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Foods Kept in Plain Sight May Reveal the Source of Your Weight Management Problem
The types of ready-to-eat foods you leave in plain sight on your kitchen counters can be used to predict your weight. Those with cereal and soda on their counters are on average 20 to 26 pounds heavier than others
Reanalysis Confirms Long Held Suspicions — Paxil Is Unsafe and Ineffective for Teens
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Rather than warning doctors of side effects like suicide, GlaxoSmithKline encouraged them to prescribe Paxil to teens and children, citing their own research showing the drug was safe and effective for teens Continue reading
Scientific Links Between Processed Foods and Depression Keep Getting Stronger
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The food you eat can have a pronounced biochemical effect on your mental health
Fermented foods may help curb social anxiety disorder in Continue reading
EFT is an Effective Tool for Anxiety
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Chronic anxiety, like stress, is very damaging to your mental and physical health, temporarily shutting down your immune system
Long-term anxiety raises your risk for depression, Continue reading
Vaccination: Defending Your Right to Know and Freedom to Choose
Discussion about freedom to choose how we want to maintain our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health is one of the most important public conversations of our time
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At stake in this debate is: who will control the multi-trillion dollar US health care system? Continue reading
Psychobiotics: Bacteria for Your Brain?
Every functional medicine psychiatrist has case stories of the ‘probiotic cure’ – of a patient with debilitating symptoms, often obsessive compulsive range, whose symptoms remitted completely with dietary change and probiotic supplementation. Is this voodoo or is it based on a growing understanding of Continue reading
Can Food Affect Your Mood?
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Individual food choices may make a difference in how you feel mentally and emotionally from day to day
Mood-boosting foods include dark chocolate, purple berries, Continue reading
The Mysteriously Long Lives of Male Holocaust Survivors
Last week, a study appeared in PLoS ONE, the peer-reviewed journal published by the Public Library of Science, that drew attention in Israel but made barely a ripple here: That men who’d survived the Holocaust lived longer — significantly longer — than their peers who’d never been under Nazi oppression. Continue reading
The Troubling Trend of Baby Boomers
One of the major health issues affecting aging men has nothing to do with cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes, or any of the usual suspects you hear so much about. It’s something many deal with privately until it’s too late.
A troubling trend has emerged in the past decade that’s affecting Continue reading
Newtown School Shooter Needed Nutrition, not Drugs like Fanapt from Novartis
Adam Lanza, the mass murderer in the Newtown School shooting, reportedly took the pharmaceutical drug Fanapt, made by Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation. According to the drug company’s literature, published on the packing insert, Fanapt is prescribed to treat schizophrenia in adults. Fanapt was approved Continue reading
This Solution to Dementia’s Music to Your Ears
In recent health news, Researchers at the Faculty of Brain Sciences, University College London, have discovered the power of music to heal the mind. The UK team of scientists conducted a large-scale review of the effects of music therapy in the treatment of dementia. Continue reading
Introducing the “Happiness Foods”
It seems right that good mental health follows good nutrition. Well, an intriguing bit of health news qualifies that perfectly, with researchers finding that happiness and mental health are highest among people who eat seven portions of fruit and vegetables a day.
Economists and public health researchers studied Continue reading
A Special Message for All Grandparents
Here’s some health news that doesn’t make the front page very often: the benefits of grand-parenting. Yes, it’s true — at least according to researchers in the U.K. It seems that grand-parenting could boost the mental health of seniors in some very specific ways.
The London research team conducted a study in Chile. Continue reading
The Role of Pure Water in Detoxification
We need to hydrate with pure water to retain our physical and mental health. All our tissues’ cells need to be hydrated to function properly. Would you believe that most of us are dehydrated?
It’s not just your five or so quarts of blood serum that contain water. Your organs’ cells contain water. Your brain and nerve tissues are 80 percent water. Severe dehydration leads to mental derangement Continue reading