Ross, author of The Diet Cure, here offers a prescriptive plan designed to relieve a variety of ailments from seasonal disorders, stress, irritability and depression. Ross believes that many of these annoying and, in some cases, severely disabling disorders can be relieved through a change in diet and nutritional supplements. Readers are asked to first […]
Anxiety Disorders and Gender Differences
When it comes to gender and anxiety, research has found that women are twice as likely to have an anxiety disorder as men. This difference appears to be associated with a variety of biological, psychological and cultural factors. For women, the average length of time between the onset of symptoms (the time she starts feeling […]
Fasting and Gastrointestinal Disorders
It is probably no coincidence that the natural response to indigestion is to stop eating. Fasting gives the digestive tract a break from processing food and offers the gastrointestinal system a time to rest. There have been a number of studies examining the effects of water-only fasting on gastrointestinal disorders. In 1989, Scottish researchers compared […]
Fasting, Eating Disorders, and Food Addiction
In the broadest sense, the term eating disorders refers to a group of conditions defined by abnormal eating habits that involves either insufficient or excessive food intake to the detriment of an individual’s physical, mental, and spiritual health. The most common types of eating disorders—anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa—are outlined in the Diagnostic and Statistical […]