DOES IT SEEM LIKE YOU GET SICK MORE OFTEN? Then when you were younger? Does it take you longer to feel good again? If you find yourself taking more than your fair share of sick days, or you are constantly fighting fatigue and stress, your immune system may need a boost. Even in a healthy [...]Read more
DIABESITY Diabesity refers to a form of diabetes which typically develops later in life and is associated with being obese. Hectic work schedules, stress, cheap and easy fast food a sedentary lifestyle are just a few of the causes of being overweight or obese and of having type 2 diabetes or insulin resistance. Signs include: [...]Read more
DETOXIFICATION: PURIFYING THE BODY OF TOXINS What are toxins? Medical dictionaries define toxins as a poison that is a protein or a conjugated protein substance produced by plants, some animals and pathogenic (i.e. capable of producing disease) bacteria; a toxicant is a poisonous agent. Medicine considers toxins to be any substance that creates irritating and/or [...]Read more
CLIMATE CHANGE Evidence continues to emerge that climate change is resulting in greater numbers of heat waves and flooding events, bringing more opportunity for waterborne diseases such as cholera and for disease vectors such as mosquitoes in new regions. Climate change will increase deaths from heat stress, malnutrition and the spread of infectious diseases like [...]Read more
CIVIL CONFLICT If a country is on the brink of breakdown from civil unrest, the ability to handle an intense and sudden problem like an outbreak could bring its people to their knees and allow the infection to flourish. Outbreaks can completely paralyze countries. Civil unrest leaves economic and health infrastructures in dire need of [...]Read more
CHRONIC INFLAMMATION IN ASTHMA What is chronic inflammation and what does it mean? Let’s begin with a look at the words themselves. Chronic, in relation to health, means an illness or disease that persists for a long time or one that is constantly recurring. Inflammation – think of “in-flames” – is the body’s response to [...]Read more