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  • The 12 Secrets to Healthy Living
    Use these 12 simple secrets in your everyday life, and you will see amazing changes in your health now and into the future.
    Posted: 2010-01-24
    Category: Diabetes
  • Both stimulatory and inhibitory effects of dietary 5-hydroxytryptophan and tyrosine are found on
    Amino acid precursors of dopamine and serotonin have been administered for decades to treat a variety of clinical conditions including depression, anxiety, insomnia, obesity, and a host of other illnesses. Dietary administration of these amino acids is designed to increase dopamine and serotonin levels within the body, particularly the brain.
    Posted: 2010-01-24
    Category: Diabetes
  • Rebuilding Your Health
    Welcome to Rebuilding Your Health. This book introduces you to the basic concepts of health and how you can find the “root cause” of your illness or disease condition. It can become your road map to finding the cause of your health challenges, creating optimal health and longevity.
    Posted: 2010-01-24
    Category: Diabetes
  • Living in a Toxic Body in a Toxic World
    Our bodies face numerous challenges on a daily basis. Many of these challenges come directly from our environment. Pesticides, fumes, synthetic materials, cigarette smoke, caffeine, preservatives, and medications contribute to our toxic world. In addition to these environmental pollutants, our bodies produce waste by-products as a result of normal metabolism. If these toxins are not neutralized and eliminated, the result can be poor health and toxic-related illnesses and conditions.
    Posted: 2010-01-24
    Category: Diabetes
  • Genetic analysis of human embryos by metaphase comparative genomic hybridization (mCGH) improves eff
    To assess the benefit of selecting blastocysts for cryotransfer based upon prior comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) karyotyping of blastomeres derived from their cleaved embryos of origin. Implantation and birth rates per transfer of previtrified CGH-tested blastocysts were compared with those following the transfer of nonCGH-tested fresh and warmed embryos.
    Posted: 2010-01-24
    Category: Diabetes
  • Functional Diagnostic Medicine
    Unlike conventional medicine, a new science called functional diagnostic medicine sees disease not as an enemy but as an opportunity for change and growth. Like complementary and alternative medicine, it views a person’s body as self-regulatory—that is, disease occurs when the self-regulation system gets disrupted or damaged.
    Posted: 2010-01-24
    Category: Diabetes
  • Food and Nutrients in Disease Management
    Since amino acids obtained from dietary sources are the precursors of mood-regulating neurotransmitters such as serotonin and dopamine, amino acids are considered to hold potential in treating depression. Neurotransmitter precursors are the subject of ongoing research.
    Posted: 2010-01-24
    Category: Diabetes
  • Body Talk
    Michael Dansinger, MD, is an internationally recognized authority on dietary and lifestyle counseling for weight loss and prevention of obesity-related medical problems. He is the weight loss and nutrition advisor for NBC's hit prime time series "The Biggest Loser", and a contributor to the best selling book series based on the show. He has been interviewed about his weight loss experience on the Today show, CNN, National Public Radio, CBS Radio, BBC Radio, Italian Public Television, Oprah magaz
    Posted: 2010-01-24
    Category: Diabetes
  • An Excerpt From the Book “Curing the Cause and Preventing Disease, A New Approach to the Diagnosis
    Let’s begin with a discussion of your health in the context of the three main body systems: * The hormonal/immune system, * The digestive system, * and the detoxification system. These three systems are your “pillars of health” because the health of your other body systems—such as the cardiovascular and nervous systems—depend on the strength of these three key systems.
    Posted: 2010-01-24
    Category: Diabetes
  • A New Show in Town
    Many people believe that illness, degeneration, disease, and pain is a normal process of growing old and that conventional medicine looks for defects, causes, risks, and genetic markers—all while attempting to suppress the symptoms of disease. In this era of conventional medicine, the ultimate definition of good health is merely the absence of disease and infirmity.
    Posted: 2010-01-24
    Category: Diabetes
  • Gomparison of Specificity and sensitivity of lceneX Lyme western Blots using lceneX Griteria and GDG
    Borrelia burgdorferi is the causative agent of Lyme disease - the most common tick-borne disease in North America. However,the diagnosis of the disease has been problematic.Steere et al.2a reported that at least 80% of Lyme disease patients have a characteristic "bulls-eye',erythema migrans (EM) rash, and generally, the presence of this rash is considered the earliest and best indicator of infection. Recent health departmentstatistics from Texas, Connecticut. and California, however, show that
    Posted: 2010-01-24
    Category: Diabetes
  • Low-Fat Diets and Weight Change
    The Article by HOWARD AND COLLEAGUES1 in this issue of JAMA, which reports on the largest,most ambitious randomized dietary intervention trial conducted to date, has concluded that a low-fat diet program does not produce weight gain.1 Despite the impressive features of this landmark study, the findings on longterm weight change are somewhat underwhelming.
    Posted: 2010-01-24
    Category: Diabetes
  • Comparison of the Atkins, Ornish, Weight Watchers, and Zone Diets for Weight Loss and Heart Disease
    Popular Diets have become increasingly prevalent and controversial.1 More than 1000 diet books are now available,2 with many popular ones departing tantially from mainstream medical advice.3 Cover stories for major news magazines, televised debates, and cautionary statements by prominent medical authorities4,5 have fueled public interest and concern regarding the effectiveness and safety of such diets.
    Posted: 2010-01-24
    Category: Diabetes