Cabbage is one of the most medicinal vegetables you’ll find in your garden (or your local grocery store). It contains powerful medicinal compounds that help heal cancer, but one of its best-known uses is as a natural remedy for stomach ulcers.

Cabbage may not sound like amazing medicine, but in terms of its complex phytonutrient compounds, it’s actually one of the most advanced natural treatments for ulcers yet engineered by Mother Nature. Read some of the supporting quotes about cabbage and ulcers below…

How cabbage cures stomach ulcers
The duodenal ulcers of patients fed cabbage also healed in one-third the usual time. In a double blind study of 45 inmates at San Quentin Prison in California, 93 percent of the ulcers in prisoners taking cabbage juice concentrate in capsules - the equivalent of a fresh quart of cabbage juice every day - were healed after three weeks. Only 32 percent of the ulcers healed in those taking a dummy capsule. How could cabbage work? Seemingly by strengthening the stomach lining’s resistance to acid attacks.
- Food Your Miracle Medicine by Jean Carper Read the rest of this entry »

The fact that vitamin D prevents cancer is now so well known that even some conventional physicians are beginning to recommend it. Vitamin D prevents 77% of all cancers, after all. That’s as close to a “cure” for cancer as you’ll ever get (and it’s free, too, since you can make it yourself!).

But did you also know that vitamin D prevents heart disease? In fact, most people suffering from heart disease are chronically deficient in vitamin D. By correcting their vitamin D levels (through sunlight exposure or by taking vitamin D3 supplements), people can simultaneously halt cancer and prevent heart disease, too.

Here’s a collection of research revealing the amazing power of this “miracle” vitamin to eliminate heart disease. I’d like to add, though, that the previously recommended daily intake of 400 IUs of vitamin D is now considered hazardously low. Most nutritionally-aware doctors and naturopaths are now recommending anywhere from 1,000 - 4000 IUs per day of vitamin D supplementation. Of course, you don’t need any vitamin D supplements if you get sufficient sunlight on your skin on a regular basis. Read the rest of this entry »

SigmaPhone LLC has expanded iPharmacy to include the most comprehensive drug library (7,000), as well as new medical assistant features for consumers, such as adding personal reminders to favorite drugs.

SigmaPhone LLC has expanded its flagship medical app, iPharmacy, to provide official prescribing info for 7,000 drugs, which is the most comprehensive collection at the lowest price ($0.99). For each drug, medical professionals can conveniently access FDA-approved prescribing information, such as dosage and administration, indications, warnings, contraindications, adverse reactions, with just a gentle touch. New medical assistant features for consumers, such as adding personal reminders to favorite drugs, have been introduced in the latest version.

iPharmacy features include:
- 7,000 commonly prescribed drugs with classifications
- All drug information is from the FDA
- Classification: Drugs are listed by categories (allergies, anti-infective and etc.)
- Access to well-formatted “Indications & Usage” and “Dosage & Administration”, warnings, adverse reactions, etc.
- Overview of all commonly prescribed drugs in the same category
- Easy navigation
- Drugs are listed and searchable by trade names and ingredients
- Save your drugs of interest to “favorite”
- Copy and paste to other apps
- Full package insert in PDF format
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Recent findings show that some couples are seeking other means of separation during tough economic times. Divorce does not have to mean court, but can be reached through mediation.

The current United States economic environment is being compared to The Great Depression. It is no surprise, then, that current sociological trends are mirroring those of that difficult time in our history.

Financial instability is proven to increase the likelihood of divorce–generally. In this recession, however, where money is extraordinarily tight for many families, divorce rates have actually dropped. Experts attribute this irony to one simple fact: Couples cannot afford to get divorced today.

The average cost of divorce ranges from $15,000 to $30,000. That is money most Americans just do not have to spare. For that reason, couples are waiting this recession out and tolerating their marriages until financial woes lessen. Read the rest of this entry »

Health care reform in the United States is impossible without tackling the country’s obesity epidemic, author and food activist Michael Pollan has warned.

“Even the most efficient health care system that the administration could hope to devise would still confront a rising tide of chronic disease linked to diet,” Pollan wrote recently in The New York Times.

“That’s why our success in bringing health care costs under control ultimately depends on whether Washington can summon the political will to take on and reform a second, even more powerful industry: the food industry.”

Pollan notes that it costs the U.S. health care system $147 billion every year to treat obesity. It costs another $116 billion each year to treat diabetes, “and hundreds of billions more to treat cardiovascular disease and the many types of cancer that have been linked to the so-called Western diet.” Read the rest of this entry »