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With the weather cooling and the holiday food on the way, it’s a great time to take a moment to prepare our minds and bodies for the winter cold and flu season. The combination of cold weather and lots of sweet and rich holiday food is a flu bugs’ dream come true. With our defenses down, the rest of our body looks like a nice warm home to a lonely virus or bacteria. All that extra holiday food takes a lot of energy to digest and detoxify leaving less energy for fighting those

(This is the third in a series about the five factors of health.) In the news these days you'll find an abundance of conflicting and confusing information about diet and nutrition. With the wealth of information available, it seems we've lost track of many simple truths that should guide us in choosing foods to eat. The most basic rule to live by is "eat foods in their natural, unrefined state." It's far better to concern yourself with the quality of the food you eat, rather

For many years, the medical and scientific communities have held the belief that "80-90% of attacks of low-back pain recover in about six weeks, no matter what type of treatment was given. A study published in the British Medical Journal dispels this myth. The authors followed 463 adult low-back pain patients from their first visit to a general practitioner through the following 12 months. Their goal was to "investigate the claim that 90% of episodes of low back pain that pre

Getting Good Zzzs As one of the five (exercise, diet, sleep, attitude, and sound physical structure) factors of health, sleep is vitally important for your body’s regeneration and healing. We need just enough sleep to feel rested. There’s no need to get hung up on how many hours you sleep and whether it’s more or less than 8. In general, a short nap in the afternoon (the siesta zone between 1:00 and 3:00) will leave you more rested than the same amount of time tacked onto you

Generally, shin splints are felt on (1) the outside front part of the leg or (2) the inside back part of the leg The first type is generally due to walking or running on hard surfaces or poor shock absorbing ability of the involved muscles or shoes. The second type is common in athletes whose feet are hyper pronated (roll in/flatten). Repetitive over straining of muscles are a factor in both types. Sports with the highest frequency of shin splints include long distance runnin

So how exactly does exercise contribute to your health? Research has shown that it strengthens your cardiovascular system (stronger heart), immune system (lowers the risk of infection), digestive system (lowers appetite, better absorption of nutrients, regulates bowels), nervous system (coordination and sleep) musculoskeletal system (prevents injuries, osteoporosis) and your mental health (feel better about yourself and stress reduction). To get the maximum benefit from exerc

Dorlands Medical dictionary defines health as "a state of optimal physical, social and mental well being, not merely the absence of illness and disease." Consider the person with cardiovascular disease whose first "symptom" is a massive heart attack. Obviously, he was not in a state of optimal physical well being, yet he probably would have said he was healthy if asked. This illustrates the crisis-care view of health that we're raised with. It's short sighted and, actually, h