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Health effects of spirituality: placebo effect?

“No placebo effect going on there.” Much attention has been given to the placebo effect. The placebo effect shows that what we believe – what we think – matters when it comes to health. Some wonder if the positive effects on health of spirituality are simply a variant of the placebo effect. Wendy Margolese, Health Blogger

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3 Health Articles For Christmas That Will Make Your Day

Here are three articles in the news recently with Christmas in mind that focus on the intersection of spirituality and health. In the first article, Scrooge’s life lessons are adapted to health,  the second includes a personal account of gaining freedom from depression, and the third has a surprise ending that will make you smile. 1. Transforming a bah-humbug

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Remembering Sandy Hook One Year Later – With The Heart

With the one-year anniversary of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, coming up tomorrow, Saturday, December 14, it’s important to turn our hearts and thoughts in directions that will continue the healing process. In Watching what we’re watching for health’s sake, we are reminded that research shows a link between watching

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Touching account of one man’s journey from obesity and diabetes to health

Come meet John. Seventy pounds overweight and in poor health – little exercise, a poor diet, and no energy. See how, with a few life-changing mental ‘turns’, he became healthy and full of vigor. Last month, my colleague, Huffington Post “Changing Tides of Health” blogger Ingrid Peschke, shared a touching account of how a man she met

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Dealing with chronic pain through prayer

Here’s a guest post written by Katie S. Brown, media and legislative spokesperson for Christian Science in Indiana, writing in the News-Sentinel in Fort Wayne, Indiana. She shares how a cousin of hers found relief from pain by using prayer when post-surgery medications failed to provide relief. DEALING WITH CHRONIC PAIN THROUGH PRAYER by Katie S.

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Tips Beyond The Medicine Cabinet For Better Sleep

In a recent Tampa Bay Times article entitled, “10 tips to help you sleep: Look outside the medicine cabinet“, health writer Bob Clark from Belleair, Florida points out that Americans are using 60 million prescriptions for sleep-inducing drugs at a cost of $7 billion a year. But it’s not doing the trick. He says, “Sleep experts

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From DOWN UNDER: Care Helps Dementia Sufferers and Caregivers

In the U.S., the Alzheimer’s Organization reports that an estimated 5.2 million Americans suffer from dementia and more than half of their caregivers struggle with high emotional stress. Writing in the Fraser Coast Chronicle in northeastern Australia, Kay Stroud presents a hopeful look at helping those suffering from dementia in an article entitled, “Care can

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How Health Care Is Moving Outside The Box

“It was the first time the question had been asked and the study turned up a surprising result: some 6 million Americans had used a mind-body therapy because their doctor had recommended it.” What was the question? “A 2011 study conducted by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School looked at how mainstream

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Is 21 Scoops Too Much Ice Cream?

“Remember when you ate too much ice cream as a kid and afterwards your tummy ached?” Wendy Margolese in Ontario, Canada, writing about health from a spiritual perspective, quickly caught my attention with this opening question in a recent article. When I was a kid, our family frequented an ice cream parlor on Friday nights.

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Placebos: Is what you SEE what you get?

Placebos can be a bit tricky. Color, size, shape, quantity, brand, price, and packaging all seem to matter. Eric Nelson, Health Columnist from Los Altos, California who writes about the link between consciousness and health, delves into the visual cues involved with placebos in one of his recent articles in The Washington Times. Here are two

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