Topic: Health & Healing

Evidently, Cannabis sativa isn't just for smoking or baking into brownies anymore.

A compound found in cannabis may prove to be effective at helping stop the spread of breast cancer cells throughout the body. That’s the finding of a new study published in the latest issue of the journal Molecular Cancer Therapeutics.

Shorter days mean that many North Americans cannot get their vitamin D from the sun; they need to take vitamin D supplements. There is evidence that vitamin D may offer protection against cancer.

As the days grow shorter, the sun’s warm rays aren’t the only thing your body may be missing, warns Creighton University researcher Joan Lappe, Ph.D.

When you understand what your Emotional Body is and how to use it you can really help yourself and other people with their physical problems.

When you step into your emotional body and use Reiki to get in touch with the alignment of your head and spine, what does it remind you of? Think back to an earlier time in your life (but only if you want). Were there times in your life you remember when these parts of your body were key players in specific events? If you can pinpoint these events - then you can send loving Reiki in order to heal your past timelines. When those events are healed within your emotional body (use all 3 level 2 symbols), it is likely the pain in those physical body parts that hold those painful emotions will also smooth and release. It is like erasing the effects of the pain while still being fully capable of keeping the memories for your soul growth and wisdom with how you can live your life now when the fears over those events no longer have any power over you on any level. Start to realize (manifest) the freedom of your Radiant indwelling light.

The trials and tribulations of being a documentary filmmaker in the Indian Himalayas.

Two landslides on a road in the Indian Himalayas tested holistic health filmmaker Victor Demko's resolve to get an interview with Yoga Master Swami Sundaranand. Demko encountered this challenge while traveling from Rishikesh to Gangotri, the site of the historic head water of the Ganges River and longtime home of the 79 year old Swami Sundaranand, one of the last hardcore Himalayan yogis.

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A report by the C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health shows higher gas prices are putting the squeeze on how parents are managing health care for their children – either in getting to health care visits or purchasing medications. U-M experts say a solution may be a gas card program for patients.

Your wallet may not be the only thing affected by the country’s high gas prices. The pain at the pump is also placing added strain on children’s health, according to researchers with the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health.

The folks at Baylor University Medical Center have come up with a list of some food items that can make your Thanksgiving meal more healthy. You don't have to give up the turkey, just be sure to pass around plenty of cranberry sauce.

Tired of spinach, bored with broccoli? Experts say there’s a new generation of superfoods that promise to do double or triple-duty when it comes to preventing illness.

Like many "alternative" treatment types, aromatherapy is often derided by mainstream medical professionals. Nancy Wellington points out that it's time for the medical community to sit up and take notice.

Modern medicinal, therapeutic use of essential oils is finally being recognized in the US as a valid tool to compliment a diverse natural health, wellness and fitness program. There is still a significant amount of resistance to this science, mainly from 'quackwatch' type individuals, but it is suspected their true backing is from companies marketing synthetic chemical concoctions to address every conceivable ill. "Big Pharma," for example, is the industry with the highest average profit margins on earth, and is dedicated to producing, patenting, marketingd selling new, unnatural chemical compounds that are supposed to answer every need of health and wellness. With some formulations they do remarkably well; with others they appear to act with a total disregard for human safety and welfare, concentrating only beating Wall Street analysts' profit estimates for the upcoming quarter, and moving stock prices ever higher. How effective, really, are essential oils in treating stress and disease in humans, and how can you learn more? Let's review the current state of affairs, and see how you might investigate their use in your own natural health and wellness lifestyle.

Naturopaths have been saying for years that most knee problems can be avoid through proper footwear. Now rheumatology researchers have discovered that this is indeed so.

The shoes you wear may have significant effects on your osteoarthritis of the knee, according to research presented this week at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Scientific Meeting in Boston, Mass.

The website SharpBrains announces a new whitepaper featuring 11 interviews with leading neuroscientists, psychologists and experts in the USA, Japan, Israel and Sweden.

Leading neuroscientists and practitioners debunk common myths related to health and fitness of the brain in a new whitepaper from SharpBrains, Inc. The 11 experts help illuminate the growing research on the role of "brain exercise" for brain fitness, one of the promising areas being discussed this week during the 37th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in San Diego.

Acupuncture, one of the oldest medical therapies in the world, is steadily gaining popularity in the United States. The November issue of "Mayo Clinic Women’s HealthSource" offers a fresh look at this ancient practice and how it is being incorporated into Western medicine.

According to traditional Chinese medicine, vital energy flows along specific pathways within the body, called meridians. The belief is that one way to unblock energy flow -- and promote the body’s ability to heal itself -- is to insert hair-thin needles to various depths at strategic points along this meridian. That process is called acupuncture.