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03/08/2010 The Growing Power Of The Sugar Pill
NPR: Over the last four decades placebos have come to play an enormous role in the scientific process. But some recent studies are turning up something extremely unexpected about the placebo effect: our response to placebos seems to be changing over time. In fact the placebo effect, some researchers say, appears to be getting stronger.
03/08/2010 Can apricot kernels keep cancer at bay?
Sydney Morning Herald: PAUL Reid should be dead. Diagnosed with a rare, incurable lymphoma, he was given five years, seven tops, by his oncologist. But, having cheated death in the Ash Wednesday bushfires, he was not about to surrender his life without a fight.
His weapon of choice? Apricot kernels. Thirty a day. Reid turned down chemotherapy, vowing to eat himself well. Today, 13 years in remission, the 68-year-old believes that ''cancer-killing'' properties in the kernels he still eats daily, coupled with a strict vegan diet and prayer, have cured him. ''We're not immortal, but I believe I'll be healthy from taking this direction,'' he says.
03/07/2010 How to Grow Old Gracefully
LiveScience: U.S. residents might be living longer these days, but more and more Americans have chronic diseases, such as diabetes, which decrease their lifespan and boost medical costs. Some 133 million adults – almost half the adult population – have some type of chronic health condition, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). With such staggering statistics, you might think illness and impairment are synonymous with aging.
03/06/2010 Oarfish omen spells earthquake disaster for Japan
UK Telegraph: Japan is bracing itself after dozens of rare giant oarfish – traditionally the harbinger of a powerful earthquake – have been washed ashore or caught in fishermen's nets.
03/06/2010 Can Meditation Reverse Memory Loss?
WebMD: Meditation can increase blood flow in the brain and improve memory, according to researchers who tested a specific kind of meditation and found the improvement after just eight weeks.
03/06/2010 Yoga, meditation helps heal grief
Frederick News-Post: Heather K. Whittington uses mind-body therapies such as yoga, meditation and journaling to help grieving folks cope with the death of a loved one.
03/06/2010 Americans Want More News Reporting on Religious and Spiritual Issues According to New Pew Study
Beliefnet: 41% of Americans say there is not enough media coverage of religious and spiritual issues.
03/06/2010 Red Clover May Relieve Depression in Older Women
EmaxHealth: Depression and anxiety are common among older women, and those who want to avoid drugs as treatment may want to consider red clover. A new study from Austria found that symptoms of depression were reduced by about 80 percent after older women took the supplement for 90 days.
03/05/2010 Knowing the mind of God: Seven theories of everything
New Scientist: The "theory of everything" is one of the most cherished dreams of science. If it is ever discovered, it will describe the workings of the universe at the most fundamental level and thus encompass our entire understanding of nature. It would also answer such enduring puzzles as what dark matter is, the reason time flows in only one direction and how gravity works. Small wonder that Stephen Hawking famously said that such a theory would be "the ultimate triumph of human reason – for then we should know the mind of God".
03/05/2010 Are Flu Shots Effective at Preventing Illness?
Time: In December, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched a public health campaign in the U.S. encouraging vulnerable patients — particularly the elderly – to "protect yourself and the ones you love against flu: GET VACCINATED!" At least one flu-vaccine researcher disagreed with the message: Tom Jefferson, an epidemiologist with the prestigious Cochrane Collaboration, which has headquarters in Britain.
03/05/2010 Methane bubbles in Arctic seas stir warming fears
Reuters: Large amounts of a powerful greenhouse gas are bubbling up from a long-frozen seabed north of Siberia, raising fears of far bigger leaks that could stoke global warming, scientists said.
03/04/2010 Lemon grass fights headaches
Science Alert: Griffith University researchers have found native lemon grass, used by Indigenous Australians as traditional medicine, has the potential to relieve headaches and migraines.
03/04/2010 6 Weight-Loss Tricks That Don’t Involve Dieting or (Much) Exercise
US News & World Report: The advice for losing those stubborn extra pounds seems so simple: Eat less, and exercise more. But as anyone who's ever tried to lose a few pounds knows, putting that advice into practice is very tough. Cut back on calories too much, and you're overwhelmed by hunger and your metabolism may slow. Exercise like crazy, and the hunger pangs you feel a few hours later may trigger you to eat back all you've burned off—and then some.
03/04/2010 A measure for the multiverse
New Scientist: The multiverse has developed rapidly from a being merely a speculative idea to a theory verging on respectability. There are good reasons why. Several strands of theoretical physics – quantum mechanics, string theory and cosmic inflation – seem to converge on the idea that our universe is only one among an infinite and ever-growing assemblage of disconnected bubble universes.
03/03/2010 Fish Oil Supplements Contain PCBs, So Eat Fish?
EmaxHealth: Consumers who take fish oil supplements for health reasons are now faced with a report that eight popular supplement manufacturers are being sued for selling fish oil products that contain cancer-causing PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls). The lawsuit has been brought by two citizen environmentalists and the Mateel Environmental Justice Foundation.
03/03/2010 Nail from Christ's crucifixion found?
UK Telegraph: A nail dating from the time of Christ's crucifixion has been found at a remote fort believed to have once been a stronghold of the Knights Templar.
03/03/2010 Chile Earthquake: Is Mother Nature Out of Control?
LiveScience: Chile is on a hotspot of sorts for earthquake activity. And so the 8.8-magnitude temblor that shook the capital region overnight was not a surprise, historically speaking. Nor was it outside the realm of normal, scientists say, even though it comes on the heels of other major earthquakes.
One scientist, however, says that relative to a time period in the past, the Earth has been more active over the past 15 years or so.
03/02/2010 Zen Meditation: Thicker Brains Fend Off Pain
ScienceDaily: People can reduce their sensitivity to pain by thickening their brain, according to a new study published in a special issue of the American Psychological Association journal, Emotion.
03/02/2010 Antarctic spits out iceberg the size of Luxembourg
UK Times Online: An iceberg the size of Luxembourg has split off from the Antarctic continent and could disrupt global ocean patterns and weather systems for decades, according to scientists.
03/02/2010 Chile Earthquake May Have Shortened Days on Earth
Space.com: The massive 8.8 earthquake that struck Chile may have changed the entire Earth's rotation and shortened the length of days on our planet, a NASA scientist said Monday.
03/01/2010 Solar Storms Could Be Earth's Next Katrina
NPR: A massive solar storm could leave millions of people around the world without electricity, running water, or phone service, government officials say.
02/28/2010 Hypnosis Relieves Pain in Breast Cancer Patients
EmaxHealth: Women who are being treated for breast cancer experience physical and emotional pain and suffering, which can be treated effectively with hypnosis. That's according to Lisa D. Butler, associate professor at University at Buffalo School of Social Work, who conducted a year-long study of the use of hypnosis in women with metastatic breast cancer.
02/28/2010 Deer Creek Victim Says He Dreamed About School Shooting
The Denver Channel: Speaking out for the first time since a gunman opened fire at Deer Creek Middle School and shot him in his side, 14-year-old Matthew Thieu said months before it happened, he had a premonition about the shooting.
02/27/2010 Recognizing Anger as an Internal Alarm Signal: A Pathway to Forgiveness
Psychology Today: Learning to recognize and respond to our internal alarm signals – which assess every situation and inform us of appropriate reactions – helps us to let go of grudges and to forgive.
02/26/2010 Projects across USA turn landfill gas into energy
USA Today: More communities are turning trash into power.
Nationwide, the number of landfill gas projects, which convert methane gas emitted from decomposing garbage into power, jumped from 399 in 2005 to 519 last year, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
02/26/2010 Do Toxins Cause Autism?
NY Times: The Centers for Disease Control reported recently that autism disorders now affect almost 1 percent of children. Development disorders also appear to have proliferated, along with certain cancers in children and adults. Yet they constitute a huge national health burden, and suspicions are growing that one culprit may be chemicals in the environment.
02/26/2010 Plastic rubbish blights Atlantic Ocean
BBC News: Scientists have discovered an area of the North Atlantic Ocean where plastic debris accumulates. The region is said to compare with the well-documented "great Pacific garbage patch."
02/25/2010 Acupuncture Benefit Seen in Pregnancy
Wall St Journal: Acupuncture designed to treat depression appears to improve symptoms in pregnant women, suggesting it as an alternative to antidepressant medication during pregnancy, a study found.
02/24/2010 Spirit Quest
NY Times: A report entitled "Religion Among the Millennials" produced by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion and Public Life and released this week found that one in four people 18 to 29 years old are unaffiliated with a religion. But that by no means makes them all atheists or agnostics. While there are always religious people among the unaffiliated, the numbers are significantly higher among the younger unaffiliated crowd. While they are less likely than those unaffiliated and older than them to believe in God, they are more likely to believe in life after death, heaven and hell, and miracles.
02/22/2010 5 Things That Will Make You Happier
LiveScience.com: "The billion-dollar question is, is it possible to become happier?" said psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky of the University of California, Riverside. "Despite the finding that happiness is partially genetically determined, and despite the finding that life situations have a smaller influence on our happiness than we think they do, we argue that still a large portion of happiness is in our power to change."
02/19/2010 4 Shocking Secrets About Fast Food
Yahoo News/Men's Health: Sadly, many of our favorite foods today (especially fast foods) weren't merely crafted in kitchens, they were also designed and perfected in labs. We uncovered the ugly truth in the course of our research for the Eat This, Not That! and new Cook This, Not That! series. What we found was not pretty.
02/19/2010 Placebo treatments stronger than doctors thought
Wash. Post/AP: When it comes to the placebo effect, it really may be mind over matter, a new analysis suggests. In a review of recent research, international experts say there is increasing evidence that fake treatments, or placebos, have an actual biological effect in the body.
02/18/2010 The Crystal Cave of Giants
Discovery.com: "I've never seen such a spectacular place. It was like setting foot on a new planet. Many of the crystals were so large that I couldn't even wrap my arms around them and the terrain was so difficult to walk on that we had to be extremely cautious not to slip and fall."
02/18/2010 Acupuncture may relieve menstrual cramps – report
Reuters: Acupuncture may be helpful in alleviating menstrual cramps, which affect up to half of all young women, an extensive review of past studies has found.
02/18/2010 Doctors test the placebo effect
ABC News Flint/Saginaw, MI: Crash victim Jonathan Overman, who flatlined six times after a car careened into his lane and left him paralyzed, had 13 surgeries and took hundreds of medications. He eventually got back on his feet. An accomplishment, Overman says, placebos helped him achieve. "It's completely all belief. Belief changes and heals."
02/15/2010 Year of the Tiger: All About the Chinese Zodiac
LiveScience: Feb. 14 marks a new year according to the Chinese calendar, which will be moving from the reign of the Ox to the year of the Tiger.
Each year on the Chinese calendar is assigned an animal from the Chinese zodiac, which rotates on a 12-year cycle. People born during a specific year are thought to have attributes of their animal – tigers are confident, daring and unpredictable, for example.
02/15/2010 EarthTalk: Efforts to curtail traffic congestion; cleaning an eco-friendly floor
02/14/2010 Momentum Shifts to Skeptics on Global Warming Debate
LiveScience: Eroding confidence in climate science punctuated by a pair of blizzards has global warming skeptics across the United States calling for a sharp rollback to years of political and industrial efforts to curb greenhouse emissions thought to contribute to global warming.
02/13/2010 Poisonings point to holes in supplement oversight
Reuters: A new report on people sickened by a liquid dietary supplement illustrates the real — if rare — risks associated with using these products.
02/12/2010 Orthorexia: Can Healthy Eating Be a Disorder?
Time.com: Kristie Rutzel was in high school when she began adhering precisely to the government food pyramids. As the Virginia native learned more about healthy eating, she stopped ingesting anything processed, then restricted herself to whole foods and eventually to 100% organic. By college, the 5-ft. 4-in. communications major was on a strict raw-foods diet, eating little else besides uncooked broccoli and cauliflower and tipping the scales at just 68 lb. Rutzel, now 27, has a name for her eating disorder: orthorexia, a controversial diagnosis characterized by an obsession with avoiding foods perceived to be unhealthy.
02/12/2010 Ancient Chinese Exercise May Improve Blood Sugar, Blood Pressure
EmaxHealth: Adopting a regular practice of the ancient Chinese martial art of Tai Chi may benefit those who suffer from type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure. It may also help with weight loss and stress reduction.
02/12/2010 Women with Breast Cancer Turn to Complementary Medicine
EmaxHealth: Women who are recovering from breast cancer turn in great numbers to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies. To help women with breast cancer identify which therapies will most benefit them, Michigan State University researcher Gwen Wyatt, of the University’s College of Nursing, is creating a support intervention.
02/11/2010 Climate-Change Debate Is Heating Up in Deep Freeze
NY Times: As millions of people along the East Coast hole up in their snowbound homes, the two sides in the climate-change debate are seizing on the mounting drifts to bolster their arguments. Skeptics of global warming are using the record-setting snows to mock those who warn of dangerous human-driven climate change – this looks more like global cooling, they taunt. Most climate scientists respond that the ferocious storms are consistent with forecasts that a heating planet will produce more frequent and more intense weather events.
02/11/2010 Experts to explore modern Mayan version of '2012'
AFP: Mexican researchers are to study the impact of apocalyptic interpretations of the ancient Mayan calendar, as in the recent US blockbuster movie "2012," on modern-day Mayan communities. Experts will travel in March to southern Mexico and Guatemala to carry out research with priests in Mayan communities, amid fears that sects may capitalize on the theories to sway potential followers.
02/11/2010 Could Mindfulness Meditation Help Alcoholics Stay Sober?
Everything New Jersey: Recovering alcoholics may benefit in the battle over the bottle if they practice mindfulness meditation.
That's according to a Wisconsin physician-researcher who is one of the few in the country testing the possible connection between meditation and the prevention of relapse to drinking among those dependent on alcohol.
02/10/2010 Most Medical Students Support Complementary Therapies
Massage Magazine: In the largest national survey of its kind, researchers from UCLA and UC San Diego measured medical students' attitudes and beliefs about CAM. The survey shows more than 75 percent of medical students believe patients would benefit if physicians were knowledgeable about complementary medicine—practices such as massage therapy and chiropractic—as well as conventional medicine. Almost three-quarters of respondents also say our medical system should include complementary and alternative medicine (CAM).
02/10/2010 Brain surgery boosts spirituality
Nature: Removing part of the brain can induce inner peace, according to researchers from Italy. Their study provides the strongest evidence to date that spiritual thinking arises in, or is limited by, specific brain areas.
02/10/2010 In Internet Era, an Unwilling Lord for New Age Followers
NY Times: Followers of Share International, a New Age religious sect, claim Raj Patel, a native of London now living on Potrero Hill in San Francisco, is the messiah Maitreya. He denies the claim, but he cannot persuade them.
02/08/2010 Being religious may not make you healthier after all
Reuters: A number of studies over the past two decades have shown that religious people tend to be healthier. But a new study suggests that when it comes to heart disease and clogged arteries, attending religious services or having spiritual experiences may not protect against heart attacks and strokes.
02/06/2010 Native protesters hear James Ray's pleas
Prescott AZ Daily Courier: Members of the media were not the only audience for James Ray's initial appearance Thursday. A number of Native American representatives of an action group attended the hearing. They are the Intertribal Eagle Feather Law Council, explained J.R. Packhorse, a Ponca of the Black Hills Sioux Nation. Packhorse said Ray's sweat lodge practices have violated the Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990. Packhorse says that for Native Americans, sweat lodge ceremonies are "our way of life."
02/05/2010 Physicist Discovers How to Teleport Energy
MIT Technology Review: First, they teleported photons, then atoms and ions. Now one physicist has worked out how to do it with energy, a technique that has profound implications for the future of physics.
02/04/2010 Food Rules From Michael Pollan Worth Following
NY Times: In the more than four decades that I have been reading and writing about the findings of nutritional science, I have come across nothing more intelligent, sensible and simple to follow than the 64 principles outlined in a slender, easy-to-digest new book called "Food Rules: An Eater's Manual," by Michael Pollan.
02/03/2010 Earth religions get worship area at AF Academy
AP/Yahoo: The Air Force Academy in Colorado has set aside an outdoor worship area for Pagans, Wiccans, Druids and other Earth-centered believers, school officials said Monday.
02/03/2010 EarthTalk: Issues with food waste; trout populations
02/02/2010 Natural Pain Relief for Back Pain
Yahoo! Health: Eight out of 10 adults in America have—or will soon experience—back pain brought on by the wear and tear of living. It seems simple to pop a pill for the pain, but why not avoid the side effects by trying natural possibilities first? You can turn to natural healing practices and herbs to alleviate back pain.
01/31/2010 Book profiles furry angel of death: Oscar the cat
AP/Yahoo: The scientist in Dr. David Dosa was skeptical when first told that Oscar, an aloof cat kept by a nursing home, regularly predicted patients' deaths by snuggling alongside them in their final hours. Dosa's doubts eroded after he and his colleagues tallied about 50 correct calls made by Oscar over five years.
01/30/2010 'Ranching' tuna the eco-friendly way
CNN: There are many bluefin farms around the world, known as tuna "ranching." Fish farmers capture bluefin juveniles in the wild and raise them to maturity before shipping them to market, rather than fishing for them in the open ocean.
But what's different about Kinki University's program is that it's a closed farming system, which means that the bluefin tuna raised in their ocean tanks have never been in the wild.
01/30/2010 Why Antidepressants are No Better Than a Placebo
Newsweek: The benefit of taking antidepressants is hardly more than what patients get when they, unknowingly and as part of a study, take a dummy pill–a placebo. As more and more scientists who study depression and the drugs that treat it are concluding, that suggests that antidepressants are basically expensive Tic Tacs.
01/30/2010 Julia Child and Jacques Pepin on Fat in the Diet
About.com: An interview excerpt with Julia Child, who lived to be a healthy 91 years, and Jacques Pepin, where they discuss the misguided focus of fat in the diet.
01/29/2010 When Chocolate and Chakras Collide
NY Times: "I DON'T condemn/I don't convert."
The words of Ziggy Marley's "Love Is My Religion" floated over 30 people lying on yoga mats in a steamy, dim loft above Madison Avenue on Friday. All had signed up for a strange new hybrid of physical activity: first an hour of vigorous, sweaty yoga, then a multicourse dinner of pasta, red wine and chocolate. As soon as the lights went up, dinner was served on the floor: an (almost) seamless transition designed to allow the yogis to taste, smell and digest in a heightened state of awareness.
01/29/2010 Study: Water vapor may help 'flatten global warming trend'
USA Today: Why the Earth's surface temperature hasn't warmed as expected over the past decade continues to be a puzzle for scientists. One study out earlier this month theorized that the Earth's climate may be less sensitive to greenhouse gases than currently assumed.
01/29/2010 Taliban say they’ll decide on peace offer 'soon'
Reuters/MSNBC: The Taliban's leaders will decide soon whether to join talks with the Afghan government, a militant spokesman said on Friday, after President Hamid Karzai invited them to a peace council aimed at ending the Afghan war.
01/29/2010 Earthquakes keep shaking things up in Yellowstone
Denver 9News.com: Paul Earle knows the ground underneath Yellowstone National Park is restless once again. However, the seismologist with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) is pretty realistic about it.
"Nothing to worry about," he said. It is a good thing, considering seismographs have registered 1,497 earthquakes in the area since Jan. 17.
01/28/2010 What Really Makes You Fat
Dr. Weil: Simply not having enough awareness about eating could be the culprit.
01/28/2010 EarthTalk: Environmental concerns about Haiti earthquake; agricultural projects in prisons
01/27/2010 Aliens "Right Under our Noses"?
CBS News: For decades, scientists have scanned the heavens in search of extraterrestrial life. Perhaps they should have looked for alien life closer to home.
Variant life forms – most likely tiny microbes – could still be hanging around "right under or noses – or even in our noses," Paul Davies, an award-winning Arizona State University physicist, told a group of scientists Tuesday.
01/26/2010 Do You Need a Life Coach?
Newsweek: Ten years ago, life coaching was seen as a fringe, New Age fad with just a few thousand practitioners. Today life coaches are represented by a trade group, the International Coach Federation, that claims more than 15,000 members.
01/26/2010 Uncovering secrets to a longer life
CNN: Dan Buettner, the author of "The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who've Lived the Longest," talks about how the past eight years his team of scientists and National Geographic researchers have explored five parts of the world — "Blue Zones" — where people live measurably longer lives.
01/26/2010 Aurora Mystery Solved?
Discovery.com: On Jan. 20, 2010, Per-Arne Mikalsen was photographing a vast aurora erupting over the northern Norwegian town of Andenes.
In one of the photographs taken by Mikalsen was an "object" that couldn't be identified. Although Mikalsen had taken several images at the same location, just one photo showed a mysterious green parachute-like object hanging with the main aurora.
01/23/2010 10 Questions for Michael Pollan
Time Magazine readers ask questions for Michael Pollan.
01/22/2010 500-year-old Nostradamus prophecies become first French book to be archived on Google
UK Daily Mail: A sixteenth century edition of predictions by Nostradamus has become the first book from France's vast archive of literature to be digitally preserved by Google.
Nostradamus is best known for The Prophecies, the first edition of which appeared in 1555 and has rarely been out of print since his death.
01/22/2010 FDA Cautions Against Chemical In Plastics
NPR: The FDA warned against exposure to a chemical called BPA, found in hard plastics.
01/22/2010 Past Decade Warmest on Record, NASA Data Shows
NY Times: The decade ending in 2009 was the warmest on record, new surface temperature figures released Thursday by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration show. The agency also found that 2009 was the second warmest year since 1880, when modern temperature measurement began. The warmest year was 2005. The other hottest recorded years have all occurred since 1998, NASA said.
01/21/2010 Doctor claims he has evidence of the afterlife
MSNBC: Mary Jo Rapini's near-death experience (NDE) is getting firm backing by a doctor who has studied some 1,300 NDEs. Medical doctor Jeffrey Long chronicles Rapini's story, along with his own research, in a new book: "Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences."
In the book, Long contends his study shows that accounts of near-death experiences play out remarkably similarly among the people who have had them, crossing age and cultural boundaries to such a degree that they can’t be chalked up simply to everyone having seen the same Hollywood movie.
01/20/2010 19 Weight Loss Secrets From Around the World
Reader's Digest: This collection includes tips from 18 countries, where leading nutritionists and Reader's Digest's international editors were asked to divulge the quirks of their cultures that can help us all stay lean.
01/19/2010 Why does God allow natural disasters?
BBC News: At the heart of Haiti's humanitarian crisis is an age old question for many religious people – how can God allow such terrible things to happen? Philosopher David Bain examines the arguments.
01/19/2010 Can Andrographis cure the common cold?
Irish Times: The cold and flu season brings a never-ending search for remedies that really relieve. With the need to avoid inappropriate prescribing of antibiotics, many are looking to natural remedies. One herb that has generated interest across Europe is Andrographis paniculata, also called Kalmegh.
01/19/2010 The good and bad of steroids
Arizona Republic: Mark McGwire's admission last week that he used steroids during his baseball career reopened the discussion about the drugs' risks and benefits.
Steroids are synthetic versions of hormones the body produces. Birth-control pills are one example of a steroid. The steroids McGwire used are an artificial version of the male hormone testosterone.
01/18/2010 EarthTalk: Human population's affect on migratory birds; pollution and nitrogen-enriched gasoline
01/18/2010 You mar what you eat and the politics of Michael Pollan
National Post: Michael Pollan, a leading figure in the movement that's launched an international ethical debate around ordinary eating, believes that when we discuss health we ignore an elephant that's sharing the room with us.
The elephant is the routine diet of modern industrialized nations, a diet that encourages obesity and thereby spreads hypertension, heart disease and other forms of illness.
01/18/2010 Restorative yoga for those who want to relax
San Francisco Chronicle: Restorative yoga, also known as "active relaxation," is gaining popularity as people look for ways to quiet the body, and ultimately, the mind.
01/17/2010 Self-centred Buddhism
UK Guardian: At a meditation retreat, I learned to watch myself. But would it be more effective if the aim wasn't my own wellbeing?
01/16/2010 St. John's wort may cool hot flashes
Reuters: The popular herbal remedy St. John's wort may help ease menopausal hot flashes, a small study suggests.
01/16/2010 Pet owners seek psychic link through animal communicators
Denver Post: "It's a growing profession," says Mary Ann Simonds, an applied behavior ethologist and ecologist who teaches veterinarians about "animal awareness."
Simonds has seen an explosion in the number of pet psychics in the past decade. She attributes the growth of the profession to the strength of the human/animal bond and the interest in interspecies communication. "It's really become more mainstream," she says.
01/15/2010 Is your junk food habit making you depressed?
Rodale/MSNBC: A new study published in The British Journal of Psychiatry makes a strong case that processed junk food can trigger or contribute to depression, while eating whole and healthy food seems protective.
01/15/2010 Many looking beyond traditional medicine
Chicago Sun-Times: About 38 percent of adults and 12 percent of kids use some form of complementary or alternative medicine. But for everything like fish oil and flaxseed that has strong scientific backing, there are other, unproven treatments.
01/14/2010 Less TV, Fewer Calories
Dr. Weil: What would happen if you watched television only half as much as you do now? You might lose weight – not because you eat less but because if you got up off the couch, you might burn more calories.
01/14/2010 EarthTalk: Saving animal species affected by rising sea levels; green car detailers
01/14/2010 Massage Therapy, CAM Aspects of Neurosurgery
MassageMag.com: Massage therapy and other types of complementary medicine (CAM) are utilized by neurosurgery patients, and the majority of neurosurgeons recognize CAM as having a role in their practices.
01/14/2010 3 steps for inspired change in your life
ABC15.com: Discover three steps that help you to learn how to pay attention to what is happening around you and how to work with "what is" and moving beyond your fear, propelling you into inspired change.
01/13/2010 Green tea 'may block lung cancer'
BBC News: Drinking green tea may offer some protection against lung cancer, say experts who studied the disease at a medical university in Taiwan.
01/11/2010 New Health Rule: Quit Worrying About Your Health
NY Times: When it comes to achieving healthful living goals, many of us feel we are falling far short. Whether you're a busy parent who can't find time for exercise, a chronic dieter struggling to lose 20 pounds or a multitasker who gets by on six hours of sleep, it is virtually impossible to follow the rules.
