Monthly Archives: March 2011

Can High Doses of Vitamin D Help to Prevent Breast Cancer and Other Diseases?

Researchers from the University of California at San Diego’s rule of medicine in Creighton University School of Medicine have discovered that when much higher doses of vitamin D are consumed on a daily basis, the risks associated with developing several major chronic diseases are reduced by approximately 50%. Dr. Cedric Garland, professor of Family and ...…

Does Pre-surgical Stress Management Help Prostate Cancer Patients Recovery?

Researchers said the University of Texas in the Anderson Cancer Center, located in Houston, and Baylor College of medicine created a study to determine whether stress management improved the outcomes in men undergoing surgery for prostate cancer. A group of 169 man were assigned randomly to a two session pre-surgical stress management. Intervention, at two ...…

Mind Body Medicine: Does Improving Your Mood Help Your Brain to Think More Creatively?

While many people still doubt the power of the mind, the effectiveness of mind body medicine and mind body techniques such as laughter, also known as humor therapy, positive psychology, and the remarkable impact our moods have on our ability to function, one study has made a significant discovery regarding how positive emotions impact our ...…

Special Report Part 4: Japan’s Nuclear Crisis-Do Herbs Protect Protection Against Nuclear Fallout?

As the Japanese nuclear crisis continues to unfold, two weeks after the tsunami, with reports of water leaking radiation from the nuclear reactors, the uncertainty of the degree of damage the nuclear reactors have experienced, remains at the forefront of our minds. And the long term impact the release of radiation may or may not ...…

Longevity is Linked to A Fiber-Rich Diet

A study conducted by the National Institutes of Health claims that people who consumed high amounts of fiber, especially those from grains, have a significantly lower risk of dying over a nine-year period when compared to those who had a lower intake of fiber. Whole grains, beans, nuts, fruits and vegetables, contain fibers that helps ...…

Is Exercise the Ultimate Anti-aging Technique?

His study was published in the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that exercise, reduced or eliminated practically every significant effect of aging in mice that were genetically program to rapidly age.…

Special Report Part 3: Japan’s Nuclear Crisis-Can Vitamins Protect My Body From Radiation Poisoning?

While acute radiation sickness is most worrisome as  the events unfolding at Japan’s Fujishima Nuclear Power Plant, long term exposure to low doses of radiation, which happened after Chernobyl’s meltdown in 1986 is a potential danger for not only Japan, but North America, as the jet stream delivers radioactive material emitted from the plant. According ...…

Special Report Part 2: Japan’s Nuclear Crisis- Can I Naturally Protect Myself from Acute Radiation Poisoning?

In Part 1 of my Special Report , I shared with you the fact that Potassium Iodide protects against only one specific radioactive material. Does Potassium Iodide Protect My Entire Body? No it doesn’t. While many may have the belief that taking Potassium Iodide protects them against all radiation exposure, that is not true.  Potassium ...…

Special Report: Japan’s Nuclear Crisis and How Can I Protect Myself from Acute Radiation Poisoning?

A week after the largest earthquake in to hit Japan in history, four of the six nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station are still in various stages of meltdown and continue to deteriorate. The unbelievable disastrous chain of events triggered by the 9.0 magnitude earthquake and subsequent Tsunami that devastated the northeast ...…

Optimism Decreases A Woman’s Risk of Heart Disease and Death

Researchers have found that women with high levels of cynical hostility, harboring hostile thoughts towards other or having a general mistrust of people are at higher risk of dying, but the risk of developing heart disease wasn’t different from non-hostile women. Hillary A.  Tendo, M.D., MPH, lead author of the study and assistant professor of ...…