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• A life in limbo: At risk for 12 cancers

  Mon Oct 18, 2010
  • Certainly diet and lifestyle are a factor in whether those genes get the better of you- they are not a guarantee but it would be naive to dismiss them. Read "The China Study" before you judge Marilyn's post, it is an important contribution to the literature of cancer prevention as is "Anticancer."

• Is it time to return to caveman parenting?

  Fri Oct 15, 2010
  • A popular news article about three academic studies can hardly touch on the methodology and evidence, if you are interested enough to defensively bash it perhaps you should get a hold of the presentations...And I don't need a research paper to convince me that children are touched and held less, …

• Back surgery may backfire on patients in pain

  Thu Oct 14, 2010
  • Always start with extensive conservative care first! Chiropractic has been shown to be just as (if not more) effective than surgery. Studies demonstrating the overuse and ineffectiveness of back surgery are becoming more and more common. You can't "take back" a surgery.

• 3 ways to lower breast cancer risk, despite your DNA

  Tue Oct 12, 2010
  • Don't forget breastfeeding!

• Women need chance to avoid 2nd C-section

  Wed Mar 10, 2010
  • While the legal and professional concerns about VBAC have validity, the issue boils down to women having choices about how they birth.

• Would you opt for an elective C-section?

  Tue Feb 2, 2010
  • Natural is optimal.

• Troubling trend: The skyrocketing rate of C-sections

  Tue Feb 2, 2010
  • The more natural the birth the more beneficial for mother and baby - if, of course, there is no legitimate health consideration for the intervention - that is why the WHO recommends natural childbirth, and sets guidelines, as stated in the article.

• Gisele says she gave birth in bathtub

  Sun Jan 31, 2010
  • Look at the studies and scientific evidence: home birth is just as safe as hospital birth for low risk women who have had proper prenatal care, there is a very strict criteria for who is an eligible candidate for homebirths and there are highly qualified birth attendants available for these women.

• Breast-feeding: Whose business is it anyway?

  Tue Jan 12, 2010
  • I think a lot of the questions stem from the fact that women in this country are unfamiliar with breastfeeding. As a country we are culturally unfamiliar with this basic biological function. Our mothers, sisters, and friends never breastfed therefore it is a mystery.