Winter is the season of the kidneys and bladder, said the Chinese sages of old. And indeed, the water season – weather it’s snow in the north or rain in the south – is the time of the year when more life force, or Qi, is flowing to the kidneys. […]
It happens every new year – we get this wonderful feeling of starting anew, of being restored in some way, of having our life force boosted, of even being given another chance to realize our dreams. A big part of that feeling of being restored comes to us as a gift from the winter solstice, when […]
Global warming isn’t restricted to the outer environment. It’s happening inside of us, too. Our blood and internal organs are heating up, thanks to the epidemic we know today as inflammation.
This month, we will greet the summer – hello heat! Unless we adjust our diets and other behaviors, we can easily elevate our body heat and […]
What do the following have in common: Mornings, between 7 a.m. and 10 a.m.; Mondays; and the winter months, from January to March?
Answer: they are, respectively, the most dangerous times of the day, week, and months of the year for your heart, the periods when you are most at risk of suffering a heart attack. Winter […]
I love to work. It’s so much fun to have a project, and there’s nothing like the feeling of accomplishment that comes from a job well done. Once I become focused on something, I have the capacity to work endlessly. And when I am not actually working, I obsess over it.
It doesn’t matter what the project […]
In a normal day, each of your feet will hit the ground about 5,000 times. No matter what your weight, the cumulative impact on your feet is several hundred tons. And if you run or jump, that impact is tripled. During your lifetime, your tootsies will carry you about 150,000 miles – the equivalent of more […]
Thanks to the overwhelming success of ad campaigns conducted by the dairy industry, milk is widely believed to be essential to health, particularly the strength of bones and teeth. But scientific studies have consistently contradicted that assertion.
There are numerous problems with dairy products, which, for people who have been diagnosed with a serious illness, could tip […]
Long ago, Native Americans created many myths to explain why plants had such awesome medicinal powers. One of those myths went like this.
When the white men came to the New World, many white hunters wantonly killed animals, such as the buffalo – not for food and clothing, but purely for sport. The animals were enraged by […]
The best protection that you have against any illness is your body’s own defense system. The human immune system has never faced a single illness that it couldn’t eventually figure out and provide an effective answer for. The H1N1 flu is no different.
Here are more than a dozen powerful immune boosters that you can adopt immediately. […]
I grew up in a cigarette experiment, or so it seemed. My parents appeared to be exploring the question, How many cigarettes could be smoked in a five hour period, say between 6 and 11 p.m.? New records were set on a regular basis. Every night, the living room of our house looked like a card […]
