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Complementary Medicine
Complementary Medicine is the use of natural therapy and medicines to restore and maintain health in addition to conventional medicine. Dating back to 420 B.C., around the time of Hippocrates, complementary medicine is also considered a practice...
Fitness Scams
Caveat emptor is Latin for "let the buyer beware". Nowhere is this phrase more applicable than in the weight loss industry of today.
It seems that every time we turn around we are blasted and bombarded with the latest, greatest, new and improved...
Not Now, I Have A Headache
Copyright 2005 by Doug Smith Home Remedies - Facts or Quacks? That’s what I recently asked myself. Myths and legends often have their basis in a grain of truth. So I wondered if home remedies, alternative treatments, and folklore cures might also...
Obesity:The Gateway to Diseases
Do you know the name of that one disease which has spread in the U.S.A. like an epidemic? Are you aware of the fact that the maximum number of people suffering from this disease in the world are in no other country but U.S.A.? It might sound very...
USA Leads the World ... In Medical Errors
Based on a comparison of health care systems in six nations, the
2005 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey found
that America led the rest in inefficient care and medical errors.
Improper Treatment 34 Percent of the Time
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What Are Your Wellness Needs?
As we go about our busy lives, our wellness needs doesn't often
come to mind. In fact, probably until you read the title of this
article, it never even crossed your mind. But even when we are
well, we have needs that help us to sustain that wellness. Have
you ever given thought to what those needs are?
Your wellness rating is dependent upon your immune system, and
what vitamins, supplements, and nutrition you provide for your
immune system. Nutrition comes in the form of our daily intake
of food our eating habits determine the value of our daily
nutritional intake. What about vitamins? What role do vitamins
and minerals play in our wellness needs? More than what some of
you have been lead to believe or understand. The body's ability
to remain well under anything other than ideal conditions is a
direct result of the nutrition received on a daily basis. The
mind's ability to remain well is, again, a direct result of our
nutritional intake.
However, when you use sound principles based on clean living,
exercise, and healthy eating, you attain a state of equilibrium
where you are meeting your nutritional wellness needs
What about our preventive needs for our physical body?
Alternative medicine, holistic medicine, and meditation all
address different areas of preventive maintenance for our
physical health. We don't often think of the chiropractor until
some part of our body isn't functioning as it should, most often
our back. But what about chiropractic care for the well
individual? Is it a benefit to the well person, to visit a
chiropractor when really nothing is wrong? You bet it's a
benefit and here's why.
The very nature of chiropractic care is the belief in the
body's own healing properties. Quite often, we can have small
problems in one area of our body, and not even realize it
until
the effect is felt in a much larger way, somewhere else. The
practice of chiropractic care focuses on the relationship
between your spine and your nervous system. The spine is the
structure, and the nervous system is the function. Chiropractic
believes these two systems work in unison to keep and then
restore your body's health.
Acupuncture is the basic foundation for Traditional Chinese
Medicine and is based on the belief that there are two opposing
and inseparable forces within our body. They are known as the
Yin and Yang of the entire person. The Yin is representative of
the cold, slow, or passive principle, and yang represents the
hot, excited or active principle. A healthy state is achieved by
maintaining a balance state of the yin and yang. This is done
through vital pathways or meridians that allow for the flow of
qi, or vital energy.
The vital energy flow occurs along pathways known as meridians.
These meridians connect over 2,000 acupuncture points along the
body. There are 12 main meridians, and 8 secondary meridians.
Although traditional western medicine does not completely
understand how acupuncture works, the proof that it does work
has been shown in several studies conducted by western medical
facilities.
Meditation is the other form of preventive maintenance that we
need as we maintain our overall wellness. Meditation is
preventive maintenance for the mind. Meditation gives us the
opportunity to reflect on our inner self. To listen to that
small inner voice that is supposed to help guide and direct our
mental processes, but in modern day existence, is often drowned
out due to excessive noise pollution.
About the author:
Tony Robinson is a CEO and Webmaster. He has a young family and
a keen interest in health and fitness. Visit his site at
http://www.be-well-and-fit.com
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