Dr. Inga’s Book

Dr. Inga’s 178 page guide to family medicine, Health Matters, Naturally, is now available.  In it, she discusses a wide variety of health and wellness topics, including food and digestion issues, diet, vitamins and minerals, toxins, chronic illness, women’s health, aging, and more.

Take a look at the complete table of contents below. You can also read a few sample articles here: 

• Chronic Inflammation - Can natural medicine help?
• Menopause: How to eat and live healthier as we are getting older
• Coffee: OK or no-no?

Table of Contents

• Foreword

• Acknowledgments

Introduction

• Naturopathic Medicine: What is it all about?

• Naturopathy, Homeopathy: Is there any difference?

Food Issues

• Food Allergies

• Spring Weight Loss

• Drinking Distilled Water: Is it really healthier?

• Fats and Oils: Why are there good and bad ones?

• What’s wrong with the Oreo cookie?

• Silent Killers in Schools and Malls

• Dangerous Pollutants in Animal Products

• Mad Cow Disease (BSE): How do I know my hamburger is safe?

• Food Irradiation: Can we trust it?

• Lead-Laced Raisins and Other Delightful Treats

Digestion-Related Illness

• Montezuma’s Revenge: Stemming the flood is not always best

• Leaky Gut Syndrome: What exactly is leaking??

• Probiotics: What are they, and why are they important?

Diet

• Obesity: A national epidemic?

• Tofu for Beginners

• Beans, Beans ....

• Living Longer with Red Wine?

• Coffee: OK or no-no?

• My Diet Is Not Working and I’m Always Bloated

• APE Diet

Vitamins & Minerals

• Dietary Minerals: Do we need more than just Cal Mag?

• Dietary Minerals: Trace Elements

• Vitamin E: Do I have to worry about premature death now?

• Stuck between Rickets and Melanoma

Women’s Health

• Menopausal Problems

• Hormone Replacement Therapy and the Latest Cancer Scare

• Menopause: How to eat and live healthier as we are getting older

• Urinary Tract Infection UTI: What can we do to avoid it?

• Those Darn Yeast Infections!

Chronic Illness and Disease

• Chronic Illness:  What you can do to help, and what please to avoid...

• Depression: Why pills are not always the answer

• Saint John’s Wort: Nature’s anti-depressant?

• Fatigue: Why am I always tired?

• Fibromyalgia: Is it real or all in your head?

• Hepatitis A, B, C: What’s it all about?

• MS: Menace of our prime years

• Parkinson’s Disease: Can complementary medicine help?

• Psoriasis: Natural ways to make your skin healthy again

• Low Thyroid Function: Why do I have it, and what can I do?

• Susan Somers’ “Alternative” Cancer Treatment

Toxins & Treatments

• What you always wanted to know about Chelation Therapy

• Mercury: Harmless in your mouth, toxic elsewhere??

• Mercury (Hg): A mouthful of trouble?

• Anti-Smoking: Is acupuncture going to help?

• Inhalant Sensitivities: Is “no scents” really good sense?

• Diesel Fumes: Should we worry about the school bus?

• Sydney Tar Ponds: The art of deceit without lying

• Citronella banned, DEET allowed?  Give me a break!

• Healing Power of Light: Should it be dimmed by sunscreen?

• I’m Turning Grey: Would hair colouring be harmful?

• Your Veggie Burger: Fruit of human waste?

Children’s Illness

• ADD, ADHD: What do we really know?

• Childhood Asthma: Why is it on the rise?

• Vaccination

Aging

• Free Radicals: What they are; why we want to get rid of them

• Forever Young? New findings in anti-aging medicine

• Memories: Why time flies as we get older

• Botox: Is it rejuvenating or killing you?

• Macular Degeneration: Are there any ways to prevent it?

• Life Cycles: How Biorhythms affect our health

The Policies of Medicine

• Blood Transfusion: Is it still necessary today?

• Cloning: How does it work?

• Scientific Research and Statistics

• Standardizing Herbal Extracts

• Facts and Myths about Private vs. Public Health Care

• Private MRI: The answer to our health care woes?

• Death by Vioxx?

Index