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The 2010 version of the Statistical Abstract of the United States is just been released. This is a monster volume of research on “the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.” It’s housed under the U.S. Census Bureau.
What does this have to do with immune balance? Well, for one thing it might be [...]
I was doing some immune health snooping for another project when I came upon this Harvard Medical School online pub about the immune system. The title, “How to Boost Your Immune System,” is a bit misleading. Boosting may not be the right term. Early on in the piece, the authors write:
“The idea of boosting your [...]
Every so often we see a report published that basically says: “It’s a myth that vitamins and supplements actually work.” The report makes sweeping claims that vitamins and supplements “don’t add years to lives, don’t prevent disease and may actually cause more health harm than good.
The most recent assault on supplemental nutrition is in Slate [...]
Anabolic steroids have been so widely discussed in the past 10 years, it’s hard to remember when sports and steroids
weren’t cohabitating together. From Major League Baseball to Olympic sports to high school athletics to…gasp!…professional golf, steroid use, whether proven, admitted, suspected or denied, has permeated almost all sports discussion. Heck, I even remember the East [...]
Forty-six percent of U.S. adults make New Year’s resolutions, and the most popular one, according to information portal USA.gov, is losing weight. Some people attempt to do it the right way: slowly, steadily, not denying yourself good nutrition, getting exercise, good sleep habits, and staying with it over the long term. Others will do it [...]
According to my research, the Cold Weather School of Thought — that being outside in cold weather can greatly increase the chance of getting a cold or flu–has some validity and some myth to it. I’m especially tuned into the Cold Weather Theory today because the temps in Iowa have gone from a balmy 61 [...]
About this time last year I put up a post about Thanksgiving and how feelings of appreciation and gratitude can make a measurable, positive difference in immune function. This was supported by some research from UC Davis, Univ. of Utah and Kent State.
Being that this is an entirely new year with many new developments in [...]
You’d think by now a settled knowledge base on Vitamin C would prevail in the nutrition world. But it seems we still don’t fully understand what C does and does not do with regard to immune health, prevention and symptom management. Not only is the science still evolving, the folklore and wives tales of Vitamin [...]
I read some interesting stuff in a new post from a fellow member of the Wellsphere online health community. Her name is Cindy and she is beginning a series of 15 treatments using NAET: Nambudripad’s Allergy Elimination Techniques.
As she wrote in her Wellsphere post after a visit to her integrative medicine clinic: “I ran [...]
I write a blog about the concept of immune balance. The blog is financially supported by a company that manufactures a nutraceutical ingredient. Science suggests this ingredient may support immune health through aiding various immune components in the body in achieving a “balanced” reaction to health episodes triggering an immune response.
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