Archive for February, 2009

Natural Remedies for Better Vision

Submitted by Natural Remedies
The medical profession considers glasses the only remedy for refractive error, an error in the focusing of light by the eye and a frequent reason for reduced visual acuity. However, natural remedies can also alleviate, or even prevent, vision problems.
Home Remedies For The Treatment of Refractive Error.
A remedy popular with many medical [...]

To Keep Off the Weight, It’s Not Only What You Eat but How You Eat

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To keep off the weight, it’s not only what you eat, but how you eat.
Wolfing down your meal may double your risk of being overweight. Drinking just the right amount of alcohol is the key to staying lean.
It is not just what you eat but how you eat that can make all [...]

100 Best Herbs for Your Health and Wellness

Submitted by Natural Remedies
Kelly Kirkpatrick at NursingDegree.net lists the 100 best herbs and medicinal plants for your health and wellness and their uses.
If you’re interested in supplementing your health and wellness routine with some natural remedies, herbs offer a valuable and time-tested way to do so. Whether you want to boost the health of your [...]

Vitamin D Fuels Muscle Power in Teen Girls

Submitted by Natural Remedies
Vitamin D is not only a remedy for rickets and osteoporosis, but is important for muscle power, force, velocity, and jump height.
Although vitamin D is naturally produced in the body through exposure to direct sunlight, vitamin D deficiency is now common in the U.S. The result can be a host of health [...]

Sex: The Natural Way to Stress Relief

Submitted by Natural Remedies
When stress is at its worst, sex can stop you fretting. It reduces cortisol, lowers blood pressure, improves moods, and bonds people emotionally.
… Recessions cause high levels of stress, which reduces people’s sex hormones and lowers their libido. When a couple are lying in bed and the man is worrying about his [...]

Snow: The Newest Superfood

Submitted by Natural Remedies
Before the great thaw begins, save as much snow as you can. Eating it can be good for your kidneys and for arthritis and gallstones, too.
… The latest issue of Psychologies magazine – the women’s wellbeing magazine that, according to the tagline, helps you “make sense of your world” – reports that [...]

Running on Empty: Does Fasting Help or Hurt?

Submitted by Natural Remedies
Intermittent fasting is just taking times of fasting and working them into your lifestyle. This can be either daily or a couple times a week. The Los Angeles Times reports that science is beginning to confirm its benefits.
Something about the way Americans eat isn’t working — and hasn’t been for a long [...]

Dieting: We’ve Lost Our Way

Submitted by Natural Remedies
The cult of thinness and fear of its apparent opposite, obesity, has gone too far, says Susie Orbach in an extract from her new book Bodies.
The West has grown terrified of obesity. To read the figures put out by the International Obesity Task Force, one might believe we were in the midst [...]

Worms: The New Miracle Cure

Submitted by Natural Remedies
Here’s a natural remedy for you: worms. Worms may hold the key to curing allergies, asthma, and other immune system disorders.
Could the humble worm hold the key to wiping out allergies and a whole lot of disorders of the immune system?
Researchers in Nottingham are investigating whether giving hook worms to asthma sufferers [...]