All Blog Posts Tagged 'medicine' (3)

NYTIMES Article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/science/04angier.html?_r=1&em By NATALIE ANGIER Published: August 3, 2009 As a confirmed crab apple who has often been compared to the splenetic Lucy Van Pelt character from Peanuts, I am gratified to learn that should my real spleen ever decide to vent in earnest, the outburst may just help save my life. Scientists have discovered that the spleen, long consigned to the B-list of abdominal organs and known as much for its metaphoric as it… Continue

An Exploration of the Concept of Qi, from both Eastern and Western Perspectives By Jill Morgyn “The circulating life energy that in Chinese philosophy is thought to be inherent in all things.” -- Princeton University “The fundamental life-force or energy.” -- Wiktionary “The vital energy believed to be responsible for health and disease in Traditional Chinese Medicine.” -- Aegis.com “The Chinese term for vital energy or life force, pronounced “chee.”” -- NaturesBridge.com “Energy… Continue

You might have seen an article in your newspaper or online touting a recent study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine that “strongly” linked red meat consumption with cancer and an increased risk of death. Heck, how could you miss it? Google shows 547 new articles about the study, and it was mentioned in just about every major newspaper in the U.S. (That’s not an accident, by the way. It’s an intentional attack by the tyrannical meat-hating scientific majority, the same folks who bro… Continue