Topic: Health & Healing

The Tao Holistic Healing Program is a 10-day intensive retreat experience for people to regain ownership of their lives and health. The program regards suppressed negative emotions as a primary source for decades of stress, which tightens and weakens the body, until it succumbs to physical disease and mental decline. This program can strengthen the body, support the release of negative emotions, and instill positive information in the brain for feeling young, and thus enabling greater health, happiness and peace.

In the process of aging, especially in the last third of life, most people expect and experience a deterioration of physical health and vitality, and mental functioning and morale. But is it inevitable that we get sick, frail and feeble with advanced age? Can we do things in order to age with fewer. milder or even no problems?

Middle-aged women who suffered physical or sexual abuse as children spend up to one-third more than average in health-care costs, according to a long-term study of more than 3,000 women. Even decades after the abuse ended, these women used health services at significantly higher rates than did non-abused women, the research found.

Middle-aged women who suffered physical or sexual abuse as children spend up to one-third more than average in health-care costs, according to a long-term study of more than 3,000 women.

Get your immune system in shape and protect yourself from colds with these six tips.

A cold can strike at any time of the year, so keeping our immune system working at its peak level should be something most of us should consider long before the start of cold season. "It is believed that our immune system is easily affected by a number of factors, such as diet, stress levels, environment - even the medications we take," says Suzy Cohen, R.Ph., noted pharmacist and author of The 24-Hour Pharmacist. "Not knowing what particular things might affect you personally, it's important to incorporate a number of healthy changes into your lifestyle to assure that you're supporting your immune system and protecting yourself from infection all year long."

Fibromyalgia is a chronic condition characterized by widespread pain in muscles, ligaments and tendons, as well as fatigue and multiple tender points.

Fibromyalgia is a chronic condition characterized by widespread pain in muscles, ligaments and tendons, as well as fatigue and multiple tender points.

To help you understand the efficacy of natural healing with homeopathy, you can receive a free weekly e-letter to learn how to use homeopathy safely in your own home.

With people becoming more aware of the dangers linked to taking prescribed drugs, attention is turning to safer, natural therapies. Homoeopathy is a little known but highly effective form of natural health care. Because it is not widely known by the general public, Madeleine Innocent, a consultant homeopath in Western Australia, writes a free weekly e-zine to help increase people's awareness of homeopathy.

Dr. Brian Walsh's book "Unleashing Your Brilliance: Tools and Techniques to Achieve Personal, Professional and Academic Success" examines the effects an individual's self-esteem can have on cognition and reasoning.

Clear thinking is crucial for carrying on a conversation, making decisions, and practically everything people do. Thinking can be clouded by a host of conditions including stress, dehydration, and poor nutrition. Now, studies reveal that rejection and criticism also have a significant influence on how well a person thinks.

Researchers at UCSD School of Medicine are studying whether the brain hormone released with touches, hugs, or when a mother and her newborn baby bond might help patients with schizophrenia, social anxiety and a variety of other disorders.

Gazing into your lover’s eyes isn’t only romantic; it may also mimic early attachments that forever alter your brain and body.

With a growing use of complementary and alternative medicine by Americans, a nonprofit advocacy group applauds TV for showing positive portrayals of alternative medicine practitioners.

There has been much discussion in the media and on blogs and message boards about the pilot episode of Eli Stone and its fictional legal case focusing on the link between autism and vaccinations.

What has not been discussed is the recurring character of an "alternative medicine" practitioner - actually an acupuncturist - who is portrayed in a positive light.

A 10-day intensive training program helps people to take control of their health and lives. This program has been successful in guiding individuals to relieve symptoms of fibromyalgia, sometimes leading to complete recovery.

Fibromyalgia afflicts 600,000 Americans, 90% of whom are women. This disorder involves chronic widespread pain, extreme tactile sensitivity, fatigue, and often problems with sleep, bowel function, emotions and cognition. From a medical point of view, fibromyalgia's cause is not well understood, and no universally accepted cure exists. However, some doctors have successfully treated it as stress-related condition.

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Before you get all upset and decide throw away your stash, be aware that tobacco smoking causes even worse damage.

Regular use of marijuana in young adulthood is associated with periodontal (gum) disease, according to a study in the February 6 issue of JAMA.