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The New and Empowering Model of Breast Cancer Treatment

by Greg Anderson. Let’s be clear: surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation can play an important role in cancer treatment. But with…

Miracle in Thailand: Acacia’s Story

by Nicki Scully. In November of 2005, Acacia was hospitalized and diagnosed with recurrent lymphoma, in her brain, central…

The Healing Breath: The Heart of Healing & Balance

by Jack Angelo. Life is about change. Our breathing undergoes changes according to the rhythms of our state of imbalance (another…

Lavender in Your Garden: For Health, Fragrance, Well-Being

by Thea Summer Deer. Lavandula angustifolia, known as true lavender or English lavender, was until recently considered the…

Calming the Body, Mind, and Spirit using Mindful Exhalations

by Matt Mumber, MD & Heather Reed. Breathing is the bridge between our external and internal environments. The exhalation is…

Communing with Nature and with the Wisdom of Plants

by Thea Summer Deer. While I first heard the voice of an herb deva in my kitchen that morning, shortly thereafter, they appeared…

Setting your Intention: Fasting

by Stasia Bliss. Think about how we normally consume. We usually choose to fill our shopping cart full of the foods we habitually…

How Cubans' Health Improved When Their Economy Collapsed

Cuba's economic meltdown should logically have been a public health disaster. But a new study says that the health of Cubans…

New Guidelines About Prostate Cancer Screenings: More is Not Always Better

The American College of Physicians has released new guidelines about prostate cancer screenings. Prostate screening and treatment…

Eating like a Gorilla is Good for You???

by Tana Amen, B.S.N., R.N. We can learn a lot from gorillas. Humans and gorillas share nearly identical DNA and digestive…

From Struggle to Harmony... in the Here and Now

by Patrick Thias Balmain. Most of us have a relationship to the outside world based on conflict, the power struggle. It is quite…

Are Your Kids Hooked on Advertising? And Can You "Just Say No"?

Author and activist Anna Lappé (daughter of Frances Moore Lappé, author of Diet for a Small Planet) takes on the billion-dollar…

Surviving Breast Cancer & Creating Wellness

by Greg Anderson. Surviving breast cancer is not simply about treating illness. It is primarily about creating wellness. I have…

Up to 30 Percent of People in the US Lack Access to Healthy Food

According to a report by The Applied Research Center, 10 percent of black and Latino families lack access to adequate food --…

Jamie Oliver Fights Obesity One Family at a Time

Sharing powerful stories from his anti-obesity project in Huntington, W. Va., TED Prize winner Jamie Oliver makes the case for an…

Salt? You May Be Getting More Than You Bargained For!

The expression "salt of the earth" means "the best" or a "worthy person" perhaps implying that salt is the best and a worthy…

Diet and Food: Is The Food You Eat Providing You With Energy?

by Peter Bane. Our conventional diet is deteriorating in quality because our farming has depleted the soils and polluted the…

If You Made a Stack of 2000 Calories, What Would It Look Like?

When we are told that 2000 calories are what we should consume, most of us don't really have an idea of what that means.…

The Hunter-Farmer Food Types: Which One Are You?

by Mark Liponis, M.D. There are two types of people: Hunters and Farmers. Why are there two types of metabolisms that need two…

Are These Things Addictive? Salt, Sugar, Fat

You may have jokingly said, as you weren't able to put down that bag of chips or cookies, that those darned things were…

It's Your Divorced Parents' Fault That You Smoke?

If your parents divorced before you turned 18, and today you are a smoker, it may be their fault! What??? A study done at the…

Is Your Job Giving You a Heart Attack?

by Marie T. Russell. We all know that stress is bad, that working 18-hour-days is not healthy, and that working at a job you hate…

What Are Triggers and Do You Have Any?

by Susan Pease Banitt, L.C.S.W. The truth of what we experienced is stored in the body. The body does not lie. Only the mind is…

30 Days to Live? Try Forgiveness!

by Greg Anderson. After I was told by my surgeon that he thought I had about thirty days to live, I was put in touch with an…

Preventing Disease by Creating an Artificial Fever

by Christopher Vasey, N.D. Invading germs as well as ingested poisons that have accumulated over time from unhealthy lifestyle…

The Great Deception: Finding Your True Heart

by Tony Burroughs. It always seems strange to me that when I go to a sporting event in a large stadium and they play the national…

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