Back pain? Alternative therapies may help


Back pain? Alternative therapies may help The lower back is a complex spot, with many potential sources of pain. Although surgery would seem to be a quick fix, in reality about 85 percent of people don’t need — and won’t benefit from — back surgery, says Dr. Anders Cohen, M.D., chief of neurosurgery at the [...]

Does Stress Make You Fat? (Does Fat Make You Stressed?)


// Does Stress Make You Fat? (Does Fat Make You Stressed?) So maybe it’s that activities like yoga, meditation, running — anything that focuses your mind and alters your breathing to a deeper, more regular pattern — cause a domino effect throughout the body that includes throwing a wrench in that fat-cell-receptor response that caused [...]

How to release the vise-grip of tension headaches


How to release the vise-grip of tension headaches This article is a bit too broad based but I must applaud that it does look at a variety of good solutions. Tension headaches can be mild to severe. Some people get them only rarely while others suffer from them all the time. I find it helpful [...]