March 2012
40 posts
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Community Acupuncture as a New Business Model |... →
Hurray community acupuncture!
February 2012
26 posts
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$3600 up front for a cure
She came in for “buzzing in the ears” (undiagnosed hypertension); when she got results she brought in her husband (for undiagnosed PTSD resulting from a carjacking with a gunshot wound). But they aren’t the story. It’s what another acupuncturist did that is.
They had gone to another acupuncturist quite a distance from home; it happened on a whim when a friend recommended...
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Diving in
It’s been 3 years since I started my CA office. I started in a 1000 sq ft space, downgraded to a 630 sq ft space after coming close to shutting down 1 1/2 years into it, and am now moving in to a 1000+ sq ft space in a more visible, more trafficked area. I’ve invested money, time, and health into this thing. And am about to invest more of all of the above if this insomnia thing is...
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Time: Latinos could pick the next president
univisionnews:
The latest cover of Time makes a bold statement. (Time Magazine)
By JORDAN FABIAN Channel: Politics, Media
Politicans, you’ve been warned. The latest cover of Time magazine proclaims “Yo Decido. Why Latinos will pick the next president.”
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Flavorwire » The 20 Most Beautiful Bookstores in... →
Gorgeous!
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Repurposed buildings for the community
Green light given to alternative health centre in Chesham
Can you imagine more abandoned buildings and sites being re-purposed with the interests and backing of the community? The visual and performing art centers that could spring up? The open space lacking in urban areas? The centers where community events could take place and bring everyone together, reducing the isolation that is slowly...
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“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of...”
– Maya Angelou (via xxxi-i-mcmxcii)
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“The other question to ask is just how representative the group is of Australian...”
– War against natural medicine - The Drum Opinion (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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Medical research rarely yields immediate results -... →
I’m all for trying things to affect your health, but some of these studies really just make no sense. “$406,000 was spent to determine if brewed coffee enemas could help treat pancreatic cancer”?
WHAT?
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“The Internet is showing us what it thinks we want to see, but not necessarily...”
– Eli Pariser, TED Quotes
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“Leaders can let you fail and yet not let you be a failure.”
– Stanley McChrystal, TED Quotes
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World Press Photo Winner →
A story in 11 pics of the last years of a woman with Alzheimers life as her husband cares for her.
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3pm slump? Why a sugar rush may not be the answer. →
Protein not sugar stimulates cells keeping us thin and awake, new study suggests.
A new study has found that protein and not sugar activates the cells responsible for keeping us awake and burning calories. The research, published in the scientific journal Neuron, has implications for understanding obesity and sleep disorders.
Wakefulness and energy expenditure rely on “orexin cells”, which...
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“Adam Drewnowski, an epidemiologist at the University of Washington, has spent...”
– Thankfully someone is writing about this.
What Food Says About Class in America - The Daily Beast (via verticaltheory)
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Alameda Community Acupuncture - Alameda, CA Patch →
Welcome Alameda Community Acupuncture! A quick profile on one of the newest community acupuncture clinics.
Ketamine: instant relief of depression? →
Ketamine: instant relief of depression?
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Charlie Chaplin meets Inception
It took me forever to find this again. The score really does it for me.
world-shaker:
And my first YouTube doubler. Almost guaranteed chills.
Charlie Chaplin meets Inception.
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Museum bunny gets acupuncture for twitching head -... →
Ummm…ok. So does this mean the bunny responded via the placebo effect to the vet’s demeanor and expectations?
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Drug war report: Mexican government "cannot...
Mexicans living in constant fear not only of the cartel’s violence but getting caught in the crossfire. The constant low level stress of living like this has got to be doing all kinds of funky things to the population.
univisionnews:
On January 9th, Mexican police found 13 bodies near a gas station in Michoacan state. In a report released on Tuesday, consulting agency Stratfor says that...
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Community Acupuncture in Canada →
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Complementary and alternative therapies in... →
What caught my attention was this, “[Dr. Menachem] Oberbaum, who does not accept unproven CAM techniques and believes some can be harmful, continued that ‘in the long run, including CAM in the conventional repertoire will lower the health expenses. A recurrent middle-ear infection patient who visits a physician every two months in the first three years of his life and who swallows a...
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Communities Learn the Good Life Can Be a Killer -... →
How the environments we have built are killing us and what we need to do now.