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ARTArticleMagnesium - the true bone health mineralIf you suffer with osteoporosis or arthritis, taking a calcium supplement may be detrimental to your health. The chances are, you are already deficient in magnesium, and overloading your system with calcium is further depleting levels of this mineral, and causing other serious health problems. Studies have shown that populations with the lowest calcium intake (as little as 200mg daily), have lower rates of osteoporosis (1,2) and it is in fact magnesium that increases bone density (3,4,13).
“One of the most important aspects of the disease
osteoporosis has been almost totally overlooked.rARTArticleMagnesium - your Lamp of LifeIf you suffer with chronic health problems, lack of energy, poor circulation, digestive problems, migraines, cramps and general body pains you may be deficient in a very important yet under-estimated mineral. Few realize how essential magnesium is to maintaining overall health and treating chronic diseases. When you consider all the cellular processes this mineral is involved in, and how likely you are to be deficient, it is easy to understand why many people are needlessly suffering with less than optimal mental and physical wellbeing.
Why are we so deficient?ARTArticleMastery A Paradigm Change for Weight-lossThis past January we lost a truly special individual and someone that many of you may have heard me reference time and time again. Jack Lalanne passed away at the age of 96 years of age on January 23, 2011.
Jack Lalanne made the decision at age 15 to change his life from an unhealthy, sugar-addicted teenager, to someone who would dedicate his life to teaching others the value and benefit of healthy nutrition and exercise.ARTArticleMayo Clinic Concludes Morgellons Symptoms Are Often Delusional [man, did they get this wrong!]They complain of mysterious, creepy symptoms: “bugs” or some form of infestation crawling beneath their skin, sometimes burrowing to the surface, leaving odd specks and colored filaments in their wake. [Like these?]
They have flocked to websites to share details of their malady, which they call Morgellons disease; they have charged the medical community with ignoring their plight and have strong-armed the government into studying it. [gee.
40 US Senators asked for the CDC to study Morgellons]ARTArticleMore Sex = Better Health?Not like we needed an excuse (although this might just be the kick in the pants some of us may need to get “busier” in the bedroom), but…having more and better sex can improve our health!
Think about this, ladies…having more sex with your husband or partner can reduce his risk of death! (So in addition to dragging him to the doctor, making sure he takes his medicine, cooking him healthy meals and working out together…drag him into bed, and you’ll be surprised how much it will benefit you both!)
Let’s take a look at what the research says:rARTArticleMoving Through Resistance to HealingYou want to heal so much. You are making positive changes in your life. You have decided to be completely committed to your health, but nothing is changing. You are up against some kind of resistance, but you don’t even know how to define it. You just know it is there. What’s happening?
This is one of the most frustrating moments in healing. If you meet that resistance often enough, you might find yourself giving up healing entirely.ARTArticleNature’s Rhythms and HealingOne of the great ironies in life is that in order to accelerate your healing, you have to slow down. —Misa Hopkins, The Root of All Healing
In our crazy, busy lives driving to the office, working in fast-paced environments, watching hours of television, and keeping up a rather intense pace until it’s time to go to bed, we are missing something vital to our health—connection with nature.ARTArticleNever Do This When Looking for Eating Disorders HelpThe list of things never to do when seeking eating disorder help could fill a book. But a few of the key ones can be distilled into a short list. Here are two that will help you get the treatment you need.
Never Passively Accept A Bad SituationARTArticleNo More Migraines & HeadachesHeadaches and migraines do have similar traits. There are ways to distinguish between the two.
Tension headache is the most common which results in pressure on both sides of the head, together with aching at the temple, back of the head, scalp and neck. Experts have suggested that this causes a change in brain chemicals mostly caused by stress.
A headache, gives little to no warning and can vary in severity from mild tension to searing pain. Muscles of the face, neck and head contract, which reduces blood supply and therefore produces pain.ARTArticleObesity Facts and the Toll They Take On Your EmotionsIf you are obese, you know the emotional pain that is associated with being overweight. The United States of America has one of the highest obesity rates in the entire world. Along with the physical aliments that may come with obesity, you may experience a wide range of emotions. Anxiety can also occur when struggling with obesity. Let's take a look at a few obesity facts and how they can contribute to the emotional side of obesity.ARTArticleObesity in Today’s SocietyObesity in today’s society has reached mega proportions and one has to ask. Why?
To some extent I empathize with parents today, for one reason only! The following will explain. It all begins with ‘do-gooders’, we all know the type, they know better than anyone else. Slowly over the past 30 years, the reigns have been taken away, not just from the parents, but the teachers too.ARTArticleOf Cancer and HealingThe human being is certainly a complex animal, all animals bodies are highly complex organisms, even a single cell is unfathomably complex and we each have 50 trillion of them. When we consider the mind and consciousness then we add more layers to the complexity. Yes it can be overwhelming to try and know about our complexity. I mean, we know very little about ourselves and if we exclude the physical workings of the body for a moment, though it can be recognised that we can investigate and measure the anatomy and physiology of the body, what do we know about why we behave the way we do?ARTArticleOn Language and HealingON LANGUAGE AND HEALING:
Ah, human perception. So varied, so quirky. Ya gotta love it.
Our psyche is a somewhat fragile construction. We are shaped, uniquely and individually by our experiences. However, we have an unfortunate tendency to focus on, and to recall, our negative experiences, so that our positive experiences do not get equal airtime in our memories.ARTArticleOne Thought Prevents You From Recognizing Binge Eating DisorderHave you ever eaten a large amount of food just to feel a minute of relief? Do you hide your eating from family and loved ones? If this sounds like you, then you are in the right place. Every day people struggle with their unhealthy relationship with food. If you have an unhealthy relationship with food, you may have contemplated the severity of your problem. You may have even denied that you have a problem with overeating. There is one major thought process that may be keeping you from recognizing your problem with food.ARTArticleOprah Fix: How to Change the WorldIt’s been a while since Oprah’s official last show. So I thought from time to time, I Oprahwould offer an Oprah fix- maybe a few stories, or a how-to, or some inspirational words.
I was reading about the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Did you know that on a molecular level atoms are constantly in a state of disorder? They are always reacting and colliding with other atoms to form molecules, splitting from other molecules, back to being atoms again, which according to this law, increases entropy, or the overall chaos of the universe.ARTArticleOrtho-Bionomy® - A Philosophical PerspectiveWhen explaining to people what exactly the bodywork therapy Ortho-Bionomy is I find myself repeating statements over time to the same people. This is likely a failing of my own. My short, concise, description is rather dry and does little to really unravel its depths:
Ortho-Bionomy is a natural form of body therapy that uses comfortable positions and gentle movement to release patterns of pain and tension.
Safe and gentle yet profoundly effective, Ortho-Bionomy works "with" the body, stimulating inner awareness and the natural ability to move towards comfort and balance.ARTArticleOvercoming Obesity the Natural WayObesity is a growing problem in America. The percentage of men and women with obesity has risen significantly since the 1960s. Currently 34% of Americans over the age of 20 are statistically classified as obese. There are many causes of obesity. If you struggle with your weight, it is imperative that you begin a natural approach to weight loss. The first step is ensuring that you are ready to begin a weight loss journey.ARTArticleOverweight Kids Become Obese AdultsObese Kids Become Obese AdultsrARTArticleParental Internet Control Software - What Parents Should DoFor the majority of Internet users with children, the internet in the home, or even in a child or teen's bedroom, is a wide open door to the world. That is, few parents take time the time to investigate parental controls on their children's internet. Some feel that the school will most likely educate their children on the subject. Others assume their children are responsible enough to handle it.
Parents Need to Educate Themselves in Computer LiteracyARTArticlePopular Lies about Dieting to Lose WeightIt can be extremely frustrating when we try so hard to lose weight but can never seem to get the hang of it. We end up feeling bad about ourselves and start making negative comments about ourselves and our abilities to follow a diet plan to lose weight.
What if I told you that not being able to successfully complete a diet plan to lose weight is not your fault? You have the ability to lose weight without dieting! There is a way to lose weight in a healthy and natural way! By nurturing your mind and body you can make progress without dieting.ARTArticlePornography and Infidelity in a MarriageThis is a very interesting subject in a marriage. When you have not engaged in a physical act of sex with a third person, have you cheated on your partner? Should pornography be considered infidelity in a marriage? Pornography is a big in our culture and growing like a weed. Growing in this culture, young boys grow up with an impression that women are sexy when they look a certain way. And, young girls grow up with an impression that they are perceived as sexy by men if they look, dress, or act a certain way.ARTArticlePrevention: An acclaimed anti-smoking / anti tobacco motivational talk for youth in grades 6 - 12The Truth About Tobacco
A live motivational assembly program for schools, for youth in grades 6-12
Also avialable in the educational video The Truth About Tobacco, 2011 Edition, Tobaccofree.org
My father died from smokingARTArticleProfitable Real Life Dieting Methods That WorkA lot of people have sincerely good intentions when they give out advice such as dieting tips, for example. Either that or work out pointers that may appear to indicate you have far in excess of time on your hands. Let's face it, we are all way too busy when it comes to life, job, family and common day-to-day duties. So find out what you can whenever practical, and then include what makes the most sense to you. So we now have to just make the most of all we have; it really is that simple.ARTArticleQuit Smoking Tips - The best of today's mainstream programs for quitting smoking and tobacco cessationMOST IMPORTANT, know this — YOU CAN DO IT.
If you have tried to quit smoking and failed before, take comfort in the fact that most smokers fail several times before quitting successfully. Your past failures are not a lesson that you are unable to quit. Instead, view them as part of the normal journey toward becoming a nonsmoker.
This article will ease your way and help insure that this is the last time you ever need to go through the quitting process. You can do it!
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© 2010 by Patrick Reynolds and Tobaccofree.orgARTArticleRaw Food Diet - What's It All About?Why Eat Raw Food?ARTArticleReassurance Through FitnessI want to talk to you about something that I have been fortunate to have learned with certainty over the past several years. I want to make a statement that at first glance might seem simplistic and possibly be taken as an exaggeration by some.
That statement is this: “With whole-hearted commitment to ‘living in fitness,’ we may arrive at a profound sense of reassurance.”rARTArticleReduce Stomach FatHate the fashionable low-rider jeans because they reveal the pounds of extra stomach fat around your mid-section? Doctors have noticed a correlation between people with a high percentage of stomach fat and several medical risks. At present, scientific studies are occurring to try and link stomach fat to the numerous health risks observed in patients with a high percentage of stomach fat. Within the next year I am expecting to see more medically published studies supporting this correlation.ARTArticleRejection, go a different Direction.As a baby we have one fear, we fear being separated. This is a survival mechanism, for if we are separated from our mother - we will perish. Though this is not necessarily so today, in our civilized world, this fear of separation is still inherited from our past.
While we are attached to an outer object (mother) and while we are in the womb, we are protected and safe. When we enter the world and are free from our safe womb, we still need the attachment of this same outer object. For we have changed little from being in the womb, we can breathe air but we are even more vulnerable.ARTArticleRelationship GoalsGoals often fall into one of two camps – they focus on doing something or they focus on changing feelings. We might not exactly recognize it as such and often times we don’t word the goals in a productive manner. This prevents us from changing the parts we have control over and not wasting energy on the parts that we have little or no control over.
Let’s explore the goal of "I'm going to work on my relationship with my mother."ARTArticleRevolutionizing AgingWe are the people who comprise the legendary, diverse generation known to the world as The Baby Boomers. We grew up during the transformation of Post World War II period and helped shape America into a society filled with change and advancements, in the political, economic, social, and cultural spectrums. We lived through John F.