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Planning For the Holidays

Well, it's that time of year again. We're all faced with the usual challenge of how to survive the holidays without completely blowing our commitment to healthy eating and living. It can be done - you can be the same size you are now (or even smaller!) on January 1, 2010, if you plan for it!

Your Best Defense Against the Swine Flu

Flu season is upon us, and we are all concerned about our health and the health of our families. Symptoms of the flu include fever, cough, sore throat, body aches, vomiting, loss of appetite, and fatigue. We have heard all the ways to help prevent illness such as practicing good hand washing and avoiding crowds of people or those who may be infected. While those suggestions are very helpful, often we forget about the power of a strong immune system! Our susceptibility to any illness depends on two factors: exposure and our overall health. Our immune system is our primary defense against any bug or disease attempting to attack our bodies.

77 Surprising Health Benefits of Yoga

By Meredith Walker
Over the past several years, yoga has experienced an upsurge in popularity in the western world among medical professionals and celebrities alike. While many associate yoga with new age mysticism or the latest fad at the gym, yoga is actually an ancient practice that connects the mind, body, and spirit through body poses, controlled breathing, and meditation. The practice of yoga has many health benefits associated with it, so read below to discover 77 benefits of incorporating yoga in to your or your patient’s fitness program.

A Recipe For Longevity: 33 Of The Healthiest Foods On Earth

David H. Murdock - Posted: May 20, 2009 09:01 AM - Huffington Post

Is it possible to live to 125 or maybe 150? It's certainly a possibility, as discussed on Oprah Winfrey's recent show on longevity. She visited me at my farm to learn how, at 86, I am enjoying the robust health, energy, and mental creativity of someone many decades younger. My secret: large quantities of fruit and vegetables, plus an hour of daily exercise.

The Many Benefits of Yoga

Increasing Flexibility – yoga has positions that act upon the various joints of the body including those joints that are never really on the ‘radar screen’ let alone exercised.

Increasing lubrication of the joints, ligaments and tendons – The well-researched yoga positions exercise the different tendons and ligaments of the body.

Surprisingly it has been found that the body which may have been quite rigid starts experiencing a remarkable flexibility in even those parts which have not been consciously work upon. Why? It is here that the remarkable research behind yoga positions proves its mettle. Seemingly unrelated “non strenuous” yoga positions act upon certain parts of the body in an interrelated manner. When done together, they work in harmony to create a situation where flexibility is attained relatively easily.

Fat kids found to have arteries of 45-year-olds

By MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Medical Writer Marilynn Marchione, Ap Medical Writer Tue Nov 11, 5:34 pm ET

NEW ORLEANS – Obese children as young as 10 had the arteries of 45-year-olds and other heart abnormalities that greatly raise their risk of heart disease, say doctors who used ultrasound tests to take a peek inside.

"As the old saying goes, you're as old as your arteries are," said Dr. Geetha Raghuveer of Children's Hospital in Kansas City, who led one of the studies. "This is a wake-up call."

Yoga for Sciatica

Sciatica is a painful condition characterized by symptoms ranging from sharp pain through the lower spine, a stabbing sensation in the buttock, to knee or ankle pain, or even numbness or burning in the leg.

Sciatic pain is common in individuals of any age with lower back problems, the obese, pregnant women, and the elderly. Yoga can provide relief from this condition which causes temporary but acute pain in nearly every adult at some point in their lives; sciatica can, however, cause debilitating pain if left untreated.

Benefits of Yoga for Cancer Patients

Cancer is a complex, aggressive illness. The treatment involved is invasive and painful. The cancerous cells attack and weaken the immune system, leaving the patient weak and susceptible – systematically negatively impacting the patient’s life, both physically and emotionally. Those fighting cancer, recovering from cancer, or survivors of cancer frequently take advantage of the many benefits of YOGA.