of therapeutic techniques. To...
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Scientists have known for years that major and minor life stresses interfere with immune function and contribute to disease. Stressful life events increase your susceptibility to several types of...
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We all age, but the deterioration associated with aging (called, senescence) is partly under our control. Senescence is speeded up by toxicity and our bodies’ response to it. The human body has many...
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Eating Safely in a Polluted World: Part III – Hazards of Organochlorines
Recent alarms have been raised by worldwide pollution with these chemicals, which include: the pesticide DDT, banned in the U.S. in 1972 but still sold by U.S. corporations to other countries and...
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Using Friendly Flora
A large body of research over the past ninety years has demonstrated the preventive value of eating foods fermented with Lactobacilli or their cousins, Bifidobacteria. Eating these friendly bacteria...
View ArticleA Role for Food Intolerance in Childhood Migraine
Provocation of migraine by dietary components has been clearly described in the medical literature for over 100 years. Competing immunologic and metabolic concepts of pathogenesis have been proposed....
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Living Safely in a Polluted World: Your Home Should be a Haven
If you’re like most people who own a computer, you spend ninety per cent of your time indoors and indoor air quality may have a more profound effect on your health than outdoor air pollution,...
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Magnesium: The Stress Reliever
Magnesium is the fourth most abundant mineral in your body, a necessary co-factor for hundreds of enzymes, and the most critical mineral of all for coping with stress. Stress-related diseases which...
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Understanding Dietary Fibre
Fibre is the term that describes remnants of plant cells that are resistant to human digestion. The usual sources are vegetables, cereals, bread, nuts, seeds and fruits. Although medical researchers...
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Foods that Heal
Study after study has found that vitamin and mineral supplements improve the immune function of elderly Americans. The specific nutrients with the most profound effects on immune function are EFAs,...
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Immune Power For Kids
Asthma, allergic rhinitis, chronic otitis media and sinusitis are increasing at frightening rates among children in the United States. There are several measures that parents can take to effectively...
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The Foundation for Integrated Medicine: Supporting Health Care for the...
Despite great advances in the treatment of infectious epidemics, trauma and critical care, modern medicine is failing in its mission. Childhood mortality rates around the world are rising and the...
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Essential Fatty Acids — The Key To Health, Part II
Balancing EFAs and Anti-Oxidants. Because EFAs are polyunsaturated, containing two or more double chemical bonds, they are prone to rancidity, not merely in foods but also in the human body. Rancidity...
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Essential Fatty Acids — The Key To Health, Part I
Although the body readily makes most of the fat that it needs from dietary starch or sugar, humans lack the ability to make essential fatty acids (EFAs) and must get them in food. EFAs are found in...
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Eating Safely in a Polluted World: Part II – Maintain a Safe Supply of Food...
Following these guidelines will significantly reduce your exposure to disease provoking microbes in food and drink. (a) Always wash your hands carefully with soap and water when returning home from...
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Dangers of Iron Supplements
Iron is unique among essential minerals, because there is no mechanism for its excretion once absorbed into the body. Whatever iron is absorbed must either be used or stored and excessive storage of...
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