Articles by S.A Ramratan:

Four Health Factors to Live a much Longer Life (NewsTarget) Not long ago I had a friend say something along these lines, “I don’t smoke or drink – I won’t live longer, it will just seem that way!” This got me thinking. How do these factors combined affect health? I just so happened to read a great...

Big Pharma Money Spent on Marketing Exceeds Drug Development Costs (NewsTarget) Why are pharmaceuticals so expensive? This question has been asked for many years. In fact this was the question asked by Senator Estes Kefauver (D) in the late 1950s. Senator Kefauver was the first to put together an indictment against...

Detoxify to Lower Your Body Burden (NewsTarget) Toxins?! In my body? Never! Unfortunately, the body has become a dumping ground for many toxic chemicals. We as a society are eating a diet full of acrylamide, sodium nitrate, phytic acid, and hydrogenated oils. Some of our bodies have chemicals...

Is the Standard American Diet (SAD) Bad for Your Health? (NewsTarget) Extreme is a good way to describe the diet that most people in America subsist on.  Many people wouldn’t look at the standard American diet, and call it extreme; many would just call it normal.  But if you look at the diet close-up, we can...

Recent Discovery Shows Water Has a Memory (NewsTarget) Water is absolutely required for health.  Water is the beginning of life and without it, we would die very quickly.  A French medical doctor, specialising in immunology, has discovered something truly fascinating about water.  Dr. Jacques...

A Quick Lesson in Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) (NewsTarget) EFT is a fabulous tool that I stumbled upon nearly four years ago.  The technique involves tapping specific energy meridian points on the body and was brought to the world by Gary Craig.  It is a painless, free method to get to the root...

Ocean Water – An Untapped, Bountiful Energy Source (NewsTarget) A cancer patient has found some interesting properties of seawater that could provide an abundant, cheap source of energy. It was an accidental discovery, as reported in a CBS news story. John Kanzius, a leukemia patient, was trying to...

The Real Medical Problem of Children in the Developing World (NewsTarget) The developing world sees more deaths from diarrhoea than AIDS, or malaria annually. And yet, many people have been lead to believe these diseases are the true killers in places like Africa. AIDS is a devastating disease, and can take years...

Age Gracefully With Healthy Vision – Limit Your Refined Carbs (NewsTarget) Who doesn’t want to age gracefully? As the first wave of Baby Boomers reached 60 years old in 2006, and as the rest of the 76 million get older, age related problems are being dissected in order to turn back the hands of time. An...

The Device That Defies the Laws of Thermodynamics (NewsTarget) An amazing British invention actually creates more energy than is put into it.     If you asked the inventors how it works – they honestly do not know.  But, as reported in the Daily News, a U.K news publication, independent scientists...

Reading, Writing and Nutrition: The Foundation to a Child’s Education (NewsTarget) Nutrition can improve learning and memory in school children.  A group of European scientists from Unilever have proved that nutrition is part of the foundation to a child’s education, even if they are well fed.    The researchers,...

Government Subsidies: The Reason Why Cancer-Causing Foods Are So Cheap and Readily Available (NewsTarget) That bag of chips that you decided to forgo is significantly cheaper than that bag of organic apples.  If you think about it, it doesn’t really make sense.  The bag of chips has gone through several manufacturing steps, and so has the bag...

Cancer: Prevention Is the Cure (Part 1) (NewsTarget) Many people have heard the saying “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”.  When it comes to cancer, this couldn’t be truer.  To date several billion dollars, over 30 years have been spent on finding that elusive cure for cancer. ...

Cooked Food: Your Body Wants a Salad! (NewsTarget) Cooked food weakens your immune system.  Many believe that cooking is needed for food to get rid of bacteria and make it more digestible.  True, there are a few vegetables that are more difficult for some to digest raw, such as those in...

Why the Average Physically Inactive Person Should Eat a Mediterranean Diet (NewsTarget) If you are a health conscious person physical activity is part of daily life.  Unless you get injured, most people who regularly perform some physical activity enjoy it because it helps them keep fit and feel great.  Conversely, health conscious...

Biomarkers Unable to Predict Occurrence of Stroke in Women (NewsTarget) A nested, case-controled, study conducted by the Women's Health Initiative found that biomarkers could not accurately predict the occurrence of stroke in women undergoing hormone therapy.  The study concluded that the 20 chosen biomarkers...