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4 Signs that Your Marriage is Crumbling

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Let’s think about some attitudes in marriage, practiced by the husband or wife, that foster the idea of separation in each other’s minds, due to the pain and frustration that such attitudes produce — especially when they become routine. Eva Van Prooyen is a psychotherapist, educator, and relationship expert based in Santa Barbara, California. In […]

Berries-Delicious Medicine

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Summer is berry time—strawberries, blackberries, raspberries and blueberries. Berries are naturally high in soluble fiber that binds cholesterol and promotes its excretion from the body. It also slows the emptying of glucose into the blood from the small intestines, thereby steadying the blood glucose curves, avoiding sudden highs and lows. Berries also provide protection against […]

Finding Joy in Little Things

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Find joy in the little things. This piece of folk advice has been around for eons, and is one that many of us try to live by. But is there actually any real benefit to this practice? According to research, yes, there is indeed some benefit to savoring fleeting moments of joy – also known […]

Reversing Diabetes

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Jimmy was a big baby—10 pounds at birth. By age ten, he tipped the scales at 150 pounds. Just baby fat, his mother reasoned. He will grow out of it. Jimmy did grow out of it and into something worse: diabetes. By age thirteen he was twenty pounds heavier, tired all the time, and constantly […]

Autoimmune Disease – Why Does the Body Attack Itself?

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Autoimmune Disease: Why Is My Immune System Attacking Itself? With this title, Dr. Ana Maria Orbai published an article on autoimmune diseases on the Johns Hopkins Medicine website. Let’s now analyze why, in these diseases, the body starts to attack itself. According to Dr. Orbai, a rheumatologist at the Johns Hopkins Arthritis Center, autoimmune diseases […]

Ginger – From Culinary Delight to Modern Medicine

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Ginger (Zingiber officinale) is the underground stem or rhizome of a tall, perennial, tropical plant. The fleshy rhizomes of ginger are harvested when the plant is about one year old and sun-dried for about a week. Typically, that sold in a store is candied or crystallized; it is prepared by boiling the fresh rhizome in […]