Reduce Your Stress and Improve Your Health with the 4-7-8 Breath

We are all susceptible to stress. The increasing demands, time pressures, and unmet obligations of today’s fast-paced culture makes stress nearly unavoidable. Some levels of stress are good, helping us stay productive and alert. However, chronic levels of stress can wreck havoc on our health due to prolonged release of the body’s stress hormones. Over …

Green bananas, potato starch, and day-old beans and rice: carbohydrate superstars?

Many therapeutic and weight-loss diets share one common component: a low daily intake of carbohydrates. However, researchers and clinicians are finding that not all carbohydrates are created equally. Making news in the medical and biochemical research communities is a specific kind of carbohydrate that cannot be digested by human beings: resistant starch. You can find resistant …

What is Nature Cure?

The healer of disease is Nature.  – Hippocrates You may have heard of Nature Cure while perusing alternative medicine magazines or seen some reference to it at your local health food store.  What exactly is Nature Cure?  Where does one go to get some of this Nature Cure?  Is it a type of medicine only …