‘Health’ Archives
Aids Epidemic
Aids 2 Introduction The demographic impact of HIV/AIDS More than 60 million people have been infected with HIV since the epidemic began two decades ago. In 2001, it claimed an estimated 3 million lives. In the 45 most affected countries, it is projected that, between 2000 and 2020, 68 million people will die prematurely as a result of [...]
Genetic Engineering
How genetic engineering gained legitimacy When scientists gathered in 1975 at the Asilomar Conference Center in California, the new field of genetic engineering took center stage. But self-interest was more evident than altruism at the conference, writes Susan P. Wright, a historian of science at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and [...]
Nontraditional Medical Practices
Nontraditional Medical Practices A resurgence of interest developed in the 1990s in medical treatments not fully accepted by conventional medicine or biomedicine, which requires stringent scientific proof of safety and effectiveness before accepting a treatment. Such evidence is lacking for many approaches used in the medical systems and [...]
Unsafe Injections
Unsafe injections common around world Forty per cent of all the health injections given globally in 2000 were performed with reused needles, according to a World Health Organization study. In some countries, three out of four injections were unsafe. The researchers say that reusing needles contributes to the spread of numerous blood borne [...]
In Pursuit of Thinness
In Pursuit of Thinness Throughout history and through a cross-section of cultures, women have transformed their appearance to conform to a beauty ideal. Ancient Chinese aristocrats bound their feet as a show of femininity; American and European women in the 1800s cinched in their waists so tightly, some suffered internal damage; in some African [...]
What is Cloning?
What is Cloning? What is cloning and the history of gene therapy? Why do scientists continue to experiment with cloning and genetic engineering. Many people think that the desire to improve humans through cloning and genetic engineering is a new phenomenon, but it is not. This desire goes back to time of Plato. In his Republic, Plato [...]
Permanent Weight Control
Permanent Weight Control One out of three Americans are overweight. Whether you are struggling with 10 pounds, 100 pounds, or more, the information in this article will help you. Based on more than 30 years of experience healing myself and thousands of clients, I have found that the only way to achieve permanent weight control is by using a [...]
Diabetes
Diabetes In the U.S., a lot of people have diabetes. Categorized as one of the diseases of affluence, along with obesity and heart disease, diabetes has been rising at an alarming rate, thanks to the Western-influenced highly-refined diet. Cultures still consuming a ‘primitive’ diet are largely immune from diabetes with overwhelming [...]
Healing Pain Naturally
Healing Pain Naturally There are more drugs dispensed for pain than for any other disease on this planet. Drug companies enjoy earning huge profits from people suffering with chronic pain. Pain management clinics flourish throughout the world. Most conventional medication prescribed for pain addresses a temporary symptom removal (if you are [...]
Oxygen Health and Fitness
Oxygen Health & Fitness Expo Take a deep breath. Pulling the sweet oxygen into your lungs you can feel it course through your veins. Oxygen is life. The healing benefits of oxygen have been known for many years, but it is only recently that effective methods have been created to maximize oxygen’s healing properties. Many of these [...]
