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Health alerts that make you sick

From the December 2013 issue of The Christian Science Journal

Keith Wommack is the Christian Science Committee on Publication for Texas. His blog appeared in the Houston Chronicle on May 20, 2013.


Have you ever listened to an advertisement listing the possible side-effects of a drug and then felt queasy? Reading about those effects can make you feel ill, as well.

Dr. Lissa Rankin’s recently published New York Times bestseller, Mind over Medicine, in part, examines this disturbing phenomenon.

Reading Rankin’s thought-provoking book reminded me of Fiona Macrae’s 2009 health post “The health alerts that make you ill: Negative thoughts ‘can induce sickness’ ” (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1181335). 

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