Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS), sometimes referred to as Idiopathic Environmental Intolerance, is a poorly understood and controversial condition in which symptoms are experienced that are perceived to be related to chemical exposures.
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Mysterious Maladies 3: SLE
SLE is more properly known as systemic lupus erythematosus. While it’s a little less mysterious than CFS or fibromyalgia, it resembles these conditions in that its hallmarks are pain and fatigue, and its cause is unknown. Another hallmark symptom is the butterfly rash, as illustrated here.
Remembering Past Meals May Promote Weight Loss
If you’ve spent time dieting, you’ve probably encountered the advice that you should pay attention to what you eat, how and when. Now, new research is putting a different spin on this old advice.
Count Your Blessings
Research on the connection between gratitude and health goes back decades now. Abraham Maslow is a famous psychologist who is known for his theories regarding the so-called “Hierarchy of Needs“. In the late 1960’s/early 1970’s, he put forward the position that the experience of gratitude has a big impact on psychological health. At the bottom…
Mysterious Maladies 2: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
The second in a series of articles pertaining to poorly understood conditions that change people’s lives, this post will cover Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). The first article was on fibromyalgia.
Mysterious Maladies 1: Fibromyalgia
This article on fibromyalgia will be the first of a series on “mysterious maladies”, those poorly-understood conditions that affect people so significantly. Description Fibromyalgia is a condition that defies categorization. Researchers and other experts in health care have described it as: a “rheumatic” musculo-skeletal condition; a condition of the nervous system related to abnormal pain…
Detoxify Your Home and Garden
Are You Cleaning Or Polluting? Common household cleaning and garden products can make the air in and around your home thousands of times more polluted than the air outdoors in the world’s most polluted cities. These levels of pollution would trigger safety inspections in a workplace. Some scientists worry that long-term low-level exposure to chemicals…