CAM (Complementary and Alternative Medicine) is the name for health care approaches that traditionally have not been part of conventional medicine. The really good news is that in many cases, as evidence of efficacy and safety grows, these approaches can be consumed as complementary approaches to standard medical practice, helping people staying well and to help with possible recovery when they fall ill.
Many people use health care practices that are not typically part of conventional medical care or that may have origins outside of usual Western practice. Great number of practitioners of conventional Western medicine are also paying more and closer attention to the benefits of many complementary treatments. They are learning how to use or recommend them which makes the mainstream health care system more integrative. This type of practice is rapidly growing as more people consider complementary practices vital to their health.
From the common cold to serious diseases, there are powerful and therapeutically effective supplements available that are now being recommended by both natural and conventional health practitioners.
Imagine the powerful health outcomes we could all enjoy if complementary and alternative health solutions were financed through our health insurance programs in the same manner that conventional procedures and solutions already are.
The cheapest and most effective way to prevent the spread of infectious disease is by washing hands. Yet it is estimated that one of every three people does not wash up hands after using the washroom. Washing your hands thoroughly and often may reduce your chance of getting sick. Use soap and warm running water and...
After a full month of being constantly on the go, this is the perfect time to refocus on you. Everything you set your sights on doing in the coming year should have a built-in measure of pleasure, and that will help you stay on track without struggle. Here are some great ideas to build new habits guaranteed to nourish your body, mind and soul...
WCRF UK recommends limiting consumption of red meat (such as beef, pork and lamb) and avoiding processed meats. To reduce your cancer risk, eat no more than 500g (cooked weight) per week of red meats, like beef, pork and lamb, and avoid processed meats such as ham, bacon, salami, hot dogs and some sausages.
Significant harm from climate change is already occurring, and further damages are a certainty. The challenge now is to keep climate change from becoming a catastrophe.
The oil, gas, coal, and mining industries stand to lose tremendously if the facts and truth about global warming becomes accepted by world's society.
Transport is considered as one of the the largest sources of air pollution emissions today.
Coastal temperate rainforests once covered 1% of the Earth. Less then half now remains.
Global climate change, driven largely by the combustion of fossil fuels and by deforestation, is a growing threat to human well-being in developing and industrialized nations alike.
Out of the original 1.9 million acres of redwood forest only 106,000 acres of old-growth forest are standing, less than 5% remain.
It is very important to understand the impacts of 1.5°C global warming above pre-industrial levels and related global emission pathways in the context of strengthening the response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty.
Two starkly different futures diverge from this time forward. Society's current path leads to increasingly serious climate-change impacts, including potentially catastrophic changes in climate that will compromise efforts to achieve development objectives where there is poverty and will threaten standards of living where there is affluence.
