An Economy in Need of Holistic Medicine By ANAND GIRIDHARADAS CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS — The American economy is having what doctors call an acute episode. Employment won’t throb. The circulation of capital remains weak. Industry is breathing, but barely. And if we can agree on anything one year into this mess, it is that there is [...]
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Parents who suspect that artificial ingredients in food are affecting their children’s behavior can now point to some cold, hard proof.
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Can Sugar Substitutes Make You Fat? By Alice Park Sunday, Feb. 10, 2008 When it comes to dieting, most of us are willing to resort to a trick or two to help us curb our appetite and eat less — drinking water to fill up when we’re hungry, for example, or opting for artificial sweeteners [...]
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Artificial Sweeteners: How Bad Are Saccharin, Aspartame? By CLAIRE SUDDATH Claire Suddath – Tue Oct 20, 3:20 pm ET Too much sugar will make you fat, but too much artificial sweetener will … do what exactly?
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The Neuroimmune Basis of Anti-inflammatory Acupuncture Ben Kavoussi, MS Southern California University of Health Sciences, College of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, Whittier, CA, kavoussi@ucla.edu B. Evan Ross, DOM, LAc Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Department of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA This review article presents the evidence that the anti-inflammatory actions of acupuncture are mediated via the reflexive [...]
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Sick but at work? Study finds it’s worse in the long-run Thu Jun 11, 1:03 am ET SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) – Sick but still going to work? You’ll probably end up taking more sick days in the future than colleagues who stay at home when unwell, according to a Swedish study. Researchers at the Karolinska Institutet of Stockholm found [...]
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Psychological Stress Impairs Early Wound Repair Following Surgery Elizabeth Broadbent, MSc, Keith J. Petrie, PhD, Patrick G. Alley, MBChB, FRACS and Roger J. Booth, PhD From the Departments of Health Psychology (E.B., K.J.P.) and Molecular Medicine and Pathology (R.J.B.), Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland; and the Department of Surgery (P.G.A.), Waitemata [...]
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Prenatal Stress and Outlook Affects Birth Outcomes in High-Risk Pregnancies Lobel M, DeVincent CJ, Kaminer A, Meyer BA. The impact of prenatal maternal stress and optimistic disposition on birth outcomes in medically high-risk women. Health Psychology. 2000;19:544-553. Evidence suggests that prenatal maternal stress adversely affects birth outcomes. Nurse researchers followed 129 high-risk pregnant women, aged [...]
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Acupuncture for nausea in early pregnancy: a discussion and case.(Medical condition overview) Article from: The Journal of Chinese Medicine Article date: February 1, 2008 Author: Gear, Julie More results for: publication:”Biotech Week” Abstract Nausea and vomiting is very common in pregnancy. A patient presented with nausea at the 10th week of gestation and was treated [...]
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Tohoku J. Exp. Med., 2006, 208(4) Acupuncture Stimulates the Release of Serotonin, but Not Dopamine, in the Rat Nucleus Accumbens KANJI YOSHIMOTO, FUMIHIKO FUKUDA,1 MASAFUMI HORI, BAKU KATO,1 HIDEAKI KATO, HIROYUKI HATTORI,2 NAOKI TOKUDA, KINYA KURIYAMA,1 TADASHI YANO1 and MASAHIRO YASUHARA Department of Forensic Medicine, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan, 1Department of Health [...]
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