Prevention Doesn’t Healthy Make!
The new Time Magazine is out. It’s the Health Issue and it purports to tell you How to Stay Out of the Hospital. According to Time,
It’s all about Prevention.
I think they got it bassackwards. There is no relationship between Prevention and Health, and while attempting to keep yourself out of the [...]
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i ain't no doctor
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I Ain’t no Doctor
an occasional column by Charles Faris, hhc
Hey there Non-Doc. I’m reading about this Spring Cleaning thing and I’m a little confused. What’s the difference between a Spring Cleaning and a detox? And how is this different from the kit cleanses I see t the health food stores?–Tempted and Confused
Well, Tac, I’m glad [...]
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I Ain’t no Doctor
an occasional column by charles faris, hhc
Panic is fear of the natural
So here we go again, the latest outbreak of the disease that is going to
destroy civilization,
bring on martial law and enforced vaccination, or
bring the population down to a sustainable level.
Well sorry, I don’t really have the time in my day [...]
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I ain’t no doctor
a weekly column by charles faris, hhc
note: while the non-doc continues to ponder sleep, we’ve dug up this ancient document from his formative years.
If It Hurts, You Are Doing It Wrong
When he first began to teach yoga in the early 70’s, David Williams was told that the “the worst thing is to [...]
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I ain’t no doctor
a weekly column by charles faris, hhc
Last week I began talking about sleep, how much is enough and how to get enough. I definitely came out in favor of quality over quantity, and offered up a list of important factors in getting the most out of your time asleep, going over the [...]
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I ain’t no doctor
a weekly column by charles faris, hhc
Chas,
How much sleep is enough? I feel like I am never getting enough, even when i am getting 8 hours in each night…I eat well, exercise daily with yoga and other, but sometimes feel like i am not getting the right amount of rest for my [...]
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I ain’t no doctor
a weekly column by charles faris, hhc
All politics are internal
In the spirit of the week, and playing off my recent (and to be continued) musings on democracy, todays topic is something that has been batted about a bit from podiums all across the land during the course of this years presidential campaign: [...]
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I ain’t no doctor
a weekly column by charles faris, hhc
Oh most humble and sometimes pressed for time non-doc;
I know you are spending the week studying with your main yogi John Friend, so I thought I would ask you a simple question: how the heck am I supposed to get enough greens into my diet? I [...]
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I ain’t no doctor
a weekly column by charles faris, hhc
Last week I began looking at a question from Massachusetts Sugar Fiend, who claimed to be “plagued by the desire to eat sweets; breakfast, lunch and dinner, morning, noon and night”, and wanted to know “what foods are good alternatives to satisfy my sugar craving?” We [...]
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I ain’t no doctor
a weekly column by charles faris, hhc
Charles,
I am finding myself plagued by the desire to eat sweets; breakfast, lunch and dinner, morning, noon and night. What foods are good alternatives to satisfy my sugar craving?
Massachusetts Sugar Fiend
Dear Sugar Fiend,
Thanks for asking me one of my very favorite questions! And pardon me if [...]
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