Dr. Inga’s Book

 

 

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Welcome

 

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: 

Dr. Inga Nomm's book: Health Matters, Naturally -- a family guide to natural medicine

 

 

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?

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