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Acai Berry aids Weight Loss & Anti-Aging The Brazilian Acai berry (pronounced ah-SIGH'-ee) is considered to have the best nutritional value of any fruit on earth! The Acai berry, which is primarily grown in the Brazilian rainforest, became an overnight sensation when Oprah Winfrey talked about the berry being number one on Dr. Perricone's top 10 Superfoods list. Dr Perricone is a leading expert in Anti-aging. It is claimed that the Acai Berry has many wonderful health and beauty benefits. Anti-Aging and the Acai Berry The Acai Berry is said to be a rich source of antioxidants and has…

Dr. Grantly Dick-Read, an English obstetrician, who first forwarded the concept of natural birthing in the 1920s. The method teaches you that in the absence of fear and tension, severe pain does not have to be an accompaniment of labor. You will gain an understanding of how the birthing muscles work in perfect harmony--as they were designed to--when your body is sufficiently relaxed. You will learn how to achieve this kind of relaxation, free of the resistance that fear creates, and you will learn to use your natural birthing instincts for a calm, serene and comfortable birthing. When you …

Whole Body Vibration is the new big thing in fitness. Even Madonna swears by it and who are we to contradict the Queen of Pop and her enviable figure? As we have found out, 'wobbling' your bits might be the easiest way to keep those long-forgotten New Year's Resolutions (it seems so far way, eh?) and getting toned before your wedding. Whole Body Vibration Training focuses on the idea that vibrations passed on to your body from a moving platform can keep you fit and help you shape up, as muscles tense up resisting the movement and therefore working out. The best thing: it is as easy as it get…

What is Chinese Herbal Medicine?Health is more than just the absence of disease, and Chinese Medicine recognises this with its unique capacity to harmonise and enhance our capacity for enjoyment fulfillment and happiness. Chinese Herbal Medicine (CHM) is an ancient system of health care that has undergone continual development over the centuries as the causes of illness that afflict mankind have evolved. In its country of origin it is not an alternative form of therapy, but is used in the state hospitals alongside modern medicine. Chinese Medicine is a complete medical system that is capable…

There are a lot of buzz words used in the medical field used to describe pain. My job over the next few months is to make these medical terms more understandable to ’Joe Public’. I guess the most common buzz word for knee pain is arthritis.How many people really have arthritis and what is it?Put simply arthritis is damage to the joints. The most common joints to develop arthritis are the finger joints which can become damaged or twisted. Our bones are covered by a tissue called cartilage. This cartilage acts as a buffer. When it wears away we develop arthritis. When it wears away completel…

What hasn’t been said about Back Pain? I’ll start With a couple of statistics!!! In Germany data published some years ago claimed that two thirds of all citizens complained of recurring Back Pain. 61% of these found that their condition prohibited them from performing their normal daily activities. A whopping 80% of patients who had chronic back pain were not treated sufficiently. Recent research on chronic back pain in Ireland suggested that 13% suffer from the condition and it costs the Department of Social and Family Affairs some 350 million Euro in disability payments each year. Ok …

Live Well with Arthritis Arthritis is usually considered to be an old person’s disease: something our parents or grandparents just had to learn to live with and something we, in time, would have to deal with ourselves. In truth, the average age of diagnosis is 35 . Intense, severe pain and joint  inflammation lead to immobility, depression, fatigue, weight issues, social isolation, and unemployment, while certain medications lead to reduced fertility. One in six people in Ireland suffers from arthritis and 30% of GP visits are arthritis related. 40,000 Irish people have rheumatoid art…

IntroductionAchieving altered states of consciousness can be dated back thousands of years to early cultures where chanting and dancing were used as healing rituals. Healing through the hypnotic state can even be traced back as far as the Druids who referred to the altered state as "magic sleep". However, it was not until the mid 19th Century that the current methods of capturing a patients' total concentration through eye contact and verbal suggestion were established. Even then several schools of thought were developed and when Freud decided not to use hypnosis in his field of psyc…

Hair Loss Causes There are many know causes for hair loss and in the overwhelming majority of males that experience hair loss, the cause is Androgenetic Alopecia which is hereditaryMale Pattern Baldness (MPB) or Androgenetic Alopecia are commonly used terms to describe the condition of hair loss in men. Alopecia is the Greek word for baldness andandrogenetic includes the words androgens (male sex hormone) and genetic (genes).Most modern medical research leans toward the theory that the primary instigator of hair loss is a hormone called Dihydrotestosterone (DHT) that is converted from t…