A Kinda New Way of Thinking

In Beyond Medicine: Exploring a New Way of Thinking, Dr. Richard A. Dicenso attempts to integrate a new age spiritual awareness with medical science. Whereas traditional medicine only focuses on the physical realm of the body and confuses symptoms with disease, new age thinking aligns the mind, feelings and intentionality with health and the very [...]

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Rethinking Health: Cancer is Not a Disease

In his book Cancer is not a Disease: It’s a Survival Mechanism, Andreas Moritz argues for the revolutionary (with respect to mainstream Western medicine) idea that our view of disease is outdated and needs to be replaced with a more comprehensive and holistic understanding of health. While his insights are revolutionary they are not new. [...]

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Depressions: Recessions: Money Supply:

A happy shout out to economic historian Price Fishback for reminding us in a piece published in the New York Times that, as bad as things may now seem in the economy, they are nowhere near as bad as during the great depression of the 1930′s in the US. He begins by saying that economic [...]

Corruption in the Health Care Industry

The world’s most powerful medicines, the foundation and fabric of your body, reside in nature, in the food you eat. “You are what you eat” is the fundamental commandment of optimal health and well-being. Paramount health and the healing of disease doesn’t require artificial, pharmaceutical drugs or medical “experts,” as the medical establishment and pharmaceutical [...]

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Toyota and the Financial Crisis: Democracy, China or Nietzsche?

In a stunning example of the plight of the world economy, the Toyota Motor Company – which passed General Motors in 2008 for the record of most vehicles sold worldwide – posted an annual loss of 436.9 billion yen, or $4.4 billion dollars for the fiscal year ending March 2009. This was Toyota’s first annual [...]

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Red Meat and Dietary Health: Another Somewhat Ambiguous Study

In Paying A Price For Loving Red Meat (New York Times by Jane Brody, April 27, 2009), a new report published in the March 23 issue of  The Archives of Internal Medicine examined the results of the National Institutes of Health-AARP Diet and Health Study, Directed by Rashmi Sinha, a nutritional epidemiologist at the National [...]