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Finding Balance and Healing: Homeopathy for Substance Abuse Rehabilitation Support

Substance abuse and addiction can have a profound impact on individuals and their loved ones. While substance abuse rehabilitation requires comprehensive care, homeopathy can provide supportive assistance in the recovery process. In this article, we will explore how homeopathy can aid in substance abuse rehabilitation and discuss some ...Read more

Why Your Gym Plans Don't Work Out

Health Advice / Scott LaFee /

University of Michigan researchers have an idea why so many people who make ambitious plans and goals regarding physical fitness ultimately give up on them -- more specifically, why planned daily exercise doesn't happen.

Blame it on an all-or-nothing mindset, said behavioral scientist Michelle Segar, who, with colleagues, just published data on...Read more

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On Nutrition: Reader comments

Health Advice / Nutrition /

In a recent column, I described myself as a “nutrition nerd” regarding my fascination with the human body’s ability to process food into substances we need to maintain health.

Outlining how food is digested, I wrote: “As food nears the stomach, it arrives at a security gate called the esophageal sphincter that opens just long enough for...Read more

Where There's Smoke, It's Dire

Health Advice / Scott LaFee /

Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death, responsible for one in five deaths in the U.S. annually. A longtime smoking habit is estimated to reduce average life expectancy by at least 10 years.

But smoking costs more than lives. WalletHub, a personal finance company, recently released a report on the economic costs of smoking: more ...Read more

The Five Stages of Brain Development

Health Advice / Scott LaFee /

Researchers now suggest that the human brain goes through five distinct phases of development over the course of a lifetime.

1. Childhood, from birth to age 9, during which time the brain is continually pruning away haphazardly created synaptic connections forged as early learning, unlearning and relearning chaotically occurs. As a result, ...Read more

Soy Vey!

Health Advice / Scott LaFee /

Soybean oil is the most widely consumed cooking oil (more than 50%) in the United States and a ubiquitous ingredient in processed foods. A new study by researchers at the University of California, Riverside, now suggests it contributes to obesity, at least in mice.

Researchers fed mice a high-fat diet rich in soybean oil. Most gained ...Read more