Many times have I thought that I should have been born into an Amish family. I love the idea of living without electricity, cars and all the modern conveniences that seem to cause more harm to the environment and financial drain to people than anything. Of course, I can’t ignore the irony that I’m sitting [...]
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I think health insurance is a great concept. The whole HMO debacle aside, it’s a comfort to know that if something bad happens to your health, you won’t have to foot but a fraction of the bill. But I’m a dreamer, and wish we didn’t need it at all. There are – or, at least [...]
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You hear a lot these days about how to prevent heart disease. Typically, you see a lot of do’s and don’ts: do this, don’t do that, eat this, don’t eat that, etc. Each item by itself is supposed to reduce your risk of heart attacks and disease by a certain percentage. Do more than one, [...]
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Does the title of this post shock you? That wouldn’t surprise me, since the medical system has done everything it can to condition us into thinking that antibiotics are God’s gift to mankind. But when you learn the truth about how they were developed, and the real efforts they have on your health, you start [...]
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I never had health insurance when I was single. The only reason we have it now is because Jerry gets it for practically nothing through his company, but once we are both self-employed, we would prefer not to carry long-term health insurance. And I am hoping that our next President will repeal at least that [...]
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My father had Alzheimer’s disease. Should I be afraid? Should I be expecting that twenty years from now, my memory will begin failing me big-time? Should I be praying for a cure? What I need to do is the same thing everyone else needs to do in order to avoid any and every degenerative disease: [...]
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Could you or a loved one have mesothelioma? This cancer caused by exposure to asbestos has hit many of the Baby Boomers and older, as it was in their generations that the substance was widely used without knowledge by the manufacturers of its danger. While it is rare, it is nasty, attacking the lungs and abdomen. [...]
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Are vaccines safe? Do they really give the health benefits the medical world and drug cartels pharmaceutical companies claim they do? Hear it straight from the words of a licensed medical professional on this podcast episode over at unpluggedmom.com. The truth is, more and more enlightened medical doctors are backing off from vaccinations. Some have even [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]