Archive for May, 2005

Stress and your immune system: Chill or be chilled.

Friday, May 27th, 2005

Some stress is good. If you don’t have any stress, then you are probably dead or in a coma. I read somewhere about a tribe of natives that subsisted almost exclusively on nuts which grew in abundance. I thought that surely this would mean a life free of stress for these people. […]

What good are allergies?

Monday, May 23rd, 2005

My daughter called me the other day. Our two-year-old grandson had developed a skin rash that was spreading rapidly. The rash involved whitish areas surrounded by rings of red. I asked if our grandson had just eaten or taken medications. It turned out that he had just taken medications, a commercial […]

Nutrition and Immunity

Monday, May 9th, 2005

You are what you eat. Following that logic too far would suggest that I am a vegetarian because I eat vegetarian animals. However, as we all know, our diet does have a profound effect on our health. But how does it affect our immune systems?

First of all, most people in developed countries […]