In case you think all this green talk about planting trees and preserving and creating more green spaces is a waste of time, you should know that plants are not only healthy for the planet, but are beneficial for human health too.Yes, we all know people need trees to breathe, but there are health benefits even beyond that.

A study published last year notes that a little green can help speed healing. The study, conducted by the Department of Horticulture, Forestry and Recreation Resources, Kansas State University, showed that patients recovering in rooms with potted plants or flowers, “Had significantly fewer …read more

Complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) are not for the young risk-takers and for those who don’t believe in traditional western medicine. According to a recent survey, nearly two-thirds of people over the age of 50 use treatments like massage therapy, herbal supplements, mind-body practices and acupuncture to help manage their aches and pains, and more.
Disaboom has a good article on this increasing use of CAM, but also on how patients are keeping this a secret from their doctors. Not a good idea! Anyway, have a look, see what you think: Talking About Complementary and Alternative Medicine
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Time To Talk About CAM:
Health Care Providers and Patients Need To Ask and Tell
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has launched Time to Talk, an educational campaign to encourage patients — particularly those age 50 or older — and their health care providers to openly discuss the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM ). CAM is a group of diverse medical and health care systems, practices, and products that are not presently considered to be part of conventional medicine, such as herbal supplements, meditation, naturopathy, and acupuncture.
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According to a National Health Survey in the United States, done in 2002, an estimated 8.2 million adults in the U.S. had had acupuncture at some point. A little over two million had their acupuncture within the year before the survey.
In 2005, a study was done in Australia regarding three alternative, or complementary, treatments: chiropractics, acupuncture, and osteopathy. Of 1067 people interviewed by phone, about one-quarter (271 people) said that they used at least one of the three therapies within the past year: chiropractic: 16.1% (176), acupuncture: 9.2% (101) and osteopathy: 4.6%.
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