I like to illustrate the sympathetic nervous system by yelling “FIRE” before coming in to teach my physiology students. Yes, indeed, in a one-word definition the sympathetic division yells, “FIRE!” The sympathetic nervous system operates in emergencies—which happens...
Do you wake up on an installment plan? Do you really not surface until you have another coffee break? Are you out-of-sorts? Downright grumpy? You can improve your mood by changing the foods you eat. How? 1. Plant foods to the rescue! Enjoy a plant-based diet,...
The American is in the highest risk category for coronary disease, especially if he is in the social segment that emphasizes a sedentary way of life and a rich and unwholesome diet. There are some countries of the world where the risk of having a heart attack is quite...
By prescribing diet and exercise, James Anderson, M.D. of Lexington, Kentucky, and colleagues stopped insulin completely in two-thirds of their lean diabetic patients, and reduced the amount of insulin in the other third. Haven’t physicians prescribed diabetic...
Those who suffer from arthritis have their good days and their bad days. Pain and stiffness ebb and flow on a seeming unknown tide. Never knowing when the tide of symptoms will flood over them, life becomes a shuddering waiting game. But this very “good day, bad...
Osteoporosis is the slow, gradual thinning and weakening of bones. It begins to develop many years before loss of height, curvature of the spine, and fractured bones. These fractures occur in the spine, ankles, hip, wrists, arms and legs. Researchers have established...
How Not To Get Cancer And What To Do If You Do Get It The Risks Cancer is the result of the simultaneous action of at least three factors: a virus, an injurious agent and a native weakness. We can determine cancer susceptibility early in life and keep up the...
Alcohol injures every cell it touches. It interferes with the enzyme system of cells, and is classed as a poison by physicians and pharmacologists. It is as reasonable to take some other poison such as arsenic, cyanide, or strychnine as to take alcohol. Even though...
Stress is a serious problem that affects the health of most Americans. Many things cause stress including overweight, overeating, overwork, noise, and being burdened by any kind of emotional or mental problem. Mental problems unrelieved by physical exercise are a...
High blood pressure gives few symptoms and most people feel healthy during the early stages. Yet, if undetected and untreated, high blood pressure can be a contributing cause of heart trouble, blood vessel disease, and degenerative disease of the kidneys. Reaction to...
Principles of Weight Control: Don’t plan to “go on a diet.” Plan to change your eating habits– PERMANENTLY Become a vegetarian! Natural plant foods are High in fiber, mostly low fat, high unrefined carbohydrates Filling, satisfy appetite, relatively low...
The lungs consist of four types of tissue: connective tissue, blood vessels, air sacs and tubes called bronchi. When a baby is being formed the bronchi grow downward from above and the air sacs grow upward from below. The bronchi can therefore have an infection...
