• Waiting to eat until famished will cause one to head straight for a sugar fix as blood glucose is low and needs to be restored. Thus, do not wait until you are starving. Eat when you notice you are hungry.
• Adding complex carbohydrates and protein to each meal helps slow the need to eat more often. These types of meals also limit the desire for sugar as blood sugar will be stable for hours.  Complex carbohydrates are found in whole grain breads, beans, some vegetables, brown rice and some dry cereals.  Protein is also found in many complex carbohydrates so that helps simplify eating as well.
• Avoid the high sugar snack foods. This is a catch 22 as you crave sugar but this point must be addressed as if not, you will find yourself constantly in the candy section. High sugar snack foods cause your blood sugar to spike and then you 'crash' shortly afterwards. You crash afterwards as your insulin has 'overshot' the amount it needed to secrete and thus has pulled all sugar from your blood causing you to have Reactive Hypoglycemia. This causes you to crave sugar again as you actually do need sugar. So avoid the high sugar snacks and Reactive Hypoglycemia attacks will not occur nearly so often - hopefully never.
• Have a snack food with you at all times. Great snacks are nuts and unsulfured raisins. Brazil nuts, almonds, walnuts are excellent. Peanuts are high histamine foods so may not work well for many.
• If you have been on antibiotics, restoring the proper healthy bacteria to your gut may help. Most pathogenic harmful bacteria crave sugar - such as candida. Don't let harmful bacteria take hold and tell you what to eat. Supplement with a quality probiotic from the refridgerated section of your health store.
• If sad or depressed, people tend to crave simple carbohydrates for the high feeling. Exercise has been shown to reverse depression in 33% of subjects. So add exercise to your daily regime. It is not 3 days a week for 20 minutes any longer. It is now 6 days a week for 30 minutes. Find a buddy to do brisk walks with or join a local sports team.

I am glad you asked this question as even my collegues ask me at times.

Homeopathy was developed by Samuel Hahneman in Germany many years ago. In fact, homeopathy is the reason why the FDA was created. The FDA wanted to control the quality of each remedy. This is especially important as some of the remedies contain actual minute amounts of the offending substance - such as mercury, arsenic, gonorrhea, chlamydia, poison oak and other noxious unpleasant things.

Homeopathy takes an absolute tiny amount of substance and coats lactose tablets with it. Basically, there is no amount of that substance on the tablet - only the energy of that substance. The higher the potency of a homeopathic remedy, the less there is of the substance. Sounds weird yes? 

There lies one difference between cell salts and homeopathy. Homeopathy typically works based on the energetics of a substance while cell salts actually contain a small nutritional amount of one of the twelve tissue salts.

Cell salts were developed by Schuessler - another German. He believes that the living organism has twelve salts and all diseases stem from a deficiency of one or more of these salts. Therefore, supplementing with the proper cell salt may restore balance and remove the symptoms.

A person can combine one or more of the cell salts in order to restore health while homeopathy traditionally looks for only one correct remedy for a certain symptom picture.  Therefore it is much easier to prescribe cell salts than homeopathy.

I strongly recommend that no one takes homeopathy without some guidance. Most health stores only sell 30C or 30X which is good. If you see a 200C potency do not buy it or take it without seeking professional guidance.

A table is below which is my interpretation of the difference between cell salts and homeopathy:

Cell Salt vs. Homeopathy

	Cell Salt	Homeopathy
Safety	quite safe	can be dangerous esp if potency is 200C or above. recommend a homeopath prescribe them and not dose yourself.
Level of action	cellular	energetic so very deep this is why it can be dangerous
How to Take	under the tongue or in water. can touch them and does not have to be away from food.	under the tongue 20 minutes away from anything put in the mouth. cannot touch them
Cost	cheap	cheap
Ingredient Amount	a small amount but it is measurable	can be a small amount if 10C but nothing really at 200C or 1M potencies.
Duration of Use	can be short or long term	usually taken a couple times or only one dose especially if a high potency like 200C or 1M.

Thank you for your question. It is a tough one to answer in only one page and takes some background knowledge of each which I assume you have. If not, you may ask for clarification.

I wish you well.

In health,

Ben

I will summarize some key points which are known to faciliate longterm health:

• Breathe: deep abdominal breathing is key. Oxygenation of all tissues is paramount especially as cancer and many diseases thrive in a low oxygen environment. Learn how to properly breathe and practice it religiously. There are many excellent books on the subject and we have some here on Seeking Health.
• Meditate: taking time to still your mind decreases stress which is a huge killer of many this day in age. The amount of damage stress does on us physiologically, mentally and spiritually is beyond words. Meditation puts our brain in a relaxed state quickly, efficiently and trains us to cope in stressful situations. Again, there are numerous classes, courses, tapes, and books on this subject and I urge you to learn it. Check out our book section and you will find some great resources there.
• Sleep: I will never forget this statement by our neurology professor who specializes in sleep medicine, Dr Nigel Ball, MD, "Perhaps women live longer than men because they sleep more than men."  Ouch. He recommends eight hours a night. Get it. If you don't eat meals a couple hours before sleep, growth hormone is released and that is your body's repairing mechanism. Let growth hormone be secreted freely and for a long duration. Sleep is a great way to get it.
• Hydration: a local well-known naturopathic physician, Dr Molly Linton, ND states that a person 20% low in hydration is 75% low in energy - it affects you that much. Proper hydration is paramount in bringing nutrients to your cells and also carrying garbage metabolites away from them. I have seen many patients in our teaching clinic that do not drink any water and they have very odd and dangerous looking symptom pictures. Many suggest to drink about 8-10 cups of filtered water daily.
• Play: In France, insurance companies have lower premiums for people who take vacations and actually pay some companies kickbacks for having their employees head out for fun in the sun. What? It's true and that insurance company is laughing all the way to the bank as people who enjoy life typically have less serious illnesses. Don't just work to pay for your huge mortgage, fancy cars and dining bills. Downgrade to a smaller home, cheaper cars and cook whole food meals at home with your family. Take that huge savings and reward yourself and family often with a trip somewhere. It can be a simple local walk to a park or an exotic solo kayaking experience in the New Zealand fjordlands. You cannot do that if your monthly expenses are so huge. Sit down and figure out what you really want - what makes you happy? A big house and fancy cars or freedom from daily overhead?
• Enjoy your work: If you don't enjoy your work, leave it. How many lives do we get? I am not sure but if you wake up dreading heading to work, seek a counselor or occupational coach and see what they have to say. We spend one third of our lives sleeping, one third of our lives working and the other third is hopefully play. No one that I know mentions how important being happy in the workplace is. I think it is paramount. If you say there is no way to leave your job, you are likely not being honest with yourself. It is a hard change and the transition may be very difficult but in the end extremely rewarding. I left a high paying business that I built from the ground up to go to medical school. I was not passionate about that business anymore even though I had a six figure yearly income.  I am now $150K in debt, stressed, low sleep and don't get to spend much time with my family. However, I know that once I graduate this will all be worth it and my life and my family life will be outstanding. I am passionate about medicine and I love waking up in the morning to go to work.
• Eat well: This is a no brainer but my goodness Americans - why are we so obese? Stress? Perhaps. Take a brief moment and look at your plate before you eat. Was that food around 60 years ago? If not, toss it out. It is crap. Eat whole foods that you or someone prepared at home lovingly with quality ingredients. It doesn't take long and it is way cheaper than even living off the lowest drive-in joint. You will feel better, medical bills will be less, drugs for indigestion, constipation and depression may likely be tossed in the garbage. There are tons of whole food cooking classes, books, videos, TV shows - watch, listen and learn it. It is easy. You can find some great books here on Seeking Health.
• Multivitamin: If you take a quality multivitamin, that is likely a good thing especially since our earth's soil is now void of many nutrients. Even organic foods now likely don't have the necessary essential nutrients as they used to 20 years ago. Don't buy a standard multivitamin. Do your homework and learn which is the highest rated. I have done that homework for you as well and have learned that DaVinci Labs ranks very high in the multivitamin world. Usana is the best but sadly they are a MLM company. They do have great products though.
• Probiotics: If you have ever taken antibiotics before, then you may want to supplement with quality acidophilis bacteria cultures to restore proper gut flora. A weak improper digestion sets up failure of all body and organ systems as digestion is what brings nutrients to your cells. Do not buy a probiotic unless it has lab tests showing how many live cultures are in it or it is in the store refridgerator.
• Exercise - I had to put it. Everyone says 3 days a week for 20 minutes but that is not right. It is actually supposed to be 30 minutes 6 days a week. Work up to it and get a trainer to help you. If you have no clue how to fit it into your day, make an appointment with a counselor or your primary care doc. They will sit down with you and help you figure out how to get exercise into your day.

Those are the biggest players. Of course there are more but in my opinion, if one follows a couple of the suggestions above, then life will more fulfilling and longer in duration. Who wants to live a longer unhappy life - so may as well set up the foundation of happiness first and then health will follow.

I wish you the best.

In health,

Ben