Tag Archives: health
Laugh … let go … and be healthy
A cheerful heart is good medicine.”
- King Solomon (Proverbs 17:22)
King Solomon gave us one of the earliest recorded accounts regarding the healing power of humor and laughter. In the 1300′s, surgeon Henri de Mondeville reportedly told jokes to his patients in the recovery room. In the 1600′s, educator Richard Mulcater recommended...
Beauty Redefined … Decisions for your Inner and Outer Self to Shine
We are a culture obsessed with beauty and youth, yet many of us create an environment within our bodies that is counterproductive to achieving healthy beauty. To achieve beauty, you must first define what it means to you.
One definition is the combination of qualities, such as shape, color, or form that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially the...
Eating Raw Food – Two Basic Approaches
There are two basic approaches to eating raw food. Learn which works and which doesn’t!
High Fat Raw: Also known as gourmet raw or Hollywood raw, this is what’s promoted in some form by a huge number of raw food authors, including David Wolfe, Gabriel Cousens, Matt Monarch, Daniel Vitalis, Carol Alt, and more. It can supply as much as 80%...
Combining hiking and yoga proves to be a natural fit
It’s 8:40 on a hazy spring Saturday morning, and I’m in that yoga position with the funny name: downward facing dog. But I’m also as far as I can be from a traditional, mirrored-wall yoga studio.
I’m in bucolic River Legacy Parks in Arlington. The sweat dribbling from my brow is not from the exertion of this pose, but a result...
Fabric softeners contain toxic chemicals
Fabric softener ads often portray an image of comfort, freshness and sweetness. Yet most fabric softeners contain a grim list of known toxins which can enter your body through the skin and by inhalation, causing a wide range of health problems, particularly for young children.
Some of the harmful ingredients commonly found in liquid or sheet fabric...
Mindfulness Is Harder Than Any Yoga Pose
A response to How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body – NYTimes.com.
When I first read the title of the above article I thought, “Hmmm…provocative.” I began to imagine what it might say. I then took note of the photos accompanying the piece and thought, “This is odd.”
First of all, I’d like to thank William J. Broad, the author of the article and...
Eggnog is Not a Good Milk Substitute (And Other Hilarious Tips to Survive X-mas)
Frantic co-workers, brightly colored morning television segments, and blaring magazine headlines are engaged in a tug of war for your sanity. Made up women will continually try to spray you with celebrity inspired fragrances that smell like baby powder mixed with bird droppings. At any moment, dozens of people in candy cane earrings will threaten to...
“The First Wealth Is Health”
Ralph Waldo Emerson said ” The First Wealth Is Health “ … would you agree??
The commentary below is from an insert that I have often tucked into my holiday greetings. It is especially meaningful to me in that it reinforces the work I do.
written by Sarah Breathnach Ban from 1995?s Simple Abundance
“Money has to buy a lot during this time...
Eco-labels on fish may have little meaning
The extra money you pay for seafood carrying an eco-label may not support better environmental fish farming. That’s the conclusion of a study released December 7, 2011 by the University of Victoria’s Seafood Ecology Research Group(SERG).
Fishy Eco Standards
“How Green is your Eco-Label” evaluates the different eco-labels for...
Formerly healthy, energetic boy still suffers from extreme narcolepsy two years after getting swine flu vaccine
Shortly after six-year-old Josh Hadfield of Somerset, UK, got jabbed with Pandemrix, GlaxoSmithKline’s (GSK) vaccine for H1N1 / swine flu, a few years ago, he developed extreme narcolepsy that caused him to sleep up to 19 hours a day. Two years later, the boy is still suffering from the condition, and now takes daily doses of the attention deficit...
