
Safe, effective pain relief without deadly drugs
According to reports by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), serious chronic pain affects a whopping 116 million Americans—that is over one out of three of us! And naturally with all that pain going on, people are desperate for relief…so they usually turn to their local pharmacy. The most popular types of pain-relieving drugs include NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs), acetaminophen (Tylenol) and opioid painkillers. While all three can achieve their desired result of reducing your...
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The #1 reason we’re sick, fat and dying younger
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the US currently spends about $3.5 trillion every year on healthcare—that’s about two and one half times more per capita than any other developed nation. You’d think that would translate into 330 million healthy citizens, but you would be wrong. Americans are getting sicker and fatter by the day, and rank an alarming 49th in the world for life expectancy! There are many factors...

10 smart tips for a longer, healthier life
As much as I would like to say otherwise, despite all our scientific and medical “advances,” we’ve reached a very dismal point in our human existence. For the first time ever, children of today are not expected to live as long as their parents did. There are many factors that are contributing to this grim fact—overuse of pharmaceuticals, environmental toxins, degradation of our food supply, and unhealthy lifestyle habits are some of the major...

Promising hope for Parkinson’s disease & prevention
Although the rates of all forms of autoimmune disease continue to rise, one in particular that is experiencing explosive growth is Parkinson’s disease (PD). Second only to Alzheimer’s at this point in the neurological disease category, about 10 million people worldwide and one million Americans suffer from PD. But those numbers may be grossly understated because many people don’t get diagnosed in the early stages of the disease. In addition, proper diagnosis can be muddied...

Arthritis relief without deadly painkillers!
Back in the 60s and 70s when I was a kid, arthritis was something that only happened to older people like my grandparents. Unfortunately, that has changed drastically and arthritis can affect people at ALL ages—including children! Here are some facts about arthritis that I bet you never knew, as well as ways you can achieve safe relief without dangerous painkiller if it affects you. [[big4]]The numbers are growing[[end]] According to the CDC, an estimated 54 million people in the US have arthritis—that’s about one out of six of us. That number also includes over 300,000 children! Things don’t look...

Stay away from this horrible diet advice
As a holistic nutrition coach, when I see the downright horrible diet advice that people are given or read on “health” sites or magazines, it makes me seethe. No wonder 7 out of 10 of us are sick, overweight, and medicated. And one of the biggest problems is that many sources of this dreadful advice appear to be credible! For example, I once read an article by a registered dietician (RD) that claimed artificial sweeteners...