The One Supplement That Cures Everything – Maybe!

by ShellyManning | Mar 17, 2012 | 57 comments

Being a fan of natural health, you’ve probably heard the terms Antioxidant and Oxidization. Some natural health “experts” have been swearing by this concept to cure pretty much anything from arthritis to cancer and heart attack. As always, when a new “magic cure” is...

Vegan Diet Boosts Mood

by ShellyManning | Mar 12, 2012 | 18 comments

Adopting a vegan diet that restricts the amount of meat, fish and poultry in the diet can lift one’s mood, reports a new study published in this week’s Nutrition Journal. The study asked a group of omnivores that ate meat to adopt a range of vegetarian diets,...

New Study Supports New Type of Acupuncture as Arthritis Treatment

by ShellyManning | Feb 27, 2012 | 12 comments

Acupuncture, the ancient treatment used to remedy a laundry list of conditions, was recently put to the test in 63 patients with Rheumatoid arthritis. In this study of 63 subjects, the volunteers were split into 2 groups. One received traditional acupuncture while the...

Exercise Little-Used Treatment to Fight Arthritis

by ShellyManning | Feb 22, 2012 | 18 comments

A study out of Northwestern University has found that one of the most effective treatments for Rheumatoid arthritis, physical activity, is seldom used. The researchers of this study discovered that this lack of exercise increased their risk of experiencing pain and...

Review Paper Finds Vegan Diets Chock Full of Health Benefits

by ShellyManning | Feb 10, 2012 | 14 comments

Those on the fence about the health benefits of the vegan diet need only to look at the results of a review paper recently conducted by Winston J Craig, PhD, a scientist at Andrews University. This researcher investigated more than 110 published research articles that...

Bariatric Surgery Not Effective for Diabetes Reversal

by Jodi Knapp | Feb 5, 2012 | 6 comments

In the early part of the 21st century, bariatric surgery physicians were convinced that they had found a single treatment that cured both obesity and diabetes: bariatric surgery. A decade later, research is beginning to mount against the diabetes benefits of this...