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Please use our huge collection of natural health articles, reviews, and resource links below to develop a personal program that will help you lose unwanted pounds while gaining energy and peace of mind.

New and Hot for the Week of June 27, 2009

Whole House Water Filters and Smaller Water Filters
If you're caught between a whole house water filter and a smaller, countertop variety, here's why you may want to consider using both.

Natural Cures for Headache Pain
This helpful article from the Rea Centre Collection: A Work in Progress details a number of natural techniques you can use to ease headache pain. Why resort to over-the-counter medications when you can help yourself with simple methods?

Delicious Recipes for the Paleo Diet
No salt, check. No dairy, check. No grains, check. But here's the kicker, the paleo diet features the tasty, healthy whole foods from both plant and animal kingdoms that have sustained human beings for tens of thousands of year. The science is clear: humans are opportunistic omnivores who need animal and plant foods to thrive.

Overview of the Caveman Diet
Learn how your ancestors ate fifteen thousand to one million years ago, and learn how the nutritional intake may have been a lot more healthy than what we've eaten for the last ten thousand years.

How to Identify Credit Repair Scams
How can you tell what credit repair companies are genuine? The Credit Repair Organizations Act was passed to help you do just that. Here are six ways to avoid the scammers by knowing what to look out for.

Setting Realistic Fitness Goals
Fitness isn't an easy feat, especially when you're committed long-term. That's why setting goals from the beginning is so crucial to keeping with the program.

Amazing Cookie Recipe of the Week
This week's featured cookie recipe is for Tatiana's Raw Cashew Apricot Cookies. You could look for weeks and not find a tastier, healthier raw treat recipe (and the included variations) than this one.

Crockpot Recipe of the Week
This week's we have Two Super Sweet Potato recipes for you. Be warned, however, that they aren't all that healthy, though they are all that delicious!

Healthy Recipe of the Week
This week's healthy recipe is Black Beans and Papaya Salsa.
Sounds rather intriguing, don't you think? Well, this recipe we recommend for adventurous readers with palates that get tired of the same-o, same-o.


New and Hot for the Week of June 20, 2009

Unique Vision Issues for Women
While women have made plenty of strides toward equality in the workplace, when it comes to healthy vision, it seems, there’s still a division of the sexes. Twice as many women as men are diagnosed with vision-threatening diseases each year.

Pfizer, Doctors to Women: Come to Us, Not Affordable, Self-Diagnostic Treatments
Doctors and drug companies really don't like women taking their health into their own hands when it comes to yeast infections. They're losing a lot of money when they can't get you into their offices and prescribe ridiculously overpriced drugs so now they want to scare you.

EarthRain and a Whiteout Blizzard
Shelley Armstrong describes an intense experience where she was caught on the road during a sudden and very dangerous whiteout blizzard and how she stayed calm and centered thanks to meditation.

A Timeless and Universal Health Principle
This article aims to give you a big picture look at how interconnected all of your parts are. Really understanding this concept should immunize you against the temptation to dip into the ocean of transient miracle remedies on the market.

A Complete Water Filter System for Your Countertop
Don't settle for chlorinated, impure water when you can have something much better. A countertop water filter can eliminate most of the impurities in your water.

Natural Morning Sickness Cure
I want to share a couple of excellent morning sickness resources that may well cure the problem for you or a favorite pregnant lady.



New and Hot for the Week of June 13, 2009

Dairy, Is It a Healthy Choice?
Got milk? For most of us this is a familiar slogan. But does milk really do a body good? Is it as healthy as it is presented in television commercials and magazine ads?

Milk: Organic Is Not Enough
Karen Railey writes, "
In raw milk all the enzymes that occur naturally in milk are intact. Pasteurized milk contains less than 10% of the original enzymes causing the milk to be largely indigestible. Consuming this milk places an enormous strain on the digestive system."

Brown Seaweed Holds Promising Weight Loss
Chemists in Japan have found that brown seaweed, a flavor component used in many Asian soups and salads, contains a compound that appears in animal studies to promote weight loss by reducing the accumulation of fat.

A Foot Massage with Aromatherapy Oil
Are you properly caring for your feet? Do you have a job where you stand all day? This article gives you a couple recipes about making aromatherapy massage oil and applying it to your feet.


New and Hot for the Week of June 6, 2009

Smoothie and Lemonade Recipes Summer Refreshment Sale
Back by popular demand, we continue to offer our delicious lemonade and smoothie recipe collections for only seven dollars. These are our favorite family recipes as well as ones submitted by our readers, including an amazing lemonade recipe that a reader used to earn $8,000 in a single weekend.

Link between Type 1 Diabetes and Cow Milk
Though there are likely several potential contributing causes of diabetes type 1, it's hard to ignore the strong connection between cow's milk consumption and risk of insulin-dependent diabetes in children.

Doctors Group Shows GM Foods Pose Serious Health Risks
Citing several animal studies, the AAEM concludes "there is more than a casual association between GM foods and adverse health effects" and that "GM foods pose a serious health risk."

Tea's Anti-Cancer Powers Affirmed and Expanded in USDA Study
A team of American and South Korean researchers conducted cell studies that shed new light on the relative anti-cancer properties of green and black tea.

The Myths of Vegetarianism
Naturopath Dr. Stephen Byrnes takes vegetarianism to task in this controversial and fascinating article that debunks many of the "myths of vegetarianism." Must reading for all vegan, raw foodists, and would-be vegetarians.



New and Hot for the Week of May 30, 2009

Trans Fatty Acids: The Poison in Our Food Supply
Tom Venuto writes, "Public health messages have been raising awareness, but they haven’t been enough. “TFA’s are bad for you.” OK, so now what? What you really need are some simple behavior guidelines and a list of foods to eat very infrequently if you eat them at all."

Overview of the Caveman Diet
Learn how your ancestors ate fifteen thousand to one million years ago, and learn how the nutritional intake may have been a lot more healthy than what we've eaten for the last ten thousand years.

Mexican Restaurant Salsa Recipe
Join me as I attempt to crack the secret Mexican restaurant salsa code and perfect the home recipe. The salsa is so good and made so cheaply, why leave the house for what you can make yourself?

Flu Shot Ineffective in Asthmatic Kids
The inactivated flu vaccine does not appear to be effective in preventing influenza-related hospitalizations in children, especially the ones with asthma.

Calorie Density Key to Losing Weight
A yearlong clinical trial by Penn State researchers showed that diets focusing on foods that are low in calorie density can promote healthy weight loss while helping people to control hunger.

Omega-3s for Burning Fat
A study in a prominent women's health magazine has recommended dietary Omega-3s for two different benefits, since fish oil supplements and fatty fish may offer two distinct metabolic benefits: better appetite control and a boost in fat burning.


New and Hot for the Week of May 23, 2009

Three of the Best Vegetables for Vision Health
Forget carrots for a moment and consider these other three vision-boosting veggies: spinach, kale, and sweet potatoes.

Internet Scams Surrounding the Acai Berry
Unscrupulous manufacturers and marketers will overstate what is known about a supposed health product like Acai. The goal of their deception is to stimulate sales through exorbitant claims of benefits from using their products, when no science supports such statements.

How to Really Stop Eating Fast Foods
The fries will give you a heart attack. It will make you fat and sluggish. Nag, nag, nag. Here's another way to motivate you to stay away from fast foods. Article by Tom Venuto.

Daily Moisturizers Shown to Cause Cancer
A team at Rutgers University led by Allen Conney found that skin cancer tumors increased up to 95% in high risk mice when treated 4 different daily moisturizers. Learn why this study was disturbing on so many counts in this article.

Chemical Imbalances and Drug Dealers
This article shares Josh Day and his wife's experience with counseling services and mind-altering prescription drugs. If you think you only have to worry about illegal drugs, think again.


New and Hot for the Week of May 16, 2009

Get the Flu Vaccine in an Ear of Corn
Like fluoride in your municipal water supply, what if the government allows the genetically modified food industry to load your food with hosts of vaccines and who knows what else?

What to Look for in a Pair of Sunglasses
However you choose to have fun in the sun, buying the right pair of sunglasses is the bright thing to do. Here are four easy rules for buying and keeping sunglasses for optimal eye health.

Ocean Away Stress Relief MP3
Ocean Away is an extremely effective 17-minute MP3 adventure in guided imagery that you can listen to whenever you want to dial your stress level right down to zero. Too powerful to listen to while driving or operating machinery, this MP3 has helped hundreds live a happier and healthier life.

Dr. Kim's All-Natural Mosquito Repellent
Rather than expose yourself to DEET and other pesticides, try this all-natural formula made with essential plant oils that have long been used all over the world to provide natural protection against biting pests.

Pain Relief after Ingrown Toenail Surgery
In this article, I tell the story from 2005 when my youngest son woke up in intense pain from ingrown toenail surgery and how we relieved the pain by using a simple and almost magical hands-on technique.


New and Hot for the Week of May 9, 2009

Gentle Touch Pain Relief
Paul Newcomb's classic tome on how to relieve all kinds of aches and pains with a simple "hands-on" technique that anyone can use. If you or anyone in your family suffers pain, you need to know how to do the Gentle Touch.

Computer Vision 101
We've all heard of carpal tunnel syndrome, perhaps the most severe computer-related injury, but few are aware of Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS), the most common.
Making some basic changes to your work station can significantly improve the symptoms of CVS.

Natural Health Gurus Ate Meat
It's not common knowledge, but many of the natural health experts often cited by strict vegans as being against animal foods actually encouraged the moderate consumption of clean animal foods like free-range eggs, raw milk cheese, and deep sea fish. Read this article and open your eyes to what the gurus really wrote and believed.

Question about Potassium Deficiency
Dr. Kim answers a reader's question about potassium deficiencies.

Seven Things Your Dog or Cat Wants and Needs to Stay Healthy and Disease-Free
Good things always come in seven. Here are 7 guidelines in keeping a healthy pet. Written by Dr. Shawn Messonnier.


New and Hot for the Week of May 2, 2009

37 Natural Flu Remedies
If you're concerned about the potential for a Swine Flu pandemic as devastating as the Spanish Flu of 1918 that killed millions, or if you're after natural relief from spring colds, you must check out our collection of 37 time-tested and natural alternatives for boosting your immune system and/or lessening the potency and duration of colds and influenza.

The Importance of Washing Your Hands
Washing your hands after human or unknown surface area contact may be the difference in coming down with a cold or killing the germ before it can attack your immune system.

Should I Get a Mammogram?
Dr. Ben Kim discusses the risks and benefits of mammography after a question from a woman whose doctor is pressuring her to get an annual mammogram.

Health Benefits of Tempeh
Tempeh is plant protein, made from cooked soy beans. It can be used in anything from sandwich filler to stir fries. It's also very healthy.

Survey Reveals Pandemic Flu Behavior
Rewind back to a 2006 study. When faced with a serious outbreak of pandemic flu, a large majority of Americans are willing to make major changes in their lives and cooperate with public health officials' recommendations.



New and Hot for the Week of April 25, 2009

37 Natural Flu Remedies
If you're concerned about the potential for a Swine Flu pandemic as devastating as the Spanish Flu of 1918 that killed millions, you must check out our collection of 37 time-tested and natural alternatives for boosting your immune system and/or lessening the potency and duration of the mutated flu virus that may soon sweep the globe.

Calorie Restriction for Life Extension
Fitness expert Tom Venuto offers an in-depth consideration of calorie restriction (CR) and tells you what you didn't hear on Oprah when CR was heralded as a longevity booster. In reality, cutting your calorie intake down to the bone most likely isn't going to add years onto your life.

Five Foods for a Healthy Digestive System
If you have G.I. problems, you may benefit from including one or more of the following five foods in your diet - all of which are rich in nutrients that are particularly important to the health of your digestive system.

Crockpot Cooking: A Smart Investment for Your Health
Buy a crockpot today today to make your life easier as well as healthier. For a minimal investment of around $25.00 for a slow cooker, you'll save a lot of money on electricity as well as plenty of time when grocery shopping. Best of all, cooking with a crockpot is just plain fun!

Refuge from Cyberspace
If you're like me, you can get frenzied from all the bad news about Mexican Swine Flu, terrorists alert, and the other horrors of the day. So, when you need a little free stress relief, visit the web page I created and visit periodically to relax and de-stress Try it. You'll like it. And please recommend the page to a friend or two.

The Idiot Proof Diet Reviewed
The Idiot Proof Diet is one if the most popular weight loss programs on the Internet, and I finally broke down and purchased a copy to check it out. If you're in a hurry to drop some pounds, you need to read my review of the Idiot Proof Diet right now.

H&B Review of the Aquasana AQ-4000 Countertop Water Filter
This is a must-read product review because you and your family deserve the best and most affordable water pouring out of your faucet. For a minimal investment, you'll ultimately save big and enjoy what we consider the best tasting and healthiest water this side of glacial ice.

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