09 Jun 2010
A healthy lifestyle helps diminish the probability of developing
breast cancer. Having a child before the age of 30 offers some
protection because of the estrogen-free time period during pregnancy
and lactation.
If you have no control over the above, the next factor might be more
controllable: Read the rest of this entry »
05 Jun 2010
Many, if not most, cancer deaths come as a result of
infection by bacteria, viruses, and fungi- microbes that
normally would be destroyed by the immune system.
In the case of cancer, the immune system becomes severely
suppressed, partly because of the systemic weakening brought
on by the cancer process and partly because of the negative,
toxic effects of conventional cancer treatment – essentially
chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation. Read the rest of this entry »
When President Richard Nixon launched the war on cancer in his
January 1971 State of the Union, he called for “the same kind of
concentrated effort that split the atom and took man to the moon.”
Yet nearly 40 years and $100 billion in federally funded cancer
research later, it seems the lunar landing was a much less daunting
task.
Read the rest of this entry »
16 Feb 2010
Try these practical tips to help you shore up your immunity
and avoid cold-weather ailments.
More than 1,000 years ago, Hippocrates described the common
cold. Since then, doctors, nurses, herbalists, shamans, and
healers of every sort have been confounded by colds and flu.
Over the years, these ailment have been treated with
everything from cold baths and wet feet to chile peppers and
tobacco. At one time, fevers – common to flu – were thought
to be caused by an excess of blood and were treated with
leeches.
27 Jan 2010
October to April is flu season, when the influenza virus
causes infection in the airways. Every year, countless
otherwise healthy Canadian adults and children miss work and
school due to the flu. Often confused with a cold, the flu
causes headache, chills and dry cough, rapidly joined by
body aches and fever. Read the rest of this entry »
11 Oct 2009
October to April is flu season, when the influenza virus
causes infection in the airways. Every year, countless
otherwise healthy Canadian adults and children miss work and
school due to the flu. Read the rest of this entry »
04 Oct 2009
What you need to know this winter.
People with swine flu may experience body aches, chills,
cough, fatigue, fever, headache, loss of appetite, and sore
throat.
This cold and flu season you’re probably wondering most
about the H1N1 virus and the likelihood of either becoming
exposed to it, contracting it yourself or it spreading into
a pandemic which could potentially threaten your health as
well as those around you. Read the rest of this entry »
20 Sep 2009
Whether we have experienced the pain personally, or
know of someone who has, arthritis has affected most of us
in one way or another.
As you might have learned from my last Tele-seminar, CARDIOVASCULAR Health & HEART Disease Prevention,
to all the benefits of vitaminC, you can now add decreasing the risk of cardiovascular disease. Read the rest of this entry »
27 Feb 2009
Though wearing your heart on your sleeve isn’t usually considered beneficial, if we could actually do it we would be able to take a close look at its condition every day. Head off heart disease by nurturing the most discussed but least appreciated organ that symbolizes love and caring.
More of us die from broken heart than any other ailment. Although we know that heart disease is the leading cause of death in Canadians over 45, few of us have questioned the conventional ways that we try to combat it. Sure, we’ve been told about healthy habits to reduce the risks – by losing weight, reducing red meat consumption and avoiding stress. But physicians continue to prescribe cholesterol-lowering (statin) drugs, calcium beta-blockers and high blood pressure medications to millions of Canadians, with side effects that outweigh benefits.
But there are more natural and sensible ways to strengthen our heart. In fact, one of the greatest scientific minds of the 20th century, Linus Pauling, Ph.D., said that doctors have got it all wrong.
Every year half a million people die from coronary heart disease. In a recentCNN article discussing a new study based on the data from the Framingham study concludes: The study “reaffirms the notion that coronary heart disease is the 800-pound gorilla of disease in this country, now and for the foreseeable future,” says cardiologist Dr. Stuart Seides. Read the rest of this entry »
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