Category: Health

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Dr. Bruce E. Hedendal and friend.

Self-Care Magazine Gives Access to Healing Tools

“How many people practice self-care in the United States anyway?” the news re-writeman asked me. He had a copy of my first newsletter introducing the philosophy on self-care and he wanted a solid figure to nail it down for his lead sentence. I was disappointing.

Peak's Island activated patients from left are Jean Dinsmore, Loretta Voyer and Martha Callow.

Activated Patient – Or Taking Care of Yourself

Activated patient? The phrase sounds like something which might explode, as if you had a sleeping bomb that suddenly became unpassive, unlimp and willing to take part in its own health. To some doctors the activated patient program sounds rebellious. It teaches everyday folks everything

Tossing an earthball at healing fair.

Healing Arts Fair

Garlic and olive oil and plenty of hugs in the sunshine. They stick in my mind as keys to healing after three days of listening to workshops at the Second New England Healing Arts Fair in May in Greenville, N.H. The workshops covered everything from

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Self-Care in Health: A Movement?

Self-care, self-health, self-repair and self-healing books proliferate in the health sections of paperback bookstores. One self-care advocate, a professor of public health at Yale University School of Medicine, said he had counted 600 titles recently. In 1972 he had been unable to find a publisher

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Linus Pauling Defends Himself Against NCI Attack

Forbis Report: No Fluoridation/Cancer Link   The Startling Effects of Light on Cancer With “Short Takes” on:   Tacky Laetrile Article at New Times, Recent Laetrile Victories, Second Opinion at Sloan-Kettering, Rauscher Farewell, Salk and Swine-Flu, The Lobotomies of a Mad Housewife, AMA Surprise, Cancer