The stress phobic must snap out of his or her depression before progress can be made in dealing with fears of confrontation, rejection and failure. All the affirmations, especially those for happiness, success and self-respect, should be repeated over and over again every day. This affirmation, too, should be a part of the stress phobic’s [...]
The Walking President President Harry Truman had a regimen of brisk walking. He walked at the Army pace: 110 steps per minute. Reporters would often follow, throwing questions at him as they huffed and puffed along. They used to complain that he was walking too fast for them, even though they were younger than he [...]
Is the deficit of a vitamin or two all that harmful? After all, you never hear of anyone in this country dying from a lack of vitamin C or iron. Death certificates rarely state that the cause of death was nutrient deficiency. But as a physician I can tell you that many illnesses and deaths [...]
Our “doctor within” is also forced to deal with the multitude of environmental pollutants that abound in our chemical world. When I taught a class in Physical Diagnosis to a group of medical students, I used to paraphrase Hippocrates: “When you go to patients’ houses, you should ask them what sort of pains they have, [...]
Medical science is never exact, for a variety of reasons. For a start everyone is different, both in the genes that make them what they are, and in the environmental conditions that shape them from birth. Those environmental conditions include childhood and adult illnesses, standard of nutrition, type of work, nature of relationships with other [...]