Lauren Slade : A Spiritual Journey
Discovering the Body, Mind, Soul & Spirit Connections
You’ll never guess what complementary and alternative medicine is.
Mainstream.
Seriously.
A new “state-of-the-art paper” from Mayo Clinic researchers, in the US, drops this amazing little statistic from a 2002 review: “The total number of visits to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) providers far exceeds those to primary physicians.” Continue reading “Mainstream vs Alternative Medicine – whos winning?”
We can eat our chocolate Easter eggs this weekend without feeling quite so guilty, a new study this week assures us. Chocolate, and especially dark chocolate, can lower our blood pressure and reduce our risks of heart disease. Continue reading “Eating Easter eggs can lower blood pressure”
It’s taken a few hundred years, but scientists have finally figured out why it is that an apple a day keeps the doctor away. An apple – and, indeed, oats and nuts, too – is rich in soluble fibre, which boosts the immune system. Scientists are recognising Continue reading “Now we know WHY an apple a day keeps the doctor away!”
A hospital stay could be one of the major causes of mental decline and dementia in the elderly. Hospitals, and the cocktail of drugs that are regularly prescribed, could almost double the risk, a new study has discovered.
Continue reading “Hospitals a major cause of dementia and cognitive decline”
Avandia – the discredited type II diabetes drug – continues to be prescribed by doctors, and is still killing around 100 people every month, even though it was identified as being potentially lethal three years ago. Astonishingly, the drug has stayed on the market despite the findings of a report in 2007 that demonstrated it was killing around 19 per cent of patients, and was causing non-fatal heart problems in a further 8 per cent.
Continue reading “Killer drug may finally be gone – 3 years and 3000 deaths late”
Despite all the dire warnings of a death toll of genocidal proportions, the swine flu (H1N1) virus is relatively harmless, new research has discovered. Even the annual flu virus poses a bigger threat to our health. Continue reading “Dire warnings about swine flu were all wrong”