by Dee Braun

I am notoriously horrible at maintaining good nutrition practices. Oh, I KNOW them.

I know I should follow them, but there’s always something else to handle, some place to go, a phone call to answer, an email to respond to – the list goes on and on.

(And I didn’t even mention laundry, dishes, letting the dogs out, meetings, and oh, yeah, taking a bath!)

The thing is, I’m educated in both natural healing modalities and the principals of good nutrition. I’m mom to six children (my ‘baby’ just graduated!) and I know full well how …

Excerpted from the free ebook “Natural Help for Anorexia”. To save this ebook and read it later, please right click HERE and choose “save as”.

Anorexia nervosa is classified as an eating disorder where sufferers have an obsession with food and are overly concerned with being thin. They are often so terrified of gaining weight that they go to extreme measures to lose or maintain a body weight that is below normal for their age and height.

Anorexic individuals restrict the amount of calories they consume, sometimes to the point of self-starvation or purging by vomiting the …

What is TeenSlim?

TeenSlim is a complex herbal remedy, especially developed for teenagers by a Clinical Psychologist. TeenSlim is formulated to assist teenagers to maintain healthy weight goals, as well as cleanse the system, thereby preventing skin breakouts and boosting energy levels. Combined with a healthy lifestyle and diet, TeenSlim helps adolescents maintain healthy slim bodies without compromising growth. For the overweight teenager, TeenSlim will also help ensure healthy liver functioning, optimal breakdown of dietary fat, healthy metabolism and healthy digestion, thereby assisting in the overall weight loss plan.

Like all Native Remedies products, TeenSlim is developed …

The ancient Chinese medical science treats depression very differently as compared to conventional modern medical science.

Traditional Chinese medical science believes that

1. Depression is just another disease.
2. Each emotion is linked to the five elements – water, wood, fire, earth and metal.
3. Emotions are closely attached to the overall physical well being of an individual.
4. In a diseased body the vital energy forces are blocked and need to be released.

The Chinese medical theory further segregates depression on the basis of the five elements. It purports that depression symptoms can belong to three groups.

1. Earth-type depression – …

Bulimia is an eating disorder that affects mostly women. It is becoming more and more common in western cultures. Bulimia is dangerous, causing both physical and psychological issues. But, during a pregnancy the eating disorder harms not only the health of the mother but also the health of the baby.

Bulimia does cause irregular or absent periods because of the altered nutritional patterns that affect these women but researchers dont think that this affects the chances of a woman to get pregnant after she may recover from bulimia. But during pregnancy …

Did you know that nine out of 10 people who are newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes are overweight? The American diabetic Association estimates that 80% of the 15 million individuals who suffer from Type 2 diabetes are significantly overweight and that the obesity contributes greatly to the development of the disease.

It is no secret to individuals who have Type 2 diabetes and their physicians that a slow, intentional weight loss will decrease their need for insulin, improve their cardiovascular health and improve their lipid profile. By achieving these goals they also reduce …

Perhaps one of the most misunderstood conditions known to humans (women in particular) is premenstrual syndrome aka PMS. Medical researchers do not know specifically what causes PMS although they do understand some of the factors that can contribute to it.

Basically, there is some screw-up in the endocrine system (consists of all the glands like the thyroid, pituitary, pineal, hypothalamus, thymus, adrenals and of course, the ovaries) and the release of hormones, like estrogen and prostaglandin, are not released properly and can fluctuate.

While there are plenty of self-treatments like over the counter pain relievers, herbal remedies …

At age 47, Martina Navratilova returned to Wimbledon and represented the United States in the 2004 Athens Olympics.

In September, seventy-three year old Ed Whitlock shattered his own world age class marathon record by completing a marathon in under 3 hours. Ed is the first 70+ human in history to attain this goal and he has done it twice!

Why is exercise so important as we age? After 50, we begin to loose muscle mass at the rate of 6 percent every decade (about 5 pounds) and we gain 15 pounds of fat every ten years to …

There is a group of symptoms that exist in the world of childbearing women that occur in the Luteal phase of the menstrual cycle and are referred to as premenstrual syndrome (PMS).

These symptoms can be quite disruptive of a woman’s life causing physical suffering, emotional upheaval and psychological pain. The symptoms begin when the egg is released and end soon after the menses begins.

The symptoms may be mild, moderate or severe and can vary each month. If a woman is suffering from PMS she is more than just uncomfortable she is feeling anxious, depressed or …

Sarcoidosis is a rare autoimmune disorder that can affect multiple major organs of the body. The skin is the largest body organ, and it is one of the common targets of Sarcoidosis.

Sarcoidosis will behave much like other autoimmune disorders in which the outbreaks will occur in cycles. There will be months when no symptoms will be present and then there will be months when the symptoms flare up.

The exact cause of Sarcoidosis is not known. Doctors think that it may occur when your immune system overreacts to an unknown toxin or other pathogen that enters …