Recommended Reading

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Gracie’s Quick Links to Recommended Articles

Herbal Remedies for Common Ailments – from Mother Earth News
Is Organic Food Safer? : Disease Proof – There is a clear link between pesticides and cancer as a result of chemical use around the home and farm.
Scientists Officially Link Processed Foods To Autoimmune Disease by True Activist
The 76 Dangers of Sugar to Your Health – Why processed fructose is bad for you.
Wi-Fi Health Dangers & Radiation Health Effects – Wifi radiation can pose serious health risks.

Chinese Herbal Medicine for Sale on Cruise Ships

Licensed acupuncturists are working aboard a growing number of cruise ships.

Chinese and Western Medicine Together May Help Treat Cancer

Article Extract:

There has been a great deal of interest as to whether Chinese medicine has anything of value to offer for the treatment of cancer. GreenMedInfo writes that scientists have proved with thousands of studies using hundreds of thousands of cancer patients that Chinese herbal medicine can offer significant treatment for most types of cancers.

Curing Gout with Chinese Medicine

Article Extract:

Chinese medicine is thousands of years old, and well-respected worldwide as an alternative to conventional Western medicine. According to acupuncturist and TCM practitioner Simon Becker, a clinical study conducted by Zhang Ming and Tiao Rong [in China] comparing the efficacy of Western gout treatments with Chinese herbs for gout indicated the outcomes of:

… both treatment groups receiving Chinese medicinals and the control group receiving standard Western medicines was essentially equal (94.2 percent vs. 94 percent). The only notable difference between the two groups was that the control group which received the Western medicine suffered from many side effects, whereas the treatment group did not.

According to Becker, Chinese herbs are free of dangerous side effects when used under proper supervision by a knowledgeable natural health care practitioner.

Extracts from The Self Help Chiropractor’s Handbook by Lenoard McGill, Ph.D

Medicine’s focus on treating problems keeps it from being a tool we can use to attain total wellness and peak to performance … I believe one of our biggest problems in health care is that we’re spending huge amounts treating sickness and disease instead of promoting health within ourselves. (p. 5)

Not long ago, low-back surgeries were fairly popular even though many of them achieved only 50 percent success rate. (p. 103)

Ezine Articles on Skincare

Articles on skincare, such as how to remove acne scars and wrinkles.

Health-Related Stats from Statistics Canada

Source: www.statcan.gc.ca

Total Fertility rate (average number of children per woman)
(2011)   1.61

Current smokers
(2012)   20.3%

Infant mortality rate (per 1,000 live births)
(2011)   4.8

Has a doctor
(2012)   85.1%

Heavy drinkers
(2012)   17.4%

High blood pressure
(2012)   17.4%

Overweight or obese adults
(2012)   52.5%

Overweight or obese youth (12-17)
(2012)   21.8%

Physically active (leisure time)
(2012)    53.9%