Healthy behaviour: Smile!
Laughing matters.Patch Adams | June 2003 issue The first time I saw him he was wearing a rubber nose, a multi-coloured print shirt, and a polka-dot tie over yellow balloon pants held up by suspenders. Beneath the rubber nose was an elaborate handlebar moustache; on the back of his head, a ponytail Read More...
Healthy eating: Food theory
On carbohydrates, fats and proteins.Andrew Weil | June 2003 issue Carbohydrates Carbohydrates are the most fundamental nutrients. They consist of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. The most simple carbohydrates are sugars: glucose and dextrose, fructose (sugar from fruit) and sucrose (table sugar, cane Read More...
Healthy eating: Vitamines
Five vitamine suggestions.Andrew Weil | June 2003 issue There is a lot of controversy about the amount and types of vitamins and minerals one needs to stay healthy. But there is no longer any question about the fact that we should take some type of supplement. The mismanagement of farmland and more Read More...
Healthy exercise: Chi Neng
Chi Neng is a meditation in moving. Dr. Pang Ming | June 2003 issue To be healthy one must exercise regularly. Like the traditional Eastern yoga techniques, the Chinese Chi Neng is a very effective approach to getting exercise. Practiced by roughly100 million Chinese, Chi Neng is a type of moving Read More...
Healthy thinking: Praying
Praying has a healing power.Larry Dossey | June 2003 issue A study by the Californian cardiologist Randolf Byrd helped inspire Larry Dossey to get involved in the healing power of prayer. In 1988 Byrd studied 393 heart patients. They were randomly divided into two groups using a double-blind Read More...
Healty eating: Ten golden rules of nutrition
Ten suggestions for your dinner table. Andrew Weil | June 2003 issue 1. Use your senses, not your head when you eat Trust your body's signals. Don't eat anything you don't like, but that others say is 'good for you'. 2. Eat mindfully and taste your food Your digestive system is a reflection of your Read More...
To soy or not to soy
What should you think about the new research linking soy products to cancer and other health risks? Tijn Touber | March 2006 Read More...
Protect yourself
Ask your doctor the right questions and don't leave before you have the answers.Bryan Hubbard | June 2003 issue * How long has this drug been on the market? As we have seen, many of the problems of drugs and their side effects are with the newer drugs that have been recently licensed, and that are Read More...
Sick practices
The exposure of the true face of the pharmaceutical industry. Bryan Hubbard | June 2003 issue It was the end of another busy week at the offices of What Doctors Don’t Tell You, and everyone was keen to get their coats on and head for home for the weekend. Just then the phone rang, and each person Read More...
Can soap operas save lives?
Steamy tales of sex, betrayal and suspense can carry important social messagesKim Ridley | April 2006 issue Young and poor, Fikirte is in many ways Ethiopia’s Everywoman. Her life takes a turn for the worse when she meets Damtew, who is so obsessed with revenge against Fikirte’s innocent Read More...