Joao Pereira de Souza, a retired bricklayer and part time fisherman who lives in an island village just outside Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, found a tiny penguin, covered in oil and close to death lying on the rocks on his local beach in 2011. The 71 year-old man cleaned the oil off the penguin’s feathers […]
They say optimistic people all have one thing in common; they’re always late! Even though it makes me furious every time someone is committed to meet me and yet are ALWAYS late, it actually turns out the late people are actually the best people you will ever know. They are both optimistic and hopeful. Reader’s […]
Spider bites usually only cause mild reactions because they don’t fully penetrate the human skin. However, when bitten by either the black widow or brown recluse spider, you should seek immediate medical care. I have seen patients who have had a brown recluse spider bite and it was pretty impressive. Not in a good way! […]
Are you running around crazy half the time? In today’s fast-paced living, we all tend to miss that connection that is most important to our sustained energy and physical well-being. You must feel like your feet are resting on the earth and you are receiving energy from the earth. If you are grounded, you feel […]
Cutting Down on Sugar is the Best Health Insurance!
June 27, 2016Gary Taubes, author and educator, is among a group of health investigators spreading the word about strong associations between sugar consumption and the rising rates of obesity and major diseases such as diabetes, cancer, heart disease and Alzheimer’s. For the first time in history, obese people outnumber those who are underweight, and pre-diabetes now affects […]
The nutritionists say there are foods that you should avoid altogether and NEVER eat. We at New Hope Unlimited stress to our patients that these foods are not on a good cancer diet. Artificial sweeteners: These are ok in small doses but when you have too many artificial sweeteners they can reset your taste buds […]
There is a documentary by Nicolas Daniel called “Fillet-Oh-Fish” that takes a very critic look at the fish industry. Fisheries are faced with severe problems like overfishing to chemical pollution as well as genetic mutation from toxic exposures. Aquaculture promotes itself as a sustainable solution to overfishing but fish farms actually cause more problems than […]
Are you Using the Healthiest Cookware?
June 21, 2016The belief is that of all the new innovations in modern cookware, the healthiest are those that use classic materials. Do the materials carry much toxic risk and how likely the cookware materials are to leach into the food during cooking are considerations. Cooking safely is my priority and should be everyone’s. Over 100 studies […]
Drug-delivery Holds Potenial for Treating Obesity
June 19, 2016Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have developed new nanoparticles that can deliver antiobesity drugs directly to tissue. Mice treated with these nanoparticles lost 10% of their body weight over 25 days without showing any negative side effects. Wouldn’t this be great for those of us that are fighting obesity? These drugs […]
No one likes earwax. But do you have all the facts you need as to why we have earwax? That yellow, gooey stuff inside your ears actually has a job to keep your ears healthy by stopping dust, dirt, bugs and other stuff from getting into your ear canal as well as protecting the ears […]
