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Jack Tips, ‘naturopathic’ doctor, wants to help the body heal itself

By: Walter Ang
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I don’t want to work with conventional medicine, pharmacological drugs and insurance companies,” said Jack Tips, a naturopathic doctor. “They have an agenda to keep people on drugs and dictate to doctors what treatments are supposedly right for the individual.”

Posted: January 31st, 2012 in Editor's Pick,Featured Gallery,Headlines,Photos & Videos,Wellness | Read More »

‘To eat in moderation’ is still the best way to jumpstart your weight loss

By: Mitch Felipe Mendoza

To live in moderation is not an easy skill to learn and apply. You still need to exert more effort to be able to live consistently in moderation, especially if we apply it to eating and exercise. But eating in moderation is the most effective way to attain long-term effective weight control according to numerous published studies. But what’s the best way to jumpstart your weight loss? When we talk about the best way, it doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s the fastest way to achieve something. Choosing the best strategy to jumpstart something like lifestyle change will primarily mean being able to sustain a strategy that you intend to start on, otherwise it will just be like something that never occurred at all—like fast weight loss and then fast weight gain.

Posted: January 31st, 2012 in Editor's Pick,Headlines,Wellness | Read More »

How filmmaking helped Minnie Crouse survive cancer

By: Corito Llamas
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What does one do when one is doomed to die from avascular necrosis (cancer that causes death to the bone), her kids grown-up, and her husband, a US colonel, also dying of cancer?

Posted: January 31st, 2012 in Editor's Pick,Headlines,Wellness | Read More »

Danilo Casimiro–one of the world’s top vaccine developers, and a Filipino

By: Alex Y. Vergara
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Danilo Casimiro, the only Filipino scientist who was part of the team that worked on Gardasil, the world’s leading vaccine against the human papillomavirus (HPV), is now busy working with colleagues on a vaccine to help prevent dengue.

Posted: January 31st, 2012 in Headlines,Wellness | Read More »

‘Does reading ghost stories develop one’s third eye?’

By: Jaime Licauco

A third-year college student named Cindy e-mailed me the following questions: 1. Are my strange psychic experiences signs that I have a special gift?

Posted: January 31st, 2012 in Columns,Mind and Body,Wellness | Read More »

Energy, inhalation, better food

By: Cory Quirino

The alphabet system is not only for reading and writing. It’s also for living.

Posted: January 30th, 2012 in Columns,Mind and Body,Wellness | Read More »

UST sings Handel’s ‘Messiah’ and Abba’s ‘Thank You for the Music’ to usher in its 5th century

By: Ramon Rayondoyan
FIREWORKS light up the UST Main Building.

University of Santo Tomas closed the yearlong celebration of its quadricentennial as Asia’s oldest university last Jan. 27 with a High Mass celebrated by all bishops of the Philippines and a grand chorale consisting of 40,000 singers singing, among other tunes, Abba’s “Thank You for the Music” and “I Have a Dream.”

Posted: January 30th, 2012 in Arts and Books,Editor's Pick,Featured Gallery,Headlines,Photos & Videos | Read More »

Film version of ‘Girl with Dragon Tattoo’ stays true to novel of grit

By: Eldric Paul A. Peredo
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When Stieg Larsson died of a heart attack in 2004, he was to many just a 50-year-old Swedish journalist, a reporter at one of Sweden’s largest news agencies, Tidningarnas Telegambyrå (Newspapers’ Telegram Bureau). Then they found the manuscripts.

Posted: January 30th, 2012 in Arts and Books,Editor's Pick,Featured Gallery,Headlines | Read More »

Lui Medina investigates intersections

By: Walter Ang
“UNTITLED”

“The concept of limits, both of experience and of self, is the main starting point in my current investigation,” says Lui Medina of her upcoming exhibit titled “Ascetics (Unbound).”

Posted: January 30th, 2012 in Arts and Books,Headlines | Read More »

Makati Medical Center revives arts and culture program

By: Antonio C. Hila
Dr. Darwin A. Dasig, pianists Ingrid Sala Santamaria and Reyanaldo Reyes, Dr. Regina Macalintal-Canlas, Dr. Vermen Verallo-Rowell and Dr. Dennis G. Damaso.

Arts and culture bounced back to life at the Makati Medical Center after a hiatus of 10 years.

Posted: January 30th, 2012 in Arts and Books,Headlines | Read More »

Met exhibits 19th-century documents, maps and paintings on Ilocos

By: Romeo Galang Jr.
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“Concscripcion: Imagining and Inscribing the Ilocano World” is an extensive exhibit which is now ongoing at the Metropolitan Museum of Manila until Jan. 30.

Posted: January 30th, 2012 in Arts and Books,Headlines | Read More »

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