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A complementary medicine research study published in American Journal of Health Promotion has shown that sleeping less than 7-hours per day may contribute to obesity. The research revealed that reduced sleep increases the consumption of sweetened beverages, sugar-filled drinks and carbonated drinks, all of which contribute to weight gain.
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Urinary tract infections (UTIs) burden the healthcare system with more than $2 billion in treatment costs each year. Cranberry extract is a traditional medicine remedy that been used in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) for the treatment of UTI’s. Now researchers have found that it can be a valuable Integrative Medicine resource for babies suffering from UTI’s. Read more Meditation for all is essential for god health, With the continued stress loads on physicians, it is more important than ever that MD's take up some form of meditation. Meditation has been now scientifically validated to show improvements in anxiety, depression and other stress related disorders. Read the article by Starla Fitch MD who is an physician that has written a wonderful book for doctors called 'Remedy for Burnout'. Please read of her article, How to Create a Meditation Habit That You’ll Actually Stick With. Read more A study published in the BMJ this month by Parsons et al has shown that:
A recent 2015 complementary medicine research study from the RTI International-University of Chapel Hill Evidence-based Practice Center concluded that there was no difference in the treatment of depression using second generation antidepressants over Cognitive behaviour Therapy (CBT). Read more 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. Read more 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 A 2015 complementary medicine research study from the University of Otago in Dunedin surveyed 2051 New Zealanders with clinically diagnosed gout. Of these people 71% reported having one or more food triggers. The study reported that the triggers of gout were: Read more: |
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