Wireless Health Hazard

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In the video above, ElectromagneticHealth.org founder Camilla Rees presents an overview of an emerging public health issue — excessive exposures to microwave radiation from wireless technologies.

Illness linked to electromagnetic radiation exposure inclufiede many cancers, neurological conditions, ADD, sleep disorders, depression, autism, cognitive problems, cardiovascular irregularities, hormone disruption, immune system disorders, metabolism changes, stress, fertility impairment, increased blood brain barrier permeability, mineral disruption, DNA damage and much, much more.

Source: Electromagnetic Health

This is becoming a highly studied health concern. Cell phones in particular are causing much havoc on peoples health. It’s important to be aware of them, as well as letting other become aware of it. Being conscious to the situation will benefit your health in the long run.

Yoga For Breast Health

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I found this article in Body and Soul awhile back. It talks about how the therapy of yoga can be beneficial for woman who suffer with breast cancer.

Yoga may help ease pain and replenish energy in women coping with breast cancer, suggests a small study from Duke University Medical Center.

For two months, 13 women with cancer that had spread beyond the breast practiced gentle poses, meditation, and breathing exercises regularly. On the days after they did yoga, the women were remarkably more relaxed and experienced less pain and fatigue.

Yoga’s ability to lessen stress is key to its positive impact on the body, says Lorenzo Cohen, Ph.D., director of M.D. Anderson Cancer Center’s Integrative Medicine Program. “When they’re diagnosed, many women still have to be active mothers and continue to work,” Cohen says. “Doing an activity that lets them focus on themselves is really useful.”

Source: Whole Living

Beat Stress This Holiday Season

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Find time to clear your head. Finding tools like yoga, tai chi, or meditation can help bring balance to your life. These practices can help control your bodies stress response, calm tension, and reduce blood pressure. They also help make you become more grounded which helps to keep your mind clear.

Learn to prioritize. Multi-tasking can be very tedious especially around the holidays. The best way to make sure you get things done is to make a list. This will help you remember what needs to get done, and what can wait to get done. Often we have to do everything, and forget to realize that not all tasks are imperative.

Make sure you get some R&R. Life is hectic when we have to pick up the kids, work, make dinner, and find time to do the other things that need attending. Make sure you set time everyday aside for just you. If you feel that everyone gets in the way of you making R&R time then stand firm and tell them that you will get to it when you have time. Don’t forget that you have the authority to say yes or no.

Unwind with music. Promising studies show that listening to music can help you relax. Such music as classical soft music, and therapeutic cds show promise as a means of calming the mind and body. These recordings work by projecting two tones of similar frequencies into each ear. This creates a “beat” at a certain frequency in the mind, say proponents, and your brain falls in sync with it; different frequencies call forth different moods.

Probiotics Help Fight Parasites

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Scientists studying Toxoplasma gondii, the parasite responsible for toxoplasmosis, found that bacteria present in the human gut help stimulate the body’s defense mechanisms.

“It also suggests the possibility of developing novel probiotic strategies for treating parasitic infections such as toxoplamosisand cryptosporidiosis, a related disease caused by the parasite Cryptosporidium.”

Dr Yarovinsky told NutraIngredients that probiotics may occupy space in the intestine and thus reduce or prevent potentially pathogenic bacteria attaching to the intestinal wall.

Source: Nutra Ingredients

Common Foods That Fight Colds

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Common foods that we can all use to help fight colds and other winter illness.

LEMONADE: 
This is wonderful to soothe sore throats, cleanse the blood, and loosen mucous. Add the juice of half a lemon and one teaspoon of maple syrup to a cup of warm water.

CHICKEN SOUP: 
Use of chicken soup goes back to the twelfth century, to a Jewish physician and philosopher, Maimonides, who recommended chicken soup to treat colds and flu.

MUSTARD: 
Mustard packs reduce fever, eliminate toxins and help heal the mucus membranes in the lungs.

GINGER: 
Ginger tea can help kill germs, as an antiviral and is also very good for an upset stomach. 
Boil two tablespoons of grated fresh ginger in two cups of water for fifteen minutes, remove from the heat and steep for ten minutes. 
Drink as needed. Adding ginger to a bath stimulates the lymph system and speeds lymph drainage. Pulverize a quarter cup of fresh ginger and place in cheesecloth and soak in the tub as water fills.

GARLIC: 
Common household garlic is great as a preventative and as a treatment for colds and flu. 
Raw garlic has anti-fungal, antibacterial, and antiviral properties. 
Researchers in England found that garlic can speed up recovery from the flu and increase resistance.Garlic can cause increased bleeding, so those taking medications for bleeding should take care when adding extra garlic to the diet. Continue Reading