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The
Naked Truth: Weight Loss and Our Relationship with God NEW!
by Trish Whynot, D.C.Ed.
Since each of us is at one and
the same time a physical and spiritual being, everything in our lives,
every problem we confront, has both a physical and spiritual aspect. Even
those things that seem simply physical in nature, such as our bodies, are
in truth also spiritual. It makes sense then that if we go deeply
into our relationship with our physical selves that we will soon find
ourselves in the realm of spirit. At the root of everything lies our
relationship with God[1]. We find Him wherever we look, even when we look
into our most bodily selves as we struggle with weight
A spiritual approach to any pursuit—even
one as seemingly mundane or material as weight loss—always brings us to
a deeper truth. Some people who have an aversion to God or religion are
drawn to this deeper truth, while others who profess to be spiritual are
secretly avoiding the truth. We can be in denial or unaware of the
existence of God or of truth, but that doesn’t diminish the existence of
either.
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Don’t Buy Into
These Exercise Myths
by Larry Goldberg
The past decade or so has seen an explosion of research about nutrition,
exercise and the human body. Some of this research has confirmed what we
already knew—things like, a healthy diet and regular exercise make you
live long and prosper. Some research, however, has proven that some
“common wisdom” about exercise is just plain wrong. Here are ten
myths that you don’t want to buy into.
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I Have a Body: Health for Your Body, Serenity for Your Soul
by Lisa Barstow
The Buddhists tell us that we have a body but we are not our body, a mind but we are not our mind, an ego but we are not our ego. I wish that I had heard this fifty years ago, but at age eleven I was stressed about budding breasts, a period that was my big present on my birthday that year, and trying to please my dear thin mother who could already see that I wasn’t built like a Vogue model.
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Boost
Your Brain Power with Powerful "Smart" Foods
by Jeannine Virtue
Memory decline is a common complaint as we move through the aging process.
The typical 60-year-old is not as sharp mentally as they were in their
40s. That said, some people do age slower than others. There are 80 year
olds with the mind and body of people decades their minor. There are 70
year olds who can easily match wits with 40 year olds.
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Learning Open
Heartedness: Insights From a Cardiologist
by Dr. Kirk Laman
Our hearts want to find greater love. As a cardiologist, with a
special interest in heart disease prevention, I have witnessed this time
and again. Much of what ails people- physical illness, relationship
issues, and even the inner crying of the soul begins in the heart.
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Boost
Your Immune System for Wellness and Healing
by Bryan Flournoy
The immune system is the first in the body to react, integrate, resolve
and evolve. It is a highly integrated system using resources from the
entire body to orchestrate its general and specific roles. As we age, the
immune system picks up the pace on behalf of the organ systems' decline in
efficiency. Proper nutrition can have a profound effect on the immune
system when it is battling disorders associated with nutritional
deficiencies or conditions interfering with the body's use of nutrients.
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Overcoming Worry:
The Calming Power of Exercise
by Bob Livingstone LCSW
There are a lot of us that spend too much time worrying. According to The National Institute on Mental Health, approximately 40 million American adults ages 18 and older, or about 18.1 percent of people in this age group in a given year, have an anxiety disorder. Anxiety prevents us from being happy, can cause physical ailments, and keeps us from taking healthy risks that may improve the quality of our lives.
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Sleepless In
America
by Joan Borysenko
If you don’t get enough sleep, it’s hard to be kind, keep your
priorities straight, and just keep on keeping on. Yet, in a 24/7 society
where you can order everything from underwear to tents from mail-order
houses in the middle of the night, sleeplessness is becoming endemic.
It’s been cited as the nation’s number-one health problem. We’re
sleeping, according to the experts, 20 percent less than our peers did a
hundred years ago.
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Winter,
Weather and Weight Loss
by Judith J. Wurtman,
PhD, and Nina Frusztajer Marquis, MD
All other things being equal, you are more
apt to feel positive and energetic when the sun is shining, the sky is
blue and the temperature in the comfort zone. But for many people, when
the weather turns gloomy, they stop losing and may start to gain weight.
In fact, often the longer the bad weather, the more pounds are
gained.
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Are You
“Old” Before Your Time?
by Keith Shaw
First, ask yourself these question...
How do you feel when you wake up? Do you lack energy and fear facing the
new day ahead? Are you stiff, lacking flexibility, feeling pain in your
joints?
How do you feel throughout the day? Do you feel exhausted by 9:30 in the
morning? Even more drained in the afternoon? Are you unable to concentrate
or think clearly?
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Making
Resolutions That Stick
by M.J. Ryan
"This year, I’m going to stop
worrying so much."
"I will get in shape, once and for
all."
"I’ll stop spending beyond my
means."
"I’ll get along better with my
family."
"I’ll start that business I’ve
always dreamed about."
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Are You
Chronically Dehydrated?
by Matt Canham
For many of us, when we hear the term dehydration, we immediately think of a man staggering in the desert, or an athlete having just finished a
grueling event. We are correct in a sense, however these are both examples of acute dehydration.
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Making
Healthy Restaurant Choices
by Ann Fittante, MS, RD
At
a popular pizza chain, the personal pan pizza with sausage packs 740
calories and 39 grams of fat. And at one major fast-food joint, a triple
cheeseburger with everything has 810 calories and 47 grams of fat -- two
meals' worth of calories and more fat than most of us should scarf down in
an entire day.
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Fitness Through Yoga; A Prescription
for Seniors
by Mish Volonino
Everyday the media bombards us with new information and medical evidence
to support the claims on the benefits associated with physical activity as
it relates to aging. Our primary care physicians urge us to participate in
some form of physical fitness. Baby Boomers are the fastest growing
population. Soon, the largest segment of the Americans will be 65 and
older. According to statistics from the National Institute on Aging, 60%
of the adult population leads a sedentary lifestyle. The reasons for not
exercising are many, but for older persons, fear of hurting oneself is the
hardest obstacle to overcome. Becoming pro-active with exercising
increases the odds of living a longer, healthier, happier and more active
life.
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Medical
Advice: How to Talk with Your Doctor about Embarrassing Medical Problems
by Vicki Rackner
The realization hit Natalie like a ton of bricks. Her mother, Joann, had
literally died of embarrassment! Joann had noticed blood in her stool
almost a year before she was diagnosed with colon cancer. At first she
told herself it must have been those beets she ate. Then she thought it
was most likely her hemorrhoids, although she had not had a flair-up of
hemorrhoids since Natalie’s birth 52 years earlier.
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Are All Diets Unhealthy?
by Cynthia M. Bulik, Ph.D., and Nadine Taylor, M.S., R.D.
Want the short answer? Yes. Now, you may be thinking, "If I don't stay on some kind of diet, I'll just blow up like a balloon. I need to be on a program just to keep control of myself." But consider that any kind of dieting involves a diet mentality, which ensures failure, encourages you to ignore hunger and satiety signals, and promotes a negative relationship with food, because you have to give up "forbidden" foods and, often, eat foods you don't really like. This inevitably results in giving in, which often means bingeing and feeling terrible about yourself. So, though this idea may sound radical, we firmly believe there is no good diet.
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Exercises For Busy Moms: 4 Quick,
But Effective Exercises To Keep Busy Moms Strong
by Tracey Mallett
We all know how difficult it is to stay in shape and find time to exercise
- but most especially for women with babies or small kids. There’s the
sleep-deprivation factor, no time and priority changes. So what are the
fitness options for busy Moms?
The fact is, the more you can take of yourself and the better you feel,
the stronger you will be physically and emotionally to take on the day
with the “little ones” and all of life’s challenges.
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Battling an Eating
Disorder: When Bulimia Becomes a True American Idol Sized Problem
by Abigail Natenshon
In a People Magazine article, American Idol contestant, Katherine McPhee
disclosed that she has secretly suffered from bulimia for the past five
years. It was her success in television’s American Idol competition that
inspired her to come forward and get help to recover from her
life-threatening eating disorder. Katherine, a vocalist who at her worst
point was self-inducing vomiting up to seven times a day, claimed that she
realized her bulimic behaviors were “equivalent to taking a sledgehammer
to her throat” and brought herself to treatment.
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The Power Of Learning To Breathe Properly
by Dr Edward Steiner
Did you know that breathing is the only essential bodily function performed unconsciously, that you can control consciously? Your body can go without food for months, water for weeks and yet your body can't go without oxygen for more than a few minutes. Think about it.
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Adrenal Fatigue: How it Affects
Your Life and How to Heal it
by Carolyn Porter
80 % of American society is afflicted with adrenal fatigue at some point in their life yet most are unaware of the problem. They simply know they don’t feel well or perhaps symptoms lead them to explore other disorders; we do know that often symptoms denote multiple possibilities and sometimes overlap disorders. Do these symptoms apply to you?
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Eat at the Right Time of Day
by Felicia Drury Kliment
One to two hours after eating dinner at 6:30 in the evening, Bob and Amy Gerahty used to come down with acid indigestion. Although they didn't go to bed until 11:00 P.M., the symptoms lingered, preventing them from getting to sleep. They blamed their indigestion and insomnia on the food they ate for dinner. Their typical evening meal consisted of red meat, mashed potatoes with butter, salad, and a vegetable. Having heard so much about the harm a diet heavy in red meat and saturated fat can do to the heart and arteries, they became convinced that the food they had for dinner was at the root of their digestive problems. So they switched to chicken, fish, and polyunsaturated oils, but it didn't ease their indigestion. No matter what they ate for dinner they got acid reflux afterward. The years passed and they continued to lie awake at night with painful esophageal and stomach problems.
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Learning to Let Go
by Amy Hassinger
I started practicing yoga nine years ago because I wanted to look sexy. I bought
B.K.S. Iyengar’s Light on Yoga, and taught myself the asanas, following his suggested courses in the appendix. Within a few months of regular practice, I could see and feel the results. I was strong, limber, and best of all, my stomach was flat -- a state it hadn’t enjoyed since puberty. I was an immediate convert.
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What Is Hypoglycemia And Why Should
I Care?
by
Anita Flegg
Hypoglycemia literally means Low Blood Sugar and the best understood cases
of hypoglycemia occur in diabetics. In diabetes, the blood sugar is
maintained through medication and keeping the level steady can be a
challenge. Too much insulin, too little food or too much exercise can all
trigger hypoglycemia in diabetics.
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The Power Of Touch: A Basic Human
Need for Health and Healing
by Linda Marks
The presidential elections of November 2004 poignantly illustrated “the
great divide” that has grown between people in our country. I read
countless statistics in both the Wall Street Journal and the Boston
Globe analyzing voter composition. I saw charts that separated those
who favored a candidate with high intelligence from those who favored a
candidate who advocated a sense of morality. I saw other charts
differentiating those who favored a candidate who would protect us against
terrorism from those who favored a candidate who cared about the
environment. After reading chart after chart, it would be easy to believe
that all these issues are indeed separate and unrelated, just as are the
factions of people who either supported or disagreed with each position.
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Allergy Season: How to Cope
by Ben Lynch
The sun’s warmth bursts forth flowers and pries open leaf buds. Spring’s beauty is welcomed by all except those prone to allergies. A release of histamine triggered by allergic substances causes a runny nose, itchy eyes, post-nasal drip and congested head. Reducing histamine is what needs to be done, and most likely, a run to the store for an over-the-counter anti-histamine is what occurs. While this may work for the short term, it does not address the cause of allergies.
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Drinking Your Pain Away
by Brianna Stanley
Twenty years of research has shown Dr. Batmanghelidj what nature has
always known: that water is critical to life. So critical, in fact, that
the lack of water--or dehydration--actually produces most of our chronic
pains and ailments. He reveals the exciting news . . . it is possible to
treat and prevent pain for free!
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Why Skin Care Is Not
Enough
by Cynthia Rowland
Staggering amounts of money are spent daily on cosmetics and skin care
products that promise to lift, firm and tighten our faces. How many of us
use a product for just a few weeks before purchasing yet another product?
Do we jump from item to item because we really don’t see a visible
improvement and we feel disappointed in the results?
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Eco-Technologies-- In
Harmony with Nature
by Christan
Hummel
Energy shortages, power crises, petro-chemical pollutants, ozone
depletion, hazardous waste, nuclear radiation, bioengineered crops - these
are all the nightmares of a technological world raging forward against
natural laws. In the midst of this technological onslaught, we have become
conditioned to believe that technology is the inherently evil nemesis of
nature forever destined to be Yin and Yang at incompatible odds with one
another. Our modern society perpetuates this belief that one must be
sacrificed for the other. This belief has left available only the illusory
options of either abandoning the "urban" life for huts in the
forest, and cots in the ashram, or supporting a society which plunders
natural resources to sustain the modern lifestyle of our unabated modern
day consumerism.
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Better Ways to Cope with Stress: Your Way Out of the Toxic Triangle
by Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, Ph.D.
Depressive symptoms, unhealthy eating habits, and heavy drinking unite to create a space that is so poisonous for women that I have called it the
toxic triangle. Eating, Drinking, Overthinking will help you understand your
own relationship to the toxic triangle. It is not just for women who have clinical depression, diagnosed eating disorders, or alcoholism. It is for
women who dance around the edges of the toxic triangle, with moderate symptoms of depression, unhealthy eating patterns, or heavy drinking.
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Rejuvenating
Sex And Health Naturally
by Dr. Randy Wysong
Our physical and psychological makeup is influenced by the sexual
imperative far more than most of us realize or wish to admit. Entire
systems of psychoanalytical therapy (e.g. Freud) are based upon the
premise that we are primarily sexual creatures.
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Are You Feeling the Wintertime Blues?
Ten Easy Steps to Turn Them Around
by David Edelberg, M.D.
Author of The Triple Whammy Cure: The Breakthrough Women's Health Program
for Feeling Good Again in 3 Weeks
If you live in a sunny place like Florida then you probably won't know what
I'm talking about. The wintertime blues, also known as Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), usually begin when the days start getting shorter and the
sky clouds over into perpetual gray. People with SAD dread October because
the clocks move back an hour and, in a single day, autumn twilight becomes
dark night.
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Article ____________________ Banish
Your Lower Back Pain Permanently Without Drugs or Surgery
by David Petersen
(Be sure to consult with your doctor before beginning ANY new exercise
regimen.)
It is estimated that about 80 percent of the population will suffer from
low back pain at some point in their lives. The condition accounts for
millions of dollars in medical expenses and lost work time and is often a
perpetual misery for the sufferer. Recent evidence indicates that many
cases of lower back pain can be permanently treated without medical
intervention or drugs using exercise and flexibility. This article aims to
provide some very basic information on LBP (lower back pain) and offer
helpful tips to individuals on dealing with the condition themselves.
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Are You Suffering
From Hypothyroidism?
by Dr. Rita Louise
When someone is experiencing hypothyroidism the thyroid gland is impaired,
producing too little thyroid hormone. Hypothyroidism is due primarily to a
dysfunction of the thyroid gland itself. If the thyroid gland is removed,
obviously, the body is unable to produce any thyroid hormone. If the
thyroid is partially removed, it may be able to produce enough hormones
for a while, but over time it can become overworked and burn out. But the
thyroid can also become impaired for many other reasons.
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9 Signs Of Allergies In Children
by Jane Thurnell-Read
Sadly more and more children are suffering from allergies, and there are certain signs that indicate when allergies are causing or significantly contributing to health problems. Here's a short list of what to look out for.
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The Exact Reason Why Cardio is Essential: Avoiding The Starvation Response
by Johnny Lavot
Cardio,
Calories, and the Starvation Response
Most of the time, when someone decides that they want to lose fat, they
inevitably head for the nearest fad diet. However, 95% (closer to 100%) of
the time, these fad diets fail. The reason they fail is because exercise
is rarely incorporated into the program. In order to lose fat, there must
be a deficit of calories in the diet. In other words, your body must use
more calories than you eat in order to use its fat stores for energy. This
seems simple enough; however, it becomes a bit more complicated.
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As A Spiritual Element
by Annie B. Bond
Water is the central source of our beings. It is part of every cell and
fiber in us; it is our very essence. Could water be the common denominator
that weaves us all (earth, animal, human, and plant) together as one? Is
it the ultimate connector? It's awesome and humbling that water carries so
many entrained messages, especially when we consider that there has been
the same water, and the same amount of water, on the earth for millions of
years. What messages are we receiving from our ancestors when we drink?
And it is overwhelming to think that in the past 60 years alone, the human
hand has imprinted so much pollution on the water, bringing it out of
healthy balance. It is our spiritual obligation to be water's caretaker
and cause it no further harm.
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Rawsome Beauty: Luck of the Draw or
Within Reach of All?
by Tonya Zavasta
All of my life, I wanted to be beautiful. In today’s society, it is more
acceptable to insist that you are “beautiful on the inside”,
unfortunately, those of us on the outside are not seeing your insides.
Wanting to be beautiful is now criticized as being shallow. I’m sorry
but I would rather be perceived as shallow than hypocritical because I
find it impossible to believe than any women is content to be less than
she can be.
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The True Nature of Health
by B.K.S. Iyengar
Most people ask only from their body that it does not trouble them. Most people
feel that they are healthy if they are not suffering from illness or pain, not aware of the imbalances that exist in their bodies and minds that ultimately will lead to disease. Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.
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____________________ A Mind of Its Own: Wisdom of the Body
by Patricia Burke
Anthony, a student at our yoga center, is a gentle soul who sees the world through the eyes of a child. He is “developmentally disabled,” chronologically 22 years old, but eternally 3. He is cheerful and obedient, except on occasion when he flips “the bird” to other cars with a strange bemused smile on his face. His physical challenges include low muscle tone and gastric reflux in addition to high anxiety, and his medications have dramatically increased the quality of his life.
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by Michael Sena, C.F.S. with Kirsten Straughan, R.D., L.D., and Tom Sattler,
Ed.D.
It may seem as if it will be an uphill battle to get your family to switch from heavily advertised sodas, energy drinks, and sugary juice drinks to
healthier beverages such as water and milk. Believe me, though, it's a battle worth fighting.
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Medical Testing: Health By The Numbers Doesn't Work
by Dr. Randy Wysong
Perhaps one of the most insidious dangers in modern technology is medical testing. Although it would be nice to be able to visit our doctor and get all hooked up with electrodes, inflatable cuffs, probes, needles and catheters and have a read-out telling us exactly how we are working and where there is a problem, that is a myth, not the reality.
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Fattening Foods: Not So Fattening After All?
by Nathan Latvaitis
Have you seen those “fat free” foods in supermarkets? Have you possibly delighted in them guiltlessly thinking that they are healthy for you? There’s a good chance that you have because we usually follow what the media and the world around us says. In this day in age, along with other health fads, many people believe that fat makes you fat. This is true, to an extent. What we fail to notice is that not all fats are bad.
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Why Water Is The Key To Detoxifying Your Body
by Alex Jamieson
Water is, quite literally, the river on which our good health flows. Water carries nutrients to our cells, aids digestion by forming stomach secretions, flushes our bodies of wastes, and keeps our kidneys healthy. It keeps our moisture-rich organs (our skin, eyes, mouth, and nose) functioning well, it lubricates and cushions our joints, and it regulates our body temperature and our metabolism, just to name a few of its many functions.
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Tone Your Body, Tone Your
Mind
by Karlo Berger
People who love working out, but can’t seem to stop stressing out, need
to know that it is possible to get a sweat on and at the same time reduce
their stress. Of course, this can come naturally over the course of heavy
workout when our body releases endorphins in the form of “runner’s
high,” or through the euphoria we can attain when we reach difficult
fitness goals. But more focused approaches exist. As a whole health
consultant, I recommend to readers any of these five great paths to
stronger muscles and a more peaceful mind:
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Increase
Your Standards, Improve Your Life: 7 Steps To Better Health, Finances,
Relationships And Mental Well-being!
by Kimberly Fulcher
The quality of your life is directly related to your standards. A standard
is a personal rule or expectation about the level of excellence you
require in something, and when you raise your standards you change your
life.
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Kick
Your Body Into 2nd Gear -- In 3 Easy Steps: Staying Energized During And
After Exercise
by John Sherman
When it comes to life in general, 90% of us feel the need to lose weight
or change the way we look in some way.
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Yoga and Pilates: Why Both Are Ideal
for You!
by Deborah Harris
Although most people know that they should be exercising daily, they
typically do not. Initiating an exercise program is no easy task for most
people and frequently there are medical problems that make it difficult
for a person to walk half a block down the street, let alone twenty
minutes on the treadmill. Examples of such conditions include
osteoarthritis, back pain, muscle weakness, and general fatigue.
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Your Fitness Needs, Milestone By Milestone
by Pamela Peeke, M.D., M.P.H.,
F.A.C.P.
I've worked with thousands of women. Twenty-somethings to 50-plus career women. Anorexics and starvers to bingers and bulimics. Top athletes to women who were so obese that they could barely walk a block. For all of them, a customized fitness "prescription" became an essential part of their self-care.
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What Is A Holistic
Practitioner?
by Jennifer Shapiro
Holistic Practitioners are holistic healing professionals with a gift in
one or more areas of healing. From bodyworkers to homeopaths to
hypnotherapists, the term holistic practitioner has become one that is
often challenging to describe or understand. Hopefully this article will
provide you with some clarity on what a holistic practitioner is and how
to find one that meets your individual needs.
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Do You Have Sinus Infection
Symptoms?
by Mike Nielsen
You’ve heard the saying, “No pain, no gain” but for many of us who
have experienced the tremendous, annoying pain associated with having a
sinus infection, I am sure you feel as I do; there isn’t anything that I
can gain or want to gain from having a sinus infection. Most of us have
all experienced the pain and pressure in our head and face that only seems
to get worse before it gets better. In the following article I will be
talking about what causes sinus infections, some general sinus infection
symptoms, where sinus infections occur, and some possible remedies to
treating your sinus infection symptoms.
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Give
Your Body A Chance
by Tom Goode
Here you are, attempting to live a healthy life. Yet you are pulled from
two sides.
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____________________ Reduce
Stress and Strengthen Your Immune System: 10 Natural Ways to Relax and
Rejuvenate
by Monique N. Gilbert
Stress seems to have become a constant factor in today's fast-paced
society. If left unchecked, it can wreak havoc upon our health.
Learning how to effectively manage stress can mean the difference between
being robust and full of life, or becoming susceptible to illness and
disease. Stress can weaken the immune system and accelerate the
aging process. The ability to relax and rejuvenate promotes
wellness, vitality and longevity.
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____________________ The
Low Carb Craze and Other Dieting Mistakes
by Bill Belfert
Dear Bare Minimum Trainers,
Low carb this and low carb that…that’s all you hear nowadays. Kinda
reminds me of something that was the craze a few years ago…The Low or No
Fat Craze…Can you remember where that got us?
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Frankie The
French Fry Hatches A Plan
by Ridgely Goldsborough
Frankie saddled up to the bar at the We-Stuff-Em-All Diner, official
headquarters of Fat For A New America. He turned to his most portly
friend, Bubba the Burger, and launched a tirade.
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Holiday Eating Strategy
Sheet
by Caryl Ehrlich
“I’m glad it is over,” say many people after Thanksgiving,
Christmas, or New Year’s.
If you are the food preparer, you are most likely shopping, mincing,
dicing, and sautéing, days – possibly weeks before the event. The good
china, crystal, flatware, and serving pieces are brought out of storage.
They are washed, polished, and used once more before they are stored away
for the next special event.
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Loss: Unrealistic Expectations Can Cause Failure
by Caryl Ehrlich
Weight gain is an evolutionary process. Some people call it creeping
weight. The scale turtles inexorably upward – a tight skirt, a belt
notch, a can’t-zip-up-my-pants inch at a time. Yet you expect the scale
to go down as rapidly as a high-speed elevator. This erroneous thought
pattern – practiced and perfected as with any bad habit – is an
unrealistic expectation. Dangerous to be sure with any endeavor, but
deadly when it comes to weight reduction.
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How Body pH
Can Affect Your Energy Levels
by Andy Long
What Most People Don't Realize; We Are Bio Electrical Engines
In order to accomplish all the
many millions of complex functions that occur over the course of the day,
your body has to be able to communicate with itself… all the way down to
the cellular level. And do you know how it does this? Through
pulses of electricity. That's right, electricity.
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Muscles On The Brain
by Susan Rutter, Nutritionist
"A six-week cycle's gonna cost ya $170, lady -- you wanna know how to use 'em?"
This was the bit of flotsam I picked up in the interest of leaning what families with teen boys face during last week's National Family
Week focus on family fitness and health.
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Fibromyalgia (FM)
by Angela Mathis
It was a hot afternoon when I was driving home from work. I looked up and
did not know where I was. I had driven by my turn and on my way back to I
don't know where. Luckily, my mobile phone was next to me. I proceeded to
call my husband and he was able to guide me home. This happened several
times after. Once I even forgot my home number. I had to call a relative.
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Are You A Sleepwalking Zombie?
by Royane Real
Do you get enough sleep? Chances are you don’t. Many people living in modern industrial societies suffer from a chronic, and worsening sleep deficit.
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____________________ Fit Women! Beware!
by Susan Rutter
Women, according to the U.S. National Institute of Health, are eight times
more likely than men to suffer sports injuries such as stress fractures
and knee and ankle injuries.
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Weight Loss
With Chinese Herbs
by Farah Khan
Chinese herbs can be used to influence the body’s metabolism in
different ways. Most people who need to lose weight would like to have
their metabolism run more efficiently. There are a number of herbs that
can help people in their quest for a healthier, more efficient metabolism
in order to ensure that any efforts to lose weight are blessed with
success...
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Traditional
Treatments for Back Pain... Which Ones Work and Which Ones Don’t?
by Jesse Cannone
When
Dorothy followed the yellow brick road, she was told to do so by those who
wanted her to get where she wanted go. Well as humans when we blindly
follow recommendations even by individuals who have good intentions, it
may not always be your best option. So I’m preparing this article to
compare and contrast what are known as traditional treatments vs.
complementary or alternative treatments for back pain. Remember there is
rarely only one reason for your back pain and almost never one silver
bullet fix… you may need to try several approaches till you find what
works for you.
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Teeth In A Day
by Lucy Ferreira
If you're missing a tooth or more, you may find that there are other things you miss. You may wish for your natural smile and the ability to chew food you desire. Maybe you feel self-conscious about your teeth and mouth, or discomfort as remaining teeth shift. And perhaps you've experienced muscle strains, an inability to speak clearly, headaches or unease in familiar situations at work, with friends or at home...
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The Most Effective Fat
Burning And Muscle Building Workout That Takes Just 13 Minutes…
by Jesse Cannone
Most people who want to burn off some excess pounds and tighten and tone
their bodies simply don’t have 2 hours each day to spend in the gym
performing the bodybuilding style workouts that most “fitness experts”
recommend.
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16 Essential
Weight Loss and Fitness Strategies
by Jesse Cannone
Do you want to improve the quality of your life? Do you want to look
and feel better than you have in years – maybe better than you ever have
before? Do you want to protect yourself from disease and injury?
And do you want to live a longer, more vital life?
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Cutting
Cholesterol Naturally
by Dr. Rita Louise, Ph.D.
When most people think of
cholesterol, they think of the waxy fat-like substance that is found in
many of the foods we eat. Often
feared, the truth is that cholesterol is needed by the body for a number
of different things. For example it
is used in the manufacture and maintenance of strong cell walls, it is
critical for hormone and vitamin D production, it even is used to coat the
nerve cells in the body.
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Losing
The “Baby Fat”
by Nicole Palacios
Baby has been here for some months now and is cute as a button, but you
still have this extra roll around your midsection, or a little something
around the hips. Isn’t all the extra fat supposed to just melt away
after the baby is born? All the books tell you that breastfeeding will
help you regain your figure, and once you’re running around after your
active little one, you will shed those last few pounds. How can you regain
your pre-pregnancy body once and for all? Let’s see…
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Natural
Healing with Breathwork
by Carol Lampman
“The word breath implies more than the physical act of drawing air in
and out of the lungs. Breath is the junction point between mind,
body and spirit. Every change of mental state is reflected first in
the breath and then in the body.” -Deepak Chopra
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The
Health Benefits of Sex
by Susie Cortright
Quick quiz: Would you rather run 75 miles or have sex three times per week
for a year? Research shows that both activities burn the same number of
calories. (7,500, to be exact.)
We
often think that something that feels good can’t possibly be good for
us. Now it’s time to think again.
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Optimum Health
by Tim Ong
"Optimum health is not just the absence of disease but the presence
of wellness in mental, emotional, physical, spiritual and social areas.
Some would also include financial health."
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Divine Food
For Divine Beauty
by Tonya Zavasta
The phrase "natural beauty" has been abused and misused beyond
restoration. The modern use is almost never associated with its true
meaning. Someone said there should be a portrait of a healthy person in a
museum so people would know what they are talking about. If we don’t
know what a healthy person looks like, how do we know what natural beauty
is?
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Damn, That Pain In My A##!: Here’s
What You Need To Know About Piriformis Syndrome (Sciatic Pain)
by Jesse Cannone
If you’re reading this article, it’s a good bet that you have a radiating pain running down the back of your leg that just won’t go away. If what I’m about to tell you sounds familiar, don’t worry, help is on the way.
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What
Your Doctor May Not Tell You About™ Colorectal Cancer: New Tests, New
Treatments, New Hope
The Truth About Colorectal
Cancer
by Mark Bennett Pochapin, M.D.
Life is going to throw you a few curveballs. One day
you could suddenly find out that someone you know, someone you love, or
perhaps even you, has been diagnosed with cancer of the colon or rectum,
referred to together as colorectal cancer. Understandably, you're shocked
and confused; if you are the one who is sick, you may simply be unable to
absorb the frightening diagnosis. What does it all mean? How serious
is this? Is the dire diagnosis a death sentence? How could this happen to
me?
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Drop Dead
Gorgeous - Holistic Alternatives to Cosmetic Surgery
by Debbie Mandel
The untimely death of writer Olivia Goldsmith, author of the First
Wives Club, from plastic surgery highlighted the risks associated with
our narcissistic addiction to looking forever young. Is being beautiful
and youthful through surgical intervention worth dying for? Extreme
makeovers are popularized by the media. We watch the magical
transformations on TV believing that the participants will live happily
ever after. However, they don’t. As a result of the surgery (surgeries),
many have confessed to having lost friends, and facing overt or subtle
criticism from family and colleagues at work. Some are soon dissatisfied
and feel the need to have another nip or tuck. They have broken through
the surgery barrier. Plastic surgery can become addictive if one has the
money to support it.
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How
To Manage Your Mood With Food
by Susie Cortright
Here's a meal-by-meal guide to eating for energy and managing your mood
with food.
Breakfast
Eating a good breakfast boosts your concentration and revs your energy,
particularly in the morning when you may need it most. Without breakfast,
you're more likely to make that second pot of coffee by mid-morning.
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8 Real Life Energy Boosting Secrets You Can Use
Today!
by Charlotte Anthony
Energy – the natural resource in shortest supply, especially for the 100
million Americans who are suffering from chronic or incurable illness.
Just thinking of everyone who needs you can sap out what little energy you
have left. Maybe you feel like you can’t possibly get it all done.
But you know you HAVE to. People depend on you everyday. Your family. Your
friends. Your coworkers. Your clients. Even your pets! To meet the demands
of life today, you can’t afford to have your energy depleted. So here
are some ways to easily boost those levels right away.
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High-Protein Diets: Are You
Losing More Than Weight?
by Monique N. Gilbert
Protein is a vital nutrient, essential to your health. In its purest form,
protein consists of chains of amino acids. There are 22 amino acids that
combine to form different proteins, and 8 of these must come from the
foods we eat. Our body uses these amino acids to create muscles, blood,
skin, hair, nails and internal organs. Proteins help replace and form new
tissue, transports oxygen and nutrients in our blood and cells, regulates
the balance of water and acids, and is needed to make antibodies.
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The Mind and Body Duke It Out:
My Experience with Bikram's Beginning Yoga
by Lydsey Watson
I don't know why on February 1st of this year I finally decided to listen
to my body. After 50 years of ignoring her, allowing her to stiffen up and
take on layer upon layer of emotional and physical protection, she loudly
announced one day, "Today is the day we will begin Bikram's
Yoga." I had been hearing about it from a sister of mine for three
years, how they did 26 Hatha Yoga postures in the same sequence every
time, for 90 minutes, in a 95-100 degree heated room.
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Poisonous Chemicals Are In Skin &
Hair Care
by Marcus Maldonado
Each and every day millions of Americans are unknowingly exposing
themselves to dangerous, toxic chemicals. Some of these chemicals are
absolutely, without a doubt known to be cancer causing. While other
chemicals are not linked to cancer, they have been shown to contribute to
hormonal disruptions, headaches, allergies, depression, chronic fatigue,
learning disabilities, hyperactivity, and irritability. You are very
likely a victim of this dilemma and have been so since childhood.
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Yoga & Weight
by Pat Burke
The American science of exercise is based
on the cardiovascular workout which helps to bum fat and reduce body
weight. Can gentle exercise such as yoga and t'ai chi provide any benefit
for those who desire to lose weight? "Aerobic yoga" is an
oxymoron which may have originated as a marketing tool. In actuality, the
methods employed in aerobic exercise and traditional strength training are
diametrically opposed to the yogic approach of the body. There is no
authentic lineage or school of yoga that is rooted in the desire to burn
fat or to strengthen the cardio-vascular system by increasing the heart
rate.
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Live
Now, Age Later: Proven Ways to Slow Down the Clock
Alzheimer's Disease
by Isadore Rosenfeld, M.D.
Any discussion of aging with someone older
than fifty invariably makes them anxious about eventually losing their
"marbles." Most of the other devastating ailments of mankind,
heart trouble, stroke, even AIDS—don't usually produce the kind of
terror associated with Alzheimer's disease. Cancer is certainly something
to worry about, but it can often be detected early enough to be cured; its
symptoms can be controlled, and patients may survive for months or even
years.
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Brain Longevity: The
Breakthrough Medical Program that Improves Your Mind and Memory
The Cortisol Connection
by Dharma Singh Khalsa and Cameron Stauth
The Cry of the Wounded Boomer
My first patient of the day tried to settle
into his chair, but he was so tense that he just teetered on the edge of
it, his arms clamped to his sides. He was a block of rigid muscles and
right angles.
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The Prostate Cancer Protection Plan: The
Foods, Supplements, and Drugs That Could Save Your Life
A Nutritional Disease
by Robert Arnot, M.D.
Men in Japan and China have up to 90 percent
less prostate cancer than American men. That's an astounding statistic.
Ninety percent! Most men I talk to are at first surprised at the huge
disparity. Their second reaction is to sort of shrug and say, "It's
in the genes, nothing much you can do about that." But that's where
they're wrong. The best evidence points squarely to a difference in
nutrition as a much bigger major factor.
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Living Low-Carb: The Complete Guide to Long-Term
Low-Carb Dieting
Why Are We Doing This, Anyway?
by Fran McCullough
The Basic Idea
The objective of all low-carb diets, which
date back at least to the early nineteenth century, has always been weight
loss. Although plenty of low-fat advocates continue to insist that it’s
only water that’s lost on a low-carb regimen, many patients using it
have lost over 100 pounds in short order. Among the many formerly obese,
it’s pretty well agreed that low-carb is the most effective, most
enjoyable, and most successful over the long term of all the various
diets.
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The Breast Cancer Prevention Diet:
The Powerful Foods, Supplements, and Drugs That Can Combat Breast Cancer
by Robert Arnot, M.D.
For decades, breast cancer has stood alone
among major diseases, because its victims lacked even a single practical
preventive measure with which to protect themselves. In most epidemics,
we've had the power to defend ourselves: vaccines for the flu, lowered
cholesterol for heart disease, smoking cessation for lung cancer, lowered
blood pressure for stroke, and safe sex for AIDS.
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From
Fats And Grease To Inner Peace
by Karen Anne Bentley
At first
glance, it may seem like a stretch to link inner peace and weight loss;
but there’s a direct connection between your ability to change or manage
your body weight and your peaceful state of mind.
When your mind is upset or anxious or distracted, it’s
tremendously easy to turn to food to sedate your fear and to experience
instant happiness. Food is the one
sure thing that always pleases. Unfortunately,
ingesting food does nothing to undo your underlying anxiety.
It just masks it.
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Reversing Hypertension: A Vital New
Program to Prevent, Treat and Reduce High Blood Pressure
Hypertension: Action Alert
by Julian M. Whitaker, M.D.
Hypertension affects an estimated 50 million Americans-more than one in
three American adults. It is the lit fuse of a bomb waiting to go off.
Hypertension triples your risk of dying from a heart attack and increases
your risk of stroke sevenfold over someone with normal blood pressure. Yet
hypertension is largely symptom-free-until it's too late. Hypertension is
classified as a cardiovascular disease (CVD), a disorder afflicting the
heart or blood vessels. According to 1999 American Heart Association (AHA)
statistics, 58.8 million Americans suffer one or more of the
cardiovascular diseases, making CVD an epidemic of unbelievable...
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Weight Management In The 21st
Century
by Linda Richardson,
Nurse / Herbalist
The hard reality is that diets don't work. The yo-yo diet is the one most
dieters are familiar with because it is the diet where you lose the same
10-to-20 pounds a dozen times.
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Making Peace with My Body
by Johannne Arnemann
l have been at war with my body most of my
life. The battle began early on with the messages we all receive in some
form about our imperfect bodies, usually in regard to their appearance.
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Living Ecology: The
Nutritional Foundation for a Living Body and Earth
by The Living
Ecology Research Institute
True solutions to any problem can never be
attained until the actual cause of a problem is understood. Living Ecology
is the system that life on Earth utilizes to manifest and maintain itself.
Disease is a direct result of not recognizing our position within the
natural Living Ecology of Earth and is a direct reflection of how we treat
the Earth through our diet and lifestyle choices. We are part of the
Eco-system, not the creator of it. The more we bring our diets, thoughts
and actions within the guidelines of supporting the natural Living Ecology
of life, both within our bodies and in our environments, the greater our
health and happiness on Earth will become.
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Why Yoga Works
by Dr. Don Glassey
The word yoga means to "yoke" or
"unify", to bring together so as to identify one's awareness
with the one Consciousness commonly referred to as God. Yoga procedures
include specific practices designed to remove limitations that cloud
awareness from the direct experience of God or Samadhi. There are a
variety of systems of yoga procedures used for this purpose, and practices
vary according to the psychological make-up and capabilities of the
practitioner.
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Life Energy and Healing:
"The Nerve, Meridian
and Chakra Systems and the CSF Connection"
by Dr. Don Glassey
Life energy, in the form of cerebrospinal
fluid, flows within, through and around the body over three inter-related
and interconnected energy systems that interface with each other. The
three energy systems are, from a gross to a subtler and more refined
level, the nervous, the meridian, and the chakra systems.
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The Biology of Success
by Robert Arnot, M.D.
Mental energy is the basic foundation of
success. Look at corporate titans such as Michael Eisner, Martha Stewart,
and Jack Welch, or world leaders such as Nelson Mandela, Tony Blair, and
Margaret Thatcher, or super moms from Maria Von Trapp to Barbara Bush.
High mental energy is what they all have or had in common. Mental energy
is the brain's power supply -- the more power you have, the longer and
harder you can work. Compare your work output the morning after taking a
red-eye to that after a refreshing night's sleep. It's brain energy that
makes the difference.
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Your Thyroid Making You Fat?: 28 Days to a Life-Changing Diagnosis
But Doctor, I'm
Telling the Truth
by Sanford Siegal, D.O., M.D.
My patient looks troubled.
"I don't care what that doctor says,
there has to be something wrong with my metabolism."
She's one of today's new patients. Her name
is Marie. We've just met. She doesn't hesitate to tell me of her
dissatisfaction with the last doctor she saw. I gather that her former
doctor thinks she just eats too much.
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The Breastfeeding Book:
Everything You Need to Know About Nursing Your Child Why Breast Is Best
by Martha Sears, R. N. and William Sears, M. D.
IN THE EARLY DAYS of learning to breastfeed, there may be times when you
feel like tossing in the nursing bra and reaching for a bottle. You may be
tempted to believe those advisers who suggest that formula feeding is
easier or just as good. Or you may worry that you’re "not the type
of mother" who succeeds at breastfeeding.
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The Protein Power LifePlan
by Michael R. Eades, M.D. and Mary Dan Eades,
M.D.
The deviation of man from the state in
which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a
prolific source of diseases.
—Edward Jenner (1749-1823)
In our living room on the coffee table sits
one of our most prized possessions, a fifteen-to-twenty-thousand-year-old
cave-bear skull that we got from Russia. From back of the head to snout
the skull measures almost two feet in length and sports canine teeth that
are three inches long. The entire animal would have been about seven to
eight feet tall and weighed close to a thousand pounds. Examination of
this skull shows a huge ridge running along the top, where the muscles
that worked the jaws were...
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Changing
Our Relationship With Food
by Barbara L. Holtzman
How do you decide what and when to eat? Because it's
lunchtime? Because someone brought donuts to the staff meeting? Because
you're tired or bored? Most of us eat based on external stimuli rather
than our own physical needs and food preferences. Many of us don't even
know when we're hungry or comfortably satisfied.
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Making Peace with Food/Making Peace with Your Body
by Barbara Holtzman, LICSW
Imagine a world where our bodies were all
considered equally beautiful. No more dieting (and the binging which
naturally follows a diet) in order to conform to this culture's current
standard. What a liberating fantasy!
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Yoga & Fatness
by Portia Brockway
All my life I have struggled with fatness.
Baby fat, teenage fat, grownup fat. It comes and it goes. Fat itself is
not so bad. It's how we torture ourselves about its pinch-ability, its
rolls, the way it slows us down and makes our thighs rub or our shorts
ride up. Oh, fat and the shame of it!
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Natural Health for African Americans:
The Physicians' Guide
Our Health Profile: The Health Crisis in The African American
Community
by Marcellus A. Walker and Kenneth B. Singleton
In our age of "political
correctness," many people consider it inappropriate to separate
people on the basis of race. But, however unpopular it may be, when it
comes to health, race really does matter. It matters because African
Americans are more likely than people of other races to die a premature
death. According to the statisticians, there is an 8.5year difference in
the median survival rate between white and black males and a 5.9-year gap
between white and black females.
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From Baby to Bikini: Keep Your Midsection
Toned Safely During Pregnancy and Flatten Your Abdominals Fast After You
Have Your Baby
by Greg Waggoner and Doug Stum
There is nothing quite like motherhood and
a new baby. Those first few days are filled with such delight, and the
early weeks are so sleepless, that you barely notice what has become of
your figure. Then one day you step out from the shower (the first free
moment you have had in weeks), and you accidentally glance into the
mirror.
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Dancing With God: Fitness and
Transformation
by Linda Marks
When I met my colleague, Del Millers, at
the Body Wisdom Conference in San Bernardino, California, this past March,
I just knew I had met a special soul. He was boldly creating a presence at
his conference booth with large photos of himself and the cover of his new
book, Dancing With God, and making himself available to conference
attendees. And yet, there was a softness and sincerity that was just as
striking as the power of the presence he was creating.
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The "CSFT" Vitalistic Healing
Model
by Dr. Don Glassey
The principle of vitalism is based on the
holistic concept that the human body is greater than the sum of its parts.
Its basic assumption is that there is an intelligent force, which creates
and sustains all living organisms. This inherent vital principle is
distinct from all internal physical and chemical forces.
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I Don't Feel So Good...What Do I Do
Now?
by Deborah Post
You wake up. Roll over. Check the clock.
Groan. Roll back over and lay staring at the ceiling while you check in
with your body. "Blech." Something's not okay. But what is it?
You run a quick scan over the body for a sensation of what's not right.
While running a body check if you find a pain here, a spasm there,
dizziness, or fever you can begin to experience your feeling as an
illness.
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What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About
Premenopause: Balance Your Hormones and Your Life from Thirty to Fifty
Premenopause as a Life Cycle
by Virginia Hopkins, John R. Lee and Jesse Hanley
You're only in your mid-thirties and you
absolutely do not want to hear the word "menopause" applied to
you, even if it is "pre" menopause. You're not there yet. You're
still young, you haven't even had kids yet for heaven's sake, or your kids
aren't even out of grade school. And yet you know something in your body
isn't quite right.
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6 Ways Soy Benefits Your Health
by Monique N. Gilbert
Soy, and most soy-based products, are
nutritional powerhouses. Soybeans are the only plant food that has all of
the essential amino acids our body requires, making it a complete protein.
Soy foods do not have any cholesterol, and most are high in fiber. Soy
also has many vitamins, minerals, and phytochemical compounds (like
isoflavones) that work together to create numerous health benefits.
Research shows that a daily intake of at least 25 grams of soy protein and
30-50 milligrams of isoflavones can improve and safeguard your health.
This is the equivalent of 1-2 servings of soy foods a day. Here is a list
of soy's properties and how they can positively affect you.
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Women: A Unique
Workout Program for the Plus-Size Woman
MY STORY
by Rochelle Rice
I grew up in front of
the mirror. I was a dancer from the age of three, and with each passing
year I watched myself more and more critically, scrutinizing my young form
for imperfections. As my body began to develop in adolescence into a real
woman's body, I felt completely alienated by the changes of maturation: I
hated my widening hips, my developing breasts, the curves that seemed to
have softened my form almost overnight.
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The Healing
Power Of Soy's Isoflavones
by Monique N. Gilbert
Numerous reports indicate that, because soy is high in isoflavones, it can
prevent illness and promote good health. Isoflavones are a class of
phytochemicals, which are compounds found only in plants (phyto means
plant). They are also a type of phytoestrogen, or plant hormone, that
resembles human estrogen in chemical structure yet are weaker.
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A Visit To The Doctor In The Year 2020: Modeling A New Kind Of Health
Profile
by Alan Silverman
As holistic therapies steadily
gain in popularity, as medical schools add holistic subjects to their
curricula, and as clinics open offering a combination of conventional and
holistic therapies, we could be seeing the beginnings of a new medical
model for our society. To illustrate, we imagine an annual physical
exam 20 years from today, when an M.D. and his holistic colleague team up
to create a new kind of health profile. The results show (1) that
combining holistic and conventional techniques gives a more complete
health picture than either system used by itself, and (2) that
holistic therapies have a special preventive value that catches problems early,
while they are still at the energetic level, and before they can cause damage
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_____________________ What Your Doctor May Not
Tell You About Migraines: The Breakthrough Program that Can Help End Your
Pain
When You Wish You'd Just Die
by Alexander Mauskop, M.D. & Barry Fox, Ph.D.
Over 25 million Americans
suffer from migraines. Twenty-five million people crippled by nausea,
intolerance of light and sound, sweating, double vision, bright spots
before their eyes, numbness and tingling in the face and hands, confused
thinking, slurred speech, weakness of the limbs, diarrhea, chills,
sometimes auras, and always pain—that horrible pain that never seems to
end. Some people consider themselves lucky if the terrible pain vanishes
in a mere four hours, for migraines often last ten hours or more. And some
throb on for three or four days!
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The Lost Way Of Walking
by Josef DellaGrotte Ph.D.
What is it in a persons way of walking that looks good, that resonates
with us, that has a certain elegance to it, has a sense of togetherness,
confidence, power, endurance, yet is relaxed and seemingly, attractive and
enjoyable?
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Pilates: Holistic
Fitness Goes Retro
by Nancy Wright
In response to the latest trend in
fitness, exercise and health, people are flocking to Pilates classes and
Tammy Plaxico's phone is ringing off the hook. One of the few extensively
trained instructors in the Stott Pilates method, Plaxico has a waiting
list for some classes she limits in order to maintain personalized
attention. Eight messages blinking on her answering machine reveal she's
being pursued by fitness suitors. Maybe I'm one of them. I dance and life
weights but tight muscles and recovery time limit both activities. I'm
feeling frustrated so I decide to investigate Pilates, wondering if
there's something for me there.
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The Little Pilates
Book
by Erika Dillman
The fact that dancers and movie stars swore
by Pilates just made me more suspicious. I'd seen too many infomercials in
which Hollywood celebrities hawked every type of "miracle"
gadget meant to tone abs, butts, and thighs... "in just three minutes
a day!" And who can trust dancers, anyway? They can do things with
their bodies that we normal people could never imagine. Pilates was just a
passing fad. It wasn't for me. Or so I thought.
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Be Young
And Healthy By Building Strong Bones
by Monique N. Gilbert
Bones are the body's foundation. Having strong dense bones is essential to
good posture, strength and balance. The quality of our skeletal structure
has a direct impact on our appearance, vitality and energy level. The
better we stand, walk and move around, the more youthful we will look and
feel. Building and maintaining strong healthy bones is a lifelong
concern because our bones are living tissue in a constant state of
renewal.
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Fats: For Your Health
by Monique N. Gilbert
The body needs a certain amount of fat in
the diet. It stores fat to serve as a quick energy source and to
protect important organs. However, all fats and oils are high in calories.
Fats provide 9 calories for each gram contained in food, while protein and
carbohydrates each provide only 4 calories. While fat is necessary and
essential for proper health, some types of fats are damaging to the
cardiovascular system.
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____________________ Kathy Smith's Moving
Through Menopause: The Complete Program for Exercise, Nutrition, and Total
Wellness
by Kathy Smith, Robert Miller (Contributor)
Every twenty-nine days for the past thirty
years, my body has faithfully prepared itself to become pregnant. Two of
those occasions resulted in the births of my daughters. The other
four-hundred-plus times have provided a kind of vital pulse throughout my
adult life. A steady internal rhythm, dependable as the seasons.
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__________________ How Your Face Reveals Your Health
by Kathy Thompson
Your face is a road map of your mind (it
shows your personality), and your health. The different parts of your face
reveals the status of your health. Those parts also correlate with
different organs of the body and their healthiness.
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____________________ How Tensing Up Is Making You Fat!
by Sara Lauritzen
Negative thoughts, symbolic protection, being who we really are… we’re
definitely getting closer. It does come from within, we believe that much.
But how? How do we connect a de-railed inner state of mind to real
life obesity without the hocus pocus element?
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Aging Well: Surprising Guideposts to
a
Happier Life from the Landmark Harvard Study of Adult Development
by George E. Vaillant, M.D.
Having entered the new millennium we are
bombarded with contradictory information about what it means to grow old.
News reports of people living longer than ever are juxtaposed to horror
stories of life in nursing homes and elders wishing for death. Inspiring
anecdotes of energetic 85-year-old marathon runners or CEOs or composers
who seem as young as ever are followed on the nightly news by stories on
the barrenness of life in gated retirement communities filled with
decrepit old people who feel superfluous. Will the longevity granted to us
by modern medicine be a curse or a blessing? How can we control our last
years? These are the questions for which we need answers.
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The Young Athlete: A Sports
Doctor's Complete Guide for Parents
by Jordan D. Metzl, M.D. and Carol Shookhoff
Kids usually get the benefits they seek
from sports and more. Kids need attention and respect (in that order), but
they have few ways to get them. What is unique about sports is that they
offer kids an arena where they can earn attention and respect by exerting
their natural abilities. Kids are good at sports because sports are
essentially about speed, strength, coordination, vision, creativity, and
responsiveness—the necessary physical attributes are the attributes of
youth.
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____________________ The pH Miracle: Balance Your Diet,
Reclaim Your Health
by Robert O. Young, Shelley
Redford Young (Contributor)
A new day is dawning. A day of truly
holistic health, vitality, and well-being. A time of energizing our very
cells, maximizing the life force of our bodies. An era of naturally lean
and strong physiques! This book is your key to letting that light into
your life. It first helps you understand the revolutionary science I (Rob)
call The New Biology, then explains the practical ways to change your diet
and unleash the full power of your body to heal itself.
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Men- Protect Your Prostate With Soy
by Monique N. Gilbert, B.Sc.
With much attention on how soy can help women, many men wonder if it can
help them too. The answer is an overwhelming yes. Besides
helping fight heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure and diabetes, soy
appears to have a positive effect on male hormone-related cancers, like
prostate cancer. In fact, a recent study of Seventh Day Adventists
in California found that men who regularly drank at least one cup of
soymilk a day, reduced their risk for prostate cancer by 70 percent.
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Eat Your Way To Better Health
by Monique N. Gilbert, B.Sc.
Making the right dietary choices can have a
profound impact on our health and longevity. As a society, we have
the largest assortments of foods in the world, both good and bad.
However, this availability can tempt us to eat unhealthy foods.
Fortunately, overcoming these temptations is easier than you think. A few
simple changes in your diet can make the difference between being healthy
and unhealthy. So, you may ask, what kind of diet do researchers recommend
for promoting and maintaining good health?
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__________________ Accept The
Inspiration, Take The Next Step: How I Was Inspired To Start Running
by Dan Britt
I am not a marathon runner; I'm not even an experienced runner. In fact,
I'm a professional drummer, and I am a new runner. In the drumming world,
I learned firsthand that I should try to stand on the shoulders of giants
- the legends that paved the paths. Well, I found that to be the case in
the running world as well. And here are "my" three giants, who
each have paved some sort of unique path for me:
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by Ira M. Sacker and Marc A. Zimmer
Are you dying to be thin? If the question hits home, stop and think for
a moment. How much time do you spend every day thinking about your weight?
Maybe you diet in spurts, losing those 10 or 15 or 20 pounds, getting all
that praise from the people who are important to you. And then maybe
gaining that same weight back over a few months, a year, or more.
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What Your Doctor May
Not Tell You About Knee Pain and Surgery
by Ronald P. Grelsamer M.D.
It seems incredible that after four years of medical school and four to
six more years of orthopedic training, an orthopedist or physiatrist
(rehabilitation specialist) could still be deficient in his or her
knowledge of the knee. And yet it's true. Over the last four decades, the
world of orthopedics has become huge.
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The Ki of Aikido: An Oriental
Concept of Energy, Self and Mind
by Charlie Badenhop
There are many different ways to perceive,
utilize, and benefit from energy. What I offer here is one of many ways.
Indeed when I do other kinds of activities I perceive of and work with
energy in quite a different manner. What follows is my experience of
energy while performing Aikido over the course of more than twenty years.
Certainly there are likely to be many other Aikido practitioners that
would explain their experiences and beliefs in a manner that is somewhat
different than mine. I offer you here, one experience, my experience, and
thus all that I say is part of my belief system, and not at all
necessarily THE truth.
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Demystifying Acupuncture: A
Personal Encounter
With The Mysterious Cures Of Acupuncture
by John Herlihy
Utter the word acupuncture in polite
company and images of oversized needles and Chinese doctors searching for
a crucial nerve may come to mind. At best, people may think of acupuncture
as a medical cure effective for others, but not for themselves. At worst,
the instinctive horror of needles, like the terror of the dentist’s
drill, puts people off any thought of approaching this alternative source
of medicine without a second thought. In the medically advanced Western
societies, many people even consider this ancient traditional wisdom to be
a raw and radical new alternative to the progressive, techno-based Western
approach to medicine. Perhaps the time has finally arrived to demystify
the aura of uncertainty that still surrounds the modern-day practice of
acupuncture.
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Herbal Weight Loss: The Skinny on Diet Herbs
by Susan Rutter
Thousands of herbs are available worldwide
for a dizzying array of diseases and disorders. And consumers are sold on
them: A recent survey found that one in three people spends an average of
$54. a year on herbal remedies.
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Rejuvenation and the
Protein Revolution in Your Kitchen
by Marilyn Diamond
If you’re like me, you want to see some serious rejuvenation when you
look in the mirror. But you’re not interested in Botox, chemical peels,
micro-dermabrasion, lypo-suction, jaw and cheek implants and all the other
pricey, temporary, somewhat invasive “solutions.”
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Take Control of Your Metabolism: Quick Tips
for Increased Muscle Tone, Faster Fat Burning, and Energy Levels Like a 9
Year Old!
by Jesse Cannone
So many people are talking about how slow their metabolism is and why they
need to start taking the latest diet supplement scam yet they don’t even
understand how the human metabolism works. So before I even go into how to
speed yours up, I want to first go over some of the basics.
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Get To Know Yourself
by Kimberly Fulcher
Eight Baby Steps To Knowing Your “Self"
Who are you? What do you stand for?
What do you believe in? What engages your passion? What brings
tears of gratitude and joy to your eyes? Do you know, or have you
lost yourself? In my work as a professional coach, I’ve helped
many people rediscover themselves. The first step on the road to
rediscovery involves spending time with you, which is why I liken the
process to dating yourself.
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Real Muscle Real Fast!
by Jesse Cannone
Adding muscle seems to be a mystery to most, yet if you pick up a copy of
any fitness or bodybuilding magazine and you’ll almost always see a
headline like this: “Gain 15 Pounds of Muscle in 6 Weeks.”
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4 Secrets to A Flat
Stomach
by Jesse Cannone
Do you want a flat stomach? I don't know a
person who doesn't!
People spend millions, if not billions of dollars, each year in the quest
for a flat stomach. Right now there are about 200 or more ab exercise
devices out there. There's the ab do-it, the ab rock-it, the ab roller,
the ab dolly, and so many more. You would think that with all of these
amazing new products that most people would be walking around with that
nice, lean mid-section they've always wanted. Unfortunately, that's
not the case.
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Attitude,
Alignment, Action
by Devin Wilson
Last November, on a whim, I took my first
yoga class while at my fitness club. I didn’t know it at the time, but
I’d walked into a class led by a teacher of Anusara Yoga, which means,
“flowing with Grace,” or “following your heart.” The teacher said
things like, “scoop the tailbone,” “let your heart shine out from
the pose,” “inflate the kidneys,” “inner spiral the thighs,” and
“watch your shoulder loop.” Confused, exhausted and drenched in sweat,
I loved every minute of it.
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Fail-Safe Ways To Shatter A
Strength Plateau
by Frank Klesitz
Training Frequency
Aggressive strength training for several weeks takes a toll on your neuromuscular structure. To allow time to heal and time to GROW, it is best to reduce your training frequency. For example, if you were to train the chest three days per week, reduce the frequency to twice a week. This will allow for ample time for your muscles to fully repair. With a fully functional neuromuscular structure, you can engage a greater intensity during your workouts.
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Why Your Cardiovascular Workouts Might Be A Big Waste Of Your Time
by Jesse Cannone
What if I were to tell you that most if not all of the cardiovascular exercise you do was worthless? Well, guess what… over 50% of the people who perform cardio in an attempt to burn fat are wasting their time… hours and hours of it! Are you one of them?
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The
Functional Training Craze
by
Jesse Cannone
In the past few years
I’ve seen a huge transition in the fitness industry.
More and more people are using functional training, and some argue
it’s the only way to train. The
purpose of this article is to give people an understanding of what
functional training is, and what it does and does not do.
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____________________ 5 Fitness Myths That Are
Responsible For Thousands of Fitness Failures
by Jesse Cannone
Unfortunately, many people are misinformed
and are also misled by the many promises of the weight loss industry.
Everywhere you look, you see or hear of people promising “Dramatic
Weight Loss” with products such as “The Fat Trapper”, or “Exercise
in a Bottle”.
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How To C.O.P.E. With
Anger
by Debbie Eisenstadt Mandel
We fill our lives with dramas that rival the Greek Tragedies. We play the lead actors reliving the stressful scenes, keeping the conflict alive and ever present. Anger begins to dominate our thinking. However, who are we really angry at? When someone like a boss, a lover, a friend, or a family member pushes our button, are we most angry with that person because he or she mirrors what we most dislike about ourselves?
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