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...occurs when the balance in the body is lost. If one can encourage rebalancing the mind, body and spirit, then health is a natural outcome. Diksha Chakravarti Reading, England While some complementary therapies may be harmless placebos, they typically involve a lot of interaction between patient and practitioner. By contrast, conventional medicine is often run like a production line that goes all out for speed. Communication with patients is cut back to the point where informed-consent ethics are ignored, clinical standards suffer, and misdiagnosis and mistreatment are commonplace. No wonder patients are dissatisfied and seek help elsewhere. Andrew Smith...
...practically no advice for the extremely obese--folks who are at least 100 lbs. overweight and who have trouble moving, let alone exercising. Yet the number of morbidly obese Americans has quadrupled in the past 20 years or so (from 1 in 200 to 1 in 50); in contrast, the number who are merely obese (at least 30 lbs. overweight) has doubled...
...stark contrast, López Obrador, the candidate of the Revolutionary Democratic Party, promised to increase social spending through a massive public works project that he said would create jobs...
Clones are vulnerable throughout the cloning process, from their first days in a culture dish to their final moments in the womb to their first weeks after birth. (By contrast, embryos created by in vitro fertilization, which also start out in a petri dish, are pretty much home free if they make it past the first month in the womb.) Dolly, in fact, was the sole survivor of 277 cloning attempts. Clones, as the scientists who make them are fond of saying, are the exception rather than the rule...
...shipments from its Vankor fields by rail to China, even though it could sell the same oil to Europe without the subsidies, which are needed to bring down the high transportation costs. In that case, the desire to improve political ties with China outweighs commercial considerations. Yet by contrast, Vladimir Ryzhkov, an independent member of the Duma, reckons that the key driver of the Ukraine conflict earlier this year was Gazprom wanting better prices - "not some willingness to revive the [Russian] empire or punish [Ukrainian President Viktor] Yushchenko." A former Russian Deputy Energy Minister, Vladimir Milov, reports that top officials...