Understanding cravings
This article on MSNBC.com is pretty enlightening. (Click post title above to read). When I read the part about PMS and cravings it made total sense. I know a bit about serotonin, and the fact that the ...
Get Well Soon: Herbal Healing R-V
Rosemary: Fights exhaustion, jet lag, and weakness. Balances female hormones and contains over 12 antioxidants. Good for mild depression.
St. John's Wort: Sedative and pain-reducer that boos ...
Ginger for Motion Sickness
Motion sickness is a regular complaint of people on transatlantic flights or cruises, but you don't have to pop Dramamine pills to get rid of the queasiness. Five hundred milligrams of raw or powder ...
Decreasing Cortisol
You see all these commercials on television for dietary supplement that are supposed to decrease cortisol. What if you could decrease it without taking anything? According to a British study, you ca ...
Antidepressants Linked to Bone Loss
Those looking to get rid of stress and depression, take note... according to researchers from the University of Minnesota School of Medicine, the class of antidepressants known as selective serotoni ...
Genes plus parenting may promote shyness, anxiety
A mother whose child has a naturally fearful temperament may act less nurturing toward the child, triggering a vicious cycle of behavior that reinforces the child's fearfulness and shyness, researcher ...
Have Insomnia? Watch What You Eat!
If you're suffering from insomnia, the trick might be as simple as changing your diet. Apparently, half of all adults suffer from the inability to sleep at some point in their lives. Why, you ask? Wel ...
Exercise for Your Health (Physical and Mental)
Runners know the feeling: you've made it halfway through, and those endorphins kick in, and you feel like you could go forever. What began as something you had to push yourself to start becomes a tr ...
Top Five Healthy Holiday Foods
As much as I would like to, we can't call pumpkin pie a health food, but the pumpkin itself is packed with nutrients. The colorful squash fruit is low in calories, rich in vitamin A and contains mucho ...
Edible Rx
Before raiding your medicine cabinet, look in your kitchen for natural ways to remedy that sour stomach or skull-pounding headache. The following foods will provide instant relief — no prescription ne ...
