Category: body

Does it matter what you eat?

June 12, 2006 | 10 comments

Have you ever wondered what Jesus Christ meant when he told his followers to take no thought for what they ate or drank? Was he saying we could eat whatever we wanted, however much we wanted and whenever we wanted

Medicalizing human behavior

June 9, 2006 | No comments yet

Claude Lewis got it right in a column he wrote for the Philadelphia Inquirer. He began, “It may be hard to recall, but once there was a time when people took responsibility for their behavior, without recourse to the psychiatric

Disease-mongering

June 7, 2006 | 1 comment

Have you noticed how pharmaceutical companies market disease to prompt people to buy their medicines? Actors and actresses in ads sneeze, cough, writhe in supposed pain, and put on a show of utter misery to catch viewer’s attention. Then a

It’s not God’s fault

April 28, 2006 | 1 comment

“How could God take the life of my three year old boy,” a mother cried after losing her child in a fire that burnt her family home. Human thought is filled with misconceptions of God, and the belief that God

Getting enough sleep

March 12, 2006 | No comments yet

“How do I get a good night’s sleep?” tired people are asking. Sleep has turned into big business in the United States, according to Forbes magazine. Millions of slumber-seekers are turning to pills, therapies, sleep labs, gimmicks, expensive mattresses and