Healing Your Body By Eating Right – High Blood Pressure
The Western approach to health care might be best described as ‘reactive’. You get sick, your doctor prescribes some sort of medicine, and hopefully you get better. Coincidentally, perhaps, health-care costs are skyrocketing, as are such lifestyle-related health problems as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. Taking a preventative approach to health care, as individuals, may be our best hope of living to old age, and being healthy enough to enjoy it! What is high blood pressure? High blood pressure, or hypertension, is a medical condition in which the arterial blood pressure is...
Read MoreHealing Your Body by Eating Right – Inflammation
Life in the twenty-first century is full – there are so many demands on our time that we often find we have very little time for ourselves. One result of that is that we tend to be so busy reacting to problems as they happen (‘putting out fires’) that we have no time to take proactive measures to prevent them from happening at all. In terms of our own health, that often means waiting until things get very bad before we decide that we need to make some serious changes. What is inflammation? Inflammation is part of the body’s natural defense system against infection,...
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