Tag "health-plus"

4 Common Fears We Can All Learn To Combat

Having just closed the chapter on Halloween this week, this is an opportune time to find our inner courage and kick some of our fears to the curb. Fear is a completely natural and healthy emotion to have. However, it’s good to be able to reflect and distinguish between fearing things that we can manage vs. those we can’t control. It’s easy to…

Top 3 safest ways to get rid of a cold or flu quickly

(NaturalNews) As the winter season approaches in North America, our immune system becomes more taxed with cooler weather and less immune supporting elements like the warm sun on our skin. As a result, the cough and cold season heats up and people start stocking their cupboards with…

Wal-Mart to focus on food safety in China: Asia chief

By Matthew Miller BEIJING (Reuters) – Wal-Mart Stores Inc is focusing on food safety as the world’s largest retailer aims to boost profitability of its more than 400 stores in China, Wal-Mart Asia chief executive Scott Price told Reuters. Food safety is a highly emotive issue in China where there have been numerous scandals from photos of food oil being scooped from drains to tales of phoney eggs and melamine-tainted

7 Weird Reasons Your Back Hurts

Low back pain is the leading cause of disability worldwide, according to research published earlier this year. The position of your pelvis One of the primary causes of low back pain is a pelvis that’s out of alignment, said neurophysiologist and fitness expert Chad Waterbury, author of the HFT2 training system.

In Praise of Spacing Out

On one end lies conscious awareness, or mindfulness. Both mindfuless and zoning out, and all the points in-between, are useful, argue cognitive scientists Todd Kashdan and Robert Biswas-Diener in their new book, The Upside of Your Dark Side: Why Being Your Whole Self—Not Just Your “Good Self”—Drives Success and Fulfillment. “And you can’t.” (“God, and why would you even want to?” Biswas-Diener added. “Oh my God, that sounds horrible.”) “You