by Healthy Wealthy n Wise | Health and Fitness
In traditional medicine, back pain is often treated by surgery. And it often doesn’t work. So often, in fact, that back pain surgery is the only category of surgery that actually has a clinical term for failure: Failed Back Surgery Syndrome. If you ask me, any...
by Dr Judith Orloff | Health and Fitness
As a psychiatrist I know that there is more to overeating and obesity that meets the eye. One big reason that many diets fail is that traditional weight loss programs don’t factor in how we process subtle energy, what Chinese medicine terms life force or chi....
by Michael Richard Burke | Health and Fitness
Louis Pasteur was the Mick Jaeger of nineteenth century science. And, rightly so. But, rock star that he was, he made the words “bacteria” and “bacterial” synonymous with disease. This misconception is still with us today. The truth is that...
by Darin Steen | Health and Fitness
It seems that everyone is involved in a weight loss program; especially at the first of the year. Unfortunately a vast majority of “New Years” resolutions don’t make it into Feb. Our Mission here at Peak-Mind-Body.com is to clear your confusion and...
by Mirabai Holland, MFA © 2014 | Health and Fitness
Vitamin D is an important Vitamin. It’s the sunshine vitamin you absorb through your skin when you’re outdoors. It helps stabilize our mood. That’s why people in northern climates with less sunlight get SAD, Seasonal Depressive Syndrome, those winter...
by Mirabai Holland, MFA © 2014 | Health and Fitness
Nearly 30 years ago when I was in school, I wrote an exercise physiology paper on exercise and osteoporosis. At that time there wasn’t much research available. But even then, the studies I found on tennis players, astronauts, and bed rest pointed in the...
by Marie Wilson | Health and Fitness
“I forgive, I forgive, I forgive,” says a recent client whom I will refer to as Sue. She was telling me how her life changed after she began forgiving the people in her life who had wronged her. “I did the work that you recommended, which was to...
by Swami Saradananda | Health and Fitness
“When your body is cleansed, your mind purified and your senses are controlled, you experience the joyful awareness that enables you to realise your inner self.” – Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra 2-41 Hatha yoga is often misunderstood to be a cult of...
by Carolyn Dean | Health and Fitness
Heart health expert Dr. Carolyn Dean talks about how you can improve your heart health, avoid heart attack and live a healthier life. Coronary heart disease (CHD) causes about 1 out of every 5 deaths in the United States and in 2009, according to the American Heart...
by Cheryl Tallman and Joan Ahlers | Health and Fitness
Asparagus derived its name from the ancient Greeks. But it was the Romans who were hooked on this vegetable. They documented detailed growing instructions, they enjoyed eating it in season, and they were the first to preserve it by freezing. Fast chariots and runners...
by Healthy Wealthy n Wise | Health and Fitness
Cantaloupes, as part of a healthy diet such as the Mediterranean Diet, provide us with a delicious way to have healthy eyes and good vision while they help us protect countless body functions. How can they do that? By being high in beta-carotene, a compound our body...
by Dr John Amaral | Health and Fitness
When it comes to chronic pain, most people either try to ignore it, numb it with drugs or push through it with sheer will-power. Whether they’re using pain-killers or alternative methods their goal is the same: Get rid of the “annoyance” and keep on...
