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  • Is Steroid Therapy Right For You?
    Steroid therapy is the use of steroid medications to treat certain types of disease and disorder, including myasthenia gravis. The major adverse side effects are bone loss, high blood pressure, and weight gain, among others, which impair an already weakened immune system. The author relates his own experience of steroid therapy, and how and why he decides to abandon steroid medications.
  • Why are you addicted to chocolate?
    Eating chocolate is addictive because it is an addicting drug due to its various chemicals which have a marijuana-like effect on the brain. Chocolate may not be as healthy as the industry has suggested because it is packed with calories, fats, and sugar. It is important that you become aware of how it affects your mood so that chocolate seduction will not develop into an eating disorder down the road.
  • Binge Eating - A Component of All Eating Disorders!
    Binge eating is an eating disorder that begins with dieting, which is often abnormal eating. Feelings of deprivation, despair, and guilt lead to cyclical eating problems, such as purging. Binging is a component of all eating disorders, including anorexia and bulimia. Help an eating-disordered individual to re-establish good judgment and correct perception of self-worth in order to overcome abnormal food relationship.
  • Bulimia Be Gone! Start Eating Right Again!
    Bulimia is an eating disorder due to distorted perception of one's physical size and shape, resulting from abnormal eating behavior and unhealthy food relationship over time. It is a complex mental illness that requires confrontation or intervention on the part of loved ones or family members to effectuate recovery through appropriate eating disorder programs.
  • Fad Diets and Eating Disorders
    Fad diets are only temporary solutions to weight loss. They may adversely affect your body's metabolism such that your body will learn to maintain its weight despite your calorie restriction. Stopping a fad diet often leads to ultimate weight gain, not weight loss. Worse, switching from one fad diet to another often leads to eating disorders, such as food addiction, anorexia and bulimia.
  • Your Psychological Food Relationship and Your Health
    Psychological food relationship is related to how you think about food and its effect on your weight and body image. Unhealthy psychological food relationship, due to negative emotions or distorted thinking, often results in food addiction or an eating disorder. To improve your psychological relationship with food, you must identify the trigger and deal with it head-on. To ignore it only perpetuates the unhealthy eating behavior.
  • A Healthy Food Relationship and Weight Loss
    Weigh loss can only begin with a healthy food relationship, which comprises a good physical and psychological relationship with food. To understand physical food relationship, you need to know the logistics of eating: what to eat, how to eat, and when to eat. Eating is a science, and therefore treat it as such. A healthy physical food relationship is conducive to permanent weight loss.
  • Food Addiction and Your Longevity
    Food addiction is binge eating, compulsive eating, food fixation, and eating disorder. It is an unhealthy relationship with food, resulting in abnormal behavior that interferes with health, happiness, relationship, and longevity. Food addiction is a disease of the mind. Food addicts strive to control their eating to compensate for the lack of control they feel in other areas of their lives.
  • Buddhism and Healthy Longevity
    Buddhism plays a pivotal role in healthy longevity. The Buddhist concept of no "ego-self" or "emptiness" takes away stress, which is one of the major causes of disease and illness. In addition, Buddhism focuses on the expression of compassion and loving kindness as the true meaning of life. This altruistic attitude inspires oneself, in the face of health adversity, to set an example to help others to relieve their own suffering.
  • Confucianism and Healthy Longevity
    Confucianism and healthy longevity are inter-related. The concepts of "chung" and "yung" of Confucius outlined everyday health practices for healthy living. In addition, Confucianism focus on spiritual wellness, using the human will to control the 'qi' (internal vital energy), enhanced both the physical and spiritual wellness necessary for healthy longevity.
  • Taoism and Spontaneity, and Your Physical Health
    According to Lao Tzu, the principle of Taoism is spontaneity - doing things the "natural" way, without using exertion or force. Tai Chi, a form of traditional Chinese exercise practiced by Taoists, uses slow and spontaneous body movements, as well as natural deep breathing, to promote physical health. Western exercises, such as pumping iron, aerobics, and jogging, focusing on power and strength, may not be beneficial to your physical health.
  • Healthy Longevity and Taoism
    Healthy longevity is related to Taoism, the ancient Chinese wisdom on the art of living in harmony in all physical and spiritual aspects. Taoism emphasizes the return to health rejuvenation through non-action and spontaneity, like a baby. You achieve health rejuvenation through exercise and healthy breathing, and living a simple lifestyle with contentment.
  • Mental Relaxation and Your Mental Health
    Mental relaxation is important for mental health. Changing attitudes and lifestyle may help you in stress management. Correcting behavioral problems may help you solve life and relationship problems. Meditation provides the best mental relaxation by focusing your attention on the present moment to the exclusion of past and future thoughts, thus giving your mind a meaningful break.
  • Physical Relaxation and Your Longevity Health
    Physical relaxation plays a pivotal role in your longevity health because it takes away your tension, which not only saps your energy but also causes many diseases and disorders, such as heart disease, high blood pressure, and mental depression. Learning physical relaxation is a skill that does not come naturally. Practice physical relaxation daily will benefit not only your body but also your mind. Make it your daily regimen.
  • Mental Depression and Nutritional Deficiency
    Mental depression may be due to nutritional deficiency, such as magnesium deficiency, caused by chemicals in foods and the environment. Eat whole foods and stay away from sugar and all processed foods, which are loaded with chemicals, additives, preservatives, and food colorings, among others. These toxic chemicals may cause abnormal functioning in your neurotransmitters, resulting in mental depression.
  • Hormones And Your Depression
    Depression may be caused by hormonal changes, in particular in women during different stages in their lives. Estrogen is critical to mental health because they are responsible for optimum functioning of your neurotransmitters. Other hormones, such as thyroid hormone and testosterone, may contribute to depressive episodes. Other factors, such as genetics, diet, lifestyle, and the environment all play some role in developing depression.
  • Depression And Your Thinking
    Thought discipline is an effective way to deal with depression. Change the way you think about yourself through self-knowledge and intuitive wisdom to make a significant change in your life. Depression is no more than distorted thinking due to the obsession of the self, the attachment to material things, and the unwillingness to accept the pleasant as well as the unpleasant things in life.
  • Zen and Your Sex
    Everyday life, including sex, is the path to Zen wisdom, which is a pure spiritual philosophy transcending the boundaries of time and space. Just focus on the “experience” of life, including your “experience” of sex. Make sex "spontaneous," neither a goal nor a performance. Make sex connect you to the most basic core of your being.
  • Depression And The Oriental Health
    According to the Oriental medicine, depression is related to liver "qi" (internal life energy). Unlike Western medicine, the Oriental approach emphasizes the physical rather than the psychological aspects of the disease. The Oriental health uses diet, exercise, and acupuncture to treat the causes of depression, while the Western medicine uses psychology and medications to treat the symptoms.
  • Depression According To Zen
    According to Zen, depression is a disease of the mind. It originates from human desire which can never be fulfilled due to the transient nature of things in life. The unfulfilled desire creates pain, which is unavoidable. Any futile attempt to avoid the pain only turns it into perpetual suffering, which is depression.
  • Brain Health and Your Longevity
    Brain health has everything to do with heart health, and hence your longevity health. What is good for the heart is good for the brain. Giving good numbers to your heart maintain your brain health. In addition, sharpen your mind with activities to maintain the communication of brain cells to keep your brain healthy.
  • Heart Surgery And Your Longevity
    Heart surgery, such as angioplasty, may be unnecessary and even harmful to patients suffering from heart disease. Medicines may be effective in treating and preventing heart disease. In Oriental medicine, on the other hand, focus is on foods and acupuncture to unblock "qi" (internal life energy) and blood for optimum heart health, which has to be wholesome.
  • Arthritis and Longevity Living
    Arthritis, common among the elderly, is a debilitating disease due to toxins accumulated in the body; it is not a consequence of aging. To control arthritis, you must firstly detoxify the body, and rejuvenate it with herbs, foods, and a balanced diet to maintain the body's acid and alkaline level.
  • Anti-Aging Fasting
    Fasting is anti-aging in that it is the most natural and effective way of detoxification for optimum wellness and longevity. Fasting has many therapeutic health benefits. A regular 1-2 day fast promotes anti-aging. A longer fast may even cure chronic diseases.
  • Weight Control And Your Longevity (2)
    Weight control is almost impossible if your body is toxic. To effectively and permanently reduce your weight, you must first detoxify your body through fasting, foods, herbs, hydrotherapy, skin brushing, and foot patches, and then eat less.
  • Weight Control And Your Longevity (1)
    Weight control holds the key to your longevity. To control weight you need to understand the fundamentals of weight loss, thereby controlling it.
  • Diabetes And Your Longevity
    Often a result of years of abuse to your immune system through a wayward lifestyle, you may develop diabetes as you continue to age. Given that there is no miracle cure, you should control diabetes through a healthy diet and positive lifestyle, instead of depending on medications, which are often unsafe.
  • Acidity And Your Longevity
    Pharmaceuticals are synthetic chemicals, and therefore acidic and toxic by nature. A healthy body has a balanced acid-and-alkali level. An over-acidic body spells disease and premature death. Therefore, a longevity life is a drug-free life.
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