Everyone is familiar with the standard food pyramid that shows the recommended amounts of food we should eat each day. The diabetic food pyramid is much like this more well known version with the exception that it helps diabetics avoid foods that raise blood sugar levels. It has the seal of approval of the American [...]

Folk medicine has been a part of every culture throughout our history. Many folk remedies have been found to be based upon truth. A lot of the medicines we have today were derived from plants. Unfortunately there were many more folk remedies that just didn’t seem to make logical sense.As folk medicine practices grew over [...]

Packing a powerful array of biochemicals and sticky substances which aid the immune system in fighting disease, phlegm comes in a variety of colors and viscosity. It is produced primarily by the lungs and other respiratory organs–except the nasal cavity.

When you look at a person with diabetes, you’d never know it, they look healthy on the outside.But it’s what you don’t see that is so bad.The disease elevates the amount of glucose (sugar) in the blood. As blood sugars remain high, over time, complications such as blindness, kidney failure, amputations, heart disease, and severe [...]

High blood pressure is an increasingly common affliction, and with it comes the increasing danger of unknowingly putting yourself at risk of new or increased blood pressure issues as a result of the use of over the counter medications as common as cold and flu medicines that are readily available. How is it that medicines [...]

FluInfluenzaInfluenza (or as it is commonly known, the flu or the grippe) is a contagious disease, caused by an RNA virus of the orthomyxoviridae family. It rapidly spreads around the world in seasonal epidemics. The name comes from the old medical belief that unfavourable astrological influences cause the disease.TypesThere are three types of the virus, [...]

Food additives litter the food we buy and there is strong evidence that these food additives can be harmful to our health. This article provides some information that will help you identify and stear clear of harmful food additives.In 1958 the government passed the Delaney Clause Food Additives Amendment which prohibited companies from adding known [...]

As a first time mother I started off my parenting career on track with conventional medicine, armed with a bottle of Calpol, to solve every medical dilemma. Confronting my baby’s eczema and frequent bouts of tonsillitis led me to discover alternative medicine, homeopathy in particular, and I gradually came to find other ways of dealing [...]

Anybody who’s had a typical western diet and lifestyle of 20 plus years can be pretty sure there will be significant amount of cancer cells floating around in their body. Here are a few more useful tips to help you along the way on how to get cancer.

Influenza is commonly referred to as the flu, is a highly contagious disease caused because of the RNA viruses. Flu is an infection of nose, mouth, ears, throat and lungs that at times may also lead to death. Every year about 35,000 deaths occur just because of flu. The most common symptoms of flu are [...]