I like to push my consciousness forward. One of my teachers instructed;
we can only take our patients as far as we've gone. So when someone
actually starts to create a new consciousness, it gets my attention.
Such a person is author and physician Dr. Andrew Weil. His name is
synonymous with Integrative Medicine; he is the Founder and Director of
the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine and was named one of the
world's 100 most influential people by Time Magazine in 2005.
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Gravity-(noun) the force of attraction by which terrestrial bodies tend to fall toward the center of the earth.
This textbook dictionary definition eloquently explains what falling
means. Gravity is constantly pulling us towards the ground with profound
effect on posture and overall health. Throw the likelihood of traumatic
falls and you have unlimited potential to cause bodily harm. It's safe
to assume that each of us will experience some type of fall in our
lifetime. Every fall impacts body function, movement, mechanics, and
efficiency. Even a minimal fall transfers energy from the ground through
the body potentially causing severe injury. Energy is never lost or
gained, it is simply transferred. If a body's ability to absorb that
energy is compromised dysfunction, pain, and injury will occur.
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Remember the last time you had to do something complicated, like
assemble a piece of furniture, or get your PC to stop freezing up?
There's often a lot of cursing and frustration because the directions
were unclear and it's with excessive amounts of effort that you finally
finish the job. Can you imagine what it's like for people who want to be
healthy? Faced with conflicting information from the media (eggs are
good, no, eggs are bad, no, eggs are good!), medical doctors who don't
support them or give them misinformation, an environment that seems to
conspire against health — there are lots of reasons to not be healthy.
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If you are like most people you spend most of the day either sitting
at an office desk, sitting in traffic or watching television on the
couch for hours at a time.
If it ever crossed your mind that these sedentary activities might not be good for your overall health, then you are right.
Numerous research studies show that sitting for long periods of time
can actually reduce your overall life span. An Australian research study
followed more than 200,000 adults age 45 and older for three years.
Those who sat 11 or more hours per day were 40% more likely to die than
people who sat fewer than 4 hours a day.
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Even though most of us know that fiber should be an important part of
our daily diet, why is it that so many of us shun the idea of too much
fiber? Sure the initiation of fiber can be tricky because too much all
at once causes bloating and gas, but its overall health benefits far
surpass the trickiness of it being incorporated into our diet, doesn't
it?
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Arthritis is the leading cause of disability in the United States,
affecting a staggering 50 million adults and 300,000 children. What's
worse, it's estimated that these numbers will increase substantially
within the next 20 years. What can you do to reduce your risk of
developing arthritis?
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