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Ladies, if your mother or any other female blood-line relatives have a history of breast or ovarian cancer then from next year onwards, you could face higher insurance premiums. You could even be refused cover altogether. When these women apply for life and critical illness cover, the insurance industry wants to ask them whether they … Read more
Cancer Lies Lie 1: Conventional medicine can cure your cancer. Lie 2: It is criminal the way alternative medicine holds out false hope and diverts patients away from reliable medical treatment. Lie 3: We put the patient’s interests first. You’ll notice that lie 2 refers back to lie 1. Conventional medicine has three weapons against … Read more
Cancer has a fearsome reputation. Not without reason either. It is a disease that has not yet fully yielded to the skills and intelligence of medical scientists and doctors. And, as if the pain from the disease is not enough, the treatment for cancer, too, inflicts heavy suffering on the body. Cancer is a disease … Read more
Research has shown that risks for cancer increase among men who have two alcoholic drinks a day and women who have one alcoholic drink per day. While everyone has been widely aware of the fact that smoking cigarettes greatly increase your risk of contracting cancer, there has been very little publicity of the fact that … Read more
Vaccines have come a long way since 1022 A.D., when a Buddhist nun fashioned what many consider the precursor to vaccines in an effort to fight smallpox. Since then, vaccines have stopped smallpox virus, are close to eradicating the polio virus and have slowed numerous other disease-causing microbes. Where are they headed? Today, scientists and … Read more
The current belief in medical research holds that most cancers are caused by exposure to carcinogens, and that carcinogens cause cancer by damaging DNA. However, the huge effort and billions of dollars invested by the NIH, private foundations, and pharmaceutical companies in searching for damaged DNA in cancer has produced few discoveries and little benefits … Read more
There’s encouraging news for women in the fight against lung cancer. Although the incidence of lung cancer in women increased rapidly after World War II as more women began to smoke, that trend may finally be reversing. Recent studies show that lung cancer cases in women have leveled off for the first time. However, according … Read more
Believe it or not there are free weight loss for teens programs available to help your teen get fit. According to studies, 30% of the country’s teenagers are overweight or are at risk for becoming overweight. If your teen is one of the 30% they run the risk of being one of the millions of … Read more
As a dietitian, the three most common questions which smokers ask me about diet and smoking, are: (1) Can a diet compensate for health damage caused by smoking? (2) What should I eat if I smoke? (3) If I quit, what type of diet is best to prevent weight gain? (1) CAN A DIET COMPENSATE … Read more
It’s not really news to say that obesity has become an epidemic, not just in the United States but in other industrialized countries around the world. When it comes to losing weight and the weight loss industry that goes along with it ( a billion dollar a year industry) try to convince us that we … Read more