Aromatherapy after Surgery
Researchers found that aromatherapy (sniffing certain scents) may be a better solution to treat post-operative nausea.
Health & Wellness articles:
The Vaccine Controversy
SB277, signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown on June 30, 2015, mandates that all school-aged children receive 30–31 vaccinations by the time they are age 6, and a total of 37-38 by the time they are age 18. If not, they will not be permitted to attend public or private school.
Soulfully Single and Open for Love
For me, settling meant having just part of what I wanted, and I knew I wanted way more than that.
The True Cost
Cheap fashion rides on the back of workers—predominantly woman and often children—in countries such as Bangladesh and India who earn less than $3 a day and live with toxic byproducts of manufacturing.
Burying the hatchet builds body strength
Holding a grudge also increases mental rumination (repetitive thoughts), which lowers cognitive resources, such as glucose, that could be put to better use, such as coping with a physical challenge.
Stink!
The chemicals in fragrance are known to cause infertility, birth defects, diabetes, learning disabilities and cancer, and can mutate DNA. Yet because of the fragrance loophole, the manufacturers can completely hide these ingredients.
The Spiritual Mysteries of Blood
What follows is a fascinating survey detailing the primacy of blood over tissues and structures of the body, blood’s true purpose, physical and psychic factors influencing blood, blood’s influence on the spirit through perception, hormones and Hippocrates’ four temperaments, and the spirit’s influence on the blood affecting such things as longevity, sleep and death.
Mood Foods
Mental health professionals know that expecting patients to recover by simply popping a pill, such as Paxil, is unrealistic and simplistic. The brain needs a number of key nutrients to operate properly.
Got Milk? Don’t Drink It for Your Bones
The government-funded U.S. Preventive Services Task Force determined that calcium supplementation alone might actually increase hip fracture and mortality risk.
A Community Garden to Fill My Empty Nest
The garden masters are old, and mostly cranky. “It’s past nine. You can’t water past nine, city rules. If it were my rules, you’d be out.” It was 9:15. I stopped watering and smiled. I have a vegetable garden, my first.