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Let your exercise be your medicine, and your medicine be your exercise? by Peter C. Complimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine "Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food" Hippocrates 460 - 359 BC In this case, the medicine is not even food. It is exercise, intense exercise. A st ... Read on »
Landmark legislation on nutrition by Peter C. Complimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine "Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food" Hippocrates 460 - 359 BC Conventional medicine have for long been accused of emphasing too much on cure and n ... Read on »
Introduction by Peter C. Complimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine "Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food" Hippocrates 460 - 359 BC "Vitality and beauty are gifts from nature for those who live according to its laws." ... Read on »
Diet to prevent kidney stones by Peter C. Complimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine It is very unpleasant to get kidney stones. An ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure. Stanley Goldfarb, MD, professor of medicine at the University of Pennsyl ... Read on »
Food for avoiding serious birth defects by Peter C. Complimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine Spina bifida and anencephaly are neural tube defects whcih can cause serious brain damage and paralysis in infants but are easily prevented. All it takes is 0.4 milligrams of ... Read on »
Food for Herpes by Peter C. Complimentary & Alternative Medicine 3 Comments Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine The herpes virus usually lie dormant in 90% of us and diet is one of the factors that determine whether it flares up to trouble us. It was found that adding the amino acid arg ... Read on »
Food for urinary tract infections by Peter C. Complimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine Food for bladder infections: Cranberries, blueberries, lots of fluids. Bladder infections or cystitis are caused by the bacteria E. Coli getting into the urinary tract. Thes ... Read on »
Food that may dampen the urge to smoke by Peter C. Complimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine Food that may stifle the craving for nicotine: In Ayurvedic medicine, boiled oats have been used to treat opium addiction. Someone noticed that recovered addicts often lost i ... Read on »
Food that may help prevent glaucoma by Peter C. Complimentary & Alternative Medicine 2 Comments Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine Dr Prasad S. Kulkarni, Ph.D., of the University of Louisville, Kentucky, got the idea that diet rich in fish oil may help prevent glaucoma, from surveys of Eskimos that indica ... Read on »
Food for multiple scclerosis by Peter C. Complimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine (Populations that eat a lot of fat, especially diary fat, have high rate of MS while fishing communities seem immune to the disorder) Dr. Roy Laver Swank, M.D., of the Oregon ... Read on »
Food for prostate enlargement by Peter C. Complimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BHP or prostate enlargement) affects half of all men over 50. A popular folk medicine for this condition is a daily handful of pumpkin seeds. Pum ... Read on »
Food to prevent candidiasis (candida overgrowth) by Peter C. Complimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine Candida overgrowth or candidiasis can probably be prevented by consuming kefir, a refreshing cultured-milk beverage, which originated many centuries ago, in the Northern Cauca ... Read on »
FOOD TO REDUCE BLOOD PRESSURE by Peter C. Complimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine FOOD TO REDUCE BLOOD PRESSURE Fruits, vegetables, celery, garlic, fatty fish, olive oil. Dr. Frank M. Sacks, M.D., assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School ... Read on »
Exercise may prevent pain in older adults by Peter C. Complimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine Dr. Bonnie Bruce of Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, said that running and other forms of vigorous exercise may prevent some of the aches that come with age. In a s ... Read on »
Pomegranate extract may prevent prostate cancer or slow its growth by Peter C. Complimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine Pomegranate extract may prevent prostate cancer or slow its growth, according to lab experiments conducted at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Dr. Hasan Mukhtar and hi ... Read on »
Refrain from quarrels during pregnancy for a calm baby by Peter C. Complimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine When my wife was pregnant with our fourth baby, we had frequent quarrels. Now when the baby is grown up, he is very quick to anger and has a very bad temper. Moral of the stor ... Read on »
Fish oil to help protect the brain by Peter C. Complimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine Omega-3 fatty acids found in fish oils can help protect the brain against the cognitive decline associated with Alzheimer's disease. Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) -- the most im ... Read on »
Natural way to vision correction by Peter C. Complimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine Here is a natural way to restore your vision. Dr. Mercola claimed that it has helped him restore his vision, and is confident enough to offer the clinic free for the first 400 ... Read on »
Aloe Vera as a Natural Preservative by Peter C. Complimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine Aloe Vera as a Natural Preservative Spanish researchers have developed a colorless gel from the Aloe vera plant that can be used as an edible coating to protect and prolong t ... Read on »
Eat more beans to prevent cancer by Peter C. Complimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine Scientists at University College London have found that beans, nuts and cereals contain a potent anti-cancer compound which blocks a key enzyme involved in tumour growth. The ... Read on »