http://www.articlealley.com en-us editorial@articlealley.com Copyright (c) 2009 Stephen Lau The contemporary lifestyle is generally not conducive to healthy living. People drink too much, eat too much, and some even smoke too much. In addition, most live in dailly stress with sleep deprivation. Furthermore, many... http://www.articlealley.com/article_1281445_23.html 09th December 2009 Copyright (c) 2009 Stephen Lau Religion can be negative to many, who would perceive it as moralistic, judgmental, and even condemning. In short, to many, religion has the connotation of rejection. If you are sinful (as a matter of fact, we all are),... http://www.articlealley.com/article_1271355_51.html 03rd December 2009 Copyright (c) 2009 Stephen Lau A heart attack is one of the most devastating and traumatic experiences in life. At least 1.5 million Americans suffer a first or recurrent heart attack every year. Heart attacks are often an indication of advanced corona... http://www.articlealley.com/article_1254626_23.html 25th November 2009 Copyright (c) 2009 Stephen Lau Heart attacks occur when your heart fails to pump oxygen to some part of your heart due to blockage in one or more of the coronary arteries. Approximately 1.5 million Americans suffer a first or recurrent heart attack ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_1246662_23.html 24th November 2009 Copyright (c) 2009 Stephen Lau Difficulty with words is quite common, especially with those who are advancing in age. Difficulty with words means having problems in word finding, which is a mental activity of selecting or retrieving words from memory. ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_1213189_24.html 03rd November 2009 Copyright (c) 2009 Stephen Lau Foods are not just foods. Be mindful of what you eat. Foods may affect all your body organs in different ways, positively or negatively. In Western medicine, foods are considered in terms of calories, fats, carbohydrat... http://www.articlealley.com/article_1202640_23.html 27th October 2009 Copyright (c) 2009 Stephen Lau For centuries, money has been a symbol of exchange of goods and services. But money is also a measure of the meaning and value of different things; for example, if money represents greed and selfishness, it becomes a symb... http://www.articlealley.com/article_1171815_24.html 14th October 2009 Copyright (c) 2009 Stephen Lau Jesus led a simple life of love. His life is a model for living in faith and love - in particular, love in a marriage. What is love in a marriage? A marriage is a purposeful decision to create something new f... http://www.articlealley.com/article_1171611_24.html 14th October 2009 Copyright (c) 2009 Stephen Lau You don't have to be forgetful. You don't have to live with poor memory. Bad memory is not something you were born with and cannot be changed. The good news is that you can sharpen memory skills to sharpen the mind. Yes, ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_1166340_23.html 12th October 2009 As you continue to age, you tend to become more forgetful, such as you don't remember where you put your keys. Is this type of forgetfulness normal or abnormal? Naturally, one of the byproducts of healthy aging is benign forgetfulness. But your may hav... http://www.articlealley.com/article_1158304_23.html 07th October 2009 Copyright (c) 2009 Stephen Lau Living in faith is living a life of spirituality. What does it entail? It demands a major decision in life to be interested in spiritual things, that is, things of the Spirit, instead of things of the flesh, just as Paul ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_1145975_24.html 02nd October 2009 Copyright (c) 2009 Stephen Lau Golf is about golf swing. To master golf swings, you need to master the pre-swing basics. Mastering golf swings begins with proper setup and adequate mental preparation for the game. In addition to mastering golf swing... http://www.articlealley.com/article_1139435_32.html 01st October 2009 Copyright (c) 2009 Stephen Lau Hippocrates, the father of medicine, once said: "Let food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food." Food therapy is the foundation of Chinese medicine. For thousands of years, Chinese medicine has focused on f... http://www.articlealley.com/article_1116643_26.html 23rd September 2009 Copyright (c) 2009 Stephen Lau Putting is the smallest form of the golf swing, but is also the last thing you do to complete the hole. If you master putting, you master the game of golf. Putting is an art, and it requires a proper tool to express th... http://www.articlealley.com/article_1105118_32.html 22nd September 2009 Copyright (c) 2009 Stephen Lau Time stress is a major stress factor in everyday life. We need to meet deadlines in almost every aspect of our lives: from completing certain tasks in our work, catching a bus, to cooking our dinner. In contemporary livin... http://www.articlealley.com/article_1096648_23.html 17th September 2009 Copyright (c) 2009 Stephen Lau Ill health is the accumulation of all the wrong things you have done to your health over the years. For someone who is very ill, it may seem difficult, almost impossible, to restore natural health and get well again. T... http://www.articlealley.com/article_1090079_23.html 16th September 2009 Copyright (c) 2009 Stephen Lau An asthma attack can be a frightening experience when you are sweating, you cannot breathe, and your pulse is racing. These are just some of asthma symptoms. An asthma attack is due to the swelling of the membranes lin... http://www.articlealley.com/article_1067849_23.html 06th September 2009 Copyright (c) 2009 Stephen Lau Your mind is directly related to your body. Your mental state affects your physical well being. This body-mind medicine is the foundation of Oriental medicine. Not until recently did modern Western medicine begin to re... http://www.articlealley.com/article_1060376_23.html 02nd September 2009 In Western medicine, health is "absence of disease." Hence, without disease, you are deemed "healthy." However, from the Oriental perspective, "absence of disease" may not be an indicator of "good health." Are you healthy? If absence of disease is heal... http://www.articlealley.com/article_1036119_23.html 16th August 2009 What you eat today is not what your ancestors used to eat. Therefore, you must change your mentality when it comes to food choice, which ultimately affects your brain health. Food choice affects your physical health, and, more importantly, your brain h... http://www.articlealley.com/article_1032110_23.html 12th August 2009 Glaucoma is one of the major causes of blindness. Glaucoma is due to increased eye pressure. In conventional medicine, most eye doctors would recommend surgeries and eye drops to relieve high ocular pressure in the eye. However, there is one problem: s... http://www.articlealley.com/article_1010754_23.html 01st August 2009 Macular degeneration is loss of central vision as one ages. It is also called aging retinal disease because it impairs reading vision. Macular degeneration is the fastest growing cause of legal blindness in the United States. Laser treatment can arrest... http://www.articlealley.com/article_993092_23.html 21st July 2009 Flexibility stretching holds the key to health longevity. When you were young, you might have been very athletic and sportive. However, as you continue to age, you may have become less active physically: instead of participating in sports, you may have... http://www.articlealley.com/article_983415_23.html 16th July 2009 Arthritis pain is no more than joint inflammation. However, arthritis pain appears in many different forms (more than one hundred types), and strikes millions of Americans. The actual causes of arthritis pain are relatively unknown, but it seems that as y... http://www.articlealley.com/article_974763_23.html 09th July 2009 Zen is a unique feeling in which you are completely at one with yourself and the world around you. You feel total harmony as you whole being experiences clarity and inner peace that seem to be out of this world. These moments of sublime tranquility can... http://www.articlealley.com/article_969188_23.html 06th July 2009 Modern medicine puts its emphasis on cure rather than prevention: preventive therapy is never its first priority. In a way, modern medicine welcomes health problems because health problems generate billions of dollars on medical research for drug therapy.... http://www.articlealley.com/article_966147_23.html 05th July 2009 Economists and government officials keep pointing to the glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel. We are led to believe that the worst is now more or less over. Not so soon! Another perfect storm is brewing - the dollar devaluation. The next financia... http://www.articlealley.com/article_965581_19.html 05th July 2009 Mindset plays a pivotal role in human behavior. Think of mindset as a habit or "second nature" to you. When a person is not nice to you, your immediately reaction to that person may become habit forming. To illustrate, your mind tells you: "I won't let hi... http://www.articlealley.com/article_963574_24.html 02nd July 2009 Is music therapy effective in the treatment of medical, physical, and emotional illness? Scientific research, especially in northeastern Ohio, has indicated that music therapy can promote the healing spirit of an individual, can improve the quality of ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_961125_23.html 01st July 2009 Spiritual healing is rejuvenation of the body and mind through the intelligent or immaterial part of a human being - spirituality. Many people think of healing only in terms of the physical. A broken bone is only a "physical" illness that requires six ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_960250_23.html 01st July 2009 Golf is a simple game to play, but difficult to master. Attesting to this, the simple golf swing is not simple at all. Peter Thompson, a veteran golfer, has this to say about the simple golf swing: "To play good golf, all you have to do is grip it, tur... http://www.articlealley.com/article_954730_32.html 28th June 2009 Jesus said we should love our neighbors as ourselves, and Buddha asked us to practice loving kindness. But these are abstract theories, often ignored in practice. In spite of the Christian belief and the Buddhist practice, we are NOT nice to others as ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_954574_24.html 28th June 2009 This is a simple question, but may not be that simple to many people. This question should be asked by a doctor when he or she sees a patient. When an individual goes to see a doctor, that individual may have a health issue, and it is the responsibilit... http://www.articlealley.com/article_934084_26.html 13th June 2009 Thousands of years ago, the Chinese discovered that needles inserted into specific points just below the surface of the skin not only can alleviate pain but also heal many disorders and diseases. That was how acupuncture was discovered in ancient China, a... http://www.articlealley.com/article_929907_23.html 12th June 2009 Gastrointestinal function and ecology are critical to your longevity health. Gastrointestinal health is longevity health. The undigested food in your digestive system often becomes the breeding ground for the development of potentially harmful bacteria th... http://www.articlealley.com/article_903051_23.html 19th May 2009 Mindfulness is healing for not only physical illness, chronic pain, but also anxiety and everyday stress. Contemporary living is hectic and stressful. This is mainly because we focus too much on the "self." In our lives, everything seems to evolve arou... http://www.articlealley.com/article_892948_23.html 15th May 2009 Copyright (c) 2009 Stephen Lau Are you "really" sick? Or are you psychosomatic? Many of us "think" we are sick, and thinking can make it real - kind of self-fulfilling prophecy. But sometimes we do feel all the symptoms of sickness. Many o... http://www.articlealley.com/article_877484_23.html 05th May 2009 Copyright (c) 2009 Stephen Lau Golfing success is a life learning experience. You can learn a lot about life when you play golf. In particular, you can learn a lot about yourself from golf. If you cheat or blow up when things are not going your way, su... http://www.articlealley.com/article_875719_32.html 01st May 2009 Copyright (c) 2009 Stephen Lau Obsession with weight loss can be devastating, and may even be dangerous. The fear of fat has driven many individuals to take drastic, and even dangerous, measures aimed at weight loss. Obsession with weight loss and d... http://www.articlealley.com/article_866838_23.html 23rd April 2009 Copyright (c) 2009 Stephen Lau Many people go for a low-calorie diet to lose weight. You can't blame them. After all, after years of abuse, their bodies may have become loaded with toxins, which contribute to not only ill health, but also overweight... http://www.articlealley.com/article_851701_23.html 09th April 2009 Copyright (c) 2009 Stephen Lau Everybody wishes to look younger and stay healthier for longer. The wish is father to the thought. Unfortunately, for many, that thought would remain just an idea or a notion, but never a reality. For that thought to beco... http://www.articlealley.com/article_837822_23.html 27th March 2009 Copyright (c) 2009 Stephen Lau Life is complex, and as such, human beings are even more complex in that we are beings with physical, mental, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual elements. However, we tend to generalize the self - especially when we d... http://www.articlealley.com/article_835011_23.html 25th March 2009 Copyright (c) 2009 Stephen Lau Since time immemorial, kings and emperors, sages and scientists, as well as ordinary folks like you and I, have sought longevity and the fountain of youth. In other words, we all wish to become younger and healthier for l... http://www.articlealley.com/article_829066_23.html 17th March 2009 Copyright (c) 2009 Stephen Lau First of all, credit is due to President Obama for his all-out efforts to rescue the country from the ailing economy and the greatest financial crisis the nation has ever faced since the Great Depression. However, this... http://www.articlealley.com/article_824131_19.html 13th March 2009 Copyright (c) 2009 Stephen Lau In contemporary living, weight control is difficult: nowadays, the busy and hectic lifestyle demands so much of your time and energy that you may frequently skip your gym sessions, or easily grab something in lieu of a pr... http://www.articlealley.com/article_811727_26.html 09th March 2009 Copyright (c) 2009 Stephen Lau Chinese medicine is one of the most sophisticated medical systems in the world. It has been enhanced through thousands of years of experience and research. Its unique difference from Western medicine is that it focuses on... http://www.articlealley.com/article_802032_23.html 02nd March 2009 Copyright (c) 2009 Stephen Lau Golfing success means learning or improving new golf skills. Golfing success involves, first and foremost, a desire to learn, a willingness to make your golf a better game. Without this fundamental desire, golfing success... http://www.articlealley.com/article_801473_32.html 01st March 2009 Copyright (c) 2009 Stephen Lau By and large, most golfers follow the golf etiquette on the golf course. However, there is a minority of golfers who not only rant and rave, but also cheat on the golf course. Why do golfers cheat on the golf course? ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_798881_32.html 25th February 2009 Copyright (c) 2009 Stephen Lau In weight loss, people tend to look at the big picture, which is to shed those extra pounds, and losing those pounds focuses on diet - more specifically, on what to eat, and what not to eat. However, weight loss is more t... http://www.articlealley.com/article_788156_23.html 18th February 2009 Copyright (c) 2009 Stephen Lau If you are overweight, deal with it! Maybe you are meant to be fat! We are living in a society that promotes overweight, if not obesity. As a baby, you are stuffed, and your parents want you to look plump, so you would... http://www.articlealley.com/article_787045_23.html 17th February 2009