This year it is 200 years since Per Henrik Ling founded the Royal Gymnastics Central Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. Ling´s extensive gymnastic system integrated physical activity, training and manual treatments for health promotion and health care. It became a Swedish success story and a strong “export product” all over the world. Read more
Tags: CAM, complementary and alternative medicine, conventional medicine, county council, drugs, evaluation, guidellines, gymnastics, healthcare, I C, illness, integrative care, integrative medicine, Ling, manual treatment, methodology, mortality, patient organisation, pharmaceuticals, physical activity, prevention, research, self-care, Tobias Sundberg, training, WHOA new study from Oxford shows that vegetarians reduce their risk of succumbing to ischemic cardiovascular disease (CVD) by 32 percent compared to non-vegetarians. The study comprised both vegetarians and non-vegetarians from the United Kingdom, in all almost 45 000 people. Read more
Tags: CAM, cardiovascular, CVD, death, diet, eggs, exercise, fish, Francesca Crowe, green, heart, heart disease, Johanna Hök, lifestyle, meat, milk, mortality, Oxford, prevention, smoking, stress, vegetarian, veggie