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Michael Danielson - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
I'm about to be a first-time father, and I am very anti allopathic medicine due to my wife's health story. I love games, books, and truthiness.
I have started reading and falling in love with books about bad science. It started with 'The Third Chimpanzee' and 'The Language Instinct', neither of which were terribly controversial...then descended into 'The Lucifer Principle', 'Good Calories, Bad Calories', 'Gusher of Lies', and 'Deadly Global Warming (every 12,000 years)'.
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- Three Steps Toward Solving Your Relationship Problem
[Relationships:Conflict] Are you having a relationship problem? Are you an 'Ex'? Are you struggling with melodrama or constant fights in your attempt to get your ex back? Do you feel abandoned, but not ready to let your love go without a fight?
- Why Him? - How to Tell If Leaving Him is the Right Option
[Relationships:Conflict] Let's examine the five indicators of an emotional abuser: He is out of control in other areas of his life, such as with drugs or alcohol. He has recently had a major emotional disturbance such as losing a job or a parent. He is growing isolated from his friends or close relatives.
- How to Dump Someone Without Hurting Them
[Relationships:Conflict] Are you burdened with a relationship you don't feel anymore, and wondering how to dump someone without hurting them? It's not likely that you'll ever find someone who enjoys rejection - but if you handle things the right way, you can mask the sting. Played correctly, you can make the breakup seem not like a rejection at all! There are several factors to take into account when attempting to dump someone without hurting them, including timing, tone of voice, reading their reaction and changing your tone and body language to match.
- Saving a Relationship With Honest Effort
[Relationships:Conflict] Many exes make saving a relationship seem like an impossibly overwhelming task, but it doesn't need to be. Honest effort on the parts of both participants can solve most problems that ex-couples run into. The simple fact is that most people just don't know where to start.
- Advice on Relationships That Have Faltered - For Men
[Relationships:Conflict] If your girlfriend, fiancee, or wife has left you, you need advice on relationships. You're probably baffled as to why she was giving you the 'I hate you, don't talk to me' look and slamming doors for no apparent reason. Before you knew it, she threw your Xbox out on the lawn, and you were an 'ex'.
- Losing Your Love - Relationship Advice For Exes
[Relationships:Conflict] Have you ever found yourself smiling and crying at the same time, because you're happy you found The One, but scared to death you might lose her? Congratulations on finding the love of your life - that's no easy feat. Hard to believe, but in many cases it's even more challenging to keep her. Happily ever after is called a fairy-tale ending for a reason.
- Making the Save - Relationship Advice For a Total Jerk
[Relationships:Conflict] You're a jerk, and you showed it; now you're an 'ex', and you've got to make a save - relationship style. You're full of regret 'cause you messed up bad, and you know it. Well let me tell you, if you've figured out that you weren't exactly Prince Charming and you're sorry about it, then you're halfway there already. Most exes never get that far.
- Recruiting the Right Online Marketing Company
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Recent years have shown that an online marketing company is the fastest-growing form of marketing company one can own, and will probably be for quite some time. Because online marketing is extraordinarily inexpensive, and more efficient per dollar than conventional marketing, many companies are forsaking radio and print ads and opting instead for AdWords, banner ads, and social advertising like Facebook and Twitter 'verts.
- The Power of Strategic Internet Marketing
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Strategic internet marketing is less expensive and has broader impact than conventional marketing. The 24-hour-a-day, world-wide exposure and low cost of internet marketing has many businesses fighting to get their fingers into the strategic internet marketing pie. From purchasing banner ads to pay-per-click advertising to all of the various methods of building and exploiting massive lists of email addresses, everyone is chomping at the bit to get in on the action.
- Proper Preparation to Sell Information Products Online
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Almost everyone who is starting to build an online business feels a bit giddy about launching a product and starting to see profits from it. Many have read sales letters telling them that they are about to become millionaires, and that you can sell just about anything to internet shoppers and they will snap it up. While I don't mean to bring your hopes down, trust me when I tell you that even on the fast-paced world of the Internet, success doesn't come overnight.
- The Power of Positioning is Still Strong
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Internet Marketing is a huge phenomenon today, with tens of thousands of people fighting to 'make it' online, selling products or making affiliate sales. The name 'marketing' is somewhat of a misnomer, because traditional marketing and internet marketing have about as much to do with each other as watching a porno and actually doing the deed. There are, however, some key lessons that internet marketers need to learn from conventional marketing. Chief among them is how to position their products.
- How to Bank on Your Current Customers
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] One of the most difficult aspects of online marketing is generating a steady flow of traffic in order to create sales. Once you do create the traffic, you have to convert surfers into customers. Most important and most challenging, you have to keep those valuable paying customers coming back to spend more with you.
- Applying What You Learned From Your Copywriting Courses
[Writing-and-Speaking:Copywriting] It took me a long time to come to grips with the fact that there is a big difference between creative writing and copywriting; it wasn't until I took my first copywriting courses that I heard it. If you've explored the idea of starting your own web-based business from home, you've come across the idea of publishing articles and doing other copywriting to bring traffic to your website. I didn't understand the distinction everyone always drew between copywriting and creative writing. Surely all copywriting is creative?
- How to Research a Target Market For Your Information Products
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] When beginning to do market research for your information product, start by thinking about all of the things that you like to do. What are your interests, likes, and skills? When you start with yourself, you ensure that you are only working with subjects that excite you, which goes a long way toward making your marketing efforts fun rather than dreary.
- How to Take Advantage of Copywriting Services
[Writing-and-Speaking:Copywriting] Copywriting services are one of the most in-demand freelance sectors today, due to the incredible need for valuable Web content. Companies often do not have time to write about themselves, so they contract out the writing to other companies, or hire independent copywriters to service their demand. Content writers have one goal: provide relevant, interesting text that can grab the attention of a web surfer and of the search engines.
- Marketing an Information Product in 5 Parts
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] The internet is host to tens of thousands of information products and a huge number of people selling information products. This is because such a business is a low-overhead and therefore, on paper, easy-to-start business. There are several pitfalls that someone new to the business can fall into, however. Use this five-step method as your guide to getting started selling information.
- Making Market Segmentation Work For You
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Pull someone randomly off the street and ask them what 'marketing segmentation' means. You'll be surprised to learn that most people have a fairly intelligent response. The concept of segmentation has been drilled into even the high-schoolers of this media-rich society. Nearly anyone can tell you that SpongeBob targets the 3-8 year old crowd, or that the new Town and Country is tailor-made for soccer moms.
- Finding the Right Business Marketing Strategy For You
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Businesses of all sizes are always looking out for the 'right' business marketing strategy. It's obvious why; if you can increase profits more than you increase spending, and you have no product-creation or service costs, you make more money. Business marketing strategies seem to breed like bunnies; there are always new ones every time you look around. Lately, internet-based marketing strategies have started to shake the trees of the conventional marketing gurus.
- Making the Best of Web Copywriting
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Search-Engine-Marketing] Web copywriting isn't only about the optimal collection of words in a striking manner; at the same time, it is also a unique representation of an idea with the purpose of hooking the reader and getting them to focus on the page they're reading. With the recent advances across the face of the internet, web businesses have began to seek out the tool most relevant to their purposes. Web copywriters, who specialize in areas from search-engine optimization to article marketing to blogging, have seen the demand for web content and honed their skills to meet the desires of their clientele.
- Your New Health Food
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] It seems like these days, healthy eating has become such a multi-billion-dollar industry that everyone knows what it's like to get bombarded by 'The New Health Food!' ads for Acai whatnot and Goji Berry thingamajig. It's an unfortunate aspect of our pharmaceutical culture that we've learned to look for cures for specific ills, and we treat food the same way.
- Holistic Medicine and Alternative Therapies
[Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] Alternative therapies, from acupuncture to nutrition therapy, are gaining acceptance at a radical rate as the world economy slows down and the medical-malpractice rates increase. Not only is it too expensive for many people to pay for doctor and prescription costs, but it's simply not as effective as people need it to be.
- Getting Rid of the Sugar Habit
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] I suspect everyone kicks the sugar habit their own way (some lucky people can have just a little), but the only way I have ever been able to kick it is to abstain completely from all sugars and grains, with the exception of coconut flour. This is very hard to do at first, but it's so important for health that it's an absolute necessity.
- Feel Better Without Sugar
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Actually, in my case at least, I wasn't "fine" eating sugar, even though I thought I was. After eliminating sugar and flour, so many big and little health issues resolved that I had no idea in the world were connected to them: the awful migraines went away, the brain fog and lack of motivation disappeared, my hands and feet were finally warm again, I didn't have to run to the bathroom every 1/2 hour to urinate, my energy increased, my moods and emotions became much more even-keel, I no longer felt like everyone was out to get me and that I was all alone in this world (even though I wasn't!), and that overall feeling of doom and gloom just disappeared.
- Why Am I Unhealthy?
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Our health system is failing on first principles. We need to take a good, hard look at what is actually screwing up our bodies, and we need to address those things first. I can tell you, from the research that I've done over the last three years, I believe the problem is two-fold, and no one wants to address it.
- My Weight Gain is Unstoppable! Help Me!
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] Doctors, dietitians, and other 'experts' want you to believe that weight gain is a simple, mathematical equation: calories in minus calories out equals weight change. Unfortunately for the experts, the human body is a living creature, and so massively complex as to baffle most human attempts to comprehend it. Weight gain is one of these areas that popular science just doesn't comprehend.
- Liverwurst at Home
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] Liver is one of those foods that is just incredibly healthy. It's packed with vitamins and minerals -- and everyone hates it. I can't stand liver myself, but I've come up with what I think is a pretty good solution. I make "liverwurst" out of chicken liver. My brother has a free range chicken farm, and they end up with way more liver than they can use or that their customers want. So their cats and I benefit.
- Homemade Coconut Ice Cream For the Win!
[Food-and-Drink:Desserts] I prefer to make my own ice cream because I then have total control over the ingredients. The following came from a friend. It is a combination of recipes from the Ben & Jerry's ice cream book, and some coconut milk recipes online. It's delicious, and it keeps the sugar and artificials out while keeping the flavor and the texture you know you love!
- Several Alternate Theories About Weight Gain
[Book-Reviews:Health-Mind-Body] I have recently been muddling around with the idea that some of us who are "driven" to overeat because of depression could have serotonin issues, and I was fascinated when Nora Gedgaudas, the author of Primal Body -- Primal Mind, posited that 95% of serotonin production occurs in the gut -- so depression isn't necessarily a brain dysfunction, but rather an issue with digestion. I recently read another book: Your Hidden Food Allergies Are Making You Fat. Despite the goofy title, the somewhat lukewarm reviews at Amazon, and the amount of repetition in the book itself, this is one of the best books I have ever read about allergies and the immune system and body weight.
- Super Healthy, Super Cheap Foods For the Adventurous
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Not many people realize that our ancestors didn't sit around and eat bison steaks and rabbit leg roasts. We envision our primitive fore-bearers as eating more-or-less like we do, but with stone tools and over a fire. The truth, however, is very different.
- Raw Food Riot!
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Raw foods are in a strange place in our culture today. The invention of pasteurization and the subsequent 'bacteria-free' food, along with Lysol commercials and such, have created a near-phobia of bacteria in our culture, and 'raw' seems synonymous with 'bacteria-filled' in most people's minds.
- How to Eat Right For Cheap
[Food-and-Drink] You get a looseleaf notebook, and you have a page for each food you eat. Then, when you buy that food, you write down the place, date, price PER POUND (or ounce or whatever), whether it was on sale. You start to realize that store x has, say, rice cheapest, store y beef, store z onions.
- Diets That Keep You Younger
[Health-and-Fitness:Anti-Aging] There are two totally different definitions of 'starvation' depending on who you ask. Most people are very familiar with the traditional definition: eating less calories each day than you use up. But there is another definition of 'starvation' that scientists are using without any real regard to actual caloric need, and that is the kind of 'starvation' in which your body doesn't get the majority of its calories from carbohydrates. This kind of starvation is called ketosis, from which we get the term ketogenic dieting.
- The Low-Carb Initiation
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Insulin only enters your bloodstream after you eat carbohydrates. Insulin is the only hormone that tells your body to burn carbohydrates. There are more than half a dozen other hormones that constantly exert pressure on your body to burn fat, instead. Think about that. The only thing that makes you burn carbs is eating carbs. As long as you're burning carbs, you're not burning fat. That means that eating fat doesn't make you get fat.
- Create Your Own Food Culture
[Health-and-Fitness:Popular-Diets] One of the most significant problems with any diet overhaul is the psychological addiction that people have to their 'comfort foods'. Everyone is part of a culture, and part of that culture includes foods that are traditionally given in certain circumstances like chicken noodle soup when ill or ice cream when depressed. Getting past these seemingly-inborn preferences is a big part of the diet challenge.
- The Problem With Allopathy
[Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] Allopathy, defined as "the treatment of a problem by the application of a foreign substance," is the 'gold standard' of modern medicine. Almost everything that could be abnormal about your body is viewed from an allopathic standpoint: 'What could we put on/in/around this problem to make it better?'
- Keeping a Couple of Chickens at Home
[Pets:Farm-Ranch] It's pretty easy to keep a couple of hens. They improve your soil and eat your leftovers too. If you only have a couple, you don't really need to get chicken feed ... at least we didn't, there are always plate scrapings, bones (they love meat), weeds, buggy something from the shelf, pan drippings. They eat anything people eat ... they are omnivores and really love meat and fat, and most fruits and veggies, and grain. I got mine originally because we don't have a garbage disposal.
- The Government Doesn't Know How to Handle Food
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] The government has gone on a spree lately of declaring that all kinds of foods (almonds, spinach, sunflower seeds, etc.) need to be treated somehow before they're consumed. They believe that, because e. coli has been found on some almonds somewhere that magically, all almonds have acquired the ability to spout e. coli bacteria.
- Why Do We Think We Understand Food?
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] This is nutritional research dealing with the basic building blocks of food. If you want a hamburger, but eating out is too unhealthy, you can make one at home. But are you supposed to use beef? Soy? Put an egg in it to hold it all together? Skip the bun? What do you put on your toast in the morning? Margarine? Butter? We're expecting people to know what the alternative to eating a hamburger is when it's quite clear that eating at home isn't so cut and dried, either.
- Busting Myths About the Low-Carb Diet
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] Modern medicine believes that the body's main source of energy should be carbohydrates. Thus, when someone on the low-carb diet starts using fat as their main source of energy (your body prefers to run on fats - especially your heart), and they start slipping into ketosis, they are defined as starving themselves because they aren't using carbohydrates as their main energy source. People on a low-carb diet can eat - and frequently do eat - more calories and nutrients than people on low-fat diets.
- What You Think You Know About Cholesterol
[Health-and-Fitness:Heart-Disease] Cholesterol. We've heard a lot about it, but what do we know? The answer may surprise you: more than you've heard. No one has any idea that cholesterol is actually something that your body really needs. Without cholesterol, you would die.
- Fats You Need to Know
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] All products with "hydrogenated" or "partially hydrogenated" in the list of ingredients contain trans fats. The FDA allows any product with less than half a gram of trans fat per serving to be labeled "trans fat free" on the nutritional information panel, thus resulting in some products reducing their serving size so that they can be labeled trans fat free. A trans fat free label does not guarantee the product is actually free of trans fat.
- Ketosis - Restoring Health Around the Globe
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] When you stop eating glucose (ie: carbohydrates), your body begins the process of ketosis. In ketosis, the liver starts unpacking fat cells so that your body can use the fatty acids for fuel. It also produces ketone bodies, which the body also uses for fuel - especially the brain. The benefits of ketosis are numerous - lowered blood pressure, lower cholesterol, low triglycerides, improved insulin sensitivity, and weight loss without regard to calorie count.
- Overeating Does NOT Cause Obesity
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] When you take in more energy than your body needs, it tries to compensate. Research has demonstrated that people who eat more calories than they need to burn expend more energy in the form of heat and tend to have more "nervous" motion - foot tapping, finger drumming, etc. In short, people who eat more, burn more. Likewise, people who eat less, burn less.
- Live Longer by Not Eating?
[Health-and-Fitness:Anti-Aging] In many animals, calorie restriction - provided all essential nutrients are present in the diet - can lengthen the average lifespan significantly. The effects of a low calorie diet are pretty cool and show up within the first year - lowered BMI, lowered blood pressure, low cholesterol, low triglycerides, and improved insulin sensitivity. Because you are using less energy, your body slows down in order to conserve resources and maintain homeostasis.
- Fighting Childhood Obesity Through Proper Nutrition
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] Around the world, childhood obesity is becoming a known issue. What many people in many countries don't realize, however, is that childhood obesity is caused by a form of malnutrition.
- Conquering Asthma - Without Medication!
[Health-and-Fitness:Asthma] The drug companies don't want you to believe it, but there are perfectly safe and very effective natural treatments for asthma available at your local health food and/or supplement stores. These remedies are fairly inexpensive, and the only reason they're not more commonly known is that the FDA has made it illegal to claim to be able to cure a condition unless you're a drug company or a doctor.
- Look Good by Saving Money!
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] All of us want to look good. If you think you don't, you're lying to yourself. Too many of us, however, think that looking good is all about achieving the right weight. It's not. Looking good is all about being healthy and feeling it. People who feel healthy because they are healthy just look better, both physically and because of a more positive attitude on life.
- Conquering Obesity - My Wife's Story
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] My wife tells her story from her perspective. She's overcome a lot in her life, including morbid obesity.
- Complete Nutrition - Express Timeframe
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] These days, it seems like everyone is looking for better health, and some people have realized that better health starts with complete nutrition. At the same time, the global economy is causing a huge time crunch, as everyone has realized they need to start working more to keep up with their lower spending power. So how do you get complete nutrition in an express timeframe?
- The One Rule of Perfect Health
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] There is so much advice out there about how to be healthy that it's hard to be anything other than overwhelmed, confused, and upset. For starters, no one can really tell you what 'healthy' means.
- How to Eat Right & Lose Weight
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] The debate about low-carb diets is silly on it's face, for one basic reason: humankind lived a low-carb diet for hundreds of thousands of years before we went and invented agriculture and the grain mill. Humans evolved to eat meat that they hunted, and fruits and vegetables that they gathered, and very little else. Who do we think we are to argue with our own history?
- Sugar's Health Hazards - Kicking Sugar Addiction For Good!
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Whether they know it or not, hundreds of millions of people in the first world are addicted to sugar, and that sugar addiction is the single biggest cause of diet fail in the USA. It's not that hard to give up sugar at first compared to the withdrawal symptoms of heroin or crack cocaine, sugar is pretty tame: basically like having a bad flu, minus the vomiting, for 10-15 days. The hardest part is staying off of sugar for the 12-18 months it can take for your body to finally recognize sugar as something it doesn't want.
- 12 Facts About Nutrition the Doctors and the Government Don't Know
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] We all take the word of doctors and the government when it comes to our diets. Seriously, who is better to trust? The answer is simple: nutritionists. They may be hard to find, and they may same expensive at first, but the benefits of talking to someone who actually understands the science of food is amazing.
- How and Why to Start a Diabetes Control Diet
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] Type 2 diabetes is entirely controllable through diet. This article gives a simplified idea of the chemistry behind this concept and how it works, as well as basic rules for switching safely over to a diabetes control diet.
- Eating Food - Healthy Foods Save Lives
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] My personal experience with how changing a diet can save a life. My wife's struggle with obesity and infertility; my mother-in-law's battle with cancer, both won by food.
- Healthy Food - Eating For Life - 6 Simple Rules
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Finding healthy food, eating it, and living a long life because of doing so isn't science fiction. It is, however, science. Everyone tries to give you advice on how to eat right, but the simple fact is that almost no-one understands what happens inside your body when you buy healthy food and eat it.
- 6 Healthy, Easy Recipes From a Nutritionist's Kitchen
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] Six recipes that don't take a lot of kitchen savvy to prepare, but are part of an overall dietary health plan based on the principles found in How to Eat Food, a guide through the modern American dietary mess. All of these recipes are simple to prepare (though not necessarily fast!), and contain explanations of some of the choices that may seem counter-intuitive to people who are in lockstep with modern American medical-dietary advice.
- I Can't Stop Eating - Help Me!
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] There are not many reasons why people need eating help, and the most common by far is they feel like they can't control their eating habits. Whether they're eating too much, too fast, or simply cannot bring themselves to eat the foods they know they should, people who can't control their basic food habits aren't lacking self-control: they're lacking knowledge.
- Recovering Health - Cancer Diet Works!
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] My mother-in-law's run-in with cancer and how she overcame it with diet. Including rules and diet plan.
- Choosing the Right Food - Healthy Eating in 4 Simple Steps
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Most doctors and nutritionists today have a laundry list of foods they want you to avoid, making it impossible to choose the right food. Healthy eating is not something they really believe in, and the information is so contradictory that it's impossible to fully obey their orders. You just can't avoid fat, carbs, and protein at the same time - there's no sources of calories left!
- Side Effects of Soy
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Soybeans and soy-derived products have become insanely popular in the USA today, despite known dangerous side effects of soy products. Well, maybe not known, at least to most of us. But the industry knows, and they're doing their best to conceal soy's dangerous side effects.
- Adjuvant Atrocities - Autism and Vaccines - A New Theory
[Health-and-Fitness:Autism] Independently, a couple of authorities recently published work that helps establish a new theory of how vaccines cause autism. Vaccines have ingredients called 'adjuvants' that can inflame the brain and possible make an infant's immune system attack it's own brain cells.
- Autism and Vaccines - What's the Connection?
[Health-and-Fitness:Autism] A brief look at the sudden surge of American interest in the possibility of a connection between the aggressive U.S. vaccination schedule and the autism epidemic of the past decade. According to Autism Speaks, an advocacy group, autism incidences have increased 10-17% every year for the past decade. Boys are more than four times as likely as girls to be diagnosed with the disorder.
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