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Acute Stress Acute stress is the body's physiological reaction to a new challenge or sudden unexpected occurrence. Events such as a near-miss automobile accident, an argument with a family member or a costly mistake at work can trigger the body to turn on the "flight or fight" response. Acute stress isn't always caused by negative…

Just one century ago, people consumed about 15 grams of sugar a day mostly from pure cane sugar. Today, the typical person consumes a whopping 73 grams of sugar a day mostly in foods sweetened using the cheaper corn fructose sugar. A more subtle source of "sugar" intake comes from whole, sprouted and refined grains…

The best researched use of thermal imaging to date has been in breast cancer detection. For three decades, over 250,000 women have been studied, some of them for up to 12 years. A critical difference between thermography versus mammography is the ability to detect problems early enough to use preventive measures, rather than detecting disease…

Genetic Modification, also known as biotechnology, is the alteration of the genetic makeup of organisms such as plants, animals or bacteria. GM products include medicines, vaccines, foods and food ingredients, feeds and fibers. Scientists identify a favorable genetic trait in one organism's DNA and transfer that favorable gene trait to another organism's DNA. Examples include…

2012 Since this is the month to celebrate love, we thought it would be nice to share nine ways that sex (once a week) can benefit your health: 1. Fewer colds due to an increase in IgA, an antibody that fights infection 2. Women can get more predictable periods because of exposure to male pheromones…

Nitric Oxide Nitric Oxide was named "Molecule of the Year" in 1992 by the American scientific community. And in 1998, the discovery of Nitric Oxide as a critical signaling molecule was awarded a Nobel Prize in physiology/medicine. The Talking Molecule Nitric Oxide revolutionized conventional scientific reasoning because it was the first molecule discovered to literally…

If you eat or breathe, you are introducing toxins into your body. The toxins we are ingesting and inhaling relate mostly to our diet, lifestyle, and the quality of air we breathe. Ridding our bodies of toxins requires, above all, avoidance of them. It's much easier, more effective, and much more efficient to decrease your…

Do you remember your first day of school? For the first time, you marched into a classroom and you were expected to learn to operate and function along with other children in the classroom. You had to be able to get along well with others, be quiet, sit still, listen, and follow instructions while also…

It is interesting to note that the reasons we die today are very different than the reasons we died 100 years ago. In the 1900's, death was frequently a result of a communicable disease such as tuberculosis or the flu. Today, degenerative diseases top the charts and include heart disease, cancer and stroke. Degeneration is…