“The first wealth is health”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Breathing is the link between body and mind. The breath can lead the body toward wellness and the mind toward calmness.” A G Mohan
Exercises As Effective As Manipulation For Neck Pain
A recent study has found that spinal manipulation therapy is more effective than medication in both the short and long-term. The most interesting part of the study was that home exercises and advice were as effective as manipulation. It just goes to show that the benefits of self-help should not be underestimated. It would have…
Shift Work May Cause Obesity And Diabetes
An article in today’s BBC News Health discusses recent research published in Science Translational Medicine. Dr Orfeu Buxton et al. have shown that “prolonged sleep restriction with concurrent circadian disruption alters metabolism and could increase the risk of obesity and diabetes”. This has implications to people performing shift work.
Higher Fibre Intake Improves Health
Last month Reynolds et al. published an article in The Lancet that looked into the relationship between carbohydrate quality and health. They carried out a series of systematic reviews and meta-analyses that evaluated around 135 million person-years of data from 185 prospective studies as well as 58 clinical trials with 4635 adults. They found that…
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light”. Plato
Low Carbohydrate Diets Are Bad For Health
Yesterday professor Banach, from the Medical University of Lodz in Poland, released the findings of his research at the European Society of Cardiology. The prospective study looked at the relationship between low carbohydrate diets, all-cause mortality and deaths specifically from coronary heart disease, stroke and cancer. The study group consisted of almost 25,000 adults from…