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A Fervent Call for Sustainable Health Care
submitted by: admin on 05/08/2015
" A Return to Healing" Blog: Fri, 03/12/2010 - 22:23 — BBelitsos
A great disappointment has descended upon the majority of Americans. Both the left and the right feel let down by the federal government’s strangely inadequate package of health care reforms that is about to be...
Avoid the Swine Flu Vaccine—And Boost Your Own Immunity
submitted by: admin on 11/25/2024
Our nearly seventy combined years of practicing medicine [note: this piece is coauthored by Len Saputo, MD and Stacia Lansman, MD, with Byron Belitsos] has taught us this, if anything: Be wary whenever “big pharma” is part of any health campaign from which it stands to profit. And this is all the more true when it...
Beta Carotone May Increase Lung Cancer in Smokers
submitted by: admin on 09/19/2013
Taking high doses of beta carotene, vitamin A, or lutein may increase the risk of lung cancer, especially in smokers. Would eating too many carrots do this? Supplements are over used; we should be more dependent on healthy foods and a healthy lifestyle. Too often we're looking for alternatives to eating a healthy diet.
Bottom-Up Health Care: Eat Right, Eat Local
submitted by: admin on 09/19/2013
Dr. Len Saputo, co-author of A Return to Healing: Radical Health Care Reform and the Future of Medicine, describes one city's goal to improve the healthfulness of food city-wide. He argues "we can do programs at the local level...and set an example for the surrounding community."
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Dr. Len Saputo and Byron Belitsos talk about A Return...
Exercise for Seniors
submitted by: admin on 09/21/2013
How to approach exercise for the elderly. Physical limitations must be appreciated. The fear of falling is addressed. Muscle loss from lack of exercise can be gradually restored with a gradually increasing program.
Fever Reducing Medications Increase Mortality From Influenza
submitted by: admin on 10/22/2018
A study from McMaster University published in the March issue of the Proceedings of the Royal Society B showed that fever-reducing drugs that include aspirin, Tylenol, and NSAIDs such as ibuprofen, could lead to thousands of more cases of influenza and more deaths because of it. They pointed out that ill people may give off more virus when fever is reduced....
Food for Thought with Cindy Geshon
submitted by: admin on 09/21/2013
Dr. Len interviews the founder of the Wellness City Challenge in Contra Costa County that is revolutionizing the diets of school children. Her leadership in hands on "eat and learn" classes and promotion of what a healthy diet is is making grass roots changes in the community.
Food in Childrens' Hospitals is Unhealthy
submitted by: admin on 09/21/2013
Only 7% of food in 14 major childrens' hospitals in California was considered healthy according to a new study published in Academic Pediatrics. Researchers from UCLA and the Rand Corporation did the study. They concluded that "as health professionals, we understand the connection between healthy eating and good health..." Nothing could...
Food, Longevity, and the Anti-aging Diet with Dr. Richard Kunin
submitted by: admin on 09/21/2013
Is there a medicine or drug, anywhere, that has ever been invented, that does what lifestyle does to maintain wellness and restore health? Dr. Kunin's answer: Anything that can be treated by nutrition should not be treated by any other means. Of course, he's stealing a line from Maimonides! Lifestyle is the most powerful medicine in the universe,...
Good Health Reward
submitted by: admin on 09/22/2013
This segment is to acknowledge those people on the site who have tracked their progress and done well
Health Crisis in America
submitted by: admin on 11/25/2024
We don't even address health, we focus on disease. By examining cultures with longevity and good health teaches us that living a healthy lifestyle is the key. We have fundamentally undermined a healthy lifestyle and are now sick.
Healthy Air
submitted by: admin on 09/23/2013
Negatively charged ions are healthy. Sick building syndrome and outdoor pollution are discussed in terms of positive ions that restrict blood flow and increase adrenalin and serotonin levels.
Healthy Cosmetics, Vicki Saputo, RN
submitted by: admin on 09/23/2013
We are more concerned with how we look than how safe the products we put on our skin are. Cosmetics are not regulated to protect us as they should. Most products contain many toxic chemicals that are absorbed through the skin and poison the body for years. Nurse Vicki reviews these issues and offers suggestions of what you can use to be safe and still...
Healthy Nutrition with Dr. Richard Kunin Part 1
submitted by: admin on 11/25/2024
Dr. Richard Kunin practices in San Francisco, CA. He also teaches nutrition classes. Dr. Kunin believes that with the cost of a doctor visits being so high, and that often to it takes several visits to the doctor before treatment even begins. Dr. Kunin's class teaches healthy nutrition and makes more sense economically. Instead of...
Healthy Restaurant Eating with Ed Bauman
submitted by: admin on 09/23/2013
Finding a restaurant with healthy food is not easy. Because Americans eat out so often, we need accountability from restaurants. Ed is consulting with restaurants and certifying those that have certain standards. Ratings are based on freshness, local and natural, organic, and affordability
Heart Attack Prevention
submitted by: admin on 02/19/2015
Heart attacks are preventable through a healthy lifestyle. An unhealthy lifestyle leads to inflammation and the development of arterial plaque. Tests for early detection and risk factors are reviewed. Approaches for prevention are described.
How Do We Diagnose Your Health with Dr. Richard Kunin
submitted by: admin on 09/24/2013
People need to work on being healthy rather than waiting until they get sick. How Do We Diagnose Your Health? In medicine they diagnose disease, but what do you do to diagnose health? What is this thing called the wellness buffer? How do we put space between ourselves and when our bodies start to malfunction?
Dr. Len and Dr. Kunin discuss taking the...
How to Cure Cancer
submitted by: admin on 09/24/2013
The big "C" scares us into believing it is incurable. The incidence of cancer was rare 100 years ago. Conventional therapies do little to cure cancer. Raymond Francis believes we can cure cancer with the information we now have. You may find his thinking interesting!
Integrative Medicine and Health Disparaties with Davi Pakter, MD
submitted by: admin on 10/09/2013
Health care disparaties are common and as a society we are only as healthy as our weakest link. We also need to be in harmony with our environment, and many medical treatments pay no attention to this. Mayor Newsome has created a program called "Healthy San Francisco," that provides a beginning program of integrative health care for the indigent. Diet,...
Is a Lack of Exercise a Medical Condition?
submitted by: admin on 10/09/2013
A sedentary lifestyle increases the risk for many diseases such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart attacks, strokes, hypertension and much more. Should lack of exercise be considered a medical condition. A researcher from the Mayo Clinic published an article in the August 2012 issue of the Journal of Physiology stating that a lack of exercise should be considered...
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