DannyAndNina/alternative health

Vitamins work, but they work because they are contained in foods. So the alternative to vitamin pills are whole food supplements.

If the U.S. health care system functioned as well as that of France, 101,000 fewer people would die each year, the researchers found.

Yet another thief of precious sleep time, body jerks--also called hypnic jerks--refer to the way our bodies sometimes "jerk" awake right before we're about to fall asleep, usually accompanied by a panicked feeling of falling. There are different explanations given for why this happens, but the blame finger is usually directed at our brains, which sometimes get confused by our muscles easing into sleep and causes them to tense up, thinking that we're falling. The misinterpretation could be a reaction to our brains not being ready for sleep, either due to stress, fatigue, or too much stimulation (exercise, caffeine consumption) before bed.

Getting sick is terrible. Coming down with a cold is bad, but chronic illness is even worse. Although we live in a world of medicines, pills, shots and surgeries, consider the fact that the human body is a natural entity that can be treated by natural means. This essentially can be done in five different ways...

You may have seen "organic salmon" on the menu in your favorite seafood restaurant or counter. Guess what? It's not organic, according to the USDA. It turns out that some fishmongers have been promoting their fish as organic with definitions of their own," according to grist.org.

The French, it has been observed by puzzled dietitians, eat a lot of fat in their diet and drink a lot of wine, yet they have much lower rates of heart disease than Americans. This has been called the French Paradox. But how much of a paradox is it really if assumptions about fat and heart health are all wrong? And, what's the deal with red wine and its role in reducing heart disease?

Quite a few natural health care practitioners swear that cheese and other dairy products are a detriment to health and tell us to never eat these foods. Mostly because they are mucus forming. Other sources claim that cheese eating leads to high cholesterol, but this is a narrow-minded view, because cholesterol-eating does not necessarily lead to cholesterol-blocked arteries