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Effective Treatment of COVID-19

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In the beginning of March the Brazilian doctor Luiz Cristiano Maciel Cardoso published a video on Facebook and declared the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. Supposedly he had found out that the cancer drug flutamide would be an effective treatment and declared that he has conquered the pandemic with this miraculous treatment option. On March […]

How to Swap Meat for Nutritious Alternatives

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Are you toying with the idea of eating less meat, but unsure whether it’s the right choice nutritionally and how best to do it? If so, you’re not alone. Many people are now looking to eat fewer animal products because of the desire to eat sustainably, and moving towards a plant-based diet is indeed an […]

Depression: The Way Out

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Abraham Lincoln was no stranger to depression. His melancholy tendencies combined with an impoverished childhood, failed businesses, and unfulfilled love seemed to point only to defeat. At one time he expressed, “I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would be not […]

Stop Hating on Pasta

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New year, new you, new diet. It’s a familiar refrain. One popular dieting technique is to create a food blacklist. Quitting “carbs” or packaged foods is common, which can mean avoiding supermarket staples like pasta. But do we really need to ban pasta to improve our diets? This is what we call a reductionist approach […]

Water Helps to Relief Anxiety

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Many can feel overwhelmed at some stage of their life with feelings of tension, nervousness and fear for the worst. In a 2020 Survey, 62% reported having some degree of anxiety, and around 31% will experience an anxiety disorder in some point in their life. The growing field of nutritional psychiatry focuses on the effects […]

10 Tricks to Deal with High Stress Days

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We all have days that are considerably more challenging and stressful than others. Unfortunately, stress is hard on both the mind and body. If stress passes pretty quickly, we normally recuperate fine. When the high stress days are lining up, then they really start to take its toll. And what’s worse, you could even become […]

Healthy Weight Helps

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Cindy had many challenges in her life. She made a positive choice to quit smoking but then gained 80 pounds. “I felt miserable and had a terrible self-image. I was plagued by headaches and stomach pain. I decided that it was time to change my attitude, my thinking, and my choices to turn my life […]

Why Perfectionism is Causing You Stress

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Perfectionism is quite a common character trait, that affects about 30% of the general population and increases to almost 80% among the gifted population. Besides being pretty common, perfectionism is also on the rise. It can significantly interfere with your daily life and your stress response, so it is important to identify perfectionistic character traits […]

Digestion – A Churning Question

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Gastronomic Warfare. It’s relaxing to watch the swirling, gurgling bubbles that fish thrive on in tropical fish tanks. But it’s a different matter when it is happening in your gut. Is there relief from the burping, belching, bloating, indigestion and bowel trouble that plagues up to 10 million Americans and 20 percent of adults worldwide? […]