Vibrant health

Do You REALLY Need A Hysterectomy?

by emily on February 2, 2012

Hysterectomies have come into vogue in the last decade or so. Uterines are being removed left and right, even if they are not causing risk to the woman’s life. But what if you have uterine cancer? Isn’t a hysterectomy the only option? Far from it. There are natural and effective ways to deal with this [...]

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Why Diets Suck, Part Six: The South Beach Diet

by emily on January 25, 2012

This week, our search for a healthy diet brings us to the South Beach Diet. The South Beach Diet is a creation of an M.D. in—guess where—Miami Beach, Florida. Cardiologist Arthur Agastson came up with the diet as an alternative to low-fat diets, which his patients had difficulty staying on. Dr. Agastson’s goal was to [...]

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Why Diets Suck, Part Five: The Zone Diet

by emily on January 18, 2012

Is Dr. Barry Sears’ Zone diet a truly healthy diet? The theory behind Barry Sears’ Zone Diet is that when you tightly control the balance of the macronutrients—protein, fat, and carbohydrates—your body produces the right kind of eicosanoids. Eicosanoids are the body’s superhormones, and when you stimulate the production of the “good” ones your blood-sugar [...]

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Did Nathan Pritikin provide the world with a healthy diet when he came up with his “Pritikin Plan”? He was a believer in the dietary fat/cholesterol leading to heart disease. So, when he came out with his diet in the 1960′s, one of the main components was that fat provided no more – preferably less [...]

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Winter Dehydration Will Stop You Up

by emily on December 19, 2011

Anyone figuring out a healthy diet plan knows that water should be the number one “food” they consume every day. You probably know it. I know it. Yet, whenever the weather suddenly becomes cold (there is no gradual temperature change in north Texas; one day, it’s 85 degrees, the next, it’s 50 with a forecast low [...]

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I forgot to say in this episode: no WIG next weekend due to Christmas celebration. One of my biggest pet peeves is hearing people talking about how they can’t afford organic produce, natural remedies, etc., and then how they love their new iPhone, how much they’re spending on Christmas gifts this year, and so on. [...]

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Why Diets Suck, Part 2: Raw Food Veganism

by emily on December 14, 2011

Looking for a healthy diet? In today’s post, as I continue with a ten-part series, “Why Diets Suck”, I analyze The Raw Food Vegan (or, Raw Vegan) Diet. This diet has gotten more and more press lately, as it gains more and more adherents to its radical lifestyle. It’s almost a sort of cult, with [...]

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Is Soy A Health Food?

by emily on December 14, 2011

Should a good healthy diet include soy-based foods? Tofu and other soy-related products began to grow in popularity in the United States back in the 1960’s and 70’s. The hippie vegetarians, with their cries that eating animals was cruel and that animal fat caused heart attacks, began using soy products as a replacement for meat and [...]

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Five Steps To An Alzheimer Cure?

by emily on December 12, 2011

I – and no one else – can claim to know of an Alzheimer cure. But when you find out that such simple, inexpensive remedies as using baking soda for colds actually work for many people, you can’t help but wonder why there can’t be a natural and simple Alzheimer’s disease treatment. Actually, there is strong [...]

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Why Diets Suck, Part I: Introduction

by emily on December 7, 2011

Soon, healthy diets to lose weight will be in high demand. Come January 1, thousands upon thousands of well-meaning Americans will resolve to lose so many pounds. Books on weight loss will fly off bookstore and library shelves. Amazon will probably see a nice increase in profit that month. And while a handful of those New [...]

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