Topic: Health & Healing

"The issue of powerlessness is the key to controlling your weight," says Dr. Roger Gould, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA and founder of ShrinkYourself.com. "It's the missing link. It's the reason your attempts to lose weight have failed or why your successes have only been temporary." In his new breakthrough book Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever, Dr. Gould draws on twenty-five years of his own clinical work with thousands of patients, in his office and online, to offer a practical, systematic program for stowing the psychological baggage that causes emotional eating. "Taking your power back, through insight, one choice at a time, is in fact the only way to take control of your weight forever."

To date, about or greater than 50 million American adults have blood cholesterol levels high enough to require medical advice and treatment and continuously counting, more than 90 million adults have cholesterol levels that are higher than what is desired.

The debilitating pain from Carpel Tunnel is caused by the swelling around the meridian nerve in the wrist and forearm and is generally treated with expensive drugs and then surgery. Since surgery has such a low success rate and often involves a secondary surgery to correct the problem, it is important to review what else is available.

Psych Central web site announced on Tuesday the public beta launch of the "Sanity Score" web tool at www.SanityScore.com that can help assess an individual's overall level of mental health. The system takes responses from 90 questions and then calculates a person's "Sanity Score," a basic overall measure of a person's mental health. Along with the numerical result, people also get a thorough description of life factors that emerged to support the result plus a graphical representation of how high that person scored along 21 different common mental health attributes.

Do you eat organic food? Do you actually know what you are eating? Or, do you only think you know? It may look like a carrot but is that all it is? Do you know what has been sprayed onto and absorbed by the leaves? Which chemicals have been mixed into the soil and taken up by the roots?

An increase in the amount of isoflavones in the blood goes hand in hand with a reduction of more than 30% in the risk of developing breast cancer, according to new Dutch research. And soya is the most important natural source of isoflavones in European diets.

The public's thirst for knowledge on natural healing options is growing at a rapid pace. This can be seen by the growth of websites like Natural Therapy Pages which has grown to attract over 200,000 visitors to their website each month. Their visitors are after information on natural therapies, how they work, what is in involved in a session and what qualifications their practitioners should have.

A young man mangled his leg in an accident and the doctor decided to amputate. The man's wife insisted her father, a kahuna, treat him first. The doctor laughed when he saw the old man chew some leaves and rub them down the uninjured side of the body. Five days later, the young man walked out of the hospital completely cured.

According to quantum physics, we live in a world of energy. Moreover, physicists discovered that matter is not matter, as people have considered it for many centuries, but energy. Physicists also accepted the view that everything in the universe depends on our consciousness and attention to events and occurrences. Everything is energy and everything may be corrected with energy use. New understanding of the outer world and inner world make us able to control and manage the energy of everything consciously and “energetically.” The most interesting thing is that even ordinary people may do this.

I was feeling run down, sluggish, constipated, chronically fatigued, and completely lackluster; and I knew I needed to do something quickly to turn myself around. Skeptical about fasts and cleanses—many of which I had tried and tortured over only to fail—I was surprised at how I took to the Master Cleanser, a 10 day program that changed my life. Not only did this program detoxify and clean my body of its chronic years of abuse, but it also built good health and a change of habit into me at the same time. I felt so good while doing the cleanse, that I decided to switch afterwards from supermarket foods to 100% organic! I have never felt better.