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The holidays, officially a time of good cheer, have become instead a byword for stress, overeating, running up bills, and enduring one's relatives. This falls in line with the last two posts on happiness and our dubious relationship to it. It's hard to find to define a greater goal in life than lasting happiness, yet modern psychology, with its notions about happiness being incidental and unpredictable, discourages us form believing in lasting happiness.
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Eating ‘everything in moderation’ has been a long standing public health advice for decades. However, new complementary medicine research by de Oliveira Otto et al indicates that this may increase waist lines and is not a remedy for natural weight loss. Read more Regular electro-acupuncture may be useful therapy in reducing risk for cardiovascular diseases12/15/2015 The Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) therapy Acupuncture has been around for almost 3,000 years. Electro-acupuncture is a ‘modern-type’ of acupuncture, which applies low-intensity electrical pulses through needles inserted at specific points on the body.A single-blind trial, recently published in the Journal of Medical Acupuncture demonstrated that patients with hypertension that use electro-acupuncture have a reduced blood pressure for up to 6-weeks. Furthermore,, this complementary medicine research study suggested that regular electro-acupuncture can cause a decline in the risk for cardiovascular diseases in the long term. Read more It is official! Men experience anxiety and depression, both before and after the birth of their child, nearly as much as women do, according to a systematic review. The review was recently published in the Journal of Affective Disorders. read more |
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