Browse Category: Holistic

7 of the Worst Health Habits: Do YOU Have Them?

If you’re like a growing number of people, you realize making a steadfast commitment to a healthy lifestyle delivers the best chance for living a long, happy life.  Most of us commit in stages making a few changes here and there, hoping the good outweighs the bad.   

However . . . don’t get too optimistic just yet.  All of your daily habits, the good AND the bad, the big and the small, affect your body, mind, and soul.

Big Pharma’s Big Threat: Intuitive Healing

For centuries, cultures around the world have realized that healing can take many pathways.  Despite what Big Pharma would lead you to believe, traditional medicine isn’t the only road toward healing.  It will be a sad day for pharmaceutical companies when people realize and embrace the idea that they do have intuitive healing powers right inside their minds – and it doesn’t cost a thing to tap into them.

Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM): First Choice or Last Resort

Nevertheless, acupuncture has been shown to be beneficial for many conditions, including infertility, addiction, and pain.

Don't Get Left in the Dust: Hi-Tech Tools to Help You Get Healthy

We usually revert to nature when in pursuit of wellness, but the New Age has no shortage of solutions for keeping yourself healthy. With the long-awaited debut of the iPhone 4 came a salvo of new web apps to address the user’s every need. When Apple claimed the iPhone would “change everything,” they meant everything; their applications can help you find a restaurant, track your finances, translate languages and, of course, maintain your health. Here’s a list of some of the most useful apps for staying healthy in a fast-paced, high-tech world.

Driving Dangers: Bad Car Behaviors that are Putting Your Health at Risk

If you’re like most Americans, you always have someplace to be. With work and appointments and meetings and errands, you’re constantly en route to the next destination and usually counting on your car to get you there. This might explain why there are 200 million licensed drivers and almost 260 billion registered highway vehicles in the U.S. alone, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.

But while those four wheels might be the most efficient way to get to Point B, they might not be the healthiest.  It turns out all this driving could have a negative impact on our wellbeing if we’re prone to certain harmful habits. If you do any of the following while behind the wheel, take extra caution… you could be heading straight for illness.

The Best Way to Get Rid of Those Toxins for Good

Detoxification is becoming an excellent option if you want to get rid of the excess chemicals in your body. Why detox? Well, with the advancement in technology and increasing demand, the field of agriculture is not the same as before. It involves the usage of many dangerous chemicals and fertilizers. Also, the air you breathe and water you drink contribute to the increase of chemicals in your body. Luckily, we've got the low-down on the best tips for cleaning out your bod, and finally getting rid of this harmful toxins!

The Proven Way to Relieve Your CFS and Fibromyalgia Pain

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and Fibromyalgia are two conditions that, for a long time, were thought to be “in your head.” The people who suffer from these conditions, however, can tell you that’s simply NOT the case – not in the least. In fact, the pain from these two conditions can be so debilitating that the consequences are far from benign.

The good news is that researchers are finding more and more out about CFS and Fibromyalgia, including how to address the symptoms and pain.

If You Can Only Go Semi-Organic, Which Foods Should You Focus On?

Let’s face it, organic seems to be the way to go these days, whether its fruits, vegetables, meat or dairy. Unfortunately, organic often comes at a hefty price. If you want to go organic but can’t afford to go “all the way” due to the confines of your pocketbook, you can still get the health benefits of organic foods by knowing which foods to focus on. If you want to go “semi-organic,” you need to learn which foods have the most contaminants and which do not necessarily need to be 100 percent organic.

Depression Hurts . . . But Do Meds Help?

You have heard me rant about over-medication in America. Do I repeat myself? Very well then, I repeat myself.
 
With society marketing ‘a pill for every ill,’ prescription medications have become our go-to cure for every mental/emotional/physical symptom. And with our soaring medical insurance rates and packed schedules, we want RESULTS when we take time off for a doctor’s visits, and physicians are happy to oblige. They write out promises for instant-relief in a bottle, whether or not it promises a long-term solution to our problems. Instant… like microwaveable mac-n-cheese: fast, temporarily satisfying, but WOW is that stuff bad for you.

Laser Acupuncture: The New Miracle Healing Method

You may have heard of acupuncture, and perhaps even tried it as a healing method for everything from poor sleep to digestive distress. But now there’s a new treatment available that combines the traditional practice of acupuncture with state of the art medical technology: laser acupuncture.