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Healing Myths, Healing Magic: Breaking the Spell of Old Illusions; Reclaiming Our Power to Heal Donald M. Epstein See book keywords and concepts

They soon found something they shared in common: Christine's mother drank and her father traveled a lot, making the home environment less than pleasant. One day Christine discovered that she was pregnant, and the couple decided to do the "right thing" and get married. They had no money and their parents had no extra funds to lend them, so Joe dropped out of school and began to work long hours as a mechanic. Joe did not want this child; he knew that being a father would require more work, more money, and more responsibility. "This kid is going to take my best years away from me," he protested.

Biomarkers William Evans, Ph.D., and Irwin H. Rosenberg, M.D., with Jacqueline Thompson See book keywords and concepts

You're self-reliant and capable of independent living in a natural home environment. In other words, your "functional capacity" is good. In contrast, your functional capacity is low when you can no longer lift a full garbage can and carry it to the side of the road or even drag it there . . . when that one-mile walk to the nearest bus stop or climbing two flights of stairs becomes so taxing you no longer attempt it . . . when you notice you can't stretch up and get something from the top shelf in your closet anymore.

Alternative Medicine the Definitive Guide, Second Edition Larry Trivieri, Jr. See book keywords and concepts

Delivery Originally, all women gave birth in their home environment.This first began to change in North America at the beginning of the 20th century, when childbirth gradually migrated from a female-assisted experience in the home to a medical procedure based in a hospital. Once the trend away from home birth had begun, the percentage of babies born in hospitals escalated and reached 90% in the 1950s.73 HOSPITAL BIRTH An obstetrician (OB), a medical doctor specializing in the care of women during pregnancy and childbirth, will typically deliver babies in a hospital.

Lee points out, "was not in the drugs he used or his diagnostic skills, but in his insight that the elements which were needed to produce and maintain health were natural and that they included hygiene, a calm and balanced mental state, proper diet, a sound work and home environment, and physical conditioning. In addition, he recognized the life forces that pervade all of nature and which have multiple expressions, some known, some theorized, and many unknown. He taught that health depended upon living in harmony with these forces.

The rate of medical intervention (invasive medical procedures such as episiotomies, pain medications, and c-sections) is higher in a hospital than in a home environment and, according to Lewis Mehl, of the Waisman Center at the University ofWisconsin, normal variations of childbirth can often be mistaken for complications by hospitals.This may be due to several reasons: the higher levels of tension in the hospital, the availability of consultants, modern tests, and equipment, and the state of mind of hospital staff as they mediate between both high-risk situations and potentially normal births.

Sugar Blues William Duffy See book keywords and concepts

A glucose tolerance test at any of these periods could alert parents and physicians and could save innumerable hours and small fortunes spent in looking into the child's psyche and home environment for maladjustments of questionable significance in the emotional development of the average child. [Emphasis added.] The negativism, hyperactivity, and obstinate resentment of discipline are absolute indications for at least the minimum laboratory tests: urinalysis, complete blood count, P.B.I, determination, and the 5-hour glucose tolerance test.

The Healthy Home: An Attic-to-Basement Guide to Toxin-Free Living Linda Mason Hunter See book keywords and concepts

THE YARD The plot of land on which your house sits is an integral part of the total home environment, as important in its own way as the electrical, plumbing, or any other building system. A healthy yard is free of debris. It has trees and shrubs, a grassy place where children can play, an outdoor living area for adults, a storage shed for paints and equipment, and a sunny spot for a garden. Lawn Care A healthy house does not use synthetic chemicals on the lawn. (Recent studies link the herbicide 2,4-D—perhaps the most ubiquitous chemical in lawn care products—to cancer.

Herbal Medicine, Healing and Cancer: A Comprehensive Program for Prevention and Treatment Donald R. Yance, j r.,C.N., M.H., A.H.G., with Arlene Valentine See book keywords and concepts

In the meantime, here are a few tips to make the home environment a safer place: • Don't use electric blankets. They alter the electromagnetic polarization of the cell membrane; cancer cells are defined by a loss of cell-membrane polarization. • Use ceramic or glass containers for storing or hearing food, since polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastics emit carcinogens. For this reason, it is important to keep plastic from touching your food, e.g., you can put food in a glass bowl and cover the bowl with plastic wrap, but leave space between the wrap and the food.

Physician: Medicine and the Unsuspected Battle for Human Freedom Richard Leviton See book keywords and concepts

We may be able to make practical adjustments in lifestyle, home environment, even psychological attitude that could prevent, for example, the cold season from becoming "the winter of our discontent." The SAD Fact about the Hibernation Response In November 1982, this winter discontent and chronic depression, which engulfs many people in the Northern Hemisphere between September and April, got a name. Alfred Lewy, M.D.

The A.D.D. Nutrition Solution: A Drug-Free Thirty-Day Plan Marcia Zimmerman, C.N. See book keywords and concepts

Here's where home environment can make the difference in outcome for the AD/HD individual. In chapter 5 I discussed how subtypes of AD/HD strongly affect the adolescent and adult outcome for the AD/HD child. Now we see these subtypes emerging again as important factors in determining AD/HD outcome in families. Another physician, David Comings, M.D., of City of Hope Medical Center in Duarte, California, has taken subtypes of AD/HD a step further by ranking severity of AD/HD first by what occurs with the attention deficit, and secondly, by how many family members have related disorders.

The New Holistic Health Handbook: Living Well in a New Age Berkeley Holistic Health Center and Shepherd Bliss See book keywords and concepts

Many of the people we have taken home to die have found they needed less pain medication because of the support and relaxation available in the home environment. Many have said in the last weeks of a loved one's dying in a hospital: "I wish I could do more." We always think to ourselves, "Take them home to die and don't worry, you will!" Giving a loved one round-the-clock support may draw on energy reserves long unexplored, while feeding some place deeper than bodily fatigue. To bring loved ones home to die is like accompanying them on their last pilgrimage.

The Healthy Home: An Attic-to-Basement Guide to Toxin-Free Living Linda Mason Hunter See book keywords and concepts

If you're jumpy and nervous much of the time, you don't want a home environment painted in reds and oranges. You'd never relax. Similarly, if you're melancholy and prone to be somewhat lazy, you don't want to be surrounded by serene blues or you'd never get motivated to do anything. It works together—the psychology and the physiology of the human machine. THE LANGUAGE OF COLOR The importance of color to the human psyche goes way back to the beginning of time, before language was developed. In that primitive era, color was the first language.

Even if we invest ourselves totally in creating a nontoxic home environment, that effort is wasted if we live downstream from a toxic waste dump that is poisoning our water or downwind from an industry that is spoiling our air. But it's not just air and water. Weather can be conducive to good or ill health, too. Climate is another important consideration. Some people seem to be more productive in a continuously mild climate; others grow hardy with a definite change of seasons.

Think about all the things that make up your home environment. For starters, what's in the air you breathe? Many of us routinely sleep in a cloud of synthetics, from formaldehyde in new permanent-press bed sheets to polyurethane-based flame retardant sprayed on mattresses. Unacceptably high levels of radon (an odorless, colorless, radioactive gas) are estimated to contaminate the air in one out of five houses in the United States. Everyday cleaning products like floor wax and furniture polish can create a phenolic haze in the air for days if used without proper ventilation.

Get Healthy Now with Gary Null: A Complete Guide to Prevention, Treatment and Healthy living Gary Null See book keywords and concepts

DEFINITION OF ALLERGIES Environmental medicine specialists define allergies much more broadly than do conventional physicians. For example, according to environmental medicine specialist Dr. Marshall Mandell, central nervous system diseases such as multiple sclerosis may have a significant relationship to food sensitivities. Mental illness is another example where allergies may play an important role. According to Dr. Mandell, as many as 80 percent of those hospitalized for mental illness could be helped by adjustments in their nutritional intake or other changes in their environment.

Staying Healthy in a Risky Environment: The New York University Medical Center Family Guide Arthur C. Upton, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

As for older children, it is important that they learn streetwise ways: how to cross the street safely, how to ride a bicycle, how to travel on public transportation. • Store pesticides away from children and pets (a locked cabinet in an area with ventilation is best). Keep the children and pets away from areas where you mix or apply pesticides. • Never transfer pesticides to soft-drink bottles or other containers that children associate with something to eat or drink. Always properly refasten lids. • Rinse fruits and vegetables thoroughly with water, scrubbing them with a brush.

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