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Coming Together For Children’s Health
There are basic natural choices that can help improve children’s health, but positive results depend upon practitioners, parents, children and society “buying in.”Currently in its pilot phase, The National Children’s Study, funded through the National Institutes of Health, plans informative research into many children’s conditions, including asthma, obesity, diabetes, behavior, learning and mental health disorders.For ...
Living Well
Natural practitioners guide their patients to healthy lifestyles that can help prevent or reverse signs of illness.According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the public health challenge of the 21st century is chronic disease. Seven out of 10 deaths among Americans each year are from chronic diseases, and heart disease, cancer and ...
Food Allergy Fight
Natural practitioners and product manufacturers are working to make all-too-common food reactions easier to stomach.According to the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network, researchers estimate that less than five percent of Amer- icans suffer from food aller- gies. Although food reactions are common, food allergies are not as prevalent as food intolerance. Statistics indicate that as much ...
Pulmonary Support: A Natural Approach
The average person takes 15 to 20 breaths per minute (more than 20,000 breaths daily), according to the American Lung Association, and the lungs trans- fer the oxygen taken with each breath through the bloodstream to every cell in the body. Consequently, anything that the body breathes in can affect the lungs. Shannon Jenkins, DO, ...
The Fibromyalgia Crisis
Practitioners recognizing their patients’ suffering can offer proven natural solutions for their pain, energy and fatigue problems.Fibromyalgia is a common and complex chronic pain disorder that affects people physically, mentally and socially. According to the National Fibromyalgia Association, it is a syndrome rather than a disease. Unlike a disease, which is a medical con- dition ...
2013 Science Of Supplements
This special section of Natural Practitioner comes in response to the desire for a greater understanding of the research and history behind the products available to practitioners and their patients, and manufacturers wanting to offer the science that backs the effectiveness of their products. We have featured a similar section annually in Natural Practitioner’s sister ...
Naturally Negating Neuroinflammation
Inflammation is a common component of a lot of chronic illnesses. But the idea of neuro inflammation is a relatively new concept, according to Leonid Ber, MD, senior medical scientist with the practitioner-specific Protocol For Life Balance, a division of Illinois-based NOW Foods.“Neuro inflammation started gaining attention because it attempted to explain the commonalities between ...
Natural Alternatives In Renal Health
Practitioners must be able to recognize and respond to kidney disease, which may range from mildly uncomfortable, to excruciatingly painful, to deadly.The National Kidney Foundation reports that 26 million Americans— one in nine adults—have kidney disease, also known as chronic kidney disease (CKD), and many more are at risk.The good news is that when CKD ...
Stress: A 21st Century Health Concern
A little bit of stress is a healthy and normal part of everyday life. But too much stress, from today’s financial concerns, long workweeks and not getting enough sleep, can start to cause wear and tear on the body. According to the American Institute of Stress, 75 to 90 percent of primary care doctor visits ...
A Natural Approach To GI Inflammation
Botanicals provide sound solutions for patients’ gastrointestinal issues.The father of modern medicine, Hippocrates, once said, “All disease begins in the gut.” That statement couldn’t be truer today. Scientists refer to the gut as the body’s “second brain” as more than half of the body’s nerve cells are located in the gut. Further, approximately 70 percent ...
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