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Is sleep vital to your health? The short answer is absolutely yes!
I have come across several articles recently talking about studies that have indicated how important it is to get enough quality sleep every night. Here are a few:
From Physician’s Briefing – CHEST: Sleep Deprivation Tied to Obesity in Male Teens. This shows that sleeping less than 8 hours [...] Continue Reading…
My wife showed me this article on the benefits of magnet therapy by Dr. Weil yesterday. He doesn’t really say much about it other than that there are some studies that show that magnets work, others that don’t, and some information about people who probably shouldn’t use magnets. My feeling from the short article is that he isn’t in [...] Continue Reading…
Have you heard of people having an emotional release during a massage or similar type of therapy? It is fairly common.
A lot of times our emotions about an event can get trapped in our body. Over time, those emotions, which are trapped energy, can cause all sorts of problem, including pain and other more serious conditions. The easiest way [...] Continue Reading…
I tried out Tai Chi ages ago and never really stuck with it. One reason was that I only had a video or books to learn it from and nothing other than my interest to get me to stick with it.
A few years ago I had the opportunity to go to a three day Qigong course and continued with [...] Continue Reading…
Conservation is vital to make living in a solar home work. As I have said before, my wife and I intend to build a rammed earth solar home and we are looking for the right piece of property to build it on. You can get back to the beginning of this series to find out more about what we [...] Continue Reading…
My wife contacted a real estate agent on the piece of land near us that we were interested in. By the time they handed it around a few times in their office and decided to call about it someone else had put a contract on it. It took them three days to contact the seller and let us know [...] Continue Reading…
As I said in my last post, my wife and I are going to build a rammed earth solar house this summer. Finding the right piece of land for this kind of project is very important because you need an unobstructed view of the Sun for electricity and heat. That is south if you live in the northern hemisphere [...] Continue Reading…
This blog site has now been officially taken over as a journal for our latest adventure.
My wife and I are going to build a rammed earth home. One company that builds this kind of home calls it an Earthship. We can’t call our project an Earthship because my wife hasn’t been all that successful in getting much support from [...] Continue Reading…
It takes 32 glasses of highly alkaline water to neutralize the acidity of one glass of cola. That should be enough to scare anyone away from carbonated soft drinks, but let me expand on it anyway. Even worse, a lot of people drink bottled water that is, in a lot of cases, also acidic. That just makes the problem [...] Continue Reading…
I don’t think that most people realize how strongly their current financial situation and their worries about their financial future affect their physical wellness.
Most problems in the body are stress responses, and there are a variety of stresses that affect the body. Some of the stresses are from the things we do directly to the body, like injuries. Other [...] Continue Reading…
Vaccines are one of the most popular ways for the big pharmaceutical companies to unload their drugs on us. Do you know where the word “vaccine” comes from? It comes from “vacca” the Latin word for cow.
My wife found this story in Health Wars by Phillip Day. Back in 1774 an English farmer, Benjamin Jesty, took pus from the [...] Continue Reading…
As a society we have a very acidic diet and it causes us a lot of problems. Acidity in our bodies can be the cause of many of our most severe diseases, like some cancers, and make us more susceptible to others, like the flu. I’ve heard over and over as I’ve been involved in complementary health that disease [...] Continue Reading…
Why perform nutritional studies on heavy smokers?
My wife is going through a nutritional consultant program and was reading through some of the questions for her exam. One of the questions asked if increased beta-carotene can increase the risks of certain cancers. It turns out that it can under certain circumstances.
Shocking!
From The New Optimum Nutrition Bible by Patrick Holford: “three [...] Continue Reading…
My wife was watching an old episode of Dirty Jobs where the host, Mike Rowe, worked in an animal rendering plant. What they do is take animals, like cows, that die of natural causes on a farm and “recycle” it. The skin becomes leather, the grease gets used to make plastics and makeup, and the rest of the animal [...] Continue Reading…
Did you know that we live on a giant magnet hurtling through space? It’s true. The Earth has a magnetic north and magnetic south pole and without them no compass would ever get a Boy Scout out of the woods. The Earth’s magnetic field also protects us from all of the radiation that streams our way from the Sun and [...] Continue Reading…
