Scientific beliefs rest not just on facts, but on paradigms—broad views of how these facts are related and organized. Differences of opinion between groups of researchers are at least partly a reflection of the different scientific paradigms each group uses.

A healer from the Chinese, Indian, or Native American traditions would give very different opinions about the meaning of health from those given by a Western physician.

Western medicine has made astonishing advances in the past two centuries. Thefundamental physical mechanisms of the body are known and, perhaps, understood. Childbirth, once the primary cause of death in women and children, has beenrendered almost routine.

The Health Care Waste Forum (HCWF) will be hosting an IMBIZO on 9 April 2008 in Midrand, Development Bank of Southern Africa (Gauteng. The purpose will be to address critical issues arising out of the health care industry that are influential in environmental health.

There are many ways to find relaxtion time while at work, and one is a click away and right at your fingertips: Playing video games.

Are your habits an addiction, an obsession or a compulsion? Let's take a look.
Habitual behavior can be natural, for instance, looking left and right when crossing the street, but when our habitual behavior loses rationality and disrupts daily routine and ability to function, it has become a compulsion.

Compulsive Eating Can Be Initiated By Hunger
Hunger triggers feelings of hunger and prepares the stomach for food intake. You should recognize if your stomach is famished, sometimes you may confuse the feeling of hunger for thirst. Take a glass of warm water next time you feel the hunger. However, you don't believe you should be, maybe you have eaten a short while ago. Drinking water fifteen minutes before meals lead to eating less. Hunger will make you uncomfortable if not properly controlled. It could result in a mild form of binge eating, as being famished leads to anticipation of the food. This might result to a pattern of overeating.

Stop Compulsive Eating. End the Mental War, Conquer Compulsion.
Weak decisions are useless. There will be moments you will concede and feel you failed. Be in control. If you have made the decision to finish a bowl of food per meal, decide to feel hungry before eating. Be firm with your decision! "I am not getting pushed around any more I refuse to be controlled by food. I am steadfast. My decision is unchangeable. I will not give in." The struggle ends.

Weight Loss: 140 lbs during a juice fasting of 40 days. Fasting on juice healed damaged nerves, kidney and liver disease, and retention of water.
Fasting with water and fruit and vegetable juices and a diet high in raw foods returned my health. My chronic hepatitis had become a crippling disease. Years of serious addiction followed my drug abuse at thirteen, and hepatitis became a serious problem, a frustrating and painful illness. As the years progressed my liver deteriorated, which caused my kidneys and spleen, the other filtering organs to be overworked, and more pain and damage. Fasting with water, juice and a complete diet of natural foods I suffered for sixteen years. My swollen liver was as big as a football. The liver is the major organ that cleanses the body, and does not have space for swelling. A constant irritating pain is felt from the rib cage to the stomach when swelling occurs. It is impossible to forget hepatitis.

Detoxification through Fasting, Juicing and a Cleansing Diet Will Promote Health, Disease Recovery, Rejuvenation and Weight Loss.
Juicing, a cleansing diet and fasting are methods of ridding the body of toxins. Fasting has the power to detoxify 20th century toxins. Our bodies are toxic like never before. Today, we consume more toxic substances than all generations before us.