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As beautiful as spring may be once the flowers have bloomed, it’s also a season for allergies and lingering colds. We talked to alternative and integrative medicine doctors in the area about ways you can stay healthy this spring. Clarence Lam, physician in preventive medicine at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 1)  With the weather warming, take …

By Alice Langholt, Reiki Master Teacher If you’re like most people, you probably get a cold, flu, or respiratory infection during the winter. These ailments are most common during the change of seasons, and during the long-seeming stretch of winter. I used to get sick too. It was just one of those things that came with the long winters in …

By Niharika Chibber Joe Several years ago, my intern from Mongolia worriedly inquired, “Why are poor people in America so fat?” The question threw me – was it even politically correct to use the words “poor” or “fat” anymore? Growing up in India, I did not recall seeing “poor” people who were “fat.” Quite to the contrary, in fact. In …

By Seth Karafin Self-esteem is one of the most misunderstood things in personal mental health. Often, it is used to describe others in a negative way. As in, “She has low self-esteem.” Or “Only people with low self-esteem would do that.” There are three common misconceptions about self-esteem, and all of them can be very damaging. One is that self-esteem …

By Jenny Chen The year was 2737 BC and the Chinese Emperor Shenong was drinking his bowl of boiled water. Shenong, who developed Chinese traditional medicine and agricultural traditions in China, was so health conscious that he decreed to all his subjects must boil their water before drinking it. On that one particular day, as Shenong bent down to take …