Topic: Health & Healing

Winter means flu and cold season. To protect yourself from the flu, keep your immune systems healthy. Drawing from traditional Asian health practices, Ilchi Lee, founder of Dahn Yoga, indicates that the cold and damp energy conditions in the air cam enter your body and lead to the flu. Releasing this negative energy can be achieved through exercising the meridians (energy channels) and acupressure points. Lee describes five exercises, which when done daily during the flu season, can help your body sidestep or stop the flu.

The winter season is here, which means it is the flu-and-cold season too. With no guaranteed vaccine against the flu and colds, avoiding and recovering from them is an annual occurrence for you and your family members.

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According to Ilchi Lee, president of the University of Brain Education (South Korea), "The best way to protect yourself from the flu is to keep your immune system strong. It is your greatest ally in both preventing and treating colds." He points to overexertion, fatigue, minimal exercise, poor eating and excessive stress as the usual causes of a weakened immune system.

The December issue of "Mayo Clinic Health Letter" covers some helpful home remedies.

Sometimes simple home remedies are just what the doctor ordered for minor health concerns. Consider chicken soup to ease cold symptoms, or, yes, it’s true, duct tape to remove warts.

Straight off the desks of the editors of the Harvard Medical School's "Harvard Health Letter," the 10 biggest health related news stories of 2007. Remember, you read it here first.

The editors of Harvard Medical School's Harvard Health Letter have chosen the top 10 health stories of 2007. Here are this year’s newsmakers:

This study is unique in that it shows Transcendental Meditation to be effective in reducing high blood pressure compared to other stress reduction programs.

People with high blood pressure may find relief from Transcendental Meditation, according to a definitive new meta-analysis of 107 published studies on stress reduction programs and high blood pressure, which will be published in the December issue of Current Hypertension Reports.

This holiday season, you can give the gift of health. Here's a list of ten gift ideas that are sure to bring health and wellbeing to those who receive them.

Searching for the perfect holiday gifts? This year, give your loved ones the gift of health. Saint Louis University doctors have 10 unique gift ideas that are sure to please even the hardest-to-shop-for on your list.

How drinking more coffee to stay awake and get everything done this holiday season might mask more serious sleep problems.

With the holiday season’s hustle and bustle in full swing, most of us will race to our favorite coffee shop to get that caffeine boost to make it through the day. However, that daily jolt that we crave might be the reason we need the caffeine in the first place.

New research out of the University of Toronto says that how people view their abilities in the workplace impacts how they respond to success.

New research shows that how people view their abilities in the workplace impacts how they respond to success. Dr. Jason Plaks, a social psychologist at the University of Toronto and Kristin Stecher, a research scientist at the University of Washington, found that those who thought of their capabilities as fixed were more likely to become anxious and disoriented when faced with dramatic success, causing their subsequent performance to plummet, compared to those who thought of their abilities as changeable.

In this article, excerpted from the book "The Body Has a Mind of its Own," we learn about the effects that touch has upon the brain - and on the body.

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Acoustic trauma is on the rise in America, and it can bring about permanent hearing loss. This has long been a problem in modern society, but the advent of devices like the iPod are only making it worse.

Call it acoustic trauma or noise-induced hearing loss. By any name, it’s the most important preventable cause of permanent hearing loss. Up to 28 million Americans have impaired hearing; for as many as a third, acoustic trauma is a significant contributor, reports the December 2007 issue of Harvard Men’s Health Watch.

Dr. Joseph Henderson, the dean of American Jungian analysts for the past half century, died at the age of 104 on November 17th after a brief illness.

Dr. Joseph Henderson, the dean of American Jungian analysts for the past half century, died at the age of 104 on November 17th after a brief illness. Henderson was the last living link to a generation who sought analysis with CG Jung in Zürich between 1920 and the beginning of World War II in 1939 and who later became analysts themselves.