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Minka Fuhs, director of the Holistic Learning Institute in Vienna, Austria, says: “Sleeplessness is a serious problem. Nearly 40 per cent of all people over 40 years of age suffer from sleeping disorders and even the number of children sufferers rise constantly. A body that does not relax properly is endangered because of increased potential of elevated blood pressure and heart attack. Insomniacs may endanger others because of the lack of concentration that can precipitate accidents. If we sleep right, it helps us to stay healthy and recover from our daily challenges”.

So what herb would you like to choose to add to your cooking? First choose a range of herbs that you enjoy using. Buy the plant from your local nursery and re-pot into a larger container, or plant in the garden close to your kitchen.

“We don’t really know what is really wrong with you” was not great news to hear after a week in hospital, surrounded by confused doctors, as my body mysteriously raged against itself. It was February and I had just started a full-time course studying counselling, around which I was trying to squeeze swim coaching and time with my young family. It had been a stressful and busy week.

There is that moment in time when your child, or the child you are looking after is building up for a tantrum. Every child at some stage of there childhood (even as an older child) will throw a tantrum. A tantrum is when a child exhibits an uncontrollable physical, emotional outburst of noisy, sometimes tearful and frustrated bout of anger called a temper tantrum when they also stamp their feet or throw items around.

This is a personal story of one mother’s battle with her daughter’s diagnosed cancer and the challenge of different types of treatment. In June 2004, my 13 year old daughter Kestra was diagnosed with a rare form of lymphatic cancer called anaplastic large cell lymphoma. This disease, we were professionally informed, usually presented itself in adults, but very rarely in children. At the time of the diagnosis Kestra’s medical records listed no previous illnesses, as she was the youngest of four healthy children.

A number of factors impact on the function of the immune system – stress being one of them, and this effect has so interested science so much that a whole field of research has grown around it, known as psychoneuroimmunology.

People often think of homeopathic medicines as natural medicines that are good for coughs and colds, accidents and injuries. This is of course quite true, but did you know homeopathic medicines are taken for all chronic illnesses, such as menstrual disorders, migraines, autoimmune disorders, chronic viral infections, paralysis and many other mental and emotional problems?

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is an autoimmune disease where the immune system attacks its own body. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is caused by genetic mutations (single nucleotide polymorphisms) that impair the central nervous system’s ability to adapt to stressful situations, according to a summary released by the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, USA.

This article is about what is best to eat when you have cancer? Before we go any further, it is important for you to bear in mind that your doctor or oncologist has had literally no training in understanding how nutrition has had any impact on human health, and would you believe, it is very recently that medical science would accept that a person’s diet had any bearing on their level of health and disease at all.