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ARTArticleHave You Got A “Saggy Belly”?Are you one of the millions who have a ‘saggy belly’ or what is referred to as ‘love handles’? Do you long for that flat stomach that you had when you were younger?
I bet you do, yet there is a slight problem in that you don’t want to put the work in to get it and keep it! Yes, it can be done irrespective of age or the fact you have had children.ARTArticleHave you got-Type 2 Diabetes?One in 20 human beings are being treated for diabetes according to Diabetes UK which also estimates up to half a million of us have the condition and don’t know it. Cases have increased significantly in the UK and experts attribute the rise to diet and obesity. Diabetes affects the body's ability to use blood sugar for energy. The main types include type 1- diabetes, type 2- diabetes and gestational diabetes. Diabetes symptoms may include increased thirst and urination, blurred vision and fatigue.ARTArticleHaving surgery? Increase your magnesium levelsIf you are scheduled for surgery, it is in your best interest to start increasing your magnesium stores as soon as possible. All types of surgery decrease this mineral and this leads to a variety of complications including blood clots, abnormal heart rhythms, kidney failure, impaired brain function, strokes and even death. Magnesium plays such an important role in ensuring a patient’s survival that some doctors in Japan will not operate unless levels have been corrected (1).ARTArticleHeal cancer instantaneously!You have cancer, this is your present state of affairs, you are experiencing this moment now and this moment now is in perfect harmony with what is. There is nothing wrong with this moment now. You have cancer and you do not want cancer (I hope). Yet the cancer is in perfect harmony with the totality of you, there is nothing wrong, that is; the cancer is not an aberration, a result of your body malfunctioning. Your body is functioning perfectly.
Your body is functioning perfectly according to the information it is supplied with.ARTArticleHealthy Snack Foods: That's Not an OxymoronDo a little clever searching, and you'll find plenty of information on specific ingredients to add to your recipes for an extra boost of energy and nutrients. Likewise, it's not too hard to find recipes or even whole menus composed of nutrient-rich, healthful choices. That's all fine for preparing breakfast, lunch, and dinner, you might be thinking, but what do I do when I just feel the need for a little something between meals?ARTArticleHere's What Could Be Causing Your Health IssuesBio-Individuality. Have you heard that term before? Bio-Individuality is kind of like saying, "There are no two people who are exactly alike on this planet." It means that no body is the same, no mind is the same, and no life is the same from one person to the next. It means taking an individualized approach to the way we deal with health, wellness, and any other lifestyle factors. As any good health coach will tell you, what works in terms of diet, exercise, and lifestyle changes for one person, isn't necessarily what their next client will need!ARTArticleHolistic Health & HealingThe ability of the human body to maintain health and overcome illness is among nature’s most remarkable gifts, but sometimes it gets overwhelmed and help is needed. There are a multitude of healing systems out there so it can be confusing to find the ones that work best for you.
We are all individuals and what helps one person to recover might do nothing for another with the same illness. The key is to be open minded and go with what feels right for you.ARTArticleHonor Where You Are: The Foundation of a Healthy Mindset"Honor where you are." Chances are you've heard this guideline for wellness before. It's a concept common to eastern modalities such as yoga and is evidenced in western psychology as well.ARTArticleHow can you overcome fear?Fear was taken from the Greek uuβοu,phóbos, meaning ‘fear’. Although classed as one of the negative emotions. It can have some positive value. After all because we are human, it is necessary to have both positive and negative emotion, to enable us to feel.
Fear is distressing, a sensation induced by a perceived threat to one’s wellbeing. It is a survival mechanism for the onset of danger.
In controlled amounts, fear protects us, from both physical and psychological danger. Too much however, can literally paralyse us, or distort our perception of reality.ARTArticleHow Do I Heal From Guilt?This is such an excellent question. Guilt is at the core of many illnesses. Its partner is regret. As long as we are living in emotional pain rooted in the past, we are going to have a difficult time healing in the present.
Guilt is anger with yourself for some choice you have made. The cells of the body can harbor the energy of guilt inside of them and when they do, your body inflames and congests in response. In fact, you may find that you heal, only to have a recurrence of a condition. Guilt doesn’t let us off the hook for very long and your physical symptoms may be reflecting that.ARTArticleHow Do You Get Off the Junk Food?When I was a teenager, I remember stopping at a convenience store, purchasing a box of six old fashioned doughnuts and then eating four of them in a row. It seems I was able to burn them off fairly quickly because my metabolism was moving quite fast, but I’m not convinced I was doing my body any favors with the processed sugar and bleached flour.ARTArticleHow Do you Know if You Need Eating Disorders Help?Do you struggle with your weight? Do you have a desire to eat even when you're not hungry- or to eat when you are stressed? Realizing that you may have an unhealthy relationship with food is the first step to getting the help that you may need. Many people struggle with their weight and don't have an eating disorder. How is having an eating disorder different than struggling with your weight? How do you know if you are in the category of people who need eating disorders help?ARTArticleHow Do You Stay Positive When You Feel Sick and Tired?As someone who has spent a lot of her time in the shop healing, I can really relate to this question. And yet, that’s what the journey is really all about—learning how to maintain such a positive and clear state of being that it is difficult for anything physical, mental or emotional to harm you.ARTArticleHow important is good posture? For your health sake!What does your Posture say about you?
Your posture provides the body with the stability needed to maintain muscle, bone and spinal alignment.
At the convent school which I attended, good deportment was on the curriculum, we girls had to walk around with books on our heads. It certainly helps to install confidence and self esteem. My two daughters have also got good posture. If you are a parent, it all comes down to setting a good example.ARTArticleHow to Achieve Your Goals Virtually Every TimeSupport and accountability are crucial to reaching any kind of goals you set for yourself, especially health and wellness goals. They're the backbone of your success because they give you want you WANT (the support to make it through when the going gets tough) and what you NEED (the accountability, or polite but firm nudge, to get you to take action when you're starting to fall behind).ARTArticleHow to Avoid Gaining Weight This Holiday SeasonThanksgiving, and the entire holiday season, is a really tricky time of year for a lot of people. This is a time of year where we're getting together with our family and it can be quite an emotional time, as families often have dynamics that leave everyone feeling like they need to live up to certain expectations. It's also culturally accepted tradition to eat copious quantities of food during these times and holidays have become more about feasting than about nurturing the connection with the people who mean the most to you.ARTArticleHow to avoid OsteoporosisOsteoporosis affects both men and women although more prevalent in women during the pre and menopausal years.
The definition of Osteoporosis is the thinning of bone tissue and loss of bone density over time.
Symptoms are:-
1. Low back pain due to fractures of the spinal bones
2. Stooped posture or Kyphosis, also called a ‘dowager’s hump.’
3. Bone pain or tende
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4. Loss of height( as much as 6 inches) over time
5. Neck pain due to fractures of the spinal bones
6. Fractures with little or no traumaARTArticleHow to Cope with Signs & Symptoms of the MenopauseIt’s like everything in life until it happens, you don’t spend time thinking of what might happen when and if it does.
Two things a woman is certain of, but never exactly sure when each will occur
1. Periods.
2. Menopause
Experts maintain that if you begin your periods early the likelihood is that the menopause will also begin early. Of course there are telltale signs, 3 stages to be precise, which represent the time before, during and after.ARTArticleHow To Deal With Cat Dander AllergiesThe majority of homes in our country have at least one pet. And it turns out that up to ten percent of the owner suffer from an allergy to pets. This means that there are thousands of people who live with a pet and are allergic to them. Most of these people will not give up their pet, they are part of the family, so it's a good idea for them to look into treating dog or cat dander allergies for their health.ARTArticleHow To Enjoy Life And Stay Young In Face Of The Aging YearsAre you afraid of your age and dread the oncoming years, or are you enjoying life to the fullest. Discover why your aging years are fearful, and how to overcome.
A friend posed to me a question a week ago "Age doesn't bother you, does it?" Did I have to think about it? Absolutely not. Age is simply a state of mind...it's not who I am nor who I am to become. I love my age, born in 1949, I am actually looking forward to the challenges and wonder's of my aging years. Yes, life is good, but it's only what we make it.ARTArticleHow To Find Your Motivation To Lose WeightDeciding to lose weight is usually a simple thing to do. Really committing to losing the weight is a bit harder. A single way to make your weight loss challenge easier is to discover your motivation to lose weight. Once you have your motivation to lose weight, the actual weight loss may be easier than you thought.
Using Yourself As Motivation To Lose WeightARTArticleHow to Follow Diet Plans to Lose WeightLosing weight can be an extremely difficult task to follow through on. It requires you to change your thinking and your actions. Following diet plans to lose weight can add extra pressure as you are trying to conform to a specific pattern of weight loss. When you choose to begin a non-diet approach to weight loss you become relieved that the pressure of limiting your foods is nonexistent. However, there are still emotional and physical tasks that need to be completed. The steps below will help you to follow through with your plan to lose weight.ARTArticleHow to Get Eating Disorder Help for Your ChildEating disorders affect people of all ages and genders. Yet, the common perception that it is a condition afflicting mostly female teenagers is well founded.
Anorexia is anywhere from three times to 10 times more common in females than males. [http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/cpsp-pcsp03/page6-eng.php] It also afflicts teens much more often than older individuals. [http://www.disordered-eating.co.uk/eating-disorders-statistics/anorexia-nervosa-statistics-uk.html]ARTArticleHow to Get Eating Disorder Help for Your ChildEating disorders affect people of all ages and genders. Yet, the common perception that it is a condition afflicting mostly female teenagers is well founded.
Anorexia is anywhere from three times to 10 times more common in females than males. [http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/cpsp-pcsp03/page6-eng.php] It also afflicts teens much more often than older individuals. [http://www.disordered-eating.co.uk/eating-disorders-statistics/anorexia-nervosa-statistics-uk.html]ARTArticleHow to Get Results in Record TimeLast week I was driving one of our volunteers to the airport. His time here on the farm was done and he was flying down to Durham, NC to see some friends before returning home for Thanksgiving. Instead of flying out of Logan Airport in Boston, MA, as is typical for volunteers who didn't drive here, he chose to fly out of T.F. Green Airport in Rhode Island. Despite having grown up in Massachusetts, I have never actually been to Rhode Island before. The company vehicles aren't equipped with a GPS nor with maps, so we opted to print out directions to and from the airport on Google Maps.ARTArticleHow to Heal Cancer?When one asks how to heal cancer? This is a big question and healing cancer is not as difficult as many perceive, but there is a problem or dilemma. The problem is one of a lack of correct information and a plethora of misinformation. The view of the questioner who asks “How to heal cancer” is important. If they are in the majority then they probably see cancer as something foreign to them and then they want something to fight, kill and destroy the enemy (the cancer).ARTArticleHow to Improve Your Chances of Getting Eating Disorder HelpYou can up the odds of getting eating disorder help. Under the best of circumstances, fighting that illness is tough. But you don't have to do it alone and you certainly can find a treatment that is effective and affordable.
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Eating disorders like binge eating and bulimia are created and sustained, at least in part, by mistaken beliefs. The first step is to overcome the mistaken belief that you are stuck, that you have no alte
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Not convinced? Look around and you'll see. There are many who have suffered the same problem. They're better now.ARTArticleHow to Look Good; Feel Great, Stay Beautiful at 50and beyondWhat has age got to do with it anyway? It is all to do with mind set. Too many people think themselves into growing old, hence the hairstyle and the clothes they wear. Even more disturbing, they listen to others telling them. “You shouldn’t do that dear, not at your age. Poppycock total nonsense!
My book entitled “Looking Good Feeling Great Ladies 50 and over” is packed full of suggestions and options to help, encourage, persuade and enlighten all women who travel life’s journey.ARTArticleHow to overcome Bad BreathToday we are lucky that we can find out about embarrassing dilemmas, without having to discuss the subject with friends or family. “Bad Breath would indeed be one of those- let’s say, ‘delicate’ subjects.
It is important to begin finding out the probable cause of the problem of Bad Breath before you can begin to find a solution.
Halitosis, is the other name for bad breath and the best place to start to look for the cause would be the mouth.
Questions to be answered:-
1. Is your dental hygiene the best that you can do?
2. Do you brush and floss your teeth regularly?rARTArticleHow to Prevent "Runner's Face"We've been hearing the term "Runner's Face" on various talk shows a lot lately, but this condition has been around as long as people have been strenously exercising, running for fitness or extreme dieting for weight loss. Dr. Brian S. Glatt, a board-certified plastic surgeon in New Jersey, explains the skinny, Skeletor-esque look that often develops.