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How To Deal With Energy Vampires, and other Weekend Reads
Friday, August 26th, 2011
Here are this weekend’s reading diversions for your enlightenment. Have a splendid weekend!
S-M-A-R-T: Scrabble is good for the brain, researchers say
The research found that non-Scrabble players tend to store and collect words by their meaning. By comparison, those who had tried to memorize the Scrabble Dictionary shaved milliseconds off their time.
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Deepak Chopra: Weekly Health Tip: When Heartburn Becomes A Health Problem
But if you have two or more heartburn or acid reflux episodes every week, or if the attacks interfere with your life and keep you awake at night, you should see your doctor. You may have gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) — and it’s not something you should ignore: In rare cases, GERD can be a precursor to esophageal cancer.
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Overuse of Antibiotics Is Seen Behind Many Human Ills
“Overuse of antibiotics could be fueling the dramatic increase in conditions such as obesity, type 1 diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease, allergies and asthma, which have more than doubled in many populations,” writes Martin Blaser, a professor of microbiology and chairman of the department of medicine at New York University Langone Medical Center.
http://www.livescience.com/15740-helpful-bacteria-antibiotics.html
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Kathy Kaehler: ‘Jump’ Into a New Routine
The improvements that people can experience when they jump over a period of time can include: an increase in muscular strength, improved posture, balance and coordination, improvement in the blood, lungs and all the internal organs, weight loss and an overall sense of well-being. Jumping on a trampoline literally sounded like the fountain of youth to me. The reason is quite simple: because it puts gravity to work for you with the least amount of muscular effort. Regular exercise of jumping up and down where you rebound can jiggle your entire metabolism.
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10 Bad Habits That Weaken The Immune System
The immune system is a vital part of a person’s body for fighting off outside organisms that can cause diseases and infections; it’s the body’s primary defense system. A weakened immune system can lead to serious health conditions, like staph infection or the flu, because the body is unable to handle the germs and bacteria you come into contact with every day. It’s important to maintain a strong immune system, and one way to do that is to avoid these 10 bad habits that can weaken it:
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How To Deal With Energy Vampires: 8 Simple Tips
Negative people tend to leave others around them drained, tired and lethargic. No matter what you say, they always seem to find a way to counter with a negative opinion. When they face a problem, they soak themselves in the issue rather than deal with it constructively. They adopt a self-victimizing mindset, complaining about whatever happens.
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If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never get it. If you don’t ask the right questions, you’ll always get the wrong answers. If you don’t take a step forward, you’re always going to be in the same place. Life is a journey full of choices. Here are 50 wasteful choices to avoid.
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12 Ways To Make Talking To Strangers Less Awkward
Let’s face it, fewer moments are more awkward than trying to strike up a casual conversation with someone you don’t know very well. Here are some quick tips to lighten up the situation:
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Crohn’s Disease Symptoms & Warning Signs: Sharp Abdominal Pain, High Fever, Blood in Stool
Crohn’s disease can cause osteoporosis, which is a condition that affects bone density. People with osteoporosis experience a higher risk of developing bone fractures. Other possible conditions that result from Crohn’s disease include seizures, strokes, peripheral neuropathy, headaches, and depression
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Crohn’s Disease Types: Jejunoileitis, Ileitis, Illeocolitis
In addition to the five types of Crohn’s disease, there are 3 classifications: structuring, penetrating, and inflammatory. Stricturing diseases cause the bowel to become narrow, resulting in bowel obstructions and changes to feces. Penetrating disease damages the passageways between the bowel and skin. Inflammatory disease causes swelling.
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50 Things Everyone Should Know How to Do – 18 Things I Wish Someone Told Me When I Was 18
Friday, July 8th, 2011
Here are this weekend’s reading diversions for your personal enlightenment. Have a splendid weekend!
Leo Galland, M.D.: The Health Benefits of Tomatoes
Summer is the perfect time to enjoy the sweet and tangy flavor of tomatoes. Whether you buy them at the farmstand, the supermarket or grow your own, there are a few things you should know about tomatoes.
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50 Things Everyone Should Know How To Do
Self-reliance is a vital key to living a healthy, productive life. To be self-reliant one must master a basic set of skills, more or less making them a jack of all trades. Contrary to what you may have learned in school, a jack of all trades is far more equipped to deal with life than a specialized master of only one
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Deepak Chopra: Processed Sugar: How Bad Is It?
Processed foods are one of the things people are often told to cut back on when they’re trying to follow a healthy diet. In recent years, one particular processed food ingredient, known as high-fructose corn syrup, has been singled out as a possible health risk. Some researchers have suggested that it might be linked to a rise in obesity rates and related health problems like diabetes. What exactly is high-fructose corn syrup? Is it really bad for you?
A Cure For Sunburn Pain Discovered?
It’s quite an easy lesson to learn: Don’t fall asleep at the beach — especially without sunblock — lest you suffer the consequences of severe pain, red skin, peeling and, of course, an increased risk of skin cancer.
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Leslie Davenport: Befriending Anger with Meditation and Guided Imagery
Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.
–Aristotle
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(Caffeine-Free) Snacks To Fight Fatigue
Midday snacks should contain about 100 calories or 15 grams of carbohydrates. The natural sweetness in fruit takes longer to metabolize than the processed sugars you’ll find in candy. And the protein in peanut butter provides a long-lasting form of energy.
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Using Cash Could Lead To Healthier Eating Habits: Study
Using debit and credit cards have become second nature to most people who don’t want to run to the bank every time they’re out of cash, but new research shows that cash could help your eating habits
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40 Extraordinary Things Happening Right Now
Right now is a phenomenon. Right now extraordinary things are happening.
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18 Things I Wish Someone Told Me When I Was 18
This morning I was reading a book at my favorite beach-side coffee shop when an 18-year-old kid sat down next to me and said, “That’s a great read, ain’t it?” So we started chatting.
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Fontina Panzerotti recipe – Food – Canadian Living
Canadian Fontina is based on an Italian cheese with a long history. Its yellow-ivory body is soft but elastic with a nutty, sweet, faintly fruity flavour.
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How Men Can Be Wise About Women, and other Weekend Reads
Friday, April 1st, 2011
Here are this weekend’s reading diversions for your personal enlightenment. Have a great weekend!
Barbara Hannah Grufferman: Life After 50: Afraid of Aging? 5 Ways to Fight the Fear
Getting and staying healthy and fit is essential as we forge ahead, and I wrote a lot about how to do that in “The Best of Everything After 50.” In fact, I will never stop saying it, and try to work it into every article I write and every talk I give, because this much is true: if you feel good about how you look and how you feel, you’ll be much more open to new experiences, people and opportunities. We need to be as fit as we can be so we’ll be able to keep more of the illnesses and diseases that can plague us after 50 as far away as possible, for as long as possible. This is the most important thing we can do for ourselves.
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B vitamin-rich food linked to lower risk of PMS
Those who ate more of foods such as spinach and fortified cereal had about a quarter lower risk of PMS, according to the study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. The same was not true, however, for women who got their B vitamins from supplements.
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Canadians appreciate water, but still waste it: Survey
In survey results released Monday, 55 per cent of respondents said fresh water is Canada’s most important natural resource, and 78 per cent said they make reasonable efforts to conserve it
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Annette Benson: What if June Cleaver had a career?
My oh my – have times changed! More families today have two working parents, which requires sharing of parental responsibilities. Even in families where the mothers stay home, today’s fathers are far more involved with their children than most of our fathers were.
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Deepak Chopra: How Men Can Be Wise About Women (Part 2)
This isn’t an issue that needs a soapbox, or even more poetic praise. Instead, men need to become wise about women, and that can only happen when women value themselves. The spiritual goal of both sexes is to discover their true self, which blends Shiva and Shakti, the deep potential that gives rise to all the qualities of masculinity and femininity. So what kind of man has become wise about women?
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Why You May Be Losing Your Memory – Oprah.com
Are you easily able to multitask? Can you cope with everyday chores, like balancing a checkbook, without making elementary mistakes? Are you able to keep track of information? If you answer no to any of these, think back to whether you’ve ever had a hard knock to your head that left you disoriented, suggests Wayne A. Gordon, PhD, professor of rehabilitation medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
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When Weather Makes Migraines Worse – NYTimes.com
Many of the migraine sufferers who recently wrote in to the Consults blog noted that summertime heat or shifts in weather can trigger migraine attacks. Dr. David Dodick, a neurologist at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona, responds
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Dr. Jim Taylor: Raise Happy Children
By understanding how happiness develops, you can help your children find true happiness. The real causes of happiness are all within your children’s control, so they can actively do things that foster their own happiness.
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Diabetes Can Shorten Life By 6 Years, New Research Finds
Diabetes, the seventh leading cause of death in the U.S., affects about 26 million Americans, or 8 percent, including 7 million who haven’t been diagnosed. Most in the study were thought to have the most common kind – Type 2 – which occurs when the body makes too little insulin or cannot use what it does make to regulate blood sugar.
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Sinus Infection? 13 Unexpected Causes
Most sinus infections start with a cold. Colds are caused by a virus, which can make nasal tissue swell, blocking the holes that normally drain sinuses.
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Docs Warn About Facebook Use And Teen Depression
Add “Facebook depression” to potential harms linked with social media, an influential doctors’ group warns, referring to a condition it says may affect troubled teens who obsess over the online site.
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It’s easy to take bones for granted and ignore them until you break one or are diagnosed with bone-thinning in old age.
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The rainbow of food dyes in our grocery aisles has a dark side – The Washington Post
Those hyper-saturated colors have come to seem normal, even natural, like the come-ons of tropical fruits. But they are increasingly produced through the magic of artificial food dyes, applied not just to candies and snack foods but to such seemingly all-natural products as pickles, salad dressing and some oranges.
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Ed and Deb Shapiro: When Telling a Lie Is the Right Thing to Do
If you are following any kind of religious or spiritual path, then telling the truth is usually up there with other ethical obligations. But is speaking the truth always the best thing to do, specifically when it may cause yourself and others suffering or psychological damage? Are we not also exhorted to be compassionate and wise?
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When you feel brain freeze setting in, do not let it become an invitation to make it worse or have a contest with your friends. You need to stop eating or drinking the cold substance right away.
Dr. Michael J. Breus: Is Technology Stealing Your Sleep?
Have you ever noticed that in so many iPad and tablet ads people have their feet up while they use their devices? The idea must be that the product is so easy, so relaxing, you could even use it in bed.
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Tara Sophia Mohr: Women: Stop Calling Yourselves ‘Controlling’
Men who stand again and again for their own desires and needs aren’t deemed controlling. They are called bold, persistent, committed, strong. I’ve yet to hear a man grapple with and be hard on himself for being “so controlling.” I’ve yet to hear a man talk about “trying to just let go” at work.
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